Sen. Frank Blas Jr. has written the U.S. Small Business Administration requesting that Guam be exempt from location requirements on small business disaster loans.
The $10,000 Economic Injury Disaster loan follows a similar program made available to business owners in April of 2020, but the targeted program now requires that businesses be located in low-income areas.
A mapping tool was provided by the Small Business Administration to assist local business owners in determining whether they qualify. Concerns over inconsistencies in the mapping tool, which Del. Mike San Nicolas has stated is based on Census data from 2010, were what prompted Sen. Frank Blas, Jr. to write the SBA.
Man taken to hospital after Dededo crash
By Shane Healy and Rick Cruz
Pacific Daily News
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Medics performed CPR on a man who was taken to the hospital Thursday morning after a single-car accident in Dededo, according to police and fire officials.
The crash occurred at 8:01 a.m., when the Guam Fire Department received a 911 call reporting an auto accident with serious injuries at Santa Monica Avenue and the Farmer s Co-Op, according to GFD spokeswoman Cherika Chargualaf.
GFD units arrived at 8:05 a.m., Chargualaf said.
CPR was performed by medics as they transported the single occupant, later identified by a relative on the scene as Abel Sangalang, to GRMC, Chargualaf said.
Job training available as unemployment claims trend downward
Joe Taitano II
A total of $19.3 million in Lost Wage Assistance and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance payments were made out to claimants in the latest batch of payouts, down from upwards of $25 million in the payout batch prior, Department of Labor Director Dave Dell’Isola said Tuesday.
The agency is still confirming and running the numbers, but has been seeing an anecdotal decrease in claimants as individuals slowly but surely return to work, according to Dell’Isola.
“As the island opens up, more people are increasing their reduced hours and other people are also being called back to their work. Businesses are starting to open up, so we’ll start seeing hopefully a trend of a decline,” Dell’Issola said.
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