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DOLE, Edukasyon.ph partner for Online Career Awareness for Senior High School students
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and education startup Edukasyon.ph (www.edukasyon.ph) have partnered to increase student awareness online on jobs and improve decision making of students and parents in getting the right education for the careers they aspire to. “We are excited to be working with Edukasyon.ph in sharing with our thousands of senior high school students the career information they need to get the right skills for the jobs. As early as now, we want our students to know the different job possibilities out there for their chosen career path,” said Secretary Silvestro Bello III, DOLE Secretary. Under the partnership, DOLE’s Philjobnet and Edukasyon.ph will be linking up their website systems to jointly share school and job information with senior high school students and parents. Students who want to know what are the available jobs out there can find jobs offered by Philjobnet in the different professions at the Discover Careers section of Edukasyon.ph. “This partnership will help students explore all the opportunities that are tied to their specific choice of course for college or Senior High School track. On the other hand, jobseekers will also be given a chance to know more about how they can be able to expand their opportunities by providing them with information about educational resources that are available for them.” said Edukasyon.ph Founder & CEO, Henry Motte-Munoz. The Memorandum on Agreement was signed on 21 December 2016 at the DOLE Ople Hall between DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III and Edukasyon Founder and CEO Henry Motte-Munoz. Edukasyon.ph (www.edukasyon.ph) is a social enterprise that helps students discover, search and apply for the education that... read morePOWER TRIPS
A day after key National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) officials met with the governor to reassure Bohol of the government transmission service, tensions calmed down. Weeks earlier, darkness blanketed Bohol and in the occasion of the blinking series lights season, Bohol had its share of the on-off disappointments. Consumers started to complain of broken appliances, businesses raised a howl over lost potentials and losing commerce, while politicians who capitalized on vote recall cried the loudest. It is along this taut situation that the NGCP meeting came at the proper time: before everything could explode into a bleak scenario. By now, Bohol is using about 80 megawatts of power just to get by. A local source of power, three hydro power plants: Loboc, Ewon in Sevilla and Hanopol in Balilihan plus the Dampas Diesel Power Plant can produce less than 20 megawatts. Unfortunately, these have been sent to a pool tapped into the Visayas Grid. In return, Bohol largely gets its supply from the Tongonan Geothermal Plant in Leyte. A 138 Kilovolt line is now straddling the mountains of Leyte, Southern Leyte and then down to Maasin where a submarine cable brings the power to Tugas Point in Carlos P Garcia where it resumes into overhead transmission across Popoo to Imelda in Ubay where a substation boosts the power for Bohol distribution. From there, two lines string overhead in steel towers: to complete the Bohol circuits to Corella. The Haiyan experience of the 138 KV line which got compromised when steel towers in Leyte toppled, Bohol saw the sad plight. Until that single line from Leyte is made... read more
Bohol Fablab for MSMEs wins in Asia’s start-up pitch contest for innovative biz
The fabrication laboratory (FabLab), a design co-creation platform in Bohol supporting Philippine micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) was cited among the top winners in an annual competition for start-up businesses using science and technology for innovative ideas. Bohol FabLab won 200,000 yen prize money from THK, a Japanese-listed company in the Tokyo Stock Exchange who will then collaborate with FabLab for a development project involving the latter’s upcycling facility. The award was among those given in the Tech Planter competition organized by a venture firm based in Japan Leave A Nest Co. Ltd meant for hardware makers that leverage science and technology for innovative business ideas. Same competitions are also held in countries like Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia. Aside from FabLab’s upcycling project, other winning teams introduced innovations such as using light pigmented ube (purple yam) for commercial use, a mind-based alert system for paralysed patients, and a vending machine for over-the-counter medicines or first aid. “Winning the competition gives Bohol Fablab and its beneficiaries the opportunity to partner with other companies and scale up its operations,” said Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer (JOCV) Shiro Takaki who mentored and coordinated the Bohol FabLab participation in the competition. The contest saw the potential of Bohol FabLab’s heat press machine, an upcycling equipment developed by Takaki to form new products from waste materials like plastic. Global luxury brand Louis Vuitton already expressed interest to source materials for the interior designs of their boutique from the FabLab. Established in 2014, the Bohol FabLab began as a development cooperation initiative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency’s (JICA) JOCV Program, Department of Trade and Industry...No Results Found
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PARO Sinco elated over Bi-cam CARP extension
MORE projects, more agrarian related support infrastructure and services, says Atty. Johnson Sinco on the reports that the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) Extension with Reform bill has been passed. Sinco, Bohol Agrarian Reform Officer could not contain his excitement with the development as the bicameral ruling for the extension, when ratified next month would stretch the program for another five years and give it a P150-billion funding with the ratification if the congress when their session resumes on July 27, adds DAR information officer Ma. Lydia Bantugan recently. “We are very thankful to all farmers, agrarian reform beneficiaries, district representatives, local leaders and social justice advocates for believing in us and allowing us more time to help farming communities improve their lot and see better future,” Sinco said. Early this week, a members of the bicameral committee reviewing the extension through a reconciled version of both House and Senate CARP measures approved the extension and pushes for the immediate ratification of the measure, sources said. The reconciled measures agree to the five year-extension, the restoration of compulsory land acquisition and distribution and the establishment of a congressional oversight panel to eye on the program implementation. The Senate bill, however, allocates a budget of P147 billion, while that of the House states that the program be provided at least P100 billion. Another irritant, which the bicameral settled is for the mode of land distribution, which is now limited to compulsory acquisition and voluntary offer to sell. Voluntary land transfer (VLT), which was allowed in the original CARP law, was scrapped on the ground that it is not an effective...Local talents at recent “Independent filmfest”
MUSICAL virtuosity of Boholanos pop recently at the “breakaway world” of independent (indie) films. Boholano multi-awarded musical scorer and composer Lutgardo Labad took his best swing in the world of indie films with the best of the best in Bohol singing groups to embellish at least two films: Raya Martin’s Independencia and Maryo delos Reyes’ Kamoteng Kahoy. For Independencia and Kamoteng Kahoy, Labad used the musical talents of the sensational Loboc Children’s Choir, some of the group’s alumni members to interpret a wide variety of score for both films, independent sources said. Independencia was an entry to the just concluded 2009 Cannes Film Festival in France for the non-competition category while Kamoteng Kahoy was one of the six SINE DIREK Film Series at the festival. Independencia, set in the late 1890s, portrays a family forced to hide in the dense forests of Luzon to escape the advance of the new American colonizers stars Sid Lucero, Tetchie Agbayani, and Alessandra de Rossi. The totality of the film is the first Filipino film that was accepted to the Un Certain Regard category of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, while another Filipino film capped Best Director for Brillante Mendoza in the competition category for his movie Kinatay. Using the theme melody of the Francisco Baltazar’s corido Florante at Laura, Labad utilized the angelic voices of the Loboc Children’s Choir (LCC). LCC performers included alumni members Leah Cal, Liz Cal and Noel Kerr Caneda while the child singers consisted of Rica Baliton, Vea Navarro, Jenali Alexis Calipusan, Anna Marie Suganob, Jack Elmar Varquez and Paul Delfin Sumampong. UP String Quartet, Pundaquit Virtuosi Cellist...DA wants to regulate feeds’ dealers, mayors to accredit
JUST how sure are customers that the “pricey” commercial feeds from local feeds dealer is exactly of the same quality as the label they want to patronize? This has become a concern for the Department of Agriculture (DA) Animal Feeds and Drug Control after noticing the uncontrolled proliferation of feeds dealers in the towns and the imminent danger of adulteration. Appearing at the bi-monthly out-of-town League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) meeting in Inabanga June 10, Venerando Limpot, the province’s deputized control officer appealed to the mayors for help. Limpot said the department wants to put up control measures to stop and regulate any of these activities to assure customers that they get their money’s worth when they purchase feeds. Mayors play a critical role, according to Limpot in issuing business permits to these feeds dealers. What the DA wants is for the mayors to make sure that before they issue business permits to commercials feeds dealers, they also would ask them to present their DA accreditation for feeds distributor as a pre-requisite. The DA accreditation also allows the government to take samples of the feeds displayed and send them for occasional complete laboratory analysis to ascertain if the products bear the same quality as the ones the product name is bearing. Limpot explained that feeds also have expiration dates, or dealers may, by mistake distribute a different brand other than the label and short-change the customers. Over this, the LMP through President Roberto Salinas of Catigbian town promised the DA agent to allow him to coordinate with the municipal agricultural officers (MAO) to implement the necessary steps...Blind advocate shows mayors way to help ‘differently abled’
THE MOVE to make Bohol public and private business establishments friendly to “differently-able” persons and compliant with applicable national law on accessibility gets to the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) and it takes a blind man to show the mayors the way. Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons (BFDP) president and sight impaired Mateo Quilas pointed to the Bohol mayors that a tourism destination, apart from being a wholesome experience for the normal tourist also needs to be friendly to the physically impaired as well. Quilas, an active advocate for the rights of the differently abled appealed for the physically challenged persons during the LMP bimonthly meeting in Inabanga town. The appeal was for the BFDP to partner with mayors in implementing the provisions of the accessibility law and press establishments to do the necessary changes before the local chief executives grant building and business permits and licenses. The appeal also came as differently abled persons often times find it uncomfortable maneuvering their wheel chairs in narrow passages and unfriendly restrooms in public business establishments, Quilas stressed. The law provides a standard access ramp for customers in wheel-chairs, standard measures for hallways and places of general access, grab bars and special wider spaced restrooms so that differently-abled customers can easilly maneuver and access areas, Quilas clarified. “Living a life as differently abled is already hard, not being given the right afforded to them by law makes it even harder”, Quilas explained in Cebuano. Quilas has also been multi-awarded for showing remarkable leadership skills and in organizing the differently abled persons in the towns to facilitate government supports for...Towns agree co-ownership over disputed “Macalingao”
COOLER heads finally prevailed after two town dads diplomatically banged the hammer to seal an age-long irritant dispute between Inabanga and Clarin towns. After bearing with problems of alleged boundary incursions and unprotected white sand poaching in disputed Macalingao islet, Mayors Jose Jono Jumamoy and Hermogenes Diezon of nearby Clarin have finally come to the table to talk likereal gentlemen about the issue. Finally coming up with a win-win solution, both towns agree co-ownership, some parts belonging to Inabanga and the part, to Clarin. Mayor Jumamoy, in a recent interview bared that Macalinao, an islet off Clarin and Inabanga has been a venue for white sand poaching by enterprising people who see the business of supplying Cebu resorts with white sand for their beaches very lucrative. The islet, technically an uninhabited sand bar disappears during high tides, but has a teeming sea grass environment and would rather be very helpful in sustaining local fisheries, Jumamoy stressed. Besides, he added, making it known that the island is co-owned by two towns doubles up its chances of protection, especially in the implementation of the resource and coastal law enforcement measures. “Protecting Macalingao from poachers now is ascertained, unlike before when towns implementing coastal and island resource protection is uncertain over disputed claims,” Mayor Jumamoy said. Sources close to both towns agree that the islet, like Puntod and Bugatoson also fall as victims. Earlier Clarin Mayor Diezon also said his town is happy that they have finally sealed the co-ownership of the islet. He said his town council has allowed him to initiate settlement proceedings with Inabanga over the disputed islet. Both...National News
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