News

A wave of new businesses has launched across Guam, expanding the island's dining, entertainment, and specialty retail sectors despite ongoing supply chain and operational headwinds.

MAJURO, Marshall Islands — “They could have said you are ‘nowhere near being ready,’ but they didn’t,” Marshall Islands fisheries Director Glen Joseph said in an interview on June 19. “Instead, they gave us five items to respond to.”

Explore the latest promotions and leadership changes across Micronesia, featuring the people you know, and those you should.

CAPITOL HILL, Saipan — More than $52 million in federal disaster assistance and loan offers have been committed to the Northern Mariana Islands following Super Typhoon Sinlaku, as recovery efforts increasingly transition from emergency response to rebuilding the Commonwealth's economy.

Even before Super Typhoon Sinlaku battered the Northern Mariana Islands and disrupted fragile supply chains, businesses across the islands were already struggling with rising costs of doing business, especially with surging fuel and utility charges, worker shortages, and the general difficulty of obtaining imported products, not to mention shipping delays due to competition with the enormous tonnage of disaster aid coming to the islands.

MAJURO, Marshall Islands — The third quarterly distribution of universal basic income to every citizen in the Marshall Islands happened May 28, as tens of thousands received a US $200 payment.

In September 2025, the Navy issued a Request for Proposals to acquire up to 2,400 housing units on Guam over the next seven years — roughly 1,300 units by June 2028 and another 1,100 by June 2032, structured as leases, lease-to-purchase arrangements, outright purchases, or “other transaction structures.” The headline numbers are large enough that the procurement has been read across the island as a generalized opportunity: a rising tide that will lift hotels, condominiums, dormant subdivisions, and raw land alike.

MAJURO, Marshall Islands — Being at the end of the supply chain, which most assuredly describes the Marshall Islands, is no buffer from world events as the U.S.-Israel war with Iran has demonstrated.