Business

TRIPLE J Payless SuperFresh & Truckload Store in the CNMI received the 2021 Certified Angus Beef International Independent Retail Marketer of the Year award at the Certified Angus Beef Annual Conference held virtually from Sept. 22 to 24. Triple J Five Star Wholesale Foods General Manager Jay S…

THE Marianas Visitors Authority is joining the global travel and tourism community in celebrating World Tourism Day, Monday, Sept. 27, by hosting a series of activities on Saipan, Tinian and Rota. The MVA board earlier this month approved an appropriation of $15,000 for these activities. Marianas V…

HONOLULU (BoH) — Bank of Hawaii has been named “Best Big Bank in Hawaii” in Newsweek’s America’s Best Banks 2022 rankings. Newsweek partnered with LendingTree, the online marketplace and comparison site for financial services, for its second annual Best Banks rankings. The Best Big Bank in each sta…

LONDON (Reuters) — Britain’s decision to issue temporary visas for 5,000 foreign truck drivers is a short-term fix that will not solve an acute labor shortage that risks major disruption for retailers in the run-up to Christmas, business leaders have warned. Long lines of vehicles formed at petrol …

EMPRESS Beauty Salon & Barber, which will hold a grand opening on Saturday, Sept. 25, offers more than just haircuts. Located on Beach Road, Garapan between National Office Supply and Mariana Lounge, the beauty salon, which had a soft opening on Sept. 4, offers various services at affordable pr…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Investors are grappling with how an unwind of the Federal Reserve’s easy money policies could affect asset prices, after the central bank signaled that a taper of its bond-buying program was closer than ever and suggested it may raise rates at a faster-than-expected pace. In wh…

After the official U.S. Department of Agriculture logo was stamped at the Tinian Kuålidat Meat Processing Center, Tinian Mayor Edwin P. Aldan, right, shakes hands with Frank Tenorio, a USDA food safety inspection service inspector. The meat processing center, which aims to increase local food secur…

 HAGÅTÑA (IHFG) — I Hagan Famalåo’an Guåhan Inc. has launched the project, I Metkao Famalao’an Guahan Para Sinestienen Ekunomiha (The Women of Guahan’s Marketplace for a Sustainable Economy), which aims to strengthen indigenous CHamoru women’s economic capacity with three objectives: creating a vir…

(NMC) — Junlyn Salon 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 who purchase the hair coloring service can avail themselves of a free haircut, waxing, or m…

LONDON (Reuters) — Global record high natural gas prices are pushing some energy-intensive companies to curtail production in a trend that is adding to disruptions to global supply chains in some sectors such as food and could result in higher costs being passed on to their customers. Some companie…