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Solid waste program desperate for staffers
Guam Environmental Protection Agency employees who are working on the prioritized Solid Waste Management Program are under tremendous stress, since GEPA Administrator Lorilee Crisostomo continues to ignore their request to fill the vacancies that has plagued the program and is now operating without any personnel out of the 11 full time vacancies, Variety sources said.
Cruz to Bice: Get to grips with local issues
VICE speaker BJ Cruz sent the Joint Guam Program Office a letter and two DVD copies of Thursday’s roundtable discussions on the military buildup’s impact on Guam healthcare at the legislature.
Guthertz tells JGPO to amend plans
SENATOR Judi Guthertz told the Joint Guam Program Office that the buildup plan must be modified or the known hospitality of the people of Guam, or the “welcome mat” for the buildup may disappear.
Longer DEIS talk period sought
VICE speaker BJ Cruz insists the people of Guam and local officials, including the Guam legislature, do not have adequate time to review the 11,000-page draft environmental impact statement released by the Joint Guam Program Office in November.
JGPO: ‘It’s a process’
Bice says checks and balances in place to protect landowners JOINT Guam Program Office executive director General David Bice expressed confidence that mutually acceptable arrangements for acquiring the additional lands – as outlined in the draft environmental impact statement – will eventually be reached.
US-Japan row won’t affect Guam pact
JOINT Guam Program Office executive director General David Bice doesn’t believe the souring relationship between the U.S. and Japan will affect the Marines move to the island.
$700K spent on unused fitness program
ONLY 6 percent of the 10,250 members of the Government of Guam Health Insurance Plan have participated in the fitness and wellness program, according to the Office of the Public Auditor, which conducted an audit on the program based on “citizens’ concerns” about the insurance provider’s procurement of services for the rarely used programs.
Japanese defense chief arriving today
JAPAN’S defense minister Toshimi Kitazawa is arriving on Guam this afternoon for a two-day visit to tour military installations on island, the Japanese Consulate said yesterday. The consulate said Kitazawa will meet Gov. Felix P
Public matters
Final release of EIS hinges on Guam feedback THE final environmental impact statement on the military buildup could be released by late spring or early summer of next year, depending on public comments the Joint Guam Program Office and the Department of Defense receive, according to JGPO director John Jackson.
Sneak preview of DEIS
JGPO sheds little new light on impact study JOINT Guam Program Office executive director General David Bice and director John Jackson yesterday discussed the highlights of the draft environment impact statement which will be available for public review starting Saturday.