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Municipal council, NMTI reach accord on training unemployed
Saipan and Northern Islands Municipal Council chair Antonia Tudela met with Northern Marianas Technical Institute executives yesterday to talk about a program that will train unemployed residents and bring them back to the workforce.
Tudela and municipal council consultant William Torres soon came to an agreement with NMTI chief executive officer Agnes McPhetres and education director Vic Cepeda that will call for NMTI to provide training to jobseekers.
The internship program will include 200 hours of work duty and will involve NMTI’s partner businesses and agencies.
Tudela said the CNMI Women’s Association is also helping out by collaborating with Best Sunshine International, Ltd. to find suitable candidates for the Saipan casino licensee’s live-training facility that will open soon.
NMTI, however, will provide the training needed.
“We want to make them take a course at NMTI and gradually train them and then make them enter an internship program with agencies and they will eventually be skilled in that work area and become a full-time employee,” McPhetres said.
Tudela echoed McPhetres, saying this gives individuals the opportunity to get a job.
“If anyone wants a job, all they need to do is call us at the municipal council and meet with us,” Tudela said.
McPhetres said that they accept anyone from age 16 and up at their trade school to do hands-on training after taking more than 20 hours of a course.
For those interested, call the municipal council office at 664-2700 or 664-2701.
