by anyajulia | Oct 13, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
In Central Visayas, drug incidence has decined. This is due to the aggressive measures employed by both the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-7) and the Police Regional Office (PRO-7) against drug peddlers.
PDEA-7 information officer III David Mark Maramba bared that apart from strengthening intelligence network to ensure the apprehension of drug peddlers in coordination wit the police, they are also going high on their information and education drive against the use of illegal drugs.
From January until at present, the PDEA-7 has conducted 425 operations and arrested 596 personalities.
No figures however were given by both the PDEA-7 and the PRO-7 that attributed to the decrease in drug incidence. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Oct 13, 2009 | Headlines, National News
The National Statistics Office will be conducting 3 nationwide surveys: (1) the 2009 Household Survey on Domestic Visitors (HSDV), (2) the 3rd Quarter Labor Force Survey (LFS), and (3) the 2009 Survey on Overseas Filipinos (SOF).
The 2009 HSDV is being undertaken jointly with the Department of Tourism. This survey aims to collect data on the travel characteristics and volume of domestic tourism in the country.
The 2009 SOF is a nationwide survey that seeks to gather information on Filipino citizens who left for abroad during the last five years. It is geared towards obtaining the national estimates on the number of overseas Filipinos including overseas workers and their socio-economic characteristics and to provide estimates on the amount of cash and in kind transfer received by the families and mode of remittances.
The Labor Force Survey is a regular undertaking by the NSO. It is being conducted quarterly to have estimates on the levels of employment and unemployment in the country. (NSO/PIA/EAD)
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by anyajulia | Oct 13, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
AT LEAST a thousand people and at least a hundred more cultural workers would take the pledge this Friday October 16, as Maribojoc hosts this year’s cultural campaign, Stand Up and Take Action (SUTA) against poverty in line with the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals.
The pledge, which would also be taken by millions all over the world from October 16-18 would engage the people to press their leaders and countries to focus on the UN agreements stated in the MDGs.
In cooperation with the National commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) through the Lihok Bisaya movement, Maribojoc would be Bohol’s main hub of the intensive campaign of mobilizing people through the arts and culture to pursue the various MDGs.
With culture and the arts known for its power to unleash creativity and productivity, communicate development themes and contribute to over-all social transformation, the campaign here provides a model of harnessing the local heritage and the arts for upgrading the quality of life in disadvantaged communities, said Lihok Bisaya artistic director Lugardo Labad.
Lihok Bisaya is a 5-year program recently launched by the NCCA Visayan members as strategy to address the issues of Poverty and respond to the challenges of the MDGs through the creation of sustainable community-based creative industries, he explained.
Labad adds that artists and cultural workers from the Visayas, led by NCCA Committee members from Heritage, Arts, Traditional Communities and Cultural Dissemination facilitate the events envisioned as a multi-stakeholder strategy generating synergy among local communities, governance, business and the artists sectors in the creation of indigenous local products and services reflective of the MDGs.
Launched in seven sites in the Visayas in Antique, Capiz, Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, Cebu, Bohol, and Samar, events are simultaneously held in these locations, he shared.
In Maribojoc, the campaign to address poverty would be participated in by local cultural collectives of Maribojoc, Antequera, Cortes and Anda who shall perform their newly cooked performances detailing community life experiences in the new eco-cultural tourism circuit of Abatan and Anda.
Now a with a new eco-cultural tourism product in the river community tours, artists here helped the collectives come up with presentations complementing the eco-tour as venue for tourists to learn about the communities.
With the presentations, organizers hope to escalate greater awareness for the cause of eradicating poverty fast and joining the call for change and transformation. (PIA)
by anyajulia | Oct 13, 2009 | Headlines, National News
The expansion of the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services or KALAHI-CIDSS areas in the country, have been ordered by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. This move is to strengthen the government’s fight against poverty.
KALAHI-CIDSS is one of the flagship poverty alleviation projects of the government. It is spearheaded by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
The project employs a community-driven development approach and people participation to reduce poverty, improve local governance, and empower people.
President Arroyo said the government will add 16 more municipalities this year to the existing 184 areas. (PIA/DSWD)
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by anyajulia | Oct 13, 2009 | Headlines, National News
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo today called on the Chamber of Real Estate and Builders Association (CREBA) to help the government make the Philippines one of the most favored tourist destinations in the region.
In her keynote address at the three-day 24th National Convention of the CREBA at the Atrium of the Lim Ket Kai Center here, the President said the tourism sector has been growing for the last eight years with government infrastructure support such as the Strong Republic Nautical Highway which has provided seamless movement of people and goods from Luzon to Mindanao.
Moreover, the President said the tourism sector grew significantly especially after the tourism super region plan was fleshed out.
“One breakthrough for the tourism was when we completed the Western Nautical RORO Highway in 2003. It allowed seamless travel by car from Manila not only to Boracay but also to northern Mindanao. And, now with the Western, Central and Eastern Nautical, we are poised to ride the wave of the impending global economic rebound and to offer your industry an opportunity to capture its growth prospects,” she said.
However, the Chief Executive noted that the lack of tourism establishments such as hotel rooms impede the supposed soar of the sector.
“You build them (tourism establishments) and they come,” she said.
The President added that the Philippines is poised to ride the wave of the impending global economic rebound and that the real estate sector can capture once again the opportunities that await the sector.
CREBA is the country’s largest organization of real estate brokers, developers, professionals and suppliers. The convention’s theme is “Pinoy Economic Stimuli in a Global Recession: Mass Housing and World Class-Tourism.”
