Isabela City proudly opened the 20th Isabela City Division Athletic Association (ICDAA) Meet with a vibrant and momentous ceremony that brought together athletes, coaches, school heads, government officials, and supporters from across the city, with the theme, “Championing Unity and Discipline Through Sports”, September 5, at the Isabela City Grandstand. The program began with the singing of the Philippine National Anthem, followed by an Invocation led by Prof. Alzad T. Sattar, Federated PTA President, and Pastor Ronald S. Paulino of the United Evangelical Church of Isabela (UECI). This was succeeded by heartfelt renditions of the Isabela City Hymn and the

The Ateneo School of Government (ASoG), through its public policy think tank Ateneo Policy Center, paid a courtesy call to Mayor Sitti Djalia Turabin-Hataman as the city was chosen as one of the pilot sites for the initiative Maximizing Local Government Fiscal Performance of Health Budget. The project, supported by the Unilab Center for Health Policy and endorsed by the Department of Budget and Management, seeks to strengthen local government units’ capacity to strategically plan, allocate, and utilize health budgets in ways that are responsive to community needs. Leading the ASoG delegation was Senior Research Fellow and Team Leader Dr.

The City Government of Isabela, under the leadership of Mayor Sitti Djalia Turabin-Hataman, through the City Tourism Office headed by CTO Claudio Ramos II, extended its full support to the 128th Conmemoracion de Terremoto of the Prelature of Santa Isabel de Portugal on September 21. This year’s edition carried the theme: “Santa Isabel de Portugal: Protectora entre Calamidad y Defensora de Matrimonio Santidad” (Santa Isabel de Portugal: Protector amidst Calamities and Defender of the Sanctity of Marriage). In unity with the Catholic faithful of Isabela City and in recognition of the occasion’s significance to the city’s history and cultural identity,