Letters to the Editor

What of our antibodies? They don’t know how to react to the virus. And this reaction is what is killing its host. They are perplexed as we are. Who are these strangers? They don’t know how to combat these new invaders! We have identified the disease but we don’t know how to stop it or to put an end…

Mr. Younis took over the old Saipan Star newspaper that was started by Peace Corps volunteers and founded a newspaper in the early days of Trust Territory that has become the leading newspaper in the CNMI covering Guam and all of Micronesia’s stories. The proof of his work is in the details of how …

I have known Abed since I got out of law school in 1974. He had already begun publishing Marianas Variety News & Views two years earlier. It was then a weekly paper. As I think back about Abed’s life in the Northern Marianas, the thing that struck me most about him was the fact that he chose to…

In the driver’s seat, Mr. Younis steered Marianas Variety newspaper from a simple newspaper in our nascent Northern Marianas Commonwealth community to what it is today — a sophisticated media outlet that reaches an audience of hundreds of thousands daily. No matter where a reader might be at any gi…

But the passing of Mr. Younis, as I always called him, is a time when I felt I had to say a few words about him. Before that, I would like to pass my condolences to his three lovely kids who are all my friends, Laila, Farah and Amier. I met Mr. Younis almost 17 years ago, and when I told him that I…

In fact, I became seriously depressed and shut myself off completely for about five days. When I started to recover from that little episode, I started thinking, asking myself what can I do to improve myself during this time. This led to expanding my thinking as to what will the Commonwealth learn …

Holy Week is upon us and the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa has issued new guidelines affecting our observance and celebration. The guidelines are consistent with the Vatican Decree issued on March 25, 2020 and the issuances by our civil authorities in response to the coronavirus pandemic. This year’s Hol…

Every time we have a crisis, whether it’s the financial crash in 2008 or the FEMA overtime checks, why do you guys think you deserve better than families living in tents? How important are you than our families living in tents or those who are totally homeless? Give me a good reason why you’re so i…

Some of our top medical experts warned lawmakers about potential failures and the need to be prepared. But politicians are denying the truth. They are not saying what could have been done or what could have been planned decades ago to protect the general public from this coronavirus disaster today.…