“[MVA provides] a way for well-connected people to team up with well-connected businesses to fleece the public.” – Mabel Doge Luhan _____ By Mabel Doge Luhan for Mabel’s Table, Kandit…

“Because if marketing in Mainland China would lead to more business for the hotels, why don’t the hotels do it themselves? After all, the hotels would receive ALL of the…

Editorial by Troy Torres, Kandit News & Views It has come to my attention since publishing our editorial Why Would Any Reasonable Citizen Trust HANMI After the Casino Failure? that…

A bit of hope is on the horizon that tourism in the CNMI might have a chance now that Chris Concepcion has resigned from the Marianas Visitors Authority and the…

Opinion By Mabel Doge Luhan for Mabel’s Table, Kandit News & Views 2024 is almost over! And what a year we’ve had. The Saipan Sheraton and Towers opened, with a…

By Mabel Doge Luhan for Kandit News & Views With only two weeks to go before the Feast of the Circumcision, MVA sure is “working hard” to avoid getting its…

JUST KIDDING • By Mabel Doge Luhan Long live the Queen! Oh, you didn’t know that Topher and Thom of Marianas Visitors Authority recently cruised over to England? Even if…

By Mabel Doge Luhan On October 8, Kandit sent the Marianas Visitors Authority an Open Government Act request. We asked for a roster of who went on MVA’s latest trip…

The Marianas Visitors Authority’s management and board need to resign. And if they don’t, the Commonwealth legislature needs to abolish the agency and transfer tourism marketing under the governor’s direct…

Remember that time your parents punished you for doing something wrong and you were mad but then you didn’t make a mess of your life and later on you were…