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==NBI: Illegal human traffickers move to Palawan, islands near Sabah== | |||
*Source: http://www.zamboangatoday.ph/index.php/news/13-top-stories/9047-nbi-illegal-human-traffickers-move-to-palawan-islands-near-sabah.html | |||
*Tuesday, 13 March 2012 14:26 | |||
:by PNA/PIA9-ZBST | |||
The regional office here of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has confirmed that illegal human traffickers and illegal recruiters have transferred their operations to Palawan and island municipalities near Sabah, Malaysia. | |||
NBI Regional Director Manuel Almendares Jr. disclosed this after their operatives and agents have failed to see alleged illegal recruiters said to be operating in the past in Zamboanga City. | |||
These illegal recruiters have also moved from this city to nearby island provinces, particularly island towns in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, including Taganak Island near Sabah. | |||
He said that the transfer of operations of these illegal recruiters and illegal human trafficking came after all government law enforcement agencies began strict monitoring of their activities. | |||
Government authorities have so far intercepted hundreds of victims of illegal recruitment and human trafficking in this city. The victims were intercepted as they were about to leave the local port and private wharfs in this city aboard motor launches usually bound for Tawi-Tawi which borders Malaysia. | |||
There is a relentless drive against human traffickers in Zamboanga and the region and no less than City Prosecutor Darlene R. Pajarito has received the 2011 Global Trafficking-in-Persons Hero Award for prosecuting and jailing human traffickers in this city. | |||
Public Employment Services Officers in the region have taken pro-active roles as advocates implementing workable strategies in their communities and the Federation of PESO Managers in the Zamboanga Peninsula serving as a strategic network to expand the reach of inter-agency efforts to control Illegal Recruitment and Human Trafficking in the area. | |||
There is also a task forces on illegal recruitment and human trafficking that is monitoring these activities. | |||
However, Almendares said that although these illegal recruiters and human trafficking are now operating outside Zamboanga City or Western Mindanao region, the NBI regional office is keeping a close watch on such activities. | |||
“We are now strengthening and intensifying our intelligence gathering of information of the possible re-entry of these illegal recruiters and human trafficking operations so that they will not be victimizing again innocent applicants for non-existing job opportunities abroad, particularly in Sabah, Malaysia,” the NBI regional director said. | |||
==Registration of Muslim Kids Aided== | |||
*Source: http://mb.com.ph/articles/353976/registration-muslim-kids-aidedcertificates | |||
*March 11, 2012, 3:11pm | |||
:by TONY PE. RIMANDO | |||
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – For the past many decades, most Muslim parents, largely due to ignorance, never bothered to register the births of their children with local Civil Registrar’s Office (CRO). | |||
Consequently, their undocumented sons and daughters have caused thousands of grown-up children of various Muslim sub-tribes – Tausug, Badjao, Maranao, Yakan, Maguindanaon, and Samal – to face various personal, educational, and social problems. | |||
But recently, this issue has become the major concern of Jabu-Jabu, Inc., a local non-government organization (NGO) that primarily works for the securing of government baptismal certificates – “Katarangan sin Paggunting” in the Tausug dialect – of locally undocumented children belonging to several Muslim sub-tribes in this city and other areas of Western Mindanao – or the Zamboanga Peninsula – and the island provinces of Sulu, Basilan, and Tawi-Tawi. | |||
Jabu-Jabu (The Calling) was founded by its president Jaafar Kimpa who almost single-handedly started the “Katarangan” early last year after he found out that most Badjao and Tausug youngsters were growing old without the benefit of their births being registered with the appropriate government office. | |||
Kimpa noted that public elementary and secondary schools would refuse to enroll such undocumented children, or, if they did, the youngsters would return in the next school year using another name thus posing a problem to their school records. | |||
According to Kimpa, Jabu-Jabu later made a tie-up with the local Western Mindanao State University (WMSU) research department, dxAS of Far East Broadcasting Corporation (FEBC), and the city government’s CRO to use the “Katarangan” as secondary document as basis for the eventual issuance of standard official birth certificate to the as-yet “colorum Muslim children and youths.” | |||
Kimpa claimed that as of the end of February, the Jabu-Jabu has released over 2,000 “Paggunting” to as many undocumented Muslim children living in 17 city coastal villages, even as more Muslim parents have continued to show interest in initially registering the births of their children through the NGO. | |||
Early this year, Kimpa said Jabu-Jabu released, during an appropriate ceremony, close to 50 individual “baptismal certificates” to as many unregistered Badjao children in Barangay Arena Blanco to the delight of their parents. | |||
WMSU research department chief Chona Sarmiento explained to the Badjao parents during the occasion that copies of the “Paggunting” would be submitted to the CRO for the latter’s use in preparing the children’s official birth certificates. | |||
Jabu-Jabu officer Ustadz Sayid Nurhasan Bahjin told the joyful Badjao elders that the certificates will help their children become better Muslims “as they will have better opportunity to get an education that will make them learn the peaceful teachings of Islam and ultimately get employed.” | |||
==New Simunul, Tawi—Tawi mayor proclaimed== | ==New Simunul, Tawi—Tawi mayor proclaimed== | ||
*Source: http://www.zamboangatimes.ph/top-news/4053-new-simunul-tawitawi-mayor-proclaimed.html | *Source: http://www.zamboangatimes.ph/top-news/4053-new-simunul-tawitawi-mayor-proclaimed.html | ||
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Now, on the shoulders of Mayor Tambut are reposed the dreams and aspirations of the people of Simunul and he will be busy to do more them with the wheels of times closing in on him. | Now, on the shoulders of Mayor Tambut are reposed the dreams and aspirations of the people of Simunul and he will be busy to do more them with the wheels of times closing in on him. | ||
==State of Education in the division of Tawi-Tawi== | ==State of Education in the division of Tawi-Tawi== | ||