TEACHER Cornelia Castor (right) lets a student borrow her shoes during a high school graduation ceremony in Pototan, Iloilo Friday, July 1. Castor’s kind deed has earned her kudos from netizens. (Krissy Selorio/Cornelia Castor)
ILOILO CITY – A teacher in Pototan, Iloilo has been cited for lending he
VAX DATA. Lambunao Vice Mayor Arvin Losaria (second from right) receives a set of computer tablets with keyboards from DICT Western Visayas Regional Director Jane Javellana (3rd from left) during the turnover ceremony held at the Digital Transformation Center in Passi City on Wednesday (June 22, 2022). The tablets would help local government units with the encoding of their vaccination status.(PNA photo by Perla G. Lena) ILOILO CITY -Six local government units (LGUs) from Iloilo and Aklan provinces are recipients of tablets with keyboards from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) to augment the reporting of their coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination status. "Your DICT in partnership with the UNDP will be providing tablets with keyboards to all LGUs in the region as we aim to address the timely submission of the line list and updating of records, and to assist them fully maximize the be
TRAINING CENTER.The training center located inside the newly-opened Digital Transformation Center of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) in Passi City, Iloilo on Wednesday (June 22, 2022). The one in Passi City is the first provincial hub to be opened by the DICT to bring its digital services closer to the people.(PNA photo by Perla G. Lena) ILOILO CITY -The opening of the Digital Transformation Center of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) in Passi City in Iloilo will bring the government's digital services closer to the people of Iloilo province. "We are establishing digital transformation centers or hubs across the country that will offer various digital trainings and services to different sectors of our society. Both the public and private sectors can work and interact with each other through the hub for the betterment of Iloilo's ICT (Information and Communications Technology)," said DICT Undersecretar
LIVELIHOOD SUPPORT. Recipients of the Pagbangon at Ginhawa Program livelihood kits in Iloilo City in this undated photo. This year, the Department of Trade and Industry has allocated 40 livelihood kits for barangays that have been cleared from insurgents.(Photo courtesy of DTI Iloilo) ILOILO CITY - The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) this year has allocated 40 livelihood support under its Pangkabuhayan sa Pagbangon at Ginhawa (PPG) program for micro, small and medium entrepreneurs (MSMEs) operating in insurgency-cleared areas. DTI is a member of the Poverty Reduction, Livelihood and Employment Cluster (PRLEC) of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). "This is a convergence of several government agencies to provide livelihood assistance in the economic sector including the areas under armed conflict," said DTI Iloilo director Felisa Judith Degala in an interview on Thursday. She said the recipients are entitled to a package of assista