| Kalinga News and Current Affairs[July 2010 Mixed Publications] | |
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Kalinga launches biz center Thursday, July 1, 2010 Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/baguio/kalinga-launches-biz-center TABUK, Kalinga - The province launched the National Economic Research and Business Assistance Center (Nerbac) as part of the 9th Matagoan Festival and 3rd founding anniversary of Tabuk as a city on June 24-25. Nerbac is a one-stop shop that provides express lanes for businessmen seeking business registration, permits and licenses, thereby cutting problems on red tape. In Kalinga, the center is situated in Tabuk, being the trade and business hub of the province. The creation of Nerbac is mandated under Republic Act No. 7470 or the Nerbac Act of 1992 to hasten economic growth and opens investment opportunities especially to the host local government unit. In the Cordillera region, Kalinga is the second province to establish a center, next to Abra. But prior to the opening of Nerbac early this year, Kalinga already had a one-stop shop operating at the City Hall. As economic research center, Nerbac maintains a data bank as reference for investors interested to open a business at the locality. As business assistance center, it relieves clients from hopping one agency to another in processing business papers. The center also maintains a website server database for investors who would like to know of the province's socio-economic profile and other information that leads them to open the kind of business in the place. (Larry Lopez) Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on July 2, 2010. |
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Sat 10 Jul 2010 16:58:06 Post #2 |
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Labor office holds youth training in Kalinga Friday, July 9, 2010 Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/baguio/labor-office-holds-youth-training-kalinga TABUK CITY, Kalinga -- The Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) here recently conducted a youth training as part of the government's efforts to provide development opportunities for the youth. Dole Provincial Officer Dr. Avelina Manganip said that the Kabataan Information Technology Opportunities (Kito) training includes the modules on Familiarizing with computer hardware, computer operation, operating word processing application using MS word, and using the Internet for searching and communication. The Kito projects, she said, is an earning and learning project where IT-literate unemployed youth are tapped and mobilized to improve IT literacy among the out-of-school youth and other disadvantaged youth through free mentoring sessions and to bring the government closer to the people through free, supervised internet access to online government programs and services. She said, with the recently conducted training, at least two youth mentors were produced, who in turn will be mobilized to hold trainings as volunteer-mentors with stipend. As an earning and learning opportunity, the Kito was schemed to provide the youth and other disadvantaged sectors a hands-on IT appreciation and familiarization and acquire basic and practical IT-related knowledge and skills, mobilize at least 3,500 computer-literate youths across 16 regions of the country as volunteer IT mentors receiving a modest stipend of P25 per hour of service, and provide assistance to at least 25,000 out-of-school youths and other disadvantaged sectors through lessons on basic and practical computer operations and supervised online access to government programs and service. Kito was conceptualized through Executive Order 788, which is also known as "Promoting a Youth National Service", initiating a new era of volunteerism and community spirit and requiring agencies to develop relevant programs for the youth. (GG Dumallig) Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on July 10, 2010. |
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Sat 10 Jul 2010 16:59:22 Post #3 |
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Tinglayan farmers get El Niño aid Friday, July 9, 2010 Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/baguio/tinglayan-farmers-get-el-nino-aid TINGLAYAN, Kalinga -- Farmers here recently received farm assistance from the Department of Labor and Employment Office (Dole) in the form of PVC pipes and shovel to direct water from distant springs for their farms and rice fields. Dole Provincial Officer Dr. Avelina Manganip said that this is their agency's contribution to help those affected especially the farmers and laborers cope with their losses during the long drought brought about by the El Nino phenomenon during the last few months. This is part of Dole's mandate to provide assistance to the state's labor sector especially during disaster where Dole has to step in and find ways to mitigate the plight of workers, she added. She said that the program will benefit some 467 farmers directly affected by the long drought residing in the 20 barangays of Tinglayan. To ensure that the assistance will reach the beneficiaries, the local government unit of Tinglayan through their Public Employment Services Office (Peso) was tasked to distribute the farm equipment amounting to P143,200.00. Said project according to Manganip was awarded last June 16. Part of this assistance she said was the P50,250.00 worth of PVC pipes and shovels given to Anggacan, Tanudan benefiting 34 farmers awarded last March 28. (GG Dumallig) Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on July 10, 2010. |
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Sat 10 Jul 2010 17:06:22 Post #4 |
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Solgen wants to adopt best practices in Cordi mediation by PIA Release Source:http://www.baguiomidlandcourier.com.ph/kalinga.asp?mode=archives/2010/july/7-4-2010/kal1.txt TABUK CITY, Kalinga – A high ranking government official from this place is urging judicial bodies working on mediation and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to immerse with indigenous mediators in order to learn from the best practices of the communities in the Cordilleras. Assistant Solicitor General Karl Miranda said the integration to the Philippine Judicial Academy (PhilJA) of the best mediation practices in the Cordilleras could help decongest court dockets while still providing a fair resolution to cases. He said Cordillera courts are one of the least loaded courts in the country because many cases are usually resolved by mediators. “Our practice here is helpful to the Judiciary since court dockets are declogged of cases,” he said. Miranda pointed out that people here have unique approaches of solving conflicts that lead parties to settle a compromise rather than going to court. “And judges and court personnel should also learn from them under the alternative dispute resolution program of the Judiciary,” he added. According to Miranda, through court-sponsored mediation, the government could help aggrieved parties. However, institutions of government tasked to provide assistance or support to the aggrieved should work together to empower poor and marginalized groups to use judicial and quasi-judicial services. Through further judicial education, it will strengthen the capacity of the PhilJA, the legal and judicial education arm of the Supreme Court to plan, design, and deliver education programs for judges and court personnel related to mediation and ADR. Miranda said the mediation practice of the Cordilleras similar to the mediation/ADR program of the Supreme Court has long been done in the Cordilleras. “Mediators here elicit from parties positive suggestions or options to help resolve the problem towards a compromise agreement,” he said. |
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Tue 20 Jul 2010 07:22:46 Post #5 |
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Murder raps filed versus 5 in slay of ex–radioman by Harley Palangchao Source: http://www.baguiomidlandcourier.com.ph/kalinga.asp?mode=archives/2010/july/7-11-2010/kal1.txt Murder charges have been filed against five suspects behind the killing of a former radio broadcaster in Tabuk, Kalinga last July 3, as police reported the crime was not related to the previous job of the victim. Cordillera police director C/Supt. Villamor Bumanglag told reporters in a press conference Friday afternoon that victim Jose Daguio, 72 years old and former broadcaster of DzRK Radyo ng Bayan, was killed because he was perceived to expose the illegal activities of the suspects. Bumanglag identified the suspects based on the report of Task Force Usig as Edmund Bilog, Willy Bilog, who is allegedly the gunman, Lando Bilog, Daldin Guiawan, and Edgar Guiawan. The suspects, who are at large except for Edgar Guiawan, are alleged members of a syndicate involved in cattle rustling. “Based on information gathered by the Task Force Usig (headed by Kalinga PNP director S/Supt. Virgilio Laya), the suspects shot Daguio purposely to silence him as he had known a lot of their illegal activities,” Bumanglag said. But even if the killing was not related to victim’s previous work as broadcaster, Bumanglag said the police will help in the prosecution of the suspects. This, even as the regional police director created Task Force Chico River to be headed by former Task Force Abra commander S/Supt. Elmer Soria, in order to synchronize police operations against lawlessness in Kalinga, especially in Tabuk City. Daguio, police said, was not officially employed in any media outfit at the time of his death although he once worked as radio announcer of government-run DzRK Radio ng Bayan but he quit the company in 1986. Investigation also showed the victim worked as part-time anchorman with the Radio Nation, a FM station of DzRH in 2005 and was also a contributor of Kalinga-based weekly paper Guru Press in 2008. Quoting the son of the victim, Laya said the other alleged the crime could have been committed by people involved in illegal activities in Tabuk because his father was suspected to be an informant of the authorities. A working journalist based in Tabuk City, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the victim was an “inactive” media practitioner, adding he surmised the motive of the killing is outside media works. The killing happened almost two months after a hard-hitting radio reporter also in Tabuk City survived an assassination attempt against him last May 15. Radio reporter Jerome Tabanganay of DzRK survived a gunshot wound on his leg. Meanwhile, journalists in Baguio and the rest of the country urged the PNP to help put behind bars the perpetrators even if Daguio was not officially related to any media outfit at the time of his death. This, as journalists said that those behind the summary executions and killing of journalists and activists are carrying out their acts with impunity. The Baguio-Benguet chapter of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines has urged President Noynoy Aquino to stop the culture of impunity even as they urged the government to stop the counting of journalists being killed. |
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