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IN an increasingly chaotic world in which many people suffer under repressive governments, miserable living conditions, and grinding poverty, it is no wonder that illegal immigrants and stowaways plague the world’s oceans.  It seems everyone would rather be somewhere else and will use whatever mean…

“Construction of Airbase on Tinian Island In Case Guam Gets Knocked Out Has Begun” — headline of a news story posted on The War Zone, June 15, 2022 COMMONWEALTH Covenant Day should remind us why the American flag flies over these islands. To be sure, that’s probably a question whose answer depends …

THE TRUTH of the matter is WE the People are witnessing a “power haunting struggle by 3  BOE members & Herman-pan to protect & serve the Commissioner,” as that is the real source of all the fuss. Readers need to know that the COE, Alfred Ada, is with Herman-pan. God knows I don’t take any p…

RECENTLY, the BBC featured an article by a security expert which argued that war in the Pacific is not imminent because it would not be in anyone’s interest.  After the announcement that Australia was tightening its defensive alliance with the United States and Great Britain by purchasing nuclear s…

JUST to be clear, I’m seeking answers not sympathy. Then somewhere down the line, a solution. I tell this story as a concerned citizen but mainly for my sister, Jo Anna, “Jojo.” This is Jojo’s third time in ICU. I lost count of the number of days, nights I’ve spent at the hospital watching over my …

IN April 2019, six months after Super Typhoon Yutu thrashed Saipan and Tinian, the then-Torres-Palacios administration announced the release of a federally funded, 204-page updated “CNMI Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy” or CEDS. It was described as a “comprehensive economic planning doc…

THE TRUTH of the matter is WE the People are now seeing what happens when an old-dog can’t learn new tricks, as Herman Guerrero is figuratively up to his OLD-Tricks. I’m not taking sides but I do know that Mr. Orsini is an honorable man, as he has always answered my calls and even attended a meetin…

THIS is a great day for the oceans and all that reside in them.  Not since 1982 has the world taken such decisive action to protect our most precious resource.  In that year, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea went into effect.  Last week, the United Nations signed the High Seas Treaty.  What …

THE TRUTH of the matter is WE the People are now seeing and learning about the “True HORRIFIC FRAUD” that was played on voters living on the mainland and in the CNMI. The TRUTH is finally coming to the LIGHT, as we say, about FOX that shouldn’t even be considered a real news network given the lies …

IN his very informative presentation  at a recent Saipan Chamber of Commerce forum, local economist Matthew O. Deleon Guerrero shared several graphs and other data that should provide level-headed guidance to the new administration and Legislature. Citing what other economists have said before, he …