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Labor wants floating benchmark to prioritize hiring of locals
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...Victim testifies in sexual abuse case
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.
Man arrested for sexual abuse 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.
Visitor arrivals to Samoa still increasing
APIA (TALAMUA ONLINE) — Samoa welcomed 5.4 percent more visitors in 2009 compared to the year before, the Samoa Tourism Authority announced this month.
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- AG: No need for Senate to reconfirm current cabinet heads
- State funeral for NMI’s first lt. governor today
- GTC inaugurates modern, energy-efficient buildings
- NMI not ‘exempted’ from effects of climate change
- Garapan school to hold reading activities
- Camacho urges cooperation of pet owners
- Kagman residents alarmed by kidnapping, assault incidents
- Rota council to pursue sports programs
- Rota council to pursue sports programs
Editorials: Our loss
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.
Students mark Anti-Bullying Week
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.
Red flag at 2 Saipan sites
(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.
Palau gets ready for anthrax attack
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,...
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- Bentprop Team starts 2010 expedition
- Copeland resigns
- Copeland resigns
- German Cruise ship to drop anchor this weekend
- It’s dry season, gov’t asks public to conserve water
- 4 juveniles arrested for smoking
- Man leaves to harvest betel nut, missing
- New Japanese ambassador promises to strengthen ties between Japan and Palau
- On tsunami warnings: Palau not prepared on a national level
Inkling: Take a leap of faith, learn to dance
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, ...
Today's Contributed photo
A MILESTONE AND A CELEBRATION. From left, Lt. Gov. Eloy S. Inos, Gov. Benigno R. Fitial, Gregorio T. Camacho Elementary School principal Charlotte Camacho, Board of Education Chairwoman Lucia Blanco-Maratita and Education Commissioner Rita A. Sablan are joined by students during the ceremonial ribbon-cutting for GTC’s newly reconstructed buildings “F” and “G” which house nine classrooms.
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