Visayan appointees to be feted in dinner

CEBU, Philippines — Two appointees of President Rodrigo Duterte in Cebu are among the honorees of San Beda Law Alumni Association.

Bureau of Customs Port of Cebu District Collector Charlito Martin Mendoza and Danao City Regional Trial Court Branch 90 Presiding Judge Ma. Josefa Pinza-Ramos are among the 100 Bedan Law alumni who will be recognized in a testimonial dinner on October 17, 2019 at the Kalayaan Hall, Club Filipino in Greenhills, San Juan City.

Aside from those appointed in the executive and the judiciary, the group would also recognize those who got elected in last May’s elections.

“The leadership of its alumni is a testimony to what they dearly say, ‘Bedans will answer the clarions call for San Beda, our country and God’,” read a statement.

Mendoza was a San Beda College of Law graduate who placed third in the 2014 bar exams.

He also worked as an associate at the Angara Abello Concepcion Regala and Cruz Law Offices (ACCRALAW) and the Suarez and Narvasa Law Firm.

Pinza-Ramos, for her part, belongs to Law Class 1998.

Other prominent honorees from the Visayas include Leyte Vice Governor Carlo Loreto who took up masteral in law at the San Beda Graduate School of Law.

At 34, Loreto was proclaimed as member of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Leyte in 2004.

In 2013, after three terms of being a board member, he ran and won for the vice governor position.

Aside from being a senior board member of Leyte from 2007 to 2011, Loreto was also the national secretary-general for the National Movement of Young Legislators (NMYL) and the regional and provincial chairman in 2004, for Eastern Visayas and Leyte, respectively.

The National Youth Commission (NYC) has recognized Loreto as one of the Most Outstanding Legislators last 2008.

Another honoree is an Aklanon with Cebuano maternal roots, Dr. Juan “Jed” Dayang Jr., who is a former Career Minister of Philippine Embassy in Czech Republic, and now the officer-in-charge of the Office of the Secretary Intelligence and Security Unit of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

He is the son the newspaper columnist Johnny Dayang, chairman emeritus of the Publishers Association of the Philippines Inc. (PAPI), who owns several real estates in Cebu City. (FREEMAN)