VIP Service shut down!
To strengthen his anti-corruption agenda, China President Xi Jinping recently outlawed VIP services for high rollers taking money out of the country for gambling abroad, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Asian edition.
This decision would adversely affect the Australian casino industry as it ponders where it would get VIP high rollers or those that once used junket tours. Jinping killed junket tours in Macau and forced the enclave to engage in economic diversification.
With more gambling sources on shutters from China, where would our casino industry secure its most touted high rollers? Would we send a mea culpa delegation to China and ask for exemption like we did with USCIS on CW workers? Wow! The curtain of optimism keeps descending, di ba? This while we ignore Nippon and Korean investments. Gee! Strange vision!
When our homogeneous (single) economy crashes in the near-term, how do we shore up more revenues for the increasing cost of public services NMI-wide? Whatever happened to vision over eyeballing our future? Friends, those at the helm must be able to see “beyond the years.”
Politics of desperation
A caller from Tinian asserted in the radio program Marianas Agupa that Mayor Joey San Nicolas would be observing the election process on Election Day. The caller is right that such an appearance would be a form of intimidation. I trust the mayor and hope he leaves folks to vote on their own. Hope the BOE disallows such intimidation!
Moreover, the same caller asserted that Best Sunshine would be footing the expense of 20 full time employees (FTEs) on Tinian to help the dangerously failing career of its loyal lapdog, Sen. Francisco Borja.
It is also rumored that BSI would be hiring another 20 people on Rota for six months to ensure its lapdogs are elected. Reminds me how this firm used its $10 million on utilities to shift the last gubernatorial race. It’s freebies to cement its casino business.
It’s easy discerning that the same evil genius is behind this scheme. I know who it is and it should be good material for an exposé. I would have no reservation reinventing the heavily soiled past of this evil genius. Listening, pal? I’ll be knocking on your doors soon!
This only hardens my determination to see the sunset days of casino! And we could do it through “we the people!” Trust me, this would be our next collective agenda in 2017!
NMI’s healthcare: Hawaii and Guam have successfully hired nurses and doctors from foreign countries, including the Philippines. That the two jurisdictions could do it, why can’t the same be made equally applicable in the NMI?
Apparently, someone has dropped the ball by simply not walking the talk but caught dumbfounded in healthcare delivery running out of oxygen.
Isn’t it true that we also send patients to St. Luke’s, Asian Hospital and The Medical City in the Philippines? If doctors in these hospitals treat our critical patients why haven’t anything been done to ensure they are given the opportunity to work out of CHC?
It’s oxymoronic to allow them to treat our patients at their hospitals yet we prohibit them from working at CHC as physicians. Aren’t they the same doctors?
Moreover, CHC is handicapped by the lack of funds to provide adequate healthcare delivery. It makes sense establishing a working relationship with foreign hospitals with superb capacity and capability to have their doctors make monthly visits to examine patients here. It used to be done with Hawaii doctors. The need is urgent and the legal hurdles must be made to assist both the hospital and most importantly, patients.
If I may reiterate: foreign doctors and nurses still fill hospitals in Guam and Hawaii. The NMI must be on the ball to hunker down on the requisite procedure to ensure CHC doesn’t lose critical staff because someone ate more than his or her share of heavy bone soup and rice for lunch.
Meanwhile, it’s healthy for CHC to begin exploring how the $13 million-$15 million we spend on medical referral be turned inward to improve medical care at home. Let’s explore working relationships with hospitals in the region including the use of telemedicine.
Milking an investor
Humiliating how the evil geniuses surrounding the purchase of the MV Luta have allegedly schemed to increase the ante to milk the Japanese investor beyond the value of the boat.
As a member of the NMI community, I feel violated, wounded and humiliated by the callous attitude of defendants allegedly milking Mr. Takahasi Yamamoto of $3.4 million. It’s the message of deceit that sent the NMI spinning on its head as it tries to keep a straight face to other investors. What “solutions driven” of alleged greed and corruption!
Reportedly, the value of the boat skyrocketed from $400,000 to $3.4 million. It leaves behind some $3 million, the disposition of which piqued my interest beyond imagination. How was this money divvied and spent and how much did each defendant pull from the scheme? Boy! This odor is overpowering even the maggots would soon begin parading in full public view.
“What a tangled web we weave when we first practice to deceive!”
At issue is the violation and perversion of trust from an investor whose interest is to help consumers on Rota benefit from any decrease in the cost of basic goods. I understand the good intention died outside Smiling Cove Marina on Saipan. It also had the NMI covering its face out of embarrassment from unscrupulous familial eggheads whose only interest are their deep pockets.
Furthermore, the reported suppression of the $400K by defendants from Mr. Yamamoto did nothing but raise more questions of intent why deny it from their business partner. Interesting!
I suggested many times to my specalist Doctors in the Phil. over the years about applying at CHC as there was a shortage of Doctors and Nurses and relayed the CW situation that was on the horizon.
My direction was on the elder that were turning over their practice to their kids and also the younger ones that were at the stage of setting up their own practice.
In the Phil. the established Doctors make their rounds daily with many Hospitals and “hold clinic” at each one on certain schedules. They will use that facility for specific treatments such as operations, Cancer and other treatmnents etc.
Since these Doctors have multiple US entry visa as they regularly go for training in the US and other areas, a few had actually visited and inquired at CHC over the years.
NONE were interested due to the lack of facilities, organization and also due to the “attitude” of the Admin. and the sense of being treated as inferior and told that they would be nothing but basically a “nurse”. The pay was bad also compared to what they made in the Phil.
The few good nurses were not interested in an “unsecured” position such as a CW classification since many had friends and relatives that worked in the US on a “real” visa with pay and protction which also included, Canada and other Western areas. Also the pay was another thing compared to those other workers..
Foreign doctors who have met AMA requirements are free to practice anywhere in the country. But you are right Captain that it’s our attitude that discourages their filling physician positions here.
The NMI is never considered a fertile ground to doing the right thing by the current political junkies now in office. On the contrary, they believe it is quite alright to deviate from the norms through their actions which most decent people would not dare do. For instance getting away with CONFESSED RAPE OF A MINOR, MISUSED OF GOVT ASSETS, ADMITTED PROSTITUTION; WHAT ABOUT ALL PAID TRIP TO MACAU AND PASSING A HIGHLY DEFICIENT CASINO BILL IN THE NIGHT WEE HOURS? A litany of corrupted deeds would exceed this space just listing a few ….