Kalinga gov’t forms response team against
road encroachers
TABUK
CITY, Kalinga -- The provincial government organized an inter-agency quick
response team to deal on road right-of-way (RROW) occupants.
Gov. JocelBaac issued Executive Order 2015-15
organizing the action team composed of members from concerned local and
national offices.
This is in response to the recommendation of participants during a recent environmental summit to organize a watchdog to rid provincial and national roads of encroachers.
The group is headed by lawyer KristianWandag, provincial legal officer as team leader.
Members are engineers TeodoroOwek of Kalinga District Engineering Office, Jaime Liban of Provincial Engineering Office, Ruby Peter of Tabuk City Engineering Office, Rex Amiyao, PEO RROW agent, Supt. Gilbert Fati-ig of the Kalinga Police Provincial Office, and concerned barangay officials.
The team will act as frontliner of road right-of-way task force to ensure protection of roads against informal settlers and squatters.
It aims to conduct regular monitoring of RROWs to prevent encroachment of private individuals and construction of illegal structures, act on all reports of illegal construction along RROWs, and order and cause stoppage of new and ongoing construction. – Peter A. Balocnit
This is in response to the recommendation of participants during a recent environmental summit to organize a watchdog to rid provincial and national roads of encroachers.
The group is headed by lawyer KristianWandag, provincial legal officer as team leader.
Members are engineers TeodoroOwek of Kalinga District Engineering Office, Jaime Liban of Provincial Engineering Office, Ruby Peter of Tabuk City Engineering Office, Rex Amiyao, PEO RROW agent, Supt. Gilbert Fati-ig of the Kalinga Police Provincial Office, and concerned barangay officials.
The team will act as frontliner of road right-of-way task force to ensure protection of roads against informal settlers and squatters.
It aims to conduct regular monitoring of RROWs to prevent encroachment of private individuals and construction of illegal structures, act on all reports of illegal construction along RROWs, and order and cause stoppage of new and ongoing construction. – Peter A. Balocnit
Kalinga Girl Scout wins national award
TABUK
CITY, Kalinga -- A Grade 10 student of Tabuk City National High School has
brought another glory to the province by winning this year’s National Chief
Girl Scout Medal Scheme award.
Irish Pecua won the award for her one-year feeding project for 34 indigent children of Sitio San Francisco, Barangay Poblacion-West of Tabuk.
According to Irish, her feeding project started June 2014 until June 2015, two to three times a month on Sunday.
For the whole duration of the project, Irish used her family’s fund and did not solicit from other sources.
The 34 under-weight beneficiary children were listed by Poblacion West barangay health workers (BHWs) after conducting "operation timbang" through the assistance of other Girl Scouts before the feeding started.
Every time before the feeding, Irish’s group with the BHWs conduct lectures on proper nutrition and health care to the children and their parents.
As follow-up, home visitation were made to children in need of closer attention.
To monitor the impact of their feeding, the group had regular weighing of children every other Sunday.
Before the project ended, all 34 had obtained regular weights, Irish reported.
Last January, Irish’s group also sponsored a nutrition and health care symposium in the place and invited other families.
Explaining the greatest impact of the project to Sitio San Francisco, Irish said, is the education given to parents of the 34 children who were involved in the project in the preparation and cooking of the right food.
Chief Girl Scout Medal Scheme highlights the Girl Scout’s distinguished leadership and vital contribution to nation building – Larry Lopez
Irish Pecua won the award for her one-year feeding project for 34 indigent children of Sitio San Francisco, Barangay Poblacion-West of Tabuk.
According to Irish, her feeding project started June 2014 until June 2015, two to three times a month on Sunday.
For the whole duration of the project, Irish used her family’s fund and did not solicit from other sources.
The 34 under-weight beneficiary children were listed by Poblacion West barangay health workers (BHWs) after conducting "operation timbang" through the assistance of other Girl Scouts before the feeding started.
Every time before the feeding, Irish’s group with the BHWs conduct lectures on proper nutrition and health care to the children and their parents.
As follow-up, home visitation were made to children in need of closer attention.
To monitor the impact of their feeding, the group had regular weighing of children every other Sunday.
Before the project ended, all 34 had obtained regular weights, Irish reported.
Last January, Irish’s group also sponsored a nutrition and health care symposium in the place and invited other families.
Explaining the greatest impact of the project to Sitio San Francisco, Irish said, is the education given to parents of the 34 children who were involved in the project in the preparation and cooking of the right food.
Chief Girl Scout Medal Scheme highlights the Girl Scout’s distinguished leadership and vital contribution to nation building – Larry Lopez
Prov’l gov’t assists 2,739 farm
workers
TABUK
CIY, Kalinga -- The provincial government is looking for measures to assist
2,739 farm workers in this city and Rizal who were displaced by farm
mechanization.
These workers, based on the initial data from the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist, lost their livelihood when farm machines took over their work as -planters and reapers in said two rice producing towns.
Displacement of farm workers was an issue raised during a recent forum on environment since the problem push these farmers to seek refuge in the forest to raise agriculture products in order to feed their families.
The Department of Labor and Employment offered some displaced farm workers remedies to earn like organizing them to avail of financial assistance for a common livelihood.
During the forum attended by local officials and sectoral representatives, it was recommended that barangay officials will submit list of affected farm service providers (gumagapas/ruma-raep) to the office of the municipal agriculturist so that they will organized into cooperative or association to access skills training and livelihood capital.
Aside from displacement of farm workers due to farm mechanization, the other environmental issues were excessive conversion of forest lands into corn farms, illegal occupation of road right-of-ways, and absence of solid waste management plans of some local government units.
The forum was conducted by the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office in cooperation with DENR. – PAB
These workers, based on the initial data from the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist, lost their livelihood when farm machines took over their work as -planters and reapers in said two rice producing towns.
Displacement of farm workers was an issue raised during a recent forum on environment since the problem push these farmers to seek refuge in the forest to raise agriculture products in order to feed their families.
The Department of Labor and Employment offered some displaced farm workers remedies to earn like organizing them to avail of financial assistance for a common livelihood.
During the forum attended by local officials and sectoral representatives, it was recommended that barangay officials will submit list of affected farm service providers (gumagapas/ruma-raep) to the office of the municipal agriculturist so that they will organized into cooperative or association to access skills training and livelihood capital.
Aside from displacement of farm workers due to farm mechanization, the other environmental issues were excessive conversion of forest lands into corn farms, illegal occupation of road right-of-ways, and absence of solid waste management plans of some local government units.
The forum was conducted by the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office in cooperation with DENR. – PAB
Gov. Baac order “all-out war” vs mosquitos:
5 barangays in Tabuk City declared
dengue ' hot-spots'
TABUK
CITY, Kalinga – Gov. Jocel C. Baac has issued an order for all local government
units, government agencies and residents to launch “all-out war” against
mosquitoes during recent clean-up drive, following rise in dengue cases.
The activity kicked-off early morning down at the barangay level up to the Provincial Capitol site where employees took empty containers around the area that could serve as possible breeding place of vector mosquitoes.
Barangay Bulanao Centro with the highest reported number in dengue cases is where the Provincial Capitol building and government center are situated.
Baac in his order said that the clean-up drive should become a regular activity in the whole province to get rid of dengue.
The City Health Office declared as dengue “hot-spots” the five barangays of Bulanao Centro, Nambaran, Dagupan Centro, Lacnog and New Tanglag, here.
Julie Teckney, CHO Dengue Monitoring Officer, reported the five barangays recorded not less than four dengue cases in a week in the last three consecutive morbidity weeks.
The morbidity period monitored started first week of July during the onset of the rainy season, Teckney said.
City health authorities are alarmed over upsurge in dengue cases this year.
In the first seven months, there were 562 dengue cases recorded in Tabuk, compared to the 350 total cases recorded in 2014. Based on the January-July 31 CHO dengue monitoring report, Barangay Bulanao has 134 cases, Nambaran – 102, Dagupan Centro – 27, Lacnog – 22 and New Tanglag – 18,Teckney reported.
Two dengue death cases were reported in Barangay Bulanao.
As immediate preventive and control effort, massive residual spraying against aedis mosquitoes had been conducted in barangays Bulanao Centro and Nambaran jointly by the Provincial and City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Councils.
In a related report, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council led the province-wide massive community clean-up operation to culminate celebration of National Disaster Consciousness Month, -- Larry Lopez
The activity kicked-off early morning down at the barangay level up to the Provincial Capitol site where employees took empty containers around the area that could serve as possible breeding place of vector mosquitoes.
Barangay Bulanao Centro with the highest reported number in dengue cases is where the Provincial Capitol building and government center are situated.
Baac in his order said that the clean-up drive should become a regular activity in the whole province to get rid of dengue.
The City Health Office declared as dengue “hot-spots” the five barangays of Bulanao Centro, Nambaran, Dagupan Centro, Lacnog and New Tanglag, here.
Julie Teckney, CHO Dengue Monitoring Officer, reported the five barangays recorded not less than four dengue cases in a week in the last three consecutive morbidity weeks.
The morbidity period monitored started first week of July during the onset of the rainy season, Teckney said.
City health authorities are alarmed over upsurge in dengue cases this year.
In the first seven months, there were 562 dengue cases recorded in Tabuk, compared to the 350 total cases recorded in 2014. Based on the January-July 31 CHO dengue monitoring report, Barangay Bulanao has 134 cases, Nambaran – 102, Dagupan Centro – 27, Lacnog – 22 and New Tanglag – 18,Teckney reported.
Two dengue death cases were reported in Barangay Bulanao.
As immediate preventive and control effort, massive residual spraying against aedis mosquitoes had been conducted in barangays Bulanao Centro and Nambaran jointly by the Provincial and City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Councils.
In a related report, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council led the province-wide massive community clean-up operation to culminate celebration of National Disaster Consciousness Month, -- Larry Lopez
Kalinga prov’l government, DSWD ink
MOA vs poverty
TABUK
CITY, Kalinga -- The provincial government and Department of Social Welfare and
Development forged a memorandum of agreement to jointly implement the
locally–initiated Pumiyaan anti-poverty convergence program.
The MOA signed between Gov. Jocel Baac and
DSWD Cordillera OIC regional director Janet Armas seeks to identify common
working grounds under DSWD’s sustainable livelihood program (SLP) for focused
targeting and empowerment of communities through pooling of resources with
other government agencies.
Both parties through the Pumiyaan project
agreed to cooperate and assist in providing livelihood opportunities in pilot
barangays giving priority to Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps families
by conducting entrepreneurship training and organizing them into cooperatives
and associations.
The DSWD shall provide capital assistance
while the provincial government of Kalinga shall identify the needed poverty
reduction intervention.
The Sangguniang Panlalawigan earlier
authorized the governor to enter into a MOA with DSWD-CAR.
The Pumiyaan is an anti-poverty convergence
program of the provincial government aimed at propelling economic
growth in rural areas of Kalinga. Four pilot barangays are chosen per
municipality where national government and local government converge their
services to address the concerns and uplift the life of the
people. – PAB
P14.8M out for Chico River
‘re-channeling’
TABUK
CITY, Kalinga -- An initial amount of P14.8 million is out for the Chico
River Re-channeling and Management Project to divert waterway of the Chico to
prevent it from causing further damage to rice lands and other properties,
here.
Chico River Re-channeling and Management
Project chair Julio Barcellano said the
project is jointly funded by the Department of Interior and Local
Government under the Bottom-up-Budgeting with P10 million and the city
government which shelled-out P4.8 million.
Based on the project
study, the Chico had already washed-out about 200 hectares of rice land in the
13 rice-producing barangays situated along the west bank of the river.
The eight-year project from 2015-2022
is contained under Executive Order 2015-01 issued by Mayor Ferdinand B.
Tubban last Jan. 30.
Seeing the impact of the project to the rice
industry of the city, it had been made part of the city development plan.
A multi-sector taskforce was formed to
implement it.
Meanwhile, the city’s development council and
barangay officials of barangays along the Chico River met to discuss the Chico
River Rechanneling and Management Plan prepared by Task Force Chico which aims
to enhance safety of the populace and boost local economy.
They were joined by other partners from the
Office of the Congressman, Department of Public Works and Highways, National
Irrigation Administration, the provincial government, and quarry operators
group.
During their meeting, they agreed to pool
their resources to implement the plan targeting to start it this year with the
conduct of a stretch survey on areas where rechanneling will start.
Stakeholders involved in the project
committed to support the plan considering the economic benefits it contributes
to farmers when farms are protected from flooding and lands redeemed; the
construction industry for source of aggregates; local government units on
revenue generation; and disaster risk reduction on settlers along riversides.
-- PIA
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