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Best Sunshine meets with COTA and PSS
Best Sunshine Ltd. has reached out to officials of the Commonwealth Office of Transit Authority and the Public School System in an effort to help the island’s lack of public transportation and improve training for the local workforce.
The company’s chief operating officer, Terence Tay, met with Commonwealth Office of Transport Authority administrator Thomas Camacho and Education Commissioner Dr. Rita Sablan to discuss public transportation and the possibility of providing school buses to PSS.
According to Tay, they met with Camacho to discuss the five programs under COTA and the planned Saipan Fixed-Flex Route System.
“We talked more on the public transportation situation on Saipan and the CNMI in general just so we could understand how we can fit in and provide something that would help residents,” Tay said.
Tay said they have discovered that one of the biggest need on the island is some sort of public transportation.
Camacho told Saipan Tribune that Best Sunshine “would like to look at assisting that kind of public purpose and talk with headquarters and see how they can help. Best Sunshine is in a sort of fact-finding mission right now,” Camacho said.
Tay said that they had met with Sablan and talked about the collaborative efforts they are trying to do with the Northern Marianas College.
“We just discussed our efforts for community outreach and if you look at the timeline and if we are successful, the high schools will be very important because these are the people who will get on stream to the workforce in four to five years’ time and we cannot ignore this segment at this time because they’ll be very important down the road,” Tay told Saipan Tribune.
