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Province of Negros Oriental - Archived News

Wars of ancient history were about possessions, territory, power, control, family, betrayal, lover's quarrel, politics and sometimes religion.

But we are in the Modern era and supposedly more educated and enlightened .

Think about this. Don't just brush off these questions.

  • Why is RELIGION still involved in WARS? Isn't religion supposed to be about PEACE?
  • Ask yourself; What religion always campaign to have its religious laws be accepted as government laws, always involved in wars and consistently causing WARS, yet insists that it's a religion of peace?

WHY??

There are only two kinds of people who teach tolerance:
  1. The Bullies. They want you to tolerate them so they can continue to maliciously deprive you. Do not believe these bullies teaching tolerance, saying that it’s the path to prevent hatred and prejudice.
  2. The victims who are waiting for the right moment to retaliate. They can’t win yet, so they tolerate.
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Negros Oriental

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DOST gives financial assistance to LCPFI

DUMAGUETE CITY- The Little Children of the Philippines Foundations, Inc. (LCPFI) received a check worth P136,000 recently as financial assistance from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) through its Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP).

DOST-Negros Oriental Prov’l Science & Technology Director Gilbert Arbon turned-over the check to LCPFI Administrative Director Carmenia Benosa.

According to DOST Information Officer Roslyn Tambago, the Foundation is one of the growing numbers of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Negros Oriental which have availed of the DOST-SETUP, a nationwide strategy to encourage and assist SMEs to adopt technological innovations to improve operations.

SETUP provides a package of technological assistance, which includes the infusion of new or advanced technologies, provision of limited funds for technology acquisition, human resource training, technical assistance, consultancy services, among others, said Tambago.

As a Christian organization with the mission to develop caring communities for children at risk, LCPFI has ventured into processed meat production as a micro-enterprise activity for children and parents who are living in a low-income community.

The institution will use the monetary assistance to purchase meat processing equipment such as heavy duty meat grinder, meat sausage stuffing machine, chest freezer, and hand dryer.

This technological intervention is expected to raise the enterprise’s productivity and the beneficiaries’ income.

Established in 1989, LCPFI has about 4,000 member-beneficiaries in 14 communities within Dumaguete City and surrounding municipalities.

Tambago said in exchange for scholarships and social welfare assistance from LCP, members render 10 hours of community service weekly. Others work at the LCPFI’s meat processing project to avail of income generating opportunities.

Other interested SMEs may avail of DOST SETUP by inquiring at the DOST Neg.Or. Provincial S & T Center located in Daro, Dumaguete City.

Cansino rules Dumaguete leg

Top seed Juan Paolo Cansino bagged the boys’ 18-under singles class title in his return to form after five unsuccessful tries in the 14th Smart Presents the Head 2012 junior national Tennis Age-Group Satellite Circuit recently.

Cansino, on his last year in the annual circuit, upended Rodolfo Barquin, 6-4, 6-2, in the boys’ 18-under singles in the Dumaguete leg, serving as the sixth stop of the circuit, at the Praxevilla Tennis Courts in Dumaguete.

“I kept playing wild for my first leg title this year because this will be my last. I want to make it memorable,” said Cansino, 18, from the Ateneo de Davao. “I hope to win more in upcoming legs.”

The Davao City native, who is also a member of the elite Head team since he was 10 years old, is set to compete in the seventh leg in Bacolod.

The 64-day tournament is supported by Smart Communications, Chris Sports, Head, Meralco, Maynilad, Toalson and Smarts Sport’s Noel Lorenzana, Smart division head for wireless consumer.

Other winners: Barquin (16U), Kimberly Uytico (18U), Jessa Singson (16U), RJ Singson(14U), Leonelyn Domingo (14-U), Vincoy (12-U), Christian Lagat (12-U) and Julian Bandoquillo (10-U).

Santacruzan Fest starts

The Dumaguete City Tourism Office kicked off the 2012 Santacruzan Festival with the theme “A Celebration of Virtues”, at the Kiwanis Club Stage in Quezon Park, Dumaguete City, Friday.

Tourism officer Woodrow Maquiling said his office and the City Tourism Council have prepared a series of events that will lure in tourists and visitors to be part of the celebration.

These activities will be synched with religious events of the Church, especially novena masses, that will be sponsored by city government offices. He said the festival is based on the sharing of creative ideas between the church and local government.

Maquiling is inviting residents of the city and neighboring towns in Negros Oriental to take part in the Santacruzan, that started May 5 with an inter-barangay search for singing idol; mobile passporting of the Department of Foreign Affairs at a mall in Dumaguete, May 5-6; and the opening of the National Heritage Month today.

Other activities are the inter-barangay dance competition at Quezon Park, May 12, at 7 p.m.; Santacruzan Kayak Festival-I, May 20, 8 a.m.; Heritage Month indigenous cultural show at Robinsons mall, May 25, 2 p.m., and inauguration of the Dumaguete City Port Island signage, Kasikas and Festival of Lights display at the Boulevard, at 5 p.m.; Santacruzan parade and streetdance, May 26, 3 p.m.; grand festival showdown and opening of the Philippine National Games at the Macias Sports Complex, May 26, 5 p.m., and Kapuso Night at Quezon Park, 7:30 p.m.; and the Santacruzan grand procession on May 31.

NegOr experiences accidental power outage

DUMAGUETE CITY- Some areas under the coverage of Negros Oriental Electric Cooperative 11 (Noreco 2) experienced the unplanned power interruption on May 3 which lasted from 9:18 a.m. to 9:38 a.m; while electric consumers of Negros Oriental I Electric Cooperative, Inc. (NORECO I) were also affected by the brownout from 9:18 a.m. to 11:11 a.m.

Reports indicated that the said outage was due to a coconut branch that was blown over the conductors at Tomogong, Bais City.

The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) restored power transmission services in parts of Negros Oriental on May 4 after re-energizing the Amlan-Bindoy-Guihulngan 69kV transmission line.

Power transmission service was restored after an outage hit portions of the province at 5:33 p.m. due to the tripping of the Amlan-Bindoy-Guihulngan 69kV transmission line.

NGCP continues to strengthen the transmission network with its regular maintenance activities done in close coordination with NORECO I and NORECO II.

Both utilities are working together to improve services to power consumers in Negros Oriental, said Elmer Cruz of NGCP.

TESDA trainers undergo TM1

DUMAGUETE CITY- Twenty-five Technical Education and Skills Development (TESDA) trainers from technical-vocational education and training institutions in Negros Oriental are undergoing training on Trainers Methodology 1 (TM1) Course, which started on April 23 until May 17 at STI Dumaguete City.

According to TESDA Information Officer Gertaldine delos Reyes, the program aims to qualify and certify the current pool of technical trainers or assessors to ensure their competence to trade qualifications, training delivery, and assessment methodologies.

The three-week training is focused on how to plan training and facilitate learning sessions; utilize electronic media in facilitating training; conduct competency assessment; maintain training facilities and on how to supervise work-based learning.

Delos Reyes said the capabilities and competencies gained by the trainers from the training will help them implement the programs using the competency-based training approach.

For those who have successfully completed the requirements of the TM1 and national certificate holders will be authorized to teach with registered programs.

The facilitators of training include Engr. Adolfo Alcoseba, Jr., Sr. TESDA Specialist, Regional Training Center, TESDA Regional Office, Cebu City; and Elsa Apiag and Jose Chiquito Mahina, both vocational instructors of Lazi National Agricultural School of Siquijor.

Dumaguete’s growing economy attracts more investors

DUMAGUETE CITY- The growing local economy in Dumaguete City has attracted additional investors who are expected to set up in the city this year.

Dumaguete Mayor Manuel Sagarbarria revealed that an investor is expected to construct a high-end hotel with around 25 rooms in the city.

Another investor is eyeing to establish a retirement village in Dumaguete which will be marketed internationally, he said.

Aside from this, airline company Air Philippines will open in Dumaguete by the end of May with three flights daily, two of which are bound for Manila and one for Cebu.

Sagarbarria said he asked one of the investors why they chose Dumaguete. “Their response was that based on a survey their company conducted, our city is growing annually between 20 to 25 percent for the last two years. We are growing at that pace due to our dynamism.”

The mayor said investors are drawn to the city’s peaceful and clean environment and the robust economic climate.

“Dumaguete can now meet the needs of big investors. We have good hospitals, financial services, and the seat of the provincial government is here. We are doing everything to make Dumaguete the place to be for investors,” he said.

The mayor also revealed a P2.1-million investment to complete the construction of state-of-the-art toilets at the Dumaguete Public Market this year.

“Hopefully, we will start it mid-June this year and before the year ends, all the toilets in our public market will be state-of-the-art,” he said.

The city government last year started constructing environment-friendly, waterless comfort rooms at the public market building.

Army receives Command Plaque of Merit

DUMAGUETE CITY- The 302 Infantry (Achiever) Brigade received a Command Plaque of Merit from the Commanding General, Philippine Army in recognition of its search and rescue, as well as relief operations, during typhoon Sendong and 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit Negros Oriental on December 17, 2011 and February 6, 2012 respectively.

Brigade's Commander Col Francisco Patrimonio received the award during the 115th Founding Anniversary Program at the Fort Bonifacio, Manila.

According to Capt. Anacito Naz, information officer of the army, the award was given in recognitions of the collective meritorious service rendered by army personnel involved during the conduct of various Disaster Relief and Rescue Operations (DRRO).

The military teams assisted severely typhoon affected areas in the cities of Dumaguete and Tanjay and the municipalities of Sibulan, Valencia, Siaton, Bacong, Amlan, San Jose, Mabinay, and Pamplona in Negros Oriental.

Capt. Naz said the DRRO efforts resulted to 84 persons saved during the rescue operations, six cadavers recovered, conducted 45 transportation assistance, two aerial reconnaissances, and facilitated 30 relief operations activity that greatly mitigated the effects of the said disasters to the residents and helped them to quickly rehabilitate.

"With the influx of relief goods coming from various sources in the Provincial Department of Social Welfare Development Office, the Achiever troopers and OPCON units actively participated in the hauling, repacking and distribution of relief goods in the various distribution sites, maximizing the utilization of the personnel and equipment to the fullest to immediately reach out the victims," said Naz.

“Despite in the middle of the rehabilitation phase of the DRRO for the typhoon, the 302nd Brigade successfully addressed another disaster after the 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit the northern part of the province that severely damaged Guihulngan City and the municipalities of Bindoy, Ayungon, Tayasan, Jimalalud and La Libertad,” added Naz.

On the same occasion, during the Philippine Army Anniversary, Pvts Danny Faigane and Marlon Vera of 32 DRC, OPCON also received the Command Plaque of Merit for being honest in returning the P90,000 pesos recovered in Solonggon landslide area to its rightful owner.

Naz said the relief and rescue operations created a positive impact to the public, reinforcing the image of the Philippine Army and AFP as public servant and protector of the Filipino people and promoting "Bayanihan" in the Internal Peace and Security Program of the Army.

"The Brigade's high level of efficiency and effectiveness during the two occasions brought the soldiers closer to the people, and strongly reinforced their belief in the capability and dependability of the soldier in times of calamities, and deep sense of dedication and purpose in fulfilling their duties to serve the Filipino people," Naz concluded.

Jobs fair, symposium in 3 NegOr LGUs today

Three local government units in Negros Oriental will simultaneously hold activities to mark Labor Day today.

Kenrick Villaluz, of the local Department of Labor and Employment, said various events will be held in Dumaguete, Canlaon City, and Zamboanguita town.

The biggest event is the one-day job fair in Dumaguete, sponsored by the Tripartite Industrial Peace Council of Negros Oriental, he added.

Around 2,000 job applicants provincewide are expected to participate in the fair. Socorro Mira, Dumaguete City Public Employment Services officer, said 18 local and overseas employers have confirmed participation in the activity.

Available jobs in the fair are for nurses, dental assistances, caregivers, foremen, factory workers, receptionists, engineers, accountants, wielders, drivers and hotel crew.

In Canlaon, the celebration will kick off with a fun walk this morning, followed by a symposium on labor issues; while a motorcade will be held in Zamboanguita to be participated in by members of rural workers associations registered under the DOLE.

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