APECO to build training center for Dumagats

Written by : Mamer Bañez

BALER, Aurora -- The Aurora Pacific Economic Zone (APECO) will soon construct a training center for tribal Dumagats inside the compound of economic zone in Casiguran town in honor of a Dumagat tribesman who was shot dead by illegal loggers last September.  

Apeco Deputy Administrator Kent Avestruz said the training hub dubbed “Teming Moral Dumagat Training Center” was launched during the ground-breaking ceremony at a 220-square meter site at the ecozone last Thursday. It was named after Artemio “Teming” Moral who was gunned down at around 7:30 p.m. last Sept. 14 by a lone gunman in Sitio Dipontian, Bgy. Cozo.

Avestruz said Moral, a “Bantay-Gubat” member of APECO, was shot by unidentified gunman while having dinner with his wife Loida. He died on the spot while his wife was wounded. 

Sen. Edgardo J .Angara led the ground breaking rites for the training center. He paid tribute to Moral for risking his life to help safeguard the province’s forest, one of the country’s lushest, from unscrupulous illegal loggers.                      

Source: http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/provincial/40133-apeco-to-build-training-center-for-dumagats/