Kauai military base to rename building after Inouye ADVERTISING Kauai military base to rename building after Inouye KEKAHA, Kauai (AP) — The Navy says it’s renaming a building at a military base on Kauai after the late Sen. Daniel K.
Kauai military base to rename building after Inouye
KEKAHA, Kauai (AP) — The Navy says it’s renaming a building at a military base on Kauai after the late Sen. Daniel K. Inouye.
The Navy will host a ceremony today to rename the Pacific Missile Range Facility’s operations center.
Inouye served in the U.S. Senate from 1963 until his death in 2012. He received the Medal of Honor for his service with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II.
The Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands hosts military training and testing. It’s the only training range in the world where submarines, surface ships, aircraft and space vehicles can operate and be tracked simultaneously.
Electricity restored to most of Oahu jail
HONOLULU (AP) — Electricity was restored to most of Oahu Community Correctional Center.
The state Department of Public Safety said electrical contractors were working Monday afternoon on a couple sections that remained on the back-up generator.
Inmates and staff at the state’s most crowded correctional facility were without air conditioning since an outage Friday. Back-up generators kicked in immediately, but air conditioning isn’t connected to the generator system.
To help alleviate the heat, guards allowed inmates to have longer recreational time outside.
An additional generator was brought in Monday evening to power the air conditioning for the entire facility until full power is restored.
Contractors are trying to determine what caused the power outage at the aging facility.
There are more than 1,160 inmates at OCCC, which has a bed capacity of 954.
Guam archdiocese reviewing sex abuse response policy
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Guam’s archdiocese is reviewing how it responds to allegations of sexual abuse against church officials after the archbishop was accused of assaulting boys in the 1970s.
Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai, a temporary administrator appointed by the Vatican after the allegations surfaced, said a group met Friday to consider changing its policy.
The review does not stem from the accusations against Archbishop Anthony Apuron, who denies the abuse and has not been charged with any crime, church officials said.
Rather, the group is working to ensure the best policy is in place, Monsignor Brigido “Bibi” Arroyo said Monday.
On top of the review, the archdiocese appointed a new sexual abuse response coordinator, he added.
That comes a month after a former coordinator called the church’s sexual abuse policy weak and flawed and said it needs to be changed. Deacon Steve Martinez said he made requests as early as 2014 to have the policy revised. Apuron replaced Martinez after he raised the issue.
