Monday, January 13, 2025

Tag: Malaybalay City

Fleet of modern buses boosts Bukidnon’s transport system

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MALAYBALAY CITY — The Department of Transportation (DOTr) and Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB)-10 took a significant step forward in modernizing the transportation system by introducing 15 modern public utility vehicles (PUVs) in the first fleet of the trendy transport scene in Bukidnon province

As part of the government’s public utility vehicles modernization program (PUVMP), LTFRB-10 Regional Director Aminoden Allan Guro said that the new PUVs have a global positioning system (GPS), closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, televisions, and a cashless fare through the Automatic Fare Collection System server.

“Here in Bukidnon, our decades-old vehicles need to be upgraded so that our passengers can enjoy comfortable, safe, and reliable public transportation. Those dilapidated and old jeeps, which are more than 15 years old—some have even reached 30 years—must be replaced,” Guro said during the PUVMP launching ceremony, on February 23, at the Centennial Stage, Capitol Ground, Malaybalay City.

Modern buses are run by the Bukidnon Transport Multi-Purpose Cooperative (BUKTRAMCO), which has promised to keep service and safety at a high level. These vehicles, each with a seating capacity of 30, will be plying the Quezon-Valencia City-Malaybalay City route. The cooperative has received extensive training and is required to abide by LTFRB’s guidelines and regulations.

Office of Transport Cooperatives Chair Jesus Ferdinand Ortega said soon another group of the same PUVs would arrive to give people a better way to get around that is also more convenient and better for the environment.

“We, in the Office of Transport Cooperative, under DOTr, assure you that this will not be the first modern PUV running here in the province. There will be many more. The program also intends to provide better transportation services to the people to address air pollution and road safety issues. It is one of the government’s priority programs,” he explained.

He stressed that small PUV players could join the Modernization Program as long as they joined together, formed a cooperative or corporation, and met the program’s requirements.

Ortega said that showing off the new buses in Bukidnon is an inspiration, especially for BUKTRAMCO, and a good model for the rest of the country’s provinces.

The DOTr and LTFRB promised to keep helping the province modernize its transportation system. This is in line with the government’s goal of improving public transportation services all over the country. (RLRB/PIA-10/Bukidnon)

Paglugway sa pagproseso sa motorela permit aprobado na sa SP Malaybalay

Posted on by Omar Rashid Z. Abdullah

Aprobado na sa Sangguniang Panlungsod sa syudad sa Malaybalay ang Resolution nga naglugway sa adlaw nga gitakda alang sa pag proseso sa motorela permit hangtod sa Marso 30, 2023

Base sa pahibalo sa lokal nga panggamhanan, ang Malaybalay City Federation of United Motorela Operators and Drivers Association (MACFUMODA), Inc. nihangyo niadtong niaging bulan sa paglugway sa adlaw nga gitakda alang sa pag proseso sa motorela permit.

Human sa masusing pagtuon, ang Committee on Transportation, Communication and Traffic Management, Business Permit and Licensing Division ug City Legal Office nag rekomenda nga pagatugotan ang maong hangyo sa MACFUMODA hangtod Marso 30 nga walay multa. (Omar Rashid Z. Abdullah)

Firm proposes online payment scheme for Malaybalay City

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MALAYBALAY CITY – Pisopay.com, a Makati-based company that specializes in creating a system for online payments, proposed a system for the City Government of Malaybalay

During the regular session of Sangguniang Panglungsod (SP) on February 14, 2023, Ms. Patricia Javier, Director of Marketing for Pisopay.com said the system can be called Malaybalay Egov Smart City or LGU Centralized Digital System.

This system will allow users to pay online with their transactions with the city.

Javier said the system they are developing will have three areas: for users or the citizens of the city, for E-gov Management System, and for the Accounting System.

Javier said each of the features provides an easier, accessible, and convenient way of paying.

In response to a question by City Councilor Royland Orquia on the possibility of being hacked, Javier said they cannot predict the possibility but they will make sure that they will have local storage of data for monitoring and faster solutions.

Javier said that they have already coordinated with the City Information Technology Officer along with the City Treasurer’s Office.

The SP is yet to deliberate on the proposal. (BukidnonNews.net)

411 Bukidnon workers get P1.6-M from DOLE’s TUPAD program

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MALAYBALAY CITY (PIA) – Four hundred and eleven (411) disadvantaged or displaced workers in Maramag, Bukidnon, recently received a total of P1.6 million in government salaries through the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-10’s Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) program

DOLE 10-Bukidnon Field Office Provincial Director Raul Valmores said each beneficiary received P3,900 as payment for their 10-day work.

He said the 411 beneficiaries are from Barangays San Miguel, North Poblacion, South Poblacion, Kuya, Danggawan, Panadtalan, Colambugon, Panalsalan, Dologon, Base Camp, Camp-1, Anahawon, and Bayabason, all in Maramag municipality.

“TUPAD aims to improve the quality of workers’ physical living conditions while contributing to the communities’ welfare, which provides emergency employment for displaced, underemployed, and seasonal workers,” Valmores said.

He explained that TUPAD is being implemented through direct administration or accredited co-partners (ACPs), which refer to the DOLE program partner responsible for directly delivering services to the target beneficiary. They are worker organizations of national government agencies and LGUs, as well as other non-profit people’s organizations and non-profit NGOs that have met DOLE accreditation requirements.

Merlita Barredo, 63, of Barangay San Miguel, a PWD (person with disability) due to poliomyelitis, thanked the government’s Labor and Employment department for enlisting her as a TUPAD beneficiary. She reiterated that, despite the slow pace of her work, she gave it her all to complete the ten-day task.

“Nagpasalamat ko sa DOLE. Dako kayo ni’g tabang nako. Usa ko ka PWD pero naapil gihapon ko sa inyong programa. Bisan galisod ko ug lakaw naningkamot ko nga makaapil. Salamat kaayo. Kaning kwarta ipalit nakog bugas ug sud-an,” she said.

(The Labor Department has been helpful to me. This program helps people like me. It gave me a chance to take part despite my disability. Thank you. I will use the money to buy food)

The DOLE-10 Bukidnon field office led the payout ceremony. Audrey Zubiri, wife of Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri, Maramag Municipal Mayor Jose Joel P. Doromal, San Miguel Punong Barangay Dominico Loja Sr., and barangay program coordinator Generoso Maribao Jr. graced the event. (DOLE-10/PIA-10/Bukidnon)

17 combine harvesters gitunol ngadto sa mga farmers associations sa Bukidnon

Posted on by Diego M. Hidalgo

Gitunol ngadto sa mga giila nga farmers associations sa probinsya sa Bukidnon ang 17 ka mga rice combine harvesters, kaniadtong Peb. 10, sa Kaamulan Open Theater, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon

Gitaho sa lokal nga panggamhanan nga ang maong mga makinarya, gikan sa Department of Agriculture-Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (DA-PhilMech), ubos sa Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) Mechanization Program sa 2021 ug 2022 nga pondo.

Gitinguha sa DA nga mas mapalambo ug mapadali ang pagpanguma sa mga benepisyaryo, ingon man mapahimuslan pa kini sa umaabot nga mga katuigan. (Diego M. Hidalgo)

Pastor gisikop sa kasong murder sa Malaybalay

Posted on by Diego M. Hidalgo

Isa ka pastor ang gisikop sa hiniusang pwersa sa kapolisan kaniadtong Pebrero 5, 2023 sa Purok 6B, Barangay Aglayan, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon

Si Police Lt. Col. Ritchie A. Salva, oic sa Malaybalay City Police Station, nisaysay sa iyang report nga ang suspek giila nga si Oliver Sugue y Pasco alyas “Oliver Sauge” ug “Dodong”, 42, minyo, ug residente sa maong dapit.

Siya gisikop pinasubay sa warrant of arrest sa kasong murder nga gi-issue niadtong Abril 4, 2006.

Nasikop siya human sa halos 17 ka tuig nga pagtago-tago.

Ang arestado anaa na ubos sa kustodiya sa Malaybalay CPS alang sa hustong disposasyon. (Diego M. Hidalgo)

DOLE Bukidnon, PESO Malaybalay conducts Livelihood Orientation, Profiling

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The Public Employment Service Office (PESO) in coordination with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Bukidnon conducted the Livelihood and Child Labor Prevention & Elimination Program Orientation and Profiling on January 24, 2023, at People’s Hall, New City Hall, Casisang, Malaybalay City

The participants are forty (40) Parents of Child Laborers beneficiaries. Individual cases of the beneficiaries have been assessed purposely to identify the needs of children and their families. Also present are the three (3) potential association beneficiaries for Livelihood Program.

DOLE Provincial Director Raul L. Valmores graced the event and even shared a success story of one of their previous livelihood beneficiary. (PR)

Agri dept 10 links Bukidnon onion farmer to Cebu market

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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – To meet the market’s increasing demand for red onions, the Department of Agriculture – Regional Field Office 10 (DA-RFO 10) under the helm of OIC–Regional Executive Director Carlene C. Collado administered the market linkage and sale of ‘Red Pinoy’ onions to SariSuki Cebu on January 27, 2023

With help from DA’s recently turned over delivery truck to the local government of Sumilao, Bukidnon dubbed as the ‘Kadiwa on Wheels’, Joseph G. Aguilar, an onion farmer from barangay Kisolon, was able to transport 1 ton of his produce overall costing to P200K (at P200 per kilo) to the CdeO City port, which was later on shipped to Cebu.

On such initiative, RED Collado said that the agency through its Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division (AMAD) vigorously pursues the facilitation of linkages of farmers and fisherfolk enterprises (FFEs) and other agri-based MSMEs with consumer markets and institutional buyers.

Through DA’s Kadiwa displays, individuals, especially those farmers’ cooperatives, and associations (FCAs) may sell their harvest at competitive prices with an assured link to a market; thereby, ensuring the quality and freshness of their agricultural produce.

The said shipment was also assisted by the DA-Bureau of Plant Industry-Plant Quarantine Service Cagayan de Oro through its OIC-Manager, Arnold S. Dela Cruz.

Ahead of Aguilar’s Cebu market, he has also sold 1,488 kilos of red onions amounting to P431,781 to Gaisano Mall Malaybalay City on January 20. (MPMTablon/DA-10)

Authorities investigating deaths of warty pigs in Bukidnon protected area

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MALAYBALAY CITY — At least nine warty pigs (Sus philippensis) died from still unknown causes within the Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park last year, the chief of the Protected Area Management Office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Bukidnon said on January 31, 2023

The warty pigs, which are classified as vulnerable by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, were found dead in three areas—Barangay Kaatuan in Lantapan town, Barangay San Vicente in Baungon town, and Barangay Mapayag in Malaybalay City—according to Protected Area Superintendent Merlita L. Tabamo.

Five of them were found dead in Kaatuan, three in September and two in November 2022. Two each were found dead in San Vicente and Mapayag, Tabamo said.

She noted that all of the nine animals showed no wounds and other indications that they were physically harmed.

Tabamo said her office had reported the incidents to the eight local government units around Mt. Kitanglad Range and Gov. Rogelio Neil Roque.

She also instructed the Kitanglad Guard Volunteers to be on alert for similar incidents during their monthly patrols.

The official added that personnel from the Provincial Veterinary Office have offered to help identify the cause of the deaths of the warty pigs. Aside from examining the carcasses of the pigs, they will also conduct tests on live ones.

Tabamo cited that based on their monitoring the warty pig population in Mt. Kitanglad Range increased in 2020 and 2021 but showed a decline in 2022.

She said if the deaths continued, it could affect the local population of the warty pigs, which play an important role in conservation by dispersing the seeds of some plant species.

She said they could not say for now that the warty pigs were infected with the African Swine Fever or another kind of virus.

Bukidnon was not included as a hotspot of the ASF after the disease infected several hogs in parts of Mindanao starting in 2019.

But as a safety measure, DENR-Bukidnon has issued an order banning the entry of swine, pork, and pork products into the park effective Feb. 1.

Tabamo said the Kitanglad Guard Volunteers will enforce the order on all visitors entering the park. (H. Marcos C. Mordeno/MindaNews)

Top 2, Top 3 PNP, PDEA Regional Level nakorner

Posted on by Diego M. Hidalgo

Gisikop sa hiniusang pwersa sa kapolisan ang Top 2 ug Top 3 PNP/PDEA Regional Level most wanted person sa managlahing lugar ug higayon

Sa nahipos nga report gikan sa Bukidnon Police Provincial Office, ang duha ka suspek giila nga si Ronald Ariel Gaguan y Torremocha aka “Otik” ug Eliakim Destor y Anglao.

Si Gaguan, top 2 sa Regional PNP/PDEA List, 41, minyo, driver, former PNP member ug residente sa Purok-1, Sitio Kilabong, Barangay Vista Villa, Sumilao, Bukidnon. Siya nasikop sa maong lugar kaniadtong Enero 27, 2023.

Nakuha gikan sa posesyon ni Gaguan ang 15 garmo sa gidudahang shabu nga adunay estimated market value nga Php102,000.00.

Si Destor, sa laing bahin, Top 3 sa Regional PNP/PDEA List, 31, minyo, mag-uuma ug residente sa residente sa Butong, Quezon, Bukidnon. Siya naikop sa Everlasting Village, Poblacion, Pangantucan, Bukidnon kaniadtong Enero 30, 2023.

Si Gaguan anaa ubos sa kustodiya sa Malaybalay City Police Station samtang si Destor gidala sa Pangantucan Municipal Police Station alang sa hustong disposasyon. (Diego M. Hidalgo)