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‘BATO’ IN ORO.
PNP Chief Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa is expected to arrive in Cagayan de Oro City today to grace the 115th Police Service Anniversary of Police Regional Office 10.
PNP defends Bato’s threat to kill rogue cops THE Philippine National Police (PNP) defended PNP Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa on Wednesday after he threatened to kill police officers who will be involved in illegal activities. PNP spokesman Sr. Supt. Dionardo Carlos said such remarks from the PNP Chief were made out of his annoyance and humiliation upon hearing the ranks and names of policemen who were included in President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug list released early on Sunday. Carlos said Dela Rosa cannot accept the fact that the fact some policemen
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AGAYAN de Oro City––A policeman, a former municipal town administrator and a suspected drug pusher are the latest casualties in the war against illegal drugs in the provinces of Misamis Oriental and Bukidnon, reports said. Supt. Surki Serenas, PNP spokesperson in Region 10, said PO3 Jerson Autiga did not reach the hospital alive in Valencia City, Bukidnon
after a drug suspect shot him on the chest Wednesday night. Serenas said a joint team of policemen from Valencia
City and Bukidnon Antidrug Task Group raided the house of Benito “Jojo” Bisnar, a suspected drug pusher in Barangay Colonia, Valencia City Wednesday night. He said as the search was going on, Autiga did not see that Bisnar had a small gun hidden in the pocket of his pants. “It was a small Derringer caliber .22 gun. The suspect fired at Autiga, hitting him on the chest,” Serenas narrated.
have been contributing a lot in the proliferation and distribution of illegal drugs in the country. “As a father of the PNP, you can understand his frustration after seeing that there are some policemen who are involved in drugs, because policemen are supposed to be the protector of the people not drug lords,” said Carlos. Carlos also reiterated that Dela Rosa’s job is not a joke, stressing that he is the lead person in meeting the PNP’s target to wipe out SIGNING OF AGREEMENT. Governor Adolph Edward Plaza, CSC Chairperillegal drugs in the country. son Alicia dela Rosa-Bala, Philippines-Australia Human Resource and Organisational See threat, page A7
He said Autiga’s law enforcement companions killed Bisnar in response to the shooting. In nearby Misamis Oriental, agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency shot and killed Benito Datu Barros, a former municipal town administrator in Claveria town, Thursday morning. A reporter from Magnum Radyo who was with the raiding team said she saw the PDEA agents See killed, page A7
2 Surigao execs face graft raps
OMBUDSMAN Conchita Carpio Morales ordered the filing of graft charges against two municipal officials of Tagana-an, Surigao del Norte. Carpio has found probable cause to indict municipal accountant Rico Navarro and treasurer Eriberto Cabanan, Jr. for violation of Section 89 of Presidential Decree 1445 (Government Auditing Code of the Philippines) for allowing then Development Facility Director Milalin S. Javellana signed the agreement on HRIS mayor (now vice mayor) See graft, page A7
adoption nationwide.
Paperless HR system of Agsur will be adopted nationwide By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur— The Civil Service Commission will adopt the technologically innovative Human Resource Information System (HRIS) developed by the
Human Resources and Management Office of the provincial government. Serving as a model, the HRIS is set to pilot-run and will be used by the CSC nationwide making paper-based management of government workers record from
recruitment to retirement already a thing of the past. CSC Chairperson Alicia dela Rosa-Bala, Philippines-Australia Human Resource and Organisational Development Facility Director Milalin S. Javellana and Agusan del Sur Governor Adolph
Edward G. signed on August 8, a Memorandum of Agreement for the adoption of the HRIS in the CSC. The HRIS is a system designed to support human resource management (HRM) functions. It is a software or online solution for
managing data entry, data tracking, and data information needs. Its goal is to merge the different human resource processes to increase efficiency in recruitment, placement and selection, performance management, See paperless, page A7
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Senate hearing on summary killings set on August 22-23
THE Senate inquiry into the alleged extra-judicial killings and summary execution has been set on August 22 and 23. This after the Senate committee on justice and human rights approved during the Thursday’s reorganizational meeting the Senate Resolution No. 9 asking for the investigation on the alleged extra-judicial killings under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. Senate committee on justice chairperson Leila de Lima said she wanted to know from the Philippine National Police (PNP) whether all the police operations against drug suspects are legitimate. According to the reports,
almost 500 drug pushers and users have already been killed amid the intensified campaign against illegal drugs by the Duterte administration. Meanwhile, Senators Panfilo Lacson and Alan Peter Cayetano are now convinced to hold a Senate probe on the extra-judicial killings. Lacson has expressed fears that the Senate inquiry would break the momentum of the government’s successful drive to end the drug problem in the country. Lacson said he would rather ask the PNP on what solution it has done to stop the summary executions. Cayetano, for his part,
Agus, Pulangui hydro plants may not be privatized: MinDA DAVAO City––The Agus and Pulangui Hydropower Complexes will no longer be privatized if both the Senate and the House of Representatives will pass a measure creating a Mindanao Power Corporation (Minpocor), a government-owned power corporation (GOPC) that will manage the power assets of the state. Romeo Montenegro, director for investment promotion and public affairs of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), told “Wednesdays’ Habi at Kape” at the Abreeza Mall that the Minpocor will take over the management of Agus
and Pulangui as an alternative entity of the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities (PSALM) that manages the two power plants at present. “Minpocor will manage for rehabilitation, reforestation, and other projects that it is allowed to implement,” he said. Montenegro said that the proposed measure, which is a consolidated version of the four different bills authored by four different House members, will be re-filed in the Lower House after it failed to pass in the previous 16th Congress. Once passed, he said no more bid-
ding will take place. “In terms of steps, we are looking at the refiling of the harmonized bill in Congress and refiling of the counterpart bill in the Senate,” he said. Montenegro said the 1-Care Partylist is expected to re-file the bill as the main author. He explained that the bill had to take a backseat during the last congress when the House gave more time deliberating the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), an enabling mechanism of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro See plants, page A7
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Making startups matter to the community By Stephen Pedroza Contributor
THE spark that sets off the boom of startup companies throughout the world is the desire to solve a problem, from a simple queue in payment stations to promoting disaster risk reduction and management. In this digital age, one major challenge for those who want to build a startup company is how to make use of technology to create a product or service that will make people’s lives much more convenient. What may start out as a school project could now lead to a marketable and profitmaking enterprise. With the goal of bringing the latest trends in mobile technology closer to the youth, Smart Communications, through their Smart Wireless Engineering Education Program (Sweep) Roadshow, made a stop at Xavier University on Friday, August 5. Sweep seeks “to improve the level of technology and engineering education in the Philippines, particularly in the field of electronics and communications engineering.” Besides Xavier, students and engineering faculty members of Mindanao University of Science and Technology, Capitol Uni-
BUILDING A STARTUP.
Above, Balanga Makerspace founder Mark Colentava shares his formula in building a successful startup company. Photo by Vincent Tom Udasco/Smart Communications. Right, TimeFREE founder Chino Atilano (in black shirt) talks to a group of students during the startup pitching session. Photo by Vincent Tom Udasco/Smart Communications.
versity, and Cagayan de Oro College – Phinma Education Network also participated in the student innovation roadshow program held at the XU Little Theater. Social relevance Smart brought startup founders to CDO to discuss on identifying problems in the community, forming a startup team, pitching your ideas to investors, building
a fitting business model, and ensuring excellent user experience. Mark Colentava, founder of the startup company Balanga Makerspace, shares his five-point formula on building a successful company: (1) What problem do you want to solve? (2) Develop empathy. Put yourself in your client’s shoes. (3) What is the right solution to your
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problem? (4) Who are your right customers? (5) Find the right purpose for your product or service. For Colentava, these five steps could make your startup company “more relevant to your target community.” Chino Atilano, found-
er of TimeFREE, another startup supported by Smart, relates his group’s challenges in putting the technical and business sides of their company in place, including overcoming their problems and valuing their milestones. “Don’t be afraid to com-
mit mistakes, but don’t commit the same mistakes twice,” he tells the crowd of over 250 students and teachers. Atilano considers building a startup as a “dynamic process,” where one must not stop learning about technology, innovations, and market trends. The overarching theme of the discussions was to encourage students to embark on technology entrepreneurship or “technopreneurship” to catalyze social change. To put to test what they have learned from the speakers, the participants were asked to form teams and come up with innovative technology (software or hardware) and business proposals. The Sweep Awards Through the annual Sweep Awards, Smart also hopes to provide students with tools and opportunities to apply what they have learned in school into something that can benefit their respective communities. “Basically, it’s about getting the participants to using ideas that could impact the society, finding solutions to the different issues that we have,” says Smart Communications education program head Stephanie Orlino. “The focus is really using technology. See startups, page A7
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OUR system of government has three branches, namely: the Executive, the Legislative and the Judiciary. The three are supposed to function independently from each other. While the executive branch is elected by the people in a general elections as well as the legislative, sad to note the judiciary is appointed by the executive. No matter what language you speak, it appears that the Supreme Court justices being appointees of the president, would sometimes vow its head to the latter’s wishes. This is what happens now in the issue of extrajudicial killings in the administration of Digong Duterte which shocked the world including the United States of America and the United Nations. Supreme Court chief Justice Sereno and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines could not stomach anymore the trampling of due process
and violations of human rights, made sounds to stop Duterte of the killing of alleged drug lords without giving them a chance to confront their accusers as required by law. But Pres. Digong Duterte, now behaving like a lion - - the king of the jungle, even criticized the highest court of the land and declared he may declare martial law and put everything under his armpit. He has earlier said he will abolish congress, a thing that requires the declaration of martial law in a revolutionary government. I don’t mind so much the kind of government we may have as long as the rights of people are not imperiled much less violated. We survived under the harsh Spanish regime, the occupation of Japanese government during World War Two and then martial law. If the country is “dutertenized” no problem just don’t disturb our rights as
citizens. But as we see nowadays, killings are everyday incidence and they happen anywhere in the country. Killings are done under the pretext of drug business although many of those victims were innocent bystanders who do not even know what drug is all about. Some police officers have gone wild and love to shoot anyone because Duterte promised to give them medals. And if the shooters are prosecuted, he will help them by way of pardon or executive clemency. Any citizen is a rat to the triggerhappy policemen. Many Filipinos want to get out of the country for safety but they could not be issued visas by countries just easy. So they just stay home and pray the flying bullets will not hit them on the head. I heard some embalmers and funeral parlors are already filled with unidentified cadavers. Some
hospitals and doctors have nothing to do since the victims go straight to the cemetery without passing to them. This is alarming, a thing that never happened before. I am urging these stupid killers to stop right away their activities and the courts too, to begin prosecuting the murderers. I also urge human rights groups to gather evidence and do something about these heinous crimes taking place in the country. Society must react or all of us will fall into a dungeon of death. In any case, the evil will not win over the good.
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Filipino families nowadays do not talk about God and the Bible inside their homes anymore. Next, I asked who among the parents were reading the Bible. There were three women who raised their hands, and all the rest kept their heads bowed down. The three were members of Christian churches where Bible reading is being taught by their pastors and their leaders. Even among the three, however, they only displayed a passing familiarity, not deep knowledge, of the Bible. I then told the parents that, in a situation such as this, it is no wonder that many young Filipino kids are now embroiled in drugs, pre-marital sex, in gang wars and in various crimes. Because Filipino children are no longer taught the Word of God, they have been growing up without God, and, therefore, have become capable of mischief and misdemeanor and, also, criminality. -oooPARENTS MUST START BEING SPIRITUAL THEMSELVES: What then must parents do to assure that their children will learn and know and obey the Word of God? Well, they must first start with themselves---the parents, I mean. Parents everywhere should start going back to the Bible---reading it daily, meditating on it day
and night, and carefully obeying everything that is written in it. Likewise, they should start attending church and praise and worship services in earnest, together with their spouses and their children, and all others who reside with them in their houses (including househelps, drivers, and other workers). Then, they should also display an eagerness to help their churches with financial gifts, to enable their members to go out and proclaim the Word. It is only when the children will realize that their own parents have turned sincere in pursuing a deeper understanding of the Bible and a stronger relationship with God that they themselves will strive to be more spiritual and guided by God. Then and only then will the children be really guided, blessed and protected by God from any and all evil. -oooPLEASE LISTEN: “Ang Tanging Daan” (The Sole Way): a Bible study and prayer session online could now be heard, 24 HOURS a day, in the Philippines and the world at www.facebook. com/angtangingdaan or www.facebook.com/ANDKNK (and look for “Ang Tanging Daan” broadcasts). Phone: 0922 833 43 96, 0918 574 0193, 0977 805 9058. Email: batasmauricio@yahoo.com.
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scuffle with Barros who was holding a grenade when they entered his farmhouse in Barangay Sta. Cruz , Claveria town. A caliber .38 revolver and a plastic tray containing 18 big packets of suspected shabu was found in the room of Barros who was killed in the scuffle. (Froilan Gallardo / MindaNews)
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In all of our education programs, the end is really not just technology but technology that enables them to solve problems in education, in disaster preparedness ... or really just noble ideas,” she adds. Since its inception in July 2004, the award-giving body has been promoting social innovation and excellence in wireless applications development among its partner schools. After the environmental scanning and ideation stage, students would then identify pain points, design, and create a working technology-based solution, and finally, test the market for potential profit. Now on its thirteenth installment, this industryacademe linkage program has a network of 52 colleges and universities across the country. The online registration for this year’s Smart Sweep Awards opened on August 1 and it will end on September 30. The entries will be shortlisted (10 finalists) in October while the boot camp will transpire in December. The top three winners, which will be announced in February 2017, will receive cash prizes worth Php300,000, Php200,000, and Php100,000, respectively. Merit prizes worth Php50,000 will be given to the rest of the finalists. “Their schools will also get half of the prize in a form of grant. Other partners will also give in-kind prizes like training and equipment to the school. We also expose the winners to different workshops and they will be mentored by successful startup groups and established businessmen,” says Orlino. Power of the Internet Smart Sweep included CDO as one of its priority areas this year. “XU has been our partner in this program, through its College of Engineering, ECE department, and Engineering Resource Center. We have been going around Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. We really want to get the school communities around CDO and Misamis Oriental to get involved in innovation,” shares Otilano. To build a startup, Otilano has an advice: “Expose yourself to innovations and startup seminars and events like Sweep. These are actually helpful; they can open
your mind to a lot of opportunities.” She adds that with Internet, your startup business can easily “cross borders.” “You can be global immediately. There is the support startup community and it is growing here in the Philippines. Take advantage of the power of the Internet,” she continues. However, competition is an inevitable part of the game. With the scores of startups being created daily, technopreneurs must find ways to make their products matter to the consumers if they were to keep up with this rapid growth of type of business sprawling over the digital realm.
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“Hindi biro kasi ang trabaho niya ngayon, for the next six months he just wants deliver the promise of this government to the desire of the Filipino people na maalis yung droga sa anim na buwan po,” he noted. During the 115th anniversary celebration of the Police Regional Office 11 (PRO 11) Tuesday at Camp Quintin Merecido where Dela Rosa was the guest speaker, the PNP Chief said the Double Barrel campaign has been in effect for just a month now but it already looked like it is already in force for a year, given their all-out campaign to curb the widespread trade of illegal drugs in the country. He said they have only 600,000 personalities linked to drugs that surrendered to authorities. As for those in the list of President Rodrigo Duterte, Dela Rosa said not all have surrendered at the end of the 24-hour ultimatum. Dela Rosa admitted that in their efforts to cut the number of personalities in illegal drugs and drugs supply in the country, they might even falter but at least they must hit 70 percent of the target. Dela Rosa said they were already feeling the result of their campaign especially among the ranks of the police. For instance, the crime rate, especially in Metro Manila, is already on a downtrend. Sought for a comment on drug lords who are allegedly collaborating with terrorist groups such as the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and the Islamic State (IS) to kill the PNP Chief, Carlos said they are currently implementing necessary security measure to ensure his safety. Carlos added that there is no need for them to add more security for their chief who is surrounded “well trained” personnel including members of the Special Action Force. Carlos said that it has been the same team providing the security for their chief since Dela Rosa assumed his post. “It will be the decision of the chief based on the recommendation by intel,
yung nakakakuha sa info. titignan po natin kung papayag si chief… It’s the same team for today or the next days in the time when I follow the chief I see the same people,” Carlos told reporters. (PNA)
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Cesar Diaz to take out cash advances despite Diaz’s failure to render an account of cash advances he had priorly secured from the municipality’s funds. The charges were based on the findings of the Commission on Audit which showed that from 20042011, Navarro and Cabanan failed to strictly implement the rules and regulations on the grant and liquidation of cash advances, resulting in Diaz’s accumulation of unliquidated cash advances amounting to P5,223,014. In finding existence of probable cause, Ombudsman Morales said that “respondents Navarro and Cabanan allowed Mayor Diaz to secure cash advances despite his failure to liquidate the earlier cash advances he made. While respondents Navarro and Cabanan argue that it is respondent Diaz’s responsibility to liquidate, they should have strictly adhered to the specific provision of Section 89 of PD1445.” Section 89 of PD1445 provides that no additional cash advance shall be given to any official or employee unless the previous cash advance entrusted to him is first settled or until a proper accounting of the funds shall have been made. In a separate case, Diaz is facing 13 counts of violation of Article 218 (Failure to Render Account) over the same fund irregularity. Source: Ombudsman.gov.ph
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said the Senate should look for the weaknesses and the needs of the PNP to perform effectively their duties as protectors of the people. The senators agreed not to humiliate the resource persons particularly from the PNP headed by Director General Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa. (PNA)
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(CAB) signed between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Montenegro said the PSALM will still push through with the bidding of Agus and Pulangui next year, pending the passage of the bill. “Year 2017 is the maturation of the PSALM’s loan obligation, so it needs to have proceeds from assets. It’s corporate life ends in 2026,” he said. The Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) excluded Agus-Pulangui from the privatization for 10 years from the time it was enacted in 2001. The PSALM then scheduled that it be privatized at least by 2017. “All remaining assets that are not yet privatized and disposed of, PSALM has to complete all those before it closes down its existence. Kung mauna ang Minpocor bago ang 2017, wala na kailangan i-privatize si PSALM (If the Minpocor comes before 2017, therefore there’s nothing to privatize),” he said. But when Congress passes into law the Minpocor
bill, he said the GOPC will buy out the hydro power plants from PSALM, using the funds from a government loan and a subsidy from the Malampaya funds to prevent the impression from the private bidders that Minpocor gets the two power assets for free. The buying price of Agus and Pulangui, he said, is placed at over P50 billion. He said the scheme is also favorable for PSALM so that “it will still earn the money that it is expected to earn out of the sale of Agus and Pulangui.” (Antonio L. Colina IV / MindaNews)
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Agriculture category, with her research titled “Simultaneous functionalization and reduction graphene oxide with diatom silica.” Dalagan’s fellow awardee, Dr. Heide R. Rabanes was a National Qualifier in the same category with her three studies: (1) Sweeping an alpherol enentiomers with an organic solvent and sulfated β-cyclodextrin in capillary electrophoresis; (2) Micellar electrokinetic chromatography of the constituents in Philippine lagundi (vitex negundo) herbal products; and (3) Capillary electrophoresis of natural products: 20112012. Sponsored by Ched, the Republica Awards are bestowed biennially to outstanding higher education faculty and researchers whose Ched-funded research outputs are published in ISI/Scopus-indexed journals and are contributing to national development. All qualifiers of the Na-
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tional Republica Awards were judged by the National Awards Board based on the quality of research (50%), quality of publication (30%) and socio-economic relevance and potential impact to regional or national development (20%). Cash prizes of P25, 000 were given to the Republica qualifiers while a trophy and cash prize of P300,000 were awarded to the National Winner in each of the three major categories: (1) Natural Sciences and Agriculture; (2) Mathematics, Engineering, and Information Technology; and (3) Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, and Teacher Education. XU president Fr. Roberto C. Yap SJ lauded these achievements of two faculty members. “Congratulations, Dr. Juliet Dalagan and Dr. Heide Rabanes! May your passion for research inspire your fellow faculty to engage in the discovery of new knowledge for the continuing growth and development of our country,” Yap said in his message to the academic community. The award-giving body is in accordance with the pertinent provisions of Republic Act 7722 or the Higher Education Act of 1994. This year’s Ched Republica Awards ceremony was held on July 16.
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and rewards and recognition. The HRIS intends to put up a Biometric Information System which establishes records of employee work hours and prevents punching in for someone out of work. Its Attendance Monitoring System determines whether an employee was actually present in the workplace at any given time. The HRIS also has a 201 File Manager, Appointment Information System and Payroll Management System to improve efficiency and minimize errors common with manual data entry. Through its online file management system, information can be generated on a particular person, payroll information can be streamlined, and data can be aggregated for specific purposes such create a report about the office’s demographics. CSC hopes to integrate learning and development to improve competency assessment and career planning, mentoring and coaching at all levels.
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