Mayor Gomez, Usec Pecson Ink Public-Private Partnership Deal
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VOL. 20 NO. 32 ORMOC CITY P 15.00 at the newsstands SEPTEMBER 2-8, 2019 Website address: www.evmailnews.net For feedback/inquiries: e-mail [email protected] Mayor Gomez, Usec Pecson ink public-private partnership deal BY DAILYN CABARSE ORMOC CITY – On Sep- tember 3, 2019, Tuesday, the Fifteenth Sangguni- ang Panlungsod ng Or- moc passed a resolution, sponsored by SP Member Benjamin S. Pongos, Jr. (Chairman, Committee on Laws & Ordinances), grant- ing authority to City Mayor Richard I. Gomez to enter into and sign the Memoran- dum of Agreement (MOA) for and on behalf of the Local Government Unit of Ormoc (LGU-Ormoc) with the Public-Private Partner- ship Center (PPP Center) represented by Undersecre- tary and Executive Director Ferdinand A. Pecson. With USec Pecson were Atty. While being surrounded by their supporters to include representatives from the Public-Private Partnership Center (PPP Center) and the members of the Mia Mary G. Sebastian (Deputy Fifteenth Sangguniang Panlungsod ng Ormoc, City Mayor Richard I. Gomez entered into and signed the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for and on Executive Director), Atty. Maria behalf of the Local Government Unit of Ormoc (LGU-Ormoc) sealing the city’s partnership with the PPP Center, as represented by Undersecretary and Executive Director Ferdinand A. Pecson. (By Dailyn Cabarse) Lerma L. Advincula (Director IV, Project Development and Moni- toring Facility Service), and John The PPP Center is also a Dominic Zafe (Project Manager). government agency, it being at- This is in relation to the city’s tached to the National Economic ‘Dengue cases in Ormoc collaboration with the PPP Cen- Development Authority (NEDA). ter on potential PPP projects for It serves as the government’s fa- Ormoc City. cilitator and catalyst in pursuing The MOA spelled out the and delivering PPP projects. It decreasing’ – City Health technical assistance that will be provides technical assistance to provided by the PPP Center, in National Government Agencies ORMOC CITY – On September City Health Department (CHD) cases from January 2019 to Sep- various aspects of the PPP Code (NGAs), Government-Owned and 5, 2019, during the fourth meeting revealed that the number of den- tember 4, 2019. However, per the formulation and implementation of this city’s anti-dengue TWG gue cases in Ormoc has decreased. CHD, the good news is that data is of the city’s PPP projects. See PPP CENTER P. 6 (technical working group), the How? Accordingly, the num- showing that the number of den- ber of dengue cases started to in- gue cases is now decreasing; and crease in the first week of August, the department is hoping that the with 91 cases recorded in a span of figures will continue to decrease 7 days. That was when the City of in the weeks to come. Ormoc was declared to be under In addition, the same data a ‘state of calamity’. shows that the clustering of den- Following the declaration and gue cases noted in 25 barangays when Ormocanons started becom- would present Margen, having ing conscious and more vigilant 15 dengue cases, at the top spot, with cleaning their surroundings followed by Cogon with 14, Punta STERLING to as far as destroying possible with 12, and Naungan with 10. INSURANCE CO., INC mosquito-breeding places in the Other barangays with clustering following weeks, the number of of dengue cases have below 10 RICE NO LIMIT!!! cases dropped to 81, 62, 45, and dengue cases. ... and more Filipino favorites “We go further to now, to 32 cases in the first week This data further shows that serve you better” of September. the ‘Search and Destroy’ cam- MILAGRINA However, per the CHD, this paign of the Ormoc City Gov- For your non-life insurance may not still be good news, be- ernment has helped. 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Located at ORMOC CITY, LEYTE Currently, with the 32 addi- “We really have to help each 134 Real St., Telefax: (053) 560-9776 tional dengue cases, Ormoc now Ormoc City has recorded a total of 767 dengue SEE DENGUE P. 6 2 SEPTEMBER 2-8, 2019 Mother and child killed in road mishap LGU-Ormoc, ORCHAM ink TACLOBAN CITY – A fell asleep, and when he mother and her son were learned that he bumped ‘sisterhood’ MOA with Naga killed after an SUV, driven into a barbecue stall in turn by a school head teach- hit the accelerator instead of THE ORMOC City Cham- er, swept a barbecue stall hitting the brakes, causing ber of Commerce and In- owned by the victims be- the SUV to sweep 7 other dustry Inc. (ORCHAM) side the road, hitting 7 motorcycles with sidecars together with Ormoc coun- other vehicles on Monday on the road shoulders. cilors Lalaine Marcos and (September 2) along Ma- Catalan added that the Roiland Villasencio went harlika Highway, Brgy. SUV only made a stop after to Naga City, Camarines Mancol, San Jorge, Samar. hitting a balcony of a house. Sur most recently and met Police Capt. Michael The victims were de- up with their counterparts, Ray Cañete, San Jorge Po- clared dead on arrival at that is, the Metro Naga lice chief, identified the two Gandara District Hospital Chamber of Commerce fatalities as Jovelyn Plana in Gandara, Samar. and Industry (MNCCI) and and her son John Anthony, 4 Other vehicles de- LGU-Naga Mayor Nelson years old; while the suspect stroyed after the incident Legacion together with his was identified as Roland were single motorcycles councilors and department Alegria, 50, head teacher at owned by Mary Nganazon, heads to do a benchmark- Barus Elementary School in Jinly Panis and Jovelyn Pla- ing and to seal the two cit- A group photo followed the ceremonial signing of Sister Chamber Agreement between Ormoc Cham- Matuguinao, Samar. na, and 3 tricycles owned ies’ sisterhood agreement. ber of Commerce and Industry Inc. (ORCHAM) thru President Jude P. Abenoja and Metro Naga Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MNCCI) thru President Ferdinand Sia. They signed in the pres- PCpl. Denard Catalan, by Julito Docena and Guill- The benchmarking ac- ence of VP for Chamber Management (Naga) Eleanor Zuniga-Montermayor, VP for Finance (Naga) case investigator, said that ermo Docena. The incident tivities started on September the suspect was driving on also resulted in damages to Jaime M. Kalaw Jr., Executive Director (Ormoc) Che Gallo, Chairman of the Board (Ormoc) Stephanie 2, 2019 with a fellowship Diane Uy-Chu, and Ormoc City councilors Lalaine Marcos and Roiland Villasencio. his way home to Matuguinao properties and houses. dinner. Joining them two from Catbalogan City about The suspect volun- groups were representatives and the MNCCI “to not [ito] alien sa atin both in Naga three years already. This 3:30 in the afternoon when tarily surrendered to the from the Kapisanan ng mga only exchange ideas on the and Ormoc,” she added. sisterhood agreement, per the SUV encroached the other San Jorge PNP and is tem- Broadcaster ng Pilipinas business side but more also The following day was ORCHAM President Jude side of the highway, which porarily detained at their (KBP), Philippine Informa- exchange ideas and experi- the “Kapihan sa Metro Abenoja, “recognizes the resulted to the collision. detention cell. By Marie tion Agency (PIA) and Asia ences on building disaster Naga Chamber” conference importance of concentrat- He said that the driver Tonette Marticio Pacific Alliance for Disaster resilience businesses.” and finally, the signing of ing their efforts toward the Management Philippines “Sana maging bahagi the “Sister Chamber Agree- promotion of inner-cham- (APAD Bicol), as represent- ng pag-aaral natin ay [ang] ment” between ORCHAM ber relations.” He further ed by Chikai Peñaloza. pagpapataas ng ating busi- and MNCCI. Accordingly, shared during the confer- The benchmarking to- ness sector kasama na dito per ORCHAM, this ‘agree- ence, “we would want to gether with APAD Bicol ang pagpapalakas o papano ment’ between ORCHAM know the best practices that representative Chikai Pe- natin paghahandaan ang and MNCCI has been in ñaloza called on ORCHAM mga piligro kasi hindi naman the planning for almost SEE NAGA P. 6 Army vows to end reign of communist groups in Leyte, Biliran by 2020 BAYBAY CITY – “Limpyohon said to have been raped before While Baybay City Mayor their budget to allocate assis- ko na sila,” says Brigadier the killing; others were, accord- Jose Carlos “Boying” Cari also tance to the survivors. Children surround the site of the road accident that killed a General Lope Dagoy, the Com- ingly, just buried alive. admits it was his first time to On her part, despite her mother and child while tending to their BBQ stand in Samr. mander of the 802nd Brigade As to the present status of attend such an occasion where, being a neophyte, Mayor (Photo by Christian Cabrido) Philippine Army based in the murder and rebellion cases instead of joy, sadness is clearly Azucena “Zusie” Mirambel Camp Downes, Ormoc City, filed against the communist manifested in the faces of his au- reminds those in attendance making known this vow dur- leaders, the authorities said that dience, who are mostly survivors to wake up and finally say ing the 13th Commemoration perpetrators are still at large be- of the victims whose skeletal re- “no” to becoming a slave to Comelec declares of the Mass Grave Discovery cause due to security reasons, the mains were found and exhumed the wrong ideology of the and Exhumation held this litigation had to be transferred to in Sapang Dako, Inopacan, Leyte CPP-NPA-NDF.