Board only at DCOTT, travelers told
BY RHODA GRACE B. SARONAisa Usop, DCOTT manager, said the city gov ernment will not allow buses to load passengers at designated stops, a move that has been implement ed since May following bombing incidents in other regions.
“Aware niana atong
mga bus drivers and con ductors and even their managers and operators nga wala pa na na-lift (or der)” said Usop even as she pointed out that the proto col is only applicable for buses getting out of the city.
An influx of passengers are expected to travel dur
ing the first two days of November during the ob servance of the All Souls’ Day and All Saints’ Day.
A security plan has also been put in place for passengers entering the city as Usop said security per sonnel have been tasked to monitor the terminal prem
ises on a 24-hour basis with military and police units assisting in the monitoring.
Coordination with the Land Transportation Fran chising and Regulatory Board and the Land Trans portation Office has been established, Usop said, to guarantee the “roadworthiness of our buses.”
The DCOTT has also
tapped the City Transport and Traffic Management Office (CTTMO) to ensure the orderly passage of buses through the terminal drive.
Usop said the 30-minute interval between buses will be suspended during excep tionally busy days.
“I have this instruction sa mga bus operators na kung mapuno, mularga na
para makasulod na pud ang next. So dako kaayo og role ang atong CTTMO when it comes to traffic congestion dira sa terminal drive diha sa atong Candelaria Street,” Usop said.
She also urged pas sengers to observe health protocols which have been implemented against COV ID-19.
Vaccination of students to be intensified: exec
BY RHODA GRACE B. SARONTHE city government and the government agencies on education are set to intensify vaccination of students against COVID-19 as the plan to implement full face-toface classes on November 2 is fast approaching.
This came about as on the first week of the month, there were 10 COVID19-related deaths recorded with six of them unvac cinated.
Dr. Michelle Schlosser, COVID-19 Task Force, last week said that the plan is to inoculate all those who will attend these classes to
shield them from getting se verely sick due to the virus.
“Actually, they fear that during that time na mag-face-to-face na tanan, dako’g chance na makaku ha og infection ang ilang estudyante,” said Schlosser.
She said the plan is to coordinate with both the Commission on Higher
ASG member slain in clash
THE military reported that a member of the Abu Sayyaf Group was killed in an encounter in Barangay Bungkaong, Patikul, Sulu on Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Ignatius N. Patrimonio, commander of the 11th Infantry "Alak dan" Division and Joint
Task Force Sulu, said the solider were on a routine patrol when they were in formed of the presence of the group which resulted in the country that killed Ben saji.
"While on their way to check the veracity of
Education, Department of Education and the schools to commit to the campaign, particularly on providing shots to those in the 5-11 age bracket. Another com ponent of the campaign is information.
“They will be con ducting a series of school-
Program for women recognized
THE city government has intensified its campaign to provide livelihood to women as part of its bigger program of empowering the sector.
This as the city gov ernment was recognized as the second best local government units in the region in the Sustainable Development Goals-Local
Government Unit category in August.
Lorna Mandin, Inte grated Gender and Devel opment Division (IGDD) head, said the office has continued to be the referral office for women who want to become beneficiaries of the “Mag-Negosyo ‘Ta Day Program,” which became the basis for the award as
it is within the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations for the em powerment of women.
“Focus pa gihapon ang kanang process im provement how else can we improve the project to reach more women, kadto pang mga deprived kadto pang mga vulnerable poor
School of Living Traditions opens in Bukidnon village
LANTAPAN, Bukidnon (MindaNews) -- A School of Living Traditions was opened to the public on Friday in Barangay Songco, at the foot of Mt. Kitanglad.
Aduna Llesis Saway, project-in-charge said
the school is intended to teach Talaandig children as young as five years old to know their culture and his tory before they undergo formal education.
Saway said the chil dren are taught how to play the drums and other
musical instruments and perform their dance at a young age.
“We have found a way of handing down our tra ditional way of life to our children,” Saway said.
During the Talaandig Day last Friday, Talaandig
elders sat on the sidelines as they watched younger members dance and play the instruments, tasks they used to do during past festivals.
Saway said Senate President Miguel Zubiri,
Mindanao’s energy mix: 69% from non-renewable sources
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews) -- Mindanao is far from being “energy self-suf ficient,” an environmental group said on Saturday, as the island’s power mix now comprises 69% non-renewable sources.
Environmental lawyer Mark Peñalver, executive director of the Interface Development Interven tion (IDIS), said, in an interview on Saturday, that the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions are from the energy sector with voracious demand for fossil fuels and fuelbased products.
“Electricity and other energy production are among the top/largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions. This is not a surprise considering that our energy is sourced from fossil fuels or fossil-fuelbased sources,” he said.
Engr. Nilo Geroche, director of the Depart ment of Energy-Mindanao
Field Office, earlier this week said non-renewal sources are from coal and oil-based, compris ing 51% and 18%, re spectively, of the island’s electricity mix.
He said the hydro sources, which previously supplied 70% of Mind anao’s power mix, con tributed only 26%, solar at 2%, geothermal at 2% and biomass at 1% of the island’s total capacity mix.
Geroche said the sup plies of coal and oil in the Philippines are imported. For coal, he said 97% came from Kalimantan Indonesia.
He said the agency noted a significant in crease in the price of coal
imports.
He added that this could be the reason why cost of power in Mind anao is increasing despite being regulated by the Energy Regulatory Com mission (ERC).
“I understand that all of us are suffering from high prices in the electric ity,” Geroche said.
Peñalver pushed for the implementation of the Renewable Energy Act, which aims to enable the Philippines to be energy self-sufficient by utilizing renewable energies such as solar and wind.
“With non-renewable energy projects left and right, i.e., waste-to-energy and coal, Philippines is far
from being energy selfsufficient,” he added.
Peñalver said if the trend continues, Mindan ao will largely contribute to the “national and global emissions of greenhouse gases thereby contributing to the impacts of climate change.”
The group previously opposed to the establish ment of a waste-to-ener gy (WTE) project in the city as it would generate more sources of “unclean” power.
He said some local politicians pushing for this project want to put up WTE not only to address solid waste management but also increase power generation for this city.
“In reality, what they are after is energy genera tion and we don’t want our
energy to be ‘unclean.’ In effect, we will contribute to carbon emissions. WTE can cause our carbon emis sions and carbon footprint to shoot up. Apart from that, this is not really the sustainable solution. We are just creating another problem,” he added.
According to City En vironment and Natural Resources, around 600 to 800 tons of wastes are generated daily.
He believed that a WTE project would only encourage people to gen erate more wastes to keep the facility running.
“The emissions from a WTE are carcinogenic –dioxins and furans. These can put the lives of the people in danger – not only the environment but also the people as well,”
he said.
In a statement on Sep tember 19, Peñalver said a study conducted by Dr. Jorge Emmanuel, a pro fessor of environmental science and engineering at the Silliman University in Negros Oriental, found that WTE incinerators release large amounts of highly toxic substances called dioxins and furans into the air.
Emmanuel was former chief technical adviser on global environment pro jects of the United Nations Development Program.
The group added that inhalation of dioxins and furans causes an “in creased risk of tumors, cancer, asthma, and other fatal diseases.”
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Banana exporters focus campaign on Japan market
BY CARMELITO Q. FRANCISCOBANANA exporters have concentrated their efforts in en suring that the Japanese market will continue to be its main buyer after the performance of the two other big markets, China and Korea, has declined since about five years ago.
This was confirmed by officials of the Pilipino Ba nana Growers and Exporters Association, the group of the 18 biggest banana companies in the country that include the biggest international brands.
Early this year, the as sociation, with the help of the national government agency, through the office of the Jose Laquitan, Philippine Embassy in Japan agriculture attache, launched a public relations and government relations campaign to strengthen the hold of the Philippine banana in the Japanese market.
Alberto P. Bacani, presi dent of the association, said the goal of the action “was to bring to the attention of Japanese consumers, the Japa nese government as well as trade organizations like the supermarket organizations in Japan about the plight of the Philippine banana industry.”
“As you know, since last year, a lot of farm inputs required in banana growing really (sic) went up,” said Bacana in a press briefing this week here, citing as an example the fertilizer prices
that have “almost doubled.”
Because of the rise in operational costs, which have been aggravated by the una bated increase in price in creases of petroleum products, Bacani said that their goal was for the Japanese market to support the Philippine banana industry considering that the local industry is about 75% of the total Japanese banana market.
As an initial result of the campaign, Bacani added, there has been at least an in crease in the retail of about 30 yen a kilogram as the average price increased from 248 yen a kilogram to 278 yen a kilo gram compared with about five years ago.
If translated to the per box of 13.5 kilograms could amount to about $2.50 in price uptick.
However, the increase was somehow balanced by the devaluation of the Japa nese currency, said Bacani, also the president of Unifrutti Philippines.
“I would say it (increase in prices as a result of the campaign) was a very good
result in such a short time and we hope to keep the momen tum,” he pointed out, adding that the expectation was that the increase started kicking in last month considering that the Japanese fiscal year only starts in April.
In China, in the last five years, “there has been a huge reduction of the Philippine market share,” said Bacani, citing that before, about 80% of those being imported by the Chinese buyers was from the Philippines, but this has gone
Lower rate for October: DLPC
CUSTOMERS of Davao Light and Power Co., Inc. will notice a decrease of two (2) pesos in the overall power rate on their electric bills as a result of a reduction mainly in the generation rate for the month of October. The com plete data for October power rates are now available at www.davaolight.com.
From the P8.0342 gen eration rate for the September bill, it is now at P6.3678 for October, bringing the total power rate this month to P10.8028 from P13.0101 last September. This is due to high drawings of cheaper power supply from NPC/ PSALM. For a typical house hold with average monthly electricity consumption of 200 kWh, this translates to a reduction of P441 from the previous bill.
Power rates as reflected in Davao Light monthly bills and posted on the company’s web site are divided into 4 major components: Generation and Transmission, Distribution, Subsidies and Other Charges, and Government Charges and Taxes. Generation and transmission charges are passthrough charges that Davao Light collects and pays to power suppliers and the trans mission operator, respectively.
Meanwhile, the distribu tion charge which is the only charge of Davao Light remains
at an average of P1.4257 per kilowatt-hour as approved by the Energy Regulatory Com mission (ERC). This charge has not increased since 2013.
Davao Light earlier in formed its customers that the increase in power rates which was first felt last June was mainly due to the rise in the generation rate as a result of the price increase of imported fuel, particularly coal. Ris ing energy demands and the continuing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, among others, are contributing to the rise in fuel prices.
The company sources 50% of its power require ments from non-renewable sources such as coal which in creased eightfold in price. The other 50% are from renewable sources such as hydropower which is not affected by the in crease in imported fuel prices. Davao Light has long aimed for a well-balanced power mix and maintained the 50-50 power mix of renewable and non-renewable resources. This cushioned the otherwise high impact of the world market price of coal on the overall power rate of Davao Light.
Davao Light encourages its customers to continue to be prudent and efficient in the use of electricity. One way to lower energy consumption is by limiting the use of heating and cooling devices and ap
pliances that consume high energy.
Davao Light, an AboitizPower subsidiary, is committed to delivering at the most reasonable cost, safe,
and reliable electric service to all customers in its franchise area in the cities of Davao and Panabo and the municipalities of Carmen, Dujali, and Sto. Tomas in Davao del Norte.
down to just 36%.
This is caused by the move of Chinese investors to set up farms in Laos, Cam bodia and Vietnam because of their proximity to these countries. Cambodia and Viet nam supply 51% of the China
market banana requirement.
“For Korea, not as bad (but if) looked 10 years ago, 95% of bananas imported to Korea were from the Philip pines,” he said, adding that the volume has gone down
1.7M jobs to open under government housing program
10 GOCCs under evaluation for privatization, says official
MANILA – About 10 government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs) are being mulled for privatization pending the evaluation of their financial and economic status, among others.
In a briefing on Friday, Governance Commission for GOCCs (GCG) Chair person Alex L. Quiroz declined to give specifics, citing the need to protect the GOCCs’ status pend ing the results of the ongo ing assessment.
“Different GOCCs have their own peculiari ties,” Quiroz said.
The GCG has juris diction over 118 GOCCs, which excludes the Bang ko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), local water dis
tricts, and research insti tutions.
The agency is man dated to safeguard the government’s rights and ensure that GOCCs’ opera tions remain transparent and responsive to the gov ernment’s bid to provide services to the public.
To date, only the Phil ippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) has openly discussed the possibility of privatization given the questions on its role as regulator and op erator of casinos.
Quiroz said the evaluation of Pagcor’s privatization continues but he declined to give any details.
He explained that overall, the GCG is study
ing the viability of the continued operations of GOCCs, which employ about 600,000 personnel.
Among the GOCCs that are under the GCG’s jurisdiction are the National Food Authority, Social Security System, Government Service Insurance System, Sugar Regulatory Administration, Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, Land Bank of the Philippines, Development Bank of the Philippines, Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, and the Clark Development Corp.
The GCG has recom mended the abolition of 25 GOCCs now in various stages of liquidation, its executives said. (PNA)
MANILA – The Marcos ad ministration’s “Pambansang Pabahay para sa Pilipino: Zero ISF 2028” program is expected to generate about 1.7 million jobs for Filipinos per year.
Department of Human Settlements and Urban Devel opment (DHSUD) Secretary Jose Rizalino Acuzar said the jobs would be created annu ally when the program goes full blast with the construction of housing units.
“It is projected to have direct and indirect jobs in the sector especially in areas where mid-rise to high-rise units will be built," Acu zar said in a news release on Sunday.
Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority showed that there are 2.68 million unemployed Filipinos aged 15 to 64 years old as of August this year.
Citing government stud ies, the DHSUD said at least eight workers are needed in the construction of a housing unit within a certain period.
The national housing pro gram aims to provide shelters
DavNor Sports Complex track oval reopens
BY NOEL BAGUIOTIME to get back into shape.
Athletes and fitness en thusiasts can use the running track oval of the Davao del Norte Sports and Tourism Complex (DNSTC) once again as it formally reopened Monday morning, October 10, 2022, after being closed to the public for more than two years.
Governor Edwin Juba hib led the inauguration of the P34.85-million newlyrehabilitated rubberized
track and field oval, with materials imported from Switzerland.
The Provincial Sports and Youth Development Of fice (PSYDO) temporarily closed the track to the public when breaks and cracks ap peared even before the start of the pandemic, posing risks to the athletes and joggers.
Plans for the renovation of the facility was put on hold during the crisis but the
track remained closed even when the other facilities of the sports complex were al ready reopened to the public early on this year.
Jubahib pushed for the rehabilitation of the oval in pushing for the revival of the grassroots sports program of the province, while pursuing the province’s bid to again host big-ticket regional and national sports competitions.
He cited the advantage
of a rubberized track, par ticularly in providing safe and convenient option for running.
“Ang advantage man gud kung rubberized dili bun-og ang imong tiil ug mas maayo ang imong pagdagan (A rubberized track prevents foot contusion and enhances running performance),” he said.
The governor reiterated the use of the track oval remains free to the public, “provided that we strictly
follow the rules and regula tions to protect our facility.”
The governor was joined by Vice Governor De Carlo Uy and Members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, provincial department heads led by Provincial Adminis trator Engr. Josie Jean Raba noz, and Architect Nelson G. Yu of Young Builders.
Davao del Norte Track and Field Association President Beverly Villarino thanked the governor for pursuing the project, saying
the province is again back on track in pursuing its “dream of producing athletes that can compete in national and even international arena.”
It can be recalled that DNSTC was the main hub for the 2015 Palarong Pam bansa events, including the opening and closing ceremonies, while it now accommodates the Phil ippines Football League outfit Davao Aguilas F.C. as its home field since their founding in 2017.
Aligned. Interconnected
BY STELLA A. ESTREMERATHERE must be more to being connected than how we connect today.
There must be more to alignment than the lines we draw and say.
Drawn away from what’s essential, always enticing, ever inviting,
AI shackles us to the mundane — dancing, arguing, our time a-wasting.
Insidious in its ways, our consciousness is ripped at the core
Gone are the depths leaving just a craving for more, more, more.
What is artificial soon takes over our thoughts and actions
Numbing us to nature, dumbing down our emotions.
Let not Artificial Intelligence dehumanize our generations
Instead make AI fuel a soul-centered rejuve nation.
Attach not to activities that enslave and daze, Feed the desire to find depths in our ways.
Embrace the wind, touch and smell real flow ers, Feel the earth, ground and access your power.
Be awed as lightning announces a downpour, Get drenched by the rain, breathe in the petrichor.
Rejoice with each rainbow, dance, sing, cel
ART 2022
ebrate,
Listen to rippling waters and the crash of waves.
Gaze at the moon, count the stars, draw in the vast skies, Be hypnotized by the dewdrop that welcomes each sunrise.
Align our thoughts with love and life in all aspects, Nurture, share, and with the elements inter connect.
To align and interconnect, to resonate with real artistry
To nurture our souls by becoming one with all that be.
This is the AI that nurtures, the AI that is real, Alignment and interconnectedness to our loftiest ideals.
Music that celebrates nature, words that en lighten
Thru faith that can move mountains and visu als that awaken.
We align with our cultures, we connect to each other
In that alignment and interconnectedness we all prosper.
As we nourish our souls in establishing our identity
We are able to define Mindanao Art and our humanity.
Engage those adversely affected
LATE last week we were able to get in touch with Mr. Julian Rodriguez 111 who confirmed to us that indeed they had a n audi ence with Department of Public Works and High ways (DPWH) Secretary Manuel Bonoan, with whom they submitted their voluminous documenta tion of the reasons why they are requesting for the re-alignment of the Samal Island-Davao City Connector Bridge. As stated by Mr. Rodriguez III, their family is not in any way against the implementation of the project as they believe in the positive impact the bridge will have on the island city’s economy. According to the same ex ecutive of the Rodriguez family-owned Paradise Island Resort they told the DPWH top official that they are not even opposing the proposed alignment solely because of the possible loss or stop of the operation of their resort business. After all, they will be compensated by the government once the expropriation proceedings will be consummated.
Rather, according to Mr. Rodriguez, their opposition to the recommended alignment of the bridge as proposed in the feasibility study conducted by a Hong Kong-based consultancy firm and is the one adopted by government for implementation, is because the process with which the various requisites in the issuance of the go-signal for the start of the construction were mostly short-cut in violation of existing environment laws which the government itself caused to be passed by Congress.
Clearly, the position of the stakeholders averse to the proposed alignment is well-grounded considering that primordial to everything else it is still the welfare of a number of Samalenos that is at issue in addition to the certainty of environmental destruction that may set in once construction is started. And the Rodriguez-Lucas family who is spearheading the efforts to have the realignment accepted is referring to the so-called Paradise Reef adja cent to the resort that the said family has taken unto itself to be the care-taker for posterity.
According to Mr. Rodriguez III the DPWH top hon cho promised them that he will keenly look into their posi tion paper and do what is necessary to arrive at a possible win-win solution. The question now is whether or not the agency will still take time to look into the request for realignment given the fact that the project implementa tion has been delayed for a much longer period already?
For certain there is a potential new feasibility study to be conducted and changes in the bridge design should the request be acted favorably. Without doubt any additional activity undertaken and its corresponding cost will be factored into the final determination of the new total pro ject budget. Hence, the possibility is that the DPWH will stick to the design and alignment that is at its hand now.
If only for this possible scenario it is our take that the aggrieved stakeholders must be ready to take their last card as well as to submit what they think is the best acceptable option they can take, even if grudgingly.
From the way we look at it, the government can not anymore afford to further lose its face after years of making such a promise to connect the island city with the mainland. But if only to assuage the hurt on the feelings of those adversely affected stakeholders and compensate the damage it is likely to cause to businesses and the livelihood of a good number of people in that city, the DPWH must lay on the table all their planned mitigating measures for the environment and the loss of income to the disparaged families in the island. And the concerned agencies that will be tasked to implement the mitigating measures must prioritize engaging the services of the adversely affected individuals.
For some time we were once a broadcast anchorman and commentator. We were contemporaries with the late Jun Porras Pala and Ferdie Lintuan. Our difference is that the two not only lambast government officials but even private individuals who they thought to have committed disservice and damage to the community. On our part we stuck to commenting on activities or actuations of public
Local Frontlines of Globalized Islamic States Network: The Emerging War Arena for the Filipino Soldier
(THIS piece written by Dr. Gail T. Ilagan was first pub lished in the book, “Transfiguring Mindanao: A Mindanao Reader,” edited by Jose Jowel Canuday and Joselito Sescon, published by the Ateneo de Manila University Press and launched on June 22, 2022 in Davao City. See Part V on “Mediating Truths, Contested Communities, Making Peace.” Permission to share this with MindaNews readers was granted by the Ateneo University Press)
The Emergence of Violent Extremism in Mindanao Muslims make up about a quarter of the world’s popu lation with most Muslim countries located in the Middle East and Northern Africa. The Commission of Muslim Filipinos records a total of 11 million Muslims, represent ing almost 10 percent of the Philippine population (US Department of State 2004). More than half of them make their home in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Most Filipino Muslims have found a way to practice Islam, while thriving and living harmoniously with others in a world characterized by cultural, religious, and political diversity.
Violent extremists are rare among Muslim Filipinos. However, it does not take a lot of them to cause a scale of destruction such as was seen in the aftermath of the 2017 Marawi Siege. DSWD (Department of Social Welfare and Development) Secretary Rolando Joselito D. Bautista, a retired general who served as ground commander during the Marawi Siege, estimates that there were only 2,000 ISIS-aligned forces responsible for the occupation of the only Islamic city in the country.
The ideology of violent extremism is rooted in the desire of a few Islamic hardliners to unite the 1.8 billion strong global Muslim population under a caliphate ruled by Shariah law. This hardline thinking is an extreme inter pretation of the Shariah – or “The Way’’ – which is derived from the religious precepts of the Koran and the sayings
of the Prophet Mohammad. The Shariah governs religious rituals as well as aspects of daily life in Islam. These hardliners loathe that Muslims the world over experience oppression and discrimination for their conservative ways. They believe that the decadent Western influence in most modern states today force the global Muslim people to live in a blasphemous world. They therefore desire to wrest a territory where the Shariah law can impose religious, political and military authority over all Muslims. Thus, they call on all devout Muslims to join in their jihad, or holy war, and take up arms for the establishment of a true ummah or Islamic community.
As a guide to personal conduct, the Shariah is in terpreted in various ways by different Muslim sects. Unlike the majority of moderate Muslims in Mindanao who interpret jihad to mean waging a spiritual battle to overcome the imperfect self, violent extremists adopt a literal interpretation. For them it means to wage an armed
battle against the enemies of Allah – the non-believers who include those who call themselves Muslims but who do not adhere to very strict Islamic laws. Thus, even other Muslims are not safe from violent extremists, as the merest questionable conduct can be subject to brutal punishment for perceived violations of the Shariah.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is just one among the international terror groups that desire to re-install a caliphate in a territory where their idea of a true Islamic community could be realized. In 2014, ISIS named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi “leader of Muslims eve rywhere” and unleashed its brand of brutal violence in its bid to carve a caliphate in the contiguous regions of northern Iraq and eastern Syria. As city after city fell, their hapless residents were subjugated by the ISIS jihadists’ bloody reign of terror. By May 2015, ISIS had wrested control of over 100,000 square kilometers of territory and had established its headquarters in the city of Raqqa in Syria. ISIS forces also occupied the cities of Mosul and Baghouz, among others.
Using sophisticated propaganda tactics propagated mainly through social media, ISIS attracted foreign jihad ists from Europe, the United States, Africa, and Asia who joined the jihad. Among those who heeded the call were young Muslims from Mindanao, such as Zamboanga na tive Mohammad Reza Kiram who was 27 years old when he traveled to Syria and appeared in a violent ISIS video uploaded on YouTube. On various social media chan nels, the sleek portrayal of an Islamic utopia that the ISIS was carving also attracted women and girls as young as 14 years old to come and be “the brides of jihad”. They escaped from home and traveled half a world away to marry ISIS fighters and bear their children.
TO BE CONTINUED
Eco waste management reminder on All Souls’ Day
THE EcoWaste Coalition and Mother Earth Foundation enjoined the public to abide by the provisions of Republic Act 9003 and corresponding local ordinances as tombs are cleaned and readied for the All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day on November 1 and 2.
Also known as the Ecological Solid Waste Man agement Act, RA 9003 emphasizes the importance of eco-friendly practices in managing solid waste that will contribute to solid waste prevention and volume reduc tion and ultimately to the protection of public health and the environment.
While the law espouses the segregation of discards at source, reuse, recycling, composting and other proenvironment practices, it prohibits anti-environment practices such as littering, open dumping, open burning and other polluting acts.
“Ensuring ecological waste management as prescribed by RA 9003 during the pre-Undas clean-up will prevent and reduce the generation of garbage and toxins, and make our visits to the tombs of our dearly departed more pleas ant and safe,” said Sonia Mendoza, Chairman, Mother
figures. And we made sure that in every major issue we endeavored to get the side of the concerned individual or office.
Yes, we had our share of threats and intimidations especially on one issue which concerned public health. In bringing the issue to light it also affected those people having flourishing businesses at Times Beach then. But as the saying goes, since we ventured into the proverbial “kicking the tiger’s ass, we made sure we were ready with our plan against its teeth.” That was, we made our time on the air ready for their side and our ears to listen to them.
In other words fairness was our game and it worked.
As they say, one’s right ends where another's right begins. It saves many working journalists from possible libel, and worst assassination by those who felt they are unfairly maligned.
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Earth Foundation.
“Garbage from the clean-up of tombs adds to the huge amounts of rubbish hauled from gravesites before and especially after Undas. Implementing RA 9003 will surely trim down the tons of mixed trash collected from cemeteries and buried somewhere else,” said Jove Benosa, Zero Waste Campaigner, EcoWaste Coalition.
The public are reminded to pay attention to the fol lowing do’s and don'ts in sprucing up the tombs of their deceased loved ones:
1. Do follow the cemetery’s policy against littering, open dumping and open burning (and cigarette smoking, too).
2. Don’t burn fallen leaves, branches, plastics and other discards to avoid generating health-damaging toxic
fumes.
3. Do separate biodegradables (grass cuttings, plant trimmings, etc.) from recyclables (cardboard, paper, tin cans, glass and plastic bottles, etc.) from the clean-up work.
4. Don’t throw garbage in someone else’s tomb. Be guided by the golden rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
5. Do bring the segregated discards to the cemetery’s Materials Recovery Facility or to the designated collec tion area.
6. Don’t leave behind used bottles, cans and anything that can collect and hold water; dengue mosquitoes lay their eggs in water-filled containers.
7. Do give the tombs of your loved ones a fresh coat of lead-safe paint; but refrain from dry sanding or scraping surfaces that might be coated with paints containing lead to avoid spreading lead-contaminated dust.
“Let’s make our beautiful Undas tradition of honor ing the dead an ecological experience for all,” the groups concluded.
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All Pawned items that expired until the month of JUNE 2022, must be redeemed or renewed Two (2) days prior the Auction Schedule stated below. If not redeemed will be sold to the public on its respective auction schedule and premises at 9:00 A.M.
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Gipahibalo ang tanan nga ang GABBY’S BRILLIANT PAWNSHOP, INC. and GABBYS’S INFINITE PAWNSHOP, INC. maga subasata sa tanan nga nag-expired hangtod sa bulan sa AGOSTO 2022, kung dili malukat ibaligya sa publiko sa alas 9:00 sa buntag.
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Big 8 Hotel opens in Digos City
After it launched its 120-room hotel in Tagum City 10 years ago, BMQ Group of Hotels, Inc finally opened its 12-storey Big 8 Corporate Hotel last Wednesday, October 12, along Quezon Avenue in Digos City, Davao del Sur.
"This was supposed to open much earlier but the series of earthquakes in 2019, then the Covid-19 pandemic, halted construction," said Davao-based businessman Billy M. Quibod during the launch program.
The 112-room hotel boasts of a 150-capacity grand ballroom, a coffee shop, a restaurant serving Oriental cuisine, indoor pool, poolside bar, fitness
center, and relaxation lounge at the topmost floor.
"The opening of Big 8 will cer tainly benefit not just Digos City but the entire province as we don't have to travel far if we need a world class accommodation or venue for our meetings and events," said Davao del Sur Governor Yvonne Roña Cagas, who delivered a congratulatory message.
Big 8 is also one of the city's biggest employer in its tourism sector.
"Aside from employment, we also hope that we are able to encourage other investors in the city. It is our way of sharing our blessings," Quibod shared.
BMQ Group of Ho tels board of director and Quibod's eldest daughter, Geraldine, also revealed that their next hotel pro ject is the construction of Big 8 Corporate Hotel Davao.
"We hope to see its completion by 2025," she said.
Located along JP Laurel Avenue, it will transform the now-de funct Durian Hotel into a mixed use commercial complex.
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based vaccination. They will couple this with IEC or Information Education Campaign, dili lang sa mga vaccinees nila na mga stu dents, but they are hoping that they will also be cas cading the same informa
tion sa mga parents sa mga vaccinees, labi na gyud kadtong 5 to 11 years old. Because even the Depart ment of Education nagaadmit sila na mubo gyud ilahang output for 5 to 11 years old,” Schlosser said.
The campaign will cover “vaccination safety, efficacy and benefits,” as well as the management protocols of COVID-19 cases in the event that one is detected in the school setting.
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women,” said Mandin, adding that meetings have been conducted to adjust to the needs of the women.
The city was cited "for exhibiting exemplary im plementation and adopting best practices for the reali zation of the Filipino’s col lective aspirations towards Sustainable Development Goals, and serving as an example on demonstrat ing the country’s steadfast commitment to this end.”
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the report, the troops were fired upon by more or less 4 ASG bandits upon being seen in the area to which they have reacted in order to preempt further danger that the bandits may cause in the adjacent communi
Mandin said the city government decided to submit the program for the award as it is “geared to wards improving the lives of women.”
Also part of the imple mentation of the program are the City Cooperative and Development Office, the City Veterinarian’s Of fice, the City Agriculturist Office and the City Social Welfare and Development Office.
“Naka-sentro sa babae kay daghan wala'y trabaho, daghan wala na renew and duna pud panginahang lan nga ma-provide ang panginabuhian,” she said, citing that since its start in 2009, the program has ben efited 4,213 for financial assistance to livelihood for women; 950 for cash loan and rice retailing for wom en; and 68 for livestock livelihood for women.
By Rhoda Grace B. SaronGipahibalo ang publiko na ang DAVAO ROS-VER PAWNSHOP, INC. og ang NEW PAG-ASA PAWNSHOP; magsubasta sa tanang prenda nga naremata atong Hunyo 2022. Ang tanang prenda dungan nga ibaligya sa publiko sa mga sumusunod nga dapit og petsa:
ties," he added.
Patrimonio congrat ulated the soldiers and thanked the community for Saji’s death.
"I congratulate you of your prompt action of the information provided
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who hails from Bukidnon, gave their community a P5 million grant to construct a two-story building in the Talaandig village in Ba rangay Songco.
“This is a space for
the Talaandigs to learn our culture, history, our poems and art,” Saway said.
Saway said the idea of imparting Talaandig his tory and culture has spread to two other villages in
by the residents. We will continue to intensify our civil-military cooperation to neutralize the remaining ASG bandits and put an end to ASG terrorism in Sulu," he said. By Rhoda Grace B. Saron
BANANA... (frompage4) to 70%.
The rest of the volume that goes into the Korean market comes from South American producers that “en joy preferential tariff,” while the Philippines is imposed about 30% in tariff.
is that production projection, on an annual basis, would only result in about 140 mil lion boxes this year, compared with about 160 million on average in the last two years.
Lantapan after the town council provided money for two teachers for chil dren who cannot go to the school. (Froilan Gallardo / MindaNews)
“That is why we are re ally pushing with this Japan because we don’t want to suf fer (what we suffer in Korea,” Bacani said of the campaign as well as the move to push Japan to bring down to zero tariff from a high of 18% dur ing winter time, or at a low of eight percent during summer.
Of the total production of the country, about 40% goes to Japan, which is considered the top market, followed by China which has about 25%.
The reduction in the pro duction can be blamed on the reduction of the production area, which was about 85,000 hectares at its height a decade ago, and has been down to about 50,000.
The wings and muscles of a Philippine Eagle are not built for power (flapping) flights, unlike those of sea eagles, ospreys, and many migratory raptors.
Land breeze (winds mov ing from the land to the sea) perhaps might also influence the movement of gliding ea gles away from land. Land breeze is strongest during early mornings and at night when the sea heats up faster than the land. But since eagles are only active during daytime (diurnal), land breeze might impact eagles that for some reasons are already active on the wing during early morn ings.
Only the immature eagles fly long distances during its dispersal stage. Thus, eagles of this age bracket (2-5 years old) are very vulnerable to sea mishaps. In contrast, sexually mature, paired and territorial adults who fly and move only above its forest home range are not as susceptible.
All of the eight eagles retrieved from the sea based on PEF records were imma ture birds.
If these sea crashes are accidental, what can we do to prevent them? Awareness campaigns in coastal commu nities close to forest habitats is very important. Of the eight Mindanao cases, seven were successfully rescued by con cerned fishermen who saved
the poor birds from drowning.
But a more proactive approach is a combination of nest search and monitor ing, and telemetry study of young Philippine Eagles in the wild. We need to locate as many territorial eagle pairs as possible through system atic nest searches across the country and faithfully moni tor the breeding of each pair. The Department of Environ ment and Natural Resources (DENR), PEF and academic research institutions, together with trained community forest guards can jointly do this.
Then, once active nests are located and monitored, install radio and GPS trackers on as many juvenile eagles as possible before they leave their parents’ territory and roam.
By instrumenting birds with transmitters, we can monitor where they go and intervene when needed. A miniature GPS tracker strapped back-pack style on each young eagle will give conservationists the means to follow each bird remotely via the internet. Attaching a radio (VHF) transmitter to the side of the GPS unit, on the other hand, will allow homing-in and finding the birds when needed.
Every time the bird’s safety is compromised (e.g., flying close to villages or along the coast) as seen from
the Google Earth or GIS maps of its daily GPS fixes, a team can be dispatched to follow the bird and ensure safe passage. Listening to and tracking the beeps of the radio transmitter using a hand-held receiving device will guide the team to the bird’s exact location.
The PEF team and trained forest guards have done this for several eagles and the proactive monitoring spared the birds from shooting, trap ping, and other threats in the wild (see the stories of eagles Sinabadan, Kalabugao, and Raquel).
Every individual of the International Union for Con servation of Nature (IUCN) “critically endangered’ Phil ippine Eagle is precious. Through the creative combi nation of technology, techni cal expertise, collaboration and grit, we can save young eagles not only from the perils of the sea, but also of from the many dangers that these inno cent birds face in the wild. The national government, through the DENR, must invest more to locate, monitor and save our gravely imperiled national symbol.
(Jayson C. Ibanez, PhD, is Director for Research and Conservation of the Philip pine Eagle Foundation – a conservation NGO whose mission is to save the Philip pine Eagle from extinction)
In the Middle East, the Philippine banana has been considered more expensive compared with those from South American countries because the bananas that they failed to sell in their primary markets in Europe and USA are brought to these gulf coun tries at a discounted price just so they could recover the cost.
Another problem of the industry in relation to export
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for over six million families in six years, or a million housing units per year until 2028.
To accelerate production and reduce reliance on the General Appropriations Act, funding for the housing pro gram will go directly to inter est support for beneficiaries.
The DHSUD seeks PHP36 billion interest sup port per year and calls for the active involvement of both government and commercial
The reduction in produc tion area started when typhoon Pablo, considered among the strongest to hit the Southern Mindanao area, bulldozed one of the biggest banana production areas in Davao del Norte and Davao de Oro, then Compostela Valley, in November 2012.
Another reason for the re duction of the production area is the prevalence of Fusarium
wilt, also known as Panama disease because of its origin in the 1920s, which has rendered some farms useless. A big company abandoned its Davao de Oro farm of about 100 hectares due to the infestation.
“There are a lot of aban doned farms,” said Bacani as about half of the lost pro duction area is in the Davao Region, considered the main production area of the Cav endish area.
He said initiative to ex pand has been limited to re place the lost hectarage as companies, instead of invest ing in the country, decided to invest in other countries because of the high cost of production as well as the prox imity to big buyers.
He pointed out that the biggest losers in the battle against Fusarium wilt are the small banana growers because of their limited capability in dealing with the problem, among them the need to look for new areas of production.
banks in the financing side.
"With this program, we will also be tapping the eco nomic pump-priming poten tials of the housing sector," Acuzar said.
To date, DHSUD has signed a memorandum of un derstanding with the Develop ment Bank of the Philippines and has engaged other govern ment financial institutions, including private banks.
Several local government
units have started rolling out their housing projects.
The DHSUD job crea tion will contribute to postpandemic recovery efforts and advance the government’s eight-point socioeconomic agenda. The agenda aims to bring down poverty to 9 percent by the end of Presi dent Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s six-year term and bring the Philippines to “upper-middle income” status. (PNA)
The curious cases of critically endangered Philippine Eagles crashing at sea
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews) -- The dead eagle found along the shoreline of Maasim town in Sarangani last September 16, 2022 is disturbing. It is not the first. It is the third Phil ippine Eagle that crashed in the same sea. But if we look at the eagle rescue records for Mindanao, it is already the 8th case on the island.
Philippine Eagles should not be at sea for three reasons. First, it is strictly forest-dwell ing. It is designed by nature to live only inside the forest.
Second, fish is not its food. Other eagles, like the White-bellied sea eagle, Os prey, Gray-headed fishing eagle and the Brahminy kite, eat fish. But Philippine Eagles eat only mammals, birds, big lizards and snakes.
And lastly, its wings and body plan are not fit for overwater flights. They do have large and broad wings, but these are built for catching and riding columns of hot air rising above the land (thermal updrafts). They glide from one thermal to the next, and they rarely flap their wings. This is a survival strategy as doing so saves them energy. But out in the sea where thermals are unstable at best, they risk crashing and drowning.
Thus, if a Philippine Ea gle ends up at sea, it is most likely not of their own mak ing. But what can push these animals to these unsuitable areas?
Could it be human per secution? Were they flying
away from people who want to shoot or trap them? But be tween forests they are capable of navigating and where they can ably find cover, and the sea which they are not adapted to, there is certainly higher mortality risk at sea.
Also, eagles seem to be poor at avoiding and fleeing from human dangers. In one rescued eagle for instance, X-ray showed 10 air gun pellets embedded at different parts of its body. These pellets accumulated from different shooting attempts. Also, the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) retrieved a total of 14 eagles on Mindanao since the pandemic began in 2020. Ten or 71 % of these were due to human harm.
The eagle’s evolutionary history explains its inability to cope against human threats. As the top carnivore of the Philippine tropical rainforest, the species evolved without any natural predator. As a result, they lack natural fear of other animals.
Then our kind came. We are a new comer as a biologi cal species, but we dominated the earth instantly. The eagles
and similar apex predators had very little opportunity to evolve their counter-strategies against our impacts because we became so invasive in a geologically short span of time.
The lack of human fear is even stronger among inexperi enced juveniles and immature eagles. For instance, out of 63 rescued eagles whose age are known since the 1970s, 50 birds or 79 percent were juveniles or immature ea gles. These birds were either trapped, shot or harmed by people.
What about lack of food? Will the eagles willfully leave their natural forest habitat if they can’t find their usual prey species? They do fly great dis tances in search for their prey. But in tracking food, the sea is definitely not an option.
Or could it be disease per haps? The eagles that crashed at sea might have been sick, which compromised their ability to fly and navigate efficiently. But rather than being mobile and taking the air, we know that sick eagles are lethargic and will stay on their perch. A sick and weak
eagle in the forest, therefore, could not make it that far out into the sea.
If it is not human perse cution, nor lack of food, nor disease, what can be a pos sible explanation to these sea crashes?
We think that in all of these cases, the eagles reached the seas by accident. And that these mis-navigations were influenced together by air and wind patterns and the location of the eagles’ habitat relative
to coastal areas.
Philippine Eagles navi gate the skies through thermal updrafts - rising columns of hot air over the land. They glide and circle into and out of these columns to move through the landscape. As an energy-efficient strategy, they evolve to become obligate soaring birds that glide and rarely flap their wings.
But for eagles moving along the base of the mountain close to the coast, the series
of thermals could lead them closer and closer to the sea. And along the coast, they are prone to gliding farther out into the open water. Unfor tunately, thermal updrafts are weak over water, if not absent.
In this dire situation, the eagle could have shifted from gliding to flapping and, given the distance it has to travel back to land, got exhausted, lost altitude and eventually crashed into the sea.