by anyajulia | Jul 13, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
ANOTHER window of opportunity opens for Boholano local and overseas job seekers this Saturday July 18, as the Capitol based Bohol Employment and Placement Office (BEPO) brings back a job fair at the Island City Mall.
Job applicants however need to pre-register at the BEPO, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and Municipal PES Offices to be able to secure gate passes, says an advisory from Romulo Tagaan, BEPO head.
Similar job fairs in the past also run from 8:00 to 5 PM, and this time, with the fair incorporated with the annual Sandugo activities, a bigger crowd is expected, organizers said.
Organized by the Provincial government through the BEPO, DOLE, Philippine Overseas Employment Administration and the municipal government’s employment offices, the fair has become a priority project of Capitol under Governor Erico Aumentado and Vice Gov. Julius Caesar Herrera to bring employment opportunities closer to the people.
According to Tagaan, target sectors include information communication technologists, engineering and construction, Medical and dental services, hospitals and allied health services, sports and physical fitness, hotels and restaurants workers, building maintenance, housekeeping, merchandising, seafaring and general administrative services.
BEPO did not however detail on the number of employers and agencies coming but past similar activities unroll several chances as agencies and manning consultants tend their separate tables at the fair grounds.
Over these, Tagaan asks applicants to come to the fair in a business attire, pre-registered and bringing in as many copies of their relevant employment documents to make use of the different agencies who are looking at prospects of hiring.
This too as the country has given its all out support to starting the small engines of development in the country sides by opening credit access to micro, small and medium entrepreneurs to start as many jobs.
Since the government has stepped on the gas in giving emergency employment and livelihood, the country’s unemployment rate has dropped from 8% in April last year to 7.5% this year.
In fact, elated over the vast local employment generated by these jobs matching activities, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has said there is a great patriotism in setting up businesses that give jobs and feed the stomachs and spirit of our countrymen and their families. (PIA)
by anyajulia | Jun 3, 2009 | Headlines, National News
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has released various anti-red tape programs and projects so as to improve frontline public services.
These activities include extensive dissemination of Republic Act No. 9485 otherwise known as Anti-Red Tape Act (ARTA), seminar-workshop on ARTA, anti-corruption sensitivity seminar, assessment of frontline services, and enhancement of service standards.
The CSC list of approved ARTA programs and projects include the following: capability building/training for frontline employees especially of client-heavy agencies; launching of Citizen’s Charter; dialogues with stakeholders on how services can be enhanced; conduct of quarterly People’s Day by agency heads; set up complaints and assistance desk and mechanisms to eliminate fixers and fixing activities; and customers/clients online help and feedback program.
The General Appropriations Act (GAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 under Republic Act 9524 mandates all government agencies to appropriate at least one-half of one percent of their total FY 2009 Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE) for anti-red tape related programs and projects. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | May 15, 2009 | Headlines, TBTK
It is said that music is the food that feeds our soul. What a fitting delight to know that
our TBTK Global Homecoming campaign promotion not just has its own official Theme Song, but its composer is no less a Priest, gifted with such extra-ordinary skill in music and among the Paring Bol-anon holding pastoral assignment abroad who is right now connected to a Louisiana Parish in the United States, in the person of Fr. Roel Lungay. Music was arranged and sang by Romy Ceniza Mascarinas, another talent based in Tagbilaran City.
Better still, such TBTK Theme Song was first aired during Tagbilarans fiesta celebration at Wyckoff, New Jersey where a big congregation of the Boholano community in the East Coast were in attendance last May 9, a Saturday. To everybody’s delight, touching the heart, mind and soul of every Boholano hearing the melody and the lyrics of the song that emits love of our home-province, our people and the invitation to be home this July for the grand celebration..
Such information is no less revealed by our TBTK Chairperson, Mrs. Betty Veloso-Garcia, who was invited as the Inducting Officer of the Tagbilaranon’s of Eastern USA headed by another Paring Bol-anon, Fr. Fernando Po, as re-elected President.
Hereunder is the lyrics of the TBTK’s Theme Song in its entirety. To hear the song, log on to our website at tbtk.org . or click youtube, or get in touch with us thru our e-mail ad:douglashont@hotmail.com.
TIGUM BOL-ANON
Words by J. Roel Lungay
Music by Romeo C. Mascariñas
1
Panahon sa kasadya
Ania na usab
Dakong panaghudyaka
Kanato nagtawag
Kita mag tapok-tapok
Kita mag tigum-tigum.
2
Hala tibuok banay
Pangandam na kamo
Ma nanay man o tatay
Ma dodong man o inday
Kitang tanan mo byahe
Kitang tanan pauli.
Koro:
Tigum Bol-anon tigum
Dili na gyod maluom
Tigum Bol-anon tigum
Dili na gyod mahilom
Mahal natong probinsya
Nagsige nag pangagda
Bol-anon tib’ok kalibutan
Sundon nato ang dalan
Pauli sa Bohol,
Pinangga tang Bohol.
3
Kalambo, kahiusa
Paga damgohon ta
Yuta natong natawhan
Atong pangalagaran
Ayaw kamo kalimot
Tandaon ta siya.
4
Bol-anong panawagan
Kaninyo nga tanan.
Bol-anon’sa kalibutan
O dungga ki’ng tanan;
Salamat, o Bol-anon
Magkita-kita tang tanan.
(Koro)
Tulay:
Tigum Bol-anon tigum!
Bol-anon tib’ok kalibutan
Bol-anon tib’ok kalibutan
Uban kamo sa panagtigum!
(Koro)
Koda:
Tigum Bol-anon tigum!
Tigum Bol-anon tigum!
Tigum Bol-anon tigum!
by anyajulia | Apr 4, 2009 | Headlines, National News
HOLY week rolls along with only two working days for the country’s labor force, this as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed Proclamation 1699 late last year.
According to the proclamation signed December 24, April 9, which is traditionally celebrated as the Araw ng Kagitingan is being moved to April 6, the Monday nearest to it.
Meanwhile, April 9 and 10 have been traditionally observed in the Christian world as the Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, two of the most important days of solemn reflection in the Holy Week, thus both are declared regular holidays across the country.
The Presidential Proclamation then legitimizes the three holidays within the week and opens only Tuesday and Wednesday as the regular working day.
Sources from the Department of Labor and Employment also explained that leaving two working days in the week would eventually assure daily wage earners at least two days income to feed the family.
On Monday, when the country commemorates Araw ng Kagitingan, Filipinos also remember the tragic Fall of Bataan.
Fall of Bataan is an annual commemoration of the Filipino’s true spirit of freedom and valor when freedom defenders holed up in Mt. Samat in Bataan and Corregidor Island to stop the Japanese invaders from entering the Manila Bay.
The American and Filipino strong hold of Bataan is very crucial for the country as they delayed the Japanese occupation and thus prevented the Japanese forces from gaining a strategic control of the vast Pacific Ocean.
The eventual capture of the freedom defender’s bastions in Bataan also started the infamous Death March, where both Filipinos and Americans who fought side by side were forced to march from Bataan to Tarlac.
Along the way, thousands of Filipinos and Americans died of exhaustion and abuse.
On the other hand, in the religious tradition of the Christians, the whole Christendom bows in prayer in contemplation of the agonies of Christ, the Savior who eventually died to redeem the world.
The event is symbolically commemorated by days of prayer and fasting, especially on Good Friday when Christ would die while crucified. (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | Mar 31, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
IT would be another “armed struggle” with former rebels now peace converts as Bohol Vice Governor Julius Caesar Herrera gave them seeds of hope to start anew.
The peace converts, or more popularly known in Bohol as “kauban sa reporma” (KR) belong to the latest batch of rebel returnees decided stopping their pursuit of a lost war.
The new “armed struggle” is essentially one that uses the KRs arms in tilling the soil and produce food from the sweat of their brow.
Still stigmatized as former extremists, the 26 returnees here found themselves hard up in finding livelihood opportunities much less, the capital to start a decent life anew.
Through the Office Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, the government, with the help of local officials here succeeded in granting P20T livelihood assistance.
Seeing that majority of these peace converts decide to be anonymous farmers, the vice governor, who heads the Sangguniang Panlalawigan’s Agriculture committee found the perfect opportunity to recruit new allies.
The seeds, a complete Pinoy pinakbet pack consists of ampalaya, eggplant, squash, okra, string beans and tomatoes were each given to peace converts as starter seed set to germinate at home, Herrera said.
This may be a real small thing, but great beginnings start from here, Herrera said in the vernacular as he elaborated on the parallel effort growing the seeds of hope in the government’s honest peace initiatives.
In his engagements across the province, Herrera has been convincing people to go back to agriculture as a response to the global crisis that threatens to shake rock-steady economies across the globe.
He shared his dreams of keeping backyard gardens so that families can cut on spending costs.
Consequently, Herrera has been on the recruiting binge to convince people of the vision for food sufficient Bohol.
In support of his personal crusade, the province of Bohol has recently allotted P1M more to feed the Herrera dream of food security, shared Provincial Administrator Tomas Abapo during the awarding ceremonies last week. (rachiu/PIA)
