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DTI welcomes Japan aircon maker’s clarification to expand PH business
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) welcomed a letter from the head office of Daikin Industries, Ltd. — a Japanese air conditioning manufacturer present in the Philippines (PH) since 2009 – clarifying their position to strengthen and expand their business operations in the country. Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon Lopez expressed optimism over Daikin Industries’ intention and added they look forward to its expansion projects. “We welcome investors who wish to join the country’s growth story, and contribute in our mission to provide jobs to Filipinos and share the prosperity to all,” shared Lopez. Daikin’s Industries’ Senior Executive Officer Yoshihiro Mineno had conveyed to DTI the company’s official position through a letter, stating, “We really regret to see the article of Inquirer Business on 3rd March. And we apologize and feel very sorry for causing misunderstanding in the press conference conducted by our subordinate sales company.” “We do not have any complaint about investment climate in the Philippines nor do not have any intention to criticize the policy of the government. Our real intension is to do our best to expand our business in the Philippines,” Mineno said. The letter aimed to clarify the statement and comment of Daikin Airconditioning Philippines Inc. in a press conference on the investment climate in the country. DTI has been consistent in its programs and projects to attract investments and revitalize PH’s manufacturing sector. This has been evident as manufacturing sector has gone up by 8.6% and its investments surged by 244% in 2017. “The Philippines is a very important market for Daikin and has a big room for further expansion. [We]... read moreDTI partners with DICT for free internet, online learning in Negosyo Centers
Makati – Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon M. Lopez and Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Eliseo M. Rio Jr signed a Memorandum of Agreement on 15 March 2018 to provide free wi-fi and learning modules to DTI’s Negosyo Centers. Through the agreement, DICT will provide selected DTI Negosyo Centers with free internet access, ICT equipment, and access to its Tech4ED Project. DICT’s PipolKonek Project gives free internet access to public places such as public schools, libraries, and local government units. To date, PipolKonek has already provided internet access to 44 out of the current 805 Negosyo Centers. Negosyo Centers will also carry DICT’s Tech4ED Project, a platform that offers digital literacy and other skills training; an eMarketplace; and a one-stop-shop for government applications, among others. The two agencies see digital literacy as a potential catalyst for the growth of MSMEs. Tech4ED offers “ICT for Entrepreneurs”—where micro entrepreneurs are trained to create their own website and use the internet to increase their market reach. “This convergence of the DICT and DTI will arm the entrepreneurs, especially in the regions, with the tools they need to develop and innovate on their products and conduct their business online. Connectivity and digital literacy are the future-proof ways to help those at the bottom of the pyramid,” said Secretary Lopez. Further plans include merging existing Tech4ED Centers and Negosyo Centers since some of them are housed in the same local government units. The DICT is also open to host DTI’s educational materials in the Tech4ED platform. “The DICT’s main objective is to facilitate connectivity. We are thus... read more
DTI PARTNERS WITH DICT FOR FREE INTERNET, ONLINE LEARNING IN NEGOSYO CENTERS
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon M. Lopez and Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Eliseo M. Rio Jr signed a Memorandum of Agreement on 15 March 2018 to provide free wi-fi and learning modules to DTI’s Negosyo Centers. Through the agreement, DICT will provide selected DTI Negosyo Centers with free internet access, ICT equipment, and access to its Tech4ED Project. DICT’s PipolKonek Project gives free internet access to public places such as public schools, libraries, and local government units. To date, PipolKonek has already provided internet access to 44 out of the current 805 Negosyo Centers. Negosyo Centers will also carry DICT’s Tech4ED Project, a platform that offers digital literacy and other skills training; an eMarketplace; and a one-stop-shop for government applications, among others. The two agencies see digital literacy as a potential catalyst for the growth of MSMEs. Tech4ED offers “ICT for Entrepreneurs”—where micro entrepreneurs are trained to create their own website and use the internet to increase their market reach. “This convergence of the DICT and DTI will arm the entrepreneurs, especially in the regions, with the tools they need to develop and innovate on their products and conduct their business online. Connectivity and digital literacy are the future-proof ways to help those at the bottom of the pyramid,” said Secretary Lopez. Further plans include merging existing Tech4ED Centers and Negosyo Centers since some of them are housed in the same local government units. The DICT is also open to host DTI’s educational materials in the Tech4ED platform. “The DICT’s main objective is to facilitate connectivity. We are thus counting on our...OCEAN16 Summit Taps BCCI As Local Partner
OCEAN (Open Collaboration with East Asia New Champions) is a bi-annual gathering in the Philippines that brings together leaders across sectors to connect, discover new ideas, and shape the Philippine future together. This year’s event will be held at the Be Grand Resort in Panglao, Bohol on October 21-23. The theme for OCEAN16 is “The Fourth Industrial Revolution”. The organizing committee of OCEAN16 has tapped the Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry as the local partner for the event. BCCI will play a vital role in organizing the event. Officers of the BCCI and OCEAN16 representatives held a meeting on August 6, 2016 at the Belian Hotel to discuss the details of the partnership. Earlier in July 2016, Micaela Beltran, member of the organizing committee of OCEAN16 presented the concept of the event during the regular board meeting of the BCCI. The OCEAN16 objective is to make the Philippines and the ASEAN as leaders in the digital age through public-private initiatives. Among the speakers are Senator Paolo Benigno Aguirre Aquino IV and Winston Damarillo, an Entrepreneur, CSO at...Local News/ Bohol Balita
PAG-ASA to erect Bohol doppler radar in Albur
PASAY CITY, Manila November 11 (PIA)—A doppler radar which would be put in southeastern Bohol would immensely bolster the weather bureau’s forecasting capacity especially in accurately tracking storms entering Mindanao sea. Bohol officer in charge of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAG-ASA) Leonardo Samar said the Department of Science and Technology is now ironing out the details of the proposal to erect Bohol’s first and possibly only Doppler radar in Basac, Alburquerque. A Doppler radar is a specialized radar that uses the bouncing targeted microwave signals to a desired target and computing or analyzing how the object’s motion has altered the frequency of the returned signal. This variation gives direct and highly accurate measurements of the radial component of a target’s velocity relative to the radar. The soon to stand Bohol Doppler radar forms a redundant system that peeps through the interlacing circles of coverage which practically leave no areas in the eastern Philippines blind from approaching weather disturbances which spawn at the Pacific. Comprised of 6 operational radars now, each one covering some overlapping 400 kilometers, these radars, all located in vantage and strategic points across the country are in Baguio, Subic, Tagaytay, Mactan, Hinatuan and Tampakan. Typhoon Yolanda has effectively opened a blind spot in the country’s weather vigilance with the Tacloban radar ruined. With an area remaining the country’s blind spot, a radar set-up in Bohol effectively covers that empty area as well as lend an eye to weather forecasters as soon as a storm passes over Surigao and descends into the Mindanao sea, which the Tampakan and Hinatu-an radars can’t see owing...“Right” organic agriculture Reaps 150 cavans/hectare
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol November 9, (PIA)—The option for organic agriculture could be hard and tedious but, when done right, will produce the same harvest as that of the farms with chemical fertilizers, but puts premium on the environment. Marissa Tuazon, of the Pambansang Kilusan nga mga Magsasaka (PAKISAMA) pointed out that in farms, the experience of lessening the use of chemical inputs in the farms to save a little on will always have ill effects on the harvest, so they would have to bombard inputs to produce. This ultimately produces that vicious cycle that would be endlessly binding the farmers to inputs and fertilizers to be able to produce, of a failure in cropping happens, she explained. We are into local developments in the towns, using the old ways, considering that we have proven it; an organic farmer is now able to harvest 150 cavans per hectare, which, according to Tuazon is equal to the harvest of a farm using chemical fertilizer. Themselves striving to effect asset reforms in the farms, PAKISAMA starts from issues in social justice to social enterprises, are now into building agri-based social enterprises in Carmen Bohol. The plan is to help farmers wane themselves from the shackles of inorganic farm inputs so that the investments can be saved for the family. PAKISAMA as well as other organic agriculture advocates in Bohol, relentlessly push for the return to the adoption of the more environment friendly fertilizers and pesticides or herbicides to make a statement on helping the campaign for climate change mitigation. It is always survival of the fittest, so when farmers use synthetic herbicides...Sustainable agriculture farmers hit Bohol’s organic farming “chacha”
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol November 9, (PIA)—Either Bohol goes for organic agriculture or it does not. Organic agriculture advocates in Bohol slam the local implementation of the organic farming here noting that officials are doing a chacha. Bohol Island State University’s (BISU) Professor Jose Travero, a revered organic farming initiator and known pillar of the Bohol Initiators of Sustainable Agricultural Development (BISAD) bemoaned the current state of the local implementation of the organic farming and agriculture. Himself into keeping an organic farm and mentoring one that produces Bohol’s only organic papaya from a farm in Sagbayan, Travero picks on Bohol’s forward and backward as to its stand on organic agriculture, thus chacha. Travero and the members of BISAD, also said they are wondering why Bohol promotes sustainable agriculture through the use of organic agriculture and yet be blunt in promoting hybrid rice. Moreover, former BISAD executive director Zenaida Darunday, who is a staunch supporter of the move to really make Bohol genetically modified organism free (GMO-free) also added that the introduction of hybrid rice necessitates inorganic fertilizer inputs. Salvio Makinano, another organic agriculture promoter, pointed out that he was hopeful Bohol would be true to the promise of organic farming promotion after the provincial government put up an annual organic agriculture budget of P1 million under Gov. Erico Aumentado. By the following years, Bohol allocated under Governor Edgar Chatto some P3 million annual organic agriculture budget, Makinano added. But, what have we got to show on organic farming? he asked. He said much of the budget allocated for organic farming is going to research, which he claimed is never a...Local residents welcome CDP-PPM’s outreach program
MARIBOJOC, Bohol – Several residents from the different barangays in this municipality heartily welcomed the community outreach program conducted by the Countryside Development Program-Purok Power Movement (CDP-PPM) of the provincial government of Bohol recently. Some key local officials and people’s organizations from barangays Guiwanon, Punta Cruz and Bayacabac came as one and expressed their gratitude to Gov. Edgar M. Chatto and the movers of the CDP-PPM for coming to their barangays. The CDP-PPM team conducted an orientation on the registration and accreditation of non-government organizations (NGOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) in barangay Bayacabac last October 24. This accreditation is mandated by the Local Government Code of 1991 and is also supported and found in the provincial Ordinance C-001 and Ordinance 2012-032. The CDP-PPM team was joined in this activity by the 47th Infantry Battalion which is based in Tubigon as part of their orientation as a new partner of the program. Emilia Roslinda, executive director of the Bohol Alliance of Non-Government Organizations (BANGON) also supported the move of the provincial government of Bohol in its continued conduct of orientation on accreditation of CSOs in all municipalities in the province. This is to ensure the coordination between and among the CSOs and the government sector and must be aligned with the government programs for a unified and cohesive action for development. After the orientation, employees from the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office distributed items for feeding, fresh milk and solar lamps to several people’s organizations. The whole day activity earned the respect and gratitude from the officials, residents-beneficiaries in the Barangay. Guiwanon’s barangay secretary Genara Sanoy said that...Drugs, murder, rape top jail population
TAGBILARAN CITY, October 31, (PIA)—Next to inmates with crimes in violation of the dangerous drugs act, prisoners facing murder charges and theft comprise the top three most populations in Bohol jails. In a report rendered by Jail Inspector Jose Rusylvi Abueva, jail statistics revealed that of the 1038 population of Bohol jails under the Bureau of jail Management and Penology (BJMP), inmates with drug cases comprise 51.34%. Of the inmates with drug related cases, most of them, or 301 of 553 or 54.43% are committed at the Bohol District Jail (BDJ), formerly the Bohol Detention and Rehabilitation Center. On the other hand, 19.69% or 105 of those detained for drugs are held at the Tagbilaran City District Jail (TCDJ) while 21.75% of these inmates facing drug suits are at the Talibon and Ubay District jails (UDJ), according to the BJMP. After drug related cases, is murder, of which 118 are currently being detained to answer to the allegations in court and are awaiting for the dispensation of their cases. Detainees facing murder comprise 11.36% of jail population in the five jails under the BJMP supervision, Inspector Abueva pointed out. BDJ, the main jail for the province also commits 52.54% of detainees facing murder charges, while TCDJ has 19.495 or 23 inmates answering to murder. UDJ also keeps 11.86% of inmates facing murder cases in courts. This is 14 inmates, Abueva report showed. Next to drugs and murder, third most number of crime types among inmates in five Bohol jails is rape, which comprises 7.51% or a total of 78 of the 1038 detainees. While BDJ keeps 35 of these...National News
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