NSO-CamSur announces job vacancies

By Analiza S. Macatangay

NAGA CITY, March 15 (PIA) -- The National Statistics Office in Camarines Sur is in need of a receipt and control clerk in line with their conduct of the 2012 Census of Agriculture and Fisheries.

NSO Camarines Sur Provincial Statistics Officer Clemente Manaog posted the announcement to fast track the conduct of the said survey that intends to create a database to be used for development planning on agriculture and fisheries.

The applicant must be willing to render overtime service and has good moral character. He or she must be a college graduate and must know how to operate simple computer applications said Manaog.

"I am encouraging our graduates and those who are looking for employment opportunities to try their luck and fill up the said vacant position," Manaog said in an interview.

Aside from the clerk, NSO CamSur is also in need of 10 statistical researchers for the 2012 Census of Philippine Business and Industry (CPBI). Applicants must be college graduate, preferably with experience and training in census/ survey undertaking. Applicant must also be computer-literate, physically fit, with good moral character, with good interpersonal skills and should not be more than 45 years old.

It will be an advantage if the applicant has experience in dealing with different kinds of clients and has the willingness to render overtime service if needed.

"The conduct of CPBI aims to collect and generate information on the performance, levels, structure and trends of economic activities of the formal sector in the entire country for the year 2012. This is the 15th in the series of economic censuses conducted in the Philippines. The last economic census was the 2006 CPBI conducted in 2007," Manaog added.

The said census will cover manufacturing establishments, wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household goods, hotels and restaurants, transport, storage, and communications among others.

Applicants may submit their application at the NSO at 2nd Floor MMCN Bldg., Panganiban Drive, Naga City. Deadline of submission of entries is on March 15. (MAL/LSM-PIA5, Camarines Sur)


DAR inks MOA with PCIC

By Analiza S. Macatangay

NAGA CITY, March 15 (PIA) -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) through the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) recently inked a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) for the implementation of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Agricultural Insurance Program (ARB-AIP) in Camarines Sur and Camarines Norte.

The agreement will benefit farmers and planters from both provinces and will assure them of their crop's safety against pests and diseases for the next two cropping seasons this year.

DAR Camarines Sur Supervising Agrarian Reform Program Officer (SUARPO), also designated as the agency's Public Information Officer (PIO) Joey Cu said the partnership will protect the farmer's crops against the unpredictable weather patterns caused by the worsening effect of climate change.

"Under this program, the DAR will identify qualified farmer beneficiaries through its field offices nationwide. For this year, DAR will target 224,000 ARBs who are either rice, corn, or commercial crop farmers who are farming some 330,000 hectares of agricultural land and those raising some 30,700 farm animals. The DAR will provide up to 90% premium subsidy while they are enrolled in the DA-PCIC Insurance Programs within the year," Cu added.

The remaining 10 per cent will be shouldered by the farmers as their equity.

The agreement is the first collaboration of its kind, having brought the country's two main rural development agencies to collaborate and work together in the common objective of making the farmers not only self-reliant but successful agriculture entrepreneurs. The accord is also considered as the biggest group insurance plan issued by DA-PCIC.

One of the provisions of the said MOA is the allocation of P1B to ARBs. The fund will be taken from the DAR's Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms or CARPer Fund .

"Also under the MOA, each farmer beneficiary shall be provided with insurance protection coverage for a maximum of three hectares and up to three types of insurance coverage only," Cu said.

The insurance coverage subsidy is one of the new innovations of DAR under its Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services or ARCCESS.

Just recently, DAR Bicol Regional Director Atty. Ma.Celestina M. Tam led the blessing and inauguration of common service facilities at DAR -Camarines Sur office.

On March 6, a day after the occasion, she again led the ARBs in the ground breaking of the 6-km Buluang San Isidro- Sta. Teresita - Agdangan farm-to-market road.

The rural infrastructure sub project with a total cost of P22.2M was funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) under the DAR's Agrarian Reform Community Project (ARCP). (MAL/LSM-PIA5/Camarines Sur )


Bicol police stages free concert for peaceful May polls

By Connie Destura

LEGAZPI CITY, March 15 (PIA) -- To implement and initiate Police Community Relations (PCR) election-related activities, the Police Regional Office for Bicol will host a free admission concert today, March 15 at the Albay Astrodome in this city.

Dubbed “Konsiyerto Kan Kapulisan Para sa Matoninong na Eleksyon (Police Concert for Peaceful Elections)” in connection with the forthcoming mid-term elections on May 13.

The concert will feature the PNP and civilian performers who will showcase their talents and love for music, Bicol police regional director Chief Supt. Clarence Guinto.

The PNP participants will be composed of musicians from the regional headquarters combo/band, police offices, Naga City Police Office, 5th Regional Public Safety Battalion (RPSB), and Regional Training School 5.

During the staging of the Concert for Peace, the PNP performers will showcase all PNP uniforms from GOA Blue, Ceremonial Dress, Athletics, Patrol, Disaster, Combat Operations, Highway Patrol Group, and Health Service.

The civilian participants will come from the youth and other civic-minded individuals who are advocates of peace.

The RPCRD personnel invited civilians guest performers during day and a dinner will be served, as well as stipend will be given to them.

According to Guinto, the concert will promote police-community partnership towards the realization of a Secure and Fair Elections (SAFE) 2013. (MAL/CBD-PIA5)