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TAYTAY, Rizal, May 17 (PIA) -- The Second National Congress on Philippine Lakes organized by the Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine Research (PCAMRD) was held on April 27-29, 2011 in partnership with the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) at U.P. Los Baños in Laguna.      With the theme, “Building on the Pillars on Integrated Lake Basin Management”, LakeCon 2011 brought together stakeholders, policymakers and the academe to discuss the Integrated Lake Basin Management (ILBM) as an approach to help the country achieve a common framework for lake management.      In his welcome remarks, SEARCA Director Dr. Gil Saguiguit, Jr. conveyed the need to strengthen partnerships and linkages among key stakeholders in the management of the country’s lakes to address its common issues.      Accordingly, ILBM integrates six management elements, namely, institutions, policy, stakehol...

      San Pablo City --- A last termer councilor has announced his intention to join 2013 open mayoralty race to be vacated by third termer City Mayor Vicente B. Amante here.      Serving the unexpired term of the late councilor Delo Cortez when appointed, Councilor Angelo Adriano was elected for three successive term ever since even topping the last 2010 synchronized national and local elections.      Adriano brings with him his rich experience as local lawmaker, his connections to national leadership and personalities, as well as his know how in civic and philanthropic advocacies being an active member of Rotary Club of San Pablo City South,   in presenting   his program of government to San Pableños.      Adriano will complete the 4As who will vie for mayorship in 2013 and is considered as one of the frontrunners of the said race.     Earlier it has been rumored that former Congres...

Ang bantayog para sa alaala ni Dr. Jose P. Rizal sa Hibiya Park sa Chiyoda City sa Tokyo,  isang 16.16-ektaryang parke sa pag-itan ng palasyo ng Emperador  at ng government center ng Japan,   ang pinagtutuunan ng pansin ng mga kaanib sa Lokal ng Tokyo ng Iglesia Ni Cristo (North East Asia District) kung ang pamahalaan ay nagtataguyod ng mga clean-up drive para lahukan ng mga kusangloob na mamamayan. Ang nasa gitna ng larawan sa tabi ng bantayog ay si Gng. Imee M.  Yoshinaga na isang malapit na kamag-anak ni Mayor Vicente B. Amante. ( Ruben E. Taningco )

Si Congw. Ivy Arago samantalang sinasangguni si Engr. Josefino Abrigo kaugnay ng isang proyektong hinihiling ng isang punong barangay. SITYO BALOC, San Pablo Cit y – Masayang iniulat ni Punong Barangay Ariel S. Barrios ng Barangay Sibulan sa Nagcarlan, na sa tulong ni Congresswoman Ma. Evita R. Arago ay maipatatayo na ang matagal ng pinapangarap   na tulay paliban sa Ilog Sibulan, na tuwirang mag-uugnay sa walong barangay sa kabayanan ng Nagcarlan.       Bukod sa Barangay Sibulan, makikinabang din ang mga resident eng Barangay Maravilla, Manaol, Kanlurang Kabubuhayan, Banca-banca, Buenavista,  Buhangin, at Wakat, sa batay sa 2007 Population Survey ng National Statistics Office ay pinananahanan ng 6,866 o ika-16 porsyento ng populasyon ng Nagcarlan.      Ayon kay Barrios, malaki ang kanilang pasasalamat kay Congw. Ivy Arago, sapagka’t   nang pagsadyain ng mga punong barangay ng walong nayon   ang mambabatas, ay hindi kaagad si...

Ipinaaalaala sa lahat na pag-alinsunod sa mga tadhana ng Resolution No. 9168 ng Commission on Elections ay ipinagpapatuloy ang pagtatala ng mga bagong botante simula pa noong nakaraang Martes, Mayo 3, 2011 na tatagal hanggang Oktubre 31, 2012, upang makaboto sa National and Local Elections na nakatakdang maganap sa Mayo 13, 2013.      Ang pagtatala ay isasagawa araw-araw,   simula sa ika-8:00 nng umaga hanggang ika-5:00 ng hapon.   Walang isasagawang pagtatala simula Disyembre 23, 2011 hanggang Enero 1, 2012 bilang pagsasaalang-alang sa panahon ng Kapaskuhan.      Sang-ayon sa mga umiiral na batas, ang mga katanginan ng may karapatang magpatala ay ang mga sumusunod: mamamayang Pilipino na ang gulang ay hindi bababa sa 18 taon sa Mayo 13, 2013; naninirahan sa barangay na pagpapatalaan ng hindi kukulangin sa loob ng anim (6) buwan; at tuloy-tuloy na naninirahan sa Pilipinas sa loob ng isang taon, kung pansamantalang nanirahan sa labas ng...

Sa nakaraang pakikipanayam ng npahayagang ito, binigyang diin ni Mayor Vicente B. Amante na “Edukasyon ang Sandata ng Katahimikan” at sandigan sa ikapagkakaroon ng pamayanan maunlad at matatag na hinaharap. Ito umano ang nasa kaisipan ni Gat Jose P. Rizal  na ang pinangarap ay mapagkalooban ng pangunahing edukasyon o basic education ang mga kabataang mula sa karaniwang pamilya,      Dapat alalahanin na nang si Dr. Rizal ay maging isang tapon o exile sa Dapitan, ang kanyang pinagtuunan ng pansin ay hindi ang gamutin ang karamdaman ng mga taga-Dapitan, kundi gamutin ang umiiral na kamangmangan ng mga taga-roon, sa pamamagitan ng pagtuturo sa mga bata ng pagbasa at pagsulat, pagkukuwenta, at nang ang mga kabataan ay mapunlaan na niya ng mga pangunahing kamalayan, ay saka niya tinuruan ng tamang pagkokopra, pangingisda, paggagawa ng mga tubong tisa na ginamit sa pagtatayo ng sistema ng patubig,      Maging ang negosyante sa Dapitan ay hinikayat ...

Mula kay Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Florante D. “Gonzales, isang aktibong kasapi ng Kapatiran ng mga Mason dito sa Lunsod ng San Pablo,   ay napag-alamang ang Freemasonry o Masonerya ay isang kapatiran, at   hindi isang relihiyon o sekta ng pananampalataya . Ito ay isang kapatiran na nagsasakit na ang mga mabubuting lalaki ay higit pang maging mabuti at kalugod-lugod na kagawad ng lipunan.      Ipinahayag din na ang mga Mason ay iginagalang ang pananampalataya ng kanilang mga kaanib.   Katunayan nito, ang mga Mason ay walang ipinasusunod na doktrina ng pananampalataya o teologo, at hindi nagtuturo ng aral ukol sa kaligtasan.   Hindi rin sila nagtuturo na ang mabubuting gawain o paglilingkod sa sangkatauhan ay titiyak ng kaligtasan o ikapagtatamo ng buhay-na-walang-hanggan, ayon pa kay Gonzales.      Sa mga aklat ng kasaysayan, iniuulat na ang Kapatiran ng mga Mason ay natatag sa Pilipinas sa pagsasakit ng mga kilalalang...

Sa obserbasyon ng mga estudyante ng mga kilalang pamantasan at   kolehiyo sa Metro Manila ,  ang Material Recovery and Composting Facilities na bahagi Sanitay Landfill Complex ng Pangasiwaang Lunsod ng San Pablo sa Sityo Baloc ay simbolo ng pagiging masinop na mapangalagaan ang kalinisan ng kapaligiran ng lunsod. Sinasabing “tambakan ng basura ng lunsod,” pero dito ay walang mga kolonya ng langaw at iba pang mga insektong nagkakalat ng nakakapesteng dumi, at hindi rin pinagmumulan ng masama at masansang na amoy, kaya nakatutugon sa pamantayang ipinatutupad ng National Solid Waste Management Commission sa ilalim ng Tanggapan ng Pangulo ng Bansa, na nakatadhana sa Batas Republika Bilang 9003.Ang City Solid Waste Management Office (CSWMO) ay kasalukuyang nasa pangangasiwa ni ENRO Ramon R. de Roma bilang officer-in-charge, samantalang si Engr. Ruel J. Dequito ay nasa ibang bansa. ( Ruben E. Taningco )

 194 Pass in CALABARZON      DOST Secretary Mario G. Montejo announces that 1,246 high school students have qualified under the 2011-2012 DOST-SEI (DOST-Science Education Institute) Undergraduate Scholarship Program, or RA 7687.    The present number of scholars came from more than 20,000 hopefuls who took the scholarship exam last November 2010 in various testing centers throughout the country.   Of these, 846 incoming freshmen are eligible under the Science Scholarship Act of 1994 (RA 7687) or Program B, the government’s science scholarship program for the poor and underprivileged with the remaining 400 students eligible under the DOST-SEI Merit Scholarship or Program A .       In CALABARZON, Dr. Alexander R. Madrigal, regional director of DOST IV-A, reports that out of 1, 893 applicants, qualifiers under RA 7687 total 144 with other incoming freshmen who qualified for Program A totaling 50.   He said the top thr...

DOST IV-A to give out kits soon      DOST Secretary Mario G. Montejo recently joined hands with DOH Secretary Enrique Ona in agreeing to nationally roll out half a million more of dengue kits also known as the DOST Mosquito Ovicidal/ Larvicidal (OL) Trap system.       This follows the successful launch of 200,000 kits last February in Tacloban City. DOST, through the Industrial Technology Development Institute, is set to distribute the new batch to 125,000 households nationwide.  Secretary Montejo targets distribution of the OL traps from July until December 2011, in time for the rainy season. He said, each recipient household, previously identified by the DOH, will receive free kits consisting of four OL traps and a six month-supply of the organic pellets.      In CALABARZON Region, Eric F. Ocampo, entomologist at the Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD IV), identified two cities in Batangas and three cities i...

Rep. Angelo B. Palmones, S&T House Committee vice chair and Agham Party-list representative, recently led deliberation of House Bill No. 3676 which seeks to expand the offerings of the DOST-SEI Undergraduate S&T program or RA 7687.   Under the bill, he proposes increasing the number of scholarship slots being offered by the program.      Palmones explains that the current program provisions need to be amended to address the following: the Philippines lags in terms of trained personnel in S&T for developing countries.   There are only 165 S&T personnel available to provide S&T services for every million of Filipinos.   The United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recommends 380 per million population.       Palmones added the bill includes removal of the provision in the law which only allows the top five percent of the graduating class to take the S&T scholarship qualif...

     Dr. Grace Javier-Alfonso, president of the Los Baños Science Community Foundation, Inc. (LBSCFI) and concurrent chancellor  of the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) is leading production  of an S&T oriented TV program that will showcase local personalities in the Science and Nature City.      The TV program, dubbed by its 22-member-agency organizers as Maki-Makiling, coordinated with Community Cable TV -8 in the production and marketing of its initial 13 episode-offering.   Consisting of six segments, Dr. Alfonso promises viewers to deliver Maki-Makiling as the sole source of entertaining but informative TV program in Los Baños and the Laguna Province.   She has enlisted the support of two-time CMMA awardee, Philippine Star columnist, and media director of Miladay Mr. Boom Tenorio as segment host. Dr. Alfonso avows that “Other than nationally produced and telecasted TV programs, Maki-Makiling stands as t...

QUEZON CITY  - Government employees nationwide affiliated with the Confederation for Unity, Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees (COURAGE) today held a protest action in front of the House of Representatives in order to reiterate their demand for a substantial wage increase. “Aquino has done absolutely nothing to improve the lot of the country’s 1.4 million government employees who are now living on the brink of poverty and destitution. Aquino’s EO 40 is tantamount to zero wage increase: it merely advanced the implementation of the third tranche of Salary Standardization Law 3 by a month, and even then local government units with “insufficient” funds are exempted from implementing the said increase. As we have said time and time again, SSL 3 is insufficient to cover the needs of government employees amidst the skyrocketing prices of basic commodities and services. Even with the full implementation of SSL 3 in 2012, the minimum pay will still only amount to P, 9,000/...

MANILA - Thousands of government employees nationwide affiliated with the Confederation for Unity, Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees (COURAGE) today joined the May Day Protests to reiterate their demand for a substantial wage increase. “Elected on a campaign premised on change and good governance, Noynoy has proven to be a monumental failure. His administration has done nothing to ease the plight of impoverished employees and workers who are increasingly alienated, displaced and deprived of their right to live decently. Workers and employees from both the public and private sectors are still subsisting on starvation wages, threats to job security and tenure continue unabated and numerous human rights violations committed against labor leaders remain unresolved,” COURAGE National President Ferdinand Gaite said. “From Day One onwards, Noynoy and his economic advisers have prioritized the interests of big capitalists and foreign investors. Privatization, liberalizatio...