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Subanen youth group formed in region 9
- Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/2831418038100/subanen-youth-group-formed-in-region-9
- Wednesday, December 10, 2014
- (FPG/EDT/PIA9-Zamboanga Sibugay)
IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay, Dec. 10 (PIA) – “The Subanen youth are the hope of the tribe and strength to keep their culture and traditions,” said Pastor Allan B. Mangangot, Zamboanga Peninsula Subanen youth adviser in a statement.
The Subanen tribe has recently formed the Subanen Youth Organization for region 9 during the 1st Subanen Youth Congress held at Roderic’s Resort here recently.
Around 80 participants from Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay and Zamboanga City attended the event.
Mangangot said the gathering of the Subanen youth from all provinces in the region proved the oneness and unity of the Subanen people in the area.
“Through the youth, the Subanen culture, beliefs, and traditions will continue to flourish and grow,” he said.
He even shared that the Subanen people of Zamboanga Peninsula (ZamPen) including those in Misamis Occidental as the real Mindanaoans who had historically never been seized nor enslaved by other groups.
“As modernization flourishes, the Subanen Tribe grows as well, keeping intact its values and customs.”
According to Mr. Louie P. Lanaja, field coordinator of ZamPen Subanen youth, the youth gathering was a vehicle for change and transformation for the Subanen Tribe.
He said the activity was made possible through the collaborative efforts of the National Indigenous Peoples Commission (NCIP), Global Subanen Association (GSA), and the Zamboanga Sibugay NCIP Provincial Coordinator Princess “Bae Labi” Sonita Ryde.
Zambo. Sur social entrepreneur speaks of Morocco experience
- Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/1371418029339/zambo-sur-social-entrepreneur-speaks-of-morocco-experience
- Tuesday, December 9, 2014
- (FPG/GCC/PIA-Zamboanga del Norte)
PAGADIAN CITY, Dec. 9 (PIA) – Social entrepreneur Junaflor Cerilles, the Provincial Federated President of Women Empowerment Movement-Rural Improvement Club (WEM-RIC) of Zamboanga del Sur shared her experience about her attendance to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) Youth 2014 in Morocco.
Speaking during a media forum recently held by the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) at the Anastacia Pension House here, Cerilles said she had learned a lot from the GES youth summit held in Marrakesh University, Marrakesh, Morocco last Nov. 19.
The GES Youth 2014 is a one-day gathering of young entrepreneurs who have recently started new firms around the world, featuring master class skills training sessions on leveraging local eco-systems and scaling up ventures and opportunities for delegates, and sharing success stories while connecting, sharing and learning from their peers.
Cerilles said there were some 7,000 young entrepreneurs who came to Marrakesh with full innovative ideas and left with high hopes of achieving their dreams with their inspiring success stories.
The delegates, Cerilles said, were drawn from Young African Leaders Initiative Network in Sub-Saharan, Africa, Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative from Southeast Asia, Middle East, and North Africa, South and Central Asia, and Europe, respectively.
Cerilles said various speakers were invited to discuss topics related to dense and diverse spirit of innovation and daring the standards that must be guiding any new entrepreneur.
“Among those who were invited was US Vice President Joe Bedin who stressed the importance of a country investing in the youth,” Cerilles said adding that “there are economic returns in investing in the youth.
In his message, Bedin encouraged women to empower themselves by taking interests in things that affect their daily lives and protect their intellectual property, as the government cannot do it alone without the help of all stakeholders.
Cerilles viewed the GES 2014 as a time of unprecedented sharing of experience, cultures and dreams for a bright future, making the youth ready to meet the great challenges of the day.
In the summit, Cerilles said there were many programs introduced such as Global Innovation Through Science and Technology, online education, among others.
Cerilles hopes to implement what she had learned from the summit in her own organization, the WEM-RIC, whose members now reach 10,000.
22 water recipient-towns undergo DED training
- Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/1431418006294/22-water-recipient-towns-undergo-ded-training
- Monday, December 8, 2014
- (FPG/PIA-9 with reports from Lemuel C. Mejares of DILG-9)
PAGADIAN CITY, Dec. 8 (PIA) – As part of its capacity development programs for recipient-municipalities of the Sagana at Ligtas na Tubig Para sa Lahat (SaLinTubig) project under the Grassroots Participatory Process (GPP), the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)-9 has recently conducted a training on Detailed Engineering Design (DED) for 22 towns in the region at Guillermo Hotel here.
Municipal planning and development coordinators, municipal engineers/water supervisors and Sangguniang Bayan (SB) members composing the committee on infrastructure turned up to attend the said training. They came from the municipalities of Godod, Gutalac, Jose Dalman, Kalawit, Labason, Liloy, Manukan, Mutia, Rizal, Sibuco and Sibutad of Zamboanga del Norte, the towns of Bayog, Dimataling, Dumingag, Guipos, Lapuyan, Pitogo, Ramon Magsaysay, San Miguel and Vicenzo Sagun of Zamboanga del Sur, and the municipalities of Imelda and Buug of Zamboanga Sibugay.
The provincial planning and development coordinators of the provincial governments of Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur also came to participate in the training.
The workshop, which was facilitated by DILG’s Project Development and Monitoring Unit (PDMU), taught the participants the DED preparation and procurement for the 2014 Grassroots Participatory Budgeting Process (GPBP) to fast-track the submission of the necessary documents of said towns for the release of funds for the implementation of SaLinTubig projects.
DILG-9 Regional Director Paisal O. Abutazil told the participants that the “DED is crucial for the projects to be implemented in the region, as it is one of the requirements for the releasing of the finds.”
“Region IX is still at 38% in fund utilization while other regions are already at 85%. Hence, the LGUs need to fast track their submission of said documents for the funds to be released before the year ends and so that the allocation will not be reverted and realigned for other purposes,” Abutazil said.
SaLinTubig projects are being implemented to address the water supply problems particularly in waterless municipalities in the region.
Anti-Illegal Gambling Task Force Nabs Female Collector
- Source:http://pro9.pnp.gov.ph/index.php/public-relations/news-release/623-anti-illegal-gambling-task-force-nabs-female-collector
- Sunday, December 7, 2014
- By PINSP DAHLAN TIDAL SAMUDDINwith report from PO2 Radzben S Jul (RPIO9)
Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur - The Provincial Anti-Illegal Gambling Special Operation Task Force (PAIGSOTF) served a search warrant under no.184 - Anti-Illegal Gambling Operation in Barangay Lapedian, Pagadian City at around 7:00 in the evening of December 2, 2014.
Which resulted to the arrest of Ana Maria E. Pabi, legal age, married, a resident of the above mentioned place. Recovered from her possession are peso bill, one notebook, two ball pen and three hundred forty nine (349) tally sheets. The Pagadian City Police Station had already filed a case before the City Prosecutor Office, Docketed under I.S. no ix-05-inq-14l-00253.
Zambo. Sur prepares contingency for super typhoon ‘Hagupit’
- Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/1371417741597/zambo-sur-prepares-contingency-for-super-typhoon-hagupit-
- Friday, December 5, 2014
- (FPG/GCC/PIA-Zamboanga del Sur)
PAGADIAN CITY, Dec. 5 (PIA) – The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) alerted the local chief executives (LCEs) and Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (MDRRMC) officers to prepare for the super typhoon Ruby (international name Hagupit), which the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAG-ASA) said, would the Philippine area of responsibility on Thursday morning.
Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Officer Wilfredo Asoy Jr. in an interview with Philippine Information Agency (PIA) said he called the LCEs and MDRRMOs of the province’s 24 municipalities to take preemptive measures against the coming typhoon.
Zamboanga del Sur was identified by Pag-asa as one of the 55 provinces to be affected by the typhoon and was placed at Alert Level C.
“The local government units (LGUs) are now taking necessary actions in order to ensure safety of the residents,” Asoy reported. “The Search and Rescue Team is ready to respond should “Ruby” strike the area,” he added.
Asoy said vehicles are ready to be dispatch, if needed, to save lives.
PAG-ASA has classified Ruby as a typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 175 kilometers per hour near the center and gusts of up to 210 kph.
Meanwhile, the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) led by Vice Mayor Divina Grace You convened at the City Mayor’s Office on Thursday afternoon to discuss its contingency plans.
City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Officer Haron Damada said the council would monitor the barangays, which are prone to landslides and flood as well as the coastal barangays for possible storm surge.
Damada said residents along the coastal barangays are advised to prepare and pack needed things for possible evacuation, while the Barangay Emergency Response Team (BERT) and Incident Command System (ICS) should be activated.
City PNP Director Supt. Glenn Dulawan said he was ready to provide personnel to help CDRRMC in monitoring during the typhoon.
It can be recalled that,Interior Secretary Mar Roxas issued on Wednesday a memorandum circular to all provincial governors, city mayors, municipal mayors, Punong Barangays and DILG Regional Directors in Regions IV-A, IV-B, V, VI, VII, VII, IX, X, XI and CARAGA to prepare for typhoon Ruby to minimize the damage the typhoon might leave.
Search and Seizure Operation Recovers Several Guns and Ammos in Pagadian
- Source:http://pro9.pnp.gov.ph/index.php/public-relations/news-release/596-search-and-seizure-operation-recovers-several-guns-and-ammos-in-pagadian
- Thursday, December 4, 2014
- By PINSP DAHLAN T SAMUDDIN with report from PO2 Radzben S Jul and PO3 Jessica DT Sarsalejo (RPIO9)
Pagadian City - Elements of Pagadian CPS led by Police Inspector Avelmar Renan Garambas, together with two officials of Barangay Balangasan, proceeded to the premises owned by Eboy Ohya at Purok Makiangayon, Barangay Balangasan, Pagadian City on November 29, 2014 at around 2:30 PM.
To implement the search warrant issued by Presiding Judge Joel G Vercide, MTCC, 9th Judicial Region Branch 1, this city for violation of R.A. 10591 (illegal possession of firearms) against Edwin Alegria, Tata Mag-Usara, Marlon Parojinog, Jojo Mag-Usara and Lucio Russiana. Said team also seized the following items: one Armscor caliber .45 pistol loaded with eight rounds of live ammunition; two magazines for KG9 SMG; one silencer; sixty-eight empty cartridges of Cal. 45 and twenty-four empty cartridges of caliber 9mm; one unit short magazine of caliber 5.56 (M16 rifle), and two spent cartridge cases of caliber .22 magnum. The team noticed that the air conditioning unit of Edwin Alegria was still on and the manhole at the ceiling, believed to be where the suspect passed, was already opened. The team conducted inventory of all items seized in the presence of the barangay officials. Pagadian CPS is conducting manhunt operation against the escaped suspects while appropriate charges are prepared for filing in court.
DPWH widens Zambo-Pagadian highway
- Source:http://www.sunstar.com.ph/zamboanga/local-news/2014/12/03/dpwh-widens-zambo-pagadian-highway-380006
- Wednesday, December 3, 2014
- By Bong Garcia
THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is set to widen the Zamboanga-Pagadian Highway, which links Zamboanga City to the nearby provinces of Zamboanga Sibugay and Zamboanga del Sur, an official said.
The highway will be widened to six lanes from its present width of four lanes, according to DPWH District Engineer Cholie Roble.
He said the road widening project, which is expected to cost billions of pesos, will be financed through a loan.
The project will cover a stretch of 300 kilometers starting from the Maria Clara Lobregat highway in Zamboanga City up to Pagadian City, the capital of Zamboanga del Sur.
Roble said the widening of the highway will decongest the flow of vehicular traffic.
The Zamboanga-Pagadian highway is the main thoroughfare from Zamboanga City to the provinces of Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, and to as far as Cagayan de Oro City.
Schools urged to support climate change advocacy, environmental protection
- Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/1431417425329/schools-urged-to-support-climate-change-advocacy-environmental-protection
- Tuesday, December 2, 2014
- (FPG/PIA9)
PAGADIAN CITY, Dec. 2 (PIA) – In keeping with the national government’s campaign for climate change adaptation and mitigation, Schools Division Superintendent Felix Romy A. Triambulo of the city schools division here has called on the students and teachers to actively participate in promoting a green environment.
Speaking in yesterday’s awarding ceremony for most sustainable and eco-friendly school at Tulawas Integrated School in this city, Triambulo encouraged the students and teachers to sustain and maintain the programs and activities that enabled their school to win the search for sustainable and eco-friendly school in the region.
Tulawas Integrated School emerged as regional winner of the Nestle Water Leadership Award in the 2013 Search for Sustainable and Eco-friendly Schools.
It could be recalled that the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB), an attached agency of the Department of Natural Resources (DENR) had launched in 2009 the search for sustainable and eco-friendly schools with Buenavista Elementary School in Gulatalac, Zamboanga del Norte and Sulangon National High School in Dapitan City as regional winner. The search has been conducted every two years since then.
In 2011 Siayan National High School in Siayan, Zamboanga del Norte and Universidad de Zamboanga in Zamboanga City emerged as regional winners.
For 2013, the regional winners were Ayala Elementary School in Zamboanga City and Manukan National High School in Manukan, Zamboanga del Norte together with Tulawas Integrated School in Pagadian City for Nestle Water Leadership Award, and Sicayab Elementary School and Dipolog National High School of Dipolog City for Meralco Leadership Award.
Sustainable and eco-friendly schools are schools that have initiated and integrated the promotion of a green environment in their instructions, programs and activities.
NGCP normalizes power supply to Zamboanga del Sur
- Source:http://www.interaksyon.com/business/100257/ngcp-normalizes-power-supply-to-zamboanga-del-sur
- Monday, December 1, 2014 11:00 am
- (Philippines News Agency)
PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur -- The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has lifted the power curtailment measure it implemented the past several days in selected areas in Mindanao after the power supply capacity has normalized.
Liberal Cabatcha, information officer of the Zamboanga del Sur Electric Cooperative-1 (Zamsureco-1), said Monday the power curtailment measure has been lifted Friday, November 29.
The Zamsureco-1 was among the electric cooperatives that were affected by the three-hour power curtailment measure.
Cabatcha said the NGCP lifted the measure since the supply capacity has normalized following the improvement of the water levels in Lake Lanao and Pulangi River, where the hydroelectric power plants are located.
The hydroelectric power plants supply electricity to the most parts of Mindanao.
Cabatcha said the water level in Lake Lanao and Pulangi River has improved due to the continuous rains spawned by tropical storm Queenie that recently hit the country.
Zamsureco-1, which was established in 25 August 1972, serves 69,857 connections in this city and in 24 of the 26 municipalities of this province.
Cabatcha said Zamsureco-1 was affected as there was power generation shortage of at least 70 percent from the Agus and Pulangi hydroelectric plants due to decreasing water level.
He said the unit number 2 of the Steag coal-fired power plant in Villanueva, Misamis Oriental and a unit of the diesel-fired Therma Marine Inc. in Iligan City have also conked out.
However, he said the power generation units of the two land-based power plants are also back to normal operations.