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Balilihan TB DOTS
Gov. Edgar Chatto and Balilihan Mayor Pureza Veloso-Chatto with Department of Health Region 7 Director Dr. Jaime Bernadas lead ribbon cutting rites for the improved birthing center and TB DOTS center in Balilihan. The center is implemented under the Bohol Earthquake Assistance and Bottom Up Budgeting programs. Bernadas also shared available resource to further improve the health center- P1m from DPWH and P2m from DOH. A P10m infirmary is also to be established next. Bernadas said the calamity opened opportunities to support health facilities. National government he said calls for quality care for health at all levels at all stages in all ages, a priority agenda consistent with the development framework of the... read moreDTI to legitimate contractors: police your ranks Maintains workers’ tenure protected under ‘win-win’
PASIG CITY—Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez challenged the Philippine Association of Legitimate Service Contractors (PALSCON) to police its ranks to ensure the effective implementation of the so-called “win-win structure” involving legitimate service providers (SPs), companies and workers. Speaking at PALSCON’s 6th National Forum on 14 November, Sec. Lopez reiterated that the “win-win” structure that upholds workers’ security of tenure is not a departure from, but an improvement of what has already been provided by the law on legitimate contracting. The Labor Code and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Department Orders 10 (Series of 1997), 18-02 (Series of 2002) and 18-A (Series of 2011) guarantee legitimate contracting or subcontracting arrangements. Consistent with the unchanged position of President Rodrigo Duterte to put a stop on end-of-contract (endo) schemes, the trade chief maintained that as added value to the full and strict implementation of legitimate contracting, the win-win structure carries two specific provisions that safeguard workers’ tenure rights, specifically by making workers regular and permanent, as well as by affording them mandatory retirement benefits. The DTI-proposed structure also allows companies to either directly employ workers or source workers from legitimate SPs. Sec. Lopez said that the critical role of the association of legitimate SPs in effectively carrying out the win-win structure is to patrol its ranks to ensure that workers receive appropriate benefits. “What is critical now is the compliance of legitimate SPs in giving full benefits to the workers,” said Sec. Lopez, adding that the proposal received positive response from President Duterte. The PALSCON audience showed support to Sec. Lopez’s statement that legitimate contractors’ failure to... read more
DTI completes MSMEs help menu with KMMP
TAGBILARAN CITY, May 18, (PIA)–The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) completes its two programs dealing with helping micro small and medium enterprises (MSMsE) hand holding them to sustain and link with other available help to sustain them and upscale into a better surviving industry. This as the DTI brings to Bohol its second micro, small and medium enterprise retooling programs with 25 entrepreneurs availing of the Kapatid Mentor Me Program (KMMP). Next to its Small Medium Enterprise Development Roving Academy (SMEDRA), which was launched in Bohol years back, the DTI brings this mentoring program that aims to get to the 95% of the economy which is the micro industries, according to DTI 7 Regional Director Asteria Caberte, during a press con after launching the program here at the Metrocenter Hotel, May 17. The KMMP started as a joint under taking of the DTI Go Negosyo and aims to usher in an entrepreneurial mindset by linking the micro, small medium enterprises (MSMEs) to large enterprises in a symbiotic supply and demand relationship. Top achieve this linkages, MSMEs should be provided with capacity buildings as well as access to technology, consultations by business elders and financing. These include the conduct of trainings, seminars, one -n one mentoring sessions, business matching and other capacity building activities that ate all geared towards the successful integration of the MSMEs into the thriving industry clusters, DTI said. This means the program can help MSMEs scale up their businesses through regular coaching and mentorship by business owners and practitioners on the various functional areas of entrepreneurships. In Bohol, 25 MSMEs short listed by the 7...No Results Found
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IECEP Holds ECE Quiz Bowl at the BQ Mall
The Institute of Electronics Engineers of the Philippines, Inc.- Bohol Chapter (IECEP-Bohol) will gather together the best ECE students in Bohol to match wits with each other in the 4th ECE Quiz Bowl on March 6, 2009, 1:00 P.M., at The Atrium, Bohol Quality Mall. Teams from the different colleges and universities of Bohol are expected to take part in this event. Prizes will be given away to the first, second, and third placers. Non-winners will receive consolation prizes courtesy of the sponsors. Lucky spectators will also have the chance to win giveaways during the course of the quiz bowl. This year’s ECE Quiz Bowl is made possible by TDM (Thrizhel Distributors and Marketing), the exclusive distributor of Bounty Fresh Chicken and Beauche International Products. The quiz bowl’s major sponsors include Auza.net and Excel First Review Center. This event is also made possible by LFH Surveying Services, X-squared Online, Gerisonic Electronics and Communications, and PERC Review Center, as minor...Capitol denies bid rigging
Two Capitol officials denies bid rigging of the P168-million worth of heavy equipment to be purchased by the provincial government. Provincial Legal Officer Atty. Handel Lagunay conducted an assessment on how the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) carried out the procurement process upon orders issued by Gov. Erico Aumentado. Meanwhile, during the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) session on February 17, provincial Board Member Cesar Tomas Lopez lashed out at the committee for its “failure to comply” with key provisions of the procurement law that again placed the provincial government “in a bad light due to the fact that the manner by which goods [are purchased] cannot face up to public scrutiny”. The bidding took the spotlight after a disenfranchised Japanese supplier filed protests to the BAC for allegedly giving “undue advantage to preferred suppliers”. Click here for full...Bohol arts harvest caps National Arts Month at Punta Cruz
Reaping the golden harvest of the art in Bohol would be strewn for all to see at the foot of the historic Punta Cruz in Maribojoc February 27, 7:00 PM. This as the Ani ng Sining, the National Arts Month theme, is carried by the Bohol Provincial Government through the Center for Culture and Arts Development (CCAD) with the Bohol Arts and Cultural Heritage Council. Set in the historic watchtower of Punta Cruz, the culminating activity comes in a Dinner-For-A-Cause. The dinner for a cause aims to pool resources for the ecological-cultural development of Punta Cruz, in collaboration with Maribojoc local government, Punta Cruz Environment Organization, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and Bohol Alliance of Non-Government Organizations (BANGON). The program is envisioned to help uplift livelihood in the area through eco-cultural initiatives. The project also aims to establish the Castillo de San Vicente Punta Cruz Watchtower as a national historical landmark establishing the significance of historic monuments in the province. Tickets for the culmination activity are at P300 inclusive of dinner by the scenic watchtower and the cultural shows. For tickets, call the BANGON Office (Tel. Nos. 411-3431, 501-9516), CCAD (Tel. Nos. 501 – 9287, 411-3946), or Maribojoc LGU (504-9979). (PIA) Click here for full...Catigbian adds new landmark in health and lying-in center
Catigbian adds another landmark of excellence and innovation with its newly opened P14M health and lying-in center as Mayor Roberto Salinas and his performance team opened it last Friday, February 20, 2009. The new Catigbian Municipal Health Center and Lying-In Clinic came after the town also accessed World Bank (WB) funds in its Livestock and Auction Center. The new health facility designed as a 5-bed puericulture and family planning center packs a chemical lab with equipment and supplies, dental clinic, minor surgical clinic and equipment all in a 628.68 square meter building with perimeter fences, concrete pavement in landscaped ground. (PIA) Click here for full...Bohol birthing center delivers even before it opened
On February 20, 2009, 4 hours ahead of its formal blessing and inauguration of the 5-bed puericulture and lying-in clinic set at 10:00 AM, a pregnant woman and her husband walked in for delivery assistance. The mother to be: 31-year-old Hazel Tagayong Renoblas was accompanied by her husband Georgin. An hour and 45 minutes after they walked in, the shrill cry of the baby boy broke the silent anticipation of the father. The baby weighed 6.3 pounds delivered and handled by Dr, Jacquiline Majella Uy, MHO and assisted by midwives and cord-dressed by Myra Madrangca confirmed Municipal secretary Ardissa Estavilla. First in the line of Catigbian’s preventive medicine advocates, barangay health workers have been actively bringing out health messages to prepare for the new facility the town puts up to upgrade its health and medical services to its people. (PIA) Click here for full...National News
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