It's hard to believe that there's a serious division among policy-makers about the dire financial straits of the NMI brought about by the Asian Crisis.

Two US-based bond rating agencies have urged the Commonwealth Ports Authority to fix the financial crisis besetting the agency by increasing the airport and seaport rates beginning next year so that it can pay the $53 million bonds.

It would be a mistake to allow the Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino to go down in history as a failed investment. It would give the NMI the biggest economic black eye we've ever seen on this side of the Pacific since the end of the war.

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