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  MANILA, Dec. 6 (PIA) -- Gilagdaan na ni Presidente Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. (PBBM) ang  Public-Private Partnership Code of the Philippines (PPP Code)  ug ang  Internet Transactions Act of 2023. Gilagdaan ni Presidente Marcos ang duha ka balaod bisan kung na- isolate  siya sa  Bahay Pangarap sa Malakanyang  tungod kay nagpositibo siya sa  COVID-19. Usa ka  ceremonial signing  ang gikatakda unta kagahapon sa Malacañang alang sa paglagda sa duha ka bag-ong balaod apan wala kini madayon. Matud pa sa Presidente, ang duha ka bag-ong balaod nagpakita sa pasalig ug kaandam sa nasud sa pagpaspas sa kalamboan ug pagpalambo sa  digital economy. Ang pagpatuman sa  PPP Code, o “An Act Providing for the Public-Private Partnership of the Philippines,”  gilagdaan isip  Republic Act No. 11966,  magtukod og usa ka lig-on ug matag-an nga palibot alang sa kolaborasyon tali sa publiko ug pribadong sektor aron matubag ang mga kal-ang...

  CEBU CITY, Cebu, Dec.1 (PIA) -– The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Region 7 urged the private sector to help in the government’s job immersion program for students. During DOLE7’s recent Stakeholder’s Dialogue and Engagement, the department invited partner government agencies and private establishments to engage with them to improve and enhance DOLE’s services. DOLE-7 Regional Director Lilia Estillore said that the Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) pledgers are commonly the local government units, national government agencies, and private establishments. “We would want to expand it to the private sector. We only have a few acceptors in the private sector,” Estillore said. Struggling still with tenure concerns in the private sector, DOLE opened up the discussion on how to make the program more acceptable.  “That’s why we have the consultation, the dialogue on how this could be attractive to private sectors,” the regional director said. SPES eng...

  TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Nov. 30 (PIA) -- Isip pag-ila sa talagsaong  performance  niini sa  revenue generation ug local assessment,  ang mga opisyal ug opisina sa Tagbilaran City Government nakadawat og pasidungog gikan sa  Bureau of Local Government Finance  uban sa koordinasyon sa  Association of Local Treasurers and Assessors sa Rehiyon VI I atol sa gipahigayong  Leadership Congress Waterfront Hotel & Casino  sa syudad sa Sugbo ning bag-o lang. Upat ka talagsaong pasidungog ang gihatag sa syudad sa Tagbilaran nga naglakip sa  Seal of Excellence in Local Finance (SELF) Award  alang kang City Assessor Fe Almiñe kinsa giila isip  No.1 Top Performing City Assessor  sa Rehiyon 7, nga nagtimaan sa iyang talagsaong kontribusyon sa  local finance. Laing  SELF Award  ang gihatag kang Tagbilaran City Mayor Jane Yap isip pag-ila sa papel sa syudad sa Tagbilaran isip pilot LGU sa  Local Governance Ref...

  DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental (PIA) -- After struggling with a lack of access to safe drinking water for several years, potable water is now a part of life for the residents of Brgy. Lumapao in the mountain city of Canlaon.  Brgy. Lumapao earlier received a water system project and water reservoir under the Barangay Development Program (BDP) after it was declared to be insurgency-free by the Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF- ELCAC).  It is one of two barangays in Canlaon City previously tagged as conflict areas by the PTF-ELCAC  due to the presence of communist insurgents.  “The lack of potable water was one of the prevailing issues identified by the community support program team in the area,” said Engr. Armand Mangubat, focal person of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) on the Retooled Community Support Program (RCSP). In the municipality of Tayasan, the students and the teachers in Brgy. Bato are now ben...

  DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental (PIA) -- The provincial government here is fast tracking the completion of the Women’s Crisis Center at the Capitol Area, Dumaguete City amid the call for more shelters for abused women in the province.  Provincial Gender and Development (GAD) Focal Person Josefina Columna said the crisis center, which is compliant in the A1 standard set by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), is expected to be operational by the second half of 2024. Construction of the Women’s Crisis Center started in 2015 with a budget of P10 million from the province’s GAD funds.  The lack of shelter for abused women in every local government unit (LGU) in Negros Oriental was one of the issues raised during the recent Kapihan sa PIA hosted by the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) here to mark the observation of the 18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women (VAW).  Currently, only Dumaguete City has a functional shelter, said Department of ...

  TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol (PIA) -- Bohol Gov. Erico Aristotle Aumentado has signed an Inter-Local Government Unit Cooperation in line with the implementation of the national government’s Universal Health Care.  The memorandum of agreement (MOA) was signed by Aumentado and all Bohol mayors.  Under the MOA, the provincial government and the LGUs will contribute funds, resources, and property to integrate health systems with the Department of Health (DOH), Department of Interior and Local Government, and Philippine Health Corporation (Philhealth) for the implementation of the Universal Health Care Act.  The agreement includes the setting up of a Special Health Fund (SHF) to be managed by the Provincial Health Board.  Integrating the healthcare system with the provincewide health system allows a pooled health system through the SHF, with each local health unit creating a sub-ledger in their trust funds account for the augmentation of the health expenditures.  Th...

  TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol (PIA) -- The Bohol Provincial Health Office has raised the need to establish  sundown clinics in the province to arrest the increase in Human-Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) cases. Assistant Provincial Health Officer Dr. Cesar Tomas Lopez disclosed that there was an alarming spike of 193 HIV cases in the province in November 2023. This surfaced during the recent community-based testing operations that the province conducted using its test kits.  This is on top of the cumulative 614 HIV cases recorded in the province in recent years, bringing the total to 8107 cases, said Lopez.  All local government units in Bohol have recorded HIV cases, he added.  “Part of the solution is putting up sundown clinics,” said PHO Health Care Support Division Head Dr. Emerson Mateo.  Sundown clinics Sundown clinics serve as main clinic facilities for the diagnosis and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.  They are open from 5:00 ...