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Assistant Secretary Babauta Makes First Official Trip to the FSM.US Embassy Media Release #35-2010, August 5, 2010 - On July 26-31, U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Anthony M. Babauta visited the FSM to review progress under the Amended Compact and to view various Compact-funded infrastructure projects. The six-day official visit included stops in Pohnpei and Chuuk States. This was Babauta’s first visit to the FSM since being confirmed by the U.S. Senate in September 2009. .
more Former U.S. VI Senator Lorraine Berry Remembered at Interior
Washington, DC (July 21, 2010) – Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Anthony M. Baubata said on Wednesday that it was with great sadness that he learned of the passing of former Senator Loarraine L. Berry. “She will be remembered as a courageous and principled leader who gave her every waking hour to the advancement and betterment of her beloved Virgin Islands.”
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| Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Tony Babauta and the Office of Insular Affairs’ U.S. Virgin Islands |
Washington, DC (May 14, 2010) – Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Tony Babauta and the Office of Insular Affairs’ U.S. Virgin Islands desk officer Basil Ottley hosted two days of meetings at the U.S. Department of the Interior for a team from the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (VIWAPA) led by Executive Director Hugo Hodge and a team from the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) led by Roberto Gorbea of the Board of Managers and General Manager Juan A. Perez Lopez to consider an underwater connection between the power grids in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The meetings considered how such a connection might also affect the Caribbean region, other insular areas as well as federal stakeholders.
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| A Fort Schofield U.S. Military Honor Guard carries Sgt. Hick’s casket at Pohnpei International Airport upon its arrival May 11. |
U.S. Embassy Media Release No. 16-2009 (May 12, 2010) - On May 11, the remains of the late U.S. Army Sergeant Raymond J. Hicks, 26, arrived at Pohnpei International Airport on Continental flight 957. Sgt. Hicks died on April 24 in Sierra Vista, Arizona from non-combat related injuries.
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| U.S. Army Specialist Eric M. Finniginam, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado |
On May 1, twenty-six year old Eric M. Finniginam, a U.S. Army specialist from Yap, Federated States of Micronesia became the latest war casualty from the region. Specialist Finniginam died of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his unit in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province, according to the Department of Defense.
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| Top Row: Tom Arthur; Rod Nakamura; Feliciano Perman; Johnny Adolph; William Kostka; Faustino Yangmog; Peter Garamfel; Jackson Ngiraingas Third Row: Larry Gouland; Stevick Edwin; Casten Nemra; Ken Uyehara; Lyndon Abraham; Frederick Muller; Paul Ueki; Steve Savage Second Row: William Tosie; Meril Dobrin Fujiki; Roger Mori; Kelly Keller; Maynard Alfred; Churchill Edward; Robert Fillana; David Paul; Dee Dee Letts Front Row: Fred Skilling; Nik Pula; Cheryl Jodoin; Jacqueline Alexander; Ellen Brant; Virginia Hernandez; Ruki Inabo; Sebastian Anefal; Charles Chieng; Wesley Simina |
Washington, DC (May 6, 2010) – On April 27-30, the Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA), in coordination with the East-West Center, held a high-level planning workshop in Honolulu for utility managers, financial officers and top elected officials from the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau to address one of the most serious economic issues facing each: the worsening financial condition of island power and water utilities. The workshop brought together thirty-five managers and financial officers from the utilities and leaders from the executive and legislative branches from the Marshalls, Palau, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Chuuk and Yap throughout the Freely Associated States.
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| Photo'd from left to right: Nik Pula, Director, Office of Insula Affairs (Interior); Kiran Ahuja, Executive Director, White House Initiative for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; Representative Gregorio Kilili Sablan; Dr. Rebecca Blank, Commerce Undersecretary, Economic Affairs; Representative Madeleine Bordallo; Representative Eni Faleomavaega; Representative Donna Christensen; Dr. J. Steven Landefeld, Director, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Commerce. |
Washington, D.C. (May 5, 2010) – Director Nikolao Pula of the Office of Insular Affairs, today joined Commerce Undersecretary for Economic Affairs Dr. Rebecca Blank at the Department of Commerce for the release of the first set of estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) for American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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| From left to right: Representative Gregorio “Kilili” Sablan (Northern Mariana Islands); Representative Donna M. Christensen (U.S. Virgin Islands); Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Areas, Anthony M. Babauta; President of the United States, Barack H. Obama; Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar; Representative Madeleine Z. Bordallo (Guam) and Cecilia Munoz, Director of White House Intergovernmental Affairs. |
Washington, D.C. (April 14, 2010) – Demonstrating his continued commitment to the US insular areas, President Obama signed an Executive Order that reestablishes the White House as Co-Chair of the Interagency Group on Insular Areas (IGIA).
“We plan to use the Interagency Group as the means for extensive consultation with the island Governors and Members of Congress to coordinate significant decisions, and to advocate a collaborative approach to the Federal Government’s responsibilities to insular areas,” Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said.
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