Medical cannabis registration down

The latest Medical Cannabis Annual Report released by the Department of Public Health and Social Services on Sep. 30 shows a decline in the number of registered patients, from twenty in 2023 to just fifteen in 2024. The report shows there were...

FHP Health Center's CT scan unit earns 3-year reaccreditation from American College of Radiology

The FHP Health Center’s CT Scan Unit has successfully earned re-accreditation from the American College of Radiology, extending certification through December 2028. This prestigious three-year accreditation extension validates the facility's...

Guam advances measure to lock in $4 million for Cancer Trust Fund

A new bill in Guam hopes to secure financial support for cancer screening and treatment. Sponsored by Senator Telo T. Taitague (R) of Guam, Bill 1-38 aims to guarantee the Guam Cancer Trust Fund (GCTF) a minimum of $4 million for its annual...

Healthy habits start at home: Protect Guam’s children through diet and lifestyle

In Guam and across the Pacific, families have long valued strength, vitality, and togetherness. Yet today, a quiet health crisis is threatening the future of our youngest generation. Poor nutrition and unhealthy lifestyle habits in childhood are...

Bridging gaps in access to health care: DPHSS Yona outreach today

The Department of Public Health and Social Services is meeting residents "where they are" bringing essential health and wellness services into village communities through their outreach effort which kicks off in Yona today. The outreach...

Pacific Islands News Roundup – October 10 – 16, 2025

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CCU Chairman Santos: Dieldrin contamination not kept ‘a secret,’ more insights coming

The Guam Waterworks Authority “has not kept dieldrin a secret,” Consolidated Commission on Utilities Chairman Francis Santos said, following recent reports that federal regulators notified the government of Guam about it as early as 2012. Santos...

Free vaccination, cancer program eligibility assessment, other health services in Yona this Saturday

Free health services will be offered at the Department of Public Health and Social Services' Yona outreach from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday at the Yona Community Center. This first village outreach on Oct. 11 is part of Public Health's effort to...

Guam Legislature takes up bill to tax and regulate Vape products

BY PAULY SUBA Journal Staff Lawmakers heard testimony on Oct. 6, regarding a proposal to impose a new tax and licensing system on vaping products sold on island. Bill No. 3-38 (COR), introduced by Senator Joe S. San Agustin, would create the...

$500M 'Fix in Six' to hold outreach events at Micronesia Mall, Agana Shopping Center, Guam Museum

The Guam Housing and Urban Renewal Authority is expanding its public outreach for its $500 million Typhoon Mawar disaster recovery program, "Fix in Six." Here are public outreach events in October: Saturday, Oct. 11, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at...

PCB-tainted soil shipped off Guam, 45,000 cubic yards of other non-hazardous debris sent to Layon Landfill

Some 15.46 cubic yards of soil still contaminated with cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs, and other hazardous chemicals from an old solid waste transfer station in Dededo were shipped off Guam, while some 45,088 cubic yards of...

Guam’s endless procurement problems

Guam’s procurement law, written over 40 years ago, was copied from a model that never fit our island. Today, it has become the biggest excuse for every delayed project and every act of government inefficiency. When agencies fail, they point to...

Governor urges lawmakers, AG to collaborate on new hospital

Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero seized the opportunity during the Department of Public Health and Social Services Laboratory "topping-off" ceremony on Thursday to send a pointed message to senators of the 38th Guam Legislature and Attorney General Douglas...

$38.6M Public Health laboratory construction in Mangilao makes major progress

Construction of the $38.6 million Guam Public Health Training and Biosafety Laboratory marked a major milestone on Thursday with a topping off ceremony, and its completion is set for June 2026. The event marks the completion of the Double T...

OUR VIEW: GovGuam needs to plan for prolonged federal shutdown

Where is the government of Guam’s plan for a prolonged federal shutdown? Before, during and after the Republican-led Legislature secured a $1.35 billion budget with tax relief to big corporations, there’s not been meaningful discussion about...

GMH audit: Millions uncollected, controls weak - financial problems getting worse?

Despite years of warnings, increasing government subsidies, and repeated audit findings, the Guam Memorial Hospital Authority’s financial condition continues to deteriorate. Guam’s only public hospital now has a deficit of over $308.7 million and...

Tests for pesticide show water at military bases on Guam ‘safe to drink,’ command says

Builders continue work on an interim water treatment plant near Yigo, Guam, for a well contaminated with dieldrin, a banned pesticide, on Oct. 5, 2025. (Guam Waterworks Authority/Facebook) Expedited tests of all water sources at U.S. military...

Governor seeks emergency session on bill to sidestep AG review for hospital power, water installations

Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero on Wednesday asked Speaker Frank Blas Jr. to call an emergency session on her bill that would allow power, water, and sewer installation contracts for a new hospital to move forward without the attorney general’s review....

CCU chairman on GPA helping with GMH's electrical system: 'We're going to fix our hospital'

The Guam Power Authority is preparing bids and will provide technical support on a number of short-term fixes identified at Guam Memorial Hospital after an August electrical fire. GPA on Wednesday provided more details about the plans, following...

LETTER: What Guam can learn from Singapore

In 1980, economist Milton Friedman visited Singapore and saw firsthand what he was able to describe on the PBS series Free to Choose a few years later. “If economic freedom is a significant part of total freedom, here it is,” said Friedman. As we...