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Department of Trade and Industry and Board of Investment ofcials briefed participants and the local media on the
Industry Roadmaps and ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Gameplan: Roadmap Localization for Competitiveness.
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bikol reporter
editorial
The evils
that men do
The photos and accounts of the
carnage seemed to have come out
straight from a Le Carre novel.
Bloodied bodies and dismembered
limbs all over in a soccer stadium
and cafes unexpected and unlikely
places for such violence. www.wsj.com
President Obama is right in
describing the recent Parisian
mayhem as an attack on all of
humanity.
Humanity because those rock fans
or those dining in restaurants are no
different from your teenager kids or
your co-employees having a drink to
end their days work.
Their senseless death therefore
reduces the sapientia in the humans
in us.
As John Donne puts it: Any mans
death diminishes me, because I am
involved in mankind, and therefore
never send to know for whom the
bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
France, the navel of such ideals
as liberte, egalite and fraternite,
may be thousand miles away but her
people should be in our prayers.
Let this recent bloodbath reminds
us that evil, which in recent years
come in the form of religious
fundamentalism, is ever present.
As the country and the region
hosts two international gatherings
this month, let us not be cowered by
these acts.
Beside security preparations, we
believe that to fight evil, we need to
show the perpetrators we love life
and no way shall we allow evil to
triumph.
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Atty. TONY (APA) ACYATAN
giant Singapore has 5.4 M people
only, while oil-rich Brunei has 400 T
population.
On economic growth, Singapore
an island state 716 square kilometers
in area (just as big as MManila, has
a GDP of $268B, though still smaller
than Malaysia - $307B, and Thailand
- $377B. The demographic study
was commissioned by South Korea
which aims to tie-up with the ASEAN
Ten. SK wants to increase trade
volume, accelerate investment flow,
invigorate tourism and enrich cultural
and people to peple exchange
between Korea and the ASEAN
member states.
TAXATION: When a taxpayer
overpays his taxes, he has three
options to recover said excess. First
is to apply for cash refund, the second
is to get tax credit and the third is
to simply carry over excess payment
on to the next tax period. If the
taxpayer fails to indicate in his return
his choice of option, he is deemed to
have chosen the third alternative. In
a recent Supreme Court ruling on a
case where the taxpayer carried over
the excess tax payment, said option
becomes irrevocable!
Taxpayers and their consultants
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SORSOGON CITY
Down northeast of this provincial capital, 20 kilometers
away is an off-the-beatenpath coastal town that deserves to be celebrated as a
modest rural locality that
was able to successfully establish, maintain and protect an exceptional ecological
asset.
The town, Prieto Diaz,
named after two Bicolano
martyrsFr. Gabriel Prieto
(1853-1897) and Fr. Severino
Diaz (1862-1897) when it got
its independence from the
nearby municipality of Bacon
(now part of this city) in October 1903 ,is located along
the coast of Pacific Ocean and
home to about 20,500 people
as of the 2010 government
survey.
It owns a 500-hectare shoreline forest canopy greened by
various kinds of fully-grown
mangrove trees that shadow a
300-hectare of shallow cove
of brackish water whose bed
is thickly covered with several
varieties of sea grass that gracefully dance through the gentle
current while serving as nesting, feeding and playground
for hundreds of fish species.
Covering nine of the municipalitys 23 barangays, the
sprawling mangrove forest,
Red Bragas
By Danny O. Calleja
PILI, Camarines Sur
After wowing evaluators of
the implementation in Bicol of the foreign-supported
Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP), its
implementers are seeking
for additional financing as
they commit to sustain if not
surpass the projects accomplishments for the next wave
of evaluations.
Last August, the 1st World
Bank Implementation Support
Mission conducted the evaluation and gave the project
implementation in the region a
satisfactory rating based on its
favorable disbursement rate.
Shandy Hubilla, PRDP
Project Support Office (PSO)
South Luzon Cluster director,
here on Wednesday said the
measure of success in project
implementation is not the obligation but the disbursement
status and as of the recent
evaluation, Bicol was able
to obligate 32 percent of its
Php17.3-million target with a
disbursement rate of 63 percent.
PRDP is a foreign-funded
program being implemented
by Department of Agriculture
(DA) as a platform for a modern and climate smart agriculture in the region and other
parts of the country.
Its national implementation carries a Php27.535-billion total fund, consisting of
Php20.553 billion loan from
the World Bank, Php3.579 billion as national government
counterpart, Php3.118 billion
equity of the local government
units and Php287-million
grant from the Global Environment Facility.
It involves 80 provincial
local government units and
agri-fishery stakeholders nationwide in an attempt to realize the goals of improved
food security and increased
incomes, climate resiliency
and enhanced environmental
policies and governance.
In six years2013-2019,
the project aims to raise annual real farm incomes of
household beneficiaries by
five percent, increase the value of annual marketed output
by seven percent and ensure
that 20 percent more farmers
and fishers benefit from DA
services.
According to DA Regional
Executive Director Abelardo
Bragas, the lion's share of the
PRDP funding for this year
worth Php638.4 million has
been awarded to Bicol as the
regions share in the Php11.02billion Intensified Building up
of Infrastructure and Logistics
for Development funds to finance a total of 195 sub-projects proposed by local government units (LGUs).
Bragas has expressed optimism that the PRDP will
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Imelda Baltazar, the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer (PENRO) based here, said Prieto
Diaz owns the credit of having
served as a sound base in developing and promoting viable
livelihood by combining agricultural and fishery production
innovations while maintaining
the integrity of marine sanctuaries and mangrove forests.
Furthermore, its local government leads ecological and
social transformation through
its mangrove reforestation initiatives and compliance with
bikol reporter
Catanduanes to hold
18-day Christmas show
VIRAC, Catanduanes
This years Christmas
Cheers, a nightly show in
this capital town during the
Christmas season, will start
on Dec. 13.
The Catanduanes State
Universitys Hablon Dawani
will herald the opening of the
18-day night show.
A brief program will mark
the start of the event. This
will be followed by prayer
to be led by Bishop Manolo
delos Santos.
Just before the ceremonial lighting of the Christmas
Tree at Virac Plaza, people
can look up at the night sky
and enjoy the fireworks.
The tentative schedule of
nightly performers: Dec. 13
Hablondawani; Dec. 14 CSU Laboratory Schools;
Dec. 15 Taytay Elementary
School; Dec. 16 Juan M.
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mga tabay; mantang an lipong, palibot
sa bilog na hawak an tattoo.
An hawak, bilang medyum o
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buhay o inagihan kan may hawak,
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CEPPIO
First Lady Farah Bongat hailed the role of local culturatis in promoting the city as a center of
culture and arts during the opening ceremonies of the VIA Bikol: Arts and Culture Summit at
the city hall grounds as part of the Bicol Business Month celebration.
Mayor WONG
impoverished communities
while another donation worth
Php500,000 was given by
Deng for the same intention.
The Catanduanes visit, according to the governor, was
part of Zhaos goodwill tour
nationwide signaling the eagerness of the Chinese government to reach out to its
neighbors and engage in highlevel bilateral talks to amicably resolve territorial issues
confronting them.
Gov. Wong said the visit
was timed with her rendering of her yearly Ulat sa
Lalawigan (Report to the
Province) where the Chinese
ambassador was given an opportunity to have an audience
with the provinces elderly
whom he paid homage to
while having their First Senior
Citizens Convention.
During the occasion, she
said, Zhao led the distribution
of 20 units of wheelchairs to
those who are already disabled elderly and hundreds of
food packs.
Wong said that it is in October that the country celebrates
the Elderly Filipino Week or
Linggo ng Nakatatandang
Filipino to emphasize the important role that older persons
play in nation building, as
well as raise and address issues concerning the sector.
Elderly Filipino Week was
mandated through Proclamation No. 470 and is held on
the first week of October but
in Catanduanes.
She said the occasion is
celebrated in any week of the
month convenient for the elderly in the conduct of advocacy activities to promote their
rights and welfare, especially
those are disadvantaged.
In this years celebration,
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CEPPIO
bikol reporter
Bongat at 2nd
international
mayors forum
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the
city government of Quito,
the capital city of Ecuador,
have invited Naga City Mayor John G. Bongat to speak
at the 2nd Mayoral Forum
on Human mobility, Migration and Development.
In his official letter to Mayor Bongat, Mayor Mauricio
Rodas of Metropolitan District of Quito, said that they
are inviting the city mayor to
share your vision and experience on the role of the local
government units in addressing migration-related issues
and the importance of human
mobility for the development
of the cities.
The forum, which was
set for November 12-13, this
year, is seen as an important
facility for the local governments to underscore their concerns, opinions, expressions
and declarations with a view
to having a decisive impact
in the implementation of the
Sustainable
Development
Goals as pertains to migration
and building on relevant intergovernmental processes.
The event is also expected
to boost the collaborative efforts by the local governments
on matters that were deliberated upon during the holding
of Global Forum on Migration
and Development in Istanbul,
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The Arts and Culture Summit continues with a Book Talk done at the Raul Roco - Naga Public
Library. Students from all over the city listen intently to different local authors as they recite
their stories and their poetry.The audience was also treated to "Pinokyo", the classic novel
translated to Bikol by Fr. Wilmer Tria.
bikol reporter
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General Luna St., Naga City
zon City.
Also discussed, she said,
were the action plans of the
region which include hiring
additional staff to enterprise
development, monitoring and
evaluation, and reviewing and
validating sub-project proposals.
The region also commits
to designate provincial coordinators from the infrastructure development group to
be responsible in generating
reports on sub-projects status and the Regional Project
Coordination Office (RPCO)
for Bicol will fast track the
conduct of training on proponent group profiling and
mapping.
The RPCO is also determined to make its financial
processes more effective and
efficient through clear-cut
work and financial plan as
well as procurement plan, De
los Santos said.
Also highlighted during
the coordination meeting were
the findings and recommendations generated from the
1st WB Implementation Support Mission held on August
25-28, 2015 in Puerto Princesa City in Palawan for each
to 25.8 percentmeaning, 20
percent or one out of five Filipino families which is 1.2
percent higher compared to
the 2013 first semester poverty statistics. The higher count
of poor people, it explained,
is because food prices and the
result of Yolanda.
There are many factors that
cause poverty like employment issues and high population growth, but the main
factor affecting the countrys
economy and the livelihood
of Filipinos is the governance
issues such as corruption and
security issues which are
prevalent in Mindanao and
other poor areas.
The NAPC said entrepreneurs will not be interested
in investing money in a place
where there is violence, which
results in low employment opportunity and a bad economy.
Poverty incidence, NAPC
added, is the proportion of
poor individuals/families to
the population; those whose
income fall below the poverty
threshold or those who cannot
afford to provide for their basic needs.
component, catch-up plans to
address the findings, and the
third quarter accomplishments
of the cluster and the RPCOs.
During the meeting, Hubilla said, he instructed the RPCOs to put the memorandum
of agreement (MOA) with
provincial local government
unit partners on top of its order
of priorities.
Currently, three provinces
of Bicol-- Albay, Camarines
Sur, and Camarines Norte
-- have signed MOAs with
PRDP while the revised MOA
with Catanduanes was already
endorsed to PSO for Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcalas signature.
The region is working on
two MOAs with municipal
LGUs namely Placer and Esperanza, Masbate.
Hubilla stressed the need
to fast track the hiring of additional staff as this directly
impacts the accomplishment
of target outputs.
He also informed the RPCOs that the WB may conduct
random inspection to infrastructure and enterprise development hence, sub-project
preparations and urgent solutions to quality and workmanship issues must be implemented.
for october
Name of Deceased
Date of Interment
October 4, 2015
LOLAINE Z. PADILLO
October 4, 2015
EMMANUEL D. AYCARDO
October 6, 2015
GABRIEL B. ALONZO
VIRGINIA L. GIANAN
RUFINA C. DY
NIEVES N. FRANCISCO
AMADA O. JANUARIO
CRISTNA B. SAMBO
PAZ G. MINOR
EMMA F. CATOLICO
because of the forest destruction, she now gives the conservationist townsfolk rich food-crabs, clams, fish, lobster and
sea urchin.
Baltazar said Prieto Diazs
story is about the right mix of
political will, scientific knowhow, and peoples support.
The local officials campaigned for an end to forest
ruin while the DENR saw the
potential of replanting, making
use of the 19-kilometer-long
reef buffering the coast from
hefty waves and the 300 hectares of underwater seagrass to
hold the mangrove saplings
upright, she said.
Since then, according to
Baltazar, conservation has
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become a habit of townsfolk
as fishermen passing through
the replanting zone on bancas dutifully scoop uprooted
propagules from the water and
stick them properly into the
seabed, knowing that reforestation is for their own good.
Today, Doma said, schools
as far as Ilocos and Davao are
retelling Prieto Diazs story
while science high school
students and college biology
majors have been coming
for week-long field trips to
study mangrove flora and
fauna.
Government and non-government workers as well come
to observe as residents turned
their homes into hostels to accommodate the visitors, he
added.
JAM-PACKED
Students from various schools lean in close and intently listen to Gabby Bordado as he
discusses his book: Tilling Fields. The students listen with interest and curiosity as Bordado
eases them into the intricacies of his mind, presented in his book.
Focus on Agri-Tourism . . .
For his part, Volker
Steigerwald of the German
International
Cooperation
also called on Bicolanos to
be more future-oriented,
as he advocated for green
economy.
He described green economy as factoring the environment and the effects of
climate change in its regional
development plans.
Habito,
Aldaba
and
Steigerwald were joined by
DTI regional director Joy
Reyes . . .
population and annual income requirements, it falls
short in its land area.
In previous interviews,
Mayor Sarion said he has
explored the possibility of reclaiming certain areas of the
Bicol National Park which he
said belonged to Daet during
the American period.
Reyes said once the bill
is approved into a law, the
land area requirement will no
longer matter as what will be
given weight is the provision
of the law itself.
All unredeemed items/articles pawned at ASPE CROWNJEWEL PAWNSHOP & JEWELRY STORE, Bichara Mall corner
J. Hernandez & Gen. Luna Sts., Naga City, pawned from JUNE
1-30, 2015 whose terms have expired will be sold to public
auction sale on DEC. 1, 2015 from 9:00 A.M.-12:00 NOON.
Redemption/Renewals of all pledges covered by the
above-mentioned date will be honored until NOVEMBER 28,
2015 only.
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quality of living. The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is the national
government's human development program that invests in health and education
of children 0-18 years old from eligible poor households. It's now on its 7th year
of implementation, and now covers the 41,519 barangays of the Philippines.
Romeo
Fortes,
COMELEC regional director said out of the total 701
barangays considered as
election areas of immediate
concern, Masbate has a total of 224, followed by Sorsogon with 176, Camarines
Sur with 153, Camarines
corded an election-related
violent incident in Masbate where a candidate was
killed after filing his certificate of candidacy.
He said authorities have
already focused their security operations on the province where presence of pri-
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