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SAN ROQUE, Saipan — Speaking on April 23 at the Saipan Chamber of Commerce’s 2025 Economic Forum at the Kensington Hotel, Lt. General Laura L. Lenderman, deputy commander of the Pacific Air Forces; said more businesses in the Northern Mariana Islands are bidding for U.S. Department of Defense contracts.

The Serve Guam Commission, a grantee of the AmeriCorp program under the Office of the Governor, said its programs will “continue normal operations” following national reports of federal budget cuts to the program.

A meeting was held on April 16 between Gov. Lourdes A. Leon Guerrero and several bipartisan Congressional Delegates.
 

NAFTAN, Saipan — Micronesian Air Connection Services, which planned to service the Mariana Islands chain, has been stymied after it failed to win a bid for hangar space in Guam’s A. B. Won Pat International Airport

President Hilde C. Heine of the Marshall Islands opened the keynote address at the University of Guam’s 2025 Center for Island Sustainability conference with her personal story growing up in the Marshalls.