Marinduque: Exploring Potential Tourism Spot In The Island

Popular personalities may draw attentions but you don't need to be one to make it happen. Interests and self-submission could build a tower of courage and dedication to touch even more individuals to come together and imparting their share out of strife and differences. Like what Mr. Topher Matienzo contributes in exploring one of the breath-taking journeys inside the cave of San Isidro in Sta. Cruz.  

TV personality, Gretchen Malalad recently visited Brgy. San Isidro's (that's in Sta. Cruz),subterranean river with a team from ABS-CBN to do a special feature on Marinduque for "Balitang Amerika" on ANC Channel. Her group was accompanied by Congressman Lord Allan Jay Q. Velasco and his Chief of Staff for Marinduque Affairs, Erick Abad

(Mr. Topher matienzo wearing sky-blue shirt)

A composite group with representatives of environmental agencies, LGUs, provincial and planning agencies, tourism officers, spelunking organizations and other concerned agencies will hold a seminar at the Provincial Training Center in Tamayo, Sta. Cruz. The newly discovered San Isidro Caves and Subterranean River will be one of the topics. An exploration of the cave in the company of visiting cave experts is included in the said activity scheduled Sept. 1-4, 2009.

..more of San Isidro Cave @:
http://marinduquegov.blogspot.com/2009/07/marinduques-newest-discovery-hidden.html

Marinduque: IT on Day Care Centers!

 The introduction of ECCD's Early Childhood Learning Development Program for local kids .

Pisces Publication's representative Elmer Dioquino explains to the day-care workers in this video the features of the instructional software learning program at their disposal.




Research showed that fifty percent of a person's ability to learn is developed in the first four years of life according to research findings, and that another thirty percent is developed by the 8th birthday. As disclosed by DepEd only 12% of every 100 grade 1 pupils are ready for school.


Board member Eleuterio Raza, Jr., SP minority floor leader of the incumbent Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP), noted in 2007, that there were surplus funds from un-programmed appropriations from the 2004, 2005, and 2006 20% CDF budget. These were intended for projects and activities identified and enumerated in the Annual Investment Plans. 

The funds, Raza noted, could be used“to operationalize the development thrusts and priorities of the present administration”. Raza, together with board member Leticia Monte thus proposed and convinced the other members of the SP to consolidate such unused funds “into a single fund” that could be “realigned to the different priority development projects of the Office of the Governor and the Sangguniang Panlalawigan”. 




The Raza-Monte-sponsored resolution stated that the consolidated fund should be re-aligned to some priority development projects “of the Office of the Governor and the Sangguniang Panlalawigan” specifically identifying the following:

Php 2.9-million for Legislative Development Initiatives Augmentation Fund for the Office of the Vice-Governor and SP members (Php 500,000 for the OVG and Php 300,000 each for SP members); Php 5-million for Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Programs (province-wide), for “purchase of instructional materials and other teaching aids” and Php 250,000 as incentives to day-care workers, among others




..more @:
http://marinduquegov.blogspot.com/2010/06/board-member-eleuterio-raza-jr.html

Marinduque: Abolishment of Torrijos Municipal Hospital! (Like a thief in the night)

-2010-

The alleged closure of Torrijos Municipal Hospital for improvements of Sta Cruz District and Damian Reyes Hospital in Boac are feared undesirable for the common folks in the south as their constitutional rights to a BASIC HEALTH SERVICES from the Provincial Government will soon be taken away in the community.   

Torrijos Municipal Hospital Employees 

Two top officials of the province (including a Board Member from 2nd District) and some provincial health officials were among others behind the pronouncement aired by Radyo Natin-Boac local news last September.  Dr. Bacorro of Sta. Cruz District Hospital made the same statement as well.

The Torrijos Municipal Hospital obtained the required option by the Department Of Health (DOH) on ACCESSIBILITY, EFFICIENCY, QUALITY, EQUITY and AVAILABILITY. Although the said "Primary Hospital" had only 10 beds capacity and has a limited health services the DOH had nothing to do on the idea of eliminating the HEALTH SERVICES as the BASIC needs in the locality.

Marinduque has a totaled bed capacity of 135 for the population of more than two hundred thousand; 100 beds in Provincial Hospital, 25 beds in the District of Sta. Cruz and 10 beds in Torrijos. DOH requires a standard bed capacity of 1:1,000 ratios. With 28,000 of its population In Torrijos the ratio is 1:2,619 per bed.  

Torrijos Municipal Hospital was categorized as Primary Hospital-level 1, Sta. Cruz District Hospital-level 2, while the Damian Reyes (Provincial Hospital) is a Secondary Hospital.  

Mayor Gil Briones, Municipal Mayor of Torrijos and the legislative body, including the League of the Association of Barangay Captains (ABC) had already made a resolution on the issue at hand.

The BASIC SERVICES are REQUIREMENTS to every Filipino anywhere in the country, whether you are in the smallest island the needs is BASIC. It is their constitutional rights to benefit from it.

The rumored issue was DENIED by the Provincial Government and it was “confirmed” from a local cable TV in Boac that there’s no allegation of closure at all (why not in Torrijos?). 

Puzzled?

What possibly could have been if BASIC SERVICES--the health-- has been taken away from these local folks?


Apparently, the previous administration strengthen these basic services by providing them beneficial option to reduced poverty in a way.  

Torrijos had a totaled 28, ooo population. Most of them were just common and ordinary folks; where in numbers there's strength in needs.

The local officials stand-out on the issue that people here should be thankful and realized it was a job well done.

Marinduque: NO JUETENG IN MARINDUQUE?

                                                                   Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile

During the In September 2010 Senate committee hearings investigating the ‘jueteng’ scandals - in aid of legislation - Senators Enrile and Estrada at one point actually recommended legalization. Jueteng is the illegal numbers game that has remained unabated in various parts of the archipelago for the last hundred years. So it’s now a question really of whether we want to legalize it or not, stressed Enrile. 

Sen. Sotto disagreed citing Marinduque, of all places, as a province where, according to him, the illegal numbers game does not exist because of political will. “Ayaw ni Governor Carmencita”, Sotto said. The hearing was carried live on ANC. Yet on the same September day, a DILG spokesperson was interviewed over DZRH-Radyo Natin saying plainly that Marinduque and Pampanga (its governor also denied that jueteng existed there), are among the provinces where illegal numbers games exist. And today we see the Marinduque police and local officials up in arms versus this illegal numbers thing and other forms of gambling.

What’s the real score then? Truth is, male and female ‘cobradors’ collecting bets as they make the rounds of houses even in the most remote of Marinduque barangayshave become all-too-familiar sights, of course. A ‘kabo’ in motorcycle would collect all the bets and turn them over to the ‘bangka’ whose identity is known to only a few. 
Shortly after the operation of STLs, small town lotteries, ‘jueteng’ in Marinduque was replaced by the new variants, ‘suertres’ (three numbers) and ‘2-balls’ (two numbers). This means illegal gambling operators merely and freely make use of the results of PCSO-drawn numbers for the authorized ‘suertres’ and ‘EZ2 lotto’, that are just two among the many lotto games bettors follow nightly on television. 




A considerably huge number of people in every barangay are, of course, unhappy. They depended on the suertres and 2-balls operation for their daily income. The crusade was also against other forms of gambling like ‘patupada’, illegal cockfighting and ‘tong-its’, poker, and so a lot more people sulked.




..more @:
http://marinduquegov.blogspot.com/2010/11/no-jueteng-in-marinduque-look-again-now.html