The solar-led streetlights serve as deterrent to crimes and “pangayaw” DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT | TALAINGOD, Davao del Norte, 14 May 2013 - In the remote village of Barangay Sto. Niño in Upper Nanaga, Talaingod, Davao del Norte, residents are already home right after the sun has set. By 6 pm, the whole village is pitch black with nary a sound. According to villager Antonio Villanueva, this is not unusual especially for Barangay Sto. Nino, which is...
Philippine Information Agency | DAVAO CITY, April 22 -- The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) has turned-over completed PAMANA (Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan) projects in Basilan last April 13. At least eight projects were completed and turned-over to the local government units, each amounting to P1.5 million. OPAPP officials also said thirteen more projects are ongoing. Hadzer Birowa, OPAPP project assistant for PAMANA projects...
Philippine Information Agency | KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, April 17 (PIA) -- At least 17 indigent and conflict-affected barangays across Soccsksargen Region are set to benefit from the national government’s PAyapa at MAsaganang PamayaNAn (PAMANA) Program. Amalia Jayag-Datukan, regional executive director of the Department of Agriculture 12, said the target communities were named in a recent consultative meeting in Davao City to identify programs for the priority areas for 2014...
Philippine Information Agency | BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar March 17 (PIA) -- The government's Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) project which is being implemented by the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process may well fulfill Maslog’s town long time dream of being connected to a major road network. The absence of road network that will connect this remote town to the national highway has hindered the development of this town with vast potential for agriculture....
Philippine Information Agency | BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, March 17 --The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace Process (OPAPP), in coordination with its partner government line agencies conducted an information caravan with social services package from the Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) projects in the municipality of Maslog and Barangay Hinolaso and Aroganga, in Dolores E. Samar on March 12-14. Maslog is a fifth class municipality of Eastern Samar. It can be reached by a...
The government’s efforts to secure just and lasting peace in Mindanao have received a shot in the arm with the recent signing of a Peace Covenant between two groups of farmers that could put an end to almost four decades of bloody encounters over 178 hectares of land in Makilala, Cotabato.Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio delos Reyes noted that the peace agreement signed last January 31 between Moslem and Christian agrarian reform beneficiaries in Sitio Lacobe would enable the Department...
PIA | CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Jan 29 -- An information and services package emanating from the Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) projects will be bringing government services to Gandara and Matuginao barangays.During the Samar Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) meeting, Monday, member agencies with Samar LGU agreed to bring the government closer to the people in the area.Lt Col Glenn Calambuhay from the army conceptualized the series of Pamana caravans and presented the plan to...
Philstar | COTABATO CITY, Philippines - Eleven Maguindanao towns and a public school received on Monday farm tools, chemical sprayers, assorted vegetable seeds, and organic fertilizers as initial logistical tranche for a province-wide gardening project involving housewives and school children.Dubbed “Gulayan sa Maguindanao,” the project, to be tested in the 11 towns and at the Mangudadatu Elementary School in Mangudadatu town in the second district of Maguindanao, is parallel with...
philStar| COTABATO CITY, Philippines --- There are huge deposits of “green gold” in the 220,000-hectare Liguasan delta that can be “mined” to provide Moro communities livelihood and economic empowerment while they wait for a final peace pact between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. By “green gold,” experts mean the vast carpets of water hyacinths spread on about three-fourths of the delta, Asia’s largest, located at...
Inihayag ni Assistant Provincial Planning Officer Elena Austria ng pamahalaang panlalawigan na ang apat na mga daan na natapos na ay ang pagpapakongkreto ng Sta. Rosa Sur-San Rafael ng Jose Panganiban na nagkakahalaga ng P20 milyon; pagpapakongkreto ng Malibago-Maligaya ng Labo na nagkakahalaga ng P40 milyon; pagpapakongkreto ng Bakiad-Sta. Cruz-Fundado ng Labo na nagkakahalaga P10 milyon; at ganon din ng Pambuhan - Lanot Road ng Mercedes na nagkakahalaga ng P20 milyon. Ang isa pang...
