{"id":777019243,"date":"2024-09-23T09:07:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T12:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777019243"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:53:11","slug":"commonwealth-casino-commission-rota-residents-back-thomas-manglonas-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/commonwealth-casino-commission-rota-residents-back-thomas-manglonas-nomination","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Casino Commission: Rota residents back Thomas Manglona’s nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Governor Arnold I. Palacios needs to appoint at least one new member to move forward with IPI’s casino licence revocation hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Northern Mariana Islands.- Residents of Rota have shown their support for Thomas A. Manglona<\/strong>, who was nominated to join the Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC) by governor Arnold I. Palacios<\/strong> a month ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a public hearing on Friday (September 20), the Senate Committee on Executive Appointments and Governmental Investigation, chaired by senator Celina R. Babauta<\/strong>, Manglona was introduced by special assistant for administration Oscar M. Babauta, who expressed his support on behalf of the governor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Mariana’s Variety, Rota Casino and Gaming commissioner Mateo Santos, former CCC member Justin Manglona, and Rota residents Oscar Quitugua, Jim Atalig, Raymond C. Castro and Ivan Mereb Jr. expressed their support for Manglona’s nomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santos said Manglona was “more than qualified to serve as a CCC member,” due to his extensive experience as director of Labor and Immigration and as Commonwealth Ports Authority ports manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although there is currently no operating casino in Saipan, CCC’s board chair Edward DeLeon Guerrero<\/strong> emphasised the need for a quorum to proceed with a hearing on the proposed revocation of Imperial Pacific International\u2019s (IPI) casino licence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0terms of former commissioners<\/a>\u00a0Martin Mendiola, representing Rota, and Ramon M. Dela Cruz, representing Tinian, expired on April 30, leaving the regulator with three members: Deleon Guerrero, vice chairman Ralph S. Demapan, and commissioner Mario Taitano, all from Saipan. Deleon Guerrero\u00a0has recused himself from proceedings to serve as an advocate for the petitioner, CCC executive director\u00a0Andrew Yeom, <\/strong>who filed a complaint against IPI for its failure to pay the casino licence and regulatory fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also:<\/strong> IPI asset liquidation: bidder challenges creditor and government subpoena<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governor Arnold I. Palacios needs to appoint at least one new member to move forward with IPI’s casino licence revocation hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC) in the Northern Mariana Islands requires the appointment of a new member, Thomas A. Manglona, to achieve a quorum necessary to proceed with the license revocation hearing for Imperial Pacific International (IPI). This hearing addresses IPI's non-payment of casino license and regulatory fees, a critical regulatory compliance matter exacerbated by the recusal of the CCC board chair.","focusai_entities":"Arnold I. Palacios, Thomas A. Manglona, Commonwealth Casino Commission, Celina R. Babauta, Oscar M. Babauta, Mateo Santos, Justin Manglona, Oscar Quitugua, Jim Atalig, Raymond C. Castro, Ivan Mereb Jr., Edward DeLeon Guerrero, Ralph S. Demapan, Mario Taitano, Martin Mendiola, Ramon M. Dela Cruz, Andrew Yeom, Imperial Pacific International, Senate Committee on Executive Appointments and Governmental Investigation, Rota Casino and Gaming","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands, Rota, Saipan, Tinian","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"CCC Quorum Impact","query":"What are the specific legal and operational implications for the Northern Mariana Islands' iGaming market if the Commonwealth Casino Commission fails to achieve a quorum for the IPI license revocation?"},{"label":"IPI Financial Obligations","query":"Beyond the license and regulatory fees, what is the total outstanding financial obligation of Imperial Pacific International to the Commonwealth Casino Commission and the NMI government, and what is the recovery strategy?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157],"tags":[21613],"class_list":["post-777019243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","tag-commonwealth-casino-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777019243"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777019276,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019243\/revisions\/777019276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777019243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777019243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777019243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}