The Central Statistics Division of the Department of Commerce currently has no director.<\/p>\n
According to Commerce Secretary Mark Rabauliman, CSD director Alfonsis Sound recently left the department.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a personal choice,\u201d Rabauliman said. \u201cHis wife got a job off-island and he followed suit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rabauliman said Sound left the CNMI around mid-August.<\/p>\n
Sound has been working with the department as one of its division directors for two years prior to his resignation.<\/p>\n
With CSD having no director, Rabauliman now directly oversees the CSD but he said they will look for an acting director soon.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be making an announcement soon to the administration to provide this office, at least for the interim, an acting director,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He added that they will be getting someone from their own office as of now due to the challenges brought by Typhoon Soudelor to their workflow. For one, the Department of Commerce building on Capital Hill is still using generator power.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust in-house for now because with all this recovery mode, it\u2019s kind of hard to work through the normal challenges,\u201d Rabauliman said.<\/p>\n
Rabauliman said they will revisit the position again when things are back to normal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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