DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

The League of Municipalities in the Philippines, Negros Oriental Chapter, has committed to continue implementing the Integrated Tax Management System Center from the German International Cooperation Agency starting September 30 this year.

LMP-Neg. Or. president, Jimalalud Mayor Reynaldo Tuanda, and Mayor Valente Yap of Bindoy, however, called on Gov. Roel Degamo to shoulder or underwrite the iTAX Center maintenance fee, since the local government units are already collecting real property tax.

Some mayors questioned the inequitable distribution in the collection of maintenance fee from LGUs, and said it has no legal basis.

Mass for Calungsod
canonization set

Construction work officially started on the site of the national thanksgiving mass for the sainthood of Blessed Pedro Calungsod in Cebu City.

The mass will be held on November 30 or almost a month after Pope Benedict XI leads the canonization rites for Calungsod and six other blessed persons in Rome, Italy.

Cebu Archbishop Emeritus Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, the head of the national preparations committee for the canonization activities, led the blessing at the South Road Properties where the template or place for mass is being built.

Tourism roadmap
of NegOr crafted
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

Department of Tourism officials from Manila and Region 7 are in Negros Oriental to help craft its Tourism Roadmap with industry stakeholders and align the various programs of the government.

Resource speakers are Warner Andrada of the DOT central office, who presented yesterday the current global and national tourism trends and issues in line with the National Tourism Development Plan of the Aquino administration; Judilyn Quiachon of DOT 7; and Rebecca Labit of the Puerto Princesa Tourism Office, who discussed the role of local government units in tourism development.

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