by anyajulia | Sep 23, 2009 | Headlines, National News
As October draws near, the contributions of the older persons in nation building will be given more emphasis as the country celebrates the Elderly Filipino Week this October 1-7, 2009.
Pursuant to Proclamation No.470 issued by former President Fidel Ramos every first week of October and every year thereafter is declared as “Linggo ng Nakatatandang Pilipino” or the Elderly Filipino Week in the country.
Agencies are also encouraged to hang streamers depicting this year’s theme “Nakatatanda: Dangal at Yaman ng Bansa, Noon at Ngayon. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Sep 22, 2009 | Headlines, National News
With the celebration of the International Day for the Eradication of Extreme Poverty on October 17-23 drawing near, Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Jesli Lapus enjoins the whole education community to hold activities that highlight the aforementioned event.
The theme for this year is “Stand United, Fight Poverty.”
As the main focus of the observance, Lapus ordered all public school officials to hold programs in support of Millennium Development Goals (MDG). DepEd will also enter into an agreement with non-government organizations and government organizations on child sponsorship program. Schools nationwide will also conduct a press conference on the MDG to generate public awareness and draw in more adherents to the campaign.
Since 1997, the Philippines has been joining other countries in the observance of the special day. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared in 2004 every October 17-23 as the “National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty”. (DepEd)
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by anyajulia | Sep 22, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
Barangay Councilor Eustaquio Amolat of Juagdan in Ubay town and fellow fishermen were suprised at around 2:00 AM last Thursday (September 17), they noticed found a 22-ft long whale-shark on their gill net.
Upon arriving in Guintaboan, the fishermen radioed the local coastal resource management (CRM) coordinator of the town to report the incident.
Ubay Mayor Eutiquio Bernales personally led the responding team composed of the CRM coordinator Alpios Delima and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources representative Roselle Hilot came to the whale-shark’s rescue.
After the team documented the incident, they released the whale shark out to sea at around 11 AM of the same day.
According to wikipedia, a whale shark is the largest fish and is called so because it is a shark as big as a whale. Whale sharks can grow up to 60 feet in length and could weigh as much as 15 tons. Mostly found in tropical and warm oceans, the whale shark, or butanding, like a shark has an unusually large mouth but feeds on mostly planktons, microscopic plants and organisms by filtering the water it siphons.
Usually seen in Bohol during the peak months of summer marine migration, these pelagic whale sharks usually swim with a pod of whales passing at the seas south of Bohol, lingering near Pamilacan Island to feed before continuing on their journey to the Tubbataha reefs. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Sep 22, 2009 | Election 2010, Headlines, National News
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has called on the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to issue guidelines allowing private and public employees to register as voters even on weekdays and that their temporary absence from their work be considered as official time. This is in action to the fast approaching deadline for registration of voters on October 31.
Through Resolution No. 8669 promulgated on September 15, 2009, the COMELEC en banc noted that the DOLE is “bestowed with powers and functions for the full protection to labor, promotion of their welfare, and supervision over the relationship between employers and employees.”
Thus, the COMELEC deemed it necessary to “request the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to issue the appropriate circular/guidelines urging private employers to allow their employees to file their applications for registration, transfer/reactivation, changes/correction/inclusions/reinstatement of entries of registration records even during weekdays, and to consider their temporary absence from work on official time.”
The poll body also made a similar request to the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to issue the appropriate order for civil servants. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Sep 22, 2009 | Headlines, National News
The Presidential Human Rights Committee, together with government Executive agencies and civil society organizations, is conducting area consultations for the formulation of the 2nd National Human Rights Action Plan of the Philippines, as defined in Administrative Order No. 163, series of 2006.
With Executive Eduardo Ermita as chairman, the area consultation is a problem-solving mechanism designed to successfully overcome human rights issues and challenges through the joint efforts of government agencies as the so-called rights duty-bearer and the people as the rights claimholders.
The consultation will put in place the much-needed public policies, programs, and resources that will have incremental effect in progressively improving the human rights situation in the country.
The cluster area consultation aims to instill national ownership of the second NHRAP in as many stakeholders as possible. Through the NHRAP, concrete measures will be identified to ensure that human rights protection and promotion becomes a matter of policy that will transcend politics characterized by administrations that come and go.
All participants, stakeholders and sectors are urged to actively participate in the human rights plan drafting to highlight the “importance the Philippines gives in the promotion and protection of human rights shared by the entire family of man. (PIA)
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