by anyajulia | Jul 10, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita, TBTK
It is not often that the President of the Philippines can welcome arriving balikbayan or foreign guests at her official residence in Malacanang Palace, in the nation’s capital of Manila. Much more, it is not always that the Chief Executive, with all her workload schedules and numerous social functions to attend to, day by day, can still accept the invitation to be the Guest of Honor of a provincial homecoming celebration, to be held the week after.
If the Presidential presence is the gage of success for a grand affair, then the thing speaks for itself, the twelve(12) day 2009 TBTK Global Homecoming scheduled from July 14-26, can be considered as one. For right on day one, our Boholano balikbayans and their foreign guests, after arrival from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, have a scheduled audience on the afternoon of July 14, a Tuesday, with Her Excellency, Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The Boholano delegation will be led by Congressman Edgar Chatto, Bohol Gov. Erico Aumentado and the TBTK Chairperson Betty Veloso-Garcia. After which, they will be given a guided tour at Malacanang Palace, and to be served with cocktails at the Heroes Hall .
As if given the privilege to meet the Head of State in person and being accorded all the VIP treatment, still not enough, President Arroyo will fly to Bohol the week after, to be with them for the Bohol Day celebration scheduled on July 22, a Wednesday, hosted by the Provincial Government of Bohol, headed by Governor Erico Aumentado. What more, her DENR Secretary Lito Atienza, will also be in Bohol on July 25, a Saturday, to lead a massive tree-planting drive province-wide in the morning, at the bank of Abatan River in Cortes town. In joint efforts of the Bohol Chamber of Commerce and the Provincial Government of Bohol. Just as the theme of the 4th TBTK staging is about Clean and Green Environment, Ecological Awareness, and the love of Mother Earth.
Count our blessings and give thanks with a grateful heart, for President Arroyo has special affection to the people of Bohol. Not just for giving her the second highest votes during the 2003 election, but for being in the forefront of the national campaign for tourism promotions. Where the TBTK Global Homecoming, that started in 1999, was cited by the Department of Tourism as a model for other provinces to follow. Where Bohol now is considered as among the leading tourist destination sites in the Philippines. Bohol, according to statistical surveys conducted by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration(POEA), also leads in the dollar remittances with an astounding figure of $57 million in 2008, from our Boholano Overseas Filipino Workers(OFW) and Overseas Contract Workers(OCW).
Suffice it to say, the Boholanos are now respected in our country and admired in workplaces abroad. Our TBTK Chairperson, Mrs. Betty Veloso-Garcia and family, departed for Bohol yesterday, Wednesday, July 8, from the JFK International Airport in New York. She just came from Seattle, Washington, where Betty attended the Sleepless In Seattle Confederation of the Boholanos In the United States and Canada(CONBUSAC) Convention, headed by President Carlos Caga-anan. She also met Bohol Governor Erico Aumentado, CONBUSAC’s Guest of Honor. We beam with pride to hear that the TBTK Chairperson is awarded as one of the Ten Most Outstanding Overseas Boholanos by the CONBUSAC. Betty truly deserves such recognition. For all her efforts poured in the TBTK – for the cause of Bohol and the Boholanos.
Douglas B. Hontanosas
by anyajulia | Jul 9, 2009 | Headlines, National News
GIKAN sa 7,170 ka rebeldeng manggugubat sa 2006, halos katunga na nagdto sa 4,874 ang padayong nakigbisog agig sakop sa rebeldeng New People’s Army (NPA), butyag sa Armed Forces of the Philippines 9.
Niini, matud ni Maj. Gen. Reynaldo Mapagu sa 67th Infantry Batallion nga ang pagkapukan sa CPP-NPA sa matag front gikuygan usab sa nagkahilis nga mass base dungan sa internal niini nga suliran.
Dinhi sa Bohol, mas tataw ang kalampusan sa pagbatok sa mga rebelde sa pagkunhod gikan sa upat ngadto sa usa na lang ka fighting front, subay sa taho sa 302nd Brigade dinhi.
Hinuon, kasamtangan pang gi sagubang sa mga military ang civil-military operations aron hingpit na nga did-an ang mga rebelde sa pagbalik sa mga komunidad.
Matud ni Presidente Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, gikan sa pipila ka tuig nga naghulga sa kaugmaran sa nasud, kinahangalan na nga taposon ang insurhensya sa 2010. (PIA)
by anyajulia | Jul 9, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
KABABAYEN-ANG makatabang na sa kita sa pamilya, kini maoy bungat-pasalamat ni Roberta Sayson, usa ka Bol-anong tigpanghimo ug bawjot nga natabangan sa bansay sa pagpanghimo ug bayong o bawjot.
Pinaagi sa Department of Trade and Industry, si Sayson kauban sa gatusan ka kababayen-an sa Talibon, Bien Unido, Trinidad ug Carlos P Garcia nabansay sa pagsibit ug bawjot agi ug dugang kapanginabuhian.
Matud ni DTI Reg. Director Asteria Caberte, ang Project Bayong paagi sa kagamhanan aron katanyagag dugang kita ang banay aron magpabiling mapanalipdan sa nagkalapad nga krisis ekonomikanhon.
Matud pa sa 2009 Labor Force Survey, 12.1M na ka Pinoy ang nakapasugod nag trabaho o nakatrabaho sa ilang kaugalingong negosyo.
Niini, mitibugsok na usab ang unemployment rate sa Abril 2009 ngadto sa 7.5% gikan sa 8% sa milabayng tuig. (PIA)
by anyajulia | Jul 9, 2009 | Headlines, National News
JULY 27 becomes a special national working holiday by virTue of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo‘s signing Republic Act 9645 declaring the say as Iglesia ni Cristo Day.
The day is also the founding anniversary of the Iglesia Ni Cristo in the Philippines, since 95 years ago,
Republic Act 9645 was signed into law June 12 this year.
The law also institutes the annual celebration of the INC Day every July 27.
In declaring the observance of the day, Arroyo likewise expressed her thanks to the INC for the very active and significant roles its leaders and its members have “not only in the spiritual and moral formation, but in nation-building as well.” (PIA)
by anyajulia | Jul 9, 2009 | Headlines, National News
STILL CHARGING onwards, half a decade after President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo launched government help for Small and Medium Enterprise, easy access to short and long term financing has disbursed P140B since 2004.
According to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Council through the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship’s “Go Negosyo” program, the government access to loans has gotten to 5.3 billion borrowers and has generated 2.46 million new jobs.
Over these developments, the president who was visibly agog conferred the Presidential Awards for Outstanding Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) recently. This is to recognize SMEs contribution as engines of economic growth.
Mrs. Arroyo also awarded 26 Presidential Citations for best practices in MSME promotion and development to various best practices nationwide, majority of them local government units (LGUs) which have streamlined their respective business licensing units. (PIA)
