Author’s Note: Sour Grapes column readers will remember it has been a few years since that column was produced for the Saipan Tribune. This new weekly missive picks up where that one left off. Thanks to some deft finagling, quite large expenditures and years of negotiations by...

A ranking official of the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs noted that the country is open to working with the CNMI in terms of long-term recovery assistance for its nationals in the Northern Marianas. Enrico Fos, executive director of the Office of Migrant Workers Affairs...

Most of the laid-off employees of Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC are scheduled to leave Saipan today but they have yet to received their final paycheck, which was supposed to be given two days before their flight. Representatives of the employees told Saipan Tribune...

Nearly a hundred former employees of Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC have accepted being laid off just before the holidays, but they hope that someone from upper management could provide them with answer to some of their questions. “We understand that Saipan is in a...