Batanes News March 2012

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Wars of ancient history were about possessions, territory, power, control, family, betrayal, lover's quarrel, politics and sometimes religion. But we are in the Modern era and supposedly more educated and enlightened . Think about this. Don't just brush off these questions. Why is RELIGION still involved in WARS? Isn't religion supposed to be about PEACE? Ask yourself; What religion always campaign to have its religious laws be accepted as government laws, always involved in wars and consistently causing WARS, yet insists that it's a religion of peace? WHY?? There are only two kinds of people who teach tolerance: The Bullies. They want you to tolerate them so they can continue to maliciously deprive you. Do not believe these bullies teaching tolerance, saying that it’s the path to prevent hatred and prejudice. The victims who are waiting for the right moment to retaliate. They can’t win yet, so they tolerate.

Oldest house in Ivana, Batanes

Dietary supplement is a product that contains vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, enzymes, and/or other ingredients intended to supplement the diet. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has special labeling requirements for dietary supplements and treats them as foods, not drugs. Manufacturers and distributors of dietary supplements and dietary ingredients are prohibited from marketing products that are adulterated or misbranded. That means that these firms are responsible for evaluating the safety and labeling of their products before marketing to ensure that they meet all the requirements of DSHEA and FDA regulations.

Provincial tourism council starts local tourism dev’t plan

• Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R02&article=451331860973
• By: Necitas G. Alconis
• March 16, 2012

BASCO, Batanes- The provincial tourism council chaired by Gov. Vicente S. Gato has started working on the province’s tourism development plan with the assistance of all tourism frontliners and tour operators in the province.

An ad hoc committee has been formed to consolidate all tourism programs proposals from the council members and from the grassroots to complete the 3-year (short term) and the 10-year (long term) tourism development plan.

The committee is composed of Genes Galarion of the Pacita Fundacion as chairman; Dennis Lim of Tawsen Agri-ventures for transportation, hostel and restaurant operators/proprietors; tour guide Roger Doplito for transportation also; Tour guide association president Eduardo Delfin for tour guiding; tour guide Juliet Cataluña, for travel and tour operation and Non-government organization representative Byron Peralta for community affairs.

The identified tourism operators are the caterers, hostel owners, restaurant operators, transportation sector, souvenir item producers, the tour guides, the homestay owners and artisans.

The committee agreed to reach out the grassroots in the municipal and barangay levels to obtain their views on tourism, their proposals and support for tourism.

Juliet Cataluña, former manager of the Batanes Eco-tourism cooperative, said the committee believes that through focus group discussion with the grassroots, they would be able to generate more cooperation for the tourism industry of the province.

Regional evaluators to assess nutrition program in Batanes

• Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R02&article=451331619869
• By: Necitas G. Alconis
• March 13, 2012

BASCO, Batanes- The Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET) from Tuguegarao is in this island province from March 12 to 16 to evaluate nutrition program implementation for the year 2011.

The team is set to visit all municipalities, review records and results of provincial evaluation on nutrition program implementation through ocular inspection of municipal and barangay nutrition offices and projects, conduct interview with municipal nutrition action officer before the team evaluates.

The results of the evaluation, which include the good points, weak points, problems, or situationers encountered by the team, recommendations and challenges for the improvement of performance will be tackled in the feedback meeting with the presence of the PNC headed by the Governor Vicente Gato and the provincial nutrition action officers.

The RNET also requested a separate schedule of meeting with the governor as chairman of the provincial nutrition program, and the provincial nutrition council (PNC) headed by the provincial nutrition action officer.

Per results of nutrition program implementation in 2010 Batanes was able to maintain its rank as Consistent Regional Outstanding winner in Nutrition (CROWN) award for three years now. Batanes received P100,000 cash as a CROWN awardee.

From the cash award, the 29 barangay nutrition scholars province-wide received incentive of P2,000 each for being the frontliners in the provincial nutrition program implementation. The 135 barangay health workers were given P500 each.

It was the consensus of the provincial nutrition council to give incentives to them for working closely with the PNC and for their dedicated services in the nutrition program.

Batanes Tremor

• Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/354109/batanes-tremor
• By: Freddie G. Lazaro
• March 12, 2012

A 4.5-magnitude tremor hit some areas in Batanes province early Monday morning but no casualties or damage to property was reported, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) satellite office based here.

Local Phivolcs Researcher Porferio Peralta said the 4.5 magnitude earthquake happened at 5:31 a.m. with the epicenter located at 41 kilometers southeast of Basco, Batanes.

It had a depth of 148 kilometers and, as such, did not register a strong intensity.

Peralta said that the quake was tectonic in origin but no intensity recorded in the affected areas as well as no aftershock to be expected.