“BATA MUNA” encourages public to vote for
candidates who have programs for children
By David M. Suyao
AGUSAN DEL SUR, April 24 (PIA) -- The Foundation
for the Development of Agusanons, Inc. (ADFI) launched last Friday the “Bata
Muna” campaign to influence voters to consider children when voting and to vote
for candidates who stand up for children’s rights come May 13 elections.
Bata Muna is a non political, non partisan
movement endorsed by the Commission on Elections and is implemented by various
organizations, most notably Save the Children and Caraga Emergency Resource
Group (CERG) that will awaken both the candidates/ politicians and voters to
know, and stand up for children’s rights, Dr. Rex Linao, Executive Director of
ADFI.
During the launching, Dr. Linao candidates to be
voted can provide children with safe place where they can play, funds for the projects
for children, can put up street lights in order to avoid accidents and
criminality, programs for the rights of children especially those who are
impaired, programs that children can overcome fear, stress and bad experience
because of disaster and man-made calamities, free medical services like
counseling and correct information on reproductive health, alternative learning
and back-to-school program for children who quit schooling, chances so that
children can have participation in formulating laws, program on positive
discipline and child labor and work for parents so that they can address the
needs of their children.
“Our aim here is to make parents and voters know
the platforms of the candidate and scrutinizing their platforms. Second, they
should select candidates using the criteria for determining pro-children
candidates, and hold them accountable after elections, or remind them of their
promises,” Dr. Linao said.
According to Dr. Linao, organized youth, parents
and other stakeholders of the Bata Muna should see to it that they participate
or organize public dialogues, interact children with candidates and voters,
provide political candidates and parties with policy and position papers, Bata
Muna poster and campaign materials, engage political candidates through social
media (e.g. twitter), document and share political promises, share relevant
studies, draft policy papers, or be a spokesperson and volunteer to help the
campaign.
“With this campaign, we cannot only ensure
honest, orderly and peaceful election but we can also help voters to become
responsible for the future,” Dr. Linao said. (DMS, PIA-Agusan del Sur)
TESDA extends support to Labor Day celebration
in Caraga
By Robert E. Roperos
BUTUAN CITY, April 24 (PIA) – The Technical
Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has extended its full
support for the conduct of the 2013 Labor Day Celebration on May 1, 2013.
Speaking before the local tri-media during the
press conference on Tuesday in one of the local hotels here, TESDA Butuan
City-Agusan del Norte Provincial Director Randy Devilla said that as attached
agency of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), TESDA has been
regularly coordinating with DOLE officials in the region to ensure that the
annual Labor Day celebration will succeed.
Devilla said they are doing this not only during
Labor Day celebrations since it is their mandate to provide the people with
technical education and skills development.
“It is our mandate to provide technical
education and skills development of the people especially the youths so we are
regularly educating them and developing their skills to become better citizens
of our country,” Devilla said.
When asked what the agency has been doing to
solve job mismatch in the region, Dir. Devilla stressed that they have been
constantly coordinating with the concerned agencies and industries to know
their latest needs in as far as manpower is concerned.
The official further explained it is not only
TESDA’s duty to educate and develop the skills of the youths but also to assist
them in facilitating their employment needs after graduation. “We do not only
educate and develop the skills of the students or youths, we are also mandated
to help them to be positioned in companies or industries that need their
skills,” Devilla said.
With this, Devilla said that during the Jobs
Fair on May 1, 2013, they will assist those who are holders of National
Certification (NC) by recommending them to the companies who were invited
during the activity. Accordingly, 40 local and 12 overseas companies have
signified their participation in the said jobs fair.
This year’s Labor Day celebration is anchored on
the theme: “Manggagawang Pilipino: Handa sa Hamon ng Makabagong Panahon”
(Filipino Workers: Prepared for the challenges of the present times). (RER/PIA-Caraga)
Forest protection committee intensifies
anti-illegal logging campaign thru checkpoints
By Hannah Cheen P. Osin
BUTUAN CITY, April 24 (PIA) – In an effort to
curb illegal logging activities in this city, members of Regional
Multi-Sectoral Forest Protection Committee (RMFPC) has intensified the conduct
of checkpoint operations in the entrance and exit points here.
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
(DENR) Regional Technical Director Maritess Ocampo said the proposed
establishment of checkpoint is a way to curb the transporting of illegally-cut
forest products in Caraga Region.
During the RMFPC special meeting held recently
here, the member-agencies were made to identify their permanent and alternate
representatives in the committee in order to have smooth coordination and
performance of their functions.
Earlier reports revealed that transporting of
undocumented forest product concealed in containerized vans/closed conveyances
is still happening in the region.
“Though our security forces are conducting check
points, there is still a need for the council to assist our police and soldiers
to ensure that those violators will be apprehended,” Ocampo said.
With these developments, the council members
agreed to request the Department of Justice (DOJ) through the Regional
Development Council to create green prosecutors/officers to address
environmental cases in the region. (RER/PIA-Caraga)
Caraga stakeholders to convene for reg'l
consultation on PDP updating
BUTUAN CITY, April 24 (PIA) – More than 100
stakeholders from the regional line agencies (RLAs), Local Government Units
(LGUs), private and business sectors and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)
will convene for a regional consultation on the Philippine Development Plan
(PDP) Midterm Updating and Revalidation of Results Matrix on April 25, 2013 at
Almont Hotel’s Inland Resort, this city.
This regional consultation is aimed at ensuring
that regional concerns and priorities are reflected in the updated PDP. Moreover,
regional consultations are done nationwide to promote wider participation and
ownership of the Plan.
President Benigno S. Aquino III through
Memorandum Circular 43, dated February 2013, directed the updating of the
Philippine Development Plan (PDP) and its accompanying documents such as the
Results Matrix (RM) and the Philippine Investment Program (PIP).
The PDP serves as a roadmap for the realization
of inclusive growth - high growth that is sustained and growth which generates
job opportunities and reduces poverty.
As the country’s socio-economic planning agency,
the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) will facilitate the
updating of the PDP.
At the regional level, the Regional Development
Council (RDC) with the NEDA as Secretariat shall spearhead the crafting of the
updated Regional Development Plan (RDP).
The RDP contains specific strategies and targets
to boost regional productivity and promote inclusive growth.
(NEDA-13/PIA-Caraga)
Cebuano News: Presidente Aquino mipirma sa
Republic Act No. 10515 o naila nga ‘Anti-Cable Television and Cable Internet
Tapping Act of 2013’
Ni Susil D. Ragas
SURIGAO CITY, Abril 24 (PIA) – Gipirmahan na ni
Presidente Aquino ang Republic Act No. 10515 o naila nga “Anti-Cable Television
and Cable Internet Tapping Act of 2013" nga nagtinguha sa pagprotekta sa
industriya sa cable television ug cable internet.
Si Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail
Valte maoy mianunyo atol sa regular press briefing didto sa Malakanyang
kagahapon nga gipirmahan na sa Presidente ang maong balaodnon niadtong Abril
17, 2013.
Sumala ni Valte gidilisa maong balaodnon ang
cable television ug internet tapping ug silotan niini ang mga molapas uban ang
pagkapriso duha ngadto lima ka tuig o pagbayad og P50,000 ngadto P100,000 o
pareho, depende sa mando sa korte.
Sumala pa ni Valte kung ang makalapas usa ka
korporasyon o asosasyon, ang president, manager, managing partner o bisan kinsa
nga opisyales sa maong korporasyon diin adunay direktang partisipasyon sa maong
paglapas ang maoy manubag.
Ang maong balaodnon nagdili sa illegal tapping
sa mga signal sa cable television (CATV) o cable internet system ug tinuyo nga
pagtangtang ug pag-guba sa bisan unsa nga pasilidad sa CATV o cable internet.
Gidili usab niini ang recording, reproducing,
distributing, importing o pagbaligya sa intercepted o nadawat nga CATV
signal/network signal alang sa commercial nga katuyoan nga walay pagtugot gikan
sa hingtungdan nga CATV o internet service provider. (PIA-Surigao del Norte)
