A FORMER electrician who is suffering from bacterial liver abscess, a heart ailment, diabetes, and other complications is being evicted from a room he rents in Chalan Kanoa.
Mohammad Islam, 49, is among the long-term guest workers who lost their jobs when the garment industry left the island over a decade ago.
He said he wants to return to his home country, Bangladesh, but he doesnât have money to buy a plane ticket, and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has also made it more difficult to travel.
Islam said he constantly feels severe pain that sometimes he gets the sense that he could die anytime.
BY now we should have learned from Occupy Wall Street or the Tea Party that were formed after the 2008 financial crash wiped out the incomes of middle-class families who weâre trying to get back on their feet. The bankers were the real winners despite their bad investments in toxic home loans.
 Today, we continue to suffer because of this evil coronavirus.
In light of the crash-and-burn casinos on Tinian and Saipan, we should figure out how we can put people to work â or in prison.
But talk is cheap, and action speaks louder than words, so get to work because this is unacceptable. Two casinos  have crashed and nobody is taking responsibility and nobody has gone to prison!
TINIAN HOTEL CASINO PAYS WORKERS – FOR Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 00:00
FEBRUARY
Five months late, employees aren’t celebrating
By Haidee V. Eugenio SAIPAN, CNMI (Saipan Tribune, July 4, 2011) – The good news is that Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino employees got paid two weeks ago. But the bad news is that the paychecks they got were for their late February to early March payroll. We still haven t received our paychecks for March to June. It s now July, said one of the employees in an interview.
Another said while their employer is behind by almost four months in paying their wages, she s thankful she still has a job, considering the economic hardships not only on Tinian but in the entire CNMI as well.