VOL. 10 ISSUE 202 •FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JANUARY 12-13, 2018
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VOL. 10 ISSUE 202 • FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JANUARY 12-13 , 2018
CONDOLING. Survey Sampling International (SSI) vice president for operations Rick Watson tries to comfort the family members of call center agents who were killed in last month’s NCCC fire during a mass
service initiated by the company at NCCC car park in Ma-a, Davao City on Thursday. Lean Daval Jr.
LIMITED RICE To reduce waste of rice, says Councilor Abella By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
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onsumers in Davao City will soon have a choice of determining their rice consumption in restaurants and in big fast-food chains.
Like it or not, a proposed ordinance requiring all establishments to serve half-rice to their customers will take only the signature of Mayor Sara Z. Duterte before it becomes �inal and executory. This is after the city council on Tuesday, approved the proposed Davao City Rice Conservation Ordinance on its third and �inal reading. This ordinance would
require all business establishments involved in serving food to include half-cup of rice in their menus with price set also at half from its one cup order. City council’s committee on agriculture chair Marissa Salvador-Abella, proponent of the ordinance, said the main goal of this is to reduce the waste of rice in the city since there are people who can
hardly consume a cup of rice. “Kanang parehas sa mga diabetic og mga senior citizens nga dili gani maka-consume og one cup (There are people just like those who have diabetes and senior citizens who cannot even consume a cup of rice),” she said. The lady councilor said that usually some restaurants are not offering half cup rice order so people have no
choice but to order a cup of rice. “Let us say sa mga edaran nga kanang dili ka consume, ang ma consume niya is ang half lang man, so, meaning katong nabilin waste na siya (Let us say, our elderly people who cannot consume a cup of rice and can only eat half of it, this means that the remaining rice will become waste),” she said. She said the stakeholders even the big fast-food chains in the country did not express their opposition to this proposal during the three com-
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An Indonesian new year at the consulate The residence of Indonesian consul general Berlian Napitupulu was a beehive of activity as the gracious consul opened the doors of his home in Davao to host a new years celebration.