PNP-13 accounts personnel deployed in the
provinces during Elections
By Jennifer P. Gaitano
BUTUAN CITY, May 16 (PIA) – The Philippine
National Police (PNP) Caraga headed by PCSupt Getulio Napeรฑas conducted on
Thursday the Recall and Accounting of PNP personnel deployed in the provinces
of the region during the national and local midterm elections.
In Agusan del Norte Provincial Police Office
(PPO), 24 personnel from the regional headquarters were deployed as
augmentation to the province; 146 in Agusan del Sur PPO; 142 in Surigao del
Norte PPO; 63 in Surigao del Sur PPO; and 32 in Dinagat Islands PPO. A total of
407 personnel were accounted during the said deployment and went back to their
original assignments.
Napeรฑas said the deployment of his personnel in
the provinces of Caraga has helped minimize the crime incidents in the area of
responsibility. “Because of police visibility and personnel deployed for
augmentation in the strategic areas assigned in the provinces, there were only
few minor incidents recorded, thus, we remained generally peaceful,” he said.
“Those PNP personnel who can perform a job well
will be given due recognition and reward for his dedication to work and for
serving a role model to other personnel,” Napeรฑas added.
Napeรฑas further said that aside from the report
of his personnel installed in their area of responsibility, the broadcast
media’s news/report was also a big contribution to the PNP as it has helped
them know of the incidents monitored so the PNP could also respond immediately.
The PNP-Caraga chief also urged his personnel to
to take the job seriously and perform it well. “With our job, let’s be
aggressive in preventing crime incidents so we can continue to enjoy a safe
place to live in, conducive to business,” he said. (JPG/PIA-Caraga)
Agusan High School in Butuan launches Visual
Arts Collection
By Jennifer P. Gaitano
BUTUAN CITY, May 16 (PIA) – In time with its
Sapphire Anniversary celebration, the Agusan High School class ‘68 here
launched on Wednesday the ‘Visual Arts Collection’ through the Photography
books donation of Mr. Leo Mascariรฑas, held at the City Library.
Class chairperson Eleanor Jaca, said the project
is aimed to create awareness and enhance the creativity of the Butuanons in the
field of photography.
“By the year 2014, the Butuan City Library
Visual Arts Collection will have grown to over 1,000 titles, ranking it among
the largest nationwide,” said Jaca.
It was learned that Mascariรฑas’ photos have also
appeared on print such as the Toronto Star, Philippine Daily Inquirer, the book
“A Life Shaped by Music”, among other publications. A collection of his favorite
works had been published in “Images I saw somewhere along the way.”
“Leo Mascariรฑas started looking pictures as a
child in Butuan using his parents’ camera. From thereon, he has come a long way
to earning a master photographer designation by the Toronto Camera Club, among
the oldest photography organizations in the world,” Jaca added.
During the project launching, incumbent city and
newly-reelected mayor Ferdinand Amante Jr expressed his gratitude and support
to the initiative of Agusan High School Class '68 for adding useful materials
for the public use at the City Library.
Also, on behalf of Mr. Mascariรฑas, the
benefactor of said project, his sister Dr. Elena Mascariรฑas received the plaque
of appreciation from the Class ’68 with Mayor Amante.
“My brother Leo is a proud Butuanon. He wanted
to enhance the creative soul of the Butuanon through his materials. With his
kindness, generosity and love for Butuan, he and the rest of our family is
giving 20 percent of his 1,000 books. We hope this will inspire others to
appreciate photography and produce their own material,” Dr. Mascariรฑas said.
Meanwhile, Butuanons are all invited to come and
visit the city library and see themselves the visual arts collection that paint
thousand words. (JPG/PIA-Caraga)
Caraga LGUs attain 100% completion in LGPMS
By Florian Faith Jr. P. Bayawa
BUTUAN CITY, May 16 (PIA) -- All seventy-seven
(77) local government units of Region 13 (Caraga) have completed the on-line
data entry of the Local Governance Performance Management System (LGPMS) for
the calendar year 2012.
In a Memorandum dated April 18, 2013 from the
Bureau of Local Government Supervision (BLGS) of the Department of the Interior
and Local Government (DILG) Central Office, only Regions II, III, XIII (Caraga)
and CAR attained 100% completion of LGPMS on-line data entry.
The LGPMS is a self-assessment, management and
development tool used to assess and measure the performance of LGUs in the
provinces, cities and municipalities. By completing the LGPMS on-line data
entry, the LGUs will know the strong and weak points of their services,
utilizing different sets of indicators. These indicators are focused on
governance and development areas that measure their performance in: (1)
Administrative Governance, (2) Social Governance, (3) Economic Governance, (4)
Environmental Governance and (5) Valuing Fundamentals of Good Governance.
The local government officials and functionaries
who are respondents to this tool will be able to generate the state of
performance and development in their areas that will serve as the basis for
coming-up with the State of Local Governance Report (SLGR). This report being
generated will now provide the details underpinning the LGUs performance. The
LGUs weak performance are revealed and will now be responded through strategic
efforts such as strengthening the local government’s internal capacity,
formulating policies to address certain issues, gaps and challenges and
addressing problematic areas to promote development.
Through LGPMS, the information being generated
in the system is used by LGUs for policy and program development. The result of
the assessment will also address development gaps existing in their scope of
their locality. This will ensure the delivery of quality basic services to the
constituents and will influence future decisions of the LGU Officials focusing
on certain areas that promotes development.
The Province of Dinagat Islands was excluded in
the LGPMS online data entry for C.Y. 2012 for its questioned constitutionality
of being a province was finally resolved and officially declared as valid and
constitutional just last year in a Minute Resolution dated September 11, 2012
in G.R. No. 180050 (Navarro v. Executive Secretary Ermita). (NCLM/DILG-13/PIA-Caraga)
Cebuano News: Presidente Aquino gilagdaan na ang
K-12 Act
Ni Susil D. Ragas
SURIGAO CITY, Mayo 16 (PIA) – Gilagdaan na ni
Presidente aron mamahimong balaodnon ang Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2012 o
ang giila nga K to 12 Basic Education Program kagahapon didto sa Malakanyang.
Ang K to 12 Program gilangkoban sa Kindergarten
ug 12 ka tuig nga basic education (unom ka tuig nga primary education, upat ka
tuig nga Junior High School ug duha ka tuig nga Senior High School) aron
mahatagan og igong oras ang mga estudyante nga maumol pag-ayo ang ilang kahanas
ug maandam sila alang sa kolehiyo, pagpanarbaho ug pagnegosyo.
Sa iyang mensahe ang Presidente miingon nga
obligasyon sa gobyerno ang panghatag sa mga panginahanglanon ug segurohon ang
makiangayon ug patas nga oportunidad alang sa tanang mga Filipino, labi na ang
mga kabus, ug ingon nga ang implementasyon sa maong programa mopalig-on sa
kaalam nga pundasyon sa mga estudyante nga maoy magdala kanila paingon ngadto
sa katumanan sa ilang mga pangandoy ug mga ambisyon.
Mitambong atol sa maong paglagda ang mga authors
ug co-authors sa maong balaodnon nga gipangulohan nila Senators Franklin
Drilon, Edgardo Angara, Ralph Recto, Speaker of the House Feliciano Belmonte,
Jr. ug sila Representatives Neptali Gonzales II, Sandy Ocampo ug Juan Edgardo
“Sonny” Angara. (PIA-Surigao del Norte)
