NZ AMBASSADOR TO THE PHILIPPINES TO ESTABLISH EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP WITH EVSU-OCC. This week, His Excellency Peter Kell, New Zealand Ambassador to the Philippines, paid a courtesy visit to Ormoc City Mayor Lucy Torres Gomez and Fourth District of Leyte Representative Richard Gomez to share with them and to the other city officials of Ormoc of the NZ embassy’s plan to establish an educational partnership between the New Zealand Embassy and the Eastern Visayas State University – Ormoc City Campus, mentioning three priorities of said proposed partnership, which are governance, education, and agriculture.

Along with the Ambassador were Dr. Dennis De Paz (EVSU President), Dr. Gerry De Cadiz (EVSU-Ormoc Director), Chef Lionel O’Hari Go (Executive Chef of Australia Embassy), and the teaching personnel of EVSU-Ormoc. Present too were Ormoc City Councilors Lalaine Marcos, Peter Rodriguez, Burt Pades, Edmund Kierulf, and Gregorio Yrastorza III. (Grabbed from the City Government of Ormoc FB Page / EV Mail January 2-8, 2023 issue)