Info Summit gathers 150 IOs in Surigao City
By Fryan E. Abkilan
SURIGAO CITY, Feb. 11 (PIA) – Around 150
information officers from the line agencies, municipalities, barangays,
department heads, and NGOs of this city and Surigao del Norte trooped on
Tuesday for the first-ever Information Officers’ Summit.
The summit, held at Hotel Tavern, aimed to
empower the information officers through timely, accurate and reliable
information and highlight government initiatives, programs and projects for the
benefit of the people.
City Mayor Ernesto T. Matugas, in his speech delivered
by city councilor Ernest Matugas, Jr. expressed his profound gratitude for the
conduct of the summit.
“The summit will bring together people who have
been designated as the ‘faces’ of their respective offices and soon become the
so-called ‘messengers’ of our local government units,” Matugas said.
Matugas also emphasized the role of the
information officers in today’s generation. “In this present age where people
have instantaneous access to information through inventions like the internet
and the cellphone which is, undoubtedly, a major information supplier, the role
of information officers in the public cannot be undermined,” he said.
Meantime, Philippine Information Agency (PIA)
deputy Director-General Virgilio DC Galvez commended the provincial government
of Surigao del Norte and city government of
Surigao "for coming up this unique activity involving the
information officers in the barangay level - this is the first in PIA,” Galvez
said.
He also
wants to replicate this activity in Calabarzon.
In her message, Surigao del Norte Gov. Sol
Matugas congratulated the lead coordinators of the event. She also highlighted
the roles and functions of information “as it goes beyond the call to action,
wherein the promulgation, dissemination, propagation and transmission of news
reports must be based on accurate, factual and concrete data.”
PIA regional directors from Mindanao and region
7 also served as lecturers of the event.
This year’s activity is organized by the city
government of Surigao in partnership with the PIA Caraga and provincial
government of Surigao del Norte. (PIA-Caraga)
2 Agnor towns avail Free Medical-Dental Services
By Jay V. Demain
BUTUAN CITY, Feb. 11 (PIA) - A total of 2,719
residents in the municipalities of Jabonga and Kitcharao in the province of
Agusan del Norte received free medical and dental services from the provincial
government last January 28 and 30, 2014 under the Medical/Dental Outreach
Program of Gov. Ma. Angelica Rosedell M. Amante-Matba.
Governor Matba personally visited the area
together with the Provincial Social Welfare Population and Nutrition Office
(PSWPNO) Staff, doctors, dentists, nurses, midwifes and x-ray technician from
the Provincial Health Office (PHO) and the Rural Health Units (RHU) of the said
municipalities.
The services provided include check-ups, tooth
extraction, RBS and X-ray. Medicines were also given for free.
According to PSWPNSO Head Daisybel O. Demavivas
people availed free medicines, free consultation and other health services form
the team which aims to reach the farthest areas of the province that badly
needed their services. (LGU-Agusan del Norte PIO/PIA-Agusan del Norte)
Agnor solon calls for an investigation over bus
accidents
QUEZON CITY, Feb. 11 (PIA) - Agusan del Norte
First District Representative Lawrence “Law” Fortun has filed House Resolution
No. 794 seeking to investigate the failure of the Land Transportation
Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to enforce passenger safety
regulations citing the spate of tragic bus accidents in the country, including
the recent one which involved the Florida Bus Line that killed activist-artist
Arvin “Tado” Jimenez due to poor maintenance of public land transportation
utilities.
In filing the resolution, the solon also cited
the accident over a month ago at the Metro Manila Skyway where a bus fell and
left at least 20 people dead. Investigations on the said accident showed that
the bus was running with worn-out tires and was driven by a driver who tested
positive for drugs. He also cited in the resolution reports from the media that
there were at least eight tragic bus accidents in Metro Manila alone in 2013.
Fortun further stated in his resolution that
these accidents are “only a few of the numerous accidents that have already
caused hundreds, if not thousands, of senseless deaths due to the wanton and
unrestrained failure of many public land transportation utilities to take
precautionary measures to ensure the safety of the lives and properties of
their passengers.”
Also, Fortun added that this unabated spate of
accidents demonstrate an obvious failure on the part of the LTFRB to put in
place effective measures and mechanisms by which strict compliance by public
land transportation utilities with passenger safety standards and regulations
are ensured.
The agency is primarily tasked “to formulate, promulgate, administer,
implement and enforce rules and regulations on land transportation public
utilities, standards of measurements and/or design, and rules and regulations
requiring operators of any public land transportation service to equip, install
and provide in their utilities and in their stations such devices, equipment
facilities and operating procedures and techniques as may promote safety,
protection, comfort and convenience to persons and property in their charges as
well as the safety of persons and property within their areas of operations.”
(NCLM/LAWig Katawhan/PIA-Agusan del Norte)
Tagalog News: Palasyo: Ang ginawang pambobomba
sa tore ng NGCP ay hindi makadiskaril sa pagsisikap para sa kapayapaan
Ni David M. Suyao
AGUSAN DEL SUR, Peb. 11 (PIA) - Ang pambobomba
sa tore ng National Grid Corporation sa Maguindanao noong nakaraang linggo ay
hindi dapat makadiskaril sa pagsisikap ng pamahalaan para makamit ang
kapayapaan sa Mindanao, ito ang paninindigan ng Malakanyang noong Lunes.
Sinabi ni Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda
na ang military ay nasa itaas ng sitwasyon at gagawa ng kaukulang pagkikilos
para ipagtanggol ang mga nangungunang instalasyon tulad ng koryente at
komunikasyon.
“Palaging may mga taong gustong subukan na
ilaglag ang pamahalaan, lalo na ngayon na ang usapang pangkapayapaan kasama ang
Bangsamoro ay lalagdaan. Handa tayo para seguruhing maitulak natin ang ating
hangarin para makamit ang tuluyang kapayapaan sa Mindanao,” sabi ni Lacierda sa
kanyang pakipanayam sa mga mamamahayag.
Ang pambobomba noong nakaraang linggo ay
nangyari mga ilang araw bago dumalo si
Pangulong Aquino sa isang pagpupulong ng Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
(ARMM) sa Lunsod ng Davao.
Si Pangulong Aquino ay kailangang pumunta sa
Mindanao at mauna sa pagpanday ng usapang pangkapayapaan, sabi ni Lacierda.
“Pumunta na ang Pangulo sa (Moro Islamic
Liberation Front headquarters sa Campo Darapanan). Ang Pangulo ay hindi ilag sa
pagpunta sa mga lugar kung saan siya kailangan,” sabi ni Lacierda. (PIA-Agusan
del Sur)
Tagalog News: Pangulong Aquino pinasigla ang
lahat ng ahensiya ng pamahalaan na suportahan and ‘Kabisig Expo 2014’
Ni David M. Suyao
AGUSAN DEL SUR, Peb. 11 (PIA) - Pinasigla ang
lahat ng ahensiya ng pamahalaan at mga sangay nito ni Pangulong Benigno S.
Aquino III para palawakin ang kanilang suporta at sumali sa “Kabisig Philippine
Expo and Trade Fair 2014.”
Ang direktiba ay inilabas sa bias ng Memorandum
Circular No. 2 at nilagdaan ni Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. noong
Enero 2, 2014.
Ang kilusan ng mamamayang KABISIG ay nilikha sa
bisa ng Proklamasyon No. 650 (s. 1990) para padaliin, pakipag-ugnayan at
mamonitor ang pagpatupad ng mga programa at proyekto ng pamahalaan at para rin
mabigyan ng ugnayan ang mga pribadong sector at ang mga ahensiya ng pamahalaan.
Para maipatupad ang kautusan, ang KABISIG ay
magsasagawa ng “KABISIG Philippine Government Expo and Trade Fair 2014 ” at ito
ay may temang “Matuwid na Daan, Susi sa Tagumpay at Kaunlaran.”
Ang layunin ng proyektong ito ay para dalhin ang
lahat ng ahensiya at mga sangay nito sa iisang pook na nakakasaklaw, kasama na
ang mga pag-aari at pinamamahalaan ng gobyerno na mga korporasyon, (GOCCs) at
local na pamahalaan (KGUs) para maitampok ang kanilang profiles, mga pasilidad
para magbigay serbisyo, programa, proyekto, produkto at mga nagawa. Ito ay isa
ring oportunidad na magbigay daan sa pamahalaan na maipadama ang nalalaman at
partisipasyon ng pambansang pamahalaan.
“Lahat ng pinuno ng mga departamento, ahensiya
at mga sangay ng pambansang pamahalaan, kasama na ang GOCCs at ang LGUs ay
hinihikayat na magbigay ng kanilang suporta at pagsali sa nasabing expo at
trade fair, kapag sila ay may pundo, at naaayon sa accounting at auditing na
patakaran,” sabi ng Pangulo.
Ang naturang Memorandum Circular ay magkabisa
agad-agad. (PIA-Agusan del Sur)
