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FSM team with heart pulls out astounding performance at FIBA Oceania Tournament
By Bill Jaynes The Kaselehlie Press
November 30, 2022 FSM—For the second time in as many months, victorious young FSM citizens received a water salute at the Pohnpei International Airport today. This time it was the 12 young men returning from a stunning performance in the FIBA U15 Oceania Basketball Championship in Guam, a competition for athletes aged 15 and under. Pohnpei’s Governor Reed Oliver and FSM President David Panuelo welcomed the returning team. Team FSM faced what, to a team with less heart, might have seemed to be insurmountable odds. At an average height of 5’6”, they were the shortest
team at the competition, which included teams from Australia, New Zealand, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, Papua New Guinea, and Samoa. It was also the FSM’s very first time to compete in such
a large tournament. A FIBA reporter Team FSM had won three of its four described the team as a “wildcard”. games at the competition, winning them Those factors alone might’ve affected fifth overall, and first place in their pool. the minds and performance of a lesser team, but when the tournament was over, Click here for continuation
FSM Congress proposes 45 percent salary increase for FSM Public Service System employees By Bill Jaynes The Kaselehlie Press
45 percent. The pay increase would apply only to those employees serving under the public service system and not to contracted December 5, 2022 employees or political appointees such as FSM—This week, the FSM Congress cabinet members. passed on second reading, a bill (CB 22263) to increase the bi-weekly base salary The last salary increase for public service rate of FSM government employees employees, the first in 24 years, was at the serving as public service employees by beginning of fiscal year, 2022 which began
on October 1, 2021. At that time employees at pay level steps one to 14 received a 15 percent salary increase. Steps 15 to 28 received a 10 percent increase, and employees at steps 29 and above received a 5 percent increase.
passed the Act on January 29, 2021.
The salary increase that Congress proposed this week through passage of its Act would go into effect on January 1, 2023, in plenty of time for March elections, but only if President Panuelo signs it by that time.
FSM President David Panuelo didn’t sign the fiscal year 2022 salary increase into Most of the seats in Congress are up for law until March 1, 2021, the day before grabs on March 7, though some incumbents the 2021 mid-term election. Congress had are running unopposed.