by anyajulia | May 20, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
DESPITE negative publicity and criticisms against the administration, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (PGMA) reaps a total +3 satisfaction rating in Bohol, well above her –3 rating last year, the 13th round of Bohol Polls says.
During a public presentation at the Holy Name University (HNU) High School Multi-Media Center in Janseen Heights Dampas, the Bohol Polls 2009 revealed too that PGMA has 100% awareness rating and Bohol’s third district gave her the highest satisfaction rating at +12.
About 49% of Boholanos in the third District here were satisfied with the President, over 37% who were dissatisfied, resulting in a net rating of +12.
Observers believe that the recent administration’s Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP) and the visibility of Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Arthur Yap who is concurrently the cabinet steward for employment in the Visayas in the widely agricultural District affected the president’s satisfaction rating.
Sec Yap is currently implementing CLEEP programs in agriculture and is on a government spending spree to generate as much employment to keep people above water in this time of economic grip.
With about 23% of Boholanos engaged in agriculture and allied jobs, the government reaped very high ratings in ensuring adequate food supply at +26 points and providing support for agriculture promotion at +20 points.
In Bohol’s District 2, 41% are satisfied with PGMA while some 39% were dissatisfied resulting in a +2 rating.
On the other hand, in Tagbilaran City of Bohol’s First district, 3 of every 10 were satisfied over 5 who are dissatisfied resulting in her lowest rating at –18. The survey coordinators however clarified that they have a +/-10 margin of error for the city with 100 respondents at a little more than a hundred thousand residents.
On the other hand, both Bohol Governor Erico Aumentado and Vice Governor Julius Caesar Herrera suffered diminished ratings at 5 and 10 points less than last year. Both however still soared with +77 and +51 points.
The polls used multi-stage sampling method and had 400 respondents as representative of the 1.2 million population in 2000 National Statistics Office data, explains HNU Research Coordinator Ma. Paz Espiritu during the public presentation May 19, 2009. (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | May 20, 2009 | Headlines, National News
TAGANA ang usa ka korte sa Manila nga mohatag ug dugang panahon sa mga ahensya sa kagamhanan kinsa gisangonan sa pagtuki kon ang mga kompanya sa lana nalambigit ba sa pagmanipula sa presyo ug paghimog cartel.
Una nga nga gihatagan ang Commission on Audit (COA), Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) ug Bureau of Customs (BOC) sa tulo ka buwan aron maghipno sa ilang taho, apan andam si Judge Silvino T. Pampilo, Jr sa Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 26 paghatag sa lugway aron hingpit nga masusi ang libro sa Petron, Pilipinas Shell ug Chevron sa milabayng tuig 2003.
Lakip sa susihon sa mga ahensya ang mga dokumento sama sa cash receipts, delivery receipts, sales invoices ug purchase orders.
Gipetisyon na sa partylist nga Social Justice Society (SJS) sa korte nga pugson ang mga kompanya sa lana pagbukas sa ilang mga libro human sila gidudahang nakalapas sa balaod sa oil deregulation. (PIA)
by anyajulia | May 20, 2009 | Headlines, National News
NAANI sa Malacanang ang pasalig sa suporta gikan sa Kongreso alang sa lugway sa Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) law.
Matud ni Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Lorelei Fajardo, ang mga namunuan sa Senado ug Ubos Balay Balaoranan mipasalig na sa pagpaseguro nga unahon ang pagtuki sa lugway sa balaod nga gimatud-an sa Presidente nga labing dinalian.
Kini samtang gipaabot nga mapapas na ang epekto sa unang balaod ning buwana.
Ang pasalig nakuha mismo gikan sa mga Kongresista inubanan ni Speaker Prospero Nograles, Senate Agrarian Reform Committee Chair Gringo Honasan ug kini gisaksihan sa mga sakop sa Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) ug Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman.
10 ka tuig nga lugway ang gipangayo sa Presidente sa programang reporma sa yuta aron lukpon ang dos milyones ektaryas nga nahibiling ikapang-apod-apod sa dos milyones ka mag-uuma. (PIA)
by anyajulia | May 20, 2009 | Headlines, National News
The Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF) or the Pag-IBIG Fund launched a scheme that housing projects to OFWs.
Pag-IBIG Fund senior vice president for Provident Fund Operations Ophelia Dela Cerna said the program is covered under the Pag-IBIG Home Matching Program (PHMP) for Overseas Filipino Workers.
She said the Fund under its Pag-IBIG Overseas Program (POP) has some 312,000 OFWs members spread out in the different parts of the globe even as she admitted that they had difficulty of matching the needs of OFWs with existing developers.
The program is open to both land-based/sea-based OFWs and Filipino immigrants and those naturalized in other countries where Pag-IBIG Fund shall invite developers with exiting Funding Commitment Agreement (FCA) to participate under the PHMP.
In order for the OFWs to regular check on housing projects, Dela Cera said a PHMP website has been designed for easy access at www.pagibigfund.gov.ph/hmp. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | May 20, 2009 | Foreign Exchange, Headlines
The Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) leaders’ summit in Indonesia last week, focused on the heightened attention on the urgency to preserve the environment and the Coral Triangle against the onslaught of global warming. The CTI-member countries are the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Timor Leste, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo described the Coral Triangle as “potentially the world’s most important ‘refuge’ for marine life – but only if we do our part to keep it in good health.” (PIA)
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