{"id":386527,"date":"2023-03-03T06:06:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=386527"},"modified":"2023-03-03T06:06:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T20:06:06","slug":"babauta-grateful-for-appointment-as-special-assistant-for-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/babauta-grateful-for-appointment-as-special-assistant-for-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Babauta grateful for appointment as  special assistant for administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_386530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-386530\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Oscar-M.-Babauta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-386530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Oscar-M.-Babauta-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-386530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oscar M. Babauta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gov. Arnold I. Palacios has appointed former House of Representatives speaker Oscar M. Babauta to serve as a special assistant for his and Lt. Gov. David M. Apatang\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment does not require the Senate\u2019s advice and consent, so he can start work immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The former House speaker told Saipan Tribune yesterday that he is thankful to Palacios and Apatang for their confidence in him sharing the administration\u2019s vision and goals.<\/p>\n<p>He said he is grateful being given the trust in assisting the CNMI and its people in moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Babauta served as House speaker in the 15th Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 17, 2020, then-Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and then-Lt. Gov. Arnold Palacios appointed Babauta to serve as a member of the Northern Marianas Housing Corp. board of directors representing Saipan. He is currently a member of the NMHC board.<\/p>\n<p>Babauta served as the Inauguration Committee chair for Palacios and Apatang. <em>(Ferdie de la Torre)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Arnold I. Palacios has appointed former House of Representatives speaker Oscar M. Babauta to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":386532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386527","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\/386527","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}