BANMIRA CHAIRMAN GABRIEL WHITE DISTRIBUTED CERTIFICATES TO THE REFEREES AND TABLE OFFICIALS WHO WENT THROUGH THE CLASSROOM AS WELL AS THE ACTUAL TRAINING. THE MEMBERS MUST PUT IN AT LEAST A YEAR OF COMMITTED TRAINING AS A REFEREE OR TABLE OFFICIALS. ONCE YOU PASS THE WRITTEN AND ACTUAL EXAMINATION THEN YOU WILL BE GIVEN A CERTIFICATE. THE LATEST ADDITION TO THE REFEREE ASSOCIATION OF THE CNMI ARE JOSEPHUS AGUILAR, FERDIE TOBIAS, AND RICARDO MANZANO. ASIDE FROM THE NEWLY CERTIFIED REFEREES WHO ARE ACTIVE ARE GABRIEL WHITE, CONNIE CAMACHO, MANNY SITCHON, ARNOLD MESA, ROBERT TAMONDONG, NATHANIEL BANATASA, ABNER VENUS AND REX YABUT WHO IS CURRENTLY OFF ISLAND. NEWLY CERTIFIED TABLE OFFICIALS ARE JOSEPHUS AGUILAR, RUEL NAVA, JOSH TANGHAL, VICENTE MANIBUSAN. THE NEWLY CERTIFIED TABLE OFFICIALS ARE JOINED BY GLORILY WILLIAMS, MADILINE ALEGRE, MARC & ABNER VENUS. THESE MEMBERS WENT THROUGH OFFICIATING ALOT OF ACTUAL GAMES AND ALSO WENT THROUGH THE COURSE. THE COURSES WERE OFFERED BY CNMI'S LONE FIBA OCEANIA BADGE REFEREE GABRIEL WHITE WHO HAD BEEN CALLING ALOT OF INTERNATIONAL GAMES ABROAD. THESE OFFICIALS ARE TRAINED BY THE FEDERATION OF INTERNATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION (FIBA) RULES AND GUIDELINES AND HAD BEEN FOLLOWING THE FIBA RULES.