{"id":401108,"date":"2023-11-28T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=401108"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Senate-confirms-Deleon-Guerrero-s-appointment-to-MVA-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Senate-confirms-Deleon-Guerrero-s-appointment-to-MVA-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Deleon Guerrero\u2019s appointment to MVA board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate confirmed Friday the nomination of songwriter and singer Marvin I. Deleon Guerrero to serve as a member of the Marianas Visitors Bureau board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>Eight senators voted \u201cyes\u201d to adopt the Senate committee report that recommended the confirmation of Deleon Guerrero\u2019s appointment. Sen. Donald M. Manglona (Ind-Rota) was absent, but excused from the session. The report was prepared by the Senate Committee on Executive Appointments &amp; Government Investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Deleon Guerrero, who is currently the manager of Bank Pacific on Saipan, will serve a four-year term on the MVA board representing Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Deleon Guerrero holds a master\u2019s degree in business administration from Argosy University in Honolulu, Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>EAGI Committee chair Sen. Celina R. Babauta (D-Saipan) said the nominee is also an entrepreneur and a musician.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Jude U. Hofschneider (R-Tinian) said Deleon Guerrero wears many hats and has vast experience and skills. and he appreciates Deleon Guerrero\u2019s acceptance of his nomination to serve on the MVA board.<\/p>\n<p>In nominating Deleon Guerrero, Gov. Arnold I. Palacios stated that he and Lt. Gov. David M. Apatang are confident that the nominee will be an asset to the MVA board.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/fb960467828cd7522a6f3a72896bc6ff.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Marvin I. Deleon Guerrero is seen in this screen grab from YouTube during his recent confirmation hearing at the Senate chamber on Capital Hill.<\/p>\n<p>-FERDIE DE LA TORRE<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate confirmed Friday the nomination of songwriter and singer Marvin I. Deleon Guerrero to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401108","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}