Caraga InFocus – February 23-March 1, 2019

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Volume III, No. 28

22nd CAA-Regional Sports Competition commences in Surigao City REGIONAL NEWS

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PDEA-13 conducts greyhound operation in Cabadbaran City district jail

PROVINCIAL NEWS

Center biz counselors monitor 11 Negosyo SSF projects in AgNor hosts ‘More Love for Women 12 Siargao Farmers’ conference orients Dinagat coops on tax 13 PCDO incentives, credit info system act Norte barangays declared 14 Surigao drug-cleared

fishermen recover bricks 15 Tandaganon of cocaine off Surigao Sur

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Cancer law to bring down ‘treatment abandonment’ ARMM turns over 100 housing units to Marawi siege victims

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vetoes bill banning corporal 22 PRRD punishment for children

hotline meant to ensure Filipino 24 8888 welfare: Palace

News Briefs The Negosyo Centers of Butuan, Buenavista, Nasipit and Magallanes conduct a monthly monitoring of the different Shared Service Facility (SSF) projects in their respective areas to keep-track of the co-operators’ performance, the number of jobs generated, and to check if the equipment/ machinery/facilities are still operational or not.

Per data from DOH Center for Health Development Caraga, there are 297 cases of measles recorded in the entire region as of Feb. 27, 2019, of which Surigao City has the highest number of 89 cases and Surigao del Norte with 58 cases.

DepEd clarifies that for SY 2018-19, Grade 6 and Grade 12 completers shall have a Graduation Ceremony, while Kindergarten and Grade 10 completers shall have a Moving Up or Completion Ceremony.

One of the pilot provinces of Rural Agro-Enterprise Partnership for Inclusive Development (RAPID) and Growth Project is now working with farmers engaged in production and processing to fast track the implementation of the project. RAPID Growth Project, one of the government’s initiatives to minimize poverty incidence, aims to improve the economic activity of the small farmers engaged in production and provide income to unemployed men and women in the countryside. Under the Processed Fruits and Nuts Industry Cluster, the province of Agusan del Sur focused on calamansi.

Cover Story

22nd CAA-Regional commences in Surig

By Ariem V. Cinco

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URIGAO CITY, Surigao del Norte - Following the eucharistic mass and grand opening parade, the 22nd Caraga Athletic Association - Regional Sports Competition (CAA-RSC) has officially commenced on Sunday and was declared open by Department of Education (DepEd) Caraga Regional Director Francis Cesar Bringas.

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Sports Competition gao City

This year’s event centers on achieving excellence in sports with the fervent hope of selecting the best athletes, coaches, and trainees who can best represent DepEd Caraga in the Palarong Pambansa 2019, which will be held in Davao City in April.

Surigao del Norte Gov. Sol Matugas, Surigao City Mayor Ernesto Matugas and Representative of 1st Legislative District Francisco Jose F. Matugas II had all expressed their welcome greetings to all the participants and emphasized the importance of sports in developing responsible citizenry whose social awareness transcends to ensuring that communities are united.

Mayor Matugas said that what matters most is the experience the participants would acquire and friendship that the participants would build.

vital role in making our communities drug-free.

“To make Caraga region one of the most progressive regions in the country, let us be one with the leadership of President Rodrigo Duterte in making sure that our communities are free from illegal drugs,” said Gov. Matugas.

Meanwhile, Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar underscored the aspiration to be the best.

“You are trained to be the best.

Gov. Matugas underscored You are not here just to compete but the need to build bridges to address to win. The discipline of sports event divisiveness and that sports play a must educate the heart - internal

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education, which is the center of better at what they do. passion. Aim to achieve excellence in life!” said Andanar.

According to Dig-Dino, happiness is likewise imperative in everything that

In her keynote address, DepEd people do in order to achieve success.

Undersecretary for Curriculum and Instruction Lorna Dig-Dino said the “We cannot pursue anything in characters that the delegates must life by not being happy with the things possess include obedience, discipline, that we do. There is no point in doing grit and determination, happiness, and something we are not happy about,” continuous learning. said Dig-Dino.

Dig-Dino emphasized that it is She concluded her speech on a important for the participants to adhere positive note telling the participants to to the rules of the game. strive to be lifelong learners.

She also highlighted the importance of discipline in order to advance to the Palarong Pambansa, while grit and determination would allow the participants to become

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“Learn your craft and sports. With all these principles, you’ll succeed both in sports and in life,” Dig-Dino said.

The 2019 CAA-RSC aims to provide

a venue for the athletes to further with a very high positive energy inculcate the values of sportsmanship, when students from Surigao City and teamwork, nationalism and patriotism. Surigao del Norte conquered the grandstand with their jovial field dance

The grand opening of the biggest demonstration. sports competition in the region was attended by DepEd officials, key officers The night skies were also filled with of different government agencies, and bright fireworks that painted beautiful local government officials from all the sceneries surrounding up above the provinces in Caraga region. sports complex.

The dramatic hoisting of banners, the eccentric way of lighting the friendship torch, and the entertaining dance number of the Bureau of Fire (BFP)-Caraga mascots with the special participation of the boy and girl scouts of the Philippines added a mood of excitement during the occasion.

Approximately 10,000 participants from the 12 Schools Divisions will be competing in 27 sports events.

The event will run for one week starting February 24, 2019 until March 1, 2019 and a regular update of the official medal tally can be viewed at www.caraga.deped.gov.ph. (DepEdThe opening program ended Caraga/VLG/PIA-Surigao del Norte)

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PDEA-13 conducts greyhound operation in Cabadbaran City district jail

By Venus L. Garcia

BUTUAN CITY - The combined operatives of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Caraga, Philippine National Police (PNP) and Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Cabadbaran District Jail conducted a greyhound operation at the premises of Cabadbaran City District Jail.

The said jail facility has five yielded a negative result. dormitories accommodating a total of No illegal drugs and paraphernalia 268 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs). were also found during the surprise inspection.

In time with the greyhound operation, 13 BJMP personnel also Per BJMP-Caraga record, out underwent a drug test, wherein all of 12 jail facilities in the region nine have already been declared as drugfree by the oversight committee as of December 2018.

In view of the memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the PDEA and BJMP-Caraga, the intensified crackdown on illegal drugs and contrabands in jails continues in the region in order to maintain a drug-free jail facility. (VLG/PIA-Caraga)

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Negosyo Center biz counselors monitor SSF projects in AgNor

By Nora L. Molde

BUTUAN CITY – With the aim to ensure that all the Shared Service Facility (SSF) projects of the province are still operational, different Negosyo Centers (NC) of the province of Agusan del Norte conducted a series of monitoring.

The NCs of Butuan City, Buenavista, Nasipit and Magallanes recently conducted a monthly monitoring to the different SSF projects in their area.

the SSF is a project of the agency that primarily aims to improve the competitiveness of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises or MSMEs by providing them with the machinery,

The NC Business Counselors of equipment, tools, systems, skills and the said areas visited different SSF knowledge under a shared system. projects with the aim to provide them with the help they needed and to The SSF monitoring is a monthly make sure that the projects are still activity designed to keep-track of operational. the co-operators’ performance, the number of jobs generated, and to

According to the Department of check if the equipment, machinery, Trade and Industry Agusan del Norte facilities are still operational up to the Provincial Director Brenda Corvera, present, Corvera said.

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Butuan NC Business Counselors Joshia Allyn A. Soliven and Althea Asia Acevedo monitored the SSF on E-Bamboo - Butuan Bamboo Balangayan Agro Arbor Industry Producers; SSF on Machine Processing Equipment for Concrete Hollow Blocks for Expansion - Brgy 27 Community Multi-Purpose Cooperative; SSF on Bakery - Butuan Balangayan MultiPurpose Cooperative; and SSF on Arts and Handicrafts - Gifts, Decors and Housewares Entrepreneurs Caraga.

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Nasipit NC also monitored the SSF on Roasted Corn and Organic Beverages - Culit Multi-Purpose Cooperative.

Magallanes NC business counselors Zara Sanchez and Arvin Mike Avenido also monitored the SSF for Fish Processing - Sto. Niño Community Multi-Purpose Cooperative; while Buenavista NC business counselors Ellen Rose Ranario and Honey Arriola and SSF Project Staff Jenisa K. Ramoso also visited the SSF on Coffee Processing - Simbalan Farmers Association. (DTI

Business counselors John Lester Agusan del Norte/NCLM/PIA Agusan Virtudazo and Ruben Paul Timogan of del Norte)

Siargao hosts ‘More Love for Women Farmers’ conference

SURIGAO CITY, Surigao del Norte – ‘More Love for Women Farmers’ conference brought a powerhouse of multi-awarded women farmer entrepreneurs to Siargao on Saturday, 23 February 2019, held at the Del Carmen Convention Center, Del Carmen, Siargao, Surigao del Norte.

AGREA, together with the Office of the 1st District Representative of Surigao del Norte, the province of Surigao del Norte, and the local government of Del Carmen, brought this local iteration of the Leaders and

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Entrepreneurs in Agriculture Forum (LEAF).

LEAF is a community of champions across all sectors uniting as advocates for better agriculture.

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The More Love for Women Farmers, a conference free for all, aimed to inspire Siargaonons to reinvigorate local agriculture with a special emphasis on empowering the island’s women. It was attended by farmer leaders, women farmers, agricultural officers, teachers, students, and other individuals from surrounding areas in Surigao del Norte.

Provincial News I Empowering Communities This is part of AGREA’s vision of building island economies in the Philippines that are zero hunger, zero waste and zero insufficiency,” said Atilano.

AGREA is an innovative inclusive business based in the Island Province of Marinduque, Philippines. AGREA aims to create a living model of a replicable one-island economy with a social mission of cultivation of human beings

Speakers during the event were through livelihood that is indigenous to women farmer entrepreneurs Edita the land.

Dacuycuy also known as ‘Dragonfruit Queen’; Daisy Duran, the ‘Seedling More information about the Queen,’ and Cherrie Atilano, a multi- AGREA and LEAF can be viewed awarded ‘Agriculture Change Maker.’ at www.agreaph.com, or they can be contacted via info@agrea.ph.

“Siargao will be the first women- (AGREA/PIA-Surigao del Norte) led agriculture island in the Philippines.

PCDO orients Dinagat coops on tax incentives, credit info system act

By Susil D. Ragas

SURIGAO CITY, Surigao del Norte – ‘More Love for Women Farmers’ conference brought a powerhouse of multiawarded women farmer entrepreneurs to Siargao on Saturday, 23 February 2019, held at the Del Carmen Convention Center, Del Carmen, Siargao, Surigao del Norte.

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The activity aims to ensure a safe and sound operation of cooperatives, and cope up with the challenging mandates for the improvement and enhancement of a cooperative.

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definitive source of information on government procurement.

“Transparency in government procurement is enhanced through the use of PhilGEPS, all government agencies, as well as suppliers, contractors, manufacturers, distributors and consultants, are mandated to register and use the system in the conduct of procurement of goods, civil works and consulting services,” he said.

During the activity, PCDO officer Alvin Dela Cruz urged the participants to be open-minded throughout the workshop and register on Philippine Government Electronic Procurements System (PhilGEPS) to avail benefits from the government intended for cooperative sectors.

The activity was attended by members of different cooperatives

Dela Cruz explained that PhilGEPS from the municipality of San Jose, is the single, centralized electronic Basilisa, Cagdianao and Dinagat. (PIOportal that serves as the primary and Dinagat Islands/PIA-Dinagat Islands)

Surigao Norte barangays declared drug-cleared

By Susil D. Ragas

SURIGAO CITY, Surigao del Norte – The provincial government of Surigao del Norte in partnership with the Department of the Interior and Local Government has officially declared several barangays of the province as drug cleared.

Among the barangays honored as drug-cleared are barangay Payapag in Bacuag town, Poblacion 2 in Burgos town, Monserrat in Dapa town, Antipolo and San Fernando in Del Carmen town.

In Gigaquit town the following barangays were recognized: San Antonio, San Isidro, Villaflor, Anibogan, Mahanub, Poniente, Villafranca, Alambique, and Ipil.

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Magpayang, Cantugas, Paco, Tagbuyawan, San Francisco, Roxas, San Isidro, Marayag, Siana, Tapian, Tolingon, Magsaysay, Dayanao, Quezon, Mabini, San Jose, Bobonaon, Binga, Matin-ao, Mansayao and Silop.

In Malimono town the following barangays are Can-aga, Masgad, San Isidro, Cantapoy, Cayawan, Binocaran, Bunyasan, Cagtina-e, Hinagdong, Tinago, Cansayong, Villa Riza, Pili, and barangays Karihatag.

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Barangays Mayag, Gacepan, Tinogpahan and Tagbayani in Sison town were also proclaimed. Meanwhile, in Socorro town, only two barangays qualified namely, Pamosaingan and San Roque.

In Sta. Monica town, the following barangays championed the war against illegal drugs: Libertad, Alegria, Mabini, Tangbo, Mabuhay, Rizal, T. Arlan, Garcia, Abad Santos and Magsaysay.

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In Tubod barangays are Del Rosario, Poblacion, San Timamana.

town the declared Capayahan, Cawilan, Marga, Motorpool, Isidro, San Pablo and

In the recent Barangay Development Forum attended by DILG Assistant Secretary Jonathan Malaya as the event’s guest speaker, Barangay Bagacay in Claver town earned the title as the Best Barangay Peace and

Two barangays were declared Order Council. (PIO-SDN/PIA-Surigao in Tagana-an town: Sampaguita and del Norte)

Tandaganon fishermen recover bricks of cocaine off Surigao Sur

By Nida Grace P. Barcena

TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur – Two fishermen found 34 bricks of suspected cocaine with the same packaging and markings as the ones found on the shore of Dinagat Island in the Caraga region last week.

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During the inventory conducted on February 24, 2019 in Barangay Bongtud this city, the bricks weighed around 43.62 kilograms and worth P231 million in the street market.

chief Police Major Ray Sorreda, the two fishermen who found the contraband received the reward from the PRO13 chief Pol/BGen Cruz and Mayor Pimentel.

Police Regional Office-13 Regional Director Police Brigadier General Gilberto Cruz and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) personnel conducted the inventory with the presence of Police Provincial Office chief Police Colonel Francisco Dungo Jr. and Tandag City Mayor Alexander Pimentel.

PRO-13 chief Police BGen Gilberto Cruz (3rd from left), and Tandag City Mayor Alexander Pimentel (4th from left) hand-over the reward to the two fishermen who found the contraband contained 34 bricks of Cocaine. (Photo credit to Tandag City policce Station)

“The PNP thru PRO chief handedover Php60,000.00 as a monetary

Based on the PNP report, the two reward with four sacks of rice, and fishermen who found the contraband Php10,000.00 cash from Mayor were residents of Barangay Bongtud Pimentel,� Police Major Sorreda said. were identified as Ryan Buday Apelo, 23 yrs old; and Ronnie Arpilleda Navales, Sorreda added, the 34 bricks 49 yrs old. found in Surigao del Sur were all tested positive for cocaine. (PIA-Surigao del

According to Tandag City Police Sur)

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Cancer law to bring down ‘treatment abandonment’

By Lilian Mellejor

DAVAO CITY – The leading foundation helping children afflicted with cancer sees brighter hope for them through sustained medication and reduction of ‘treatment abandonment’ to zero, following the signing of Republic Act 11215 or the National Integrated Cancer Control Act.

Dr. Mae Dolendo, pediatric oncologist at the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) and president of the House of Hope, said the law would address treatment abandonment that results in waste of resources, both for the patient and the government.

Dolendo recalled that in 2004 when the foundation started helping children with cancer, the treatment abandonment was high at 90 percent

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because there was no sustainable support system.

“Drop out is beyond our control,” she said, adding that among the reasons for stopping treatment is the lack of financial capability.

Most patients from the provinces, she said, would often stop treatment because they simply cannot afford travel expenses and other costs.

Over the years, however, the

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treatment abandonment rate is down to 20 percent - particularly for pediatric leukemia cases, Dolendo noted.

who has been a top donor of the House of Hope Foundation and the SPMC’s Children with Cancer Institute, for the signing of the law.

“We have done a lot of progress.

But we want to bring that down further,” Dolendo said during Friday’s Kapihan sa PIA.

The President even recently donated the house he bought several years ago as an extension of a transient center of the House of Hope.

With the signing of the law, Dolendo said patients can get free medicines and other services. Dolendo said getting cancer treatment entails huge financial support, especially for high-risk patients.

Under the law, children and adults with cancer could expect extensive cancer care services.

Medicines are free for early stages of cancer, colorectal cancer, breast, and acute lymphocytic leukemia in children.

Dolendo said the foundation will still help in filling the gap in addressing other needs of the patients, such as providing housing while patients are under medication and monitoring, aside from food subsidies.

The law institutionalizes a “national integrated” program to control cancer. The government, through the Department of Health and the local government units, will provide early and sufficient access to cancer medicines to “ensure the highest possible chance of survival among people with cancer” and strengthen the capabilities of public health care systems and facilities in dealing with cancer.

She said cancer treatment would still need big financial aid, noting that the current Z Benefit Package of Philhealth would not be enough for the full treatment. Under the law, the Cancer Assistance Fund will support the cancer medicine and assistance treatment program.

The DOH is also mandated under the new law to provide subsidies Model City and scholarships for the training of oncology professionals.

Dolendo said Davao City could be the model for the implementation Dolendo said the law provides a of the Cancer Law. clear direction and framework for all activities related to cancer care and She lauded President Rodrigo Duterte, advocacy. (PNA)

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ARMM turns over 100 housing units to Marawi siege victims

By Noel Punzalan

Officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on Tuesday turned over 100 permanent housing units to internally displaced families of the 2017 Marawi siege that are staying at an evacuation center in Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur.

ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman, who led the turnover ceremonies, said the project, coursed through the Bangsamoro Regional Inclusive Development for Growth and Empowerment (ARMM-BRIDGE) initiative, came in with food supplies and livelihood packages for the beneficiaries.

“The PHP30 million housing project gives emphasis that the ARMM government, though undergoing transition, continues to take care of

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its constituents,” Hataman said in a statement Wednesday.

“We will make sure that in the forthcoming Bangsamoro regional government, you will not be left behind.

The projects that are intended for you will go to you,” he added.

The governor said more socioeconomic and development programs are in the pipeline for the Marawi siege affected families in the coming months.

(PNA)

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PRRD vetoes bill banning corporal punishment for children

By Azer Parrocha

MANILA President Rodrigo R. Duterte has vetoed a bill banning corporal punishment for children stressing that he does not share “overly sweeping condemnation” of this practice.

Duterte vetoed consolidated bills Senate Bill 1477 and House Bill No. 8238 on Feb. 23 but a copy of the veto message was released on Thursday (Feb. 28).

responsibly.

“I am gravely concerned that the bill goes much further than this as it would proscribe all forms of corporate punishment, humiliating or not, including those done within the confines of the family home. I do not share such an overly sweeping condemnation of the practice,” Duterte said.

The consolidated bills prohibit subjecting the child to any form of punishment or discipline using physical force and intended to cause pain or discomfort or any nonphysical act that causes a child to feel belittled, Duterte pointed out the legislation denigrated, threatened, or ridiculed. seemed to have condemned all forms of disciplining children.

In his veto message, Duterte said although he believed children “Regrettably, this bill places such should be protected from humiliating responsible disciplining of children forms of punishment, he believed that in the same category as humiliating disciplining children can also be done and degrading forms of punishment,

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and condemns them all in one broad corporal punishment has given rose stroke,” Duterte said. to beneficial results for society with countless children having been raised

The Chief Executive also said that up to become law-abiding citizens the measure violates the Constitution with a healthy respect for authority because it intervenes in the life of the structures in the wider community,” he family. added.

“Making no distinctions, the bill would allow government to extend its reach into the privacy of the family, authorizing measures aimed at suppressing corporal punishment regardless of how carefully it is practiced,” Duterte said.

“In so doing, the bill transgresses the proper boundaries of State intervention in the life of the family, the sanctity and autonomy of which is recognized by the Constitution,” he added.

Meanwhile, Duterte also stressed that despite the view of Western nations that all forms of corporal punishment are “outdated”, these do not necessarily apply to the Philippines.

“The cultural trends of other countries are not necessarily healthy for our own nation. Indeed, in many instances such trends are of doubtful benefit even for the very countries which originated and popularized the,” Duterte said.

“To uncritically follow the lead of Loving act of discipline these countries, especially in matters as significant as the family, would be

Duterte emphasized that corporal a great disservice to the succeeding punishment may sometimes be done as generations,” he added. “a loving act of discipline that desires only to uphold their welfare” and even Duterte said that instead of raise children to become law-abiding copying the style of the Westerners, the citizens.

Philippines should create a “nuanced” approach to disciplining children

“I am of the firm conviction that responsibly. responsible parents can and have administered corporal punishment in “I strongly believe that we should a self-restrained manner, such that the resist this trend in favor of a more children remember it not as an act balanced and nuanced approach, of hate or abuse, but a loving act of one that is both protective of the child discipline that desires only to uphold as well as cognizant of the prerogatives their welfare,” Duterte said. of devoted parents who believe in the merits of corporal punishment, rightly

“Such manner of undertaking administered,” Duterte said.

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Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea told reporters that Duterte vetoed the measure because he still wanted to give parents some “degree of control.”

Section 12 of the 1987 Constitution provides in part that “the natural and primary right and duty of parents in the rearing of the youth for civic efficiency and the development of moral character shall receive the support of

Former Special Assistant to the the government.”

President (SAP) Christopher “Bong” Go, for his part, cited that the Constitution Go, however, said there are recognizes parents’ role to determine several laws that provide ample how they would raise their children to protection to children from physical be morally upright and responsible and emotional abuse. (PNA) citizens.

8888 hotline meant to ensure Filipino welfare: Palace

By EJ Roque

MANILA - President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s disgust over telecommunications firms due to the inaccessibility of the 8888 hotline shows his aspiration to ensure efficient delivery of government services for the public’s general welfare, Malacañang said on Wednesday.

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“Given all this, it is clear why the President would be displeased when our countrymen’s efforts to access the 8888 Hotline are frustrated,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement.

Panelo said the Duterte administration established the 8888 hotline to integrate the public’s complaints in government services and avoid confusion.

“Before the issuance of Executive Order No. 6, public avenues for redress of grievances were largely fragmented among different government agencies and the public was left in doubt as to whom to contact and request for an update as regards the status of their complaints,” Panelo said.

“Thus, the President envisioned the creation of an integrated system for the consolidation, monitoring and addressing of complaints that would be accessible to every Filipino 24/7, which is prompt and responsive,” he added.

National News I Empowering Communities their very best to improve the capacity and resiliency of the system because at the end of the day, Hotline 8888 is meant to ensure the general welfare of the Filipino people,” he said.

Duterte on Sunday lamented that Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT), Inc. failed to provide its subscribers easy access to the hotline.

“The present setup can’t accommodate all the calls. It’s always busy. Tell PLDT. If not, I’ll shut down their business. Oo, (Yes) that’s true. I don’t want to brag, but they owe government eight billion. No President has ever asked for payment,” Duterte said in the vernacular during his speech at the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) campaign rally in Cebu. (PNA)

Panelo said the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) is promoting the 8888 hotline through a television program addressing citizen complaints.

He expressed confidence on telco networks’ capabilities to deliver the needed access of the hotline to the public.

“We trust that telecommunications networks that act as crucial access points for the system shall endeavor

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