People's Report

"Donated Dictionaries Helping College Bound Chuukese"

Fourth Branch — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:16:02 +0000

(Weno, Chuuk) Students attending Chuuk High School have sent their thanks to Habele for donating English language dictionaries. The US-based charity provided the texts when approached by Vice Principal Jason Reiong.

Reiong wrote to Habele in late 2012, explaining: "I read about

The ETG "Yap Paradise Islands" Proposal

Henry K.O. Norman — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:39:27 +0000

The ETG “Yap Paradise Islands” Proposal (Condensed Version)

By: Henry K.O. Norman

Chinese Exhibition & Travel Group (ETG) promises all the following, if they are only granted use of Yap land for 99 years: To convert the island of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia, to a “mega-gambling-resort,” in phase one including:

Marshallese Education Day (May 11th 2013).

Fourth Branch — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:02:48 +0000

This Saturday, May 11^th, Marshallese students, parents, teachers and service providers in Honolulu are invited to attend the 6^th annual Marshallese Education Day at the New Hope Leeward Church in Waipahu. The yearly event, which began in 2008, recognizes Marshallese honor students, encourages parents to

Micronesian Schools Plan 'Yapital Robo Day'

Fourth Branch — Thu, 02 May 2013 21:01:57 +0000

Educators at the two independent High Schools on Yap have announced plans for a public exhibition and competition, featuring teams from their student robotics clubs.

The 2013 “Yapital Robo Day,” will highlight

Massive Sailing Canoe Takes Shape on Lamotrek

Fourth Branch — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:56:17 +0000

Adzes are used to slowly remove wood forming the hull

Men on the remote Pacific Atoll of Lamotrek are hard at work, carving and shaping a massive sailing canoe. In addition to preserving their native traditions, they may be carving their way into the record books as they work under a tarp by the open-air mens' house on the beach.

Voyaging canoes in the Caroline Islands (modern day "Micronesia") are made from hollowed-out tree trunks for the keel. Planks are then fitted and tied in with rope made from coconut fibers to complete the sides. These graceful crafts appear symmetrical. Both sternposts and stems protrude up from the keel in forks that shoot up

“Waa'gey Planning & Partnership Tour a Success”

Fourth Branch — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:59:34 +0000

Waa'gey's Larry Raigetal and Curtis Loftis Treasurer of South CarolinaLarry Raigetal of the Community Based Organization “Waa’gey” has returned to Yap, Micronesia following a planning and partnership tour in the United States.

Raigetal met with a range of public sector officials and private citizens across several states, the District of Columbia and the Territory of Guam. “It was great to talk with policy leaders, philanthropists, cultural aficionados and others. I was surprised by

Memorial Scholarship Renewed by Midwestern Family

Fourth Branch — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:28:37 +0000

Orpha Hapdei: Habele Scholarship Winner

A Midwestern family has renewed their support for a Micronesian girl attending a small private school thousands of miles away in the State of Yap.

Orpha Hapdei is a seventh grade student at Saint Mary's School in Colonia. Her family is from the Atoll of Ulithi, a remote outer island of Yap, Micronesia.

Orpha began attending St. Mary’s in 2011, through the Leona Peterson (1926-2011) Memorial K-12 Scholarship. The scholarship pays for

Storied Canoe Returns Home to Micronesia 70 Years Later

Fourth Branch — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:11:48 +0000

James Hapdei holds a model canoe in Yap, Micronesia. The model was a gift from his father to Francis Wilson, Chief Pharmacist’s Mate, who helped treat a Yaws epidemic during World War Two
(Colonia, Yap) A two-foot long model canoe has returned to Yap, Micronesia, where it will be restored and preserved by a local group of carvers. Included in the group is the son of the man who first made the model for a special US Sailor seven decades ago.

The canoe has traveled thousands of miles on its journey home. It was carved as a gift for a US Navy sailor who served in the Pacific during World War Two. Chief Pharmacist’s Mate Francis Wilson was one of a pair of sailors who

Connect the Dots: RMI Youth Take Part in Climate Awareness

Fourth Branch — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:02:00 +0000

by: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

MAJURO, Republic of the Marshall Islands –

As the sun rose on May 5^th a group of youth took a photo on the reef behind CMI holding cardboard cutout dots with various messages about carbon emissions, CO2, rising sea levels

FSM Constitutional Amendment of Dual Citizenship. By: Rosalinda Yatilman

Fourth Branch — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:16:18 +0000

Title 7, Chapter 2, Section 3, of the Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), states that “a citizen of the FSM who is recognized as a citizen of another nation shall, within three years of his eighteenth birthday, or within three years of the effective date of the Constitution, which is later, register his intent to remain a citizen of the FSM with the President or his designee in the manner and form prescribed by law or regulation