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BOI strengthens support for SMEs growth, approves investment projects of small firms
The Philippine Board of Investments (BOI) is further strengthening its support for the growth and development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as it recently approved the application for registration of investment projects of small enterprises—Sooraj Garments Manufacturing Inc. and Hardware Labs Performance Systems Inc. The mentioned projects were the first two SME investment projects approved by the agency under its newly-streamlined registration process. In line with the thrust of the present administration, the BOI, through Board Resolution Numbers 25-02 and 28-02, Series of 2016, delegated the processing and approval of projects of micro and small enterprises to the BOI Executive Director for Industry Development Services for projects in Luzon, and to the Division Chiefs/Officers-in-Charge of BOI Extension Offices for projects in the Visayas and Mindanao. “The delegation of functions aims to speed up processing of applications and thus promote ease of doing business in support of the growth and development of businesses especially MSMEs,” Trade Secretary and BOI Chairman Ramon Lopez said. The delegation applies to project activities in agriculture, services, tourism and manufacturing sectors with project cost of Php15 million and below. Sooraj Garments is a new export producer of garments with an annual capacity of 808,080 pieces per year. Located at Binangonan, Rizal, the Php1.985 million project will employ 64 people on a non-pioneer status. Hardware Labs meanwhile is a new export producer of cryocell refrigeration cooling at an annual capacity of 780 pieces module. The Php4.155 million project is located at Mabalacat, Pampanga and will employ seven people on a non-pioneer status. “Given their dynamic and productive characteristics, SMEs are seen as crucial for... read moreKatukoran sa drug rehab center sa Bohol, sugdan ka karong tuig
BOHOL, January 11 (PIA)–Gitakdang sugdan karong tuig ang katukoran sa bag-ong Mega Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation Center sulod sa Camp Rajah Sikatuna sa Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) sa lungsod sa Carmen, ning lalawigan. Usa ang lalawigan sa Bohol sa 5 ka lugar sa nasod diin sugdan ang pagtukod sa bag-ong drug rehabilitation center karong tuig. Matud pa ni Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco, ang tinubdan sa pondong mokabat sa P263 milyon nga itukod sa maong drug rehabilitation center maggikan sa China. Gipasalig sa Cabinet secretary nga ang katukoran sa maong rehab center magsugod gayud karong tuig ug matud pa nga iya nang gitahasan si Ding Borja, ang special envoy to China nga usa usab ka Bol-anon sa pag-pinalisar sa kakuhaan sa pondo gikan sa China sulod sa duha ka bulan. Kung mahuman na ang maong drug rehab center, makapasulod kini og 500 ka drug dependents. Ang Bohol usa sa mga lalawigan sa tibuok nasod nga nakatala og pinakadaghang drug surrenderees mao nga kinahanglan gayud dayon ang usa ka drug rehabilitation center dinhi. Sa katapusang ihap niadtong Nobyembre sa niaging tuig, dili moubos sa 25,000 ka drug users ang nitahan sa kapolisan sa Bohol ubos sa “Operation Tokhang.”... read more
PH advocates development of MSMEs Shares 7Ms towards shared prosperity in ASEAN
MANILA—The Philippines, through the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), continues to advance the promotion and development of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the ASEAN region through the “ASEAN MSME Development Summit” on 14 July. Under the Summit’s theme “7Ms Towards Shared Prosperity in ASEAN,” the Philippines laid out a seven-point strategy essential for MSME development—mindset, mastery, mentoring, markets, money, machines, and models—which the country wants the region to adopt to advance the ASEAN economic agenda of shared prosperity. The Summit gathered representatives from the private sector, civil society, and ASEAN governments to develop new ideas and identify areas of improvement to successfully place MSMEs in the vanguard of the ASEAN Economic Community’s (AEC) drive to achieve inclusive growth. “The Philippines has been in the forefront of providing substantive initiatives toward establishing MSMEs at the core of the ASEAN economic agenda. We want to elevate discussions and provide the right information on how we can further assist them to support our goal of achieving inclusive growth in ASEAN,” said ASEAN Economic Ministers chairman and DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez. The development of MSMEs is integral to sustaining the economic development in ASEAN since MSMEs comprise most of the businesses in the region’s aggregate regional economy, accounting for over 90 percent of all the domestic firms and 75 to 90 percent of the non-agricultural workforce. In pushing the MSME agenda, the Philippines seeks to address key challenges in their development and achieving prosperity in the region. Experts in various fields discussed the seven-point strategy taking into account the challenges that small enterprises face. Session 1 with Mindset as a...Gov’t to equip peace workers sent for fact finding missions
HONING further the skills of the local monitoring board (LMB) teams investigating alleged human rights abuses and violations committed by government forces and the communist rebels, the government sends in experts to train local peace workers in fact-finding missions. The seminar workshop on fact-finding set October 14, 2008 at the Bohol Plaza Resort, gathers members of the Bohol Local Monitoring Board (LMB-Bohol) and other individuals involved in fact finding missions sent by the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) to gather information on alleged human rights abuses. The workshop supported by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) Monitoring Committee is aimed at equipping local peace workers with the appropriate tools in fact finding missions. As a special support arm of the PPOC and LMB Bohol, teams conduct fact finding missions on alleged human rights abuses and has become a regular PPOC activity since 2001 until it became instituted in 2004, says LMB member and Philippine Information Agency’s Yvette Bede Matabalan. The workshop would be handled by resource persons from the Philippine Alliance of Human rights Advocates and the Commission on Human Rights national legal and investigative office, she added. Bohol’s fact finding missions on alleged human rights abuses has been recognized as laudable by the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), the GRP Peace Panel, the Armed Forces of the Philippines and other government and non-government organizations. Even the church leaders see the fact finding missions as a strategy in addressing alleged human rights abuses or violations by both government forces and the communist insurgents, said Romeo Teruel, Bohol PPOC fact finding...Local News/ Bohol Balita
San Miguel opens hospital from old 10-bed infirmary
FROM the site of its 10 bed infirmary, San Miguel town has erected a 25 bed health facility in line with its vision of making health service even more accessible to a bigger number of its residents in this hinterland town. And the local government’s decision to inaugurate the new facility than during the nutrition month culmination activities last Friday, July 31 is never even more prudent, says town information officer Menandro Pesquira in an interview. Pesquira pointed out that the old infirmary operated initially from funds generated from the town’s Nutrition Month activities as well as Countryside Development Fund of the District Representative. Using help from LOGOFIND, the town tapped funds to complete the P45M facility while putting in about P18M from the local coffers, he said. Mayor Claudio Bonior, during the hospital inauguration admitted that the dream facility would finally unsettle his poor constituents who then had to sidle in for the ten beds they can only offer. Attending the inauguration were Congressman Roberto Cajes, Boardmembers Amalia Tirol, Ma Fe Lejos, DILG Provincial Director Rustica Mascarinas, Pureza Chatto, DOH 7 Dr. Sofia Mancao. Resident physician Dr. Eduardo Abellar, head nurse and administrator Peter Nuez and Vice Mayor Jonathan Reyes. From an infirmary that responded to a diarrhea outbreak in 1994, the San Miguel Hospital now stands on the old site and promises the same if not better health assistance program to the town. The local officials decided to resettle the infirmary to a private residence while the construction went on, independent sources tell. Since there were cases, which needed financial assistance, the Confederated Health Councilors Association, composed...Police to recover 60 loose guns monthly
TALL order, comments Police Provincial Director Edgardo Ingking on the mandate to account for about 60 loose firearms in Bohol every month. But PSSUpt. Ingking believed that starting with the last known addresses of delinquent license holders who fail to renew their licenses in time for the final amnesty this October, the figure may not be impossible to reach. He added that Camp Dagohoy has a list of the 2,567 gun holders with expired licenses, guns which are now technically defined as loose fire-arms. Loose firearms, Ingking explains, are those in the keeping of threat groups, criminal elements and delinquent license holders. During a press conference on the National Firearms Control Program (NFACP) held at the Philippine Information Agency Tuesday, the top cop in Bohol also revealed that the local police would also go after the at least 1665 in their aggressive drive to run over the illegal possessors. For those intending to go by the book and avail of the gun registration and licensing amnesty, they revealed that the local police authorities have started processing application since August 1 to 31 to beat the October 1-31 deadline. At an earlier talk, Ingking cited Philippine National Police statistics detailing that about 97.8% of gun related crimes in the country involve the use of loose firearms. By accounting the loose firearms and keeping their records upon registration, police authorities can identify by ballistics examination any slug belonging to which firearms used in any crime. The government move also becomes timely with the coming elections would be approaching the problem of accounting loose firearms in two ways. He said aside from...PDEA deputization for cops this week
DEPUTIZATION of police officers as anti drug agents start this week, reveals the local office of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to the discomfort of people whose interests are now threatened by the additional narcotic enforcement man power. At the weekly Kapihan sa PIA, the PDEA, through Intelligence officer Steven Valles said they welcome the move as it increases the manpower by lending its authority to the towns based local law enforcement officers. While a deputized police officer can not go on operations without coordinating with the PDEA, Valles said the new deputized narc agents in uniform can apprehend and raid as long as they can get a raid control number from the regional office, one that the local office can facilitate. Survey indicates that Boholanos do not consider drugs as a huge problem, nevertheless, the PDEA has already netted 11 convictions, reads Valles from his reports. PDEA is now into aggressive demand reduction by going into information awareness campaigns and rounding schools to discuss on the ill effects, symptoms of drug use and how communities can do their share to stop the menace. This is amidst intelligence reports that illegal drugs continue to enter Bohol through the northwesthern towns facing Cebu. As regards deputization, Valles said the training set this august 10 to 14 would include the standard operating procedures for police as quasi-drug interdiction agents. He said most drug cases that get dismissed in court involves technicality proceedings and are being extensively used by depends lawyers. PDEA however said that pending the finalization of memorandum of agreement among the PNP, PDEA, PIIB and other drug enforcement...Hope springs alive for 21 Bohol ARCs with CARPER Bill signed
HOPE springs alive to the residents of Bohol’s 21 Agrarian Reform Communities (ARCs) who have yet to taste intervention promised by the government when it offered the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law. The 21 ARCs happened to be left out as 28 other Bohol ARCs race to get the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) help through government and foreign donors until the program expired June of last year. But with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo inking the consolidated version of the bill extending the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) by another five years last Friday, it was a momentous day for the life of residents of the remaining ARCs here. The most awaited CARP extension gives more hope to residents of three ARCS in Bohols First District, to 8 communities in Bohol II and to 10 communities in Bohol III. Already pushed for inclusion into the list of ARCs awaiting intervention both from local and foreign donors especially with the recent Asian Development Bank’s Agrarian Reform Communities Project (ARCP/ADB) project are ARC CAMPVILPAPPINS, Tubigon, ARC Upper Loon, Loon and Special ARC CHABMANS, Catigbian, data from the local DAR office show. In Bohol II district, pushed for consideration by the DAR are ARC Eastern Trinidad, Trinidad, Special ARC Mainland Bien Unido, Bien Unido, Special ARC VILLASANBOPO, President Carlos P. Garcia, ARC Buenahill, Buenavista, ARC Inabanga, Inabanga, ARC KASSU, Sagbayan, ARC SMART, San Miguel and ARC VEBACALAMPOSAN, Dagohoy. For Bohol III, recommended for intervention are ARC Loboc, Loboc, ARC Cabacnitan-Cambigsi, Bilar, Special ARC Garcia-Batuan, Special ARC BuenaLapta, Carmen, ARC EL PROMONTEVILLA, Carmen, ARC POBSCANTAM’S N LAS VILLAS, Sierra-Bullones, Special ARC KC, Alicia, ARC Guio-ang,...Whirlwind marriages often end up with women abused
The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) has advised Boholano parents not to force their children into marrying foreigners for the sake of a “secure future.” These arranged marriages do not give our women ample time to know their soon to be husbands and they do not have the time to know the culture of their soon to be husband’s country. These often lead to uncomfortable life of the wives who either turn beaten, abused or would be helpless in a foreign land, said Ivy Miravalles of the CFO. These acts may also start huge problems in the future, she added, reiterating that being alone in the midst of strangers in a foreign land would be too much to bear. The CFO had their Community Education program here to campaign for awareness among Boholanos on the issues of international migration and intermarriages. Bohol and Guimaras this year are the country’s provinces which top in migration....National News
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