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After taking photos of the Atomic Bomb Pits, airstrip and the Air Communications building, Spennemann parked our rented car in a grassy portion at the roadside a few meters away from and hauled his giant camera from the backseat. Although I had driven around several times in that area before, the p…

Then he mixed them with water and brewed the concoction in a steady but low heat until it becomes light-brown in color like tea. Luis P. Blas has been preparing this herbal medicine after he saw his mother, Anna, in a dream one Friday night three years ago. Her mother, a known herbalist on island, …

The huge potholes in the road are a big turnoff especially if you are not driving a four-wheel drive or if you are not that adventurous. I had been out exploring and photographing the historical sites of Tinian with visiting photographer and professor Dirk Spennemann from Australia one day a couple…

Except for the distant whirring sounds of a brush cutter some maintenance men making as they cleaned the area, everything else was quite and deserted. It was just half past 7 a.m. and we had the place to ourselves. I’ve been to the same building a couple of times in the past three years but those w…

Salacan was among the batch 8 building and fixing computer class graduates last year. He took the course through the free livelihood training program of the Philippine Consulate General in collaboration with the Philippine Overseas Labor Office-Overseas Workers Welfare Administration. The other gra…

Fight your way against the temptation of staying at home on a windy day and head toward  Micro Beach if you want to see real action. The place is a popular windsurfing spot and even became a venue for windsurfers from six countries during a three-day competition in 1972. Standing at the shore one m…

Its block captain and team association president Frank B. Camacho said since their group’s inception they have been maintaining the Dandan Children’s Park and the roadsides throughout the village every Saturday. This year, on July 20,  he said they submitted their application as a not-for-profit co…

One of the island’s attractions that you should and could not miss is this long stretch of a usually deserted white, sandy beach called Teteto, located about three and a half miles away from the Rota International Airport. I mean deserted in the sense that you will feel you have rented the whole be…

“I thought it might have been in the diocese,” he said. The bust used to be displayed in front of Mt. Carmel Cathedral, where the statue of Virgin Mary can now be seen, but it was removed when the diocese renovated the church. Herbert Del Rosario, a retired archivist, recalled that the bust was mad…

I grabbed the chance revisit the lighthouse on Tuesday with a friend who, having just returned to Saipan after being away for five years, immediately got busy shooting photos of the setting sun from the second level of the lighthouse. Somehow, I was not interested in the sunset because things caugh…