{"id":1477,"date":"2012-02-01T03:02:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T03:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2012-02-01T03:02:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T03:02:40","slug":"interior-lauds-19-employers-for-hiring-84-us-eligible-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/interior-lauds-19-employers-for-hiring-84-us-eligible-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior lauds 19 employers for hiring 84 US eligible workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u00bbSearch for CNMI economist ongoing, as 6 NGOs train US workers<\/div>\n<div>By Haidee V. Eugenio<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Interior Assistant Secretary for Insular Affairs Tony Babauta recognized yesterday 19 CNMI employers for hiring 84 eligible U.S. workers as a result of a job fair that the CNMI Department of Commerce and the Interior co-hosted in October 2011.<\/p>\n<p>During a ceremony in the governor&#8217;s conference room yesterday morning, Babauta named 12 employers that hired 46 workers. Representatives of these employers were at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>A more up-to-date data from CNMI Commerce&#8217;s Mark Rabauliman, project coordinator for the Economic and Labor Enhancement Program, shows that there were actually 19 employers who were able to hire 84 workers as a result of the job fair.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Benigno R. Fitial and Commerce Secretary Sixto Igisomar, during the ceremony, also lauded these employers and thanked Interior. Also present at the event were other Interior and CNMI government officials.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 19 employers, Sablan Topline hired the most number of workers, at 20, followed by Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa with 10, Saipan Grand Hotel with nine, and Hafa Adai Hotel and YCO Corp. with six each.<\/p>\n<p>Completing the list are Jet Holdings, five; Marianas Cable, MCV Broadband, Star Sands Plaza, World Resort Saipan and Younis Art Studio with three employees each; Hyatt Regency Saipan, R Corp., S.T.a.R. Water, Seafix Inc., and Triple J Enterprise with two employees each; and Good Day Saipan, GPPC, and Moylan&#8217;s Insurance with one employee each.<\/p>\n<p>During the ceremony, Babauta also recognized representatives of the six non-governmental organizations that were recipients of the Economic Labor Enhancement Program sub-grant under the Interior&#8217;s technical assistance grant.<\/p>\n<p>These NGOs are expected to expand and enhance \u201con-the-job training\u201d and \u201cjob-readiness\u201d to train U.S. eligible workers that include U.S. citizens, Freely Associated States citizens, and green card holders.<\/p>\n<p>These groups include the CNMI Aquaculture Producers Association, $90,000; Saipan Sabalu Farmers Market Inc., $46,000; Marianas Resource Conservation and Development Council, $145,000; Northern Marianas Trade Institute, $143,000; Society for Human Resources Management, $102,000, and The Bridge Project, $60,000.<\/p>\n<p>The amount awarded to these NGOs, a total of $586,000, is part of the Interior&#8217;s $1 million grant award to CNMI Commerce in July 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The other $300,000 will be used to hire a CNMI economist.<\/p>\n<p>Commerce&#8217;s Rabauliman said as of yesterday, the request for proposal for such an economist is still being drafted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00bbSearch for CNMI economist ongoing, as 6 NGOs train US workers By Haidee V. Eugenio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}