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Lapuyan Falls: The favorite haunt of the fair Subanen maidens of Sitio Baga and all its neighboring areas, usual meeting place with many a young country swain in some secluded cavern beneath the rocky forest lane.

Lakewood, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines

Village of Pedagan

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: 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. The victims who are waiting for the right moment to retaliate. They can’t win yet, so they tolerate.

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Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur

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Civil Service Commision office in santo niño pagadian city

CAMPAIGN AGAINST LOOSE FIREARMS

• Source:http://www.zambotimes.com/archives/news/72147-CAMPAIGN-AGAINST-LOOSE-FIREARMS.html
• Saturday, August 10, 2013

By SPO1 Anden Jalali Aminulla, PNP-PRO9

On or about 10:30 PM, August 7, 2013, elements of Aurora Municipal Police Station, Zamboanga del Sur Police Provincial Office led by SPO1 Charlemagne M Lopez, while responding to reported trouble happened inside the residence of Mr. Ireneo Coronel located at Barangay San Jose, Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, arrested one Jason Aldaba y Dionson , 22 years old and a resident of said place for possessing unlicensed firearm.

Confiscated from his possession was a Revolver Caliber 38,snub nose without ammunition.

Investigation conducted disclosed that Prior to his arrest, suspect was involved in a quarrel with his father-in-law, when concerned citizen reported to the police station, thereby, policemen responded immediately, which resulted to the arrest of the suspect.

Suspect detained at Aurora Municipal Police Station, while appropriate charges will be filed in court against him.

Zambo Sur ARBO, agri firm ink cacao production deal

• Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=553176
• Friday, August 9, 2013

(PNA), JBP/TPG/CSA/PJN

MIDSALIP, Zamboanga del Sur, Aug. 9 (PNA) -- An Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Organization (ARBO) known as the Midsalip Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (MIFAMCO) and Kennemer Foods International, Inc. (KFI) have forged a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the implementation of the Cacao Production and Purchase Agreement (CPPA) project in this municipality.

Stipulated in the MOA, which was signed Thursday, MIFAMCO will give out loan to Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) which wanted to avail of the program.

The KFI will provide the technology that will help the ARBs increase income and develop sustainable agribusiness enterprises as well as to purchase all cacao beans produce of the ARBs.

KFI is an international organization that specializes in growing and trading of high-quality agricultural products, particularly fermented cacao beans.

The firm’s products and programs encompasses complete agricultural value-chain from planting materials, training and agri-technology to market.

Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer II Arturo Soria said the project is aimed to assist the private sector to have a steady supply of cacao beans and at the same time uplift the ARBs social, health and economic activities within the agrarian reform communities (ARCs).

Soria said the project intends to cover an initial 200 hectares of ARB-managed lands in this town for a period of 10 years.

DAR will just continue to provide the regular support services funding that may be given to the ARBs and the organizations involve in the project.

KFI representative Guadalupe Ocial revealed that the Philippines’ annual consumption of cocoa is 30,000 tons yet the production is only about 6,000 tons a year.

This undertaking presents a big opportunity for ARBs especially in Mindanao where the climate is suitable for cacao growing, according to Ocial.

DOST-9 chief bags GAWAD CES Presidential Award

• Source:http://piazampen.blogspot.com/2013/08/dost-9-chief-bags-gawad-ces.html
• Thursday, August 8, 2013 10:54 am

By Franklin P. Gumapon (FPG/PIA-9 with reports from DOST-9)

PAGADIAN CITY, Aug. 8 (PIA) – All her efforts at making the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)-9 achieve exemplary performance have finally paid off.

DOST-9 Regional Director Brenda Nazareth-Manzano emerged as one of the five recipients of the 2012 GAWAD CES Presidential Award recently conferred by the Career Executive Board (CESB).

The lady regional director was instrumental in instituting the brand vision for DOST-9 by setting herself as an example of honesty, discipline, fortitude, openness and commitment to quality work. DOST-9 covers three provincial offices of Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay, Dipolog City in Zamboanga del Norte and Pagadian City in Zamboanga del Sur.

Director Manzano embarked on organizational transformation to improve the agency’s performance using international benchmarks that led to the attainment of Philippine Quality Award (PQA) and implementation of Quality Management System (QMS). With this, DOST-9 earned ISO 9001:2008 in 2010 and ISO/IEC 17025:2000 accreditation of the Regional Standards and Testing Laboratories.

She also strengthened the technology promotion and commercialization program and encouraged more micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to avail themselves of the Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP), which is a nationwide strategy that assists and encourages MSMEs to adopt technology innovations to improve their operations to boost their productivity and competitiveness.

DOST-9 successfully assisted 355 MSMEs and its SETUP projects success rate registered an upward trend from 70 percent in 2008 to 98 percent in 2011.

Manzano also pushed for the development and implementation of various IT-based systems which are time, energy, and cost saving mechanisms that enable the office to save 95 percent of its paper and ink expenditures.

Nominees for the 2012 GAWAD CES award underwent a two-tiered rigorous evaluation screening: first, by a screening committee composed of previous GAWAD CES winners who would shortlist the nominees into 11 finalists and the final selection of winners by the Committee on Awards chaired by Secretary Sonny B. Coloma of the Presidential Communications and Operations Office (PCOO).

Other judges for this year’s GAWAD CES award included Ateneo de Manila University’s School of Government Associate Dean Dr. Mario C. Villaverde, People Management Association of the Philippines’ Immediate President Arthur Luis P. Florentin, Manila Bulletin Publishing Company’s Assistant Editor-in-Chief Vicente Edgardo C. Bartilad, and CESB members Antonio D. Kalaw Jr., David Cabanag and Charito Elegir.

GAWAD CES was established by virtue of Executive Order No. 715 on March 28, 2008. The award recognizes members in the Career Executive Service (CES) for exemplary performance and significant contributions, particularly in the areas of innovation, information and communication technology, social services, administrative reforms and public policy.

Manzano and the other four each received P100 thousand cash prize at the Heroes’ Hall, Malacañang Palace, Manila.

Other awardees were Undersecretary Alicia D. Bala of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Provincial Director Grace F. Baluyan of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Kalinga, Regional Director Arnel B. Garcia of DSWD-Region II, and OIC Schools Division Superintendent RAMIR B. UYTICO of the Department of Education Division (DepED)-Dumaguete City.

DENR-9 holds marine ecosystem conservation workshop

• Source:http://piazampen.blogspot.com/2013/08/denr-9-holds-marine-ecosystem.html
• Wednesday, August 7, 2013 9:29 am

By Claro A. Lanipa (PIA9)

PAGADIAN CITY – To provide the stakeholders with additional knowledge and assistance in terms of managing and protecting the marine ecosystem, a two-day orientation workshop on Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) and Sustainable Coral Reef Environment Management Program (SCREMP) was recently conducted by the Protected Areas Wildlife and Coastal Zone Management Services (PAWCMS) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-9 at the Farmer’s Haven, Dao this city.

Regional Executive Director Arleigh J. Adorable said “owing to the fact that our country is located within the Coral Triangle, an area which is considered the richest concentration of marine life in our planet that extends from the Philippines to Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Timor Leste, there is a need to develop various interventions in order to protect marine biodiversity in our country.”

“Let us support the CTI as this is a multi-lateral partnership of six countries to safeguard marine and coastal biological resources of the region for future generation and protect the eco-region from over fishing, destructive fishing practices, unsustainable coastal development, pollution and impacts of climate change which destroys the richness of the Coral Triangles,” Adorable said.

Director Adorable believes that with the implementation of the Sustainable Coral Reef Ecosystem Management Program (SCREMP)in the region, it can help protect and rehabilitate the coral reef ecosystem.

“Hopefully, with the active participation of the participants and stakeholders, we can incorporate these things in the region’s Coastal Resources Management Plan (CRMP),” he added.

The workshop was attended by participants coming from different fields of local governance, project management, marine biologists, scientists and scuba divers from all over the region.

SCREMP is DENR’s national program that shall conduct a strategic, sustainable and ecosystem-based approach in protecting and rehabilitating the coral ecosystem.

DOH-CHD steps up campaign on expanded breastfeeding

• Source:http://piazampen.blogspot.com/2013/08/doh-chd-steps-up-campaign-on-expanded.html
• Tuesday, August 6, 2013 10:59 am

By Claro A. Lanipa (PIA9)

PAGADIAN CITY – To attain widespread support to exclusive breastfeeding, an orientation on the Expanded Breastfeeding Promotion Act otherwise known as Republic Act 10028 was held at Hotel Guillermo in this city recently.

Spearheaded by the Nutrition Program Unit of the Department of Health-Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD)-9 in coordination with the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO), the activity sought to provide “more detailed information on the provisions of the law and to educate the public on the incentives given to compliant health facilities/establishments and other institutions.

IPHO officer in-charge Dr. Rovel A. Blancia underscored the importance of putting “more emphasis and more teeth to the law.”

“RA 10028 was enacted in 2009 but if you try to check the establishments both private and public, this law was not yet fully implemented,” she said. “In fact, we have just started at our very own Zamboanga del Sur Medical Center, which is now a Mother-Baby Friendly hospital,” Dr. Blancia added. Section 2 of RA 10028 states that “the state shall protect working women by providing safe and healthful working conditions, taking into account their maternal functions.”

Ms. Evelyn Capistrano, regional nutritionist and mother-baby friendly coordinator, said the law requires all private and public health and non-health facilities, establishments or institutions both to establish a lactation stations in their respective workplaces.

The lactation station shall be adequately provided with the necessary equipment and facilities such as: lavatory for hand washing, refrigerator or appropriate cooling facilities for storing expressed breast milk, electrical outlets for breast pumps, small table, comfortable seats and logbook. “Said facility shall not be located in the toilet,” she said.

The law also provides incentives to all government and private health institutions with rooming-in and breastfeeding practices.

Sanctions may also be imposed for non-compliance with the law. “A maximum fine of P1 million and cancellation or revocation of the business permits or license to operate shall be imposed on violators and for health institutions, a reprimand or censure and/or suspension of the permit to operate,” Capistrano pointed out.

Housing project for soldiers, policemen and firemen underway in Pagadian City

• Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=551700
• Monday, August 5, 2013

(PNA), LAP/TPGJR/CHARNYL S. ALBARRACIN/UTB

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Aug. 5 (PNA) -– The National Housing Authority (NHA) is constructing some 1,000 housing units earmarked for low-salaried soldiers, policemen and firemen in this city.

NHA supervising engineer Mary Jane Antipuesto said Monday that the housing project is part of the P7 billion earmarked by President Benigno Simeon Aquino III to provide adequate and decent housing to more than 260,000 soldiers, policemen and firemen.

The housing project is being constructed by the Laurisia Realty Corporation at a 10,000-hectare land in Barangay Bogo, this city.

Antipuesto said the housing project is expected to be completed within this year.

Antipuesto said that each of the housing units is a two-storey house designed in rows and being constructed in a 40-square meter lot.

Each of the unit is worth P240,000, which will be amortized by the beneficiary in 35 years, according to Antipuesto.

She said the selected beneficiaries will have to pay a P200 monthly amortization for the first five years.

She said the remaining 30 years of payment will be computed with a compounded interest method to produce equally affordable amortization ranging from P400 to P800.

She said the housing units will be raffled to the beneficiaries who have to apply and pass the screening by the NHA central office.

Another qualification to benefit from the housing project is they should not have any pending loan with other government agencies, Antipuesto stressed.

Boy murdered by village official in Zamboanga Sur

• Source:http://www.mindanaoexaminer.com/news.php?news_id=20130804012441
• Sunday, August 4, 2013 2:24:41 pm

(Mindanao Examiner)

PAGADIAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Aug. 4, 2013) – Police arrested and filed criminal charges against a village official accused of murdering a ten-year old boy in Zamboanga del Sur in southern Philippines, officials said Sunday.

Officials said Algien Lucero, 20, chairman of the Sanguniang Kabataan in the town of Aurora, allegedly bludgeoned Richard Lucero and hid his body at a banana plantation in the village of Bag-Ong to cover up the grisly murder.

“Police have filed charges against him for the murder of the boy. He is now detained in Aurora police station,” said Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca, a regional police spokesman.

He said suspect was drunk when he killed the boy and told his friend, Dennis Lopez – who lives in the same house - about the murder and where he hid the body.

Lopez later told the boy’s father about the murder after they came looking for him in his house where neighbors last saw the victim with the village official.

Huesca said the motive of the killing is still unknown. It was not immediately known whether the accused was high on drugs at the time of the murder.

SHOOTING INCIDENT

• Source:http://www.zambotimes.com/archives/news/71540-SHOOTING-INCIDENT.html
• Saturday, August 3, 2013

By SPO1 Anden Jalali Aminulla (PNP-PRO9)

On or about 9:00 PM, August 1, 2013, at Sitio Lambayongan, Barangay Buton, San Pablo, Zamboanga del Sur, a shooting incident took place, wherein, Jesson Caparoso, 20 years old, shot by unidentified assailant with the use of Caliber 45 Pistol.

The victim sustained gunshot wounds on his buttock and left foot and was rushed to Zamboanga del Sur Medical Center, Pagadian City for medical treatment.

The criminal immediately escaped on foot after the shooting.

Responding policemen recovered five (5) empty shells of caliber 45 Pistol at the crime scene.

San Pablo Municipal Police Station is conducting follow-up investigation to determine the identity of the offender.

Pagadian City police arrest 2 drugs pushers

• Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=550873
• Friday, August 2, 2013

(PNA), FFC/TPGJR/UTB

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Aug. 2 (PNA) -– Police authorities arrested two suspected drug pushers in separate anti-drug operations Thursday in Pagadian City, the capital of Zamboanga del Sur province.

Arrested were Junji Mondido, 26, and Teresita But-ay, 28, according to Police Regional Office-9 (PRO-9) spokesman Chief Insp. Ariel Huesca.

Huesca said Mondido was arrested in a buy-bust operation around 1:15 p.m. Thursday at Purok Curvada, Barangay Dao, Pagadian City.

He said confiscated from Mondido’s possession were two heat-sealed sachets of white crystalline substance believed to be shabu, marked money consisting of three P100 bills, a motorcycle, and several prohibited drugs paraphernalia.

But-ay was arrested 15 minutes later in another buy-bust operation at New Agora, Sta. Lucia District, also in Pagadian City, according to Huesca.

He said the arresting team confiscated from But-ay’s possession four heat-sealed sachet containing white crystalline believed to be shabu and one P500 marked money.

He said the suspects were detained at the Pagadian City police headquarters while appropriate charges are set to be filed against them.

Dumalinao town culminates Nutrition Month with a big bang

• Source:http://piazampen.blogspot.com/2013/08/dumalinao-town-culminates-nutrition_5970.html
• Thursday, August 1, 2013 3:49 pm

By Alma L. Tingcang (PIA9)

PAGADIAN CITY - About 1,250 kids of Dumalinao Regional Pilot School (DRPS) in Dumalinao, Zamboanga del Sur enjoyed the activities culminating the celebration of Nutrition Month with the theme, “Gutom at Malnutrisyon, Sama-sama Nating Wakasan.” Dr. Evelyn L. Reyes, DRPS principal disclosed that local government officials and employees, DepEd officials, academe and concerned individuals participated in the Nutri-Walk and Hataw held Tuesday at the municipal gymnasium.

Mayor Ace William E. Cerilles lauded everyone for the all-out support which made the activity not just a jolly and enjoyable but also a meaningful one.

“I encourage the parents to give a variety of nutritious foods to their children and to practice a healthy lifestyle. Give them plenty of fruits and vegetables. Eat go, grow and glow foods everyday,” advised the young mayor.

He was grateful to the parents for bringing fruits and vegetables grown from their own backyard and farm, showcasing the vast agricultural potential of Dumalinao.

On the other hand, the mayor’s ever supportive and lovely wife Junaflor “Sweet” S. Cerilles, who personally negotiated with San Miguel Foods, expressed her gratitude for the company’s positive response by providing the schoolchildren with nutritious snacks like Purefoods Tender Juicy hotdogs, Magnolia juice drinks and Chocolait.

She was grateful for the opportunity given to DRPS pupils, while everyone enjoyed the snacks and had a great time playing games and taking pictures with the TJ Mascot. “As it is said, children are our future so we should invest much of our time and effort in them,” the first lady explained.

“To the kids, my advice is, please never eat junk foods. To the parents, you should be ‘hands on’ in ensuring your kids eat the right kinds of food. Good and proper nutrition is very important for growing kids. Have a healthy lifestyle,” she concluded.