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LIPA City -- A Certified Public Accountant (CPA) emerged as Top 4 in the 2014 Bar examinations while eight (8) more graduates of Batangas’ three (3) law schools will be with him joining the roster of Batangas lawyers. Atty. Reginald L. Laco, CPA brings home again the bacon. Before landing in the Top 4
amongst the 1,126 bar passers, he first land Top 2 in CPA Board Examinations in 2009. “He made us more proud of him. That is my dream (of becoming a lawyer), but since I had no opportunity, his success is our success, too” said his father Eduardo. “We hope that he will have the opportunity to help more people, especially the less privilege,” her mother Zenaida quipps. With Laco, two more new lawyers hail from pioneer batch of DLSL-College of Law graduates – Atty. Krisandra Ann D. Malaluan and Atty. Ismael T. Serrano Jr. “We really didn’t expect it, since this is the first ever bar examinations for our law graduates and we have no sophisticated bar operations (compared to other law schools),” said Br. Joaquin Martinez, FSC, President of DLSL. “Passion ko talaga ang magturo. Gusto kong tumulong sa mga bata para maging CPA din,” Attorney Laco said.
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Sabili, Palacio named Superbrand’s MOMA 2015
Modest Job. This “Payong Repair Sapatos” man became the father of four (4) engineers and a teacher.| AP PHOTO
TRUE-blooded Batangueños are real born leaders. And two local chief executives prove that there are Batangueño leaders are worth of continued support and by their constituents. This, after the prestigious worldwide organization Superbrands Marketing International (SMI) hail Mayor Meynardo Sabili of the City of Lipa and Mayor Sophia Palacio of Calatagan town as among the ten Most Outstanding Mayor Awardee (MOMA), Wednesday at the Makati Sports Club. The mayors personally received the recognition from the SMI officials headed by president Harry Tambuatco and chairman Karl Maclean. The Most Outstanding Mayor Award (MOMA) promotes the works of the mayors for their singular or collective efforts toward nation building. SMI said that the awardees’ programs on social services, projects on climate change, biodiversity education, housing, peace & order, health, infrastructure, income and livelihood are worthy of the title “outstanding.”
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Awarding ceremony for Batangas City schools’innovative project slated, Mar 30 MAYOR Eddie B. Dimacuha will recognize 39 School Division Finalists on March 30, 2015 at the Batangas City Convention Center starting at 8:00 AM. Now on its 3rd year,the Search for Most Innovative Environmental School Projects is being supervised by the Technical Working Committee of the City Solid Waste Management Board, same group that takes charge of the Gawad Punong Lungsod Patimpalak Pagandahan ng Sitio sa Barangay. The criteria is as follows: Environmental Impact40%; Creativity-30%-Uniqueness-20%; and Documentation-10% or a total of 100%. The contests as incentive program for the barangays and schools and recently for the hospitals, are still part of the Clean and Green Project which was launched in the 1990s by Mayor Dimacuha.|
New PBB. A garden house with fence gives new meaning to PBB -- Plastic Bottle and Bamboo House.| PALAKAT PHOTO