Pagiging illegal ng child labor binigyang-diin ng DOLE

Ni: Bennie A. Recebido

Lungsod ng Sorsogon, September 21 (PIA) – Muling ipinaalala ng Department of Labor and Employment na illegal ang anumang uri ng child labor sa bansa at ang dapat umano ay mapangalagaan ang mga karapatan at kapakanan ng mga ito.

Binigyang-diin ni DOLE Regional Assistant Director Irma Valiente na ang child labor ay malinaw na paglabag sa labingdalawang karapatan ng mga bata partikular diumano ang karapatan ng mga ito sa edukasyon kung kaya’t umaasa siyang sa pamamagitan ng pagtutulungan ng mga government at non-government institution ay maibabalik ang mga bata sa paaralan.

Determinado din umano ang DOLE at katuwang nilang institusyon at ahensya na matugunan ang mga pangangailangan ng mga bata, mga kabataan at kasapi ng komunidad upang magkaroon ng panibagong pag-asa ang bansa.

Ayon pa kay Valiente, pinaigting din nila ang relasyon ng DOLE sa mga lokal na pamahalaan upang mas matulungan ang ahensya sa kabuuang implementasyon ng mga programa nito. Naniniwala umano silang mas alam ng mga Local Government Unit (LGU) ang pangangailangan ng kanilang mga nasasakupan.

Partikular ding binigyang-diin ni Valiente ang pagpapalakas pa ng programa sa paglaban sa child labor sa dahilang hindi dapat pagtrabahuhin ang mga bata lalo na ang mga menor de edad, at upang malinawan ang publiko, ay muli din niyang ipinaalala ang kaukulang penalidad sakaling lumabag sa RA 9231 o ang Anti-Child Abuse Law.

Maliban sa child labor, pinagsisikapan din ng ahensya ang pagbibigay solusyon sa illegal recruitment kung kaya’t mahigpit nilang pinababantayan ang mga pantalan, na siyang kinukunsiderang entry at exit point ng mga illegal na aktibidad.

Pagtitiyak pa ni Valiente na sa ngayon ay aktibo at nasa full implementation na ang lahat ng programa ng DOLE. (PIA Sorsogon)

VP Binay bumisita sa Sorsogon

Ni: Bennie A. Recebido

Lungsod ng Sorsogon, Oktubre 20 (PIA) – Pinangunahan noong Miyerkules ng pangalawa sa pinakamakapangyarihang personalidad sa Pilipinas na si Bise Presidente Jejomar Binay ang pagpapasinaya sa automated weather station (AWS) ng lungsod ng Sorsogon.

Ang nasabing automated weather station ang pangalawang AWS na inilagay sa lalawigan kung saan tanging ang lungsod ng Sorsogon at bayan ng Barcelona pa lamang ang mayroon nito. Makakatulong ang nasabing AWS upang dalawampu’t-apat na oras na masubaybayan ang lagay ng panahon at malaman kung anong uri ng paghahanda ang dapat gawin ng lokal na pamahalaan at mga residente sa tuwing may kalamidad.

Pinangunahan din ni VP Binay ang pagpapasinaya at paggawad ng ilang libre subalit disenteng pabahay mula sa pamahalaan sa Brgy.Talisay, Sorsogon City.  

Ang pagbisita ng bise presidente ay bahagi ng kanyang papel bilang pinuno ng Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) at upang matiyak din na naipapaabot sa mga Pilipino ang programa ng pagtulong ng pamahalaan sa mga mahihirap at mga pamilyang lantad sa panganib dala ng kalamidad.

Kasama ni VP Binay si HUDCC Usec. Cecilia S. Alba, kinatawan ng Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) Funding Agency, United Nations (UN) at mga opisyal ng Department of Science and Technology (DOST). 

Sinalubong ang Bise Presidente ni Sorsogon City Mayor Leovic Dioneda, pinuno ng Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Sorsogon District, Sorsogon State College (SSC) President Dr. Antonio Fuentes, mga kawani ng Sorsogon City-LGU at mahigit sa sampung alkalde ng probinsya ng Sorsogon.  Alertado rin ang hanay ng mga awtoridad sa pangunguna ng Philippine National Police Sorsogon at ng Phil. Army na nagbigay ng seguridad upang matiyak ang kaligtasan ng Bise Presidente ng Republika ng Pilipinas.

Maliban sa mga aktibidad na nabanggit ay nagkaroon din ng site visitation sa limang School Mitigating, Adapting and Resilient to Typhoons (SMART) School sa mga kostal na lugar ng lungsod, nagsagawa rin ng pagsilip sa Water Treatment Facility ng Sorsogon City Public Market at sa kasalukuyang implementasyon ng proyektong pabahay ng UN at mga inisyatibo sa programang pabahay ng pamahalaan ng ibang Local Government Unit (LGU) dito.

Samantala, nakiisa rin si VP Binay sa ginawang fun run kahapon sa pangunguna ng Alpha Phi Omega (APO) dito sa lungsod ng Sorsogon. Ang aktibidad ay bahagi ng partisipasyon ng nasabing organisasyon sa pagdiriwang ng Kasanggayahan Festival 2011. (PIA Sorsogon)

Kasanggayahan Festival 2011, DILG Sec. Robredo states reasons to celebrate

by Irma A. Guhit

SORSOGON CITY, OCTOBER 20 (PIA)....Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary , Jessie Robredo keynoted the 117th founding anniversary of the province of Sorsogon commemorated through the Kasanggayahan Festival 2011 started with a concelebrated  mass held at the provincial Gymnasium last Monday.

Secretary Robredo met the local government officials and other heads of offices from both the provincial and national agencies here at the Sorsogon Provincial Training Center where he delivered his keynote message.

 Speaking in his native dialect, the secretary  stressed reasons why people should celebrate specially in an occasion like the Kasanggayahan Festival 2011, the event that commemorates the separation of the province of Sorsogon to become independent  from the province of Albay 117 years ago.

"Nata ta kinakaipuhan kita mag selebrar kan  fiesta  kapareho kan Kasanggayahan Festival 2011? Ano an dapat na ipagselebrar sa saro na fiesta? (Why do we have to celebrate in a fiesta like Kasanggayahan Festival 2011? What  is there about to celebrate in a fiesta? ," the secretary stressed in his plain Bicol words.

According to the Secretary there should always be good significant reasons to celebrate in a fiesta and why we should celebrate a fiesta it should not only focus on the usual parade, beauty pageant and other add on trimmings of color and splendor but should zero in to what it has achieved through the years..

"People should celebrate when we can see that in governance we envision ourselves as a people working together to achieve a common goal specially through the leaders that we have given our trust to run our government providing what the constituency expect of them in terms of development and the provisions of right services." Robredo explained.

He said that the good reason to celebrate a fiesta like this festival is when these effective good leaders can institute the right mechanisms in governance thereby making the people happy because they are well served and people in the same manner become responsible citizens.

Robredo said, "An kinakaipuhan kan satuyang pag gogobyerno sa Pilipinas  iyo so mga lideres na matitibay. Mga lideres na mga tultul.Ta may mga lideres na matitibay pero bako tultul asin may mga lideres man na mga tultul pero bako man na matitibay. An kinakaipuhan ta su mga lideres na mga matitibay asin tultul, na nag seserbisyo para sa ikaka asenso kan lugar asin mga tawo." (What we need in government are leaders that are efficient. Leaders that are righteous. Because there are leaders who are efficient but are not righteous and leaders who are righteous but not efficient. What we need really are public servants who are righteous and effective, who serve for the development of the place and its people.)

He also underscored the need to unify and work towards what the current administration of President Aquino hopes to achieve and that all should do their share for the country.

The significance of a celebration is also a form of thanksgiving according to Robredo, and hopefully he explained that all festivals should really show the right reasons to celebrate. It should not just be for entertainment but an avenue where development can be showcased as achieved and felt where leadership is better valued and where these leaders can provide the right reasons for the constituency to celebrate.(PIA-SORSOGON)

VP Binay inaugurates Sorsogon City housing units, to join Kasanggayahan Festival 2011 Fun Run tomorrow

By: Irma A. Guhit

SORSOGON CITY ,OCTOBER 19 (PIA).... 'Vice President Jejomar C. Binay, Sr. will be the guest of honor in the inauguration of several housing units in Barangay Talisay, here in Sorsogon City today upon his arrival , this is in line with the celebration of this year's Kasanggayahan Festival (KF) 2011 with the theme : Going Beyond and an inspiration to local chief executives to go beyond in rendering service to the people, especially on the issue of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (CCMA)." Sorsogon City Mayor Leovic R. Dioneda said in a briefing to the city officials and employees yesterday.

The Vice President's presence here is  part of his role as the chairman of the Housing  and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) to implement and oversee the government's thrust  to coordinate activities of government housing agencies specially in line with the standards to be instituted as a CCMA mechanisms across the country according to Dioneda.

In a press statement this morning, he said that as the local chief executive of the city of Sorsogon  he has seen the need to seek for the assistance and support of the vice president, he being appointed as the Housing Czar by no less than President Aquino and that the thrusts of the city government is to make their housing units more resistant to the adverse effects of bad weather conditions and at the same time serve as housing models for CCAM.

It can be recalled that Barangay Talisay is one of the areas usually severely affected during typhoons and storm surge aside from several other barangays here due to its proximity to Sorsogon Bay.

Mayor Dioneda said that the housing units to be inaugurated in barangay Talisay will also be replicated in other barangays here also considered highly vulnerable to natural calamities.

During today's visit, the vice president is also expected to inspect the five school mitigating, adapting and resilient to typhoons (SMART) here in the city, a project of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Water Treatment Facility and several housing units initiated by other  local governments in the province.

VP Binay will also meet with other local chief executives here whose areas are usually affected by natural calamities and  to discuss some concerns regarding ways to institute a quality housing provisions for those who are usually affected by severe weather disturbance, identify relocation areas and provide housing that can withstand such adverse effects of the change in weather conditions.

Mayor Dioneda also said that he will be visiting the "All Weather Station" of the city that has been installed to help in the 24 hour monitoring activity of the weather condition here and a mitigating measure in creating a resilient community.

The vice president will also meet with other agencies that work in disaster management to discuss concerns how to improve the housing situation in the province become a CCMA houses.

His presence today and tomorrow will be an added attraction also to the celebration of the KF 2011 as he will spearhead tomorrow’s fun run as organized by his fraternity brothers in the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) (PIA-SORSOGON)