Category: News
Philippines To Suspend Mandatory Quarantine For Incoming Vaccinated Travelers
The Philippines is currently suspending its mandatory quarantine for vaccinated travelers arriving in the country. The new Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of [Read More…]
Doctors On Stage Musical ‘Fundemic’ Offers Hope Beyond COVID-19 Pandemic
by Dennis Galolo Someone once said, “There’s a silver lining to every cloud that sails about the heavens if we could only see it.” That [Read More…]
BOOK REVIEW: The Rosales Novels
by Rose Churma The Rosales Novels consist of five novels that use Philippine history as its backdrop – from the last days of the Spanish [Read More…]
Hawaii Receives $48 Million Federal Fund To Fight Pandemic, Support Hospitals
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced on Jan. 19 that they will provide Hawaii with a $47.9 million federal grant to support local hospitals [Read More…]
The Pied Piper of Mar-a-Lago
by Perry Diaz In 1284, as the legend goes, the people of Hamelin, Germany, hired the town’s rat-catcher, a piper, to lure the rats away [Read More…]
State Regulators Settle With Hundreds Of Mortgage Loan Originators
The Division of Financial Institutions, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and financial regulatory agencies from 42 other states reached with 441 mortgage loan originator [Read More…]
Proposed Bill Aims To Eliminate Down Payment Barrier To Home Ownership
Hawaii District 17 Representative Gene Ward aims to eliminate the down payment requirement on home buying in newly proposed bill. “A down payment is the [Read More…]
Year in Review – Top 10 News Covered by HFC
by Edwin Quinabo YEAR-IN-REVIEW: 2021 transitioned seamlessly from 2020 punctuated by COVID-19 and toxic politics. Pandemic anxiety once again permeated. But 2021 brought newfound hope [Read More…]
Meet the New Deputy Director of Harbors
by Renelaine Bontol Pfister Last month, Eduardo Manglallan was appointed by Gov. Ige as the new Deputy Director of Harbors, a division of Hawaii Department [Read More…]
Budget Windfall Should Be Shared With Taxpayers
by Joe Kent Hawaii lawmakers are wracking their brains about how to balance the state budget, only this time, the problem isn’t too little money, [Read More…]
