Entrepreneurial Farmer

Ambrosio R. Villorente

TESDA Training Drivers

RHPG–6 Warns car buyers against hot cars being sold by criminal syndicates from Luzon. Regional Highway Patrol Group–6 (RHPG) Regional Director Cesar Jacob revealed the carjacking incidents are happening somewhere in Luzon and not in Region 6.

RHPG–6 based in Camp Martin Delgado, Iloilo City has recovered eight (8) carjacked vehicles since 2010. Of the vehicles, six (6) carjacked vehicles were recovered in Bacolod City that included one unit Toyota Innova, two units Mitsubishi Lancer, two (2) units Nissan Urvan, and one (1) unit Honda Civic. The other two (2) are Nissan Urvan recovered in Antique, and a Toyota Avanza recovered in Iloilo. According to Jacob, there is no carjacking syndicate directly operating in Iloilo. He however, advised the probable buyers of second hand vehicles to coordinate with his office to assure the vehicle for sale is not a carjacked vehicle.

Bus Drivers To Train

Ms. Lorena Yungue, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) provincial director of Iloilo announced the training for bus drivers.

Why? Does the Land Transportation Office (LTO) issue Driver’s License to applicants who do not know how to drive safely? LTO gives written test and actual driving to prove the driver applicants can drive safely.

A bus driver who possesses Professional Driver’s License should have been proven by bus operator and LTO to possess adequate skills, and positive attitude to operate a vehicle.

Any traffic violation and accident committed, the LTO office which issued the professional drivers license and the bus operator who authorized the driver to drive a vehicle are responsible for any road accident. But the driver is the real culprit, mainly responsible for the damages.

Living Poor In Rich Aklan

Aklan province is rich in natural resources. It has wide fertile land, magnificent mountain ranges, rivers, and seas. Aklan has more sauna and fauna.

But more of Aklanons chose to live in poverty. Statistics of the National Coordination Statistics Board (NCSB) show.

However, families of Aklanons who are industrious, healthy, honest, and frugal are able to save a part of their income and live a happy, and normal life.

Those who are idle, dishonest, sickly, and wasteful remain poor. They are happy to ask alms in time of needs like for hospitalization and food. They are happy to receive any assistance regardless of quantity and quality. They lost their dignity and self respect.

Taal Lake Fishkill

The fish kills in Taal lake valued at about P250 million taught the Filipinos valuable but expensive lessons.

First, the culture of milkfish and tilapia was left to the fish cage caretakers and operators some of whom are foreigners. Both the national and local governments didn’t bother to remind them of the proper way of producing fish.

Second, the venue of production is a lake which provides no entrance of clean water and exit of polluted water. The entrance of clean water is the rain. There is no way of draining polluted water. Third, there is no way to provide all the required care such as proper water salinity, turgidity, deepness, temperature, oxygen level, and others.

Fourth, since no government scientific assistance was given, proper fish production management was not made available. Govern-ment aqua culturists came only after fish kills took place to tell the people the probable causes, like over stocking, lack of oxygen, and water pollution.

The use of lakes in fish production must be reviewed to produce high quality fish at economic production cost. /MP