{"id":87130,"date":"2005-01-12T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a2050421-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2005-01-12T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T06:18:00","slug":"a2050432-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a2050432-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"IT&amp;E sues NMI govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Guam-based telecommunications company has sued the CNMI government for alleged nonpayment of services amounting to over $20,000.<\/p>\n<p>IT&#038;E Overseas Inc. filed with the Superior Court a civil action against the CNMI government over a longstanding debt arising from unpaid telecommunication services for Rota\u2019s police department.<\/p>\n<p>Rota\u2019s Department of Public Safety, however, continues to provide unhampered public service, having working phones lines that are being provided by another company.<\/p>\n<p>IT&#038;E\u2019s attorney, Michael White, said the company had a pending claim against the CNMI government even before the parties reached a settlement on Aug. 27, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Upon reaching the settlement, however, the company agreed to the CNMI paying it only $20,280.70, instead of $24,247.50, according to White. He said that the settlement provided for an initial $916.49 payment by the CNMI, which was to be followed by $1,000 monthly installments beginning Sept. 30, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>White said the government only paid IT&#038;E the initial $916-plus on Sept. 24, 2003, but failed to make monthly installments.<\/p>\n<p>He said the government refused to settle its debt despite IT&#038;E\u2019s demand, prompting the company to file a lawsuit to collect on the remaining balance for unpaid services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Guam-based telecommunications company has sued the CNMI government for alleged nonpayment of services amounting to over $20,000.<\/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-87130","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\/87130","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=87130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}