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Doris Flores-Brooks is a Guamanian accountant, former bank executive and politician. Brooks is a former Republican senator in the Guam Legislature from 1989 to 1994. Brooks is known for being the first Chamorro to be a Certified Public Accountant.
The Guam Department of Youth Affairs (Chamorro: Depåttamenton Asunton Manhoben) is the youth corrections agency of the United States territory of Guam. The department has its headquarters in the village of Mangilao. [1] The Guam Youth Correctional Facility, operated by the department, is in Mangilao. [2]
The Guam Legislature, I Liheslaturan Guåhan, is a unicameral body consisting of 15 senators. Senators are elected at-large to serve two-year terms without term limits. The current 37th Guam Legislature (2022–present) has a 8–6 Democratic majority (one vacancy) led by Speaker Therese M. Terlaje. [2]
Guam has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by a non-voting delegate since 1972. [1] Its first delegate, Antonio Borja Won Pat , had been serving as the Washington Representative lobbying for a delegate since 1965, elected for four-year terms in 1964 and 1968. [ 2 ]
Guam is located on the micro Mariana Plate between the two. Guam is the closest land mass to the Mariana Trench, the deep subduction zone that runs east of the Marianas. Volcanic eruptions established the base of the island in the Eocene, roughly 56 to 33.9 million years ago.
Guam's relationship with the U.S. military stretches back to the late 19th century. Since World War II, it has seen repeated military buildups; in 2012, before the missile defense project was ...
The Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services (Chamorro: Dipattamenton Salut Pupbleko Yan Setbision Susiat) is an agency of the government of the United States territory of Guam. The agency includes the Division of General Administration, Division of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health, Division of Public Welfare, and ...
The GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development is a regional organization of four post-Soviet states: Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova.. Conceived in 1997 to harmonize and integrate commercial, diplomatic and democratic relations among its member states, the GUAM treaty charter was signed in 2001 and today covers a population of over 49.8 million people.