THE Navotas City government has obtained a project grant worth P700,000 from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) which the former will use to carry out a free skills training that will directly benefit over 400 marginalized fisherfolk.
According to Mayor John Rey Tiangco, several training experts coming from the ‘Navotaas’ Hanapbuhay Center have started conducting workshops involving the particular sector especially in the making of fish siomai/dimsum, fish ham, golden ‘alamang’ balls, fish salami, fish ‘longganisa,’ and fish sausage, among others.
“The city government was extra gratified by the support we get from other government agencies this time the DTI which handed us the grant which will be used to train some fisher folk to engage in other small-scale businesses from their occupation of catching fish,” Mayor Tiangco says.
He said his administration has not stopped from looking for any other means that this particular sector can avail of in order for them to augment their income aside from catching fish.
The DTI’s grant came as the city government held recently the Entrepreneurship Summit III with theme: “Ito na ang tamang panahon sa pagnenegosyo,” said Tiangco.
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AKBAYAN: BONGBONG MARCOS IS A FALSE PROPHET OF UNITY
Akbayan Partylist today has countered Senator Bongbong Marcos’s calls to elect politicians who will push for unity, saying the “ambitious scion of the dictator does not fit the quality he endorses.”
“What unity is Bongbong Marcos referring to?” asked Machris Cabreros, Akbayan president.
“If unity means forgetting that his father plundered the country and is responsible for the torture, disappearances and deaths of thousands, then that is not unity, that is revisionism.”
The Akbayan head is claiming the senator cannot sanitize his bid for Vice President post by distancing himself from his father.
“Marcos Jr. was a legal-age, conscious adult at the height of his father’s atrocities, and if he will not apologize for the father’s sins then he is an accomplice to this historical injustice.”
People need to be reminded that the massive theft from public coffers and the destruction of democratic institutions during Martial Law are part of the source of the systemic problems that we continue to feel today, Cabreros says.
Cabreros adds: “Bongbong Marcos belongs in the dustbin of irrelevance, not in an office a heartbeat away from the Presidency.”
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