by anyajulia | Dec 22, 2009 | Headlines, Major Events, National News
The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) continues to monitor El Nino and expects it to persist at least into early 2010.
The El Nino condition is likely to reach its peak during the December- February season. This assessment was suggested by latest information taken from global climate prediction centers.
Meanwhile, weather systems likely to influence the climate for December are the Northeast monsoon, the tail-end of the cold, Inter Tropical Convergence Zone, ridge of high-pressure areas, easterly wave and one or two tropical cyclones. (PAGASA/PIA)
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by anyajulia | Dec 21, 2009 | Headlines, Major Events, National News
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is now offering a moratorium on housing and consolidated loans of members. This was done to alleviate the plight of flood victims and in compliance with President Gloria Macapagal Arroys’s directive to offer a one-year moratorium on housing and consolidated loans to help members affected by the onslaught of the recent typhoons.
The program shall cover the amortizations for the month of October 2009 to September 2010 or a total of 12 months. The unpaid amortization shall earn an interest of 5% per annum or.42% per month.
The program is limited to borrowers whose consolidated and housing loan accounts were not declared in default as of September 30, 2009. An account is considered in default if it has more than six unpaid monthly amortizations. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Dec 21, 2009 | Headlines, Major Events, National News
Starting January 2010, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will ban the importation of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) or ‘freon’.
The import ban on CFCs is in consonance with the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer as well as the National CFC Phase-out Plan. This is according to DENR Secretary Lito Atienza.
Discovered in the late 1920s, CFCs are used in various industries as refrigerant, propellant, solvent and cleaning agent. Studies, however, showed that CFCs are capable of destroying the ozone molecules in the atmosphere resulting in the thinning of the ozone layer. Included in the banned list of CFCs are CFC 11, CFC 12, CFC 13, CFC 113, CFC 114, CFC 115 and R 502.
With the import ban, all refrigerant dealers are urged to purchase their CFC supply only from registered importers.
The discovery of an ozone ‘hole’ over the Antarctic prompted governments all over the world to come up with drastic measures to reduce the production and consumption of a number of CFCs and several halons through the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer adopted on Sept. 16, 1987.
Report from the National CFC Phase-out Plan Project of the DENR’s Environmental Management Bureau, which acts as the national coordinator for the implementation of the CFC phase-out, indicates that the country’s CFC importation and consumption has dipped to 169 metric tons last year, from 3,382 metric tons in 1995. (DENR)
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by anyajulia | Dec 21, 2009 | Headlines, Major Events
The first Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for Community and Corporate Affairs (DSG CCA), H.E. Bagas Hapsoro, takes oath of office t the ASEAN Secretariat.
DSG Bagas will assist the Secretary-General of ASEAN in managing the CCA Department of the ASEAN Secretariat and in ensuring that the Secretariat has the systems, procedures and resources required to fulfil its roles and mandates in building the ASEAN Community and in the implementation of the ASEAN Charter.
The CCA Department performs a range of core corporate support functions, such as human resource and financial management, administration and information technology.
In accordance with the ASEAN Charter, there are now four DSGs. Two DSGs are nominated by ASEAN Member States based on alphabetical rotation for a non-renewable term of three years and two DSGs are openly recruited based on merit for a three-year term which may be renewed for a further three years. (ASEAN Secretariat)
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by anyajulia | Dec 18, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
A TALIBONGNON finally fulfills serving his homeland dream after failing to get the coveted post in 1995.
Police Senior Superintendent Anthony Lao Obenza could not, but be melodramatic as he stammered when he admitted his nostalgia for Bohol as he took the podium during his assumption to officer ceremonies at Bohol’s Camp Dagohoy.
PSSupt Obenza took over the reins as Bohol’s top cop, Tuesday, December 15 amid full police honors ceremony and key civilian stakeholders along with Police Chief Superintendent Lani-O Nerez as the highest officiating official.
Obenza, who has been serving as personnel officer for the police regional office in Cebu said he has long wanted to go back and serve his homeland Bohol.
When that day arrived, he said he wants to dedicate his peak moment with two persons he misses so much.
He cited former Police Constabulary Captain Inocencio Obenza who as a model, has goaded him to join the force and his daughter would have been happy, but has died of dengue some two years ago.
Taking over the reigns from PSSUpt Edgardo Ingkling who has been promoted to the position as chief of staff of the police regional office in Cebu, Obenza admitted his new task would seem to be a huge challenge.
Taking over a highly accomplished status of the innovative Bohol Police Office would be Obenzas first test of fire as he takes on his new top command job after long years of largely office work, Camp Dagohoy insiders revealed.
Over the daunting job, he asks the 48 strong chiefs of police in Bohol’s 47 towns and one city to give him the same support they had extended to the past chief.
Obenza assured outgoing chief PSSupt Ingking he would continue to live up to the good standing of the Bohol Police Office under the latter’s watch.
“let me ask for the same teamwork and cooperation like what you gave to your past chief”, he said before a company of integral men and women of the camp who stood on loose parade rest during his acceptance speech. (PIA)
