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Rosemarie D. Embile  AS the school year ends, schools and communities are filled with excitement. There are flowers, balloons celebrating achievements, proud parents adjusting their cameras, and children dressed in their best outfits, ready to walk across the stage. Closing exercises have always be…

THE recently issued, federally funded “Marianas Economic Roadmap: CNMI Economic Recovery Study” was prepared by a team of economists and other experts. It should be required reading for CNMI officials and politicians, many of whom either underestimate or are unaware of the complexity of the islands…

From left, David M. Sablan, Chailang T. Palacios and Marie C. Castro. Photo by Lupe Borja-Robinson THREE Saipan manamko’ — David M. Sablan, Marie C. Castro, and Chailang T. Palacios — each has contributed to the CNMI community in many ways.  Sablan became 93 this year.  Castro recently celebrated h…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is the CNMI is blessed with some AWSOME-BRILLIANT-MORALLY GROUNDED youth which is a signal that the future of the CNMI is going to be much brighter than the present and even glowing. The speeches from the students on “birthright citizenship” were just AWSOME and they we…

THE 2025 Philippine general election is scheduled for May 12, 2025, marking the country’s midterm polls. Nearly 70 million registered voters are expected to participate in this nationwide event, which will fill a total of 18,280 positions across 14 different posts, from the Senate down to municipal…

The following is the text of the speech that won third prize in this year’s AG’s Cup Speech Competition. I AM a product of birthright citizenship, alongside my older sister who is now pursuing higher education at Eastern Washington University. Our country was built on the concept of the “American D…