Day: July 30, 2024

LEGAZPI: More than 3,600 job order (JO) and contract of service (COS) workers in the Bicol region are now enjoying the benefits and privilege of being a Social Security System (SSS) member. In a press conference on Tuesday, SSS Luzon Bicol Division Vice President Elinita Samblero said this was after they continued to strengthen the KaSSSangga Collect Program, which aims to protect the welfare of employees who are not covered by the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS). “We really go to the far-flung areas and ask the barangay officials and encourage them to be members of SSS. For LGUs (local

BUTUAN: Since the devastation of super typhoon Odette in 2021 in Caraga that destroyed coconut trees, the region’s Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA-13) has made the necessary interventions to control the spread of the pervasive Rhinoceros beetles, locally known as ‘bakukang.’ Rhinoceros beetles breed in decaying debris of fallen coconut trees and were found in different areas of Caraga after the onslaught of the super typhoon. ‘Among the interventions done by our agency is the application of Green Muscardine Fungus (GMF) in decaying coconut debris,’ PCA-13 Regional Manager Joel Oclarit said in an interview on Tuesday. He said the application of

BAGUIO: A whole-of-government approach in partnership with the private sector to provide livelihood assistance and intervention will help curb marijuana cultivation in the provinces of Benguet and Kalinga, a Cordillera police official said Tuesday. ‘The problem is poverty. People plant (marijuana) because they need to live, they want to have money for their basic needs, and planting vegetables will be difficult considering the absence of roads,’ Brig. Gen. David Peredo, Police Regional Office-Cordillera (PRO-Cor) Director, said during the Kapihan sa Bagong Pilipinas press briefing here on Tuesday. ‘We need all the government agencies collaborating to help the people in the

MANILA: Kiyomi Watanabe suffered another first-round exit in the women’s 63-kilogram judo event at the Paris Olympics after losing to China’s Tang Jing at the Champ-De-Mars Arena in the French capital on Tuesday. Tang needed just 51 seconds to submit Watanabe as the Filipino-Japanese judoka was out of contention after just one fight, three years after she also was sent home in the first round in Tokyo. It took only 10 seconds for Tang to take down Watanabe as the latter was forced to play ground game defense for the rest of the first minute. Tang, though, found an opening

CEBU: Business process outsourcing (BPO) or call centers in this capital city will undergo scrutiny to ensure that none are operating as Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs). Acting Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia said he is set to form a task force that will check every call center here to ensure it operates within its intended purpose and not as an online gaming enabler. Garcia said he decided to organize a task force following President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s directive during his 3rd State of the Nation Address (SONA) to ban all forms of POGO operations in the country. The task force