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strengthen PIO network


Cong. Manuel “Chiquiting” Sagarbarria (in brown shirt) and City Councilor Chaco Sagarbarria (6th from left) pose with officials of barangay Tinago during a consultation meeting last week. (Photo by Elvira Alagao)


Sandurot Fest opens in September


Dumaguete City is rolling out novel activities as well as improving on existing ones to draw more tourists here during the celebration of Tourism Month in September. At a press launch Tuesday afternoon, Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo disclosed the Sandurot Festival was moved to September from its usual schedule every month of November to highlight the City’s identity, as well as to pump up tourism promotions for the nationwide tourism celebration.


cultural presentation comprising Paghimamat (Get Together), Pasigarbo (Street Dance), and Pasundayag (Showdown) will be the highlight of this year’s activities, scheduled on Saturday, Sept. 16. Eleven contingents have signed up for the


million budget for the Sandurot Festival and other activities, City Tourism Officer Jacqueline Veloso- Antonio assured that September will be a month of food, fanfare, festivities, and sporting events. The Sandurot Festival’s


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competition, namely, Asian College, Dumaguete City High School, Junob National High School, Metro Dumaguete College, Piapi High School, Silliman University; Barangays Banilad, Cantil-e, Daro, Junob, and Looc.


One interesting feature this year is the introduction of the official festival soundtrack titled Mag Sandurot Ta, composed by Levi Alaban, and performed by Noris Wagas with the Silliman University Campus Choristers, and sound engineer Junijay Tinambacan. (click here for the audio soundtrack available in www. dumaguetemetropost.com) Antonio


festival soundtrack gives an identity to the Festival, while encouraging the 11 competing contingents to adopt other rhythms and music during their cultural presentations. The musical composer Alaban is a graduate of the Silliman College of Performing & Visual Arts where he now teaches after earning a Bachelor of Music major in Composition, and a Master of Music


Army tells NPA: Surrender!


the 3rd


Infantry Division has announced that the government is giving the member s


Communist Party of the Philippines/New Peoples Army incentives to those who want to return to the fold of the law such as a resettlement site with free housing and livelihood assistance. Maj. Gen. Jon Aying of Infantry Division


the 3rd of the The commander of


promised this during a trip to Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental last July 27 to pay his respects for the policemen who were killed in an ambush July 21st


terrorists.


in an interview Monday afternoon said when these insurgents will surrender en masse, aside from the resettlement area, housing and livelihood, they will be allowed to keep their firearms for them to be resilient against attacks by their comrades who would refuse to heed the call of government. According to Maj. Gen. Aying, President Duterte


that private and concerned citizens all over Negros Island are extending reward money for information that will lead to the arrest, neutralization or killing of CPP/NPA members. According to Maj. Gen.


in the meantime, has confirmed that massive


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Staff from the Philippine Information Agency take a photo with the faculty and students of Negros Oriental High School after the ASEAN Campus Forum & Trivia Games held Aug. 18. The activity is part of the strategies of PIA in promoting the relevance, significance, and benefits of ASEAN to the public. (PIA7-NegOr)


Aying, the concerned citizens have offered P100,000 per CPP/NPA member who will be neutralized as reward money, to informants who can give the exact location of the enemy that will lead to his or her arrest. The 3rd


ID commander,


by alleged Communist Aying also announced


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specializing in Instrumental Conducting. He plays the drums and the trumpet, and is assistant director of the SU Concert Band. He also arranges musical compositions for the SU Marching Band and the Negros Oriental Jazz Band. The Festival will


run from Sept. 8 to 17, with activities such as a Dumaguete belltower light up, terracotta sculpting contest, electric night run, Duma Comida (food and music), national drone race, a half marathon, and a local producers’ bazaar (not merely a buy-and-sell). The Philippine National Police has assured that security measures are in place, with the Dumaguete Police Station in charge of assigning police personnel in the different venues, as well as providing regular mobile and foot patrols. The Sandurot Festival


City gets 2 garbage trucks


unit of Dumaguete City has acquired two brand new garbage compactor trucks worth about Php seven million to augment its current efforts to address the growing problem of trash in this Negros Oriental capital. Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo led city officials during the blessing of the compactor trucks at the City Hall grounds Wednesday morning. The Mayor disclosed in an interview later that the city government had earlier allocated Php 14- million for the purchase of what they thought would only be two garbage compactor trucks. But the local government managed to bid out the


was held in previous years in November, during the Charter Day Anniversary of Dumaguete City on the 24th of that month, and the fiesta in honor of its patron saint, St. Catherine of Alexandria, the following day. (With a report from Judy Flores Partlow/PNA)


recruitment by the NPA is going on, but he is confident their membership in the island could not reach 250 or 300 due to the economics of war.


He said recruitment would mean additional resources, which the CPP/ NPA is dependent only on extortion activities at this time.


TO PAGE 9 The local government


Andanar announced on Friday morning plans of reviving a network of public information officers (PIOs) especially in the provinces to allow for a two-way communication between the Palace and the grassroots level. Secretary Andanar made the announcement in a news conference in his first-ever visit to Dumaguete City. The PCOO chief explained that part of his visit is to


Norte, Agusan del Norte, General Santos City, Sarangani, Pangasinan, and the Cordilleras. After Dumaguete City, the PCOO chief and his party will proceed to nearby Siquijor Island. Secretary Andanar explained the importance of having


of the President from the Palace to the provinces or even to the purok level, he stressed. Also, this will open the line of communications from


the provinces through the PIOs to Malacañang and vice versa, he added.


“This way we have a more vibrant communication exchange,” Andanar pointed out. He also highlighted the importance of educating the municipalities that currently do not have PIOs. He said the municipalities are sources of information that will not just help national government in disseminating information, but that local media will also benefit from them. Andanar cited Philcomnet during the administration


of then President Arroyo in 2004. “We will resuscitate, relaunch that network in the hope of being able to communicate easily.” . Andanar said he is in Dumaguete to meet with the local


media because of the need to strengthen government ties with them. “The President has mentioned time and again, especially


This, he said, will make it easier to deliver the message Presidential Communications Operations Sec. Martin


revive the group of PIOs nationwide through the recent launching of the Provincial Communication Officers’ Network. He said that in line with this, he has visited Surigao del


Andanar to


PIOs in the municipalities and cities, and the need to bring them together under the Provincial Communication Officers’ Network.


during the campaign, the importance of decentralizing government. So when you decentralize government, it is not limited to DPWH, PNP, AFP, but we should also decentralize [the flow of] information,”Andanar said. The PCOO Secretary said this is to “make everyone feel that there is a government after all through the means of communication”. (With a report from Judy Flores Partlow/ PNA)


guest of honor and speaker during the 11th of the 79th


Masaligan battalion, headed by Lt. Col. Roderick Garcia, at Camp Leon Kilat in Tanjay, Negros Oriental on Monday. (Juancho Gallarde/PNA)


anniversary Infantry


It is for this reason that extortion activities of the CPP/NPA is confirmed in all levels, with even the poorest of the poor in hinterland communities, barangay captains are victimized, to include high government officials, the Army general pointed out. Maj. Gen. Aying was the


The blessing and inauguration of the two compactors are witnessed by (from left to right) Councilors Joe Kenneth Arbas, Agustin Miguel Perdices, Lionel Banogon, Estanislao Alviola, Manuel Arbon, Karissa Tolentino, Alan Gel Cordova, Lilani Ramon, Michael Bandal and Jose Victor Imbo. (Photo by PIO)


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