The Jones Act has now been in force for over a century. In that time, the fleet it governs has contracted from around 250 ships in the 1980s to fewer than 100 today. The American commercial shipbuilding industry now accounts for approximately 0.2 percent of worldwide ship production.

Pacific Reflections By Gabriel McCoard For a moment, I was worried I was about to plunge back into the morass of the Insular Cases. Someone shared an article from Forbes about the FBI obtaining a search warrant for a remote passcode to open files on several laptops belonging to Charissa Tenorio and Frankie Rosalin, the relatives of Guam’s lieutenant governor, Joshua Tenorio, who are facing federal charges in a Covid benefits fraud case. Since this took place on Guam, naturall

 Saipan — Thirty years ago, the financial prospects of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands government were so strong that the administration could propose reducing tax rates. The “healthy” economy had produced “surplus funds,” Marianas Variety reported at the time.