Note: This article is taken from the Ilocos Sur provincial website via maru-dashi. Gabriela made it to the second installment of The List.
Continue reading The List: More on Itneg-Ilokano Warrior Gabriela Silang
We continue with our listing of people who make us proud. This time, let’s focus on public officers and civil servants whose dedication to their jobs earned the recognition of no less than the Civil Service Commission (CSC). Since its formation, the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) has the distinction of having the second highest number of awardees after the National Capital Region. This is quite an achievement considering that CAR has the lowest number of public servants of all the country’s 17 regions.
Continue reading The List, Part 12: Well Done, Good and Faithful Civil Servants
We have not been following the nursing scandal but one of our commenters (Harold M.) alerted us to the fact that lawyer Cheryl Daytec-Yangot, a native of Besao, Mt. Province, is very much in the midst of this unfolding story.
This got us intrigued so we followed the news and eventually decided to blog about it. From the very start, we’d like to make it clear that Cheryl and her companions who exposed the leakage of exam questions during the June 2006 nursing board are the good guys in this sordid affair.
FROM TOP, L-R: AYAHAO, NOE, BOTENGAN, FARODEN, CLAVER, & AFABLE
1. Flying General: Brig. Gen. Pedro Baban (Philippine Military Academy, Class l940) of La-Trinidad, Benguet is the first Igorot/Ibaloi to hold the rank of a general in the Armed Forces of the
2. Mr. Philippines: Bodybuilder Fernando Faroden of Sadanga,
Want more information on Adeline Dumapong (4th from left)? As we mentioned in an earlier post, she is an Ifugao powerlifter who won the only medal (bronze) for the Philippines during the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games.