Butuan City official
underscores importance of PPP
By Robert E. Roperos
BUTUAN CITY, Aug 2
(PIA) -- A city official here underscored the importance of public-private
partnership (PPP) as the city government is implementing this as one of the
flagship programs of the Aquino administration.
In an interview, in
time with the 62nd Charter Day celebration of this city, Butuan City Vice Mayor
Lawrence Lemuel H. Fortun said under the leadership of Mayor Ferdinand Amante
Jr., the PPP is among the priority programs of the city government.
True to this, Fortun
said the Sangguniang Panlungsod has approved the city ordinance dubbed the PPP
Code of the City of Butuan.
He added Butuan is
the first in the country to have such a code.
In a press
conference Fortun emphasized that the PPP can help boost the economic condition
of the area, saying that the local government here cannot do alone in
implementing economic development in the city.
Since last year, the
city government has partnered with private institutions both locally and
internationally.
One of these
undertakings is the partnership with the Tokyo University in Japan in its quest
to duplicate the solid waste management program of Japan through the said
university.
Aside from this, the
city government is regularly conducting job fairs during important occasions
such as the annual fiesta celebration where private companies are invited to
hire employment to the residents of Butuan.
In other
development, the celebration of the 62nd “Adlaw Hong Butuan” is highlighted by
the inauguration of the Guingona Park, which is being renovated since early
this year.
The ceremony was
graced by former Vice-President Teofisto Guingona Jr. and Senator TJ Guingona.
The Guingonas turned over to the city government the five-hectare lot owned by
the family in Barangay Ampayon here for the establishment of the Philippine
Science High School.
Thursday, Senator
Guingona will give his keynote speech during the opening of the 21st Mindanao
Business Conference hosted by the city government, the provincial government of
Agusan del Norte and the Butuan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation,
Inc. (BCCIFI).
The conference will
run until Saturday, August 4, and is anchored on the theme: “Invest Mindanao:
Towards a more inclusive, progressive and greener future.” (RER/PIA-Caraga)
Caraga police woman
gets nat’l award
By Noel B. Najarro
BUTUAN CITY, Agusan del
Norte, Aug 2 (PIA) -- A policewoman from Caraga is one of the four police
commissioned officers and six policed personnel named by the Metrobank
Foundation Inc., the Philippine National Police (PNP), Rotary Club of New
Manila East and PSBank as winners of the search for the Country’s Outstanding
Policemen in Service (Cops)
PSupt. Martin M.
Gamba, chief spokesman of Police Regional Office-13 said Police Senior
Inspector Charity S. Galvez of Butuan City was among the 10 police commissioned
and non-commissioned officers chosen out of the 100 nominees nationwide.
In July 2011, Galvez
and a her men though outnumbered and facing better-armed foes, stood their
ground and repulsed New People’s Army rebels who staged a dawn raid and tried
to overrun Trento Municipal Police Station, in Trento town of Agusan del Sur.
The other three
commissioned officers who made it to the list included Police Supt. Belli B.
Tamayo and Police Supt. Bernard M. Banac of Quezon City and Police Chief Insp.
Vicente S. Cabatingan of Laguna.
The other six
non-commissioned officers listed also included: Police Officer 3 Eduardo D
Santiago, Pangasinan; Senior Police Officer 3 Renjun O. Bagaman, Koronadal;
Senior Police Officer 3 Rhia B. Sotomil, Iloilo; Police Officer 3 Mary Jane B.
Perez, Cotabato City; Senior Police Officer 4 Ma. Rosario Y. Suarez, Davao
City; and Senior Police Officer Robert U. Fabregas, Quezon City.
The selection
process of the winners was done under a close and rigorous scrutiny of the
files and documents submitted by a selection board and a final appearance
before the final board of judges representing different sectors, chaired by
Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Andres Reyes Jr.
Cops winners will be
awarded together with the Search for Outstanding Teachers (SOT) and The
Outstanding Philippine Soldiers (Tops) as Metrobank Foundation Outstanding
Filipinos on September 5, during the Metrobank 50th anniversary.
Police winners will
receive P300,000 as cash prize and a trophy courtesy of Metrobank Foundation. They
will also be conferred the “Medalya Ng Katangi-tanging Gawa,” a testament of
the exemplary service of the Cops awardees.
The police winners
will then join the rank of the 98 Outstanding PNP since 2002. They will also
become members of the Policemen Responsible for Organizing, Training and
Empowering Communities or (Protect). (RER/NLM/PIA-Caraga)
Butuan City Police
conducts ‘friendly shootfest’ with local media
By Noel B. Najarro
BUTUAN CITY, Aug 2
(PIA) -- The Butuan City Police Office held a friendly shootfest and fellowship
with members of the local media here.
“This is a
replication of what is done at the national police headquarters, to teach and
train local media practitioners on gun handling safety and firing so that in
effect it may prepare them on any eventuality so they can respond, react and
report accordingly,” said Butuan City Police Office OIC PSupt Romy I. Palgue.
Palgue handled the
basics of safety gun handling and firing and the range officers from BCPO while
the Philippine Shooters Association assisted the media practitioners during the
actual firing exercises. Each media practitioners were allowed to fire five
rounds using a 9mm or caliber .45 pistol.
“We ought to learn
self-protection first before we can settle down and attain our peace of mind.
It may help us gain more focus and impel a better delivery of our services,”
Palgue added.
The activity,
according to Palgue was also intended to foster stronger fellowship between the
local media and the police so that both entities, instead of harboring a
somewhat adversarial attitude towards each other may instead try to come up
with a common advocacy with the aim to properly deliver the necessary services
to the community.
Aside from Palgue,
the activity, which included sessions on basics of gun handling safety and
firing, was police officials, representatives from the Philippine Shooters
Association (PSA), Rev. Charlie Prior, Butuan City Moral Recovery Officer (representing
Butuan LGU) and members of the Butuan City Tri-Media from DXBN-Radyo Ng Bayan,
DXBC-Radyo Mo Nationwide, DXBR-Radyo Bombo, DXJM-Radyo Asenso, DXGL-Real Radio,
103.9 Radyo Trumpeta, Butuan Star, Medianet Balita (Butuan), Mindanao Courier,
Philippine Daily Inquirer, ABS-CBN (Butuan) and ABC-5 (Butuan). (RER/NCLM/PIA-
Caraga)
