NIA appoints new head for Bukidnon

CAGAYAN de Oro City—The National Irrigation Administration (NIA), in region 10, proudly announces the installation of Engr. Jimmy L. Apostol as Division Manager A of Bukidnon Irrigation Management Office, in Valencia City, Bukidnon. His appointment is an offshoot of the rationalization process of the agency as authorized under Executive Order 366 and EO 718 which is the phased implementation of the Rationalization Plan of the NIA. The NIA formulated its own rationalization plan based on several parameters among them Republic Act (RA) 3601 as amended by PD 552 and PD 1702 Act Creating the NIA, RA 8435 or the Agricultural and Fisheries Modernization Act and RA 7607 Providing A Magna Carta of Small Farmers. The structural adjustment has created a very lean organization...

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Unabia, Emano file COCs for congressmen in Misamis Oriental

Texts: Joel Escol Photo: Gerry Gorit Misamis Oriental provincial board member Peter M. Unabia has formally filed his certificate of candidacy yesterday at the provincial comelec as congressional candidate in the first district of the province, alongside with incumbent congressman Yevgeny Vincente Emano who is seeking his re-election bid of the second district. The group their COC’s under the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino-Padayon Pilipino coalition. The complete slate was headed by Mike Paderanga as the party’s gubernatorial candidate and Victorico Chaves, Jr. as his running mate. The rest of the members of the Padayon Pilipino Party have also...

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Villanueva is MisOr top performer in equivalency test

Villanueva, Misamis Oriental – The schools district of Villanueva posted a 61% performance rating in the recent National Accreditation and Equivalency Tests (NAET), making it as this year’s top-performer in the division of Misamis Oriental.Villanueva Education Supervisor Aida Cayabas said that 48 out-of-school youth (OSY) who participated in the DepED Alternative Learning System (ALS) Program have been fully re-integrated in the formal secondary education level. “This is a modest yet concrete outcome in terms of reducing the number of out of school youth in the area” Cayabas said.LGU reports indicate that Villanueva has an estimated 500 out of...

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Camiguin Lanzones Festival 2009 underway

The Department of Tourism in Cagayan de Oro City has already released the schedule of events of the upcoming Lanzones Festival 2009 in Camiguin Province, that will be from October 18-25, 2009.Please find the schedules below for your ready reference.30TH CAMIGUIN LANZONES FESTIVALOctober 18-25, 2009 / Camiguin ProvinceSCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES OCTOBER 06, 2009 (TUESDAY)8:00 A.M. -KALANRAKAS SA SAGAY OCTOBER 18, 2009 (SUNDAY) 6:00 A.M. - HOLY MASS 9:00 A.M. -TAEKWONDO TOURNAMENT (REGIONAL COMPETITION)...

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Pres. Arroyo designates SSS Prexy Neri as CLEEP steward for NorMin

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has designated Social Security System (SSS) President Romulo V. Neri as the Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP) steward for Northern Mindanao. As such, he is tasked to oversee and ensure the implementation of CLEEP programs and projects in the particular provinces of the region as specified by the President in her memorandum to all cabinet members dated January 6, this year. Generally, CLEEP aims to protect the most vulnerable sectors, such as, the poor, hungry, returning expatriates, workers in the export industry, out of school youth,...

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Valencia, Tangub schools dominate athletic events

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Bukidnon’s Valencia City National High School (VCNHS) proved it is the new athletics capital in Mindanao when it outpaced Tangub City Naional High School (TCNHS) in the medal race for the two-day 2008 MILO Littele Olympics Mindanao at the Rosevale School oval. Runners Ralph Jay Ebora and Aiko Edrolin amassed three gold medals each in the boys and girls division to boost VCNHS’ bid for supremacy in athletics with total haul of 10 golds as their compatriots added four more. Ebora, a senior student of VCNHS, cleared the hurdles in the 400-meter and 110-meter better than anybody else at 1:43.47 minutes and 18.90 seconds, respectively, aside from breasting the tape ahead of the pack in the 400-meter dash at 1:03.47 minutes. Edrolin, for her...

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Region 10 technology adoptors bag awards

Once again, technology adoptors from Region X made it to national and international limelight by grabbing awards.Recently, Cagayan de Oro Handmade Papercrafts, Inc. received a 13M grant from the Australian Government’s Enterprise Challenge Fund (ECF), the first grant awardee from the Philippines.The grant is the highest so far approved by the ECF among participating countries in the Asia-Pacific region.The award was granted because of the economic impact of the company to abaca farmers of Malitbog, Bukidnon and Claveria, Misamis Oriental.Cagayan de Oro Handmade Papercrafts uses abaca fibers for its handmade papermaking business.Funded by the...

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Region 10 set to join China Education Expo

CAGAYAN de Oro City - Region 10 joins the 5th Philippine Participation in China Education Expo (CEE) in Shanghai and Business Mission to Wuhan and Suzhou Cities on October 21-28, 2008. Our region’s representative, the Liceo de Cagayan University and the Father Saturnino Urios University of the CARAGA are the partner universities from Mindanao.Five other universities from Luzon and Visayas are participating in the exposition. The CEE is one of the leading events for educational services in the Asia-Pacific region that aims to provide a viable platform for discourse, possible business ventures and capacity building for institutions in the world’s most dynamic education network.Research has shown the continuous growth of Chinese students studying abroad reaching over 100,000 students and it is...

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Camiguin Lanzones Festival 2008

By Joel EscolCAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Department of Tourism in region 10 which is based in this city has announced the upcoming Lanzones Festival 2008 in Camiguin Island on October 18-26 with lots of activities highlighting the celebration.DOT-10 regional director Catalino Chan III also announce the new fast craft going to Camiguin Island daily to accommodate passengers especially that the celebration of Lanzones Festival is approaching. The fast craft Paras Sea Cat had its launching the other day. It is operated by the Paras family of Cagayan de Oro City who owns several businesses including the Parasat Cable. The sea craft runs daily from...

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Medina mayor orders Merwasco manager to explain water-borne diseases

Texts by Mr Nice GuyMedina town mayor Sulpicio Uyguangco has ordered the manager of Medina Rural Waterworks and Sanitation Cooperative (MERWASCO) to explain the reported alarming presence of water-borne diseases which had resulted to the alleged diarrhea cases in the said municipality. Told to explain in writing by the mayor within 48 hours was Engr. Arnito Obedencio, manager of Merwasco. Uyguangco’s order came after the rural health unit submitted its findings regarding the reported presence of bacteria which made the water supply no longer potable for safe drinking by the residence. The finding was signed by municipal health officer Dra. Alma Enriquez. In her report, Enriquez said the water supply of the municipality during the incumbency of Engr. Arnito Obedencio as Merwasco manager was...

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Holcim cites MGB 10 officials

!--google_ad_client = "pub-6920966655785962";//468x60, created 12/28/07google_ad_slot = "7449988681";google_ad_width = 468;google_ad_height = 60;//-->script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> Officials from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau, Region 10 were honored by Holcim Philippines Manufacturing Corporation during the Community Relations (ComRel) Committee 5-year Social Development Program (SDMP) Presentation in Cagayan de Oro City recently. Plaques of Appreciation were awarded to MGB Regional Director Dario Minoza, Chief Geologist Juanito Manzano, Jr., Mining Engineer Paul Salise...

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Earthquake drill set today

Cagayan de Oro City – Chairpersons of all provincial, city and municipal disaster coordinating councils (DCC) in Northern Mindanao have been alerted of the conduct of another nationwide earthquake drill on Oct. 10, 2007. The third time to be done throughout the country simultaneously this year, the drill aims to prepare the people in case earthquakes will occur in the future, P/Chief Supt. Teodorico B. Capuyan, Regional Director of the Philippine National Police (PNP), region 10, said. The activity, which responds to a memorandum from the Chairman of the National DCC will be the country’s contribution to coincide with the observance of...

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Former Oro broadcaster shot in Iligan City

A FORMER broadcaster in this city was wounded when still unidentified attackers wearing bonnet peppered him with bullets while accompanying his child to school yesterday morning, police reports reaching Kagay-an News said. Police authorities in Iligan City identified the victim as Jose “Joe” Pantoja, presently a broadcaster of an FM Radio Station. The shooting took place in front of a famous Mindanao State University (MSU) Iligan Campus. No one has yet claimed responsibility on the attack but the victim was reported to have received death threats few months back. The Cagayan de Oro Press Club (COPC) has condemned the shooting of a broadcaster in nearby Iligan City .” The shooting of Pantoja is again another blatant attack on media,” COPC president Jerry Orcullo said. Pantoja, a COPC member,...

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