The Public School System will not be able to make payroll payments today and over 800 locally funded teachers and other personnel will experience a payless Friday. According to a memorandum from Education Commissioner Dr. Alfred Ada that was sent out yesterday, he said that PSS will be unable to make payroll for all locally funded PSS employees today due to the unavailability of funds prompted by the current economic and financial crisis. On top of missing a payroll, PSS is also still...

Gov. Ralph DLG Torres took to Facebook yesterday via a live video feed to announce that the Commonwealth Health Care Corp. has broken ground on a project to build a temporary hospital that will be used to handle COVID-19-related cases, should an outbreak happen in the CNMI. The...

With the dwindling CNMI budget and talks of cutting government costs by 50%, the 25% cut on pension for government retirees, and the Public School System wanting to secure 25% of the general revenue, the House of Representatives minority bloc is asking: Where is the community...

A group of Public School System personnel have signed on to a letter that slams Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and tells retirees that the governor’s claims are false and that the injunction the Board of Education initiated against the administration is not the reason why the retirees’...