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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. He said the government is also required to remit $40 million annually to the CNMI Settlement Fund to ...

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. It's 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 the Democrats. CNMI Legislature 16:10 Photo: Supplied Before Yumul flipped his vote, the House wa...

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 20 years ago while employed as an educator for Marianas High School and Northern Marianas College.�...

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 AG's office, "therefore, closes this case against Propst by declining prosecution."  More details to follow.