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Island Snapshots – January 2016
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Posted on Jan 07 2016
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- MEET THE MAYOR Twenty-three students from South Korea met with Saipan Mayor David Apatang last Tuesday as part of their Costa World Tour English Camp. The students will be on island for a month and will attend English classes at Eucon International School while also doing outreach and recreational activities. (Frauleine Villanueva-Dizon)
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- COURT INTERNS Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho and court officials gather for a photo with six Marianas High School cooperative training program interns on Friday, the last day of the students’ internship. (Ferdie De La Torre)
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- SURVEY TRAINING: Enumerators will be going out from house-to-house starting tomorrow for the pilot and hybrid Non-Communicable Diseases/CNMI Behavioral Health Survey. They have finished their final training this week with the various agencies involved in the survey. (Frauleine Villanueva-Dizon)
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- VILLAGE PRIDE: Best Sunshine International, Ltd. majority shareholder Margaret Cui Lijie, third left, is flanked by Gov. Ralph DLG. Torres, First Lady Diann Torres, BSI chief services officer Tao Xing, Reps. Vinnie Sablan and Ralph Yumul, and BSI Corporate Social Responsibility director Geralyn Dela Cruz, among others, during the Village Pride Project in Tanapag. (Contributed Photo)
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- VILLAGE PRIDE: Tanapag children and their parents enjoy the picnic-style Village Pride Project. (Contributed Photo)
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- VILLAGE PRIDE: Residents of San Vicente and nearby villages gather during Friday evening’s Village Pride Project of BSI’s corporate social responsibility team. (Contributed Photo)
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- VILLAGE PRIDE: The weekly BSI Village Pride Project is open to the public. (Contributed Photo)
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- VILLAGE PRIDE: The Talaabwogh dancers grace the stage to perform a traditional dance as one of the highlights of Friday’s Village Pride Project in Tanapag. (Contributed Photo)
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- VILLAGE PRIDE: Cui beams with House Floor Leader George Camacho and BSI chief services officer Tao Xing, among others. (Contributed Photo)
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- HUMAN TRAFFICKING WORKSHOP Lauri Ogumoro, executive director for Karidat, and Aatorney Pam Brown, a member of the CNMI Human Trafficking Intervention Coalition, share the story of a specific case of human trafficking in the NMI as part of National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness month. (Contributed Photo)
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- HUMAN TRAFFICKING WORKSHOP: Maisie Bermudes Tenorio, the executive director for by Northern Marianas Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence, leads Mount Carmel School students in the “In Their Shoes” activity.Maisie Bermudes Tenorio, the executive director for by Northern Marianas Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence, leads Mount Carmel School students in the “In Their Shoes” activity. (Contributed Photo)
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- HUMAN TRAFFICKING WORKSHOP: Mount Carmel School students participate in the “In Their Shoes” activity. (Contributed Photo)
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- NUMBERS GAME CNMI MathCourt individual champion Bei Bei Chen, left, joins coach Frederick Guintu, second right, and fellow Agape Christian School students, from left, Claire Song, Rebecca Xu, Andrea Feng, En Jie Hu, Guintu, and Allan Zhao for a group photo. Chen, Song, and Zhao are members of Team CNMI while three of their schoolmates are alternates. (Jon Perez)
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- TREE PLANTING: Fifty seedlings of crotons and palms from the Division of Agriculture were planted yesterday at the Dandan Homestead Children’s Park by employees of Best Sunshine International Ltd.’s corporate social responsibility team. It is part of the company’s “Village Pride” beautification campaign. (Contributed Photo)
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- FENCING IT: Employees of Best Sunshine International Ltd.’s corporate social responsibility team gathered in Kagman 2 to restore the area’s basketball fence, which has been totally damaged by Typhoon Soudelor. Recently, BSI’s CSR team restored back the court and its fence to its original look. (Contributed Photo)
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- CLASS OF 2015: Members of the Pacific Century Fellows Marianas Chapter program’s graduating class of 2015 listen as House Speaker Rafael Demapan reads a House Resolution honoring their achievement. The 12-member class graduated last Tuesday during a simple ceremony at the Fiesta Resort & Spa’s Hibiscus Hall. (Jon Perez)
