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Hundreds of workers needed abroad: GAACI Volume III, No. 119
By MARK FRANCISCO
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UGE placement agency Global Asia Alliance Consultant, Inc. (GAACI) held a one-day recruitment roadshow in Cagayan de Oro City last Monday, at the Provincial Capitol grounds. Hosted by the Asian Business Cabletow Cooperative Academy (ABCCA), the job fair was part of GAACI’s head-hunting nationwide to target both fresh graduates of vocational courses and those with experience for work abroad. GAACI currently needs
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hundreds of skilled workers for Singapore, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and more countries in the Middle East. In the UAE alone, they are in need of 200 housekeepers. Elsewhere, they are in need of 100 nannies, 100 female cooks, 50 private duty nurses, 50 couples (for male driver and female domestic helper) and 50 female beauticians. Internationally, GAACI partners with Dar Al Kharj and Abdul Rahman Alhedaithy Office in Saudi Arabia, Silver Touch Manpower and Albayan Manpower in
Qatar, Agensi Pekerjaan Wawasan Jati in Malaysia and Almuthana Lamar Manpower & Recruitment and Optimal Solution in Jordan. Locally, it is partnering with ABCCA where according to GAACI president Aniceto Bertiz III, he was impressed with ABCCA’s course offerings and quality of vocational education. “ABCCA, Inc. was created to alleviate our financially challenged youth from being dependent on institutions which constantly increase their enrollment fees. Our pro-poor educational system has sound quality because See abroad, page B3
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ARMM holds farmers forum in Lanao Sur
Asian Business Cabletow Cooperative Academy (ABCCA) administrator Anthony Soc del Rosario introduces Global Asia Alliance Consultant, Inc. president Aniceto Bertiz III to media prior to their job fair at the Provincial Capitol Grounds last Monday. (Photo By Mark Francisco)
Agri sector preparing for ASEAN Economic Integration by end-2015 Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala assured the agribusiness sector and its development partners that the government has been working to better prepare the agri-fishery for fastliberalizing global trade, including the much-anticipated ASEAN economic integration by end of 2015. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 21st AgriLink, Foodlink and Aqu aL i n k t ra de show Thursday at World Trade Center in Pasay City, Alcala boats and gears distributed by PRRM and P2 of Japan has already been used by the Gigoso fisherfolks said the DA has intensified Fishing association in Camiguin to start going fishing as cash for work has already been terminated by International Nonthe small farm clustering Government Organizations (INGOs). Fish caught is then processed by women as their livelihood project. See sector, page B3
(Dondon Agaton. PRRM)
DTI tells consumers: ‘Stand up for your rights’ By Rutchie Cabahug-Aguhob
OZAMIZ City - Consumers have the right to redress or the right to be compensated for misrepresentation, shoddy goods or unsatisfactory services. To exercise this right, consumers are advised to go
to the consumers’ welfare desks set up in commercial establishments, where these goods were bought, Delia M. Ayano, provincial director of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Misamis Occidental, said.
“By shoddy goods, we mean ‘goods that are badly-made, of poor-quality, inferior or second or third rate’ and consumers have the right to ask for compensation, in case, they are unsatisfied with such goods,” she said. Meanwhile, Ayano said
there are eight basic rights of consumers, and the right to redress is only one of them. On top of the list is the right to basic needs, which means that every consumer has the right to basic goods and services that guarantee survival, adequate food, clothing, shelter, health care,
education and sanitation. Another right of the consumer is the right to safety or the right to be protected against the marketing of goods or provision of services that are hazardous to health and life. Meanwhile, consumers See consumers, page B3
MARAWI City - Around 4,000 farmers from Lanao del Sur attended a forum to help improve government support to the agriculture sector in the province. The farmers’ forum, organized by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DAF-ARMM) and the Anak Mindanao (AMIN) Partylist, was held at the Provincial Capitol Gym here Thursday, October 9. ARMM Agriculture Secretary Macmod Mending said the forum was designed to help officials identify the concerns of farmers in the province and assist them access government support DAF-ARMM also distributed P10.7 million worth of farm inputs and equipment to the farmers under the government’s Agri-Pinoy program. The equipment, worth P6.1 million, included 10 units of thresher, 21 units of rice cutter and 1 combine harvester. The farm inputs consisted of 2,599 bags of rice seeds and 1,535 bags of corn seeds valued at around P4.6 million. Farmer Gafaar Dorowan, 64, of Piagapo town, was delighted and said the assistance will help increase their yield in the next cropping season. “We are thankful to the ARMM and the national government for providing support to farmers like us,” he said. AMIN Partylist Rep. Sitti Djalia Hataman, ARMM Vice-Gov. Haroun Alrashid Lucman, Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Adiong, Jr., Mending and Abdulrashid Ladayo, Sr., administrator of ARMM’s Cooperative Development Authority, were present during the forum and led the distribution of agricultural inputs and machineries to the farmers. The ARMM, composed See forum, page B3
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