5000 Direct Jobs for Dagupenos - Mayor BTF

DAGUPAN CITY - This burgeoning city's mayor met recently executives of the Information Technology and Business Process Management's industry where they discussed plans how the local government unit  can draw IT-BPM investors and provide jobs for the people here.

IT-BPM. Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez (6th from left) rubs elbows
 with executives of the Information Technology and Business Process
 Management (IT-BPM) industry in the country.

 Mayor Belen T. Fernandez fervent hopes that her constituents can get a share in the mammoth U.S $25 billion industry and create 5,000 direct jobs in the next three years in the City.

One of the most dynamic and fastest growing sectors in the Philippines,  the industry is composed of eight sub-sectors, namely, knowledge process outsourcing and back offices, animation, call centers, software development, game development, engineering design, and medical transcription. 

Joining Mayor Fernandez in the IT-BPM Conference held at the world class Stadia here were Jonathan De Luzuriaga- President of the Philippine Software Industry, lawyer Jocelle Sigue- Board of Trustee of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines, Paul Tajon-Senior Investment Specialist, Alvin Juban- President of the Game Developers Association of the Philippines, Natalie Hunter- Executive Director of the Philippines Software Industry Association.

Students from different colleges and universities were part of last Friday's Conference as the mayor embarked on a mission of creating the City's ICT-Business Process Management Industry. 

Funny Incidents In My Radio Work

Interview today, at our 9 to 10 Am radio program at Sonshine Radio,  was the new provincial immigration chief Paulino Verzosa, some excerpts:

CHIEF: We strictly monitored foreign students. At nakapagtataka , dito nagtatakbuhan iyong mga Western Africans.

ME; Saka mukhang galit itong mga taga Nigeria at India sa roll – on at deodorant, ayaw ba nila ng deodorant?

AUDREY: (Laughing)

ME: Hinde ba sila pinagsasabihan ng Immigration that they can buy “tawas” for five pesos only, very cheap?

CHIEF:  Iyan ang tinatanung namin sa kanila….

ME: What’s your perfume?....

CHIEF: …..Did you take a bath already? Kasi lahat kami nakatakip na ng ilong  (sa Immigration Office).

ME: Sir, iyong De Facto Ambassador ng India to Pangasinan si Ashok Vasandani nag courtesy call na sa inyo?

CHIEF AND AUDREY: (LAUGHED)

CHIEF: Hinde pa nag courtesy call.

ME: So delikado ang mga mga Bombay na nagpapa 5/6. Ashok magpakita ka na sa New Duterte Administration Immigration Chief Paulino Verzosa.

CHIEF: De Facto, De Facto magandang pakinggan. He holds the jobs without the title.

ME: Oo, ang De Facto kalaban ng mga Impakto. 

                                                BELOW:  MORTZ'S RADIO WORK VIDEO 

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IMMIGRATION OFFICE NOT NUTRITION OFFICE. 

Nagkamali si Errand Boy Galman ko. Yesterday, I told him to go to the Immigration Office so I can set for today my interview with the new provincial immigration chief at my 9 to 10 Am radio program. Anak ng bakang dalaga, ito ang nangyari, a pretty head of the Nutrition Office arrived at our radio station kasi ni set ni Galman na siya interview ko. Although I did not research for my interview with Ms Anna Fernandez, chief of the City Nutrition Office, here was the excerpt of the Q & A:

ME; So kelangan talaga ang gatas ng ina sa baby?