KORONADAL CITY, Jan. 26 (PIA) -- Soccsksargen Region’s largest state university would soon be upgrading its mobile laboratories with help from the provincial government of North Cotabato.
Just recently, Gov. Emmylou “Lala” J. Taliño-Mendoza and Dr. Jesus Antonio Derije, president of the University of Southern Mindanao (USM), which has its main campus in Kabacan town, North Cotabato signed a memorandum of agreement for the upgrading of the latter’s Mobile Vet Clinic and Agriculture Mobile Laboratory.
With the MOA, the provincial commits to give P4 million to the state university for the enhancement of the said laboratories that would guarantee low cost neighborhood health clinic for animals and livestock as well as expert technical assistance for farmers.
The mobile veterinary clinic, managed by USM’s College of Veterinary Medicine is equipped with state-of-art amenities. It is being upgraded to become an outreach facility of the college and its students throughout the province and shall offer convenient ambulatory clinic that provides health care services to animals, pets, livestock, and poultry.
It will also be furnished with necessary tools, supplies, and equipment for animal and livestock outpatient services.
Once upgraded, the clinic will have improved capacities to provide free physical exams, vaccinations, dental care, parasite control treatments, as well as diagnostic procedures including ultrasound, blood, urine and fecal testing for animals with the same high quality and complete healthcare as in a complete veterinary clinic.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Jan. 27 (PIA) -- The city government here has noted a remarkable increase in the total collection of business taxes and fees for the first month of the year which now reached 54 percent of the entire 2011 revenue target.
City administrator, Atty. Jose Constantino Gonzales attributed the positive result to the efficient tax collection efforts of all concerned government agencies by saying that the establishment of a “one stop shop” processing of business permits has greatly encouraged taxpayers to settle their obligations before the deadline.
Gonzales said “one stop shop” is a service that seeks to facilitate and speed-up the processing of business-related permits and documents by gathering in one place all government agencies involved in the registration process.
As of Thursday (January 26), the city treasurer’s office has recorded an amount of P89, 159, 757.24 collected taxes; almost P10 million higher than the P79, 652, 683.40 for the same period last year.
City treasurer, Gloria Castellano, said that out of the P164, 730, 183. 99 total assessments for 2011, the agency has only collected P136, 602, 000 payments for additional, renewal, and new business taxes and fees for the entire year.
KORONADAL CITY, January 27 (PIA) -- The national government has spent P1,075,479,100 for conditional cash transfer to poorest of the poor families in the Soccsksargen Region (Region 12) and portions of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
Department of Social Welfare and Development 12 Regional Director Zorahayda Taha said, this amount was used as cash grants for 148,660 household-beneficiaries of the Philippine government’s premiere anti-poverty initiative, Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
This funds were directly given to the beneficiaries, she said. “To date, we are covering 44 towns and six cities. Just recently, we expanded our coverage to 15 more in Region 12. The government is concern with the condition of our poor and fortunate people,” Taha said.
Localities included in the recent expansion include Kidapawan City and the towns of Kabacan, Libungan, Makilala, Midsayap, and M’langin North Cotabato; Tacurong City and Isulan town in Sultan Kudarat Province; Koronadal City, Norala, Polomolok, Surallah, Tampakan, Tantangan,and Tupi in South Cotabato.
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