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Gun rights ruling brings back painful memories
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A local girl died of a gunshot wound on the head in 2002 when unwitting suspects brandished a rifle during what was intended to be a target shooting in a Talafofo farm. The victim was playing with other kids behind some banana trees where the reported shooting targets were hanging when she was hit and killed by a stray bullet.
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Economic census turnout at lowest level
Just about 70 percent of Northern Marianas businesses have returned their filled-out economic census forms, a record low for the Commonwealth which holds an impressive history of final response rate at above 90 percent. |
Youths urged to consider nursing career
Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Villagomez has proclaimed this week as CNMI Nurses Week in recognition of the service nurses provide to Commonwealth residents, as he urged young people to consider a career in the nursing profession. |
Guam donates 17 handguns to DPS
The Guam Department of Agricultures Division of Aquatic and Wildlife donated 17 Smith & Wesson 9mm handguns worth a total of $8,000 to the CNMI Department of Public Safety. |
NMI dancers wow crowd in Guam
The Northern Mariana Islands sent a small delegation to the 6th Annual Dinana Minagof Chamorro Dance Competition and Festival in Guam last week, in preparation for the group's participation in the Festival of the Pacific that will take place later this month in American Samoa. |
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New restaurant soft-opens in Chalan Piao
Saipan is sprinkled with specialty restaurants and smaller food stores that cater to a wide array of clientele whose cravings range from Asian to Continental dishes. Many hop from one food shop to another to satisfy their taste buds' thirst for different cuisines but those restaurant-hopping days are now a thing of the past. |
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Number of people with diabetes rise to 24M
Diabetes now affects nearly 24 million people in the United States, an increase of more than 3 million in approximately two years, according to new 2007 prevalence data estimates released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This means that nearly 8 percent of the U.S. population has diabetes. |
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Water agenda for Asia-Pacific Region unveiled
SINGAPORE -- Asian Development Bank president Haruhiko Kuroda unveiled a seven-point agenda to prioritize water investments in the Asia-Pacific region and said that the institution is committed to helping countries in the region boost new water investments to $20 billion to improve water security. |
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Local student attends summer studies in China
Saipan-born Matthew Owen DeLeon-Guerrero, 19, a freshman at Boise State University, has just finished a tour as a delegate to the International Scholar Laureate Program Delegation on Medicine in China as part of his summer studies program. |
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