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Friday, December 24, 2021 From buying and wrapping gifts to decorating your home and planning your holiday feasts, you’ll be surprised to...

December 24, 2021 Last week’s Trash Talk column discussed how trash is everybody’s business. Similarly coined is the Marianas Visitors...

Friday, December 17, 2021 I am grateful that our small business, the Naked Fish Bar and Grill, has grown successfully in the past 17...

December 16, 2021 Trash is everybody’s business. Over the last few months in this column, the Universal Garbage Collection (UGC) Task...

Friday, December 10, 2021 Christmas is a season of peace, joy, and hope for a fresh start and a brighter new year ahead. For my family...

December 10, 2021 Trash. It’s everywhere – along our beaches, buried underneath the soil, in our ocean, and illegally dumped in various...

Friday, December 3, 2021 On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. After a year and a half...

December 2, 2021 This week I had the honor of meeting our CNMI trash collection companies to share with them the Universal Garbage...

Friday, November 26, 2021 It is common to think that village beautification is a government or private sector function. However, as...

November 25, 2021 In last week’s column, Hon. Mayor Efraim M. Atalig shared that one of the greatest challenges in Rota’s solid waste...

Friday, November 19, 2021 When the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisers presented its Marianas Village Pride (MVP) Campaign at the...

November 18, 2021 Last week, I took a trip to Rota and sat down with Honorable Mayor Efraim M. Atalig, Mayor of Rota, to discuss his...

Friday, November 12, 2021 The Office of the Mayor of Tinian and Aguiguan joins Rota and Saipan in supporting the Governor’s Council of...

November 11, 2021 The other day someone asked me why it is important for the Marianas to develop a universal garbage collection plan now....

Friday, November 5, 2021 Håfa Adai yan Tirow Wóómi, with our signature Aluf, from your friendly island of Luta. When the Governor’s...

November 4, 2021 Recently on social media, a resident posted a photo depicting bags of trash dumped at her family member’s grave. She was...

Friday, October 29, 2021 The new 40-year lease agreement between the Hyatt Regency Saipan and the CNMI government brings the number of...

October 28, 2021 Let’s talk trash, but no filthy words, only rubbish talk. We should start with a clear picture of our current garbage...

Friday, October 23, 2021 This past week, if you passed through Beach Road and Garapan Middle Road, you would’ve noticed a significant...