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Province of Catanduanes - Archived News

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PRC emergency rescue unit soon to operate 24/7

• Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r05&id=71217
• By: Edna A Bagadiong
• January 05, 2012

VIRAC, CATANDUANES- The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Catanduanes Chapter's Emergency Rescue Unit (ERU) is soon to operate 24 hours per day beginning this month, January, 2012.

The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) aims to render life-saving assistance that will armor the life and dignity especially of the indigent Filipinos caught in defenseless situations. Currently, the PRC offers six major services, such as: Blood Services, Disaster Management, Safety Services, Community Health and Nursing, Social Services and the Volunteer Service.

The ERU, composed of trained volunteers began serving the province last Christmas season with a schedule duty from 7:00-12 midnight last December 17-23 and Dec. 26-31, 2011.

To become an ERU trainee, one must be 18 years old and above; college level; Current holder of Philippine Red Cross Standard First Aid and Basic Life Support (Certificate of Completion); Of good moral character as certified by authority; Physically and mentally fit; Willing to complete 300 hours of duty as a trainee before being certified as an ERU volunteer; Can work under minimal supervision and willing to work in a team.

SO to conduct Labor Force Survey

• Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r05&id=70797
• By: EA Bagadiong
• January 03, 2012

VIRAC, Catanduanes- The National Statistics Office (NSO) here will be conducting the quarterly Labor Force Survey (LFS) from the period January 9 to January 31, 2012.

The LFS is a nationwide survey of households being conducted to gather data on the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the population. It is geared towards the estimation of the levels of employment and unemployment in the country.

Such survey is designed to provide statistics on levels and trends of employment, unemployment, and underemployment for the country as a whole and for each of the administrative regions.

The importance of the Labor Force Survey are as follows: It provides quantitative framework for the preparation of plans and formulation of policies affecting labor market towards: 1) the creation and generation of gainful employment; 2) reduction of unemployment and promotion of employment; 3) improvement of working conditions; and, 4) enhancement of the welfare of a working person.

Furthermore, it provides statistics on levels and trends of employment, unemployment, and underemployment for the country and regions; data will be used for the projection of future human resource, which when compared with the future manpower requirements will help identify employment and training needs; data will help in the assessment of the potential human resource available for economic development; and it will identify the difference in employment, unemployment, and underemployment according to the different economic, social, and ethnic groups existing within the population.

In the province, 10 sample barangays will be visited: in Virac: Gogon Centro and PLanab del Norte; in San Andres: San Isidro, Batong Plaoway and Putting Baybay; in Baras: Paniquihan, San Miguel; in Caramoran: Maysuram and Icanbato in Pandan: Libod.

Bangko Sentral grants regulatory relief to banks affected by “Sendong”

• Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=70543
• By: Jerome Carlo R. Paunan
• January 02, 2012

To assist and ease the financial burden of bank customers adversely hit by tropical storm Sendong, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is granting regulatory relief measures to thrift, rural, and cooperative banks in the affected areas.

Sendong devastated several parts of the country, particularly the Visayas and Mindanao regions, on December 2011.

Eligible for the relief measures are those in the following areas identified by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council which include Region V: Catanduanes; Region VI: Capiz; Region VII: Bohol and Negros Oriental; Region IX: Zamboanga del Norte; Region X: Bukidnon, Lanao del Norte, Misamis Occidental and Misamis Oriental; Region XI: Compostela Valley and Davao del Norte; Region XIII (CARAGA): Agusan del Sur and Surigao del Sur; and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM): Lanao del Sur.

Similar relief measures were extended by the BSP to thrift and rural/cooperative banks in cities/provinces that were affected by landslide/flooding last September 2011 and previous typhoons such as Frank, Ondoy, Pepeng, Juaning, Mina, and Pedring.

In a statement, the BSP said that its policy-making body, the Monetary Board, has approved some temporary relief measures which include:

1. Reducing the five percent general loan loss provision to one percent for restructured loans of borrowers in the affected areas;

2. Excluding existing loans of borrowers in affected areas from the computation of past due ratios provided these are restructured or given relief;

3. Non-imposition of penalties on legal reserves deficiencies with head office and/or branches in the affected areas;

4. Moratorium on monthly payments due to BSP for banks with ongoing rehabilitation programs;

5. Subject to BSP approval, booking of allowance for probable losses on a staggered basis over maximum of five years for all types of credit extended to individual and businesses directly affected by the calamity;

6. Non-imposition of monetary penalties for delays in the submission of supervisory reports;

7. Allowing banks to provide financial assistance to their officers and employees who were affected by the calamity including those assistance that may not be within the scope of the existing BSP-approved Fringe Benefit Program;

8. Granting of a 60-day grace period to settle the outstanding rediscounting obligations as of December 15, 2011 with the BSP of all rediscounting banks in the affected areas; and

9. Allowing banks to restructure with the BSP, on a case-to-case basis, the outstanding rediscounted loans of borrowers affected by the calamity.

These measures will be in effect for a defined period and covered by additional specific and other prudential conditions, the BSP said.