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==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
'''City, Province entice investors in the BPO industry'''
'''DoT to build 32 feet sculpture depicting First Mass in Limasawa, Southern Leyte'''
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1301329436920
*Source: http://leytesamardaily.net/2012/02/dot-to-build-32-feet-sculpture-depicting-first-mass-in-limasawa-southern-leyte/
*Friday 17th of February 2012
* 18 February 2012
:by Marcelo M. Pedalino
:by ROEL AMAZONA




MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 17 (PIA) -- Mayor Maloney Samaco said Tuesday the government is willing to share the cost of training call center agents needed by call-center businesses investing in his locality.
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Tourism (DoT) will implement this year the project to build a sculpture depicting the First Mass in Limasawa, Southern Leyte by commissioning the service of well-known architect Nemesio “Nemi” Miranda who was creator of the famous People Power monument at Epifanio De Los Santos Avenue (EDSA) in Manila.
In a press conference, Samaco said that investors in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry were willing to locate in the region if there was trained manpower capable of handling the job demands.


To entice these investors, “the city and province will share in the cost of training prospective and potential personnel as call center agents,” he said.
Miranda was tasked by the DoT to make an image of the First Mass with a height of 32 feet at the public plaza located in Barangay Magallanes.
The perspective of the project was finished sometime last year.


The demand for offshore call-centers has paced the private outsourcing agency’s promotion of foreign direct investments in the country.
The DoT set aside a budget of P7 million for this project which is expected to draw tourists who visit the historic island, especially every March 31.


Meanwhile, Samaco said a Cebu-based business consortium is being contracted to expand an existing reclamation area in the city with landfill from nearby hills.
Based on historical account, the First Mass in the Orient was held in March 31, 1521 when Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan under Spanish flag landed in the island celebrated he mass at Barangay Magallanes and planted a cross.
Talks with the consortium started last year under a Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreement. The consortium would then convert the landfill area into a memorial park. (MMP/PIA8)
 
Based on the DoT tourist arrival records last year, the National Shrine in Limasawa was among the most visited tourism sites in the region last year.
 
Aside from the project to be implemented by the DoT, the provincial government of Southern Leyte, which included Limasawa under its tourism master plan, is also set to construct a 100-meter high cross in the island, equipped with elevator to reach the top portion where businesses like a coffee shop are to be put up.
 
The provincial government estimated that the project will cost about P80 million.
 
During last year’s 490th First Mass celebration, Bishop Precioso Cantillas of the diocese of Maasin launched the “Decade of Evangelization”
that will culminate on March 31, 2021, the 500th year anniversary of the historic event.


==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
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