(Pacific Island Times) — Former legislator Charles Chieng won a three-way race to become Yap’s next governor, beating the incumbent governor, Jesse Salalu, and former Cabinet official James Gartamag Lukan.
YAP: PROTECTING RESOURCES
By Scott Radway
HAGÃ TÃA, Guam (January 212, 2002 - Pacific Daily News/PINA Nius Online) -Yap environmentalist Margie Cushing Falanruw has a dream.
Falanruw believes that Yap State can master its traditional methods of farming and fishing to produce enough for its people and an export economy and still maintain its natural resources.
That way, the director of the Yap Institute of Natural Science said, the island will avoid many of the pitfalls of westernization and over-development like some of the ones that have riddled neighboring Guam.
What works on continents hasn t worked on small islands, said Falanruw, a resident of arguably the most traditional islands in Micronesia.