THE Public School System capped its 37th founding anniversary on Thanksgiving Eve by naming nine educators and staff as state-level winners for School Year 2025-2026.
MARIANAS Visitors Authority Managing Director Jamika Taijeron credited a 42% increase in visitors from Japan to active marketing efforts, particularly the Brand Identity Marketing Strategy initiative, or BIMS, which she said has successfully targeted younger generations.
PACIFIC Center for Island Security co-founder Dr. Robert A. Underwood said island communities must take a more active role in shaping security discussions rather than simply accepting military strategies imposed from outside.
DESPITE the CNMI’s dismal state, there are still some things to be thankful for, including a leadership that is not willfully blind to the economic reality staring us in the face for the past few years.
OVER a month ago, the local Society of Professional Journalists called on the CNMI attorney general — an elected official — to “engage with the press in an open forum regarding issues of public concern.”
LAWMAKERS and CNMI Leaders, please restore cuts made to senior citizens retirement benefits. At a time when inflation cuts away the precarious budgets of those on fixed incomes, salt is thrown in the wound.
I AM a Japanese woman residing in Saipan. Over the past 12 years, I have been subjected to multiple incidents including robbery, attempted robbery, theft, break-ins, property damage, and even attempted murder and assault by police officers.
THE Titanic is nowhere near the top of the list of deadliest shipwrecks in history. If the 1,500 who died in that disaster are tragic, what would we say about the 4,400 who died on the Doña Paz? When the Doña Paz sank in the Philippines in 1987 it became the deadliest maritime accident in history.
FOR thousands of years, the people of the Marianas have lived surrounded by the ocean. It has provided food, culture, identity, and a connection to the wider Pacific. Our islands were built with the ocean at the center, yet after all these millennia, we are only now beginning to realize the full ec…
TOKYO/NEW DELHI/PARIS (Reuters) — Global airlines scrambled to fix a software glitch on Airbus A320 jets on Saturday as a partial recall by the European planemaker halted hundreds of flights in Asia and Europe and threatened U.S. travel over the busiest weekend of the year.
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Revenues at China’s giant military firms fell last year as corruption purges slowed arms contracts and procurement, according to a study released on Monday by a leading conflict think tank.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Covid-19 vaccinations probably contributed to the deaths of at least 10 children who died of heart inflammation, U.S. Food and Drug Administration chief medical and scientific officer Vinay Prasad told agency staffers.
