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8 unusual facts about Northern Mariana Islands


Arnold Palacios

Arnold Indalecio Palacios (born August 22, 1955) is a Northern Mariana Islands politician and a member of the Republican Party.

Athletics at the Micronesian Games

Athletics competitions have been held at the quadrennial Micronesian Games, that are open for the 10 member federations of the Micronesian Games Council, since the inaugural edition 1969 in Saipan, then Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (now Northern Mariana Islands).

Guam Rail

Since 1995, more than 100 rails have been introduced on the island of Rota in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in an attempt to establish a wild breeding colony.

Hong Kong Identity Card

Some foreign territories require Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passport holders to present their HKID as well in order to benefit from a visa exemption scheme: these territories include Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and Taiwan.

Joseph M. Mendiola

Joseph M. Mendiola is a member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).

Nancy L. Ward

Prior to her selection by Paulison, Ward served as the FEMA regional director for region IX (which serves AZ, CA, Guam, HI, NV, CNMI, RMI, FSM and American Samoa).

Northern Mariana Islands' at-large congressional district

On November 4, 2008, the first delegate was elected to the 111th United States Congress which began on January 3, 2009.

Philippine Collared Dove

It has also been introduced into Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, although the population on Guam has been severely reduced by introduced brown tree snakes.


Al Meyerhoff

One of his cases sought to eliminate sweatshop conditions for workers on the island of Saipan, a part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands that operates under the jurisdiction of the United States court system.

Cigarette smuggling

The proposed Stop Tobacco Smuggling in the Territories Act of 2013 (H.R. 338; 113th Congress), if it passes during the 113th United States Congress, would update the Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act to include American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam, which were previously not covered by the law.

Jack Abramoff CNMI scandal

The Jack Abramoff CNMI scandal involves the efforts of Jack Abramoff, other lobbyists, and government officials to change or prevent, or both, Congressional action regarding the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and businesses on Saipan, its capital, commercial center, and one of its three principal islands.

Jesus Borja

In April 2010, Borja announced his candidacy as a Democrat for Delegate of the Northern Mariana Islands to the United States House of Representatives in the 2010 election.

Joseph M. Mendiola

He represents the second senatorial district of Tinian & Aguiguan and is a member of the CNMI Covenant Party.

Karen Ramey Burns

She worked on a number of high-profile cases, including the Raboteau Massacre and trial in Haiti, the Río Negro massacre in Guatemala, victims of genocide in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Amelia Earhart search in Kiribati, Fiji, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and the identification of the Kazimierz Pułaski remains in Savannah, Georgia, United States.

Politics of Guam

There is a significant movement in favor of the Territory becoming a commonwealth, which would give it a political status similar to Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.


see also

California Coast University

He ran for Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands and was the running mate of gubernatorial candidate Ramon "Kumoi" Guerrero in the 2009 gubernatorial election.

Carolinian

Carolinian language, an Austronesian language spoken in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean

Chamorro

Chamorro Time Zone, formerly the Guam Time Zone, the time zone in which Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are situated.

Chamorro language, an Austronesian language spoken on Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands

KCNM

KNUT, a radio station (101.1 FM) licensed to Garapan-Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, which held the call sign KCNM-FM from 1999 to 2010

Northern Islands

Northern Islands Municipality, one of the four main political divisions of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

United States House of Representatives election in the Northern Mariana Islands, 2010

Joe Camacho (Cov), former Covenant Floor Leader in the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives

Jesus Borja (D), former Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands