Jadrien L. Lotoc’s name was picked out of hundreds of coupons at the 2019 Liberation Day raffle draw last July 4, making this Kagman resident the grand prize winner of $10,000. The Liberation Day Planning Committee, led by chair Joe Ayuyu Jr., presented the check to 21-year-old...

Despite the pouring rain and technical glitches, the 73rd Liberation Day festivities still managed to kick off last Thursday at the Garapan Fishing Base, with Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang thanking the planning committee for pulling off the successful start of the festival that...

The 2019 Liberation Day Parade is set, with the lineup of all entries for the float competition now completed. As per tradition, the parade will take place along Beach Road on Saipan and will start at the National Office Supply, snaking along Beach Road to the grandstand at the...

Unlike current revisionist history ideas floated ceaselessly these days as fact, Liberation Day is not about celebrating the NMI’s “liberation” from legitimate Japanese rule under a League of Nations Trusteeship* by American armed forces. No, the day is a celebration that...