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DOLE Zambo Sur cites SEnA accomplishments
- Source:http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1361357782707
- Thursday, January 10, 2013
- By Alma L. Tingcang (JPA/ALT-PIA9/Zambo Sur)
PAGADIAN CITY, Jan 10 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment Zamboanga del Sur Provincial Office (DOLE-ZDSPO) have handled a total of 57 Single Entry Approach (SEnA) cases in 2012, according to Fortunato A. Magsayo, Labor and Employment Officer III and SEnA Desk Officer.
SENA is a conciliation-mediation approach of settling issues between management and labor which facilitates an amicable settlement of labor disputes. DOLE assists parties to arrive at a settlement agreement.
It is an administrative approach to provide a speedy, impartial, inexpensive and accessible settlement procedure of all labor issues or conflicts to prevent them from ripening into full blown disputes.
“We provide assessment, evaluation, counseling and conciliation-mediation services before the filing of any labor complaint or dispute,” Magsayo explained.
He said a total of 47 workers have received their monetary benefits amounting to P378,144.63 in 2012, having settled 38 cases and disposed 49 labor disputes.
Meanwhile, newly-appointed Provincial Director Lourdes B. Amores, who assumed office on December 1, 2012 vowed to pursue DOLE’s vision to provide every Filipino worker full, decent and productive employment and fulfill its mission to promote gainful employment opportunities, develop human resources, protect workers and promote their welfare, and maintain industrial peace.
Bayog-LGU holds 1st Joint MPOC, MDC, MDRRMC meeting for 2013
- Source:http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1351357702336
- Wednesday, January 9, 2013
- By Claro A. Lanipa (JPA/BAG/CAL/PIA9)
BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur, Jan 9 (PIA) –- The local government unit of Bayog conducted its 1st Joint Municipal Peace and Order Council (MPOC), Municipal Development Council (MDC) and Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (MDRRMC) meeting last Saturday, January 5, 2013 at Glupa Gulian Agro Tourism Park, Barangay Kahayagan, this municipality.
The officers of the 53rd Infantry Battalion, Philippine Army (PA) gave an update on the citings of New People’s Army (NPA) in the area, while the barangay chairmen gave an assessment on the presence of Peace and Development Work Teams (PDWTs) in their respective barangays. Other related activities were also tackled during the meeting.
It can be recalled that last year, the 53rd IB, PA trained and organized the PDWTs composed of 150 armed personnel and on August 13, 2012 these personnel were deployed in the different barangays in the municipality. The primary purpose of which is to help minimize insurgency problem in the area and it is also in line with AFP’s Internal Peace and Security Plan code-name “OPLAN BAYANIHAN.”
Meanwhile, Engr. Jeremias Florida, Municipal Development Coordinator also gave an updates on the implementation of the KALAHI-CIDDS projects of the 20 identified barangays of the municipality.
On the other hand, Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Officer Abraham Capayas, urged all Barangay Chairmen to really set aside 5% of their 2013 budget for calamity fund.
Capayas also advised the chairmen to establish a nursery in their respective barangays for them to plant trees and purchased necessary equipment for calamity preparedness such as radio transceivers and flood early warning system like water level marker and rain gauge.
Some 80 participants led by Mayor Leonardo Babasa, Jr., SB Member Celso Matias, department heads, NGAs, NGOs, barangay chairmen and some invited residents attended the meeting.
Raps vs Pagadian mayor forwarded to Ombudsman
- Source:http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2013/01/08/894453/raps-vs-pagadian-mayor-forwarded-ombudsman
- Tuesday, January 8, 2013 12:00 am
- By Edu Punay (The Philippine Star)
MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Justice (DOJ) bared yesterday that the charges filed against Pagadian City Mayor Samuel Co by an investor who was duped in the P12-billion investment scam of Aman Futures Group Phils. Inc. have been forwarded to the Office of the Ombudsman.
Senior Assistant State Prosecutor Edna Valenzuela, head of the special panel handling the different sets of syndicated estafa complaints against businessman Manuel Amalilio and other Aman employees, confirmed that the complaint was filed by Zaalica Adiong against Co and City Treasurer Flornina Gerona.
“We have forwarded it to the Ombudsman because the allegations in the complaint involved performance of their official duties as public officials,” she told The STAR.
In her complaint received by the panel last Dec. 4, Adiong alleged that Co issued a permit in July last year that provided a cloak of legality for the operations of Aman and helped the trading firm convince more investors.
“For quite sometime Aman conducted its illegal operations without the necessary permit from the mayor’s office of Pagadian City. However, on July 27, 2012 Mayor Samuel Co issued a temporary permit to Aman despite knowing fully well that the firm does not have a secondary license that is necessary for its operations, which was collecting cash investments from the public,” she said.
“That paved the way for Aman to conduct its operations in Pagadian City with a semblance of legality,” it added. Headlines ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1
Adiong, who lost P3.2 million to the Ponzi-type scam, said Co’s link to Aman became clearer when the mayor allegedly tried to offer an amicable settlement when Aman collapsed.
She said Gerona represented the mayor in collecting investments for Aman. She submitted as proof receipts corresponding to her investments signed by the city treasurer.
The complainant also named as respondent a certain Haide Sepada, Co’s staff stationed at his house in Tiguma.
Prosecutor Valenzuela, however, said their panel would handle a separate complaint against Co and his wife Pricilla Ann that was filed by other investors that include businessman Samsodin Ala, fire officer Fabian Tapayan Jr. and government employee Norolhaya Taha.
Tapayan claimed in his affidavit that Co personally received investments from victims.
He corroborated an earlier statement of Aman financial manager turned witness Ma. Donna Coyme that the mayor even distributed checks to some investors.
“We will handle complaints that alleged actions of the mayor (were) in his personal capacity,” she stressed.
Co already admitted he had tried to legitimize operations of Aman.
In his affidavit submitted to the DOJ last Dec. 17, he said he met with Aman president Fernando Luna and asked for several documents “to legalize Aman’s operation.”
Co, whose bank accounts were frozen by the Court of Appeals last month after investors implicated him in the scam, had revealed that Amalilio even visited him in his office at the Pagadian City Hall in July and briefed him about the investment firm.
Amalilio, according to the mayor, submitted a certificate of incorporation from the Securities and Exchange Commission to prove that Aman was a duly registered firm.
“If only to protect the investing public of their considerable investments, during the interim of the submission of the required secondary permit, the Permits and Licensing Division recommended for the issuance of a temporary permit valid only for 60 days,” Co claimed.
The mayor, who himself filed a complaint against Aman, admitted investing with Aman after that meeting with Amalilio.
He said he had invested P3,266,700 in Aman Futures under the account name Bo’s Coffee on Sept. 11 with interest of 58 percent after 17 days. He made another investment the following day under the account name Max’s Chicken with an amount of P3,205,500 with a 60-percent interest after 17 days.
His affidavit showed his investments with returns worth P42 million, including personal and pool investments from relatives and friends.
Tricycle operators, drivers to celebrate TOD day on Jan. 10
- Source:http://piazampen.blogspot.com/2013/01/tricycle-operators-drivers-to-celebrate.html
- Monday, January 7, 2013
- By Gideon C. Corgue (JPA/GCC/PIA,Pagadian City)
PAGADIAN CITY, January 7 (PIA) - - Over 2,850 tricycle operators and drivers (TOD) are expected to converged at Plaza Luz on Thursday, January 10 to celebrate the 5th TOD day.
City councilor Arnold Gavenia, chairperson of motorized tricycle franchising and regulatory board (MTFRB) said the celebration is in accordance with city ordinance No. 2k8-267 dated January 8, 2007, “an ordinance declaring January 8 every year as tricycle operators and drivers day.
Gavenia said this year’s celebration was moved to on January 10 since the committee is very busy doing preparations for the celebration.
Gavenia said the city government has recognized the significant contributions of tricycle operators and drivers to the economy.
“With this one day celebration, we will let them feel that they are important people in our society,” Gavenia said
“Our tricycle drivers are considered tourism front-liners. They helped promote our tourism industry by interacting with foreign and domestic guests once they have these visitors as their passengers,” Gavenia added.
Gavenia said the city government has lined up several activities to mark this year’s celebration to include a motorcade, a short program at Plaza Luz stage; raffle draw, parlor and bingo games by SMART communications company; and in the evening, a live band from the local singers and a modeling presentation from the local beauties, and a fellowship party with their family.
Tricycle is the old and unique mode of transportation in the city.
Visual arts festival goes to Pagadian City
- Source:http://www.manilatimes.net/~manilati/index.php/sunday-times/the-sunday-times-magazines/38757-visual-arts-festival-goes-to-pagadian-city
- Sunday, January 6, 2013
- (Manila Times)
The Philippine Visual Arts Festival (PVAF), the flagship project of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts’ (NCCA) National Committee for Visual Arts, will be showcased at Pagadian City in
Mindanao from February 21 to 25. This is a program of the NCCA for the Philippine Arts Festival in lieu of the National Arts Month this February.
Different visual artists from all over the country will gather and celebrate the richness of Philippine visual arts. Various works from established and emerging visual artists will be exhibited during the four-day festivity.
Enthusiasts, children and interested fellows will have a chance to participate in this year’s activities of PVAF such as art workshops, tours, mural paintings, competitions and interactions with practicing visual artists.
Talks and lectures about the pressing issues that concern the artists of Mindanao will also be tackled during the festival. PVAF is headed by visual artist Nemesio “Nemiranda” Miranda.
PVAF 2013 will also be a festival for the country’s visual artists as they exchange ideas and talks among each other. The festival also has a lot of activities in store for participating artists such as art sale, tours and parade, among others.
Last year, the PVAF was successfully held in Angono, Rizal where great Filipino artists came such as National Artist for Visual Arts Carlos “Botong” Francisco and National Artist for Music Lucio San Pedro.
Bus crashes on mountain in Zambo amidst heavy rain caused by "Auring"
- Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=484727
- Saturday, January 5, 2013
- (PNA), GHG/TPGARCIA/UTB
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Jan. 5 (PNA) -– Thirty-two passengers escaped unscathed when the inter-provincial bus they were riding crashed on a mountain amidst heavy downpour brought by tropical storm "Auring," a police official reported Saturday.
Police Station 2 commander Chief Insp. Ricardo Garcia said the incident took place at around 5 a.m. Friday in Sitio Calanasan, Barangay Quiniput, 44 kilometers east of this city.
Investigation showed that the driver lost control of the bus causing the left front and rear tires to fall into a canal while negotiating a curve and crashed on the mountain side.
The road, although paved, was slippery due to heavy downpour brought about by tropical storm Auring, Garcia said.
Garcia said the incident occurred when the bus was on its way to the terminal some 3.4 kilometer east of this city from Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur.
Aside from Zamboanga City, several areas in Zamboanga Peninsula experienced heavy downpour which started on Thursday until Friday when tropical storm Auring hit Mindanao.
New Year celebration in ZamboSur generally peaceful - ZSPPO
- Source:http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1371357263672
- Friday, January 4, 2013
- By Gideon C. Corgue (JPA/GCC/PIA,Pagadian City)
PAGADIAN CITY, January 4 (PIA) –- The recent celebration of New Year was generally peaceful, this was disclosed by Zamboanga del Sur Police Provincial Office (ZSPPO) Assistant Provincial Director for Operations Supt. Jalilul Bandahala.
Bandahala said the successful celebration was attributed to the intensified nationwide campaign against prohibited fire-crackers and indiscriminate gun-firing following the orders of the PNP chief Director General Alan Purisima.
Bandahala said 33 boxes of banned firecrackers were confiscated by the joint team of Firearms, Explosives, Security Agencies and Guard Section (FESAGS), Provincial Public Safety Company (PPSC), and personnel of Pagadian City PNP a day before the celebration of New Year.
The successful minimizing of Yuletide casualties and injuries this year was also due to the cooperation of civilians. “Without civilians’ cooperation, the PNP cannot fulfill its mandate of reducing the fire-crackers related-incidence and indiscriminate gun firing,” he added.
Bandahala said he did not receive any reports or complaints about policemen firing their guns unnecessarily during the holiday season. “These shows that our men are professionals in terms of discipline and loyalty of their service,” he concluded.
Business One-Stop Shop opens at C3
- Source:http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1361357191481
- Thursday, January 3, 2013
- By Alma L. Tingcang (JPA/ALT-PIA9/Zambo Sur)
PAGADIAN CITY, Jan 3 (PIA) -- The Pagadian-Zamboanga del Sur Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation Inc. (PCCIFI) initiated the establishment of a “ One-Stop Shop” that will help facilitate the smooth flow of the Business Permits Licensing Renewal Process.
PCCIFI President Mercedes Lourdes S. Quisumbing said this endeavor is in close partnership with the local government unit of Pagadian City through the support of Mayor Samuel S. Co .
Quisumbing said the “one stop shop” was set-up at the ground floor of the City Commercial Center (C3) where it started serving the public since yesterday (January 2), and services will go on till January 31.
“This would be very helpful and convenient to businessmen who will be renewing their business permits, offering a more spacious venue and gathering the concerned departments and agencies in one place,” Quisumbing explained.
In previous years, businessmen would flock to the City Hall for the renewal and processing of their business permits. It was observed however that the place would be so crowded, hence, the suggestion to have a more spacious area for such an activity was supported by Mayor Co.
With the shortened time on the processing, business will not be hampered thereby providing better service to the people.
Change.org makes a difference in Zamboanga
- Source:http://www.zamboanga.info/change-org-makes-a-difference-in-zamboanga/
- Wednesday, January 2, 2013
- By Nikko Dizon (zambopen)
MANILA, Philippines–Change.org founder Ben Rattray was struck by one particular petition that appeared on the popular petition website—the one about a collapsed wall beside a school in a remote Zamboanga del Sur town that posed an absolute danger to the pupils.
It was posted by an online group of young people called Checkmyschool.org in October 2012. It gathered nearly 3,000 signatures, enough to send officials of the Department of Education (DepEd) scrambling to inspect what came to be called the “landslide wall” at Otto Lingue National High School.
Sen. Pia Cayetano was sufficiently roused to provide the funds for the repair of the wall. The local government of Pagadian City came out vowing to protect the students.
The ripple effect of the change that every successful petition on Change.org brings is what excites and inspires Rattray, 32, who was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2012 because of how the social media platform that he founded has revolutionized the way people campaign for political or social change.
“In many ways, [the landslide wall] is a very small victory but it is illustrative of what is possible not in one town or city but in two and then in 10 and dozens and hundreds and it starts to facilitate better communication and accountability from everyday citizens and local governments,” Rattray told reporters during a recent visit to Manila.
Petitioning for change is not new to Filipinos. Rattray himself noted that the Philippines has done it collectively not just once but twice through the Edsa People Power Revolutions.
While taking to the streets in protest actions is still the norm in the country, online social activism is quickly spreading among Filipino netizens.
This doesn’t surprise him, said Rattray, considering that the Philippines is reportedly the social media capital of the world.
Change.org in the Philippines started with 27,000 users in April this year and quickly jumped to over 300,000 today, with at least 350 active petitions, said Christine Roque, the campaigner for Change.org Pilipinas.
These include a call to oust Sen. Tito Sotto for alleged acts of plagiarism; a nuclear research specialist asking the government for the release of their benefits this Christmas; the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) asking Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala to transfer Mali, the elephant at Manila Zoo to a sanctuary in Thailand; 14-year-old Jann Ericko Medina’s call for Sen. Edgardo Angara to amend the cybercrime law; a campaign to put up bike lanes in Metro Manila; and a call to President Aquino no less to save the former home in Laguna of national hero Jose Rizal’s mother.
Aside from the “landslide wall” triumph, Change.org Pilipinas can claim victories in the revocation of the hijab (Muslim veil) ban of a Zamboanga City school; performer Sting deciding to transfer the venue of his Manila concert from the SM Mall of Asia to Araneta Coliseum in protest against the cutting of trees in SM Baguio; and the holding of the 2013 Palarong Pambansa in Negros Oriental.
Change.org has released an infographic worldwide that features the “landslide wall” victory alongside that of the parents of murdered American teenager Trayvon Martin and a call for Seventeen Magazine to stop “photoshopping” its models as significant examples of advocacies to be found on the website.
There are many other “small victories” that Change.org has seen worldwide—from India to South Africa to the United States to South America.
All these petitions, according to Rattray, are a “massive number of small movements that begin from the ground up.”
“People don’t see issues as abstract entities at the national level. They see how they impact real people’s lives and build solidarity … [which] cross borders and boundaries that traditionally exist, between rich and poor, north and south and between one country or another,” he said.
Overall, the petitions brought to Change.org, the world’s largest online petition site with 25 million users, are mostly about human rights issues.
Rattray attributes this to the empowerment that social media platforms like Change.org give people.
“It’s that people don’t feel empowered and when they do feel empowered through social media platforms like Change.org, they engage in ways that you almost never expected. It dramatically increases; every campaign that wins generates more campaigns that generate more wins and ultimately, you have this virtual cycle of civic participation and activity,” he said.
According to Rattray, social media allows the democratization of power, such that people are able to “elevate their existing interest and I think when you feel you can make a difference and you feel empowered, you start to take on more important issues.”
“And the reason people don’t is when they feel they can’t make a difference,” he said.
Change.org also encourages people to “think not just about national politics but daily change,” he said.
“The first thing we recommend people to do is actually start with local, specific, achievable objectives, which is some of the most important,” he said.
Already a user-friendly online site, Change.org uses the vernacular in all the countries in which it is available. In the Philippines, Roque has translated to Filipino the main texts to be found on Change.org.
Rattray, the second of five children, did not have a background in activism before he launched Change.org a few years ago.
He was a Stanford University and London School of Economics graduate whose great dream was to become an investment banker on Wall Street.
Then one day, his younger brother revealed that he was gay and that he had suffered from the trauma of discrimination.
“When he came out as gay, it was sort of a shock for me and for a moment, frankly, of shame,” Rattray said. He told Time Magazine that he himself had made fun of homosexuals when he was in high school.
“He had personal struggles but didn’t feel empowered to take those personal passions to advance a wider sense of justice that other younger people are suffering from discrimination and bullying because they’re gay,” Rattray said of his brother.
His brother’s experience prompted Rattray to develop Change.org. His introduction to Facebook in 2005 gave him the idea of how potent social media could be.
Today, Rattray’s brother is actively involved in LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender/transsexual) advocacies.
Change.org was by no means an overnight success. It took a while before online activists and the media took notice of the site.
Today, Rattray himself has become the No. 1 endorser of Change.org.
He was named by a US online business magazine as one of the world’s sexiest CEOs and The New York Times has cited him as one of Silicon Valley’s most eligible bachelors. Rattray calls such accolades a “distraction” but accepts them only if they would help his organization. His mother, though, is over the moon about them, he said.
Rattray believes that it is the effect of shaming people, companies or even governments that makes online activism effective and gets the “targets of the complaints” to act on them, or at the very least provide some explanation.
Aman scam raps filed this month?
- Source:http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/top-stories/42078-aman-scam-raps-filed-this-month
- Tuesday, January 1, 2013 00:00
- By Hector Lawas
GOVERNMENT prosecutors may come up on January 4 with a resolution on the criminal charges filed against fugitive pyramiding leader Manuel Amalilio.
A member of the special Justice Department panel, which is conducting the preliminary investigation into the syndicated estafa suits Amalilio and his men are facing, revealed this yesterday. Prosecutor Mark Roland Estepa said they considered Amalilio’s failure to attend the hearings and submit counter-affidavit as a waiver of his right to answer the charges.
“As far as the panel is concerned we gave everyone the chance to submit their counter-affidavits and in fact almost all respondents complied. If he (Amalilio) did not appear despite ample opportunity accorded to him, he has waived his right (to submit counter-affidavit),” he said in an interview.
The panel concluded two hearings last Nov. 27 and Dec. 27 and one in Pagadian City, where most complainants and respondents reside.
Amalilio, who is reportedly in Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia, failed to appear in any of the hearings to answer the charges against him.
Earlier, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima admitted that there had been “slight delay” in the resolution attributed to the delay in the filing of answers by Fernando Luna, nominal president of Aman and reportedly Amalilio’s right-hand man, and his wife Nimfa.
But she said the pace of the hearings in this case was relatively faster than the earlier syndicated estafa complaints investigated by the DoJ.
Also, Estepa explained the delay would benefit the eventual prosecution of the case since due process would no longer be an issue the respondent can raise in court.
“We need to provide respondents their right to due process. In fact, the earlier resetting of hearing was agreed upon by the complainants themselves,” he stressed.