by admin | Apr 29, 2016 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
BOHOL, April 29 (PIA)–Nangayo og tabang si Danao Mayor Natividad Gonzaga sa Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) sa pagpatuman sa iyang damgo sa pagbukas og modelong proyekto nga community-based reforestation sa mga turista.
Sa gipahigayong Kapihan sa PIA sa Danao Adventure Park (DAP) sa barangay Magtangtang kagahapon, si Gonzaga nipasabot nga ang komunidad nakigbisog sa pag-impelentar sa greening program nga bentaha sa ilang lungsod nga sa kataposan mapahimoslan ra gayud nga magamit sa turismo gikan sa government protected area nga ilang gipalambo ngadto na sa 75 ektaryas nga lasang karon.
Gisugyot ni Gonzaga nga sanglit ang komunidad sa San Miguel sa Danao mipili man sa hagit sa pagbutang sa 50 ektaryas nga lasang pinaagi sa natural nga pagpatubo, wala sila naka-kolekta og maayong kinitaan.
Samtang atol usab sa Kapihan, gipaambit ni Alberto Padilla, ang nangulo sa proyekto sa Assisted Natural Regeneration (ANR) nga sa bungtod nga natabonan og kugon sa San Miguel, ang pagsukod sa lugar pinaagi sa pagpangita sa buhing lawngon nga nagpabiling nasalot ilawom sa mga balili ug hinloan ang palibot aron dili maadto sa uban ang pagkumpleto sa nutrina sa yuta.
Si Padilla, kauban ang 43 pa ka ubang miyembro sa ilang San Miguel Association Resource Team (SMART) sa sinugdan nagtukod sa nakutlo na karon sa lungsod nga ANR nga lungsod sa tibuok nasod.
Ang lungsod sa Danao nga naila sa explosibong pagsulbong sa eco-tourism market tungod sa DAP eco-tourism nga kalihokan, karon gustong maglakip sa model ANR sa ilang tour package.
Tungod niini, plano ni Mayor Gonzaga nga mag-abli og trails sa ANR, restawran, maningil og entrance ug environmental fee samtang ang mga miyembro maghimo og mga souvenirs gikan sa mga materyales sa maong lugar. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Apr 29, 2016 | Headlines, National News
MANILA, April 29 (PIA)–Gipahibalo na sa Department of Budget Management (DBM) nga makadawat na ang mga kawani ug opisyal sa gobyerno sa ilang midyear bonus o 14th month pay karong Mayo.
Matud pa ni DBM Kalihim Butch Abad nga base sa Executive Order No. 201 nga gilagdaan ni Presidente Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III niadtong Pebrero, makadawat og 14th month pay ang mga kawani sa gobyerno nga kapareho sa usa ka buwan nga basic salary.
Nakalatid sa EO 201 ang umento sa suholan sa mga sibilyang empleyado, apil na ang bag-o ug nadugang nga allowance alang sa mga militar ug uniformed personnel.
Madawat kini pareho sa mga sibilyang empleyado ug mga militar sugod Mayo 15.
Samtang mao gihapon ang yearend bonus nga nagkantidad og usa ka buwan nga sweldo nga may kauban pang cash gift nga P5,000 nga madawat usab sugod Nobyembre 15.
Samatang walay labot niini ang mga empleyado sa government owned and/or controlled corporations tungod kay may lahi man sila nga Compensation and Position Classification System (CPCS).
Matud pa sa DBM nga tuyo sa maong executive order nga ipareha ang kompensasyon nga gitanyag sa mga pribadong kumpanya aron ma-aghat ug magpabilin ang mga civil servants sa gobyerno. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Apr 29, 2016 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY. After the issuance by the Department of Trade and Industry of the Price Freeze Order on April 21, 2016, DTI Bohol deployed Emergency Price Monitoring teams throughout the province to check on compliance to Suggested Retail Prices (SRPs) and on the supply of basic and prime commodities here.
Per result of the said emergency monitoring activity, prices of basic goods and prime commodities in Boholremain stable and without significant changes. Aside from the emergency monitoring activity, DTI also conducts regular monitoringvisits to retailers in the municipalities and in Tagbilaran City to check on the prices of goods in groceries and supermarkets and on their compliance to Suggested Retail Prices (SRP), the Price Tag law and other Fair Trade Laws.
OIC-Provincial Director Maria Soledad L.Balistoy advises buyers to check on the published SRP of goods before buying the products, and likewise encourages the public to report violations by business establishments on any of the fair trade laws.
The Price Freeze order was issued after Bohol Governor Edgar M. Chatto declared the province to be in a State of Calamity, following the ill-effects of the El Niño phenomenon.
Copies of the Price Freeze order were disseminated over the radio, newspapers and in social media sites. (DTI Bohol)
by admin | Apr 29, 2016 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, April 28, (PIA) –In possibly among her last officials acts, something her town would remember her, outgoing Danao Mayor Natividad Gonzaga has asked the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to realize her dream of opening up a model community-based reforestation project to tourists.
By doing that, Gonzaga, who bows out of office to give in to her son in this year’s election, the community who has struggled to implement the town’s greening ace on the sleeve, could finally cash in on tourism from the government protected area which they have now developed into a full blown forest of 75 hectares.
Speaking at the out of town Kapihan sa PIA which was held in Danao Adventure Park (DAP) in barangay Magtangtang, Mayor Gonzaga hinted that since the community of San Miguel in Danao picked up the challenge to put up the 50 hectare forest by natural growth, they have not since collected a decent income.
The challenge was even weird, by the standards of farmers and reforestation contract workers: cover 50 hectares of cogonal lands with endemic tree species without introducing new seedlings.
On a cogon covered hills of San Miguel, project leaders for the Assisted Natural Regeneration (ANR) told us to measure the place, seek out surviving seedlings which have remained stunted under the grasses and clean its surroundings so it would not have others to compete with the soil nutrients, 59 year old Alberto Padilla shared during the Kapihan.
Padilla, along with 43 other members of their San Miguel Association Resource Team (SMART) initially established what would later be a town citation among ANR towns in the country.
With the area situated in a portion of the town identified as timberland, many farmers knew they could never cash in on the trees they could grow.
But seeing that the area can also sustain small practices of growing rootcrops and other small plantations, farmers also put in cassava, bamboo, pandan and other cash and easy on the table crops.
But the income can only do as much, despite the P130 per day duty for farmers coming out on rotation scheme.
Danao, whose sudden explosive rise in the eco-tourism market is largely credited by the DAP eco-tourism activities, now wants to include the model ANR to its tour package.
Already a model for low cost, simplest cheapest reforestation system, the Danao ANR has been attracting environmental advocates, but pays nothing for the experience.
Here, Mayor Gonzaga plans to open up trails at the ANR, a restaurant, collect entrance and environmental fee while members can make souvenirs from the materials within the area.
She accordingly asked her town’s guests if they would be willing to pay at the ANR and was told they will.
I hope the DENR will help me with this plan, Gonzaga, who is now reaping what his son started then. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
by admin | Apr 29, 2016 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, April 24, (PIA) –Officers and members of the Tripartite Industrial Peace Council (TIPC) here leads in modeling for others by enrolling their house helpers in the mandatory government social protection program on Labor Day May 1.
On that day, no less than this year’s chairman of the TIPC, City Mayor John Geesnell Yap leads the strong government mandated body in registering their house helps, maids, laundrywomen, drivers and handy men to the Philippine Health Insurance Program, Social Security System and Home Development Mutual Fund of the Pag-IBIG, revealed Bohol labor chief German Guidaben.
By the act, members of the TIPC and the thousands who keep house helpers also register themselves and their house helpers with the social benefits program.
The TIPC promotes industrial peace council’s formation, as a venue to institutionalize social dialogues and tripartite consultations on policies and programs affecting labor and management.
The activity is set to happen at the Galleria Luisa, after a motorcade to commemorate that day for the world’s workers.
According to Republic Act 10361 or the Domestic Workers Act, house helpers who have rendered a minimum service of a month shall be covered by SSS, Employees Compensation Commission, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG.
By being registered, these house handy men helping their homemakers perform the menial tasks of home are entitled to all benefits in accordance with their respective policies, laws, rules and regulations.
SSS benefits include sickness, maternity, disability, retirement, death and funeral.
On the other hand, a unified benefits under the PhilHealth include inpatient hospital care and out-patient care.
House helpers can also avail of the lean services for housing, and other emergency needs with Pag-IBIG.
As to the worker’s premiums, the law provides that mandatory contributions shall be shouldered by the employer, but if the worker is paid over P5,000, the law provides a certain cost sharing system with the employer, Guidaben said.
According to the same Domestic Workers Act, domestic workers in the National Capital Region are paid a minimum of P2,500, P2,000 for cities and first class municipalities and P1,500 for other municipalities.
General provision of the law on domestic helpers state the State’s duty to uphold and protect the needs of the domestic worker against abuse, harassment, violence and exploitation as well as performance of work that is hazardous to physical and mental health.
By the law, Domestic workers too, are entitled to minimum wages, other mandatory benefits such as 13th month pay, daily and weekly rest periods, service incentive leaves, board, lodging and medical assistance, right to privacy, access to education and training, to organize and practice religious beliefs. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
