Zamboanga City News Bits – May 24, 2015

Over 2,000 runners participated in the Peace and Freedom Run, one of the culminating events for the 2015 Summer Festival, at the Climaco Freedom Park in Abong-abong, Pasonanca Sunday morning (May 24). Organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in partnership with the City Government, the event brought together Muslims, Christians and indigenous groups to a 5-km long fun run for peace, freedom and reconciliation in the city and the Philippines.
Mayor Beng Climaco urges all registered voters to heed Commission on Elections or COMELEC appeal to validate registration records on or before October 31, 2015 so they can exercise their right of suffrage come May 9, 2016. Per COMELEC, those who fail to beat the deadline will not be allowed to vote in the 2016 synchronized national and local elections. Concerned individuals can visit the Comelec-City office at Villalobos street or check out its facebook account/page Comelec Zamboanga City office or call or text cellphone numbers 0917-71489758.
The City Government will initiate an intensified week-long crackdown on violators of the smoking ordinance starting Monday, May 25, in line with the global commemoration of World No Tobacco Day on May 31. From May 25 to May 31, the Smoke-Free Task Force of Zamboanga City will be making the rounds in public areas within the City to monitor compliance and apprehend violators of Ordinance 413, also known the Ordinance Regulating Smoking in the City. It will also monitor cigarette vendors’ compliance to the ordinance, specifically the provisions that prohibit the sale of cigarettes to minors and in areas within 100 meters from school perimeters.
Some 60 workers displaced by the 2013 siege received on Friday, May 23 livelihood starter kits that included 30 sewing machines, 25 kits for food vending and merienda-making and 5 kits for peanut butter-making through the initiative of the City Social Welfare and Development Office or CSWDO-PESO (Public Employment Service Office). The program forms part of the Bottom-up-Budgeting project, now called the grassroots participatory project, jointly implemented by the Department of Labor and Employment or DOLE and the Local Government Unit through the CSWDO-PESO. The city government targets a total of 240 families to benefit from the program.
The Emergency Employment Program for Internally Displaced Persons with 60 beneficiaries will start Monday, May 25 covering a period of 20 days in the transitory sites. Work includes clean-up drive, drainage cleaning and other related activities including updating livelihood data map in the Masepla Transitory site. The beneficiaries will be paid P280 per day with SSS and GSIS coverage as well as Philhealth insurance benefits and personal protective gears. The CSWDO-PESO and DOLE will provide capacity building orientation prior to deployment with funding coming from the International Labor Organization.
Through the efforts of its stakeholders, teachers and administration in coordination with the Department of Education and Division Office, the Zamboanga East and West Central Schools were finally restored to the Zamboanga Central School, which in effect lifted the the imaginary partition in both schools. The commemorative program was held Saturday, May 23 with Mayor Climaco, Councilor Gerky Valesco and education officials as guests.

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