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DUCAY INVADES ROXAS. Presidential candidate and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte holds the Philippine flag while reiterating that he is running because he loves his country and his fellow Filipinos during his speech in Wednesday night’s Duterte-Cayetano grand rally along Roxas Avenue.

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P25,000 BONUS FOR EMPLOYEES CNA incentive for release before end of March INdulge!

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AVAO City government employees will receive their P25,000 collective negotiating agreement (CNA) incentive before the end of the month.

City administrator Jesus Melchor V. Quitain told reporters at the sidelines of the Parada Davaoeño last Wednesday that the city is supposed to give the CNA to regular employees before the Araw ng Davao but it was delayed because Supplemental Budget No. 1 was

just approved on Monday.

“Kung hindi man yan ma-release (If it is not released), definitely, that will be released before the end of the month,” Quitain said.

SB1 appropriated P178 million or 63 percent for the Development Fund, P99 million or 35.2 percent to the General Fund, and P4.6 million or 1.7 percent for the Economic Enterprise.

P62.1 million of P99.3 million of the general fund is allocated for the last

trench of the CNA incentive of the 2,484 regular personnel.

Meanwhile, the office of the City Mayor is also given an appropriation of P27.42 million, of which P25.9 million will be allocated for the Lingap Program.

The amount will be used to pay the previous year’s balance to various hospitals, clinics, dialysis centers and funeral parlors.

Infrastructure projects will have a total budget

share of 98.9 percent of the development fund for the funding of priority projects identified by the barangays.

Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte has earlier committed to provide each barangay with P1-million budget for their priority projects.

Out of 182, only 167 barangay projects were identified and included in the SB1.

The other barangay projects will be funded from the reversion of the excess in the 2015 appropriation.

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REAL CHANGE. Thousands of supporters shout and chant slogans and the names of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte and Senator Alan Peter Cayetano during the candle lighting to symbolize “Tunay na Pagbabago”, one of the battle cries of the duo’s campaign, as they listen to the message of the mayor in Wednesday night’s Duterte-Cayetano grand rally in Davao City. At least 20,000 supporters attended the rally. Lean Daval Jr.

Rody asks Davaoeños to vote for Cayetano

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AYOR Rodrigo Duterte hit his political rivals in front of the crowd of 20,000 gathered at Freedom Park for the grand political rally Wednesday night.

In his speech, Duterte walked his supporters through the injustices suffered by the Filipinos from the hands of the government.

The mayor said oppression will continue if the country repeats its past mistake of electing the wrong leader.

“I am just repeating to you what you already know of them,” Duterte told the crowd.

Duterte warned that the outcome of the elections in May will direct the future of the nation.

“Whatever happens, if a crisis hits the country, if corruption continues in the government, if Filipinos continue to live in poverty, that is your choice -- your decision,” Duterte said.

He said he will not ask for votes, he gave snippets of information about his rivals -- except for Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago whom he earlier described as his best friend.

“You reap what you choose.

You vote according to your conscience. You are your own conscience,” he said.

Duterte said he still believes that Senator Grace Poe is an American.

“Her husband and children

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PCW pushes‘Agenda ni Juana’

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HOUSANDS of women and men gathered together in front of the Quirino Grandstand in Manila’s Rizal Park on Wednesday morning to vote -- not for political candidates -- but for issues on women’s welfare and rights that should be included in the agenda of the candidates and the next set of officials after the May 9, 2016 local and national elections.

The event is one of the main highlights of the 2016 National Women’s Month Celebration in the country with the theme, “Kapakanan ni Juana, Isama sa Agenda!”

The casting of votes was led by Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) Chairperson Remedios I. Rikken after she opened the “I Am Counted” Photo Station wherein the par-

ticipating men and women voted for the top five priority agenda on women that they want to be addressed within the next six years.

In the ballot, with a size of long bond paper, the participants shaded the portions that they believe should be included in the priorities of the next administration for a more meaningful and focused implementation of programs and policies for the welfare and rights of women in the society.

Among the categories to choose from in the list were economic empowerment, social development, security, justice and peace, climate change and disaster risk reduction, and gender responsive governance.

“Suportahan natin ang bawat hakbang na ginagawa

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Be non-partisan Duterte told police

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AVAO City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte reminded police officers of the Davao City Police Office (DCPO) and Task Force Davao (TFD) soldiers to remain non-partisan during the election period.

This came after Duterte distributed 39 new patrol vehicles to the DCPO and TFD on Wednesday.

The additional vehicles are intended to help curb criminality in the city and prevent terrorism from happening in the city.

Duterte in his speech told the police and the military that should not overtly support any candidates including to avoid their service being tainted by political colors.

“There is an election and I would like to remind you to be apolitical, do not favor any candidate – you are not supposed to that. Not even me,” the mayor said.

He said the police and military should only serve the needs of the people and not that of the politicians.

“Basta ang inyo pag silbi lang sa mga taga-Davao (just serve the people of Davao City),” he added.

For his part DCPO director Senior Superintendent Vicente D. Danao Jr. assured Duterte that the DCPO will not support any candidate.

However, visiting national candidates who will be coming to the city to campaign will be provided security.

“Kung sino man ang presidentiables na pupunta dito (Any presidential candidate who will come to), the Davao City Police Office is very much ready to provide them with security,” he said.

Moreover, Duterte told the police and military officials to take care of the vehicles so that it will last for many years.

“Somebody should take care of the vehicles, bring it to the service center, clean it, and do maintenance work so that it will last longer than the usual,” he said.

He said the city government will also provide maintenance allowance for the vehicles.

Danao expressed gratitude towards Duterte for meeting some of the needs of the DCPO since it will greatly help them secure the city and become more visible.

“Nagpapasalamat kami sa aming Honorable Mayor for giving us additional 35 vehicles at nakita niyo naman na ito ay galling sa LGU (Local Government Unit) (We thank our Honorable Mayor for giving us 35 additional vehicles, and as you can see, these came from the LGU),” he said.

“Definitely, this will be a big help especially to our crime

prevention program,” Danao said.

The 35 additional vehicles are going to be distributed to the different police stations and units, while four will be given to the TFD. The Mobile Patrol Group will receive 12 vehicles; Sta. Ana and San Pedro Police stations will get 4 each; Talomo Police Station 3; Buhangin and Bunawan Police Stations will each get 2; while Sasa, Calinan, Tugbok, Baguio, Marilog, and Paquibato will receive 1 each.

Danao explained that Sta. Ana and San Pedro got more vehicles because of the bigger scope of their area.

Aside from the additional vehicles, the city will also provide drivers and monthly fuel allocations.

With the additional new vehicles, the DCPO now has more 90 patrol cars, which mostly came from the city government.

chips” or “pay for casino losses.”

“If the casino sector remains outside of the coverage of AMLA, the Philippines risks becoming the world’s money laundering capital,” presidential candidate Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago said.

Santiago said the AMLA amendment was necessary for the Philippines to keep out of the blacklist of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global body against money

laundering and terrorist financing.

If blacklisted by the FATF, the country would suffer higher financial transaction costs and stringent cross-border measures for money transactions. At present, the Philippines remains in the FATF “grey list.”

The Congress has sought to require casinos to report to AMLC in 2012, but the proposal was opposed by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming

Corp., saying that the provision might drive away investors.

Senator Teofisto ‘TG’ Guingona III said the AMLA was amended in 2013 to expand its coverage by including bribery and corruption, malversation of public funds and terrorism to prevent the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) from blacklisting the Philippines.

Guingona said the Senate version include the casinos but the House contingent pushed

Senators call for immediate inclusion of casinos in AMLA

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ENATORS on Wednesday emphasized the need to immediately include the casinos in the entities covered by the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) following the recent USD 81-million fiasco involving funds hacked from Bank of Bangladesh in the United States and entered the Philippine financial system.

The funds were later transferred to accounts of major casino players, and were reportedly used to either “buy

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DOH implements‘Zika National Action Plan’

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NEW PATROL VEHICLES. Father Bong Gonzaga sprinkles holy water to the 39 new patrol vehicles donated by the city government of Davao to the Davao City Police Office (DCPO) and Task Force Davao during the turnover ceremony led by Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte at San Pedro Square on Wednesday. Lean Daval Jr.

City declared peaceful, ready for development

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AVAO City is declared by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) as peaceful and ready for development.

The declaration came after Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte and the officials of AFP and Philippine National Police (PNP) signed the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on the declaration of Davao City as Peaceful and Ready for Further Development (PFRD) Wednesday afternoon at Grand Menseng Hotel.

Among the officials who

signed the MOA were Eastern Mindanao Command commander Lieutenant General Rey Leonardo Guerrero, 10th Infantry Division commander Major General Rafael Valencia, 1003rd Infantry Brigade commander Colonel Ricardo Nepomuceno, Police Regional Office (PRO) 11 deputy regional director for administration Chief Superintendent Federico Dulay Jr., and Davao City Police Office (DCPO) director Senior Superintendent Vicente D. Danao Jr. “The signing of the PFRD

declaration signals the desire of the people of Davao to strengthen peace and security throughout the city,” Valencia said.

He also assured the people of Davao of the continued presence of the military as long as the people and city government of Davao want it.

For his part, Nepomuceno said the rationale on the declaration of Davao City as PFRD highlights several accomplishments of the 10ID against NPA. He said the 10ID’s ac-

complishments include the reduction of the NPA strength; clearing of barangays from CPP-NPA influence; and partnership of the government and the military in the delivery of basic services to the people.

Meanwhile, Guerrero also thanked the city government of Davao for their support to the AFP. “The shared efforts of the responsible stakeholders lead to beneficial and promising developments,” he said. ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.

schools about to end in two weeks, education officials should use the summer break to build or repair schools, hire teachers and buy equipment so all of these will be ready when 21 million students return to schools in June,” Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said here on Wednesday Recto said there should be no repeat of the “horrible

delays” which plagued classroom-construction and teacher-hiring in the past.

The government should exploit good summer weather to finish new classrooms before monsoon rains arrive in June, he stressed.

This year, 43,000 classrooms will be built at a cost of Php61.8 billion. Of these, 23,000 classrooms are for the

Grades 11 and 12, or what constitute senior high, Recto explained.

Congress also allocated Php18.8 billion for 62,320 new teaching posts, plus 17,371 additional support personnel.

About 40,000 teaching slots are for senior high, Recto said.

“With the first batch of

Lawmaker: Deped needs 43,000 new rooms, 62,320 new teachers by June

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LAWMAKER has said the government should press full speed ahead in acquiring needed K to 12 classrooms, equipment and teachers after the Supreme Court (SC) rejected several pleas seeking to stop the implementation of the program adding three years to the basic education curriculum.

“With classes in public

Comelec: Bidding on for VIS

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HE Commission on Elections (Comelec) is inviting suppliers for the Voter Information Sheets (VIS) project worth over Php100 million for the May 9 national and local polls.

In three Invitations to Bid (ITBs), the Comelec–Special Bids and Awards Committees (SBACs) opened their respective public bidding proceedings with an aggregate Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) of Php108.7 million.

“Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using a non-discretionary ‘pass/fail’ criterion as specified in the Government Procurement Act,” it said.

The ABC for the VIS of 30,417,790 voters in Luzon shall be Php60,835,580 while

in the Visayas, the ABC for the 11,316,789 voters shall be Php22,633,578.

On the other hand, the ABC for the 12,629,265 voters in Mindanao will be Php25,258,530.

Bidding Documents for Luzon may already be purchased at the SBAC for Luzon Secretariat Office located at the Comelec– National Capital Region (NCR) Office in Intramuros, Manila until March 23.

For the Visayas, bidding documents are now available at the SBAC for Visayas Secretariat Office at the Comelec– Region 7 Office in Osmena Blvd., Cebu City, also until March 23.

Interested bidders in Mindanao also have until March 23 to purchase the bidding documents from the region’s Secretariat Of-

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HE Department of Health (DOH) said on Wednesday it is set to further strengthen its efforts in control and prevention of Zika virus infection and other mosquito-borne diseases under its “Zika National Action Plan” this month.

According to Dr. Mario Baquilod, DOH Disease Prevention and Control Bureau Director IV, under the action plan, they will be focusing on strategies such as surveillance and clinical management, vector control, management of potential impact on pregnant women, and health promotion.

Dr. Baquilod said they have come out with the action plan upon the order of DOH Secretary Janette L. Garin in the early part of January, this year.

He added that they finalized the contents of the action plan after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Zika virus infection in February as a disease of international concern or having the potential to spread and therefore will require a response with international collaboration.

“Actually, some of these strategies were earlier mentioned by Secretary Garin,” Dr. Baquilod said, adding that some of them were done already before as the DOH had already had its own set of experience on some emerging and reemerging infectious diseases.

He said it is not the first time that the DOH will be dealing with a potential health problem of international concern.

“Just to add, the Philippines has a long history of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. We must understand that even as early as 2003, meron na tayong mga SARS, H5N1, H1N1, MERSCoV and then recently Ebola virus disease experiences in the management and control.

What I’m trying to say, ang DOH ay may existing systems to respond to these kinds of diseases. Siguro mga strengthening efforts na lang ang kailangan for this year,” he added.

He said that what is needed in the current action plan is to further boost and effectively implement it.

According to Baquilod, while the vector control measures are ongoing and being strengthened, they have com-

bined it with activities involving the active participation of regions and municipalities to conduct and implement vector control measures.

He said that at the same time, the capacity of the DOH Epidemiology Bureau was boosted further by formulation of policies and guidelines and clear definition of suspected cases.

He added that aside from capacitating further the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), they are also enhancing the sub-national levels on laboratory diagnosis to effectively detect, track and monitor Zika infection as well as virus isolation when needed.

He also said that policies and guidelines for case referral and clinical management dissemination will be further strengthened.

He said that they have also expanded their surveillance in the points of entry such as seaports and airports in collaboration with quarantine personnel.

Dr. Baquilod emphasized that past efforts on “source reduction” through cleanliness activities will be done in some areas, especially those that will require chemicals in controlling the source.

“We will probably be using larvacides, sprays, and these should be a continuous activity. So the community is critical in this stage to sustain yung mga vector control activities,” he said.

He added that such activities should involve participation on all levels of care as well as the community.

In terms of management of pregnant women, he said that they will provide guidelines in hospitals to mitigate the potential impact of Zika disease on women of child-bearing age.

“Basically, ang gagawin dito is yung updating of policies and guidelines and disseminating through our partners in hospitals,” he said.

He further said that they will continue their collaboration with experts from the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the WHO. For the health promotion, he said that they will effectively communicate the risks associated with Zika virus disease.

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PLATFORM. Vice presidential aspirant Senator Alan Peter Cayetano lays down his and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte’s platform of government before the crowd of at least 20,000 supporters during the Duterte-Cayetano grand rally along Roxas Avenue on Wednesday evening. Lean Daval Jr.

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P18.9 billion Sasa Port bidding derailed

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SALE. A mall-goer chooses from the wide array of shoes and bags on sale at the Annex of SM City Davao yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

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HE filed petition to stop the bidding process of the allegedly overpriced P18.9 billion Davao Sasa port modernization project will probably derail the resumption of the bidding process on March 28.

“The mere filing of this petition will imperil the bidding process,” former Davao City councilor Peter Laviña said.

Laviña is one of the petitioners in the group represented by lawyer Herminio Harry L. Roque, Jr. that filed the 26-page petition for a writ of continuing mandamus and Writ of Kalikasan with Temporary Environmental Protection Order before the Supreme Court (SC) last Monday.

The other petitioners include incumbent Davao City Councilor Diosdado Mahipus Sr., former councilor Pilar Bra-

ga and Antonio Vergara, urban poor representative Benjie Badal, and the Samal City Resort Owners Association, Inc (SCROA).

With only less than two weeks left before the scheduled March 28 bid submission for the project, Laviña told EDGE Davao that the petitioners are “hoping the SC can issue an order to stop the bidding process” before it resumes.

When asked for a timeframe, Laviña said there is still no tentative schedule as when the writ and temporary orders will be served to the Department of Transportation and Communication.

The petitioners urged the court to immediately issue a cease and desist order on the implementation of the project

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Anakpawis calls for passage of national BSP OKs agri value chain minimum wage, ban contractualization financing framework

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ILITANT partylist group Anakpawis urged Dabawenyos to support efforts to call for a ban on contractualization and the passage of a national minimum wage (NMW) for private and public sector workers.

“The lowly worker can no longer survive given poverty wages now. The family living wage today as computed by research group Ibon Foundation is P1,088 daily. Compared to what a Davao worker earns today which is P312.00 daily, a worker is earning merely 29% of the family living wage.

Despite price increases and inflation, workers are only given loose change as wage increase

by the regional wage boards,” Ariel Casilao, first nominee of Anakpawis Partylist, said in a statement.

Casilao said the group is supporting the call for a national minimum wage amounting to P750 daily for private sector workers and P16,000 monthly for public sector workers.

“Implementing a national minimum wage will bring immediate relief to the sector by whose sweat the national economy is founded upon,” he added.

Alongside the call for higher wages, Casilao also urged Dabawenyos and Dabawenyas to join the fight to ban contractualization saying that the

practice not only depresses workers’ wages but also strips them of human rights and dignity.

“Contractualization is a scheme that transforms our entire labor force into a cheap, docile, and disposable reserve of workers who have no rights, benefits, and who earn below the minimum wage, which is presently not enough to survive on. Contractualization is an affront to the dignity of our workers and must be banned,” Casilao said.

Wages and job security, he said, are two key election demands of the labor sector for the upcoming national elections where all candidates will

be scrutinized.

He urged the public to vote for pro-worker and pro-poor candidates who have concrete positions on the issue of contractualization and higher wages.

Wearing headdresses and waving flaglets, the members of the Anakpawis Partylist-Davao joined last Wednesday’s parade for the celebration of the Araw ng Dabaw commemorating the 79th founding anniversary of the city to gather support from fellow Dabawenyos on the calls of the labor sector for higher wage and the banning of contractualization scheme in work places.

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HE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has approved the establishment of the agricultural value chain financing framework to uplift the agriculture and fisheries sector.

The central bank’s policy-making Monetary Board approved the adoption of the framework during its meeting on February 24, 2016.

Citing the 10 percent contribution of the agriculture sector on the domestic economy’s annual output and the employment of about 11.2 million Filipinos, the central bank said the framework will address the issue of lack of financing access among farmers and fisherfolks.

“In general, the sector is considered a high risk market due to its inherent susceptibility to weather conditions, flooding, pest infestations, and man-made calamities, among others,” it said.

With the framework, farmers and fisherfolks will now have easy access to financing through the whole value chain, which includes all the participants when the products are still on its raw stage until these is brought to the consumers.

“Participation in the value chain allows farmers to leverage on effective farming technologies and methods, access to formal financing, and sustainable market demand,” the BSP said.

The central bank said the framework has minimum prudential expectations that include the need for adequate policies and procedures on the analysis of the value chain, availability of appropriate products, utilization of innovative disbursement schemes, and adoption of anchor-firm triggered loan release.

The Circular also allows banks to set up a disaster contingency mechanism that requires adoption of risk mitigants to lessen losses and provide relief for recovery among borrowers.

Incentives will be given to banks that will heed the regulatory expectations, the BSP said.

“The BSP hopes that the issuance will provide the necessary guidance for banks to be able to serve the needs of the agriculture and fisheries sector, specifically the small holders, in a manner that is viable and sustainable,” it added.

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CARD-MRI celebrates social, microfinance milestones

SELLING BALLOONS. A vendor selling cartoon character-shaped balloons waits for customers in front of Davao City Hall where large number of people converge to celebrate the 79th Araw ng Davao. Lean Daval Jr.

Choobi Choobi opens in SM Lanang Premier

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EBU-BASED Choobi Choobi restaurant invites fresh seafood-loving Dabawenyos to try their menu as it opens its 20th branch at the SM Lanang Premier today.

Choobi Choobi is the only restaurant that uses fresh shrimp harvested in Cebu, which is the largest shrimp farm in the Philippines.

They bring fresh and unique seafood dining experience to their clients by serving

fresh and flavorful seafood.

It was Stan Tanchan’s, Choobi Choobi’s owner, dream to provide Filipinos with export-quality shrimp at local prices that led him to open his first branch in Parkmall, Cebu City.

Tanchan has been exporting shrimps from his 20-year old farm in Cebu before he became a restaurateur.

It was Tanchan’s passion for food combined with his dream that gave birth to the

restaurant.

Choobi Choobi’s specialty is Shrimp in a Bag, which is a pound of shrimps served in a bag, cooked in a variety of ways, and oozing with their savory butter garlic sauce.

The Shrimp in a Bag is perfectly paired with Choobi Choobi’s Cha Tao Miao which is stir fried snow pea sprouts; crunchy and tasty.

The restaurant also known for its signature dish, Stan’s Black Pepper Shrimp,

which is a pound of shrimp cooked in Stan’s special black pepper sauce.

Their other signature dishes include Lola Pepang’s Chicken which is a hearty family fried chicken recipe passed down four generations; Chilean Mussels which is a fresh bag of Chilean Mussels with cooked in the flavor of your choice; and Stuffed Grilled Squid—mouth-watering squid stuffed with black rice.

assisted natural regeneration, agro-forestry and upland agriculture to increase their incomes while mitigating climate change and conserving the area’s rich biodiversity.

The Manila Cordage Company (MANCO), a wholly-owned Filipino company manufacturing and exporting abaca rope and twine for over ninety years, has been supporting the expansion of abaca farms in the upland areas of Panay Island.

In 2013, the Philippines produced 85 percent of the world’s abaca fiber is projected to grow up to 5.7 percent until

2019.

In a statement on Wednesday, GIZ, Germany’s international development cooperation company, said the public-private partnership between Germany and MANCO “will promote the sustainable production, management and marketing of abaca with the goal of contributing and improving the socio-economic conditions of upland farmers.”

It will also ensure coordination of activities with relevant authorities, provide technical and financial assistance to abaca farmers, and participate in

monitoring of project success, it added.

MANCO, on the other hand, will provide technical expertise and training, make high-quality planting materials available to farmers at cost, provide funding when applicable, and purchase abaca fibers that meet their requirements.

Dr. Klaus Schmitt, principal advisor of the Forest and Climate Protection Panay II Project of GIZ and MANCO chairman and president Roberto Fernandez will sign the agreement on March 22 at the MANCO office in Calamba, Laguna. (PNA)

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Germany, PHL sign accord on improving abaca farmers income

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HE German government and a leading rope manufacturing and export company will sign an agreement aimed at improving the income of abaca farmers in Panay Island through sustainable fiber production, management, and marketing.

Funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), the project will assist marginal farmers in protecting and rehabilitating degraded forest lands and their buffer zones through enrichment planting,

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HE Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD)-Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (MRI) celebrated on Wednesday its 30th founding anniversary graced by President Benigno C. Aquino III as guest of honor and speaker, and marked the occasion with social and microfinance development milestones at the CARD-MRI Development Institute (CMDI) in Barangay Tranca here.

In his remarks at the anniversary program, Dr. Jaime Aristotle Alip, CARD-MRI Founder and Managing Director, told the President that when they started as a social development microfinance organization in 1986, their vision was to put up a bank to be owned and operated by the poor.

Dr. Alip said that they started with a modest capital of Php20 and a typewriter, yet armed with their dreams and the corps of mother advocates.

He said that after 30 years, the CARD-MRI as development group institution has grown to 14 social development organizations from just a non-government organization (NGO).

In 2005, President Corazon “Cory” Aquino awarded the CARD-MRI with the People Power Award.

Dr. Alip described then President Cory as “a good friend of CARD MRI and has always been a source of our inspiration in people empowerment especially the poor.” ”We are honored to have a marker dedicated to the late President Cory Aquino here as she frequently visited our campus then and we will strive with all our might and heart to continue the legacy that she left us,” Dr. Alip said.

According to him, of the

14 development institutions, a large percentage share in the ownership comes from the mother-members now operating three CARD banks and the first so-called microfinance bank in the country.

The CARD-MRI managing director disclosed that the CARD microfinance institutions have grown together with their clients reaching more than 3.3 million families who represent 70 percent of the entire industry clients of microfinance.

The microfinance group also operates three life and non-life micro-insurance companies known as the CARD Mutual Benefit Association (MBA) which sports the first micro-insurance firm in the country and wholly-owned by CARD-MRI mother-members.

He divulged that the micro-insurance has covered the insurance of more than 15 million poor Filipinos under its membership in CARD-MBA contributing to around 22 percent of insured Filipinos in the country.

In addition to the rural and thrift banks for the grassroots poor sector, CARD-MRI also operates a pharmacy selling affordable generics medicine; hospital; foundation; IT company; leasing and financing corporations; Dr. Alip also reported of the CHED-approved training college offering the degrees in entrepreneurship and micro-insurance and lately a DepEd-approved senior high school program in various CARD campuses.

Alip assured they will absorb all CARD graduates because of their continuous expansion program to reach out to the poor sector. (PNA)

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Children’s joy at the very heart Story and photos by Children’s Joy Foundation, Inc.

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IVE joy to every child.

Founding president Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy established the Children’s Joy Foundation, Inc. (CJFI) over 17 years ago to see more happy children in the country.

Joy among children, according to him, simply means being able to eat in a happy and secure environment, to eat and never to go hungry, to play with toys and to be able to go to school for a brighter future.

He, however, was saddened by the fact that millions of children in the Philippines, both in urban and in hinterland areas, are deprived of these basic rights and necessities as he toured communities, cities and towns as a young evangelist.

“This sad reality struck me on the face. And it had a lasting

impact on me that I vowed not to turn a blind eye on the plight of the impoverished youngest segment of the society. I knew I had to do something. I made a promise that if the Almighty blesses me one day, I would never forget the children. And the rest, as we know, is part of CJFI history,” Pastor Quiboloy’s message in the CJFI Annual Report for 2015 said.

He institutionalized the staging of the National Children’s Day where thousands of children in Davao City and in other parts of the country where there is a CJFI shelter participate. The annual grand Disneyland-themed NCD is set every April 25, which is also the birthday of Pastor Quiboloy who wants every deprived and underprivileged child to experience what it’s

DISNEYLAND-themed 10th National Children’s Day that attracted over 10,000 children participants and their families.

Two kids among thousands who benefitted from The Children’s Joy Foundation, Inc.’s disaster response program after Typhoon Yolanda hit Tacloban City.

INDIGENOUS Peoples (IP) children in Marilog District were recipients of a Christmas party. CJFI is building a day care center in the area and will hold a supplemental feeding program that will also teach CJFI founding president Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy parents how to garden so they will have ample joins lumad children in a gift-giving activity in Brgy.

Tamayong, Calinan District. nutritious food to feed their families.

MOBILE COMLAB. Children beneficiaries have fun learning with Dell’s mobile computer laboratory.

like to have a birthday party.

CJFI also holds an annual Fun and Talent Day that is being participated by different beneficiaries of various children national government organizations (NGOs).

Meanwhile, Dell Philippines, through its Powering the Possible Youth Learning Program, also renewed its partnership with CJFI as it aims to empower children through computer technology.

With the new grant from Dell, CJFI’s seven computer laboratories will soon become eight computer laboratories and three mobile computer labs, providing more opportunities to computer literacy and upholding quality technological education among CJFI beneficiaries.

Refuge and more The first CJFI residential care home for children was established in Davao City in June 1998. It initially accommodated 15 beneficiaries who were abandoned, neglected and/or orphanded. It since then became the temporary home for destitute children where basic needs like food, clothes and education were provided for free.

From Davao City, CJFI opened its doors to more underprivileged children through six more residential care facilities that were also established in Quezon City, Laguna, Cavite, Pampanga and Cebu.

CJFI, however, expanded its services with the community-based programs (CBSP) like feeding of malnourished children in poor barangays, free medical and dental services, livelihood projects for parents of beneficiaries and scholarship grants for destitute children whose parents cannot afford to send them to school.

The CBSP is another core program of CJFI apart from the Residential-Based Support Program (RBSP) that is being implemented when CJFI was first registered with the Securi-

ties and Exchange Commission (SEC) in June 1998.

CBSP was designed for disadvantaged young children in the countryside that utilizes the communities and families to assist them during their critical and developmental years.

Under this program CJFI’s primary services are the provision of day care center facilities, provision of school supplies to day care children, and conduct of periodic outreach activities to host or recipient communities of CBSP. “The program was a response to the worst aftermath of typhoon Yolanda that hit Tacloban City in 2013 where all day care center facilities were destroyed by the typhoon, leaving thousands of little children without schools.

The program also responded to a decade-old Republic 6972 in 1990 entitled Barangay Level Total Development and Protection of Children Act. It is most commonly known as the day care act which requires the barangays and LGUs to provide day care center facilities to young children in the barangay as avenues for honing and developing their mental and physical capacities,” the CJFI annual report said.

The foundation then augmented its assistance to typhoon-stricken communities in Mindanao and Visayas regions by constructing more day care center facilities in Compostela Valley and Leyte Province.

As of December 2015, CJFI constructed and turned over seven day care centers to recipient barangays in Tacloban City and Leyte Province. Recently turned over day care centers were in Barangay Cabuynan (Tanauan), Barangay Poblacion (Tolosa), and Barangay Danao (MacArthur).

These centers registered a total of 463 enrollees with ages ranging from two to four years old in 2015.

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Renewable energy:

The untapped source of power Text and Photos by HENRYLITO D. TACIO (Second of a Series)

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ITHOUT water, life itself would cease to exist. As Albert Szent-Gyorygi, Hungarian biochemist and Nobel Prize for medicine, puts it: “Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.”

All doctors and health professionals know that.

Water, next to air, is the element most necessary for survival. Water makes up more than 60 percent of our body weight. Proteins make up only 18 percent while fats encompass 15 percent, minerals 4 percent, carbohydrates 2 percent and vitamins less than one percent.

But perhaps only very few know that water can also be a source of electricity, another important thing in our modern lives. “We all need electricity,” said Von Hernandez, Executive Director for Greenpeace Southeast Asia. “It is vital – it powers our lives, runs our hospitals and schools – we need it for every aspect of our lives.”

Water is one renewable energy source that has not been fully tapped until now.

After all, water covers over 70 per cent of the earth’s surface. Electricity produced by water movement has been used for decades.

About 16 percent of the world’s electricity is generated by hydropower.

According to the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute, the world’s top five producers are Canada, China, Brazil, the United States and the Russian Federation.

Several countries, including Brazil and Norway, obtain almost all their electricity from this one source.

Hydropower can be generated by water falls (the first hydroelectric plant was built on Niagara Falls in 1878), rushing rivers and streams, and manmade dams, all of which allow a controlled amount of water to pass through the pipes that spin turbines – creating electricity.

Electric power is measured in units called watts. A watt is equal to one joule per second. The total generating capacity of a power plant is measured in kilowatts for 1,000 watts and megawatts for one million watts.

Enormous dams such as the Hoover (1,455 megawatts) and the Grand Coulee

Growing interest in developing hydroelectric power is largely an outgrowth of governments’ desire to be more selfsufficient in energy and to provide lowcost electricity

-- Cynthia Pollock Shea in Renewable Energy: Today’s Contribution, Tomorrow’s Promises

(6,180 megawatts) produce large quantities of power.

“Growing interest in developing hydroelectric power is largely an outgrowth of governments’ desire to be more self-sufficient in energy and to provide low-cost electricity,” wrote Cynthia Pollock Shea in Renewable Energy: Today’s Contribution, Tomorrow’s Promises.

A World Bank report in the 1980s showed the Philippines as one of the “thirteen largest additions to hydroelectric capacity in developing countries.” From an operating capacity of 940 megawatts in 1980, it went up to 2,195 megawatts in 1985. In 1998, the total hydropower capacity stood at 2,304 megawatts or almost 20 percent of the country’s total installed capacity.

According to the Department of Energy, there are 1,081 hydropower potential sites scattered throughout the country. In a lecture convened by the Press Foundation of Asia for community journalists in 1994, then undersecretary of the Department of Energy Rufino Bomasang said: “Hydropower can produce a lot of megawatts.”

In Mindanao, 52% (662 megawatts) of its power comes from hydropower.

The Sibulan Hydroelectric Power Plants in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur, for instance, have been generating 42.5 MW for Davao since 2010. Composed of two cascading plants, the Sibulan Hydro A produces 16.5 MW and the water that it utilizes is reused in the Sibulan Hydro B to produce another 26

Damming water

MW. Most of the hydropower plants in the country are in the form of a dam that backs up the water and raises the level. The released water falls into a turbine that generates electricity. “Impounding a river radically changes the surrounding ecosystem,” Shea wrote. “Nutrient-bearing sediments, instead of being deposited on agricultural floodplains and providing food for downstream fish, accumulate behind turbines and dams. Hydroelectric dams may also change the temperature and oxygen content of downstream waters, altering the mix of aquatic and riparian species.”

Smaller hydropower plants, however, do not necessarily require dams.

They use a series of pipes with turbines inside which are turned by the current.

During his lecture, Bomasang said that “we have the mini-hydro and micro-hydro plants, with a potential of as much as 200 megawatts in the Cordilleras alone.”

He added, “No rice floods are flooded – just a very short dam to collect and divert the water, use it to turn the turbines, and then return the same amount of water to the creek.” Indeed, they have less negative impact on the local ecosystem.

But are hydropower plants really environment-friendly? Some scientists believe that hydropower from manmade dams produce significant amounts of carbon dioxide and methane, which are greenhouse gases closely connected to climate change.

“Large amounts of carbon bound up in trees and other plants are released when a reservoir is initially flooded and the plants rots,” Worldwatch points out in a

Waterfall is a good source of hydropower

Pangi River in Maitum, Sarangani Province

Water runs through it recent report. “And as plant matter settling on the reservoir bottom decomposes without oxygen, it leads to a buildup of dissolved methane, which is released into the atmosphere when water passes through the dam’s turbines.”

To operate well for many decades, hydro projects require sound management, not just of equipment, but

of entire watersheds. “Hydroelectric power will not be truly renewable until the functions of flood control, irrigation, transportation, power production, tree planting, fisheries management, and sanitation are coordinated within the overall goal of maintaining healthy and productive rivers,” Shea reminded.

In the final analysis,

however, “hydroelectric power creates virtually no pollution problems,” writes H. Steven Dashefsky, the man behindEnvironmental Literacy: Everything You Need to Know About Saving Our Planet. “Small-scale projects cause little harm to the environment, but larger projects are environmentally destructive.” (Next: Power from Down Under)

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Dabawenyos adore kids

Rotarians do their share in child-friendly programs

By ANTONIO M. AJERO

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F Davao has been chosen “Most child-friendly City” almost yearly for about half-a-dozen times, it is mostly because of the city government’s multifarious projects, programs and ordinances designed to promote and protect the welfare of children.

What is not so known is that many of the more than 50 private civic groups, non-government organizations and local chapters of international associations have been deeply involved in this advocacy, many times collaborating with the local government unit (LGU) in crafting ordinances and policies favorable to children.

Take the case of the city’s more than 20 Rotary clubs.

Majority of these clubs of business executives, captains of industry, topnotch professionals and a sprinkling of retired expatriates mostly married to Filipino partners have long-running child-friendly projects.

The Rotary Club of

Davao, the “mother club” established in 1938, has running projects benefitting elementary school pupils for decades now.

The RCD, headed this Rotary year by Edgar Bullecer, formerly of SGV accounting firm now co-founder and CEO of the Paglas Group of Companies, is continuously implementing a community basic education and literacy development assistance project for children of Obu-Manuvu Tribe in Barangay Carmen, in the hinterland district of Baguio in Davao City.

Bullecer told Edge Davao this particular project has been going on for four years now with the continuous support of the Rotary Club of Edmonton, Mayfield in Canada. Started this Rotary Year under Bullecer’s watch is the club’s support for an indigent community in the city where the TUBURAN INSTITUTE, INC. operates a unique school.

The mother club, Bul-

lecer bared, extended its support to Tuburan in the construction of their classrooms, provision of learning materials like textbooks and computers, and other basic interventions. It is a small non-stock, non-profit community-based school. He said Tuburan which means “wellspring” in Bisaya, “reflects our desire to pave the way for a wellspring of independent, community-based schools in Mindanao.”

Mindanao’s oldest Rotary club is also famous for its various scholarship programs.

Its latest is geared to help deserving less fortunate students in Davao del Sur. This is a joint project of SAGREX Corp through the personal initiative of PP Ferdie Maranon and Foundation of the Rotary Club of Davao, Inc. in coordination with Kapwa Upliftment Foundation , Inc. Another scholarship benefitting 10 Outstanding highschool students in Davao City, is a personal initiative of past president Diosdado Mahipus Sr, a veteran city lawmaker, who started the scholarship last year and intends to continue the scholarship for as long as necessary.

Aside from the above, RCD is also pursuing supplemental feeding at the San Roque Central Elementary School, Ubalde Elementary School and Orphanages around Davao City, Home for the Aged, and Davao Mental Hospital. This is a continuing project that RCD past presidents and members are so prout of.

RCED’s share in the advocacy The Rotary Club of East Davao, Rotary District 3860’s biggest of all the close to 100 clubs in Mindanao and the Visayas, is another club famous for its child-friendly projects.

RCED, the second club to be established in Davao City sponsored by the mother club, is headed this year by Dr. Oscar Escudero, urologist and well-known marathoner.

The club has adopted six elementary schools in blighted areas for daily supplemental feeding, among many other

child-friendly projects. They are the elementary schools of Francisco Bangoy in Sasa, Sta. Ana and J. P. Rizal in Sta. Ana and Juan Cruz in the Panacan Relocation area.

“We have spent millions of club members’ contributions and funding assistance from our sister clubs in Japan to sustain these feeding projects, knowing fully well how beneficial they are to the school children,” said past president Val Dionisio, who’s so fond of the children.

“We have empirical data that supplemental feeding has tremendously improved the grades of the students, aside from reducing the absences and dropout rates in the schools,” says lady Esther de Jesus, widow of past president Jesus “Tino” de Jesus who’s now an honorary member of RCED. Another award-winning project of the club is its decade-long college scholarship program. Before the advent of the controversial K to 12 curriculum, every year the club picked as many as four brilliant high school graduates from the poorest of the poor families from among its adopted schools and award college scholarships for teaching training.

Started during the presidency of retired banking executive Eduardo Sancho, the scholarship has graduated a total of 15, almost all of them completing their course with the highest honors.

The club also donated school building and science libraries.

During my time as president, the club donated a water system to the hinterland elementary school for indigenous peoples in Malamba.

This was after previous club presidents donated computer unit and installed electricity in the farflung school for lumads. AMA

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EDITORIAL Cannot be denied

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HE mammoth crowd that massed up on Wednesday at the Freedom Park area for the homecoming rally of Davao’s reverred son Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and his runningmate Alan Peter Cayetano cannot be denied—it is the biggest anyone running in this elections can assemble without any form of coercion, compensation and free transportation.

The masses came from different walks of life. Different age brackets. Different tribes. Different beliefs. One thing is sure—they share one message. Their love for Mayor Duterte and their show of unconditional support. Nobody was paid in that rally. Nobody was even given food or water. No campaign shirts. If at all, those selling Duterte shirts and other novelties are having the time of their lives. Business was brisk All around the venue that was literally filled to the brim, people listened to their man like they have not in years. They missed his voice. They missed his words. They miss him plain and simple.

And when the time came for them to light their candles, out came even house lamps and candles of all forms and shape.

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“What is important is the message. I don’t mind if I come and bring a torch, but that is just being emphatic,” said one supporter.

The scenes last Wednesday resembled that of a rave party.

Very electric and entertaining.

The real message though is that perhaps, despite the low ratings in the survey for now, the support Mayor Duterte had been given would at least be shown on the news report on national television.

You see, media networks also have their own biases. And what was to be a massive assembly of people shown for example, only the measly handshakes as Mayor Duterte was making rounds to the crowd in another engagement are shown on the report of one network giant—a disservice to the people who came to express their show of force on national television.

The quaint request of Dabawenyos that endured the long hours standing is that the news coverages will show the real footages and not just snippets of handpicked scenes.

It is obvious, the media has control over the outcome of the news no matter how much people try.

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The power of prayer

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N Secret Life of Water, author Masaru Emoto wrote: “No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No matter who you are, we all have the ability to take advantage of this amazing and wonderful power. Once you realize this, you will then be filled with the desire to help others realize this as well. More and more people are resonating with this understanding, and this could result in a more wonderful future for mankind.”

A story, written by William Breault, was one of those being featured in 1000 Stories You Can Use. It goes this way: An Indian guru was speaking to a large audience of Europeans. “Western man is a traveler on a journey,” he said. “His main obstacle to peace and happiness is self, represented by shadow he casts under the glaring sun. In order to escape self, his shadow, the Western man walks faster -- so does his self. If he can escape from this self, he will be at peace, so he walks even faster. Still the shadow follows. Then he starts to run, but no matter how fast he runs, the shadow stays right behind him. Finally, he falls exhausted to the road.

“A good Samaritan from the East finds him lying there, brings him back to consciousness and asks him what the matter was. He explained how his self was dominating his life, that he had tried to rid himself of its influence, and ended in failure and exhaustion.

“The stranger lifted him up and suggested that they go over and sit in the shade of a wayside tree. Once they were comfortable, the Easterner asked the Westerner, “Where is that self that you say you were

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fleeing?”

THINK ON THESE! The man looked for his shadow, but it was no longer visible in the shade of the tree.

The guru concluded that We s t e r n e r s Henrylito D. Tacio should spend henrytacio@gmail.com more time sitting under trees -- praying and reflecting -- and not chasing shadows.

“Prayer is not asking,” Mahatma Gandhi once said. “It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” To which Søren Kierkegaard added, “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

So, why do we need to pray? To answer this question, allow me to share the story told by Bishop Tihamer Toth: A famous old Eastern philosopher named Hillel had a young clever and pleasant disciple called Maimon. The master was gratified with his student’s progress.

But later on, he was sadly surprised to see that the young man began to trust too much in his own philosophy and increasingly less in prayer.

“Why should I pray?” Maimon asked.

“God is all-knowing; He does not require our words to know our needs. And God is kind; of His own accord He will give us

what is good for us. Moreover, God is eternal; can we change the Eternal by prayer?”

Thus, Maimon reasoned and ceased to pray.

His wise master sighed and then sat with a serious face in the shade of a palm tree. The young disciple asked, “Master, why are you so sad?”

“Why? Because I have a friend who till now has carefully cultivated his fields and lived well from them, but now he has cast aside plow and scythe, and intends to leave the fields to themselves, saying that he can live from them without work.”

The youth asked: “Has he lost his senses?”

“By no means. On the contrary, he is otherwise quite a clever man,” the master answered. “But now he says: “God is almighty; therefore, He can easily give me bread without my having to plow with my eyes fixed on the earth. And God is good.

He will furnish a table for me.”

“But, master, this is tempting God,” exclaimed the young disciple.

“It is, indeed, my son. But I am speaking of you. Are you not tempting God in like manner? Is prayer less than work?

This man in sloth does not want to fix his eyes on the earth in order to receive material good, and you, in your conceit, do not want to turn your eyes to heaven in order to receive spiritual good.”

God answers prayer in three ways: yes, wait and no.

Sometimes, it takes years before He will answer a prayer. That was what happened to the prayer of the mother of E. Howard Cadle, who was a Christian. The story was featured in From This Verseby

Robert J. Morgan.

By the time he was 12, Cadle was already emulating his father, an alcoholic.

It took just a matter of time before he was in the grip of sex, gambling, and the crime syndicate.

“Always remember, son,” his worried mother often said, “that at eight o’clock every night I’ll be kneeling beside your bed, asking God to protect my precious boy.”

But her prayers didn’t seem to slow him until one evening on a rampage he pulled a gun on a man and squeezed the trigger.

The weapon never fired and someone quickly knocked it away.

Cadle noticed that it was exactly eight o’clock.

Then, it came to pass that Cadle’s health deteriorate and the doctor told him he had only six months to live. Dragging himself home, penniless and pitiful, he collapsed in his mother’s arms saying, “Mother, I’ve broken your heart. I’d like to be saved, but I’ve sinned too much.”

The old woman opened her Bible and read Isaiah 1:18 which said: “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” That windswept morning, on March 14, 1914, Cadle became a Christian.

At one time, the man who became one of America’s most popular radio evangelists said: “Thank you, Jesus, for saving me that dark and stormy day from a drunkard’s and a gambler’s hell.”

In Love Finds You in Poetry, Janice Hanna wrote: “Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute.

The Lord had an answer and it would surely come.”

allowed to MY TWO CENTS’ escalate with the help of the grandstanding by its employees Mar Roxas and Jejomar Binay. Roxas, then DILG Secretary, would be known for John Tria dipping his ecisouth@gmail.com hand in every conflict and disaster, yet complicating it, in contrast to the praises heaped upon him by the government. Binay tried to make political hay by negotiating on his own but infamously creating a dud, or diversion, or both.

Mar Roxas will be remembered best for his desire to make political capital out of the siege. As DILG Secretary, he had the command responsibility over the police forces that could have made a difference in the end game of the conflict. Unfortu-

nately, he failed, and along within it, left the city, and much prized sports complex in ruins, a testament to gross ineptitude and self centered politicking. Locals claim that both of them cared more about saving face than the victims of the incident.

The Mar Roxas in Zamboanga is therefore no different from the Mar Roxas that tried to play with statistics just to show that Dutertes Davao is not as safe as it is- never mind the drop in tourist revenues or loss of jobs because of the negative impact on the city. What matters is that he looks smart, and looks good. He is also no different from the mar Roxas who claimed not to know about the suffering SAF 44 who went into the fight without military back up.

Zamboanga today is the picture of an uneasy peace, facing an uncertain future due to a local government proven incapable of handling the siege, ready to yield to a national government that is equally disorganized in the face of such situations.

The lesson of the siege is that lead-

ers need the iron and clear leadership to keep the peace and, moving forward, make sure that everyone participates in the political process. No one should feel left behind, especially if there is a history of exclusion. This is what builds and sustains peace and builds democracy. Mistrust will always trump reason when old wounds are visible scars. Scratch them, and you have conflict, which creates that mix of fear and mob rule that the Manila government will always find hard to contain. Thus, ironically, in Mindanao the iron hand keeps democracy safe.

Zooming out, Zamboangas turmoil and the can only be a microcosm of the silent tension that will always grip the island of Mindanao. The cultural issues are fanned no end by Manila’s politics, and remain like wounds seeking another strike to fester for Manilas gain, and at Mindanao’s peril. The real peace that ought to bring about the inspired promise of Mindanao remains in limbo, and with it, the development of an entire country.

Wanted: Real peace for Zamboanga

N a recent visit to Zamboanga City almost two and a half years after the infamous siege hardly anything is normal.

Of course, daily life for its close to a million inhabitants continues, albeit with the silent fear that such an event will probably happen again.

The poignant reminder of this 2013 siege is the old sports complex, where we see a mangled structure, with a torn running oval, broken fixtures and over grown bush. The air reeks of urine and feces.

What was once a haven for daily morning joggers and a training venue for the regions athletes was left in shambles, the sad outcome of an unfortunate conflict that should not have escalated the way it did. This event will best be remembered for a set of outcomes that could only be avoided had the manila government been more careful in ensuring that the outcome is a fair one for all, especially the 100,000 displaced victims. In nutshell, the event was not sufficiently foreseen by the governments intelligence apparatus, and was

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79TH Founding Anniversary special

The governors who ruled undivided Davao (1915–67)

BY ANTONIO V. FIGUEROA PAST GOVERNORS the province of Davao Occidental from Davao del Sur, comprising the Davao del Sur towns of Malita, Santa Maria, Don Marcelino, Jose Abad Santos, and Sarangani.

The bill, approved in Congress on May 16, 2011 and transmitted by the Senate on May 24, 2011, was eventually enacted on July 23, 2013. It was signed by President Benigno s. Aquino III as Republic Act 10360 on Jan. 14, 2013.

Romualdo Quimpo, Pantaleon Pelayo, Sr., Alejandro Almendras, Sr., Gregorio V. Cañeda

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HE historiography of Davao region is a treasure trove of facts, vignettes, tales and urban legends that add color and intrigue to its evolution from an ordinary Moro fief in the 17th century to becoming a boom city today. Some of the narratives bruited around include the claim of a Spanish encomienda granted to a merchant and the war-time double-spy storyline.

The creation of Davao as a province did not happen until 1915. Outside its establishment as an administrative region, there are little-known facts about its early leaders that are almost unknown and, therefore, deserving fleeting mention.

In pre-1915, Spanish lawyer Joaquin Rodriguez, paternal grandfather of Sonja Habana’s husband, was appointed governor-at-large of Davao by his bosom friend, American Gen. John ‘Black Jack’ Pershing who, at the time, was the governor of the Moro Province. A reminder of this period is Carmen, a village in Baguio District, which was named after Rodriguez’s wife.

In the years leading to the creation of the Philippine Commonwealth, American governor-general Dwight F. Davis (after whom the Davis Cup in tennis was named) appointed Mariano R. Marcos, father of future President Ferdinand E. Marcos, as deputy governor-at-large of Davao in the early 1930’s. His appointment was through the effort of then acting Davao Governor Alfredo Zamora (1921) who got the support of then Secretary of the Interior Honorio Ventura. The Cabinet official convinced Davis to appoint Marcos.

From 1915 to 1967, a total of 17 luminaries served as fulltime or acting governor of Davao which, at one time or another, included the two Surigao provinces, Gen. Santos City, and the area now known as the province of Sarangani.

During the war, two individuals separately held the position of governor of Davao. Pantaleon Pelayo, Sr., the last pre-war mayor, took over the post while in the

Bureau of Finance and Justice before he was promoted to chief clerk. In 1919, he was appointed deputy secretary-treasurer, and later secretary-treasurer of Davao.

When Gov. Sales resigned, he was appointed as ipso facto provincial administrator, or acting governor, being the next in command on Oct. 28, 1921. His administration was brief, which makes it difficult to determine if his decisions really made an impact in Davao’s

underground movement after Gov. Romualdo Quimpo, founder of Davao City, surrendered to the Japanese, while Ricardo Miranda accepted the Japanese appointment, serving as acting governor until 1946.

Creation of provinces The idea to create a distinct and separate Davao region was originally conceived on Feb. 27, 1849 when Spanish Governor General Narciso Claveria partitioned the old Caraga province into two provinces. Surigao town was made the capital of the northern sector known as the Surigao Province, while Caraga, now a town of Davao Oriental, was the capital of the northern territory of Nueva Guipozcoa (Davao), which included the gulf of Davao. But the administrative control of Davao remained with the comandancia de Bislig.

A decree issued on July 30, 1860 by Queen Isabel II led to the creation of a politico-military government in Mindanao and its neighboring areas. Under Article 13 of the edict, published in the Gaceta of Madrid on August 5 that year, Mindanao was subdivided into six districts. Davao was reorganized as the fourth district, giving Cauit Point as its northern boundary and its territorial jurisdiction covered “the region from Point Tagubon westward to the original Davao Gulf area, down to the present South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat provinces with Malaluna Point near Lebac as the farthest southern boundary.”

In 1867, Nueva Vergara reverted to Davao, its old name.

Two decades later, the northern boundary of the province was moved up to Cape Catarman between Lingig, Surigao del Sur, and Cateel, Davao Oriental. The territory was integrated into the jurisdiction of the Mati comandancia, with the comandancia of Glan in Sarangani Province controlling the southern limits of Davao, which extended southwest to Malaluna Point near the Bay of Tuna, South Cotabato.

Boundaries

Vicente Duterte, Juan Sarenas, Paciano Bangoy, Sebastian Generoso The first delineation of boundaries of the province of Davao under American rule was in 1900. In the Report of the Philippine Commission to the President, it was outlined, thus: “[The] district or province… occupies the territory [of the former Nueva Guipozcoa province] and extends from the Bay of Mayo, on the Pacific Ocean, to Point Malaluna, near the Gulf of Tuna, on the south coast of Mindanao… on the north by the district of Surigao, on the south by Cottabato, between these two being Lake Buluan and the country called Boayen, or Buhayen; and on the southeast by the Pacific Ocean, where the port of Balete and the Bay of Pujaga are found. The islands of Samal, Talicud, Pujaga, Saranginas, Sirangan, Moleron, Limbal, and the little islands of Malipano and Sigaboy belong to this district.”

On June 1, 1903, by virtue of Act No. 787 passed by the Philippine Commission, Moro Province, which covered the provinces of Zamboanga, Lanao, Cotabato, Davao, and Sulu, was created. Later, with the creation of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu on July 23, 1914, pursuant to Act No. 2408, Mindanao, excluding Lanao, was placed under the department, which was abolished in 1920.

The first post-war effort to constitute Davao into a contiguous district was in 1952 when the municipal presidents (mayors) of the towns of Cateel, Baganga, Caraga, Manay and Mati, collectively known as “Contra Costa,” passed a resolution endorsed by their respective municipal councils to petition Manila to declare eastern Davao into sub-province

to be known as Plaridel.

Four years later, in response to the appeal, Rep. Ismael C. Veloso of the lone congressional district of Davao filed a bill seeking the division of Davao into two provinces. Under the plan, the towns of Lianga, Hinatuan, Bislig and Lingig, now under the province of Surigao del Sur, would be merged with the eastern municipalities of Davao Oriental to form Dasur Province, a blend of ‘Davao’ and ‘Surigao.’ Unluckily, the initiative failed to get the nod of the Senate.

He later filed another bill dividing Davao into three provinces, which passed the scrutiny of the House but did not get the approval of Senate.

In 1965, Rep. Lorenzo S. Sarmiento revived the Veloso bill in the House seeking the division of the undivided Davao into not just two but three provinces.

With the blessing of Sen. Alejandro Almendras, the legislative measure was passed by both the House and the Senate and was enacted into law as Republic Act 4867. As a result, the provinces of Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental were created.

Thirty-three years later, Congress passed Republic Act No. 8470, which created the Compostela Valley Province as an independent province carved out of the larger territory of Davao del Norte.

In a move construed as gerrymandering, on Nov. 10, 2010, two Davao del Sur congressmen, namely Rep. Marc Douglas IV Cagas, as principal author, and Rep. Franklin P. Bautista, as co-sponsor, filed House Bill 3644 (later expanded and re-filed as House Bill 4451), which sought to create

Eulalio E. Causing (1915-17) A member of the Provincial Board of Cebu in 1907, Eulalio E. Causing ran for elective office and won twice as representative of Cebu. He, however, resigned to take over the post as first Filipino civil-governor of Davao on Jan. 1, 1915. His congressional vacancy was succeeded by Tomas Alonso.

After his stint as governor, Causing accepted the offer to become judge of the Court of First Instance (CFI) in Cebu. As a Mason, he became the worshipful master of the Nilad Lodge, and was behind the creation of Grande Oriente Español and the Mactan lodges.

Francisco Sales (1917-21) A native of Cebu, Francisco Sales is best remembered for the key historical events that transpired in Davao in 1918. During the first national census under American rule, he was appointed Inspector of the Provincial Advisory Census Board. It was during his watch as governor when the famous Lukban case took place.

On Oct. 25, 1918, on orders Manila mayor Justo Lukban, around 170 prostitutes were exiled in Davao to work as laborers in plantations he and Feliciano Iñigo owned. He receipted the arrival of the women who would become the focus of a habeas corpus case filed before the Supreme Court. In 1921, he resigned from the position.

Alfredo Zamora (1921-22) Born in Ermita, Manila, on June 18, 1881, Alfredo Zamora joined the government on Dec. 15, 1901, as a clerk of the Bureau of Audit. Four years later, he became assistant calculator of the

growth.

Celestino Chaves (1922-24) A native of Leyte, Celestino Chaves, a lawyer, was the co-founder of Sarangani Lodge No. 50, the oldest Masonic club in Davao. He briefly served as deputy governor before he was elevated to the provincial leadership.

Much of what he was admired for, though, was as a journalist.

He was the first editor of pre-war publication Maguindanao and caught the attention of the public for his no-nonsense and fiery writings as editor of El Eco de Davao.

During the war, he was appointed an assemblyman in the National Assembly (1943-1945), representing Davao. Nothing much is known about his stint as governor.

Sebastian T. Generoso (192528; 1928- 30; 1935-36) The only three-time governor of undivided Davao, Sebastian Generoso, a lawyer, was the first elected governor in 1925, and reelected in 1928 and 1934. Despite his contributions, he figured in numerous controversies. On Dec. 19, 1930, he was dismissed from office for his involvement in “certain land transactions.” On April 12, 1935, he was suspended for a month “for various irregularities.”

And on June 25, 1936, President Manuel L. Quezon suspended him for two months “for acts of misconduct in office.” He remained popular at home, even earning the honorary title of sultan for his peacemaking efforts between the natives and the Muslims.

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WHEN 24-YEAR OLD MELODY AN SAJA “CHIQK” YBAÑEZ, a mother of one, started Eufloria in the middle of January 2016, she had high hopes for this flower business to take root.

Her optimism was well backed up by years of experience in cultivating her own brand of consumer F&B product, as well as her growing passion for tablescapes and event styling. Green Dare, Chiqk’s line of healthy sips and eats, has already become a commercial staple among urbanites who has redefined fast food as whole, real and organic.

This business continues to grow and expand to this date with this young entrepreneur at the helm, managing every squeeze and detail. With just this and the many undertakings associated to parenthood, you’d think this mother already got

her hands full. So what sparked the idea of opening a new venture?

“I love reading magazines and blogs about wedding planning,” Chiqk reveals. “Of course, flowers always factor in, be it an intimate or extravagant event. I am

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The artworks depicted are by two pioneering Cebuano artists, Raymundo Francia and Canuto Avila.

Abreeza Mall Deputy General Manager Luigi Escano, DOT Regional Director Robby Alabado, Philippine Women’s College of Davao’s Brenda Barba, Ford Academy of the Arts’ Aida Rivera-Ford, and Ayala Museum Senior Curator Kenneth Esguerra.

Heavenly visions

Ayala Museum Senior Curator Kenneth Esguerra.

Ayala Museum brings photographs of Bohol church paintings to Abreeza Mall

AYALA MUSEUM, THE FILIPINO HERITAGE FESTIVAL, AND ABREEZA MALL PRESENT “KISAME: VISIONS OF HEAVEN ON EARTH – An Exhibition of Photographs of Ceiling Paintings from Churches in the Province of Bohol at Abreeza Mall’s Ground Floor Expansion Wing from March 5 to 31, 2016.

“KISAME: Visions of Heaven on Earth” showcases the Filipino’s artistic heritage in the context of ecclesiastical art. Featuring installations of large format photographs and video documentation of architectural paintings selected from 17 churches in Bohol, the exhibition is an up-close view of images that represent visions of heaven on earth.

It also features the historical background of each painting and the church to which it belongs in a somewhat Visita Iglesia Bohol presentation in photographs.

Bohol has a number of old churches, dating back to the early years of the Spanish colonization of the island. The province boasts ancient massive edifices that retain century-old architectural design. Research shows that painting models to copy from were scarce and so, as with sculpture, the sources of inspiration for imitation were the

engraved illustrations, filetes, and viñetas in the religious books brought by the friars. Since these were in black and white, the artist was virtually at liberty to select his own colors.

The photographs featured in this exhibition were taken by Honorable Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa, Jr., from the ceiling paintings of the churches in Bohol in the dioceses of Tagbilaran and Talibon from April 17 to 21, 2008. These selected works of art that adorn the parish churches are the remaining works of two pioneering Cebuano artists, Raymundo Francia and Canuto Avila, executed during the first half of the 20th century.

The exhibition’s curators are Fr. Milan Ted Torralba and Kenneth Esguerra. Fr. Milan Ted Torralba was the Assistant Secretary at the Apostolic Nunciature (Vatican Embassy) in Manila and is currently the Vice

Photographs of ceiling paintings from Bohol churches adorn Abreeza Mall’s Expansion Wing.

President of External Affairs of the Visayan Association of Museums and Galleries, the Executive Secretary of the Perma-

nent Committee for the Cultural Heritage of the Church, Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, and the Corporate

Secretary of the Bohol Heritage Development Foundation. Meanwhile, Kenneth Esguerra is presently the Senior Curator

and Head of Conservation of Ayala Museum, and has over two decades of working experience in museums both in the Philippines and abroad.

He was the Director for Exhibitions and concurrent Chief Registrar of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila (1988-2001), has taught Curatorship and Collections Management under the Philippine Arts Program of the University of the Philippines-Manila (1998-2003), and was the managing director of the Balay Taliambong: The Cojuangco Museum and Art Center (2001-2003).

“KISAME: Visions of Heaven on Earth” was first presented as part of the 2008 National Heritage Month celebration organized annually by the Filipino Heritage Festival.

It was first exhibited at the Ground Floor Gallery of Ayala Museum from May 27 to July 20, 2008.

For inquiries and updates on Abreeza Mall news and events, please visit the Main Concierge at the ground floor or call (082) 321-9332. Stay updated by liking www.facebook.com/AbreezaMall and following @abreezatweets on Twitter and @ iloveabreezamall on Instagram.

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The past unfolds in last two weeks of ‘You’re My Home’

THE FONTANILLAS HAVE SEEMINGLY AND FINALLY PICKED UP THE PIECES to rebuild their shattered home, but it might not be enough as an undeniable thing from the past comes back to haunt them in the last two weeks of the country’s late-night habit “You’re My Home.”

Years after the disappearance of Vince (Paul Salas) that ruined their family, love has won for Gabriel (Richard Gomez) and Marian (Dawn Zulueta), who recently decided to get back together and get married again.

Better days are also coming for Christian (JC De Vera), who has finally been accepted into the family as he is set to marry Grace (Jessy Mendiola.

The Fontanilla family is further brought together by Grace’s pregnancy, although Christian is still struggling to convince his parents, especially his father Victor (Tonton Guttierez) Vergara, to accept their relationship.

But no one is really spared from the truth, especially that Vince’s memory is bound to piece together details of his kidnapping.

Who really kidnapped Vince?

Will the truth break apart the family that was once ruined by this incident? How it affect the Fontanillas and the Vergaras?

Meanwhile, Richard and Dawn shared what lessons they learned from the show that they want to share with viewers.

“Never give up on love, especially your children. If they make mistakes, we can correct or help them. Up until the end, we should not abandon them,” shared Richard.

Dawn, meanwhile, said “I learned the value of love, protecting each other. That even though our loved ones made a mistake, we should always be there to support them.”

Jessy and JC, on the other hand, are thankful to fans who have gotten hooked on the love story of their characters, now known as “GraceTian.”

“Everytime nanonood ako ng You’re My Home, kinikilig din ako

kay Christian at Grace. I fell in love with their characters, and their love story is really romantic. To all GraceTians, thank you so much, because we as actors get inspired to act because we know they get kilig from us,” said JC. “We want to thank those who stay up late to watch our show.

The fact that they stay up late to wait for us and our show is heartwarming. We did not expect it would get high ratings and that our characters and the story would make a mark on them,” shared Jessy.

Tune in to the last two weeks of “You’re My Home,” weeknights after “The Story of Us” on ABSCBN Primetime Bida. For exclusive updates, log onto Twitter.com/ StarCreativesTV and Instagram. com/StarCreativesTV.

Asianovelas return to Kapamilya Gold

ASIANOVELAS ARE FINALLY MAKING A RETURN to ABSCBN as the Kapamilya network premieres the muchawaited Korean drama “My Love Donna,” about finding and fighting for that one true love, which premieres Monday (Mar 14).

Famous actor Yohan Ji (Joo Jin-Mo) hires ghostwriter Jenna Seo (Kim Sa-Rang) to write his autobiography. In his life story, he reveals that he ventured into acting not because he wanted to become a star but because he thought being in the limelight would help him find his first love, Donna Ji. Yohan and Donna’s complicated romantic history began two decades ago. Back when they were young teenagers, Donna and Yohan already have a special kind of friendship that was quickly taken away from them when Donna’s grandmother died and was adopted by a different family, leaving Yohan lonely and broken-hearted.

Many years after, fate brings them together again and the young man vows not to ever let her go. Finally, Johan and Donna take their relationship to the next level.

One afternoon, the two spend some quality time together when an accident that changes their lives forever happens.

All this time, Johan thinks Donna left him hanging again without properly saying goodbye. However, Yohan has no idea that they will be reunited soon because Jenna is actually Donna, who forgot about her past due to the accident.

Don’t miss the premiere of “My Love Donna” this Monday (Mar 14), after “Tubig at Langis” only in the first and true home of Asianovelas, ABS-CBN.

GMA and StarHub launch GMA Pinoy TV and GMA Life TV in Singapore

PHILIPPINE BROADCAST INDUSTRY LEADER GMA NETWORK offers Filipinos in Singapore wider access to their favourite Kapuso programs with the launch of GMA Pinoy TV and GMA Life TV through the carrier StarHub TV from March 16.

StarHub is a fully-integrated info-communications company in Singapore that offers a full range of information, communications and entertainment services for both consumer and corporate markets.

With this launch, a diverse range of news and entertainment programs on GMA’s flagship international channel GMA Pinoy TV, as well as informative and inspirational Filipino shows on GMA Life TV will be within reach of Filipinos in the Lion City.

Included in the list of toprating Kapuso shows on GMA Pinoy TV are the Philippines’ longest-running noontime show and birthplace of the AlDub phenomenon, Eat Bulaga; GMA’s flagship newscast, 24 Oras; awardwinning news magazine program, Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho; the country’s longest-running gag

show, Bubble Gang; recently launch Kapuso dramas Because of You and That’s My Amboy; and GMA Pinoy Blockbusters.

Meanwhile, GMA Life TV’s exciting line-up includes Mars, which features fun and intelligent conversations by celebrity moms; Sarap Diva, a cooking and talk show; Day-Off, which rewards hard-working Filipino with a much-needed break; Byahe ni Drew, a travel and food guide; Taste Buddies, a lifestyle show for young women; Reel Life, which tackles poverty and social issues; and Balitanghali, a news program.

Subscribers of the service will also enjoy access to GMA Pinoy TV programs via their mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and any internetenabled device via StarHub Go at no extra cost.

“StarHub is Singapore’s leading pay TV operator with 536,000 households subscribing to the service. We are glad to partner with StarHub as we broaden our reach in Singapore and offer more quality content to Filipinos living away from home in as many ways as possible,” says Mr. Joseph Jerome T. Francia, GMA’s

First Vice President and Head of International Operations.”

As a treat to all loyal Kapuso in Singapore, a free preview of GMA Pinoy TV and GMA Life TV will be available from March 16 to 31, 2016.

“We are pleased to partner with GMA Network, one of the leading networks in the Philippines, to offer three exciting additions to the sizeable number of Filipinos here in Singapore. With fresh programming that will range from current affairs to light-hearted variety and talk shows, to heartwarming dramas and blockbuster movies, we are confident that the launch of GMA Pinoy TV, GMA Life TV and GMA On Demand will be able to fulfil the various viewing needs of the population, and bring home closer to their hearts,” expressed Ms. Lee Soo Hui, Head of Media Business Unit, StarHub. GMA Pinoy TV (Ch. 146) and GMA on Demand (Ch. 149) will be available on StarHub TV and StarHub Go, while GMA Life TV (Ch. 147) will be available on StarHub TV. For more details, visit StarHub’s website at www. starhub.com/tv.

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fascinated with how flowers are able to prettify each corner or table, making it look unique with just simple tweak and twist in presentation and color motif.” This young mom’s art and design intuition stems from her background in architecture, a course she is set to finish in the near future. “Yes, juggling my studies and juicery with parenting can be quite a handful and taxing, but if you are that passionate about something, you will always find time to work on it.”

“I live for surprises and I appreciate how my partner brightens up random moments with a bunch of flowers. He knows how much I adore colors and blooms in the house. Of course, I cannot expect him to send me flowers every single day. So, I thought of putting up a flower business --- a little entity where I can grow my budding passion.”

Chiqk followed her instincts and went to her go-to online sources for do-it-yourself tutorials. “I started browsing samples on the Internet, searching for trends in flower arrangement. There were some handson training I underwent, but majority of these were only on the basics in cutting and caring for flowers. Most of what I learned in terms of styling and presentation were all from online tutorials, and the rest are just my own interpretation and

style.”

“I’d say my business concept was inspired by this flower arrangement called MillionRoses, which is popular in Budapest,” Chiqk explains. “With this, you have a hundreds of red

roses beautifully arranged in an elegant, round box. This style inspired me to create my own flower boxes, which are now the signature specials under Eufloria.”

Similar to how she intro-

duced Green Dare, it only took Chiqk a few days to launch Eufloria through Facebook and Instagram, and only a week for her to gain loyal customers and steady following. Her timing for the launch proved to be just

right, as orders for Valentine’s Day exceeded her expectations.

“I was the only one doing the flower arrangements. We had more than a hundred orders for that weekend and it was such a fulfillment for me to complete everything in a short span of time.”

Valentine’s Day has come and gone, yet Eufloria continues to bloom. Not limiting herself to bouquets and flowers-in-boxes, Chiqk extended their services to include custom arrangements, event consultations, and flowers of all shapes, sizes and colors.

Customers swear by the brand’s appeal, aesthetics and timely delivery. As of press time, Chiqk says she is still in the process building a physical store --- a one-stop shop where clients can also purchase cakes and pastries to go with their box or bunch of flowers. These decadent confectionaries will made by celebrated pastry chef cum media personality, Michelle Robin.

“The market response excites me and it’s humbling to get such support from the community.” Chiqk adds she intends to reinvent her business design and sow seeds for more years of growth. “My challenge now is to not only keep up with the trends, but to also experiment with other resources and themes.”

For orders and more information, follow Eufloria PH on Facebook and @eufloriaph on Instagram. You may also contact 0917.975.9600

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CURRENT GOVERNORS

Jewels of parents

Provincial Governors Cora Malanyaon, Davao Oriental; Rodolfo del Rosario, Davao del Norte; Arturo T. Uy, Compostela Valley; and Claude Bautista, Davao del Sur and Davao Occidental

The governors... FROM 12 1930–1931) A member of the landed gentry, Cayetano Bangoy’s name is prominent in official records for donating lands for public use, notably in 1920 and 1921. In 1922, during the local elections in Davao, he ran for governor but lost to eventual winner Celestino Chaves. In 1929, he was appointed vocal de junta provincial (board member), promoted to provincial treasurer-secretary, and in 1930, after Generoso’s dismissal from service, was installed acting governor until the next elected governor was sworn in as a result of the June 2, 1931 elections. He was also a member of the first Independence Congress held in Manila on Feb. 22-26, 1930.

Juan A. Sarenas (1931-1934; 1934-1935) A native of Nueva Ecija, Juan A. Sarenas, a lawyer, sought greener pasture in Davao in 1916 with his wife who accepted the offer to become principal of Davao Central School (now Kapitan Tomas Monteverde). As a legal luminary, he made a name for himself and was later appointed deputy governor. In 1930, he won as governor of Davao but lost it in 1934. His high-profile image was not exactly smooth. He was accused of dummying lands for the Japanese and used his office for nepotism.

He was also dragged in a pre-war land-grabbing case that involved future governor Domingo Braganza. In 1938, he ran for the National Assembly but was defeated. During the war, he became one of four figures appointed to represent the city in the National Assembly (1943-1944). A decade later, he joined the judiciary as CFI judge of Cotabato.

Domingo M. Braganza (Sept.Dec. 1937) Born on Aug. 4, 1895 at Alaminos, Pangasinan, Domingo Braganza, whose mother was a Montemayor, was accepted in roster of lawyers on Oct. 4, 1917. He became a provincial board member during the third Generoso administration (1935-37). In 1937, the year the city was inaugurated, he was briefly installed as governor, succeeding Gov. Generoso who died four months before finishing his term. In a land-grabbing case that reached the Supreme Court, he and co-defendant Juan Sarenas were ordered to pay P2,810 to the complainants as payment for a land irregularly acquired. He died in 1944.

Pacifico M. Sobrecarey (193739)

A native of Manay, Davao Oriental, Pacifico M. Sobrecarey can lay claim as the first governor after Davao town became a component city. He assumed the provincial leadership after winning in the Dec. 14, 1937 election, confirmed by President Manuel L. Quezon under Executive Order No. 133 signed on Dec. 29, 1937.

One of the highlights of his administration the defense of President Manuel L. Quezon in the resolution filed in May 1939 before the US Congress by Rep. John G. Alexander (Minnesota, USA), which demanded a probe into Philippine-Japanese relations on claims that “many members of the National Assembly [were] bribed

by Japanese persons and companies.” He sought a second term in 1940, but was soundly defeated

by Quimpo who was already making political waves as the “father of Davao City”.

Romualdo C. Quimpo (194041) A native of Capiz, Romualdo C. Quimpo, a lawyer, sponsored the law that made Davao a city in 1937. His first visit to Davao was in 1929 as justice of the peace. In 1935, he joined politics and won as Davao’s representative to the 1st National Assembly (1935-1938).

As a legislator, he was accused of nepotism and for asking fees in homestead applications. In 1940, Quimpo won as governor over Gov. Sobrecarey but his residency was challenged. He eventually won in the high court. Though stricken with paralysis, he remained actively involved in politics and pursued growth-oriented initiatives for the city. He served as technical adviser to post-war local officials and was a presidential consultant. He died on Jan. 6, 1978.

Ricardo Miranda (1942-46; 1947-48; 1948-51) A native of Loon, Bohol, Ricardo Miranda was acting mayor after Gov. Quimpo peacefully surrendered to the Japanese in 1942.

Towards the end of 1947, Miranda was again installed as acting governor. The following year he won in the country’s first post-war elections, making him the first Davao governor elected under the country’s Third Republic. He and his wife died in tragic accident when their residence along Ramon Magsaysay Avenue just across the Sta. Ana Elementary School was razed to the ground.

Actually, Davao had two governors during the war. Aside from Miranda, who was appointed by the Japanese, Davao City mayor Pan-

taleon Pelayo, Sr., now in hiding, declared himself governor of ‘Free Davao’ (1942-May 1945).

Pantaleon A. Pelayo Sr. (1942; May 1945) Born on Aug. 31, 1901 in Zamboanga, Pantaleon A. Pelayo Sr. passed the Bar Examination in 1925. A year later, he moved to Davao to set up a law office, winning public acclaim as a brilliant lawyer. He won as delegate to the 1935 Constitutional Convention and earned the ire of the Japanese for his proposal to regulate foreign ownership of lands. When war broke out, he escaped with his family to the hills and joined the resistance movement; there, he declared himself governor of ‘Free Davao’ until May 1945 and briefly regained his elected position.

He was later appointed mayor of Zamboanga City but resigned to return to Davao. On Jan. 13, 1953, he became undersecretary of Labor, but later joined the judiciary as CFI judge of Iloilo until 1963.

Antonio C. Lanzar (1946-47) A former Philippine Constabulary officer, Antonio C. Lanzar was assigned in Mindanao at the height of the American pacification campaign. He fought alongside Captain Domingo E. Leonor, the first Filipino provincial commander of Davao (1927-1931).

In the 1930’s, Lanzar was police-military head of a detachment at Malalag, Davao del Sur, retiring with a rank of colonel. Given his sterling military record, he was appointed first post-war governor of Davao in 1946. Part of his functions was to appoint mayors to spearhead the reparation of ravaged communities, and help find settlement areas for families displaced by the war. In 1953, Executive Order No. 596 created Malalag as a town, where he was appointed as its first mayor.

Gregorio V. Cañeda (1947) A lawyer by profession, Gregorio Cañeda has had his share of war-time controversies. He was accused as an informer of the Davao Kempeitai, most of them his former clients. His family, though, maintains he served in the Japanese as a deep-penetration agent, ending with his capture and, later, his escape from detention. A Certificate of Discharge issued on Aug. 31, 1945 shows he was called to active duty on Feb. 3, 1943, and discharged at the end of the war.

On Oct. 6, 1947, with strong support from families he saved during the conflict, Cañeda was briefly appointed acting governor. On Jan. 1, 1949, he was succeeded by Gov. Miranda succeeded him. Despite

efforts to get his pension for his war efforts, he died without seeing his request granted.

Alejandro D. Almendras Sr. (1952-55; 1956-59) Acknowledged as the first Davao leader to join the Cabinet, Alejandro D. Almendras, born in Danao City, relocated to Davao in 1947 after a decorated war stint as guerrilla. He tried logging and established a sawmill business while in between taking up Law. This was cut short, though, when he was put up as gubernatorial bet in 1950. He won in his first try at politics and was reelected.

Halfway in his second term, President Carlos P. Garcia appointed him as Secretary of the Department of General Services but later resigned to run for the Senate, winning reelection in 1965 and 1971. In 1987, he ran for Senate but lost; in 1992, he returned to politics and won as representative of the first congressional district of Davao del Sur. Although he suffered a stroke, he still finished his tenure. On Aug. 3, 1995, he died at the age of 76.

Vicente G. Duterte (1959-64) Originally from Danao City, Vicente Duterte, a lawyer, was one of the two relatives of Durano rivals who migrated to Davao, the other being Gavino Sepulveda, who won a Congress seat in 1957. In 1959, he was chosen to succeed Sen. Almendras as governor; he won the race and frustrated the political comeback of former political kingpin Ismael Veloso. On Dec. 25, 1965, President Ferdinand E. Marcos appointed him as new Secretary of General Services. Wanting to revive his political career, he ran in the 1967 congressional polls but was defeated by lawyer journalist Artemio Al. Loyola. He died on Feb. 21, 1968.

Paciano V. Bangoy (1965-67) The only son of Francisco Bangoy, Paciano Bangoy won as governor of the undivided Davao in 1965, making him the last in a batch of illustrious administrators to grace the local political landscape. When Davao was divided into three provinces, he was appointed caretaker of the newly-created Davao Oriental. Prior to this, he was two-time appointed city councilor (1945-47; 195455). A short and somewhat stocky individual, his grandiose house along Santa Ana Avenue, in front of a college, hosted high-society events and Philippine presidents, and was the symbol of wealth in the district. As a landed scion, he owned extensive properties in the city.

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ORNELIA was a Roman noble lady, the wife of an emperor. She had two small sons, who were her pride and joy, since she had lost all her other children.

One day, another noble Roman lady came to her house for a visit and was proudly showing off her jewelry to her hostess. She then challenged Cornelia to show off her own jewels.

Cornelia pointed to her two sons, who had just entered the room. “These are my jewels,” she said.

This brings us to a story that happened to Jesus when he went to the region of Judea. He was busy teaching when little children were brought to him for him to place his hands on them and pray for them.

But the disciples rebuked those who brought them. Jesus told them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” After placing his hands on them, he went on. Check Matthew 19:1315 for this.

“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you,” Lisa Wingate, an award-winning journalist and magazine columnist, once said, “and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them; teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith.

When you are old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered as much.”

In The Parent’s Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents, William Martin shares some timely tips on how to train your children well: “Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.”

Davao City, which is considered one of the safest cities in the world, is a child-friendly city. In fact, it has been conferred as such four times already. The city won it for the first time in 1998, then in 1999, in 2013, and in 2014.

Last December, the national validation team for the 2015 Presidential Award for Child-Friendly Cities and Municipalities came to the city to review programs and initiatives in delivering responsive interventions in the promotion and protection of children’s rights and welfare.

The three other cities competing against Davao for the coveted award are Baguio City, Mandaluyong City, and Bacolod City.

The Presidential Award for the Child-Friendly Municipalities and Cities is initiated by the Council for the Welfare of Children, pursuant to Executive Order 184 entitled “Establishing the Presidential Award for the Child-Friendly Municipalities and Cities.”

It is given to deserving local government units in recognition of their vital role in promotion of children’s rights to survival, development, protection and participation as well as in ensuring

child-friendly governance.

According to a news report carried by the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the last time Davao City won the award was because of the various projects for children that the city had pioneered in recent years.

“Among these are House of Hope that houses children cancer patients, a child-minding center for employees and residential facilities for abused children, children in conflict with the law and even the mentally challenged,” the report said.

Speaking of House of Hope, it is a transient home for children with cancer. “Childhood cancer is curable,” says Dr. Mae Concepcion Dolendo, a pediatric oncologist, who founded the place. “But the treatment may take several months and even years for some.

I think one of the major stumbling blocks in the treatment and cure among children with cancer is the lack of access to health care institutions that can provide multispecialty care.”

Unknown to many, one of the avid supporters of the House of Hope is Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte, who is currently running for the country’s top post. His “affair” with the house started when he attended the opening program where he did the cutting of ribbon to officially open the house.

Today, Duterte helps raise funds for the House of Hope. He spends his birthdays and Christmas with the children and even personally giving toys and presents. “The children know him not as the mayor of the city but someone close to them,” Dr. Dolendo said.

The oncologist physician has shared several stories about Mayor Duterte which most people don’t know. Those sort of unguarded moments. It may the reason also why he doesn’t allow the media to cover when he comes to the House of Hope.

At one time, Duterte reportedly asked the children with cancer if they know him. One little boy stood up and proudly told him, “You are our uncle.” The answer made Duterte to laugh out loud.

On another occasion, Duterte talked with a teenager whose cancer was already on stage four. Despite the fact that she was already dying, she was still full of hope. “You are a strong girl,” Duterte was reported to tell her.

After saying those words, Duterte walked a little farther -- where people could not see him. But without his knowledge, Dr. Dolendo watched her from a distance. “He stopped walking and face the wall,” she recalled.

“I wonder why he was facing the wall. But my question was answered when he took a handkerchief from the back of his pocket and wiped the tears coming from his eyes.”

Bertrand Russell was a British political activist. But he was also a historian, writer and social critic. He once wrote: “When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.” █

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ROM education to health to outreach, Phoenix Petroleum Philippines is committed to supporting the needs of children through its various programs. The Phoenix Philippines Foundation provides free pre-school education, establishes libraries, supports heart patients, and gives Christmas joy to children – all borne out of an aspiration to share in young Filipinos’ journey to a better life.

Empowering through Education Since 2009, Phoenix has enabled early learners to study for free through its Adopt-ASchool program. From its first adopted school Vicente Hizon Elementary School in Davao City, the program has now expanded to 18 public schools nationwide and three day care centers in Batangas. Phoenix supports the monthly salaries of pre-school teachers and donates books to the schools, enabling pre-schoolers to study for free.

In 2015, a total of 377 pre-school students graduated from Phoenix-adopted schools Doña Asuncion Hizon Elementary School, Lapu-Lapu Elementary School, San Roque Elementary School, and Vicente Hizon Elementary School in Davao City.

Phoenix has also built Phoenix Libraries, equipping

these with books, tables, and chairs, in eight schools across the country.

Before the start of each school year, employees of Phoenix actively join the Brigada Eskwela to clean and refurbish adopted schools.

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Improving Health Since 2010, Phoenix has supported the Dr. Gerry Cunanan Mindanao Heart Fund at the Southern Philippines Medical Center. Three young patients have undergone free heart operation, giving them a new lease on life.

Enriching through Outreach Every December, Phoenix brings Christmas joy to young children with its Christmas Gift-Giving for Kids activity.

Close to 2,000 children from nine of its adopted schools in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, and orphans from the Department of Social Welfare and Development – Reception and Study Center for Children (DSWDRSCC) in Davao City received Christmas joy in school supplies and snacks in 2015.

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Team Phoenix shares the Christmas spirit to children with its annual Christmas gift-giving activities.

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Team Phoenix regularly participates in the Brigada Eskwela program of the Department of Education.

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Pre-school students from Phoenix adopted schools Vicente Hizon Elementary School and San Roque Elementary School proudly show off their smiles during their moving up closing programs.

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cannot even vote for her,” he said.

Duterte also kissed the Philippine flag and he swore his allegiance to it implying a message to Poe’s pledge of allegiance to the American flag.

He also blasted Vice President Jejomar Binay for his involvement in corruption.

“If Binay wins, we are all dead. It would be over for the Philippines,” he said.

He said Binay forced developers and contractors to give him condo units or hotel rooms in exchange for business permits.

“I know Binay,” said Duterte. “I know he has been doing that all these years. If he becomes President, we are dead.”

He said Makati is ruled by leaders who hands are “makati” (itchy) which are a reference to their tendency to steal the people’s money.

Duterte also hit administration bet Mar Roxas describing him as inutile and useless.

“I used to think that Mar

Roxas is not corrupt because he is rich,” Duterte said.

Duterte told the people that his presidential bid is anchored on his agenda against corruption, criminality, and proliferation of illegal drugs.

Duterte’s running mate vice presidential candidate Senator Alan Peter Cayetano also spoke to the people telling that the mayor is the country’s best choice for the presidency.

“This is the time when there is not much opportunity for us. We need a President who will give us a choice, a good choice,” Cayetano said.

“Hindi lang Davao ang may kailangan kay Mayor Duterte.

Kailangan sya ng buong Pilipinas (It is not only Davao needs Mayor Duterte but the whole Philippines),” Cayetano said.

Duterte, for his part, asked his fellow Dabawenyos to give him a vice president he can comfortably work with.

“Cayetano is a decent man,” the Davao City mayor said. ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.

fice at the Comelec–Region 11 Office in Quimpo Blvd., Davao City.

Submission of bids shall be simultaneously held on March 23 at 9 a.m. at the same respective venues, where bidding documents can be purchased, with the opening of bids set an hour later.

The VIS is a document that contains the voter’s name, address, the precinct and the place where he is registered, and simplified instructions as to the casting of votes and is printed in the language or dialect understood by a majority of the voters in the region. (PNA)

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for the removal of the casinos in the covered list of entities at the bicameral conference committee meetings. ”There was so much pressure then to exclude casinos.

So now, let’s put casinos in AMLA,” Guingona said.

Frontrunning presidential candidate Grace Poe is also supporting the inclusion of the casinos in the AMLA coverage.

Senate President Franklin Drilon has said the next president must have strong political will to include casinos in the AMLA coverage.

Meanwhile, Senator Ralph Recto said the Senate needed to uncover the connection between a group of hackers and high officials of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) if it wanted to solve the USD 81-million money laundering mystery that rocked the country’s banking system. ”There is no doubt that there is a big syndicate involved here. It is also clear that the hackers have connection to the bank and we need to know who are their connections in the RCBC,” Recto said. (PNA)

and for the respondents to file their reply within 10 days upon receipt of the petition.

In the 26-page petition, the petitioners cited that bidding for the project continued despite the lack of an environment permit, consultation among members of affected community and local government consent.

The respondents to the case are Transportation and Communications Secretary Joseph Emilio A. Abaya, the Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC), its Pre-Qualification Bids and Awards Committee and the Philippine Ports Authority.

The petitioners cited in the petition the urgency following the March 28 scheduled resumption which cited the seaport development as the first project lined up for the public-private partnership program of the current administration.

“While the Court of Appeals has concurrent jurisdiction over a petition for a writ of kalikasan and continuing mandamus, petitioners respectfully submit that the proper court with which to file and to decide this petition is the honorable Supreme Court given the prayer for a temporary environmental protection order which, to all intents and purposes, is a restraining order applied for to halt what is otherwise a national government infrastructure project on environmental grounds,” the petition read.

“The urgency of the application for a temporary environmental protection order is made more manifest by the fact that bid submission is scheduled on 28 March 2016 and the award of the project shall be made thereafter.”

Laviña, spokesperson of Davao City Mayor and presidential candidate Rodrigo R. Duterte, said in an earlier report that the project is allegedly intended to fuel the government’s spending for the campaign of its standard bearer Mar Roxas, who was once headed the DOTC. He said that “the project is very anomalous from the start and that the DoTC has ignored the city government, so we need the highest court to do something to stop this anomaly.”

The project cost, which was pegged before at only around P3.5 billion when the Philippine Port Authority

(PPA) conducted a study few years ago but ballooned to almost P19 billion as shown in the assessment of a firm contracted by the DOTC in 2013, is opposed not only by the city government but also the business sector here.

While members of the SCROA headed by Pastor Lozada Jr. said in the same report that “the association is filing this suit out of genuine concern regarding the impact of the proposed modernization not just on their respective businesses, but also on the ecology and environment of Samal Island as a whole.”

Bonifacio T. Tan, president of the Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc., said as much as he is not opposed to any development, the implementation of the project will result in higher cost of handling fees and other port and shipping charges Earlier, members of the City Council of Davao also passed a resolution rejecting the project for alleged violation of Sections 2 and 27 of the Local Government Code requiring consultation and prior approval from the local government before proceeding with any national government project.

City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte later concurred with the resolution rejecting the project.

Mahipus earlier asked Regional Development Council-11 chairman, Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario, to withdraw its resolution endorsing the Sasa Port Project pending coordination efforts from DoTC. The RDC issued Resolution No. 118 on December 21, 2014 endorsing the Sasa Port subject to several conditions which were not complied with by the DOTC until now.

The four remaining bidders for the port development project are Asian Terminals Inc.-DP World FZE Consortium; Bollore Africa Logistics; International Container Terminal Services, Inc.; and San Miguel Holdings Corp.-APM Terminals Management (Singapore) Pte Ltd. Consortium with Hyundai Development Company and Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co., Ltd. as contractors.

Singapore-based Portek International Pte. Ltd., which had partnered with National Marine Corp. and Toyo Construction Co. Ltd. as contractor, earlier withdrew its bid in the auction.

ng bawat isa sa lipunan na may pantay na oportunidad sa bawat mamamayan. Mas malakas kung sama-sama nating isusulong ang agenda ni Juana,” Rikken said while casting her vote.

As they shaded their ballots, the participants expressed support to the call for making the country’s policies and programs responsive to the issues affecting and surrounding women’s participation and role in the society.

Rikken said they came out with the idea of the voting system so that there will be a clear

voice on what are the main issues that the next administration must be bringing into focus as the next set of leaders begin their governance on June 30.

She added she was happy with the majority of attendees comprising of men and women from different government agencies.

“It is about time na masabi namin sa mga politician na ito ang gusto ng mga kababaihan at hindi palagi na lang itinatanong sa kanila kung ano ang gagawin sa amin. This time ay babaliktarin namin,” she said.

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Grade 11 students entering school this June, it is important that their classrooms and teachers are ready by then,” he added.

“There’s no excuse that it can’t be done because this is something which has been planned in advance. Hindi ito bagyo na bigla na lang pumasok sa Philippine area of responsibility,” he said.

Aside from rooms and mentors, Grade 11 students will be needing books and chairs, “requirements which are likewise funded in the 2016 national budget,“ Recto explained.

Some 103.2 million textbooks, costing Php4.1 billion, and 4.33 million chairs, costing Php3.4 billion, will be distribut-

ed to 38,688 public elementary and 8,159 public high schools this year, Recto pointed out.

“Putting these resources in place should be the Aquino administration’s education legacy. When the President bows out of office in June, teachers should have been hired and classrooms inaugurated,” he said.

In issuing the call for a faster roll-out of education resources, Recto recalled procurement bottlenecks which delayed deliveries.

In 2014, DepEd was given Php2.56 billion to purchase Grades 1 to 3 science and math kits “but not a single one was bought that year,” Recto said, “In fact, by mid-2015 wala pa ring nabibili.” (PNA)

Choobi Choobi also serves fresh selections of signature refreshments like fresh pineapple, organic wheatgrass, fresh pineapple, organic kale, lychee and organic Kale shake.

The business has gone a long way from their first branch in Parkmall Cebu. They opened a flagship store in Metro Manila and targets to open two more new branches in SM City Manila and SM Southmall.

They now have a total of

20 branches nationwide.

Some of its branches are located at Limketkai in Cagayan de Oro, SM City Bacolod, SM City Iloilo, SM Seaside, Robinsons Galleria Cebu, Parkmall Cebu, Mactan Newtown Capitol, Centro Ayala Cagayan, SM City Cebu, SM City Manila, SM City Iloilo, SM Bacolod, SM City Sta.Rosa Laguna, SM Southmall, SM City Baliwag, and SM City Dasmarinas. CHENEEN R. CAPON

“There is nothing more human than being able to realize that giving joy to every child is worth all our sacrifices, time, resources and even the laying down of our lives,” Pastor Quiboloy said.

Today, CJFI has a total of 11 day care centers - seven in Tacloban City and Leyte province, one in Brgy. Andap in Compostela Valley, two in Marilog and another in Kalonbarak in Malungon, Sarangani.

Six of these day care centers were in partnership with Global Giving, which also donated fishing boats to Yolanda victims in Tacloban and Leyte in coordination with CJFI.

local social welfare offices of local government units in Davao Region. It will house modern facilities and recreational amenities including a mini library, computer laboratory, social activity room, clinic, dining room and creatively-designed bedrooms with a 24hour closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras.

Beneficiaries Limar and Jamaica were both raving about their new home.

Limar said in the vernacular, “I’m excited to sleep in my new bed in a beautiful home.”

Jacaima, nine, wished “more children will benefit from the new child care home”.

Another residential home is set to be built in Quezon City while four more day care centers will be constructed in priority areas in Yolanda-hit Leyte province.

CJFI executive director Rosemarie N. Dimagnaong said, “We at the CJFI look forward to another year of meaningful and passionate service for the children, for our countrymen, and for the Almighty God in heaven who shall reward our labors of love in due time.”

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Bigger, brighter The three-storey CJFI Child Care Residential Home in Brgy. Indangan, Davao City nears completion and will be inaugurated in April. With its construction, CJFI eyes for a Level 3 accreditation with the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

The new children’s residential facility will cater to more beneficiaries in response to the increasing number of referrals by DSWD, NGOs and

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HOMECOMING. The Phoenix.Fuelmasters are all.pumped up to play their first ‘home’ game in Davao on Saturday in nearby Panabo City. Right, alternate governor Atty. Raymond Zorilla and coach Koy Banal answer the questions from the press at Dencio’s Restaurant in SM Lanang Premier yesterday. LEAN DAVAL JR.

Phoenix vows to give Ginebra a fight

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T their ‘homecoming’ to Davao City where the oil firm is based, the Phoenix Petroleuum Fuelmasters vowed to give crowd favorite Ginebra San Miguel a good fight on Saturday in a Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) out-of-town match in nearby Panabo City.

“We are going to be thee

fighting. We may not like the numbers we have now but we are taking it one game at a time,” said Fuelmasters coach Koy Banal yesterday in a media briefing at Dencio’s Restaurant in SM Lanang Premier.

Banal said the team is now a vastly different team from the previous one under

Sunrise run for bat conservation awareness slated on March 19

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ORE than just another fun run event, participants who will join the Sunrise Run on Saturday at Rizal Park will run to raise awareness on bat conservation.

“We’re targeting about 600 runners to join the activity, “Philippine Bats for Peace Foundations (PBPF), Inc. chairperson Norma “Nomi” Monfort.

Monfort, the “Bat Mama”, said registration for three-kilometer run will be P250 while the seven kilometer run will have a P350-registration fee. The fees are inclusive of singlet, race bib, meal raffle tickets, certificates, and one day access to the Monfort Bat Sanctuary located at the Island Garden City of Samal.

The fun run will start at 5:00 a.m. for the 7K, while the 3K will start 30 minutes after, in time for the sunrise.

During the raffle, participants will have a chance to win cellphone units and other prices sponsored by its partners Globe Telecom, Asia Brewery, Coca-Cola,

Metro Soul, Leading-Edge Creative Events and Services, Team Titans Davao, Adidas, Gaisano, and the Abreeza Ayala Mall.

There will be also a zumba activity called “Zumbats” from 6:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m.

Montfort said members of the Youth “Ambatssador” Program will also present the Elevated Batitude, an advocacy of Monfort and the foundation that aims to increase awareness on bat conservation.

The event which is on the same day as Montfort’s 72nd birthday, will also commemorate the 16th anniversary of the Davao Land of Peace which she launched in 2000 during the Araw ng Dabaw celebration.

Proceeds from the fundraing event will go to the Monfort Bat Sanctuary, the largest concentration of fruit bats population in the world.

She said a night run is also being organised for this summer during a full moon in Samal Island. The event will have a mardi gras theme.

along with veteran tacticians Glenn Capacio and Siot Tanquincen.

Samahang Basketball ng Pilipinas rules indicate a single round robin eliminations

with the top two teams after the elims fighting for the title in a winner-take-all match.

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the franchise of Barako Bull.

The Fuelmasters are down in the standings inthe current Commissioner’s Cup with a 2-4 win-loss record but Banal is the least concerned.

“We still have a lot to improve,” he said.

Fuelmasters Alternate Governor Atty. Raymond Zorilla said that the team’s per-

formance is not that bad although he noted that the team has the tendency to fold up in the homestretch.

“We need to have a finishing kick,” Zorilla said. “Right now, we do not have that in the endgame that is why we lost some of the games we were leading in the early stretches.”

Against Ginebra, Banal said the team wiil focus on its collective strength and not individual skills.

Import Kevin Pinckney said he is “far from his deadly form.” “I am not Kevin Pinckney yet. Wait until I settle down. I don’t have to score a lot but you can expect me with 6 points and 30 rebounds a

night.”

The 6-10 American said he is adjusting to the PBA style of play.

The Gin Kings and the Fuelmasters meet at 4:30 pm at the Panabo City Gym. Also present in yesterday’s presscon were JC Intal, Willy Wilson, RR Garcia and Mick Pennisi.

AKING a strong stand against the plans of AIBA, the international governing body for boxing under the International Olympic Committee, to allow professionals to compete in the Olympic Games as early as this year in Rio, the World Boxing Council under president Mauricio Sulaiman has announced that “any world champion or top 15 ranked boxer per divi-

sions of the WBC that participates in the Olympic games would be immediately expelled.”

The WBC said it reached the decision after analyzing the worldwide opinions of the boxing community, sports members and medical advisers.

The WBC statement said “It is not possible to imagine, much less accept a fight be-

tween professional boxers, who already have a physical development and more advanced technical skills, facing young fighters that are just starting this process.”

The WBC made it clear that “Boxing is not a game.

There is no scoring with goals or baskets. Rather, it is a contact sport which must be taken seriously. Reasoning must prevail, the function of all bodies

must be always to care and regulate the safety and health of boxers.”

The WBC ruling means that should eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao accept the invitation of AIBA president Dr. Wu to compete in Rio with the privilege of not having to compete in the preliminary rounds he would be banned under the WBC ruling.

Manny didn’t spar “he looked very, very good.”

He said “the power is much better” and he is no longer struggling with his right hand due to a tear in his right shoulder rotator cuff which was aggravated

in the May 2 showdown against unbeaten pound for pound No.1 Floyd Mayweather Jr who has since retired.

Arum indicated that after surgery five days after the loss to Mayweather, “now its full oper-

ational and much, much better” and when he hits the mitts of Roach with the right hand, the sound is probably even bigger than the sound when he hits with his left” which has always been his most devastating punch.

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TILL kicking off the effects of jetlag following his long flight from Manila last Saturday, eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao sparred eight rounds yesterday at the Wild Card Gym of celebrated trainer Freddie Roach and looked good.

Top Rank publicist Fred Sternberg told The Standard that Manny did okay “but the best thing about it was he was throwing his right hand an awful lot. He landed often and it was powerful.”

Pacquiao sparred against 31 year old super lightweight Ghislain Maduma from the Democratic Republic of the Congo by way of Canada who has a record 17-2 with 11 knockouts and unbeaten American lightweight Lydell Rhodes.

Sternberg told us Pacquiao would spar with undefeated welterweight Frankie “Pitbull” Gomez on Thursday. Gomez has a record of 20-0 with 13 knockouts. Sternberg said “Manny gave it a good go” in sparring and then hit the punch-mitts, the bags and was “looking like his old self again.”

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum who visited the Wild Card Gym on Monday told us while

OPENING. CMO-TRMH Dela Salle University co-manager Glenn Escandor and brother Gerome with Mayor Rodrigo Duterte in the background during the opening of the 2016 Araw ng Davao Basketball Tournament at the Almendras Gym. LEAN DAVAL JR

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ERE’S WHAT the heart of a champion exactly does when it falls behind?

Goldstar Hardware was caught napping in the first quarter and paid dearlly for it falling 8-24 against a determined Montana Pawnshop side that still has the stigma of losing last year’s finals to the Hardwaremen.

The reigning champions, however, clawed back to life in the next two periods before coasting home for a shaky but deserving win 8673 in the opener off the 2016 Araw ng Davao Inter-Commercial Basketball League at the Davao City Recreation Center late Wednesday night.

The upset-seeking Pawnbrokers opened with a big first quarter as Lusdoc spewed fire with 9 points and Olaga had 6 while limiting the Hardwaremen to an anemic shooting from the

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In the second period, the Harwaremen woke up from slumber and flexed their muscles hard with Refuerzo banging in 9, Stephen Collado firing 7 and last year’s most valuable player Leomar Losentes anchoring the plays and adding 4 buckets for his part. The half ended with the Hardwaremen just behind by a point, 34-35.

In the third period, Goldstar took the lead for good and never looked back from there to erect a 57-54 lead going into the final canto.

Goldstar outscored Montana 29-19 in the decisive fourth period with the veterans coming to fore as Losentes completed his game-long MVP-type performance with 9 of his 19 points for the night. Ace slotman Marlon Basco had 7 in that stretch, Collado added 4 and former MVP Jojo Tangkay sprayed three triples en

route to a team-high 21-point explosion.

GB Olaga led the Pawnbrokers with a game-best 22, Lusdoc added 15, Hans 1 Thiele had 13. Ace 1 quarterback Biboy Clavel was limited to just 6.

The Hardwaremen were tied with City Mayors Office-The Royal Mandaya Hotel represented by the full complement of the UAAP contender De La Salle University with identical 1Ws while the Pawnbrokers and University of the Visayas Green Lancers are sporting 1Ls in the four-team tournament organized by the Davao City Sports Development Office for the City Government of Davao and backed up by Lipovitan Energy Drink.

The Green Archers of CMO-TRMH, inspired by the presence of co-managers Glenn Escandor and presidential aspirant Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s main man Bong Go behind the bench, demolished UV Green Lancers 95-85 in the first game. New coach Aldin Ayo steered the Green Archers

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FULL SUPPORT. Presidential bet Mayor Rodrigo Duterte talks to City Mayor’s Office-The Royal Mandaya Hotel Dela Salle University co-team manager Glenn Escandor shortly after presiding over the ceremonial jump of the 2016 Araw ng Davao Inter-Commercial Basketball Tournament at the Almendras Gym on Wednesday night.