Caraga Region Institute of Peace to hold Regl
Peace Education Contest Conference
By Jennifer P. Gaitano
BUTUAN CITY, Sept. 3 - The Caraga Region
Institute of Peace (CRIP), a non-profit organization will be holding the 2013
Regional Peace Education Contest Conference on September 30 at the Agusan
National High School, this city.
Said event is in partnership with the Philippine
Society of Young Good Citizens (PSYGC).
CRIP chair and executive director Rex YbaΓ±ez,
relayed that September of each year is set by the United Nations (UN) as
International Peace Month. "This year's international theme is 'Education
for Peace'," he said.
YbaΓ±ez added that the event aims to have a
better educated and informed citizenry in terms of the peace education in
support to the government’s call and the UN.
Participants of this one-day affair are the
secondary student-journalists of all divisions of the Department of Education
(DepEd) Caraga. There will be one coach per delegation.
Contests are on editorial writing, short story
writing, essay writing, on–the–spot poster making and on–the–spot editorial
cartooning.
Also, during the activity, Agusan del Norte 1st
District Butuan City and Las Nieves Representative Atty. Lawrence Lemuel H.
Fortun will deliver his message, as well as DepEd-Caraga Regional Director
Atty. Albert T. Escobarte.
Meanwhile, among the speakers/lecturers include
the following: Philippine Air Force Brigadier General Dr. Charito B. Plaza;
Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Caraga Regional Director Atty. Marylin Pintor;
and Dr. Adrilene Mae Castanos of Caraga State University.
CRIP is a non-profit organization founded last
June 31, 2012. It was launched in Surigao del Sur State University Cantilan
Campus on September 21 of the same year. Its purpose is to provide relevant
education to Caraganons on peace education and human rights. (JPG/PIA-Caraga)
DAR Caraga intensified its Support Services
through ARCCESS
By Susil D. Ragas
SURIGAO CITY, Sept. 3 (PIA) - The Department of
Agrarian Reform (DAR) Caraga Regional Office has intensified its support
services to farmer beneficiaries through the implementation of Agrarian Reform
Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services (ARCCESS) in the region.
The ARCCESS project is one of DAR’s Support
Services Direction for 2011 to 2014 aside from enhancing the convergence of the
rural development agencies such as Department of Agriculture (DA), DENR and DAR
in partnership with local government units and non-government organizations and
strengthening linkages with public-private partneship, said DAR Caraga regional
director Faisar A. Mambuay during a radio interview over PIA’s Power FM on
Monday, September 2 in Butuan City.
Dir. Mambuay also said that the project has five
major components which include provision on common service facilities (CSFs)
for production and processing, agri-technology and agri-extension services,
business development services, credit facilitation, and land tenure
improvement.
"The ARCCESS project is DAR’s strategic
intervention to retain the awarded lands of agrarian reform beneficiaries and
reducing poverty in the agrarian reform areas through increased production and
engagement in agri-based and related enterprises," Mambuay added.
(PIA-Surigao del Norte)
DAR-13 turns-over bridges to Adlay farmers
By Joie Ceballos
BUTUAN CITY, September 3 (PIA) - The Department
of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Caraga Regional Office handed over two
newly-constructed bridge projects in Brgy. Adlay, Carrascal, Surigao del Sur
recently.
The P8.1
million project under the Agrarian Reform Infrastructure Support Project –Phase
III ( ARISP-III) is expected to spur economic activities in Brgy. Adlay and its
neighboring barangays as farmers will have now better access for their
products.
DAR-13 Regional Director Faisar Mambuay led the
ceremonial ribbon-cutting with Carrascal vice mayor Alfred Arreza, PARO
Benjamin Mataksil and Brgy. Captain Charlita Cabadonga.
Arreza expressed thanks to the DAR while
Cabadonga encouraged her constituents to take extra care for the sustainability
of the project. (FEA/DAR-13/PIA-Caraga)
It’s grand slam for PPA-Surigao
By Jun Parada and Dixon Gonzales
SURIGAO CITY, Sept. 3 (PIA) - For the third time
in a row, the port community led by Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) Port
Management Office-Surigao snatched the top prize in this year’s Float Parade
Competition during the city’s 43rd Charter Day celebration on August 31.
PPA’s entry was a crowd-drawer where people pose
for picture-taking as they were amazed of it’s design and rendition of the
"Bayanihan Spirit" as depicted by 'representatives' of national and
local agencies behind the backdrop of City Hall’s replica.
For its feat, PPA-Surigao's entry bagged the top
prize followed by DepEd Surigao City Division and SMWD for the second and third
prizes, respectively.
Representatives of the port community included
Port Manager Isidro Bustaslac, Jr., PPSupt Foilan Caturla, Teresita Maquiling,
Engr. Carmelito Abitona, Engr. Allan Yap, Engr. Jun Bayang, Leo EbuΓ±a, Isidric
Labastida, Noli Nusog and the engineering outsourced personnel of PPA, Director
Emmanuel Carpio of MARINA, Commander Zenmond Duque of Phil. Coast Guard,
Lieutenant Commander Primitivo Novo of Phil. Navy, Collector Oswaldo Geli of
Bureau of Customs and Henry Garcia of Provincial Customs Brokerage Services
Incorporated. (FEA/PIA-Caraga)
