2022

Formed in 1980 as part of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa, Karidat evolved to be a non-profit organization helping all those in need, offering important community programs such as the Family Service Program which provides family and marriage counseling, emergency clothing, food and shelter assistance, …

I LOVED trouble even at a young age. One day as a child in Manila, I saw people scampering away from the site of a brawl. So I ran to the opposite direction — to where the bloodshed was. I became a police reporter many years later. The kind who stayed up late every night waiting for something terri…

When the Commonwealth Cancer Association formed after the departure of American Relay for Life, former Publisher Laila Boyer was on the first team of volunteers for its main fundraiser, the Marianas March Against Cancer. Marianas Variety served as major and title sponsors since its inception, donat…

Mr. Abed El Latif Younis  April 29, 1936 – April 18, 2020 As the CNMI celebrates 50 years of having its own local and independent voice in media, we take a moment to pay tribute to a man who shared this vision with his family and committed his life and career to ensure it continues today. Mar…

At Marianas Variety News & Views, it found three siblings, Laila Younis Boyer, Amier Castro Younis and Salam Castro Younis who continue to contribute their talents and careers to a crucial community service their parents, Abed and Paz, started half a century ago.    Laila Younis Boyer Laila say…

<strong>GRAND OPENING </strong>Abed Younis is all smiles during a ribbon cutting ceremony for the grand opening of Younis Art Studio office in Chalan Kanoa in 1972. February 15, 1975 HE only planned on staying only for a few days; he ended up staying for good and taking up cudgels for c…

AFTER earning my bachelor’s degree in political science from St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York, I was unsure of my next steps.  As fate would have it though, I was led back to my birthplace, Saipan, after being away for nearly two decades.  I had no clear vision of what I wanted to do. I ju…

When Marianas Variety cranked out its first mimeographed weekly issue on March 16, 1972, the printed word was still the first and last word about the news. You could also learn the news from the radio or TV, but to know more about an important news story, you had to read the frontpage of a newspape…

Abed was also one of the early members of the Saipan Rotary Club, a charter of the nonprofit global business organization devoted to its slogan, “Service Above Self.”  Publisher & President Amier C. Younis and his predecessor, Laila, also served as Past Presidents and continue to be active in R…

Formed in 2005, Stellar Marianas reshaped the islands’ beauty and talent nonprofit program and continued offering the opportunity for young women to compete on the global stages, such as those of Miss Universe and Miss International Pageants.  Marianas Variety was a community partner from the days …