WHAT WE HAVE THIS MONTH
Our Cover
HOW IS IT
WORKING ?
Home office : The pandemic is changing the future of work
Brief Chat
Jude Hofschneider : Tinian is booming
Around the Pacific
Keeping China out of Micronesia
VOL . 4 GUAM • PALAU CNMI • FSM NO . 11
$ 1.25 NOVEMBER 2020
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Home office : Weighing the pros and cons of teleworking 16-20
From the Publisher ’ s Desk A picture that paints a thousand words 4
Brief Chat
Jude Hofschneider : What ’ s happening on Tinian ? 5
Insights *
Views from the Trench : An apple a day … 6
Yo Amti : What a highly paid public servant is doing 7
Variations : The name of your new political party 8
The algebra of life and death 9 BPT : to cut or not to cut 10
Policy
How Covid-19 is changing the way we say goodbye 11
Politics
Those who can vote and those who can ’ t 13
Business Introducing agrotourism 14
CNMI Stopping coral bleaching 15
Technology Tides : Addressing the digital gap 21
Just a Byte : We live in the bot-sified era 22
Around the Pacific
Marshall Islands : Reconnecting with a sea tradition 23
The ‘ no ’ vote in New Caledonia 24 Keeping China out of Micronesia 25
Philippines
The death an infant , the death of democracy 26
The red lipstick movement 26
Life Lessons : There will be an answer , let it be 27 On death and dying 28 Daydream : And all those clichés 29
Travel The wrong side 30
* Opinions expressed by columnists are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Pacific Island Times .