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==Redevelopment of Pelaez Sports Center will be thru PPP==
*Source: http://www.cdodev.com/2015/01/31/redevelopment-of-pelaez-sports-center-will-be-thru-ppp/
*Saturday, January 31, 2015
:(CDODev)
The proposed Pelaez Sports Center Redevelopment Project will be implemented thru the Public Private Partnership (PPP). This was revealed by Misamis Oriental Governor Yevgeny ‘Bambi’ Emano after a group of businessmen presented to him the perspective design for the said project.
If the plans will be realized, a world class sports and recreation facility will be experienced by residents of Misamis Oriental , Cagayan de Oro City and visitors. Governor Bambi Emano assured the people of Misamis Oriental that the partnership will be advantageous to the Provincial Government in the long run.
==More Occupational Safety Health practitioners accredited==
*Source: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/2611422597637/more-occupational-safety-health-practitioners-accredited
*Friday, January 30, 2015
:By Mildred E. Dablio (Labor Communications Officer, DOLE-X)
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, January 30 -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) awarded on January 12 and 26 certificates for the accreditation of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) practitioners during its Monday Convocation programs.
This is in consonance with its continuous drive to strengthen the administration and enforcement of the Occupational Safety and Health Standards (OSHS).
The accreditation of safety and health professionals and organizations is a venue to enhance the culture of safety and voluntary compliance to Labor Standards, particularly on occupational safety and health. This is pursuant to Department Order No. 16, Series of 2001.
DOLE aims to strengthen accreditation through increasing the number of competent individuals qualified to carry out the provisions of the OSHS, thereby reducing hazards and accidents in every workplace.
DOLE-X OIC assistant regional director, Rodrigo A. Deloso awarded OSH practitioners, Engr. June G. Blancaflor, electrical foreman, and Engr. Wenefredo L. Madera, Jr., control room operator, both of STEAG State Power Inc. in Balacanas, Villanueva, Misamis Oriental last January 12.
Also awarded was Engr. Alvin M. Villanueva, OIC safety and health section of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Bureau of Mines and Geosciences (MGB) in Macabalan, Cagayan de City as renewal of his certificate.
On January 26, regional director Raymundo G. Agravante awarded Agnes L. Sato, Sr. safety engineer of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), Mindanao Systems Operations in Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City.
Director Agravante believes that this award will be the practitioners’ edge in their respective offices, especially in the lobbying of safety and health policies will be faster, thus uncompromising safety.
Facilitating the awarding were technical services and support division head, Atheneus A. Vasallo, Engr. Nicanor F. Aguilar, Jr., Engr. Romeo B. Akut, and Evelyn J. Gallego of the DOLE-X.
Interested applicants may visit http://www.oshc.dole.gov.ph/ for details and the requirements or you may visit the DOLE-X Regional Office, through the Technical Support and Services Division, 3F Monte Carlo Building, RER Phase I, Kauswagan National Highway, Cagayan de Oro City or through telephone number (88) 8571931 and look for Evelyn J. Gallego.
==GSIS grants emergency loan to members in Misamis Oriental==
*Source: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/1521422509389/gsis-grants-emergency-loan-to-members-in-misamis-oriental
*Thursday, January 29, 2015
: (APB/PIA-10)
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, January 29 (PIA) --- The State-run Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is now granting emergency loan to active members residing or working in the province of Misamis Oriental after having been declared under a state of calamity due to Typhoon Seniang.
Members may avail of the loan if they are not on leave of absence without pay, have no pending criminal or administrative charges, have no arrearages in the payment of mandatory social insurance contributions, and have no loans that are declared in default.
First time borrowers are entitled to P20,000 in loanable amount while members with existing emergency loans may borrow up to P40,000 with the outstanding balance to be deducted  from the net proceeds of the loan renewal.
The loan is payable in three years or 36 equal monthly installments at an interest rate of six percent per annum.
Qualified members may apply for the loan beginning January 27, 2015 until February 26, 2015.
They may apply using their eCard or Unified Multipurpose Identification (UMID) card through the GWAPS kiosks.  Eligible members with temporary eCards may apply over the counter at the GSIS Members Assistance Unit of GSIS Cagayan de Oro City Branch.
The loan proceeds will be electronically credited to the borrower’s eCard or UMID card. (APB)
For details, visit GSIS Cagayan de Oro City Branch at Calamansi Drive, Carmen, this city, or call them at telephone number 724-091.
==DTI sets business orientation, coaching to local MSMEs==
*Source: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/2611422424680/dti-sets-business-orientation-coaching-to-local-msmes
*Wednesday, January 28, 2015
: (JMOR/PIA10)
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, January 28 (PIA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry - Misamis Oriental (DTI-MOR) is reminding the public that the newly opened Negosyo Center here has scheduled business orientation and coaching sessions to would-be and existing local micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).
This is through Republic Act 10644 otherwise known as the “Go Negosyo Act” last July 15, 2014, where one of its salient features is the Establishment of Negosyo Centers in all provinces, cities and municipalities – which shall be responsible for promoting ease of doing business and facilitating access to services for micro, small and medium enterprises or MSMEs within its jurisdiction.
The Negosyo Center here provides services particularly Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Technology, Financial Management and Productivity and Efficiency. It also include Business registration services, Business consultancy/ coaching, Product Development, Packaging and Labeling, Market Development and Promotions and Business Information.
For February, trainings would include Year-end Tax Reminders and Handling BIR Tax Matters, Market Planning, Entrepreneurship Development Seminar, Food Packaging and Labeling and Product Trends & Forecasts 2015-2016, among others.
The Negosyo Center here is located at the Ground floor, Antolin Building, Tiano Street corner Akut Street, Cagayan de Oro City.
For more information, you may call Jesse or Roxy at (08822) 712473 or email them at negosyocenter10@dti.gov.ph.
==Food chain to employ 50 students under SPES Program==
*Source: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/2611422345541/food-chain-to-employ-50-students-under-spes-program
*Tuesday, January 27, 2015
: (Aloha B. Jaudian,Western Misamis Oriental PFO/PIA10)
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, January 27 -- The food giant company in the world famous for its all-beef patties and the iconic golden arch logo partners again with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on the Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES).
Fifty (50) students will be given employment to five McDonald stores in the city located at LimKetKai Center, Puregold, McDonald Divisoria, and Centrio Mall. First batch of students will commence work on March 1 to June 30, 2015 and second batch will be deployed on July 1 to October 31, 2015.
For 52 days, P15,912 will be disbursed to each beneficiaries at 40% and 60% sharing between DOLE and McDonalds. McDonalds will pay the amount in cash at P9,547.20. The remaining amount of P6,364.80 will be shouldered by DOLE through educational voucher for the tuition and book fees.
Along with the minimum pay of P306, free meals during working hours, uniform, and paid 20 minute break, and GSIS coverage will be provided by McDonalds, according to Britto Luis C. Alforque, operations consultant of McDonalds.
Applicants will be sourced by Public Employment Service Office (PESO), Cagayan de Oro, starting January 12 to 30, 2015. Examination and interview will follow on February 7, 2015 by McDonalds managers. The launching of SPES will be formalized on February 22, 2015 with the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) at the local government unit (LGU)-Cagayan de Oro. The signing will be joined by mayor Oscar S. Moreno, DOLE Region 10 director Raymundo G. Agravante, and McDonalds representatives.
The SPES program aims to help poor and deserving students pursue and ultimately finish school by encouraging employment to cover the school fees.
In 2012, DOLE and Golden Arches Development Corporation, McDonald’s franchise holder inked a memorandum to partner in the implementation of SPES. This later rolled out to all branches nationwide including Cagayan de Oro with 80 beneficiaries.
Now on its 75th years, McDonalds food chain will not only see smiles in every Filipino faces as its slogan goes “We love to see you smile”. Also as well, being loved by Filipino students not only for its good food but also for venturing SPES Program as a corporate responsibility. McDonald’s SPES beneficiaries will have more reason to say “Love ko ‘to.”
==DTI 10 attends seminars for ISO 9001:2015, ASEAN economic integration==
*Source: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/1451422245796/dti-10-attends-seminars-for-iso-9001-2015-asean-economic-integration
*Monday, January 26, 2015
:(DTI/RCA/PIA10-Misamis Occidental)
OROQUIETA CITY, Misamis Occidental, Jan. 26 (PIA) – Almost 100 employees of the Department of Trade and Industry, region 10 (DTI-10), eight of whom, were from Misamis Occidental, have attended seminars on International Standards Organization (ISO) and the  Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), last Jan. 7-8.
Held in two batches, the seminars were held at Dynasty Court Hotel in Cagayan de Oro City, in preparation for the coming out of ISO 9001:2015 by end of the year that will eventually replace ISO 9001: 2008 by 2017.
It was also held in preparation for the ASEAN economic integration, by the end of this year, when goods and services can be traded without tariff within its 10-member nations: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Vietnam,Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.
The ISO lecture was handled by Kevin Castillon of the AJA Registrars Inc. while the ASEAN lecture was done by DTI 10 regional director Linda O. Boniao.
Meanwhile, eight employees from DTI MisOcc attended the seminars to join the other DTI employees from the provinces of Misamis Oriental, Bukidnon, Camiguin and Lanao del Norte.                         
The first batch comprised of Jane Marie Tabucan, Nila M. Maape, Mario L. Cuezon and Rovel Dela Cruz, while the second batch included Delia M. Ayano, provincial director of DTI MisOcc, Maritess Alcampado, Methusael Lumantas and Angie M. Tapon.
==Customs targets P9.8B for 2015==
*Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/local-news/2015/01/25/customs-targets-p98b-2015-388575
*Sunday, January 25, 2015
:By Jigger J. Jerusalem
AFTER hitting its annual target in 2014, the Bureau of Customs (BOC)-Northern Mindanao has upped its collection for this year.
Last year, the BOC attained more than its P8 billion target by earning an excess of P188 million, or a .26 increase from its projected revenue, said lawyer Roswald Joseph Pague, BOC-Northern Mindanao administrative officer.
Pague said the BOC’s implementation of the strict policy on demanding importations to be properly and particularly described and declared, leading to the proper valuation of the imported goods at the same time, thus, maximizing the imposition of taxes and duties, has largely contributed to the increase in its collection.
:One of the biggest collectors
Pague cited that the anti-smuggling efforts encouraged importers to religiously declare the products they were shipping in to the ports in Northern Mindanao, especially at Cagayan de Oro port and the Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) sub-port in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, adding it paved the way to making BOC-Northern Mindanao as one of the highest collectors among the Customs offices in the country.
“They (importers) have seen that we have better facilities, and with this, the speedy release of their cargoes” which, he said, has helped the BOC-Northern Mindanao to collect appropriate import taxes and duties from consignees and traders.
For this year, Pague said the BOC regional office is targeting to collect P9.8 billion or more.
:‘Aspirational’ target
“That target (P9.8 billion) is ‘aspirational,’ meaning we will do our best to reach it depending on the market trends,” he told Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro, adding that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) integration this year will play a vital role in its collection efforts and how the BOC could top its financial performance in 2014.
“The Asean integration is also a factor to consider, that is why we will do our best to achieve the target that was specified to us (by Customs Commissioner John Phillip Sevilla),” he said.
The entry of new players in the power industry in Mindanao will be another contributing element to the increase in BOC’s collection.
Aside from the FDC Misamis Power Coporation, which is on its first phase of constructing its P30-billion, 405-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Villanueva, Misamis Oriental, another power generator will add to the bulk of imports that will pass through Cagayan de Oro and MCT ports in the coming weeks.
:P50-B coal-fired power plant
Pague was referring to the P50-billion coal-fired power plant that is expected to produce 540 megawatts that will be added to the Mindanao grid located in Barangay Libertad in Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte.
In a previous article published in Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro, Kauswagan Mayor Rommel Arnado said the plant would use “state-of-the-art clean air technology under GN Power, an Oregon-based company from the United States.”
Its counterpart in the Philippines is PMR Incorporated in partnership with Ayala Corporation.
Once up and running, the Kauswagan plant would be the biggest and cheapest power facility in Mindanao that will cater to the 33 utilities under the Association of Mindanao Rural Electric Cooperatives.
Pague said that with this development, BOC-Northern Mindanao is hopeful it could likely reach its target for 2015.
==No action yet from NHA on looming villages demolition==
*Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/local-news/2015/01/23/no-action-yet-nha-looming-villages-demolition-388289
*Saturday, January 24, 2015 (Date Published)
:By Jigger J. Jerusalem
THE plight of the residents who will be booted out from their houses as the impending demolition nears is in the hands of the City Council, as the National Housing Authority (NHA)-Northern Mindanao waits for the legislative body’s resolution that would ask the court to defer the issuance of the writ of demolition that would leave more than 50 families homeless next week.
Ramon Medrozo, NHA-Northern Mindanao community relations officer, said once the councilors would issue the resolution, they could take action on the concerns of barangays Puntod and Macabalan residents who are members of Cagayan Integrated Landless Residents Association Incorporated (Cilrai).
The group wants NHA to consider its demand of putting off temporarily the implementation of the demolition order and provide an onsite relocation area for those who will be affected.
It has been learned that the writ of demolition will be enforced on January 28, and not today, January 24, as earlier reported.
Medrozo said they could not make any action yet if there is no resolution yet from the city council.
He said he could not give out the details of the resolution, but there were cases the demolition was delayed due to the request from the local government unit to the issuing court.
Cilrai president Basilio Lobino said they have been aware that the City Government has no more relocation site for displaced residents, and that is why their only hope is for the councilors to pass the resolution.
Lobino said the area that would be affected by the looming demolition is only about a hectare of the 12.5-hectare that Cilrai members are occupying but they could not allow some of them to lose their homes.
“Dili namo pasagdan nga makuhaan ang parte sa among yuta nga gipuy-an, kay sama ra ‘na nga makuhaan usab ang parte sa among lawas (We can’t let that a part of the land we are occupying be taken, as it’s just like a part of our body has been removed),” he told Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro during the protest rally held at the NHA compound in Barangay Puntod Friday.
A dialogue between the residents and NHA ensued when Msgr. Elmer Abacahin volunteered as facilitator between the two parties.
Lobino said that for so long, they have been requesting the housing authority to have the land titled but decades have passed and still it was not granted to them.
:Kept in the dark
He alleged they were kept in the dark by the agency, which failed to inform them that portions of the lot had already been sold to two companies when they were expecting all along that it was awarded to them.
Kalipunan ng Damayan Mahihirap-Northern Mindanao Region (Kadamay-NMR), an urban poor group that supported the struggle of Cilrai, said in a statement that Republic Act 7279 has provided that the less privileged (the homeless and the landless) must be included in the development and not only focused on “market forces.”
==Mayor opts legal action on 2015 budget cut==
*Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/local-news/2015/01/23/mayor-opts-legal-action-2015-budget-cut-388292
*Friday, January 23, 2015
:By Jigger J. Jerusalem
BEFORE the people’s initiative 30-day timeframe could lapse, Mayor Oscar Moreno will also be taking legal action against the majority members of the City Council for reducing the executive budget he proposed, a City Hall official said.
Some of the items in the proposed executive budget were deleted, like the renewal of the PhilHealth indigency program in the amount of P240 million.
City Information Officer Maricel Casiño-Rivera said that while the group that spearheads the people’s initiative, Barug Kontra Abuso Movement, waits for the timeframe to get the required signatures to comply with the petition requirements, Moreno will resort to a legal remedy for the budget cut.
“At the moment, a legal action is being studied by the mayor’s legal team and we will announce it in due time,” Rivera said.
She said the legal remedy that Moreno will take would be separate from the people’s initiative.
On the people’s initiative, Rivera said it is the right of the residents of Cagayan de Oro to do something about an important issue that concerns them, such as the approval of the executive budget.
“Katungod kana sa katawhan (people’s initiative), if tan-aw nila nga napihig sila, tungod sa kalihukan sa mayorya nga ilang gikibhangan ang budget ug ang uban items gi-zerohan. Anaa ra ‘na kanila (It’s the right of the people to resort to people’s initiative, if they see that they are being deprived of what’s due them by the council’s majority members who slashed the budget and removed some of the items. It’s up to them),” she told Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro recently.
Barug Kontra Abuso, composed of barangay leaders and residents, conducted mass actions twice on January 12 and 19, in front of the City Council session hall to protest the slashing of the executive budget from P3.8 billion to P2.08 billion, and removing some items in the process.
On Monday, January 20, the group submitted to the City Council secretariat the copy of the petition demanding the city’s lawmakers to discard the reduction and deletions they did in the executive budget and approve the mayor’s proposed version.
The group also attached more than 3,000 signatures of registered voters, although only 1,000 signatures were needed as attachment for the petition to be legitimate.
In a previous interview with Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro, Macasandig village councilor Aaron Neri Sr., the movement’s chairman, is optimistic that the people’s initiative, once it will take effect, will reverse the decision of the council’s majority bloc.
It can be recalled that Moreno vetoed some provisions in the executive budget calling them “illegal, ultra vires, prejudicial to public welfare, grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction, encroachment of executive power.”
The majority members responded by overriding the mayor’s veto, prompting barangay folks to hold protest actions and the people’s initiative.
==DepEd leads groundbreaking to start construction of school buildings in CDO==
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=727955
*Thursday, January 22, 2015
:(PNA), FFC/CD/AR/EDS
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Jan. 22 (PNA) -- Undersecretary Francisco M. Varela of the Department of Education (DepEd) on Thursday led the groundbreaking rites for the construction of eight public school buildings worth Php77 million in Cagayan De Oro City.
Rep. Rufus Rodriguez of Cagayan De Oro City said that the school buildings will house a total of 66 classrooms in the eight urban and suburban villages of Cagayan De Oro City.
He said that the public elementary school buildings would be constructed each in the villages of Bugo, Puerto, Balubal, Agusan, Gusa, Nazareth, Macasandig, and Macabalan, all in the city’ second district.
Rodriguez said that his congressional district has taken the initiative to find the necessary funding for the construction of the various school buildings here.
The construction of the school buildings would be funded under the government’s Public Private Partnership (PPP), where a private contractor would construct the buildings and payments are made within five years upon completion of the project, he said.
Last week, the congressional district also had a groundbreaking for the construction of school buildings and classrooms in the city’s hinterland villages where the funds came from the national government’s general appropriation act, the solon said.
Rodriguez said that the fundings for the various school projects here are sourced out from the national government, the public private partnership and some organizations like the Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc.
Undersecretary Varela was also accompanied by local education officials, private contractors and barangay officials during the Thursday groundbreaking ceremony, Rodriguez said.
==City exec urges parents to get inspiration from Pope Francis' messages==
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=727635
*Wednesday, January 21, 2015
:(PNA), LAP/CD/EDS
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Jan. 21 (PNA) -- A lady official in this port capital of 900,000 people urged parents to get inspiration from the messages of Pope Francis to always translate love into action.
City Councilor Edna Dahino, chair of the City Council Committee on Women and Affairs, said on Wednesday that the Filipino families should act as role models for their children as what Pope Francis wants.
She said that “our children sometimes will not listen to our advice. As parents, however, our children will always emulate our actions or ways of life.”
Dahino said that the parents should always be consistent as role models for the children. “The fruit will never fall far from the trunk,” she said.
The lady councilor also joined her thoughts of national thanksgiving for the visit of Pope Francis and salute the men and women who contributed to the success of the event in spite of the rains.
Dahino also thanked the media who covered the event as she praises their efforts to bring the event to homes through “live coverage.”
“May all the challenges left by His Holiness to the Filipinos be realized. May his call for mercy and compassion be responded to,” Dahino said.
Pope Francis, head of the 1.2 billion Roman Catholics around the world, came to the Philippines last January 15 on a state and pastoral visit and flew to Tacloban City where he comforted the survivors of typhoon "Yolanda" which struck on Nov. 8, 2013.
==Media, police, church affirm resolve to keep C. De Oro safe==
==Media, police, church affirm resolve to keep C. De Oro safe==
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=727192
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=727192
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