{"id":327935,"date":"2020-08-11T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=327935"},"modified":"2020-08-11T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T20:02:00","slug":"news-briefs-august-11-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/news-briefs-august-11-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS BRIEFS &#8211; August 11, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>4.4-magnitude quake on\u00a0Pagan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At\u00a07:47pm\u00a0on\u00a0Aug. 9 2020, a report of a\u00a04.4-magnitude earthquake occurred in the\u00a0Pagan region of the Northern Marianas Islands. Currently, no tsunami warnings or advisories are issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. For more information, contact the CNMI EOC State Warning Point at 237-8000. (PR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free PTAC webinars on federal contracting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Guam Procurement Technical Assistance Center is offering\u00a0free\u00a0live webinars every Thursday in August. Webinars run from\u00a010am to 11:30am\u00a0and\u00a0will be conducted via Zoom. Links to the live webinar and the webinar evaluation will be emailed to all registered attendees 15 minutes before the start of the webinar.<br \/>\n Aug. 13 \u2013 SBA Profile &amp; DSBS:\u00a0Your SBA Profile is a great marketing tool. The Guam PTAC will show you how to setup and update your profile. The DSBS is SBA&#8217;s database of small businesses. We will show you how to use it to help your company succeed in government contracting.<br \/>\n Aug. 20 \u2013 Federal Contract Opportunities:\u00a0Beta.sam.gov is the portal for Federal Contract Opportunities. The Guam PTAC will show you how to setup an account and how to use the search filters to ensure you do not miss any opportunities.<br \/>\n Aug. 27 \u2013 How to Get WOSB Certified:\u00a0WOSB is now an official SBA certification program. We will discuss the new certification process as well as supporting document requirements.<br \/>\nRegister on our website,\u00a0http:\/\/guamptac.com\/news-and-events.php. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4.4-magnitude quake on\u00a0Pagan At\u00a07:47pm\u00a0on\u00a0Aug. 9 2020, a report of a\u00a04.4-magnitude earthquake occurred in the\u00a0Pagan region&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":327593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327935","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=327935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}