MANILA - The Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) has been recognized by the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) for consistently earning top scores in its Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) Manual Training from April to July. In a statement on Friday, MARINA highlighted its top scores during the pre- and post-diagnostic tests of the training, which aimed to capacitate personnel on different tools mentioned in the manual. These tools include benefit-cost analysis, standard cost model, multi-criteria decision analysis, and different lenses of analysis on such areas as gender and social inclusion, environment, disaster risk, and competition. "The MARINA team, consisting of heads of offices who are part of the Agency's Committee on Anti-Red Tape and technical staff in the field of policy formulation and review, core operations, and other fields as stipulated in ARTA MC 2020-07, were all from the planning and policy service, management, finance and administrative service, overseas ship
Wednesday, July 6, 2022 - For 70 years, the town of Ellendale was home to a distinctive school established in 1889 as the State Industrial and Manual Training School. It attracted a talented faculty and graduated hundreds of fond alumni. It offered short courses in a variety of practical fields dressmaking, music teaching, carpentry, bookkeeping, farm mechanics and more. We visit with historian Connie Goddard, who has written a history of this interesting school. ~~~ Tom Isern has this week’s Plains Folk essay, “Sowers Prayer.” ~~~ “Artists on Main Street” is a project recently undertaken by the town of Bowman. It’s an effort at economic development with the help of a handful of artists. Special contributor Brandi Malarky visits with a number of folks who pitched in to make it happen. ~~~ Chuck Lura shares a Natural North Dakota essay about the July supermoon.