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Mrozowski, C. Nagihara, S. Oceanic and Atmos. Yap's are not the beaches of the Bahamas or Hawaii. They remain as they were, coral sand shaded by palm trees, ungroomed for tourists, untrammeled and solitary. The clear, teal water remains thigh deep at high tide for hundreds of yards to reef's edge, where it becomes the deep blue of ocean depth.
Pools of deep blue inside the reef signal sinkholes flush with coral and fish. We fell asleep that night to the shrill of insects and awoke at daybreak to a squawking, tone-deaf rooster and the soft rush of rain on our roof. October to March is the dry season in Yap, when cool tradewinds ease the heat and humidity. Rain clouds gather once a day for a few minutes. During the rainy season, expect deluges for longer periods, but seldom an all-day rain.
With the rain comes humidity as heavy as a wet towel. As instructed, when the road ended, we parked and crossed a telephone-pole bridge to begin a minute walk along sandy paths through seaside villages.
The path led us out of the heavy air into the coolness of a sea breeze. Shaded with palms and bordered by fragrant hibiscus, we ambled past thatched-roof bungalows, fishnets strung between the trees. Coconuts littered the sandy yards, and patches of elephant-eared taro dotted with orchids covered the sodden, low ground. Young men, their fishing done for the day, languished under palms. Bare-breasted women in lava-lavas padded by, while little boys played tetherball with bags of sand.
Just as my romantic notions were about to overcome me, however, I spied a young man at the end of the path, naked except for a loincloth, jingling the unmistakable key to a Toyota, Chicago Bulls hat cocked backward on his head. His wife was out of Pampers. The cultural center is actually a beachside abandoned village with a traditional men's house, meeting center, canoe-building shelter and a few homes. Carvings of mythical fish and birds adorn the walls and doors of the men's house, or peebay.
Here, surrounded by breadfruit and mango trees, village men practice traditional dance while boys sit at the feet of their elders absorbing their culture.
In the canoe house, they watch as their elders carve the hulls of single outriggers from the breadfruit tree. Although motorboats are widely used on Yap, the canoe is still a daily part of life in many of the outer islands, where gasoline is expensive and rare. In fact, the chief of Ifalik, sensing an encroachment of values, has outlawed motorboats altogether.
The grounds of the center are also available to campers. Nightly meals of taro, yams and fish are provided by a neighbor. Back in Colonia and in search of a cold beer on this Christmas Eve, we stopped at the Marina, an expatriate hangout that catches the breeze and a good spot for a lunch of fresh fish sandwiches. Over icy beers with "Winter Wonderland" playing overhead, we arranged for a snorkeling tour with Beyond the Reef.
Diving and snorkeling on Yap are splendid, with manta rays in graceful mating dances inches above your head, sea turtles, and fish and coral in every color of a vivid palette. Diving, in fact, brings most people to Yap, often on stopover to the stunning Rock Islands of Palau, miles to the southwest.
Warming to the laze, we lounged at the Marina until the sun cast the sky in soft pinks. Across the bay, a Christmas party was getting under way. A cluster of young boys gathered behind a shack, stripping off T-shirts and donning grass skirts.
A white man in a stiff white shirt and tie gave last-minute instructions. What was it about Yap that left me so content, I wondered. As to the concern on fuel, Yap explained that the Philippines has to bear with the consequence of being an archipelago. Ang problema sa Pilipinas, as what I always say, is we are an archipelago. He said this was the reason why former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, during her watch, had to build the nautical highways. Right now, we just have to connect all of those.
What the government loses, the people gain. The effect of the importation of corn and feed wheat would take time to be felt, though, considering that it would also take time to grow the chickens and hogs. Yap, however, pointed out that importation of fish and meat products should not be done indiscriminately to the extent of hurting the local producers.
Hindi pwedeng ano ha, ang decision natin is massive importation para sa lahat. We have local hog producers. We have local chicken producers, vegetables producers. We have fish dealers, traders, people who feed us well.
Opening up the telecommunications market to competition is the rotten egg. In May FSM and Palau hosted a signing ceremony in Guam to celebrate the signing of supply contracts for the Yap, Palau and Chuuk cable systems with fanfare, ribbon cutting and speeches. Once again the residents of Yap watched with excitement, eager to be set free to wander around the internet unimpeded.
Montenegro reportedly was upset when it was determined that the contract needed to be renegotiated after it was approved, but he eventually agreed not to pull out and the month agreement was made official November 5, with joint funding from the World Bank and OAE funds. When that work is completed to the satisfaction of the World Bank, the OAE will need to hire staff, set up an office and bank accounts, and all of the other tasks needed to start up the new wholesaling enterprise around which open access will revolve.
Final execution was projected to be completed by December 30, The World Bank is willing to consider a partial release of the funding if certain conditions pertaining to Mr.
The remaining funds are to be released when the organization has proven that all required actions are in place. Inquiries to DTCI about the status of the request and the partial release have not been answered as of this writing. On Dec. On the agenda was an update by the president on the fiber optic project.
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