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I am not a legal expert. I am simply someone who understands the vision my grandparents’ generation had when they helped shape the Covenant into what we live under today. I grew up appreciating the protections they negotiated so Chamorros, Carolinians, and the larger community could move forward on…

IF you love the Pacific as much as I do, you are interested in not only enjoying it but learning about it and preserving its beauty and diversity for future generations. One of the best organizations doing that is HURL, the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory. According to their website, www.soest.…

Listening to him, I realized he is the first public figure I’ve heard explain geopolitics without even mentioning the word.

THE Truth is the “Mining Issue” is just part of OUR evolution as humans on earth who are literally using up the natural resources on the planet and the search for minerals is not going to stop. However, I commend Gregorie Michael Towai for his editorial on mining that offered an alternative to mini…

THE Titanic is nowhere near the top of the list of deadliest shipwrecks in history. If the 1,500 who died in that disaster are tragic, what would we say about the 4,400 who died on the Doña Paz? When the Doña Paz sank in the Philippines in 1987 it became the deadliest maritime accident in history.

FOR thousands of years, the people of the Marianas have lived surrounded by the ocean. It has provided food, culture, identity, and a connection to the wider Pacific. Our islands were built with the ocean at the center, yet after all these millennia, we are only now beginning to realize the full ec…

THE Truth is WE, Americans, are facing a REAL Existential (Empirical-Fact) Threat to OUR Democracy & Quality of Life under Trump.

WHEN I first arrived on island 32 years ago, the local economy had slowed down compared to its blistering growth in the late 1980s, but everyone believed it would pick up again soon. And so it did. Consequently, the CNMI government’s finances were stable. At the time, Variety reported that the Reti…

MANILA — Flooded with complaints of massive and unrelenting power outages and the highest electricity rates in the region, Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. demanded the resignation of his Energy secretary in May 2025 and quickly reassigned him to the Department of the Environment and Na…

IT is the most famous mutiny in history. “I am in hell!” shouted Fletcher Christian, second in command of the Bounty, as he justified his act of piracy, took control of the ship, seized his captain, William Bligh, and cast him adrift in a tiny lifeboat.