Ang Caviteno Newsweekly September 24-30, 2018 Issue

PANGANIB SA TRABAHO ... p.5
Agri, fisheries damage
from Typhoon Ompong
assessed at over
P16.7B.. p 2
Nangungunang
problema sa Pinas,
no. 1 pa din!
100 katao, natabunan ng
landslide sa Cebu... p 3
p.5
Kapirasong kritika
p 4
VOLUME XXXV
No. 11 Setyembre 24-30, 2018
P6.00
Duterte oversees command conference
for #OmpongPH
By Jerome Carlo R. Paunan
QUEZON CITY-- President
Rodrigo Roa Duterte on
Thursday presided over a
command
conference
at
the National Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management
Council (NDRRMC) office
to oversee the ongoing risk
reduction
measures
and
preparations for the expected
onslaught of Typhoon Ompong
this week.

The
meeting
was
attended by Cabinet secretaries,
top uniformed officials, and
chiefs of offices.

During the conference,
concurrent Office of Civil
Defense Administrator and
NDRRMC Executive Director
Usec. Ricardo Jalad presented
government’s
disaster
preparedness plan for an
effective response to the tropical
cyclone.

“Based on our analysis
on the affected population and
based on the exposure analysis
by PAGASA, within the 125
kilometer radius of the center of
the typhoon, there is a total of
4.3 million individuals that are
exposed,” Jalad said.

The
official
also
presented a synopsis of risk
areas and government’s rapid
deployment strategy.
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DAR-Cavite distributes
lands to farmers
President Duterte listens as Cabinet secretaries report on their respective disaster preparedness plan for Typhoon Ompong. Also in
photo are DND Sec. delfin Lorenzana (left) and Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea.
Classes cancelled, sea travel suspended in
CALABARZON due to Ompong
CALAMBA
CITY-
The
Calabarzon Region may not be
in the direct path of Typhoon
Ompong (Mangkhut) but this
powerful tropical cyclone with a
huge diameter of 900 kilometers
prompted authorities to suspend
classes in five provinces and
cancel sea travel at the Batangas
port Friday to safeguard lives.

In a bulletin issued 11
am on Friday, the Philippine
Atmospheric,
Geophysical
and
Astronomical
Services
Administration (PAGASA) said
Ompong is already 540 kilometers
east of Baler, Aurora, moving
northwest at 20 kilometers per
hour (km/h).
The
Calabarzon
provinces were placed under
storm signal No. 1 beginning
Thursday.
Since
Thursday
afternoon, authorities issued
an early cancellation of classes
for Friday in all levels in the
provinces of Cavite, Laguna,
2018 YOUTH EMPOWERMENT
BY UNLEASHING AWARENESS
AND VALUES WITHIN THEM
TO empower and partake the
youth in various activities that will
intensify their social awareness,
spiritual values and economic
development,
the
Provincial
Government of Cavite thru the
Provincial Social Welfare and
Development Office (PSWDO)
and Provincial Youth and Sports
Development Office (PYSDO)
in partnership with Union of
Enterprising Cooperative (UEC) ,
Provincial Cooperative, Livelihood
and Entrepreneurial Development
Office (PCLEDO) and Provincial
Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Office (PDRRMO)
facilitated the Pag-asa Youth
Association of the Philippines
(PYAP) Leadership Training , with
the theme “PYAP Unleashing the
Fire to Lead” at Shoreline Kabalikat
sa Kaunlaran Inc., in Malainen
Bago in the municipality of Naic on
September 11-13, 2018. The 3-day
activity aims to equip them with
God’s word, absorb the essentials
of teamwork and strengthen the
capabilities of the youth.
PYAP
participants
came from different cities
and municipalities of Cavite
specifically from Bacoor, Dasma,
General Trias, Imus, Maragondon,
Naic, Rosario, Ternate and Trece
Martires City. Atty. Khervy B.
Reyes, Supervising Cooperative
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Batangas, Rizal and Quezon.

Fe Faytaren, manager of
Passenger Assistance and Roro
Operations of the Asian Terminal
Inc., said all vessel trips at the
Batangas port were cancelled
Friday leaving hundreds of
passengers stranded.

Based on Faytaren’s
report, 308 passengers and 78
Roro vehicles remain stranded
since 7:30 am Friday. Also
stranded at the port’s Terminal 2
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SILANG, Cavite – The
Department
of
Agrarian
Reform Provincial Office
(DARPO)-Cavite
awarderd
a total of 112.32 hectares of
land to 163 Cavite farmers
in the recent agrarian reform
beneficiaries (ARBs) congress
and distribution of certificates
of land ownership awards
(CLOAs) here.

The event was held
at the International Rice
Research Institute (IRRI) in
Barangay Biga with Agrarian
Secretary John R. Castriciones
leading the distribution of
CLOAs.
Sec.
Castriciones
told farmers to treasure the
land granted to them, and
perform their responsibilities
as prescribed under the
Comprehensive
Agrarian
Reform Program or the RA
6657.

He said DAR will help
them get access to financial
services for their start-up
capital to convert their newly-
acquired lands to productive
farms through loans which
they could avail at 6% interest
rate per annum with the Land
Bank of the Philippines’
Accessible and Sustainable
Lending Program.
Cavite
Provincial
Agrarian Reform Program
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