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Pink Beach in Zamboanga Named best beach in the world

While the Philippines is quite famous in it's pristine, the white sand beaches and turquoise waters, many of us have no idea that there are pink beaches in some islands of the country too! One of these is Pink Beach in the area of Santa Cruz Island in Zamboanga, Southern Philippines which was recently named by the National Geographic as one of the beaches in the world.

Entitled "21Best Beaches in the world"and have an opening line of "fine perfection in these places where land meets water", the articles shares some of the beaches in the world.

"Hardly lacking in gorgeous beaches, the Philippines claims a pink-sand variety, too. The blush color comes billion of pieces crush red organ-pipe coral seen in every handful of sand", wrote the National Geographic.



While many would have expected the beaches of Boracay and Palawan to be included in the lists. It seems that this site wanted to pick something unique.

Indeed, many of us have no idea that pick beaches even exist in the Philippines. And while the Local government surely feels proud of about their rare beach, they are enforcing strict rules that the place remains pristine and underdeveloped as possible.

According to the articles, "The number of visitors to the island is regulated and advance arrangement should be made through the tourist office in Zamboanga,"

This was confirmed in the articles on the Out of Town Blog which revealed that aside from limiting the visitors on the island, the beach is open in the morning until 2PM. Afterward, tourists advised to leave-and they should really leave the beach because of no accommodation on the island and no overnight camping is allowed is strictly prohibited by the tourism office in Zamboanga.

It's great that the local government of Zamboanga is taking steps to ensure that the island remains the scenic beauty in the of it's kind and tourists attraction of Zamboanga City.

Inviting you all to visit this place and check-out for ourselves the wonderful and the beautiful Pink Sand Beach of Santa Cruz Island...

Lets Go! and swim...

Sources: Out of Town Blog and National Geographic.

In Review: President Obama’s Top Speeches as Chosen by His Speechwriters

The words a president chooses can shape how we see ourselves, how we understand our past, and how we face the future.

For eight years, President Barack Obama has led us during significant moments in American history. Whether it was the economic crisis, the Supreme Court decision to support marriage equality, the passage of the Affordable Care Act, or the unimaginable horror at Newtown, time and again, the President found the right words to meet the moment.

Behind those words is a group of speechwriters who have worked closely with the President to craft important messages to the American people. It’s meant countless drafts and rewrites, late nights, and last-minute edits from the motorcade. As his time in office comes to a close, the President’s speechwriters — past and present — took a look back at eight years of remarks to share some of the words, speeches, and memories that stand out to them.

Take a look at a few of the President’s top speeches as chosen by his speechwriters.

Maguindanao scholars urged to spread ‘light of peace’

COTABATO CITY – College scholars in Maguindanao accounted at more than 7,000 nowadays should “spread the “light of peace” and encourage fellow students as well as other Moro youths in the province to follow suit in the local campaign against poverty, illiteracy and religious extremism.

Maguindanao Governor Esmael Mangudadatu made the call yesterday as he proudly announced his chance meeting lately with one of the alumni of the provincial government’s scholarship program currently employed in Davao City.

“I couldn’t explain (in words) how happy I am when this girl approached me with teary eyed to tell me she finished her college study and got employed gainfully as a result of our scholarship program,” the governor said in his Facebook post yesterday showing him and the beneficiary in selfie.

He was referring to Ayfa Mangakoy, who belongs to a poor Moro village family taken in as scholar of the provincial government’s Maguindanao Program for Education Assistance and Community Empowerment (MagPEACE) four years ago or so.

"Gob, I am Ayfa Mangakoy, one of the scholars of MagPEACE who finished B.S. Commerce major in Marketing at the University of Southern Mindanao (USM) in Kabacan, Cotabato. I am here now gainfully working in Davao City,” the governor quoted the grateful benefactor at their chance meeting Friday.

In a text message to the Bulletin yesterday, Gov. Mangudadatu said he and his children were shopping at the Mango boutique branch of Davao City’s Abreeza mall Saturday when Mangakoy approached him. She is employed at such boutique, it was learned.

Mangudadatu’s social media post drew a viral of praises from dozens of personalities across the nation, most of them admitting humble beginnings similar to that of Mangakoy.

The governor said Mangakoy’s story should inspire other youths in Maguindanao to join the MagPEACE program to pursue studies in lieu of being lured into unproductive life or rebellion, and “spread the light of peace.”

Mangudadatu launched the MagPEACE program upon his gubernatorial election in 2010, pursuing a municipal scholarship program he had introduced to a group of 150 poor children when he was mayor of Buluan, Maguindanao years back.

The provincial program now has more than 7,000 scholars in collegiate and post-graduate studies. In 2015 alone, it had recorded close to 8,000 graduates already, according to records.

The program has been expanded with a vision to accommodate 30,000 scholars by 2020, with an additional P200-million fund support derived from the provincial government’s approved state bank loan of P1.7-billion, according to provincial administrator Abdulwahab Tunga.

“The MagPEACE program is a vital initiative to abate high illiteracy rate, fight poverty and supplant tendencies for local youths’ recruitment to extremist rebellion or ideology,” Tunga said. (Ali G. Macabalang)

PROTECT RADIO, TV, ONLINE MEDIA SOURCES, TOO—POE

The Senate committee on public information and mass media chaired by Sen. Grace Poe has approved in principle legislative measures seeking to amend Republic Act No 53, as amended—also called the Shield or Sotto Law that protects print journalists from revealing their sources—to include broadcast and online media practitioners.

The measures—Senate Bill Nos. 6 and 486 filed separately by Senators Vicente Sotto III and Antonio Trillanes IV—breezed through a public hearing presided over by Poe on Wednesday, as she assured a committee report and the consolidated bill will be presented to the floor in two weeks.

Under RA No. 53, also dubbed the Sotto Law as pushed by former journalist and the late Sen. Vicente Y. Sotto, Sen. Sotto’s grandfather, print media are not compelled to reveal their sources published in their news reports, except in cases involving national security, as determined by the courts or any committee of the Senate or the House of Representatives.

“The existing law is silent about journalists from broadcast stations and online media since e-journalism was then a pipe dream when RA 53 and its amendatory law, RA 1477 of 1956, were enacted. It is high time that lawmakers update the 70-year-old law amid developments in the practice of the profession and in the spirit of the constitutional provision of upholding the freedom of the press,” said Poe.

Alfonso Pedroche, Philippine Press Institute president and editor-in-chief of Pilipino Star Ngayon, posed no objections to the measures, saying it would be advantageous to the practice of journalism profession in general in view of the advances in technology and in protecting news sources.

Government representatives led by state counsel Charles Cambaliza and Assistant Secretary John Henry Naga of the Department of Information and Communications Technology also backed the measures.

Poe hoped that the amendatory bill will be passed during the Senate’s centenary.

Sotto, for his part, thanked Poe for “prioritizing” his measure in memory of his grandfather who pushed for journalists’ privilege statute and considered the legislation “very important” during the time.

The lady senator said proposing revisions to the old law goes hand-in-hand with the Poe-sponsored proposed Freedom of Information Law being which is already in the advance stage in Senate, as the media play a critical role in dissemination of information.

“Press freedom is regarded as the backbone of democracy. The role that the Fourth Estate plays as watchdog of the government is important in establishing a healthy democracy and accomplishing a system of checks and balances,” Poe said. #

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