MINERVA BC NEWMAN
CEBU CITY โ The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Cebu through its Negosyo Center distributed Negosyo Kits worth P6,000 each to 31 micro-small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Mandaue City and mentored qualified applicants for Sugbo Negosyo program for Cebuโs district 1 in Talisay City on November 17 as part of its ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ก๐ผ๐ผ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ผ๐ ๐ซ๐๐บ – ๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ผ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ผ ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฒ (๐๐๐-๐๐๐).
According to DTI-Cebu that the Livelihood Seeding Program is a direct material assistance for businesses affected by COVID-19 in response to the pandemic under the recovery/restart phase and assists MSMEs to restore and improve their businesses.
The event was attended by 22 barangay officials, City Councilor of Mandaue City; Atty. Lizer, BPLO Chief of Mandaue City and Kristian Cabahug, Executive Director of Mandaue Investment Promotions Action Center (MIPAC).
In another development, on the same day, DTI assistant secretary and lead of the regional operations group, Asteria Caberte conducted a one-on-one mentoring session with the 10 Category A qualified applicants for the Sugbo Negosyo program from District 1 in Negosyo Center (NC) City of Talisay.
Caberte has committed that DTI with the Technical DTI staff and NC Business Counsellors per district will assist in the evaluation of applications and mentoring sessions under the program when it was launched in September this year.
According to Caberte that the beneficiaries under Category A: ๐ก๐ฒ๐ด๐ผ๐๐๐ผ๐ป๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ป will receive P50,000.00 worth of goods, equipment, or raw materials.
โ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐๐ข ๐ก๐ฒ๐ด๐ผ๐๐๐ผโ is a microenterprise assistance program of the Cebu Provincial Government aimed to promote ๐ฆustainable, ๐จplifment and ๐rowth through ๐usiness ๐ขpportunities to microentrepreneurs in the cities and municipalities of the Province of Cebu.
The ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ผ๐ซ๐ฌ also presented the various DTI programs, services and provide info kits/materials to the participants.
Meanwhile, the Consumer Protection Division of DTI Cebu also conducted an on-site inspection of Christmas Lights and Price Monitoring of Noche Buena Items in the 13 establishments in the cities of Cebu and Mandaue.
The team inspected the Christmas Lights on the compliance to PS and ICC Marks to ensure that the products available in the market are certified and are safe to use especially during this Christmas season.
DTI Cebu also monitored the prices of Noche Buena Items with the recent Republication of the Suggested Retail Prices (SRPs) of Noche Buena Products as of 31 October 2019 for 09 November 2020.
