by aimee | Jun 11, 2012 | Headlines, National News
The Department of Education (DepEd) sets January 28, 2012 as the early registration day for School Year (S.Y.) 2012-2013 in all public elementary and secondary schools nationwide.
“We have set aside this day for the early registration of out-of-school children, out-of-school –youth, children and youth with learning difficulties along with kinder, Grade 1 and incoming first year high school students,” said Education Secretary Bro. Armin A. Luistro.
Luistro said the Philippines is firmly committed to meet the goals of universal basic education and Education For All being advocated by the United Nations.
The early registration seeks to reach out to all five year-old children to enrol in kindergarten and for six year-olds to enlist for Grade 1.
It also aims to guarantee enrolment of OSC and OSY from the disadvantaged groups, indigenous peoples and street children ages 5 to 18 in their preferred delivery system. They can choose between formal schooling through alternative delivery mode (ADM) or informal mode via the alternative learning system (ALS).
The early registration also aims to keep track of OSC and OSY with disabilities whose ages range from 5 to 18 across grade levels and provide them with appropriate education intervention. “The state mandates that all Filipinos with or without learning disabilities must have access to education and the early registration aims to count them in,” the education chief explained. (DepEd/PIA)
by aimee | Jun 8, 2012 | National News
Social Welfare and Development Secretary Dinky Soliman hailed the issuance of PhilHealth’s Circular that provides entitlement of all Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries to the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) benefits in any health care providers accredited by PhilHealth.
Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries and their dependents may soon avail of the PhilHealth benefits, under the Sponsored Program Component of the NHIP, which provides government subsidy for health insurance to indigent families. To date, there are 3,005,025 Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries.
The availment of benefit starts fifteen days after publication of the Circular in a newspaper of general circulation.
Secretary Soliman said that qualified beneficiaries of the PhilHealth’s Sponsored Program are those identified Pantawid Pamilya household head beneficiaries, their legal spouse as reflected in the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) list of DSWD, their children below 21 years old and their parents 60 years old and above.
To avail of NHIP benefits, Pantawid Pamilya primary beneficiary-member-patients need only to present their Pantawid Pamilya ID card.
Secretary Soliman said that Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries, including their qualified dependents are entitled to primary care benefits that include consultation, diagnostic services and medicines from health care providers by PhilHealth. Likewise, they are entitled to inpatient and outpatient care services. (DSWD)
by aimee | Jun 8, 2012 | National News
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, June 08 (PIA)–Gipalig-on na sa US Senate ang usa ka resolusyon alang sa dugang nga “defense and security cooperation” tali sa Pilipinas.
Gibutyag sa Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) nga base sa taho sa embahada sa Washington, D.C., nahimong unanimous ang boto sa mga magbabalaod sa Estados Unidos sa Senate Resolution 481 nga gisang-at ni Republican Sen. Richard Lugar sa Indiana.
Matud pa usab ni Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Cuisia Jr., giingong gikonsiderar sa Pilipinas nga “positive development” ang maong lakang sa Amerika alang sa mas lig-on nga relasyon sa duha ka nasud.
Ubos sa maong resolusyon, giduso sa Amerika ang hingusgan nga bilateral security ties sa duha ka nasud, apil na ang pagduso sa defense modernization program sa Armadong Kusog sa Pilipinas, rotational presence sa US forces sa nasud ug dugang humanitarian ug disaster relief preparedness nga mga kalihokan.
“The Senate confirms the alliance’s centrality and enduring value as one of the key pillars of peace, stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region and as a key tool in addressing the emerging security environment in the region,” parte sa gilatid sa maong resolusyon.
Kahinumdoman nga una nang giseguro ni Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ug US Defense Sec. Leon Panetta ang saad sa Estados Unidos nga pagduso sa nagpatunga nga Mutual Defense Treaty tali sa Pilipinas. (PIA-Bohol/ecb)
Land reform, priority sa administrasyong Aquino – DAR
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, June 08 (PIA)–Atubangan sa panawagan sa grupo sa mga mag-uuma ug mga obispo alang sa full implementation sa extended Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), giseguro pagbalik sa Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) nga pursigido ang gobyerno sa pagduso sa tinuoray nga repormang agraryo.
Gani, gipasigarbo ni DAR Sec. Virgilio de los Reyes nga sa unang duha ka tuig sa pag-alagad ni Presidente Beningo Aquino III, nahimo sa gobyerno ang pagpalit ug pagpangapud-apod sa gibana-banang naa sa 219,069 ektaryang kayutaan sa tibuok nasud.
“Though this is not exemplary, this is by no means the lowest accomplishment in the history of the CARP”, matud pa ni de los Reyes.
Una na usab giingon sa kalihim nga gipaspasan na sa gobyerno ang proseso alang sa pagpangapud-apod og yuta sa mga mag-uuma sa Hacienda Luisita sa lalawigan sa Tarlac.
Kahinumdoman nga gipalig-on na sa Korte Suprema ang pagpangapud-apod sa 4,916-hectare sugar estate sa kapin 6,000 ka mga trabahante sa bukid sa hacienda.
Ang Hacienda Luisita sa lalawigan sa Tarlac gipanag-iya sa pamilya ni Presidente Aquino.
Dugang pa sa opisyal nga target sa ilang buhatan nga mapaubos sa land reform program ang 961,974 ka ektaryang yuta sa tibuok nasud sa tuig 2014. (PIA-Bohol/ecb)
by magnolia_eic | Jun 7, 2012 | Headlines, National News
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, June 07 (PIA)–Tulo pa ka ngalan ang nadugang sa mga nominado isip mosunod nga chief justice sa Supreme Court.
Gipahayag ni Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) member Jose Mejia nga apil sa mga ngalan nga giduso kanila sila si human rights advocate lawyer Katrina Legarda, Solicitor-General Francis Jardeleza ug Ateneo De Manila College of Law Dean Cesar Villanueva.
Gawas sa tulo, apil usab sa mga kandidato ang mga most senior associate justices sa Korte Suprema sa panguna ni Senior Associate Justice ug karon acting chief justice Antonio Carpio, Associate Justices Presbitero Velasco Jr., Teresita Leonardo-de Castro, Arturo Brion ug Diosdado Peralta.
Kagahapon, pormal nang gibuksan sa JBC ang nomination process alang sa pagpili sa mohulip sa gibiyaang puwesto ni kanhi Chief Justice Renato Corona. Matapos ang pagpangdawat sa JBC og nominasyon sa Hunyo 18.
Gikan sa gidusong mga ngalan sa JBC, mopili si Presidente Benigno Aquino III sa bag-ong chief justice sa Korte Suprema. (PIA-Bohol/ecb)
by magnolia_eic | Jun 7, 2012 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita, National News
PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III has urged British investors to participate in the Philippine government’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects.
President Aquino extended the invitation during his meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street on Wednesday here as part of his official visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
In the joint statement of President Aquino and Prime Minister Cameron, the two leaders agreed to further expand economic cooperation to pave the way for increased trade and investment flows between the Philippines and UK.
During the meeting, the Philippine leader also briefed Prime Minister Cameron on the Philippines’ Public-Private Partnership program and invited the UK government and the business sector “to continue sharing its vast expertise in this area, and encouraged British
investors to participate in the projects.”
The UK leader, in turn, assured President Aquino that the UK government had provided and would continue to provide expertise to the Philippines in shaping its PPP program and looked forward to British companies participating in projects.
The Philippines and the United Kingdom have enjoyed a robust economic partnership over the years. The United Kingdom is the Philippines’ top European investor, and the largest Philippine tourism market in Europe.
President Aquino also emphasized that the Philippines offered exciting investment opportunities for British business, especially in the sectors of energy, infrastructure, business- process outsourcing, information technology and tourism.
After his meeting with the UK Prime Minister, President Aquino attended the luncheon offered by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and presided by Minister Jeremy Browne and the Lord Mayor of London Alderman David Wootton at the Lancaster House. (PCOO)
by aimee | Jun 6, 2012 | National News
Lapu Lapu City Marine Sports and Boat Owners Association
(MSBOAT) joins its counterparts in six (6) other the countries in
celebrating the first Coral Triangle Initiative Day on June 9, 2012
through a coastal and underwater clean-up in Barangay Maribago,
Lapu Lapu City.
Emeterio Bonghanoy, the President of the MSBOAT says that
many of its members have expressed intention to join the coastal
and underwater clean up on Saturday, June 9 which will
commence at 7 o’clock in the morning. It is open to all members
and the general public who wants to get involved.
Auditor
Appointed officers
Del Mar, Bernardo C.,
Director for Safety
Gilig,Simplicio A,
Director for Boat Owners
Viovicente, Rodito T.,
Director for Security
Lumaban, Feliciano,
Director Public Relations
Icot, Cecilio,
Director for Environment
Valenzuela, Florencio,
Director for Dive Shops
and Dive Instructors
Maglasang, Jennes,
Director for Marine Sports
Lapu Lapu City Marine Sports and Boat Operators Association
Secretariat Office, Boyla Resort and Hotel, Buyong, Maribago, Lapu Lapu City
+63 32 4921800+63 32 492 1832 +63 32 495 7895(fax)
msboat@gmail.com
This year’s theme is “Shared Waters, Shared Solutions: Coming
Together as One for the World’s Centre of Marine Life—The Coral
Triangle.”
The event is envisioned to be an annual, open-sourced activity that
brings together individuals, organizations, private sector and
governments on one special day of the year to shed light on ocean
conservation and the numerous ways to protect and conserve the
Coral Triangle.
Similar activities will be conducted in El Nino Palawan by the dive
shops association there as well as in Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua
New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Timor Leste.
Activities include beach clean-ups; sustainable seafood dinners
and exhibitions; bazaars; and beach parties, among others—all
carrying the message of ocean conservation under the overall
banner of the Coral Triangle Day.
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The First Coral Triangle Initiative Day aims to build a critical
mass of supporters for the Coral Triangle on the individual,
organizational, corporate, and government levels by using fun
ways for people in the region to take action.
The Coral Triangle is a geographical term so named as it
refers to a roughly triangular area of the tropical marine waters
of Indonesia, Malaysia, Timor Leste, Papua Ne Guinea,
Solomon Islands and the Philippines that contain at least 500
species of reef-building corals.
It also called the “Amazon of the seas” and covers 5.7 million
square kilometers of ocean waters. Its biological resources
sustain the lives of over 120 million people. The Philippines is
at the apex of the coral triangle.
Lapu Lapu municipal waters is found in a rare geological area
in the Coral Triangle called Danajon Double Barrier Reef.
Bonghanoy said divers from the Philippine Coast Guard,
Philippine National Police, Bureau of Fire, Philippine Navy,
the Sea Knights, Coastal Conservation Education Foundation
Elected Officers 2012-2013
Bonghanoy, Emeterio A,
President
Chua, Lavilla A,
Vice President for Internal
Affairs
Balao, Ferdinand V,
Vice President for External
Affairs
Alipio, Genevieve T,
Treasurer
Paquibot, Annie B.,
Secretary
Corral, Norlito G.,
Auditor
the Sea Knights, Coastal Conservation Education Foundation
and the Coast Guard Auxiliary are also expected to
participate.
The program starts with an ecumenical prayer, an orientation
about the event, assignment of areas to be cleaned and the
clean-up itself.
The clean-up will be conducted in Barangay Maribago but the
Association has requested members from other Barangays to
do the same. For those interested to participate they may
report to Boyla Hotel and Resort, Buyong , Barangay
Maribago, Lapu Lapu City at 7 o’clock in the morning or call
492.1800 and 492.1823 for details.
The Lapu Lapu Marine Sports and Boat Owners Association
is the organization of all legitimate and responsible dive
shops, dive instructors, motor sports operators, boat owners
and other professionals involved in maritime affairs in Lapu
Lapu City.
Auditor
Appointed officers
Del Mar, Bernardo C.,
Director for Safety
Gilig,Simplicio A,
Director for Boat Owners
Viovicente, Rodito T.,
Director for Security
Lumaban, Feliciano,
Director Public Relations
Icot, Cecilio,
Director for Environment
Valenzuela, Florencio,
Director for Dive Shops
and Dive Instructors
Maglasang, Jennes,
Director for Marine Sports
Lapu Lapu City Marine Sports and Boat Operators Association
Secretariat Office, Boyla Resort and Hotel, Buyong, Maribago, Lapu Lapu City
+63 32 4921800+63 32 492 1832 +63 32 495 7895(fax)
msboat@gmail.com
