Agusan del Sur peaceful amidst increase in crime
volume - PNP
By David M. Suyao
AGUSAN DEL SUR, Jan. 30 (PIA) -- The Philippine
National Police (PNP) reported that Agusan del Sur is relatively peaceful in
spite the increase of crime incidence from October 2011 to January 2012 with
118 incidence, compared with the period October 2012 to January 2013 with 131
incidence.
According to report by P/SInsp. Joel Mendez of
the Provincial Police Office, robbery and physical injuries were the factors
that made the number of incidence this year higher than that of last year.
“Bayugan City recorded the highest with 31,
followed by San Francisco with 22 incidence, then Prosperidad with 16 and
Rosario with 13. According to our survey, crime incidence in Rosario is
increasing these past months because people are coming over because of the
mining industry. On the other hand, San Luis, Sta. Josefa, and La Paz
registered the lowest with only three incidence each,” Mendez said.
Police have also arrested 16 persons charged
with illegal possession of firearms since the gun ban was imposed. Six
high-powered and seven low-powered firearms were confiscated while seven cases
were already filed in court.
“On our campaign against illegal drugs, we have
conducted six raids and arrested seven persons. We have also served four
warrant of arrest to neutralize wanted persons and have arrested five persons
who are now languishing in jail,” Mendez said.
In welcoming the New Year, Mendez said they have
not recorded any injuries caused by firecrackers and have not arrested any
illegal vendor of the item. Province-wide, police record also shows no firearms
were fired during New Year’s eve, unlike in other places particularly in Metro
Manila where there were victims of stray bullets.
Police also presented their strategic plans
before, during, and after election, believing that insurgency will surely rise
because the Communist Party, the New Peoples Army, and the National Democratic
Front are expected to enforce the access fee or the permit-to- win to
politicians. That is the reason why the PNP, together with the army, must have
a strong pre-election activity to neutralize their activities.
According to the report, police continue their
police visibility to reduce, if not stop, criminality in Agusan del Sur. (DMS/PIA-Agusan
del Sur)
Beneficiaries of LAWig medical assistance
program continue to expand
By Junesther Jean S. Iway and Eldie N. David
BUTUAN CITY, Jan. 30 -- The Office of Vice Mayor
Lawrence “Law” Fortun has expanded its medical assistance program to make it
more accessible and available to as many indigent constituents of Butuan City
and the municipality of Las Nieves.
Dubbed as Lawig Medical Assistance Program, close
to 300 indigents confined at the Butuan Medical Center (BMC)had been assisted.
As part of its expansion, the said medical assistance can now be availed by
beneficiaries coming from Las Nieves confined at the Agusan del Norte
Provincial Hospital in Brgy. Libertad, this city.
The medical assistance program made available at
the office of the vice mayor is designed to help address and support the
medical and healthcare concerns of its constituency, for the most part, those
individuals whose financial resources are limited or those who could barely
support their medical needs.
The medical assistance programs are not limited
in the payment of hospital bills, medical prescriptions, blood assistance and
other healthcare necessities. Said programs are intended, designed and crafted
to indiscriminately help individuals, coming from different walks of life, to
answer their financial problems, commitments, obligations and other financial
issues.
To complement the said medical assistance
program, the office of the vice mayor is also facilitating the medical
assistance program of Sen. Antonio F. Trillanes IV through his own Priority
Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) which can be availed at BMC.
The medical assistance program of Fortun is part
of his continued effort to extend basic services to the people especially to
the less fortunate constituents which he started even when he was still a
Councilor of the city.
Apart from the medical assistance program, a
free legal assistance has been continuously implemented parallel to the
Programang Pangkatawhan of the Vice Mayor in various barangays of Butuan City.
(Vice Mayor’s Office/PIA-Caraga)
Surigao City named Child-Friendly City anew
By Francis G. Burwell
SURIGAO CITY, Jan. 30 (PIA) -- The city of
Surigao was once again proclaimed as Most Child-Friendly City all throughout
the Caraga Region.
The city government received a cash prize worth
P50,000 during the 2012 Search for the Child-Friendly City and Municipality
awarding ceremony, held recently in Butuan City.
It was learned that the city of Surigao is known
for its consistency as winner of the title since 1996, the year wherein the
Search for the Child-Friendly City and Municipality started.
The evaluation of the said search was conducted
last December 2012 by the evaluators team composed of the Department of the
Interior and Local Government, Department of Social Welfare and Development,
and National Economic and Development Authority.
The cash prize worth P50,000 will be used for
the Bahay Pag Asa Youth Detention Home capacity building program. (SDR/Surigao
City Media Office/PIA-Surigao del Norte)
City Civil Registrar’s Office, Pag-IBIG tie up
for Mass Civil Wedding
BUTUAN CITY, Jan. 30 -- The City Civil
Registrar’s Office here, in partnership with Pag-IBIG Fund-Caraga Region is now
geared up for yet the grandest Mass Civil Wedding in the city which will be
held at the newly-renovated Guingona Park come Valentine’s Day - February 14,
2013.
In an interview with Judith Alvizo-Calo, city
civil registrar, the wedding will be free for the participating couple. They
will be exempted from any charge including the issuance of the Affidavit of
Cohabitation Fee.
Calo added that this year’s Mass Civil Wedding
is extra special because Pag-IBIG Fund Caraga Region, aside from providing the
free wedding rings, will also raffle a brand new house for a lucky couple.
The City Civil Registrar said the program will
just cater to a hundred couples. Thus, she is urging interested couples who
would want to avail of the free wedding to visit their office for the necessary
requirements.
The mass civil wedding has been a yearly event
for the local government of Butuan City which aims to legally bind unwed
couples, especially those who have already been living together, through these
weddings.
The City Civil Registrar’s Office is located at
the ground floor of the City Hall Building and opens from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Mondays through Fridays with landline numbers 342-5487. (CMO-PIO/PIA-Caraga)
PBSP hands over Spanish-funded schoolbuilding in
Caraga
By Danny
Escabarte
AGUSAN DEL NORTE, Jan. 30 (PIA) -- Providing
access to basic education; this is the driving force behind the humanitarian
endeavor funded by the Government of Spain for depressed communities of Agusan
del Norte in Caraga Region. Newly-completed school buildings will be formally
handed over to DepEd officials and recipient communities on Thursday, January
31 at Rizal Integrated School in the town of Buenavista.
Rafael C. Lopa, executive director of the
Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) will turn over during the event
newly-completed school buildings to education officials led by Rizalino D.
Rivera, DepEd Undersecretary for Regional Operations. The turn-over ceremony
will also be attended by representatives of the PTAs and some local officials.
Since the project started, at least 89
classrooms have already been built benefiting more than 15,000 schoolchildren
in 35 schools of Agusan del Norte. The school building project helped ease and
decongest crowded classrooms in the beneficiary schools.
Among the built social infrastructures were a
three-classroom schoolbuilding in Rojales Elementary School, Culit Integrated
School, Agay Elementary School, Humilog Elementary School, Buenavista National
High School, Cahayagan High School, Gosoon Elementary School, Jagupit National
High School, Santiago National High School, Magallanes National High School,
Maningalao National High School, Nasipit National Vocational School, Carmen
Central Elementary School, Sangay Integrated School, Dahican Elementary School,
Manoligao Integrated School, Nasipit Central Elementary School, Santiago
Central Elementary School, and Manapa III Integrated School.
A two-classroom schoolbuilding was also
constructed in at least 16 schools in the province, namely: Casiklan Elmenetary
School, Vinapor National High School, Ambacon Elementary School, Marcos Calo
National High School, Agong-ong Integrated School, Tabon Elementary School,
Kinajangan Elementary School, Dona Telesfora Ong Elementary School, Sacol
Elementary School, Marcos Calo Elementary School, Malicato Elementary School,
Matabao Elementary School, Casiklan National High School, Carmen National High
School, Tagcatong Elementary School, and Rizal Integrated School where the
schools' formal hand-over ceremony will be held.
Funded by Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion
Internacional para el Desarollo, the schoolbuilding project is being
implemented by Madrid-based Fundacion Humanismo Y Democracia in partnership
with PBSP. (NCLM/PBSP-Mindanao Regional Center/PIA-Agusan del Norte)
Cebuano news: 100 ka mga binhi sa kape gihatag
ngadto sa Barangay Danawan
Ni Susil D. Ragas
SURIGAO CITY, Enero 30 (PIA) -- Mukabat sa 100
ka mga binhi sa kape o seedlings, ang gihatag bag-ohay pa lamang ngadto sa mga
mag-uuma sa barangay Danawan, ning dakbayan,
Ang maong mga binhi o seedlings gihatag sa City
Agriculture Office ubos sa programang Surigao City Agri-Fisheries and
Agro-Industrial Development (SAFIDEV) program sa lokal nga pangagamhanan sa
syudad.
Tumong niini nga matabangan ug maabagan ang mga
benipisyaryong mag-uuma aron mapadaghan ang ilang produksyon sa kape pinaagi sa
pag pananum niini.
Ug dugang pa nga abli usab ang buhatan sa City
Agriculture ngadto sa mga interesadong mga mag-uuma nga mutanom niining mga
binhi sa kape, na mahimong mo duaw lamang sa maong buhatan aron mahibal-an ang
mga pamaagi. (SDR/Surigao City Media Office/PIA-Surigao del Norte
