Zamboanga del Sur News May 2016

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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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DOLE, NRCO conduct small business management training for returning OFWs

By Gideon C. Corgue (FPG/GCC/PIA9-Zamboanga del Sur)

PAGADIAN CITY, May 23 (PIA) –The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the National Reintegration Center for OFWs (NRCO), an attached agency of DOLE, are providing mechanisms for overseas Filipino workers’ (OFWs) reintegration into the Philippine society by honing their skills and potentials to become productive.

Labor Employment Officer Butch Jason C. Tormis said the DOLE and NRCO recently conducted a one-day seminar on Small Business Management Training and Financial Awareness for 12 returning OFWs in Zamboanga del Sur at Sam’s Fastfood here.

The NRCO facilitates programs and activities such as Small Business Management Training, Financial Awareness Seminar, and Livelihood Training for OFWs.

Tormis said the seminar aimed at capacitating the undocumented OFWs with regard to managing a small business, and to give them some financial literacy.

“We are conducting seminars for returning OFWs to teach them how to handle their money well,” Tormis explained.

“We are providing business start-up assistance to enterprises and access to livelihood assistance/financing to OFWs, especially those who were unsuccessful in their employment abroad,” he added.

Tormis explained that the seminar was a pre-requirement of the beneficiaries to enable them to avail themselves of the Livelihood Development Assistance Program (LDAP) from the NRCO. “Under the program, P10,000 worth of tools, jigs and equipment will be distributed to the beneficiaries to start their small business,” he said.

Meanwhile, NRCO regional coordinator Sherwin Mendezabel explained the rationale of the NRCO, as well as the programs and services of the agency.

Mendezabel underscored the importance of Republic Act No. 8042 otherwise known as Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995.

Under this act, Mendezabel said, the government instituted the policies of overseas employment and established a higher standard of protection and promotion of the welfare of migrant workers, their families and overseas Filipinos in distress.

514 inmates allowed to vote

By Gideon C. Corgue (ALT/GCC/PIA9-Zamboanga del Sur)

PAGADIAN CITY, May 10 (PIA) – For three consecutive elections, inmates at the provincial jail exercised their right of suffrage and were able to cast their votes.

Prison Guard Wenedio Ejercito said a total of 514 inmates cast their votes during the May 9, 2016 national and local elections.

Those who were allowed to vote were inmates whose cases are on appeal and are waiting for trial.

“This is a historic event, the third time in history that inmates in the provincial jail were able to vote in the election,” he said.

Ejercito said inmates cast their votes in the 2010 and 2013 nationwide automated elections, respectively.

The jail officer said that poll security plans were implemented to make sure the prisoners would stay inside the compound and no one tries to escape.

“The voters were escorted out of their cells and placed in a holding area to wait for their turn to vote,” he explained.

Ejercito said the accomplished ballots would be brought out by personnel of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from the voting area in prison and feed them to the vote counting machines (VCMs) in a polling precinct.

Under the detainee voting, inmates were given until 2 p.m. to cast their votes and ballots will be taken to the mother polling precinct where it will be counted.

AFP, academe, socio-civic groups lauded for supporting Run for HOPE

By Gideon C. Corgue (ALT/GCC/PIA9-Zamboanga del Sur)

PAGADIAN CITY, May 9 (PIA) – The management of Radio Midanao Network (RMN) DXPR radio station lauded the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), academe and socio-civic groups for their involvement in the RMN Run for HOPE (Honest, Orderly and Peaceful Election) held over the weekend at Plaza Luz here.

Station Manager Melchor U. Coronel expressed his sincere appreciation and profound gratitude to all participants for the support they have extended during the event.

“Malaki ang aming pasasalamat sa AFP, academe, at socio-civic groups sa suportang ibinigay sa RMN Run for HOPE dahil sila ay nagpakita ng kanilang suporta sa gagawin na matapat, maayos at mapayapang halalan sa Mayo 9 (Our big thanks to the AFP, academe, and socio-civic groups for the support they have given to the RMN Run for Hope to have an honest, orderly and peaceful election on May 9),” Coronel said.

Lt. Col. Hubert S. Acierto, commanding officer of the 1st Field Artillery Battalion, Army Artillery Regiment, Philippine Army said the unit supports the peace initiative of DXPR.

"This is the initiative of DXPR, they organized it and we in the AFP fully support this move. As peacekeepers we do not allow ourselves to be used by politicians,” Acierto, who led almost 100 soldiers in the event said.

1st Cavalry Squadron commanding officer Lt. Col. Charlemagne Batayola, Jr. said they wanted to show to the public their sincere support in the government’s advocacy campaign for the conduct of honest, orderly and peaceful election.

“Nais naming ipakita na kaming mga sundalo bilang tagapag-alaga ng demokrasya, kami po ay mananatiling apolitical at dedicated sa aming utos na hindi makipag engage sa partisan politics. Nais po naming magkakaroon ng mapayapa at maayos na eleksyon sa Mayo 9 (We want to show that we soldiers as guardians of democracy, must remain apolitical and dedicated to our mandate not to engage in partisan politics. We want to have a peaceful and orderly election on May 9),” Batayola explained.

After the run, the participants signed a covenant calling on all sectors for vigilance and involvement to ensure clean and honest elections on Monday, May 9.

Zambo truck driver in jail after fatal road mishap in Pagadian

By Dan Toribio Jr.

A truck driver from Talon-Talon is in jail after he accidentally killed two persons in a road accident in Barangay Balangasan, Pagadian City last Thursday afternoon.

Police Regional Information Officer Chief Insp. Roger Alabata disclosed that the road accident took place at the corner of Urro and Consolation Streets in Capitol Heights, Balangasan, Pagadian City.

Alabata said that a white Mitsubishi Fuso ten wheeler truck with plate number GFM-644 under the name of Raul Ignacio of Sta. Maria, this city and driven Roger Bapalandon Ariosa, 36, married of Padios Village, Talon-Talon with truck man Cristituto Naong Berronio, 43, married of the same place accidentally hit a motorcycle driven by Rodrigo Gasil Gomel, Jr., 24, of barangay Sto. Niño, Pagadian City and due to strong impact, he swerved and bumped also to the house Edna Angcon Arangcana, 54, single of the same place.

Alabata said that Gomel and Arangcana sustained multiple injuries in their body and died on the spot.

Ariosa and Berronio also sustained minor injuries in their body.

Ariosa was detained at the police station while both vehicles were impounded. –

Troops neutralize organized crime group leader in Zambo Sur

(PNA), LAP/TPGJR

ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) -– Joint military and police operatives have arrested an organized crime group (OCG) leader involved in the killing of a Swiss national over a year ago in Palawan, an official announced Friday.

Maj. Filemon Tan Jr., Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) spokesman, identified the arrested OCG leader as Manuel Raquel alias Abdusallam.

Tan said Raquel was arrested in a law enforcement operation around 5 a.m. Friday in Barangay Salawagan, Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur.

Tan said the operatives seized a caliber .45 pistol with ammunition and a grenade from Raquel’s possession.

He said Raquel was involved in the killing of Cyril End, a Swiss national, on December 14, 2014 in Busuanga, Palawan.

He said Raquel is an associate of Milquiadaes Abrera alias Mikhail and Abdullah Ilao alias Abu Nur, both members of a know OCG in Luzon.

“Manuel Raquel’s name was found in the list of names and location of organized crime groups, a ledger seized in possession of a ranking crime group leader in Luzon,” he added.

DOH-9 steps up advocacy campaign on HIV AIDS

By Claro A. Lanipa (FPG/CAL/PIA9-Zamboanga del Sur)

PAGADIAN CITY, May 6 (PIA) – In response to the alarming number of persons infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV-AIDS) in the region, the Department of Health (DOH)-9 has intensified its campaign against this dreadful disease.

In a media forum held at Guillermo Hotel here yesterday, Michael Magallanes Oral, HIV provincial assistant coordinator of DOH-9, discussed thoroughly the causes, status and preventive measures of HIV AIDS before the media practitioners together with the medical staff of the city and the municipalities in Zamboanga del Norte.

HIV is a kind of virus that destroys the natural defence of an individual against various diseases while AIDS, on the other hand, is a chronic disease acquired by a person through sexual intercourse with an individual infected with HIV, Oral explained.

HIV is different from AIDS, because the latter pertains to the health condition of a person infected or who acquired such disease, and with this condition he or she will be inflicted with various illnesses that will eventually cause death, Oral said.

“No one dies on HIV or AIDS,” Oral emphasized “an infected person die because of complications of different diseases or different kind of infections such as; kaposis-sarcoma, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer but the common infection are tuberculosis and phneumonia.”

“It does not mean also that if a person has TB, he is already infected with AIDS or HIV positive,” Oral said.

Meanwhile, there are 71 persons found with asymptomatic HIV positive in Zamboanga del Sur. These people were not all tested positive here in Pagadian City or province, but others were tested in other cities using Zambonga del Sur as their home province address, Oral disclosed.

On the other hand, Pagadian City alone has 18 confirmed HIV positive individuals. The oldest person is 36 years old based in the city and the youngest is 4 years old child, who is breastfed by an HIV positive mother.

In the entire country, according to DOH statistics, in every one and half hour a person is found positive with HIV. Totalling it all, in a day there are 28 individuals found positive with such disease. And out of nine countries in the South East Asia, the Philippines now ranks number one on HIV AIDS cases, Oral disclosed.

With the present disturbing situation, DOH asked the media practitioners to help the department in disseminating the exact and correct information, prevention and transmission on HIV AIDS to the vulnerable populace.

The HIV coordinator presented the ABCD technique in preventing HIV AIDS, A stand for “abstinence,” meaning for all single individual, avoid sexual intercourse; B – is for “be mutually faithful to your partner; C – “correct and consistent condom use” and D – is “education,” educate yourself to prevent HIV.

Balabag mining project just a step away from full-scale gold, silver production

By Jonathan L. Mayuga

Government regulators have flashed the green light for the development of the Balabag Gold-Silver Project of TVI Resource Development (Philippines) Inc. in Zamboanga del Sur, following the approval of the project’s Declaration of Mining Project Feasibility (DMPF).

The announcement was made through a news statement issued by the Canadian mining company TVI Pacific Inc., which has a 30.66-percent equity interest in TVIRD.

TVIRD, in turn, has a 100-percent stake in Balabag Gold-Silver Project, and is currently seeking public listing in the Philippine Stocks Exchange (PSE).

TVIRD’s operation of the gold-silver mine in Zamboanga del Sur is expected to boost the country’s annual gold output—as well as investment in mining—despite the moratorium on the processing of new mining-project proposals pending the enactment of a new mining revenue-sharing scheme by Congress.

The DMPF was the last major hurdle for TVIRD to initiate the development, construction and operation of the Balabag mine, the TVI statement released on Wednesday added.

The DMPF for the Balabag project, which was approved by the DENR on April 29 this year, authorizes TVIRD to proceed with the development and operation phase, initially over a 180-hectare portion of the Mineral Production Sharing Agreement (MPSA) area, which is covered an approved environmental compliance certificate (ECC).

The 180-hectare area covers all currently defined resources at the project, as well as proposed mining and processing-facility sites. TVIRD has the option of submitting an amended ECC that would allow exploration and mining to cover the entire 4,779-hectare MPSA area.

The statement said TVIRD intends to submit an amended ECC with the DENR, in order to access areas with future resource-development potential.

“Balabag is the fourth mining project to be successfully permitted by TVIRD in the Philippines over the past 11 years, and I am confident that TVIRD will secure the necessary funds to move the project forward prior [to] its listing [in] the PSE later this year,” said Clifford James, chairman and CEO of TVI and concurrent chairman of TVIRD.

James said securing the DMPF for the Balabag project will greatly support TVIRD’s efforts to list in the PSE, and that the listing could provide TVI with both a short and long-term source of funding for the company’s resource acquisition and development activities

TVIRD’s MPSA with the government for the Balabag project covers 4,779 hectares in the town of Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur, approximately 75 kilometers east-northeast of TVIRD’s Canatuan mine.

According to TVIRD, a total of 296 holes have been drilled for a total of 34,156 meters at the Balabag project up to mid-2013. Based on results of drilling completed to the end of June 2011, the project has estimated an indicated mineral resources of 1.78 million tons, averaging 2.34 grams per ton (g/t) gold and 72.3 g/t silver, containing 134,262 ounces of gold and 4,148,196 ounces of silver.

While exploration and development work have been put on hold at the Balabag project since the mid-2013 pending the approval of permits from the government, work on the engineering design for a gold-silver processing plant to process ore on-site continued.

So far, TVIRD has also constructed and maintained 16 km of access roads to the project in anticipation of the commencement of construction.

TVIRD secured its ECC on the project from the DENR in October 2013. TVIRD also got an approval of its Social Development Management Program in May 2014. It also entered into a memorandum of agreement with Subanen leaders in August 2014, as part of the DMPF process and a prerequisite for a certification precondition to be issued by the National Commission for Indigenous Peoples, another requisite for the operation of the Balabag project

Zamboanga police seize 348 firearms

By Bong Garcia

THE Police Regional Office (PRO)-Zamboanga Peninsula has confiscated 348 illegal firearms, 21 grenades and 2,286 rounds of ammunitions in the past three months.

PRO-Zamboanga Peninsula director Miguel Antonio Jr. said they confiscated the said items because of their strict implementation of the election gun ban and “One Time Big Time” operations from January 10 until April 30, this year.

“One Time Big Time” is Philippine National Police’s anti-criminality campaign against syndicated criminal gangs, wanted criminals and loose firearms.

Antonio said that 119 firearms were seized in Zamboanga Sibugay, 111 in Zamboanga City, 78 in Zamboanga del Sur and 40 in Zamboanga del Norte.

On the same period, 1,331 ammunitions and 10 grenades were confiscated in Zamboanga City, 473 ammunitions and one grenade in Zamboanga del Sur, 252 ammunitions and five grenades in Zamboanga Sibugay, 225 ammunitions and five grenades in Zamboanga del Norte.

All systems go for May 9 polls in Zambo. Sur

By Gideon C. Corgue (FPG/GCC/PIA9-Zamboanga del Sur)

PAGADIAN CITY, May 3 (PIA) – With only a few days left before the May 9 national and local elections, the Philippine National Police, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Commission on Elections and Department of Education assured the public that they are ready for the successful conduct of elections in the province.

Top level officials of the PNP, AFP, Comelec and DepEd on Saturday attended the final conference of the joint peace and security coordinating council (JPSCC) presided over by provincial director Senior Superintendent Michael Nicolas at the conference room of Zamboanga del Sur Police Provincial Office, Camp Abelon, Tuburan District here.

Police Senior Superintendent Michael Nicolas, police provincial director, said the JPSCC came up with the best practice to ensure safe, credible and honest elections.

Nicolas encouraged the council to be united saying that the elections are an important event.

“Let us be united in all our actions for this is a very important national event. We want that this endeavor be successful and the voters be heard thru the ballots as they exercise the right of suffrage,” Nicolas urged.

Nicolas said the JPSCC plays “a very critical role in the elections that the international and local communities are watching for.”

Chief Inspector Acer Noah Aniversario, chief of operations, also said the PNP and AFP laid down their security plan to ensure a peaceful, orderly and honest balloting.

Aniversario said the plan includes deployment of personnel and the delivery of vote-counting machines (VCM)to the polling centers.

The JPSCC is providing/assigning two policemen per polling center since the order from the higher headquarters is to implement the ratio of 2:1 meaning, two policemen in one poling center.

Nicolas said the JPSCC is now ready to deliver the VCMs from Ozamis City to the polling centers.

It has been the policy of the Comelec that the electronic voting and counting equipment should be delivered to polling stations days prior to election day and be issued to designated persons using appropriate handover procedures and documentation.

PRO-9 deploys augmentation force for election duties

(PNA), LAP/TPGJR

ZAMBOANGA CITY, May 2 (PNA) -– The Police Regional Office-9 (PRO-9) is deploying an augmentation force of 800 policemen to render election duties in three provinces here in Region 9.

Chief Supt. Miguel Antonio Jr., PRO-9 director, said the augmentation forces will consist of 28 Police Commission Officers (PCOs) and 772 Police Non-Commission Officers (PNCOs).

Antonio said that 240 of them, including nine officers, will be deployed in the province of Zamboanga del Norte; 234--nine PCOs and 225 PNCOs--in Zamboanga del Sur; and, 326, including 10 PCOs, in Zamboanga Sibugay.

Senior Supt. Debold Sinas, PRO-9’s deputy regional director for operations, said those who will comprise the augmentation forces are personnel assigned at the headquarters’ offices, new graduates of PNP Special Counter Insurgency Operation Unit Training (PNP SCOUT), and Field Training Program graduates.

Antonio said that some of them will be deployed in “critical areas” like in Tungawan, Zamboanga Sibugay; Sibuco and Sergio Osmeña, Zamboanga del Norte; and, Kumalarang and Dinas, Zamboanga del Sur.

“It is to ensure the election that is going to be held on the 9th of May will be peaceful,” Antonio added.

He said the deployment of augmentation police forces will be in coordination with the military forces stationed in the three provinces.

He said the send off of personnel for election duties is on Tuesday, May 3.

‘One time, Big time’ ops net high powered firearms

By Eugene A. Lasprilla

Two high powered and three short firearms were seized during a One Time, Big Time (OTBT) operation last Friday in Bayog Municipality, Zamboanga del Sur (ZDS), according to a report from Police Regional Office 9 (PRO9).

PRO9 spokesman Superintendent Rogelio Alabata said a search warrant was served at the house of Nelson Saniel Otom resulting to the recovery of a homemade long barrel 12 gauge shotgun with magazine; a homemade long barrel single shot M16 with magazine; a Colt MK IV series 80 Caliber .45 Pistol with serial number 624183 with magazine; several assorted M16, Caliber 357 and Caliber .38 Revolver.

Alabata said the raiding team failed to locate the whereabouts of the target person during the operation.

The recovered firearms and ammunition were brought to Bayog Municipal Police Station for inventory and safekeeping.

A case for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2013 was readied by the local police against the house owner.

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