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Senate President Edith Deleon Guerrero presides over a meeting with the officers and members of the Saipan Chamber of Commerce and the Hotel Association of the NMI in the Senate chamber on Wednesday. THE islands’ only industry, tourism, is faced with daunting challenges that include a limited workf…

Former President Donald Trump greets fans as he arrives before the finals of the NCAA Division I Wrestling Champion- ships at BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 18, 2023. Photo by Brett Rojo/ USA TODAY Sports via REUTERS (MV) — In March, former President Donald Trump was indicted in New York for …

THE emerging facts…on the state of our fiscal health are dismaying, as well as the potential consequences for the Commonwealth,” Gov. Arnold I. Palacios said in his inaugural address on Jan. 9, 2023. “To get ourselves back to fiscal stability,” he added, “we must do so by exercising fiscal discipli…

The National Stadium in Honiara is filled with athletes, officials, guests, and spectators as the 2023 Pacific Games came to a close Saturday night in the Solomon Islands. IN 2023, the NMI’s sports organizations and athletes continued to raise the bar with groundbreaking initiatives and record-brea…

IT owes its judgment creditors over $21 million and the CNMI government over $79 million, but Imperial Pacific International is keeping its hopes alive by filing an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court. The casino investor wants the high court to set aside the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for …

THE original case against former Gov. Ralph DLG Torres was filed by the Office of the Attorney General on April 8, 2022. Torres was charged with 12 counts of misconduct in public office and one count of theft relating to the issuance of airline tickets for business class, first class, or other prem…

The Department of Corrections’ Hagåtña Detention Facility is shown in this file photo. A PROPOSAL to transfer Guam inmates to the Saipan prison facility is still in its initial phases, but some CNMI residents have already spoken against it. One of them, Ben Basa, fears that when the inmates from Gu…

Commuters walk on a platform after disembarking from a suburban train at a railway station in Mumbai, India, on Jan. 21, 2023. (Niharika Kulkarni/Reuters) (MV) — For the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent think tank, India’s surpassing of China as the world’s most populous country is one …

AFTER more than a year of denouncing the previous administration’s overspending ways, and after repeatedly stating that we should expect the worst once the ARPA funds were depleted, the CNMI’s newly elected officials seemed surprised to realize that they were right. Their doomsday forecast has come…