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Hawaii group of business owners, community leaders is first foreign delegation to call on Marcos
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A gaggle of Hawaii enterprise house owners and group leaders was the primary international delegation to name on Philippine President Ferdinand “BongBong” Marcos Jr. on the presidential palace in Manila since he took workplace in July.
President Marcos, son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Sr., is a controversial determine however he discovered a pleasant viewers within the Filipino Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii delegation once they gathered at Malacanang Palace.
The president stated he was honored to welcome the delegates, who’ve shared roots to the northern Philippine provinces of Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur. The area is a stronghold of the Marcos political dynasty.
About 85% of the Filipinos in Hawaii have ancestral ties to the Ilocos area, which benefited from Marcos insurance policies.
“I’m very proud to deliver the Filipino group from Hawaii to pay their respects to the president, who, by the way can also be from the north. And lots of the first Filipinos who’re dwelling in Hawaii are from the north as nicely,” stated former Philippine Consul Common in Honolulu Gina Jamoralin, who now works on the Division of International Affairs.
President Marcos was governor of Ilocos Norte when his father’s regime was toppled by the “Folks Energy” revolution in 1986 after 14 years of martial regulation and claims of corruption and human rights violations. Human rights teams say greater than 3,200 individuals had been killed, 35,000 tortured and 70,000 detained throughout the Marcos dictatorship within the Nineteen Seventies.
A presidential fee is investigating the alleged theft of some $10 billion value of property.
The household fled to Hawaii, unable to return residence till 1991. Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. died in Honolulu in 1989.
Now greater than three many years later, the political dynasty is again within the palace after a majority of Filipinos elected Marcos Jr. president on guarantees of financial growth.
He urged the Fiipino diaspora to assist by way of investments, tourism and remittances to members of the family.
“Look to the Philippines as soon as extra,” Marcos informed delegates.
“I do know that lots of our international nationals, even the immigrant staff who’ve stayed overseas for a superb very long time, nonetheless wish to have, nonetheless have household again right here within the Philippines, nonetheless wish to come again to the Philippines.”
However whereas this can be true for older Filipino immigrants, many younger Filipino Individuals in Hawaii appear much less focused on understanding concerning the nation their mother and father or grandparents got here from.
Rebuilding that relationship might show difficult for the Marcos administration.
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Police have arrested and charged 29-year-old Emmy Cedeno Perez of Kailua-Kona for a parking violation scam involving a “barnacle” device placed on the windshields of vehicles in West Hawaii.
Police launched the investigation after receiving two reports of a parking-enforcement device known as a barnacle being placed on the windshield of parked vehicles at the top of Napoopoo Road near the popular Kaawaloa Trailhead in Captain Cook, on public property in an area without “no parking” signs.
A barnacle is a device similar to a briefcase that suctions to a vehicle’s windshield and can’t be removed until payment is made via instructions on the device.
The device is then released by the driver via a code sent to the driver’s mobile phone. After payment, the driver is instructed to drop off the barnacle at a drop box for a partial refund of their payment.
Through investigation, officers identified Perez as the party responsible for the barnacle.
He was arrested Tuesday and was subsequently charged with fraud, third-degree theft, second-degree criminal tampering, contempt of court, failure to appear and driving without a license.
Perez posted $11,600 bail and was released from police custody. He was ordered to appear in court on June 26.
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Hawaiʻi’s congressional delegation is demanding answers from the secretary of the Navy about why the military wants to increase its bombing of a tiny island off Niʻihau.
The bombs are 500-pound dummies and the military’s past exercises there have been shrouded in mystery.
Sens. Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono, and Reps. Ed Case and Jill Tokuda want the Navy to complete a full environmental impact statement that could shed light on a lot of unanswered questions.
The crescent-shaped island called Kaʻula, 23 miles southwest of Niʻihau, is so remote it’s mostly known by fishermen and cultural practitioners.
The Navy wants to increase inert bombings there with 500-pound ordnance that doesn’t explode from 12 per year to 31 on the island’s southern end.
“We just want answers. If they’re going to bomb a Hawaiian island, even if it’s several miles off the coast of Niʻihau, anything in the Hawaiian Island chain is the business of the people of Hawaiʻi,” said Schatz.
Schatz told Hawaii News Now he doesn’t know when the inert bombing happened in the past.
“Those are some of the answers that we’re trying to pursue,” he said.
“I think one of the lessons from the Red Hill experience is to not just accept that if they say national security, we stop asking questions. We have a lot of questions and we are not satisfied that this is necessary for national security,” he added.
Practitioners and conservations say they welcome the Hawaiʻi congressional delegation’s demand for an environmental impact statement.
Mike Nakachi of Moana ʻOhana and his son have traveled by boat off shore of Kaʻula island. They haven’t seen any damage, but say there are stories of bombings within the past 30 years.
“I have heard stories from other fishermen in the past that were on the island or fishing close to the island and engaged in just diving operations, holoholo operations, when all of a sudden, I guess a bomb hit the island,” said Nakachi.
The island is a year-round nursery for nesting seabirds.
“They’re babies. They can’t fly away and remember, this is an island the size of Ala Moana Beach Park, so dropping 500-pound inert bombs is going to be felt no matter where you are on this island,” said Hob Osterlund, Kauai Albatross Network.
In its draft environmental assessment, the Navy said the training was vital to military readiness, no cultural resources were identified, and impacts to wildlife would be less than significant
Osterlund of the Kauaʻi Albatross Network says one unanswered question is if the state handed over the land to the Navy or any other entity.
Hawaiʻi’s attorney general told HNN it and the Department of Land and Natural Resources is looking into the matter.
HNN contacted the secretary of the Navy for comment.
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