By Greg Tataro, Jr.
TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, Jan. 18 (PIA) –
P/SSupt. Romaldo Bayting, chief PNP, this province, paid a “New Year’s call” on
Governor Johnny Pimentel at the latter’s office on Thursday morning, January
14.
During the occasion, the provincial police chief
took advantage of the moment by briefing the governor on the current peace and
order situation, highlighting practically all fronts of police activities
including the status of evacuees at the Surigao del Sur Sports Center where 468
families or 2,437 individuals have remained taking shelter since the infamous
“Lumad killings” took place on September 1.
Likewise, P/SSupt. Bayting made clear about the
actions being undertaken by his office since the start of the election period
on January 10.
Included in the information given was the
directive coming from the higher-ups to carry out a re-shuffle of jobs
affecting four chiefs of police (COPs) respectively assigned in Tandag City and
in the towns of Cantilan, Bayabas, and Marihatag.
So far, Bayting said there had been no
election-related violence that transpired anywhere in the province, even that
of the shooting incident that happened in Barangay Anahao-Daan on January 13
where one village councilor, identified as Silverio Pontevedra, 68 years old of
Barangay Anahao-Daan, Tago, died of gunshot wound along with a civilian driving
the motorcycle named Jerick Laurente, 30 years old.
In a follow-up interview, the provincial PNP chief
clarified that further investigation revealed personal grudge on the driver as the
possible motive of the riding-in-tandem assailants who have yet to be unmasked.
Another civilian, Angelito Laurente, 75 years old,
father of the motorcycle driver, also sustained a minor gunshot injury during
the incident while the three of them were all on board a motorcycle passing
through the barangay road of Purok Kalipayan, Sitio Cabalawan, Anahao-Daan,
Tago town.
Bayting , who got the nod from the governor for a
regular contact to keep the latter abreast of situation, said Governor Pimentel
was satisfied of his report.
P/SSupt. Bayting had taken all of his key police
officials in tow during his visit. (NGBT/Radyo ng Bayan-Tandag/PIA-Surigao del
Sur)
Population rise affects development says PopCom
Caraga chief
BUTUAN CITY, Jan. 18 (PIA) - Caraga Region has an
estimated population of 2.7 million in 2015. This is just a proportion of the
country’s population that it is expected to rise to 104 million this year.
Commission on Population (PopCom) Caraga regional
director Alexander A. Makinano disclosed that if the figure continues to
increase, people in the region will compete for limited resources; the local
government must meet the demands and needs of its ballooning populace.
“The effects of this population increase will
become more evident for there will be lack of decent jobs, shortage of food and
water supplies, overcrowded community, abused environment, increased number of
urban migrants. These results affect the development of the locality,” Makinano
emphasized.
The PopCom official also cited that failure to
attain the desired family size (instead of two to three, it becomes four or
more children), increasing number of unwanted pregnancy and teenage
childbearing, and low contraceptive use are among the factors that contribute
to the fast-growing population of Caraga.
Population experts explained that even if levels
of childbearing declined to replacement fertility or two children per couple,
still the populace would continue to grow, as population momentum represents
natural increase of population.
Makinano elaborated that in the city for instance,
as the administrative seat of the region - with its development; urban
congestion has become apparent nowadays due to the increasing number of people
living in the city. “Consequently, public schools and health facilities are
overloaded; number of unemployed increased; more farm lands converted into
commercial and residential; and experienced poor quality of water supply,” he
added.
Makinano also said that population is intimately
connected with development. "Population affects development and
development affects population," he said.
In response to this trend, PopCom intensifies its
implementation of the Philippine Population Management Program (PPMP) through
its three main program components, namely: Responsible Parenthood and Family
Planning (RP-FP); Adolescent Health and Youth Development (AHYD); and the
Population and Development (PopDev).
PPMP is the government’s prime strategic program to address emerging and
perennial population, reproductive health, and other related issues.
(POPCOM-Caraga/PIA-Caraga)
Cebuano News: Health personnel dialogue cum forum
gipahigayon sa isla sa Siargao
Ni Mary Jul Escalante
SIARGAO ISLAND, Surigao del Norte, Enero 18 (PIA)
– Gipahigayon bag-ohay pa lamang ang usa ka Health Personnel Dialogue cum Forum
didto sa Kapitolyo Nan Siargao, ning probinsya.
Ang maong tigum gipangulohan ni Gobernador Sol F.
Matugas ug gitambungan sa mga doctor ug mga personahe sa mga district hospitals
sa mga munisipyo sa isla sa Siargao.
Atol sa maong tigum gipresentar ni Provincial
Planning and Development Officer Ivonnie B. Dumadag ang HEALS (Health Education
Agri-Aquaculture Livelihood and Spiritual Enhancement) Plus directions sa tuig
2016-2019 sa natad sa maayong panglawas.
Samtang si Provincial Health Officer Dr. Isabel B.
Makinano maoy mipasabot mahitungod sa public health system.
Si Dr. Chloe Digal ang provincial health officer
sa Siargao district hospital maoy mihatag sa Siargao district hospital
accomplishment report sa tuig 2015 ug uban pang mga issues and concerns sa
maong tambalanan.
Sa mensahe ni Gobernador Matugas, iyang
gipasalamatan ang mga personahe sa mga nagkadaiyang district hospitals sa maong
isla ug iyang gidasig ang tanan sa paghatag sa kalidad ug tinud anay nga
serbisyo ug isipon ang balay tambalanan nga usa ka panimalay nga para sa tanan.
Ubay ubay ang mga naresolbar na mga issues and
concerns atol sa maong dialogue ug pagkahuman nakigtigum pa ang gobernador sa
mga empleyado sa Socorro District Hospital ug sa mga doctor sa mga kabaryohan
nga nadestino sa maong isla. (SDR/PGO-PIC/PIA-Surigao del Norte)
