Legislation granting tax breaks to new investments as well as present businesses with expansion plans is now before the office of Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio after the lower house yesterday accepted amendments made by the Senate.

The Northern Marianas Housing Corporation is anticipating an increase in the number of applicants to a public housing program following President Clinton's signing into law of legislation that makes citizens of the Freely Associated States eligible for Section-8 benefits.

Businessman Patrick Mendiola Calvo yesterday pled not guilty to the charge of sexual abuse of a child.

The volume of remittance transactions by nonresidents in the Northern Marianas reached more than $50 million in the past three quarters of the year, jumping by over 18 percent in comparison with last year of the same period's $45.190 million.