Business

HONOLULU, Hawaii (BoH) — Bank of Hawai‘i has been ranked No. 3 among America’s Most Trusted Companies in the banking industry category, and is the only Hawaii business to appear on the list by Newsweek. The publication’s first annual “America’s Most Trusted Companies 2022” list was published on Mar…

(NMC) — Paradise Dental is the latest company to sign on as a Northern Marianas College ProaPerks Partner, joining many other businesses and organizations. All card-carrying members of the NMC ProaPerks program can now receive a 10% discount. The NMC Proa Perks program provides exclusive discounts …

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Elon Musk on Tuesday likened himself to the rapper Eminem in seeking to throw out his 2018 agreement with the top U.S. securities regulator requiring the Tesla Inc chief executive to obtain preapproval for his tweets. In a filing in federal court in Manhattan, Musk also renewed…

BANK of Saipan on Monday premiered the second episode of its animated series on financial literacy “for ages 7 to 107” at the bank’s corporate headquarters on Beach Road in Chalan Laulau. There has been a lot of positive feedback from children when BoS launched  “Dollar & Sens…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. job openings slipped in February, but remained near record highs as companies continued to struggle to find scarce workers. Job openings, a measure of labor demand, fell 17,000 to 11.266 million on the last day of February, the Labor Department said in its monthly Job Op…

THE SHRM CNMI Chapter will host a general membership meeting in the Regency Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Saipan on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, starting at 12 noon. Doors will open at 11:15 a.m. This meeting will feature a presentation on creating a safe, violence-free workplace. The presenter will …

THE University of California San Diego, in partnership with CNMI OSHA, conducted five confined  space training sessions at the American Memorial  Park auditorium on March 21-23, 2022. There were over 60 participants from both the private and public sectors. The purpose of the course was to educate …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by steel companies to former President Donald Trump’s 2018 decision to double tariffs on steel imports from Turkey on national security grounds —  a policy move defended by President Joe Biden’s adminis…

NEW YORK (AP) — Small businesses that have been buffeted by the pandemic, inflation and shipping woes have another challenge to add to their plate: taxes. Tax season can be complicated for everyone, but as the April 18 filing deadline looms, small-business owners, contractors, entrepreneurs and oth…

TORONTO (Reuters) — Canada is increasingly relying on temporary residents to meet its labor force needs, according to a Reuters analysis of official data, but this phenomenon makes workers vulnerable and fails to provide wage growth or stability to businesses, warn workers, advocates, economists an…