Government scraps grants for masters degree students
As expected, the government is pressing ahead with plans to scrap grants for students starting a masters' degree from the next academic year.
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Flashback Feb. 10, 1999-2003
Members of the CNMI Legislature yesterday slammed as yet another threat to its self-governance a proposed rider in an appropriation bill in the U.S. Congress that will amend the tariff-free treatment of local goods as well as make any raise in the federal minimum wage level applicable in the commonwealth.
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Readers' forum: Require drug tests
Taxpayers are giving money they have earned to support those on welfare, medicaid, food stamps, tuition grants and other...
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Stop complaining and get to work, Shaw tells Phillips
OPPOSITION spokesman on finance, Audley Shaw, has called on Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips to "stop complaining and deal decisively and transparently with the issues of underperformance of revenue and grants which have been identified.
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Free nursery 'not lasting boost'
Free nursery places for pre-school children may not have a lasting impact on their education, the Government's spending watchdog has suggested.
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