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In many island destinations, tour package prices are often not the primary driver of visitor choice. Instead, factors such as unique natural attractions, perceived safety environmental sustainability, flight connectivity and marketing campaigns tend to matter more.

By Gregorie Michael Towai (Eipéráng) For Variety AS federal funding announcements for the CNMI continue to grow in size, frequency, and scope following Super Typhoon Sinlaku, one uncomfortable but necessary question continues to linger in the minds of many residents: Who is tracking all of this? Th…

Roads, ports, freight corridors, and logistics networks in the territories are essential to America’s military readiness, disaster response capabilities, and geopolitical posture in increasingly contested regions. That reality is especially clear in the CNMI.

It is clear the CNMI will face the Crossroads to “Keep-Hope-Alive or the Same-O TAYA Reforms” come November.

IN 1983, two high-tech and reputedly safe crab boats disappeared in the Bering Sea just outside of Dutch Harbor. Like so many others, they were dangerously overloaded and flipped over.

When children grow up assuming power outages are simply part of island life. When families instinctively buy generators before furniture. When businesses calculate losses from outages into their normal operating expectations. When disaster preparedness stops feeling temporary and starts becoming pe…

Lawmakers who feel the pain of CUC customers should put their money where their mouth is and scrap the FAC. Afterward, they should appropriate funding to cover CUC’s fuel costs.

What if the CNMI finally chose leadership based not on family ties, political history, popularity, or fear of offending relatives, but on competence, preparation, integrity, and the ability to govern effectively in one of the most strategically important and vulnerable regions in the Pacific?

The volcano across the bay in southern Kyushu never stops smoking. The residents of this city carry face masks the way Londoners carry umbrellas, in their purses, pockets, hanging around their necks.

THERE is something deeply wrong about asking people who are still living through disaster recovery to absorb massive utility increases while many still do not even have stable water, reliable power, or the ability to rebuild what they lost after Super Typhoon Sinlaku.