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DEAR Senate President Jude U. Hofschneider and Speaker Edmund S. Villagomez: On Friday, December 3rd, the House of Representatives and the Senate were scheduled to convene for a joint presentation to receive communication by the officials and leaders of the Pacific Mini Games, which the NMI will be…

ON March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic. After a year and a half into the pandemic, our preventive measures to mitigate Covid-19 have been working. However, CNMI residents and those around the world have seen our cases rise over the past few weeks. It would be …

OVER 48 years ago, Marianas Variety marked its first anniversary by reiterating that it was “For the People, by the People.” Then and now, however, “the People” are various individuals who do not agree with each other on so many things most of the time. “The People” can also believe two or more con…

THIS week I had the honor of meeting our CNMI trash collection companies to share with them the Universal Garbage Collection or UGC initiative and to get their feedback on moving the UGC forward. I say honor because trash collection is a dirty and under-appreciated job in our community. We all know…

PACIFIC anthropology has come a long way in the last fifty years, as theories of the origins of island peoples have gone through many revisions.  Did Polynesians migrate from Asia or from South America?  Where did Australian Aborigines come from?  Can Chamorros trace their lineage back to Taiwan, a…

IT may seem that I dislike the Governor but I don’t, I just detest his behavior as the leader of the CNMI who continues to deflect and gaslighting issues with half-truths and even outright LIES! I’m just astounded that he thinks he can get away with it, as if We the People are stupid. Don’t forget …

THERE are a lot of voters in the CNMI who are truly sick & tired of this Governor with his “Deflecting Gaslighting Shows.” It is just shaming and even damming to see this Governor getting in the news with his politics of deflecting and gaslighting.  GOVERNOR Ralph DLG Torres said “he has neithe…

1991 was a midterm election year in the CNMI, and among the news stories Variety highlighted 30 years ago was an interview with “one of three Saipan homeowners who use solar photovoltaic…panels to bring them electricity.” Long story short: “Solar power suits Saipan homes well,” says the MV headline…

IT is common to think that village beautification is a government or private sector function. However, as residents, we are the bigger number with helping hands. This is the reason I knew my family from Chalan Piao had to be part of The Marianas Village Pride or MVP Campaign. My husband Mark and I,…

IN last week’s column, Hon. Mayor Efraim M. Atalig shared that one of the greatest challenges in Rota’s solid waste collection and disposal processes is the island’s lack of commercial trash collection services. Unfortunately, the same is true for our beautiful island of Tinian. Our current waste d…