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Posted on Apr 08 2012
Has the position of power in government boards gone to the head of the members that they think they are above the law? My firm has suffered financial and economic damages due to unfair and illegal competition for electrical engineering services in the CNMI by an unlicensed engineer. CNMI Public Law requires a professional engineer license to solicit and perform engineering work. My firm is the only legal electrical engineering company remaining active in the CNMI. The other legal electrical company closed its office last January. The other companies that have PE licenses do not have local offices in the CNMI but are “carpet baggers” from off island who are circumventing the law by not obtaining a business license and tax payments to the CNMI.
I have filed complaints and properly provided evidences to the government board but they have failed to adjudicate my complaints. Instead they just gave the violators a letter of requirement like a minor slap on the wrist and offered ways for the violators to continue plying their illegal violations of the professional engineering public law. It appears that there is a separate agenda to protect and shield all the architects, engineers and contractors in the CNMI who have aided and abetted the violators. It is totally wrong for a board who has been entrusted by the people of the CNMI to compromise their life, health and property by continuing to allow the violator of the law to ply their illegal trade. I have provided the board with information and training material to help them better understand the law but to no avail since the greedy economic benefit to a few is more important than the life, health and property of the people of the CNMI. There have already been too many building fires on Saipan. How many were caused by electrical deficiencies?
How can a U.S. commonwealth tolerate this? Even the Philippines, which has a poor record of government accountability, is changing for the better by working on the impeachment of a chief justice who allegedly has not been exercising his fiduciary responsibilities.
History will judge the members of the board.
[B]Jose S. Servino, PE, CEM, QCP[/B] [I]San Jose Village, Saipan[/I]
