Who is the governor of ilocos norte

I even expected that the people of the province themselves would make every effort to have the author of the crime detected and punished. But when time passed without any indication that the author of that crime would be caught, I lost the desire to come to this province.

Yet, after all these years and on second thought, I felt that I was perhaps indicting all the people of this province, which act would be both unfair and unjust of me to do, And so here I am. I am glad that I have come here. I have come accompanied by one of the greatest men that we have in this country. He is the product of one of the Ilocos provinces. You know the person whom I am referring to. I will now answer concretely the petitions of your governor.

If the project of irrigating the farm lands of the towns south of Laoag is feasible, according to the Bureau of Public Works, you can rest assured that you will have them irrigated. Another thing that I will do is to instruct the Secretary of Public Works and Communications to spend more money for your roads, so that you may have concrete roads very soon. I cannot answer your petition regarding the establishment of a public normal school here, because I do not know the present program of the Bureau of Education in this respect, and I do not want to promise you anything before knowing what could be done.

But I am going to tell you something that you will like. If you do not have a normal school here, you will have one of the regional vocational schools that are being maintained by the National Government. If they do not do so, you can harm them and I will assume the responsibility. The governor did not mention the petition which some of the municipal councils of this province have presented to me. That is the petition seeking the amendment of the act authorizing the municipal councils to impose a tax for the maintenance of intermediate schools in their respective municipalities.

I want you to listen to what I will say about it. You know that up to now, the municipalities have not been able to maintain the primary schools without the help of the National Government. The number of boys and girls in the Philippines who cannot go to school for lack of buildings n teachers is very big.

The National Government has adopted the policy of assuming the whole responsibility for the construction of the primary school buildings and the payment of the salaries of all the teachers for the primary schools, but it is leaving to the municipalities the responsibility of maintaining the intermediate schools.

What are you going to do with the intermediate schools? If the National Government maintains exclusive, rather upon its own exclusive responsibility, the primary schools, it will not be able to help you maintain the intermediate schools. Therefore, if you have funds to maintain all the intermediate schools, you do no need to impose the school tax.

But if you do not have the money, are you going to close the opportunity of the children who have already gone through primary instruction, to go to the intermediate school simply because you do not want to impose the school tax?

If your reason for wishing the law repealed is based on your belief that you can still get an appropriation from the National Assembly to help you maintain the intermediate schools, then I want to tell you right now that you are wrong about it, because it is impossible for the National Government to maintain both the primary and the intermediate schools.

There is no sufficient money for both schools. Everywhere the responsibility for primary instruction, which includes the intermediate school, belongs to the municipal government. Barba, uncle of Sandro and a cousin of Bongbong, endorsed in December last year at the House of Representatives the impeachment complaint which sought to remove Supreme Court Justice Marvic Leonen from office.

The complaint did not move forward after being junked at the House committee level. Before becoming a congressman, Barba was a three-term vice governor of the province from to By Leilanie Adriano October 6, , pm.

With him is Atty. Alipio Castillo, provincial election supervisor. PNA photo by Leilanie G.