by admin | Nov 17, 2014 | Headlines, National News
Mga detalye sa pagbisita ni Pope Francis sa nasud, gipagawas na
MANILA, Nov. 17 (PIA)–Gipagawas na sa Vatican ang mga detalye sa aktibidad ni Pope Francis sa pagbisita niini sa nasud gikan Enero 15 hangtud 19, 2015.
Sa usa ka press conference niadtong Biyernes sa gabii, gi usa-usa sa mga tinugyanan sa Simbahang Katoliko ug gobyerno ang mahimong itinerary sa himuong Papal Visit sa 2015.
Gipangunahan ni Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle ang panig sa Simbahang Katoliko samatang silang Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. ug Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Sonny Coloma ang ni-representar sa panig sa gobyerno.
Mao kini ang kinatibuk-ang itinerary sa Santo Papa:
Enero 15 (Huwebes)
5:44 PM – Pag-abot sa Manila
Enero 16 (Biyernes)
9:15 AM – Courtesy call sa Malakanyang
10:15 AM – Pakigkita sa ubang opisyal sa gobyerno ug miyembro sa diplomatic corps
11:15 AM – Santos nga Misa kauban ang mga opisyal ug kaparian sa Katedral sa Manila
5:30 PM – Pakig-pulong kauban ang mga pamilyang Pilipino sa Mall of Asia Arena
Enero 17 (Sabado)
8:15 AM – Mogikan sa Manila paingon sa Tacloban City
9:30 AM – Pag-abot sa Tacloban City
10:00AM – Santos nga Misa duol sa Tacloban Airport
12:45PM – Paniudto kauban ang mga biktima sa pagpanghasi sa bagyong Yolanda sa Archbishop’s
Residence sa Palo, Leyte
3:00 PM – Pagbasbas sa Pope Francis Center for the Poor sa Palo, Leyte
3:30 PM – Pakig-pulong kauban ang mga pari, seminarista, relihiyoso ug mga pamilyang
nakalingkawas sa bagyong Yolanda sa Katedral sa Palo, Leyte
5:00 PM – Paggikan paingon sa Manila
6:15 PM – Pag-abot sa Manila
Enero 18 (Dominggo)
9:45 AM – Pakig-pulong kauban ang nagkalain-laing lider sa mga hugpong pangrelihiyon sa Pontifical
University of Santo Tomas sa Manila
10:30AM – Pakig-pulong kauban ang mga kabataan sa sports field sa UST
3:30 PM – Santos nga Misa sa Rizal Park sa Manila
Enero 19 (Lunes)
9:45 AM – Departure ceremony sa Presidential Pavillion sa Villamor Airbase sa syudad sa Pasay
10:00AM – Paggikan paingon sa Roma
5:45 PM – Pag-abot sa Roma
Si Pope Francis ang ikatulong Santo Papa nga maka-bisita sa nasud. Una nang niduaw sa Pilipinas si Blessed Paul VI niadtong 1970 ug si Saint John Paul II niadtong 1995. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Nov 16, 2014 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
Actuarians donate P280K
To Gawad Kalinga Bohol
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, November 16, (PIA) –A nation-wide association of insurance assessors and evaluators handed to Gawad Kalinga (GK) Bohol a sum of P280,000 in check and pledges, during their recent convention at the Bellevue in Panglao.
The money goes to build houses and communities in earthquake affected and poverty haunted Bohol, according to Cresanto Sabanpan, of the Gawad Kalinga Project.
The Actuarial Society of the Philippines (ASP) who just had their 55th convention at the Pavillion of the Bellevue in tourism resort Panglao readied the papers for the donation through a board resolution which the group’s officers prepared for the Bohol event, according to ASP president Maria Sachiko Pang.
Pang shared this news in front of the delegates gathered who had earlier viewed a video presentation on the GK in the Philippines and its mission.
GK is an organization that started in the Philippine which targets to heave out 5 million poor Filipinos out of poverty by 2024.
This it does, by restoring the poor’s dignity and build a new nation empowered by people believing and loving the natioh, each one caring and sharing and is bent on working to beat poverty and regaining human dignity, according to Sabanpan, in the presentation attended also by the famed Loboc Children’s Choir.
While other groups help communities by building houses, GK characterizes itself by making an integrated and self-reliant community of service and making impossible things possible, leaving no one behind.
GK finds its fiscal support from donations in its social justice projects, banking on charity, being brother’s keepers by heroic response to voluntarism, according to Rey Balatayo, another GK worker in Bohol.
GK communities become active for testing earth friendly technologies, sustainable livelihood and innovations which could be the community’s quick way out of poverty.
With this, QK organizers aspire to attain social progress by working on the successes of voluntarism, caring and serving communities as well as sharing, because GK also believes it is not the lack of resources but the apparent tendency to hoard that makes the Philippines a poor nation.
In Bohol, a GK community is now rising in Bayacabac, Maribojoc, with 16 houses now completed at Purok 4, according to Barangay Chairman Jun Aniscal.
Aside from vermiculture, composting, organic farming, the people of this purok have started planting tree guarded fruit trees along the baranagay road leading to the municipal demo farm. (RAC/PIABohol)
by admin | Nov 15, 2014 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
Fablab helps Boholano designers Compete for ASEAN integration
GETTING READY. DTI Regional Director Asteria Caberte and Asec Ceferino Rodolfo take turns in explaining the fablab in the context of equipping local designers to compete in the upcoming Asian integration, WHILE Erickson Nangkil, ahowa off a soap which the laser cutter behind him cut to assure uniformity. (RAC/PIA)
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, November 15, (PIA) – Since May 2014, Bohol fabrication laboratory (fablab) has helped some 25 micro, small and medium enterprise (SME) groups in making their products fare better as the country braces for ASEAN Integration by 2015, reports Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Regional Director Asteria Caberte.
Of the 25 groups, 6 would come from the food industry where 3 are micro and another 3 belongs to MPCs, groups outside Bohol needing design assistance and students of BISU, Caberte told media.
The rest are furniture, metal and woodworks, simple circuit boards for automations, packaging and food processing.
Aside from the SME, the state of the art fabrication laboratory has provided an experience-based learning to science, technology and engineering students of the Bohol Island State University, adds Dr. Elpidio Magante, school president.
The fablab is a shared service facility which helps small and medium entrepreneurs produce better quality products.
This as the creative industries in the province sought for state of the art technology that could help them do rapid prototypes of high value and quality products to ascertain uniformity, product standard and the ability for mass production.
A project of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), in cooperation with the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Bohol Island State University (BISU), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the United States Agency for International Development (AUSAID), the fablab in Bohol is the country’s first of its kind, according to Trade Regional Director Aster Caberte.
It is a technology filled laboratory that offers hardware, software and state of the art equipment which attempts to help designers, food technologists, local products specialists and travel retail craftsmen replicate any of their creations with the precision only computers can make.
Machineries and technologies at the fablab Bohol include Small Milling Machine, a 3D Printer, Universal Laser System with water cannon, shopbot, Pina Teleconferencing with other Fablab experts and all Teleconferencing and sweatshirts
In Asia, regional leaders have been batting for an ASEAN economic community, to create one whole single market and production base in the region by ensuring free flow of goods, services, investment, capital and skilled or less skilled labor.
The AEC which was signed in previous ASEAN conferences pegged the start of opening Asean Member States (AMS) doors to friendly ASEAN workers accepting work without the need for working permits anymore, That also means products can come in the country without having to collect import duties.
As this bodes well to boost investments, open up jobs and escalate incomes, for producers, they would need to brace for the flooding of cheaper products that could practically drown the local competitions.
Here, the fablab forms as a laboratory for local designers and engineers needing the technological back-up towards the manufacture of product prototypes that could compete with the onslaught of cheap products.
We all need to work together to understand the pros and cons of global policy reforms, to ensure that the poor communities in the tourism supply chain can participate as destinations or suppliers of travel retails or souvenirs and food for the industry, according to a hint by DTI Assistant Secretary Ceferino Rodolfo, during a round table discussion at the BISU Fablab Conference Hall, November 14. (RAC/PIABohol)
by admin | Nov 14, 2014 | Headlines, Tech Talk
The Department of Trade and Industry – Bohol Provincial Office conducted a Multi-Stakeholder Briefing and Media Tour of Bohol on November 14, 2014. The media tour involved a series of roundtable discussions participated by representatives from the national, regional and local media.
The objective of the media tour was to help promote awareness and proper understanding of the opportunities and challenges of the coming regional market integration called AEC 2015. Issues related to economic prospects and development agenda of the Philippines, industry and business practices and consumer protection in relation to the regional integration were also discussed.
Among the discussion topics was how local stakeholders could collaborate to build competitive MSMEs. DTI Provincial Director Ma. Elena Arbon presented FabLab Bohol, a recently opened fabrication laboratory funded by multiple international funding agencies. The fabrication laboratory, the first of its kind in the Philippines, has been utilized by more than twenty local SMEs and organizations.
Director Arbon presented an example of the fabrication of a food grade silcon mold for ginger candy. Another fabrication project is the fabrication of a heat press machine. This example is unique because it is a fabrication of a production tool rather than the end product itself. Another project developed at the Fab Lab is the Balilihan Wiki House which was inaugurated earlier this year.
Also present to answer questions from the media were DTI Regional Director, DTI-7 Asteria C. Caberte, DTI Assistant Secretary Ceferino S. Rodolfo, Yoshiyuki Euno, Chief, Poverty Reduction Division of JICA and Elpidio T. Magante, President of BISU, the host university of the Fab Lab.
Asteria C. Caberte,DTI-7 Regional Director, Ceferino S. Rodolfo DTI Assistant Secretary, Yoshiyuki Euno, Chief, Poverty Reduction Division of JICA, Elpidio T. Magante, SUC President of BISU answering questions from the media during the media briefing.
Students of BISU and other universities have used the Fab Lab for their school projects. Magante announced that another Fab Lab is planned for the BISU Bingag, Dauis campus. This new laboratory will be oriented towards mass production rather than prototyping.
by admin | Nov 13, 2014 | Headlines, National News
DOLE to private sector employers:
Pay 13th month pay on or before Dec. 24
This early, Secretary of Labor and Employment Rosalinda Baldoz is urging all the country’s private sector employers to pay their workers the 13th month pay, pursuant to the Labor Code of the Philippines and its implementing rules and regulations, saying that the 13th month pay is a general labor standard that the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) does not compromise as to its payment.
Last Tuesday, the Secretary signed and issued a labor advisory to this effect, explaining that private sector employers are duty-bound under the law to report their compliance with this worker benefit.
“All employers are required to pay their rank-and-file employees the 13th month pay, regardless of the nature of their employment, and irrespective of the methods by which their wages are paid, provided they worked for at least one month during a calendar year,” Baldoz said.
“Good labor-management relations, increased workers’ and enterprises’ productivity and competitiveness result from workers being paid what is due them,” she added.
The 13th month pay is defined to mean one-twelfth (1/12) of the basic salary of an employee within a calendar year.
The basic salary includes all remunerations or earnings paid by an employer to an employee for services rendered, but may not include cost-of-living allowances (COLA), profit-sharing payments, cash equivalents of unused vacation and sick leave credits, overtime pay, premium pay, night shift differential pay, holiday pay, and all allowances and monetary benefits which are not considered, or integrated as part of the regular or basic salary of the employee.
“The 13th month pay must be paid on or before December 24 of every year. This year, the 24th of December falls on a Wednesday, so employers may pay their workers the 13th month benefit on this day, but I urge them to pay earlier to avoid the rush,” said Baldoz.
She added, however, that employers may pay their employees one-half of their 13th month benefit before the opening of the regular school year—May or June—and the remaining one-half on or before December 24. If not paid after this date, the 13th month pay becomes due and demandable.
The DOLE also advised that if employers could not give the intended 13th month pay, employees can file a case with any DOLE regional office. (DOLE)
by admin | Nov 13, 2014 | Headlines, National News
Senior citizens, dili na pangayoan og PhilHealth ID
MANILA, Nov. 13 (PIA)–Dili na kinahanglang magbaton dayon og Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) card ang mga senior citizens aron mapahimoslan ang balaod kalabot sa mandatory coverage sa tanang katawhan nga nag edad og 60-anyos pasaka.
Kini matud pa ni Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte sa press briefing kagahapon human gilagdaan ni Presidente Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III ang Republic Act (RA) 10645 o “An Act Providing for the Mandatory PhilHealth Coverage for All Senior Citizens”.
Gihimo ni Valte ang pahayag tungod sa giingong daghang mga senior citizens ang wala pay PhilHealth ID mao nga nangahadlok sila nga dili nila mapahimoslan ang maong balaod.
“Even if you don’t have the card but you’re identified under the national targeting system as indigent or at least part of the list, you’re automatic recognized,” pahayag ni Valte sa press briefing kagahapon.
“So all you have to do, go to PhilHealth representatives in that hospital. Even you don’t have the card, they can check your identify via mass release,” matud pa ni Valte.
Giingong kinahanglan lang nga dalhon ang ilang senior citizen’s card nga maoy ipakita sa mga akreditadong tambalanan sa PhilHealth.
Gipasabot ni Valte nga maong giduso ug gisuportahan ni PNoy ang maong balaod aron dili na kini magamit sa mga politiko matag eleksiyon diin manghatag kini og PhilHealth card nga usa ka tuig lamang ang coverage. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
