PROJECT HALIGI-Many power poles along Beach Road are painted with island images as part of the Lady Diann Torres Foundation’s Project Haligi 2020: Canvas of Hope. Visit the Lady Diann Torres Foundation’s social media @ladydianntorres to find out how to register to paint your pole. Artists will receive a stipend for their contribution in helping the foundation spread hope throughout the CNMI. (KRIZEL TUAZON)

 

HEADLINES

Guam: One more death, plus 105 additional cases

Guam saw its sixth COVID-19 death yesterday, in addition to 105 new positive cases—its highest one-day spike so far. According to a statement from the Joint Information Center, the newest fatality in Guam is a 70-year-old male who was taken to the Guam Memorial Hospital Authority at approximately 5:14am yesterday and was pronounced dead on arrival. “He was not a known COVID-19 case; however, he was swabbed at GMHA and his results came back positive and the fatality will be counted in Guam’s...

Featured Stories

PSS: Enrollees now at 6K-plus

Over 6,000 students have enrolled for the Public School System’s new school year and PSS expects a few thousand more to enroll before the resumption of classes on Sept. 8. Lynette Villagomez, PSS associate commissioner of Accountability, said she is confident that parents will...

IPI allegedly fails to pay $9.4M tax

The Division of Revenue and Taxation of the Department of Finance filed yesterday a tax lien against Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC in federal court for allegedly failing to pay $9,416,887 in Business Gross Revenue Tax for tax period in 2017 to 2019. As press time...

NMTI Sept. opening still tentative

The planned reopening of the Northern Marianas Technical Institute in September remains tentative as it still has no funding, and has only been allotted a token $1 from the general fund, which means that they will be able to get funding only when it’s available. At the same time,...

Other Local News

Homegrown pot registry cards out

The CNMI Cannabis Commission has issued out the first batch of Homegrown Marijuana Registry cards to individuals whose applications have fulfilled the necessary requirements and are compliant with the Cannabis Act and commission rules and regulations. “We recognize that for years...

Sports

NMA ushered in return to races

The Northern Marianas Athletics attended the World Athletics’ virtual meeting that aimed at helping member federations manage their way back to organizing road races. NMA president Ray Tebuteb and Public School System Athletic Program director Nick Gross...

Business

Pacific Source opens 2nd location in Garapan

Pacific Source seems to be thriving even during the pandemic as it opened a second location in the more central location of Garapan a couple of months ago. Owner Jim Cabanes said the fish store opened its first location in Kagman across Lao Lao Bay Golf...
Posted On Aug 21 2020

Opinion

BOOK REVIEW: 40 Thieves on Saipan

40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII’s Bloodiest Battles. Joseph Tachovsky with Cynthia Kraack. Regnery History, 2020. Those interested on the battle for Saipan will enjoy a new book from Regnery History: The Elite Marine...

Letters to the Editor

‘We invited the fox into the henhouse’

So IPI is asking to renew its casino license. Even though it can’t pay the license fee. It can’t even pay its employees, nor pay its other bills. What happened to that seven-billion-dollar project IPI was building on Saipan? It looks like IPI now doesn’t...