Oct. 6-13, 2008 #10

A group consisted of retired local women and members of a non-profit organization called “Desiungii a Buai” hosted a luncheon on Tuesday, October 14th, for an honored guest from Fiji who was in Palau representing South Pacific Commission on technical assistance to the island. Ms. Aliki Buliseaa, an SPC representative based in Pohnpei in her capacity as Human Resources Management Ad-visor on Human Rights, Youth and Culture was in Palau and invited to meet with the group. “I am truly impressed with what the women of Palau as represented by this group has done so far with the farm plantation,” said Buliseaa. “I am not here to tell you what to do rather I observe and provide technical support to the development of your project in the form of grant proposals and training your group needs.” Ms. Buliseaa was escorted on a tour through the group’s plantation taking stock of the local fruits such as giant papayas, guava, soursop, corn, the five types of taros, string beans, mango, coconut, two types of nappa, margoso, and many more.

“Desiungii a Buai”…..(Continued on page 4) Ms. Aliki Buliseaa addressing the group in Ngiwal

(Tia Belau – Vol. 17 – No, 41) – Tia Belau a short time ago received a report Sunday evening, October 12th that a Palauan man who is said to have threatened his parents with a machete in Guam, was reportedly shot to death by Guam Police who were called to the scene. The man’s identity and the cir-cumstances surrounding the incident could not be con-firmed as we went to press. Public Safety Director Nor-bert Yano also confirmed that he had received such a report but not the identity of the man or the incident.

Kuam News Network on Kuam.com reported that just before 9pm Friday, a woman walked into the Dededo Pre-cinct, requesting that her son

Darson Rekemesik

be removed from their home along Chalan Kotda in the northern village. Agent A.V. Camacho with the Guam Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division told

SHOT… (Cont. on page 3)

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James Orak – A professional landscaper, Orak returned from the US almost 20 years ago back to his homeland. Temmy Shmull – Currently holding the position of Minister of State, Shmull spend 4 years and 8 years as Chief of Staff to the former President Nakamura during His Excellency’s vice presidency and presidency. Paul Ueki – A retired PPUC employee, Ueki is the current Vice Speaker of the Koror State Legislature and this is his second time running for the Senate. Adair Sumang – Is a well-known face amongst the world of baseball as a manager, coach or just an umpire of the game. Upon his filing to run for the Senate, Sumang submitted his resignation as an employee of the Public Auditors Office. Santy Asanuma – One of the most prominent and young busi-nessman in Palau, Asanuma also is a Senator on his second term and running to a third term this election year. Haruo Willter – A member of the Second Constitutional Con-vention in 2004, Willter comes to the political arena with the experience of working with the Palau Government as well as the US Federal Agency (Department of Interior).

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A Palauan woman resid-ing and working in Hawaii was killed early Saturday morning by multiple stab-bings while her husband and child were injured by an in-truder who broke into their apartment in the McCully area in Honolulu between Manoa and Waikiki, accord-ing to Police and newspaper reports from Hawaii.

The reports indicate that the woman is Lyola Mesebe-luu and her husband is Keith Mesebeluu who is in critical condition at a hospital. Their 2-old daughter, Dilwais, is in a stable condition with minor injuries to her arm.

The Honolulu Police have arrested a 19-year-old man as a suspect whose identity has not been dis-closed in the stabbing death of the 27-year-old Lyola. Lyola is the daughter of the late Augusto Yada of Nger-beched and Ciana Misech of Angaur while Keith is the second son of Melekeok Delegate and the former Speaker of the House of Delegates Augustine and senatorial candidate for the November 4, 2008 General Election Regina Mesebeluu. The Mesebeluus left early

Ngaremlengui villagers woke up early morning of October 11th to a gruesome killing of an elderly woman in her 70’s, according to people from the state.

It was reported in Tia Belau that Police received the report of the incident at about 7:20 am Sunday morning and went to the home of the woman in Imeong village where they found her body and blood hardened indicating that she had been dead for some hours.

The woman’s name is Teruko Franz Kingya and she is said to have sustained three stabs to the face by some kind of a long rod-like object. A suspect, Ngirturong Franz, was apprehended and taken into custody believed to be the woman’s grandson. The young man is in his 30’s and is reported to be mentally unstable.

A villager said that Kingya was living with her blind daughter and granddaughter. That morn-ing Kingya’s daughter told the granddaughter to check on her mother but the little girl returned saying that the grandmother was still sleeping but with blood all over her face. Police were than called to the scene to discover the rigid body of the old woman.

Roureur Belau learned that in the early 80’s Seberian killed a woman and dumped her body on an island to the west of Ngaremlengui while late of the same decade an old man by the name of Heinrick was shot and killed by his son. After the release of Seberian from jail he killed a 5 year old boy years later with a machete slicing the boy’s shoulder to torso. The boy died instantly.

Stabbing victim Lyola Yada Mesebeluu is shown here with her 2-year-old daughter, Kia. Mesebeluu was stabbed to death at their McCully-area home

early yesterday. Her husband, Keith, was stabbed trying to save his wife, and both he and his daughter were hospitalized, police said.

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lulu Advertiser, it states that the Honolulu Medical Exam-iner's office on October 11 identified the victim of the fatal stabbing as Lyola Mese-beluu. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death, according to the medical examiner's of-fice. The woman's husband, 26, and 2-year-old daughter were injured in the incident.

Police Maj. Alan Blumeke said at 8:30 a.m. that the husband remains in serious condition and the toddler in stable condition with minor injuries at The Queen's Medical Center, where the woman was pro-nounced dead at 6:10 a.m. Blumeke said patrol officers were sent at 4:10 a.m. to the three-story walk-up apart-ment building at 2222

Kapiolani Blvd. on an argu-ment call. The husband told arriving Police officers that he was awakened by his wife's screams.

“The 19-year old suspect MURDERED... (Cont. on page 8)

KUAM News, "It resulted in a police officer-related shooting. It is a death related investigation at this time and we can't release any further details.”

As KUAM rolled up to the scene, police chief Paul Suba was leaving, heading to the nearby precinct where the police officers who were first to arrive were being questioned. A steady stream of other officers arrived including, GPD's Forensic Science Division and officials from Internal Affairs.

"There are interviews being conducted at this time and there are interviews of officers being conducted also, but that's part of the normal process of any investigation," Camacho said. As day-light broke, the investigation was still ongoing. A press release was issued by the Guam Police early this morning provided more details of what transpired.

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She said she will submit her report of her observation to the main office for review for provision of technical assistance to Palau. The “Desiungii a Buai” has 26 active members out of the 47 listed members and their farm site is located Ngiwal, par-ticularly at Ngirngemelas’ beach at Ngermechau Hamlet. The group commutes back and forth between Ngiwal and Koror to harvest the crop at least twice a month to sell to restaurants as well as among members. Members are mandated to pay their monthly dues of $5.00 or $60.00 annually to their treasure chest to help with any ex-pense accrued. “We are desperately in need of a van for trans-portation and any and all assistance toward this effort is most welcome,” said Goretty Masayos. For more information, Goretty Masayos can be contacted at 767-2452 or President Irung Lakobong at Furusato Restau-rant. Mrs. Hermana Kyota is the Vice President with Mrs. Lei Techur Rengulbai and Ms. Rois Yoichi are both secretaries for the group.

(Continued from page 1) …..“Desiungii a Buai”

Corn (left) with red pepper and okura (above) and taro (top) with giant papaya to the left planted by “Desiungii a Buai”.


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Gale Ngirmidol #8

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Fritz Koshiba #31

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Regina Mesebeluu #3

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Mark Rudimch #2

Hokkons Baules #30

Roman Yano #22

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In less than a week after he upheld the disqualification by the Palau Election Commission (PEC) of the four leaders of the House of Delegates due term limit , Chief Justice Arthur Ngiraklsong again sustained another disqualification on a sepa-rate ground of a Senate candidate last Thursday, October 9th. In his decision on a suit brought by Brien Sers Nicholas who was disqualified by PEC for failing to meet the 5-year residency in Palau prior to the election, CJ Ngiraklsong affirmed the deci-sion of PEC that Nicholas did not meet the residency require-ment and his name cannot be placed on the ballot.

Article IX, Section 6 of the Constitution sets forth five criteria for membership in the Congress and one of which is 5-year residency in the country before the election. Other four criteria are citizenship, not less than 25 years of age, residency of one year in the district to represent, and less than 3-term limit in the Congress.

The court decision states that Nicholas has not resided in Palau continuously for five years since high school graduation

and from 1989 until today he voluntarily chose to live, work, and raise his family in Saipan.

The court held a hearing last Tuesday on his complaint that after Nicholas filed in September. The parties filed briefs to support their cross motions for summary judgment and ar-gued the case on October 7 and the decision was issued two days later.

The court distinguished Nicholas residency from that of Camsek Chin in a landmark case after the 2000 election in which Chin was elected but not allowed to seat in the Senate due to questions of his citizenship and residency. The court found then that Chin though absent from Palau for three years within the six years after he returned from military service, his absence was due to the orders of his superior and that he had no other home and intended to and did return home and there-fore met the 5-year residency requirement.

BRIEN’S DISQUALIFICATION… (Continued on page 6)


The court also clarified that residency for voting is differ-ent than residency for candidate to OEK as enunciated by a prior court case involving a voter from the Southwest island who had resided in Saipan for most of her adult life but was qualified to vote due to her intention to return to reside in her state.

Nicholas was born in Koror and raised in Angaur. He went to elementary school in Palau and high schools in Palau and Saipan. After he graduated from the UH law school in Hawaii, he went to reside in Saipan where his wife is from, raise d his family and practiced law there. He also has a house in Angaur and is licensed to practice law in Palau and intended to move back to Palau in December this year.

Since 1984, Nicholas had voted as an absentee voter of Palau and had returned home for family vacations and funerals and to attend public forums. In the election for the Second Pa-lau Constitutional Convention in 2005, he ran unsuccessfully for the Delegate of Angaur. Nicholas supporters in Palau say he is not going to appeal .

In the meantime, according to court records, Speaker Anto-nio Bells, Floor Leader Sabino Anastacio, Ways and Means Chairman Mario Gulibert, and CIP Chairman Lucio Ngiraiwet whose disqualification to run for the House after serving three terms, was sustained by the Chief Justice nearly ten days ago, have filed a notice of appeal with the Appellate Court. The case may be moot as the ballots are being printed and there is no court TRO or any other order to delay the printing to accommo-date the four should they survive the appeal which is very unlikely.

(Continued from page 5) … BRIEN’S DISQUALIFICATION

Ngaraard State, in particular Ngebuked County, saw one of the largest crowd that came to attend the Saturday (October 11th) funeral of the 19 year old girl who died as a result of a hit and run vehicle incident last September 29th driven by a Japa-nese national. Kayla Kimberly Naboliy Ngiraungil was laid to rest in her family’s burial site in Ngebuked. According to witnesses who attended the funeral, Mr. Kota Kobari, the driver of the van that killed Ngiraungil, attended the funeral with his father and ac-companied by two representatives from Japan Embassy in Pa-lau, and two JICA friends. “The Kobari family ‘a ulmelduchel ra’ $10,000 for the ‘omengkad el blals’ and including with their friends’ contribution the amount came to about $12,000 in all,” said a family member. “There was a lot of forgiveness during the funeral,” stated one villager wiping tears from her face as she along with many mourners were witness to Kayla’s father and Kota embracing each other. Delegate Joel Toribiong spoke on behalf of the family tell-ing the crowd that Kota in his disgrace ask that he be allowed as a family member. “There is no one that can take the place of Kayla as she is one of a kind,” said Delegate Toribiong, “and there are no words that can be said to ease the sorrow we face today except by action and therefore Kota for the rest of his life will atone for what he did as a humble son to Kayla’s family.” The funeral brought together monetary assistance of about $26,000 and 36 turtle plates (toluk) to defray expenses accrued.

Kayla’s mother crying over the coffin with Kota and his father below

Family members surrounding Kayla’s coffin during the funeral Held in Ngebuked County of Ngaraard at Bai ra Klebeang!

Kayla’s father embracing Kota as both cried out their sorrows.


Koror’s Events on the Horizon:

Koror State Constitution Day October 21, 2008

Festivities to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Koror State Constitution will begin on October 19, with a Walk-athon, Fishing Derby and all day activities at Long Island Park, including Volleyball Tournament, Coconut Relay Race, Totang Race and many more for all ages, focusing in getting community involvement to join together in celebrating this special day. On October 20, there will be an Open-House at the Koror State Capitol Building starting from 8:00am till 4:00pm. This is a special day for the community to see for themselves how their government operates to serve them. To close the day, there will an electrifying Fashion Show at Chemayong Cul-tural Center from 6:00pm to 10:00pm. The three-day celebration will draw to a close on October 21, 2008, with Floats representing the special uniqueness of all seven traditional hamlets of our State. The events will start from central Koror at from Bai-ra-Meketii to Asahi Ball-field, where the Constitution Day Ceremony begins, featuring inspirational messages from our Traditional Leaders, the Governor, Koror Legislative Branch, traditional groups and our business community, followed by a variety of exhilarat-ing entertainment from all 12 hamlets of Koror.


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According to spokesperson Officer Allan Guzman, the vic-tim was identified only as being a 27-year-old male of Palauan descent. His mother, who was escorted by cops back to her home, saw her son standing at the front entrance with a machete and a knife. Backup was called responding was the shift super-visor and four other officers.

The press release detailed that repeated attempts were made to persuade the man to drop his weapons, the victim was sprayed with mace, but doing so only caused him to become more aggressive. As he lunged forward toward the officers, he was shot two times.

The victim was then transported to the Guam Memorial

Hospital in Tamuning, where he was later pronounced dead. At this point GPD isn't releasing any further details until their in-vestigation is completed, and the agency isn't releasing the name of the victim, or the officer who pulled the trigger.

News of this latest incident comes as GPD this past June

released the findings of an investigation into another officer involved in a fatal shooting that took place at the Veterans Cemetery in Piti; the officer was found to be justified in the shooting death of Rey Garcia. While it took nine months for GPD to wrap up that investigation, time will only tell how long this one will take. Officials are also looking into the mental background of the 27-year-old.

Guampdn.com on the internet reported that the Palauan

man shot by Guam police was identified as Darson Rekemesik.

(Continued from page 3)… SHOT was taken into custody at the scene about 4:30 a.m.,” Blumeke said. “As far as we have been able to determine at this point, the suspect and the victims are not related,” Blumeke said. He said the suspect, who was later arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder, “made entry into the unsecured apartment.”

Police had not yet determined if the suspect was intending

to burglarize the apartment, or what led to the stabbing. Police homicide investigators were at the building at 8:30 a.m. inter-viewing other residents and surveying the scene. Blumeke said a large kitchen knife, believed to be the murder weapon, was recovered at the scene.

As of 5:15 this morning a large number of Police were

congregated around the apartment building, between Hoawa and Paani streets. Yellow 'crime scene' tape cordoned off the building's parking lot.

Bryan Cheplic, spokesman for the city Emergency Ser-

vices Department, said paramedics were summoned to a Kapiolani Boulevard address at 4:21 a.m. and treated the three victims. “The man and the woman appeared to have multiple stab wounds,” Cheplic said.

“The woman, who appeared to be in her mid-20s was de-

termined to be in critical condition, while the man, who is about the same age, was transported in serious condition,” Cheplic said. The child, who Cheplic described as a toddler, was re-ported to be in stable condition with minor injuries.

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