News Releases
Sep 10, 2017
Service Academy Nights scheduled
There are four slots open for the Northern Marianas for the school year beginning in the fall of 2018: two at West Point, one at Annapolis, and one at the Merchant Marine Academy in New York.
Sep 10, 2017
Watching North Korea
The shock of knowing the Marianas is in range of North Korean missiles may be wearing off, but the threat is not going away. So, I regularly attend the classified briefings for Members of Congress on the North’s development of nuclear weapons and delivery systems.
Sep 10, 2017
$1 million for BECQ
The Commonwealth Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality will receive annual federal funding of $1.015 million for the agency’s coastal management program, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced.
Sep 8, 2017
Kilili: CPA to get $2.6M in federal funds for Tinian, Saipan airports
Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP) announced yesterday that the Commonwealth Ports Authority is receiving federal funding of $2,641,956 for airport improvements on Tinian and Saipan.
Sep 8, 2017
Kilili: Domestic violation coalition gets $239,000
The Northern Marianas Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence is the recipient of $239,136 from the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan announced.
Sep 4, 2017
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS - September 1, 2017
Helping Texas recover • $300k more for Soudelor cleanup • More are eligible for food stamps • New CW permits now available • CWs: Looking ahead • New DOD Assistant Secretary visits • Johnson is new congressional fellow • VBA holds workshop, claims clinic • Cuts would harm Marianas programs • Books find new home at Kagman High • $43k to CHCC for HIV • Learn about USCIS' revised new hire form
Sep 4, 2017
Our hearts go out to Texas
According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, people in the Marianas and around our nation can support relief efforts in Texas by making a donation or offering to volunteer time at the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster website, www.nvoad.org.
Sep 4, 2017
$300k more for Soudelor cleanup
Pacific Coastal Research and Planning is receiving $300,000 in federal funds to remove the Lady Carolina from the reef outside Saipan harbor.
Sep 4, 2017
New CW permits now available
USCIS is now taking applications for the 350 new CW-1 permits authorized by my Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act, which President Trump signed into law on August 22.
Sep 4, 2017
CWs: Looking ahead
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services should soon announce the number of CW permits that will be available for fiscal year 2018, which begins October 1.
