Gov. Bong Carrion's Goodbye

Gov. Jose Antonio "Bong" Nieva Carrion, 62, was elected governor of Marinduque in 1995 and served for a single term of 3 years (1998). He got elected again after 9 years in 2007 and ended his term this year 2010. One of his priority projects in education was an early childhood learning program for day-care kids in Marinduque's 227 day-care centers, one involving instructional software learning program that has been challenged by his political opponents after it has been implemented for three consecutive years from 2007.

Carrion is a great grandson of the late Lt. Gov. Juan Morente Nieva, who administered Marinduque from 1907-1916 when the island province was under the political jurisdiction as a sub-province of Tayabas (now Quezon).