WHAT WE HAVE THIS MONTH
Our Cover
Despite Guam’s initial success in curbing the pandemic,
Covid-19 is now spreading like never before
Economy
Food security concerns prompt
Guam, CNMI to revisit the
farming-fishing industry
Technology
$1.25
Parenting reboot: Raising
children in the digital age
VOL. 4 GUAM • PALAU CNMI • FSM
NO. 9
SEPTEMBER 2020
THE SECOND WAVE
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The second wave and
the worst is yet to come 16-18
Covid-19 takes its toll on economy 19
From the Publisher’s Desk
The social contract 4
Insights*
Views from the Trench:
Celebrating women’s vote 6
Yo Amti:
The virus, the enemy 7
Variations:
Martial law, almost five decades ago 8
Retired, rehired:
Having their cake and eating it, too 9
Military
Culture, environment and
other recurring issues 11
Economy
What lands and waters have to offer 13
Technology
Tides:
Parenting 2.0 20
Just a Byte:
What 5G can do 21
Around the Pacific
In Majuro, 22
classes kept going
Chuukese perspective:
Stranded in limbo 24
What drives the Compact
negotiations in FAS? 25
Philippines
Cha-cha: the political dance 26
Life
Lessons: ‘The buck stops here’ 27
Human survival amid
Covid explosion 28
Daydream: Disrupted plans,
beginning and endings 29
Furry Times
Ask the vet: Symptoms of parvovirus 29
Travel
Wardrobe
malfunction 30
*Opinions expressed by columnists are solely those of the
authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the
Pacific Island Times.