DPWH orders district engr to pass proposal for
Surigao Sur's unpaved roads
By Nida Grace B. Tranquilan
TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, Aug 13 (PIA) --
Usec. Romeo Momo of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)
instructed Surigao del Sur 1st Engineering District Officer Engr. Joseph Calderon
to pass a project proposal to address the unpaved roads in his area of
responsibility in Surigao del Sur.
DPWH Information Officer Josephine Moselina said
the instruction was made during the inspection of the on-going projects in the
municipality of Tago, San Miguel and part of CarCanMadCarLan (Carrascal,
Cantilan, Madrid, Carmen & Lanuza) areas recently with Usec. Momo.
Moselina said that Usec. Momo cited in his
instruction to Calderon to include the remaining gravel road in
Tandag-Carrascal and Tandag-San Miguel Roads, which are not part in this year’s
budget.
Meanwhile, Momo also instructed the project
contractor to fast track the construction of the bridge and to complete the
project if possible before the rainy season.
The project inspection was conducted on Thursday
in San Miguel Bridge that was reportedly damaged by flood; the Tago La Paz
Bridge; Katupgas Bridge 1 and 2; Cabanahan Bridge and Badjang Bridge, all in
1st District this province. (NGBT/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
RACE to Serve Fun Run to kick-off 112th Civil
Service anniversary in Butuan City
By Danilo S. Makiling
BUTUAN CITY, Aug 13 (PIA) -- The Civil Service
Commission (CSC)-Caraga Region will host a fun run as part of the 112th
Philippine Civil Service Anniversary (PCSA) here on September 7, 2012.
The 112th PCSA's theme is “Kawani, Ikaw ay Isang
Lingkod Bayani.” CSC-Caraga Regional Director Adams Torres said the activity
will be participated in by different line agencies of the government in Caraga
region.
The official further said the assembly area is
at the provincial capitol grounds, Capitol Compound, Butuan City and to end at
the Butuan City Sports Complex. "The fun run will start at exactly 5 a.m.
Therefore, all participants are requested to be at the assembly area at 4:30
a.m. in their running attire, or they may also use their agency shirt,"
Torres said.
A Dance for Health (HATAW) and the ceremonial
releasing of balloons will also take place to signal the opening of the
celebration.
All agencies are encouraged to bring their own
streamer and a minimum of 10 flying balloons to be used during the activity,
Torres said.
The official also explained that as pursuant to
CSC Memorandum Circular 11, series of 2012, all participating agencies are
granted to a compensatory time off during the conduct of the activity.
Those who want to know more of the activity may
contact Mr. Ross Francis L. Atillo at (085) 342-6089 or 815-3370 of CSC Caraga
Management Service Division, Torres said. (RER/DSM/PIA-Caraga)
Surigao Norte Gov Matugas survives assassination
attempt; 2 escorts hurt
By Fryan E. Abkilan
SURIGAO CITY, Aug. 13 (PIA) -- Gov. Sol Matugas
this morning survived an assassination attempt allegedly perpetrated by a
former barangay official. Her two security escorts and court security guard
were wounded in the incident, a police report said.
Police Senior Inspector Diomedes Cudra said
around 8:15 this morning in front of Bulwagan ng Katarungan at the provincial
capitol grounds while the flag ceremony was about to end, Samuel Lapac, 69, a
former barangay captain, armed with .45 caliber pistol fired towards the
direction where the provincial governor was sitting. Immediately, one of her
escorts, PO2 Ronie Goles, shielded her and safely vacated from the said place
and fired back towards the suspect.
Goles was hit in the right upper back portion,
right upper arm and left side of the neck. His fellow security escort, PO2
Jerson Camingue Guidulman was hit in the leg, while court security guard Raymar
Quinonez, was hit in the right shoulder. They were rushed at the Surigao
Medical Center.
The suspect also sustained two gunshot wounds on
his right upper back and right upper arm and was taken to the hospital but was
discharged around noon time and is now detained at the Surigao City police
office.
The police recovered eight pieces of empty
shells of .45 caliber together with one piece metal jacket and one piece of
live ammos of same caliber firearm. Filing of appropriate case against the
suspect is now being prepared for filing in court.
Although unharmed, the lady governor has already
recovered from shock as of press time. (FEA/PIA-Surigao del Norte)
Mindanao biz group urged to ‘give back’ for the
environment
BUTUAN CITY, Aug 13 (PIA) -- Delegates to the
recently-concluded largest annual gathering of business leaders from across
Mindanao were urged to take active stance in helping save the island-region’s
environment from further degradation.
At the closing of the 21st Mindanao Business
Conference held here recently, Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) chair
Secretary Luwalhati Antonino sought the active participation of the business
sector in setting industry standards for green technology.
Antonino also asked Mindanao's key business
players to sustain efforts for environmental initiatives through their
corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, during her speech at the
concluding day of the conference,
“Mindanao is host to eight of the major river
basins in the country,” said Antonino, adding that major industries in Mindanao
rely on these bodies of water for commercial and other purposes.
She said that Mindanao’s environment is now
facing serious challenges over decades of wanton logging, unregulated mining
activities, illegal fishing practices, and unsustainable manufacturing
activities by extractive industries.
“Damage brought on Mindanao’s rich natural environment
range from moderate to severe, some of which are irreparable,” said Antonino,
citing data from the Mindanao 2020 Peace and Development Framework Plan
(Mindanao 2020), Mindanao’s long-term peace and development roadmap formulated
by MinDA in partnership with key line government agencies, private sector, and
civil society groups across the island-region.
Furthermore, Antonino said that Mindanao suffers
from rotating brownouts owing to the critical condition of watersheds in Lanao
del Norte and Bukidnon where the Agus and Pulangi hydro power plants are
located.
With only 23% forest cover left as of 2003, the
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) disclosed earlier that
Mindanao has already lost two thirds of its total forest cover over the years.
This problem has long been neglected, according
to Antonino, pushing MinDA to put together the MindaNOW Nurturing Our Waters
(MindaNOW) Program that seeks to integrate and harmonize a ridge-to-reef
approach in managing and developing the island-region’s watersheds and river
basins.
“The MindaNOW Program provides platforms for
public-private convergence and this is where multi-national companies and local
business players can come in,” said Antonino.
Antonino added that MindaNOW stakeholders all
over Mindanao have started to plant trees in support to the National Greening
Program of President Benigno S. Aquino III being led by DENR.
The program aims to plant 1.5-billion trees
covering about 1.5-million hectares nationwide by 2016.
“Here in Mindanao we don’t just plant the trees;
we make sure they grow,” she said, citing tree-growing and adoption of
watershed or mangrove areas as some of the activities that the Mindanao
business sector can support.
Antonino said that the environment is
everybody’s concern, calling also local government units (LGUs) and civil
society organizations to get involved.
“There’s a need for shared responsibility and
accountability to protect and rehabilitate Mindanao’s heavily degraded
environment. We need to do something now before it’s too late,” she said.
In 2011, approximately forty-one percent (41%)
of Mindanao’s land area was devoted to agriculture and one-third or close to
thirty-five percent (35%) of its labor force is employed in agro-industry,
fishery, and forestry sectors in 2010.
The island-region contributes more than
one-third to the national food requirements, producing many of the country’s
top export commodities such as coconut, banana, pineapple, tuna, and other
marine, aquaculture, and inland fish products.
Among the island-region’s top export destinations
are the United States, Netherlands, Japan, China, South Korea and Singapore.
(NCLM/MinDA/PIA-Caraga)
News Feature: TEN Moves built schools for
Sendong-hit CdO and Iligan
By Danny Escabarte
MANILA, Aug 13 (PIA) -- Many were surprised and
caught unprepared when typhoon Sendong hit the cities of Cagayan de Oro and
Iligan. The typhoon destroyed vital infrastructures, sources of livelihood, not
to mention precious lives lost in the tragedy.
However, Sendong failed to extinguish people’s
hope and determination of moving on. After the series of relief operations has
been launched, rehabilitation efforts commenced. Damaged schools have been
repaired while new classrooms were built.
In Indahag National High School, Cagayan de Oro
city, a two-storey, four-classroom school building is about to be finished.
TEN Moves! (The Entire Nation Moves) and various
donors built the school in Indahag to accommodate additional students displaced
by Typhoon Sendong. In Balulang Elementary School, Sendong’s ground zero in
Cagayan de Oro, another two-storey, four-classroom school building is ongoing
construction. The new school building is being funded by Filipino-American rap
icon Apl.de.ap through his “We Can Be Anything Campaign,” and the Ninoy and
Cory Aquino Foundation (NCAF). Both are active partners of TEN Moves.
TEN Moves will also conduct a groundbreaking for
two-storey, four-classroom school building at Angelico Medina Memorial
Elementary School in Iligan City. CLSA, a US-based company will fund the new
school building. A campaign to raise enough resources to build 10,000
classrooms all over the Philippines, TEN Moves’ main strategy is to involve two
million people to donate P10 per day for 10 months. The target is to raise
P6Billion by October 2012 to build the 10,000 classrooms.
The classroom construction effort of TEN Moves
is being implemented by the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) in
Cagayan de Oro City and Iligan City. TEN Moves is part of Bayanihang
Pampaaralan of the 57-75 Education Reform Movement, an alliance of
organizations composed of the: PBSP, Ateneo Center for Educational Development,
Eugenia Apostol Foundation, League of Corporate Foundations, Philippine
Business for Education and Synergia Foundation.
TEN Moves’ fundraising campaign is being managed
by Ayala Foundation, Inc., and will turn over all donations to PBSP, who will
oversee the implementation of classroom construction on behalf of the 57-75
Education Reform Movement. (NCLM/PBSP-MRO/PIA-Caraga)
Tagalog news: Reg’l convention para HR
Practitioners inihanda sa Butuan
Ni Danilo S. Makiling
BUTUAN CITY, Agosto 13 (PIA) -- Ang 9th Regional
Convention para sa lahat ng human resource practitioners ay gaganapin dito
ngayong Setyembre 19 hanggang 20 sa Almont Hotel’s Inland Resort, sa pangunguna
ng Caraga Regional Council of Human Resource Managers, Incorporated (CRCHRMI),
sa pakikipagtulungan ng Civil Service Commission (CSC).
Ang convention sa taong ito ay pangungunahan ng
Council of HRM – Agusan del Norte-Butuan City Chapter.
Sa kanyang mensahe, sinabi ni Luz Dumanon,
CRCHRMI Agusan del Norte-Butuan City chapter president na ang dalawang araw na
convention ay may temang “Revitalizing Human Resource Practitioners towards
Global Challenges.”
“Ito ay may layuning magbigay ng tugon sa
pangangailangan ng maayos na serbisyo publiko. Ito ay dadaluhan din ng
pangalawang pangulo Jejomar “Jojo” Binay Sr. bilang keynote speaker,” ani
Dumanon.
Ang mga partisipante ay kailangang magbayad ng
P2,500 para sa kanilang registration fee para sa kanilang snack, tanghalian at
mga training materials.
Para sa karagdagang impormasyon, maaari silang
tumawag CRCHRMI Agusan del Norte-Butuan City Chapter sa numerong: (085)
342-3574 o 342-3522. (RER/DSM/PIA-Caraga)
Tagalog news: CSC magsasagawa ng sunod-sunod na
seminar sa buwan ng Agosto
Ni Danilo S. Makiling
BUTUAN CITY, Agosto 13 (PIA) -- Pangungunahan ng
Civil Service Commission (CSC) ang sunod-sunod na seminar para sa supervisory
development course (Module 1) enhancing personal effectiveness ngayong Agosto
16 hanggang 17 at revised rules on administrative cases in the civil service
(RRACCS) na gaganapin naman ngayong Agosto 23 hanggang 24 sa CSC Human Resource
Development Center, Doongan Road, sa lungsod na ito.
Ayon kay CSC-Caraga Regional Director Adams
Torres, ang unang seminar ay inihanda para sa mga division chiefs at mga
opisyales na siyang gumagawa ng critical mass sa operasyon ng kanilang mga
plano at programa sa kani-kanilang mga organisasyon.
Aniya, ang seminar ay magbibigay ng kaalaman sa
mga partisipante sa managerial supervision at administrative skills at
techniques.
Idinagdag din ni Torress na ang pangalawang
seminar (RRACCS) ay inihanda upang madagdagan ang pagiging epektibo ng mga
partisipante sa pagbibigay ng administrative justice sa kanilang ahensya;
paglalagay ng panibagong alitun-tunin (RRACCS) sa parihong disciplinary at
non-disciplinary cases na ilalagak sa ahensya; pag-unawa at pagbibigay halaga
sa procedural guidelines na siyang namamahala sa disposition ng civil service
cases.
Ang registration fee para sa unang seminar ay
P2, 500 kasama dito ang lunch/snack at training kit samantala, ang RRACCS ay
P2,700 kasama narin ang lunch/snack at training kit.
Para sa karagdagang impormasyon, maaari silang
magpunta sa CSC-Caraga regional office o maaari din silang tumawag sa mga
sumusunod na numero: (085) 225-6097 0 342-6089. (RER/DSM/PIA-Caraga)
Cebuano news: Aquino mapasalamaton sa mga
volunteers sa gihimo niini nga pagtabang pagpreparar og family food packs alang
sa mga biktima
Ni Susil D. Ragas
SURIGAO CITY, Agosto 13 (PIA) –Gipadayag ni
Pangulong Benigno S. Aquino III kagahapon Domingo ang iyang dakong pasalamat
ngadto sa liboan ka mga estudyante ug mga propesyunal nga miboluntaryo sa ilang
oras aron morepake ug moapod-apod sa mga family packs aron matabangan ang mga
pamilya nga naapektuhan sa mga pagbaha.
Atubangan sa mokabat 700 ka mga volunteers nga
busy nagrepake sa mga nagkalain-laing mga produkto sa pagkaon nga sa dili
madugay ipang-apod-apod ngadto sa mga biktima didto sa National Resource
Operation Center sa Department of Social Welfare and Development didto sa Pasay
City, matud pa sa Pangulo nga panahon na aron mapasalamatan ang maong mga
volunteers, diin pinaagi sa ilang mga paningkamot, aron maipakita sa ilang isig
ka Filipino ang pagmahal ug pagbate nga wala sila mag-inusara.
“‘Yung lahat ng natulungan nating mga
kababayan…‘pag natatanggap po itong mga relief packs na hinanda niyo, nadarama
nila ang pagmamahal ng kapwa nila Pilipino. Nadarama nilang hindi sila
nag-iisa, may kadamay sila sa trahedyang ito,” matud pa sa Pangulo.
“Ako naman po, sa mga volunteers, gusto ko lang
i-acknowledge kayong lahat,” dugang pa niya.
Pipila sa mga volunteers ang mga miyembro sa
nagkalain-laing mgaorganisasyon sama sa Pag-asa Youth Association of the
Philippines: University of Perpetual Help, Las PiΓ±as campus; Samahan ng mga
Kababaihan ng Antipolo City; Federation of Student Government of Makati; Asian
Institute of Management; Philippine Star; Gatos and Reyes family; Philippine
Air Force; Union Transport Incorporated Shared Services;
Camp Crame Police Community Relations;
University of Makati; Globe; Kababaihan Truly Cares; Our Lady of Airways Parish
Church; Life Faith in Jesus Ministry; Office of Pasay City Hall; Civil Defense
Action Group ug ang I-Serve Quezon City; Calixto Forever Movement; Pantawid
Pamilya beneficiaries sa Barangay 196 ParaΓ±aque; Salsatrends Urdaneta Makati;
Don Bosco, Muntinlupa; ug 7-11.
Ang Pangulo miingon nga matud DSWD, ang mga
volunteers nakarepake na og mokabat 129,170 ka mga food packs uban ang 101,338
nga naapod-apod na ngadto sa mga biktima.
“Sa ngalan ng sambayanan, maraming-maraming
salamat po. Kapag may trahedya doon natin nakikita ang kagalingan ng
Pilipino...kung saan ang kapwa nagmamalasakit sa kapwa. Ulit, sa ngalan po ng
bansa, sa ngalan po ng ating mga kababayan, talagang malaking-malaking
pasasalamat po sa bawat isa sa inyo,” sa iyang panapos nga pamahayag.
(PIA-Surigao del Norte)
