Despite a severe cash-flow problem, Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. CEO Juan N. Babauta assured hospital employees and staff yesterday that their payroll will be released as scheduled tomorrow. Babauta said the corporation managed to save some monies from reimbursements collected...

  Gov. Benigno R. Fitial received yesterday a $170,000 grant award for the CNMI for its Healthcare System Analysis project that seeks to provide a comprehensive assessment of the operations of the Commonwealth Health Center. Office of Insular Affairs Director Nik Pula signed the...

The Saipan Chamber of Commerce said yesterday that the CNMI economic meltdown will worsen without transitional Commonwealth-only workers at the end of the transition period on Dec. 31, 2014. The group supports a five-year extension of the transition period. The Chamber was...

It’s an alarming economic indicator how the local government has amassed some $25 million in deficit, the bulk of which pertain to medical referral expenses. This phenomenon tells us two things: 1). We have a very sick populace. 2). Both health and unfunded liabilities of the...