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DTI Bohol Celebrates 2017 Consumer Welfare Month
DTI Bohol Celebrates 2017 Consumer Welfare Month The Department of Trade and Industry Bohol Provincial Office celebrates consumer month in October, in partnership with the Consumer Watch-Bohol, Inc. (CWBI) and the Bohol Youth Consumer Movement (BYCM). This year’s celebration carries the theme “Consumer Rights in the Digital Age”. As a kick-off activity of the month-long celebration, DTI Bohol organizes a Consumer 5k Fun Run 2017 on October 1 which is simultaneous with other provinces and regions in the country. This activity aims to provide an avenue to advocate consumer rights and responsibilities while promoting health and wellness at the same time. Consumers, students, government and private employees are encouraged to join the consumer fun run, which is open for both male and female categories. Cash prizes of P 2,000.00, P 1,500.00, and P 1,000.00, will be given to the top three runners. Registration is free and the first two hundred (200) participants will be given free singlet. Official fun run registration forms are available at DTI Bohol Provincial Office. On the other hand, the 5th Consumer Youth Summit will also be held on October 5, 2017,at JJ’s Seafood Village. The summit is open to students from the universities and colleges in Tagbilaran City. Resource speakers are invited to talk about eCommerce and Anti-phishing and anti-scam laws. A Seminar on Product Standards Regulation and Conformance will also be held on October 13, 2017. This activity aims to update local business hardware and construction companies and establishments on the latest product standards department administrative orders and importation laws and regulations. A culminating activity of this year’s Consumer Month celebration is the... read moreCHINA TO GRADUALLY INCREASE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO PH
CHINA TO GRADUALLY INCREASE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO PH. Seeing the assuring growth in the economic relations with the Philippines (PH), China (CN) conveyed that it will increase development assistance to the Philippines. At the sidelines of the PH hosting of the 49th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ (AEM) Meeting and Related Meetings, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez, who serves as the 2017 AEM chair, convened a bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Commerce Minister Zhong Shan. PH and CN discussed various measures to enhance trade and investment relations arising from the PH-CN Six-Year Development Program (SYDP) for Trade and Economic Cooperation 2017-2022 (SYDP) and the Joint Commission on Economic and Trade Cooperation (JCETC). As part of the realization of the priority activities under the SYDP, the ministers endorsed the finalization of the Memorandum of Understanding on Industrial Parks Development between the Philippine Board of Investments (BOI) and China’s Ministry of Commerce. “This initiative to develop industrial parks in the Philippines will help enhance the country’s manufacturing base and increase domestic production,” said Sec. Lopez. A ground-breaking activity for some of the infrastructure projects under the SYDP was also proposed to be initiated within 2017. Said activity will be led by the respective infrastructure groups of both sides. PH, meanwhile, mentioned potential areas for further cooperation including infrastructure, manufacturing (e.g. aircrafts parts, bicycles, e-vehicles, iron and steel, shipbuilding and irradiation facilities), cross-border e-commerce, big data analytics, and creative industries. Both sides positively noted the improved trade and economic relations between PH and CN resulting from the Presidential Visit to China in October 2016, as... read more
Booming business: Countryside entrepreneurship up
As part of the Trabaho, Negosyo agenda of the administration, which puts center the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and job generation, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has set its sight on providing both for Filipinos. This has become prevalent with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) reported the growing interest and enthusiasm of Filipinos in venturing into business as more and more entrepreneurs turn to Negosyo Centers for assistance for MSMEs and aspiring entrepreneurs. In the 2017 Negosyo Center year-end performance monitoring report, a total of 614,417 entrepreneurs have been assisted by these centers—leapfrogging from the June 2017 performance report of 595,573 clients assisted since the inception of Negosyo Centers in 2014. DTI Regional Operations Group (DTI-ROG) Undersecretary Zenaida Maglaya stressed that the huge surge of entrepreneurs assisted was due to the government’s support for MSMEs and the advancing of MSMEs as economic movers of the country. “2017 has been the year for Filipino MSMEs as the country hosted the ASEAN. With ASEAN, MSMEs were given the much needed attention in order to advance the country’s economic agenda,” Maglaya said. With more MSMEs turning to Negosyo Center for assistance, Maglaya attributed the entrepreneurship surge to the agency’s continuing drive to introduce entrepreneurship as a steady source of income, while also recognizing the agency’s partnerships with other national government agencies, and non-government organizations (NGOs), local government units, and big corporations. “We’re very grateful to Filipinos that they realize the huge help they get from entrepreneurship and how business contributes to society by providing employment and lifting the economy,”...Raspberry Pi Foundation Releases the $5 Computer
By: Jerome Auza Embedded computing enthusiasts have reason to celebrate in November 2015. Raspberry Pi Foundation, the developer and manufacturer of the Raspberry Pi embedded computers, announced the immediate availability of the latest model of the Raspberry Pi series of products. The Raspberry Pi Zero is available for $5 per unit and the specs are quite decent for the price: A Broadcom BCM2835 application processor 1GHz ARM11 core (40% faster than Raspberry Pi 1) 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM A micro-SD card slot A mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output Micro-USB sockets for data and power An unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header Identical pinout to Model A+/B+/2B An unpopulated composite video header A very small form factor at 65mm x 30mm x 5mm Eben Upton, Raspberry Pi Founder, announced the availability of the Raspberry Pi Zero on his blog at https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/ on November 26, 2015. He said that the cost of the computer is important in increasing the chance that people will get involved in programming. The Raspberry Pi Zero runs on Raspbian, an operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution. The application possibilities on a Raspberry Pi Zero are endless. As long as the application doesn’t required extensive processing power, very large memory or lots of fast storage, it can be done on the Raspberry Pi Zero. This development comes at the time when the buzzword “Internet of Things”, essentially a machine-to-machine network, is very popular. In the very near future, it will be possible to link up various appliances, equipment, devices, sensors, cameras and many other things so that these can perform many tasks in an automated manner...Local News/ Bohol Balita
PGLL Seminar set on April 3-5 in Bohol
The Philippine Group of Law Librarians (PGLL) in cooperation with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) – National Committee on Library and Information Services (NCLIS) will hold a three-day Seminar on “Information Power: Building Partnership” on April 3-5, 2013. This will be held at the Bohol Tropics Resort in Graham Avenue, Tagbilaran City. The objectives of this seminar are for the participants to be able to know the available legal collections and resources, both digital and non-digital; to understand the theories being established and the support for its success; and to understand the current laws and jurisprudence that affect the professional and communities. Librarians (academic, special school, public, government agencies, information center, lawyers, non-librarians, information managers/personnel, researchers, teachers, LGUs, employees/office staff, barangay officials and students are invited to attend this timely and informative seminar. Legal information resources are important for all types of Libraries and Information Centers to respond to the needs of people from all walks of life. Building partnerships for legal information is imperative considering complete Philippine legal resources are not available in print. Electronic or digital resources serve to provide answer to these needs. Undersecretary Manuel Quezon III of the Presidential Communications & Strategic Management and Planning Committee will give a talk on Building Partnership on Legal Information: An Update on the Nation’s Project during the opening day. For more details about the seminar, one may contact the Provincial Librarian, Ms. Erlinda Rule at telephone numbers (038) 411-2642 and 501-9106....15th HEAT Bohol Caravan ipahigayon sa Trinidad
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Feb. 21 (PIA)–IPAHIGAYON sa lungsod sa Trinidad ang ika-15 nga HEAT Bohol Caravan sa umaabot Marso 13, 2013. Sa coordination meeting nga gipatawag kagahapon sa kagamhanang probinsiyal, nagpasalamat og daku ang first lady sa lungsod sa Trinidad nga si Judith Cajes nga ang ilang lungsod na usab ang usa sa maka benepisyo sa mga serbisyo nga idalit sa HEAT Caravan. Matud pa ni Cajes, dugay na nila kining gipangandoy apan nagpaulahi lang ang lungsod sa Trinidad tungod kay nag-obserbar pa sila sa ubang lungsod aron kun adto na kini ipahigayon, hipno ug sakto na ang ilang preparasyon. Ang HEAT kun Health and sanitation o Kasanihan, Edukasyon, Agrikultura ug Turismo, ang nag-unang haligi o programa sa adminstrasyon nilang Gob. Edgar Chatto ug Bise Gob. Concepcion Lim. Gibutyag ni Liza Flores, ang Chief sa Special Projects Section sa Kapitolyo nga nikabat na sa 105 ka participating agencies ang mosalmot sa HEAT caravan nga kaniadto 39 lamang sa dihang nagsugod kini. Sama sa naandan, dad-on ang nagkalain-laing serbisyo sa kagamhanan ngadto sa katawhan nga karon masinati sa taga Trinidad ug mga kasikbit nga lungsod sa tresero distrito. Nakig-tambayayong usab ang mga ahensiya sa kagamhanang nasyonal ug sa lalawigan, ilabi na usab ang mga pribadong sektor o hut-ong aron paghatag sa ilang serbisyo. Ang HEAT Bohol Caravan gidayeg kaayo sa mga katawhan ug sa mga nasudnong kagamhanan, sama sa Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) ug Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) nga maoy usa sa hinungdan nga nakadawat ug nagkalain-laing pasidungog ang lalawigan sa Bohol....Leadership-Orientation Seminar Held Trinidad,Bohol
(Former Trinidad Mayor Judith “Bb” Cajes as she delivered her message ) The LGU-Trinidad through its members of the Water Sanitation-Technical Working Group has conducted a 3- day leadership and water governance seminar last February 4-6, 2013 at the Trinidad Municipal Center of this municipality. The activity was participated in by all the members of the Board of Directors of the 16 Barangay Water Service Associations or BAWASA being the end-users of the LGU-Trinidad-Sagana at Ligtas na Tubig sa Lahat Program or SALINTUBIG Program. The objective of the seminar according to Engr. Peolito G. Orioque, municipal engineer and member of the LGU-Trinidad water sanitation technical working group, is to enhance the basic leadership skills and capacity building of the members of the BAWASA-Board of Directors. The seminar was attended by former mayor Judith “Bb” Del Rosario-Cajes and during her speech she reminded all the participants regarding the expected output of the seminar in which according to her is for the members of the BAWASA-Board of Directors to become self reliant in managing their respective potable water system particularly in maintaining its operation and its project sustainability in the long run. Moreover, the former mayor also cited that one of the major concerns of the Administration of Mayor Roberto “Ondoy” Cajes is to have an affordable and safe potable water system in all barangays of Trinidad so that it could effectively help combat various water related deceases and to bring down as well the prevailing poverty incidence in his municipality. The resource persons of the seminar were Mr. Jose Roel Tumarao, MLGOO and Engr Peolito Orioque, while the Community Organizers...Labing dakung surgical mission karong tuiga, ipahigayon sunod buwan
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Jan. 15 (PIA)–Gitakda sa Pebrero 17-23, 2013 ang labing dakung surgical mission ning tuiga dinhi sa lalawigan sa Bohol. Kini pagadumalaon sa 30-man surgical team gikan sa Association of Filipino Physicians of Southern Illinois (AFPSI) nga pangunahan ni Dr. Renato Rivera. Ang US surgical team moabot dinhi sa Pebrero 16 sakay sa Philippine Airlines (PAL). Ang mga miyembro sa maong surgical team naglangkob sa mga ekspertong American surgeons, experienced nurses gikan sa Southern Illinois ug ubang doktor gikan sa West Virginia, Arizona, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Florida ug California nga pangunahan ni Dr. Antonio Daquipa. Ipahigayon ang surgical mission sa Borja Family Hospital pinaagi sa medical director niini nga si Dr. Melinda Borja ug chief of clinic, Dr. Kazan Baluyot. Apil sa mga surgical cases nga ipahigayon mao ang thyroidectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, breast tumor, hernia, gallbladder ug cleft lip palate, ug uban pang major operations. Ang mga pasyente niini maggikan sa 47 ka lungsod sa lalawigan sa Bohol ug sa syudad sa Tagbilaran. Gitambagan ang publiko nga bisitaha lang ang buhatan ni Dr. Fancy Baluyot sa ubos ug likod nga bahin sa Provincial Capitol o tawag lamang sa (038) 501-9196 alang sa ubang detalye ug pangutana, samtang nagpadayon pa ang pagpa-lista ug pre-screening sa mga pasyente. Gitambagan ang mga pasyente sa pagbisita una sa ilang municipal health officers alang sa proper referral sa mga pasyente sa kalungsoran. Kining labing dakung surgical mission gi-sponsoran sa Kagamhanang Probinsiyal ubos sa pagdumala ni Gob. Edgar Chatto ug Vice-Gob. Concepcion Lim ug pinaagi usab sa Sangguniang Panlalawigan health committee chair Board Member Cesar Tomas Lopez, Provincial Administrator Alfonfo Damalerio II ug...Provincial Election Supervisor sa Bohol, kasamtangang hulipan
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Jan. 11 (PIA)–Gitakdang kasamtangang hulipan si Provincial Election Supervisor Atty. Eliseo Labaria sa Enero 21, 2013 hangtud matapos ang election period. Kini tungod sa na-andan na nga reshuffling sa mga Election Supervisor sa dili pa ipahigayon ang eleksyon, pasabot ni Juvenal Beniga, ang tigpamaba sa Commission on Elections (COMELEC) dinhi atol sa Information Sharing sa mga miyembro sa Association of United Development Information Officers in Bohol (AUDIO-Bohol) nga gipahigayon kagahapon sa Casa Rey Pension House & Restaurant. Matud pa ni Beniga nga ang reshuffling sa mga election officers sa mga kalungsoran ug election supervisor sa mga lalawigan magsugod na unta gahapon, Enero 10, apan gibalhin sa Enero 21 tungod sa hangyo nga i-oktaba una kini aron mahatagan sila og igong panahon aron pagsinati sa ilang bag-ong tahas. Ang mohulip kang Labaria mao si Cebu Provincial Election Supervisor Atty. Marco Lionel Castillano, samtang giingong sa Siquijor usab kasamtangang ibutang si Labaria. Samtang hingpit na usab nga ipatuman ang ‘gun ban’ sa nasud sugod sa Enero 13, 2013, isip pagpangandam sa 2013 May elections. Si Beniga nagkanayon nga ubos sa Comelec gun ban, tanang lisensiya ug Permits to Carry Firearms Outside Residence (PTCFORs) suspendido. Exempted sa ‘gun ban’ ang Armed Forces of the Philippines chief (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), Bureau of Corrections, Bureau of Customs, Bureau of Imigration, Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU) ug Presidential Security Group nga naka-uniporme ug naka-duty. Dungan sa pagpatuman sa gun ban sa Enero 13, gipaabot nga daghang kapolisan ang ipakatap ug hingosgan usab ang mga checkpoints sa Philippine National Police (PNP). Mopahigayon pa hinuon og...National News
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