Bishop
fears abortion to rise with SC ruling
BAGUIO CITY -- A Catholic bishop fears that abortion cases in the
country will spike after the Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of
the Reproductive Health Law.
In an interview with Church-run
Radyo Veritas, Baguio Bishop Carlito Cenzon said that with the High Court's
ruling, the RH law will now be implemented.
The bishop has also expressed
dismay over the SC decision, which he claims ignored what the duty of the State
provided for in the Constitution to protect life of the unborn child.
Abortions have been prevalent in
the country despite the existing anti-abortion law in the Philippines, or
Republic Act 3815, Bishop Cenzon noted.
The prelate said that with or
without the RH law, the contraceptive mentality among Filipinos is also
prevalent as indicated with the growing number of abortion cases.
Bishop Cenzon cited that base on
the research of Guttmacher Institute and University of the Philippines
Population Institute, there were 470,000 induced abortion cases in the country
in 2000. This number rose to 560,000 in 2010.
Calasiao
mayoral bet to file libel case vs Czech envoy
Calasiao, Pangasinan – US-based former Calasiao mayoral bet Wilson
de Vera of the Liberal Party is planning to file a libel suit against
Czech Ambassador Josef Rychter for accusing him of attempting to
extort $30-M from a Czech train company to win a contract from Metro Rail
Transit. De Vera, being linked by the Czech official to the bribery
attempt, was contacted by Pangasinan media men through e-mail and cell phone
early this week to get his side on the Czech’s accusation that MRT General
Manager Al Vitangcol used him (De Vera) to offer $30-M bribe in exchange for a contract
to supply MRT 48 new coaches in 2012. De Vera described the Czech’s accusation
as a big lie and a “figment of wild imagination.” -- LBI
Benguet
congressional office to provide scholarships
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet --The Benguet Congressional District Office
has allotted P42 million
worth of educational
assistance program for poor
but deserving students from the province who want to earn degrees in
college.
The amount of P14 million is
intended for the Commission on Higher Education -Cordillera and
another P28 million for the Benguet State University for scholarship grants
According to Benguet Rep. Ronald
Cosalan,students can apply for any of
the scholarships.
This he said is one way of assisting the youth in Benguet
who want to go to college but cannot do so because of poverty.
“With the Educational Assistance
Program, we can help them fulfill their dreams,” he said.
The goal is to have 10 scholars in every barangay in Benguet who should
maintain passing grades without any failure in their rating cards.
Cosalan urged would-be scholars
to give their best and study hard so they can have a better future.
He said not all are given the
opportunity to be offered scholarships so they should take advantage of this
blessing that come their way and hopefully pay it forward by being good
citizens of the country.
We have so many scholars who are
now professionals and are successful in their chosen careers, Cosalan added. --
Joseph Zambrano
Banaue dad creates parenting movement
By Daniel
Codamon
BANAUE, Ifugao -- The municipal mayor here
has created a Responsible
Parenting Movement (RPM) and designated
a municipal population officer as the main person in implementation of
responsible parenthood and natural family planning program in the municipality.
Mayor Jerry Dalipog said this was in line with the
the national government –issued directive on RPM and NFP to empower
Filipino families through responsible parenting by making couples aware of
their basic responsibilities as parents and local government units has to take
full charge in its implementation.
It also gives the LGUs liberty to
promote artificial family planning while the national government advocates all
scientific natural family planning technologies.
Dalipog assumes as the RPM
with Vice Mayor Joel Bungallon as the vice chairman.
Members are municipal health
officer Lorna Baga, municipal Social Welfare and Development officer Blandina
Campos, ABC president Genoveva Pocopio, school nurse Rosa Bahatan, municipal
treasurer Martha Ballangi and municipal local Civil registrar Gertrude Daguio.
Designated as the population officer was municipal nurse Romana Lingan.
The RPM is
tasked to organize the Responsible
Parenthood-Natural Family Planning (RP-NFP) Team at the municipal and
barangay levels, ensure that the barangay RP-NFP Team and Community Health
Workers perform their functions, continuously sustain the barangay RP-NFP,
coordinate the conduct of municipal trainers training on RP-NFP, keep a master
list of all NFP users and attendees of the RPM-NFP classes and keep a master
list of couple mentors or providers.
Meanwhile, Dalipog has also reorganized and expanded the composition of the Local
Poverty Action Team (LPRAT).
The LPRAT
in now composed of the mayor
as chairman with Jimmy Cabbigat from the
Civil Society Organizations as the vice chairman.
Members include 15 from local government unit offices and
officials and 15 from the various CSOs in the municipality.
Three members from the municipal
government compose the secretariat.
BFP
activates fire station in Tinglayan
TINGLAYAN, Kalinga --The Bureau of Fire Protection has now
four municipal fire stations in the province with the activation of Tinglayan Municipal Fire
Station last week.
Mayor Johnny Maymaya accepted
responsibility from BFP-Cordillera
regional director Senior Supt Sergio Soriano Jr. as he expressed
gratitude for granting their request to have their own municipal fire station.
Said fire station is
strategically located at the municipal building compound in a lot donated by
the local government unit. This will be
under the leadership of SFO1 Nestor Aboli as the Municipal Fire Marshal.
A fire truck is also issued in
said office.
The mayor commended the bureau
for their assistance in training volunteers in the area as he appealed for
their continuous support especially in the information education drive and
additional trainings in the barangays.
He shared said as cultural
community, the people of Tinglayan have
their traditional way for distress call during fires which they call “fotad.”
Fotad he related is done primarily to alert the tribe and call
for help.
All those alerted are obliged to
come and help extinguish the fire.
“After the fire is put off, the
community would gather and investigate its cause. Anyone who was not able to
respond to the fotad would also be investigated and penalized if they
don’t have any justifiable reason why they fail to help,” he said.
The activation of the fire
station coincided with the regional
celebration of 48th Fire Prevention Month in the province with the theme
“Isulong ang Kaunlaran, Sunog ay Iwasan, Kaalaman at Pag-iingat and Kailangan.”
-- Geraldine Dumallig
100
graduate ALS system in Ifugao
ALFONSO LISTA, Ifugao -- With the theme “Hindi NatitinagangPusong
PILIPINO”, the Alternative Learning System (ALS) here graduated 100 students under its Basic Literacy Program
(BLP) last March 25 at the Sta. Maria
Ampitheater of Barangay Sta. Maria, this municipality.
The graduates composed of 48 boys
and 52 girls came from the different barangays of the municipality who have
attended classes under the ALS of the Department of Education (DepEd)
conducted by mobile teachers (MTs) to adapt with the situation and convenience
of the learners.
Most of the learners are
over-aged students, out-of-school youth
and some parents who did not finish their basic education.
The ALS classes were conducted in two districts. The first district was administered by
Dominador Guinid as the District Alternative Learning System Coordinator
(DALSC) and District II by Apolinario Paculor.
They were assisted
by three MTs each, two hired by the DEpEd and four
by the local government unit.
In her message to the graduates, DepEd Cordillera Region Director Ellen Donato told the graduates “to cherish the gift of
learning and keep doing while savoring the gains in each stage, shun from being
victims of circumstances and make your life better for yourself and those
around you by sharing the gains of education in every endeavor where need be.
In the end, you would be consoled
with the thought that you are not only a statistic but a significant asset to
nation building”.
Meanwhile, provincial ALS
coordinator Arsenio Yongoyong informed that a total of 426 out of the total of
1,111 who took the Accreditation and Equivalency (A and E) Test given by the
ALS last year passed the examination. The
38.34% passing rate is the second
highest in the Cordillera Administrative Region
next to Baguio City with 53.82%.
Of the 426 passers, 16 in the elementary level while 410 in the secondary -- Daniel Codamon
ASEAN,
K-12 national confab held at BSU
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – The Philippine Association of Communication
Educators (PACE) convened April 3-5 here at Benguet State University to discuss
issues and challenges on the the country’s K-12 education program and ASEAN
integration. Attended by students and teachers of different universities in the
country, the goal was to learn new insights on future media landscapes with the
theme “Communication and Media Education and Practice: Issues and Challenges on
ASEAN Integration and K-12”.
Dr. Sauwakon Ratanwijitrasin, the
Centre Director of the ASEAN Regional Center For Higher Education and
Development spoke Bologna process and harmonization in education and importance
of changing the education landscape of the ASEAN.
“All the ten member countries
(ASEAN) should work together as a whole” Ratanwijitrasin said.
The conference was in line with
the ASEAN’s plan to integrate the economies of its member-states in 2015
wherein its leaders declared that the ASEAN Economic Community shall be the
goal of this regional integration by 2020.
Papers on communication and
journalism topics by faculty and students of different universities in the
country were also presented in the
conference. -- Cleo Mae Valdez and Carlo Hije
B’gay
execs told: Monitor tobacco sale near schools
BAGUIO CITY - Selling or distribution of tobacco
products in various school perimeters is rampant and it has been observed
that there are no signage informing and warning the persons below 18 years of
age that selling and distribution of tobacco products to them are
prohibited.
It is for this reason that the
128 barangays in the city of Baguio are requested to supervise and monitor within
their jurisdiction the convenient stores and ambulant vendors selling tobacco
products within 100 meters from any point of the perimeter of a school and at
the same time to see to it that there is visible signage informing or warning
that selling or distribution of tobacco products to persons under 18 years of
age is prohibited through the city council’s resolution no. 053.
This is in support to Republic
Act 9211 also known as the Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003.
The act states that, “it is the
policy of the State to protect the populace from hazardous products and promote
right to health and instill health consciousness among them. It is also the
policy of the State, consistent with the Constitutional ideal to promote the
general welfare, to safeguard the interest of the workers and other
stakeholders in the tobacco industry. Thus, the government shall
institute a balanced policy whereby the use, sale and advertisements of tobacco
products shall be regulated in order to promote a healthful environment and
protect the citizens from the hazards of tobacco smoke, and at the same time
ensure the interest of tobacco farmers, growers, workers, and stakeholders are
not adversely compromised.”
This is also in line with the
city’s campaign for a 100 percent smoke-free bureaucracy and
city. --- JhoArranz
813 avail
of Bontoc ‘Operation tule’
BONTOC, Mountain Province – Some 813 patients availed of the free
“Operation Tule” and medical- dental mission conducted simultaneously from
April 2-4, 2014 at the Bontoc General Hospital (BoGH).
According to Dorothy Villanueva,
supervising administrative officer of Bontoc General Hospital, 451 patients
benefitted from the medical services while 170 others availed of the dental
services.
Villanueva added that 192 patients
mostly children availed of the free “Operation Tule”.
She said “Operation Tule” is very
timely because vacations of schools have just started giving time for the
healing or recovery of those who availed of the free circumcision.
She further said that the free
medicines were given to the patients who availed of the free services of the
hospital.
The medical-dental mission and
“Operation Tule” are part of the activities of the 47th Mountain Province
Foundation Day and 10th Lang-ay and Cultural Festival.
Meanwhile, in an interview with
some of the patients who availed of the medical-dental mission and “Operation
Tule”, they thanked the provincial government of Mountain Province through the
Bontoc General Hospital and Provincial Health Office in delivering free health
services to the constituents in Mountain Province. -- Alpine L.Killa
TESDA
scholarships up
BAGUIO CITY - The Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority (TESDA) is calling on interested applicants for training
in slaughtering operations under Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP).
In a letter to Mayor Mauricio
Domogan, TESDA provincial director Angela Gabriel called on interested
individuals who have not availed of the TSWP from 2006 to 2013.
The applicant should be 18 years old
and a high school graduate, the letter read.
Slots are limited and award is on a first-come-first-served basis.
Applicants are enjoined to get in touch with the TESDA Provincial office at AD
Tan bldg., Km. 4, La Trinidad, Benguet, or they can call 074-309-1142 for
information.
Other short courses in
electrical, electronics, basic housekeeping, caregiving, baking, cooking,
beauty culture; could also be enrolled in TESDA-accredited schools, in Baguio
and Benguet. – Julie G. Fianza
Baguio City
centenarian honored
BAGUIO CITY- Baguio Centenarian FlorentinaTabtab-De Vera
“celebrates life daily, continues to be an icon of longevity and a pillar of
strength, to family, friends and the community” with the more than a hundred
years she is blessed with.
Born Oct. 10, 1912 in Baroro, Bacnotan, La Union;
Florentina is the youngest of the seven children of fisherman AgapitoTabtab and
housewife Proxedes Buen.
She attended grades 1 and 2 at
Bacnotan Elementary School, and finished up to intermediate grades at Alabang
Elementary School.
Her high school years were spent
in Tondo, Manila.
In 1936, Florentina came to
Baguio where she worked at the Ibeck Store, the only American store along
Session road. She also worked as assistant to Dr. Stafford at Outlook Drive for
a year.
She met and later got married to
Canuto de Vera on May 05, 1938.
The couple stayed in Outlook
Drive drive but moved to Arellano st., Mines View Park Barangay during World
War II. House caretakers for a property, they stayed in Mines View Park until 1997.
Florentina and her husband were
hardworking folks and brought up their children well, imbibed them with values
of integrity and industry. Her grandchildren are also recipients of her care,
teachings, and good examples of a life well-lived.
She is thus, whole-heartedly
honored with a city resolution given by the council. Recognition and privileges
are also conferred to her as to the resolution.
Mrs. De Vera credits her 100
years of live to a “caring family, healthy food and a happy disposition. She was
able to weather life’s storms because of her strong conviction that life is to
be cherished because it is a gift from the Supreme Giver of life.”
The city has been giving out
recognition for citizens who have laid down foundations through examples throughout
their long lives. – Julie G. Fianza
Ilocos
PNP adopts young scholars
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – Police here headed by Supt Julius
Suriben has launched the project “Batang Iskolar ni Manong Polis ( BIMPO)” which
provides allowance and clothing to young
pupils.
The first in the history of the Philippine
national Police here, Suriben said “The Manong and Manang Pulis” here has innovative way of fighting or preventing
crimes as well as in gaining the people’s trust and respect for the police.
Recently, one of the three
scholars of the city police enrolled in the Project BIMPo, Rhenruff P Samoy, a
resident of Catbangen and a Grade 1 pupil, topped her class at Catbangen
Central School, this city, and was awarded for being 1st Honor.
As prize, the city police gave
her a new pair of shoes and blouse to
encourage her to excel in class.
As a BIMPO scholar, Suriben said,
she receives monthly allowance amounting to P 800 from city police.
The fund comes from the voluntary
contributions of all policemen of the city as their social responsibility
program.
Samoy and her mother expressed
their thanks to Suriben and his men for the scholarship and guidance they are
providing them.
Rhenruff also thanked the chief
of police as she vowed to maintain her standing in class and become a police
officer someday.
This project would also remove
the stigma of fear for policemen and enhance the relationship between the
police and the community.
According to Suriben, they plan
to expand the reach of Project BIMPO to cater to more students especially the
poor but deserving students and to reach out to more generous benefactors by
giving away BIMPO Alkansiya to individuals, organizations and business
establishments.
“Lately, a netizen with Facebook name Lara Geraldine Bacer, an
employee of the provincial government of La Union, signified her intention to
be a part of the project by helping distribute BIMPO Alkansiyas which according
to her will be passed to her friends and co employees during pay day. She
discovered about the project when “BalitangAmianan of GMA7″ posted it on their
facebook account,” stressed Suriben.
This is a very noble project
which Suriben wants to sustain because according to him, this would help attack
one of the root causes of crime, which is poverty.
“By giving more educational
opportunities to the less fortunate, we are helping the government alleviate
poverty which in effect would be decreasing the possibility of crime occurrence
and opening windows of opportunity for our fellowmen who may be our future
leaders or even one of our best police men and women in the next generation,”
pointed out Suriben. -- Mar T. Supnad
Beachgoers
told to shun liquor, sun
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Influx of visitors and beachgoers starts last
week with searing summer heat now on the upswing.
Here, authorities warned the
public specially visitors to shun drinking liquor that may cause drowning.
Supt.Ryan Manongdo, spokesman of
Pangasinan Provincial Police Office, said a water-borne team composed of eight cops
are on standby to monitor Lingayen beach in case of search and rescue
operation.
To date, there has been no
reported case of drowning incident here. Meanwhile, Dr. Ana De Guzman,
provincial health officer, urged the public not to get exposed to the sun
specially around 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. because of strong ultraviolet rays that may
cause sunburn or irritation of skin. -- LiezleBasaInigo
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