(MVA) — The Marianas Visitors Authority reports that visitor arrivals to the Marianas totaled 10,793 in Oct. 2025, a 29% decrease compared to 15,226 visitors in Oct. 2024.
THE Senate on Monday unanimously passed its own version of House Bill 24-74 to appropriate $1 million in Marianas Public Land Trust net distributable interest income, though no longer for the bill’s original purpose.
ASSISTANT Attorney General Olga Kelley has asked the Superior Court to disqualify Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho from presiding over the misconduct case against Lt. Gov. Dennis James C. Mendiola and two co-defendants, arguing that the judge’s actions created an appearance of bias.
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…
MAJURO — Every December, fisheries officials from the Marshall Islands and Forum Fisheries Agency countries troop off to the annual Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission — often for battles with distant water fishing nations over policies that impact tuna fishing on the high seas in the …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The White House on Monday defended a U.S. admiral’s decision to conduct multiple strikes on an alleged Venezuelan drug-smuggling vessel in September, saying he had Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s authorization, even as critics questioned the legality of a strike …
