{"id":325876,"date":"2020-07-03T06:03:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=325876"},"modified":"2020-07-03T06:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:03:10","slug":"news-briefs-july-3-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/news-briefs-july-3-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS BRIEFS &#8211; July 3, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tinian landfill hours<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Public Works would like to inform the community that the Tinian landfill will be open today, July 2, and tomorrow, July 3, from 9am to 5pm. The dump will be closed on Saturday, July 4, in observance of the holiday. And regular operations will resume again on Monday, July 6. For more information, contact DPW\u2019s Solid Waste Division at (670) 433-3551. (PR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>APL fuel surcharge reduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TAMUNING, Guam\u2014APL reduced its Fuel Adjustment Factor for shipments to\u00a0Guam and Saipan\u00a0by\u00a017% effective last July 1, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0This reduction also applies to export containers from Guam and Saipan to the U.S. APL <\/p>\n<p>Guam general manager Charlie Hermosa said, \u201cAPL continues to evaluate the fuel index and therefore we will be making an adjustment that will greatly assist the business community with much needed cost relief in these challenging times. Our commitment to the community is that we will consistently evaluate the fuel market and make any necessary adjustments.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\nReefer containers in and out of Guam and Saipan to the United States are also included in the reduction and will be at\u00a014%. (PR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ortizo lands on dean\u2019s list<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NEWARK, DE\u2014Michael Roy Ortizo of Saipan has been named to the University of Delaware dean\u2019s list for the spring 2020 semester.<br \/>\nTo meet eligibility requirements for the dean\u2019s list, a student must be enrolled full-time and earn a GPA of 3.5 or above (on a 4.0 scale) for the semester. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tinian landfill hours The Department of Public Works would like to inform the community that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":325776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7785],"class_list":["post-325876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-apl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325876","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=325876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}