Editor’s Note: The following was originally published in the opinion section of the Saipan Tribune in June 2016. It is being republished here at the request of the author. Due to its length, it is being published in two parts. First of a two-part series The following is my...

Our leader’s continued pledge on building local workforce capacity while covertly perpetuating dependency on foreign workers means they are guilty of a promise of false pretenses. This conversation has polluted the “creative imaginations” of CNMI leaders since...

Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP) announced yesterday that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service has begun implementing his Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act, which President Trump signed into law on Aug. 22. An additional 350 CW-1 permits are now...

Gov. Ralph DLG Torres assured that he and other community members are working on a long-term fix to the labor crisis besetting the CNMI. Torres said yesterday that his administration and other stakeholders are working on a CW-1 bill to propose to Delegate Gregorio Kilili C....