by anyajulia | Feb 13, 2009 | Headlines, National News
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo inspected a pharmacy and at the same time interacted with some of the pharmacy’s beneficiaries.
This was in line with the Arroyo’s administration’s efforts to bring affordable medicines to poor Filipinos and reducing the prices of essential medicines by 50 percent by year 2010, as stated in the President’s 10-Point Legacy Program.
The President inspected the facilities, medical stocks and prices together with officials of the Department of Health and the Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC). (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Feb 12, 2009 | Headlines, National News
Presidente Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo herself decreed that government agencies focusing on infrastructures and social programming that is included in the P300-billion stimulus package to quicken in construction and implementation of the projects to be started.
The economic stimulus package is objected for the quality of infrastructures and capital stock
especially in the broadening in guarding the people in achieving the true progress for the year.
According to her, the incentives of the government is what she believes to be important that’s why the implementation should be done immediately.
by anyajulia | Feb 12, 2009 | Headlines, National News
Due to the great number of unemployed nurses because of no work experience, the government will soon launch the Nurses Assigned in Rural Areas (NARS). This is according to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
The program will give additional job opportunities while preserving the need for good and experienced nurses abroad.
“The nurses that will be hired by the government will lead in the primary health, nutrition in schools, and giving the right diagnosis in the barangays,” the president adds. (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | Feb 12, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita, National News
THE mayor of San Miguel town recently reaped a singular accolade from the national government for putting up innovate bureaucratic measures to dent on poverty in his town.
Mayor Claudio Bonior recently received the Most Outstanding Mayor of the Philippines award from the World Bank and its project funds implementer; the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) shared municipal information officer Menandro Pesquera in an interview.
The award was for DSWD Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) Special Leadership Awards for local chief executives.
The awarding which was held at the Imperial Palace in Quezon City last February 3 was also attended by awardees from all KALAHI CIDSS areas across the country, reports from San Miguel bared.
Coming in after the DSWD has earlier tied up a partnership with the town, Bonior took poverty alleviation by heart while persuading his colleagues in government to prioritize counterpart support for the country’s social service delivery program, sources close to the mayor added.
“He also pushed for the empowerment of communities consistent with the community driven development tenets adopted for projects under the DSWD,” Pesquera stressed.
According to him, with poverty stalking the town barangays, Bonior strongly pursued community participation in deciding priority development project which the town can counterpart.
Projects his town partnered with World Bank funds implemented by the DSWD include key farm to market access roads, irrigation spillways, rural electrification projects, school buildings, health centers rain collectors and farm impounding systems, he enumerated.
San Miguel tapped the DSWD KALAHI CIDSS from the national government since 2006 and Bonior continued on the steps to poverty alleviation when he assumed office in May of 2007.
Making the KALAHI CIDSS a top town priority supported program, his move also enthused people belonging to the San Miguel Area Coordinating Team, Pesquera said.
The town area coordinating team also won two more awardees: Engr. Ronilo Gauma for outstanding project engineer and Cherry Merin as outstanding municipal roving book keeper in the Philippines. (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | Feb 12, 2009 | Headlines, National News
Other choice for job opportunities will be initiated by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo with the government’s coalition in the projects that will be under the environment and energy independence category included in the P330-billion economic resiliency stimulus package. It will be known as “green collar jobs.”
“Under this, there will be a P2 billion fund for forest restoration in Bukidnon, Cagayan de Oro and Lanao del Sur, and also mangrove restoration,” according to Arroyo.
Also included is the Grassroots Entrepreneurship for Eco-Tourism (GREET) program, where the government will employ workers for coastal cleaning, sea watching, and the planting of coconuts as biofuel feed stock. (rachiu/PIA)
