San Jose dB, DOT train site guides for town's main attractions

The local government of San Jose de Buenavista in partnership with the Department of Tourism (DOT) conducted a tourist reception and basic tour guiding techniques seminar.

According to DOT, The seminar was designed to develop and improve the performance of front-liners in rendering first rate professional service in the tourism industry.

Moreover, the LGU hopes to improve the service in its main tourist attractions - Farmville and the Marine Protected Area especially the Coastal Resource Management (CRM) Mini Galley.

Farmville is an LGU-owned demo farm for integrated organic farming, which offers tour, lectures and training on organic farming techniques.

The CRM Mini Galley offers discovery tour of the marine ecosystem and environmental protection and conservation while the Marine Protected Area is open for snorkeling activities thru the CRM Mini Galley.

Participants from allied services such as accommodation establishments and souvenir/ craft shop also attended the training.

On the last day of the training, a mock tour was conducted to assess the compentency of the participants.

Mayor Rony Molina hopes to conduct tourist reception training to tricycle and jeepney drivers in the Municipality. 

San Jose dB to receive eHealth tablets

San Jose de Buenavista has been chosen to be one of the recipients of the eHealth TABLET (Technology Assisted Boards for LGU Efficiency and Transparency) in Western Visayas.

The  provision of tablets is a component of the "Developing eHealth TABLET Prototype: A Bottom Up Approach to the Development of an Electronic-based Health Information System Integration Application" which aims to design and develop a mobile patient record system (a software application) with dashboard output and a doctor-mayor communication system.

Hoping to provide an innovative solution to the Philippine's health information management problem and to improve the health decision-making process of local government units, the Philippines Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Institute of Philippine Culture (IPC), and Ateneo Java Wireless Competence Center (AJWCC) of the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) partnered with and the League of the Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) to select 12 pilot sites across the country.

A signing of Memorandum of Agreement and turn over ceremony will be held on August 23, 2013 at the Municipal Hall.

San Jose MDRRC holds 2nd rescue olympics

Clustered barangay-based emergency responders were pitted against each other on Chariot and Tripod Race, Vehicular Accident Extrication, Rescue Swimming, Rescue Tube Throwing and Relay, Underwater Knot Tying, Basic Life Support and Basic Fire Fighting during the San Jose de Buenavista Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (MDRRMC) 2nd Rescue Olympics.

Zone 1 (barangays Maybato North, Maybato Sur and Bariri) was Best in Chariot and Tripod Race and Best in Rescue Swimming; Zone 3 (Brgy. 2 and Brgy. 5) was Best in Basic Life Support; Zone 4 (Brgy. 4, Malaiba and San Angel) was Best in Basic Fire Fighting; Zone 5 (Brgy. 1, Bugarot, Cansadan Tubudan and Inabasan) was Best in Rescue Tube Throwing and Relay; Zone 2 (Badiang, San Fernando and Supa) was Best in Underwater Knot Tying; and Zone 8 (Atabay, Badiang and Funda-Dalipe) was Best in Vehicular Accident Extrication.

Zone 1 emerged as this year’s overall champion and Zone 3 and 4 were runner-ups.

Aside from certificates of recognition, the winning barangays also received personal protective equipment – hard hats and rain coats, as prizes, while other participating barangays shall receive LED battery-operated, waterproof flashlights.


The Rescue Olympics serves as a monitoring tool to check whether barangay-based emergency responders maintains the knowledge and skills taught by the Municipal DRRM personnel in their respective barangay trainings.

This year, the barangays were clustered to encourage cooperation and teamwork among neighboring barangays.