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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. 06| No. 28 August 20-27, 2018

Dragon boat race tops Araw ng Lalawigan ng Siquijor fest

SIQUIJOR, August 24 (PIA)— “It’s not everyday that you get to paddle and race in paradise!” So brag the organizers as they invite locals and visitors alike to come, join, watch, cheer and enjoy the Dragon Boat Festival 2018 on September 9 at the MDB Homes beach area in Dumanhug, Siquijor, Siquijor. Dubbed “Bugsay alang sa Kalinaw” (paddle for peace), the Dragon Boat Festival is part of the activities that highlight the celebration of Araw ng Lalawigan ng Siquijor, said Philippine Coast

Guard Provincial Commander and Bugsay Committee Chair Lt. Jansen Benjamin. “This is the first first time to have a dragon boat race in this kind of celebration dahil hindi ito kasama sa (because this was not included in the) usual activities of the province in the previous years, Benjamin said. The local government unit (LGU) of Enrique Villanueva however, was the first to hold the competition called Pamukad Dragon Boat Race last July as part of its town fiesta activity. It was also made in coordination with DTI. He said the organizers would want to promote dragon boat race as one of the tourismsport activities in the province that will attract tourist and

eventually make Siquijor Island a hub for local and international dragon boat competition which is an emerging and a very popular water sports in the Philippines. According to Benjamin, the event is expecting around six to 10 teams of paddlers from Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental, Tacloban and Mindanao and local teams from the six municipalities of the province. From it, tourists will come to enjoy the beautiful island while helping local producers, entrepreneurs and the fisher folks to have alternative tourismrelated livelihood apart from fishing, also said Provincial Director Angeline Pauline Gonzalez of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) here. “I created the event because we want to promote the products and services of the province. We let the tourists enjoy our pristine water while promoting other to page 3

DTI kicks off “STEEP” program implementation in Siquijor by Jebe R. Mag-usara Jr.

SIQUIJOR (PIA)--The Department of Trade and Industry - Siquijor Provincial Office (DTI-SPO) started its initial phase in conducting entrepreneurship development training to those graduates under the Skills Training for Employment/Entrepreneurship Program (STEEP) in the province of Siquijor. This came after the creation and signing of a joint Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Technical Educational Skills Development Authority (Tesda) here. The MOA hopes to enforce and deliver an effective and efficient implementation of the STEEP, says DTI’s Negosyo Center Provincial Program Officer and Information Officer designate Jebe Mag-usara Jr. The DTI conducted the first entrepreneurship Development Seminar with investment promotion and Consumer rights and responsibilities in Cangmangki, Enrique Villanueva on July 3, 2018. Twenty-four participants graduated in the Skills Training on Nail Care. The second was conducted in Bogo, Maria, Siquijor on July 29, which was attended by 45 graduates of Skills Training on Masonry and Carpentry. Students enrolled in the program are entitled to a seminar once they finish their module and the DTI will schedule the conduct of the

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BSP presents outstanding regional partners in Central Visayas (PIA) – Four of the 13 outstanding regional partner-organizations in Central Visayas come from Negros Oriental which Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) awarded in recognition of their invaluable support to its statistical undertakings, information needs, and advocacy programs. Bangko Sentral Assistant Governor on Regional Operations Sub-Sector Iluminada Sicat (middle) spearheaded this year’s Awards Ceremony for BSP Stakeholders with the 13 awardees in Central Visayas at the Banking Hall of BSPCebu. (PIA-NegOr) In celebration of its 25th Anniversary, Bangko Sentral Assistant Governor on Regional Operations SubSector Iluminada Sicat led this year’s Awards Ceremony for BSP Stakeholders at the Banking Hall of BSP-Cebu. Among the awardees in the province were Lee Super Plaza as Outstanding Regional Partner for coin recirculation;

96.7 Bai Radio dyEM-FM & Negros Chronicle, Outstanding Regional Partner for Clean Note Policy; Philippine Information Agency (PIA)- Negros Oriental honored as Outstanding Regional Partner for the Demonetization of the New Design Series; and Negros Oriental State University (NORSU) as Outstanding Regional Partner for Knowledge Resource Network. The First Consolidated Bank, Inc. was named as Outstanding Respondent among Large and Medium Firms; and the Kenko Tokina Silk Corp. as Outstanding Respondent among Small Firms in the Business Expectation Survey (BES). Awards were also given to the Philippine Statistics Authority in Central Visayas as Outstanding Partner for Report on Regional Economic Developments in the Philippines, while the Cebu Credit Surety Fund (CSF) was recognized as Outstanding CSF.

Are you aware that we have a “Made in the Philippines Week” observance every August 17 to 23? This is thru Proclamation No. 76 signed by President Manuel Luis Quezon. This celebration aims to promote locally made products and encourage consistent patronage of these Filipino products and services. Let’s buy our own country’s produce.

The Bank of the Philippine Islands - Cebu Main Branch received recognition as Outstanding Regional Partner for Clean Note Policy; while dyAB - Cebu was also named as Outstanding Regional Partner for the Demonetization of the New Design Series. The Outstanding Regional Partners for implementing BSP Advocacy on the Conduct of Public Information Campaigns were the Department of Education’s Cebu City and Siquijor Divisions; and University of Cebu-Main as the Outstanding Regional Partner for Knowledge Resource Network. In her keynote message, Sicat extended the BSP’s gratitude to its partners in the region for their exemplary support and cited that stakeholders’ proactive response to various surveys and programs has helped BSP better gauge the dynamics in the economy that enable them to deliver their mandate of maintaining price and stability, promote a sound and stable banking system, and ensuring a safe and efficient payment and settlement system. In keeping with the theme, “Reinforcing Partnerships, Defying New Challenges” BSP hopes to improve stakeholders and its partners collaboration in gathering information and conducting advocacy campaigns. This will also help out the BSP’s objectives of safeguarding price stability and promoting a healthy financial system as well as ensuring an efficient payments and settlement system in the country. (jct/ PIA7-Negros Oriental)

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support services, like accommodation, and local food and non food products,” Gonzalez said. “When we bring in visitors, they will bring back something when they go home which means spending their money here so they will contribute to our economy,” she also said. “Dragon boat race is not only a sports, it is also a way of promoting environmental protection like cleaning up of seashores. This is also what we wanted it for,” also supports one of the organizers and consultant of the local paddlers’ team named Isla del Fuego, Bebot Tan. Race champion will receive Php8,000, first runner up, Php5,000 and second runner up, Php3,000. Registration fee for participating paddlers is Php400 that already includes event singlet, welcome dinner and school billeting. “Its not only about having fun but also an advocacy. We have team in Siquijor, the Isla del Fuego composed of fisherfolks who are residents of the province to serve as the hosts. We see to it that everybody will enjoy,” assures Tan. He said the event is called “Bugsay Alang sa Kalinaw” because aside from its advocacy for environment, it is also a representation of support of the island of Siquijor in unity for peace, as the event logo suggests. The event logo, Tan said, is a sign of peace commitment of six towns (Enrique Villanueva, Maria, Larena, Lazi, San Juan and Siquijor) with the prominent molave tree and fireflies to show how Siquijor started. The logo, explains Tan, have six paddlers representing the strength of the six towns of Siquijor. The six waves interlink into a handshake are the six islands committed to unite for the support of peace. The rounded shape symbolizes the unending commitment for peace. “We want to show to the world that the island really unite for peace. We paddle for peace,” he said. (rac/PIA7-Siquijor/

The beach area in MDB Homes in Dumanhug, Siquijor, Siquijor is the venue for the upcoming Araw ng Lalawigan ng Siquijor’s “Bugsay Alang sa Kalinaw,” a dragon boat race on September 9. (PIA/Siquijor)

NTC-7 warns public on text scam (PIA)--National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) here warns the public of the rampant cases of text scam. Engr. Bill Peralta of NTC -7 said that they are now intensifying the government’s move to eliminate text scam cases in Central Visayas. Peralta added that as of January to July this year, they have already received a hundred complains of text scams. “Mostly those being informed that they have won an amount of money and those asked through text from an 11-digit cellphone number to give money or load,” Peralta said. He noted that incidents had reached far flung areas as they have also entertained complaints from individuals, and not just those who go to their office to complain. In an advisory, NTC urged the public who are victims of text scams to immediately

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seminar, he said. The program aims to provide interventions through skills development by providing access to training on entrepreneurship to graduates of TESDA program for self or wage employment to uplift their economic status. With the interventions, DTI-SPO said, “We ensure that we give the utmost service to impart the basic knowledge of entrepreneurship and would be able to adopt the necessary attitude and mindset towards engaging a business as we tend to develop their creativity and business mindset through the “BEST GAME” workshop.” The DTI-SPO looks forward to finish the program before 2018 ends and believes that all STEEP graduates will be able to acquire the Entrepreneurial Development Training Certificate. (rac/PIA7-Siquijor/JMagusaraJr/DTI-SPO)

inform NTC of the cellphone number used for text scam so that NTC will forward it to concerned Telecommunications Network for the number to be blocked. In this note NTC-7 disclosed the 4 kinds of text scam that include: Raffle Draw Winner Text Scam; Relative Asking for Load; Load Thief (Pasa/Kawat Load); and someone asking you to return the load mistakenly loaded to your cellphone number. NTC warns the public not to believe in a text message from an 11-digit number informing them that they have won in a raffle draw and asking about their personal information and if possible asking to send load and some cases the sender will require money for processing fee. “There are also cases wherein someone will text you as relative or friend asking for load,” Peralta shared. Sometimes you will not be aware that you have already shared a load to someone using the share a load promo of the different network provider this is known as “pasa/kawat load” Text Scam. In some cases there will be someone asking you to return the load mistakenly loaded to your cellphone number. For text scam complaints, please contact Customer Welfare and Protection Unit (CWPU) of NTC-7 at (032) 346-0179 or 4226822 or NTC Central Office (02) 926-7722 or 921 – 3251 or email at ntcvii@yahoo.com. (ays/PIA7)

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DOE gisita ang mga stasyon sa gas ug LPG nga nakalapas sa balaod

(PIA)--Nagpahigayon og compliance monitoring inspection ang Department of Energy (DOE) sa mga establisyemento nga namaligya og produktong petrolyo sa mga probinsya sa Negros Oriental ug Siquijor, kaniadtong Agosto 13 hangtud 17, 2018.

Ang “Focused Inspection (FI) on the Downstream Oil Industry” napahigayon ubos sa pagpaningkamot sa mga Local Government Units (LGUs), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Philippine Information

Agency (PIA), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) ug Philippine National Police (PNP). Gipanguluhan sa Energy Industry Management Division sa DOE-Visayas Field Office (VFO) ang maong kalihokan. Buot niini masiguro nga tanang produktong petrolyo nga gipamaligya sa merkado, nagsunod sa national quality ug quantity standards, aron ma-protektahan ang mga kunsumidor. Anaa sa 162 ka fuel retail outlets ug 115 ka establisemento sa liquified petroleum gas (LPG) ang gisusi. Nasuta sa maong pagsusi nga walay Certificate of Compliance gikan sa DOE ang 84 ka porsyento sa mga liquid fuel retail outlets. Miabot usab og 98 ka porsyento sa tanang distributor og LPG ang walay Standards Compliance Certificates, kini kalapasan sa Amended Retail Rules ug LPG Industry Rules. Dugang pa niana, naa sa 11 porsyento sa mga liquid fuel retail outlets ang nahibaw-an nga adunay under-delivering dispensers. Gipaabot dayun kini sa lokal nga kagamhanan aron mahatagan og aksyon. A n g D O E - V F O makanunayon’g gapahigayon og compliance monitoring activities sa Visayas aron mamintinar ang kaayohan sa mga kunsumedor sa rehiyon. (Jan Karla Madrio/PIA7)

DOE mipaambit sa tukmang paggamit sa refrigerators August 22 (PIA)—Batasana ang regular nga pag-defrost sa inyong refrigerator sa balay. Kini mao’y tambag sa Department of Energy (DOE) ngadto sa mga konsumidor kinsa karon nabug-atan na sa bayranan sa kuryente ilabi na ning panahon nga halos gasobra na ang init sa adlaw. Segun pa sa DOE, kon pasagdan nga mobaga na ang ice sa sulod sa freezer, ang pagtuyok sa hangin nga magpabugnaw niini maglisud na, hinungdan usab nga magdoble ang pagtrabaho sa motor niini. Ang dugang nga pagtrabaho sa motor, maoy usa sa kinaingnan sa pagsaka sa balayronon sa koryente, dugang sa ahensya. Pangitaa ang refrigerator nga may taas nga Energy Efficiency Factor (EEF) kay kini nagpasabut sa mas ubos nga konsumo sa koryente, matud sa DOE. (PIA/Bohol) Gawas pa sa regular nga pagpatunaw sa ice nga namilit na sa freezer, kinahanglan usab nga matan-aw kon ang gasket sa pultahan sa

refrigerator, nagtrabaho pa ba. Ang gasket, may magnet ug mahimo nga may mipilit na niini nga mga napunit sa magnet nga maoy makababag aron dili na moselyo ang pultahan. Seguradohon nga wala’y nakabangil niini, pahinumdom sa DOE. Pasabot sa DOE, kinahanglang ang gasket, limpyo ug wala’y guba, tungod kay mogawas ra gihapon ang bugnaw sa sulod tungod sa guba-on nga gasket. Usa ka paagi sa pagsuway kon maayo pa ang gasket mao ang pagpa-ipit sa papel sa pultahan sa ref. Hinay-hinayon og hulbot ang papel og kun humok ra ug dali nga birahon, kini timailhan nga may problema na sa gasket. Seguradohon usab nga ang luyo sa refrigerator, limpyo ug walay makababag sa pagpagawas sa init sa condensing coils. Dungang sa ahensya, “undangon na usab ang pauso nga adto na magpa-uga sa mga nilabhan sa luyo sa refrigerator. Kini tungod kay kon dili na

makagawas ang init sa condenser, mahimong patrabahoon sa refrigerator ang motor niini, nga makadugang sa konsumo niini sa koryente. Gani, labing maayo, kon ang condensing coil sa luyo sa refrigerator, walay buling ug mga abug ug lawa-lawa tungod kay niini, dili makatuyok ang hangin nga makatabang pagpabugnaw sa init na nga ref. Importante usab nga ang ref, dili ma-igo sa init sa adlaw kay magdugang kini sa kaiinit nga pabugnawon sa makina sa sulod. Tambag usab sa DOE, pilia na ang mga refrigerator nga may taas nga Energy Efficiency Factor, kay kini nagpasabut nga mas ubos ang konsumo sa koryente niining mga matang sa refrigerator. Kon masunod ang gisugyot, segurado ang DOE nga ang konsumo sa koryente, mapaubos. Panapos sa DOE, sa tukmang paggamit sa refrigerator, kinahanglang e-diskarte, e-power ug e secure mo. (rahc/ PIA-7/Bohol)