News - Guam

In 2016, Dwayne W. Meadows, a conservation biologist with the National Science Foundation, petitioned the Secretary of Commerce, through the National Marine Fisheries Service (the lead office for implementing the ESA) to list the Tridacninae giant clams (excluding Tridacna rosewateri) as “Threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act.”

Construction progresses on the University of Guam School of Engineering building on UOG’s Mangilao Campus, as shown on July 26.

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln arrived at U.S. Naval Base Guam the morning of Aug 4.

While consensus on how exactly Guam’s tourism industry is faring and what’s needed to improve it may change based on perspective, there’s one thing everyone seems to agree on: tourism numbers are not where we want it to be.

Lourdes A. Leon Guerrero, governor of Guam wrote to William LaPlante, Undersecretary of Defense Acquisition and Sustainment, urging the DoD to support Guam's small businesses. 

Guam's U.S. Delegate James C. Moylan is co-leading three new bills aimed at improving services for veterans in Guam and other rural areas.