Editor’s Note: This article is part of “Spotlight,” a recurring series featuring CNMI personalities and how they are helping the island community with their advocacies or their work. To suggest a person to feature in this section, email us at editor@saipantribune.com. Beauty with...

For the current fiscal year, the CNMI government was unable to meet the constitutional mandate that gives the Public School System at least 25% of the general fund revenue. PSS was supposed to get a budget of over $42.8 million this fiscal year 2019. Saipan Tribune learned over...

Government expenses in fiscal year 2019 exceeded the projected revenue by $63.8 million, according to the Department of Finance, with disaster expenditures comprising more than half of the deficit. In a letter to Gov. Ralph DLG Torres dated Sept. 3, 2019, Finance Secretary David...

Government expenses in fiscal year 2019 exceeded the projected revenue by $63.8 million, according to the Department of Finance, with disaster expenditures comprising more than half of the deficit. In a letter to Gov. Ralph DLG Torres dated Sept. 3, 2019, Finance Secretary David...