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Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth I have been waiting to see what kind of results OUR Delegate was going to deliver but given the temperament & policies of Trump it doesn’t look good at all for the CNMI. I said earlier that the challenge may not be so much about the ability of our Delegate but the a…

Rosemarie D. Embile  WHEN I first set foot on Saipan, it was to be with my husband. Little did I know this island would become such a meaningful part of my life, becoming a part of me in ways I never imagined. What began as a personal chapter soon became a calling — to teach, learn from my students…

BC Cook THOSE living in the Philippines in June 1991 will never forget the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.  It has become one of the events that mark the passage of time, like a death in the family or a war.  Filipino history can be divided by it, the way Americans divide time by September 11, 2001, th…

ONE of the upsides of the current brouhaha over tariffs is that more people are now realizing that they are bad — as Adam Smith pointed out in the 18th century. To more sensible pundits, using tariffs as a “negotiating tool” is the only acceptable form of what everyone now recognizes as a tax. The …

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is I’ve been saying for over a decade that “the CNMI needs to change its tourism model (Brand) from the outdated WWII to a more “Family Oriented Destination,” as Global Branding is just a fancy way of saying “our tourism model.” Global branding is “the process of creati…

BC Cook THEY are so big that if you stood in the middle of one you could not even see it.  No one even knew they were there until airplanes began flying over Peru a hundred years ago.  Who made them and why?  Will we ever unlock the mystery of the Nazca Lines of Peru? In South America, between the …