Around 30 media members in Dumaguete attended the two-day Media Orientation-Writeshop on Reproductive Health & Sexuality Advocacy on April 25 & 26 conducted jointly by the Philippine Information Agency and the Philippine News Agency here.
The training is a follow-up activity on the Gender Sensitivity Training wherein PIA brought together selected members of the media circle in Dumaguete City as well as the Association of Negros Oriental Public Information Officers (ANOPIO).
The said activity is designed to develop the participants' individual communication skills in promoting the correct information on reproductive health and development.
According to Provincial Information Manager Jenny Catan-Tilos in her letter to the media, it has been noted that there is still a need to develop the communication skills of the tri-media reporters in reporting issues dealing with children's rights, violence against women, gender sensitivity and reproductive health.
Speakers during the two-day workshop are National Union of the Journalists in the Philippines President Inday Espina-Varona and Ma. Georgiana Villar of ISSA.
Provincial Infocen Manager Jenny Tilos giving the opening remarks on the first day of the two-day orientation-workshop
Resource Speaker Inday Espina-Varona (center) made sure the media were on their feet most of the time during the orientation-workshop to keep them "alive, alert, awake and enthusiastic."
Lights, camera, action! Our very own PIM Jenny Catan-Tilos in her award-winning performance as an abused child during a drama presentation. Participants were asked to act out how they would normally interview abused children and battered wives.
Know your body! A gender-sensitivity exercise, media participants were asked to identify each part of their body, as well as the lingo and "labels" that we call it.
4/22/2005
ANOPIO Meeting
Members of the Association of Negros Oriental Public Information Officers (ANOPIO) during their monthly meeting on April 21 at PIA office. ANOPIO President Eli Manlangit of Bayawan City gave a feedback on the RADIO-7 Board of Directors Meeting and disucussed the upcoming annual conference in Bohol which has been moved to Aug. 11 & 12, 2005.
4/14/2005
Media Advisories for the week
Presscon re: Bais City Family Farm School
The Bais City Family Farm School will hold a graduation ceremony for 20 special scholars students on April 15, 2005 at 9:00 a.m. at Sitio Cantugot, Sab-ahan, Bais City.A signing of memorandum of agreement will be done among the MERACLO Foundation, Negros Oriental State University and the Family Farm School beneficiaries.
A luncheon press conference will follow after the graduation at the Family Farm School in Bais City with the media invited to attend on April 15.
Those who have no vehicles will be picked up at 7:30 a.m. on the said date at PIA Office as Board Member Mariant Escaño-Villegas is providing vehicles for the media.
Gawad Kalinga Bais launches maiden housing project
The local government of Bais City and the Gawad Kalinga Bais Chapter will launch its maiden housing project on April 16, 2005 at Brgy. La Paz, Bais City.
The activity is highlighted by a groundbreaking ceremony at the project site at 9:00 in the morning and will be witnessed by local government employees and members of the Gawad Kalinga Foundation, Couples of Christ.
Bayaning Pilipino Awards Committee holds forum in Dgte
The Gawad Geny Lopez Jr. Bayaning Pilipino Awards Committee will hold a three-hour forum entitled “Isang Pagtalakay: Bagong Simula Para Sa Bansa, Isang Bahaginan ng mga Nagmamalasakit sa Bayan (Paglaum 2005)” on Sunday, April 17, from 2:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon at Plaza Ma. Luisa Suites Inn.
The Bais City Family Farm School will hold a graduation ceremony for 20 special scholars students on April 15, 2005 at 9:00 a.m. at Sitio Cantugot, Sab-ahan, Bais City.A signing of memorandum of agreement will be done among the MERACLO Foundation, Negros Oriental State University and the Family Farm School beneficiaries.
A luncheon press conference will follow after the graduation at the Family Farm School in Bais City with the media invited to attend on April 15.
Those who have no vehicles will be picked up at 7:30 a.m. on the said date at PIA Office as Board Member Mariant Escaño-Villegas is providing vehicles for the media.
Gawad Kalinga Bais launches maiden housing project
The local government of Bais City and the Gawad Kalinga Bais Chapter will launch its maiden housing project on April 16, 2005 at Brgy. La Paz, Bais City.
The activity is highlighted by a groundbreaking ceremony at the project site at 9:00 in the morning and will be witnessed by local government employees and members of the Gawad Kalinga Foundation, Couples of Christ.
Bayaning Pilipino Awards Committee holds forum in Dgte
The Gawad Geny Lopez Jr. Bayaning Pilipino Awards Committee will hold a three-hour forum entitled “Isang Pagtalakay: Bagong Simula Para Sa Bansa, Isang Bahaginan ng mga Nagmamalasakit sa Bayan (Paglaum 2005)” on Sunday, April 17, from 2:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon at Plaza Ma. Luisa Suites Inn.
KNN Dgte chosen to attend nat'l trg in Manila
Jennifer Catan-Tilos
The kabataan news network (KNN) Dumaguete Bureau has been selected to participate in the training on adolescent sexuality, life skills and investigative reporting on April 18 to 22, 2005 at Astoria Plaza Hotel, Ortigas Center, Manila.
Of the 14participants from the different bureaus in the country, two are from Dumaguete, namely KNN Dumaguete reporters Dwight Lahera of Silliman University and Zapphire Zamudio of St. Paul University.
They were chosen based on their television production experience and willingness to learn about new ideas and concepts.
The training aims to relate the concept of life skills to the promotion of sexual and reproductive health among adolescents, to create awareness among the KNN reporters about teen sexuality issues, and develop their skills in in-depth reporting.
The KNN Dumaguete Bureau is established to create stories and features on children-related issues for national television release.
This is a revolutionary project of Unicef that involves children’s participation in media. Probe Media Foundation coordinates the overall production and editing of the children’s output and the Philippine Information Agency supervises the production of the bureau’s junior TV reporters.
The kabataan news network (KNN) Dumaguete Bureau has been selected to participate in the training on adolescent sexuality, life skills and investigative reporting on April 18 to 22, 2005 at Astoria Plaza Hotel, Ortigas Center, Manila.
Of the 14participants from the different bureaus in the country, two are from Dumaguete, namely KNN Dumaguete reporters Dwight Lahera of Silliman University and Zapphire Zamudio of St. Paul University.
They were chosen based on their television production experience and willingness to learn about new ideas and concepts.
The training aims to relate the concept of life skills to the promotion of sexual and reproductive health among adolescents, to create awareness among the KNN reporters about teen sexuality issues, and develop their skills in in-depth reporting.
The KNN Dumaguete Bureau is established to create stories and features on children-related issues for national television release.
This is a revolutionary project of Unicef that involves children’s participation in media. Probe Media Foundation coordinates the overall production and editing of the children’s output and the Philippine Information Agency supervises the production of the bureau’s junior TV reporters.
KNN Dgte Bureau reporter Dwight Lahera (left) in his first interview with Governor George P. Arnaiz for a segment episode on the province's Buglasan festival which was later aired over the KNN TV program.
Dgte LGU to construct biological wastewater treatment system
Rachelle M. Nessia
The city government of Dumaguete under the Local Initiative for Wastewater (LINAW) treatment is pushing for the construction of a septage wastewater treatment system to treat wastewater coming from households, hospitals, marketplace and business establishments here.
This move came after results of studies by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Silliman University Marine Laboratory have shown that coastal waters in Dumaguete City belong to the lowest classes of water quality.
This was disclosed by Vice Mayor William Ablong, one of the guest speakers during yesterday’s Kapihan sa PIA forum conducted by the Philippine Information Agency (PIA).
Citing the results of a study conducted by SU Marine Laboratory in 1997, Ablong said coastal waters along Barangays Bantayan to Calindagan are catalogued as class SC for fecal coliform standard and class SD for total coliform standard.
Propagation and harvesting of shells and fish products, swimming and bathing in these areas are not advised, said Ablong.
Based on a water quality monitoring report of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), coastal waters in the city has been identified as recreational water class or areas regularly used by the public for bathing, skin diving, swimming, etc. and fishery water class or spawning areas of bangus (milkfish) and similar species.
The same report stated that the coastal water in Rizal Boulevard have already shown initial stages of deterioration, registering a high E-coli count.
“If you drink water from the Boulevard, for sure you will be affected by water-borne diseases,” said Engr. Rogelio Clamonte, chief of the city’s environment and natural resources office (ENRO) and one of the guest panelists in the said forum.
ENRO has been regularly collecting wastewater samples in the city’s coastal waters for analysis in the SU Chemistry Lab.
“So kinanglan likayan ang pagkaligo aron dili maka-inom ug tubig sa dagat diha sa boulevard,” he added.
Records from the City Health Office show a high number of cases of water-borne diseases reported in 2003, with 200 acute gastroenteritis and 111 acute diarrhea cases, and other diseases such as typhoid fever, amoebiases and hepatitis.
Ablong said the local statistics confirm the findings of World Bank that 31 percent of the diseases in the country are water-related “because 58% of our drinking water are contaminated with coliform bacteria.”
According to the vice mayor, it was noted that even after the transfer of the city slaughterhouse to a non-coastal barangay in Bajumpanda, the E-coli count remained high.
In a wastewater monitoring conducted on the 13 water outfalls along Rizal Boulevard, it was learned that the biological oxygen demand (BOD) content is beyond the tolerable limit of 31 milligrams per liter. “BOD is the amount of oxygen needed by the bacteria to biodegrade the organic matter,” Ablong explains.
But the city’s organic load discharge into the sea is quite high, with figures reaching roughly thousands of milligrams per second, according to Ablong.
Based on 2000 statistics, Dumaguete City has 21,582 households and in 2003, there are around 4,186 business establishments, 334 restaurants, 3 hospitals, 7 tertiary schools and 17 elementary and high schools. All of these are sources of the city’s wastewater, Ablong said.
In 2002, there are 13,012 total septic tanks in the city. “As long as we have septic tanks, we have E-coli,” he added.
He warned that the higher the BOD content is, the higher also is the pollution or contamination of water. “There’s really a need to treat wastewater before we throw them away to coastal waters,” he said.
In view of this, City Mayor Agustin Perdices signed a memorandum of agreement with the Local Initiative Water Treatment (LINAW) project for the construction, operation and maintenance of proposed wastewater treatment facilities.
Ablong reported that last year, the 3.7-hectare dry riverbed in Camanjac has already been declared as biological wastewater treatment site for domestic waste.
“For our market waste, we will have an on-site wastewater treatment facility, a multi-chamber wastewater treatment facility, and also for hospitals. For commercial establishment, we are planning to put one up in the Boulevard area,” he said.
City Planning and Development Officer Engr. Josephine Antonio in the same forum admits that the city’s proposed septage treatment plant is not the only solution to the problem facing the city, “but it is the best so far, and simplest we can do and one that the city can afford and is doable.”
She said the plant will use wastewater stabilization ponds and will be located some distance from Okoy river.
Already an old technology, water stabilization ponds are being used in more than 40 countries, notably Israel which does not have a lot of water and is the pioneer in the use of this technology.
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The city government of Dumaguete under the Local Initiative for Wastewater (LINAW) treatment is pushing for the construction of a septage wastewater treatment system to treat wastewater coming from households, hospitals, marketplace and business establishments here.
This move came after results of studies by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Silliman University Marine Laboratory have shown that coastal waters in Dumaguete City belong to the lowest classes of water quality.
This was disclosed by Vice Mayor William Ablong, one of the guest speakers during yesterday’s Kapihan sa PIA forum conducted by the Philippine Information Agency (PIA).
Citing the results of a study conducted by SU Marine Laboratory in 1997, Ablong said coastal waters along Barangays Bantayan to Calindagan are catalogued as class SC for fecal coliform standard and class SD for total coliform standard.
Propagation and harvesting of shells and fish products, swimming and bathing in these areas are not advised, said Ablong.
Based on a water quality monitoring report of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), coastal waters in the city has been identified as recreational water class or areas regularly used by the public for bathing, skin diving, swimming, etc. and fishery water class or spawning areas of bangus (milkfish) and similar species.
The same report stated that the coastal water in Rizal Boulevard have already shown initial stages of deterioration, registering a high E-coli count.
“If you drink water from the Boulevard, for sure you will be affected by water-borne diseases,” said Engr. Rogelio Clamonte, chief of the city’s environment and natural resources office (ENRO) and one of the guest panelists in the said forum.
ENRO has been regularly collecting wastewater samples in the city’s coastal waters for analysis in the SU Chemistry Lab.
“So kinanglan likayan ang pagkaligo aron dili maka-inom ug tubig sa dagat diha sa boulevard,” he added.
Records from the City Health Office show a high number of cases of water-borne diseases reported in 2003, with 200 acute gastroenteritis and 111 acute diarrhea cases, and other diseases such as typhoid fever, amoebiases and hepatitis.
Ablong said the local statistics confirm the findings of World Bank that 31 percent of the diseases in the country are water-related “because 58% of our drinking water are contaminated with coliform bacteria.”
According to the vice mayor, it was noted that even after the transfer of the city slaughterhouse to a non-coastal barangay in Bajumpanda, the E-coli count remained high.
In a wastewater monitoring conducted on the 13 water outfalls along Rizal Boulevard, it was learned that the biological oxygen demand (BOD) content is beyond the tolerable limit of 31 milligrams per liter. “BOD is the amount of oxygen needed by the bacteria to biodegrade the organic matter,” Ablong explains.
But the city’s organic load discharge into the sea is quite high, with figures reaching roughly thousands of milligrams per second, according to Ablong.
Based on 2000 statistics, Dumaguete City has 21,582 households and in 2003, there are around 4,186 business establishments, 334 restaurants, 3 hospitals, 7 tertiary schools and 17 elementary and high schools. All of these are sources of the city’s wastewater, Ablong said.
In 2002, there are 13,012 total septic tanks in the city. “As long as we have septic tanks, we have E-coli,” he added.
He warned that the higher the BOD content is, the higher also is the pollution or contamination of water. “There’s really a need to treat wastewater before we throw them away to coastal waters,” he said.
In view of this, City Mayor Agustin Perdices signed a memorandum of agreement with the Local Initiative Water Treatment (LINAW) project for the construction, operation and maintenance of proposed wastewater treatment facilities.
Ablong reported that last year, the 3.7-hectare dry riverbed in Camanjac has already been declared as biological wastewater treatment site for domestic waste.
“For our market waste, we will have an on-site wastewater treatment facility, a multi-chamber wastewater treatment facility, and also for hospitals. For commercial establishment, we are planning to put one up in the Boulevard area,” he said.
City Planning and Development Officer Engr. Josephine Antonio in the same forum admits that the city’s proposed septage treatment plant is not the only solution to the problem facing the city, “but it is the best so far, and simplest we can do and one that the city can afford and is doable.”
She said the plant will use wastewater stabilization ponds and will be located some distance from Okoy river.
Already an old technology, water stabilization ponds are being used in more than 40 countries, notably Israel which does not have a lot of water and is the pioneer in the use of this technology.
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Responding to the need to address the wastewater problem in the city, PIA NegOr held a Kapihan forum on the topic: Wastewater Challenge with guests (L-R): City Planning and Development Officer Engr. Josephine Antonio, Vice Mayor William Ablong and Chief of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office Engr. Rogelio Clamonte. PIA Provincial Infocen Manager moderated the forum.
City Planning and Development Officer Engr. Josephine Antonio (standing) explaining the septage treatment system which the city government is proposing to put up in a 3.7-hectare dry river bed in Brgy. Camanjac. The said area has already been declared last year as the biological wastewater treatment site for domestic waste.
Reactor Nitz Bangay of the Provincial Agriculturist Office expressing her opinion during the open forum. Snacks were provided courtesy of the group of Local Initiatives for Water Treatment (LINAW) project.
4/10/2005
RADIO-7 BOD meets in Dumaguete
Say cheese!
PIA NegOr hosted this month's Regional Association of Development Information Officers (RADIO-7) Board of Directors meeting last April 7, 2005. The officers discussed matters regarding the preparations for this year's RADIO-7 Convention with Bohol as this year's host.
PIA NegOr hosted this month's Regional Association of Development Information Officers (RADIO-7) Board of Directors meeting last April 7, 2005. The officers discussed matters regarding the preparations for this year's RADIO-7 Convention with Bohol as this year's host.
On the Air, Live from PIA
Known radio and print reporter Neil Rio on air live from PIA office, and giving what's latest from the police beat.
DYGB-FM "Tug-anan sa Power 91" ace reporter Victor Camion reporting live from PIA office. The Infocen is a favorite hang-out of media members who are always on the look-out for the latest "happenings" as well as mingle with fellow reporters over a cup of coffee and endless "chika".
NegOr & Siquijor Infocen Staff Meeting
PIA NegOr Provincial Infocen Manager Jenny Catan-Tilos explaining the new set of thrusts during the April 8 staff meeting. Other issues, including the early retirement "silver parachute" package being offered by the national government, were also taken up.
Staff from Negros Oriental and Siquijor provincial information centers holding a staff meeting at the new PIA NegOr Infocen office at PGSO Building. The Siquijor Infocen has been put under the supervision of the NegOr Infocen in view of the raitonalization plan.
4/07/2005
PIA holds Media Forum on Bomb Threats
Preparing for things that go BOOM!
PIA Negros Oriental ICM Jennifer Catan-Tilos (extreme right) moderating the Media Forum on Bomb Threats held April 6, 2005 at the Governor's Office. The activity is in line with the contingency measures undertaken by the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council here headed by Gov. George P. Arnaiz after the council reviewed its disaster plan amid the recent rash of bombing incidents and bomb threats in Metro Manila and other provinces in the country. As head of the PDCC public information committee, PIA aims to encourage support and shared responsibility among the media as well as guide the general public on how to handle bomb threats and incidents.
PIA Negros Oriental ICM Jennifer Catan-Tilos (extreme right) moderating the Media Forum on Bomb Threats held April 6, 2005 at the Governor's Office. The activity is in line with the contingency measures undertaken by the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council here headed by Gov. George P. Arnaiz after the council reviewed its disaster plan amid the recent rash of bombing incidents and bomb threats in Metro Manila and other provinces in the country. As head of the PDCC public information committee, PIA aims to encourage support and shared responsibility among the media as well as guide the general public on how to handle bomb threats and incidents.
To further facilitate public awareness, PIA Dumaguete produced these pamphlets (in Cebuano dialect) "Mag Ma-Abtikon Kontra Terrorismo" which details what the public must do in case of bomb alerts. The pamphlets came in handy during the Media Forum where copies were distributed.
While waiting for the forum to start, members of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team (EOD) of the Provincial Police Command leafing through the Anti-Terrorism pamphlets produced by PIA.
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team Leader PO3 Daniel Casiana demonstrating how ordinary things can become explosive devices. Casiana heads the EOD team of the Provincial Police Command which responds to bomb alerts.
Dangerous Toys.The EOD Team laid out for the media some of the common gadgets used in creating homemade bombs, including ammonium nitrate (inside the film case).
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