{"id":153162,"date":"2011-06-30T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bca13cb0-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2011-06-30T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T19:12:00","slug":"bca13cc0-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bca13cc0-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms 3 governor\u2019s appointees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate confirmed yesterday afternoon three of the governor\u2019s appointees, including Frank P. Rosario who will serve a second term on the NMI Retirement Fund board of trustees.<\/p>\n<p>Senators also confirmed the reappointment of Dr. Ahmad Al-Alou who will serve on the Medical Profession Licensing Board, and the appointment of former senator Diego Songao, who will serve on the Commonwealth Development Authority\u2019s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the three appointees received a 9-0 vote from senators.<\/p>\n<p>Of the three, only Rosario was present during the Senate session.  <\/p>\n<p>He was accompanied by his wife Niki, relatives, friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I would like to thank the governor for reappointing me, and the Senate for confirming my appointment,\u201d Rosario told Saipan Tribune. \u201cI ask my board of trustees colleagues to continue their hard work to find a better means to operate the Retirement Fund.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate confirmed yesterday afternoon three of the governor\u2019s appointees, including Frank P. Rosario who will serve a second term on the NMI Retirement Fund board of trustees.<\/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-153162","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\/153162","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=153162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}