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DA to strengthen Cacao industry Volume VI, No. 037
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Friday
July 8, 2016
By VANESSA SANCHEZ
BUTUAN City -- There are three things to improve productivity in cacao – knowledge, hardwork and attitude. This was according to Valentine Turtur, Executive Director of Cacao Industry Development Association of Mindanao, Inc. (CIDSAMI) during the Regional Cacao Industry Promotion and Investment Forum cum Planning Workshop on June 22, 2016 here. Cacao is now a trending crop, being talked about everywhere in the world because of declining production and its increasing demand in the global market. According to recent
Glad that many Congressmen filed similar measure as it will fast-track its passage in the 17th Congress Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate expressed optimism that the passage of Bayan Muna’s Social Security System (SSS) pension bill can now be fast-tracked in the 17th Congress so that pensioners will finally “received the long delayed benefit due them.” “When the 16th Congress closed, more than 130 congressmen supported the resolution to override the unjust and callous veto of former Pres. Aquino. Now, we are truly glad and thankful that several other members of the House are filing the same measure that Bayan Muna filed since See pension, page B7
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Creation of technical working group for Cha-cha urged Iloilo City Congressman Jerry Trenas yesterday , proposed the immediate creation of a technical working group which would consolidate and filter proposals that are in line with the administration’s effort to change the system of government from the president presidential bicameral form of government to federal presidential bicameral form. Trenas said that this would reduce the time that is consumed on debates on the actual provisions that are going to be included in the list of amendments
that will be finally approved for deliberation either in a Constitutional Convention (Concon) or Constituent Assembly (Conass) “We can actually reduce the time that will be consumed on committee hearings on the proposal for federalization if we already set the parameters on what to amend and what would be kept untouched even before we start deliberating on the proposal to amend the constitution,” Trenas said. Trenas said he is fully See creation, page B7
Lawmakers to pursue revised Nat’l Apprenticeship Program
A BRAND NEW START Misamis Oriental Vice Gov. Joey Pelaez takes his oath of office administered by Associate Justice Perpetua Atal Paño of the Court of Appeals. It was witnessed by no less than his Department of Education (DepEd) 10 family. Vice Governor Pelaez was also accompanied by his nieces Jelizza and Jexxy and nephews Jerggy and Juan Miguel. It must be remembered that Pelaez initiated an oath-taking ceremony for all the members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Misamis Oriental. The event was special and significant as it was the first of its kind being participated by all the Members of the SP regardless of political affiliation. Shown from left to right are Misamis Oriental Schools Division Superintendent Cherry Mae Limbaco, DepEd 10 assistant director Shirley Chatto, DepEd chief finance officer Minda Yamut, Atal-Paño, DepEd Education Program Supervisor Edith Ortega, assistant Schools Division superintendent Jean Veloso, Pelaez and Education Supervisors Erlinda Dael and Bernadette Samaco. supplied photo
Lawmakers vowed to pursue the proposed revised National Apprenticeship Program when the 17th Congress convenes in July. Authors recall that the House of Representatives passed HB 5303 on final reading in early 2015 but the revised apprenticeship program, for lack of material time, never got the Senate’s nod. “Government must sustain its programs providing skills and opportunities to the country’s youth as the backbone of national development,” the principal authors stressed. “The main objective
of the bill is to reform the national apprenticeship program by providing the youth with skills and access to employment, and provide enterprises with a mechanism to ensure a continuous supply of skilled manpower,” the authors said. The bill, expected to be re-introduced in the 17th Congress and pass through the usual legislative process, seeks to repeal Chapters 1 and II of Title II of Presidential Decree No. 442, as amended, otherwise known as the Labor Code of the Philippines. The consolidated
A re-elected lawmaker is not giving up on his advocacy for the State to exempt the family home from real property tax. “While the State recognizes the Filipino family as the foundation of the nation, it should also build a solid mantle protecting the family home,” Rep. Salvio B. Fortuno (5th District, Camarines Sur) explained. The Camarines Sur lawmaker had been pushing for HB 1649 during the just
concretize the mandate of the State to promote the Filipino family as the foundation of the nation, there is need to protect the family home, the place where charity and love begin and all the positive traits of the human being develop and blossom to be great builders of society. “The stark reality prevailing in our midst has certainly forced some of our countrymen to give last priority or nothing more left
to pay for the real property tax that ultimately leads, in worst cases, to foreclosure of their family home,” he pointed out. Fortuno explained that, under this circumstance, the aforementioned Constitutional guarantee will be rendered meaningless because the very same State which recognizes the family home as the foundation of the nation will be the same State which will foreclose
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Partylist refiles SSS P2,000 pension increase
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The Filipino Home should be exempt from real property tax concluded 16th Congress but, to his regret, time took its toll on his initiative. “I am confident the 17th Congress will have all the opportunity to take an urgent look into this basic but very important economic and fundamental concern that affects every Filipino family,” said Fortuno, who is expected to re-file his pet bill this July. The author is proposing to exempt the family home from the coverage of real
property tax by amending Chapter 2, Articles 153, 155 and 157 of the Family Code of the Philippines as contained in Executive Order No. 209 as amended. “ The Family home, constituted jointly by the husband and the wife or bay an unmarried head of family, is the dwelling house where they and their family resides, and the land on which it is situated.” the Family Code states: The author said that to
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