{"id":403756,"date":"2024-01-25T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=403756"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Revocation-payments-others-still-being-negotiated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Revocation-payments-others-still-being-negotiated\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Revocation, payments, others still being negotiated\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC has requested the Commonwealth Casino Commission board to suspend conducting a hearing to revoke IPI\u2019s exclusive casino license, which was set for this coming Wednesday, Jan. 31.<\/p>\n<p>In response to <em>Saipan Tribune<\/em>\u2019s inquiry, IPI manager\/director Howyo Chi said yesterday that they are still negotiating with CCC regarding revocation hearing, payments, and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been many proposals back and forth but nothing concrete,\u201d Chi said. He did not elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>CCC board acting chair Rafael Demapan set the board\u2019s monthly meeting this Tuesday, a day before the scheduled revocation hearing, at the Springs Plaza Building in Gualo Rai.<\/p>\n<p>Demapan included in the meeting\u2019s agenda a preliminary stipulation that asks for the dismissal or stay in the casino license revocation hearing.<\/p>\n<p>He also included in the agenda a preliminary stipulation that requires an order lifting the CCC\u2019s order dated April 22, 2021, suspending IPI\u2019s casino license.<\/p>\n<p>IPI failed to pay some $62 million in casino license fees it owes the CNMI government by the Dec. 30, 2023 deadline.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/bb3b3081a4465afc26dcb7743de622f4.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Howyo Chi<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC has requested the Commonwealth Casino Commission board to suspend conducting&#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-403756","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\/403756","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=403756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}