CH workers to get orientation tour about Singapore

CEBU, Philippines — To better appreciate the current administration’s Singapore-like Cebu City vision, the city government’s Human Resources Development Office (HRDO) will be giving City Hall employees orientation training about Singapore.

This is in response to the City Council’s request to HRDO to conduct training and seminars for the employees of the city on the culture and history of Singapore based on the resolution authored by Councilor Francis Esparis.

“The grand vision of Cebu City Mayor Michael L. Rama to make Cebu City Singapore-like is worthy of everyone’s support…the same vision, in order to turn it into reality, must become a shared vision, which means that majority, if not all, believe in it,” reads part of Esparis’ approved resolution.

HRDO chief Remedios V. Mondigo made a favorable response to such a request and told the City Council in a letter addressed to its presiding officer, Vice Mayor Raymond Alvin N. Garcia, that the training will begin next month already as reported by the city’s Public Information Office.

A memorandum for “batch 1” of the employees has already been disseminated accordingly.

The HRDO is also expected to include the history of Singapore, from a backward port city, and how it progressed into a first-world country.

In response to this, Mondigo said, they will be outsourcing speakers for this.

“We are outsourcing the speaker whose expertise is to give a demonstration on the progress as well as the culture and history of Singapore,” Mondigo said.

Esparis said that it is within reason for City Hall employees to undergo such an orientation training so they “obtain (the) necessary knowledge, get essential ideas and information, or a better understanding about Singapore”, as they are the ones who would help articulate the vision to the public.

“It is important that the City Hall employees will be able to articulate or understand the vision of the Mayor, and the general public will hopefully follow,” Esparis stressed. — GMR (FREEMAN)