{"id":384172,"date":"2023-01-27T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=384172"},"modified":"2023-01-27T06:00:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:00:59","slug":"world-customs-day-celebrated-in-oceania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/world-customs-day-celebrated-in-oceania\/","title":{"rendered":"World Customs Day celebrated in Oceania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SUVA, Fiji\u2014<\/strong>Customs administrations across the region and the world celebrated World Customs Day yesterday, which had the theme \u201cNurturing the next generation: promoting a culture of knowledge-sharing and professional pride in Customs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here in the region, the Oceania Customs Organization also celebrated the graduation of 35 Customs officers from 15 countries with a Certificate IV in Customs Regional Administration from the Center for Customs and Excise Studies at Charles Sturt University in Canberra in partnership with the OCO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is befitting that the graduation of our Customs officers, 17 of which are women is in the same week as the World Customs Day, which promotes knowledge sharing as well as professional pride in our work,\u201d OCO operations manager Irma Daphney Stone said. \u201cThese graduates are now included in our pool of experts who can conduct training in their own countries or in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, CCES and OCO offered the first ever accredited training for fundamental Customs functions with 49 officers from 17 OCO member countries graduating with a Certificate III in Regional Customs, which was taught over eight months. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important milestone for the region as these courses are benchmarked against world standards in Customs training and the qualification is also recognized within the region and globally,\u201d Stone said. <\/p>\n<p>The graduates are now skilled to train officers in their countries on border security, trade facilitation and revenue collection. <strong>(PR) <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUVA, Fiji\u2014Customs administrations across the region and the world celebrated World Customs Day yesterday, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":384165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3151],"class_list":["post-384172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-suva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384172","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=384172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}