Army treats 500 indigents in Agusan del Sur
PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur, Oct. 3 (PIA) --
Some 500 indigenous people were aided by the medical-dental civic action
program (Medcap) conducted by Army’s 401 Infantry (Unity) Brigade at Barangay
New Maug, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur on October 02.
Cpt. Rojel Omictin, commanding officer of
Charlie Battery, 10th Field Artillery Battalion, 401B spearheaded the Medcap
together with the medical teams of the Unity Brigade and the local government
unit of Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur.
Omictin said the 401st Brigade under the
leadership of Col. Romeo G. Gan rendered free medical consultation, dental
extraction and circumcision to the populace of Barangay New Maug to treat
prevalent diseases and illnesses in the area.
“Based on our research, fever, hypertension,
skin diseases, cough, arthritis, tooth decay, and uncircumcised male children
are the common health problems in the area. Our troops also gave free haircut
to the recipients,” Omictin said.
Medcap was also participated in by top local
government officials of Agusan del Sur, namely Gina A. Ceballo, executive
assistant for Health Services, and Albin D. Magdamit, mayor of Prosperidad.
Gan said the government is doing their utmost
support to provide health services to everybody, especially those in need.
“This Medcap is a Bayanihan effort between Army
troopers and other local government agencies to help our less fortunate
brothers and sisters in far-flung barangays who cannot afford to go to
expensive hospitals for consultation and medication,” Gan said.
The activity was also highlighted with slippers
given to children, and Mayor Magdamit distributed PhilHealth cards to beneficiaries.
(4ID, PA/RER/NLM/PIA-Caraga)
DENR offers remedy to illegal logging woes in
Caraga Region
By Eric F. Gallego
BUTUAN CITY, Oct. 3 (PIA) -- A Department of
Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) official here has offered solutions to
end the illegal logging problem in the region and asked members of the civil
society, religious group, and local government executive officials for their
total support in the campaign.
Regional Executive Regional Director for Caraga
Region Marlo D. Mendoza, who is also DENR assistant secretary, said illegal
logging which has bound the lives of many people to poverty in Caraga Region
particularly those living in upland communities can be solved with the total
participation of everybody working together under one direction.
Mendoza was the keynote speaker of the recent
Environment Summit of the Caraga Conference for Peace and Development (CCPD) on
September 21, held at the Bishop Palace in Butuan City with the theme “
Environmental Defense.”
Mendoza said the DENR “is moving towards the
objective of solving the problem of poverty which has enslaved the people in
the upland communities, who, in order to survive, would often resort to illegal
logging and mining activities.” He said Caraga Region has maintained its
position at the second spot of the list of the poorest regions in the country
notwithstanding its rich natural resources.
He said that one remedy being worked out by the
DENR is the creation of the Forest Industry Economic Cluster (FIEC) in
strategic areas of the region which can boost livelihood opportunities for the
people in the upland barangays whose means of income is through cutting trees
in residual forest areas.
Mendoza said that through the FEIC strategy, all
confiscated logs and lumber that are prone to deterioration are taken in the
specified clustered area where they are quickly processed for the manufacture
of armchairs or materials for veneer and plywood products of several
wood-processing plants.
“The government through the FEIC can generate
jobs through manufacturing of DepEd chairs, fixtures and wood processing and
revenues from sale of chairs, novelty items made of woods,” he said.
Mendoza said most of the people affected by the
imposition of the Executive Order 21 are poor and dependent on timber industry
for a living. He said these people have been dislocated and therefore need
assistance considering that cutting of trees in natural and residual forests
are banned throughout the country.
He said the other remedy is the implementation
of the “Forest Certification System" as a permanent solution to illegal
harvesting of trees. He added that the DENR has introduced a “timber-tracking
system” to discourage cutting of trees in residual and natural forest areas and
ensure chain of custody and legality of sources entering and delivered to
wood-processing plants.
He said that for purposes of monitoring, all raw
materials being delivered to wood-processing plants, henceforth, shall be
geo-tagged to discourage illegal logging. This means all wood products being
transported to wood-processing plants will contain a “bar code” to identify
them as extracted from legal source.
The DENR also encourages the development of
plantation areas where farmers can plant fast-growing species such as falcata,
bagrass, acacia mangium and dipterocarp species such as lauan to supply the
requirement of the wood-processing plants. Mendoza said there is a bigger
demand for veneer and plywood products in the country as the housing and
construction industry are improving.
He said efforts are being done by the DENR to
encourage upland farmers and indigenous people (IP) to participate in the
National Greening Program to augment the supply of raw wood material
requirement of the wood industry. The Department of Social Welfare and
Development, for the meantime, while qualified upland farmers are waiting for
harvest of trees, will provide the Conditional Cash Transfer to sustain their
living.
He said the DENR is also working on other
possible solutions in which the IPs are given royalty in protecting
government-owned plantations, including the former Timber Concession Areas of
the PICOP Industry in Bislig City, SUDECOR in Surigao del Sur and NALCO in
Agusan del Norte.
“We need to revive the timber industry in the
region and discourage illegal logging," Mendoza said.
The DENR, he said, is targeting to plant tree
seedlings in about 100,000 hectares of open forest land over the next five
years in different planting sites throughout the region. "We are
comfortable that we can achieve this target with the total support and
cooperation of our partners and the people in the 1,300 barangays in the entire
Caraga Region," Mendoza said. (RER/NCLM/DENR-13/PIA-Caraga)
Cebuano news: Ang Palasyo miingon nga gidugangan
na ang mga kapulisan para sa seguridad sa pagprotektar sa mga Langyaw sa Metro
Manila
Ni Nida Grace B. Tranquilan
SURIGAO DEL SUR, Oct. 3 (PIA) -- Ag Malakanyang
mihatag og kasigurohan niadtong Sabado nga ang mga langyaw, ilabina ang mga
Amerikano padayon nga magpabilin nga luwas sa Metro Manila bisan luyo sa mga
pahayag nga gipagawas sa embahada sa Estados Unidos nga ang mga Amerikano
kinahanglan magbansaybansay ug ayo samtang anaa sa Matro Manila.
Ang Embahada sa US sa Manila mihatag ug
pahimangno sa mga langyaw nga ang hulga batok sa mga Amerikano sa maong dapit,
labina sa mga kasikbitg nga syudad sa Pasay, natiktikan sa mga kapiyalang
security forces.
Sa pakighinabi sa dzRB Radyo ng Bayan kang
Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte siya miingon, nga ang National
Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) nga ang seuridad gipalig-on na sa Metro
Manila para sa kalinaw ug seguridad taliwala sa mga protesta nga gihimo sa mga
Muslims batok sa kontrobersyal nga pelikula.
“Nagka-estorya na kami ni General Espina ng
NCRPO niadtong miageng adlaw ug ang sekyuridad gipalapdan na. Mao nga, sa wala
pa mogawas anga maong balita, gipapalapdan na ang sekyuridad sa NCRPO labina
ang mga pasilidad sa US doul sa Roxas Boulevard (“We spoke with General Espina
of the NCRPO yesterday (Friday) and security has been augmented. So, bago pa
lumabas yung balitang ‘yan nag-augment na ng security ang NCRPO particularly to
the US facility along Roxas boulevard”)," ingon ni Valte. “As a matter of precaution
we have already augmented security.”
Gikan sa paglingkod ni General Espina isip hepe
sa NCRPO, naobserbahan sa publiko ang pag-katataw sa mga kapulisan sa sa Metro
Manila. Matud pa ni Valte ang pagdugang sa Philippine National Police mao usab
ang pag implementar sa bag-ong systema sa “areas of responsibility.”
Ang PNP kon kapulisan estriktong mibaton sa walo
ka oras nga turnohay sa mga personahe ug gikinahanglan nga sila mobaton ug
two-minute nga pagresponde atol kon naay tawag sa publiko nga naginahanglan ug
tabang gikan sa kapulisan, ang opisyal sa palasyo miingon.
Sa pagpangutana sa mga reporters kabahin sa
plano sa gobyerno sa pagprotektar sa publiko gikan sa padayong pagprotesta, Si
Valte miingon walay ilahang nakita nga gibuhat nga maingon nga bayolente.
“Let’s be fair. So far ang protesta nagmalinawon
ug nagmahusayon,” matud pa niya. (RER/NGBT/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
Cebuano news: Aquino gitudlo si Padaca isip
Comelec commissioner
Ni Susil D. Ragas
SURIGAO CITY, Oct. 3 (PIA) -- Gitudlo ni
Pangulong Benigno S. Aquino III si kanhi Isabela Governor Grace Padaca isip
commissioner sa Commission on Elections hangtod February 2018.
Sa iyang sulat pinitsahan Septeyembre 28, 2012,
gimandoan ni Pangulong Aquino ang Commission on Appointments nga dalion ang
kumpirmasyon ni Palaca isip Comelec commissioner.
Natawo niadtong Oktubre 25, 1963, si Padaca
nahimong Certified Public Accountant human migradwar nga magna cum laude sa Lyceum
of the Philippines, Manila.
Bisan pa nga sa iyang pagkabata siya naigo sa
sakit nga polio nga maoy hinungdan sa pagkaparalisa sa iyang duha ka mga paa,
siya nahimong maimpluwensyang tigsibya sa Isabea, midasig sa mga taga Isabela
aron masabtan ang mga isyu sa civil ug politika ug aron makigbisog alang sa
unsay sakto ug makatarunganon.
Si Padaca nahimong prominente niadtong tuig 2004
sa dihang iyang gipildi si governor Faustino Dy Jr., ang miyembro sa political
dynasty nga maoy nagahari sa Isabela sulod sa 40 ka tuig. Niadtong Mayo tuig
2007 siya subling napili isip governador sa Isabela human niya gipildi si kanhi
governor Benjamin Dy.
Lakip sa mga awards na iyang nadawat mao ang
Ramon Magsaysay award for Government Service, 2008; United States Department of
State Woman of Courage award, 2007; Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. Fellowship for
Professional Development award, 2006; ug ang First CEO Excel Awards, 2005.
Siya uban usab nila kanhi Pampanga Governor
Eddie Panlilio ug kanhi Naga City Mayor Jesse Robredo maoy nagtukod sa Movement
for Good Governance and Ethical Leadership nga gitawag KAYA NATIN. (RER/FEA/PIA-Surigao
del Norte)
