DTI holds online business registration training in
Surigao Norte town
By Rodrigo R. Matabaran
SURIGAO CITY, Surigao del Norte, Nov. 9 (PIA) -
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) provincial office conducted a
training on Online Business Registration at Claver Municipal Hall on Nov. 4,
2015 for their Business Permit Licensing Office (BPLO) staff.
The activity is undertaken in preparation for the
operationalization of Bottom Up Budgeting (BUB) funded online business
registration project of the Claver municipal government in coordination with
DTI.
According to DTI provincial director Celestino L.
Negapatan, once fully operational this month, the project will enable the
processing of DTI Business Name registration certificate right at the BPLO
office of the municipality.
Hence, business applicants will no longer travel
to the city just to apply for business name before applying business permit
with the local government unit. Owners
of single proprietorship establishment in the neighboring municipalities and
barangays may also avail of this business name registration service, Negapatan
said.
This initiative also aims to reduce the cost of
doing business particularly that of the small entrepreneurs and further improve
the business registration mechanism of the municipality.
Director Negapatan and Claver mayor Eddie P.
Gokiangkee pushed for the implementation of the said project along with its
effort to improve the LGUs competitiveness.
In 2015, Claver showed significant improvement in
the cities and municipalities competiveness index (CMCI) ranking of which it is
placed the 51st most competitive among 462 1st and 2nd Class municipalities
throughout the country. In 2014, it is ranked 82nd among 399 municipalities
that participated CMCI.
The training was attended by Business Permit
Licensing Officer Paul NiΓ±o D. Yu and some LGU staff. (SDR/DTI-Surigao del
Norte/PIA-Surigao del Norte)
AFP pours in additional battalion to SurSur
By Greg Tataro Jr.
TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, Nov. 9 (PIA) – The
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has added another battalion to its
strength in Surigao del Sur.
Lt. Col. Gaspar Panopio, 2nd Special Forces
Battalion commander of the Philippine Army (PA) has already paid a courtesy
call on Governor Johnny Pimentel on Wednesday.
In fact, he was also able to attend the
closed-door meeting called by the governor with both officials of the AFP and
PNP on the updates of the manhunt operation against Lumad slay suspects—Loloy
Tejero, Bobby Tejero, and Garito Layno—all facing murder and other related criminal
charges at the Lianga Regional Trial Court (RTC).
Earlier, while waiting for the governor to arrive,
Col. Isidro Purisima, 402nd Infantry Brigade commander, told media that aside
from 2nd SF battalion, two companies of army Special Forces, respectively from
7th and 9th had already been under him.
These “SF companies” had been tasked as
“maneuvering forces,” he added.
It was learned that the new battalion, which came
all the way from Bohol province, would set up their headquarters in Barangay
Tina, San Miguel town, 31 kilometers south, this city.
With this new development, the province is now
home not only to 36IB and 75IB, but also to 2nd Special Forces battalion apart
from the two SF companies, it was learned. (NGBT/Radyo ng Bayan-Tandag/PIA
Surigao del Sur)
P200K bounty up for each primary suspects in Lumad
slay in SurSur
By Greg Tataro Jr.
TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, Nov. 9 (PIA) – A
P200,000 reward each for the capture of three suspects on the September 1 Lumad
killings here was set.
The announcement came from Governor Johnny
Pimentel himself during the brief visit of the clergies of the Iglesia Filipina
Independiente (IFI) last week although
he did not categorically state the amount.
He also told the visiting clergies about the
dismal performance of both the PNP and the AFP here with the joint Task Force
Bangkaw tasked to go after Loloy Tejero, Bobby Tejero, and Garito Layno, all
facing three counts of murder, arson, grave coercion, and robbery.
He said that more than 60 days had already passed
but the suspects had remained scot-free since the incident happened.
The governor was also requested by the visiting
church people during their Mindanao Bishops’ Conference here to narrate the
whole story of how the “evacuees” came about.
It had drawn empathy.
Meanwhile, when asked to comment on the reward,
both P/SSupt. Narciso Verdadero and Col. Isidro Purisima of the PNP and AFP,
respectively, replied that the bounty raised would help the joint effort track
down the suspects. (NGBT/Radyo ng Bayan-Tandag/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
