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Waste Of The Day: Puerto Rico, Guam, Others In Debt

Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearWire, Topline: The five inhabited U.S. territories are collectively $57.8 billion in debt and have issues with their financial statements that “can lead to poor financial decisions and lost access to capital...

Nearly 600 runners for Skechers Saipan Marathon on Saturday

Nearly 600 runners for Skechers Saipan Marathon on Saturday

With 598 runners from 19 countries and territories registered so far, organizers are doing their final warming up for Skechers Saipan Marathon 2025 on Saturday, March 8, according to the Marianas Visitors Authority. Besides runners from Saipan,...

Saipan Chamber of Commerce to host meet and greet with PACAF deputy commander

Saipan Chamber of Commerce to host meet and greet with PACAF deputy commander

(SCC) — The Saipan Chamber of Commerce will host a “meet and greet” on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Resort, Azucena Room. During this event, the business community will have the chance to engage in a direct...

Job market trends: Analysis of CNMI job openings from FYs 2020 to 2024

(CNMI DOL) — The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Labor’s Employment Services Division has released their most recent annual report on job vacancies on the DOL website labor.cnmi.gov/. In reviewing the job vacancy trends...

OPINION ǀ Truth 124: CNMI’s Politics Gone AWRY by FEAR!

OPINION ǀ Truth 124: CNMI’s Politics Gone AWRY by FEAR!

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is Politics is both “singular & plural” and both “an Art & Science,” which is taught in Highschool Government & Economics courses. Clearly, having twofold meanings in politics’ “purpose & execution” that can often be...

The Northern Mariana Islands teeter on the edge of electric state of emergency

The Northern Mariana Islands teeter on the edge of electric state of emergency

An array of interwoven debts between utility companies and the territorial government, an aging power generation grid, and a broad budget squeeze across departments have brought the Northern Mariana Islands to the precipice of a territory-wide...

4 Saipan students make Dean’s List at Berea College

4 Saipan students make Dean’s List at Berea College

BEREA, KY — More than 530 Berea College students were named to the Fall 2024 Dean's List, including the following from Saipan: Lizzie Manabat Eun Jun Wang Eun Sung Wang KeyaDev Das A student is named to the Dean's List who achieves a GPA of 3.4 or...

Marianas Business Network hosts ‘Unlock Business Success: SBDC Programs for Small Businesses in the CNMI’

Marianas Business Network hosts ‘Unlock Business Success: SBDC Programs for Small Businesses in the CNMI’

THE Marianas Business Network is proud to announce an exclusive event, “Unlock Business Success: SBDC Programs for Small Businesses in the CNMI,” featuring the CNMI Small Business Development Center. This event will take place on Wednesday, March...

590+ runners so far for Skechers Saipan Marathon on March 8

590+ runners so far for Skechers Saipan Marathon on March 8

Marianas Visitors Authority Community Projects Specialist Ed Diaz, sixth right, convenes a meeting with staff at the MVA office on March 3, 2025, in preparation for Skechers Saipan Marathon 2025 set for March 8. MVA photo (MVA) — With 598 for...

Saipan Tribune bids farewell to readers in CNMI

Saipan Tribune bids farewell to readers in CNMI

“Together, we have navigated the highs and lows of our community’s story,” the company printed in its final edition. “Though this is goodbye, our gratitude is boundless. Thank you for more than three decades of love, loyalty, and support. We will...

Hiroshima-Tinian sister ties eyed as CNMI marks 80th year of end of WWII

Hiroshima-Tinian sister ties eyed as CNMI marks 80th year of end of WWII

Members of the Hiroshima Prefectural Assembly and business leaders met with CNMI Gov. Arnold Palacios and Lt. Gov. David Apatang during a visit to the CNMI on Jan. 24, 2025. Photo courtesy of the Office of the CNMI Governor Saipan- Tinian and...

CNMI on ‘cusp of economic collapse', seeks $400M federal bailout

CNMI on ‘cusp of economic collapse', seeks $400M federal bailout

Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands Del. Kimberly King-Hinds at a congressional hearing this week said she will introduce a bill seeking a $400 million bailout for the CNMI. Freshman Del. King-Hinds said the bailout came at the request...

Saipan Toys for Tots campaign exceeds expectations

Saipan Toys for Tots campaign exceeds expectations

In celebration of the 10 years of partnership with U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Blas in the Toys for Tots campaign, the Saipan Chamber of Commerce collected an estimated 1,579 toys, 1,368 of which were from their partner companies, 423 from the...

Majol Canoe Paddling Club receives sponsorship from Bank of Guam for first-ever canoe

Majol Canoe Paddling Club receives sponsorship from Bank of Guam for first-ever canoe

HAGÅTÑA — Bank of Guam proudly announces a $3,000 sponsorship to the Majol Canoe Paddling Club in the Marshall Islands, marking a historic moment for the club as it acquires its first-ever Varua Va’a Canoe. The canoe is co-sponsored with Pacific...

Tinian Diamond may shut down on Dec. 31

Tinian Diamond may shut down on Dec. 31

A DECISION has not been finalized yet, but Tinian Diamond Hotel and Casino Vice President for Casino Operations Michael J. Mascio said “the tentative date, if we have to shut down, would be Dec. 31.” In an email interview, Mascio, who has been...

'Worst shark attack ever' as terrified victims forced to feed the dead to predators

'Worst shark attack ever' as terrified victims forced to feed the dead to predators

In the summer of 1945, the USS Indianapolis set sail from San Francisco to the small Northern Mariana island of Tinian, carrying with it components for 'Little Boy' - a deadly nuclear weapon that, on August 6 of that year, would be used to bomb...

New York judge invokes state secrets privilege to prevent disclosure of Spanish company’s espionage against Assange

New York judge invokes state secrets privilege to prevent disclosure of Spanish company’s espionage against Assange

A New York judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of journalists and lawyers against the CIA and David Morales, a Spanish security contractor whose company UC Global spied on Julian Assange during his seven years living inside Ecuador’s...

Sheraton takes over Hyatt Saipan with upbeat outlook on the CNMI market

Sheraton takes over Hyatt Saipan with upbeat outlook on the CNMI market

CNMI Gov. Arnold Palacios, Lt. Gov. David Apatang, CNMI House Speaker Edmund Villagomez and Senate President Edith Deleon Guerrero joined MB Capital LLC president Don Wood during the the unveiling of the Sheraton brand name for the former Hyatt...

Saipan Chamber of Commerce honors Kilili

Saipan Chamber of Commerce honors Kilili

The Saipan Chamber of Commerce held a small ceremony to honor Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP) for all the ways he helped the CNMI’s business community. Sablan, who held the NMI delegate seat for 16 years, had a hand in the development of...

OPINION ǀ Making tourism our business: The making of a signature event

OPINION ǀ Making tourism our business: The making of a signature event

“MVA Signature Event.” Three small words with a lot behind them. The Marianas Visitors Authority has several signature events that it stages throughout the year. The purpose is to give our visitors something exciting to do while they’re here and...

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