Vanguard
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Nov. 21 - 26, 2016
PASAR rehabs 2 workers P22M works rushed
Isabe, Leyte - This is
one for the books. Instead of
firing two of its employees
addicted to drugs, the company has medically rehabilitated them and reinstated
them to their jobs.
Legal and corporate affairs officer of the Phil. Associated Smelting and Refining Corp. (PASAR), Atty.
Noli Del Rosario, said after
the company found out they
were under the influence of
drugs from their urine tests,
they sent them to a psychiatric clinic in Tacloban for
treatment, the expenses
paid for by the company
while under suspension from
their jobs.
They were restored to
their jobs after their rehab,
he said. This is in accordance
with PASAR’s core values
anchored on “fairness, team-
work, integrity, malasakit
and excellence.” This happened long before Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs
as one of the two has already
reached his retirement age.
As for the Endo (end of
contractualization)
issue,
Del Rosario said their firm
is studying if some 700-800
contractual employees can be
absorbed as regular employees considering the nature of
their work, such as janitorial
services, emergency job hiring, and job contracts from
agency companies.
He said for over a decade
ago no labor strike has had
occurred in PASAR. This
means there is harmonious
relation between labor and
management in industrial
workplace as its workers are
among highest paid employees in Eastern Visayas re-
gion.
He said if PASAR export products decline, it will
affect the region’s domestic products as Isabel is the
only industrialized town in
Eastern Visayas. This happened sometime in 2012 fire
incident here and during the
2013 Typhoon Yolanda.
He also said the good
news is that the National
Economic Dev’t. Authority
(NEDA) has a “copper road
map project,” which means
that a Japan company might
build a process plant inside
Leyte Industrial Development Estate, to transform
its copper cathodes into electrical wires and the like two
years from now. PASAR envisions that its company is
“to be the benchmark copper
smelter and refinery.”(By
Jun Tarroza)
Merida, almost crime-free
Merida, Leyte - Given its
figures on crime incidence,
this town may qualify for
the term ‘crime-free’. According to records at the police
station, there were two to
three cases of salvaged victims dumped in Barangay
Can-unzo here two months
ago, but the cadavers had no
claimants.
According to Police Chief
Ruben A. Recilla, they had
only one death under investigation since the war on
drugs began. Recilla said the
body had multiple gunshot
wounds, and according to his
investigators, the victim was
not a resident of Merida. The
victim had a big “Raquel” tattoo on his breast, behind the
right ear and side of his right
palm. Recilla suspects the victim was killed in Ormoc City
and was dumped in this town.
He said the cadaver they buried had a nameless tomb.
He said his investigators went to several areas
in Ormoc but no one would
tell them about the victim,
apparently afraid that they
would be implicated in his
crime.
The police chief also said
that that was one of three
crime incidents for the past
five months since July. The
two other two cases were a
(Eradicating...from p. 7
is a fundamental issue of injustice, or the concentration
of resources and wealth of
this earth, including political power, in the hands of a
few. The culprit is a prevailing global economic, political, and cultural system that
worships and defends absolute ownership of private
property, even resources that
ought to be shared rather
than owned individually or
by select groups.
Truly, the Philippine
and the global poverty situ-
An old acacia tree marks the center of the town.
homicide and a physical injury. This crime rate is very
much lower compared with
12 crime incidents of the
same period last year, the
cop said.
He said such crimes in
the town are manageable
even as they are continuing
Oplan “Tokhang” operations,
which meted 111 surrenderees to date.
He said Merida has
slight problems on illegal
drugs. There are no big-time
pushers after they filed a
case against three drug profile personalities here. He
said his 22 policemen are sufficient to serve nearly 30,000
constituents.
To keep illegal drugs
away from the town, the
police continue to educate
the people here about drug
awareness through symposiums, house visits, and implementation of the curfew
hours for minors.
In the words of one local
officials:”Maayo na siya nga
hepe kay simple, boutan, ug
motrabaho sab. Dili parehas
niadtong una nga hepe nga
kusog momasyada sa buwangan (He is a good chief because
he is simple, good and diligent.
He is unlike the previous chief
who frequented the cockpit.)”.
(By Jun Tarroza)
ation cries for a just re-distribution of the wealth of
the earth such that the poor
majority who have as much
right as the few rich to lead
a decent, human living are
also benefited. More than
this, eradicating extreme
global poverty requires governmental, nongovernmental, inter-governmental and
inter-nongovernmental collaboration towards progress
of all peoples, by all peoples
and for all peoples.
(Next serial: Some Strategies to Eradicate Extreme
Poverty)
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