Acting governor Arnold I. Palacios signed last week an appropriation bill for Rota; House Local Bill 20-7, D1 is now Rota Local Law 20-1, allocating a total of $50,000 for various projects at the municipality. The money came from local license fees collected from poker and...

The Micronesia Islands Nature Alliance announced last week the appointment of three new members to its board: Sean Frink, Somia T. Quan, and Geralyn C. Dela Cruz. Frink is an attorney and partner in the Marianas Legal Strategy Group. Quan was born and raised on Saipan, and has...

A defense lawyer has taken issue with a prosecutor’s alleged use of the word c_____r to refer to him and moved to have the testimony of the government’s first witness stricken from the record. Victorino DLG. Torre, who is representing a man accused of punching a customer at a...

Whichever way you fall on the political spectrum, it cannot be denied that former governor Juan N. Babauta occupies a unique role in CNMI history, spending a large part of his life on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. and on Capital Hill on Saipan. He shares that unique...