Arroyo tries to rally Filipinos in face of crisis.Manila: President Gloria Arroyo has sought to rally Filipinos as government, business and labour sectors to brace for the looming economic maelstrom Maelstrom, whirlpool, Norway: see Moskenstraumen. . Addressing the Multi-Sectoral Jobs Summit at the presidential palace yesterday, Arroyo called on the three sectors to join hands and give attention to problems of workers forced to bear the hardships of the global downturn. Arroyo said the three sectors are taking steps to save and generate jobs. She said the government has already put together the Economic Resiliency Plan. "Under this Economic Resiliency Plan, which is our stimulus programme, we will continue our unprecedented investments. I direct key agencies to show solid progress in bidding out and/or implementing major infrastructure and social projects under the 300 billion pesos (Dh22 billion) stimulus plan. We consider this the most important government initiative this year," she said. Alongside taking steps to weather the economic storm, the President said her government is taking the economic downturn as an opportunity to push forward her administration's policy of promoting environment friendly jobs and energy independence. Arroyo said the Economic Resiliency Plan categorises budget-funded energy-independence and environment-friendly jobs as "green collar jobs." A 2 billion pesos project to plant trees in the provinces of Bukidnon, Cagayan de Oro Cagayan de Oro City (pop., 2000: 461,877), northern Mindanao, Philippines. Located along the Cagayan River near the head of Macajalar Bay, it was established as a mission station in the 17th century and fortified by the Spaniards. and Lanao del Sur Lanao del Sur is a province of the Philippines located in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Its capital is Marawi City and borders Lanao del Norte to the north, Bukidnon to the east, and Maguindanao and Cotabato to the south. , which had suffered heavily from forest denudation denudation /de·nu·da·tion/ (den?u-da´shun) the stripping or laying bare of any part. de·nu·da·tion n. The removal of a covering or surface layer. , is part of the programme to generate "green collar jobs". Destruction of forest areas in parts of the Philippines is often blamed on flashfloods that cause destruction of lives and property. Arroyo said that aside from planting trees, a massive government project to install solar power structures in remote areas and one to retrofit public transport with cleaner burning liquefied petroleum gas liquefied petroleum gas or LPG, mixture of gases, chiefly propane and butane, produced commercially from petroleum and stored under pressure to keep it in a liquid state. units will provide jobs for people hit by the global financial crisis. Al Nisr Publishing Al Nisr Publishing is a company based in Dubai, UAE. The company is a part of Al Tayer Group. It was established in 1985 by Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, Abdullah Al Rostamani and Juma Al Majid. It employs 1,050 people and has branches in Manilla, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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