Davao City, Basud sign agreement to promote agri-business, tourism

By CHARLES RAYMOND A. MAXEY
Davao City and the Municipality of Basud, Camarines Norte on Monday signed a Big Brother-Small Brother partnership agreement to promote agri-business, tourism, trade and investment between the two localities.
Davao Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte and Basud Municipal Mayor Dominador Davocol Jr. inked the partnership agreement in a ceremony at the Grand Men Seng Hotel.
Davocol expressed his gratitude to Duterte and the City Government of Davao for making the partnership a reality.
“Sa araw pong ito nasaksihan natin ang pinaka importante at ipnagmamalaki na kasunduan o pag-sign ng memorandum of understanding (Today, we witnessed the most important signing of memorandum of understanding),” Davocol said.
“Napaka-suerte po naming dahil meron na kaming big brother (We are lucky enough that we now have a big brother),” he added.
Basud is a third class municipality in the province of Camarines Norte and its lands are mostly devoted to agriculture, with coconut, rice and pineapple as its three major products.
Also joining Davocol in his trip here were Vice Mayor Ramir Barrameda and his councilors.
This was the third time in less than a month that Davao City inked an agreement with other localities.
Davao had lso signed a sisterhood agreements with Angeles, Pampanga and San Jose del Monte, Bulacan.