{"id":402209,"date":"2023-11-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=402209"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Apatang-resubmits-Johnson-s-nomination-to-NMTI-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Apatang-resubmits-Johnson-s-nomination-to-NMTI-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Apatang resubmits Johnson\u2019s nomination to NMTI board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Gov. David M. Apatang has resubmitted the nomination of businessman Roland Johnson as a member of the Northern Marianas Technical Institute\u2019s board of trustees.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed by the Senate, Johnson will represent Saipan\/businesses and serve the remaining four years of a previously vacant four-year term that\u2019s expiring on March 11, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Apatang, as then-acting governor last week, informed Senate President Edith E. DeLeon Guerrero (D-Saipan) that he and Gov. Arnold I. Palacios are confident that Johnson\u2019s leadership will execute the mandates of the board in the administration of NMTI.<\/p>\n<p>Apatang said they look forward to working collaboratively with the NMTI board to accomplish the administration\u2019s goals and objectives in developing the Commonwealth\u2019s career, trades, and technical training programs.<\/p>\n<p>Apatang initially withdrew Johnson\u2019s nomination last Nov. 1 since the Senate did not have ample time to act on his nomination. He, however, stated that he will resubmit the nomination at a later time.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Executive Appointments and Government Investigations Committee, which is chaired by Sen. Celina R. Babauta (D-Saipan), set yesterday the confirmation hearing for Johnson this Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>Babauta also set the confirmation hearing for Marvin Deleon Guerrero and Catherine Marie Attao this Tuesday at 10:30am and 2pm, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>DeLeon Guerrero was nominated to serve as a member of the board of directors for the Marianas Visitors Authority, representing Saipan and Northern Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Attao was nominated to serve as a member of the board of trustees for NMTI, representing Saipan, Northern Islands, and women.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/2c49bbeb7704681cdaeb8ac3b30ff7e0.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lt. Gov. David M. Apatang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Gov. David M. Apatang has resubmitted the nomination of businessman Roland Johnson as a&#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-402209","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\/402209","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=402209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}