Margaret Hattori-Uchima, dean of the University of Guam School of Nursing & Health Sciences, was awarded the 2019 GNA Nurse of the Year Award on May 5 at the 68th Annual Guam Nurses Association Anniversary, Recognition, and Awards Banquet. Hattori-Uchima has been a nurse...

On Oct. 1-6, 2019, the Marianas will host the 2nd Chief Taga Day Festival, honoring one of its most legendary figures, the indigenous Chamorro chief Taga. “Gineptin Ha‘anen Taga’” (Chief Taga Day Festival) will be held on the island of Tinian, recorded as the place where Taga...

Superior Court Presiding Judge Robert Naraja granted last week the government’s request to postpone Rota Mayor Efraim Atalig’s jury trial to January 2020. Naraja set the jury trial for Atalig and his co-defendants on Jan. 13, 2020, after finding good cause, saying the...

Any wage claims by the seven construction workers who are suing Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC and its two contractors are barred because they voluntarily illegally entered the CNMI to work, according to IPI. In its answer to the seven workers’ lawsuit, IPI, through...