How can one effectively provide an informative, interactive and fun workshop on wetlands, ground water, water conservation, watersheds, water monitoring and other water topics?

Confronted with declining revenues and huge debt, the Commonwealth Ports Authority yesterday rejected the appeal of Hong Kong Entertainment (Overseas) Ltd. board chairman Michael Kwan to lower passenger fees in order to assist its financially-beleaguered subsidiary, Tinian Shipping.

Legislators yesterday welcomed a move by the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee to defer a proposed 51 percent cut on the federal construction grants to the Northern Marianas, saying this will not harm government plans to undertake overdue infrastructure projects in the future.

It is a quiet though heavy rumblings of families struggling to make ends meet. It is mind numbing for most how the economic crisis, which has its genesis in the Asian Contagion, has finally descended upon families right here in paradise.