Sige sulti pa, basig ikaw ang masalad!
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VOL.5 ISSUE 93 • JULY 12, 2012
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Science/ Environment Page 4 FISHING. A woman watches three men who are casting their fishing rods along the coastline of Davao gulf. The men usually stop by in the afternoon to try their luck in fishing and bring it home for dinner.. [KARLOS MANLUPIG]
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Stop ‘salad’ slang By Jade C. Zaldivar
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hose who speak the street slang “Salad” better hold their tongue or pay the price. Davao City Mayor Sara DuterteCarpio issued a stern warning against those who use the term on women offensively. She encouraged women to immediately lodge a police blotter against the offender for using the street lingo. “If you felt offended, file a police
blotter report to record it as offensive,” she said. The street slang which has spread like wildfire over radio stations and local lingo connotes women being prostitutes as this is allegedly used by pimps or bugaw engaged in the sale of female flesh. The mayor, who called herself unfamiliar with the slang word, said there “should be nothing
wrong with it so long as no one is offended.” However, if females feel offended, then they should file a report, she said. “That’s good so it’ll show that it’s not a positive act,” she added. Duterte-Carpio also showed exasperation, saying the slang word is degrading to women. “what’s happening to our society, instead
of evolving into a higher form of human beings, we have become a salad,” she said. earlier Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte also expressed opposition to the spread of the street slang in his Sunday TV show Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa. The elder Duterte said he’ll slap anyone he catches uttering the word ‘salad’ to a female.
Jaime G. Adalin, head of the Davao City Cooperative Development Office (CCDO), earlier said the cooperatives signified to contribute a total of P5.2 million to the CSF, and, without collateral, can avail of loans as much as 10 times the amount of their contribution based on the MOA. BSP defines CSF as a credit enhancement scheme developed by the BSP which primarily aims to help micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMe) obtain loans from
banks. Diwa Guinigundo, deputy governor of Monetary Stability Sector of the BSP, yesterday said, instead of each borrower or cooperative putting up its own collateral, they pool all their resources, including the local government’s contribution as well as the BSP and its partners. “The pooled resources will now be called the CSF, which will be deposited in one of the participating banks so that in case a coop breaks its commitment to
pay, the bank gets the payment from the fund,” he said. However, he continued, the likelihood that a coop will break its promise to pay the loans is very remote because an oversight committee composed of representatives from the participating parties will evaluate the proposal before loans are given. “They cannot submit anything to participating banks unless the oversight committee has already seen and judged the fea-
20 coops join credit surety fund By Lorie Ann A. Cascaro
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wenTy 20 Davao City cooperatives can now avail of the credit surety fund (CSF), which was launched yesterday on the initiative of the local government and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). A Memorandum of Agreement was also signed between the cooperatives, city government, BSP, Land Bank of the Philippines, Industrial Guarantee Loan Fund (IGLF), and Development Bank of the Philippines to create the CSF.
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