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DTI: Improving PH competitiveness a must UK helps PH cut red tapes through a P1.1M-worth program
MAKATI CITY—The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez emphasized the relevance of improving the country’s competitiveness, during the ceremonial contract signing on 4 October between the Philippines and the United Kingdom (UK) on a project that aims to provide technical assistance to reduce red tape in the business environment. Timely and relevant, the UK through the Asia Pacific Bilateral Programme Fund granted technical assistance to the National Competitiveness Council of the Philippines (NCC) to support the Project Repeal, an initiative inspired by the UK’s Red Tape Challenge, which addresses growing need to cut red tape across the bureaucracy. “Project Repeal, an initiative geared towards eliminating red tape by systematically removing redundant, antiquated and burdensome policies in government agencies shall facilitate us in achieving this end,” Sec. Lopez said. The trade chief also said that the UK’s assistance, which amounts to £17,969 (approximately PhP 1.1 million) that will run until January 2017, shall capacitate Project Repeal in terms of development, pilot-testing and initial roll-out of the Standard Cost Model. The Standard Cost Model will provide a statistically valid and reliable method in estimating the regulatory burden imposed by existing regulations on businesses. The assistance will also be used to conduct a series of activities, including supplementary focus group discussions that will be held in several regions in the country to have a wider stakeholder engagement and ensure the project’s greater impact, according to NCC. Based on the Global Competitiveness Survey done before the May 9 election, the Philippines slipped 10 notches to 57th place, from 47th place. The trade chief reiterated President Rodrigo Duterte’s marching orders to... read moreP3,000 dugang combat ug incentive pay, madawat na sa mga polis ug sundalo
MANILA, October 4 (PIA)–Gilagdaan na ni Presidente Rodrigo Duterte ang iyang ikatulong executive order nga nag-usbaw sa combat duty pay ug combat incentive pay sa mga miyembro sa Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) ug Philippine National Police (PNP). Gilagdaan ni Duterte ang Executive Order (EO) No. 3 niadtong Setyembre 26 nga nag-amyenda sa EO No. 38 (s. 2011). Epektibo kini sugod Setyembre 1 ning tuig. Ubos sa maong EO, ang combat duty pay sa mga opisyal ug enlisted personnel sa AFP ug uniformed personnel sa PNP gi-usbaw ngadto sa fixed rate nga P3,000 matag bulan. Kaniadto, P500 matag bulan ang combat duty pay sa AFP samtang ang maximum rate sa combat duty pay sa PNP P340 lamang matag bulan. Ang makadawat lamang sa combat duty pay mao ang mga opisyal ug enlisted personnel sa AFP nga nagbuhat og combat duties o aktibidades ug uniformed personnel sa PNP nga nalambigit sa aktuwal nga police operations nga ilatid sa patakaran nga ipagawas sa Secretary of National Defense ug sa National Police Commission. Samtang ang mga miyembro sa AFP ug uniformed personnel sa PNP nga nalambigit sa aktuwal combat batok sa nagkalain-laing insurhente, terorista, ug mga dakponong elemento, makadawat og dugang combat incentive pay nga P300 matag adlaw. Ang combat duty pay alang sa mga sundalong naa sa lugar diin adunay pakigbugno samtang ang combat incentive pay usab dugang bayad alang sa mga sundalong aktuwal nga nakigbugno o naa sa combat zone matag adlaw.... read more
NEGOSYO CENTER BOHOL CONDUCTS ORIENTATION ON SETTING UP A CAFÉ BUSINESS
March 17, 2017 – Negosyo Center Bohol, in partnership with the Bohol Investment Promotion Center conducted an Orientation on Setting Up a Café Business intended for entrepreneurs and public enterprises who want to venture into the coffee shop business. The seminar is one of the many entrepreneurship ideas for Bohol that have big potential for growth. Coffee shops are considered as tourist destinations with their unique ambiance, added menu and homey atmosphere. The orientation was held at the Atty. Juanito Cambangay Conference Room, PPDO, Tagbilaran City. Mr. Paolo Rigotti, known café business enthusiast and entrepreneur was the resource speaker. Participants with Ms. Maria Fe Dominise, BIPC Head, Claire Apale, Negosyo Center Bohol Jr Business Counselor and Mr. Paolo Rigotti, Resource Person...No Results Found
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NO PANIC TIME YET. DTI’s Jose Hibaya explains at the Kapihan sa PIA that a double digit inflation may not drastically affect the price of manufactured goods here in Bohol. With him is Blecila Paredes of the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics....Bigtime fishers playing cat and mouse in Pamilacan?
HAVE commercial fishers finally left the waters of Pamilacan island for good in fear of a spreading maritime law enforcement dragnet or are they merely playing cats and mouse with enforcers? On exactly the same days when Baclayon local officials had to relent due to repairs for their pumpboat, illegal fishers had the time of their life casting nets at the barangay marine sanctuary on the evening of June 23. How they came to know about the incapacity of the local enforcers is still a thing of wonder though. A text message, this time sent by an informant in Pamilacan last June 23 at about 8:29 PM said, “Sir, gud eve, dia na pud tawon manaktak ari duol sa sanctuary ang mga way batasan.” He was advised to positively get the names or identify the perpetrators and report the matter to any barangay official. Moreover he had the explicit instruction to file a police blotter on the incident. When the same text message was forwarded to Mayor Uy, he responded that they could not respond because their pumpboat was in repair. He assured however that “we are doing everything for our seas. This as Capitol Administrator Tomas Abapo, at the weekly Governor’s Reports Friday June 27, said fishing at Pamilacan and Baclayon seas has “returned to normal”. By that, he means that marginal fishermen from the island and nearby towns sharing the municipal waters can now venture into the territory, which was once ruled by commercial fishers. According to him, the return to normalcy happened after Governor Erico Aumentado pressed the...NDCC in massive relief aid to typhoon Frank victims
WITH President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo still of official visit in the United States, National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) chair Roilo Golez is hands-on with massive relief assistance for the victims in Western Visayas, which have been hit hard by the recent typhoon frank. Golez said the different line Agencies of government are fully mobilized with the Philippine Armed Forces, the Philippine National Police and the US Navy Forces in distributing relief assistance to alleviate thousands of families who lost their homes as a result of typhoon “Frank”. Tons of ready to eat foods, clothings, bottled drinking water and medicines have been flown in via series of C-130 flights to Ilo-Ilo, Aklan, Kalibo, Roxas and other areas in Western Visayas. Executive Secretary Ermita also said that the US Navy’s USS Reagan is also on hand in the ground as well as an the for the search, rescue and retrieval operations of victims of the ill-fated Princess of the Star. Ermita pressed that Arroyo, while on Official Mission for the country in the United States continues to be hands-on in monitoring and giving orders ensuring relentless day to day relief operations in all areas in the country that was hard hit by the typhoon. The President has ordered the fast rehabilitation of all infrastructures in all areas of the country particularly in the Western and Eastern Visayas, which were hard hit by the typhoon. Ermita said the President ordered soft loans of Php 5Million pesos to be released to Electric power cooperatives to immediately rehabilitate respective power systems in the Ilo-Ilo and Aklan provinces of which power systems were destroyed. The...July 1, City Charter declared a holiday
TUESDAY would be a non-working holiday in Tagbilaran City as it celebrates its Charter Day, July 1, 42 years after it earned it in 1966. The declaration is based on Republic Act 8267, which declares the day non-working special public holiday for the City of Tagbilaran. The city, which has gone a long way, after it became a town since February 9, 1742 came by virtue of a decree by Spanish Governor General Gaspar dela Torre. Formerly called San Jose de Tagbilaran, the town was formally established as a separate town from Baclayon then. Historically too, the old settlement of a 15th Century Bohol, the place forms part of the “Bool Kingdom”, states the city website. Sometimes touted as a place called “tinabilan”, which means “screened”, the city is also shielded on the southwest by Panglao Island and north by Maribojoc mountain ranges. Tradition also tells that the word “Tagbilaran” was derived from “tagubilaan”, a contraction from two local words tagu (to hide) and Bilaan (a Muslim marauder tribe). Literally, it means a place hidden from the pillaging Muslims. On July 1, 1966 by virtue of R.A. 4660, Tagbilaran became a chartered City. As a chartered city, Tagbilaran was established by a Congressional act and is then governed by its own charter from where its leaders exact powers rather than look up to the provincial, regional or national laws. It also enjoys a higher Internal Revenue Allotment compared to towns, a political analyst said. “This is the main reason,” he pointed out, “why by its own charter, the city has achieved a significant level of development in view of...CSC reinstates draftsman thrown to town nursery
THE Civil Service Commission (CSC) ruled in favor of a draftsman “thrown” to a nursery and told Cortes mayor Apolinaria Balistoy to reinstate and pay him his backwages and other benefits. In a decision promulgated June 17, 2008, the government commission agreed with the appellant, Joseph Ligan III, that his reassignment is a reduction in rank and threatens his security of tenure. Earlier, in a Memorandum dated May 22, 2007, Mayor Balistoy ordered Ligan’s transfer of work assignment to the Municipal Nursery located at Rosario Cortes, where he is to report to nursery caretaker Tersita Samuya. On his assignment however, Ligan said it was not the Nursery caretaker who monitored him, but a barangay secretary, as allegedly ordered by the mayor. In an appeal dated January 9 2008, sent to the CSC and in a copy furnished to the Mayor, Ligan averred that he had been stationed at the Office of the Municipal Engineer (OME) as draftsman designate. Ligan was appointed permanent as Engineering Aide and his item was from the Municipal Agriculture Office (MAO), according to his appointment by then Mayor Herminia Labor. However his Position Description Form states his responsibilities including preparing plans, program of works, bill of materials and detailed estimates of proposed projects, requisitions, checks and inspects as to specifications quality and quantity of construction materials delivered, supervising project construction in coordination with the Municipal Engineer and conducts ocular inspections of sites of proposed projects. Prior to his reassignment, Ligan was designated draftsman at the OME. The CSC noted that for reassignments to be deemed regular, they should be consistent with employees duties and responsibilities,...National News
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