{"id":220427,"date":"2016-02-09T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=220427"},"modified":"2016-02-09T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T20:00:13","slug":"15th-cnmi-youth-congress-to-hold-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/15th-cnmi-youth-congress-to-hold-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"15th CNMI Youth Congress to hold summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing battle against \u201cice\u201d will be the main topic of discussion when the 15th CNMI Youth Congress hosts its annual Youth Summit tomorrow from 8:30am to 3pm at the Napu room of the Pacific Islands Club Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Professional guest speakers and each youth senator from the public and private school will be addressing the students who would attend the one-day summit.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Public Safety has declared a war against \u201cice\u201d or methamphetamine, which has slowly become a menace to the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur mission is to have student leaders involved in serious discussions about issues affecting our island community,\u201d said Youth Congress Speaker Thomas Manglona II.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether they plan to put the CNMI-Guam unification issue on the topic of discussion, Manglona said they could do so in the next session.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the [Marianas Visitors Authority] held their tourism summit so we are focusing on other things,\u201d added Manglona.<\/p>\n<p>The 30th Guam Youth Congress resumed their regular session last month where they discussed Resolution No. 17-30, which is \u201crelative to opening the discussion of uniting the Chamorro people of Guam and the CNMI under one mutually respectful and understanding government.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing battle against \u201cice\u201d will be the main topic of discussion when the 15th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,9414,215,9591],"class_list":["post-220427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-guam-youth-congress","tag-public-safety","tag-youth-summit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220427","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}