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VOL. 9 ISSUE 222 • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2016
Negosyo Center opens in Panabo
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Photo shows hundreds of children who joined the Christmas Party of the employees of the provincial government of Compostela Valley held last December 21 at the provincial capitol building. (A. Dayao/ IDS ComVal)
DAR-ARMM confers 237 CLOAs to beneficiaries in Sulu T
HE agrarian reform office in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) conferred Tuesday a total of 237 Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOA) to beneficiaries under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) in the town of Siasi in Sulu. Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR-ARMM) Regional Secretary Amihilda Sang-
copan, said reform partners from Tulling Farm Workers Multi-Purpose Cooperative of the Tulling Agrarian Reform Community (ARC) formally received their land ownership certificates. She said local conflicts arising from land disputes due to ambiguous boundaries of individual lots hampered cooperative activities and thus exacted a toll on the area’s pro-
ductivity in the past. Sangcopan said her office has initiated a relocation survey by erecting monuments leading to the turnover of CLOA seen as a landmark intervention by the regional government in solving agrarian reform issues in the community. Provided for under Republic Act 6657, or the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law, CLOA is intended to promote
social justice among the marginalized, specifically workers in the agricultural sector, through land tenure. It is a legal document that serves as an evidence of ownership, subject to restrictions, and secures the tenure of the farmers to the agricultural land they till. Among its basic restriction is that the beneficiary could
AGAWIN ko ang lahat ng makakaya para magkaroon kayo ng Cinematheque dito sa Nabunturan (I will do everything so you can have a cinematheque here in Nabunturan),” said Liza Diño-Seguerra, Chairperson of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) during the NABIFILMEX 4 Stakeholders
Forum on September 22, 2014 held at Villa Amor Hotel, Poblacion, Nabunturan, Compostela Valley. Diño committed to fund the construction of Cinematheque in 2017. Hon. Chelita Amatong, Municipal Mayor of Nabunturan also pledged to allocate the vacant lot at Purok 15 near the Municipal Tourism Office as the site of the project.
The Nabunturan Cinematheque will be a 100-seater cinema house for screening classic and contemporary films, both mainstream and independent, including foreign films sourced through the FDCP’s Film Cultural Exchange Program with other countries. It will also have multi-purpose halls on the second level to serve as venues for work-
shops, fora and symposiums on film making and other art forms. Right after the forum, Diño, together with NABIFILMEX festival director Atty. Karen Malaki-Santiago and FDCP Davao Operations Officer Christine Cruz went straight to the site for ocular inspection. (LGU Nabunturan, Marga Melendres)
TOTAL of 30 civil military officers (CMO) of the 10th Infantry Division took part of the 1st Davao Region Information Forum (Inforum) held at Big 8 Corporate Hotel, Tagum City recently. Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Regional Director Efren Elbanbuena highlighted the participation of the military as they are also delivering communication services to the grassroots level. “Aside from the in-
formation officers of the local government units, It is also important that the CMO officers know the services of other government agencies so that they can properly deal with the residents they are serving,” Elbanbuena said. The Regional Inforum with the theme ‘Communicating Inclusive Governance’ discussed the overview of the peace process, Ambisyon Natin 2040, Energy Conservation in the Household and Social Media.
Major Harold Ho, OICCMO of the 10th ID, said that they need seminars like to better communicate the residents in their area of responsibility and to closely partner with the local government unit information officers in their information, education and communication (IEC) activities. During the event, CMOs were given a chance to bond with their fellow information officers from the area of responsibility through a Christmas Party. (PIA11, Michael Uy)
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CMOs join‘Inforum’inTagum A
HE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI-XI) recently opened another Negosyo Center in the province of Davao del Norte in Panabo City. DTI Provincial Director Romeo Castanaga told reporters that the Negosyo Center will provide business assistance services to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the city. The support services will include assistance on business registration, business advisory, and business information, monitoring and evaluation. DTI-XI Regional Director Maria Belenda Ambi, who also joined the opening clarified that while the Negosyo Center supports aspiring entrepreneurs, it will not provide a direct financial assistance but will only facilitate financial grants from partner
agencies and organizations that can be availed by the MSMEs. City Mayor James G. Gamao, during the opening also announced that the city government of Panabo will offer capability training and soft loans to MSMEs and cooperatives through the Microbiz Program from the Public Employment and Services Office (PESO). “The city can finance up to P5,000.00 per business through our PESO Microbiz Program, then through the Negosyo Center, it can provide basic guidance in running a business,” Gamao said. At present, the DTI has established twenty (20) Negosyo Centers all over Davao region. A new business center was also opened last December 27 in New Corella town, Davao del Norte. (Vikki Amorio/CIO Panabo)
Tugboat sinks off Zamboanga City
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TUGBOAT of the Zamboanga Pilot Harbour Association sunk early Wednesday in an “allision” with a foreign cargo vessel off Zamboanga. Lt. Cdr. Alvin Dagalea, Zamboanga coastguard station commander, said the incident took place around 8 a.m. Wednesday in Sta. Cruz Strait, which is just 500 meter from the shore of R.T. Lim Boulevard commonly known as “Cawa-Cawa” Boulevard here. Dagalea said the starboard quarter of M/T Labella skippered by Capt. Jose Selucia hit
DECEMBER VISIT. General Santos City Mayor Ronnel Rivera greets members of Papua New Guinea’s Musical Team who paid a courtesy call at the City Mayor’s Office last December 21. The musical team performed a concert
the free-board of the foreign cargo vessel, M/V Gold Eagle, while conducting maneuvers. Subsequently, Dagalea said M/T Labella sunk after the tugboat’s starboard bow hit the anchor of M/V Gold Eagle. Dagalea said there was no casualty during the incident. M/V Gold Eagle is set to dock at the port of Zamboanga to unload cargo at the time of the incident. M/T Labella was fetching the navigator who would maneuver to dock M/V Gold Eagle at the local port. (PNA)
for a cause last December 20 at the MMC Hospital with its proceeds to be donated for the construction of a gymnasium at the Matutum View Academy in Munan, Tupi South Cotabato. (GENSAN CPIO/ Russell Delvo)