{"id":383755,"date":"2023-01-20T06:06:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T20:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=383755"},"modified":"2023-01-20T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T20:06:36","slug":"dois-cantor-to-meet-with-palacios-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/dois-cantor-to-meet-with-palacios-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"DOI\u2019s Cantor to meet with Palacios next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_383756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-383756\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pala-canor-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-383756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pala-canor-1-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-383756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arnold I. Palacios and Carmen G. Cantor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In response to Gov. Arnold I. Palacios\u2019 invitation and request to meet, Assistant Secretary Carmen G. Cantor of the U.S. Department of the Interior (International and Insular Affairs) has confirmed that she will be visiting the Commonwealth next week.<\/p>\n<p>Cantor\u2019s letter confirming her forthcoming visit was personally delivered to Palacios by Harry Blanco, U.S. Department of Interior\u2019s Office of Insular Affairs field representative.<\/p>\n<p>In his Jan. 13, 2023, letter and request to meet with Cantor, Palacios stated that \u201c\u2026upon taking the oath of office and assuming my duties as the governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, we have discovered that our government finances are in considerable disarray. \u2026Consistent with the historic relationship between the government and people of the CNMI and the Department of the Interior, I urgently request consultations to disclose the extent and scope of the challenges we face, and identify any measures of support and technical assistance your office and the Department of the Interior may be able to provide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her response letter to Palacios, Cantor also congratulated Palacios on his being sworn in as the 10th elected governor of the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no greater mandate under the CNMI Constitution and Commonwealth Covenant than that which the people of the CNMI have given you as their governor,\u201d said Cantor in her letter to the governor.<\/p>\n<p>Cantor also encouraged Palacios to participate in the upcoming National Governors\u2019 Association Winter Meeting, which includes the Interagency Group on Insular Area Senior Plenary Session.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese meetings provide important opportunities to network with White House and ranking federal officials who possess valuable information and resources that may be helpful as you seek to address challenges in the CNMI during your new administration,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Palacios stated during Wednesday\u2019s news briefing that he would like to discuss the possibility of repurposing Technical Assistance Program grants and other OIA grants or providing additional technical training and audit support.\u00a0<em>(PR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Gov. 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Palacios\u2019 invitation and request to meet, Assistant Secretary Carmen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":383756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1709],"class_list":["post-383755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-doi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383755","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=383755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}