VABC @ Iloilo City!

This year's Visayas Area Business Conference will be hosted by the Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Iloilo City on July 17-18, 2009 at the Sarabia Manor Hotel & Convention Center.

VABC is a gathering of businessmen from the Visayas Area exchanging ideas on how to improve and facilitate concerns for the business sector and to be able to help sustain the economy of the region!

for further information, please call Iloilo Chamber and book your trip to Iloilo now!

PCCI Boracay Report for May 2009

Prepared by: Mr. David Goldberg
VP - Internal
Boracay Chamber/VI /Malay, Aklan
Covering the period May 1 to 31 2009

CHAMBER / REGION / AREA ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED
Boracay / VI / Malay, Aklan
May 5 - 7, 2009,
Participated and donated Sandcastles for the 20th Meier’s Weltreisen Far East Live Seminar (FELS), Shangri-la Boracay, Yapak, Boracay Island, Malay, Aklan

Solid Waste Management Meeting with JICA and the LGU Malay,
9:00 am
Office of the Mayor, Malay, Aklan

Courtesy Call Meeting with Manila Water
11:30 am, Aria Restaurant, D’Mall Balabag, Malay, Aklan

Crisis Management and Contingency Planning for Boracay Island on May 19 – 21, 2009 at Boracay Regency Conference Hall, Balabag, Malay, Aklan

Meeting with the new GM of Fridays for introducing the Chamber and how it works, 3:00 pm, Fridays Resort, Balabag, Malay, Aklan

Executive Committee Meeting
May 22, 2009, 4:00 pm at Fridays Resort, Balabag, Malay, Aklan

CLUP Public Hearing
1:00 pm, Boracay Regency Function Room
Balabag, Malay, Aklan

CHAMBER / REGION / AREA
Boracay / VI / Malay, Aklan
PLAN ACTIVITIES

- War on Waste (WOW) Awards 2009
- Taxation Seminar
- Housekeeping Seminar
- Self Confidence and Costumer Service Workshop
- WWF ICEC Program

CHAMBER / REGION/ AREA
Boracay / VI / Malay, Aklan
CURRENT CONCERNS& PROPOSED SOLUTIONS

- Plastic Bag Reduction
* Coordinate with Mr. Restie Male for the proposal of the project

- Akelco Billing Price High
* Wait for the next bill and will discuss to the Board Meeting what to do for
sudden price high

- Result of Water Sampling for the whole island of Boracay
* Will set an appointment of meeting with the DENR Environment Management
Bureau 6 with regards to their findings

- Land Titling Issue
* Will get the Implementing Rules and Regulations at DENR Manila

- Manila Water Company Inc. will take over the management of Boracay Water and Sewerage System (BWSS)
* Will invite Manila Water for the General Membership Meeting for the members
to be aware of the plans, management and system to be offered by the same

- Website Scam
* Will inform the members that there is on going website scam using the name
of their respective resorts for reservation without any contract and their
knowledge

Metro Bacolod CCI Report for May 2009

METRO BACOLOD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY
REGION VI - WESTERN VISAYAS
Period Covering May 1-31, 2009

MBCCI meets with SPA Association of Negros Occidental

After the successful event organized by MBCCI “The 1st Negrense Beauty Health and Wellness Show held last April 23-26, 2009, the group of SPA operators and other health sectors met again with MBCCI to plan the second Wellness Show. The SPA Association is gratified to all the support and assistance extended by MBCCI.

Batch 4 of MBCCI Skills Training Program…Commence

MBCCI Vice-President and Training Director Frank Carbon gives lectures and orientation to more than 60, 4th Batch of Applicants to the MBCCI Free Skills Training Program

MBCCI and DOST Biodigester Project Turnover Ceremony with DOST Sec. Alabastro

MBCCI president Roberto Montelibano personally submitted to DOST Sec. Estrella Alabastro the portable biogas digester terminal report detailing its fabrication costs and proper use. This portable facility can help Bacolod City and Negros Occ. in its implementation of the solid waste management program. The portable biogas digester is an invention of the Industrial Technology Development Institute (DOST-ITDI) characterized by airtight, oxygen free vessel, fed with organic material where the microbial digestion takes place to produce biogas.

May 23, 2009
Partnership of MBCCI and Negros Japan Human Resource Exchange Program (NJHREA) Last 23 May 2009, Nineteen Japanese arrived in Bacolod City, representing various large construction corporations in Japan. They are in Bacolod to supervise the selection of 30 trainees from Negros Occidental who will be brought to Japan to study Japanese state-of-the-art construction technology for three years. Through the partnership of MBCCI and NJHREA, hundreds of semiskilled workers from Negros Occidental had already been sent to Japan since the training program’s inception in Bacolod last 2002.

May 23, 2009
DBP Investment Forum
L’Fisher Hotel, Bacolod City
VP Frank Carbon attended the Investment Forum organized by Development Bank of the Phils. DBP presented various Projects and Financing Programs pertinent to different areas such as: Social Services, Environment, Micro-Small and Medium Enterprise and Infrastructure/Logistics as well.

Antique CCI Report for May 2009

Prepared by: FE M. OSORIO
SECRETARY
ANTIQUE CCI
Covering the period May 1-31, 2009


CHAMBER/REGION/AREA
ACTIVITES CONDUCTED

Antique CCI/VI/
Western Visayas
- Dinner Dialogue with Mayor Jejomar Binay
on Local Concerns and Development
(San Jose being the sister city of Makati) May 27, 2009
Kanyugan Restaurant


- Networking Skill Development Program
for Local Business Partners
ASHI Regional Training Center
May 28, 2009

CHAMBER/REGION/AREA
CURRENT CONCERNS

- Heavy Traffic on National Highway due
to the opening of Gaisano Mall.
Both sides of Highway was utilized as
Parking area of those that cant be
accommodated at designated parking areas.

PROPOSED SOLUTIONS
- Talk to Local officials for possible solutions

Capiz CCi report for May 2009

Prepared by: JONITH A. BLANCAVER
Exec. Director
CHCCI/PCCI Region VI
Covering the period May 1 to 30, 2009

CHAMBER / REGION / AREA
Capiz Halaran Chamber of Commerce & Industry (CHCCI)/
PCCI – Region VI /
Visayas Area

ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED


1.CHCCI with other business organizations in Roxas City, Capiz, welcomed the first ever, historic and the only flight from/to Cebu-Roxas-Cebu of Cebu Pacific Air’s ATR –72-500 on May 2, 2009. CHCCI President, Jose Nery Ong, was one of the prime movers for the business sector in Roxas City and Capiz province to pass a resolution requesting Cebu Pacific Airline to run a direct flight from/to Cebu-Roxas in order for airline passengers in this city/province no longer take 2-3 hour land travel to Iloilo to take a flight to Cebu. This resolution was favorably endorsed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Roxas City and the Sangguning Panlalawigan of Capiz. The flight is the first flight from Cebu to Panau Island (6:10 AM) flying 3 times a week (TThS).

2. CHCCI assisted the Capiz provincial Tourism Office in organizing the Hotels, Resorts and Restaurants association in the Province of Capiz in a meeting called last May 8, 2009 at the Hall of Governors, Provincial Capitol, Roxas City. Four (4) of the 7 elected officers of the Association of Resorts, Restaurants and Hotels of Capiz (ARRHC) are members of the joint chamber of commerce, while majority of the incorporators are also chamber members.

3. Recognizing the strong partnership of CHCCI with the City Government through its partnership undertaking in organizing and managing the Capiz Visitors and Convention Bureau, Inc., CHCCI Executive Director was tapped as a resource person during the Orientation-Seminar of Tricycle Drivers on May 8, 2009 at the Dinggoy Roxas Civic Center, Roxas City. Mr. Blancaver discussed the topic Tourist-Friendly Transport System for one (1) hour to around 500 tricycle operators and drivers. CHCCI received another invitation as a regular resource person./ speaker on the same topic on the next batches. Roxas City has 3,500 tricycles more or less.

4. Last May 12, 2009, Roxas City celebrated is 58th Charter Anniversary. The Chamber with the CVCB was tasked by the City to welcome its guests at the Roxas Airport and assisted in their transfer from the airport to the hotel. CHCCI with the Roxas City Filipino-Chamber of Commerce joined the Job Fair assisting 5 of its member-companies in accepting and pre-screening applicants. Those who passed were then referred to the companies who participated. The joint Chamber was able to accept 15 pre-screened applicants whereby 4 were already hired. The participating companies are the Red Sun Restaurant, Facial Plus, San Antonio Resort and the Capiz Times. CVCB also searched for a Marketing Assistant through the joint Chamber table receiving 4 pre-screened applicants whereby one (1) is being considered for the position desired.

5. From May 15 – 30, CHCCI staff conducted a research on Local Revenue/Tax Code in Roxas City and its neighboring city/capital town (Kalibo, Aklan and Passi City, Iloilo). These materials will be used by the business organizations led by the joint Chambers of Commerce, to propose for the revision of the Roxas City Revenue Code. Local businessmen here are raising concerns that the 1997 local tax code of Roxas City is obsolete and that it needs to be updated. Earlier this year, the 2 chambers initiated a move to look into the provisions of the tax code especially the business tax rates, much more that the City will be implementing the new policy on computing business tax based on the businessman’s ITR computed by BIR. The City Executive welcomed the initiative of the Chambers and expressed support to the win-win proposal of the business sector to revise/update the Local Revenue Code of Roxas City.

CHAMBER/REGION/AREA
Capiz Halaran Chamber of Commerce
and Industry (CHCCI) /
PCCI- Region VI /
Visayas Area

PLANNED ACTIVITIES

1.Call for a joint Chamber meeting to present the research on Local Tax/Revenue Code from Kalibo, Aklan and from Passi City, Iloilo compared with the Roxas City Local Revenue Code of 1997, and consolidate inputs/comments from the members for inclusion to the proposal of the business sector for the revision/updating of the Local Revenue Code of the City of Roxas that is win-win to both the businessmen and the City.

2.Participate in the reorganization of the Peace and Order Council of the City of Roxas. CHCCI President was invited by the City Mayor, Hon. Vicente B. Bermejo, as one of the members of the Council, for a reorganization meeting next month.

3.Call for a general membership meeting as soon as CHCCI president arrives from his US Rotary International-sponsored exchange visit, to discuss revision of the name of CHCCI to PCCI-Capiz, and to hear the a privilege speech of the CHCCI president.

4.Participate in partnership projects/programs/ activities with the City and the Province on its forthcoming big events i.e. National Indigenous People’s Month to be held in Roxas City in October 2009.

CHAMBER/REGION/ AREA
CHCCI/Region VI/Visayas

CURRENT CONCERNS PROPOSED SOLUTIONS

1. Obsolete City Local Revenue Code of 1997

- Propose revision/ updating though research and consultative meetings with the members and the City Government,and lobby for the revisions/ updating of the Local Revenue Code of the City of Roxas that is win-win to the City and the business sector.
2.Amendment of the name of Capiz Halaran Chamber of Commerce and Industry to Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Capiz.

- Call for a board meeting to discuss the amendment and when approved,process/submit necessary documents to PCCI National thru PCCI Region

PCCI Aklan Report for May 2009

Prepared by: NIÑA JOY DE JUAN
AKLAN CCI/ VI/WV Secretariat
Covering the period May 1-31, 2009

CHAMBER/REGION/AREA
PCCI Aklan/ Region 6/

ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED
National Competitiveness Council Workshop
Western Visayas, May 19, 2009
Aklan Sampaguita Gardens

CHAMBER/REGION/AREA
PCCI Aklan/Region 6/
Western Visayas

PLANNED ACTIVITIES
PCCI Aklan/Region 6/
Western Visayas

General Assembly Meeting
June 9, 2009

Customer Service Seminar Workshop
June 29—30, 2009

Forum With Local Businessmen on the
Continuous increase in Power Rates
June 15, 2009

CHAMBER/REGION/AREA
CCI Aklan/Region 6/
Western Visayas

CURRENT CONCERNS PROPOSED SOLUTIONS
1. Problems on terminated Employees

- Prepare a database for Employees distribution to all chamber members

PCCI Aklan/Region 6/
Western Visayas

2. Problems on Bouncing check Issuances

- Prepare a database for distribution to all members

1st Negrense, Beauty, Health and Wellness Show a Success

The Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) and the SPA Association of Negros Occidental (SPAN) in coordination with the Office of Council Jocelle Batapa-Sigue had successfully organized the 1st Negrense, Beauty, Health and Wellness Show held last April 23 to 26, 2009 at Robinsons Place Bacolod. This was officially recognized as a part of activities during the Panaad Festival 2009, the event was participated by 25 exhibitors from various SPA clinics and Beauty / Health shops.

Moreover, the show involved Educational Conferences, actual Health and Beauty Demonstrations and series of presentations and talks. Inspiring messages was delivered by our Health and Beauty experts, Hon. Cynthia Lazo- Director of Sports and Wellness Tourism, Department of Tourism and Ms. Marjorie Lopinco President of Spa Association of the Philippines. The event served the public as a venue for awareness and information.

The event contributed a great deal to Health and Beauty business, wherein it boosted up their clientele and they started to hire additional workforce and develop new strategies to be more competitive.

Iloilo Chamber hosts VABC '09

The Visayas Area Business Conference is an annual activity bringing together more than 200 hundred businessmen from all over the Visayas area!

This years VABC with the theme One Visayas: Regional Economic Development the Key to Progress.
will be hosted by the Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Iloilo on 17-18 July 2009 at Sarabia Manor Hotel and Convention Center, Iloilo City!

The Regional Governor's office of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce & Industry Region VI encourages participation and attendance from its local chamber officers and members to be able to establish camaraderie and business networks with other chambers in the area.

For your inquires, you may contact the following:

Mr. Joemarie Agriam
President
CCCI of Iloilo
Tel (033) 329 4532
Mobile 09088632887

PCCI Regional Governor's Office
Kalibo, Aklan
Telephone (036) 268 5425/500 8567
Look for Rhoda

Attend this annual conference and be part of the economic development of Visayas!

Iloilo Chamber signs MOA with Iloilo Provincial Government

The Iloilo Provincial Government headed by Governor Niel Tupas and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Iloilo, Inc. led by President Joe Marie Agriam signed a Memo of Agreement to host the 18th Visayas Area Business Conference on July 17-18, 2009 to be held in Iloilo City . Some 200 businessmen from seventeen (17) PCCI chapters in the Visayas are expected to attend the two-day conference with a theme, One Visayas: Regional Economic Development the Key to Progress.