Activities for this year’s Nat’l Crime Prevention Week in Butuan all set
By Jennifer P. Gaitano
BUTUAN CITY, Aug. 30 -- This year's National
Crime Prevention Week (NCPW) celebration here will kick-off on September 2,
with several activities to mark the event.
Among the activities are motorcade around the
city thoroughfares and a press conference on September 2 with government
officials and Peace and Order Councils (Regional Peace and Order Council,
Provincial Peace and Order Council, City Peace and Order Council) at the
Capitol Covered Court.
The Butuan City Police Office (BCPO) will be
holding the Awareness Drive on Crime Prevention on September 3,1:00 p.m. with
students of St. Joseph Institute of Technology (SJIT), this city. Speakers will
be coming from the Philippine National Police (PNP), Philippine Drug
Enforcement Agency (PDEA), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), Armed Forces of the
Philippines (AFP), among others.
On September 4, the Department of Education
(DepEd) Caraga will be spearheading the conduct of Information Drive on Crime
Prevention at the Libertad Elementary School, Butuan City with grades 5 and 6
pupils as participants, while on September 5, DepEd will conduct the same
activity with students of Agusan National High School (ANHS). Speakers will be
coming from different concerned government agencies.
Also, as part of the week-long activities, the
city government here with the PNP will be conducting the activity dubbed
"A Day with the Street Children" on September 6 at the Kapihan sa
Datu, Sports Complex. Along with the program is the distribution of shoes to
selected street children.
The public is encouraged to support and
participate in the lined-up activities since peace and order is everyone’s
concern. (JPG/PIA-Caraga)
NGCP announces scheduled power interruption in
parts of Surigao Sur
By Nida Grace B. Tranquilan
TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, August 30 (PIA) --
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) announced the scheduled
shutdown of the transmission facilities in the Lianga to Tandag City areas from
6 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 31.
In a written communication received from the
office of the Surigao del Sur Electric Cooperative II (SURSECO II), the
scheduled power interruption will pave way for the conduct of a rehabilitation
of the 50 critical and dilapidated structures along the municipalities of
Barobo - Cagwait and Tandag City Transmission line.
According to SURSECO II, the power interruption
will affect some areas under the first district of this province, these are the
municipalities of Lianga; San Agustin; Marihatag; Cagwait; Bayabas; Tago; San
Miguel, Cortes and Tandag City.
The normal operations will immediately resume
after work completion and power will be restored anytime without prior notice.
With this, the public is advised to take
necessary preparations and precautions for the anticipated scheduled shutdown.
(NGBT/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
Butuan city council to pass CCTV ordinance
By Johny S. Natad
BUTUAN CITY, August 30 (PIA) -- The Sangguniang
Panglusod (SP) of this city will approve next week an ordinance requiring all
private establishments to install closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras.
Chair on Police and Public Safety councilor
Jaime Cembrano, Jr. during the Butuan City Peace and Order Council (CPOC)
meeting held recently revealed that once approved the city government will now
require all private companies and commercial establishments in the city to
install CCTV cameras for security purposes.
"The SP will finally approve the ordinance
requiring all private establishments in the city to install CCTV cameras to
secure Butuan from any forms of criminality. We will be working with the PNP
for the installation of the CCTV cameras to all private establishments to
ensure the quality of its installation," Cembrano said.
Meanwhile, PSSupt Nerio Bermudo, city director
of Butuan City Police Office (BCPO) bared that the BCPO has already installed
20 units of CCTV cameras within the strategic places of the city.
"As part of our 'Oplan Kalinaw Butuan',
which aims to ensure the city from any terrorist activities and other threats,
we have installed a total of 20 units of CCTV surveillance system which was
completely finished after two phases of installation," Bermudo said.
(FEA/JSN/PIA-Caraga)
Caraga local legislators gather to craft rice
self-sufficiency policy
By Johny S. Natad
BUTUAN CITY, August 30 (PIA) -- The Chairpersons
of the Committee on Agriculture of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, and Sangguniang
Panglungsod/Bayan from five provinces of the region gathered here during the
Rise for Rice Support the National Year of Rice (NYR) Legislators’ Congress on
August 29 to formulate strategies and tackle relevant issues about rice
productivity.
Department of Agriculture (DA) Caraga Regional
Agriculture and Fisheries Information Division (RAFID) OIC Rebecca Atega said
the activity is the right time and venue where local legislators as policy
makers are gathered together to discuss and collaborate in crafting viable and
feasible agricultural policies that will boost production and conservation of
agricultural resources in relation to the Food Staples Sufficiency Program
(FSSP).
"In the Presidential Proclamation 494, the
challenges is for the policy makers to be able to come up with important
legislations that would boost farmers' morale, and make rice production a more
worthy enterprise. Furthermore, important legislation must be promulgated to
tackle rice conservation and responsible rice consumption," Atega said.
Meantime, Butuan City Vice Mayor Angie Calo
encouraged co-legislators to truly solve the problems of rice farmers as one of
significant strategies to ensure rice self-sufficiency.
Calo said that the problem is that most farmers
opted to borrow funds from loan sharks "while there are some unscrupulous
traders who manipulated our farmers and the local prices." Thus he said
the need to squarely address the problems faced by farmers..
PhilRice Central Experiment Station Science
Research Specialist Shereen Razon bared that the national government is very
serious on the rice sufficiency program in the country emphasizing that the
government will not import rice if not needed and put strategies to harvest
stable palay production here in our country for public consumption.
Razon recognized the need to improve palay
harvest and increase farmers’ income to ensure "Sapat na bigas, kaya ng
Pinas" and the need to establish a workable policies to facilitate the
needs of the farmers.
On the same occasion, Surigao del Sur Vice
Governor Manuel Alameda encouraged co-legislators to make agriculture as the priority
program of intervention.
"The LGU must make agriculture development
as its main program since most people working in our localities are mostly
farmers and fisherfolk. Thus, an increased budget for agriculture and fisheries
must be prioritized while the effective policies and local legislative supports
must be pursued to make the agriculture program in our locality workable,"
Alameda said.
Meanwhile, the congress conducted workshop on
NYR policy stipulating strategies that support the legislators in making
important legislations and related activities that they may implement in
respective localities throughout the region. (JSN/PIA-Caraga)
PCL-Dinagat Islands Chapter elects new sets of
officers
SURIGAO CITY, Aug. 30 (PIA) -- The Philippine Councilors League
(PCL) Dinagat Islands Chapter elected recently its new sets of officers and
board of directors at the Philippine Gateway Hotel, this city.
The newly-elected 2013-2016 officers are
Councilor Rochelyn S. Libor of San Jose for President, Vice President:
Councilor Meindrado P. Salarda of Dinagat; Secretary General: Councilor Menchu
G. Bacol of Dinagat; Treasurer: Councilor Jessie D. Ecleo of San Jose; Auditor:
Councilor Liberato B. Ruyeras of Dinagat; P.R.O: Councilor Epifanio G. Sepe,
Jr. of San Jose; Business Manager: Palermo E Lisondra, Jr. of Dinagat.
Federation board of directors are San Jose Councilor Ricardo E. Olacio, Jr.;
Cagdianao Councilor Leonides B. Laluna; San Jose Councilor Rodrigo O. Reponte;
Dinagat Councilor Lilibeth D. Edradan; Libjo Councilor Aldrin B. Garay; Dinagat
Councilor Ferdinand O. Dalar; Basilisa Councilor Rodrigo M. Roma and Councilor
Carlos P Bua of Libjo.
In her message, elected PCL President Rochelyn
S. Libor thanked her fellow councilors for the support and assured that her
administration will try its best to serve the Dinagatnons regardlesss of their
political affiliation.
PCL-National Vice Chairman for Mindanao Jaime
Cembrano, Jr. and PCL Nat’l Public Relations Officer Ariel Arceo officiated the
oath-taking of the newly-elected officers of PCL-Dinagat Islands Chapter.
The PCL obtained its official status as a local
government association when it was accredited by the then Department of Local
Government on September 3, 1990, and subsequently registered with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on September 17, 1990.
The PCL notched another milestone when Republic
Act 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991, recognized the
existence of the Federations of other Elective Local Officials. On January 16, 1992, the Department of the
Interior and Local Government issued a Memorandum Circular No. 92 -03 mandating
that the existing PCL as organized in 1990, be reconstituted and its existing
Constitution and By-Laws be modified in accordance with the pertinent
provisions of the said Code. (SDR/PIA-Surigao del Norte)
DA bares rice sufficiency in Caraga
BUTUAN CITY, August 30 (PIA) -- Department of
Agriculture - Regional Field Unit (DA-RFU) Caraga revealed that the region has
a sufficient production of palay and positive rice sufficiency level.
Caraga DA-RFU Operations and LGU Support
Regional Technical Director Edgardo Dahino during the Rise for Rice Support the
National Year of Rice Legislators’ Congress on August 29 said the region has
rice sufficiency level of 78.33 in 2011 and remarkably increased to 86.89 in
2012 and the subsequent years.
"Based on the Caraga Rice Sufficiency Level
and Utilization data from 2011-216 with a
population of 2,429,224 and growth rate of 1.5 percent based on 2010
NCSB Survey, the region will have 100.24 sufficiency level in 2013 and expected
to increase on the following years under normal condition," Dahino added.
Dahino said the region has a rice sufficiency
level starting in 2013 and will rise to 111.90 in 2014; 112.22 in 2015; and
111.08 in 2016 granting that all variables like weather condition, population, increase
of harvested area, palay production and yield and other agricultural factors
are considered.
It was revealed that there was low productivity
of palay in 2011 and 2012 since the region was affected by the typhoons Sendong
and Pablo. In 2012, the Caraga has a total harvested area of 155,041 hectares
that actually produced a total of 469,205 metric tons (mt.) of palay which
yield at 3.03 mt. per hectare. Data presented shows that in 2012, Agusan del
Sur has the highest palay production of 240,381 mt. followed by Surigao del Sur
with 84,550 mt., Agusan del Norte with 73,595 mt., Surigao del Norte with
64,852 mt. and Dinagat Province with 5,827 mt.
The 2013 Food Staples Sufficiency Program (FSSP)
of the DA Caraga has a target of 547,484 mt. In the first semester of 2013, the
actual production reached to 315,568 mt.
"With a good weather condition, we have our
second semester FSS production target of 231,916 mt. which has an incremental
target of 35,612 mt. compared to the 2012 second semester actual production of
196,304 mt.," Dahino added.
He revealed that the DA Caraga has already
prepared strategies and interventions in order to achieve the increased palay
production and its yield and rice sufficiency in the region like through the
openning of new areas of 3,383 hectares for rice production; the restoration of
3,733 hectares rice areas; the ratooning of 11,518 hectares; the provision of
high quality seeds (HQS) to irrigators associations (IAs) and farmers
association (FAs) under pay now pay later (PNPL) plan with hybrid seeds,
certified seeds (CS), and registered seeds; the CS subsidy from LGUs; the
availment of weather-based (WB) insurance; and the provision of farm inputs
like Zinc Chelate, Rodenticide, and Bactericide. (FEA/JSN/PIA-Caraga)
