Preparations underway for biz conference in
Butuan City
By Robert E. Roperos
BUTUAN CITY, July 17 (PIA) -- The preparation
for this year’s 21st Mindanao Business Conference (MinBizCon) here is ongoing
said Cherry May Busa, board of trustee member of the Butuan Chamber of Commerce
and Industry Foundation, Inc. (BCCIFI).
In today’s press conference hosted by the
Philippine Information Agency (PIA)-Caraga, Busa said the chamber of commerce
together with the city government here is all set as the annual gathering of
business entrepreneurs in Mindanao will take place in this city on August 2 to
4 at Almont Hotel’s Inland Resort.
Busa said BCCIFI is hosting this year’s
MinBizCon that is anchored on the theme, “Invest in Mindanao: Towards a More
Inclusive, Progressive and Greener Future.” She said there will be around 700
private businessmen and entrepreneurs from all over Mindanao in the conference.
The event is the premier platform for fostering
competitiveness and accelerating economic growth in the Mindanao region and for
showcasing its trade and investment opportunities.
Meanwhile, Alfredo Baluyut Jr., BCCIFI past
president, said the annual MinBizCon serves as the official business conference
of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) for the Mindanao area
and is the biggest PCCI business conference in scope and number of
participants, among them senior business leaders, members of chambers of
commerce, government policymakers, investors and foreign trading partners.
Baluyut said MinBizCon is an opportunity for
broad range of stakeholders to speak with one voice on the region’s most
pressing economic policy concerns where the highlight of the event is the
formal presentation of the Mindanao Business Policy Agenda to the Office of the
President of the Philippines.
The official explained after the annual Mindanao
Business Policy Agenda final draft is formally presented at the conference, the
Mindanao Development Authority and PCCI will jointly monitor the progress made
by government and the business community in implementing the agenda
recommendations.
In addition, Baluyut said the Mindanao agenda is
incorporated into PCCI’s annual policy agenda as part of the Philippine
Business Conference resolutions, which are nationwide in scope.
Among the dignitaries invited to grace the
affair are Japan Ambassador to the Philippines Toshinao Urabe, Chinese
Ambassador to the Philippines H.E. Liu Jianchao, Korean Ambassador to the
Philippines H.E. Ambassador Hye-Min Lee, and US Ambassador to the Philippines
H.E. Harry Thomas. (RER/PIA-Caraga)
TESDA rolls out competency certification for
workers
By Gervacio Dauz, Jr.
AGUSAN DEL NORTE, July 17 -- Technical Education
and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Agusan del Norte rolled out the free
National TVET Competency Assessment and Certification (NATCAC) for workers last
July 9 via a ceremony at the Butuan Doctors’ College mini-gym in Butuan City.
The NATCAC, a support mechanism for the
middle-level workers who desire to acquire national certification for their
respective skills, has been launched in partnership with other TESDA provincial
offices across the country.
TESDA-ADN Provincial Director lauded the
partnership arrangement with ANECO, a local electric utility, when GM Santos
signed the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with TESDA as a mutual covenant in
support of the continuing need to professionalize the private electricians, who
are members of the AEMPC and who are ANECO-accredited.
“This tie up with the industry is about making a
difference between those who are certified and those who are not. If certified,
then there’s a stamp of quality,” he said.
In line also with said initiative, he said that
TESDA Agusan del Norte had already conducted a soft launching of the Bitaug
Certified Establishment Recognition Program, which was done last July 5 during
the Department of Trade and Industry small, and medium enterprise caravan 2012
at the Almont Hotel’s Inland Resort.
This recognition program is TESDA’s way of
acknowledging, valuing, and putting premium to establishments and institutions
that hire a critical number of certified workers vis-Γ -vis the set standards.
Part of the agreement forged by ANECO is to
“require the current crop of accredited external electricians to upgrade their
credentials such as undergoing assessment and certification” and to “Require
the succeeding crop of applicant external electricians to have a National
Certification as a prerequisite for their admittance as new members of the
recognized aggrupation.”
TESDA, for its part, agrees, in support for the
AEMPC members, to “rromote the need of and encourage the external electricians
concerned to undergo assessment and certification, and to facilitate the
conduct of assessment and certification in order to saturate the industry and
achieve a critical number of certified and qualified external electricians.”
Liza B. Budtan, supervising TESD specialist,
said that NATCAC “is a synchronized conduct of assessment and certification”
all throughout the country. It runs on July 9 to 20; August 20 to 31; and
October 15 to 26 this year.
She presented also that NATCAC is a scheme for
the industry’s acceptance and recognition of the value of certification in
quality-assuring the competencies of their workers, a tool to enhance the
competitiveness and employability of workers; and a plot to upgrade the
qualification of existing workers, trainers and assessors to a higher level of
qualification.
The free NATCAC program covers 24 qualifications
under eight sectors and are held in more than four separate venues. Examples of
qualifications are Carpentry NC II, Electrical Installation and Maintenance NC
II, Technical Drafting NC II, and Photography NC II. Also, examples of sectors
are information and communication technology, land transport, construction and
electronics.
Also present during the launching were
Archbishop Horacio T. Santos, general manager (GM) of the Agusan del Norte
Electric Cooperative (ANECO), members of the Agusan del Norte Electricians’
Multi-Purpose Cooperative (AEMPC), tech-voc scholars, and school representatives
from the Butuan Doctors’ College and Global-Competency-Based Training Center, Dr.
Florencio F. Sunico, Jr. (NCLM/TESDA-Agusan del Norte/PIA-Caraga)
Tagalog news: CSC Caraga hinikayat ang mga
ahensya ng gobyerno na sumali sa nationwide choral competition
Ni Danilo S. Makiling
LUNGSOD NG BUTUAN, Hulyo 17 (PIA) -- Hinikayat
ng Civil Service Commission (CSC)-Caraga ang mga ahesiya ng gobyerno na
makilahok sa nationwide choral competition.
Ayon kay CSC-Caraga Reginal Director Adams
Torres, ang kompetisiyon ay kaalinsabay sa pagdiriwang ng 112th Philippine
Civil Service Anniversay ngayong Setyembre na may temang “Kawani, Ikaw ay isang
lingcod ng bayan.”
Ani torres, ang kopmetisiyon ay may layuning
itampok ang masining musikal ng mga kawani ng pamahalaan at itaguyod ang
kultura at sining na Filipino sa pamamagitan ng pag-awit koral.
Binigyang-diin din ng hepe ng CSC ng rehiyon ang
isang natatanging tampok ng kompetisiyon sa taong ito na gaganapin sa buong
bansa.
Ang pangangalap ay gagawin sa dalawang antas.
Ang una ay ang pagpili sa dalawang mananagumpay para sa bawat grupo na
magpapakita sa apat na ito. Ang ikalawang antas naman ay ang programa ng
kompetisiyon ng walong mananagumpay na gaganapin ng Setyembre 17, sa
unibersidad ng pilipinas (UP) teatro, OsmeΓ±a Ave., UP Diliman, lungsod ng
Quezon.
Ang interesadong grupong koral na mang-aawit ay
maaaring magpasa ng kanilang papeles at iba pang kahingian sa mga sumusunod na
tanggapan ng CSC hanggang Hulyo 31: CSC Region 3-Pampanga (Luzon), CSC Region
6-Lungsod ngIloIlo (Visayas), CSC Region 11- Lungsod ng Davao (Mindanao), at
CSC-Lungsod ng Quezon (NCR).
Ang walong mananagumpay ang kukumpleto sa 2012
government chorale grand finals na gaganapin ng Setyembre 17.
Samantala, pinaalalahanan ng CSC ang mga
interesadong partisepante na ipasa ang kanilang mga kahingian at ang kahit
anong gastusin ay babayaran ng ahensiyang lalahok. (RER/DSM/PIA-Caraga)
Cebuano news: Gobyernong Aquino gipangihusgan
ang mga paningkamot aron pagpangita sa mga Filipino didto sa Syria, sulti sa
MalacaΓ±ang
Ni Susil D. Ragas
SURIGAO CITY, Hulyo 17 (PIA) -- Gipangihusgan sa
administrasyong Aquino ang mga paningkamot niini aron pagpangita sa mga
Filipino didto sa nagkasamok nga nasod sa Syria subay sa mando sa gobyerno nga
evacuation program.
Si Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda
mianunsyo atol sa regular press briefing didto sa MalacaΓ±ang kagahapon Lunes
nga ang crisis alert level didto sa Syria nagpabilin gihapon sa Number 4,
nagpasabot nga ang mandatory nga pagpauli sa tanang mga Filipino sa nasod
padayon gihapon.
"Some of our nationalities are already
intermarried with Syrian nationals .... We continue to repatriate them, we will
find them pero kung may pamilya na po sila, medyo mahihirapan po tayo
i-repatriate sila," sulti ni Lacierda.
Matud sa mga taho nga gihimo na sa gobyernong
Pilipinas ang tanan aron mapadali ang pagkuha sa tanang mga Filipino didto sa
maong nagkasamok nga nasod. Apan, ang mga operasyon nabalda tungod sa pagdumili
sa pipila ka mga Filipino nga mobiya sa Syria.
Si Lacierda miingon nga ang bag-ong hut-ong sa
mga gipabalik miabot dinhi sa nasod niaging semana. “The latest number of
Overseas Filipino Workers who have arrived is around 17,” sulti niya.
Sukad niadtong Hulyo 12, mokabat na sa 1,775 ka
mga Filipino ang nakabalik na sukad gipatuman sa Gobyernong Pilipinas ang
mandatory repatriation plan alang sa Syria niadtong Disyembre 2011 subay sa
padayon nga krisis didto sa maong nasod.
Ang Department of Foreign Affairs miawhag sa mga
pamilyang Filipino didto sa Syria nga mohatag og impormasyon ngadto sa buhatan
sa Undersecretary for Migrant Workers’ Affairs sa kasamtangang lokasyon ug
contact sa ilang mga kaparyentehan didto sa Syria pinaagi pagtawag sa mosunod
nga mga numero (02) 834-4996 0 (02) 834-3333. (RER/FEA/PIA-Surigao del Norte)
