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Cabinet’s performance under review
The performance of the administration’s Cabinet officials are under review following Gov. Ralph DLG Torres’ request for them to submit their courtesy resignations.
Today is the deadline for the submission of courtesy resignations and the administration will have at least two weeks to assess his 10-member Cabinet before making a decision on who is going to be on the chopping block and who would stay.
James A. Ada (Public Works), Edith Deleon Guerrero (Labor), Robert H. Hunter (Community and Cultural Affairs), Larrisa Larson (Finance), Mark O. Rabauliman (Commerce), Richard B. Seman (Lands and Natural Resources), and Marianne C. Teregeyo (Public Lands) are the seven Cabinet secretaries.
Georgia Cabrera (Corrections), Robert A. Guerrero (Public Safety), and Claudio K. Norita (Fire and Emergency Medical Services) are the commissioners.
All these Cabinet members are appointees of the late governor Eloy S. Inos.
The looming shake-up in the Cabinet is part of an agreement where all of them would be evaluated two years after the Inos-Torres GOP team won the 2014 general elections.
Inos passed away more than a year after being elected to the highest post in the CNMI. He died in Washington state while recovering from open-heart surgery in a Seattle hospital.
Torres assumed the governorship following Inos’ death, with then-Senate President Victor B. Hocog being elevated as the CNMI’s lieutenant governor.
Inos was then-governor Benigno R. Fitial’s second-in-command but assumed the CNMI’s top post after the latter resigned nine days before the start of his impeachment trial due to allegations of felonies and abuse of power.
