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DOT
plans makeover of Kennon Lion’s head
BAGUIO CITY -- The
Department of Tourism, with the help of the Department of Public Works and
Highways, is planning to rehabilitate the Lion’s Head landmark on Kennon Road.
The plan is
to beautify and to widen the place that will give order to the place especially
during the peak season for when all visitors passing the road stop to take a
picture.
DOT
Regional Director Purificacion Molintas said the regional technical working
group has allocated a budget of P50 million for the redevelopment that will
start next year.
Part of the
plan, said Molintas, is to relocate roadside stores to the multipurpose
building to prevent them from being an eyesore to the beautiful mountain scene.
She said,
improvement of tourist destinations is important to Baguio and the Boracay
Technical Working Group, a national tourism task force protecting the two top
tourism destinations in the country.
The Lion’s
Head, which is the first attraction seen by visitors entering the city, was a
donation of the Lion’s Club of the Philippines to entertain tourists stopping
at the roadside clearing of Kennon Road to appreciate the breathtaking mountain
view.
Baguio
City barangays bag Cordillera sanitation award
By
David Balway and Cleo Mae Valdez
BAGUIO CITY –
Barangays Balsigan and Imelda village bested other villages in the region as
they qualified as finalists in the 2013 National Search for Barangay with Best
Sanitation Practices (NSBBSP).
Both
barangays won the regional award and were honored during City Hall’s flag
raising program where they are among 32 finalists in the annual search by the
Department of Health, in which they received a plaque of recognition and an
incentive of P150, 000 to fund their sanitation projects.
The
competition is part of DOH’s advocacy to give recognition to the local government
units at the barangay level that have demonstrated exemplary contributions in
obtaining and sustaining its targets under the Millennium Development Goals on
Water and Sanitation.
The NSBBSP,
in its sixth year, envisions boosting and accelerating the local government and
community action in addressing sanitation problems in their respective areas.
The
indicators of the award are coverage of households with sanitary toilet
facilities, coverage of households with access to safe water supply, improvement
in sanitary toilet coverage, approved barangay budget for water and sanitation
projects and programs for the last 2 years, and local sanitation initiatives.
Mayor
Mauricio Domogan expressed his gratitude to the winners and further said that
the awards and distinction was for the whole city as well.
Pul-oy
Festival celebrated in Burgos, IlocosNorte
BURGOS, Ilocos Norte —
For the very first time, this town has broken out in celebration for three
straight days as it launched its annual tourism and cultural extravaganza in
the “Puloy Festival” which set its culminating activities last week. The
festival known as “Pul-oy,” an Ilokano term meaning “gentle breeze,” will now
be celebrated every year as mandated by Municipal Ordinance 2014-001. Mayor
Cresente N. Garcia said their festival – which is centered on a strong faith in
God as exemplified by national hero Fr. Jose A. Burgos, on whom this town was
named – featured a floral and dance parade, salatipul-oy (folk dance
competition), “Burgos got Talent” program, and Miss Burgos 2014 coronation
night. -- Freddie G. Lazaro
Mt. Province PLGU to
employ 100 studes under SPES
By Juliet B. Saley
BONTOC,
Mountain Province – The provincial government will employ this summer some 100
students under the Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) of the
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
Provincial Public Employment Service Office
(PESO) officer Ernesto Emilio said these students who will be hired on a first
come, first serve basis shall be distributed to the ten municipalities in the
province for a maximum of 20-work days.
Emilio said the provincial government shall
pay each student beneficiary 60 percent of the daily wage of P230.00 while the
remaining 40 percent shall be the counterpart of DOLE.
Qualified to apply in this program are poor
but deserving students who are bonafide residents of the province; must be 15 –
25 years old and must be physically fit; must belong to families whose parents’
or guardians’ net taxable income should not be more than P116,000.00
For college student applicants, they must
have passed 75 percent out of the total units enrolled during the last semester
and for high school students, they should have passed all their grades.
Emilio said interested applicants are required
to submit application letter of intent addressed to the Provincial Governor,
two ID pictures (1 x 1), birth certificate, and income tax return. High school
students are required to submit their grades for school year 2012-2013 and for
college students, they must submit their grades in the first semester of school
year 2013-2014.
If an applicant is high school or college
dropout, he must submit his latest grades accompanied by a certificate of good
moral character issue by the punong barangay.
Emilio said all requirements must be
submitted first week of March since submission of complete documents to
DOLE-CAR regional office shall be on March 14, 2014.
This SPES program is a regular annual job
creation program of the national government intended for the poor but deserving
students to augment their school fees by providing them work during summer
vacation.
More job vacancies
seen In infotech, BPO in Ilocos
LAOAG
CITY -- , Ilocos Norte — More job vacancies are seen in the information
technology and business process outsourcing sector (IT-BPO) in Ilocos region
and other parts of the country this year, Director Grace Ursua of the
Department of Labor and Employment said last week.
This developed when Ma. Lourdes Sison of
SITEL, Inc. and Judelyn Cruz of Sutherland reported that IT-BPO sector is
growing by leaps and bounds as they both echoed projections that the IT-BPO
sector is poised to achieve its growth target of topping the 960,000 IT-BPO
jobs in 2013 and revenues of US$16 billion.
The IT and Business Process Association in
the Philippines (IBPAP) had projected that the IT-BPO sector is likely to
exceed its target of raking in US$25 billion in revenues by 2016 due to the
faster year-on-year growth of 19 % that it has been experiencing.
Sison and Cruz made the announcement when
they appeared in a regional PESO Year-end Performance Assessment recently with
the 70 managers of Public Employment Service Offices (PESOs) in Region 1.
Earlier, DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz
confirmed that IT-BPO sector needs a lot of workers.
“Officials of the IBPAP sought out the DOLE’s
help on how to fill-up hard-to-fill jobs in the IT-BPO sector because
apparently it is not attracting that many jobseekers,” Baldoz.
She lauded the DOLE Region 1 Office for
bringing in IT-BPO sector representatives to orient the region’s PESO managers
about the sector.
Despite protests,
trees along Manila-Rosales Road cut
ROSALES,
Pangasinan — Despite protests, crew startedto cut hundreds of trees along the
Manila North Road here.
Former Rep. Mark Cojuangco said last week he
had pushed for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources approval of
the cutting of trees along the road here.
“I really pushed to secure the permit from
the DENR to cut the trees that impede traffic flow and pose danger on
motorists,” said Cojuangco..
He assured that every tree that is cut for
road improvement will be replaced with 100 seedlings. “We’ll find a proper
place to plant them; not on the road right of way,” he added.
Baguio City
slaughterhouse bunkhouses to be rented out
By Jho Arranz
BAGUIO
CITY - The city government here would rent out to occupants of
slaughterhouse bunkhouses here considering these are owned by the city
goverment.
The bunkhouses were intended to city
employees working at the Veterinary Office.
However,
most of the city employees already retired years ago. Yet, their families
are still occupying said bunkhouses.
After evaluation of the Baguio City Market
Authority, the proposed rental of
bunkhouses is P2.00 sq.m. a day effective January.
Mayor MauricioiDomogan said a meeting with
the BCMA, barangay officials and representatives of the families concerned the
possibility of bidding out the said area once the affected families will not
meet the terms and conditions based on the rules, laws and regulations of the
audit.
The mayor told affected families that the
city will allow them to rent the bunkhouses with the condition that once
the property will be needed by the city, they will be given ample and
reasonable time to vacate said property.
He directed a team composed of the City
Engineers’ Office, City Building and Architecture Office and City Treasurer’s
Office to conduct an investigation and determine the actual occupants of the
Slaughterhouse Compound.
LTO starts night
checks against carnap groups
SAN
FERNANDO CITY, La Union — The Land Transportation Office – Region 1 has
intensified its campaign against suspected carnap groups by conducting
nocturnal operations.
Teofilo Guadiz III, LTO- R1chief said part of
the campaign is a random check-up of vehicles where they found that there are
many unregistered vehicles and expired drivers’ licenses.
He said vehicles without the appropriate
documents were also impounded pending verification. Guadiz said the evening
check-up was done to apprehend colorum buses who ply the roads in the evening
on the belief that law enforcers are asleep in their homes. -- LBI
DILG Kalinga honors
retirees
TABUK
CITY, Kalinga – The Department of Interior and Local Government of Kalinga
recently cited four retirees of said agency in recognition of their
contributions as service providers of the government.
Recognized in simple ceremony were
BenifredoMicu who worked as driver for 16 years; Arthur Buslig who served DILG for 37
years; Aristio Ande for 27 years of
service, and Julio Barcellano who served for 38 years.
In a message, DILG Kalinga provincial
Director Francisco Gamatero said the testimonial program commended all the
awardees for their exemplary performances.
“The true measurement of commitment in public
service is when nobody is supervising you especially in the field,” he said.-- Geraldine
G. Dumallig
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