Weekly Action Checklist: June 26, 2026
Take Action with the Americans of Conscience Checklist: Action 1: Time sensitive: Stop a planned ICE Warehouse purchase. Action 2: Time-sensitive: Oppose unconstitutional involvement in voting by the U.S. Postal Service before July 2. Action 3: Prevent politicization...
#TBT: June 25, 2026
On June 25, 2019, the US Virgin Islands passed a law targeting oxybenzone, octocrylene, and octinoxate, three UV-blocking chemicals found in most mainstream commercial sunscreen products in the United States, because studies have shown they harm coral and other marine...
Nearly a decade after Hurricane María, Añasco to bring back El Salto de La Encantada
The municipality of Añasco broke ground June 8, 2026 on the reconstruction of El Salto de La Encantada, a natural recreational area in the Barrio Marías neighborhood that has remained damaged since Hurricane María struck Puerto Rico in September 2017. The project...
Turn summer talk into action at the August primary
By Shawn Gumataotao, Chairman, Republican Party of Guam Summer is here. The Primary Election is just a few months away. With time at the barbecue or the beach or doing both, talk of the Guam Election Cycle is happening all over the island. Talk about the elections is...
Governor Bryan submits $958.2 million FY 2027 executive budget to US Virgin Islands legislature
Governor Albert Bryan Jr. (D) submitted the Bryan-Roach Administration's proposed Fiscal Year 2027 Executive Budget to the 36th Legislature of the United States Virgin Islands, presenting a $958.2 million General Fund spending plan focused on infrastructure,...
#TBT: June 18, 2026
Operation Stevedore was the operation for the American recapture of the then Japanese-held island of Guam during World War II, originally scheduled for June 18, 1944. Intense fighting in nearby Saipan caused the landings to be delayed by a month until July 21 of that...
CENTRO Journal seeks contributors exploring Puerto Rico’s ties to the Black Caribbean
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College has opened a call for contributors to a special issue of CENTRO Journal titled "In Motion: Shifting Geographies of Puerto Rico and the Black Caribbean," scheduled for publication in May 2028. The issue will be...
Right to Democracy brings territory voices to Congress ahead of US 250th anniversary
A bipartisan group of lawmakers and territorial advocates briefed congressional staff and policy leaders on June 4, 2026, on what the principle of consent of the governed means for the 3.6 million Americans living in US territories—250 years after the United States...
Governor Bryan calls for greater Caribbean cooperation on tourism and investment
Governor Albert Bryan Jr. (D) of the United States Virgin Islands delivered opening remarks during the Caribbean Tourism Organization's Caribbean Week in New York, calling on regional leaders to strengthen cooperation across the Caribbean and position tourism as a...
#TBT: June 11, 2026
Among the versions of the origin of Puerto Rico's flag design is that the idea of inverting the colors of the Cuban flag came to Antonio Vélez Alvarado, who wrote: "the colors appeared inverted before my eyes … on June 11, 1890 or 1891." He was a journalist,...
