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UTUAN City––The Division of Butuan City recently joined the whole nation in the conduct of the 2015 Oplan Balik Eskwela with the highlight of the Inter-Agency Convergence Meeting on May 29, 2015 at Roldan’s Eat All You Can Convention Hall here.

See FULL STORY, page A5

Numbers of school dropouts dwindle THE prevalence of out-ofschool children (OOSC) has declined in almost all regions of the country, according to the joint study of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

The numbers are indicative of achievements and further challenges for basic education as a whole.

PIDS Senior Fellow Jose Ramon Albert and Assistant Professor Clarissa David of the University of the Philippines-Diliman College of Mass Communication delivered their collaborative report at the PIDS-UNICEF joint seminar last May 26.

The results of the country report are summarized in a policy note released recently

by PIDS titled “How has basic education in the Philippines fared and what else needs to be done?”

According to the report, the number of children who reach the final grade of primary school has increased since 2008. This serves as an important indicator of the decline of out-of-school children (OOSC) incidence.

The rate of OOSC to the total number of children in the 5- to 15-year-old bracket has declined by half between 2008 and 2012, from 11.7 percent to 5.2 percent.

The rate of preprimary students rose from 35 percent to 48 percent between 2008 and 2011.

On a closer inspection, the sharpest increase

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Passengers, drivers as story tellers

ZAMBOANGA City––Tricycles, a major means of transportation in downtown Zamboanga City, are a rich source of stories, as drivers and passengers go about their daily routine.

Jeizel Regalado, a registered midwife and a native of RT Lim, Zamboanga Sibugay recalls how surprised she was when the driver charged her PhP 120 for a ride from the Guiwan bus terminal to the Profesional Regulations Commission office. “Ang mahal ng singil sa akin, Php120,” (I was charged PhP 120. Too expensive), she complained.

According to the ordinance, the fare shall be 20 pesos for the first kilometer and five pesos for every kilometer thereafter, regardless of the number of passengers.

Regalado should have paid only PhP 35 but was charged more than thrice Top 5 Mutya ng Pilipinas Northern Mindanao: (From left) Julee Ann Marie Bourgoin, that amount.

Fare overcharging is a Charinna Barro, Neliza Bautista, Gladden Pearl Badajos, and Glorianne Dame Dumigpe.

Mutya ng Pilipinas National will choose who among the top 5 will represent Cagayan violation of City de Oro in the national pageant on Aug 2 in Manila (photo

courtesy of gean t . cesar )

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CBCP urges more studies on Cha-cha

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THE Catholic hierarchy urged Congress to hold off passing the proposed measure to amend the Constitution until it can be studied more closely.

In a pastoral statement, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines

(CBCP) said there is no need to rush Charter change because it is the future of the Filipinos and the nation that are at stake.

CBCP president Archbishop Socrates Villegas is encouraging the conduct of wide-ranging studies to en-

sure that proposed amendments are according to the precepts of social justice.

“Before we rush into amending the Constitution, we, your bishops, urge all responsible to conduct serious studies in economics, sociology, the law and in

related disciplines including the Catholic social teachings,” Villegas said.

The statement entitled “Let us be circumspect” was issued on Monday as the proposed measure gains ground in Congress, See studies, page A11

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Educators’ group decries closure recommendation on school built by Lumads

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DUCATORS’ Forum for Development (EFD), a network of teachers and academics committed to transformative education, expressed grave concern over a recent recommendation by an education official for the temporary closure of several Lumad schools in Davao.

This is a brazen violation of the inalienable right to education of the Manobo children of Talaingod, Davao del Norte, the group said. It is anti-development as it disregards the indigenous people’s efforts to set up their own schools and exercise their right to self-determination, the group added.

The Salugpungan Ta’ Ta n u I g k a g n u n o n [Manobo term for ‘unity of the people to defend the ancestral land’] Community Learning Center (STTICLC) schools were established by the Talaingod communities to address the absence of basic education facilities there, thus have provided learn-

ing opportunities to the children. The STTICLC schools are Department of Education (DepEd) Central Office-accredited through the Indigenous Peoples Education Office.

In a letter, the superintendent of DepEd Division of Davao del Norte recommended to the regional director the temporar y closure of the schools pending DepEd’s investigation, reinspection and reevaluation “in terms of performance in providing efficient, quality and relevant educational services consistent with DepEd and National Educational poli-

cies, plans and standards.”

The intention is suspect, however, according to EFD, as the DepEd official further requested permission to create a public high school instead, “utilizing military personnel as parateachers.” “ This is an outright disregard of the Lumad’s complaints and campaign against the intensification of militarization of their communities and schools,” the EFD said.

Military troops belonging to the Philippine Army’s 1003rd brigade have allegedly sown Closure | page A11

City Officials led by Mayor Allan L. Rellon and leaders of the indigenous peoples community of Tagum take a pose during the groundbreaking ceremony. Leo Timogan/CIO Tagum

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WILLIAM “IDOL” GUIALANI Former Barangay Captain of Taglimao, CDO

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Ulama-Davao backs Duterte’s president bid

By MARLON GAYOR and SARAH CASTOR, Correspondents

DAVAO City--The league of Ulama in Davao region is backing Mayor Rodrigo Duterte should he decide to join the presidential race in 2016.

The statement of support was drawn out after the just-held one-day consultative member of all the members, officers, and advisers of the Ulama League of the Philippines (ULP) in Davao region.

Other Muslims leaders attended the meeting, which was held in Davao City.

The group also joined the public clamor to convince Duterte to consider running for president in the 2016 local and national elections.

In a statement the groups said: “Knowing his excellent leadership-capability and commitment to improving the socio-economic condition of the Filipino people, the ULP announced and declare to the public our strong support for Mayor Rody R. Duterte to run for president in the 2016 election.”

Some of the groups’ reasons are as follows: * The Ulama League of the Philippines-Davao region chapter together with the other religious group leaders were actively involved and considered to be among the partners of the Davao City government in attaining and sustaining genuine peace and development of the city which benefited not only the residents but including the visitor and tourist. * His excellent administration-leadership had in placed /implemented various local policies, ordinances and rules that clearly protect and promote the general welfare of all the minorities and other tribes living and existing not only in Davao City but the entire region. * His leadership has proven its commitment in bringing unity and coopera-

tion among the residents of Davao City. Regardless of tribes, groups, religious and political affiliation.

The manifestation of this is the implementation of the Deputy Mayors and Tribal coordinators from various tribes of Davao city. This program is an instrument to build good relationship among Muslims, Christian, and Lumads. * That is now a public knowledge, Davao City keeps on attracting investors both foreign and Domestic and these investors brings employment opportunities and more income to our people. In Fact, Davao City in now considered as the employment catchbasin in Mindanao, thus, graduates in the nearby cities and provinces are continuously coming in to look for a job. * Davao City is being recognized internationally as one of the safest and peaceful cities in the world and rank number 7.

Various awards and recognition both national and international were given to Davao City. * Mayor Duterte has offered the Best alternativesolution in the form of pushing “Federalism” in the country in case Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) failed and doesn’t respond to the needs of the Muslim in the south.

ULP-Davao region Regional Chairman Aleem Mahmod Mala L. Adilao said: “We humbly expressed our gratitude to the Hon. Mayor Rody Duterte for the generosity and privileges accorded to our sector and that made us peacefully, blissfully and comfortably in the city.”

Adilao added: “We support and rally behind you in your quest to develop more the socio-economic and political condition of the entire Filipino people by running for president in 2016.”

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DSWD starts anti-poverty program in Lanao del Norte Bukidnon • Camiguin • Lanao del Norte • Lanao del Sur • Misamis Occidental • Misamis Oriental

By Irene Dayo Staff member

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HE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Region 10 has started its second round of assessment for Listahanan last June 4 to update its database or list of poor households in Lanao del Norte.

Listahanan, also known as National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR), is an information management system that identifies who are the poor in the countr y and the places they are in.

In Lanao del Norte, there are 194,070 households targeted to undergo

interviews and assessment.

DSWD-10 Assistant Regional Director for Operations Aldersey Mumardela Cruz said that no household is exempted in the assessment.

“Bisitahon ang ma-datu o ma-pobre... Ang mga tao nga wala na-interview (in the first round), interbyuhon g yud (We will visit everyone, rich or poor. Those who were not interviewed (in the first round of assessment) will be interviewed),” said dela Cruz.

She also added that they will try not to commit errors, and will cover everyone in the assessment for them to know who are the true poor in the community that badly needs help.

The result of the assessment will be then reviewed, studied and assessed once again to achieve the best results.

She also explained that the role of Listahanan is

not just for 4Ps (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program), a poverty reduction program through the educational opportunities and health services.

It will be also available to other national agencies, non-government organizations, private institutions, civil society groups and other social protection stakeholders in identifying potential beneficiaries for their social protection programs.

Dela Cruz also asked the 4Ps beneficiaries to help.

She challenged them to encourage their neighbors and friends to be interviewed for Listahanan.

Lanao del Norte Governor Khalid Q. Dimaporo shared that Pantawid has brought great improvement in the place and in fact, DSWD has been helpful partner of his province.

Even before 4Ps conducted surveys, the governor’s drive in Lanao del

ANTI-POVERTY. The second round of assessment for Department of Social Welfare

and Development (DSWD)-led Listahanan in Lanao del Norte kicked off last June 4, 2015. Five years after the initiation of the program, this assessment aim to determine and re-evaluate poorest of the poor households. In a coastal Barangay Pigcarangan in Tubod town, five enumerators were already deployed to interview more than 700 households. Pigcarangan is one of the poorest barangays in Tubod town having a poverty incidence of 66.47 percent. Residents are into agricultural and fishery-based livelihood. In the photo, a barangay resident, Cheryl Asidre, a 29-year-old mother of three, is being interviewed by an enumerator. Mindanao Daily News photo by Irene Dayo

Norte is already finding national program and providing counterpart.

The Governor however said that there are still poor households that were not covered in Pantawid.

He cited that one of the matters that caused this is the failure of the residents to be sincere in answering questions during the past surveys.

“They don’t take it seri-

ously,” he said. So, he urged his people that in this second round of Listahanan, they should cooperate once enumerators will arrive to their houses and take the See dswd, page A11

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CAGAYAN de Oro City -- People who subscribe to the idea that their family has MARK FRANCISCO Arjay Felicilda a right to rule over other Lifestyle Editor Assistant Editor families—meaning, the rest CHENG ORDOÑEZ URIEL C. QUILINGUING of the community—betray Associate Contributing Editor an arrogance and an insensitivity that sets them apart GILBERT Y. CHAO gerry lee gorit Motoring Editor Photo Journalist from civilized society.

To think of one’s family felix santillan ROEL CATOTO as entitled to a superior EDSEL BANTOL Provincial Editor-Surigao position, enjoying special Layout Artist privilege, in a community

PAT SAMONTE irene dayo CHRIS PANGANIBAN of peers, is to presume that Reporter-NorthMin Regional Editors-Caraga one’s family is in a class

above everyone else’s.

JOE PALABAO MARLON GAYOG It is unseemly, to say the Rene Michael BaÑos Regional Editor-Davao least. It insults other famiRegional Editors-Northmin lies. It shows no respect or AL JACINTO JOE FELICILDA loyalty to the community.

Regional Editor-WestMin Editorial Consultant And it belittles the equal right of others to vie for ATTY. MARIO T. JUNI public office, as if they beNOTARY PUBLIC- JUNI LAW OFFICE CELL NO: 09352379999/ (088) 8573595 long to an inferior caste in CRUZ TAAL ST., CAG. DE ORO CITY politics.

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and traditions—especially the principle of equality of opportunity.

One’s intents and acts must evince a sense of community, therefore, of belonging in it, and of one’s readiness at all times to uphold its well-being. Common good must be the supreme consideration.

To impose dynastic rule over the community or the larger society is wrong. It superimposes the interests of one family or clan over everybody else’s interests.

This violates social harmony and solidarity—the interdependence and interrelationship of citizens and their communities and an awareness of it. ***** Solidarity binds everyone to do whatever is necessary to bring about the equal sharing of the benefits of freedom and democracy, including opportunities for public service.

The participation of every individual in public life and in decisions that concern him represents an essential element of democracy.

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Power Scramble!

to sustain our incremental growth? Take note that even in today’s power situation, Mindanao is already having a power shortage or a deficit in its demand and supply data. Hence the intermittent brownouts now occurring.

COOPS UNEASY -- The power coops are sitting uneasy today. For example several coops, or more than 20 of the 33 electric coops all across Mindanao had early on signed up for their power needs with Ayala’s GN Power to cover their future power need projections.

Such power sales agreement in 2010 was a breakthrough when the Mindanao coops aggregated to leverage a better price deal. Well and

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I read reports saying that Mindanao is well and “ok” on power needs due to the many new power plants being put up. True? Not really!

Mark my words. In a year or so, there will be another acute power shortage in Mindanao. This will trigger a mad rush among power coops where to get power on a stop gap basis.

They will be scrambling and stumbling all over the place to see where to get power while the new power plants are not yet in operation. That’s a gap window of about four to five years or so.

NOT ROSY --- The rosy picture being painted today by the energy sector about sufficient generating capacities on a long term in Mindanao may be accurate but if we look closely, the challenge is how to address the situation on a short term before these new power plants start operating.

Yes, there are big coal-fired plants being built but they will not give us electric power earlier than four or five years from today. In the meantime, where do we get the power that we need

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ruel pelone Managing Editor

Advocacy Mindanao

Jess Dureza

good! But a reality check is that GN Power’s planned 540MW plant in Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte has just started breaking ground.

The coops are now becoming restless, knowing that the original targeted start of operations in 2018 or two (3) years from now as earlier projected, is too tight given its current accomplishment which, based on latest DOE report, was less than 20 percent and still at earthwork stage.

Several of these coops are no longer pinning totally their hopes solely on their supply contracts with GN Coal Power. In fact, several of them have started reducing, withdrawing or reconsidering and looking for power somewhere else.

Why? Simply because the contracted power they are expecting within the next three years or so will NOT be available by then. Besides GN Power, the consuming public needed to be apprised of status of other ongoing big-ticket coal-fired power plants such as Filinvest 405MW in Misamis Oriental, Alsons Coal 200MW in Sarangani, 600MW San

Miguel in Malita, Davao del Sur and the still to be constructed San Ramon 100MW in Zamboanga.

REALITY CHECK -- Their reality check is coming from the lessons of Aboitiz-owned new 300 MW Thermal South Inc. now completed in the outskirts of Davao City. Although the construction is completed, it is not yet giving us power up now. Although the Therma South Unit 2 with 150MW is expected to come online this month, the other Unit 1 with 150MW was pushed back for about 10 months due to some technical glitches not of its own making. The famous “Easter Sunday Blackout” that darkened almost the whole of Mindanao caused by a rotting machine part falling and throwing a virtual monkey wrench that stopped the power transmissions was totally unexpected. Therma South Unit 1 is still behind schedule.

(And still counting.) Hence, the speculation that within 3 or 4 years there may be a power gap that must be bridged , is now a reality.

The Worm’s Eyeview

dynasty should know that insulting the community and offending solidarity shows them to be bereft of statesmanship. To the community, they’re saying: we have a claim to special privilege; to the nation: we claim the right to rule and the rest must follow. Shameless and presumptuous!

It has been very wrong for our society to allow dynastic rule to creep into our political system to the extent that it has. It has stunted our political maturity and caused many jurisdictions to regress and revert to feudal governance.

We cannot allow our political system to drift further away from the democratic tradition. We should apply to politics the same ethical standards that we expect in our personal relations. That is to say, we must adhere to the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have others do unto you!

Let us be considerate, not selfish and aggrandizing in pursuing political power.

We belong in the same community. Whatever affects one affects the others.

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A political dynasty insults community, offends solidarity

CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor

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nopolizing the seat of power, a political dynasty deprives others of the opportunity to participate in government or to aspire to public service. It bespeaks absence of statesmanship.

The attitude conjures up the days of indulgent feudal rulers, selfish oligarchs, and medieval monarchies that believed they had a divine right to govern. ***** Political dynasties are out of place in our democratic age. It dishonors the people’s sovereignty and distorts the functioning of democracy, violating its commitment to openness and fair-play.

Members of a political

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2015 Oplan Balik Eskwela kicks off in Butuan City

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UTUAN CITY -- The Division of Butuan City recently joined the whole nation in the conduct of the 2015 Oplan Balik Eskwela with the highlight of the Inter-Agency Convergence Meeting on May 29, 2015 at Roldan’s Eat All You Can Convention Hall here.

City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (DRRMC), Radyo ng Bayan and the City Councilor Ramon P. Carampatana.

The said activity aims to facilitate comprehensive dissemination and discussion on the details of the Oplan Balik Eskwela.

In a larger sense, Oplan Balik Eskwela was cascaded to all public elementary and secondary schools as its implementing arms to make the necessary preparations for the opening of classes.

11 Caraga schools now have DOST’s STARBOOKS

Tandag Water District assures customers of ample supply; bares new policies, initial plans

The said convergence was presided by the no less than the schools division superintendent Arsenio Cornites Jr. and was graced by the participating agencies like the Department of Public Works and Highways

(DPWH), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Office of Civil Defense (OCD), Philippine National Police (PNP), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP),

BUTUAN CITY -- A globally recognized digital science library developed by the Department of Science and Technology-Science and Technology Information Institute (DOST-STII), is now being used as a handy research tool for students at 11 high schools in Eastern Mindanao.

Recently, DOST-STII launched STARBOOKS or Science and Technology Academic and ResearchBased Openly-Operated Kiosk Stations in the said sites during the Butuan City, Caraga Region stop of the Department’s national roadshow dubbed Science Nation: Agham na Ramdam.

STARBOOKS is a userfriendly digital library of science and technology (S&T) information which may be accessed without Internet connection. It is the first science digital library in the Philippines, containing thousands of S&T resources in various formats - text and audio/ video - placed in especially designed pods set in a userfriendly interface.

STARBOOKS is one of five projects worldwide recently chosen by the American Library Association (ALA) to receive the 2015 ALA Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library Projects on June

DEED OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL PARTITION WITH SALE

DACULA OMPOC by virtue of an Special Power of Attorney, notarized

by ATTY. NOEL G. BACAL, notary Public, with Doc. No. 120; Page No. 24; Book No. XXIV, Series of 2014. And THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF CAGAYAN DE ORO, a Municipal Corporation, created under R.A. 521 herein represented by the City Mayor HON. OSCAR S. MORENO, by virtue of Ordinance No. 12846-2014 of the City Council dated 20 October 2014, of legal age, married, Filipino citizen and a resident of Cagayan de Oro City, hereinafter known and referred to as VENDEE. WHEREAS, portion of the above-describe parcel of land with an area of Six Thousand Five Hundred Forty Eight (6,543) square meters was affected by the 12.00 meter wide Pagatpat, pamalihi Road located at Barangay Pagatpat, Cagayan de Oro City.

That for and in consideration of the sum of Five Hundred Eighty Nine Thousand Three Hundred Twenty (P589,320.00) Pesos, Philippine currency, that the VENDORS received in full of which is hereby acknowledged to the satisfaction of the VENDORS, the VENDORS by these presents, sell, convey and deliver unto the VENDEE the above-described parcel of land containing an area of Six Thousand Five Hundred Forty Eight (6,548) sq.m. As per Doc. No. 485; Page No. 97; Book No. XLVII; Series of 2015; under Notary Public of ATTY. HENRY J. BACAL.

Notice is hereby given that the intestate estate of the Late Damaso Dacula and Saturnino Dacula, who both died intestate at Cagayan de Oro City on August 8, 1998 and October 10, 1957, at the time of their death they left a unregistered parcel of land located at Pagatpat, Cagayan de Oro City, and more particularly described as follows; “A parcel of Land (Lot 3976 C 5 (REM. PORTION), situated in Barangay Pagatpat, Cagayan de Oro City. Containing an area of 18,857 sq.meters, more or less, and covered under Tax Declaration No. G-282994, is the subject of DEED OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL PARTITION WITH SALE, made and entered namely; 1. HERMIS C. DAMASO, of legal age, Filipino, married and a resident of Pagatpat, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines; 2. JELL DACULA, of legal age, Filipino, married and a resident of Pagatpat, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines; 3. CECIL DACULA JULAPONG, of legal age, married, Filipino and a resident of Pagatpat, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines; 4. GILBERT DACULA JULAPONG, of legal age, married, Filipino and a resident of Pagatpat, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines; and 5. TERRY DACULA, of legal age, married, Filipino and a resident of Pagatpat, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

That the above-mentioned Heirs of Saturnino Dacula and Damaso Dacula are all represented by JOLLY

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TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur – Tandag Water District (TWD), which is under new management, has assured its more than 6,200 customers of sufficient water supply.

General Manager (GM) Annie Ty, who took over the helm on May 18, expressed confidence about having a much better service, especially on the quantity and quality of water.

She said that water interruption is no longer a major stumbling block, citing that aside from having several NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that a parcel of Land known as Lot No. 1942 with T.D. No. ____. Containing an area of 1,966 sq.m., located at Brgy. Kuguita, Mambajao, Camiguin, in the name of the Late MARTIN BERNASOL, who died intestate without will and testament. By virtue or intestate succession was obtained by the heirs of the said Martin Bernasol as the only children in the persons of Claudia Bernasol Pangan, and Maria Ephepania Bernasol (RVM), (both died long ago). The said parcel of land is the subject of DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE, executed by Rita Pangan Caharian and Samson B. Pangan, both children and Heirs of the Late Claudia Bernasol Pangan, sold in Favour to Patricia C. Chan, under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. VITO M. CARILLO, per Doc. No. 312; Page No. 61; Book No. 73; Series of 2012.

MDN: MAY 26, JUNE 2 & 9, 2015

In line with this, Bitos Elementary School has activated the said endeavor in all grade levels concern making it sure that all pupils are already enrolled and are able to attend the first day of classes on June 1.

Oplan Balik Eskwela (OBE) Action Center was very visible in the school that will cater immediate concerns of parents and pupils most specially those who are transferred in as well and facilitate them on what to do and what they

surface and underground sources, TWD has now employed a technology via a new “water treatment facility.”

However, a busted water supply pipe has caused much inconvenience to customers over the weekend.

Meanwhile, aware that the city—its service area—is booming, having in mind two medium-sized malls to open soon, apart from NOTICE Notice is hereby given that a Real Properties identified as Lots Nos. 14180, embraced w/ O.C.T. No. P-10500, under T.D. No. 0820466, w/ an area of 4,903 sq. mts., Lot No. 7891, covered under T.D. No. 04000509113, w/ an area of 4,903 sq.mts.;lot no. 7891, covered under T.D. no. 04000509113, w/ an area of 4,536 sq.mts. located at Brgy. KUGUITA AND ABU, BAYLAO, MAMBAJAO, CAMIGUIN in the name of the late LEONILA D. MADRONA, and a residential bldg. constructed on lot no. 14180,covered under T.D. no.

G – 010613, declared in the name of DIONESIO L. MADRONA. The above mensioned properties are the subject of deed of partition inter vivos among children (heirs) (referred as second party), executed by DIONESIO L. MADRONA (referred as first party) w/ late wife LEONILA D. MADRONA, that the said second party are their children,namely; MARIA TERESA D. MADRONA, EDILBERTO D. MADRONA; RICARDO D. MADRONA & ROMEO D. MADRONA.under the notarial registry of ATTY. VITO M. CARILLO, per doc. No.49; page no.11; book no. 74; series of 2012.

MDN: June 2, 9 & 16, 2015

PRA Form No. 10.1 (LCRO) Republic of the Philippines LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OFFICE PROVINCE OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL Cagayan de Oro City NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. No. 10172, a NOTICE is hereby served to the public that JOY MARIE C. BARANDA has filed with this Office a petition for the correction of clerical error in the entry of the child’s SEX from “MALE” to “FEMALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of JOY MARIE CABOTAJE BARANDA who was born on July 8, 1991 in Cagayan de Oro City and whose parents are PONCIANO BOLATITI BARANDA and MILIZA AGBO CABOTAJE.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than June 11, 2015.

(Sgd) NORMA S. DIPUTADO

City Civil Registrar MDN: June 2 & 9, 2015

need to know on K to 12 as part the school’s advocacy campaign.

In addition, the “No Collection Policy” was given emphasis by the school admnistration which means that parents and pupils need not to worry on school fees for they are made to know that no single amount will be collected and paid for all other fees.

It is indeed very essential for anyone especially the classroom teachers to be open in all possibili-

a new branch of a popular food chain that is expected to break ground also sooner or later, the new GM added that TWD will further venture on finding and developing new water sources.

Just less than a monthold in her post, the lady

ties in order for them not to be taken by surprise if ever there are monitoring teams to visit the school anytime.

This is in line with the Oplan Balik Eskwela which aims to address the problems commonly encountered at the start of the school year to ensure that pupils/students are already properly enrolled and able to attend school by the first day of classes. (Dr. Jonas H. Jomonong, DepEd Butuan City/PIA-Agusan del Norte)

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Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT 4TH SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT 4th Shari’a Judicial District Iligan City ERWIN F. SIGNO,

Petitioner,

-Versus-

Civil Case No. 2015-040 FOR: Divorce by Talaq.

SEIHATON NASHRA D. LADJA,

Respondent, X- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - / SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION TO: SEIHATON NASHRA D. LADJA,

Ledesma Ext., Brgy., Carmen Annex, Ozamis City GREETINGS:

By virtue of the Court Order dated May 11, 2015, You are hereby required to appear or file with this court within ten (10) days from the date of the last publication of this summons, either personally, through counsel or with the assistance of the Clerk of Court at 2nd floor, Nancy Bldg., Camague Hi-way, Tomas Cabili, Iligan City (in front of Shell Station), your answer to the petition filed by your husband (ERWIN F. SIGNO), which substance she prays for a grant to Divorce by Talaq.

You are hereby required to serve a copy of your answer upon petitioner at his residence Palao, Iligan City. You are reminded of the provision in the IBP-OCA Memorandum on Policy Guidelines dated March 12, 2002 to observe restraint in filing a motion to dismiss and instead allege the grounds thereof as defenses in the answers.

Should you fail to come personally or through a representative or file your answer to the petition within the aforesaid period, the Court shall proceed to receive the evidence ex-parte upon which judgment shall be rendered.

Iligan City, Philippines, May 26, 2015 (Sgd.) NASRODING A. ALI

Clerk of Court MDN: June 2, 9 & 16, 2015

Republic of the Philippines 4th SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT Fourth Shari’a Judicial District Iligan City IN RE: JOINT PETITION TO APPROVE AND REGISTER THE DIVORCE OF SPOUSES IRVING LLEGADO ZARZUELO AND JANE CLAIRE I. LEGASPI-ZARSUELO,

CIVIL CASE NO.2015-044

IRVING LLEGADO ZARZUELO AND JANE CLAIRE I. LEGASPI-ZARSUELO, Petitioners.

X- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - / ORDER

Before this Court verified joint petition for the approval and registration of the Divorce filed by the petitioners and alleging among others.

That petitioners are husband and wife respectively in a marriage performed under Civil rites on December 26, 1998 at Iligan City, they converted to Islam faith, of which conversions to Islam were duly registered with this court, both of them can be served with summons and other legal processes relative to this case at their residents at Empire Village, Pala-o, Iligan City and 542 Dona Juana, Pala-o, Iligan City respectively;

That said marriage did not last long due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioners and reached the point of irreconcilability andthey separated for more than two (2) years already, since 2012 they decided to separate live physically in bed and board, thereby, executed Memorandum of Agreement in order to formalized their separation. Since their separation, they had never been communicating or supporting either financially or emotionally to each other, neither minding each other,neither minding each other affair’s; Petitioner’s seek judicial decree of divorce, thereby, severing their marriage bond on 1998, so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burdens. Reconciliation between them had already been diligently employed but all proved futile.

WHEREFORE, finding this petition to be sufficient in form and substance, set the initial hearing of this case on June 26, 2015 at 9:00 a.m at which time, date and place. Any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a news paper of General Circulation in the City of Iligan once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioners.

SO ORDERED.

Iligan City, Philippines, this 27thth day of May, 2015.

MDN: June 2, 9 & 16, 2015

(Sgd.) HON. OSOP M. ALI Presiding Judge

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AGADIAN CITY – The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) has declared barangay San Pedro under a state of calamity, thus authorizing the release of funds for mitigating measures.

Mayor Romeo P. Pulmones said in a special session on Tuesday morning, June 2, the SP discussed the recommendation of the Crisis Management Committee and City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC)

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The CDRRMC, chaired by the good mayor, made the recommendation in view of the damage brou g ht ab out by t he massive fire that broke

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out Monday morning in barangays San Pedro and Santiago, causing an estimated P20 million damage.

The 4-hour fire gutted 1,500 houses, killed a 60-year old resident, and forced majority of residents to leave the area.

“We declared barangay San Pedro under a state of calamity to expedite the government’s rescue, relief and rehabilitation efforts in barangay San Pedro which was greatly devastated by the fire,”

Pulmones said during the press conference.

Pulmones said he approved the release of “quick response fund” for the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to help the victims. Financial assistance of P1,500/family was immediately extended by the city government for their immediate needs.

He assured that the city government will give additional cash assistance to fire victims for them to

rebuild their houses.

“Mohatag pa kita sa dugang nga cash assistance apan gihimo pa sa kagamhanang lokal ning dakbayan ang makuti nga pagsusi sa ngalan sa mga biktima sa sunog aron malikayan ang double entry,” Pulmones added.

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Pulmones said an initial

P5-M was spent by the city government on the day of the fire to provide immediate needs of the victims especially food, water and other basic necessities.

He revealed that a technical team had already been dispatched in the area to speed up survey, for the lot owners to immediately rebuild their houses.

“We will do everything within our means to help the fire victims,” Pulmones concluded. (ALT/GCC/ PIA9-Zamboanga del Sur)

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instead of going outside of the province for a water sample laboratory test, TWD has already made possible tying-up with the Provincial Health Office (PHO) for such a requirement.

In addition, the new GM, who replaced predecessor Engr. Ruben Elpa, is planning to allow a contract agreement with prospective concessionaire/s to plant trees at Tandag watershed with a total area of 784 hectares. (NGBT/Greg Tatato Jr., Radyo ng Bayan-Tandag/ PIA-Surigao del Sur)

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Years of History

Plaza Divisoria circa 1962.

Himugso Heritage Feature:

The Legacy of PLAZA DIVISORIA

By MIKE BAÑOS, Editor-at-Large

I

f the old trees of Plaza Divisoria could talk, they would be busy regaling the crowds with tales of its storied past, and how it often played a major role in the city’s local history.

Plaza Divisoria was constructed in 1901

by Tirso Neri Y. Roa, a rich merchant who was then municipal mayor of Cagayan de Misamis, the old name of the city. Much of the site used for the plaza was donated by Neri to the town.

“The purpose of this plaza was to serve as a divider for the town. Divisoria is a Spanish word which means divider,” said local historian Dr. Antonio J. Montalvan II. “At that time, Cagayan de Misamis, as the town was then called, was continuously razed by big fires. So, in order to contain such kinds of conflagrations, Tirso Neri built this fire break known as Plaza Divisoria.”

However, due to its central location, Plaza Divisoria soon became the sociopolitical and cultural center of Cagayan de Misamis.

On September 10, 1916 it was the scene of a big parade celebrating the passage of the Jones Law, which granted a bicameral congress to the Philippine Commonwealth.

On June 19, 1917, the patriot Porfirio Chaves and his wife Fausta Vamenta turned over one of the earliest monuments in the country of national hero Dr. Jose Rizal which still graces the center of the plaza.

To the east is the old monument to Andres Bonifacio, where the bones of local revolutionaries who died in the Battle of Agusan Hill on May 14, 1900 were once

interred.

At the center of the old plaza used to be a structure known to all Kagay-anons as the Kiosko (and earlier, the Tribuna). In the 1950s, people gathered here for important social and cultural occasions, such as the annual celebration of National Heroes Day. By the 1960s, people were regularly gathering in the area which is now occupied by the Cagayan de Oro Tourist Assistance Center to discuss the burning issues of the day.

This group of residents became what is now known to old-timers as «The Plazans» and included many of Cagayan de Oro›s finest like Councilor Pio Roa, Yo Amon Fuentes, Dr. Jose Montalvan, Jesus Roa, Anastacio Gabor, Ramon Echem, former Governor Paciencio Ysalina, Aquilino Pimentel, Sr., Tawag ng Tanghalan National Champions Tata Neri and Rizal “Boy” Ortega, the late police chief Melo Esguerra, Carlos Yamut, and former RP Ambassador to the US Raul Ch. Rabe, to mention a few.

The “Kiosko” was for a time replaced by the “Bandstand” built by City Mayor Justiniano “Tiñing” Borja in the 60s, who also restored the central significance of Plaza Divisoria by building another structure, known to Kagay-anons as the “Ampi” (for amphitheater).

“All Philippine presidents who came to town, addressed the people of Cagayan de Oro in Plaza Divisoria,” Montalvan recalls.

“So in a sense, this is the Plaza Miranda of Cagayan de Oro.” Borja’s Bandstand has in turn been replaced by the “Kiosko Kagawasan”, built

Porfirio Chaves and wife Fausta Vamenta Chaves in Paris Tour 1914

Porfirio Chaves and his wife Fausta Vamenta donated the Rizal monument at Plaza Divisoria on June 19, 1917, one of the first ever in the country.

Calle Mindanao looking south (present-day Tiano Bros. St.) The building on the right was the old Municipio which came about after the old Casa Real was demolished after 1910. Cagayan de Misamis actually had no municipio. Casa Real where the present city hall is now was the residence of the Gobernadorcillo. But in the shift to the American regime, the Casa Real became the office of the provincial governor. So there was no building for the town mayor. When Apolinar Velez was governor, he proposed that the Casa Real be demolished and the property be ceded from the province to the town.

Hence, a municipio was built along Divisoria, where the Veterans Bank is now. That was the site of the 1950 Casino of Mr. Anastacio Gabor..

by the past administration of Mayor Vicente Y. Emano. It recalls the architecture of the original Kiosko sans the skylight and the two lions which remain missing to this day.

During the last term of the past administration, the Plaza underwent a major facelift. Besides the band stand’s replacement with the new Kiosko Kagawasan, the “ampi” also underwent a similar renovation, which thankfully left it in better shape than it was before, now it is the new home of Police Station 1 or the OKK (Operation Kahusay ug Kalinaw).

The old OKK has been demolished to give way to the better looking Cagayan de Oro Tourist Assistance Center” and two public toilets were erected in an effort to stop the Plaza from degenerating into a public toilet.

Unfortunately, the old Amphi was demolished during the previous administration and never replaced.

There’s also been mixed reactions to other “improvements” such as the controversial lights which will lighting up what used to be a dimly lit plaza, have also been lambasted for its “barriotic” or garish

looks. There’s the controversial Masonic monument crowding a section of the fire break, as well as an unfinished section of the boulevard started by former Mayor Constantino Jaraula but not completed by his successors.

“Perhaps a better way of regarding Divisoria and its future is in order now,” Montalvan said. “We now have a national law in place, RA 10066, the National Cultural Heritage Law. Government is now capable of declaring sites and landmarks so that these can be protected. There is one classification there called the Heritage Zone that I think is the most appropriate way of ensuring the future of Divisoria.

Soon we shall pass from this world. But what assurance do we leave behind?”

Residents and visitors remain hopeful that, in time, these transient problems are resolved and that Plaza Divisoria with its fruit stands, monuments, benches and trees would be there for the next hundred years or so for their afternoon paseos, paradas and procesiones to mark important and historic occasions in this city’s history.

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The 21st Century Learner Needs a 21st Century Teacher

By Charles Mahistrado School Principal Plantation Elem. School, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon

How we teach must reflect how our students learn, it must also reflect the world they will emerge into. This is a world that is rapidly changing, connected, adapting and evolving. Our style and approach to teaching must emphasize the learning in the 21st century.

In order for our students to have a 21st Century education, our teachers need to know how to teach with 21st Century Pedagogy. Pedagogical strategies are to help teachers master their 21st Century Teaching Skills. To effectively teach our 21st century students, teachers must integrate the 21st Century Teaching Strategies into their lessons: A Profes-

sional Learning Community; Collaboration; Constructivist Teaching; Student-Centered Teaching; Project-Based Teaching; Challenged-Based Teaching; Problem-Solving skills; Technology and Multimedia; Arts Integration; Real World Application. Even if you have a 21st Century classroom, flexible and adaptable; even if you are a 21st Century teacher ; An adaptor, a communicator, a leader and a learner, a visionary and a model, a collaborator and risk taker; even if your curriculum reflects the new paradigm and you have the facilities and resources that could enable 21st century learning – you will only be a 21st century teacher if how

we teach changes as well.

Our pedagogy must also change.

The key features are: building technological, information and media fluencies; developing thinking skills - makes use of project based learning; uses problem solving as a teaching tool; uses 21st Century assessments with timely, appropriate and detailed feedback and reflection.

Knowledge - We need to teach knowledge or content in context with the tasks and activities the students are undertaking. Our students respond well to real world problems and our delivery of knowledge should scaffold the learning process and provide a foundation for activities. As we know from the learning pyramid content delivered without

context or other activity has a low retention rate.

Thinking skills - are another key area. While much of the knowledge we teach may be obsolete within a few years, the thinking skills will remain with our students for their entire lives. Industrial age education has had a focus on Lower Order Thinking Skills.

In Bloom’s taxonomy the lower order thinking skills are the remembering and understanding aspects. Part of our 21st Century pedagogy focuses on the move from Lower Order Thinking Skills to Higher Order Thinking Skills.

The 21st Century Teachers scaffolds the learning of the students, building on a basis of knowledge recall and comprehension to use and

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apply the skills; to analyse and evaluate the process, outcomes and concequences, and to make and create. For each subject the process is subtly different.

Collaboration - The 21st century is the age of collaboration as well as the Information Age. 21st Century students, our digital natives, are collaborative.

The growth of social networking tools, like bebo, myspace, Facebook, twitter and alike, is fueled

by Digital natives and Gen Y. The world, our students are graduating into is a collaborative one. Collaborative projects like Julie Lindsay’s and Vicki Davis’s Flatclassroom project and the Horizon Project, iearns and many others are brilliant examples of collaboration in the classrooms and beyond. If you have read Don Tapscott’s Wikinomics, there are plenty of examples of the business world adopting and succeeding by using global collaboration.

In a recent blog post from the Official google Blog, Google identified these as key traits or abilities “… communication skills.

Marshalling and understanding the available evidence isn’t useful unless you can effectively communicate your conclusions.” “… team players. Virtually every project at Google is run by a small team. People need to work well together and perform up to the team’s expectations. ” So to prepare our students, our teaching should also model collaboration. A vast array of collaborative tools are available to – wikis, classroom blogs, collaborative document tools ,social networks, learning management systems.

Collaboration is not a 21st century skill it is a 21st century essential. If we look at UNESCO’s publication “The four pillars of Education, Learning: The Treasure within” Collaboration is a key element of each of the four pillars: Learning to know; Learning to do; Learning to live together, and Learning to be.

Collaboration is not limited to the confines of the classroom. Students and teachers are collaborating across the world, and beyond the time constraints of the teaching day.

Students working with other students regionally, nationally or globally. Learners seeking and working with experts as required. This is 21st Century Collaboration.

Real World, Inter-disciplinary & project based learning - 21st Century students do not want abstract examples rather they focus on real world problems firmly set in a basis of understanding. They also want what they learn in one subject to be relevant and applicable in another curriculum area.

For us, as teachers we need to extend beyond our areas of expertise, collaborating with our peers in other subjects to link and bind the learning in one area to the other.

Projects should be encompassing, bringing together and reinforcing the learning in the disciplines. The sum of their learning will be greater than the individual aspects taught in isolation. This is a holistic overview of the education process, building and valuing each and every aspect of the 21st Century students education.

Assessment - The spector of assessment is still present in our 21st Century Pedagogy. 21st Century Assessment, is still a key aspect of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

We know that this generation of students respond well to clear goals and objectives, assessed in a transparent manner.

Our students should be involved in all aspects of the assessment process. Students who are involved in setting and developing assessment criteria, marking and moderation will have a clearer understanding of : what they are meant to do, how they are meant to do it, why its significant. and of its importance. These students will undoubtedly do better and use the assessment process as a part of their learning process.

Students are often painfully honest about their own performance and that of their peers. They will in a collaborative project fairly assess those who contribute and those who don’t.

This is their education, their learning and their future – they must be involved in it.

Linked to this too is the immense value of timely, appropriate, detailed and specific feedback. Feedback as a learning tool is second only to thinking skills. As 21st Century teachers, we must provide and facilitate safe and appropriate feedback, developing an environment where students can safely and supportively be provided with and provide feedback. Our students can be very insightful and often have a better perspective than we do.

Fluency - So what is fluency and why is it better than Literacy. Ian Jukes introduced me to this concept at NECC. Our students need to move beyond literacy to fluency. They need to be fluent in the use of technology = technological fluency; Collecting, processing, manipulating and validating information = information fluency,; using, selecting, viewing and manipulating media = media fluency.

What is fluency compared to literacy? A person who is fluent in a language does not need to think about speech, or reading rather it is an unconscious process of understanding. A person who is literate in the language must translate the speech or text. This applies to our students and their use of 21st Century media. We need them to be unconsciously competent in the use and manipulation of media, technology and information.

The conscious competence model illustrates the difference between Literacy and Fluency.

The person or student who is literate is in the conscious competence category, the person or student who is fluent is in the unconscious competence category.

For us as educators, we must identify, develop and reinforce these skill sets until they become literate and eventually fluent.

For us to teach using 21st Century pedagogy, we must be student centric. Our curricula and assessments are inclusive, interdisciplinary and contextual; based on real world examples. Our students are key elements in the assessment process, intimate in it from the start to finish, from establishing purpose and criteria to assessing and moderating. We must establish a safe environment for our students to not only collaborate in but also to discuss, reflect and feedback in. We make use of collaborative and project based learning, using enabling tools and technologies to facilitate this. We develop key fluencies and make use of higher order thinking skills.

Our tasks, curricula, assessments and learning activities are designed to build on the Lower Order Thinking Skills and develop Higher Order Thinking Skills.

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Dureza... from page A4

This is why a mad scramble among the coops where to get power during the interim is my projection into the near term.

STOP GAP --- This brings us now to a situation where power coops will have to scout around for temporary arrangements to bridge this power gap. The way forward is to install small to medium power generating capacities that are embedded or exclusively intended for specific coops for their own localities, like diesel or bunker fired modular generators. They may be a bit expensive in terms of consumer price.

But past experience taught us that it’s far better to have a bit more reasonably expensive power than having “no power” at all! There are other options like installation of

solar powered or small hydro or biomass plants. Whatever the option is, there must be ways done to insulate and protect communities from a serious deficit in the whole grid -- an eventuality that now appears inevitable.

DASURECO -- I am a native of Davao del Sur so I am proud to cite my province as an example of this forward looking remedial and preemptive measure.

Look at what the Davao Del Sur Electric Cooperative, Inc. (DASURECO) in Digos, Davao del Sur has done. It installed early last year modular gensets with a 15MW standby capacity in partnership with Alson’s Mapalad Power Company.

General Manager Godofredo Guya and his board of directors took the right , decisive steps. I understand DASURECO reduced its contracted supply contract

which it earlier signed with GN Power.

BALUT ISLAND --- Here’s another example of the same power coop’s strategic move.

Last week, DASURECO paved the way for the putting up of a small embedded power plant in Balut Island by signing a “waiver agreement” with PowerSource Phil. Inc., Being four ( 4 ) hours away from General Santos City by boat and not connected to the Mindanao power grid, the planned new power capacity will boost the island economy which serves as our frontier with neighboring Indonesia. The island is not easily accessible but a hidden jewel at the southern tip with a forward-looking chief executive, Mayor Virgie Cawa in tandem with husband, Vice Mayor Gerry Cawa. It is one of the towns of the Municipality of Sarangani (not to be mixed up

with Province of Sarangani in South Cotabato. ) Balut is now part of the newly created province of Davao Occidental, carved out of Davao del Sur, but still within DASURECO’s franchise area.

Am I glad PowerSource Phils, Inc. agreed to take care of power generation, operation and distribution in Balut Island. This is part of my own personal Mindanao advocacy in the private sector.

CHEAP NO MORE -Soon, Mindanao will no longer enjoy its comparative advantage over Luzon and Visayas . The regime of low “blended price”, which is a mix of cheap hydro and fossil (coal, bunker, diesel) power is about to come to an end. This is inevitable with the privatization of power generation mandated by the EPIRA law. Hydropower ( from Agus river and Lake Lanao ) will no longer be

MyPhone wagi laban sa mala-David vs Goliath na trademark case laban sa iPhone Kamakailan lang ay naipanalo ng Pinoy Phone brand na MyPhone ang isang kasong trademark na inihain ng global technology giant na Apple Inc. Inakusahan ng higanteng kumpanya ng pangagaya sa “iPhone” ang noon ay pasimula pa lamang na “my|phone” ng Solid Broadband Corporation. Base sa kanilang akusasyon, isa umanong “copycat” ang local na brand, at sumasakay lamang ito sa kasikatan ng noon ay kakalabas pa lamang din na brand ng telepono. Parehong inilabas ang unang iPhone at MyPhone noong 2007.

Ngunit matapos ang mahigit kumulang na anim na taong paglilitis ay ibinasura ng Intellectual Property Office sa Pilipinas ang nasabing kaso.

Ayon sa nasabing ahensya, dapat ay kilalanin ang kakayanang mag-isip ng mga mamimili, lalo na sa merkado ng mobile phones kung saan maalam ang mga mamimili sa brand ng mga produkto. Ang pagpapakilala din mg “my|phone” bilang isang “local Pinoy Phone” at pamamaraan ng pag-promote nito ay higit na nagpapa-iba dito sa “iPhone.”

B as e s a mga dokumentong ipinasa ng Solid

Broadband, isinumite na ng kumpanya sa unang pagkakataon ang pag-rehistro sa “my|phone” noong June 25, 2007, ilang araw bago ilabas ang unang iPhone sa US. Makalipas ang dalawang taon ay isinampa ng Apple ang kaso ng trademark, ngunit hindi nila ito isina-publiko gay ang ialng paghahabla nila sa ibang kumpanya, isa na dito ang Samsung.

“This is a case of a giant trying to claim more territory than what it is entitled to (ito ay isang kaso ng isang higanteng nangangamkam ng teirtoryo na hindi niya pag mamayari),” sabi ng Migallos and Luna Law Office, legal na tagapayo ng Solid Broadband.

Ang MyPhone ang nag lalayong gumawa ng mga pro du kt on g m a g i g i n g abot kaya sa mga normal na Pilipinong mamimili.

Ang mga telepono nila ay naghahalagang Php499 hanggang Php 13,000.

Dagdag ni Mr. Richie de Quina Vice President

a key player that will give a price blend that will keep cost of power cheap, especially when government starts transitioning to a regime where the private sector will have to step into its shoes as mandated by the EPIRA law.

DELAYS -- One critical area that also needs radical reforms is the unmitigated and unreasonable delay in getting permits and approvals . Private investors had been complaining about unnecessary and institutional delays that contribute to the mess the power sector is now facing.

FUTURE -- One important final point. There are still sticky issues about Mindanao power generation in relation to the prospective emergence of the Bangsamoro governance as a consequence of the peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), given that Lake Lanao, the main source of

hydro power in the island region is within the territory.

We need to resolve these issues with clarity. (jessdureza@ gmail.com)

Valdehuesa... from page A4

And the good fortune of one should be a glad tiding to others.

(MindaViews is the opinion section of MindaNews.

Manny Valdehuesa is former UNESCO regional director for Asia-Pacific, secretarygeneral of Southeast Asian Publishers Association, director at development academy of Philippines, vice chair of Local Government Academy, member of the Cory Government’s Peace Panel, and PPI-UNICEF awardee for outstanding columnist. Author of books on governance, he is national chairman/convenor of Gising Barangay Movement Inc. valdehuesa@gmail.com)

Be careful for what you have eaten

S pecial G ospel of the day (June9, 2015-Tuesday) John 2:13-25” And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables; and to those who for Marketing and Busi- produktong PINOY na ta- were selling the doves ness Development na ang lagang pwedeng ipagmalaki He said, “Take these MyPhone ay itinaguyod ng lahat ng mga Pilipino. things away; stop makupang mabigyan na paging My Father’s house Republic of the Philippines kakataon ang mga Pilipino DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION a place of business.”

AND COMMUNICATIONS na magkaroon ng Telepono His disciples rememMARITIME INDUSTRY AUTHORITY na matibay at abot kaya at bered that it was writMARINA R.O. X and XIII 2/F SEJOLIM Bldg., Gemilina St. ten, “ZEAL FOR YOUR maipagmamalaki ng mga Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City HOUSE WILL CONSUME Pilipino.

ME.” The Jews then said Saktong sakto na ang NOTICE is hereby given that to Him, “What sign do ESTEBAN TAN, buyer of the vessel kampanya ng MyPhone MV “SONSONROLL” has applied with You show us as your ngayon ay tinaguriang “Be MARINA Cagayan de Oro City for authority for doing these Inspired” na sumabay sa the Approval of Sale and Transfer things?” Jesus answered balitang pagkapanalo ng of the mentioned vessel in favor of them, “Destroy this temSHUANG YAN HUANG. MyPhone sa Trademark ple, and in three days War with MyPhone. Isang MDN: June 9, 2015 I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build PRA Form No.10.1 (LCRO) Republic of the Philippines this temple, and will You LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OFFICE raise it up in three days?”

PROVINCE OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL But He was speaking of Cagayan de Oro City the temple of His body.

So when He was raised NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION from the dead, His dis In compliance with Section 5 of R.A No. 10172, a NOTICE is hereby ciples remembered that served to the public that ROSSELE SAN SEBASTIAN ANGUS has He said this; and they filed with this Office a petition for the correction of clerical error in the believed the Scripture entry of the child’s SEX from “MALE” to “FEMALE” in the Certificate and the word which Jesus of Live Birth of ROSSELE SAN SEBASTIAN ANGUS who was born had spoken. Now when on January 19, 1992 in Cagayan de Oro City and whose parents He was in Jerusalem are JUSTINIANO TALIBONG ANGUS JR. and EDNA ACOSTA SAN at the Passover, during SEBASTIAN. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written the feast, many believed opposition with this Office not later than June 18, 2015. in His name, observing

His signs which He was (SGD.) NORMA S. DIPUTADO doing:

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Biblical reflection

Bro. Edcel L. Closas preserved is our individual body. We are the individual temple of God. 1 Corinthians 3:16”Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? Put in your mind that doing wrong towards oneself is a mortal sin since this is the spiritual dwelling place of God on this earth. 1 Corinthians 3:17”If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.

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Closure... from page A2

terror in the STTICLC schools, including an encampment in school facilities, lingering about school premises while classes are going on, and outright harassment of teachers and students on suspicion that the school is supporting communist rebels. The Talaingod Manobos were also forced to evacuate to Davao City last year due to massive military operations.

“The intention is obvious. It is not unknown that Talaingod is rich in mineral resources, and large-scale mining companies have pending mining applications with the government, thus the deployment of military troops even in schools. This is unlawful and should be stopped. Instead of being instrumental in human rights violations, the government should perform its primary duty of providing basic education facilities in far-flung areas,” the EFD said. SOURCE: IBON.ORG

School... from page A1

belongs to households headed by poorly educated individuals. This affirms that policies like mandatory and universal kindergarten have benefited the poor the most.

The difference in the rates of children going to preschool between the upper middle-income and the poorest have shrunk from 34.9 to 5 percent.

Greater access to free kindergarten and other early childhood care and development programs (EECD), according to Albert and David, have acted as an “equalizing” force, helping reduce wealth and social class inequalities. In particular, they identified three interrelated factors: the mandatory kindergarten, the rise in the Department of Education’s (DepEd) budget with the implementation of the K-12, and the expansion of the conditional cash transfer program (the Patawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps).

Still, they emphasize the need to understand the nuances underneath. They recommend that further research must be taken to generate more comprehensive policies and program, particularly where secondary schools and gender disparity are concerned.

Current measures are in place, but there has only been modest improvements at the secondary level where maintaining school particiRepublic of the Philippines DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS MARITIME INDUSTRY AUTHORITY MARINA R.O. X and XIII 2/F SEJOLIM Bldg., Gemilina St. Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City

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pation is more challenging.

There are plenty of factors at play, with gender adding a complicated layer.

Boys have higher dropout rates, especially in high schools that have high student-teacher ratios. The explanation for this phenomena is rooted in prevailing cultural and socioeconomic mindsets.

According to David, for the poorest families who can only support the education of one child, they often prioritize the girls. The emphasis on the girls could be linked to the fact that many of the jobs that people think will get them out of poverty, such as nursing which is in-demand overseas, are dominated by women. Girls than boys are thus perceived to be more likely to send more money home than their male counterparts in the same industries.

Another possible reason, also reflecting a strong female bias, is that educators and parents alike believe that young girls are much easier to educate, more likely to finish, more likely to excel, and less likely to get distracted.

The disparity in the tertiary level is even worse.

David noted, “It’s an issue that is so multifactorial that we really need to carefully study the problem.”

Albert and David segregated the 42 recommendations stated in the OOSC Country Report into five area categories, namely: getting more children in the three- to five-year-old bracket enrolled in preschool, improving the quality of teaching and curricula, addressing the gender disparity in performance, bringing education to older OOSC, and supporting management efficiencies and effectiveness.

“Now that shortages are no longer the main story in basic education, the DepEd can get out of its cycle of just trying to keep up with the growing demand,” said Albert and David.

The authors hope that the country can now focus on improving quality in a strategic manner and achieve the goals set in the K-12 law.

They also underscore the importance of strengthening data systems, commending the institutionalization of the Learner Information System. More initiatives to do research to generate

Needed diligence The bishops also urged the lay faithful to get involved in the issue and study other aspects “that may find relevant with assiduousness and diligence” and share their findings with the CBCP. “We welcome the truly scholarly and diligent analyses of all. With these studies, we can more wisely look at the move to amend the Constitution in the light of our Christian faith,” Villegas said.

“Only then shall we be prepared to take a moral stand in respect to the p r o p o s e d a m e n d m e nt from page A1 of the Constitution,” he guided by the belief added. (Roy Lagarde/CBthat it is the key to reviv- CPNews) ing foreign investment flow into the country. from page A1 ‘Purely economic reaOrdinance 185 which govsons’ erns the operations of motorBut House Speaker Fe- ized tricycles. Violators are liciano Belmonte Jr., said fined not less than Php1, 000. it is purely for economic The ordinance protects reasons and will not in- passengers not only from clude amending any po- overcharging but from “illlitical provisions of the mannered” drivers.

Lorydel Maquiling, a stuConstitution such as term dent from Western Mindanao limits.

State University (WMSU) comIn the past, the bishops plained about having to deal noted how they agreed with a “discourteous, arrogant with those that drafted driver.” t he 1987 C onst itut ion “Bastos na nga yung driver, be designed to primar- hindi pa talaga ako hinatid ily safeguard and uphold sa saktong lugar na sinabi ko Filipinos’ socio-economic kasi nagmamadali raw siya,” (He was not only arrogant, he interests.

“Rightly, we have al- also did not bring me to my ways steered away from destination), she said.

Maquiling’s experience, the prospect of foreigners however, pales in comparienriching themselves by sion to that of a government the countr y’s res ourc- employee who requested not to es and our labor force, be named for security reasons. transferring their earnings The employee had an altercaoverseas, and leaving us tion with a driver who “literally none the better because threatened me, saying ‘sabe yo of their presence and their onde bo ta keda, kuydaw lang exploitation of our re- bo’,” (I know where you live, sources, both natural and you better watch out).

The ordinance also pehuman! This should renalizes drivers who refuse to main a paramount princiconvey passengers to their ple,” Villegas stressed destination. The driver, as well Points to consider as the owner of the trike will In studying Charter be imposed a fine of PhP500. change, Villegas said it Drivers’ woes should have “clear anTricycle drivers also have swers” to the following their own share of stories about passengers. questions: Albert Rodrigo, who has What do we, as a nation, stand to gain from been driving for 12 years now, relaxing the provisions said some passengers can be very demanding. “Minsan now deemed restrictive? halos magpalibre na lang sa How are we assured sobrang baba ng binibigay that the resources of the na pasahe,” (Sometimes they country, both natural and pay only a pittance, it feels human, benefit Filipino like you’re giving them a free nationals principally? ride), Rodrigo lamented.

Rodrigo, the family’s breadWhat are the human, social, and environmental winner, earns PhP 200 or PhP costs of lifting present lim- 300 daily, just enough to buy its to foreign participation food. Sometimes, it’s not even in Philippine economic enough, he said.

But Rodrigo can’t charge and business affairs? his passengers beyond what is evidence-based policies are needed, on top of performance-based budgeting, school-based management, and systematic evaluation of special programs—things that are not for the DepEd alone to accomplish.

“It’s a common dream for all of us: aim for a nation where there is no out-ofschool youth. We’re almost there. We just need one big push,” remarked DepEdDeed Secretary Armin Luistro at the seminar’s forum, emphasizing that basic education needs above all, “community effort.”

Studies...

Tellers...

R.A. Form No. 10.1 (LCRO) Republic of the Philippines Province: North Cotabato Municipality: Magpet OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR. CCE-0024-2015 R.A.9048/R.A.10172 Date: June 8, 2015 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION In compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that BABIE L. MANUMBA has filed with this Office a petition for correction of entry in sex from “FEMALE” to “MALE” in the certificate of Live Birth of BABIE EDAO MANUMBA who was born on September 01, 1995 at Imamaling, Magpet, Cotabato and whose parents are Bebot L. Manumba and Flora L. Edao.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than June 29, 2015.

(Sgd) CHONA M. PROVIDA, MPA

MDN: June 9 & 16, 2015

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prescribed in the fare matrix.

He said he might be fined if he did that.

Florencio Delasa, a 65-year old driver, strictly follows the fare matrix imposed by the Tricycle Adjuciation Board (TAB).

“I see to it that I strictly follow the fare matrix even if I don’t earn much,” he said.

Reporting complaints Linda Mandi, a member of the Tricycle Adjudication Board (TAB), urged the public to air their complaints. She told Dateline Teleradyo that their office only receives complaints mostly from passengers who are professionals. “We have received complaints from doctors, teachers and other professionals but we do not receive complaints from the ordinary residents,” she said.

A 67-year-old passenger said she would rather keep her mouth shut than complain. “Dili nako magreklamo sa opisina kay mao raman gyapon, dili ra man gyapon tagaan atensyon kay wala koy nahuman sa pag iskwela.” (I won’t complain because the office will not attend to me anyway because I didn’t finish school).

The TAB holds office at the City Legal Office in the City Hall.

Many residents complain that drivers charge double or even triple the amount stipulated in the fare matrix.

Trike drivers on the other hand complain that the fare is very low and that they could could barely cope with the surging gas prices and trike repairs.

Mandi clarified that the fare matrix was consulted with trike operators, drivers and the riding public before the ordinance was approved.

“They cannot say that we did not consult them about this, we considered the gas price and the repairs before formulating the matrix, we even conducted feasibility studies,” she said.

For the first kilometer, trike drivers already earn Php14.50 approximately, depending on the actual gas prices. As of June 5. the gas price was Php 44 per liter.

One liter covers at least 12 kilometers, drivers say. But the cost of maintenance as well as rental of the unit is expensive.

Mandi said senior citizens and students should be given a 20% discount.

She said they plan to up huge tarpaulins in the airport, seaport and bus terminals to inform the public how much they should pay.

“It is our responsibility to complain formally because if we just tolerate them, they will keep on abusing,” Mandi concluded.

In a survey conducted in the city, 7 out of 10 respondents (composed of professionals, students and ordinary citizens) responded that “fair”

fare rate should be according to the City Ordinance 185.

(Rylle Darryll T. Estrella/for MindaNews) (Rylle Darryll Estrella, is a seniorAB Mass Communications student, major in Journalism, at he Western Mindanao State University.

Estrella is an intern under the Peace Journalism Training and Internship Program of the Zamboanga City Government organized with the support of USAID-ENGAGE)

DSWD...

from page A3 interviews by heart and give them the needed information, so that efficient results would come out.

The assessment will be using a family assessment form (FAF), a four-page questionnaire with 52 observable and verifiable variables.

The household will be assessed based on composition; the household members’ highest educational attainment and occupation; features of the housing structure and access to basic services or facilities like water, electricity, and sanitary toilet; households’ ownership of assets and tenure status of housing, among others.

All the collected information from the FAF will be encoded to a web application and will still be subjected to a Proxy Means Test (PMT), a statistical model that estimates the income of a household.

Households with estimated incomes that are equal to and above the latest provincial poverty thresholds will be considered non-poor and those with estimated incomes falling below the poverty thresholds will be considered poor.

Once the household is identified as poor, they will be the potential beneficiaries of the program.

Families are also warned to be vigilant during the period of assessment which will last for approximately one month, for there might be bogus or fake enumerators and ask money from the household in exchange of being interviewed.

This has happened in Tubod, Lanao del Norte before, just like in one of its coastal barangays.

Households in Barangay Pigcarangan experienced being asked P150 by fake enumerators.

Thus, after this incident reached the attention of Barangay Chairman Alfredo L. Igcalingay, he said that no one should tolerate this kind of action. The same to what DSWD has suggested, he asked the public to immediately report to DSWD or to the Local Social Welfare and Development Office, in case there are fake enumerators.

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Honda Launches the New Generation BeAT Fi Honda Philippines Inc. (HPI) recently unveiled its latest offering, the

New Generation BeAT-FI eSP Seriesat the Music Hall of the SM Mall

of Asia. Dubbed as the ‘Scooter for All’ and the motorcycle manufacture-

rincorporated a number of features to justify such moniker.

Daiki Mihara, President of Honda Philippines, Inc., is confident of the potentials of the New Generation BeAT-FI

eSP Series in the local scooter market.

“The New Generation BeAT-FI eSP Series is a reflection of Honda Philippines’ continued commitment to provide powerful, safe, fun, and

worthwhile driving experience to the growing market of Filipino scooter enthusiasts,” Mihara pointed out.

At a retail price of PhP66,900 for the standard model, you now get fuel-injection system 11.2 liters of underseat space. Add Php 3,000 more and you also get idling stop system (ISS) and the combi-brake system (CBS). Honda has also retained the safety and security features of the previous model such as the key shutter, side stand switch, park brake lock, and automatic headlight on (AHO). To know more about the Honda BeAT Fi, visit www.hondaph.com photos by kit elton pilla

Yamaha holds 7th Dealer Summit Motorcycle dealers from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao converged at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza for the Yamaha Motor Philippines

(YMPH) 7th Dealer Summit. YMPH president Toru Osugi gave a three-dimensional presentation of the firm’s industry performance during the first half of the year. To the excitement of its dealer partners, Yamaha also formally announced its intention to venture into the big bike segment before the end of 2015. In addition, Yamaha also unveiled their latest power products line-up. The highlight of the evening was YMPH’s introduction of the Blue Core

Wrangler announces its True Wanderer Iconic denim brand Wrangler’s 10 riders for its digital campaign True Wanderer have traversed roads and shared their stories from their “ride outs” and now, a winner has emerged in the person of Marvin Geronimo, who was awarded in the campaign’s culminating event at the Treehouse Tavern and Café in Makati recently.

Geronimo works as a graphic designer and has been riding his Honda XR125L for four years now.

According to him, he was moved to join the contest after finding out how True Wanderer doesn’t fit the usual mold of motorbike contests which are usually about pimped up rides and speed. “True Wanderer is refreshing since

it celebrates traveling and adventure, both of which I’m passionate about.”

Geronimo won a brand new KTM Duke 390, together with P100,000 worth of Wrangler products.

technology, in which the main concept is “more power, less fuel”.

The said technology will be the defining feature of Yamaha’s automatic

models in the near future. To let the public appreciate it full benefits, Yamaha initially released two new products equipped with Blue

Core engines, the Mio I 125 and the Mio Soul I 125. These two new models will be available soon in Yamaha dealerships nationwide.

PETRON TAKES INDUSTRY LEAD WITH PRODUCTION OF EURO-4 GASOLINES Market leader Petron Corporation achieved an industry first as it announced today all gasoline variants produced at its Bataan refinery are now Euro-4 compliant. The Euro-4 gasoline products are now available in Petron service stations in Mega Manila and will soon be available nationwide, meeting the government’s mandate ahead of schedule.

“The local production of various gasoline grades under this global fuel standard is another milestone in the oil industry. These products are proudly Philippine-made,” Petron President and Chief Executive Officer Ramon S. Ang said. “As the pacesetter in the industry, we hope that this encourages other players to follow suit.”

“More importantly, our launch of a complete line-up of Euro 4 gasoline products affirms our commitment to introduce fuels relevant to consumers while reducing our environmental footprint,” Mr. Ang added.

Petron’s early compliance was made possible by its massive US$2-billion

upgrade at its Bataan refinery which increases its local production of gasoline, diesel, and petrochemicals and also allows the production of Euro-4 fuels.

The Company said it will start the domestic production of Euro-4 compliant diesel products soon.