Only 3 of the 70 examinees that took the April 6 Philippine National IT Standards (PhilNITS) Certification Exam for Fundamental Engineers (FE) in Davao City were able to pass. Adding that to the total number of passers results in a lowly 6.
Those who passed were instructors in the IT Departments of UP Mindanao and STI College. They are: Antonio Tantoy Trasporto, Jr. (STI College of Davao), Vanessa Castillo Ramoran (UP-Min) and Jan Vincent Quindoy Miro (UP-Min).
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Tax Attorney Marcelinda Omila-Yap, who heads the Regional BIR in Davao, said that all agent banks will still accept payments for the Tax Amnesty program til May 5, 2008. Tax Lawyers and Tax Accountants can now sigh a collective relief because of the extension.
In order to avail of the Tax Amnesty program, one has but to see the Revenue District Officers(RDO) at the Bureau of Internal Revenue. The RDO will guide the taxpayers on how to file for tax amnesty. They are however, prevented from verifying or inspecting the forms or payments made.
Philippine Republic Act 9480 covers the current Income Tax Amnesty program:
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Two practising lawyers have been elevated by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to Judgeship in order to fill the void in the Davao Regional Trial Court. This was on recommendation by the Philippine Judicial & Bar Council last January 31, 2008.
Attorney. Ridgway Tanjili was chosen as the new judge of Branch 15 after the retirement of Judge Jesus Quitain. Judge Quitain had retired last year leaving the seat vacant for a year. Atty Tanjili was previously director of the Public Attorney’s Office in Region XI before assuming the vacant post at Branch 15. He had been with the PAO for 16 years rising to the level of Director.
Judge Tanjili acquired his law degree from the Ateneo de Davao University Law School, one of the most prestigious and famous law schools in the Philippines.
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Davao born, Dr. Neil Oropesa, recently acquired the closed Hotel Mario along Magallanes Street with plans to transform it into the Oroderm Hotel. Banking on the medical tourism boom, here guests could indulge into various services from spa, facial or body massage all at the comfort of their own hotel.
He did this after he noticed the increasing number of clients that enter his dermatological clinics, the Oropesa Spa Clinic, that come from other parts of the island and even the balikbayans, he decided to open a hotel where he could offer to clients a place where they could stay.
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Davao Medical Tourism, Health Beauty and Fitness, Oropesa Spa Clinic
Category : Health & Living · Davao · Davao Beauty
From the Philippine Star
Better than good
BUSINESS MATTERS (BEYOND THE BOTTOM LINE) By Francis J. Kong
Sunday, March 16, 2008
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Category : Davao Business · Francis J. Kong
