A group of friendly and happy people

Friends of the Mariana Islands (FMI) get together during sunday afternoon after the clean up.

Garapan Tourist District Cleanup

October 7, 2007 first sunday of the month. Friends of the Mariana Islands (FMI) monthly cleanup schedule at Grapan Tourist District. Our FMI Vice president Diomedes Duculan with our BOD Members and FMI members are on this picture after the cleanup!

Light House

It's a beautiful place! last Sunday FMI help the Restoration and Beautify CNMI to clean and painted the Light House. Now you can see the worked that have done most of the Graffiti is covered.

Beach

FMI members

Aquarius Hotel beach
Precy, Mely and Zeny are having fun at the Beach this morning.

My message to the people was delevered

I am really very happy the out come of the message that i did posted yesterday afternoon, because the community is talking about Respect one another. I was really right and i do believe that there's allot of us here in the CNMI just want to continue the good relationship with the people in the CNMI. I will always pray for the peace in the whole world but most specially here for us. We need to respect and love one another!

Thank you very much for my Fellow Filipino here in the CNMI.

We have to respect the law of the CNMI

We hope that some Filipino here in the CNMI will have the chance to see and read this blog. We have noticed that the situation in the CNMI is getting worse because of what other Filipino groups are doing. We don't support this Filipino group who's only interest is in getting US Citizenship or access to the US just because they worked here for years. We, as a Friends of the Mariana Islands (FMI), are really concerned that those guest workers have lost sight of why they came to Saipan and now are looking only to leave Saipan, but not to go to their homes. We too have worked on Saipan for years and recognize that there are problems and almost certainly abuse, but the answer to those individual situations is individual actions as we already all have the same rights (but not privileges) as US Citizens. We believe the proper action is to fix the problems locally through legal processes available to us here rather than praying that the US will take action. What if the CNMI passed a local law sending all of us home who had been here for a year or more, they could do that before the US pass any law! In deed we still can't be sure any US law will be passed, or any law granting us access to the US will be passed. Some groups have made the problems into all of us vs. all of them. We will never have the respect of all the local people but the way demonstrations and counter demonstrations are happening we risk most of us ending up with no respect for us and perhaps even hate developing between most people on both sides. Imagine then how life would be trapped in an Island of hate. Even if we are allowed to leave for the US we might find these last months or years here on Saipan to have exposed our children to a hateful environment where they even learn that their parents hate and are hated by other people. I wish I know the solution to the problem here but I don't. I do know that we and our children may suffer emotionally if the problems here are resolved in hate, fear and a lack of respect of groups of people (and not just of individuals who deserve to lose respect because of their treatment or abuse of other individuals). We really do hope to those people who happen to read this blog to please pass the message to all people in the CNMI.


We thank you PEOPLE OF THE CNMI.

FMI group goal & motto

Friends of the Mariana Islands (FMI) is a good example among all the groups in the CNMI of helping the Environment and believe it or not this is what FMI are all about. Our goal is to gather people who want to be friendly to the Mariana Islands by helping keep the Island Environment clean and beautiful.

(FMI) MOTTO: DO IT WHOLE HEARTEDLY UNTIL THE VOLUNTEER WORK IS DONE AND EXPECT NO REWARD EXCEPT FROM YOURSELF!!!