{"id":392241,"date":"2023-05-23T06:04:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T20:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=392241"},"modified":"2023-05-23T06:04:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T20:04:52","slug":"road-between-joeten-hafa-adai-and-ipi-casino-will-be-temporarily-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/road-between-joeten-hafa-adai-and-ipi-casino-will-be-temporarily-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Road between Joeten Hafa Adai and  IPI casino will be temporarily closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_392244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392244\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ray-N.-Yumul-mug-PW-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-392244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ray-N.-Yumul-mug-PW-1-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-392244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ray N. Yumul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Department of Public Works Secretary Ray N. Yumul will be issuing before noon today, Tuesday, a directive for the emergency closure of Hibiscus Lane\u2014the road between Joeten Hafa Adai and Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC casino\/resort building in Garapan\u2014for safety reasons due to Typhoon Mawar.<\/p>\n<p>Yumul told Saipan Tribune yesterday afternoon that the emergency closure is in line with Gov. Arnold I. Palacios\u2019 declaration of Tropical Storm Condition 2 for Saipan. He said the closure will be in place until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>The DPW secretary said he does not anticipate reopening Hibiscus Lane until after a physical check affirms the integrity of IPI\u2019s tower crane, or unless it is taken down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in discussion with the Attorney General\u2019s Office on my legal options,\u201d Yumul said.<\/p>\n<p>He said they have not received a response from the Commonwealth Casino Commission about his request last May 1 to inspect IPI\u2019s casino\/resort building for safety. The building has been closed since the COVID-19 pandemic happened.<\/p>\n<p>In his request for authority addressed to CCC board vice chair Rafael S. Demapan, Yumul said that an inspection is necessary to assess the existing condition of the electrical, mechanical, and standard components of the building, as well as to verify the integrity of the building and its welding connections. He added that they will also conduct a visual inspection of Tower Cranes No. 1 and 5 at the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Public Works Secretary Ray N. Yumul will be issuing before noon today, Tuesday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":392245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[12497,3537],"class_list":["post-392241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-ipi","tag-joeten-hafa-adai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392241","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}