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Matt Romney and his wife, Laurie, meet Guam's Republican vice chairman Victor Cruz. The younger Romney had the difficult assignment of touring several tropica islands on behalf of his father's campaign. (Rick Cruz/Pacific Daily photo)

Romney sweeps to victory in US Pacific islands

By Andy Jackson Thu, Mar 15, 2012 7:45AM UTC View Comments

While the big news in the US presidential race yesterday was Rick Santorum’s close victories in Alabama and Mississippi, Mitt Romney quietly completed the Pacific island territory caucus hat trick. Romney added a victory in American Samoa to wins a few days earlier in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. Due to American Samoa’s non-partisan...

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Japan: What’s the deal with Okinawa?

By Anna Watanabe Wed, Feb 08, 2012 10:25AM UTC View Comments

Okinawa: Just a tropical paradise, right? Picture: Flikr

Japanese media has been saturated with reports that Tokyo and Washington have shelved a six year-old military agreement concerning US military bases in Okinawa. The two countries have agreed to separate the 2006 Futenma-Guam transfer agreement of up to 8,000 US marines from plans to build a new air base in Henoko, north Okinawa. This...

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Guam rep: Regional migrants have ‘become a burden’

By Andy Jackson Thu, May 26, 2011 6:37AM UTC View Comments

Guam Delegate to Congress Madeleine Bordallo speaks with President Barack Obama (file photo).

Migrants from elsewhere in the Pacific are creating a burden Guam’s social services and the local community, according to Guam officials. The migrants come from the Freely Associated States (FAS) of; the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau. The island nations were ruled by the United States under a UN Strategic Mandate following World War Two. When...

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Tsunami knocked US nuclear submarines from their moorings

By Andy Jackson Sat, Mar 12, 2011 10:48PM UTC View Comments

The USS Oklahoma City prepares to moor at the US Naval base in Guam. It was the only one of three American nuclear submarines not effected by the March 11 Tsunami. (US Navy/Corwin Colbert photo)

Two American nuclear submarines in Guam’s Apra Harbor were knocked from their moorings by the strength of the tsunami from the March 11 earthquake in Japan: At approximately 8 p.m. the nuclear submarines USS Houston and USS Corpus Christi* mooring lines broke free from the pier at Alpha Wharf because of the tsunami. It took tugboats...

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China readies “aircraft carrier killer” missile

By Andy Jackson Thu, Dec 30, 2010 5:31PM UTC View Comments

Admiral Robert Willard, chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, said that China has made “a workable design” for a missile designed to destroy American aircraft carriers from as far as 2,000 kilometers away. If it works, it would be a nasty piece of business for the US navy: The missile, dubbed Dong Feng 21D, is expected to be...

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