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Solon uses summer break to serve poor constituents Volume III, No. 010
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By PAT SAMONTE Regional Editor-Caraga
Regional Top Stories
BUTUAN City–– Some 1,000 people benefited as Agusan del Norte First District Rep. Lawrence Lemuel Fortun took advantage of the long summer break to serve his poor constituents.
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1 killed as lightning strike in a town in Zamboanga province u 8
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100 Zambo ‘bakwits’ to complete livelihood skills training ZAMBOANGA City––A total of 100 internally displaced persons (IDPs) or “bakwits” in this city are set to complete a month-long livelihood skills training Wednesday next week. The training is aimed to provide livelihood skills to individuals displaced by the siege in September of last year to enable them to recover and start a new life. The siege broke out when hundreds of Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) rebels loyal to Nur Misuari infiltrated this city. Ma. Soccoro Rojas, head of the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO), said the skills training include plumbing, carpentry, food processing and/or wellness/cosmetology. See complete, page 11
DAVAO LAMBO MISAMIS ORIENTAL. Governor Yevgeny Vincente B. Emano gives piglets to different cooperatives and associations in the Province during the sectoral assembly at the Provincial Capitol last week. 10 piglets each were given to 68 participating cooperatives. Governor Emano believes in cooperatives as he values community-based sustainable development to coop members. capitolphoto
Groups hold forum to counter business-led WEF MORE than a hundred leaders and representatives of people’s organizations, nongovernment and religious institutions gathered in a forum Friday to counter the Philippine-sponsored World Economic Forum (WEF) and discuss the impact of government’s bid for more privatization. The forum ‘World Epic Fail: The folly of publicprivate partnerships (PPPs)’ was held at the UCCP Shalom Center on the last day of the Philippine-sponsored business talk shop World Economic Forum in the Makati business district. The forum was organized by IBON, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan)
and the National Council of Churches of the Philippines-Christian Unity and Ecumenical Relations. Aiming to expose the underlying agenda of the WEF among East Asia’s and the world’s politicians and top brass corporations, the alternative forum tackled the impact of privatization and PPPs. It featured case studies of PPPs in public utilities, health services, education and labor. Speakers were IBON executive editor Rosario Bella Guzman and former Rep. Teddy Casino of Bayan. Guzman discussed the continuing global crisis behind the push for greater privatization, which the
Aquino administration is further implementing in the health and education sectors. Meanwhile, Casino discussed the country’s experience on power privatization, which showcases how the privatization of public utilities fails on the promise of efficiency and affordability while ensuring profits for big companies. Angela Doloricon of the Network Opposed to Privatization (NOP) underscored how heightened privatization deprives more and more Filipinos of their basic right to health through, for example, the pending sale of more than 70 public hospitals nationwide to the private sector. One
of the ongoing PPPs is the Philippine Orthopedic Center modernization project awarded to tycoon Henry Sy’s Megaworld Corporation will not only hike service fees but will also turn veteran orthopedic workers into mere contractuals. Raymund Basilio of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) enumerated several measures by the Department of Education, such as the Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education, the Voucher System and PPPs in Schools, which further pass the responsibility to provide education to the private sector. See forum, page 11
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12-hour power shutdown in Surigao del Sur on Saturday By PAT SAMONTE Regional Editor-Caraga
BUTUAN City––The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has announced a 12-hour power interruption in eight towns in Surigao del Sur including Tandag City tomorrow (May 31, 2014). In a media release, See power, page 11
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