DepEd-Pagadian City ready for school year 2014-2015 opening

By Hirohito D. Cadion

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, May 30 (PNA) -– The Department of Education (DepEd) announced that all is set for the opening of classes on June 2 for the school year 2014-2015 in this city.

City Schools Division officer-in-charge Superintendent Felix Romy Triambulo said Friday they have hired new teachers to solve the problem on the shortage of teaching staffs in the different schools.

Triambulo said they have hired additional 78 new teachers to be assigned in the different schools both in the elementary and secondary levels.

Triambulo said that 39 of the 78 newly-hired teachers will be assigned in the pre-school and elementary levels while the remaining 39 for the secondary.

Mining firm eyes adopt a school in Zamboanga City

By JONG CADION

PAGADIAN CITY, ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR -– The Atro Mining-Vitali, Inc. (AMVI) is looking into the possibility of supporting local public schools through the Adopt-A-School scheme this year, Mining Official press estatement said.

The AMVI is presently conducting exploration for iron ore mining in Barangay Vitali, 73 kilometers east of this city.

AMVI Community Relations Officer Francis Malones said in a statement that they “plan is to adopt a school or schools within Vitali District especially those that need it the most.”

Malones said they would like to underline the importance of education in development and upliftment of families.

DENR to reactivate climate change task force for Zamboanga Peninsula

PAGADIAN CITY, May 29 (PNA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is set to reactivate the Regional Task Force on Climate Change for the Zamboanga Peninsula.

This was announced by DENR Regional Executive Director (RED) Arleigh Adorable citing the need to reactivate the task force as some of its members coming from the different government agencies have already retired from the government service.

Adorable said the reactivation is also in preparation for the launching of information and education campaign (IEC) on climate change scheduled to be held in June 10 this year.

Adorable said the Technical Working Group (TWG) and the Regional Secretariat will meet next week to discuss about the reactivation of the Regional Task Force on Climate Change.

DAR chief distributes CLOAs, projects in Zamboanga del Norte

By Teofilo P. Garcia, Jr.

ZAMBOANGA CITY, May 27 (PNA) – Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes led the distribution of 464 Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOAs) to the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARB) during his recent visit in Dipolog City, the capital of Zamboanga del Norte.

DAR regional director Julita Ragandang said in a statement that the CLOA cover the total area of 756.7044 hectares in the municipalities of Godod, Sirawai, Siayan, Sindangan and Dapitan City with 394 ARBs.

Ragandang said that De Los Reyes handed over the CLOAs to the representatives of the ARB-recipients in a simple turn-over ceremony.

Of the 464 CLOAs, 297 were handed over to Felix Ligutom for the ARB-recipients of Godod; 34 CLOAs to Majid Baid for Sirawai; 81 CLOAs to Eufrocina Quitong for Siayan and Sindangan; and 52 CLOAs to Abraham Bayron for the ARBs of Dapitan City.

Newly-installed Pagadian City jail warden initiates changes

By Hirohito D. Cadion

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, May 24 (PNA) -- Newly-installed Jail Warden Insp. Nathaniel Aljas has introduced changes at the local detention facility consistent with the thrusts and programs of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP).

The present thrusts of the BJMP is to make every jail in the country a drug-free detention facility.

Aljas said that among the changes he introduced is the intensified security and clean-up drive activity with the participation of everyone whether they be BJMP personnel or inmates.

Aljas said his aim is to make the city jail as the best or one of the best detention facilities in the country.

DOLE-Zamboanga del Norte employs 115 fresh graduates through internship program

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, May 26 (PNA) -- Eight local government units (LGUs) and the different national government agencies (NGAs) in nearby Zamboanga del Norte province have employed 115 fresh graduates through the Government Internship Program (GIP) of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).

DOLE-Zamboanga del Norte Labor and Employment Officer Henry Tianero said those employed will work for a period of six months and each will receive a daily salary of P210, which is 75 percent of the region’s minimum wage.

Tianero said that 82 of the 115 GIP beneficiaries will work in eight LGUs and this are as follows: Dapitan City, 20; La Libertad, 12; Sergio Osmeña, 12; Sibutad, 11; Mutia, nine; Piñan, seven; Rizal, six; and Polanco, five.

The remaining 33 beneficiaries were assigned in the following government agencies: First District Congressional Office, 13; Department of Social Welfare and Development, four; Jose Rizal Memorial Hospital, four; Jose Rizal Memorial State University-Main Campus, three; Department of Trade and Industry, two;

Department of Environment and Natural Resources, two; Department of Education, two; Philippine Information Agency, two; and, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, one.

Police uproot marijuana plants in Misamis Oriental

MISAMIS ORIENTAL, May 24 (PNA) -– Police operatives have uprooted 11 ‘Marijuana” plants in the outskirt village in the municipality of Opol as local officials heightened the fight against illegal drugs in the area.

Town police chief Inspector Alwin Baclao said that the Marijuana plants were illegally planted to separate areas in the farming village of Bagocboc during a raid of the town’s hinterland villages.

Baclao said that the police have obtained a search warrant from the Regional Trial Court in Misamis Oriental to raid farms and villages in Opol believed to be illegally planted to “Marijuana” plants.

He said that the local police will continue to monitor the town’s hinterlands for possible cultivation of Marijuana in the farms and villages.

DSWD set to implement KALAHI-CIDSS project in Rizal, Zamboanga del Norte

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, May 26 (PNA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is set to implement Kapit-bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) project in Rizal town in the nearby Zamboanga del Norte province.

The KALAHI-CIDSS is a concrete intervention purposely designed and implemented by the national government through the DSWD in the municipalities identified as one of the poorest towns in the country based on the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) poverty mapping called as “Small Area Estimates.”

The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has authorized through a resolution Zamboanga del Norte Gov. Roberto Uy to sign a tripartite memorandum of agreement (MOA) with DSWD Regional Director Zenaida Arevalo and Rizal Mayor Roseller Manigsaca for the implementation of the KALAHI-CIDSS project.

Pagadian City IPs hopes DILG action against City Council on IPMR issue

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By JONG CADION

Timuay Langhap Rio

Olimpio Lingating

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur (May 29, MPF-News) – The Indigenous Peoples in Pagadian City were showing hope and justice will be given to them by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) favorable action on the Indigenous Mandatory Representation (IPMR) issue against the City Council of Pagadian.

Subanen Tribal leader Timuay Langhap Rio Olimpio Lingating said in an exclusive interview Sunday the action done by the 11^th City Council of exclusion his position as IPMR in the City Council of Pagadian is a clear and simple discrimination and injustice against the IPs.

Lingating said the Subanen Tribes still in high hopes that justice will be given to them through the favorable action by DILG Undersecretary for Local Government Austere A. Panadero action against the 11^th City Council decision unfounded and has no legal basis.

Lingating also said that the Pagadian City Council statement through Vice Mayor Divina Grace Yu letter to the DILG Regional Director Paisal O. Abutazil and to the DILG National dated March 26, 2014 as a reply explain relative to his exclusion as IPMR cited four reasons are clearly misplaced. 

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Timuay Langhap Rio Olimpio Lingating

Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur,  –Subanen tribesmen are protesting the recent decision of the 11th City Council here removing their leader Timuay Langhap Rio Olimpio Lingating as the Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representative (IPMR).

Lingating said in an exclusive interview on Sunday that his exclusion as IPMR by the City Council of Pagadian is a clear act of discrimination and injustice against the Indigenous Peoples (IP).

He also said the Subanen Tribe is hopeful that DILG Undersecretary Austere A. Panadero will revoke the City Council's decision, saying that his removal was politically motivated and has no legal basis.

NIA builds PHP90-M regional office in Pagadian City

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, May 21 (PNA) -– The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) is constructing a P90 million two-storey building to house the NIA regional office in this city.

The new regional office building will be located in a 6,000 square meters lot provided by the city government at the Regional Government Center in Barangay Balintawak, this city.

NIA Administrator Claro Maranan and Mayor Romeo Pulmones led the groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday afternoon that signaled the start of the construction of the edifice.

8 Chinese nationals, 4 Filipinos face illegal mining charges in Pagadian City

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8 Chinese Nationals and 3 Pinoy were under

Investigation at the City Police Station after their

Arrest for illegal mining and quarrying.

  

By Hirohito D. Cadion

Supt. Glenn Dulawan

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, May 21 (PNA) -– Police have filed charges Wednesday before the City Prosecutor’s Office here against eight Chinese nationals and three Filipinos earlier arrested for illegal mining in this city, an official disclosed Wednesday.

City police chief, Supt. Glenn Dulawan, said the charges were filed Wednesday for violating the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 and the Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004.

Dulawan said the charges were filed against Chinese nationals Liu Gi Yi, 29; Chung Yong De, 27; Zhang Shu Kei, 24; Duan Guang Zong, 55; Lui Chang Yin, 50; Xiao Min, 36; Tang Zihan, 25; and a certain "Dong dong," 39.

The three Filipinos were identified as Jennilyn Ramirez, 25, the group’s chief cook; Roy Damondamon; and Jose Sabroso.

Army troops assist police in manhunt of prosecutor’s killers in Marawi City

By Hirohito D. Cadion

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, May 20 (PNA) – Military forces have augmented the police in tracking down the suspects behind Monday’s ambush slay of a prosecutor in Marawi city.

 

Army’s 1st Infantry Brigade Public Affairs officer-in-charge Captain Franco Suelto said that the 103rd Infantry Brigade has provided augmentation forces as the police continue its manhunt operation against the suspects.

The 103rd Infantry Brigade headed by Col. Glenn Macasero is based in Marawi City.

However, both the police and military authorities based in Marawi City did not release any identities of the suspects as the manhunt operations continue.

Assistant City Prosecutor Zaipal Alawi, Sr., 64, was killed in an ambush around 11:45 a.m. Monday at the intersection of Sarimanok in Barangay Marawi, Marawi City.

His driver, Saiben Baiza, 46, was wounded.

The victims were aboard a car on their way home when ambushed by two gunmen. (PNA)
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Zamsureco-1 power curtailment down to 2 hours daily

 By Hirohito D. Cadion

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, May 19 (PNA) – The power curtailment in the areas being served by the Zamboanga del Sur Electric Cooperative-1 (Zamsureco-1) has been reduced by two hours from four hours daily.

Zamsureco-1 serves 69,857 member-consumers in this city and in 24 of the 26 towns of this province.

Zamsureco-1 information officer Liberal Cabatcha said Monday the daily power curtailment was cut by two hours when one of the turbines of the Steag State Power recently went back online.

The Steag State Power turbine provides an additional 105 megawatts (MW) to the Mindanao Grid.

Cabatcha said that with this development, Zamsureco-1 is receiving additional three MW from the National Power Corporation (Napocor).

Cabatcha said Napocor now provides 18 MW to Zamsureco-1 from the previous of 15 MW.

However, Napocor’s contracted power to Zamsureco-1 is 25 MW.

Cabatcha said Zamsureco-1 still has a power deficit of 6 MW since it is only receiving a total of 28 MW from Napocor and two Independent Power Producers (IPPs).

Police, military probes ambush slay of Marawi City prosecutor

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, May 19 (PNA) -- Government authorities are now conducting thorough probe to unmask and arrest the suspects behind Monday's ambush slay of a prosecutor in Marawi City, an official disclosed.

Army’s 1st Infantry Division Public Affairs Officer-in-Charge Capt. Franco Suelto identified the slain prosecutor as Atty. Zaipal Alawi, Sr., 64, of Marawi City.

Suelto said wounded was Alawi’s driver, Saiben Durong Baiza, 46.

The incident took place around 11:45 a.m. Monday at crossing Sarimanok in Barangay Marawi Poblacion, Marawi City.

Investigation showed the victims were on board a car with on the way home when ambushed by two unidentified gunmen.

He said the police and military authorities are now looking into all possible motives to unmask the suspects. (PNA)
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