Tambuling Batangas Publication January 24-30, 2018 Issue | Page 3

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Enero 24-30, 2018
President Rodrigo Duterte shares a light moment with Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea and Overseas Filipino Bank (OFBank)
Chairman Alex Buenaventura after the unveiling ceremony of OFBank’s marker during it’s inauguration at the Postbank Center,
Liwasang Bonifacio in Manila on 18 January 2018. (Presidential Photos)

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According to CAAP,
the system also brings with
it better air traffic flow and
space management which
optimizes airport capacity
and efficient use of airspace
that will in turn minimize
delays by helping aircraft
operators meet their departure
and arrival schedules.

The
CNS/ATM
project started in 2009 but
due to delays in construction
and other challenges, it did
not hit its target completion
in 2016. The project was
completed only last October.
mula sa pahina 1
siyang gumagawa ng
naturang produkto ang kanilang
bagong findings ukol sa epekto
nito kung saan magbibigay
proteksyon ito sa loob ng
anim na taon sa mga batang
nagkaroon ng dengue subalit
mula sa pahina 8

The
project
also
includes
the
installation
of additional 10 radars in
Aparri, Laoag, Cebu-Mt.
Majic,
Quezon-Palawan,
Zamboanga, Ninoy Aquino
International
Airport
2,
Mactan, Bacolod, Kalibo, and
Davao. These radars will now
be able to cover 70 percent of
Philippine air space.
Previously,
the
country had only three radars
located at the NAIA, Clark
and Tagaytay, which covered
only 30 percent of the
Philippine airspace.

The new CNS/ATM
makapagdudulot ng mas
malubhang kaso ng dengue
sa mga nabakunahan na hindi
pa nagkakaroon ng sakit
na ito. (GG/BHABY P. DE
CASTRO-PIA BATANGAS
with reports from MA.
TERESA S. BUNO -CIO
TANAUAN)
Systems works by sending
satellite signals to aircraft
transponders and by using
transponder transmissions to
determine precise locations
of aircrafts in the sky.

The
new
system
which includes a computer-
based flight data processing
system, aims to enable
aircraft operators to meet
their
planned
times
of
departure and arrival while
also
adhering
to
their
preferred flight profiles with
minimum constraints and
without compromising agreed
levels of safety. (EPC/SDL/
PIA-NCR)
DPWH to beef-up quake resilience of 25
inspecting some
bridges, 3 flyovers in MM finished
4,900 plus structures, of
QUEZON CITY – A ranking
public works official on
Wednesday
said
their
agency will fortify this year
several bridges and elevated
highways in the National
Capital Region in preparation
for destructive earthquakes.

Speaking from the
sidelines of the Philippine
Earthquake
Model
Atlas
launch held at the Philippine
Institute of Volcanology and
Seismology (PhiVolcs) in
U.P. Diliman, Department of
Public Works and Highways
(DPWH)
Undersecretary
for Planning and PPP Maria
Catalina Cabral said at
least 25 bridges and three
major overpasses are due
for repairs in 2018 to ensure
structural integrity in case
a
7.2-magnitude
quake
devastates the capital.

“Under
our
2018
budget, we are funding and
we are going to retrofit
and strengthen 25 bridges
and three flyovers in Metro
Manila that will cost us one
billion pesos… These are
already funded,” Cabral said.
The official said among these
bridges and passageways,
top priority would fall on the
114-linear meter Guadalupe
Bridge on EDSA and 98-linear
meter Lambingan Bridge in
Sta. Ana, Manila.

“Under Metro Manila
Priority
Bridge
Seismic
Improvement
Project
we
are going to rehabilitate
the outermost part of the
Guadalupe Bridge first and
whether we encounter traffic
we have to do that because
that bridge is over 50 years
old,” she emphasized.

She said the DPWH
has been assessing public
infrastructures with a goal to
make these structures more
resilient and durable against
strong seismic movements in
the future.
“We’ve
done
vulnerability risk assessment
of public buildings. We’ve
which, majority of that
are school buildings and
hospitals,” she said.

“It is important to
safeguard the safety of all
buildings as well as important
lifeline infrastructures such
as bridges that make both
economic and social life of
the people,” she added.
Cabral
joined
Department
of
Science
and Technology Secretary
Fortunato de la Peña and
DOST-PhiVolcs
OIC
and
Undersecretary for Disaster
Risk Reduction and Climate
Change Dr. Renato Solidum
Jr. in launching the Philippine
Earthquake Model Atlas,
which aims to help engineers
in
designing
earthquake
resilient buildings.

The
atlas
is
a
handbook of probabilistic
seismic hazard maps that will
aid engineers in designing
earthquake resilient buildings
and structures. It can also be
used as a tool for land use,
Duterte opens bank dedicated to
the needs of overseas Filipinos
MANILA
--
President
Rodrigo Duterte launched
on Thursday the Overseas
Filipino Bank, a fruition
of his campaign promise to
establish the first-ever bank
dedicated to the needs of
overseas-based Filipinos.

In his speech during
the launching of the Overseas
Filipino Bank at the former
Philippine Postal Savings
Bank (PostBank) head office
in
Liwasang
Bonifacio,
Manila, the President said he
was happy that he was able
to fulfill one of his campaign
promises.

In September last
year, the President issued
Executive Order No. 44
ordering
the
Philippine
Postal Corporation and the
Bureau of the Treasury (BTr)
to transfer their PostBank
shares to LandBank at zero
value.

The
EO
further
stated that the former Postal
Bank will be converted
into the “Overseas Filipino
Bank,” which will be a
“policy bank dedicated to
provide financial products
and services tailored to the
requirement
of
overseas
Filipinos” and will focus
on delivering “quality and
efficient foreign remittance
services.”
“The
Overseas
Filipino Bank (OFB) is
envisioned to provide a wide
array of financial services
to
overseas
Filipinos,
especially
the
country’s
migrant workers, so that
they would no longer be
vulnerable
to
expensive
remittance
services
and
investment scams,” Finance
DSWD’s ...
Secretary Carlos Dominguez
said.

Dominguez said the
OFB will handle remittances,
support investments made
by overseas-based Filipinos,
and help build their financial
literacy as well as “financial
sophistication.”

“The OFB is another
step towards reshaping our
economic progress to make
it more inclusive. It will help
fulfill our goal of shifting
to
an
investment-driven
economy. More important,
our overseas workers would
be able to invest in their
country which they have
helped transform into one
of
the
fastest-growing
economies in the region,”
Dominguez said.

He
clarified
that
the Bank was initially
conceptualized as a financial
institution for OFWs, but its
coverage was expanded to
include all Filipinos based
overseas to make it more
inclusive.

“There is no other
institution like this one,”
said Dominguez.

As a subsidiary of the
Land Bank of the Philippines,
Dominguez said the OFB can
be assured of “exemplary
financial
expertise
and
sufficient capital to ensure
its success.”

He said the DOF
and LandBank are also
planning to secure licenses
in other countries with large
concentrations of overseas
Filipinos so the LandBank
can
provide
financial
advisory services to the
Filipino
communities
in
these areas. (PIA-NCR/EPC/
SDL)
mula sa pahina 8..
cash cards by 31 January 2018.
The remaining 2.6 million
Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries
without cash cards will receive
the grants through partner
conduits at a later date.

The three million
indigent senior citizens who are
beneficiaries of DSWD Social
Pension Program are among the
beneficiaries. The remaining
2.6 million households will be
selected from the Listahanan or
National Household Targeting
System (NHTS-PR) which will
go through validation.

The validation process
is expected to last for three
months, with the final list to be
out by May, and the distribution of the cash grants to be done by
June 2018,” Leyco explained.

He added that the
guidelines for the UCT’s
implementation
are
now
being finalized including the
partnership with the financial
conduits to ensure that UCT will
reach the intended recipients
without complications.
“DSWD
will
continue to uphold efficiency,
transparency, and compassion
in the delivery of its programs
and services -- including the
UCT -- and to be true to its
mandate to provide maagap at
mapagkalingang serbisyo and
serbisyong walang puwang sa
katiwalian,” Leyco concluded.
(DSWD SMS/PIA-NCR/lfb)
urban planning, and disaster
risk management plans of
local
government
units,
government agencies, and
other stakeholders.

“We will also make
the Philippine Earthquake
Model
Atlas
available
today in the agency website
(phivolcs.dost.gov.ph)
for
public reference,” Solidum
said.

These maps were generated
through
the
collaborative expertise of
seismologists,
geologists,
engineers, and researchers
from
DOST-Phivolcs,
in
consultation with various
concerned agencies, such
as the Metropolitan Manila
Development Authority, the
Office of Civil Defense,
Metro Manila LGUs, and the
DPWH, among others. (EPC/
JCP/PIA-NCR)