by Sabrina Salas Matanane

Guam - Governor Eddie Calvo put pen to paper today signing more than a dozen bills into law. Among them- The Predator Prevention Act that imposes severe penalties for sexual predators. The bill's author Senator Brant McCreadie and his staff are conducting educational campaigns at high schools and the prison warning of the consequences of the new law that include no suspended sentences. The governor also signed the Secure Our Schools Act of 2013 that allows for the installation and maintenance of security and surveillance at island schools. The former F.Q. Sanchez Elementary School will now be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Umatac mayor with the signing of Bill 5. Senator Tina Muna Barnes' Bill 44 was also signed helping to transfer 10 million airline miles to the Ayuda Foundation to get medically indigent patients off island for treatment and to help department of education students going off island for competitions.