{"id":370454,"date":"2022-06-16T06:06:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=370454"},"modified":"2022-06-16T06:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:06:24","slug":"admin-leave-okd-for-nmis-nmpmg-athletes-coaches-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/admin-leave-okd-for-nmis-nmpmg-athletes-coaches-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Admin leave OK\u2019d for NMI\u2019s NMPMG athletes, coaches, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_370456\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-370456\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2-mugs-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-370456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2-mugs-1-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-370456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph DLG. Torres and Marco Peter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gov. Ralph DLG. Torres has granted administrative leave to all government employees that are involved in the June 17 to 25 Northern Marianas Pacific Mini Games 2022.<\/p>\n<p>At a press briefing last Friday, Torres said he was happy to grant the administrative leave to government employees who are athletes, coaches, or part of the Pacific Mini Games\u2019 organizational committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to let everybody know that I am 100% supportive of our athletes, coaches and everyone that showcases the CNMI as a whole,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific Mini Games Organizing Committee chair Marco Peter said at the same press briefing that the facilities for the events are \u201clooking awesome, looking great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been pushing our contractors to finish up [with the] final touches on the baseball field, the track and field,\u201d said Peter, who also talked about the preparations of facilities for other sports.<\/p>\n<p>On giving cash incentives to CNMI medalists, Peter said it\u2019s a big deal for the CNMI as the athletes deserve the best, since they take time out of their work, practice in the morning and work during the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do everything because they are representing what\u2019s in front of their jersey. So I\u2019m so proud of them and I wish them well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Mini Games, which will kick off tomorrow, Friday, will be held on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota. Twenty countries and territories will participate in nine sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ralph DLG. Torres has granted administrative leave to all government employees that are involved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":370456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[257,309],"class_list":["post-370454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-nmi","tag-ok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370454","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=370454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}