Archive for February, 2009
Written by anyajulia on 27 February 2009
Architect Felino Palafox, of the Palafox and Associates architectural firm, lambasted before a congressional committee investigating the SBMA (Subic Bay Metropolitan Area) row – existence of an alleged Mafia in the area which had victimized many doing business in the area.
Palafox named the unholy alliance members as former Congressman Prospero Pichay, senator Dick Gordon, PAGCOR Chairman Efren Genuino and Congresswoman Cosculella of Zambales and her father.
The famed architect named names despite death threats and a well-financed demolition job against him.
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Written by anyajulia on 27 February 2009
THE Department of Trade and Industry’s Bureau of Product Standards (DTI-BPS) imposes mandatory product certification on protective helmets and their visors for motorcycles. The DTI-BPS mopeds in its effort to phase out substandard helmets in the market and also protect the riders’ and passengers’ safety.
DTI-BPS Director-In-Charge Victorio Mario Dimagiba says that, “Starting 01 April 2009, all manufacturers and importers of protective helmets and their visors are required to secure a Philippine Standard (PS) License or Import Commodity Clearance (ICC) certificate, from the Bureau prior to the sale and distribution of their products.”
Thus, only allowing those protective helmets bearing the PS or ICC mark to be sold in the market by July 2009 and those found with uncertified products shall face administrative charges by the DTI. (DTI/PIA)
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Written by anyajulia on 27 February 2009
At this early, there are already Boholano families abroad, who are booking their flights to the Philippines in July this year. To attend their town’s fiesta celebration, a relative’s wedding, family or Class Reunion, to jibe with the TBTK Global Homecoming schedules from July 16-26, 2009.
Latest information from Libeth Lamdagan-Haron, a Boholana Nurse in Saudi Arabia and is TBTK’s Coordinator in the Middle East, the Galinato Clan will come up with their own Tigum Galinato Tibuok Kalibutan (TGTK) also scheduled in mid July in Bohol. Their family members, mostly Nurses and Medical professionals, can be likened to the posted Converse adline. They’re Everywhere. Be they in Canada, USA, Hongkong, Europe, the Arab world, Australia, the Galinato’s sons and daughters form part of the Globalization of the Boholanos. In search of greener pasture in foreign lands and better pay to practice their professions, as well as to earn a living for their family. Everybody is excited that the Galinato elders come up with the meeting of the minds. To hold a family reunion, where else but in the home-province where all of them came from – Bohol. To visit the five surviving children of the late spouses Faustino Galinato and Teofila Ampong who compose the family’s counsel of elders. They have their own calendar of activities for the Galinato family to attend, as well as their participation in the TBTK affair.. Libeth is an alumna of the Bohol Provincial Hospital Hygeians Class, where the TBTK Chair, Mrs. Betty Veloso-Garcia, also belongs.
The Ng-Moreno family now based in New Jersey will also be homeward bound to attend the church wedding of their daughter Michelle at the Saint Joseph’s Cathedral in Tagbilaran sometime in July. There will be 20 of their family members and friends who already have booked their flights from JFK International Airport in New York, all the way to Tagbilaran, to be there when Michelle Ng will walk down the aisle to meet her groom before the altar. One of Michelle’s aunts, Davida Estorosos-Ng, who also is the bride’s godmother and wedding sponsor, is a Nurse by profession and is connected with a county hospital in Carlson,California. Again, Dav is a BPHSN alumna and classmate of the TBTK Chair.
Also, Mr. and Mrs. Ric Borja and family of New Jersey will be there in Tagbilaran for the TBTK, just like in the past. According to the family’s patriarch, it is one occasion to meet long lost friends and relatives in Bohol as well as see first hand, the progress and development taking place in the land of our birth. Home, after all, according to Mr. Borja, is still the best place in the world. Ditto with the Madanguit family in Chicago. As well as the Balilihanons in America, whose town fiesta falls in the middle part of July.
To those who form part of the TBTK 2006 delegations, they are one in saying that they look forward to experience the pomp, pageantry and revelry never before seen in Bohol, come TBTK 2009. To those who remain undecided, mark your calendar from July 16-26,2009 red. Manguli Ta Sa Bohol Sa TBTK 2009. (Douglas B. .Hontanosas)
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Written by anyajulia on 26 February 2009
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo encouraged the private sector to continue investing to help protect the country from the impact of the global economic crisis.
At the Philippine Economic Briefing, Arroyo says that cooperation between government and private sector is necessary to survive the economic storm that affected the world.
The President said the country is ripe for investment because is in a better economic position as compared to others because of the economic reforms instituted in the past years. (PIA-MMIO)
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Written by anyajulia on 26 February 2009
The Philippines–Japan Fellows Association (PHILJAFA) will hold its 42nd annual general assembly this coming Saturday (February 28) at the Technological University of the Philippines’ (TUP). The theme of the gathering is “Establishing Link with the Community: A New Opportunity to Unravel Human Security”.
The highlights for the gathering will be lectures in various areas focusing on human security amidst the current crisis.
PHILJAFA is an association of former scholars who have graduated/trained in Japan under the auspices of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). (CSC/PIA)
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Written by anyajulia on 26 February 2009
In a gathering of local and international investors this morning, the President addresses that her administration will act with deliberate haste to address the economic challenges at a time of deepening global economic crisis.
The President assured the nation that the massive spending to further stimulate the economy and sustain economic growth will not be made at the expense of fiscal prudence.
Arroyo admits that the global financial crisis now appears to be worse than most people had anticipated. But she pointed out that she remains cautiously optimistic that the Philippines can be insulated from the full blow that most of the world is now experiencing. (PIA-MMIO)
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Written by anyajulia on 26 February 2009
The Land Bank of the Philippines signed a loan of agreement with the Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW) of Germany, in order to help address the effects of climate change.
The said agreement covers some EUR 20 million or P1.2 billion loan for re-lending to eligible sub-borrowers under the Credit Line for Energy Efficiency and Climate Protection (CLEECP) project.
The CLEECP project will finance projects: reduction of primary energy; consumption and direct greenhouse gas emissions like replacement, retrofitting, or energy efficient modernization of CFC, HFC and HCFC chillers; installation or energy efficient modernization of biomass cogeneration facilities; and replacement or energy efficient modernization of machinery and equipment powered by primary energy resources. (PIA)
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Written by anyajulia on 26 February 2009
DENR Secretary Lito Atienza disclosed that around 111,536 green collar jobs will be opened by the agency under the Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP). This is in response to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s directive to provide income-generating services to the Filipinos.
Atienza said that green collar workers will operate under two major components of the DENR-CLEEP, namely, the Upland Development Program (UDP) and “Bantay Gubat” (BG) project. (PIA)
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Written by anyajulia on 25 February 2009
Thousands flocked to the main office of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Manila on February 16 to apply for the job openings offered at the job fair.
The DPWH is spending P60 B of the P330-B stimulus package. The agency hopes to generate 500,000 jobs in the construction sector for 2009.
About 1,500 people found jobs in the construction sector just a few hours after the fair at the DPWH main office opened. (PIA-MMIO)
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Written by anyajulia on 25 February 2009
Inorder to ease the plight of students who can no longer afford to pay tuition, the government has been increasing its assistance to deserving students.
According to Press Secretary Serge Remonde, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has doubled this year the budget for our scholarship program, through the Commission on Higher Education, and Tesda [Technical Education and Skills Development Authority] for vocational training.
Of The P1.415-trillion budget for 2009, the President has allocated P7.2 billion for scholarships, including P3.7 billion for the Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education, a program that is intended for 665,975 high school students.
Another P508 million is set aside for scholarships under the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples and the Department of Science and Technology-Science Education Institute, for a combined 13,500 beneficiaries.
The new funding likewise includes P1 billion for Tesda’s Training for Work Scholarship Program, for 150,000 grantees; another P851 million under the Commission on Higher Education, for 51,797 scholars; plus P692 million for 3,226 students at the Philippine Science High School.
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Written by anyajulia on 25 February 2009
The House of Representatives is contemplating to use its oversight powers to stop private schools from unduly raising tuition.
According to Speaker Prospero Nograles, the House is empowered to demand justification for any increase in tuition and other fees, and will assert its oversight powers to demand justification from schools, which will insist on increasing their tuition and other school fees.
It is the worst time to increase tuition since a lot of people are losing their jobs and can hardly send their children to school, the Speaker added.
He also warned that the House may even support a proposal for a three-year freeze on tuition.
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