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Hedcor promotes fire safety IN partnership with Bureau of Fire and Protection, Hedcor recently conducts annual fire safety drill to its employees to strengthen awareness in emergency and evacuation preparedness.
Hedcor went through a day of intensive training with actual simulation in fire suppression in its offices and at hydropower plants. “In order to sustain this heightened level of awareness, all of us must have this inherent understanding of safety,” Hedcor Safety Officer Engr. Earl James Logarta said. “Also, fire drill is a good venue for employees to actively participate in the government’s thrust to promote fire safety,” Logarta added. Aside from the drill and seminar, Hedcor responds to the call of the fire prevention month through monthly monitoring of the fire extinguishers, cleaning of work areas that might pose threat to fire, and posting of emergency numbers––of nearest fire station, to strategic areas.
FIRE FIGHTING. Bureau of Fire and Protection assists Hedcor during the fire and safety drill at the office and in the hydropower plants. The activity is conducted twice a year to sharpen the awareness and alertness of Hedcor team members. “Better knowledge and appreciation results in vigilance. It allows us to be more cautious and alert,” says Logarta. Last year, the 42.5-MW Sibulan Hydropower Plant
in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur installed a P15 million worth of fire prevention equipment to detect smoke and allow plant operators to contain the flames even before it spread.
PRESIDENT BENIGNO S. AQUINO III this week has ordered the Philippine National Police (PNP) to step up efforts to finally dismantle and eradicate private armed groups in the country. Aquino’s order covers not only known lairs of private armies in some provinces but throughout the country. “I have tasked the PNP, specifically, for the continuing efforts to remove “Not only ARMM (Auall of these private armies tonomous Region in Muslim wherever they exist,” the Mindanao). We’re going President said. around the entire country,”
he added. Last year, Aquino already created a task force task to dismantle private armed groups anywhere in the Philippines. Aquino issued the latest order to make sure that these private armed groups are finally neutralized. He said he had a meeting with his Cabinet and law enforcement agencies to assess and revalidate their information on private armed groups and how to eradicate them. CD with wire report
ARAKAN, North Cotabato – Cops seized five high-powered firearms from a village chair in a remote village here Wednesday. Found in the possession of the suspect identified as Maximo dela Cerna, 50, barangay chair of Katipunan, were two shotguns with two magazines; a caliber 22; a caliber 45 pistol with seven bullets inside; and a Magnum 22 or ‘Senorita-type’ pistol.
Armed with search warrants issued by Judge Rogelio Naresma of the Regional Trial Court branch 23 here, police in North Cotabato raided Braga’s house and store, around 5:45 a.m. Wednesday. Lacostales said they confiscated from Braga’s eatery three long firearms, and from his house, two handguns and ammunition.
P’noy orders dismantling of all private armies anew
Raid in Punong barangay house yields five firearms Chief Insp. Edwin Lacostales, deputy chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Team (CIDT)-North Cotabato, said they raided Braga’s house after a tip from a concerned citizen. The same tipster later executed an affidavit, which was made as basis of two search warrants the court in Kidapawan City issued on Tuesday.
Sibulan Hydropower Project, owned by AboitizPower subsidiar y Hedcor Sibulan, Inc., delivers about 212 GWh of energy every year to Davao Light and Power Company.
Hedcor has 19 run-ofriver hydropower plants in Benguet, Ilocos Sur and Davao with a total capacity of 154 MW. The company was conferred by the Department
of Labor and Employment as one of the safest companies in the country through vesting the Safety Milestone and Gawad Kaligtasan at Kalusugan awards last year.
People work in a field outside of Kaesong, North Korea, April 17, 2011. North Korea’s perennial food shortage reached a crisis point in 2011, aid workers say, because of torrential rains, the coldest winter in 60 years and rising food prices. AP PHOTO VIA VOANEWS.COM
Food aid to North Korea stop
THE UNITED STATES has suspended its planned nutritional food aid to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) over the latter’s insistence on satellite launch, a Pentagon official said on Wednesday. “We have been forced to suspend our activities to provide nutritional assistance to North Korea,” said Peter Lavoy, acting assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs. The United States believes that the DPRK’s announcement of a satellite launch “reflects their lack of desire to follow through on their international commitments,” Lavoy told a House Committee on Armed Services hearing on Korean Peninsula security. “Our suspicions about North Korea using its celebrations this year to enhance its missile program were confirmed when North Korea announced on March 16 that it plans to conduct a missile launch between April 12 and 16,” he claimed, calling the planned launch “highly provocative” as it “manifests North Korea’s desire to test and
expand its long-range missile capability.” “In addition, the launch, if it occurs, would be in direct violation of Pyongyang’s international obligations, including UN Security Council resolutions 1718 and 1874, which prohibit North Korea from conducting any launches that use ballistic missile technology,” he said. The Pentagon official expressed regret at the suspension of the food aid, saying: “Why we’re not providing that food assistance at this point is because our confidence in their ability to meet their agreements has been diminished. We do not use it as a lever to change their policies.” Under an agreement reached in late February, the DPRK agreed to suspend its uranium enrichment, nuclear and long-range missile tests and to allow UN inspectors to return to the country. In return, the United States agreed to provide the DPRK with 240,000 tons of nutritional assistance. The two sides met early this month in Beijing over the administrative details of the program. (PNA/Xinhua)