12 vol 5 isiquijor 4 10 to 17 2017

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THE OFFICIAL E-NEWSLETTER OF THE PHILIPPINE INFORMATION AGENCY - SIQUIJOR | WWW.PIA.GOV.PH and the DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - SIQUIJOR | WWW.DOST.GOV.PH VOL. 5| NO.12 April 10-17, 2017

DOST Siquijor turned over P7.5M in 2016, assisted 10 MSMEs

SIQUIJOR (PIA) – Over P7.5 million were turned over by the government to at least 10 micro, small and medium entrepreneurs (MSMEs) in the province of Siquijor last year.

In its report, Information Officer designate Engr. Reinhold Jek Y. Abing said the Siquijor provincial office of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) pushed for the technological assistance of the new batch of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) from among the priority sectors through the DOST - Small Enterprise PIA-Siquijor and the Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP).

Secular Franciscan Order

With 10 MSMEs in the province as beneficiaries, jointly work on a infodrive DOST Siquijor has turned over checks amounting to a total of and feeding project for the PhP7,755,178 to 10 beneficiaries. school children.

Five firms were classified under the food processing sector, two into furniture business, one into metals and engineering sector, one into agriculture processing sector and one corporation which has business in the ICT sector, Abing said in his report.

He said that P2,440,000 or 31 percent of the total amount were given to the food processing sector with clients, namely: Elena’s Bakery and Pasalubong Center, Larena Triad Coffee Shop, Claridades Meatshop, Jainin’s Cakes and Pastries and Isla Noah Ice Cream.

Likewise, P2,299,700 or 30 percent were allocated for the metals and engineering sector with GL Motors and Industries as sole beneficiary.

An amount of P1,490,000 or 19 percent were also turned over to the ICT sector specifically to Siquijor Island Cable Island TV Network Systems Corporation.

The furniture sector received 15 percent of the total amount this year or PhP1,149,978 that includes NR Builders and Dongon N Balababa Enterprises as beneficiaries.

The remaining amount was allocated for the agricultural processing sector with Jutba General Merchandise as beneficiary.

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Secular Franciscans, PIA reach out to Siquijor kids, women

SIQUIJOR(PIA) - The Secular Franciscan Order (SFO) and the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) here reached out to schoo lchildren and women in Siquijor province through an information drive, lecture and feeding in two identified schools for the month of March.

Since March is National Women’s Month, the team hosted the Information Drive/Forum cum Feeding for Day Care and Elementary school teachers and students of the New Corregidor Elementary School in Barangay Calunasan, Larena, Siquijor on

March 22, 2017 and Special Education (SPED) students, persons with disabilities (PWDs) and their parents at Enrique Villanueva Elementary School on March 23.

The parents are also members of the Gihi Usang Ginikanan na May kapansanang Anak (GUGMA), a group of parents with physically and mentally challenged children in Siquijor under the leadership of Joselito Maghanoy of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) here.

The activity highlighted the Women’s Month Celebration with the theme “WE Make

Change for Women.”

It is done in close coordination with a group of Secular Franciscans in the province known as SFO who also share the same advocacy and apostolate particularly on love and care of all creation.

It also serves as the offshoot of the recently concluded Comprehensive Course on Franciscan Mission Charism (CCFMC) in Kota Kinabalu which the team of Secular Franciscans in Siquijor attended.

The CCFMC seeks to promote

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PIA’s Ugnayan tackles ASEAN benefits in Siquijor

The Philippine Information Agency and the Association of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Communication Team comes to Siquijor province to discuss opportunities and benefits of ASEAN among other government services and programs in a Multi-Sectoral Forum dubbed Ugnayan.

In the series of Ugnayan in various provinces nationwide, PIA Director General Harold Clavite said the opening of employment prospects in neighboring countries and visafree travel are some of the advantages that the ASEAN brings for its citizens.

Clavite stressed that the objective of organizing the ASEAN community and with economic cooperation and regional integration is to improve the lives of its people.

The Ugnayan or ASEAN multisectoral forum intends to gather support to the Philippines’ chairmanship of the 50th ASEAN summit this year.

Another speaker, PIA Staff Director Belina Capul explain the meetings that would take place in the different cities and provinces in the country where leaders, foreign ministers, and representatives of the ASEAN’s Technical Working Groups will talk on how to better improve the regional cooperation.

Capul will also about the positive impact of the ASEAN and how it will open up opportunities of economic, political, cultural, and security cooperation among its ten members.

This year’s ASEAN will celebrate its 50th anniversary with the theme: “Partnering for change, Engaging the world” with Philippines holding the Chairmanship in accordance with the regular rotation among member states.

The ASEAN 10-member states include Brunei Darrusalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam.

Other issues to be tackled are the benefits and challenges of the Freedom of Information and National Economic and Development Authority’s (NEDA) Ambisyon

Natin 2040 that highlights the Philippine government’s long-term mission and vision for the Filipino people and the country in the next 25 years.

The event will be participated in by more than 100 sector representatives in the province which include local and national government unit officials, information officers, non-governmental organizations, farmers and fisherfolks, tourism stakeholders and some members of the local media, and students.

To be held at the Siquijor Capital Square, the forum will be graced by Provincial Governor Zaldy S. Villa, Vice Governor Mei Ling Quezon, COngressman Rav Rocamora, the six municipals mayors and heads of the

The total assistance received by Siquijor’s MSMEs this year was up 114 percent year on year which translates to P4,123,762.

In 2015, MSMEs in the province received a total assistance worth P3,631,416 through the same program, he said.

The funds will be used by the MSMEs to procure the identified equipment

and machineries as stipulated in the notarized memorandum of agreement.

Beneficiaries under the food processing category will also be able to use the funds for the laboratory analysis and packaging and labeling of their products.

In return, the beneficiaries will pay monthly the total amount for 36 months

national governent agencies in the province.

Prior to the forum of the same day is also the launching of the PIA Information Kiosk at Siquijor seaport where information , education and communciation materials on ASEAN, FOI and other government programs and services are made availble for the public.

The Kiosk is made possible with the strong support of the Philippine Ports Authority and the Provincial Government through its Tourism Office and the Siqujor Association of Information Disseminators (SAID) composed of Information officers from the different LGUS and NGAs here as PIA partners.

DOST Siquijor turns over...from p.1

through post dated checks.

This means that the equipment procured will remain property of DOST until beneficiary opts to pay to 0.5 percent of the total assistance on the 37th month, Abing said. (rmn/rac/PIA7-Siquijor/Engr. Reinhold Jek Y. Abing, DOST Siquijor PSTC IO-designate)

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FAQs: THE ASEAN COMMUNITY

1 How would you describe the ASEAN Community in brief?

The ASEAN Communitywill bring the 10 Member States of ASEANeven closer together,as we will be bound by the shared vision of a durable, peaceful, stable and prosperous region.

Community-building has three pillars - in the political-security, economic and socio-cultural areas. The establishment of a Communityis a significant milestone in ASEAN’s continued evolution as an organisation with a common regional identity, one that is home to some 620 million people aspiring for ‘One Vision, One Identity, One Community’.

2 The Community is in place on Dec. 31, 2015. What changes can we expect in the new year?

ASEAN Communitybuilding is an ongoing process, notan overnight transformation.

Toprepare forits launch, ASEAN Member States have undertaken initiatives underthe three ASEAN Community blueprints, aimed at deepening and widening integration. ASEAN Leaders have also adopted the ‘ASEAN Community Vision2025’ which charts our continued integration and consolidation over the next 10 years.

3 How will the ASEAN Community affect my everyday life?

The primary goal of regional integration through the ASEAN Community is to improve the lives of ASEAN’s citizens. The 2015 Kuala Lumpur Declaration

for the freer movement of skilled professionals– engineers, nurses, architects, land surveyors, medical doctors and dentists, accountants, and tourism professionals.

5 Some ASEAN members havedifferences with each other. How will the ASEAN Community help in these?

on The Establishment of The ASEAN Community, issued by ASEAN Leaders at the 27th ASEAN Summit in November 2015, speaks of their aspiration to establish “a truly rules-based, people-oriented, people-centred Community where our peoples continue to participate in and benefit fully from the ongoing process of ASEAN integration and community-building.”

For an ASEAN citizen, the Community will offer opportunities such as a bigger, more open and rules-based market for business, more trade, and increased peopleto people interaction through commerce, travel and education, among others.

4 Will I be able to travel freely in the region or work in another ASEAN country?

Various agreements and initiatives within ASEAN have eased travel among ASEAN nationals’ countries, and more are underway.

In the area of employment, the Mutual Recognition Arrangements within ASEAN Community provide

Like in any family, ASEAN Member States may have differing views on a range of issues, and a number have pending border issues. ASEAN Member States are committed to the ASEAN Charter as their guiding principle, which includes resolvingany disputes through peaceful means.

Among others, the ‘ASEAN Way’ is aboutCommunity and consensus-building, non-violence over confrontation, moderation over extremism, and a peaceful settlement of disputes.

ASEAN has a number of agreements for promoting regional peace, cooperation and solidarity.

This includes the 1971 Declaration on the Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality, the 1976 Treaty of Amity and Cooperation and the 2004 Protocol for Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanismfor resolving economicrelated disputes.The ASEAN Declaration on the South China Sea (1992) and the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (2002)also play a key role in maintaining peace, security and stability in the South China Sea.A third example of how ASEAN manages crossborder challenges is the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution.

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DOH, nihatag og mga tips Franciscans from p.1 sa paglikay sa stroke karong panahon sa ting-init

(PIA)--Nagpagawas og tips ang Department of Health (DOH) aron malikayan sa publiko ang heat stroke karong panahon sa ting-init.

Matud pa sa tigpamaba sa DOH nga si Dr. Eric Tayag, aron malikayan ang heat stroke, kinahanglang mo-inom og daghang tubig.

Giingong angay usab likayan ang outdoor physical activities sulod sa taas nga oras.

D u g a n g p a n i Ta y a g , makonsiderar nga medical emergency ang heat stroke tungod kay mahimo kining mosangpot sa pagkamatay.

Giingong kasagarang maapektuhan niini ang mga senior citizens ug traffic enforcers nga kanunay dayag sa kainit sa adlaw.

Nabatyagan nga mahitabo ang heat stroke kun mag-overheat ang lawas sa tawo.

Kun dili dayon matambalan o mahatagan og tambal ang makasinati niini, mahimong makaingon pa kini og kadaot sa utok, kasingkasing ug kidney.

Angay bantayan ang mga sintomas sa heat stroke sama sa pagkalipong, pamati nga murag kakuyapon, sakit sa ulo, pagkauhaw, dehydration, taas nga temperatura, paspas nga heartbeat ug uban pa. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)

DOT, miseguro nga luwas pa gihapong mo-biyahe sa Central Visayas

(PIA)--Giseguro sa Department of Tour i s m ( D O T ) n g a k a y a n g ipabiling luwas sa mga sundalo ug polis ang mga turistang mobisita sa Central Visayas karong summer.

Taliwala sa mga gipagawas nga travel advisories sa Amerika, Australia, United Kingdom ug South Korea, giawhag sa DOT ang mga turista nga ipadayon lang ang ilang mga planong pagbisita sa mga destinasyon sa rehiyon tungod kay hugot man kining gibantayan sa Philippine National Police (PNP) ug Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

Matud pa sa pahayag sa ahensya, padayon ang ilang pakig-alayon sa mga law enforcement agencies aron mapapas ang kabalaka sa mga turista.

Apan nipahinumdom ang DOT sa mga turista nga himuon gihapon ang naandan nga pag-amping ug magbinantayon sa ilang pag-biyahe.

Samtang gitumbok ni Bohol Gob. Edgar Chatto nga nagpabiling malinawon ug tawhay ang lalawigan taliwala sa bag-o lang nahitabong engkwentro sa tropa sa gobyerno ug

pipila ka miyembro sa Abu Sayyaf Group.

Matud pa ni Chatto, ang malinawon nga pagtimaan sa niaging Semana Santa ang pruweba nga malinawon sa Bohol diin padayon ang pag-abot sa mga turista sa lalawigan.

Sa niaging Semana Santa, daghang turista ang niabot sa Bohol diin naa sa 80-90 porsiyento ang accommodation facilities ug hasta ang mga tour groups nga ilang ginatanyag sa mga turista, napuno usab sa mga bookings.

Gani, andam na ang Bohol ug ‘all systems go’ na usab ang Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) sa pagdawat sa mga sakop sa Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) nga maghimo sa ilang tigum sa lungsod sa Panglao sugod karong adlawa, Abril 18 hangtud sa Abril 21.

Kahinumdoman nga sa niaging semana, napugngan sa mga otoridad ang planong pagdagit sa mga miyembro sa Abu Sayyaf sa mga turista sa lungsod sa Inabanga ning lalawigan. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)

Women’s Month and its theme: WE Make Change Work for Women and a Visual Presentation on the Gifts and Threats of Nature/Care for Mother Earth were presented

by PIA Siquijor.

Honoring St. Francis as the Father of Ecology, a presentation on St. Francis Love for All Creations/ Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation was shared by Provincial Veterinarian Bernardita Tabada and Sangguniang Bayan Committee Chair on Environment Belinda Inao of Enrique Villanueva municipality. Both are also professed SFO.

Also sharing in the lecture was Edith T. Pal-ing, Retired School Principal and another member of the SFO who talked about “Spirituality: Men, Women, Children all Created Equal.”

Meanwhile, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) called on governments to integrate a gender perspective into the design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of national environmental policies.

The team hopes to conduct more activities for the province.

For its part, the Philippines has adopted the Philippine Strategy for Sustainable Development that serves as a framework for natural resources management and environmental protection.

The Strategy’s key elements include conservation, proper pricing of natural resources, property rights reform, population management, rural development, and citizen’s participation.

Climate Change Climate change is one of today’s most ominous crises. Most of the recent natural disasters are attributed to the changes undergone by the planet as caused by global warming. (rmn/rac/PIA7/Siquijor)

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