Pacific Island Times June 2020 Vol 4 No. 6

WHAT WE HAVE THIS MONTH Our Cover Guam, CNMI slowly reopening economy amid cautious optimism Health How Covid-19 takes its toll on mental health Technology $1.25 Contact tracing: There’s an app for that VOL. 4 GUAM • PALAU CNMI • FSM NO. 6 BUSINESS JUNE 2020 AS USUAL? www.pacificislandtimes.com Guam, CNMI reopens economy amid post-coronavirus uncertainties 16-20 From the Publisher’s Desk Emergency powers 4 Brief Chat Dr. Bwarenaba Kautu: On modern and traditional medicines 5 Insights Yo Amti: You’re probably not going to die, but… 7 Variation: Why the Philippines couldn’t be a US state 8 View from the Trench: It’s not censorship 9 Court of Public Opinion: Pork barrel 10 Solarizing: Another threat to brace for 10 Adapting to the new normal: 10 Health A looming mental health crisis 13 Law More on self-determination 14 Technology Tides: Contact tracing via mobile app 21 Around the Pacific Mili Atoll: Paradise found 22 Samoa’s constitutional crisis 23 Covid-19 and Micronesian virtue 24 What’s eating coral reefs in Cook Islands 25 Philippines Martial law déjà vu 26 Life Daydream: Six feet away 27 Lessons: When a mustard seed moved a mountain 27 Catch her, she’s falling 28 Travel More hotel adventures 30 Illustration by Ken Leon Guerrero

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