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Mayor Romualdez leads inter-faith prayer rally

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TACLOBAN CITY- City Mayor Cristina Gonzales Romualdez led an inter-faith worship and prayer rally on Friday at the Tacloban Convention Center.
Mayor Romualdez said that the purpose of the inter-faith activity was meant to offer prayers for the people and the city of Tacloban as well.
“We make so many things together, we work together but we don’t pray together. So this is the first time that we will pray together as a family and as a city,” the city mayor said.
The main purpose of the activity was not only to inspire the people but to renew our faith after what the people of the city experienced and suffered in 2013 when supertyphoon “Yolanda” battered Tacloban.
“(The main purpose of this is) to inspire all of us and to continue having faith and continue to have trust in Him after what happened to us. So we have to keep on moving forward and we know that the Lord continue to love us so much,” Mayor Romualdez said.
Among those who attended were representatives of various Church denominations in the city, barangay and city officials and ordinary residents of the city.
Incidentally, the site of the inter-faith worship and prayer rally was once the city’s biggest evacuation center after Tacloban was pummeled by Yolanda.
A memorial park was constructed right at the grounds of the astrodome as a way to remember for those who perished due to Yolanda.
About 2,200 people were killed due to the storm surge generated by Yolanda in Tacloban and caused P10 billion worth of properties destroyed due to Yolanda. (JOEY A. GABIETA)

Inclusion of Mamanwa tribe as part of tourism loop projected to help Basey’s tourism industry

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Shirley Calinawan, 34, makes necklace and pen made from indigenous materials from the forest of Basey town. She got the idea of making the souvenir item after undergoing livelihood training with the DTI for garland making. She sells the necklace for PhP50.00 while pen is worth PhP20.00.
Shirley Calinawan, 34, makes necklace and pen made from indigenous materials from the forest of Basey town. She got the idea of making the souvenir item after undergoing livelihood training with the DTI for garland making. She sells the necklace for PhP50.00 while pen is worth PhP20.00.
Shirley Calinawan, 34, makes necklace and pen made from indigenous materials from the forest of Basey town. She got the idea of making the souvenir item after undergoing livelihood training with the DTI for garland making. She sells the necklace for PhP50.00 while pen is worth PhP20.00.

BASEY, Samar- The inclusion of a local tribe living along the Sohoton Cave Natural Bridge National Park as part of this town’s tourist attraction is projected to boost its tourism industry.
The Department of Tourism in the region in coordination with the Samar provincial government, included the Mamanwa tribe in its tourism program.
The Mamanwas live in sitio Wespal, Barangay Guirang which is one of the jump-off points for tourists visiting the Sohoton Cave Natural Bridge National Park, considered the main tourism attraction of Basey.
“We are very happy that the Mamanwa tribe agreed when we asked them if we can include them in our tourism loop,” Tourism Regional Director Karina Rosa Tiopes said.
Jennifer Cabadungga, 34, considered the tribe leader, said that they are happy to finally feel that there are people who are treating them equally.
As a tribe, they always seek for peaceful place and community that are willing to accept them and help them grow said Cabadungga.
The Mamanwas are making souvenir items though they still need more training to improve the quality of their work.
The Mamanwas in Basey are settlers from Mindanao who came to Samar in the late 1950s to avoid armed conflict in their area.
They first stayed in Basey town but later moved to San Jose de Buan, also in Samar, due to armed conflict.
In early 2000, the tribe transfer to Dolores in Eastern Samar to avoid harassment from military that suspects them as supporters of the New People’s Army.
Before 2013, the tribe returned to Basey in their search for peaceful community but their community was destroyed when supertyphoon “Yolanda” hit the area.
The town of Basey had tourism receipts of P1.8 million generated from the more than 3,400 tourists who visited Sohoton Cave last year.
About 4,000 tourists have already visited the Sohoton Cave for the first six months of the year.
(ROEL T. AMAZONA)

Angara graces Eastern Visayas business summit

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Senator Sonny Angara
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Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairman Senator Sonny Angara spoke before the more than 1,400 students and faculty participants who participated in the 6th Regional Business Summit and 2nd Research Colloquium at the Eastern Visayas State University Auditorium.
The event was jointly organized by the Council of Deans and Educators in Business (Region, Council of Economics Educators (Region, Asian Development Foundation College and the Federation of Junior Marketing Association (FJMA).
“We need to update our tax system for social justice and equity. It’s not an issue anymore of macroeconomics or politics. We must build our working middle class, ensure upward mobility, and enable them to comfortably provide for their families and their future,” said Angara, author of Senate Bill No. 130 which seeks to lower the personal income tax rates to 25 percent to make the Philippines more competitive as the country holds the highest income tax rates in the ASEAN region.
The Department of Finance had submitted last Tuesday a list of its tax reform package proposal, including the controversial plan to lift the VAT exemptions granted to senior citizens and persons with disabilities.
“We will definitely study the proposals with utmost care. Of course the committee will make sure that new taxes are justified, and that the gains should be greater than the pain they will cause,” he said, stressing:
“I am quite skeptical on the removal of tax breaks for the blind, for the crippled, for the perpetually bedridden, for persons with disabilities. Any measure that inflicts harm on PWDs fails the compassion test. Having said that, I’m willing to listen to what the DOF will tell us, and what the stakeholders will say.”
The lawmaker, who is also the chairman of the Senate local government committee, has principally sponsored 21 of the more than 60 Senate bills that have been enacted into law from 2013 up to 2016. This includes, among others, the PESO Law, the 13th Month Tax Exemption Law (or the Balikbayan Box Law) and the PWD Law (the VAT exemptions on our PWDs).
Also a known advocate of educational reforms, Angara has filed the One Family, One Graduate Act that aims to ensure that every Filipino family, especially those living in poverty, has at least one college graduate.
He also authored bills on students’ discount, teachers’ salary hike and the bill of rights for new graduates.
The former acting chairperson of the labor committee also filed anew the Magna Carta of Workers in the Informal Economy and the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers.
Angara is currently the vice chair of the following Senate committees: finance, labor, education, and sports. (PR)

Gains of the Leyte industry forum cited as it marked its 10th year

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TACLOBAN CITY – Leyte’s gains in global employment competitiveness and business investments were cited during an industry forum hosted by the provincial government.
In his message, Governor Leopoldo Dominico Petilla said the industry forum has provided greater collaborative linkages between the academe, the industry and the government in creating an effective program that will match requirements with available supply of graduates or skilled workers from different educational institutions currently needed by the industry.
“More importantly, it has opened doors for the province to be a competitive link in the supply chain as well as a business destination,” Petilla said during his speech at the forum held on Thursday (Sept.29) at the provincial capitol building.
Jescyn Kate Ramos, unit head of the Leyte Tourism and Investment Promotion Center (LTIPC), said the event originally aims to establish a tie-up between schools and industries particularly on how the school curriculum can be refined to the modern technology requirements of the industries.
However, the forum, now on its 10th year, has also brought industries and partnerships that help local businessmen.
Ramos, among others, identified the accomplishments out of the holding of the forum the following: introduction of new businesses such as Oishi and Gardenia and the signing of a memorandum of agreement between Max’s Group of Companies with the Leyte Federation of High Value Crops and Vegetables where the latter will supply the former with their needed farm produce.
Also pointed out as an important impact of the program was that state universities and colleges in the province have developed programs that suits manpower requirements; faculty-student immersion such as the Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Corporation; academic linkages and provision of IT equipment.
Among the speakers during the two- day event were top honchos of The Oriental Hotels Resorts, Maxim Integrated Philippines, Applied Machining Corporation, Palafox Associates, Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Corporation and Costales Farm Tourism Philippines of Majayjay, Laguna. (AHLETTE C. REYES)

District Gov. Solomon visits Tacloban-based Rotary clubs

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TACLOBAN CITY- District governor Mary Anne Solomon received a warm welcome from officials and members of the five Rotary Clubs based in this city during a luncheon tendered in her honor Friday (Sept.30).
Solomon, district governor of Rotary District 3860, was in the city since Wednesday (Sept.28) to personally meet members of the various Rotary Clubs in this city.
The luncheon was held at Patio Victoria in San Jose district AND attended by officials and members of Rotary Club of Tacloban, Rotary Club of San Juanico, Rotary Club of Kandaya, Rotary Club of Kankabato and Rotary Club of Leyte Gulf.
Jean Marechaux, president of the Rotary Club of Leyte Gulf, said that the visit of district governor Solomon was just routinary.
“She just wants to meet us all, discuss any updates and give us some advises how we can we perform well,” he said.
Aside from visiting Tacloban, Rotary Club District 3860 also covers other parts of Visayas and Mindanao.
(JOEY A. GABIETA)

Mayor Cristina implemented programs, activities that benefited people of Tacloban

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100 days in office

TACLOBAN CITY- In just in her 100 days in office as mayor of this city, Mayor Cristina Gonzales Romualdez had already made her mark to the benefit of the people of Tacloban.
Aside from appointing personnel she believescould help her carry on her agenda for the next three years, Mayor Romualdez had also implemented new programs and projects and revived those that have positive impacts to the Taclobanons.
Among the major undertakings initiated by Mayor Romualdez, who assumed the post held by her husband, Alfred, for nine years, included the review on the implementation of the current annual investment plan; conduct of the executive-legislative agenda; preparation of the 2017-2025 comprehensive land use plan; update master list of civil society organizations and their accreditations.
The city mayor also made known of her full and unequivocal support on the anti-drug campaign being waged by the administration of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte.
Mayor Romualdez initiated her own program to help drug-addicted individuals through a holistic program dubbed as “Transformation In & Out: Drug Rehabilitation Program.”
The program is being supported by different government agencies like the Department of Health, Philippine National Police, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Technical Education Skills and Development Authority, Salag (Saving Lives at a Common Ground), Philippine National Police (PNP) and the religious sector.
Those who are qualified for a livelihood opportunities are to be given proper training under CLEP (Cristina Learn and Earn Program), a livelihood program initiated by the city mayor when she was a councilor for nine years.
And as a proof that their campaign to encourage drug users and pushers to surrender and become productive members of the society, the Tacloban City Police Office was given recognition for the successful implementation of the Double Barrel Program of the PNP.
On Sept. 13, PNP Director General Ronald “Bato” de la Rosa awarded the Tacloban City Police for its outstanding performance of the Double Barrel Program.
The award was accepted by City Police Director S/Supt. Rolando Bade during the regional police service anniversary.
Mayor Romualdez also led in launching of the Community Climate Guide Response System (CCGR), a text alert system during a disaster situation.
The program was in obvious response of the city government under Mayor Romualdez after Tacloban was barreled by supertyphoon ‘Yolanda’ in 2013.
She also vowed to relocate more than 300 families to their permanent shelters before this year’s commemoration of Yolanda’s onslaught . Mayor Romualdez and other officials of the city also attended different activities and fora to invite investors to Tacloban.
During her first 100 days in office, various councils were likewise created and strengthened.
Among them was the Tacloban Business Council to help serve as a business plan for the city and the Tacloban Tourism Council to serve as a roadmap of the city’s tourism development plan and promotion by providing several tourism industry trainings to upgrade private sector frontline and customer services.
Tacloban’s participation in the 2016 Philippine Tourism Travel Trade Fair at SLEX MOA in Pasay City has gained the 1st place award on the best booth among 14 participating places in the country for Tacloban.
Addressing city’s peace and Order situation, the City Peace and Order Council and Anti-Drug Council were created by Mayor Romualdez.
She also led of the holding of the comprehensive traffic system summit for the city held at the astrodome.
Mayor Romualdez also revived the cleaning and beautification programs for city government facilities like the City Hall grounds, public market, Rizal Park and Balyuan Park and a tree planting activities as well as encouraging the public, particularly the barangay people, to practice proper waste disposal.
A family park right inside the astrodome grounds is now being constructed.
Enhance the imposition of barangay waste segregation program made thru training 138 barangays in partnership with EMB & NSWMC. Strengthening its enforcement of the barangay waste disposal schedules. (GAY B.GASPAY, TIM CANES, TISAT/Kanhuraw Media Team)

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