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Vanguard DTI holds seminars on fair trade laws Borongan City, E. Samar (PIA) - The Department of Trade and Industry-Eastern Samar Provincial Field Office (DTI-Eastern Samar) continues to implement Fair Trade Laws seminars to local business owners in the various municipalities and city of the province. Ligaya Catuday, Chief, DTI Eastern Samar Consumer Welfare Division, said seminars are part of the agency’s Consumer Education Program aimed at inculcating to local business owners their rights and responsibilities. She also disclosed that they have already visited three municipalities and one city to implement these seminars participated by local business owners, particularly the ones with an existing businesses. The municipalities are Dolores, Guiuan, and Oras and Borongan City. These places can also be considered as the major trading centers of Eastern Samar based on the fact that this seminar is being held annually as part of DTI-Eastern Samar’s regular program. Catuday further said that it is important to always notify business owners regarding these seminars to avoid incurring a penalty if ever they have a violation. Also discussed in these seminars were the topics on business name registration, product standards, sales promotion permit application, and the implementation of the Price Tag Law. During these seminars, business owners, especially the ones with 100, 000 capitalization, were also notified to strictly implement the 5% senior citizens’ discount in basic and prime commodities. DTI-Eastern Samar also encouraged establishments and stores selling Christmas lights to sell only genuine ones with genuine ICC stickers to ensure the safety of the consumers. A surprise monitoring and visit of stores which sell these Christmas lights will be held anytime this month to inspect these commodities if they follow product standards. (ajc/ SDC/PIA-Eastern Samar) Any definition of a culture of peace must address the problem of achieving justice for communities and individuals who do not have the means to compete or cope without structured assistance and compassionate help. -- Mahnaz Afkhami Ormoc airport reopens By Ronnie Roa Ormoc City – The city’s fastest link to Cebu and Manila is already in service after it was inaugurated with the Cebu Pacific ATR 72-500 landing in Ormoc Airport last November 19, 2016, 37 minutes after it departed from Cebu at 7:48 AM that same day. This was based on the record by the flight stewardess. The maiden flight of CebuPac carried 31 passengers including Ormoc Mayor Richard Gomez. For the record, he was the first passenger to step on the tarmac. The Vanguard Communications and Publishing Corporation accepts all kinds of printing jobs • • • • • School papers Magazines Annual publications Annual Reports