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  The provincial government of Negros Oriental in partnership with the private sector is set to develop Tamlang Valley to be the food basket in Central Visayas. The 25,000-hectare Tamlang Valley project is proposed to be an agro-industrial zone in support of the food security and resiliency program of the current Marcos administration. Tamlang Valley is a hinterland area in southern Negros Oriental situated along the valleys of Santa Catalina, Siaton, Pamplona, Valencia and Sibulan towns spanning 25,000 hectares of land. It was once known as a “no man’s land” in the late '80s and early '90s at the height of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army insurgency.  The sustainable agricultural development in the Tamlang Valley area is seen to bring Negros Oriental into the spotlight as a major produce of agricultural products.  “While Bohol is known for being a tourism destination, Cebu for industrial technology, and Siquijor for being a ‘mystic’ island, mag-unsa na

  Spurring economic activity Dauin, Negros Oriental. The Dauin Mega Market is officially open for both business owners and marketgoers. The modern marketplace opened on Aug. 17, 2023. (KAT/PIA7-Negros Oriental) DAUIN, Negros Oriental, Aug. 18 (PIA) – The newly-opened Dauin Mega Public Market is expected to generate at least P10 million income annually which can be utilized for other development projects in the town. Dauin Mayor Galicano Galic Truita underscored this in a media interview after the opening of the new Mega Market here yesterday. “Ang starting amount sa bidding (sa mga stall) is P8,000 pero naay nag-bid na P155,000 so naka-income mi og P2 million sa bidding pa lang. Murag dali ra makuha ang Return of Investment (ROI) in one year or less nasa P10 million a year (The starting amount for the bidding of stalls is at P8,000, but there are business owners who bid for P155,000. That alone, the market generated P2 million revenue. I think we can achieve the ROI in one year or less

  MANILA, Aug. 14 (PIA) -- Gi-aprobahan na ni Presidente Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. ang adoption sa  National Security Policy (NSP) 2023-2028. Kini aron masigurong makab-ot ang katuyoan sa gobyerno nga magbaton og gawasnon,  nagkahiusa, luwas, malinawon, lig-on ug malampuson nga Pilipinas. Base sa duha  ka pahinang  Executive Order No. 37  nga gilagdaan ni  Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin , gimanduan ang tanan nga buhatan sa gobyerno apil na ang  government-owned or -controlled corporations (GOCCs) ug local government units (LGUs)  nga mosunod sa NSP 2023-2028 ug paghimo og mga programa nga nahiuyon sa  security-related strategies ug programs.  Gitahasan usab ang tanan nga magpatuman sa  whole-of-government approach  aron matubag ang  national security issues. Gimanduan usab ang mga naghimo sa NSP 2023-2028 nga magpahigayon og  periodic assessment  ug magsumiter og report kang Presidente Marcos ug sa  National Security Council (NSC). Ang NSP 2023-2028 giumol sa koordinasyon

  DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental, Aug. 22 (PIA) -- Amid the increasing cases of Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children (OSAEC) in the province, the Negros Oriental Provincial Council Against Trafficking-Violence Against Women and their Children (PCAT-VAWC) is urging the public to be more vigilant in helping protect children from online sexual abuse.  Assistant Provincial Prosecutor and Vice-Chair of PCAT-VAWC Emmylou Bendanillo said that in 2022, nine OSAEC-related violations and trafficking in persons (TIP) have been filed and pending in court. The victims came from Dumaguete City and the municipalities of Sibulan and San Jose. Bendanillo the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the existing vulnerabilities to TIP, as more families are forcing their children into OSAEC.  “We see one of its alarming direct results, an increase in this societal ill called online sexual abuse and exploitation of children or OSAEC,” said Bendanillo. OSAEC cases in the Philippines increased by near

  CEBU CITY, Cebu Aug. 22 (PIA) -- Andam na ang tanan alang sa umaabot nga pag-abli sa SY 2023-2024 karong Agosto 29, kini mao ang pagsiguro sa Department of Education (DepEd) Region 7.  Anaa na sa saktong kahimtang ang mga eskwelahan lakip na ang classrooms, chairs, ug uban pang butang nga gamiton alang sa klase butyag sa DepEd base sa ilang uwahing monitoring sa kabahin sa kaandam sa mga tunghaan dinhi sa Central Visayas. Dakong nakatabang usab sa pagpangandam alang sa pag-abli sa klase mao ang gipahiyagon nga Brigada Eskwela gikan Agosto 14 hangtod 18 nga giapilan sa mga ginikanan, partner agencies, non-government organizations, uniformed personnel, ug uba pang education stakeholders. Ang 20 ka nga school division offices sa rehiyon mipadayag nga nagmalampuson ang pagpahigayon sa Brigada Eskwela ngadto sa ilang mga nagkadaiyang mga tunghaan. "Even if we lack some facilities, like we lack classrooms, we lack teachers and chairs but we are always ready, our schools are always rea

  DAUIN, Negros Oriental, Aug. 22 (PIA) -- The Negros Oriental Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NOCCI) is hoping to launch the Paleng-QR System at the newly-opened Dauin Mega Market here soon following the installation of free Wi-Fi service by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT). “Because of the free wi-fi here, we will be the first public market in Negros Oriental that will implement the Paleng-QR. Ang atong mga vendor sa silong pwede na ka mobayad using QR code (You can now pay our vendors in the first floor using QR codes),” said Edward Du, president of the Negros Oriental Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NOCCI). The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) developed the Paleng-QR system to promote the acceptance of digital payments among market vendors and market-goers. Du said the purpose of the QR code is to go cashless, and the chamber hopes that the municipality will be the first the provin

  Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Provincial Head Engr. Ariel Fortuito (4th from left) presents the 2022 National Demographic and Health DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental, Aug. 11 (PIA) -- The Commission on Population and Development (CPD) would like to boost peer-to-peer interventions as well as parent-teen tête-à-tête to help lower the increasing number on teenage pregnancy in Negros Oriental. This was cited by Population Program Officer III Maria Lourdes Garillos of CPD-7 during the presentation of 2022 National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) provincial data dissemination forum in Dumaguete City. It was shown that teenage pregnancy rates in Central Visayas as well as in the national had gone down to 5%. But Negros Oriental has logged an increasing trend of births among adolescent mothers under 15 years old or Grade 9 students. The Civil Registry and Vital Statistics (CRVS) in 2021 show that at least 2,254 girls aged 15 to 19 gave birth in the province. Garillos said that C

  DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental, Aug. 15 (PIA) -- Enumerators from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) will be visiting 163,922 households in the province for the conduct of the 2022 Census on Agriculture and Fisheries (CAF) on Sept 4. to Oct. 25, 2023. The enumerators will be visiting the households in 185 identified sample barangays.  With this, the PSA, together with the Negros Oriental Provincial Census Coordinating Board (PCCB), appealed to the public to support and cooperate with the enumerators for the CAF survey.  The enumerators will gather the data through house-to-house visits and interviews among target respondents. The PSA is asking households with dogs to secure or leash their pets so they will not pose a risk to the interviewers.   It has been noted that the risk of dog attacks is one of the challenges faced by enumerators in carrying out the survey. PSA is asking the public to be considerate and cooperate with the enumerators. The nationwide census coincides wit

  DUMAGUETE CITY,  Negros Oriental, Aug. 15 (PIA) -- The municipality of Tayasan and Bayawan City have received livelihood assistance worth P18 million from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Aug. 11, 2023 in Cebu City. Labor and Employment Sec. Bienvenido Laguesma personally turned over the checks worth P13.8 million to Tayasan Mayor Susano Antonio Ruperto and P3.7 million to Bayawan City Mayor John Raymond. The DOLE-7 shelled out a total of P18M to fund the livelihood projects of the two local government units (LGUs) in the province. The grant assistance for Tayasan beneficiaries include 24 workers’ associations, 34 parents of profiled child laborers, and 58 various projects that are mostly agricultural tools, jigs and equipment, shirts, printing service, and bakeshop. For Bayawan City, the grant will benefit 50 ambulant vendors who will be given a Negosyo sa Kariton (NegoKart Livelihood Assistance Package), 74 parents of profiled child laborers, and 124 various project

  Negros Oriental Integrated Provincial Health Office Family Planning Coordinator Sarah Maputi (2nd from left) cites the value of family planning interventions in improving quality of life in a Kapihan sa PIA forum held Aug. 15, 2023 in Dumaguete City. (KAT/PIA7 Negros Oriental ) DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental, Aug. 16 (PIA) -- In line with the observance of National Family Planning Month this August, health officials from the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) conducted Bilateral Tubal Ligation (BTL) procedures for 85 clients in public hospitals in the province. IPHO Family Planning Coordinator Sarah Maputi said BTL operations were done last week at Bayawan District Hospital and at Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital (NOPH) where medical officers catered to walk-in clients who wanted to avail of the said service. The BTL operations were the joint undertaking between the IPHO, Commission on Population and Development (CPD-7), the Department of Health (DOH-7) and their partner

  The Province of Siquijor has been chosen to be the research setting for a P16.5-million worth of action research project on environmental conservation and ecotourism.  This after the University of Santo Tomas Research and Endowment Foundation, Inc. (UST-REFI) bagged the research grant awarded by the Gerry Roxas Foundation and (GRF) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).  The UST-REFI has secured the grant to conduct an action research project focusing on environmental conservation and ecotourism in Siquijor province entitled “Siquijor Island Conservation and Restoration: Toward a Regenerative Ecotourism Destination.”  This action research project was one of the 11 recipients of grants from GRF’s program called INSPIRE or Investing in Sustainable Partnerships for Inclusive Growth and Regenerative Ecosystems. According to Dr. Moises Norman Z. Garcia of the UST-REFI, the project team has crafted communication plans for the said project aimed at conserving an

NMP Director of the Visayas National Museums Atty. Ma. Cecilia Tirol (2nd from right) and Bishop of Tagbilaran Most. Rev. Alberto Uy (3rd from right) leads the unveiling of the new marker declaring the Shrine-Parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Complex in the town of Dauis, Bohol a National Cultural Treasure (NCT). Photo also shows (L-R) Parish Priest Rev. Fr. Jose Sinforiano Monton, Dauis Mayor Roman Bullen, and Bohol Gov. Erico Aristotle Aumentado. (Photo from National Museum of the Philippines-Bohol) The National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) together with the Diocese of Tagbilaran led the Ceremonial Turnover and Acceptance of the new marker declaring the Shrine-Parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Complex in the town of Dauis, Bohol a National Cultural Treasure (NCT).  NMP Director of the Visayas National Museums Atty. Ma. Cecilia Tirol officially handed the certificate of turnover on Aug. 14, 2023 to Most. Rev. Alberto Uy, Bishop of Tagbilaran.  Th

  MANILA, August 16 (PIA) -- Gi-aprobahan ni Presidente Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. ang sugyot nga  Labor and Employment Plan (LEP) 2023-2028  nga nagtinguhang magmugna og mas daghang de-kalidad nga trabaho alang sa mga Filipino. Ang  LEP 2023-2028  unang gi-presentar  kang Presidente Marcos niadtong niaging semana. Tumong sa LEP nga kunhoran ang  unemployment  ug sulbaron ang  underemployment  og mas maayo nga trabaho. Gibanabanang kapin sa 3 milyong trabaho ang mamugna ubos sa LEP taliwala sa planong implementasyon sa  Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)  nga 70,000 nga mga dagko ug gagmay nga  infrastructure projects  ubos sa   “Build Better More” program. Samtang gitan-aw usab sa  Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)  ang  “100 percent”  nga  budget  nga gamiton sa pagtapos sa 2023. Giingong sulayan sa departamento nga gamiton ang tanang  budget allocation  niini sa dili pa ang buwan sa Setyembre ning tuig. Ang DOLE apil sa mga ahensya sa gobyerno nga maatubang sa  budg

  MANILA, Aug.16 (PIA) -- Si Presidente Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. nipahimangno niadtong Miyerkoles sa paggukod sa mga rice  hoarders ug price manipulators  nga mopahimulos sa  lean months  sa dili pa ang ting-ani taliwala sa gikataho nga pagsaka sa presyo sa bugas sa merkado. Ang  Presidential Communications Office (PCO)  niingon nga si Presidente Marcos nihatag og gibug-aton nga adunay igong suplay sa bugas tungod kay ang administrasyon karon nakigtambayayong sa pribado nga sektor aron i- rationalize  ang mga presyo ug pagkaanaa sa barato nga bugas sa merkado ug sa mga tindahan sa Kadiwa. “ Rice supply is sufficient. Prices are, however very variable. The government is working with the private sector to rationalize the prices and make available affordable rice in the market and in Kadiwa  (Igo ra ang suplay sa bugas. Ang mga presyo hinuon managlahi. Ang gobyerno nakigtambayayong sa pribado nga sektor aron i-rationalize ang mga presyo ug magamit ang barato nga bugas sa merkado ug sa Kadi