Letters to the Editor

Most consumers understand that CUC cannot control global oil markets. But we do deserve clarity on the numbers.

THE TRUTH Be Told, I have it on “very good authority that Cleon Otto Reyes Pacho was set-up to be arrested which I’m sure the facts will eventually PROVE.” I have personally known Cleon since he first came into the world and it is truly heartbreaking & troubling to see him being the VICTIM who …

We are witnessing a defining moment in the history of our islands. For too long, federal agencies and military interests have treated our archipelago as a collection of disjointed “strategic assets” rather than a single, living ecosystem with a 4,000-year-old heart.

THE United States has entered a new phase of deep-sea mining activity. What was once a single-company process has become a competitive landscape, with three separate applications now moving through NOAA’s federal permitting system.

THE TRUTH Be Told, the No Kings Protest has grown from a few million to double-digits with over 3,300 Protest across the nation including the CNMI. It is clear that Americans Do-Respond to the injustices of Government and now it’s Trump but that is a phenomenon that has yet to evolve in the CNMI, a…

We should not normalize corruption at any level of government. When misconduct becomes routine, it signals a deeper failure in leadership and accountability.

ARRIVING in the Northern Mariana Islands in February 1985, I entered a community that was beginning a bold new chapter. The Covenant, then in its formative years, represented a unique promise: a political union with the United States that allowed for a distinct level of local self-governance.

THE Pacific is entering a new era of resource competition, and our region — whether we like it or not — is at the center of it. As global demand grows for minerals like nickel, cobalt, and manganese, deep‑sea mining has moved from a distant concept to an active policy debate. Yet one critical fact …

THIS year marks the 50th anniversary of the U.S.-CNMI Covenant and the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. It is appropriate that these anniversaries coincide, because the Covenant, correctly understood and applied, would represent America’s ultimate triumph over the colonial…

Please use some common sense and not just spend money we do not have so it will appear that you are doing something.