Tuesday, May 20th, 11:45am – Hyatt Giovanni’s Restaurant
William Aila will speak to the Rotary Club of Saipan
Tuesday, May 20th, 5pm-6:30pm – Hawaii Bar & Grill, Garapan
Meet & greet for Jay and William to meet project supporters
Tuesday, May 20th, 7:15pm – American Memorial Park Auditorium
Presentation to Saipan Fisherman’s Association by Jay Nelson with special guest William Aila
Wednesday, May 21st, 7:00pm – John Gonzales Show, KSPN Channel 2
General introductions and project information the first half-hour followed by a call-in Q&A in the second half hour
Thursday, May 22nd, 7:00am – KZMI Radio Talk Show with Harry Blalock
General introductions and project information with Jay Nelson and special guest William Aila
Thursday, May 22nd, 6:00pm - American Memorial Park Auditorium
Presentation to general public by Jay Nelson with special guest William Aila
Jay Nelson
Director - Global Ocean Legacy for Pew Environment Group. Ocean Legacy originated as an outgrowth of work done by Pew in 2005–2006 to support the creation of a fully protected marine reserve in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Partners supporting Ocean Legacy include Pew, the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation, the Oak Foundation, and the Robertson Foundation. Inspired by this success, the Pew-managed Ocean Legacy project is dedicated to establishing, globally, over the next decade, at least three to five large, world-class, no-take marine reserves. Ocean Legacy marine reserves will provide ocean-scale ecosystem benefits and help conserve our global marine heritage.
William Aila
William is a long time harbormaster on the Waianae coast of Oahu and commercial fisherman. He is well-known as an advocate for indigenous Hawaiian rights works closely with the group Na Imi Pono. In 2006 he ran for Governor of Hawai'i in the Democratic primary. William was intimately involved in advocating for the protection of the NW Hawaiian Islands for Native Hawaiian cultural and religious reasons from the late 1990's through today. He remains active in decisions about the management of the NW Hawaiian Islands today. William is very familiar with fisheries management in the Pacific through his more than ten year’s service on various Wespac advisory panels.
Cheers,
Laurie
p..s. to those who knew of my temp phone situation, please be advised that I have my number back!
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Laurie Peterka
PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS ENTERPRISES
PMB 112 PPP Box 10,000, Saipan, MP 96950
Phone: (670) 256-2277
Mobile: (670) 483-7499
Email: laurie.peterka@saipan.com
Email: laurie.peterka@saipanagogo.com
ARTICLE 12
PROTECT OUR MARINE REEF
Monday, May 19, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Man in marriage fraud case arrested at airport
Friday January 25, 2008 By Cherrie Anne E. Villahermosa
Variety News Staff
A 37-year-old man who was about to leave Saipan was arrested for marriage fraud while checking in for a flight for Japan on Wednesday afternoon at the airport.
Mohammad Wahiduzzaman was arrested at 1:40 p.m. and was brought to the Superior Court yesterday afternoon before Associate Judge Kenneth Govendo for a bail hearing.
Govendo set a cash bail of $25,000.
Wahiduzzaman’s lawyer, Joey San Nicolas, requested for a bail modification hearing which the judge granted and the matter will be heard today at 3:30 p.m.
Wahiduzzaman was remanded to the custody of the Department of Corrections.
He was ordered to stay away from Shanna Marie Kaipat and her friends.
According to the affidavit of immigration investigator Erwin Flores, he received information that Wahiduzzaman committed marriage fraud.
Any alien residing in the CNMI can obtain an immediate relative status if they marry a U.S. citizen. This allows them to remain here and apply for some jobs restricted to U.S. citizens for as long as their IR status is in effect.
Flores stated in his affidavit submitted to court that on Jan. 19, Kaipat informed him that she entered into a fixed marriage with Wahiduzzaman.
Kaipat said Wahiduzzaman told her that if she agreed to the marriage, he would pay her $10,000.
Kaipat and Wahiduzzaman married on Dec. 22, 2006 at the Saipan mayor’s office.
They were married by Saipan Mayor Juan B. Tudela.
Kaipat told investigator that they never lived together as husband and wife and continued to live in separate residences.
Kaipat said she received an initial payment of $4,000 from Wahiduzzaman, who submitted an application for his IR entry permit on Dec. 27, 2006.
Variety News Staff
A 37-year-old man who was about to leave Saipan was arrested for marriage fraud while checking in for a flight for Japan on Wednesday afternoon at the airport.
Mohammad Wahiduzzaman was arrested at 1:40 p.m. and was brought to the Superior Court yesterday afternoon before Associate Judge Kenneth Govendo for a bail hearing.
Govendo set a cash bail of $25,000.
Wahiduzzaman’s lawyer, Joey San Nicolas, requested for a bail modification hearing which the judge granted and the matter will be heard today at 3:30 p.m.
Wahiduzzaman was remanded to the custody of the Department of Corrections.
He was ordered to stay away from Shanna Marie Kaipat and her friends.
According to the affidavit of immigration investigator Erwin Flores, he received information that Wahiduzzaman committed marriage fraud.
Any alien residing in the CNMI can obtain an immediate relative status if they marry a U.S. citizen. This allows them to remain here and apply for some jobs restricted to U.S. citizens for as long as their IR status is in effect.
Flores stated in his affidavit submitted to court that on Jan. 19, Kaipat informed him that she entered into a fixed marriage with Wahiduzzaman.
Kaipat said Wahiduzzaman told her that if she agreed to the marriage, he would pay her $10,000.
Kaipat and Wahiduzzaman married on Dec. 22, 2006 at the Saipan mayor’s office.
They were married by Saipan Mayor Juan B. Tudela.
Kaipat told investigator that they never lived together as husband and wife and continued to live in separate residences.
Kaipat said she received an initial payment of $4,000 from Wahiduzzaman, who submitted an application for his IR entry permit on Dec. 27, 2006.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
011608 st - SEND THEM HOME
Tuesday January 15, 2008
Letters to the Editor
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Send them home
Dear American citizens of the CNMI:
I lived on Saipan and in Micronesia for nearly 10 years. I also lived in Costa Rica, Panama and Palau. I was a not a citizen of those countries and did not expect nor did I have the rights of citizens. The CNMI’s contract workers do not work under this basic assumption. They want more than they could ever get back home or what they agreed to when they came here freely. Contract workers will not stop with "federalization." Look at Hawaii-the natives have no real power and have been pushed out. If you don’t send them home now they will rule the CNMI in a short time. Bite the bullet and send them back to the country they came from or else expect to be second-class citizens in your own homeland.
William "Bamboo" McCue
Wellington, FL
Letters to the Editor
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Send them home
Dear American citizens of the CNMI:
I lived on Saipan and in Micronesia for nearly 10 years. I also lived in Costa Rica, Panama and Palau. I was a not a citizen of those countries and did not expect nor did I have the rights of citizens. The CNMI’s contract workers do not work under this basic assumption. They want more than they could ever get back home or what they agreed to when they came here freely. Contract workers will not stop with "federalization." Look at Hawaii-the natives have no real power and have been pushed out. If you don’t send them home now they will rule the CNMI in a short time. Bite the bullet and send them back to the country they came from or else expect to be second-class citizens in your own homeland.
William "Bamboo" McCue
Wellington, FL
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