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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Another group of students from the same school arrived on July 2 and will be leaving on Saturday. Sen Kim, international coordinator of Hotel Riviera Saipan which arranged the trip, said the second group of 40 students are also attending Northern Marianas College’s  English class. For three days th…

Saipan is home to numerous pristine beaches with long stretches of fine, sandy shores but this is one of the most favorite hangouts of many during weekends and even during weekdays. The humid weather drove a lot of residents to the seaside last Saturday so that finding a shaded parking place near t…