Product exhibit during 1st ABSNET Day celebration

By MINDANAO PAGADIAN FRONTLINE

PAGADIAN CITY (Sept. 24, 2014-MPF News) --- The opening exhibit of products and cutting of ribbon will be launched by the members of the Area Based Standard Networking (ABSNET) in Pagadian City and Zamboanga del Sur at the Food Court of Gaisano Capital on Thursday September 25.

ABSNET Chairperson Edna Dalena said the opening exhibit of products and cutting of ribbon was in line with the first ABSNET Day Celebration.

Dalena said the activities will start at the Covered Court at Plaza Luz at 8:30AM through the Ecumenical and followed by the Motorcade around the major city street in Pagadian then will end at the Gaisano Capital Mall parking area.

Dalena added that ABSNET has a total 60 members with 36 were registered of the non-government organization in the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Pagadian City and Zamboanga del Sur will bring their different products for exhibit during the whole day activities.    

DSWD Regional Director Zenaida L. Arevalo will grace the occasion and will give her message during the opening program.

Zamboanga del Sur Governor Antonio Cerilles and Pagadian City Mayor Romeo Pulmones will also give their message during the program.

With this year’s theme, “Strengthening Partnership with CSO’s PO’s GO’s and LGUs Towards Delivering Quality Services to our Clientele Groups will successfully fulfill its task to establish network for development, ABSNET Chairperson disclosed. (JONG CADION-MPF News)                                                       

Zamboanga City gets Green Banner award for nutrition

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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur (Nov. 20, 2014-MPF News) –- The National Nutrition Council (NNC) granted the Green Banner Award-City category to Zamboanga City for the outstanding effort in implementing its nutrition plan for 2013, Regional Nutrition Council (RNC) official said

A plaque of recognition from the National Nutrition Council (NNC), Regional Nutrition Council and the Anti-Hunger Committee of Zamboanga Peninsula was given to Mayor Beng Climaco by City Health Officer Dr. Rodelin Agbulos last Monday.

The award recognized the effective and efficient management of the nutrition program by the Nutrition Committee of Zamboanga City.

The Green Banner Award is the highest honor given to LGUs that are active in the development and implementation of their nutritional programs.

In Zamboanga Peninsula region, the Green Banner Award was also given to Piñan in Zambonorte and Zambo Sibugay for the municipality and provincial categories, respectively.

Aside from trophy, the NNC also gave a laptop each to the winning LGUs.

Climaco enjoined the City’s Nutrition Committee to use the Green Banner Award as a motivation to further improve and address the variance and necessities of the city’s nutrition program as she likewise highly praised her health and nutrition workers.

Moreover, City Health Officer Dr. Agbulos said it will keep on discharging developmental health programs in the city as more activities are being lined up for the entire November such as the Cancer Awareness Month, Filariasis Awareness Month, Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Week, among others. (KIT KAIMO)

POPCOM-9 celebrates POPDEV Week 2014

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur (Nov. 21, 2014-MPF News) – The Population Commission (POPCOM) will be celebrated the Population and Development (POPDEV) Week 2014 on Nov. 23-29.

This will push the welfare of Filipinos in wide-ranging development—is the basis of the observance of POPDEV Week 2014 by the POPCOM.  

This year’s celebration carries the theme “Bigyang Halaga ang Bawa’t Pinoy sa Pag-unlad… Ngayon at Bukas.”

POPCOM-9 Regional Director Reynaldo O. Wong said Thursday the definite concern of the well-being of every Filipino in development outcomes, ensures the provision of quality life in a sustainable manner.

Integrating population dynamics with development planning, policy-making and resource allocation to achieve local development is a key strategy to successful population management program, Wong added.

On top of this POPCOM-9 has urged LGUs and partner agencies to show competence in combining population unpredictability with local development processes, Wong explained, using various modules and tools to guide program managers and planners in analyzing and tackling development administration in their localities.

A POPDEV summit was held here on Nov. 19 to tackle the policy and program implication of having 100 million Filipinos in the country and to aspire to reach a consensus on key action areas. (By KIT KAIMO)

1 Dead, 4 hurts in Zamboanga Sibugay accident

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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur (Nov 19, 2014-MPF News) -- One person died and 4 others were injured and rushed to the nearby hospital when a vehicular accident transpired along the national highway of Bgy. Langon, Tungawan Zamboanga Sibugay at around 4:30 am on Nov. 18, 2014.

                 

Police reports said, one Ten Wheeler Truck, bearing plate No. BUC 197 driven by Wilfredo Mahilum of Barangay Zambowood, Zamboanga City of legal age accidentally collided that resulted to the instant death of the driver and wounding of truck man.

Police identified the trackman as Reneboy Fabe, 20 years old and a resident of Maganay, Buug, Zamboanga Sibugay while the truck Passengers also sustained minor injuries. They were identified as Tomasito Cabatas y Salundagit of San Francisco, Liloy town; Jose Estecomin a resident of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Joemari Sumalinog of Gango, RT Lim, Zamboanga Sibugay and Simon Arnaiz of Mahayahay, Dao, Pagadian City

Maguindanao massacre victims' relatives seek Pope Francis' help, prayers

AMPATUAN, Maguindanao, Nov. 21 (PNA) -- The families of the victims of Maguindanao massacre have asked Pope Francis to help them attain justice.

Hundreds of people, local officials and journalists visited the site of the country's worst political violence on Friday morning where a mass was held to commemorate the Nov. 23, 2009 slaughter of 58 people, 31 of whom were journalists.

The families offered flowers in the site where the victims were killed, in Barangay Masalay, Ampatuan, Maguindanao, about eight kilometers from the national highway linking Cotabato City and Gen. Santos City.

During the mass, a relative of one of the victim-journalists read a letter addressed to Pope Francis who is set to visit the country next year.

The letter made a call for justice and expressed hope that conviction would come during the term of President Benigno Aquino III.

Media group asks PH to end culture of impunity

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Screenshot of the memorial at the site of the Maguindanao

massacre from a 9News video clip

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), a media watchdog group, demands an end to the culture of impunity in the country as it keeps a close eye on the Maguindanao massacre trial.

An IFJ delegation on Thursday (Nov. 20) met with some Mindanao-based journalists to discuss their working environment five years after the Maguindanao massacre.

Delegation members also met with families of slain journalists whose children were sent to school by foreign media foundations.

The delegation voiced its outrage over what is tagged as the country's worst election-related violence, which killed 58 people – 32 of whom are journalists, and appealed for government accountability.

The IFJ, according to Jane Worthington, Asia Pacific acting director, is demanding tougher actions from the government in bringing justice to the victims as well as putting an end to extrajudicial killings and attacks on media.

In 2009, the IFJ also sent a team to Maguindanao as part of an international mission that conducted an independent probe on the massacre, and demanded action and justice for the victims of the crime.

3 hours power curtailment imposed by NGCP to Pagadian City and Zamboanga del Sur

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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur (Nov.18, 2014-MPF News) --- The business climate of Christmas in this city might be affected if the National Grid Corporation of the Philippine (NGCP) will continue with their 3-hour rotational brownout imposed in Pagadian City starting Monday, Business community Official said.

Zamboanga del Sur Electric Cooperative 1 (ZAMSURECO-1) Information Officer Liberal Cabatcha said the power curtailment imposed Monday was not formally announced by the NGCP Official, however they informed last month that they would be implementing power curtailment should there be power shortage especially this Christmas season.

Cabatcha said that yesterday Zamsureco-1 had 15-minute power outrage from 8:45-9.am., followed by a longer 3-hours from 1-3p.m. at the east portion of city comprising 10 barangays including the nearby town of Labangan and Tukuran and again at 6 to 9P.M. at the west portion of the city comprising 12 barangays including some municipalities of the second congressional district.

Mother of NorCot blast victim calls for justice, told bombers to yield

COTABATO CITY, Nov 18 (PNA) -- The family of a female student who died in last Sunday's deadly blast in Kabacan, North Cotabato has called on the perpetrators to surrender and be sorry for their sins.

Florence Mantawil, mother of 19-year-old Monique Mantawil of Barangay Pedtad, Kabacan, North Cotabato said her dreams for her daughter, a development communication student of a state university, were all gone in an instant.

"Allah's will," she said of her child's fate. "Allah will punish the perpetrators," she added.

She said the family has already accepted the fate of Moniqu, a student of the University of Southern Mindanao (USM) who perished during the explosion on Sunday evening.

She along with her classmates and friends were walking along the national highway just near the overpass when the improvised explosive device was set off at about 7 p.m.

She went to the town center to have her paper works photocopied in a photo copier store when the blast occurred. She sustained shrapnel injuries in the head.

Zambo Sibugay police alerted against highway robbery

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By Hirohito D. Cadion

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Nov. 17 (PNA) -- The police have alerted its forces in the province of nearby Zamboanga Sibugay to ensure the protection of travelers in the area.

Zamboanga Sibugay police director Senior Supt. Robert Roy Bahian issued the order after five gunmen held-up and robbed a passenger bus along the national highway in Barangay Dipala, Kabasalan municipality on Saturday.

Investigation showed the gunmen pulled the heist around 10:45 p.m. Saturday while the bus with body number 9502 owned by the Rural Transit Management, Inc. (RTMI) was traveling to this city coming from Zamboanga City.

The gunmen carted away undetermined cash and valuables they divested from the passengers including the service firearm, a .9-mm pistol, of Police Office 3 (PO3) Jimwell Penales of Vincenzo Sagun municipality. Penales was among the passengers of the bus.

Troops capture kidnap-for-ransom-group member in Zambo Sibugay

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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Nov. 17 (PNA) –- Combined police and military operatives have captured a wounded member of a kidnap-for-ransom-group (KFRG) following a shootout in the nearby province of Zamboanga Sibugay, a top police official announced Monday.

Zamboanga Sibugay police director Senior Supt. Robert Roy Bahian identified the captured KFRG member as Honrato Encabo alias Jojo, who was wounded when he shot it out with the lawmen.

Bahian said Encabo was admitted and guarded at a hospital in Ipil, the capital town of Zamboanga Sibugay.

A caliber .45 pistol with ammunition was seized from Encabo's possession.

Bahian said the joint police and military operatives, armed with warrants of arrest, swooped down the hideout of Encabo around 9 p.m. Saturday at Sitio Dapdap, Barangay Kawayan, Alicia.

Bahian said Encabo opened fire upon seeing the arriving troops, who were on a law enforcement operation, purposely to serve the warrants of arrest issued against the suspect.