Work & Play in Paradise. Northfield, NJ June 26, 2015 - If you are looking for a gaming job on one of the most beautiful islands in the western Pacific Ocean, go to Casino Careers Saipan Jobs to apply for a great career. Casino Careers, LLC is assisting Best Sunshine International Casino Hotel to identify staff for its gaming resort being built in Saipan, the largest tropical island of the. Saipan's CNMI Lottery Commission yesterday voted unanimously to grant a conditional license to develop a $2-billion integrated casino resort on Saipan to Best Sunshine International, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed Imperial Pacific International Holdings Ltd.

Best Sunshine Live casino in Saipan, in the US Pacific territory of Northern Mariana Islands, reported a tenfold increase in revenue from its VIP gaming operations to HK$6.5m from HK$622,975 between 2015 and 2016.

In its annual report to the Hong Kong stock exchange, Imperial Pacific, the casino’s owner, reported a total VIP intake of HK$7.1m with a win percentage of 2.84 per cent, up from 2.58 per cent in 2015.

In the report, the company said: “Geographically, most of our direct VIP patrons are from China, Hong Kong, Macau, Korea and Saipan.”

The casino has 193 gaming tables and 365 slot machines, which it believes will “substantially increase” its gaming capacity from its current level of 48 tables and 141 slot machines at the temporary facility.

June 26, 2015

CNMI Department of Labor Secretary Edith DeLeon Guerrero has spoken out over the last few months with the message that the CNMI will not have enough skilled workers to replace the foreign workers who will return to their homelands in 2019 when the CNMI-Only Transitional Worker Program ends. She also stated that there are not enough funds to train the CNMI's U.S. citizens to replace those workers. Her message was given to U.S. Department of Interior's Assistant Secretary for Insular Affairs, Esther Kia'aina, to the Saipan Chamber of Commerce, and the Rotary Club.
It appears the CNMI politicians are posturing to pressure the U.S. Congress to renew the CNMI-Only Transitional Worker Program that was to be phased out in 2019 so that U.S. immigration laws applied to the CNMI.
Political leaders in the CNMI know that the legal, longtime foreign workers are essential to maintaining a strong economy and filling positions from accountants, to nurses to hotel clerks. Still they refuse to push for them to be granted a pathway to citizenship, even though they are essential community members and de facto citizens since they have lived legally in the CNMI 5, 10, 15 even 20 or more years. Many fear that giving the disenfranchised legal foreign workers a pathway to citizen would mean giving them the right to vote and could weaken their political control since the natives have been a minority in their islands for decades. (Due to the fact that they brought in tens of thousands of foreign workers.)

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Well, let these politicians welcome 200 or so U.S. citizens who will have a vote.
Saipan's Best Sunshine Casino is hiring an estimated 180 U.S. casino workers -dealers, cashiers and shift managers. Perhaps some of these positions are ones that locals could have been trained to fill.
According to a New Jersey.com article, perks will include free travel, insurance, a meal on every shift and free housing:

Renard International Hospitality Search held a job fair Wednesday and will run another one Thursday at the Sheraton Atlantic City Convention Center Hotel, the report said.

Anyone willing to uproot to the U.S. Commonwealth in the Northern Mariana Islands by July 10 to help open the casino is also being offered a signing bonus. Pay starts at $40,000 for dealers; supervisors can earn from $45,000-$75,000.

Press of Atlantic City reports:

Renard International Hospitality Search Consultants is looking to fill at least 180 jobs — but probably more — at Saipan’s Best Sunshine International Casino. So Stephen Renard and several associates are in Atlantic City holding a job fair from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. today and Thursday to recruit people to staff a casino scheduled to open July 15.

On June 18, 2015 businessman Norman Tenorio was quoted as saying that the casino could be a good thing for the CNMI since it would provide jobs. From the Marianas Variety:

“In the past the government was able to provide jobs for just about everybody, but now the casino, hopefully, will provide good jobs for everybody,” Tenorio said, adding that he is encouraging locals to apply for the jobs that Best Sunshine, the Saipan casino investor, is offering.

It seems local workers were offered an opportunity to apply for some of the jobs and 200 applied for the estimated 500 jobs offered.

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One commenter on the MV story stated:

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To the elected officials who gave courtesy to apply for a jobs at Best Sunshine. Let me tell you straight, my friends who are all U.S. Citizens submitted their resumes, including scheduled interviews and followed-ups, but Best Sunshine is not responding to their emails. Wake up Legislators, because few casino workers are coming in from the Philippines in a few weeks. I've seen a key employee (Manager) from Tinian Dynasty in Garapan this week.

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It will be interesting to see how this 'casino industry' plays out. The CNMI initially attempted to build their economy with the garment industry. That endeavor did more to establish the reputation of the CNMI as human rights violator than it did to provide locals with jobs or build the economy. Will the casino industry be another green flash?