TACLOBAN CITY– The deputy chief for operations of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Lt. Gen. Benjamin Santos, Jr., reminded the members of the police organization of the peace and security framework of Police Chief, Gen. Rodolfo Azurin, Jr.
Police Regional Director, B/Ben. Francisco Marbil, Jr. led in welcoming Santos on his visit to the regional headquarters of the PNP on Thursday (Nov.24).
The peace and security framework of Azurin is known as M+K+K=K which stands for ‘Malasakit’, ‘Kaayusan’, ‘Kapayapaan’’, and Kaunlaran’.
Santos also reminded the regional police that along with the M+K+K=K program is the enforcement of the ‘Kasimbayanan’, its crime prevention strategy.
“I hope in your shop everything is aligned with the M+K+K=K and the Kasimbayanan. Let us be efficient and the only way to be efficient is for us to know our job and doing our job well,” he said. (LIZBETH ANN A. ABELLA)
CALBAYOG CITY– An agrarian reform beneficiaries organization (ARBO) from this city’s far-flung village rejoiced as they received another set of farm equipment from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).
Samar Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II (PARPO II) Alfonso Catorce turns over various farm equipment to the Panoypoy farmers Association in Calbayog City. (JESSA LABAGALA, DAR-Samar)
“We thank you DAR for listening to our concerns, for granting us what you had committed,” said Pedro Abajo, president of the Panoypoy Farmers Association (PFA), as he expressed gratitude to DAR officials for fulfilling their promise.
On October 21 this year, DAR Samar provincial chief, Alfonso Catorce, formally turned over to PFA a hand tractor with rotavator, a water pump with suction and discharge hose, a grass cutter and several garden tools.
Catorce disclosed that the said equipment, with a combined amount of P260,250.00 were funded under DAR’s Climate Resilient Farm Productivity Support (CRFPS) project.
According to him, the distribution of common service facilities is in line with Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella III’s nine primary goals which include the provision of modern farm equipment.
PFA identified the above mentioned common service facilities as what they badly need in their daily farm activities, which DAR provided under CRFPS’ Sustainable
Livelihood Support to Disaster Affected Areas.
Abajo shared that the newly acquired equipment “will surely benefit our members.”
Thelma Alfaro, chief of the Program Beneficiaries Development Division (PBDD) reminded the recipient ARBO of their responsibility to maintain the equipment in good condition and provide a secured storage facility.
Meanwhile, City Councilor Minda Pasacas, who is a resident of this village, and Barangay Chairperson Maria Princess Montaner, both expressed their gratitude to DAR for the never-ending support to the agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) here. “From providing them lands to till, to livelihood assistance, to linking them to institutional buyers, and now PFA receives another set of farm equipment from DAR,” said Montaner.
Municipal Agrarian Reform Program Officer (MARPO) Jose Arropo further shared that PFA is composed of 113 members, where 69 of them are ARBs. PFA is into hog raising and organic vegetable production, Arropo added. (JESSA LABAGALA, DAR-Samar/PR)
Ormoc City – Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) – Region VIII – Equipment Management Division (EMD) conducts quarterly inspection of vehicles and equipment of Leyte 4th District Engineering Office (DEO). Documents such as trip tickets, equipment log books, LTO registrations and driver’s license were also examined.
Additionally, officials from the DPWH Regional Office facilitated a lecture to drivers and operators on proper filling-up of equipment logbook as well as daily vehicle maintenance following the ‘BLOWBAGETS’ method which stands for Battery, Lights, Oil, Water, Brake, Air, Gas, Engine, Tire, and Self.
This activity is performed every quarter of the year to assure vehicles and equipment are safe for use and help identify any mechanical problems that may cause breakdowns or accidents. (PR)
Bounces back better, the theme of this years 49th Career Executive Service Convention. at the historic Philippine International Convention Center, the event is unforlding from November 22- 25. 2022.
The said event is a fitting blast of a kind after a hiatus of sort after the dreadful Pandemic came and now it is ebbing down to its last hurrah, the new normal sets in, even for the selfless public servants.
The Career Executive Service Board is mandated by law to promulgate guidelines, rules and regulations for a select group of career officers who would occupy third level positions in government.
To be Career Executive Service Eligible one has to go through a gruelling 4 stage Examinations, Assessments and Interviews. It usually take a minimum of 3 years to be able to hurdle the process. The Pandemic made it harder because of the absence of a firm timeline doing various processes in accordance with ISO certified processes.
Most importantly, it is a corps of public service that leans in continuity and positive service the public rightfully deserves.
This year, President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos as its Guest of Honor. BBM as he is fondly called, mandates up-skilling, re training and digitization of processes.
BBM was able to articulate a grounded and valid view of the civil servants need to re- engineer and re- inventing the CESO s and CESEs persona and skills to best respond to the role that it plays.
The action that does and the contribution it does, transcends generation.
It impose on itself the need to transform its own self , its work place and its people.
Perhaps, in the advent of the information age and the viral social media in the face of problems we have daily, we have to rely on skilled and dedicated public service at the helm.
President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos, Jr. popularly known as PBBM, instead, announced to the Filipino people the launching of the “Parol-making” contest in collaboration with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG). A timely project to rekindle once again the Christianity that runs in the blood of every Filipino – the Philippines is the only Roman Catholic nation in Asia.
We Filipinos should recognize PBBM and Office of the President (OP), for reminding us to the message that a simple lantern (parol) imparts especially as the birth of Our Savior approaches. By tradition, Filipino parols, designed like star, is simply made of bamboo splits and covered with ‘papel de hapon’ – thin paper coming in different colors. A short bamboo tube fixed inside the parol with a candle lighted at night, completes the cheap, simple Filipino lantern.
During my younger years, I make parols (of different designs and sizes) as decors with the approach of the Holiday Season, for our ancestral house in Brgy. San Diego, Burauen, Leyte. My playmates would do the same, hang parols in houses
MY COMMENT:
Sadly, though that the Filipino Christian tradition of hanging, displaying parols of varied designs and colors have disappeared with time especially in the rural areas. What we see are products of innovation, lanterns made of non-bamboo and papel de hapon, but metal housing and glossy plastic cover materials. I still prefer the traditionally made parols of old – let’s revive it!
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CHRIST warned us about what to expect in life if we are to take our Christianity seriously. “They will seize and persecute you, they will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before kings and governors because of my name,” he said. (Lk 21,12)
But not to worry, because Christ will take care of everything. “Remember, you are not to prepare your defense beforehand,” he said, “for I myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute…By your perseverance you will secure your lives.” (Lk 21,13-14.19)
Let’s remember that we can only manage to persevere in the trials and challenges of our earthly life when we are always with Christ. We have to be wary of our tendency to rely solely on our human resources, especially when we happen to be quite gifted in that department, because such attitude cannot go the distance. Sooner or later, we would give up.
In this regard, we have to be very careful with the most subtle trick of the devil who can lead us to think that we would just be ok by relying on our own powers only, especially if so far we have been quite successful in dealing with our human drama.
While it’s true that we have to make full use of our human powers, we should never forget that such powers come from God and can be used properly only with God as the motive and the purpose. Otherwise, they can provide us with a sweet poison whose harm to us may only be observed when things would already be too late to resolve.
We definitely need to be humble to realize this basic truth about ourselves and our capacity to persevere in our Christian life. It’s only when we are humble that we can become ‘capax Dei,’ an expression coined by St. Augustine that means that we are capable of becoming like God or that we are capable for God.
Humility is the virtue that makes us acknowledge that we are nothing without God. It sort of opens our soul for the grace of God to enter. And it is this grace that transforms us, irrespective of our human impotencies, mistakes and errors, into becoming children of God, capable of speaking in the Spirit and of persevering despite whatever tests we can encounter in life.
It is humility that would enable us to be like Christ, to be ‘alter Christus,’ who is the pattern of our humanity and the redeemer of our damaged humanity. It is when we are humble that we can manage to bear and to suffer all things, and to love even our enemies, offering forgiveness to our offenders, just like what Christ did and continues to do. With it we can handle whatever challenges, trials and persecutions we may face in life.
Pride, the opposite of humility, is what blocks God’s grace from entering into our soul. It restricts us to our own powers alone, which in the first place are given by God but which we consider simply to be our own. It gives us a false light, quite convincing in its effect on us, but is really deceptive. It cannot go the distance insofar as the demands and requirements of our authentic human dignity are concerned.
