Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 11:14:13 AM ChST
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THE local Department of Labor is asking the Legislature to pass legislation that will change the mandatory 30 percent local hiring preference to a floating benchmark based on the population of U.S. citizens and permanent residents on the islands in a bid to reduce unemployment among them.
Deputy Labor Secretary Jacinta M. Kaipat said increasing the employment rate of U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents and CNMI permanent residents will strengthen the islands’ foreign-labor dependent economy...
Read more...A JUVENILE yesterday testified in the jury trial of a man charged with sexual abuse while the Department of Public Safety separately arrested two men for sexually abusing minors.
SUPERIOR Court Associate Judge Kenneth Govendo has imposed a $50,000 bail on a 31-year-old man charged with sexually abusing two minors.

APIA (TALAMUA ONLINE) — Samoa welcomed 5.4 percent more visitors in 2009 compared to the year before, the Samoa Tourism Authority announced this month.
Our loss
CUC had to hire a competent water and wastewater manager because the feds required it. Now Bruce Megarr may not be Mr. Congeniality but he gets things done.
THE Youth Advisory Panel, nicknamed by its members as YAP, was created by an initiative of the commissioner of education. Its purpose is to gather students from the CNMI’s public high schools and junior high schools and have them solve problems plaguing the youth today.
(DEQ) — The Division of Environmental Quality says water samples collected from Jeffries Beach and Unai Dangkulo contained excessive concentrations of fecal indicator bacteria that exceeded the CNMI’s marine water quality standards.
KOROR (Palau Horizon) – Palau’s capabilities in managing large-scale mass distributions of medicines were being tested through the five-day Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) plan that focuses on anthrax drill from March 1 to 5 at the NgaraChamayong Cultural Center.
“The scenario is mass distribution of medicines because of an anthrax attack,...
I had a rather brief but enlightening conversation with a friend who obviously has been keeping track of the “steps” our elected leaders – a long list of barefaced citizens who have taken turns taking oaths to run almost everything from the state level to national level – have made to ease the burdens of our taxed lives and simultaneously, ...