Butuan dad urges PNP to intensify crime
investigation, manhunt operation
By Jennifer P. Gaitano
BUTUAN CITY, May 8 (PIA) – Mayor Ferdinand
Amante Jr of this city urged the city police personnel to intensify crime
investigation and manhunt operation for easy solution of any crime, and to
sustain peace and order in the city.
Amante said that it is very important for the
people to know the real peace and order situation in the city as the government
is promoting transparency and good governance.
“Peace and order situation is also the main
factor among others which investors would ask before putting up business in any
area,” said Amante.
As the mayor emphasized this matter, Butuan City
Police Office (BCPO) Director PSSupt Nerio Bermudo also briefed the local
tri-media on the peace and order situation of the city with comparison from the
previous year’s crime incidents.
Bermudo reported that as of April this year,
their office has recorded 223 crime incidents, which is lower by 9% from the
245 incidents during the same period last year.
“There is a significant surge in Butuan City's
crime solution efficiency rating. Out of the 223 recorded incidents as of April
2013, 92 were already solved, translating into an efficiency rating of 41%,”
said Bermudo.
Bermudo also revealed the difficulties they
encountered which include the non-cooperation of the robbery victims when BCPO
requested for a copy of the CCTV footages of the recent robbery incidents.
“Victims refused and told the police operatives to secure first a court order,”
he said.
Delayed reporting of crime incidents to the
police by the victims is also one of the factors which according to Bermudo,
greatly affects their investigation process.
Hearing all these issues and concerns from the
PNP chief, Mayor Amante still urged the PNP personnel to maximize their
efforts, intensify crime investigation and manhunt operation to put the
responsible people of any crime on jail and teach them a lesson. This will also
make victims feel satisfied of their (PNP) performance.
“I want to see a sample of how you (PNP) do your
job to prevent or solve criminalities. Rest assured that you have my support
and let’s do everything that we can to secure the lives and properties of our
citizens,” stressed Amante.
Meanwhile, Bermudo highlighted that the crime
solution efficiency continues to surge high since 2011 up to the present
because of active, diligent and competent police work, as well as the
continuous support of the local government unit here in the form of communication
and transportation equipment, surveillance cameras, generator sets, increase in
gasoline allocation, financial support, and other logistical support.
(JPG/PIA-Caraga)
Final testing of PCOS machines in Caraga
successful
By Jennifer P. Gaitano
BUTUAN CITY, May 9 (PIA) – The Commission on
Elections (Comelec) said the final testing and sealing (FTS) of the PCOS
machines in the precincts was generally successful.
The glitches observed during the process was
considered insignificant.
The Comelec has already completed the
distribution of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines to the
respective polling places, Lawyer Raquel Limbaco, Agusan del Norte Provincial
Election Supervisor, said.
“We have prepared contingency PCOS so there is
no worry if there might be problem with the PCOS on election day," Limbaco
said. "The Board of Election Inspectors were also provided with the
manuals on how to use the PCOS and they were even oriented weeks before this
election. Technical support personnel were also assigned in the precincts to
immediately address or solve any problem with the PCOS.”
There are 1,445,724 registered voters in the
five provinces of Caraga, which has 2,212 clustered precincts, Limbaco said.
With these developments, Limbaco also appealed
for the full support and cooperation of the general public to achieve Honest,
Orderly and Peaceful Elections on May 13. (Media ng Bayan/PIA-Caraga)
BIR Revenue District 17 receives Seal of
Excellence from CSC
By Jennifer P. Gaitano
BUTUAN CITY, May 9 (PIA) -- As a well-compliant
office of the Anti-Red Tape Act (ARTA) of 2007, the Bureau of Internal Revenue
(BIR) Revenue District Office (RDO) No. 103 under Revenue Region 17 here
received the Grant of Citizens’ Satisfaction Center – Seal of Excellence Award
from the Civil Service Commission (CSC) held Thursday at the BIR grounds, this
city.
CSC-Caraga Regional Director Adams Torres bared
that the BIR here has complied and passed the standard requirements to be
awarded the Seal of Excellence.
“In the month of June of every year, the CSC is
conducting simultaneous survey to all BIR offices to assess their performance
on the compliance of the ARTA law. There are thirty respondents for this survey
who are taxpayers and are directly transacting at the respective BIR office,”
explained Torres.
Torres also emphasized that government offices
that have frontline services must secure and post their agency's citizens'
charter preferably at the entrance part of their building so the public will
know the right personnel whom they will transact with. Along with it is the
posting of the Anti-fixer Campaign material.
It was also learned that among the standards
requirements that an office must comply to be awarded the Seal of Excellence
from the CSC include the following: 1) Service Quality; 2) Physical Working
Condition of the office; 3) Basic facilities for pregnant women, senior
citizens and persons with disabilities or the compliance of the Accessibility
Law; and 4) Implementation of ‘No Noon Break’.
“We have assessed the BIR’s performance on the
compliance of the ARTA through the 30 respondents of the Report Card Survey
that our office has conducted which showed an excellent public performance in
the overall rating,” stressed Torres.
BIR Revenue District Office No. 103 headed by
RDO Samer Muti, together with Regional Dir. Norberto Vitug of BIR Revenue
Region-17 received the said award from the Civil Service Commission with the
presence of Assistant Commissioner David Cabanag.
The CSC also handed-over to RDO Muti the cash
reward amounting to P75,000. Muti said the said amount will be used for the
purchase of equipment and other materials and services that will help further
improve the delivery of its frontline services.
Republic Act No. 9485 otherwise known as an “Act
to Improve Efficiency in the Delivery of Government Service to the Public by
Reducing Bureaucratic Red Tape, Preventing Graft and Corruption, and Providing
Penalties Thereof” or the Anti-Red tape Act of 2007 was signed into law on June
2, 2007. (JPG/PIA-Caraga)
DENR intensifies anti-illegal logging task force
in Caraga
BUTUAN CITY, May 9 (PIA) – The Department of
Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has intensified anti-illegal logging
task force in support to the national government’s effort to curb illegal
logging operations in the country.
During the recent Executive Committee meeting of
the Caraga Conference for Peace and Development (CCPD) held at the Bishop’s
Home in Barangay Ampayon here, Forester Achilles Ebron of the DENR-Caraga emphasized
that the operationalization of the multisectoral checkpoint is one way to
strengthen activities against illegal logging.
The official added that the checkpoint is an
effort of the DENR-Caraga to address the anti-illegal logging activities in hot
spot areas.
Ebron explained this also in line with the
implementation of anti-illegal logging task force under serial No. 2012-005.
It was learned that the idea of operationalizing
checkpoints with representatives of some government agencies manning it, came
after PNP-Caraga Regional Director PSupt Getulio NapeΓ±a suggested to converge
personnel of the DENR, AFP, PNP, and other agencies.
One of the tasks of the checkpoint is to conduct
self-monitoring of wood products that are illegally-cut and transported, and
not only on checking fake documents.
Aside from this effort, Forester Ebron
recommended the operationalization of the anti-illegal logging task force
operation center.
“Our basis for establishing anti-illegal logging
task force operation center is the executive order No.23 issued in February 1,
2011 referring to the moratorium of the cutting and harvesting of timber in a
natural and habitual forest then creating the anti-illegal logging task force,”
Ebron said.
Resolution No. 2012-005 has converted the
anti-illegal logging task force operation in Mindanao from civilian to active
military operation. (RER/PIA-Caraga)
DENR reviews permit of First Gen Mindanao Hydro
Power Company in Agusan Norte
By Eric F. Gallego
BUTUAN CITY, May 9 (PIA) -- The Department of
Environment and Natural Resources ( DENR) Regional Office 13 has reviewed on
Tuesday the application for Special Land Use Permit (SLUP) of the First
Generation Mindanao Hydro Power Corporation (FGMHPC) for the construction of
the 30 MegaWatt Puyo Run-Of-River Hyrdo Electric Power Plant in Jabonga, Agusan
del Norte.
The construction activities is expected to
commence sometime next year. The total cost of the project is about P3.5
billion.
Special Land Use Permit/Agreement ( SLUP) is a
three (3) year permit or privilege granted by the State to a person to occupy,
possess and manage in consideration of specified return, any public forest
lands for a specific use or purpose. The rentals shall be subject to change
based on the appraisal or re-appraisal of the land under lease and its
improvement. If an appraisal or re-appraisal has been made, it shall not be
less than three percentum (3%) of the appraisal or re-appraisal value of the
land and one percentum (1%) of that of the improvements. Provided, that should
the term of the lease be 25-years, a re-appraisal may be made every five (5)
years from the date of issuance thereof.
Based on the presentation made by Ramon Gareza,
a representative of the FGMHPC, at a meeting in Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte,
the construction of the weir and the powerhouse will occupy about 6 hectares of
public forest land within the ancestral domain claim in sitio Pagipik ,
Barangay Bangonay , Jabonga, Agusan del Norte. Puyo river is considered one of
the several potential hydropower sites in Mindanao.
OIC Regional Executive Director Nonito M. Tamayo
said the project would provide additional electric power supply particularly in
Agusan del Norte but made it clear that no trees shall be destroyed during the
construction stage.
Gareza said that under the project development
plan, the weir diverts river water into the headrace of a run-of-river type
hydropower plant. He said the weir is primarily used to obstruct the water-flow
and raise the water at a sufficient height. The weir is usually built to
develop ponding necessary to allow diversion of the flow of to the powerhouse
through a headrace while allowing excess discharge including floods to pass
through. An energy dissipater or an apron is usually provided to prevent
erosion downstream of the weir. A sub-surface race shall be also constructed
covering a total length of about 6 kilometers to the powerhouse. The
sub-surface headrace conveys the diverted river flow from the weir to the surge
tank and penstock.
The construction of the hydro-power plant is
expected to be done in 32 months. Gareza said the project is being pursued by
the FGMHPC in response to the Philippine Government’s program for energy
independence and in support of the international call for curtailing green
house gas emission. (NCLM/DENR-13/PIA-Caraga)
Tagalog news: DTI ilalatag ang Diskwento Caravan
Balik Eskwela edition sa buong bansa
Ni David M. Suyao
AGUSAN DEL SUR, Mayo 9 (PIA) -- Magsagawa ang
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) ng 29 na Diskwento Caravan-Balik Eskwela
Edition sa buong bansa para mabigyan ng masmurang kagamitan sa eskwela, bags,
sapatos at uniporme ang mga mag-aaral bago magsimula ang pasukan sa Hunyo.
Sinabi ni DTI National Capital Region (NCR)
Assistant Director Ferdinand Manfoste na ang diskwento caravan ay gaganapin sa
buong bansa mula Mayo 6 hanggang Hunyo 15, 2013.
“Ang diskwento caravan ay isang mabuting
pagkakataon para sa ating mga mamimili na gustong makatipid sa kanilang
nilalaan na panggatos para sa kagamitan sa eskwela, gaya ng mga bag, sapatos at
uniporme ng kanilang mga mag-aaral,” sabi ni Manfoste diskwento caravan sa
Lungsod ng Makati.
Ang mga produktong pinagbibili sa diskwento
caravan tulad ng kwaderno, papel, lapis, krayola, gunting, mga bag, sapatos at
iba pa ay pinagbibili sa murang halaga at may diskwentong mula 20 hanggang 70
porsyento.
Nangako rin si Manfoste sa mga mamimili na kahit
ang mga mabibiling kagamitan sa eskuwwla ay nasa murang halaga, ito ay
nanggagaling din sa magagaling na pagawaan at may mabuting kalidad.
“Ang mga kagamitan sa eskwela na ipinagbibili sa
ating Diskwento Caravan ay ligtas at sumusunod sa mga alituntunin ng paggawa,”
sabi ni Manfoste.
Maliban sa mga kagamitan sa eskuwela, ang
Diskwento Caravan ay naghahandog din ng mga pang araw-araw na ginagamit sa
kabahayan tulad ng mantika, tinapay, delata, mga naprosesong karne, sabon
panlaba at paligo at shampoo. Ang mga produktong mula sa maliit hanggang sa mga
malalaking negosyante ay pinagbibili rin sa Diskwento Caravan.
Nagsimula noong taong 2008, ang diskwento
caravan ay isa sa mga nagungunang proyekto ng DTI na ang layunin ay maibsan ang
bigat na pinapasan ng mga may mababang kinikita na mga konsumador dahil sa
pagtaas ng presyo ng mga nangungunang pangagailangan na mabibili.
(RER/DMS/PIA-Caraga)
Cebuano news: Presidente Aquino mimando sa
hintungdang mga Cabinet Secretaries lantawon ang Comelec resolution pag-imposar
sa ‘money ban’
By Susil D. Ragas
SURIGAO CITY, Mayo 9 (PIA) -- Gimandoan ni
Presidente Aquino ang mga Cabinet Secretaries nga lantawon ang mga sangpotanan
sa resolusyon nga gipagawas sa Comelec pag-imposar og ban sa cash withdarawal
nga molagpas P100,000 sa mga banko ug uban pa nga mga financial institutions,
sumala ni Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte kagahapon.
Sumala pa ni Valte nga gipagawas sa Presidente
ang maong kamandoan aron matubag ang pipila ka mga mulo ug mga kabalaka
mahitungod sa nasangpit nga resolusyon sukad nga gipagawas kini sa Comelec
niadtong Martes.
Ang Comelec, nga mipagawas sa maong ban niadtong
Martes, gidili usab niini ang paghupot, o pagdala ug kwarta nga mosobra sa
P500,000.
Dugang pa niya, nga bisan kon nasabtan sa
Presidente ang tumong sa maong Comelec resolution ug ubos usab kini sa mandato
sa maong ahensya, nga aron masumpo ang pagpamalit og boto (vote-buying), gusto
gihapon niya nga maklaro ang mga sangpotan sa pag-imposar sa nasangpit nga
resolusyon.
Lakip sa mga hintungdang Secretaries nga
gimandoan mao sila Justice Secretary Leila De Lima, Trade and Industry
Secretary Gregory Domingo ug Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima, ug lain pang
uban. (RER/SDR/PIA-Surigao del Norte)
