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January 13-19, 2013
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LEGAZPI CITY -- The regional police headquarters here assured local officials running for elective posts of protection even as they are prohibited to ask for police or military escorts during the election period, which will start on Jan. 13.
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On the first day of the election period, the Philippine National Police (PNP), the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and all other government security and law enforcement agencies will recall their personnel serving as bodyguards of local officials based on the directives of Resolution No.9695-A recently issued by the Commission on Election (COMELEC). The resolution suspends the privilege of local officials, especially those who are candidates in the coming polls, of being personally escorted by government-employed armed security escorts as it forbids the PNP, military and similar agencies from doing so. Local politicians who can convince the COMELEC that
any possibility of influx of cases to maintain a malaria free province. He said Albay has just been declared clear of malaria last year and that health personnel are relentless in eradication of other mosquito-borne diseases
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SILYA
Rep. ESTRADA
City Councilor Esteban Abonal and wife Yolanda tried the set of rocking chairs for the elderly set up at the Atrium, 2nd level, SM City Naga. Standing behind from left were Mr. Tito Lorete Alcala, rocking chairs donor and founder of the project SILYA ( acronym for Saiyo Lolo at Lola Yantok aming Alay ), Senior Citizens Federation President Pedro Intia and Mall Manager Wesley Villanueva during the launching of SILYA last December 28, 2012.
es across the country, Hotel Sogo maintains its winning formula of being in very convenient locations and offering the cleanest rooms with excellent
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(Atty. APA chairs Acyatan & Co., CPAs-DFK International is PICPA past president and Hall-of-Famer, past chair of ASEAN Federation of CPAs, and ACPAPP Lifetime Achievement Awardee). LITIGATION: The Supreme Court has issued new procedural rules in the handling of both criminal and civil cases. To expedite and speed-up hearings, presentation and testimony of witnesses are now required to be done by way of judicial affidavits (question and answer form). The rule will cut short the time both for the direct and cross examination of witnesses. The affidavit must be properly identified and the signature thereon affirmed in open court. The preparation of the judicial affidavits requires in-depth study (well in advance) and clerical work. The Prosecutors League admitted that such endeavor will be tedious for their members, and they petitioned for exemption from the rule. The Supreme Court relented by amending the procedure by mandating that compliance thereof in criminal cases shall be deferred up to 2014, except only when private prosecutors are involved in the cases. O.R. EXPIRY: The BIR issued Rev. Reg. No. 18-2013 with reference to the adoption of the online system in the application (and submission of required documents) for Authority to Print (ATP). It prescribed that all unused or unissued receipts and invoices x x x printed prior to January 18, 2013 shall be deemed valid only until June 30, 2013. Thus, all taxpayers must apply for new ATP on
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or before May 1, 2013 (60 days before expiry date). Per RR 18-2013, the term principal receipts/invoices refers to written accounts evidencing the sale of goods and/or services issued to customers in the ordinary course of business which include both VAT and Non-VAT sales invoices/receipts. Upon application for new ATPs, taxpayers must surrender all unused/unissued receipts/invoices to the RDO, complete with inventory list. New ATPs are valid for five (5) years or until the approved serial numbers are fully used. ANNUAL REPORTS: There are many business reports due for submission to BIR up to January 31, 2013. These include Withholding Tax Information Return on Compensation and Final Withholding Tax (FWT) for calendar year 2012, and Inventory List as of year-end 2012. All head offices, branches and other offices of enterprises must be registered with the appropriate BIR districts of their location. The Certificates of Registration must be reviewed to check the mentioned business line and the reports that are required to be periodically submitted. Non-submission or delayed submission of said reports will render the business liable to penalties. We also remind our readers that the business (Mayors) permit must be secured from the LGU political authority within the first twenty (20) days of January. PHL PESO: Our local currency has appreciated against the US Dollar and against other major currencies. The peso strength is caused by the constant inflows of foreign exchange - OFW remittances and foreign investments. This phenomenon creates disadvantages to our modernday heroes and PHL exporters since their beneficiaries will receive lesser pesos for every dollar earnings they will get. A strong peso may also discourage tourists from coming in if they compute that the dollar or other foreign currencies they will bring in can be exchanged to lesser amount of pesos. Of course, they can use said pesos to buy more values in terms of goods and services. Expanding our analysis since our imports will cost less in terms of pesos, then foreign goods should also be less costly thus keeping our domestic cost of living more affordable. PROVERB: Misfortune pursues the sinner, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.
Checkpoint Rules, Gun Ban Favors Criminal elements & 17 Billion Planets
The Tempo dated January 12, 2013 reported the following lists of guidelines released by the Philippine National Police so that the general public may be informed whether or not the police checkpoints are legitimate and following their standard operating procedures. Among them are: (1) Policemen are limited to conducting visual inspection of vehicles. (2) Checkpoints must be welllighted, properly identified and policemen have to be in proper general office attire (GOA) or patrol uniforms and not in combat uniforms or camouflage. (3) There should be a sign indicating that it is a checkpoint, the name of the team leader and there should be a marked police vehicle. (4) Upon approval, motorists must slowdown, dim headlights, and turn on cabin lights. Never step out of your vehicle. (5) Do not submit to a physical or body search. (6) Motorists are not obliged to open the compartment, trunk or bags. (7) Ordinary or routine questions may be asked. Be courteous but firm with answers. (8) Assert your rights, have presence of mind and do not panic. (9) Keep drivers license and car registration handy and within reach. (10) Be ready to use your cellphone anytime. Speed dial emergency number and report violations
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immediately. (11) Police can only inspect vehicles or their drivers and passengers to get off under extreme circumstances and when there are reasonable grounds such as if the vehicles are suspected to be getaway vehicles or hot cars. Chief Superintendent Generoso Carbo, PNP spokesperson, said that Policemen should be polite when approaching drivers as this would inspire trust on motorists. This is for the information of the public and the policemen. *** There are people proposing a gunless society and the imposition of a total gun
ban to address the increasing incidence of heinous crimes in the country. But will it solve this problem? I dont think so. A total gun ban can be implemented on law-abiding citizens who legally bought guns, paid the required fees, etc. to protect themselves but not on lawless elements. We do not have enough number of policemen and many policemen do not even have guns. So, who will protect them? How can the government implement a total gun ban on criminally minded people with illegal guns? With gun runners, smugglers, drug addicts with guns, Abusayaff, Akyat-Bahay Gang, Salisi Gangs, etc.? A total gun ban will make law-abiding citizens shooting ducks of criminals. Gun ban will prevent them from protecting themselves. This is favorable to criminal elements. *** It was reported in the Tempo issue dated Jan. 9, 2013 that our Milky Way is home to 17 billion planets that are similar in size to Earth, a new estimate suggests. Thats more thant two Earth-size planet for every person in the globe. Just how many are located in the
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A QueStION Of PrIVILege
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I am not putting our own people in a bad light but I think there is an urgent need to march faster toward progress using the old habilidad of our native merchants before. According to F. Sionel Jose, quoting author Amy Chua in her book, World on Fire,just one per cent of the population, the ethnic Chinese, control as much as
60 per cent of the private economy including the countrys four major airlines, and most of the countrys banks, hotels, shopping malls and major firms. He said that when foreign investors do business in the Philippines, they deal exclusively with the Chinese. A recent survey showed almost all the billionaires are Chinese with Filipino blood. The rapid modernization of China in the last two decades was hastened by billion of dollars sent home by the overseas Chinese. Some of the Chinese are big businessmen in our country. Look at the whooping amount and compare that money with the few hundred dollars sent home by Filipino overseas workers. In the colorful language of street smart people, it is peanuts/very small, almost nothing.
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VILLANuEVA quality training, TESDA requires all technical vocational institutions (TVIs) to register the programs they offer under the Unified TVET Program Registration and Accreditation System (UTPRAS). Through this process, the agency reviews the TVIs curriculum, qualification of faculty and staff, facilities, tools, supplies and materials and see to it that they meet the set standard. This is to guarantee that schools are not offering substandard courses and that their
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The main building of Milaor National High School in barangay San Jose shown in above photo that was partially damaged by fire that razed at least nine classrooms will look better than mint-new with complete rehabilitation and refurbishing assured by Governor LRay Villafuerte (left, inset) during his visit last Wednesday, January 9. Shown with Governor Villafuerte are Prov. Engineer Jeremias Epres, Milaor HS Principal Ramon Bolivar (middle) and CamSur Schools Division Superintendent Gillbert Sadsad. gbc/mvilladares
unemployment problem in the country mostly affecting the new graduates, particularly in the rural areas. UNEP Executive Vice President and VP For Finance Deli A. Tibi congratulated Dean Elmer H. Lolin of the College of Business Education (CBED) and his students for patiently going through the nitty-gritty process of completing the requirements in order to realize the said partnership. We did not get this opportunity by just sitting down. The UNEP management, particularly the team of Dean Lolin worked hard and completed all the requirements from the coordination, to their attendance in orientations and seminar up to the presentation and defense of their business and financial plans. The efforts are all worth it, Tibi said in an interview. A total of P500,000.00 was allocated for the five (5) groups whose business plans
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governor and now under construction, are completed. Meantime, Villafuerte has directed Provincial Engineering Office head, Engr. Jeremias Epres, to immediately erect temporary classrooms for the affected students, possibly under giant tents that will be privately donated by Governor Villafuerte and his son, Migs.
Moreover, Villafuerte offered college education assistance for the next school year to graduating students of the high school: 100% scholarship if they enroll in a public college and financial assistance if they enroll in private schools. Education has always been a major component of Villafuertes multi-point develop-
ment agenda, implemented through a comprehensive educational development blueprint that has benefitted hundreds of schools and thousands of constituents in the form of infrastructure support, educational scholarships and financial assistance from pre-school up to post-graduate education. -gbclaveria
remains susceptible and prone to the same hazards, she said. Jerusalem said that the project is a multi-purpose center complete with facilities that can be used as evacuation center during disasters and calamities and as classroom dur-
ing normal situations. The project is part of the relentless campaign of the provincial government to achieve zero casualty during disasters where affected residents can take shelter in time when pre-emptive evacuation is advised.
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capacity of the famous and world renowned Newport Performing Arts Theater. What is laudable about this project is that in order to attract travelers from around the world AGGI aggressive stance is to make sure that our government will attain its target of increasing tourist arrivals from 3.5 million last 2011 to 6.5 million in 2016. Lately, AGGI made an announcement that the company would be spending another P350 million to P400 million for the construction of more hotels within Resorts World Manila, its first casino venture located
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BY J. HENRY DANICAN
from my window . . .
sweet spot where water could exist is simply too early to call Francis Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reportedly said when he presented his work at an Astronomy meeting Monday. For me, the millions of stars in the Milky Way is already mindbogging. So much more with this new information of seventeen billion earth-like planets. When I was in college taking up Geology as an elective subject, I was wondering why the millions of stars do not collide with each other. Now, I wonder more. But my belief is the same. There is God whose hand controls the universe. You can call God in any name but He is God.
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You can not expect much from our overseas workers. They have small income.The overseas Chinese are big traders, earning hundred million dollars yearly. In Legazpi City, who are those with the biggest department stores, the biggest banks, the biggest hotels? Not the native Filipinos but the half Filipinos whose parents have Chinese blood. The natives live in swamps infested with mosquitoes, while the Chinese live in posh subdivisions. away from where floods can sweep them to the sea during typhoon months. Squatters, they are also described in Tagalog as the yagit, the small people. It is not the fault of the Chinese to prosper in their adopted country. They acquire their wealth through industry, patience and hard work. From a wretched mambobote to a wealthy trader.That is almost similar to the Cinderilla fairy tale minus a godmother.
The Chinese live below their means which accounts for the easy growth of the money. However, it is not exactly true that the Chinese prosper because of their business skills which the Filipinos do not have. In an article, Myths of Filipino Businessman, written by Horacio de la Costa, S.J., Filipinos before were very active traders, establishing trading settlements in Malacca where they had warehouses for their goods. Called Luzon men, these Filipino traders were described as too enterprising and too successful by the easy-going Malaccans.This attitude was unfortunately later on adopted by easy-going Filipinos. The article said it was not true that Filipinos before were good only as barbers, crooners, beauticians, lawyers. In Pangasinan, it said, residents formed themselves into a coop and pooled their capital. Their principal resource was they knew what people in one area wanted and where to get
the merchandise to sell to where they were in demand. This talent was labeled in Spanish as habilidad. There was even a mention of shipwrights in Catanduanes , making sailing vessels not only for themselves but for sale to other seafaring people.But how did they transport the crafts in quantity so as to make selling them profitable? In the l7th century, a Spanish Jesuit, Francisco Colin, said the shipwrights built their crafts in carefully graduated sizes so that the hulls would fit into each other like the boxes of a Chinese puzzle. They would thus transport three or four hulls in their largest vessel with the outriggers, masts and other gears disassembled but ready for fitting. This was described as enterprise combined with a fairly high degree of intelligence. Filipinos before were as good as the Chinese? They were. But what becomes of the habilidad of the native traders of old? That is the unanswered question.
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RuGERIA Ateneo Student Leaders Assembly, a leadership program organized by the Ateneo de Manila University. In ADNU, he is currently the Secretary-General of the Student Tribunal, the student governments judicial branch, serving as arbiter in some constitutional disputes in student politics. He also sits in the schools Disciplinary Board for students. He is a peer counselor and volunteer of the College Guidance Office. He has served during group guidance activities, orientation seminars, and Alternative Class Program activities, among others. He is also an active member of the Days with the Lord-Men, Philosophical Society, and Triumph Yearbook staff. Like Rizal, Rugeria aspires to be a doctor and teacher someday as his contribution to Bicol development. In his essay, he shared: Sweet are the hours in ones country; and should I study, or go overseas, I shall always return to the Philippines, my Inang Bayan, where the real battle is; and there I shall strive to realize my visions for my country and become a Dr. Jose Rizal of my own as each and every one of us Filipinos potentially could become. that features an environment friendly and safe celebration of the holidays. In addition, Albays 15 towns and three component cities also celebrate their own festivals spread throughout the whole year. -Johnny Nuez delivery of our TVET institutions and even the employment rate of their graduates to encourage more students to take courses in these related fields, Villanueva said. Especially now that the country has institutionalized the K to 12 curriculum, where TVET is envisioned to play a great role, Villanueva said that TESDA should be able to offer a more diversified courses to students that will suit their interests and skills. We are training tomorrows workforce, that will always be TESDAs motivation, he said. Related to this, Villanueva has advised prospective enrollees to check in the TESDA website if the courses they will enroll in are included in their list of registered programs. They can also call any of the agencys provincial/district office to get information.
The Innovative Scheme in the Implementation of the CY 2011 Kindergarten School Building Program
DepEd Order No. 91, s. 2011 re: Kindergarten School Building Project states the guidelines for the implementation of the CY 2011 Kindergarten School Building Program (SBP). Aside from following strictly the guidelines of said DepEd Order, the proponent devised an innovative scheme in order to fastrack its implementation and produces above-the-board kindergarten school buildings. The innovative scheme has four stages namely: the planning stage, preparation stage, actual implementation stage and reporting stage. During the planning stage, a written approval from the Regional Director to adopt the scheme was seek and preparatory plan was drawn out by coordinating with the Regional Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), BAC Secretariat and Technical Working Group (TWG). In the preparation stage, a list of new set of Regional Inspectorate Team was submitted, conducted orientation of the TWG and the Regional Inspectorate Team and informed all Division Phyiscal Facilities Coordinators (DPFCs) and DepEd Project Engineers (DPEs) on the innovative scheme of the CY 2011 Kinder SBP during the Regular Regional Coordination Meeting. In the actual implementation stage, Region V was given a total allocation of Php34,079,479.83. Bicol Region was divided into three (3) lots with the corresponding school and divisions with their respective budget allocations as follows: LoT SCHooL Approved Budget DIVISIoN Cost (ABC) F. Baldovino ES Php 855,360.00 Batobalani ES 855,360.00 Cam. Norte Talisay ES 855,360.00 Claudio Villagen ES 855.360.00 Milaor CS Magarao CS Tinambac South CS II Tabuco CS Panicuason ES Sabang ES Julian Meliton ES La Purisima ES Iriga CS San Miguel ES Sub-total for Lot 1 Bacacay East CS Anislag ES Camalig South CS Sua Igot Barrio ES Oson ES San Lorenzo ES Estanza ES Pinit ES Mahaba ES Malama ES San Andres CES Php 841,500.00 841,500.00 841,500.00 841,500.00 841,500.00 841,500.00 841,500.00 841,500.00 841,500.00 841,500.00 11,836,440.00 872,190.00 872,190.00 872,190.00 872,190.00 872,190.00 872,190.00 872,190.00 872,190.00 872,190.00 872,190.00 840,510.00 Albay Cam. Sur Mayngaway ES Cabugao IS Bagamanoc CES Agban CES Sub-total for Lot 2 Prieto Diaz CS Barcelona CS Jose Alindogan CS Cambulaga ES Rawis ES Boga IS Leonardo Barrun ES Divisoria ES Nainday ES Bantigue ES Espinosa PS Sub-total for Lot 3 GRAND ToTAL 857,340.00 840,510.00 860,029.83 841,500.00 Php 12,961,789.83 841,500.00 841,500.00 841,500.00 841,500.00 841,500.00 841,500.00 846,450.00 846,450.00 846,450.00 846,450.00 846,450.00 Php 9,281,250.00 Php 34,079,479.83 Sorsogon Catanduanes
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The pre-construction meeting was conducted with the presence of Lowest Calculated Responsive Bidder (LCRB), school heads of recipient schools, DPFCs, DPEs, Regional Inspectorate Team and the Regional Construction Committee. The Program of Works (POWs), plans and specifications were given to the school heads. The roles and functions were clearly defined during the meeting. Inspection, monitoring, supervision and validation were conducted regularly by the Construction Committee while the Regional Inspectorate Team conducted inspection when the constructors requested for partial billings and final billings. The Regional Physical Facilities Coordinator (RPFC) regularly reminded the constructors to finish the project on or before completion date to avoid liquidating damages (LD). However, if some inevitable circumstances happened, they may file requests for time extension for a reasonable number of days. In the reporting stage, the proponent prepared and submitted the complete report of the accomplishments of the CY 2011 Kindergarten SBP. Fortunately, a huge savings in Lot 2 and other savings in Lot 1 and Lot 3 when summed-up enable to procure four (4) additional kindergarten school buildings wherein two (2) will be for the elementary schools of the Division of Camarines Sur namely Cagliliog Elementary School and Siruma Central School while the other two (2) will be for Legazpi City Division schools namely: Arimbay Elementary School and Homapon Elementary School. Another innovative scheme is the holding of pre-construction meeting for the savings of CY 2011 Kindergarten SBP in the recipient divisions. The purpose of which is to validate the accuracy of the site appraisals. With these innovative scheme, there will be assurance on the fasttrack implementation of the kindergarten school buildings and good quality of classrooms that will give positive impact to the teaching-learning experiences and eventually redound to the improved kindergarten education in the schools. __________________ Engr. Ronald C. Asis EPS III/RPFC Rawis, Legazpi City
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Republic of the Philippines Department of Public Works and Highways oFFICE oF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER Camarines Sur 3rd District Engineering Office Caraycayon, Tigaon, Camarines Sur
INVItAtION tO BID
The Department of Public Works and Highways DPWH Camarines Sur 3rd Engineering District, Caraycayon, Tigaon, Camarines Sur, through its Bids and Award Committee, (BAC), invites contractors to apply to bid for the following contract(s): 1. Contract ID# Contract Name Contract Location PRoJECT ID#13FF0002 CLUSTER-I (Roads, Spillways, Footbrige-2nd Tranche CY-2012) 1) Const. of MPP, San Francisco, LAGONOY Php 294,002.81 2) Const. of MPP, Balaton, LAGONOY 294,000.01 3) Conc. of Brgy. Road, Minoro (Zone 3) SAN JOSE 293,998.17 4) Conc. of Brgy. Road, Del Carmen (Pob.) SAN JOSE 293,998.17 5) Const. of MPP, Calawit, SAN JOSE 294,092.16 6) Const. of MPP, Bahay, SAN JOSE 293,904.18 7) Const. of MPP, Tominawog, SAN JOSE 294,092.16 8) Const. of MPP, Pugay, SAN JOSE 293,998.17 9) Conc. of Brgy. Road, Catalotoan, SAN JOSE 490,000.00 10) Const. of MPP, Pili-Centro, CARAMOAN 293,997.51 11) Const. of MPP, Pili-Tabiguian, CARAMOAN 293,998.28 12) Const. of MPP, Tongon-Bantigue, SIRUMA 293,998.09 13) Conc. of Brgy. Road, San Jose (Tiltilan), TINAMBAC 294,000.27 14) Const. of MPP, San Vicente, TINAMBAC 294,000.00 15) Const. of MPP, Sagrada (Campo), TINAMBAC 293,997.84 16) Const. of MPP, San Isidro (Pob.), TINAMBAC 293,999.40 Multi-Purpose Pavement/Road Concreting Php 4,900,077.18 90 C.D. Php5,000.00 PRoJECT ID#13FF0003 CLUSTER-II (FLOOD CONTROLS -2nd Tranche CY-2012) 1) Const. of Flood Control (Spillway), San Roque, LAGONOY Php 2) Const. of Flood Control (Spillway), Hanoy, CARAMOAN 3) Const. of Flood Control (Seawall), Canatuan, CARAMOAN 4) Const. of Flood Control (Seawall), Tandoc, SIRUMA 5) Const. of Flood Control (DrainageSystem), Pandanan, CARAMOAN 6) Const. of Flood Control (DrainageSystem), CARAMOAN 7) Const. of Flood Control (DrainageSystem), Ili-Centro, CARAMOAN 8) Const. of Flood Control (DrainageSystem), Solnopan, CARAMOAN 9) Const. of Flood Control (DrainageSystem), Talojongon, TIGAON 10) Const. of Flood Control (DrainageSystem), Mabalodbalod, TIGAON Flood Control/Drainage System/Spillways Php3,599,932.00 90 C.D. Php5,000.00
Scope of Works Approved Budget for Contract (ABC) Contract Duration Cost of Tender Documents 2. Contract ID# Contract Name Contract Location
Scope of Works Approved Budget for Contract (ABC) Contract Duration Cost of Tender Documents
Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures specified in accordance with R.A. 9184 and its Revised Rules and Regulations, DPWH-Department order No. 064 series of 2012 and other Applicable DPWH-D.o. and Memorandum. To bid for this contract, interested contractors must download the Bid Documents including the plans at the DPWH Website and must pay the non-refundable amount of state above for tender documents at the cashier of any DPWH Office on or before the deadline, and the contractor must meet the following major criteria: (1) prior registration with DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation, cooperative or joint venture with PCAB License applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (c) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (d) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC or credit line commitment for at least 10% of ABC. The BAC of the DPWH-Regional Office No. V will conduct the eligibility checking using the Civil Works Registry (CWR) system. Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their application for registration to the DPWH-POCW Central Office before the deadline for the receipt of payment for tender documents. The DPWH-POCW Central Office will only process contractors application for registration, with complete requirements, and issued the Contractors Certificate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be download at the DPWH website, www.dpwh.gov.ph. The significant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below: 1. Pre-Bid Conference 2. Receipt of Payment of Bid Documents (Deadline for Presentation of OR) 3. Submission and Opening of Bids 3. Submission of Bids 4. Opening of Bids January 23, 2013 February 04, 2013 February 05, 2013 Until 10:00 A.M. @ 2:00 P.M. @ 10:00 A.M. Until 12:00 Noon
such as dengue and filariasis. DOH CHD Bicol Regional Director Gloria J. Balboa clarified in a statement that the new reported cases are imported malaria cases meaning the infection was contracted abroad. One of the two male patients came from Angola while another from Zambia, all in Africa. Last year Bicol also had another imported case, a male patient from Ghana, Africa. Both patients in their early 30s are still under private hospital confinement and given adequate anti-malarial drugs by the DOH. With the efforts of the Local Government Units (LGUs) and the DOH, we have not detected any indigenous case of malaria. In fact, five (5) of the six (6) provinces in Bicol have been declared Malaria-Free. Only the province of Camarines Norte remains undeclared, Director Balboa said. An indigenous case is one
where both the parasite and the vector are present in a certain area, Camilo H. Aquino DOHCHD Bicol Regional Mosquitoborne Diseases Prevention and Control Program Coordinator explains. Hence, if any of the two or both are not present there is no indigenous case of malaria. The vector is the mosquito anopheles flavirostris. Transmission is done when the mos-
Prospective bidders shall present their ORIGINAL OFFICIAL RECEIPT OF PAYMENT for Bid Documents, project specific, to the BAC Secretariat of this Office before the deadline stated above for inclusion in the list of contractors for eligibility processing. All bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security in the form with the following schedule: FoRM Cash, Cashiers /Managers Check, Bank Draft/guarantee conformed by a Universal or Commercial Bank or Irrevocable Letter of Credit Surety Bond callable on demand issued by a surety or insurance company duly certified by the Insurance Commission as authorized to issue such security. Any combination of the foregoing. Minimum amount in % of ABC two percent (2%)
Bid Securing Declaration that is an undertaking which states, among others , that the bidder shall enter into contract with the procurign entity furnish the required performance security within ten (10) calendar days, or less, as indicated in the Bidding Documents, from receipt of the Notice of Award, and committing to pay the corresponding fine and be supported for a period of time from being qualified to participate in any government procurement activity in the event it violates any of the conditions stated therein as required in the guidelines by the GPBB. Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished form as specified in the BDs in two (2) separate sealed envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The first envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include the eligibility requirements. The second envelope shall contain the financial component of the bid. The Technical and Financial Documents must be bounded, all documents shall be tabmarked. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in the bid evaluation and the post-qualification. The DPWH, Camarines Sur 3rd Engineering District Office, Tigaon, Camarines Sur reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids and to annul the bidding process anytime before Contract Award, without incurring any liability to the affected bidders. APPROVED: (Sgd.) ALICE B. MAGISTRADo Engineer III (BAC Chairman)
NOTED:
NAME oF DECEASED SALVADoR B. FERNANDo MALBE R. TADuRAN ENRIQuE H. CADACIo AQuILINo DC. RIoS JR TRINIDAD S. TALAY HoMER J. RELATIVo SR. EVELYN A. FEBRES DEMETRIo B. BRoFAS JR DuLCE SJ. uNDECIMo ALEX C. NERo NoRMA J. PARCo ADELINA M. CAPRICHo WALFRIDo P. DAVID LYDIA R. SAYNo AMADo R. STA.RoSA MELINA B. DIAZ GLoRIA A. SANDICo
DATE oF INTERMENT December 1, 2012 December 2, 2012 December 1, 2012 December 1, 2012 December 6, 2012 December 8, 2012 December 11, 2012 December 9, 2012 December 11, 2012 December 11, 2012 December 15, 2012 December 19, 2012 December 21, 2012 December 20, 2012 December 24, 2012 December 23, 2012 December 27, 2012
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poles and anything that could hold soil. The materials were converted into pots making it easy for the plants to be transferred to elevated places when flood comes. Rosal herself helped in the preparations of the pots and planting materials during the launch of the program. Now, barely four months after its Gulayan project was started, CES has become a showcase of a productive urban gardening undertaking. Pechay, radish, okra, bell pepper, tomatoes, bush sitao, ampalaya, mongo, malunggay, turmeric, ginger, alugbati, upland kangkong, carrots, peanuts, cucumber and squash are all around the campus, seen in places where they are less expected to thrive. Creeping plants like ampalaya, squash and bush sitao planted on the makeshift pots were made to climb on trellises made of ny-
lon ropes toward walls, perimeter fences and even roofs of school buildings. We do not sell harvests from these improvised gardens. We use them in our feeding program for our malnourished pupils. Some are taken home by the children to provide fresh vegetables to their siblings and parents, Anza said. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the school serves morning and afternoon snacks such as mungbean soup with malunggay, macaroni soup and arroz caldo for its about 120 severely malnourished pupils. Our home economics classes also prepare vegetables derived from the gardens as viands for lunch that are sold at P1.00 per serving to indigents pupils who eat at the school. These children have learned to love eating vegetables, especially that they are products of their labor, the school principal added. - PNA
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BIKOL REPORTER
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DARAGA, Albay Albayanos celebrate next month the second edition of their Cagsawa Festival to mark the 199th year anniversary of the February 1814 cataclysmic Mayon Volcano eruption that buried underground an entire community and its imposing baroque Cagsawa Church, leaving above ground only its belfry. (Turn to page 5)
The Cabagan Elementary School in Legazpi City showcases innovative urban gardening using old pairs of boots, pants and even brassiere to grow okra, tomatoes, pepper and other vegetables. (Photos by PNA Legazpi bureau).
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