by magnolia_eic | Jan 8, 2011 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
STRONGER private sector presence in partnership with the public sector can be very good for the
tourism industry in Bohol, take it from a tested businessman member of the Bohol Chamber of
Commerce and Industry.
According to Fortunato Lim of the Fortune Enterprises fame, there is still a good room for
development in tourism infrastructure facilities in Bohol to make us globally competitive.
Speaking for the BCCI, Lim said the private sector can do a lot about the things we need to get right
to make Bohol a memorable tourism destination.
Himself having been sent to Phuket for a tourism benchmarking trip, Lim said Thais have a very
competitive tourism development with the help of the private sector.
At the Kapihan sa PIA aired live over DyTR, Lim said that Boholanos can still be very hopeful of the
tourism boom which is still expected to reach greater heights this year.
In fact, he said the BCCI is actively engaged in public and private sector partnerships to press on the
philosophy of cooperation.
He said the Chamber has been actively meeting with local government units and agencies to help
craft development plans to ensure sustainability.
Lim said that the Chamber sits to local planners and an urban master planner for the creation of a
zoning ordinance in Panglao, Bohol’s most profitable growth area in the next few years.
One of the problems of the tourist island is that it has not legislated its zoning ordinance yet that land
owners have a fairly free hand in their development without considering the integral development of
the place.
A good road network in the plan would help spur economic activity, an ace that could make the
island more investor friendly.
With Tagbilaran as a tourist gateway, Lim said suggestions to rid the main thoroughfares of ugly
tangles of sagging power and phone lines have been put up and could possibly be a priority to
enhance the islands tourism value. (racPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Aug 22, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
JOBS and work-trainings for youths remain one of the top priorities for the Chatto Administration.
At the recent Kita ug ang Gobernador weekly radio program aired over Bohol AM stations form the People’s Mansion, Governor Edgar Chatto bared a hurting statistic, only 40% of secondary students in Bohol can proceed to college.
As Chatto read the statistics, he also remarked on the dire necessity to look into the matter of basic work training to high school students.
Who takes care of the remaining 60% graduates who could not go to college and are not trained for jobs? Chatto asked.
Over this, to arrest the need to get the 60% secondary school graduates get jobs, both Chatto and Bohol Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) through Dr. Francisca Opog bared their continued implementation of the programs that assure work for Boholano youth.
Dr. Opog said they are opening up P1M school for work training programs scholarship to employable youth aged 18 years old and older.
On the other hand, Chatto revealed that Capitol intends to continue with the Skills Training Advocating Reliance and Self employment (STARS) a program co funded by the Capitol.
The program identifies at least two skills training beneficiaries from every barangay in Bohol for 12 different skills from every barangay.
The project, as conceptualized by the Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry aims to generate as much as 26,616 jobs in its first two years of inception also would hopefully start some P204M income opportunities for Bohol, then explained past president Norris Joseph Oculam.
Then funded by the President’s Social Fund, Capitol put in P6.5M and the three Bohol representatives polled a similar amount to get the local job generation program going.
According to Chatto, the country’s educational modules have not as much included work skills training for high school and it compounds to the problem.
Over this, he instructed his Administrator Alfonso Damalerio III and education consultant Cerina Bolos to work out with Bohol Island State University an agreement to make the school a center for excellence in education so they can expand their extension and education services to the farms where they are most needed. (rac/PIABohol)
