Tambuling Batangas Publication January 10-16, 2018

The last homily ... p. 4 The Best Choice for Design & Quality VOLUME XLI No. 03 Enero 10-16, 2018 P6.00 For quotation requests, please contact us at (049) 834-6261 or email us at sinagprinting@ gmail.com Batangas PNP’s 2018 New Year’s Call on Gov. Dodo Mandanas “Isuot ninyo ang inyong mga uniporme ng may dangal at katapatan lalo na sa paglilingkod sa Lalawigan ng Batangas.” Ito ang pahayag ni Gov. Dodo Mandanas sa isinagawang New Year’s Call ng mga opisyal ng kapulisan ng Batangas Province noong January 10, 2018 sa Camp Gen. Miguel C. Malvar, Kumintang Ilaya, Batangas City. Sa pangunguna ni Police Senior Superintendent Alden B. Delvo, ang Officer in Charge ng Batangas Police Provincial Office (BPPO), matikas na hinarap ng mga City and Municipal Chiefs of Police at mga PNP officials na nakatalaga sa BPPO si Gov. Mandanas na kasama sina Provincial Jail Warden Col. Chito Malapitan, Provincial Legal Officer Atty. Cesar Castor Sr., Provincial Public Order and Safety Department Atty. Genaro Cabral at Provincial Administrator Levi Dimaunahan. Sa naging talumpati ng Ama ng lalawigan, binati niya ang buong pangkat ng kapulisan sa pagpapatupad ng mga batas ng pamahalaan at sa pagpapanatili ng katahimikan ng probinsya. Idiniin din ng gobernador na mula sa pahina 3 Mas Malaking Bahagi ng Buwis para sa mga LGU, Pederalismo thru People’s Initiative Isinulong ni Gov. Dodo sa League of Provinces of the Philippines Pinangunahan ni Batangas Gov. Dodo Mandanas ang makulay na talakayan sa pagpupulong ng League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) noong ika-11 ng Enero 2018 sa Lungsod ng Maynila patungkol sa ilang mga mahahalagang adbokasiyang maaaring isulong ng liga na nakatuon para sa hangad na agarang pagpapatupad ng Pederalismo at pagpapalakas ng local autonomy sa buong Pilipinas. Bilang isa sa mga pinaka-aktibong tagapagsulong ng Pederalismo sa bansa, binigyang-diin ni Gov. Mandanas ang pagpapasa sa lalong medaling panahon ng resolusyon ng liga para ipahayag ang pagsuporta at paniniwala na ang Federal form of government ay lalong magpapatibay sa pagpapatupad ng lokal na awtonomiya. Dagdag pa ng gobernador ng Batangas na ipahayag din sa isang resolusyon ang buong suporta at aktibong paglahok ng samahan ng mga gobernador sa bansa sa pag-amiyenda ng mga probisyon ng Konstitusyon ng Pilipinas, sa pamamagitan ng People’s Initiative, na nakatuon para maitaguyod ang Pederalismo at magpapalakas sa pamamahala ng mga local government units. Isinulong din niya ang pag-amiyenda ng Local Government Code, particular ang Article X, Section 5, upang bigyang kapangyarihan ang mga pamahalaang panlalawigan na magbuwis; Article X, Section 6, upang maging hindi bababa sa 60% ng mga kabuuang koleksyon sa buwis at iba pang singilin sa kanilang nasasakupan ang sundan sa pahina 3 Sa pangunguna ni Police Senior Superintendent Alden B. Delvo, ang Officer in Charge ng Batangas Police Provincial Office (BPPO), matikas na hinarap ng mga City and Municipal Chiefs of Police at mga PNP officials na nakatalaga sa BPPO si Gov. Mandanas na kasama sina Provincial Jail Warden Col. Chito Malapitan, Provincial Legal Officer Atty. Cesar Castor Sr., Provincial Public Order and Safety Department Atty. Genaro Cabral at Provincial Administrator Levi Dimaunahan. Philippine Inter-Agencies eye reviving HPAP, integrating its agenda to NEHAP project and program proposals. CALAMBA CITY, Laguna -- In the aim to update initiatives in realizing the Health and Pollution Action Plan (HPAP) and to incorporate its agenda to the National Environment and Health Action Plan (NEHAP), different Philippine Inter-Agencies convened for a Preliminary Meeting on Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP) at SEARCA, UP Los Banos last November 12. “In terms of pollution, our indicators are our children,” United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Consultant Ernie Wijangco said, recounting his experience whenever his child gets an asthma attack which signifies exposure to unclean air. He explained that our country has a high population of young people and the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) identified the need to maximize the state’s demographic dividends by promoting a productive labor force. However, he pointed out that “If these kinds of pollution affect the cognitive level in development of our children, of our incoming workforce, then we cannot capacitate a more productive labor force. The UNIDO representative expressed that the inter-agency meeting was administered not to come up with projects but to have programmatic levels of concept and types of intervention where everybody has to work together. He also assured that UNIDO is really committed to the endeavor of minimizing pollution as they already have existing programs and partnerships to contribute in addressing this concern. Pure Earth Philippines National Director Larah O. Ibanez shared a brief introduction about Pure Earth, Inc. “Our main mission as an international non-profit is to identify toxic sites around the world, particularly from toxics that are not given much attention like heavy metals and whenever funding is available come up with small and medium scale or pilot clean- ups in order to protect public health,” she said. With regard to health and pollution agenda, the Director emphasized that the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health Report which was launched and presented in the plenary prior to the meeting was produced in order “to draw attention to pollution as a leading cause or risk factor in deaths worldwide.” She has shared the difficulty to solicit grants and funding for pollution-related Thus, they had always needed to instead relate pollution to more popular issues that are globally recognized and paid attention to like gender, women, children, and climate change, among many others. “As presented during the plenary, if we don’t pay attention to pollution and all these environmental problems, we are actually undermining our future productivity, we are doing injustice to our children and even to our environment and economics,” she stated. The Global Alliance in Health and Pollution is a collaborative body in the international arena formed by Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank, all the United Nations (UN) Agencies, and all other Governments who signed in to become part of GAHP with the purpose of assisting countries in addressing pollution, as elaborated by Director Ibanez. “They are also instrumental in the Lancet Report and very much pushing for the health and pollution action planning in the countries where we have investigated pollution,” she explained. P h i l i p p i n e Information Agency (PIA) senior Information Officer Manites Paneda expressed the Agency’s commitment to assist in information dissemination to popularize sundan sa pahina 6

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