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Vol. I, No. 1
10 Sections
P12 Tuesday, 1 April 2014
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Special Report
Rex Rapi
Staffwriter, VBP
TACLOBAN, Leyte – A
donor’s forum here has been
conducted to help clarify
and sort out needed procedures and information
related to the status of releases of assistance funds
in Haiyan affected towns.
The forum sough to accelerate the actual realisation
of various rehabilitation and
shelter programs of the local
governments in areas severely
affected by the super typhoon.
Attended by representatives and leaders from local
government units including
that of the Province of Leyte,
the donor’s forum was meant
“to speed up the recovery efforts of the affected local
governments,” according to
Marooned. One of the many sea vessels that plowed through houses and lives of the residents of Anibong, Tacloban City during
the onslaught of Super Typhoon Haiyan (local name: Yolanda). Photo by Aaron J.P. Almadro
Muslim deal signed:
will the guns now go
away? /3
IMF: Slow Economic
Recovery /p4
The Game Vortex
experience /p5
Child learner /p7
‘Needs-match’ for Haiyan towns
Rehabilitation: improved coordination sought between fund agencies
Dr. Andreas Lange, Chief
Adviser and Team Leader
of the GIZ reconstruction
group working here in Leyte.
Among the donor agencies represented in the forum were UNICEFf, World
Food Organization, the Red
Cross, the United Nation
Development Program, Save
the Children, OXFAM and
the Japanese international
cooperation agency JICA.
The forum sought to “match
the needs” of the Yolandaaffected local governments in
Eastern Visayas with what
available resources existing donor agencies have at
the present in the region.
GIZ, which co-sponsored
the event with the Leyte
provincial government, the
United Nation’s Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and the Alliance
for Safe and Sustainable Reconstruction gave technical
support for the various rehabilitation plans of the participating local government units.
Meanwhile, explaining the
apparent delay of the release of
funds for post Haiyan rehabilitation efforts to reporters also
invited to the forum, Leyte
provincial Governor Leopoldo
‘Mic’ Petilla said that the present national pork barrel issue
and the reported substandard
construction of bunkhouses
has made the national government more careful in the
Rehabilitation/p2
Indigenous people support Iloilo water project
Jean Mamaspas
VBP Leyte
ILOILO –– The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) here is positive
that the informed consent
of indigenous communities
needed for the stage 2 im-
plementation of the Jalaur
River Multi-purppose Project will soon be completed.
Project manager Gerardo
P. Corsiga confirmed that the
P11.212 billion economic assistance program funded by
the Korean Export-Import
Bank is gaining wide sup-
port from indigenous people
and other communities who
are starting to appreciate the
need for potable water, development irrigation and power
generation facilities in Panay.
Philippine senator Franklin
Drilon who helped facilitate
the project stressed that the
implementation of the project
by NIA and its Korean counterparts will not only generate 17,000 jobs in Western
Visayas but also augment agricultural production, stimulate
agri–industrial activities, and
spur the local economy as well
Indigenous support/p3
Codilla: Grow your own food 4,604 jobs waiting in Cebu
John Alfred Kabalican
Staffwriter, VBP
City Hall –– Ormoc city
Mayor Edward Codilla is
working to strengthen the
city’s
backyard
gardening program. The mayor
is aiming to achieve faster
food sustainability for the
city’s almost 200,000 citizens after typhoon Yolanda.
The city government is
distributing
varieties
of
vegetables and corn seeds,
planting materials for root
crops, as well as fruit seeds
so that these can be grown.
Root crops like sweet poGrow your own food/p3
Greggy Jiggs Santos
Staffwriter, PIO Cebu
Cebu City –– Seventy-one
of the companies who joined
in the recent Mega Local Job
Fair at the Cebu City Sports
Development Center have
announced the existence of
4,604 job vacancies still wait-
ing to be filled up in this city.
Mostly call center firms,
these potential employers
were given the go signal by
the Department of Labor and
Employment (DOLE) to assist
the Cebu City Department of
Manpower Development and
Placement as it conducted
4,606 jobs/p5
Inside
Xiamen Lifestyle, p8
Entertainment, p9
Motoring&Sports,
p12
NATO Sees threat from Russia
By Michael R. Gordon
NYT News Service
EUROPE –– Gen. Philip M. Breedlove said
Wednesday that the Russian troops near Ukraine
were poised to attack on 12 hours’ notice.
Brussels top commander
said on Wednesday that
the 40,000 troops Russia
has within striking distance of Ukraine are poised
to attack on 12 hours notice and could accomplish
their military objectives
within three to five days.
President Vladimir V.
Putin of Russia told Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany on Monday that the
Kremlin was beginning to
withdraw troops from the
border area near Ukraine.
But the NATO commander, Gen. Philip M. Breedlove,
said in an interview with
The New York Times that
so far only a single battalion,
a force of 400 to 500 troops,
was on the move and that
NATO intelligence could
not say whether it was actually being withdrawn.
What we can say now is
that we do see a battalionsize unit moving, but what
we can’t confirm is that it
is leaving the battlefield,
said General Breedlove, of
the United States Air Force.
Whether that movement is
aft to a less