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 ==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
-'''Don’t smoke while lighting firecrackers -- PNP'''
+'''SoLeyte’s Brgy Hingatunggan wins as 1st runner-up in LTIA nat'l award'''
-*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r08&id=68717
+*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r08&id=68844
-*Monday, December 19, 2011
+*Tuesday, December 20, 2011
-:by    Bong Pedalino
+:by  R.G. Cadavos
-MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Dec. 19 (PIA) -- While advising people not to use deadly firecrackers as part of the ”Iwas Paputok” campaign of the Philippine National Police (PNP), the provincial director of the PNP here also cautioned smokers not to light a firecracker for many had been seriously hurt in putting to their lips the firecracker instead of the cigarette.
+MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Dec. 20 (PIA) –- Barangay Hingatunggan in Silago town is this year’s Lupon Tagapamayapa Incentive Award (LTIA) 2011 search first runner up at the national level.
-For non-smokers, Police Senior Superintendent Allan Cuevillas advised them to use safe, reliable firecrackers.
+The search, spearheaded by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines conducted its awarding ceremony December 7 at Malacañang Palace with President Benigno S. Aquino III handing out the awards to the winners. as the guest of honor, DILG information officer Loren Abrau-Aniciete reported to PIA-Maasin this morning.
-“Paala-ala lamang po. Mag-ingat po tayo sa ating pagpapa-putok at gumamit lang yung siguradong safe,” Cuevillas said in a recent radio interview with members of the local media.
+Barangay Hingatunggan received P50,000 cash and a plaque, Loren Abrau-Aniciete of the DILG disclosed in a phone interview.
-Better still, the best way to greet the coming New Year will be a firecracker-free revelry, he added.
+Aniciete revealed that, “within a decade of the Lupon Tagapamayapa Incentive Award (LTIA) search, Barangay Hingatunggan won four times as a national finalist and twice as national nominee,” from year 2001-2010.
-Asked if all policemen in the province will have the muzzles of their service firearms taped as standard practice during this time of the year, Cuevillas appeared lukewarm to the idea, saying he has complete trust regarding the discipline of the PNP personnel in the province.
+The national LTIA winner went to Barangay Quezon, Mainit of Surigao del Norte; and Barangay Ambassador, Tublay from Benguet province as second ruppner up, Aniciete added.
-In the past years, cops taped their guns to show that they will not use it during the New Year revelry.
+It was learned that the LTIA program aims to give recognition to Lupons who have showed exemplary performace in exercising the time-honored tradition of amicably settling disputes among barangay constituents and it also strengthens the Katarungang Pambarangay (KP) as an indigenous comflict resolution structure at the grassroots and can generate greater awareness amng, and support from various sectors in society. (RGC/PIA-SoLeyte)
-Meanwhile, the Department of Health (DOH) has also appealed to the people to refrain from using deadly firecrackers to avoid serious injuries or be admitted at the hospital at the onset of the new year. (BP/PIA-Southern Leyte)
 ==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==