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May
31
More scholarships for Las Pinas residents!
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Las Piñas City Mayor Vergel ‘Nene’ Aguilar yesterday vowed to continue to provide more scholarship grants to the less privileged but deserving students to meet the city’s goal of total literacy and livelihood through equal opportunity in education.
Aguilar reiterated his pledge after one of the graduates at the Dr. Filemon C. Aguilar Memorial College (DFCAMC of Las Piñas) ranked 10th in the Certified Public Accountancy (CPA)board examinations released last May 2011.
Acting DFCAM College President Atty. Zardi Abellera said, “The Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) identified the new CPA as Dennis Cabunilas Magallanes with a rating of 89.86%.” The City-run College that offers free education garnered 70 percent passing rate, one of those with the highest in the country.
“I am glad that one of our graduates once again gave honor and pride to our city, having landed in the top 10 of the recent CPA board Exams. This only shows that our local college is very competitive to other colleges and universities in the country!” Mayor Aguilar said.
Aguilar added it is his commitment to ensure that every young Las Piñero would earn a college degree or diploma and that no one shall be deprived of an opportunity to free education.
The DFCAMC was established in 1998 and now offers courses in Accounting Technology and Accountancy.
The city likewise grants full collegiate scholarships to poor but deserving Las Piñas high school graduates who wish to finish a two-year course or want to continue towards a four-year college diploma.
Young and adult residents, however, who prefer not to avail of college education are enrolled and trained in any of the three-month vocational or technical courses at the Las Piñas City Manpower Training Center, but with option to enroll in other courses with diploma.
Meanwhile, Mayor Aguilar is set to honor the successful CPA board passers, led by Magallanes, in a ceremony to be held at the city hall on June 9, 2011. (END)
May
31
The Parañaque City Government under the administration of Mayor Florencio Bernabe, Jr. posted a record high in business registration in 2011.
In a report to the local chief executive, Parañaque Business Permits & Licensing Office (B.P.L.O.) Chief Erlinda Rodriguez said that the number of new establishments in the city increased by 33% or from 585 in the 1st Quarter of 2010 to 809 in the same period this year while business renewal also grew by 15% or from 10,365 to 11,872.
More and more companies are relocating to Parañaque because if its business-friendly policies and legislations including Ordinance No. 014 of 2007 creating a Special Investment District in the entire land area west of Roxas Boulevard and the Coastal Road in Parañaque and providing incentives for business locators there.
Other business and citizen-friendly programs implemented in recent years include the Tax amnesty on real property taxes in 2004 and 2010.
The other reasons for opening up businesses in the city include the following:
a)Parañaque as a best manpower source. The city government’s Parañaque Livelihood Resource Management Office (PLRMO) offers courses in priority skills needed by industries in its TESDA accredited Parañaque Skills Training Center. Apart from skills training, students undergo values education;
b)Accessibility to marketing destinations and shipping points via the three parallel roads, Coastal Road-Roxas Blvd; Quirino Avenue; and Dr. A Santos Avenue leading to the domestic and international airports and the North and South Harbors; and
c) Parañaque‘s rich business potentials typified by residents’ loyalty to Parañaque-based company and locally made products.
Other “come-ons” include Parañaque’s Anti-Red Tape campaign that serves as check against fixers; computerized system that facilitates processing and ensures accuracy of computations; networking among support and line departments like the Treasurer’s Office, BPLO, EDP Division and Planning Office for a “one-stop shop”; and free snacks at the fully air-conditioned service lounges.
“We are pleased that business circles appreciate our city’s great potentials for growth and consider Parañaque as a superb venue for commerce and industry, likewise residence, a prime habitat city and an investors’ haven of the Metro South.”, Mayor Bernabe said.
Four years ago, Parañaque City made another milestone after it was named in the list of top cities in the country in a study made by the Asian Institute of Management Policy Center.
Grouped with Metro cities in the Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Project (PCCRP) 2007, Parañaque placed 6th, together with Lapu-Lapu City in the survey following Davao City, Quezon City, Makati City, City of Manila and Marikina City.
Analysts were quick to note that it was Parañaque’s debut in the project yet it was able to keep pace with the leading cities which have been in it since the survey’s early editions.
The rating was based on PCCRP “competitiveness drivers” namely: 1) Cost of doing business; 2) Dynamism of local economy; 3) Human resource and training; 4) Inrastructure; 5) LGU responsiveness; and 6) Quality of life.
May
31
From Philstar.com:
MANILA, Philippines – Anti-narcotics agents confiscated around P600,000 worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu from two suspected drug dealers in Muntinlupa City.
Members of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) seized an estimated 75 grams of illegal drugs from Diego Magusara and Rogelio Piedad in a buy-bust operation in a shopping mall in Tunasan village.
PDEA said the two were caught selling drugs to undercover agent last May 26. Authorities also recovered from the suspects a motorcycle during the operation.
Meanwhile, two more suspected drug dealers were nabbed by PDEA agents during separate operations in Kidapawan City and Cotabato City
Hanz Peter Cabañero yielded two pieces of small heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing shabu, a P500 bill, and a motorcycle during an entrapment operation in Purok 6, Brgy. Lanao, Kidapawan City, North Cotabato.
Michael Mantawil, on the other hand, yielded 10 pieces of heat-sealed plastic sachets containing suspected shabu placed inside a film canister in buy-bust operation at the vicinity of Jose Lim St. corner Mabini St., Washington Area, Poblacion 6, Cotabato City.
