No major damage reported in Surigao Norte,
Dinagat Islands after Tuesday’s typhoon- PDRMMC
By Fryan E. Abkilan
SURIGAO CITY, Dec. 5 (PIA) -- No major damage
has been reported as Typhoon Pablo struck Surigao del Norte and the province of
Dinagat Islands on Tuesday.
The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Council (PDRRMC) of Surigao del Norte said they received no reports
of significant damage of infrastructure in the entire province as of 11 a.m.
Wednesday.
“What we only have here is the report from Brgy.
Consolacion, Dapa that six houses were totally damaged and only one in Mainit
while 280 houses were partially damaged in San Isidro town,” said PDRRMC acting
chairperson Vice Gov. Arturo Carlos Egay, Jr.
PDRRMC reported a minor landslide which occurred
along Anao-aon – Malimono road in Brgy. Oslao, San Francisco town.
“But the road is still passable,” Egay said.
Also, PDRRMC said that 6,927 families or 31,837
individuals in 74 barangays all over the province have been affected by the
typhoon.
No casualty was also reported.
Some 200 passengers and 40 rolling cargoes were
stranded in Lipata port.
The power supply was cut off in some areas of
the city after some electric posts were toppled down by strong winds yesterday.
Water supply in the city was also temporarily cut off.
The PDRRMC also said that nine towns in Siargao
Island experienced power blackout yesterday. But as of this report, power has
been restored in almost all towns except for Socorro.
In Dinagat Islands, PDRRMC reported a total of
300 affected families or 1,274 individuals in 11 barangays of the province. No
major damages were also reported.
The PDRRMC also said that the provincial
government thru the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office has
extended relief goods to the affected families. (FEA/PIA-Surigao del Norte)
'Pablo' leaves 2 dead in Lingig, several houses
totally damaged
By Nida Grace B. Tranquilan
SURIGAO DEL SUR, Dec. 5 (PIA) -- Typhoon Pablo
leaves two casualties in Barangay Mansa-ilao, Lingig yesterday December 4,
Disaster Risk Reduction Management (DRRM) Officer Mayosito Dano said.
According to Dano the victims were identified as
Fritzel Cortes, 48 years old and Jemark Acevedo, 15 years old who were
reportedly hit by falling trees.
During the assessment conducted by Provincial
DRRM council team yesterday in southern areas of this province, several houses
were totally damaged by “Pablo” due to strong winds and storm surge along the
coastal areas in Lianga, Hinatuan, Bislig City and Lingig.
As of this writing, power lines in the northern
part here composed of the municipalities of Carrascal, Cantilan, Madrid, Carmen
and Lanuza was already restored yesterday while in Tandag City, the electricity
was restored this morning except in the municipalities of San Miguel and Cortes
according to SURSECO II Information Officer Aguinaldo Jaluag.
SURSECO II covers 12 municipalities and one city
in the 1st district in Surigao del Sur except Lianga which is under the
coverage of SURSECO I.
The Provincial DRRM Office is currently
consolidating data from the local DRRMOs here since the most affected areas
power lines had been not restored as of this morning and no network
communication specially in Lingig and Bislig City. (NGBT/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
Adventure-based corporate training highlighted
CEBU, Dec. 5 (PIA) - Ramon Aboitiz Foundation
Inc. (RAFI) Kool Adventure Camp (KAC) showcased its Professional Development
Programs in this year’s 39th Asian Regional Training and Development
Organization (ARTDO) International Leadership and HRD Conference held recently
at the Radison Blu Hotel.
This year’s conference theme is “Creating a
Culture of Excellence Through Workplace Learning and Performance” and its
tagline is “Enriching Borderless Learnvironments”.
KAC creates powerful “Learnvironment” through
its adventure-based training and development programs that are crafted through
a holistic and collaborative consulting approach.
The word “Learnvironment” was coined to
emphasize the importance of facilitating learning within the environment in
which the learning will be applied.
KAC optimizes workplace learning and performance
by allowing individuals to experience fun and engaging activities that reflect
what they are actually dealing with back in the workplace.
Through the KAC adventure programs, team members
are provided with avenues to have a greater appreciation and understanding of
themselves and the bigger picture of the organization as they are faced with
everyday challenges and obstacles.
Powerful life and workplace lessons are
instilled through the metaphors of the adventure tools used that allow for easy
learning transfer and continuous improvement.
KAC Professional Development Programs provides
customized programs for Personal Development, Team Development, and Leadership
Development. KAC-PDP team works closely with the company’s management and Human
Resources Department to establish the desired learning outcomes and to ensure
that the programs are fit to the current organizational context and culture.
KAC Programs can be designed as a stand-alone program or part of a progression
of learning and development initiatives.
KAC is one of the programs under RAFI’s
Leadership & Citizenship focus area, where future leaders are nurtured to
prepare them to take an active role in affecting change. RAFI’s other focus
areas are Integrated Development, Micro-finance & Entrepreneurship, Culture
& Heritage, and Education.
KAC is currently building the Philippines’ first
outdoor experiential center at Barangay Cansomoroy, Balamban Cebu, which is set
to open in 2013.
For more information about KAC, please contact
418-7234 local 407 and look for Althea May Santillan, or visit www.rafi.org.ph
or www.facebook.com.ph/rafi.org.ph. (RAFI/PIA-Caraga)
RAFI holds Pablo relief operations
CEBU, Dec. 5 (PIA) - The Ramon Aboitiz
Foundation Inc. (RAFI) is conducting relief operations in response to super
typhoon Pablo, which made landfall Tuesday early morning.
For donations in kind, you can bring them to
either of the following drop-in centers: RAFI Eduardo Aboitiz Development
Studies Center (EADSC), 35 Lopez Jaena St., Cebu City and University of San
Carlos (USC) Main Campus, Sanciangko gate.
For cash donations, you may deposit to Unionbank
account number 00-278-000266-4 (Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.).
RAFI is also accepting donations for other
affected areas in the Visayas and Mindanao.
To volunteer, please contact Mel Yan at
0917-324-4402 or Mileesa Lumanog at 0916-579-1703, or call 418-7234 loc. 101.
(RAFI/PIA-Caraga)
RAFI Micro-finance joins Pilmico Expo
CEBU CITY, Dec. 5 (PIA) -- The Ramon Aboitiz
Foundation Inc. (RAFI) Micro-finance participated in the 1st Pilmico Expo, held
recently at the SM Cebu Trade Hall, this city.
The event gave RAFI Micro-finance the
opportunity to showcase its products and services, such as loans, capital
build-up, and insurance.
More than 400 expo attendees visited the RAFI
Micro-finance exhibit booth. They were given an orientation on the RAFI
Micro-finance program and other programs of RAFI.
“Our exhibit gave us the chance to orient the
people of our work in helping women micro-entrepreneurs and their families in
their financial needs. It was also a great break to reach out to prospect
clients,” Dominic Sencio, Cebu City Branch manager, said.
RAFI Micro-finance members, especially those who
availed large amount of loans and are into hog raising, hog feeds selling, and
bakery operations, were invited to the various symposia of the participating
partners in hog & gamefowl raising and baking businesses.
“It was a good venue for our clients, even those
not into hog raising business, to learn and get ideas and be inspired on
alternative business options. RAFI Micro-finance personnel also had the chance
to be more knowledgeable of the businesses presented during the expo,” Charen
Rabasano, branch manager of Balamban Branch, shared.
Micro-finance is a program under the
Micro-finance & Entrepreneurship focus area of RAFI, providing financial
resources and know-how to women micro-entrepreneurs to nurture financial
independence and entrepreneurship. Other focus areas of RAFI are Integrated
Development, Culture & Heritage, Leadership & Citizenship, and
Education.
For more information on RAFI Micro-finance,
please contact 418-7234 loc. 707 and look for Val Gatchalian, or visit
www.rafi.org.ph or www.facebook.com/rafi.org.ph. (RAFI/PIA-Caraga)
Tagalog news: Pangulong Aquino nagbigay kautusan
sa mga ahensya ng gobyerno na palakasin ang kanilang disaster mitigation and
prevention strategies para sa bagyong ‘Pablo’ upang mapigilan ang pagkawala ng
buhay at mga ar-arian
Ni Danilo S. Makiling
BUTUAN CITY, Dis. 5 (PIA) -- Nagpalabas ng
kautusan si Pangulong Benigno S. Aquino III sa mga ahensya ng gobyerno upang
palakasin ang kanilang disaster mitigation and prevention strategies upang
mapigilan ang pagkawala ng buhay at mga ari-arian habang nananatili pa sa
Philippine Area of Responsibility ang bagyong ‘Pablo’, ayon sa Palasyo.
Ayon kay Deputy Presidential Spokesperson
Abigail Valte sa isang press briefing na isinagawa sa Malacanang kahapon, ang
Chief Executive ay walang tigil na nagmomonitor sa sitwasyon upang siguraduhin
na nananatili ang pagiging handa sa pagdating ng bagyo.
"Ang utos lang po ng Pangulo ay ipagpatuloy
ang ating koordinasyon, ---ang paglalabas ng mga assets na kinakailanga, at
tinitingnan din po ng Pangulo kung sapat na ang ating mga preparasyon sa mga
lugar na dapat daanan ng bagyong ‘Pablo'," ani Valte.
Ayon din kay Valte ang National Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) ay nananatiling naka red alert status
sa pagmonitor at paghahatid ng mga weather bulletin para sa bagyong “Pablo” sa
lahat ng mga Office of the Civil Defense Regional Centers sa pamamagitan ng SMS
at iba pa.
"Sa ngayon po, kami ay nakakatanggap ng
balita hinggil sa power outages kung saan ito ay normal sa mga nadadaanan ng
bagyo. Ang iba po kasi nagpapatay na sila ng kuryente in their areas para lang
po siguraduhing walang hindi magandang pangyayari dahil dumadaan po ang bagyo
at patuloy iyon," ani Valte.
Ayon din kay Valte, binigyan diin din ng Pangulo
ang importansya ng pagiging handa sa panahon ng kalamidad at ang kooperasyon ng
mga tao ay importante din para mabawasan ang masamang dulot ng bagyo.
"Gusto ko rin po sanang tulungan ang ating
mga kasamahan sa Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Service
Administration (PAGASA) kasi may mga nagre-report po na kahit may public storm
warning signal sa kanilang lugar ay maaraw naman daw at hindi naman daw
umuulan. For the information of the public, ang PAGASA po kasi nagtataas ng
tropical storm warning signal in advance—meron iyang lead time," dagdag ni
Valte.
“Wag po tayong makontento. Meron po tayong sapat
na oras upang siguradohin na ang ating mga paghahanda ay sapat," ani
Valte.
Ang pamahalaan ay inihanda na lahat ng mga
available resources kagaya ng manpower response teams, equipment, rescue
assets, at mga relief goods sa pamamagitan ng ibat ibang ahensya.
"Alam nating nakapag-preposition na po ang
DSWD mga food and non-food relief items. Ang DOH naman nakapagbigay na po sila
ng information as to the basic medicines and the kits that are necessary,"
dagdag naming sinabi ni Valte na lokal na pamahalaan ay sinuspendi narin nang
maaga ang mga klase sa paaralan sa lahat ng level.
Sinabi din ni Valte na maraming flights sa mga
lugar na apektado ng bagyo ang nakansela upang siguruhin ang kaligtasan ng mga
byahero.
"May mga cancellations na rin po tayo ng
mga flights. Ang total affected population po natin for Region VIII, X, XI, and
XIII sa ngayon ang impormasyon na nakalap po namin (as of) 6:00 a.m. po—8,283
families and that translates to 41,608 persons doon sa mga rehiyon na nabanggit
ko po kanina,"
"Sa mga daungan naman po, ang mga stranded
passengers natin nasa 3,406. So hinihingi lang po natin ang kanilang pasensya,
doon po sa ating mga stranded na passengers, dahil mas minabuti po natin na
hindi payagan ang paglalayag para hindi tayo magkaroon ng ‘di inaasahang
aksidente," ani Valte. (NCLM/PIA-Caraga)
Cebuano news: Palasyo miingon Framework
Agreement tali sa MILF konstitusyunal
Ni Susil D. Ragas
SURIGAO CITY, Dis. 5 (PIA) -- Ang MalacaΓ±ang
positibo nga mipadayag nga ang Framework Agreement nga gipirmahan sa gobyerno
ug sa Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) mopasar sa konstitusyunal nga isyu
niini.
Gipalanog sa MalacaΓ±ang kining maong pamahayag
tungod sa duha ka mga petisyon nga gipasaka ngadto sa Korte Suprema pagkwestyon
sa legalidad sa maong Framework Agreement.
Usa sa petisyon ang gipasaka ni lawyer Ely
Pamatong nga nag-awhag sa korte suprema sa pagpahunong sa implementasyon sa
maong agreement. Gusto usab niya nga mohimog pagpasabot ang Pangulo mahitungod
sa maong peace deal.
Sa regular press briefing didto sa MalacaΓ±ang
kagahapon, si Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte miingon nga ang
peace panel negotiation sa gobyerno tali sa MILF gihimo human gikonsiderar ang
napakyas nga memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain sa administrasyong
Arroyo.
“The panel was very mindful of what had happened
in the past, and that every step they took was mindful of the mistakes of the
past. We are confident that it will pass constitutional scrutiny,”matud ni
Valte.
Si Pamatong nga usa ka samokan nga kandidato
niadtong 2004 presidential election, miingon nga ang peace panel sa gobyerno
nakahimo og grabeng pag-abuso, ug kini milalis nga ang Konstitusyon nagtugot
lamang alang sa Autonomous Region sa Muslim Mindanao ug wala kini magtugot sa
pagmugna og “Bangsamoro.”
Giangkon ni Pamatong nga ang peace panel
“usurped the power of Congress to enact, amend or repeal laws vested on it by
the Constitution.”
Kon mahinumdoman, niadtong Oktubre 15,
gipirmahan sa gobyerno ug MILF ang maong Framework Agreement. Kini gisaksihan
nila Pangulong Aquino, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak ug MILF chair Murad
Ebrahim didto sa MalacaΓ±ang.
Niadtong tuig 2008, giwagtang sa Korte Suprema
ug gideklarang dili konstitusyunal ang memorandum of agreement on ancestral
domain. Ang maong desisyon sa taas nga korte nakapasuko sa pipila ka mga grupo
sulod sa MILF, ug miatake sa mga kabaranggayan nga miresulta sa pipila ka mga
pagka-angol. (PIA-Surigao del Norte)
