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REPRESENTATIVES Tina Sablan and Joseph Leepan T. Guerrero engaged in a heated argument during a break from the House session on Friday over House Bill 22-47, which proposes to allow

MEMBERS of the House Committee on Ways and Means on Tuesday expressed concern about the Department of Corrections’ lack of funding.

REPRESENTATIVE Edwin Propst wants to know why the Northern Marianas Technical Institute has not received its share of CW funds for the past two years. He said he has yet to get an answer from the NMTI trustees, adding that CW funds should be spent properly and with transparency so the public knows what is going on with the funds. U.S. Public Law 115-218 allows the U.S. Department of Labor to impose a $200 fee on CNMI-Only Transitional Worker or CW visa applicants. According to federal law, the ...

DEPARTMENT of Fire and Emergency Medical Services Commissioner Dennis Mendiola on Monday said termination notices were sent to the nine firefighters who refused to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Mendiola said the termination notices were reviewed and signed by the Office of Personnel Management and the Attorney General’s Office. Variety obtained a copy of a notice of proposed adverse action-termination addressed to one of the firefighters. It was dated March 19, 2021 and stated that it was purs...

THE Social Media Platforms have become “a way-of-life” for many Americans but these platforms are proving to be a “two-edged-sword” that is just as much dangerous as they are helpful

WITH reimbursements from the federal government, the Commonwealth has been slowly paying down its debts, Finance Secretary David DLG Atalig told the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday. He said in the first quarter of fiscal year 2021, the CNMI government paid $700,000 for a 2007 general obligation bond. The Commonwealth is obligated to pay $7 million annually for the bond.  Next month, Atalig said the administration expects to make an additional payment of $2.9 million for the bond. H...

OVER a hundred foreign workers in the employ of Imperial Pacific International and left the island last year have not received their unpaid salaries contrary to what the workers were

The Northern Marianas House Representatives is now controlled by the Democratic Party after it won the majority of the lower chamber of the 22nd Legislature on Tuesday. Its been decades since the Democratic Party controlled the House and it took two days and three elections for Representative Edmund Villagomez to win the Speakership. Republican Representative Ralph Yumul was the deciding vote in installing Mr Villagomez as the new speaker and tilting the balance of power from the Republicans to...

CITING the expiration of the statute of limitations among other reasons, Chief Prosecutor John Bradley on Wednesday informed Attorney General Edward Manibusan that the Office of the AG’s criminal division will not prosecute Rep. Edwin Propst who has been accused of sexual misconduct. In a memorandum, Bradley said the Department of Public Safety “initiated an investigation into allegations that Propst had engaged in sexual contact/intercourse with several underage females approximately...

The Office of the Attorney General’s criminal division said "while the information in the [Department of Public Safety] report seem to confirm the concerns raised by the information received by DPS, there is insufficient factual information and legal justification for pursuing a criminal prosecution." The AGs office, "therefore, closes this case against Propst by declining prosecution."  More details to follow.