{"id":6960,"date":"2011-12-01T06:48:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T06:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=6960"},"modified":"2011-12-01T06:48:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T06:48:06","slug":"senate-looks-into-guam-restrictions-on-some-holders-of-cnmi-drivers-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/senate-looks-into-guam-restrictions-on-some-holders-of-cnmi-drivers-license\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate looks into Guam restrictions on some holders of CNMI driver&#8217;s license"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Haidee V. Eugenio<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>A special Senate committee is now looking into Guam restrictions on CNMI youth holding CNMI driver&#8217;s license for fewer than five years. These drivers are not being allowed to obtain a Guam driver&#8217;s license unless they complete a Guam driver&#8217;s education program first.<\/p>\n<p>Senate President Paul Manglona (Ind-Rota) created a special committee to look into the matter and report to the Senate leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Delegate Gregorio Kilili Sablan&#8217;s (Ind-MP) brought the matter to the attention of the Senate president and House Speaker Eli Cabrera (R-Saipan) early this month, saying this Guam restriction negatively impacts many of the CNMI&#8217;s youth moving to Guam for schooling or for work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been informed that youth holding valid Northern Mariana Islands drivers&#8217; licenses for fewer than five years may not obtain a Guam driver&#8217;s license unless they complete a Guam driver&#8217;s education program, which entails 32 hours of classroom instruction and eight hours of road instruction,\u201d Sablan said.<\/p>\n<p>He also said Guam law provides that the holder of a valid license issued by another territory, commonwealth, or state of the United States may operate a vehicle on the roads of Guam for a period not exceeding 30 days after the date of that person&#8217;s arrival in Guam.<\/p>\n<p>But Sablan said the driver&#8217;s education program requirement does not apply to applicants from the 50 states and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>He said this disparity exists because Guam adopted a \u201cgraduated driver licensing system\u201d in 2000, but the CNMI does not employ such a system.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate president named Senate floor leader Pete Reyes (R-Saipan) as head of the special committee to look into this matter.<\/p>\n<p>Reyes appointed as committee members Sen. Juan Ayuyu (Ind-Rota) and Sen. Henry San Nicolas (Cov-Saipan), along with legal counsel Antonette Villagomez, who will help the panel.<\/p>\n<p>The delegate said there appears to be some logistical inconsistencies with respect to the Guam position on this matter.<\/p>\n<p>He said one thing is certain-that this situation is logistically and financially detrimental to the CNMI youth living in Guam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Haidee V. Eugenio Reporter A special Senate committee is now looking into Guam restrictions&#8230;<\/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-6960","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\/6960","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=6960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}