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2006
City Hall---On November One, all roads lead to the citys four private and two public cemeteries for the traditional Todos Los Santos.
More than 100,000 Nagueños flock yearly to the citys cemeteries notably the Sto. Nino Memorial Park and Eternal Gardens along Basilica Road, Peñafrancia Catholic Cemetery and San Felipe public cemetery (La Loma) and the Heavenly Peace and the Naga City Public cemetery in Concepcion Pequeña.
To avoid traffic congestion, the local PNP has already devised traffic re-routing and selective motor vehicle parking scheme in coordination the local Public Safety Office and other civic-minded NGOs and volunteer groups [...]
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2006
NAGA CITY Eight health workers, doctors and nurses from Mongolia arrived in this city Oct. 27 for their two-week study visit and skills sharing exchange with local health care workers.
The visitors are primary health care professionals (7 females, one male) from the Chingeltei district of Ulan Batur, the capital city of Mongolia.
The Asian Development Bank, in cooperation with the Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO) of the United Kingdom, Mongolia and the Philippines, is sponsoring their study and observation visit, Naga City Mayor Jesse M. Robredo said.
The skills sharing program aims to develop the skills of the visitors in the delivery [...]
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2006
City Hall----At the twilight of their years, the senior citizens of Naga still find time to get active and energetic with various lively projects and activities.
One of these was their recent hosting of the Regional Meeting of the Bikol Federation of Senior Citizens Association held last September 25 at the Naga City Youth Center.
Present in the said regional meet were Naga City Mayor Jesse Robredo, OSCA chair Esteban Abonal, and DSWD Regional Director Jim Rebustillo.
Ms. Rebecca Tindugan, the Regional FSCAP president, took charge of the regional meeting attended by more than 70 representatives from all over Bicol. [...]
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2006
NAGA CITY -- This city governments tradition of excellence lives on as it once again clinches the Best City Website Award in the 2006 Search for the Best Local Government Websites being sponsored by the National Computer Center (NCC) in partnership with the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communications (AIJC) and Media G8way Corp, organizer of the Philippine Web Awards.
This is actually the third straight win for Naga, having bagged the same award in the past two years (2004 and 2005), making it eligible for the eLGU Web Hall of Fame, Maria Teresa Magadia-Camba, director of the National [...]
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2006
By Mon Baturiano
During the last nine months, only 16 centavos were spent for each peso collected by the city government of Naga, thus, channeling the remaining 84% percent of its revenue earnings directly for the benefit of the Nagueños. Indubitably, the only LGU in the Bicol region to accomplish such feat, tax collection efficiency-wise.
City Treasurer Rodrigo Belleza reported the actual revenue collection gains of the city government of Naga for the first nine months of the year (January-September) which was 108% more than the previous year.
The CTO reported a total income of P282.95 million for the first 9 [...]
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2006
By Mon Baturiano
If a Nagueño happens to be somewhere in Napa Valley, California and he wants to find out the present valuation of his property left in Caromatig, Barangay Carolina, he just have to log-in to www.naga.gov.ph and presto! his needed info cascades down the monitor of his Dell laptop.
This will soon become a reality once the LAMP2 (Land Administration Management Program) undertaken by the City Assessors Office in partnership with the Department of Finance goes full-blast.
Dubbed as Project: On-Line Land Assessment, the pioneering project will take more than two years to complete to commence on July 2007 [...]
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2006
Isang malutong na WALA. Maging sa Filipino, ganun rin. Ang siste kasi, hiramin na lang ng buo at walang pagbabago ang mga praper nawn tulad ng pangalan isang bansa o teritori.
Teka (kolowkyal ng 'hintay ka'), e bakit meron tayong Estados Unidos, Dakilang Britanya, Tsina, Hapon at Pransya pero wala para sa Czechoslovakia, Turks and Caicos, Mozambique atbp? Porket ["porque at" (?)] ba wala tayong care, ugnayan o hindi natin alam na nag-iigzist pala ang mga bansang iyon, wala rin tayong panumbas na Filipinong tawag sa mga "iyon" (hindi "sa kanila")?
Kapansin-pansin o obvyuws na tanging ang mga bansang kaugnay sa Filipinas, sa ekonomi, [...]
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2006
WHICHEVER way, I hope the accountability question will also include providing a reliable way of measuring improvement in student achievement, which I raised in this
previous post.I am part of an e-group that includes high-ranking officials from the DepEd, NEDA as well as our leading academic institutions in the country. I pretty much raised the same concern more than a month ago. The only response came from a UNICEF representative who said You may argue that BEIS [Basic Education Information System] or the NAT [National Achievement Test] results have a lot of "noise" which makes them questionable and not [...]
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2006
WHICHEVER way, I hope the accountability question will also include providing a reliable way of measuring improvement in student achievement, which I raised in this
previous post.I am part of an e-group that includes high-ranking officials from the DepEd, NEDA as well as our leading academic institutions in the country. I pretty much raised the same concern more than a month ago. The only response came from a UNICEF representative who said You may argue that BEIS [Basic Education Information System] or the NAT [National Achievement Test] results have a lot of "noise" which makes them questionable and not [...]
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2006
WHICHEVER way, I hope the accountability question will also include providing a reliable way of measuring improvement in student achievement, which I raised in this
previous post.I am part of an e-group that includes high-ranking officials from the DepEd, NEDA as well as our leading academic institutions in the country. I pretty much raised the same concern more than a month ago. The only response came from a UNICEF representative who said You may argue that BEIS [Basic Education Information System] or the NAT [National Achievement Test] results have a lot of "noise" which makes them questionable and not [...]
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2006
COCA-COLA Foundation president and executive director Ma. Cecilia Alcantara's
piece in yesterday's Inquirer is indicative of the extra attention being given by the private sector on the state of public education in the Philippines. For once this is a refreshing change, and DepEd Secretary Jesli Lapus's businesslike approach in running the department seems to have inspired renewed confidence.The new buzzword, Alcantara said, "is the '57-75' framework, which aims to raise the national achievement average from its present failing level to a passing mark—from 57 percent to 75 percent within the next five years." Aniceto Sobrepeña of the [...]
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2006
COCA-COLA Foundation president and executive director Ma. Cecilia Alcantara's
piece in yesterday's Inquirer is indicative of the extra attention being given by the private sector on the state of public education in the Philippines. For once this is a refreshing change, and DepEd Secretary Jesli Lapus's businesslike approach in running the department seems to have inspired renewed confidence.
The new buzzword, Alcantara said, "is the '57-75' framework, which aims to raise the national achievement average from its present failing level to a passing mark—from 57 percent to 75 percent within the next five years." Aniceto Sobrepeña of the [...]
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2006
COCA-COLA Foundation president and executive director Ma. Cecilia Alcantara's
piece in yesterday's Inquirer is indicative of the extra attention being given by the private sector on the state of public education in the Philippines. For once this is a refreshing change, and DepEd Secretary Jesli Lapus's businesslike approach in running the department seems to have inspired renewed confidence.The new buzzword, Alcantara said, "is the '57-75' framework, which aims to raise the national achievement average from its present failing level to a passing mark—from 57 percent to 75 percent within the next five years." Aniceto Sobrepeña of the [...]
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2006
Bird species I used to see in Pacol, Naga City when I was a kid. Some I remember the local names, some not. I could be mistaken for I'm no expert.KIYAW/KILYAWAN
(bot-bot)KUWAW
KULASISI
LAPAY/TIKLING
RIWARIW
Note: see more pictures from
http://www.pbase.com/liquidstone/small_bird_pics.
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2006
LAST Sunday, my mother-in-law Corazon cut short her intended two-week vacation in Tobog, Oas, Albay after receiving an SOS from her favorite granddaughter Pep.Just a week back, Lola Oas--as she is called endearingly by our kids, to distinguish her from Yayang, the other lola from Sagrada, Pili--abruptly packed all her belongings and other sentimental stuff, taking several bags to fill in. It was a scene straight from an Anita Linda/Gloria Romero movie: daughter and mom have a 'serious conversation', hurtful words are let loose, mom feels slighted and suddenly wants out.The turning point came last Saturday as I drove my [...]
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2006
LAST Sunday, my mother-in-law Corazon cut short her intended two-week vacation in Tobog, Oas, Albay after receiving an SOS from her favorite granddaughter Pep.Just a week back, Lola Oas--as she is called endearingly by our kids, to distinguish her from Yayang, the other lola from Sagrada, Pili--abruptly packed all her belongings and other sentimental stuff, taking several bags to fill in. It was a scene straight from an Anita Linda/Gloria Romero movie: daughter and mom have a 'serious conversation', hurtful words are let loose, mom feels slighted and suddenly wants out.The turning point came last Saturday as I drove my [...]
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2006
LAST Sunday, my mother-in-law Corazon cut short her intended two-week vacation in Tobog, Oas, Albay after receiving an SOS from her favorite granddaughter Pep.Just a week back, Lola Oas--as she is called endearingly by our kids, to distinguish her from Yayang, the other lola from Sagrada, Pili--abruptly packed all her belongings and other sentimental stuff, taking several bags to fill in. It was a scene straight from an Anita Linda/Gloria Romero movie: daughter and mom have a 'serious conversation', hurtful words are let loose, mom feels slighted and suddenly wants out.The turning point came last Saturday as I drove my [...]
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2006
by Fer Basbas
Naga City, despite its small size and remote distance from the financial and economic center that is Metro Manila, outshone 15 other cities to win this years Most Business Friendly City Award from the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) at the recently concluded 32nd Philippine Business Conference in Manila. The city, at the same time, clinched the highly coveted Hall of Fame title for winning the plum three times within a five year period.
Mayor Jesse M. Robredo, who received the recognition along with Vice Mayor Gabriel H. Bordado [...]
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2006
Mrs. Sonia Roco and members of the late senators family welcome the guests and friends during the celebration.
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2006
MY VILLAGEMATE and former city hall colleague
Senen Ebio prompted me with this most interesting map
here. It's a consolidated
history of the typhoon paths over the last 50 years in the Asia-Pacific region, courtesy of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (
OCHA).Now I realize why the Philippines has bore the brunt of nature's worst disasters: together with Taiwan and Japan, it practically shields mainland Asia like some sort of a French
Maginot Line for the most part--with the exception of some [...]
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2006
MY VILLAGEMATE and former city hall colleague
Senen Ebio prompted me with this most interesting map
here. It's a consolidated
history of the typhoon paths over the last 50 years in the Asia-Pacific region, courtesy of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (
OCHA).Now I realize why the Philippines has bore the brunt of nature's worst disasters: together with Taiwan and Japan, it practically shields mainland Asia like some sort of a French
Maginot Line for the most part--with the exception of some [...]
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2006
MY VILLAGEMATE and former city hall colleague
Senen Ebio prompted me with this most interesting map
here. It's a consolidated
history of the typhoon paths over the last 50 years in the Asia-Pacific region, courtesy of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (
OCHA).Now I realize why the Philippines has bore the brunt of nature's worst disasters: together with Taiwan and Japan, it practically shields mainland Asia like some sort of a French
Maginot Line for the most part--with the exception of some [...]
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2006
JESSIE Natividad, aka Master Jessie, had the scoop
here, based on
results released by the National Computer Center last Friday. But it's now official:
Naga has been elevated into the eLGU Web Hall of Fame after winning the city category of the Best Local Government Website search for the last three years.This follows on the heels of another
hall-of-fame feat in the Most Business-Friendly City search by the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) and its
anti-poverty effort through localization of the millennium development [...]
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2006
JESSIE Natividad, aka Master Jessie, had the scoop
here, based on
results released by the National Computer Center last Friday. But it's now official:
Naga has been elevated into the eLGU Web Hall of Fame after winning the city category of the Best Local Government Website search for the last three years.This follows on the heels of another
hall-of-fame feat in the Most Business-Friendly City search by the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) and its
anti-poverty effort through localization of the millennium development [...]
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10
2006
JESSIE Natividad, aka Master Jessie, had the scoop
here, based on
results released by the National Computer Center last Friday. But it's now official:
Naga has been elevated into the eLGU Web Hall of Fame after winning the city category of the Best Local Government Website search for the last three years.This follows on the heels of another
hall-of-fame feat in the Most Business-Friendly City search by the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) and its
anti-poverty effort through localization of the millennium development [...]
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