NMSF calls on job seekers to participate in mini
jobs fair, free employment coaching, seminars
By Jennifer P. Gaitano
BUTUAN CITY, Sept. 24 (PIA) – The Northern
Mindanao School of Fisheries (NMSF) in Matabao, Buenavista, Agusan del Norte,
in coordination with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) is set to hold a mini Jobs
Fair open to all interested job seekers on October 7, 2014, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00
p.m. at the NMSF Campus.
This activity is sponsored by Technical
Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)-NMSF Blue Desk. There are
job openings for local and overseas vacancies.
Interested job seekers are advised to come in
proper attire and bring all necessary documents such as birth certificate,
bio-data, resume, diploma, transcript of record, training certificates,
identification (ID) pictures, and valid passport (6 months prior to departure).
Also, in time with the mini Jobs Fair, the said
school is also calling on interested individuals to participate in the conduct
of free Employment Coaching and Pre-Employment Orientation and Anti-illegal
Recruitment Seminar on the same day and venue.
For more information, call (085) 343-4201 or
text 09203079894 and look for Mrs. Victoria Sumayod, NMSF faculty.
Said activities is anchored on the theme
"Pangarap na Trabaho Para Sayo". (JPG/PIA-Caraga)
DOE to host this year’s Consumer Welfare Month
By Jennifer P. Gaitano
BUTUAN CITY, Sept. 24 (PIA) – The Department of
Energy (DOE) will host this year’s Consumers’ Welfare Month in October with the
theme “Sapat na Impormasyon: Susi sa Wastong Pagamit ng Enerhiya.”
“The theme is anchored on the key policy area of
the national government to adopt appropriate measures to highlight consumer
education in choosing the best energy choices,” bared regional director Brielgo
Pagaran of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Caraga.
Pagaran further disclosed that said celebration
will kick-off on October 1 with a Thanksgiving Mass to be held at the Capitol
Covered Court of this city.
On October 3 and 8, DOE, together with other
partner stakeholders will hold the “Consumer Network (ConsumerNet) Meets the
Public” Forum at Karaga Hotel.
Meanwhile, the celebration will culminate on
October 31 with the conduct of the Regional Consumer Quiz Bowl at the
DTI-Caraga regional office. (JPG/PIA-Caraga)
Tulay sa OFWs coop prexy lauds members for
successful 1st OFWs Summit
By Nora L. Molde
BUTUAN CITY, Sept. 24 (PIA) – The Tulay sa
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) multi-purpose cooperative (MPC) has
successfully conducted its 1st Caraga OFWs Summit on September 20 to 21 in one
of the convention centers here.
Engr. Zaldy Deronia, the Tulay sa OFWs MPC
president, expressed elation on the number of participants coming from the
different areas of the region. “I am very thankful for your response and for your attendance to this first summit
that we have,” he said.
This will only be the beginning, we will be
doing this annually, and we hope that other OFWs, former OFWs and their
beneficiaries not present today will be joining us next time, Deronia added.
Engr. Deronia then encouraged all the members of
the cooperative to help make the OFW cooperative more organized, working, and
functional. "Let's work together to make our coop grow... let us unite our
efforts for us to move forward," he said.
“I thanked you all for participating, let’s take
active involvement in our cooperative and make it performing, sustainable and
beneficial to all of us member.
The 1st Caraga OFW Summit according to Engr.
Deronia aimed to gather the different OFW organizations and to organize an OFW
Cooperative in the region. (NCLM/PIA-Caraga)
SurSur PNP chief hopes for a no-nonsense
lifestyle check
By Greg Tataro Jr.
TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, Sept. 25 (PIA) –
Surigao del Sur Officer-In-Charge (OIC) Provincial Director P/SSupt. Narciso
Verdadero welcomes the conduct of lifestyle check for the members of the
Philippine National Police (PNP).
However, he expressed hope that it will be a
no-nonsense exercise in order to really purge the entire PNP organization of
those who will be unmasked to have amassed wealth through illegal means.
Moreover, Verdadero said that it will cast away
doubts on members who have nothing to do with some controversies hounding the
150,000-strong police force, but truly deserved to remain in the service of
country and fellowmen.
“It will indeed ensure respect, trust, and
integrity in the police force,” he stressed.
Verdadero admitted that crimes involving law
enforcers have put the entire police force in bad light.
Recently, Secretary Mar Roxas of the Department
of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has ordered to carry out a
lifestyle check for the members of the police force nationwide.
Reportedly, such step was an offshoot of the
spate of high profile crimes involving policemen, including the Edsa robbery
and abduction incident in Mandaluyong recently as well as reports of declaration
of multimillion peso net worth by some law enforcers. (NGBT/Radyo ng
Bayan/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
SurSur guv eyes 'TreeVolution' to set a new
world record
By Greg Tataro Jr.
TANDAG CITY, Sept. 24 (PIA) – Surigao del Sur
Governor Johnny Pimentel expressed optimism that the Philippines can indeed set
a new world record on September 26 by planting the most number of trees in one
hour in multiple locations through the spearheading of Mindanao Development
Authority (MinDA) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources
(DENR).
“I think we can surpass the 1,900,000,” stressed
Gov. Pimentel, citing India’s feat.
Reportedly, based on Guinness World record,
India has planted in one hour 1,945,535 trees in 408 locations across its
border in 2011.
Pimentel reiterated Monday the unrelenting
support of the provincial government for the upcoming Mindanao-wide tree
planting activity dubbed as “TreeVolution: Greening MindaNow.”
“We will mobilize 1,600 people,” adding that
“Each person will have to plant 25 trees,” Pimentel told capitol employees,
referring to the required participants that will be fielded on September 26 in
Tandag City.
He likewise assured that the entire province of
Surigao del Sur, through all its cities and municipalities, will take part in
the endeavor—from the municipalities of Lingig to Carrascal, the southernmost
and the northernmost tips.
However, based on the data provided by DENR,
here, the “Province-wide Target for Simultaneous Tree Planting” is 338.5
hectares for four identified locations, citing only Bislig City—72; Tandag
City—187.5; Lianga—40; and, Cantilan—39; with a total of 113,000 seedlings
allotted for 5,275 planters.
Moreover, the area identified to be planted for
Tandag City is in Barangay Maticdum—a National Greening Program-Bottom Up
Budgeting (NGP-BUB) project, about 10 kilometers east, it was learned. (NGBT/Radyo
ng Bayan/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
OWWA Caraga holds IT training for OFWs in
Siargao Island
By Jean Mary G. Ronquillo
BUTUAN CITY, Sept. 24 (PIA) - In order to bring
in the advent of technology closer to the OFW organization in one of the remote
islands of the region, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA)
Regional Welfare Office Caraga conducted an Information Technology Training in
Dapa, Surigao del Norte on September 16-19, 2014.
The IT Training is one of the short-term
training programs of OWWA for OFWs and their legal dependents. It is a free
training which aims to provide OFWs and their families’ access to
technology-based training intended to upgrade their IT skills to find better
employment opportunities as well as help bridge the physical divide between the
workers and their families in the Philippines.
Fourteen (14) members of the newly-registered
Dapa Overseas Filipino Workers Association (DOFWA) participated in the said
training. Family Welfare Officer Ronilo Maningo assisted in organizing the
DOFWA which was finally registered last July 21 under Department of Labor and
Employment (DOLE).
Maningo bared that the proposal for the training
was brought in during the DOFWA assessment meeting together with the OWWA
representatives on August 22, following the oath-taking ceremony of DOFWA
officers.
In a letter request to OWWA dated August 25,
DOFWA President Rosely Dagsa expressed high hopes that the Computer Literacy
Training will be advantageous to the DOFWA members.
OWWA OIC regional director Eduardo Bellido
shared, that IT training can be an aid to the organization in terms of
generating income or in marketing their enterprise.
However, Bellido opined, “the members of DOFWA
should first undergo a Community Leadership Training and Entrepreneurship
Development Training prior to the establishment of community based-enterprise
to strengthen their business endeavor and OWWA will help the organization along
this line.”
Meanwhile, OWWA IT Instructor Vincent Mahinay
said that the four-day IT training session covered six modules which include:
Computer Fundamentals I and II, Internet and World Wide Web, Word Processing
Fundamentals, Spread Sheets Fundamentals, Presentation Fundamentals and Digital
Media Fundamentals.
Mahinay cited, this was not the first time of
OWWA to conduct IT outreach program in a far flung area of the region. In fact,
he said, the municipality of Dapa is the 5th municipality in the region to hold
an IT training program in their area.
For the past six years since the implementation
of the program in 2008, Mahinay said, there were about 3000 OFWs and OFW
dependents which have benefited from the training. This year, OWWA Caraga
targeted around 600 OFWs and OFW dependents to be given IT training. (OWWA-13/PIA-Caraga)
OWWA brings services to OFW dependents in
Surigao Norte town
By Jean Mary G. Ronquillo
BUTUAN CITY, Sept. 24 (PIA) - In an effort to
bring the services of Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to its
clientele, the OWWA Regional Welfare Office Caraga in coordination with the
Local Government Unit (LGU) of Pilar in Siargao Island, Surigao del Norte held
an orientation of its programs and services to OFW dependents in Pilar on
September 16, 2014.
Around 31 OFW dependents of the said
municipality attended the orientation.
OWWA OIC regional director Eduardo Bellido bared
that his move in reaching out to the clients always start at the far-flung
areas like Siargao where services are needed most.
“One of the purposes of my visit in your area is
to strengthen the OFW Help Desk to address immediate concerns of our member
OFWs abroad,” said Bellido.
Bellido added, that his other purpose for
visiting the place is to identify the number of OFWs and their families in the
municipality and to look into the conditions of OFW Families. While the third
one, he said, is to organize an OFW Family Circle.
He exhorted the participants to form an OFC to
benefit from the trainings spearheaded by OWWA, such as an orientation on
migration realities, financial literacy and techno-skills trainings that will
generate livelihood opportunities for the OFWs or upgrade their skills and
values formation seminar which aims to keep the OFW family ties stronger
despite the temporary absence of a family member.
“Basically, our intention is to see to it that
we provide the necessary assistance especially during difficult circumstances
where the family needed us most,” said Bellido.
Meanwhile, Marichu Polvorosa, Human Resource
Management Officer Designate of LGU Pilar, is thankful for the presence of OWWA
in their area and at the same time is hopeful that OWWA’s programs will be
responsive to its beneficiaries. (OWWA-13/PIA-Caraga)
Surfing competition opens in Siargao
SURIGAO CITY, Surigao del Norte, Sept, 24 (PIA)
– Now on its 20th year, the Siargao International Surfing Cup formally opens
today, Sep. 24 at Cloud 9, General Luna, Siargao Island.
The event will run until Sunday, Sep. 28, 2014.
This year, the surfing competition is brought to
a higher level as it is sanctioned by both prestigious international surfing
organizations such as the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) and Asian
Surfing Championship (ASC).
The two prestigious international surfing
organizations will give Siargao ratings of ASP-World Qualifying Series 1 Star
and ASC Grade 6, the highest rating for ASC Tour.
Around 80-100 professional surfers coming from
Australia, Indonesia, Hawaii, United States of America, Japan, and Philippines,
among others, are to compete for both the US$15,000 Prize Money and the
valuable rating points in the effort to qualify for the ASP World Tour.
“Expecting more or less than a hundred of
professional foreign surfers from the different parts of the world, we will
continue to invite everyone to support our Eco-Tourism drive - the drive for
love in sports and adoration for the environment.” Governor Sol F. Matugas
said. (SDR/Provincial Government of Surigao del Norte/PIA-Surigao del Norte)
