2013 Jail population rate decreases in SurSur
By Nida Grace P. Barcena
TANDAG CITY, Jan. 2 (PIA) - The jail population
rate in Surigao del Sur District Jail has decreased from January to December
last year said Jail Inspector Jerome Gerero.
Gerero said from the first quarter of 2013, they
have only recorded around 112 inmates, "109 inmates for the second
quarter, 103 inmates for the third quarter and 89 inmates for the fourth
quarter - a constant decrease in every quarter."
Community Relation Service Officer Junie
Naugayan said the regular implementation of paralegal legal services such as
counseling and dialogue with the inmates in coordination with the courts,
Public Attorney’s Office and Parole and Probation Administration had also
contributed to the decrease of the inmates.
"Despite the financial constraints and the
absence of vehicles, our personnel were able to transfer around 20 inmates to
Davao Penal Colony (DAPECOL), 11 inmates were escorted to mental hospital and one
inmate was escorted and successfully turned-over to the New Bilibid
Muntinlupa," said Naugayan.
On the other hand, the provincial government
thru Governor Johnny Pimentel has extended support by providing eight CCTV
cameras that strategically installed within its parameters to help
monitor/secure the area from any untoward incidence, Naungayan added.
(NGBT/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
Tatak TESDA video-making contest extended!
By Robert E. Roperos
BUTUAN CITY, Jan. 2 (PIA) – The deadline for the
submission of the Tatak TESDA video-making contest has been extended until March
31, 2014.
TESDA circular dated December 23, 2013 signed by
TESDA Director-General Sec. Emmanuel Joel J. Villanueva stated the said
extension gives more time to technical-vocational graduates and institutions to
develop and upload their video entries.
Likewise, Sec. Villanueva said in view of the
technical problems and difficulties encountered by some tech-voc graduates in
uploading their entries in the internet, submission of entries in CD copy shall
be allowed, and shall be addressed to:
Office of the Director-General
7/F TESDA Administration Building
TESDA Complex, East Service Road
South Luzon Expressway, Taguig City
The “Tatak TESDA video-making contest” aims to
document success stories of technical-vocational (tech-voc) graduates. It also
propagates Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) through
testimonials from tech-voc graduates themselves using digital and social media.
It also aims to give recognition to successful tech-voc graduates, and create
greater awareness to TESDA and its programs and services.
For individual category, any TVET graduate of
any qualification/course from 1996 onwards. He/she must be a holder of a
National Certificate (NC) or Certificate of Competency (CoC) and is working in
the Philippines or abroad either as wage employed or self-employed in the
qualification where he/she was trained, and of any age.
For school category, any TVET graduate endorsed
by their Technical Vocational Institution (TVI) may join the competition. The
TVI must be a holder of Certificate of TVET Program Registration for any
qualification covered by Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP). The TVI
must also be a holder of Certificate of TVET Program Registration for the
qualification of the graduate on the video and currently offering the said
program.
More importantly, the school must be of good
standing, compliant to all the Unified TVET Program Registration and
Accreditation System (UTPRAS) requirements including passing the compliance
audit of registered program.
TESDA employees and their relatives up to the
third degree of consanguinity and affinity are not eligible to participate.
Interested participants must create a two to
three minute video using any recording device. Language used can be in English,
Filipino or a combination of both. The entry shall be submitted/uploaded by the
graduate or by the TVI.
The video should be taken at the workplace/work
setting and may be in the form of dramatization, storytelling or music video
and contains the answers to the question: “How did tech-voc training change
your life?”
Participants are also required to upload the
video in their Facebook account and send the link to tataktesda@tesda.gov.ph,
along with an accomplished entry form which can be downloaded from the TESDA
website at www.tesda.gov.ph.
The TESDA Screening Committee shall review the
entries and notify the graduate/TVI if the video is considered an official
entry to the contest. The first 1,000 entries that pass the screening shall
receive a token from TESDA. The TESDA Screening Committee shall upload the
video on the TESDA Facebook account.
The graduate/TVI shall promote the video to
their friends and relatives since entries that get 1,500 Likes shall be
entitled to one TWSP scholarship slot. This is a one time availment during the
submission/uploading period. The videos shall remain on the TESDA Facebook
account until the end of February 2014.
Top ten entries from the Individual Category
shall receive P10,000 for the refinement of their videos.
For Best in Video (Cinematography) category, the
graduate will receive P25,000 and a trophy while winner from the TVI will
receive P250,000 worth of TWSP scholarship and trophy. Same prizes will be
given to winners under the Best in Story (Screenplay) category.
A graduate who wins the People’s Choice Award
will receive P50,000 and a trophy while the TVI receives P500,000 worth of TWSP
scholarship and a trophy.
Grand winner in the graduate category receives
P100,000 and a trophy while in the TVI category, the grand winner receives P1
million worth of TWSP scholarship and a trophy.
Participants/finalists can win only one of the
first three categories and the Grand Winner Award. The award and utilization of
the TWSP slots by the graduate and the TVI shall be subject to and in
accordance to the existing guidelines of TESDA.
With these developments, TESDA-Caraga is calling
all tech-voc graduates and TVIs in the region to produce a 2-3 minute video and
be part of this competition. (TESDA-Caraga/PIA-Caraga)
Firecracker-related injuries up by 15% in Caraga
region
By Nora L. Molde
BUTUAN CITY, Jan. 2 (PIA) – The Department of
Health (DOH) Caraga region has recorded a total of 31 cases of
firecracker-related injuries this holiday season.
DOH said, there are 31 cases of injuries related
with the holidays from December 21, 2013 to January 2, 2014 as reported by the
different sentinel hospitals in the region.
This is 15 percent higher compared to the same
period last year, which is 27. Among the 31 cases, 29–or 94 percent of these
cases were active meaning, they were the ones who lighted the firecrackers and
two or six percent were passive cases (either onlookers or bystanders).
Majority of the injuries are blasting
lacerations and abrasions, which were treated at the Emergency
Rooms/Out-Patient Department (ER/OPD) and were sent home except for two which
were referred to a higher facility.
The victims age ranges from 6 years old to 31
years old and majority of the cases belong to 0-10 years age group (58
percent). Most of the cases were males (91 percent).
The types of firecracker used were Piccolo
(28-90 percent), Triangle (1), Kwitis (1) and Plapla (1).
The following are the distribution of cases by
province and city arranged from highest to lowest:
Butuan City
- 9 cases (29 percent)
Surigao City
- 8 cases (26 percent)
Tandag City - 6 cases (19 percent)
Agusan del Sur
- 4 cases (13 percent)
Surigao del Sur
- 3 cases (10 percent)
Surigao del Norte - 1 case (3 percent)
Meanwhile, Presidential Communications
Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Sonny Coloma also said that fireworks have
posed a threat to safety and health, as the gunpowder inside them can cause tetanus.
(NCLM/PIA-Caraga)
AgNor conducts transport seminar for drivers
By Brian Jay Ceballos
BUTUAN CITY, Jan. 2 (PIA) - In collaboration
with the Department of Tourism (DOT) Caraga Region, and the Dept. of
Transportation and Communication (DOTC) Caraga Region, the provincial
government of Agusan del Norte conducted a Transportation Seminar for Drivers
in the municipality of Kitcharao at their SB Session Hall, recently.
Considered as front liners in various industries
like tourism, drivers are essentially very important in providing services
especially to tourists.
In the one day free training seminar,
van-operators, multi-cab, tricycle and van drivers were provided the basic know
how on topics like: Learning Communications Essentials, Personality
Development, Road Safety, Basic Tourist Reception, Defensive Driving,
Requirement for License and Traffic Signs.
Mr. Greg Patrick P. Pabelonio and Mr. Alfredo A.
Gamale led the DOTC team as resource speakers for the training. The other
speakers were: Mr. Tryll G. Chiu, an accredited Tour Guide, and Ms. Jean A.
Camarin and Roquesa S. Palmes from the DOT.
In the end, positive feedbacks where achieved as
participants got the chance to ask speakers about their day to day queries
regarding traffic and its rules. (LGU-Agusan del Norte/PIA-Agusan del Norte)
Tagalog News: Palasyo: Handa ang pamahalaan para
palambutin ang hagupit ng pagtaas ng presyo ng kuryente
Ni David M. Suyao
AGUSAN DEL SUR, Enero 2 (PIA) - Sineguro ng Malakanyang
sa publiko noong Linggo na mayroong programa ukol social protection ang
pamahalaan para maibsan ang hagupit ng darating na pagtaas ng kuryente.
Sinabi ni Presidential Communications Operations
Office Secretary Herminio “Sonny” Coloma Jr. na malaking bahagi ng P2.265 na
pundo para sa taong 2014 ay inilaan para sa social protection at social safety
nets.
"Yun pong pinakamalaking bahagdan ng ating
2014 national budget ay nakalaan na para sa social protection, kabilang riyan
po yung sinasabi na social safety nets para sa kapakinabangan ng ating mga
mamamayan, lalong-lalo na doon sa mga lower economic classes po natin na siyang
pinakamarami sa ating mga mamamayan," sabi ni Coloma sa pamamagitan ng
state-run dzRB Radyo ng Bayan.
Sabi pa ni Coloma na ang pangkalahatang serbisyo
ay naglalayon na ptotektahan ang mga maralita sa epekto ng pagtaas ng mga
presyo, kasama na ang kuryente.
Sinabi rin ni Cooloma na ang economic cluster ng
pamahalaan ay patuloy na nagmamanman sa epekto ng pagtaas ng mga presyo ng mga
nangungunang serbisyo at magpataw ng tamang patakaran.
Ayon kay Coloma, ang economic cluster ay
nagtatrabaho upang seguruhin ang epekto ng mga naturang pagkilos ng presyo ay
hindi lumikha ng negatibong pangyayari sa sangkatauhan.
"Masinsin po itong sinusubaybayan ng ating
economic cluster para lapatan ng karampatang aksyon at para hindi ito makalikha
ng ligalig at dagdag na pasanin sa ating mga mamamayan," sabi ni Coloma. (PIA-Agusan
del Sur)
