by anyajulia | Apr 24, 2009 | Business, Headlines, Major Events
According to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)- Bureau of Export Promotion, more than 100 exporters are participating in tiangge type exhibit. Dubbed the “Exporter’s Expo 2009”, it will be held at the Philippine Trade Trading Center (PTTC) from April 28 to April 30.
The export quality-products will include export quality products like jewelry, Christmas and holiday decors, fashion accessories, arts and crafts, furniture and garments.
DTI said manufacturers-exporters decided to sell their products locally, under marked down prices, after their buyers abroad cancelled their orders. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Apr 24, 2009 | Headlines, National News
“CHARTER change can be done today—very quickly and without much mess. That is, if there is sincerity and political will among our present political leaders to pursue the societal changes that the country needs.” This was the statement of National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales yesterday.
Gonzales pointed out that President Aquino created a constitutional commission less than three months upon assuming revolutionary powers and changed the country’s Constitution in about a year.
“Since we are not under a revolutionary government today, what we can do is have one amendment to the Constitution that will add constitutional commission as another mode of Charter change. The alternative is to change the nomenclature of the constitutional convention mode to reduce its composition to a more manageable size,” he adds.
Gonzalez stressed that the key to charter change today is the heads of the three branches of government coming together to have a sincere dialogue and agree among themselves to finally pursue the societal change long needed by the country. “We are talking here of just four people to begin with.
Gonzales stressed that the new constitutional commission, to be credible and acceptable, should represent a broad spectrum of public opinion. (NSA/PIA)
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by anyajulia | Apr 23, 2009 | Headlines, Major Events
The Philippines is host to the upcoming the East Asian Seas Congress 2009 on November 23-27, 2009 at the Philippine International Convention Center in Manila. The theme for the Congress will be: “Partnerships at Work: Local Implementation and Good Practices.”
The Congress is being organized by the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources with the support of the Global Environment Facility, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Office for Project Services and Coastal Management Center.
The East Asian Seas (EAS) Congress takes place every three years. It is a pioneering region-wide platform for knowledge sharing, capacity-building, strategic action, partnership building, and a forum for dialogues between policymakers, environmental and natural resource managers, business communities, academics, NGOs, local governments, and grassroots organizations. (PIA)
http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p090423.htm&no=21
by anyajulia | Apr 23, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita, Major Events
Earth Day was celebrated yesterday with the theme, “Lupa at Tubig Buhayin, Hangin Linisin, Ang Batas Tuparin.”
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Sec. Lito Atienza says that the annual Earth Day celebration is a good opportunity to make a report to the people on current situation of our local environment, including the resources therein.
The celebration highlighted the current condition of the air, water and earth as well as the status of environmental law enforcements in the country.
Earth Day was started in the United States 39 years ago, when then Senator Nelson Gaylor called on the people to protest the degradation of the environment. (PIA-7/hfg)
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by anyajulia | Apr 22, 2009 | Headlines, TBTK
The TBTK 2009 Schedule of Activities from July 14-26 is already prepared in earnest.
From the Boholano balikbayans’ appointed meeting with President Gloria M. Arroyo in Malacanang Palace in the nation’s capital of Manila on day one, to the subsequent social functions calendared in the days thereafter. Many of which are held in Tagbilaran City,Bohol, the venue site of most TBTK activities. So also in the neighboring municipalities as Baclayon, where an International Derby is to be held. Panglao, where the Boholano European community will present their DREAM show at the Panglao Island Resort and in Calape where the Miss Bohol International Beauty Pageant will take place in their 7,000 seat capacity Sports Center, respectively.
Be that as it may, the dates of July 20 and 21, a Monday and Tuesday, will be the most awaited by our Boholano brothers and sisters who have their own medical and health concerns. Those who can’t afford to seek treatment with specialist medical practitioners or in a private tertiary hospital. For topnotch doctors, surgeons, dentists, nurses, and other medical practitioners from hospital institutions abroad will be coming to Bohol as part of the TBTK delegation. They will spearhead the two-day Medical-Surgical Mission lead by a Boholana physician based in California, Dr. Anita Cal-Jackson, the incumbent Chairperson of the Tagbilaran Association of California(TAC) and the designated Coordinator, International TBTK Medical Surgical Mission 2009. To be held at the newly refurbished Tagbilaran Puericulture and Maternity House, Inc.
Dr. Jackson’s staff will be accompanied by a Maxillofacial Surgical team headed by Dr. Theodore Micholoff from St. Martin de Porres and Makati Medical Center, the Boholano-couple physician from New York, Dr. Teofilo”Pepe” Recitas and wife Diane, representing the Home-Reach foundation, as well as Mrs. Fancy Baluyot and staff of the Philippine Gift of Life and the Provincial Health Office under Dr. Rey Moses Cabagnot.
The TBTK Medical-Surgical Mission will be bringing with them specialized equipment and free prescriptive medicines to the Boholano patient-recipients. The TBTK Chair, Mrs. Betty Veloso-Garcia, a Nurse by profession and is connected with the New York Downtown Hospital, as well as her nurse daughter Maribeth, will also be present to administer to the needs of the visiting Medical Corps who will be billeted at the Metro Center during their Bohol stay, as well as to monitor the progress of the humanitarian undertaking.
Dr. Anita Jackson-Cal is calling on all overseas Boholano medical practitioners to take part in this laudable project and do their share in alleviating the plight of our indigent patients in the Province of Bohol. To the rest of our Paisanos, they can contribute financially or give whatever material support for the intended project that is considered one highlight activity of the TBTK 2009 Global Homecoming.
Douglas B. Hontanosas
