With South Korea recently raising its coronavirus threat level, the Commonwealth Ports Authority is now presented with more uncertainties as the East Asian country is the CNMI’s biggest market for tourists, according to CPA executive director Christopher S. Tenorio yesterday. At the CPA board’s regular meeting at the Port of Saipan conference room, Tenorio said that raising the threat level allows the South Korean government to lock down cities in an effort to contain the outbreak, if...

To prevent the entry of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, into the CNMI, the Commonwealth Ports Authority is now in the midst of buying a thermal body scanner worth about $35,000 to detect the body temperature of passengers arriving at the Francisco C. Ada/Saipan International...

With a second tranche of austerity measures set to go into effect on March 15, some government departments have asked to be exempted, to no avail. “Every department has requested for exemption. At the moment there’s no exemptions being honored,” Finance Secretary David Atalig...

The CNMI Division of Customs intercepted a contraband shipment of liquor and drugs in one of their routine inspections this month. A total of 140 cases of assorted liquor carefully positioned in the back of the truck, as well as 4,600 capsules of antibiotics hidden inside a box...