Honolulu Star-Advertiser

The Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources has upped the fine for a yacht grounding in Honolua Bay that damaged 119 coral colonies and about 1,640 square meters of live rock.

Question: Taxpayers should be warned that May 17 is the deadline for amending their 2020 tax return or claiming refunds still not received for that year. After May 17 it will be too late. While taxpayers have a three-year deadline after filing to make corrections or claim refunds, the IRS has 10 years to collect from them for any tax due.

On a night when meteorologist Guy Hagi made a cameo as a guest announcer, the Hawaii baseball team stormed to a 13-1 rout of Hawaii Hilo at Les Murakami Stadium.

BASEBALL

Three University of Hawaii men’s golfers shot under par Tuesday on the final day of the Big West Championship at the La Quinta Country Club in California.

Donald Trump is trying to play the role of a martyr by continuously claiming that he is the victim of a nefarious witch hunt. I do not believe that there is a witch hunt going on now, as the hunt would have ended long ago — when Marjorie Taylor Greene landed!

A month after the Hamas attack, the Israeli military had killed some 10,000 Palestinians. Today the toll is nearly 35,000 and millions displaced with nowhere to go. Seventy-six years ago Western powers created Israel on Palestinian homeland without their consent. Since then, Israel continues disenfranchising Palestinians in their ever-shrinking territories and killing them with impunity. With the West supporting Israel, we are ourselves complicit.

I noticed a lot of pro-Palestinian protests around the country but no protest against Hamas, who started the conflict by killing more than 1,000 Israelis and capturing about 250 hostages. It may be an overreaction by Israel for bombing Gaza, but Hamas still holds hostages.