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==Ilonggos benefit from DOLE’s livelihood program==
*Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=931392012484
*Monday, February 10, 2014
:By Lilibeth A. French (JSC/LAF-PIA6)
ILOILO CITY, Feb. 10 (PIA6) - - Around 1,600 workers in the informal sector including those affected by typhoon ‘Yolanda’ and the unemployed in the province of Iloilo benefited from the Department of Labor and Employment Integrated Livelihood Program (DILP).
DOLE 6 reported that some P8,810,591.00 were released to 42 DILP projects in the province in 2013.
The 42 projects are part of the 103 project proposals which were approved and funded by DOLE 6 in the region last year and intended to enhance the existing livelihood of the beneficiaries or generate job opportunities for target workers through self employment and emergency employment.
Some of the livelihood projects undertaken by beneficiaries composed of marginalized workers, returning overseas Filipino workers, unemployed rural workers, sugar farm workers and students are sari-sari store, rice retailing, piggery, hog and livestock fattening, and water refilling, among others.
Members of the Association of Carles Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Carles, Iloilo have also availed of the project to further enhance their existing fishing and dried fish production.
In Iloilo City, unemployed residents of its nine barangays were provided employment opportunities through the Community Employment Program of the department.
DOLE 6 also reported that students of Western Visayas College of Sceince & Technology (WVCST)-PD Monfort campus were provided with start-up capital to operationalize their projects under the Youth Entrepreneurship Support (YES) that provides livelihood opportunities to young and would be workers.
On the other hand, the situation of workers displaced by typhoon ‘Yolanda’ in devastated areas in the province was also looked into by DOLE. They were given emergency employment to sustain their income under DILP which is part of the efforts of the DOLE to contribute to the overall thrust of the present administration on inclusive growth, massive job creation and substantial poverty reduction.
==200 couples to tie knot on Feb. 14==
*Source:http://www.panaynewsphilippines.com/iloilo/13192-200-couples-to-tie-knot-on-feb-14.html
*Sunday, February 9, 2014
: (JVF, Iloilo City PIO/PN)
ILOILO City – A total of 200 couples will tie the knot in civil mass wedding rites to be organized by the city government through the Red Ladies of Iloilo City and Pag-IBIG Fund at the Iloilo Grand Hotel on February 14.
Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog will solemnize the couples.
A hundred couples benefited from the project last year.
Indigent couples will be given wedding rings, bouquets, tokens and a reception.
They will also get a tour of the city starting at Plaza Libertad to the Jaro Belfry, then to the Iloilo Esplanade and Molo Church.
The activity is part of a simultaneous nationwide Valentine’s Day mass wedding which gives participating couples chances to win a grand prize of house and lot and three livelihood packages in the raffle draw.
==1,312 workers receive P10.6-M monetary benefits thru SEnA, DOLE says==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=3&rid=613962
*Saturday, February 8, 2014
:(PNA), CTB/AJP/DOLE6-PR/VLO
ILOILO CITY, Feb. 8 (PNA) -- A total of 1,312 affected workers recovered their unpaid or underpaid monetary benefits amounting to P10.6-million after the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) 6 successfully resolved in 2013 close to 90 percent of the labor disputes filed by aggrieved workers under the Single Entry Approach or SEnA.
It also facilitated the reinstatement of 14 retrenched or laid off workers to their original jobs.
The SEnA, an alternative mode of settling labor disputes within the 30-day mandatory conciliation-mediation period, is part of Secretary Rosalinda D. Baldoz’s commitment to Pres. Benigno C. Aquino III as spelled out in the 22-point labor and employment agenda.
DOLE 6 director Ponciano M. Ligutom said the Regional Office received a total of 572 requests for assistance (RFAs) in 2013, 496 of which or 86.7 per cent was resolved.
Ligutom noted a significant increase in the number of RFAs filed last year which totaled 572, from 270 in 2012 or up by 120 percent.
“This simply shows that the SEnA has become a popular means in settling labor issues and more and more workers are adopting it,” Ligutom said.
With an increase in the number of RFAs filed, the settlement rate also expanded by 6 percent, from 80.7 per cent in 2012 to 86.7 per cent in 2013. What is most notable was the considerable improvement in the average duration of settling cases which shortened from 12.7 days in 2012 to 7.7 days in 2013.
“The vigorous efforts of our SEADOs just paid off thus enabling the region to resolve labor issues filed in a short span of time,” Ligutom said.
“This makes SEnA unique and effective; it settles labor issues in a speedy and in a more economical manner. The affected worker need not engage the services of a lawyer, he/she just have to file a request in any DOLE field office and our SEADO will facilitate to resolve the differences with his/her employer until they both reach a settlement,” he added.
The recovered monetary benefits included the workers’ unpaid and underpaid wages, overtime pay, commission, separation pay, 13th month pay, holiday premium, cash bonus fund, refund of cash bond, and payment social of security benefits like the Social Security System (SSS), Pag-IBIG and PhilHealth.
Among the field offices, the DOLE-Negros Occidental Field Office received the biggest number of requests for assistance (381), 344 of which were settled or 90 per cent of the total requests handled. Cash benefits paid to 996 affected workers reached some P7.53-million, with an average duration of 7.8 days for all settled requests.
The DOLE-Aklan Field Office settled 52 from 76 RFAs handled, reflecting a 68.4 per cent settlement rate with the amount of benefits paid to 84 affected workers totaling P779,408.97.
In Antique, the DOLE field office handled 53 RFAs in 2013, 42 of which or 80.8 per cent were settled and resulted to the recovery of monetary benefits of 76 workers totaling P656,616.05.
The DOLE Field Office in Capiz handled 37 RFAs, 32 of which were settled at an average duration of 6.6 days for all settled requests. Total amount of monetary benefits paid to 99 workers reached P1,030,975.73.
On the other hand, the Iloilo-Guimaras Field Office has the lowest average duration in settling such requests (2.2 days). It also achieved a 100 per cent settlement rate as it successfully settled all the requests filed (26) with monetary benefits awarded to 57 affected workers totaling P600,403.75.
The DOLE field offices in Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Iloilo-Guimaras, and Negros Occidental as well as the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC), National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB), Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) and Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) have designated SEnA desk officers or SEADOs to conciliate-mediate any labor-related complaint filed in their respective offices.
==42nd Iloilo Paraw Regatta classic reels on==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=6&rid=613399
*Friday, February 7, 2014
:(PNA), CTB/AJP/LCPENDON/VLO
ILOILO CITY, Feb. 7 (PNA)-– The classic sporting sea race along the Iloilo Strait will reel on the third weekend of February, but different activities will take off starting February 15 until the race highlights on February 23, 2014.
Iloilo Paraw Regatta Foundation chairman Manuel Villa said the paraw regatta is celebrating its 42 years of existence in giving thrills to spectators as more than 100 outrigger boats with colorful masts dot the strait outracing each other.
The participants will come from different coastal parts of Iloilo, Guimaras, Capiz, Aklan and Negros Occidental to exhibit their wares on the 33.3 kilometer race course starting from Tatoys Manokan at Villa Beach to Sto. Rosario, Buenavista, Guimaras and back to the finish line.
The biggest boat race in the Philippines in terms of participants, the Iloilo regatta boasts of colorful boats which race each other using the wind along the strait.
Aside from the boat race, other activities include sporting events such as deep sea fishing competition, rapid chess tournament, national beach Frisbee, national women’s beach volleyball, men’s beach football, slalom competition, “pinta layag” painting contest of the boat masts, seafood festival, photo exhibit, miniature paraw making contest, search for Miss Iloilo Paraw Regatta Festival 2014, photo contest, “pintawo” body painting contest and sinamba entertainment presentations.
==Dinagyang to perform on world stage==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=6&rid=613399
*Thursday, February 6, 2014
:(PNA), FFC/AJP/LCP/VLO
ILOILO CITY, Feb. 6 (PNA) -– Western Visayas premier tourism event, the Dinagyang Festival of this highly urbanized city in the Visayas is out to conquer the world with sound and dance performances to mesmerize the audiences in Singapore, Canada, Chicago, New York and San Francisco in the United States and in Hongkong within 2014.
City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog said during the Dinagyang Thanksgiving Dinner on Wednesday,February 5, that the whole cast of Dinagyang grand champion Tribu Panayanon of the Iloilo City High School, including choreographers, trainors and the school principal, will join the Singapore trip by July this year.
Similarly, another group of 30 Dinagyang performers will go to Canada by August and another group of 30 Dinagyang performers will go Chicago, New York and San Francisco. Both trips will be funded by the Department of Tourism (DOT) Tourism Promotions Board.
They are optimistic that another Dinagyang Tribe will go to Hongkong to perform, also this year.
==Iloilo City signs power plant venture with Korean investors==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=612945
*Wednesday, February 5, 2014
:(PNA), PDS/AJP/MGCAOYONAN/VLO
ILOILO CITY, Feb. 5 (PNA) --The Iloilo City government has signed a joint venture agreement with the South Korean investor Dream Eng Company Limited for solid-waste-to-energy power plant producing 6 megawatts (MW) per day and will be constructed within in 23-hectare Calajunan dumpsite in Brgy. Calajunan, Mandurriao district here.
This after the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) during its regular session Tuesday has authorized City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog to sign and enter into 20 years agreement with the Korean company headed by Chairman of the Board Youn Pyo Hong the following day.
During the signing of agreement, Mabilog said the city government will get a five percent share of gross income or $ 20,000 per month that could be a big augmentation for the city’s projects.
He added the power plant will be erected from the one-hectare land of the existing dump site and the construction will take two years from now.
Once finished, this could help reduce the electricity rate in the city from P 12.00 per kilowatt-hour currently being charged by the power distributor -Panay Electric Company (PECO) for residential consumers.
Mabilog said the power plant will be the one to sell their electricity to power grid which is an interconnected network for delivering electricity from suppliers to consumers.
“The city is now 80 percent totally dependent to power supplier. The rate of electricity will depend on the price offered by the Dream Eng Company to PECO and this PECO will be the one to decide of their rates based on the approved rate of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC)”, he said.
Meanwhile, around 250 metric tons of solid garbage mostly plastic will be processed by the power plant per day.
Presently, the city is producing 300 tons of garbage per day from the commercial and residential wastes.
Mabilog said since only 250 metric tons of waste will be accommodated per day, the existing 50 metric tons will still be placed in the dump site which soon will be converted into a sanitary landfill.
The mayor said the use of landfill will be extended up to 30 years instead of 11 years since the dumping of garbage will be lessened already with this project.
On his part, Hong said they want to help the city by developing its solid-waste facility that will produce energy by 2015.
He added their help is one way to thank the Philippines for helping their country during the 1950 Korean War.
“We always appreciate Filipinos especially the city mayor and we will do our best to help this city”, he said.
Hong said they will hire technical experts from Korea to work with the power plant here while local workers will be hired to maintain the facility.
He assured also that waste pickers at the dump site will not be displaced since they will only need plastic wastes to run their plant while bottles and other wastes will still be given to them for their livelihood.
==Outstanding Police Stations get Pagdayaw Award==
*Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=2421391496323
*Tuesday, February 4, 2014
:By Leonard T. Pineda I (JCM/LTP/PIA-Iloilo)
ILOILO CITY, February 4 (PIA) --- The Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) recognized outstanding municipal police stations (MPS) in the province in the Quarterly Pagdayaw Awards.
This was the highlight of the 23rd Philippine National Police (PNP) foundation anniversary program held Tuesday at Camp Francisco Sumagaysay Sr., Santa Barbara, Iloilo.
Iloilo Governor Arthur Defensor Sr., who was the program’s keynote speaker, lauded the notable performance of the officials and police personnel in the provincial police office and the different municipal police stations in the province.
“If the police are recognized and appreciated, the more that they will aspire to perform better and to excel in the discharge of their duties and responsibilities,” he said.
The following are the Pagdayaw Awardees for the third quarter of 2013: Best in Administration, Pavia MPS; Best in Operation, Pototan MPS; Best in Investigation, Pototan MPS; Best in Intelligence, Lambunao MPS; Best in Police Community Relations, Guimbal MPS; and Best in Women and Children Protection Desk, Pavia MPS.
The Pavia MPS was recognized as the Best Municipal Police Station for the third quarter of 2013.
For the 4th quarter of 2013, the following are the awardees: Best in Administration, Igbaras MPS; Best in Operation, Cabatuan MPS; Best in Investigation, Cabatuan MPS; Best in Intelligence, Lambunao MPS; Best in Police Community Relations, Pavia MPS; and Best in Women and Children Protection Desk, Pavia MPS.
The Cabatuan MPS was cited as the Best Municipal Police Station for the fourth quarter of 2013.
The 4th Maneuver Platoon and the 3rd Maneuver Platoon of the Iloilo Provincial Public Safety Command were also recognized as Best Maneuver Platoon for the third and fourth quarter of 2013, respectively.
==Iloilo City vies for 2014 Red Orchid hall of fame award==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=7&rid=612236
*Monday, February 3, 2014
:(PNA), LAP/AJP/LCPENDON/VLO
ILOILO CITY, Feb. 3 (PNA) -- This southern city in the Visayas is vying to become a Red Orchid Hall of Fame awardee this year after bagging the recognition in 2012 and 2013.
Iloilo City Anti-Smoking Task Force (ICAST) executive director Iñigo Garingalao said they are now preparing the documents to concretize the bid of Iloilo City in the prestigious award being given by the Department of Health (DOH) to local government units vying as 100 percent tobacco-free LGU.
For the 2014 search, a total of 17 LGUs are vying for the distinction. Aside from Iloilo City, the other LGU contenders from Western Visayas are the municipality of Anilao, Iloilo and Dumalag, Capiz.
The other LGU contenders are Marikina, Bauang, La Union; Diadi, Nueva Viscaya; Quezon, Nueva Viscaya; Villaverde, Nueva Viscaya; Santiago City, Bindoy, Negros Oriental; Mabinay, Negros Oriental; San Juan, Southern Leyte; Dipolog City, Dumingag, Zamboanga del Norte; Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat and Tupi, South Cotabato.
Aside from the LGU category composed of provinces, chartered cities and municipalities, the other award categories are for government hospitals, government offices and DOH centers for health development and DOH hospitals.
Garingalao said the DOH Red Orchid Award follows the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control that recommends adoption of measures to provide protection from exposure to smoke in indoor workplaces, public transport, indoor places and other public places.
In Iloilo City, the Sangguniang Panlungsod recently enacted Regulation Ordinance 2013-348 by amended Regulation Ordinance 2006-150 in a move to expand the coverage of a comprehensive anti-smoking ordinance aimed to secure a 100 percent smoke-free highly urbanized city in the Visayas.
The awarding ceremonies will be held on the first week of June 2014 in Baguio City for Luzon winners from Regions 1, 2, 3, 4A, 4B, 5, CAR and NCR; second week of June in Iloilo City for Visayas winners from Regions 6, 7 and 8; and third week of June in General Santos City for Mindanao winners from Regions 9, 10, 11, 12, ARMM and Caraga.
The grand awarding ceremony will be held in the last week of June in Clark, Pampanga for winners from Metro Manila and Hall of Fame awardees.
==1st Q Big 3 up==
*Source:http://www.iloilometropolitantimes.com/1st-q-big-3-up/
*Sunday, February 2, 2014
:By Montesa Griño Caoyonan (IMT)
The Iloilo City Government will be wrapped-up with three series of main events on the first quarter of this new year.
This includes the recently concluded Chinese New Year, Jaro Annual Fiesta and Paraw Regatta on the second Sunday of February.
City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog said that they have prepared programs for these three events including security plans as they were expecting more dignitaries to come over during the duration and highlights of these occasions to make sure that everyone is safe.
The Chinese New Year covered the China town along Iznart Street, Jaro Fiesta covers the whole district of Jaro while the Paraw Regatta will be at the Villa beach in Arevalo district here.
Senior Supt. Ruperto Floro, officer-in-charge city director of Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) said more than 1, 000 uniformed personnel will be deployed around the metropolis during these occasions.
Floro said these policemen will help secure the occasion, conduct foot patrol, visibility and roving patrol especially during night time to discourage lawless elements from doing their modus operandi.
The city director added some uniformed policemen will be posted as VIP’s back-ups (Very Important Person) while others will be acted as covert personnel for intelligence purposes.
The higher command of Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) here has also ‘standby’ force at the headquarters in case of emergency.
==HK donates more than Php 10-M to typhoon victims through Amity Foundation==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=611781
*Saturday, February 1, 2014
:(PNA), FPV/AJP/CBFERRER-OJT/VLO
ILOILO CITY, Feb.1 (PNA)—The Hongkong government has donated more than P10 million to the typhoon victims in northern Iloilo through the Amity Foundation in celebration of the Chinese New Year of the Iloilo Chinese Filipino Cultural Association at the Amigo Hotel Friday.
The Amity Foundation's Ms. Tong Su, project coordinator of the Amity Foundation in Hongkong, attended the event.
Initially, the Amity Foundation has visited the municipalities of Concepcion, Ajuy ,Estancia and San Dionisio. This Chinese New Year, they came back to Iloilo to continue the “Kaisa para sa Kaunlaran” relief operation, which is considered the biggest operation they conducted.
The 5,000 relief pack, worth Php 2,000 each includes one half sack of rice, slippers, milk and other non-food items.
The Hongkong Yacht Club also gave 120 thousand Hong Kong dollars for boats of the “Bangkabuhayan” project of the Amity foundation. Each boat,turned over Wednesday in Batad, was worth Php25,000 each.
“Ten Non-Government Organizations (NGO’s) have already received the relief goods and we are hoping that it is already in the hands of the victims”, said Su.
The Amity foundation hopes that the Ilonggos will rise again through their help.
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