SIQUIJOR,
Feb 17 (PIA)—The Siquijor Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Inc. (SCCII) is
implementing the project, Coordinating Roads and Infrastructure Investments for
Development (CR+ID), a partnership with the Asia Foundation and the Australian Embassy
in the Philippines.
One of the components of
the CR+ID project, according to SCCII President Engr. Judy U. Booc, is
the Value Chain Analysis (VCA) that identifies Strategic Road Links (SRL)
and Strategic Infrastructures (SI) in Siquijor.
The SRLs, she explained,
are interconnected roads within the province, regardless of classification,
which are most often used in transporting goods and people and the SIs are
backbones that interconnect modern economies.
Strategic
Infrastructure, she added, will only drive sustained economic growth when it is
properly aligned with the province’s priorities.
They must create the
greatest impact in terms of economic growth, social uplift and sustainability
in the province, she said.
She also said that a Consensus
Building Workshop for Key Economic Drivers is done in coordination
with the Provincial Government of Siquijor and convene multi-stakeholders to
present the Strategic Direction of the Province and validate the Provincial
Economic Data by the VCA team of the project.
The determination of
priority economic subsector of the Province also takes place and serves as
basis in the succeeding data gathering for the VCA, she shared.
(RAC/PIA7-Siquijor/w reports from SCCII)
DOST
Siquijor intensifies anti-dengue drive
SIQUIJOR,
Feb 17 (PIA) --The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) here in
coordination with DOST-7 distributed ovicidal-larvicidal (OL) Kits and related
reading materials in a bid to intensify efforts to educate the public about the
OL trap and its ability to prevent dengue.
The identified secondary
schools include Basac National High School, Candaping National High School, and
Enrique Villanueva National High School.
Each school was given
sets of “Ang OL Trap sa Brgy. Ma dengue”, educational comics intended to inform
the public especially high school students about OL Traps and dengue.
Also included in the
package are ovicidal-larvicidal (OL) pellets, ladles and containers.
The OL
pellets works by attracting female Aedesaegypti mosquitoes as its site for
laying eggs.
Six days after the OL
solution has been exposed as laying site, mosquito eggs and larvae will be
killed by throwing the solution to dry areas during sunny days and by putting
boiling water during rainy days.
In this process, they
are killed even before they mature as dengue-carrying adult mosquitoes.
During the turnover of
the package, OL school coordinators expressed their support for the ongoing
study regarding the efficacy of OL traps.
In an interview, Provincial
Science and Technology Director Engr. Mario E. de la Peña said that the
schools were identified by the regional office and were assigned corresponding
number of items based on imposed criteria.
“So far, the
respondent-schools have been very cooperative”, he said.
(RAC/PIA7-Siquijor/Reinhold Jek Abing/DOST-Siquijor)