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Thursday, June 26, 2003
Province advocates gender sensitivity
By Lorenzo P. Niñal
The Province takes on the challenge of creating gender-sensitive government units with a series of seminars given to all municipalities in Cebu Province.
The “seminar-workshop on gender and development responsive planning and budgeting” tackles topics like gender stereotyping in education, psychological and physical abuse at home and the workplace, and lack of representation in decision-making bodies.
It aims to optimize women’s economic potentials; enjoyment by women of their social, economic and political rights; and harnessing of women’s contributions for effective governance.
The seminar is being facilitated by the Legal Alternatives for Women Center Inc. The towns in the first, second and third districts comprised the batch of participants in the two-day seminar that ends today.
Drive safe, wear helmet
STOP fooling the law with a baseball cap. This is the call of the Provincial Board (PB) to motorcycle drivers and passengers who avoid the law by wearing head gears other than the prescribed helmet.
The PB is requesting the Land Transportation Office and the Department of Transportation and Communication to strictly enforce the wearing of the prescribed helmet in Cebu’s towns and component cities.
Despite existing ordinances on safe driving, “some motorists simply wear ordinary plastic caps/helmets, baseball caps and other fashionable caps made of light materials, thereby evading arrest,” the PB noted.
Nature park, wildlife protected
THE town of Pilar joins in the care for the environment by passing an ordinance that provides for the conservation and protection of wildlife resources.
The municipality now bans the “hunting and killing of wildlife,” except when animals are infected with communicable diseases that require their slaughter.
The ordinance also pursues the development of the town’s Naukban Lagoon Nature Park, in coordination with the Protected Areas Management Board.
Falling under wildlife are “wild forms and varieties of flora, fauna, in all development stages, that include those in captivity or are being bred or propagated.”
(June 26, 2003 issue)
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