BY
JENNIFER C. TILOS
DUMAGUETE CITY, May 26 (PIA) -- Negros Oriental is set to
host a Dragon Boat Exhibition Challenge on May 28-31 at the Rizal Boulevard,
Dumaguete City.
Negros Oriental Sports Development Program (NOSDEP) coordinator
Paultom Paras said the Bohol Paddler’s Association Team is expected to show its
skill to paddle a dragon boat.
This watersport program is good for the health since paddling is a
good exercise for the arms, shoulders and core muscles, said Paras.
“It’s good for the environment because aside from the fact
that it does not need electricity since it requires man power; the dragon boat
rowing lane will also be a marine protected area,” said Paras.
With this, NOSPDEP aims to promote Tourism, Health, Environment
and Youth (THEY) through a dragon boat watersport program dub as “THEY Paddle”.
The exhibition is part of both the province and city government’s
sports summer clinic with dragon boat training after which the youths get a
chance to paddle in a group with the Bohol dragon boat team.
This event serves as the culmination of all the summer sports
clinics which started last April 6, in the different cities and municipalities
of Negros Oriental.
However, the dragon boat race took place last year in
Dumaguete City boulevard as part of its watersports project.
This year, Barangay 4 where boulevard is located joins the
provincial and city government through its sports and tourism offices to host
the dragon boat paddling challenge. (mbcn/jct/PIA7-Negros Oriental/ with
reports from R. Vailoces/W. Agir, Interns)
Cebu
to host 2015 Public Sector HR Symposium
Fayette C. Riñen
CEBU, May 26 (PIA) -- Close to 2,000 human resource
(HR) practitioners nationwide from the public and private sectors will gather
in Cebu for the three-day 2015 Public Sector HR Symposium and concurrent
Philippine Society for Training and Development (PSTD) National Convention that
will kick off on Wednesday, May 27.
The symposium aims to highlight the significant role of leaders in
inspiring transformation among individuals which, collectively, results in
transformation in organizations and communities.
With the theme “Transformations through Leadership Development,”
the event will feature top leadership and management gurus who will share their
expertise and insights on leadership.
Among the prominent resource speakers are public speaker and
corporate trainer Francis Kong, RockEd Philippines founder Gang Badoy-Capati,
entrepreneur and beauty queen Miriam Quiambao-Roberto, and Manila Vice Mayor
Francisco “Isko” Moreno.
The event is jointly organized by the Civil Service Commission
(CSC), the Government of Australia through the Philippines Australia Human
Resource and Organisational Development Facility and the PSTD.
A press briefing is slated on the opening day that will be
attended by the Australian Ambassador to the Philippines H.E. Bill Tweddell,
CSC Commissioner Robert Martinez and PSTD President Adrian Robles.
(mbcn/fcr/PIA7/with reports from CSC)
BSP
conducts 1st multisectoral dialogue for demonetization program
Ferliza C. Contratista
CEBU CITY, May 26 (PIA)—Some 100 representatives from
various agencies participated in a “Multi Sectoral Consultative Briefing on the
Demonitization Program” of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas recently.
The participants include those from the transport, telecommunications,
media, academe, banking, retailing and from other government agencies.
BSP-7 acting regional director, Leonides Sumbi in her opening
remarks said it is about time that the government change the currency bills
since the New Design Series has been used the last 30 years.
“The NDS was launched in 1985 and we are now 2015, supposedly
bills had to be changed every five years and 10 years for coins,” Sumbi said.
Sumbi said there were just a few changes made to some bills like
the P5 and P10, but these are already rare ones, they were made into
coins.
She said that it is best for all the sectors to be aware of the
important dates of the demonetization program which is to take its full effect
on 2017.
Managing director of the Currency Management Sub-Sector
(CMSS) Illuminada Sicat said starting January 1, 2016 all NDS
banknote will no longer have monetary value and could no longer be use in
business or financial transactions.
However, it can be changed with New Generation Currency (NGC) if
surrendered to banks or to BSP itself.
Sicat reiterated that by January 1, 2017 NDS banknotes that
have not been exchanged shall no longer have any monetary value, and are
considered demonetized.
“Kung hindi nyo po maipagpapalit during these period; collectors
item nalang po yan at hindi na liability ng BSP ” Sicat said.
Sicat appealed to the public that as early as now they should use
their NDS bills or surrender them for exchange.
“Hindi naman po masamang mag-ipon, pero meron na pong mga bangkong
tutulong sa inyong magtago ng inyong pera, kung magagamit nyo po ngayon,gamitin
nyo na bago pa mahuli na ang lahat” she said.
On the other hand, persons living abroad who have in their
possession banknotes from old series, which they cannot exchange within the
prescribed period may register online from October 1 to December 31, 2016
throgh the BSP website (www. bsp.gov.ph).
These persons can exchange their banknotes with BSP within one
year from the date of registration.
Banknotes are advised to be changed every 5 years for security
purposes.
As of now there are 542 million pieces of NDS banknote in the
entire country equivalent to 112 Billion pesos. BSP is hoping that before 2017,
all these NDS will be surrendered to them in order to have a single currency
circulating with strong security features. (mbcn/fcc/PIA7-Cebu/with reports
from Joshua Carbonillas, CTU Devcom Intern)
BNSC
brings a writers pool for summer journ training
Rey Anthony H. Chiu
UBAY, Bohol May 25 (PIA) --A course completion requirement
in journalism as well as a prelude to school publication, Bohol Northern Star
Colleges (BNSC) in partnership with Bohol Balita Daily News (BBDN)
brought in a pool of writers to introduce journalism topics to its summer
enrollees on May 22 in Ubay, Bohol.
A traditional event for incoming staff of the school publication
for the semester, the journalism workshop was coordinated by professor John
Diocor Labayos, who also writes a column for BBDN's English daily; The
Bohol News Today.
BBDN publisher and veteran newspaperman Juanilo
"Johnny" Orioque, syndicated news writer Ric Obedencio and the
Philippine Information Agency in Bohol came to share topics on newspapering,
news writing and photojournalism during the day-long event.
Orioque shared his newspapering experience to students who had a
bit of idea how it is to run news papers. A former councilor turned
newspaperman, Orioque first handled a weekly publication in Bohol as layout
artist, and decided to buy out the printing machine.
Now the publisher of two daily papers: BBDN a cebuano daily and
BNT an english daily, Orioque has shown that hard work and diligence in
newspapering can be a good profession.
On the other hand, Obedencio writes for local papers, including
BBDN and BNT, as well as provincial and regional papers.
A decorated lens man and a sharp witted writer, Obedencio just
retired from government and decided to write full time.
PIA Bohol on the other hand, offered its student writers' crafted
photography and photojournalism module to the student writers.
This is the first time that we invited resource persons and we did
not expect this good response, Labayos said during the event.
The activity, part of the summer course offered for the 30
students at BNSC, was held to add more inputs into the students learning after
a summer course. (mbcn/rahc/PIA7-Bohol)