{"id":193518,"date":"2015-03-10T04:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=193518"},"modified":"2015-03-10T04:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T18:00:48","slug":"mva-eyes-2-major-projects-completion-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mva-eyes-2-major-projects-completion-year\/","title":{"rendered":"MVA eyes 2 major projects for completion this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Visitors Authority is eyeing to complete two major projects this year: the street lighting of the whole stretch of the Beach Road pathway and repairs of the road going to Mt. Tapochau.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_193519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193519\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Joseph-leepan-guerrero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Joseph-leepan-guerrero-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"Guerrero\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-193519\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-193519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guerrero<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beach Road and Mt. Tapochau are two of the most frequented tourist areas on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rep. Joseph \u201cLee Pan\u201d Guerrero (R-Saipan), the MVA disclosed the projects during a meeting on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero, who heads the House Committee on Tourism, earlier requested the MVA to discuss the tourism body\u2019s specific plans to improve tourism.<\/p>\n<p>The two projects, according to Guerrero, were discussed at the meeting. \u201cThese are the biggest projects for the MVA in 2015,\u201d Guerrero said.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker said lighting up the pathway along Beach Road, from Kilili Beach all the way to Garapan, is primarily \u201cfor the safety of tourists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The road repair on Mt. Tapolchau is also meant to make the trip safer for tourists going to the landmark site.<\/p>\n<p>The MVA has promised to complete the two projects in 2015, Guerrero said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Visitors Authority is eyeing to complete two major projects this year: the street&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":193519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[160,212],"class_list":["post-193518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biba-marianas","tag-beach-road","tag-mva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193518","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}