{"id":50517,"date":"2000-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-03-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/958bf0cb-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2000-03-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-03-16T00:00:00","slug":"958bf0dc-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/958bf0dc-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Region News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclone damage in Tongas reaches $4-M<\/p>\n<p>NUKU&#8217;ALOFA, Tonga&#8212;The Ministry of Agriculture reports that damage to the kingdom&#8217;s crops from tropical cyclone Mona last week exceeded $4 million, but officials said the country does not require international food aid.<\/p>\n<p>The main crops affected were bananas, breadfruit and cassava.<\/p>\n<p>The capital island, Tongatapu, bore the brunt of the storm damage.<\/p>\n<p>A. Samoa announces tax amnesty<\/p>\n<p>PAGO PAGO, American Samoa&#8212;The territorial government is owed over $4 million by companies and individuals who have not paid their taxes.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time the government is struggling to meet payroll obligations.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Governor Tauese Sunia, in an effort to boost revenues, has authorized a temporary tax amnesty program effective through April 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclone damage in Tongas reaches $4-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50517","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\/50517","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=50517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}