PNP Negros Oriental seals firearms to avoid indiscriminate gun firing on New Year
By Jennifer C. Tilos
DUMAGUETE CITY, Dec 20 (PIA) -- More than 1,300 service firearms of police personnel of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Negros Oriental are simultaneously fastened with tape on the muzzles in a ceremonial sealing today.
Police Supt Alet Virtucio, deputy provincial director for operations of the PNP said each local government unit-police station provincewide has done its procedural sealing.
Virtucio said that in the provincial headquarters, over 100 issued handguns and rifles were also sealed with masking tapes and signed by the PNP provincial director.
The police service firearms are taped to ensure that officers would not fire them indiscriminately during the New Year celebrations.
This is a deterrent to the policemen that they should not illegally fire their guns during the New Year and to protect civilians from any untoward incidents, said Col Virutcio.
Each unit chief has to sign the seal on the firearms and this will be checked by the end of the celebration to determine whether the order has been complied with, he said.
The PNP enjoined both the policemen and the civilian residents to welcome the New Year with merriment without the use of guns. (FCR/JCT/PIA-Negros Oriental)
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Dumaguete City studes win national PNSQ
By Jennifer C. Tilos
DUMAGUETE CITY, Dec 20 (PIA) -- Two students from the Ramon Teves Pastor Memorial Dumaguete Science High School (DSHS) emerged as the champion in the Philippine National Science Quiz (PNSQ) held recently at the Nido Fortified Science Discovery Center, SM Mall of Asia, Metro Manila.
Alec Benjamin Ramirez and Hannah Jael Cadusale, senior and junior students respectively of DSHS, bested other teams from 20 secondary schools all over the country, Provincial Director Gilber Arbon of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said.
The Dumaguete City team-students, coached by DSHS teacher Lourdes Lee represented Region 7 after having won in the regional qualifying round.
Arbon said the DSHS team took home P30,000 cash, a medal of recognition for each team member, a trophy for the school, and a plaque of recognition for the coach.
Garnering the second and third prizes were students from the Philippine Science High School (PSHS)-Western Visayas Campus and PSHS-Southern Mindanao Campus respectively.
PNSQ was the first ever national nuclear quiz organized outside of the National Capital Region by the Department of Science and Technology's Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (DOST-PNRI).
DOST-PNRI conducted the PNSQ in 15 regions of the country in collaboration with the Department of Education and DOST regional offices.
The PNSQ's aim is to enhance awareness, understanding and interest of the Filipino youths on nuclear science and technology and its beneficial applications.
The quiz was in line with DOST-PNRI's celebration of the 40th Atomic Energy Week (AEW) with the theme: “Nuclear Science, Technology and Innovation: Engine for Growth and Development.”
The annual AEW celebration, as mandated under Proclamation No. 1211 in 1973, aims to generate awareness of the Filipino people on the beneficial uses of nuclear technology. (FCR/JCT/PIA-Negros Oriental)