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VOL.12 ISSUE 87 • WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2019
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Philippine Information Agency (PIA), Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO), NGOs and other concerned agencies, organizations and individuals; (b) The City Government shall conduct information dissemination activities at the barangay level and coordinate such activities with the BCPCs and the DILG. Information dissemination activities shall likewise be conducted in schools, churches and communities; (c) In partnership with the PIA, the city government shall produce and publish information, education and communication materials about trafficking in persons such as, but not be limited to, primers, flyers, brochures, posters, stickers, television/radio/print advertisements, and websites, which shall be made available in piers, ports, airports, bus, van, taxi and jeepney terminals and other similar places where acts of trafficking may be committed and/or facilitated. (d) In partnership with the Internet Café Association of Davao (ICAD) the City Government shall conduct an aggressive campaign against trafficking through social networking and monitor the promotion of the advertisement of trafficking in the internet. SECTION 16. ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORT COMMUNITY-BASED INITIATIVES (a) The City Government shall encourage and support community-based initiatives which address the issue of trafficking in persons; (b) It shall provide financial support and technical assistance to BCPCs and qualified and accredited NGOs and POs that are engaged in activities for the protection, recovery and reintegration of victims of trafficking. SECTION 17. MANDATORY SERVICES TO TRAFFICKED PERSONS (a) Pursuant to Section 23 of R.A. No. 9208, the City Government shall, in coordination with the concerned government agencies, make available to the following mandatory services to trafficked persons, to wit: 1. Emergency shelter or appropriate housing; 2. Counseling; 3. Free legal services, which shall include information about the victim’s rights and the procedure for filing complaints, claiming compensation and such other legal remedies available to them, in a language understood by the trafficked person; 4. Medical or psychological services; 5. Livelihood and skills training; 6. Educational assistance to trafficked victim-survivors; (b) The CSSDO shall be the lead agency in the coordination and provision of (1), (2), (4), (5) and (6). On the other hand, the City Legal Office shall lead in providing (3). (c) All efforts shall be made to ensure that the above services will be rendered in childfriendly and gender-sensitive manner. SECTION 18. ENACTMENT OF SUPPLEMENTAL ORDINANCES AND ISSUANCES The City Mayor’s Office and the City Council shall formulate and promulgate supplemental ordinances, resolutions or executive issuances aimed at providing support to trafficked persons and adopt necessary measures to prevent and suppress trafficking in persons within its territorial jurisdiction. SECTION 19. STRENGTHENING OF EXISTING BODIES. The City Government shall exert effort to strengthen, activate and mobilize existing committees, councils, similar organizations and special bodies at the local level to prevent and suppress trafficking, in persons, through IACAT-DC. SECTION 20. PENALTIES AND SANCTIONS FOR VIOLATIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE. The following acts or omission shall be deemed violations of this Ordinance and shall be subject to the imposition of the corresponding penal sanctions: a. Any public official/officer who has any knowledge or learns of facts or circumstances that a person will be, or may be, or has been trafficked, and fails to immediately report such to the IACAT-DC or other concerned agencies shall be penalized with a fine of P2,500.00 or imprisonment not exceeding 6 months. b. The owner, manager, or person incharge of any house, building or establishment who refuses, without justifiable reason, to submit said premises for inspection by city authorities as provided under Section 11 of this Ordinance shall be penalized, at the first instance, with immediate suspension of the corresponding business permit and/or license issued By the city government until compliance. At the second instance, if the offender acquires a new business permit or license to operate and has committed another violation to the ordinance, he/she shall be punished with the cancellation of the business permit and/or license, without prejudice to re-apply or reinstate the same, and with a fine of Five Thousand Pesos (P5,000.00) or imprisonment of one (1) month. c. The unjustifiable refusal and/or failure to sign the written undertaking required under Section 12 (b) and (c) of this Ordinance, or the subsequent violation of the same, or the failure to keep employees’ birth certificates as required under Section 12 (b), or the possession of falsified birth certificates in the records of employment, shall be penalized, at the first instance with immediate cancellation of the corresponding business permit and/ or license issued by the city government. At the second instance, the offender shall be punished with a fine of P2,500.00. d. In addition to the penalty imposed in Section 20 (a), (b), and (c), the penalty of community service for six (6) months shall likewise be imposed if deemed appropriate by the court of competent jurisdiction. The community service to be undertaken shall be determined by the LGU. SECTION 21. REWARDS AND INCENTIVES. (A) The Local Council shall institute an incentive scheme whereby rewards may be given to persons who provide vital information that lead to the prevention or suppression of trafficking activities and to the apprehension of offenders involved therein; (B) Likewise, awards and recognition shall be given to persons, organizations, or establishments that champion or support activities which contribute to the prevention or suppression of trafficking in persons. SECTION 22. APPROPRIATION The initial amount of P500,000.00 is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund (Statutory Obligations) of the IGDD/City Treasury to cover the first-year implementation of this Ordinance. Thereafter, the amount equivalent to 10% of the Gender and Development (GAD) funds from the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) and 10% of GAD funds from any Official Development Assistance (ODA) shall constitute the annual budget of the IACAT-DC for purposes of implementing this Ordinance. The funds allocated for this purpose shall accrue exclusively to the program, in accordance with the guidelines on the matter by the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW). SECTION 23. REPEALING CLAUSE – All ordinances, resolutions, executive issuances, or rules and regulations, or parts thereof, whose provisions are consistent with or contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, are hereby deemed repealed, amended, or modified accordingly. SECTION 24. APPLICABILITY CLAUSE – The provisions of existing ordinances, or executive orders dealing with related subject matter such as protection against child labor and exploitation, anti-violence against women and children, and the like, which are not contradictory with this Ordinance, are hereby adopted as an integral part of this Ordinance. SECTION 25. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE – If, for any reason, any section or provision of this Ordinance is declared unconstitutional or invalid, other sections or provisions hereof not affected by such declaration shall continue to be in full force and effect. SECTION 26. EFFECTIVITY – This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon approval. ENACTED, on August 28, 2018, by a unanimous vote of all the Members of the Sanggunian, there being a quorum.
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military chief, is the third Customs commissioner in the three years Duterte has been in of�ice. Before Guerrero, retired police general Isidro
“Sid” Lapeña and Marine of�icer Nicanor Faeldon were also named BOC chief but were reassigned due to separate shabu shipment scandals.
Lapeña is now Technical Education and Skills Development Authority chief while Faeldon is now Bureau of Corrections chief. (PNA)
and avert its fragmentation, obliged to the request of the three candidates, who to their credit agree to respect the choice of
PRRD,” Panelo said. Earlier, Panelo said the President will not “meddle” on the selection of the next House Speaker since
most of the contenders for House Speaker are his allies and might cause unnecessary con�lict among them. (PNA)
‘yung within a better position to assert justice, gawain nila ‘yan. Kung sila, magbayad sila (Whoever is in a better position to assert justice, they should do it. If it’s them, they should pay),” he added. Panelo earlier said the Palace will insist on the liability of the Chinese crew but at the same time, said that the marine incident should not be made into an “international crisis.” The Palace of�icial said that the only way for the Chinese crew to justify the abandonment of Filipino �ishermen at sea is if their lives had been endangered. However, the Chinese Embassy has denied the abandonment claiming that the vessel was “besieged” by several Filipino �ishing boats. In its report, PCG-Marina concluded that the Chinese vessel failed to
prevent the collision with a Filipino �ishing boat anchored in the area and failed assist 22 Filipino �ishermen who were abandoned at sea. Call to US Duterte also reiterated his challenge to the United States to help the Philippines claim its territories. “Kung gusto talaga ng Amerika na paalisin ‘yung China, hindi ko man kaya, maghingi ako ng tulong sa kanya (If America really wants to drive away China, since I can’t do it, I will ask help from them). I want the whole �leet of the Seventh --- the Seventh Fleet of the Armed Forces of the United States there,” Duterte said. Duterte then spoke of inviting former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario and former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales to ride
with him on his way to wage a war against China. Del Rosario and Carpio-Morales earlier �iled a complaint before the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Chinese President Xi Jinping for alleged crimes against humanity in the disputed South China Sea. “Magpasok sila sa China Sea, magpasok ako (They can enter the China Sea, I will enter). I will ride doon sa Amerikano na mauna doon sa ano (in America but they should go �irst). I will invite Carpio, del Rosario, Morales to ride with me,” Duterte said. “Then sabihin ko sa Amerikano, ‘Sige, pasabugin na natin lahat.’ Tingnan... Wala. ‘Yan man ang gusto nila away talaga (Then I’ll tell the Americans, ‘Okay, bomb them all.’ See. That’s what they want, a war),” he added. (PNA)
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