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Pagpahimo og drivers’ license ug plaka sa mga sakyanan, akoon na sa gobyerno
MANILA, October 7 (PIA)–Akoon na sa gobyerno ang pagpahimo sa drivers’ license ug mga plaka sa sakyanan. Matud pa ni Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Kalihim Martin Andanar nga sa pagkakaron, gipaabot na lamang nila ang ‘go signal’ gikan sa Department of Transportation (DOTr). Naglaom si Andanar nga masulbad na sa gobyerno ang problema sa backlog sa driver’s license ug plaka sa mga sakyanan. Gipasabot ni Andanar nga mahimong government-to-government na ang transaksiyon ug dili na kinahanglan ang pribadong kompanya aron mohimo sa mga plaka ug lisensiya. Dugang pa sa Kalihim, kayang himuon sa National Printing Office (NPO) ug APO Production Unit Services ang tulo ka milyong backlog sa driver’s license ug lima ka milyong plaka ug gipaabot na lamang ang ilang technical requirements aron masugdan na ang paghimo niini. Matag adlaw, gidagsa og mga reklamo ug naglagot nga publiko ang LTO tungod kay giabtan na og tuig nga wala pa nahatag nga mga lisensiya ug plaka sa mga nag-renew ug nagpa-rehistro sa ilang mga sakyanan.... read more100% electrification sa tibuok Pilipinas, target sa DOE sa 2020
MANILA, October 7 (PIA)–Target sa Duterte administration nga mahatagan og serbisyo sa elektrisidad ang tibuok nasod sa paghidangat sa tuig 2020. Kini ang gipahayag ni Department of Energy (DOE) Kalihim Alfonso Cusi sa iyang pag-atubang sa mga negosyanteng gikan sa Europa sa gipahigayong EU Summit ning bag-o lang. Gawas sa target nga 100% electrification, giingong tinguha usab sa kasamtangang administrasyon nga hiusahon ang power grid sa Luzon, Visayas ug Mindanao sa paghidangat sa 2022. Gipasabot ni Cusi nga prayoridad nila nga masiguro nga ayuhon ang serbisyo sa kuryente sa matag panimalay sa tibuok nasod ug pagpakusog sa suplay niini. Aron mapatuman ang mga proyektong may kalabotan sa enerhiya, giingong dalion usab nila ang proseso sa pagkuha og mga permit ug mga gikinahanglang dokumento. Giingong angay usab nga mahatagan og mga tukmang insentibo ang mga musolod sa energy sector projects sama sa exemption sa real property tax ug uban pa aron mang-engganyo og mas daghan pang tigpamuhunan.... read more
PH advances ASEAN’s bid to engage Japan on innovation, MSME dev’t, regional partnership
TOKYO—Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary and 2017 ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM) chair Ramon Lopez reported that the Philippines successfully advanced ASEAN’s objective to engage Japan on innovation, the inclusivity of the region’s micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) during the AEM Roadshow to Japan from 6 to 8 April 2017. The ASEAN Delegation with ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh held a substantive discussion with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Minister Hiroshige Seko of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and key local government officials to discuss measures to enhance ASEAN-Japan economic relations. The Delegation also met with the Parliamentary Association for the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and some economic organizations such as the ASEAN–Japan Business Council and the ASEAN Business Advisory Council. MSME development “We learned how Japanese start-ups make an impact on the economy through their innovative and creative ideas,” said Sec. Lopez, whose thrust at the domestic front is to empower MSMEs through an innovation-led, productivity-oriented framework. The Delegation traveled to Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and Wakayama and gathered insights on how Japan managed to gain its stature as a global leader for innovation. Specific sites visited were Hitachi Ltd., Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Panasonic Konosuke Matsushita Museum and Shima Seiki Manufacturing Ltd. The Delegation also met Osaka Governor Ichirō Matsui and Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura. The Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City governments have been long partners with Philippine government agencies in promoting investments of their small and medium...No Results Found
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Catigbian orients 27 In modern farming
MOTIVATED by the success of a student farmer who earned P60 thousand from a 500 sguare meter watermelon patch he grew while enrolled at a farmers’ training program, Catigbian farmers now troop to get into a Farmers’ Field School (FFS) program the local government is implementing. Mayor Roberto Salinas said it’s is just sad they had to turn down some of the applicants. For the town aiming to be a green haven of progress and development, the FFS alone develops a minimum of 13,500 sq meters of lots with the 27 farmers now starting FFS. “Initially, it was hard to convince farmers to join, perhaps because they have been unsuccessful in the past,” Salinas confessed in an interview. “But with the considerable success we had, we felt sorry to turn down some applicants now,” he admitted. “But limiting the participants allow the technicians handling the program better personal supervision,” he continued. Cognizant now of miracle in modern farming, farmers have trooped to get in line with the second batch to get new technology. Salinas said the Department of Agrarian Reform in tandem with the Department of Agriculture through the Provincial Agriculture Office introduced the project. “The project brings down technology by training local farmers the modern farming techniques, let them adopt practices and help market their produce,” he explained. With East-West Seed Company, Catigbian gets the company’s best agri-technician supervisors, best seeds and the latest farming technologies. The technology itself is worth the money, Salinas assured. Farmers from 22 barangays present a minimum of 500 square meters or a maximum of 1000 square meters of farm to be eligible...Mayors feel slighted by DILG field officers’ reshuffle move
WITH hands busy in governance battle, mayors have expressed alarm over losing an important player in its team. Mayors added they feel slighted by the recent Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) move in reshuffling its Bohol field officers, right when everything is running fine. The DILG, through its Department Order No. 2008-680, has confirmed the reassignment of 23 field officers, stirring mayors who admitted they were offended by the move. The saddest thing, Catigbian Mayor Roberto Salinas said is the fact that “we were not even consulted of the move”. At the recent League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) meeting, Jagna Mayor Exuperio Lloren stressed that mayors “do not disagree with the rotation order, but they feel slighted by the process it was done. About 23 Municipal Local Government Operations Officers in the towns are affected by the order. “When I heard about it, I called the (DILG) Provincial Director until I got connected with her. She told me the order is from DILG Manila’, Balilihan Mayor Victoria Chatto shared. Salinas and still many mayors do not believe the Manila word would come without local instigation. Reading from a copy of the order, he pointed out that the subject of the order stated that the re-assignment was just a confirmation of Regional Order dated June 19. Over this, the LMP said it would pass a resolution to take the cudgels of those affected by the order, Tubigon Mayor Luna Piezas said. The resolution should make the DILG talk to the mayors first about their moves so as not to let the towns lose a vital cog...Over a technicality … Scrap metal buyers live For yet “another day”
SCRAP metal businessmen may have escaped the wrath of Bohol chief executives this time, but perhaps not in the coming days. Faced with the technical problem of quorum Thursday afternoon, the League of Municipalities of the Philippines-Bohol Chapter agreed to “allow a few more days for the issue to be taken,” or at least until they could muster a neat majority to decide. The meeting started with a good majority, but some mayors, attending to pressing official concerns have begged the afternoon off, leaving a no quorum. All however agree that the scrap metal industry has become a major problem in towns. Earlier, League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) President Exuperio lloren, in a radio interview admitted that the scrap metal industry needs regulation in as much as it has attracted fly by night operators who buy and fence stolen items. Maribojoc Mayor Leoncio Evasco has said the industry has instigated the robberies happening in towns, and it is compounded when scrap metal buyers unleash an army of kids to gather scrap in barangays. A current law deters police authorities from apprehending minors. Tubigon Mayor Luna Piezas opened the discussion with a sad tale of a commercial communications tower facility in his town having to rewire three times in a month. The facility reportedly lost its service drop-wires to daring robbers who steal live wires for the copper content. Aside from Tubigon, service drop wire robbers did not spare public water facilities in Corella and Balilihan while Loom also reportedly lost its plaza lighting facilities when at least two high school students stole the wires. Junkshops and scrap...BOLTA yet to agree on “new” fare rates
BOHOL Operators of Land Transport Association has yet to meet to start the formal process of getting the benefit of implementing the newly approved fare rates. Atty. Alvin Uy, BOLTA President said he has yet to meet members of the organization to ask them to formalize their intent on implementing the new tariff rates for public transport here in Bohol. During an exclusive interview, Uy revealed that it is just right for the organization to also implement what the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board has asked from the government so as to help operators recoup the increasing prices of oil and spare parts. Uy, whose family owns and operates the St. Jude Transportation Company of Baclayon pointed out that the rising cost of tires alone would make the transport industry rethink its routes. Bolta, a local organization, which allows its members to service major Bohol routes said the increase is long overdue especially when they have seen the rise in prices of diesel and lubricants but stuck to the old fare rates. Sources also revealed that the last time BOLTA effected an increase was still using the P6 minimum and applying the peso per kilometer rate. With the sudden rise in crude oil price in the international markets, the country has seen corresponding increases in the price of oil and other petroleum based products. This has also seriously affected the prices of oils and other lubricants. With the onset, LTFRB has been hearing rate increase petitions from the transport sector. Recently, however, on behalf of the country’s transport sector, the government transport franchising board has asked for the...STEERING Maribojoc into an eco-cultural dragon. Mayor Leoncio Evasco delivers the State of the local Governance Address at the municipal gymnasium. (contributed...
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