Best of the Marianas

The Department of Corrections’ Hagåtña Detention Facility is shown in this file photo. A PROPOSAL to transfer Guam inmates to the Saipan prison facility is still in its initial phases, but some CNMI residents have already spoken against it. One of them, Ben Basa, fears that when the inmates from Gu…

Commuters walk on a platform after disembarking from a suburban train at a railway station in Mumbai, India, on Jan. 21, 2023. (Niharika Kulkarni/Reuters) (MV) — For the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent think tank, India’s surpassing of China as the world’s most populous country is one …

AFTER more than a year of denouncing the previous administration’s overspending ways, and after repeatedly stating that we should expect the worst once the ARPA funds were depleted, the CNMI’s newly elected officials seemed surprised to realize that they were right. Their doomsday forecast has come…