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==Health and wealth go together - PIDS== | |||
*Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=901379647751 | |||
*Friday, September 20, 2013 | |||
:(PIDS/JCM/JSC-PIA6) | |||
ILOILO CITY, Sept. 20 (PIA6) – For the Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS), health and wealth go together – that is, improvement in the economy should also redound to a more healthy Filipinos. | |||
PIDS noted that despite a significant growth of the economy, however, the country’s overall health indicators have not commensurately improved with that growth. | |||
The fact may seem like an unwelcome indicator but PIDS sees it as an opportunity to make health a shared wealth and an inclusive one at that. | |||
Inclusive health means equity in health status, financing, and services to all segments of the population, including the fact that there is equality in access to health services; improvement in mortality ratio especially among disadvantages households; high investments in health facilities, services, and manpower; and adequate social health insurance programs for better health benefits. | |||
How to address this issue and make the health sector more inclusive as the economy grows is the focus of this year’s Development Policy Research Month (DPRM) observance as reflected by its theme “Making Health More Inclusive in a Growing Economy”. | |||
In a press statement, PIDS President Dr. Gilberto M. Llanto said that we need to address the urgent need of narrowing the gap between the richest and the poorest Filipino households in terms of health status. | |||
Llanto added that even though the country’s economy has grown significantly through the years, “the country is still suffering from high levels of non-inclusiveness and inequities in the aspect of health”. | |||
PIDS, the country’s leading policy think-tank institution, has brought this matter to a series of forums and seminars it conducted as part of the activities for the whole month of September. A press briefing for members of the local media is slated to be held in Iloilo City this month. | |||
September of every year was declared as Development Policy Research Month by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 247 signed on September 2, 2002, to underscore “the need for promoting, enhancing, instilling, and drawing awareness and appreciation of the importance and necessity of policy research.” | |||
Many opportunities today could be tapped to make health more inclusive, such as by improving health financing, regulation and planning, and service delivery. The passage of the Sin Tax Law will provide additional revenues for the health sector, which the Department of Health can use to implement relevant projects. | |||
The DSWD’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program as well as its food-for-cash and food-for-work programs can help improve access to health and alleviate poverty, according to PIDS. The passage of the new Health Insurance Law of 2013 in Congress also helps in making health more inclusive. It combines social health insurance with a medical savings account feature. | |||
The yearly observance of the DPRM aims to gain public support and wider understanding of the importance of policy research as a tool for national development and of the activities in line with it to help advance the quality and standard of policy research in the Philippines. | |||
Since its first observance in 2003, the annual DPRM focused on areas that the PIDS considers of national importance and therefore in need of utmost attention and support. Last year’s DPRM focused on “Regional Economic Integration and Inclusive Growth” to underscore the impact of greater regional economic integration and globalization, taking into account the impending establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015. | |||
In continuity with last year’s DPRM theme, this year’s theme of “Making Health More Inclusive in a Growing Economy” focuses on analyzing the country’s health sector and making it more inclusive. | |||
“We need a more thorough look at our health sector through research,” said Dr. Llanto as he underscored the role of their agency’s task in overall efforts to improve the health sector and make it more meaningful as the country treads the path towards inclusive growth. | |||
==Iloilo BHWs, volunteer workers assured to receive P3,000 honorarium this December== | |||
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=12&rid=567433 | |||
*Thursday, September 19, 2013 | |||
:By Annabel Petinglay (PNA), HBC/AJPETINGLAY/VLO | |||
ILOILO CITY, Sept. 19 (PNA) – The more than 5,000 barangay health workers and other volunteer workers in the province of Iloilo are now assured to receive their P3,000 honorarium this coming December with the recent approval of the Supplemental Budget No. 1 by the Iloilo Provincial Board upon the request of Iloilo Gov. Arthur Defensor, Sr. | |||
Defensor, who learned of the approval Wednesday, said that he is very happy and grateful to the Iloilo Provincial Board for approving the P150,234,071.55 supplemental budget he has requested. | |||
Of the total amount, P17 million has been allocated as honorarium for the 5,666 BHWs, Barangay Service Point Officers, Day Care Workers, and Barangay Nutrition Scholars whom the governor considers as heroes for helping carryout the several programs and projects of the Iloilo provincial government without receiving fixed salaries except their honorarium being given every Christmastime as sort of the Christmas gift to them. | |||
Each of the volunteer worker could now expect to receive P3,000 honorarium from the provincial government depending on their schedule of release. | |||
==Iloilo City launches Dinagyang 2014== | |||
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=6&rid=567081 | |||
*Wednesday, September 18, 2013 | |||
:(PNA), HBC/AJP/MGCAOYONAN/VLO | |||
ILOILO CITY, Sept. 18 (PNA) -- The Iloilo Dinagyang Foundation Inc. (IDFI) has officially launched its 46th Iloilo Dinagyang Festival celebration at the Penthouse of the new Iloilo City Hall Wednesday in the run up to the festivity on Jan 24-26, 2014. | |||
The Dinagyang 2014’s tagline is “Bringing 'More Fun' to the World!” | |||
The launching was held after a solemn mass at the San Jose Parish Church followed by signing of Memorandum of Agreement between the IDFI represented by President Ramon Cua Locsin, Iloilo City Government through Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog and San Jose Parish Church lead by Parish Priest Raymundo Edzel Alcayaga. | |||
Iloilo City Tourism Officer Benito Jimena said this early launching will help probable candidates to prepare earlier for the event as well as for them to invite more visitors to come in Iloilo. | |||
Jimena said Iloilo Dinagyang has been known as Best Tourism Event in the country and this will remain as the Ilonggo’s pride. | |||
To be more convenient, the tourism chief added that the foundation will still follow the old set-up or the carousel type where the final performing area for competing tribes of the Dinagyang Festival will be at the Freedom Grandstand. | |||
As carousel type, Jimena said performing tribes will simultaneously perform in each of the four judging areas like Iloilo Freedom Grandstand, Quezon-Ledesma Streets, Iloilo Provincial Capitol and Ma. Clara Street, all within the city proper area. | |||
Meanwhile, three Ati-ati tribes that were champions in previous years are expected to come back. | |||
Jimena named them as Tribu Bola Bola of the Iloilo National High School, Tribu Pan-ay of the Fort San Pedro National High School and Tribu Paghidaet of La Paz National High School. | |||
“This is more fun because these champions will be performing again”, he said. | |||
Jimena said they are expecting 13 tribes to perform for the Kasadyahan competition while 12 tribes for the Ati-ati contest. | |||
==DENR, composite team to conduct MAC in celebration of Ozone Month== | |||
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=8&rid=566558 | |||
*Tuesday, September 17, 2013 | |||
:(PNA), PDS/AJPETINGLAY/VLO | |||
ILOILO CITY, Sept. 17 (PNA) --The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Regional Office 6 and its composite team the Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the Iloilo City Environment and Natural Resources (CENRO) will be conducting the Mobile Air-Conditioning Check (MAC) on Sept. 24 in front of Shoemart (SM) City to make sure that they are in compliance. | |||
Amy Guillergan, DENR Regional Office 6 chief of the Environmental Education, Information Section, said that this September the DENR is celebrating the Ozone Month with the aim to impress to the public the need to help in the protection of the ozone layer which is now a pressing environmental concern. | |||
She said that because of this concern, the LTO and CENRO are joining hands with the DENR for the MAC and the implementation of the anti-smoke belching regulation. | |||
The MAC will be conducted randomly among the taxi units that will pass by SM City if they are ozone-friendly. If found to have some violations, the composite team will require them for a re-check at the LTO and then would be required to meet the requirements. | |||
On Sept. 25-27, there would also be an exhibit at Gaisano City here where information and education campaign materials would be displayed and made available for the public to know on how to protect the water and atmosphere and prevent further depletion of the ozone layer. | |||
==Jaro heritage building up for renovation== | |||
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=566322 | |||
*Monday, September 16, 2013 | |||
:(PNA), HBC/AJP/LCP/VLO | |||
ILOILO CITY, Sept. 16 (PNA) -– The PNP Jaro station will have to transfer to a nearby building and give way to the renovation of the heritage structure into a museum. | |||
This was announced by Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog on Monday after the Tourism Infrastructure Enhancement Zone Authority (TIEZA) of the Dept. of Tourism) finalized its plan for the renovation and improvement of the heritage building fronting the historic Jaro Plaza and Cathedral. | |||
Mabilog said the PNP Jaro station will be transferred in the Jaro Puericulture Center adjacent to the old structure while the barangay hall of Benedicto, Jaro will house at the nearby Timpuyog Amnian building erected from funds of former senator Letecia Ramos Shahani. | |||
Similarly, another building behind the heritage site will house the expanded Technical Institute of Iloilo City (TIIC) Jaro campus to absorb the many technical and vocational courses offered to students in Jaro and La Paz areas. | |||
Mabilog said the projects under the TIEZA are expected to take off before 2015 as TIEZA is currently funding ongoing heritage renovation of seven heritage sites in the city. | |||
These include the renovation and improvement of Plaza Libertad, Jaro Plaza and Jaro Cathedral, Molo Plaza and Molo Cathedral, Port San Pedro and the central business district in the city proper. | |||
==Iloilo paper owner sued over retrenchment== | |||
*Source:http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/487735/iloilo-paper-owner-sued-over-retrenchment | |||
*Sunday, September 15, 2013 1:38 am | |||
:By Nestor P. Burgos Jr. (Inquirer Visayas) | |||
ILOILO CITY–A newspaper owner and defeated mayoral candidate of Iloilo City is facing an illegal termination complaint filed by seven dismissed newspaper employees. | |||
Seven employees of the Iloilo-based newspaper The News Today have accused businessman Rommel Ynion of illegal termination and are demanding, among others, separation pay, back wages and damages. | |||
In a complaint filed in the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) office in Iloilo City, the seven former employees asked the NLRC to declare their dismissal as illegal. | |||
Ynion, who ran with the populist slogan “I Love the Poor,” lost to Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog in the May 2013 elections. | |||
Aside from Ynion, also named respondents were publisher Junep Ocampo and officers of Maxposure Inc., which owns the newspaper: Jose Gerardo Villacarlos, Hernan Ynion, Michael Robert Ynion and Carlo Gene Ynion. | |||
The complainants include news editor Maricyn de los Santos, senior reporters Montesa Caoyonan and Jennifer Rendon, photographer Ricky Alejo, marketing supervisor Ramon Salvilla, graphic designer and layout artist Ely Pineda, and delivery boy Roy Amoto. | |||
They alleged in a position paper dated Aug. 12 that they were terminated in “bad faith.” | |||
The complainants said they were told in a meeting in March that they would be retrenched and asked to sign a prepared voluntary resignation letter. | |||
When they refused to sign, they received a letter on March 5 informing them that their employment would end on April 6. | |||
They said the newspaper company gave them half of their monthly salary in May contrary to the assurance that they would be given a separation package. | |||
Leo Solinap, an executive of the newspaper handling operations, denied that the employees were illegally terminated. | |||
“We consulted our lawyer and we followed the required process,” he said. Solinap said the retrenchment was prompted by losses. | |||
He said the newspaper was forced to reduce its publication frequency. From being a daily paper, The News Today now only comes out thrice weekly. | |||
==NEDA 6 orients WV local officials on RDC, NEDA== | |||
*Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=901379141513 | |||
*Saturday, September 14, 2013 | |||
:(NEDA6/PIA6) | |||
ILOILO CITY, Sept. 14 (PIA6) -- The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) In Western Visayas has oriented newly-elected and reelected officials and department heads of the six provinces and two highly urbanized cities in the region on the mandate and functions of the Regional Development Council and their agency. | |||
NEDA 6 Development Research Division chief Cynthia Lumampao said that the orientations were conducted in Guimaras (August 2), Negros Occidental (August 8), Iloilo (August 14), Aklan (August 16), Antique (August 23) and Capiz (August 27). Similar orientations were also conducted in the cities of Bacolod (August 9) and Iloilo (August 15). | |||
The orientation covered the following topics: overview and important roles of RDC and NEDA; mandate, functions and organizational structure, Board and attached agencies and inter-agency committees of NEDA; and, history, functions and organizational set-up of NEDA Regional Office VI in Iloilo City. | |||
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), as mandated by the Philippine Constitution, is the country’s economic development and planning agency. It consists of the NEDA Board and the NEDA Secretariat. The NEDA Board is the governing body that sets major development policy directions for the Philippines while the NEDA Secretariat serves as its research and technical support arm. | |||
Based on Executive Order No. 325 issued in 1996, the RDC is the primary institution that sets the direction of economic and social development of the region and through which regional efforts are coordinated. The Council is also designed to be an effective institution in the region responsible for ensuring sustainable, participatory and equitable development. | |||
Also covered were the planning and policy formulation role of NEDA, its support to efforts on strengthening the Provincial Land Use Committees and in the updating of the Provincial Development and Physical Framework Plan, taking into account disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation concerns. | |||
Another aspects of the orientation was the discussion of the various modalities for resource mobilization and guidelines for accessing Official Development Assistance (ODA) and for entering into Public-Private Partnership arrangements, strengthening of the Local Project Monitoring Committees and status of major programs and projects of the provinces, and the importance of regional and local data, the initiatives and efforts along regional databases and maps, and the need to set up the Provincial Statistical Coordination Committees. | |||
Topping the list of concerns raised by participants during the open forum were the status of the proposed and ongoing programs or projects of local government units and environmental concerns related to project implementation especially of large-scale projects. | |||
NEDA 6 Regional Director Ro-Ann Bacal led the resource persons who also included: Ma. Lourdes Miado, OIC-Chief of the Policy Formulation and Planning Division; Ma. Teresa Guadalupe, Supervising Economic Development Specialist of the Project Development, Investment Programming and Budgeting Division; Erlinda Chiu, OIC Chief of the Project Monitoring and Evaluation Division; and, Lumampao, Chief of the Development Research Division. | |||
Governors Samuel Gumarin (Guimaras), Alfredo Marañon, Jr. (Negros Occ.) and Victor Tanco, Sr. (Capiz) were present during the orientation while City Mayors Jed Patrick Mabilog of Iloilo and Mayor Monico Puentevella of Bacolod also personally attended the orientation and actively participated during the open forum. | |||
==Mabilog requests CCTV cameras at liquor stores== | |||
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=565637 | |||
*Friday, September 13, 2013 | |||
:(PNA), HBC/AJP/LCP/VLO | |||
ILOILO CITY, Sept. 13 (PNA) -- Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog has requested the CCTV Council to include stores selling liquor and other intoxicating drinks in the list of establishments to be installed with closed circuit television cameras. | |||
City councilor Nielex Tupas assured to include the liquor stores as high risk establishments compelled to install CCTV cameras with an application for a Certificate of Compliance (COC) before a city business permit can be issued. | |||
Mabilog said that young men who recently stormed a radio station along the diversion road were reportedly drunk and purchased bottles of wines before they created a rumble at the Smallville complex. | |||
Stores are prohibited to sell liquors to minors and adults who purchased the liquors could have been deterred in the commission of crime by knowing that they are recorded in a CCTV camera, the city mayor said. | |||
==Iloilo City set to dispose unusable properties== | |||
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=565217 | |||
*Thursday, September 12, 2013 | |||
:(PNA), HBC/AJP/LCP/VLO | |||
ILOILO CITY, Sept. 12 (PNA) -– The city government here is set to dispose several unusable properties left to the elements by looking for buyers of these properties, according to city Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog. | |||
First on the auction block is the 6.8 hectares lot in Ungka, Pavia, Iloilo which the Commission on Audit pegged at P2,500 per square meter selling price. | |||
The lot host the unused housing subdivision intended for city hall employees but abandoned by the contractor several years ago. | |||
Mabilog said the amount derive from the sale of the Pavia lot maybe used to buy another lot within the city for the construction of low cost housing units for city hall employees and for other development projects in the city. | |||
On the other hand, former city councilor Perla Zulueta, currently the mayor’s executive assistant, has discovered two brand new but unused bulldozers rotting at the city motor pool since 1998. | |||
The heavy equipment worth some P40 million was purchased during the time of former city mayor Mansueto Malabor more than 15 years ago. | |||
Mabilog said that he was assured the bulldozers are still there at the city motor pool which can not be used since 1998 due to some missing parts. | |||
The city mayor said he is still tracking the whereabouts of more equipment and tools owned by the city which are reported unusable. | |||
==14 Ilonggo athletes receive cash incentives== | |||
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=5&rid=564727 | |||
*Wednesday, September 11, 2013 | |||
:(PNA), LAP/AJP/MGCAOYONAN/VLO | |||
ILOILO CITY, Sept. 11 (PNA) -- The Iloilo City Government gave cash incentives to 14 student athletes coming from different city schools here who harvested medals during the Philippine Olympic Committee-Philippine Sports Commission (POC-PSC) National Games Championship held in Manila from May 25 to June 2, 2013. | |||
City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog, who requested the City Treasurer’s Office for a P21,000 cash incentive for the 14 athletes, said the giving of incentives to these athletes who excelled in local and national sports competitions is part of the city’s sports program which encourages the youth to engage in sports and bring honor to the city. | |||
Under the sports program, a gold medal is equivalent to a cash incentive of P1,500; silver is P1,000 and bronze, P500.00. | |||
On Tuesday, among the arnis gold medalists who received their cash incentives were Dennis Dellomes, Kliezer Juanga and Jonnie Celendro while for pencak silat competition were Jelly Pearl Democrito and Daisy Rose Hellares. | |||
Silver medalists were Dennis Dellomes who won two times in arnis together with Francis Ryan Davis while for pencak silat were Xyrine Diocos, Daisy Rose Hellares, Rose Mary Ann Rafa and Karen Rojo. | |||
Other arnis bronze medalist players were Jonnie Celendro, Dennis Dellomes, Kliezer Juanga, Iresh Crizel De Leon who won twice while for pencak silat medalists were Xyrine Diocos and Cielo Jinon. | |||
Also, bronze medalists for swimming were Casy Raybac Gumabong, Joshua Philip Gumban and Kimberly Nietes. | |||
==News Feature: Ilonggo inventor's design may revolutionize trike's side car== | ==News Feature: Ilonggo inventor's design may revolutionize trike's side car== | ||
*Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=931378792658 | *Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=931378792658 | ||