News photos for January 2007

Saipan International Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting Department fire fighters hose down the fire on a burning mock-up aircraft during the Commonwealth Ports Authority and Federal Aviation Administration's Live Fire Demonstration and Actual Hands-On.

Garapan tourist district shines at night but no tourist is in sight as motorists pass the intersection in front of DFS Galleria. According to the Marianas Visitors Authority, the overall arrivals in the CNMI for November 2006 plunged by 7.29 percent. '

I HAVE A DREAM' African-American Cultural Preservation Committee officer Joe Hill chants together with hundreds of CNMI high school students, government, and private sector officials as they re-enact the Memphis March in 1968 during the first official CNMI-wide commemoration of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Members of the Dekada group hold hands to express their solidarity, as they called for the passage of a bill in the U.S. Congress that would improve the immigration status of long-staying nonresident workers in the CNMI.

Children join the rally led by a group called “Our Commonwealth” at the American Memorial Park.




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