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BFP sinisiguradong ligtas sa sunog
ang malls at iba pang establishments
BATANGAS CITY Sinabi
ng hepe ng Batangas City
Bureau of Fire Protection
na si SInsp. Glenn Salazar
na
sinisiguro
nila
ang
kaligtasan ng mga malls sa
lungsod sa pamamagitan
ng pagpapatupad ng Fire
Code of the Philippines sa
kanilang mga Fire Safety
Inpection Certificate (FSIC)
at “periodic inspection” ng
mga ito upang malaman kung
sila ay tumutupad sa mga
regulasyon.
‘’Kailangang
ang
building ay compliant 24/7.
Kung ano lang ang occupancy
load, yun lang ang i me
maintain,” sabi ni Salazar.

Mahalaga aniya sa
mga malls na maseguro na lahat
ng papasok ay makakalabas.
Tinatagubilinan niya ang mga
establishments na maglaan
ng sapat na daraanan para sa
mga mamimili lalo na kung may sale.

Sinabi din niya na
malayong
mangyari
ang
sunog na naganap sa NCCC
Mall sa Davao City sa mga
malls sa lungsod. Ang mga
malls dito ay mercantile
type na dedicated sa mall
lamang hindi katulad ng sa
NCCC na may call center na
nagooperate kahit sarado o
tapos na ang mall hours.

Ayon pa rin sa kanya,
“mangilan ngilan na lamang na
business establishments ang
nasa proseso ng compliance at
hopefully sa loob ng tatlong
taong aking panunungkulan
ay maging 100% compliant
na ang mga ito.” Sinisigurado
rin nila na ang mga matataas
na buildings na mahina na
ang structural integrity ay
makasunod sa fire safety
rules para sa kaligtasan ng
mga occupants.
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Susan De Leon both locally and abroad. “As
the state network, we have to
take it upon ourselves to lead
the charge towards the digital
transition. It will be very
beneficial for the people first
of all, and we have to keep up
with the rest of the world.”

He added that while
PTV is already doing digital
test broadcasts as of now, the
new equipment once installed,
will significantly improve the
public’s viewing experience.

Digital test broadcast
of PTV-4 can be received in
selected areas in Metro Manila
on UHF channel 42 (641.143)
using ISDB-T receiver box and
TV sets with built-in ISDB-T
tuners.
M e a n w h i l e ,
Engr.
James
Rodney
Santiago, consultant of the
Department of Information
and
Communications
Technology (DICT) on the
Digital Terrestrial Television
Broadcasting
(DTTB)
Migration Plan explains that
Digital TV is an inevitable
technology that was developed
specifically not only to enhance
normal viewing experience of
the people but also to attain
real time information that
affects lives.
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PCOO, Japan cooperate to
modernize state-run PTV4
QUEZON CITY -- Japanese
Minister of Information and
Presidential Communications
Operations Office (PCOO)
officials
today
led
the
ceremonial switch on of the
state-run People’s Television
Network (PTV4) PTV Digital
Terrestrial TV Broadcast.

Minister for Internal
Affairs and Comm. of Japan
Seiko Noda and Comm. Sec.
Martin Andanar together with
other PCOO officials led the
event that signal the transition
of PTV 4 from analog to digital
terrestrial television (DTT)
broadcast.

Andanar
said
the
project is a testament of a
strong cooperation between
PH-Japan in the field of
communications adding that it
is also one the most meaningful
modernization program under
the Duterte administration.

“This means really
ushering a new era of television
viewing in the country. So we
are leading the way in changing
broadcasting in the country,”
Andanar said.
PTV’s
General
Manager Dino Apolonio said
that the network must keep
pace with its counterparts,
Siniguro ng hepe ng Batangas City Bureau of Fire Protection na si SInsp. Glenn Salazar na ligtas sa sunog ang mga malls at iba pang
establishement sa Batangas
NAPC bats for new anti-poverty approaches
NAPC Secretary Liza Maza
hopes that their book of proposals
will inspire meaningful debates
among policy makers, change the
way they see the poor and poverty,
and usher in a comprehensive and
integrated approach to poverty
reduction this new year.
By MARYA SALAMAT
MANILA – A year and a
half since President Rodrigo
Duterte assumed the presidency,
the
National
Anti-Poverty
Commission directly under the
Office of the President released
a 100-page book pushing for
reforms on how the government
approaches anti-poverty policy.

Over the past decades,
every administration implemented
anti-poverty programs. But
all of it ultimately failed, said
NAPC Secretary Liza Maza.
An activist who represented the
Gabriela Women’s Partylist and
Bayan Muna in Congress, Maza
presented the NAPC Secretariat’s
book
called
“Reforming
Philippine Anti-Poverty Policy
– Going Beyond, Moving
Forward” as their contribution,
beginning this new year, to
hopefully spurring “meaningful
debates” among policy-makers
and advocates.
Secretary
Maza,
however, is aware that they are
going against the flow within the
administration. She has given
President Duterte a copy of the
policy proposal since December.
She still has to hear from him
about it.

The change they want
to usher in includes setting the
government’s sights higher, going
for poverty eradication instead
of mere poverty alleviation.
They want the government to
deepen the reach of intervention
to “multidimensional,” which
by their explanation means the
government must also bring
changes in the structures, systems,
policies that bring about poverty.
They want to change the current
practice of “compartmentalized”
anti-poverty
actions
where
government offices attending to
poverty function separately from
the offices and agencies issuing
orders that cause poverty. They
are proposing to the Duterte
administration to make poverty
eradication the centerpiece of its
economic, social and environment
policies. This way, they said, anti-
poverty actions won’t be mere
palliatives.
Besides, even as palliatives,
the government effort is far too
little. “Sa isang malaking dagat
ng mahihirap, ang liliit ng target
(Amid the wide sea of poverty,
the government’s target is too
small),” said Marivic Raquiza,
one of the authors of the proposed
policy reforms.

The NAPC secretariat
wants
to
broaden
the
government’s view of poverty.
They observed that the prevalent
view in government of poverty
is merely that of having low
income. “It should include the
people’s suffering from hunger,
discrimination,
and
other
vulnerabilities,” said lawyer
Evalyn Ursua, also one of the
authors.
Implementing
the
human rights-based approach
to eradicating poverty is in
fact in the 1987 Constitution,
Ursua said. “The Constitution
provides that the thrust should
be poverty eradication and not
alleviation.” Ursua added that
much of the policies being
issued are “inconsistent with the
Constitution.”

What the government
should be doing, according to
NAPC secretariat

Considering that the
country has failed to develop
the economy in more or less
four decades of neoliberal
policies, the NAPC proposal
wants a reorientation of the
economy. They said the main
strategy to adopt should aim for
healthy Philippine industries, a
comprehensive agrarian reform,
a developing countryside and
“transformative social policies”
which cover also social services
and protection.

Co-authors of NAPC
Secretariat’s
proposed
anti-
poverty policy reforms. They
culled it from a year’s work
of numerous discussions with
representatves of various sectors.

Among others, the
following, according to NAPC
secretariat, are some of the
reforms their policy proposal
hopes the Filipinos will support
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