{"id":305125,"date":"2019-08-01T06:01:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=305125"},"modified":"2019-08-01T06:01:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:01:30","slug":"faisao-nominated-to-represent-women-carolinians-on-nmti-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/faisao-nominated-to-represent-women-carolinians-on-nmti-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Faisao nominated to represent women, Carolinians on NMTI board"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_305126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-305126\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Faisao-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Faisao-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305126\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-305126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmelita Faisao, center, poses for a photo with her relatives after the yesterday&#8217;s Senate Executive Appointments and Government Investigation public hearing. (Erwin Encinares)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Senate Executive Appointments and Government Investigation Committee is now reviewing the nomination of Carmelita Faisao, who has been named to the Northern Marianas Technical Institute\u2019s board of trustees to represent women and Carolinians.<\/p>\n<p>The committee, led by Sen. Francisco Cruz (R-Tinian), reviewed Faisao\u2019s nomination yesterday and, according to Cruz, his committee found no reason to deny her nomination as yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is very committed. I believe we need people that know what they are doing. We don\u2019t only base decisions on their r\u00e9sum\u00e9, but also on their commitment,\u201d he said in an interview. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026I cannot say now that everything is okay,\u201d he said, emphasizing that changes can be made at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate interview with Saipan Tribune, Faisao said this may be her first time to be nominated to the NMTI board but she looks forward to supporting local businesses.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI am looking forward to collaborating more with all the businesses out there, making sure we have jobs for our [students] after training,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Faisao is a project and operations manager at DFS T Galleria in Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on the Office of the Governor\u2019s social media page noted that Faisao possesses \u201cthe diligence and work ethic to promote NMTI and boasts a very diverse background in community service and cultural arts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [Torres] administration believes that\u2026[Faisao possesses] the skills and temperament to build our workforce capacity and expresses its full confidence in their ability to serve,\u201d the social media page further said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Executive Appointments and Government Investigation Committee is now reviewing the nomination of Carmelita&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":305126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[479],"class_list":["post-305125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-nmti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305125","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}