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PARADE OF STAR LANTERNS KICK OFF CHRISTMAS SEASON IN MAASIN CITY

Monday 17th of December 2012
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Dec 17 (PIA) -- Seventy barangays in Maasin City started their Christmas holidays with a parade of star lanterns, Parol 2012, Friday afternoon, December 14, a kick-off of the different activities prepared by the city government. Different “ parols” were paraded in the city proper starting 5 p.m. after which a parol was hanged at designated areas in Anatalio Gaviola Public Plaza, in front of the Maasin Cathedral. City Budget Officer Ma. Essie Espina-Garvez said that each barangay had only one entry and lanterns must be of traditional design - a five point star shaped lantern, with local and native materials...
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Filipino Tenors to sing Christmas carols at U.S. Embassy
MANILA, Dec. 13 (PIA) -- 2012 Aliw Award for Best New Artist (Group) winner The Filipino Tenors will sing Christmas carols as the United States Embassy in Manila hold its ‘Parol’ lighting ceremony, Friday. U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Harry K. Thomas, Jr. and Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim will lead the lighting ceremony December 14, 5:30 p.m. at the Embassy’s Consular Pavilion along Roxas Boulevard in Manila. The ceremony signals the sending holiday greetings and best wishes for a ...
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Tagum City allots P300T for 2-week Parochial Fiesta
TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte, Nov. 23 (PIA) – The Tagum City local government has allotted a meager P300 thousand for the two-week Parochial Fiesta which started last November 9 and will culminate November 30, but got the commitment of various sponsors. “We have a lot of entertainment shows for the people during the Fiesta but the city did not spend much for the festivity,” Tagum City Administrator Rafael Abrenica said. Abrenica said the opening day alone, which was sponsored by San Migue...
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  • 17
    Nov
    2012

    ‘Bangga sa Daygon’ & ‘Indigay sa Parol’ is On

    CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Nov. 17 -- The City Tourism Board chaired by Rhia Rita Abalos has launched the annual Christmas choral competition “Bangga sa Daygon” and the lantern contest “Indigay sa Parol”. The “Bangga sa Daygon” is open to all glee clubs and choral groups of private and public elementary and high schools in the city. The contest proper for the elementary category is on December 15, 2012, 3 p.m. at the SM City, while the high school category will be held on December 12, 20...
  • 19
    Sep
    2012

    City parole and probation office holds crime prevention seminar

    TRECE MARTIRES CITY, Cavite, Sept 19 (PIA) -- The City Parole and Probation Office, in celebration of the Crime Prevention Week, conducted a crime prevention seminar to aid residents on how to avoid crimes and criminals. Police Chief Insp. (PCI) Egbert Bawan Tibayan served as resource speaker in the event which was held at the Government Center building at the provincial capitol compound. Trinidad A. Gonzales, chief probation and parole officer, said Tibayan focused his lecture and discuss...
  • 20
    Jul
    2012

    DAR – Capiz redoubles efforts to distribute ‘CARPable’ land

    ROXAS CITY, Capiz, July 20 (PIA6) -- A cumulative 61,027.6674 hectares from the estimated 79,406 hectares of “CARPable” land in the province have been distributed to farmers in Capiz under the Land Tenure Improvement (LTI) component of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and CARP Extension with Reforms (CARPER) implementation in the province as of May 31 this year. Department of Agrarian Reform- Capiz top officials led by Officer-In-Charge Ma. Teresa Valencia reported this dur...
  • 29
    Jun
    2012

    PPO to hold 6th provincial volunteer probation aides congress

    DUMAGUETE CITY, June 29 (PIA) -- The Parole and Probation Cluster Offices in Negros Oriental will hold its 6th Provincial Volunteer Probation Aides Congress on June 30. It will start at 8 a.m. at the Multi-Purpose Hall, St. James the Greater Parish, Tanjay City. Chief Parole and Probation officer Maria Necita Mariño said over a hundred volunteer probation aides from all over Negros Oriental and Siquijor provinces are expected to attend the day-long affair. Mariño said the congress aims to...
  • 02
    Jun
    2012

    Corrections officers undergo orientation on New Board of Pardons, Parole Rules

    TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, June 2 (PIA) -- The Parole and Probation Administration (PPA) Regional Office VIII of the Department of Justice recently conducted an orientation on New Rules on Parole and Guidelines for Executive Clemency at the Community Corrections Development Center, Bulwagan ng Katarungan Compound, Tacloban City. Participants in the said orientation, according to PPA-8 Regional Information Officer Jeannette B. Avorque, were the Chiefs/Officers In-Charge of the various field offices o...
  • 31
    May
    2012

    PPA cites benefits of the Parola Ferry Terminal

    ILOILO CITY, May 31 (PIA6) -- The development of the Parola Ferry Terminal here will provide safe and convenient travel for passengers aboard motorized bancas between Iloilo and Guimaras Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) 6 manager Winfred Elizalde said, “Bancas with outrigger and rigger canoes numbering about 200 will also benefit from the project because they will have a comfortable home of their own where they can be accommodated as compared from their present situation,” said Winfred Eli...
  • 05
    May
    2012

    Catbalogan landslide victims get aid from Local Council for Women

    CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 5 (PIA) -- Some 15 families, who were landslide victims from Barangay Guinsurungan and Guindapunan, Catbalogan City received a sack of rice, grocery items and P540 at the city hall lobby today. The gift-giving is a project of the Local Council for Women. During the Women’s Month commemoration in March, the women's group had a ‘dinner for a cause’ where members and their friends bought a dinner plate of a thousand pesos each, this netted the council some P38,00...
  • 13
    Apr
    2012

    The role of NDRRMC in the face of disasters

    by Alice V. Sicat QUEZON CITY, April 12 (PIA) – National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) is the agency of the government that is concerned with monitoring, precautionary measures and in educating the public when it comes to disasters. According to Dir. Neri Amparo of Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) on her interview this morning in the program Talking Points as a representative of NDRRMC, “We have a no-holiday policy, since we are monitoring the North Korean satell...
  • 06
    Apr
    2012

    Claim folders review and process is tedious but makes DAR processes easier and faster

    AGUSAN DEL SUR, April 6 (PIA) -- A Claim Folders Review and Process (CFRP) seminar/workshop which was was conducted on March 12-15, 2012 by the provincial office of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR). The CFRP aimes to expedite land acquisition and distribution (LAD) process, analyze the nature of the LAD balance in the province, clear up the data base, and put things in order for easy retrieval of data and speedy processing. The activity kicked off with a briefing facilitated by the...
  • 21
    Feb
    2012

    Vigan City’s Parole and Probation Office is Best Field Office of 2010, 2011

    VIGAN CITY, Feb. 23 (PIA) -- This two-man government office managed to push itself as the Best Field Office  for 2010 and 2011, over 13 field offices in the four provinces and nine (9) cities of region 1.   The Vigan City Parole and Probation Office under Corazon Dagdag with staff Romeo Piedad received these honors with four other awards in 2011 and seven in 2010.   Last year, according to Dagdag, their office was the Best in Rehabilitation Project, the Best Restorativ...
  • 19
    Aug
    2011

    4 inmates get temporary freedom under prov’l LGU program

    KORONADAL CITY, Aug 19 (PIA) –- For the first time in Philippine history, a provincial government pays for the cash bonds of inmates. Four inmates of the South Cotabato Provincial Rehabilitation and Detention Center were temporarily released from jail after the provincial government paid P42,000 for their cash bonds. Given their release papers during the launching of the province’s Half-Way Out Program and release-on-bail ceremonies on Wednesda...
  • 20
    Jul
    2011

    South Cotabato to pay bail bonds of 4 inmates

    KORONADAL CITY, July 20 (PIA) -- South Cotabato’s provincial government will be paying the bail bonds of four inmates of the Provincial Rehabilitation and Detention Center in the initial stage of the implementation a program that aims to assist detainees with pending cases. Acting Jail Warden Felicito Gumapac said the four inmates, whose names he withheld, are the first detainees to benefit from the assistance that Gov. Arthur Y. Pingoy Jr. promised to poor...
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