{"id":396157,"date":"2023-07-18T06:06:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=396157"},"modified":"2023-07-18T06:06:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:06:45","slug":"pua-is-confirmed-as-new-dfems-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pua-is-confirmed-as-new-dfems-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Pua is confirmed as new DFEMS commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_396158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-396158\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Juan-Aguon-Pua.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-396158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Juan-Aguon-Pua-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-396158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Aguon Pua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Senate confirmed yesterday the appointment of acting Fire assistant chief Juan Aguon Pua as the new Department of Fire and Medical Emergency Services commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>The full Senate confirmed Pua\u2019s nomination, with all six senators present voting \u201cyes\u201d to a motion to adopt the Senate Executive Appointments and Government Investigations Committee report that recommended Pua\u2019s confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Sens. Paul A. Manglona (Ind-Rota), Jude U. Hofschneider (R-Tinian), and Corina L. Magofna (Ind-Saipan) were absent but excused from the session.<\/p>\n<p>Before the voting, Sen. Celina R. Babauta (D-Saipan), who chairs the EAGI Committee, said that Pua appeared before the committee last July 17, where his credentials were evaluated and this allowed a closer examination of his certifications, professional experience, and views critical to leading DFEMS.<\/p>\n<p>Babauta said that Pua has served DFEMS since 1989 and is a son of the CNMI. She said the committee received a multitude of letters expressing support from across the Marianas and the United States. She said the committee received no letters opposing Pua\u2019s confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Babauta said the committee shares the administration\u2019s confidence in Pua\u2019s professional experiences and recommends the adoption of the committee report to confirm him to serve as the next DFEMS commissioner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate confirmed yesterday the appointment of acting Fire assistant chief Juan Aguon Pua as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":396158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4234],"class_list":["post-396157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-dfems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396157","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=396157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}