The Commonwealth is the only insular area to meet the grant application standard set by the National Center for Educational Statistics on future programs that will expand local tracking of students and financial management.

A multi-agency working group whose task is to account for every dollar spent for hosting Micronesians was created by Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio in fresh attempt to recover millions of dollars in unpaid Compact Impact cost from the federal government.

The Bureau of Environmental Health has given Grotto Restaurant and BJ Garden Restaurant the go signal to operate after these establishments were ordered closed due to serious violations of sanitation and health standards.

Due to failure to provide a safety net despite the bonding requirement, the Senate appears bent on revamping a pending legislation seeking to ease the $100,000 security deposit for foreign investments in a bid to tighten some provisions on the proposal.