SurSur capitol employees urged to listen to SONA
By Greg Tataro Jr.
TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, July 27 (PIA) –
Surigao del Sur provincial administrator Efren Rivas has urged provincial
government employees here to listen to the State of the Nation Address (SONA)
of President Benigno Aquino III at 3:00
p.m. today.
Speaking before capitol employees during the flag
ceremony program at the capitol lobby this morning, he indicated that the SONA
is very important, saying that even one of the parents of the schoolchildren in
their neighborhood had asked him whether today was declared non-working
holiday.
On that note, Rivas answered in the negative, he
said.
He likewise advised employees to listen via
television sets in their respective offices since SONA is going to be aired
live.
Recently, MalacaΓ±ang has been encouraging “the
public to listen to President Aquino’s sixth and last state-of-the-nation
address (SONA),” which is set to be delivered this afternoon. (NGBT/Radyo g
Bayan-Tandag/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
DOLE conducts capacity building for PESO managers,
staff, career advocates in SurSur
By Greg Tataro Jr.
TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, July 27 (PIA) – The
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), this province, has gathered Public
Employment Service Office (PESO) managers and staff province-wide, including
career coaches and advocates for a two-day capacity-building seminar last week.
According to Raymond Fel Sajor, key topics covered
Productivity, Statutory/Labor Laws Compliance System (LLCS) and Labor Market
Information, among others.
Besides, a re-election of network of guidance
counselors and induction of officers were likewise held, he confirmed.
Marcos Quico, provincial agriculturist and
concurrent PESO provincial federation manager delivered the welcome address in
behalf of DOLE Caraga Regional Director Atty. Johnson CaΓ±ete, Sajor said.
On other developments, DOLE has bared 144 new
college graduates, who have benefited recently from a two-month Government
Internship Program (GIP) here; some of whom have already gained employment in
the same agency, it was learned. (NGBT/Radyo ng Bayan-Tandag/PIA-Surigao del
Sur)
MARPOL bill gets Congress nod, now awaits Senate
version – Fortun
BUTUAN CITY, July 27 (PIA) - In a radio interview
last Saturday, Las Nieves and Butuan City representative Lawrence Lemuel H.
Fortun announced once again that the proposed legislation on prevention and
control of marine pollution (MARPOL) successfully hurdled scrutiny of the lower
house and is now awaiting Senate’s version.
The announcement was made days before President
Benigno S. Aquino will deliver his last State of the Nation Address and opens
the third regular session of the 16th Congress of the Republic of the
Philippines. The MARPOL bill is believed to be one of the legislative measures
to be passed by senate in the coming sessions.
Days after assuming office, Fortun filed House
bill 861 entitled “An Act to Prevent and Control Pollution from Ships, Provide
Penalties Therefor and Other Purposes.” The said piece of legislation aims to
remedy the shortcomings of the 1976 Presidential Decree 979 and more
significantly, seeks to implement the provision of the MARPOL 73/78, otherwise
known as the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from
Ships 1973, as amended by the Protocol of 1978. The bill was referred to the
House Committee on Ecology last July 24, 2013, and was consolidated together
with other versions into its current version which is HB 5377.
Renewed calls for strengthening the marine and
coastal protection from pollution of ships was made anew after the confirmed
dumping of toxic wastes in Subic by a US Navy contractor and the many incidents
of oil spills just during the recent years. Another destructive instances of
marine pollution from ships were the sinking of M/T Solar I in Guimaras, the
oil spill off the coast of Cavite which, supposedly, came from M/T Makisig, and
the sinking of M/V Sto. Tomas Aquinas off Cebu.
As the Congress opens, Fortun expressed his high
hopes for the timely passage of the bill in the coming sessions of the senate.
(Lawig Katawhan/PIA-Agusan del Norte)
