{"id":246814,"date":"2017-02-20T06:06:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T20:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=246814"},"modified":"2017-02-20T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T20:06:36","slug":"shrm-meeting-speaker-talk-cw-program-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shrm-meeting-speaker-talk-cw-program-future\/","title":{"rendered":"SHRM meeting speaker to talk of CW program future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Society for Human Resource Management NMI Chapter\u2019s meeting this month will feature President Donald Trump\u2019s point of contact for Guam and the CNMI to speak on the topic of the CNMI\u2019s CW program.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of the Inter-American School of Law, Juan Carlos Benitez, executive director of the Guam Republican Party, has headed lobbying efforts for both the CNMI and Guam governments in Washington, D.C.  He is currently a member of the National Asian American Pacific Islanders Council for Trump and the National Hispanic Advisory Council for Trump. <\/p>\n<p>Benitez is also an immigration attorney with membership in the American Immigration Lawyers Association.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>He will address the present status of the CNMI\u2019s CW program and will review the efforts being pursued in Washington, D.C. to address the CNMI\u2019s concern with the program\u2019s end-date and visa numbers.  <\/p>\n<p>This SHRM lunch meeting will be held at the\u00a0Pacific Islands Club Charley\u2019s on\u00a0Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, from\u00a011:30am\u00a0to\u00a01:30 pm. Note that this meeting is on Wednesday, not the normal Thursday schedule. This presentation is open to the public. Benitez will provide an opportunity for questions.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation includes the PIC lunch buffet at the cost of $20 for SHRM members and $30 for non-members. Seats are limited; for reservations contact Penny Jones\u00a0by e-mail at\u00a0penelope.jones@hyatt.com or by telephone at 323-5868.\u00a0(SHRM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society for Human Resource Management NMI Chapter\u2019s meeting this month will feature President Donald&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,118,15650,15651],"class_list":["post-246814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-cw","tag-guam-republican-party","tag-juan-carlos-benitez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246814","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}