The Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation (CHCC) and the Governor’s COVID-19 Task Force announces new quarantine protocols: Effective May 17, 2021, fully vaccinated travelers coming in from Level 1 jurisdictions on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Travel Health Notice list do not have to quarantine in any form, after providing verifiable vaccination documentation from their respective health department or health provider and after their lodging or household passes assessment. If household assessment failed, travelers will be given the option to self-monitor at home. Travelers from Level 1 jurisdictions also do not have to test upon arrival but will be tested on the fifth day after arrival.

The Department of Finance, Division of Revenue and Taxation (DRT) would like to notify the general public that the implementation plan for the Expanded Child Tax Credit for 2021 pursuant to the American Rescue Plan is currently being developed for a target issuance by July 2021.

Standing from left to right, Senate President Jude Hofschneider and members of Saipan Select, LLC. Seated from left to right, CNMI Cannabis Commission Chair Nadine Deleon Guerrero, Governor Ralph DLG. Torres, LT. Governor Arnold Palacios, and CNMI Cannabis Commission Managing Director Monique Sablan. 

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) approved a $88.7 million low-interest Community Disaster Loan (CDL) to provide the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) operational funding to continue to function after the substantial revenue loss caused by multiple disasters in the Pacific.

Distribution of checks to begin Monday, April 12, 2021

The Governor’s COVID-19 Task Force and the Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation (CHCC) have officially confirmed that the CNMI has no existing threat of COVID-19 community spread at this time.

The Department of Finance would like to notify the general public that the anticipated issuance of the third stimulus checks this week has been delayed due to an unusually lengthy approval process of the implementation plan by the US Department of the Treasury.

The Department of Finance announced that it anticipates the first batch of direct deposit payments will be released by the end of next week, followed by the processing of paper checks.

45 years ago, a group of 14 beautiful islands in the Western Pacific successfully negotiated on equal terms with the most powerful country in the world in an act of self-determination.