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Mayor denies allegations he is drug lord
COTABATO City––A town mayor in Maguindanao tagged by police authorities in Sultan Kudarat province as a suspected drug lord has denied the allegations and challenged authorities to show evidence against him. “I strongly deny this report, so malicious and politically motivated,” Mayor Montasir Sabal of Talitay said in an interview with GMA News. Supt. Joefil Siason, police chief of Isulan, Sultan Kudarat claimed that Sabal’s name was among those cited in the search warrant issued by a local court and implemented by the police on Saturday, July 30, in Barangay Kalawag, Isulan. Sixteen persons were arrested and P1.3 million worth of shabu and paraphernalia were seized, including an alleged blue book and bank transaction receipts that contained the group’s clients. Siason said Sabal was in the bungalow that was subjected to police surveillance operations but managed to escape along with its owners.
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MILITARY, NPA CLASHES. Maj. Gen. Rafael Valencia (second from right) pays his respects to Cpl. Rolen Roy Sarmiento, one of four soldiers killed in two separate encounters with the New Peoples Army (NPA) in Compostela Valley province on August 5. Twelve other soldiers belonging to the Army’s 25th Infantry Battalion were also injured. MindaNews photo by Keith Bacongco
DAVAO City––Five soldiers and two members of the New People’s Army (NPA), one of them a female, were killed in a series of clashes in Monkayo and Maragusan towns in Compostela Valley and in the outskirts of Valencia City in Bukidnon on August 4 and 5, less than a week after President Rodrigo Duterte lifted his July 25 order declaring a unilateral ceasefire with the National Democratic Front (NDF). In Compostela Valley, a total of four soldiers and two NPA members were killed while 12 soldiers were wounded in clashes in Monkayo and Maragusan towns on August 4 and 5, the Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom) said. In Bukidnon, the 4th Infantry Division reported one killed in a clash between the Army’s 1st special Forces Battalion and NPA guerrillas allegedly “conducting extortion activities at Sitio Kambangon, Brgy Lilingayon, an outskirt community of Valencia City,” at around 2 p.m. on August 5.
Business leader: Endo okay, but... By RUEL V. PELONE Managing Editor and MARK D. FRANCISCO Correspondent
CAGAYAN de Oro City–– The Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation (Oro Chamber) is backing President Rodrigo Duterte on his plan to stop “Endo” short for “End of contract,” but with “reservations.” Speaking on behalf of
his group, Oro Chamber President Jeffrey T. Ang said the government needs to conduct a thorough consultations before it would implement such a policy to avoid complications. Ang said “Endo” can easily be enforced for those establishments employing only one to five persons, but not for employers with more than 100 employees. “If you are a large firm employing around 100
people or more, then they will definitely be affected,” he emphasized, adding, “the last thing we know is for these firms to go bankrupt and close shops.” “As a consequence, there will be a massive unemployment,” said Ang. Ang’s statement runs counter to Duterte’s remarks in Davao City last week that he would not give in to excuses by businesses See BUSINESS, page A7
Broadcasters plant trees, mangroves By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
SAN Francisco, Agusan del Sur––Putting the words they broadcast in the air into real action to show that they really mean what they say in their crusade to save the environment. With this in mind, local broadcast SEEDLINGS. Students get their seedlings that they journalists in the neighboring provplanted for the tree planting activity at Mt. Magdiwata inces of Agusan del Sur and Surigao del Watershed. Mindanao Daily photo by Chris V. Panganiban Sur simultaneously led the collaborative
massive planting of trees and mangroves yesterday morning in the environmentally disturbed areas. The activity spearheaded by members of Kapisanan ng mga Brodkasters ng Pilipinas (KBP) Agusan del Sur and Surigao del Sur Chapter was part of the annual simultaneous nationwide tree planting activity dubbed as KBP Oplan Broadcastreeing 2016. At least four areas in the neighboring See PLANT, page A3
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Digong urged to free sick, old prisoners to decongest jail facilities Imagine five prisoners crammed into one square meter of jail space. Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto cited the congestion rate in the four most tightly-packed jails in the country in prodding government to initiate reforms in the country’s penal system which, with 135,000 inmates, are almost at four times their capacity. Recto said it is no longer accurate to call our prisons “parang sardinas sa sikip.” The correct term, he said, is “daig pa ang siniksik na longganisa.” One of the quick fixes Recto is proposing is for President Duterte to grant parole or pardon to “old, infirm, or gravely- or terminally-ill prisoners,” especially those who are not guilty of heinous crimes. If Duterte is planning to release so-called “political prisoners” as part of the trust-building steps to cinch a peace deal with Communists, “then he must set in motion a process that will See free, page A6
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Lopez vows to end illegal logging, mining in 8 days By Antonio L. Colina IV of MindaNews
DAVAO City––Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez vowed to end illegal logging and mining operations in eight days with her “Duterte team for the environment” who will do the job. Lopez told a press conference at the Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU) that she would copy Duterte’s war on drugs and criminality for the environment but assured she will work within the bounds of the law. She bared that she is set to sign a memorandum of agreement (MOA) on Monday next week with
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Ronald dela Rosa, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief of staff Lt. Gen. Ricardo Visaya, and Interior and Local Government Secretary Mike Sueño for a stricter implementation of environmental standards and monitoring of companies in the logging and mining industries. “The MOA, in essence, commits that the police and the military will assist the DENR in the protecting the resources of the country, including the DILG. We will not allow any illegal activities that adversely affect the lives of the people,” she stressed.
Lopez said she would ensure to uphold the “rule of law and the common good” as she warned to close mining companies and punish illegal loggers who cause suffering to the people. She put to task Peter Mutoc, a former chief of police at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), who she called as her “General Bato,” the moniker given to PNP chief Dela Rosa, to be the enforcing officer of the DENR’s Law Enforcement and Operations to ensure the cease and desist orders issued against erring companies are enforced. Mutoc vowed to treat
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Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Manny Piñol, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Gina Lopez, President Rodrigo Duterte, and Deputy Presidential Spokeperson Ernesto Abella join hands to strengthen the war against illegal mining. Morer than 500 mining industry players and responsible mining advocates convened during the Mindanao -wide enviromental summit held Thursday at Ateneo de Davao. Photo courtesy of Rene Arias
illegal loggers and miners just like the “drug pushers and miners.” Lopez said they will review the environmental compliance certificate (ECC) to better keep the companies in check and to scrutinize more effectively if they have the capacity to meet the rules. The DENR, she added, is also completing audit of both the metallic and nonmetallic mining companies that will come out next month. Leo Jasareno, head of DENR’s Mining Audit Team, said that they will immediately stop the operations if proven they fall short in complying with regulatory
standards. According to Jasareno, the mining audit is a comprehensive assessment upon which they base “final judgment” whether to close or suspend the mining firms. “The audit is not just technical. The audit is also social kung may komunidad na nagdurusa, kung may nagkakasakit hindi pwede yan. We are testing the water, the agriculture, the fishing kung palpak sila dyan, they are not following the law,” Lopez said. She said that she wants to see social justice for the Filipino people, most especially the Mindanawons. “My definition of social justice in the context of
environment is that the resources of Mindanao must necessarily be enjoyed by the people of Mindanao,” the secretary said. Lopez added she would like to tap civil society organizations (CSOs) to help in the DENR’s environmental efforts. “I don’t want DENR to be just a regulatory agency. I wanna work with the people of Mindanao such that their recourses can lead to their quality of life,” she said. (Antonio L. Colina IV / MindaNews)
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provinces where it is already denuded by or critically endangered were planted by close to a thousand KBP members, students, policemen and Army soldiers. About 4,000 dipterocarp tree species and mangroves were planted in the identified watershed areas and shoreline to resuscitate its natural vegetation. KBP leaders have committed the tree planting activity would not be just a cosmetic showcase since the students who consist the biggest bulk of participants were briefed thoroughly the proper way of planting a tree and mangrove seedlings with the help of forestry experts. Max Tutor, KBP Chapter president and station manager of DXSF 96.1 FM in this town, said all local broadcasters have agreed that the activity should be sustained until the trees and mangroves will survive that those who joined are obliged to visit the area after three months and if possible replace the seedlings that died. In San Francisco, some 300 college students, planted at least two seedlings of mahogany, acacia, lauan and African tulip in the sloppy portion of Mt. Magdiwata Watershed with the help of foresters from the local environment offices and San Francisco Water District. Each KBP member led some five students in the planting of trees to the area with a guided bamboo stick to ensure the ideal three meter distance for every seedling to survive since there have been sad experiences in the past when students just made fun and some just stumped on the planting materials. Tutor said there is a 100 percent survival rate of the trees they planted in these areas in the last three years as they commended the San Francisco Water District for their big role in sustaining the environmental activity. In Bayugan City, some 1,000 students, police , military, civic radio groups joined the massive tree planting activity in the denuded watershed area in the mountain village of Pinagalaan. Alfredo Plaza, KBP chapter vice president and station manager of DXDA AM 927 KHZ, led the activity. In Tandag City , Judith Suarez, station manager of SURE FM, led in the planting of mangroves in the fishing village of Burgos in neighboring Cortes town. Some 70 participants joined in the tree planting in the shoreline of which mangroves were destroyed by a strong typhoon. In Bislig City, Rona Oma, station manager of Radyo Natin FM, spearheaded the tree planting activity in the endangered hinterlands of the old and abandoned logging concession area of the defunct Paper Industries Corporation of the Philippines, once touted as the biggest paper making company in Asia.
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Above, college students plant dipterocarp tree seedlings in the sloppy portion of Mt. Magdiwata Watershed in San Francisco, Agusan del Sur. Right, even young kids joined the KBP Oplan Broadcastreeing 2016. Mindanao Daily photo by Chris V. Panganiban
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ETHICS in general is the distinction between right and wrong, and the moral duty and obligation to a community. Character-the moral excellence, the total of qualities making up individuals and persons noted for eccentricity, can’t be shaped i.e. during the second half of our life. Then it is too late! Character education should start at school. A lot of schools hang a few posters declaring “a virtue of the month’ - and stop there. I complained this already several times. These schools are adept at absorbing these initiatives without doing anything as a follow through. “Sayang”! Schools should respond by stressing a sense of community and intolerance of bullying, aggression, and taunting by gangs. Teachers should not think that this is one more job foisted on them by parents. The US-professor of education Thomas Liken favors virtues derived from
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Plato and Aristotle: prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. And that’s indeed correct and so important. As parents ask your children, if they have heard already about it. Or ask, i.e. college students, what they can say about the “Holocaust”. Give moral and human values a try - the demand for character education in schools is really increasing. Many children face the difficult task of learning good behavior without ever seeing any of it at school -
and at home! Kevin Ryan, a leading proponent of character education and co-author Karen Bowline wrote in their book “Building Characters in Schools” already in 1999: “We are witnessing the school’s reawakening to that what was historically one of their most essential tasks, the formation of character among the children in their care.” Character education - a dream? And here are many more other dreams: people pleaded that the government solve the foreign and national debts by its selfimposed fiscal discipline and elimination of graft and corruption starting from the top of the bottom of its bureaucracy. For years - and even longer, people told top-level government officials what’s happening in their communities, their need and their hopes. People told their leaders to give protection to the environment as top prior-
ity in all agricultural and industrial undertakings. Mostly nothing happened. Good to see: change is coming! Graft and corruption ethics, moral, character? I am with officially with media since 1969 - since 1982 in the Philippines. Having good relationships with politicians dated back and up to now can be an easy game, if..., yes, if both sides understand their role to play. The (my) freedom of expression has indeed a thin line between maligning people’s reputation and extortion. I can’t do always right with my write-ups, even it would gratify some people and surprise others. But, I learned education will never be expensive as ignorance and indifference. +++ Email: doringklaus@ gmail.com or follow me on Facebook or Twitter or visit www.germanexpatinthephilippines.blogspot.com or www.klausdoriingsclassicalmusic.blogspot.com.
istrative officers of Caniogan Elementary School in Pasig City, teaching them ways and means to mediate conflicts among themselves, and between them and the parents and students serviced by their school, through various provisions of existing laws. -oooPEACE SEMINAR FOR WHOLE OF AUGUST: The seminar will last for the whole month of August 2016, and is being held every Friday. It will feature lectures by yours truly and my wife, who is the current All Star President of the Rotary Club (RC) of Intramuros, Judge Angelina Mauricio. One focus of the lectures will be the rights and obligations of teachers and school administrators under the doctrine of “special parental authority”. Other topics include Civil Service Commission
rules and regulations, status of teachers as persons in authority, the rights of children under Republic Act 7610 (the anti-child abuse law) and Presidential Decree 603 (or the Child and Youth Welfare Code), and the Juvenile Justice Law. Aside from RC Intramuros, sponsoring the seminar are 14 other District 3810 Clubs and their All Star Presidents. They are Linda Buenafe, RC Manila Sta. Ana, Angie Batallones, RC Pasay EDSA, Bert Mabalot, RC F.B. Harrison, Julia Miranda, RC Manila Midtown, Julia Jatico, RC Pasay Friedens, Leonila Gumboc, RC Pasay Sinagtala, Wacky Arca, RC Espana, Triccia Buenaventura, RC Pasay SouthEast, James Tan, RC Manila Metro, Ed Toribio, RC Dasmarinas Cavite, Gina Chacon, RC Kalaw, Araceli Ang, RC Manila Remedios
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ment of a peace and conflict unit for Rotarians from Manila, Pasay City, Cavite, and Occidental Mindoro, and appointing yours truly as the coordinator of peace and conflict efforts in these areas. On Friday, August 05, 2016, Yuyek led Rotarians from District 3810 in holding yet another peace and conflict seminar, this time with teachers and admin-
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THINK a minute. Years ago there was a rich widow named Sarah. She inherited 100 million dollars! Sarah bought a house on 160 acres of land in California. She hired a team of 16 carpenters who continued working and enlarging her house every day for 38 years! But Sarah’s instructions for building her house were very strange. For example, each window had to have 13 panes of glass. Each wall had to have 13 panels or boards. The chandeliers had to have 13 crystal balls. Strange and scary pictures hung on all the walls. There were trap doors and many secret passageways. And there was 1 blue room that only the
widow Sarah was allowed to enter. You see, this rich woman was building a home for the dead! Every night at midnight, a servant would go to a tower and ring a bell to call in the spirits of the dead. Then Sarah would enter the blue room. This happened every night… for 38 years! Finally, Sarah herself died at age 85. By the time of her death, her home for the dead had 160 rooms, 10,000 windows, and covered over 6 acres of her estate land. So why did Sarah live her life for the dead? It was because she lived with the terrible guilt of many deaths! You see, all of Sarah Winchester’s money and wealth came from the fa-
mous Winchester rifle. Her company’s gun had been used to kill more Indians and soldiers than any other gun in America’s history. So because of her horrible guilt that haunted her every day and night, Sarah built her huge mansion for the spirits of all those people who had been killed by her company’s gun. Quite an amazing true story! But the fact is we all are guilty of doing wrong, hurtful things to others. And we may try many different ways to get free from our guilty conscience. Yet there is only one way: we must admit our guilt to Jesus and ask Him to forgive us. He’s the only One Who
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can! Jesus said that He’s the only way to a right relationship with your Maker and lasting peace of mind. So the good news is you don’t ever have to live with or be haunted by guilt again! So today, why not ask Jesus for His gift of forgiveness and new life? You’ve nothing to lose and everything to gain! Just Think a Minute.
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grant liberty to prisoners sick of cancer, the aged, the infirm, those who can be freed on humanitarian grounds.” Duterte’s predecessor, President Aquino, exercised his power to grant executive clemency only 67 times during his six years in office, according to an official report. “It is one record,” Recto said, “President Digong can easily top. And he must use this power to forgive lonely, NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that the estate of ROSALINA P. PONTING, who died intestate on October 26, 2000 in Butuan City, consisting of a parcel of land (Lot 10, Block 26 of the subdivision plan Psd-53964, Sheet 11, being a portion of Lot 414 of the cadastral survey of Butuan, L.R.C. Cad., Record No. 321), situated in the City of Butuan covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. RT-15950 containing an area of 264 square meters, is the subject of an AFFIDAVIT OF SELF-ADJUDICATION AS SOLE HEIR WITH ABSOLUTE DEED OF SALE made and executed by deceased Rosalina P. Ponting’s only son, Willard P. Ponting, adjudicating unto himself above-described real estate, and as affiant/vendor, selling, transferring, and conveying by way of absolute sale unto vendee Mary Grace P. Villanueva, married to Lyndon Gil S. Villanueva, a resident of Brgy. Ambago, Butuan City, the above-described real property for and in consideration of Php 396,000.00, Philippine Currency, per Not. Reg. No. 514; Page No. 103; Book No. 5; Series of 2016 of the Notarial Registry of Atty. Jose B. Guibone, Notary Public in the City of Butuan.
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old, sick and infirm inmates who have paid their debt to society.” In a resolution, Recto urged the Senate to probe “the worsening conditions” in the country’s prisons which will cost taxpayers P10.1 billion to maintain this year. Another compelling reason why prisons must be reformed is their expected intake of thousands of new inmates, Recto said. With the administration’s war on crime and illegal drugs netting thousands, many of whom may be jailbound, “there’s a need to find space for them because our standing-room-only prisons are filled to the rafters,” Recto said. Two government agencies run the “prison republic” - the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), which is under the Department of Interior and Local Government, and the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), which is attached to the Department of Justice. Detainees awaiting trial and those who have been sentenced by the courts to serve time for three years and below are committed to BJMP. It had 93,961 detainees under its care in
September last year. Those who have been sentenced to more than three years and one day in prison are sent to eight BuCor facilities. More than half, or 23,749 of BuCor’s 2016 prisoner population of 41,207 are in the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City. BJMP jails are 397 percent over capacity, Recto said. “Cells built for 18,881 prisoners now house 93,961.” Prison manuals call for an ideal cell space of 4.7 square meters per detainee but based on official BJMP reports, the national average is 1 square meter per BJMP detainee. Citing BJMP data, Recto said the top four most congested BJMP jails - in Malolos City, Bulacan; San Pedro, Laguna; General Trias, Cavite; and the female dormitory of Quezon City Jail - have a congestion rate of 2,000 percent. 575 women prisoners in the Quezon City jail are packed into 129 square meters of cell space built for 27, according to the same report Recto cited. Those ranked 4 to 20 in the list of the most congested BJMP jails have congestion rates of 1,425 percent to 1,765 percent, the senator said.
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NOTICE is hereby given that the estate of LEONARDO F. SALCON, SR., who died on March 20, 2014 at Butuan City, consisting of: 1) A parcel of land situated at Langihan, Barangay Holy Redeemer, Butuan City, embraced under TCT # RT-21870 in the name of Laura F. Salcon and Leonardo G. Salcon, Sr. containing an area of 154 square meters; 2) A parcel of land situated at Langihan, Barangay Holy Redeemer, Butuan City, embraced under TCT # RT-17843 in the name of Laura F. Salcon and Leonardo G. Salcon, Sr., containing an area of 210 square meters; and 3) A parcel of land situated at Barangay Holy Redeemer (formerly Bading), Butuan City embraced under TCT # T-3844 in the name of Leonardo F. Salcon, Sr. containing an area of 240 square meters, is the subject of a DEED OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL PARTITION WITH SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY TO MORTGAGE made and executed by Leonardo F. Salcon, Sr.’s widow and legitimate children and compulsory heirs, namely, Laura F. Salcon, Danilo F. Salcon, Leonardo F. Salcon, Jr., Marites F. Salcon, Alexander F. Salcon, Maricar F. Salcon, and Rey Bryan F. Salcon, per Doc. No. 1524; Page No. 305; Book No. IX; Series of 2015 of the Notarial Registry of Atty. Jose B. Guibone, Notary Public for and in the City of Butuan and Province of Agusan del Norte. MDN: July 25, Aug. 1 & 8, 2016
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In Compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that JUVIE S. ESPE has filed with this Office, a petition for correction of entry in child’s sex from “FEMALE” to “MALE” in the Cerificate of Live Birth of JUVIE SAMPAGA ESPE at Digos, Davao del Sur and whose parents are Ciriaco M. Espe and Vilma B. Sampaga. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than July 25, 2016. (Sgd) MARISSA C. NEBRADA City Civil Registrar
for a career in crime,” Recto stressed. Jail and prison congestion, he said, can be eased by reforming the justice system “so that there will be fast trials, minimum court hearing postponements.”
“Yung iba, sampung taon na sa kulungan sa bagal ng usad ng kaso dahil kulang ang judges o tambak ang trabaho nila. Di rin sapat ang PAO lawyers. Pati prosecutors kulang din,” Recto said.
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is the police’s drive against drug personalities. “Their methods of fishing are illegal and unsustainable. These must be stopped. If not, at least minimized,” he said. Most of these fishermen, the police official said, engage in dynamite fishing and catching marine life using cyanide. He admitted that the town has no PNP-Maritime unit, in charge of guarding the seas. The police official said Claver Mayor Eddie Gokiangkee is glad on the police effort to guard the seas, saying the local government unit of Claver is willing to facilitate finding jobs for the fishermen. “Aside from the LGU,
7 more illegal fishermen yield in Surigao Norte
SURIGAO City––Seven more fishermen allegedly engaged in illegal fishing in Claver town in Surigao del Norte have been added to the list of surrenderees as the town launched “Oplan Panagat” in coastal villages. Chief Insp. Rommel Cacayan told MindaNews by mobile phone Thursday afternoon that the latest batch come from the village of Cagdianao of this mineral-rich town. Last week at least 15 illegal fishermen, mostly from the island village of Lapinigan, turned themselves in after the police conducted an ala “Oplan TokHang” campaign, which
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Over at the BuCor, New Bilibid Prisons reported a congestion rate of 181 percent with 23,749 prisoners staying in the old facility designed to house 8,460. The Davao Penal Colony, with 6,274 prisoners, has a congestion rate of 265 percent while the Leyte Regional Prison, home to 1,919, said it is 304 percent over capacity. Overall, BuCor said its overcapacity rate this year is 158 percent. In the resolution he filed, Recto warned that “deteriorating living conditions in jails and prisons expose detainees and inmates to hazards like the onset of infectious disease epidemic, higher suicide rates, frequent inter-prisoner violence.” “Overcrowding and other problems in the Philippine corrections system could affect the security of the government jail and prison custodians, provide opportunities for acts of corruption, and cause the violation of the normative standards of jail and prison management,” he added. “Instead of rehabilitating prisoners, harsh jail conditions could make them hardened criminals, with jails serving as masteral schools
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NOTICE is hereby given that the estate of spouses NORBERTO BUSTILLO and NARCISA CUPIN, who both died intestate on September 14, 1995 and October 4, 1988, respectively, in Ambago, Butuan City, consisting of a certain parcel of land located at Ambago, Butuan City covered under Tax Declaration No. 96GR-04-001-2886-A, covering an area of 17,207 square meters, more or less, declared in the name of Norberto Bustillo, is the subject of an EXTRA JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF THE ESTATE OF THE LATE SPOUSES NORBERTO BUSTILLO AND NARCISA CUPIN WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE made and entered into by deceased spouses Norberto Bustillo and Narcisa Cupin’s sole and only heirs, namely, Nestor C. Bustillo, Maura C. Vda. De Bustillo, Nerio C. Bustillo, Nona C. Bustillo-Loquite, Neminda Bustillo-Sabuero, Necito Bustillo, Monico Bustillo, Nieves Bustillo, Carlito Bustillo, Melissa Bustillo, Natalio Bustillo, Nenita B. Custan, Nicomedes Bustillo, Nicasia Bustillo-Salomon, Norma Bustillo-Loquite, and Neciderio Bustillo dividing, partitioning and adjudicating among themselves abovedescribed property extra-judicially in equal share pro indiviso, and as co-heirs/ vendors, selling, ceding, transferring, and conveying l,200 square meters portion of above-described property unto Helen U. Pateres, married to Ricardo Pateres, a resident of Tolosa, Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte, for and in consideration pf P20,000.00, Philippine Currency, per Doc. No. 209; Page No. 42; Book No. 288; Series of 1999 of the Notarial Registry of Dante C.M. Tirol, Notary Public at the City of Butuan.
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In Compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that EDITHA D. TALAMAYAN has filed with this Office, a petition for correction of entry in child’s birth month from “MAY” to “APRIL” in the Certificate of Live Birth of EDITA BAGUIO DELA CERNA at Digos, Davao and whose parents are Urbano D. dela Cerna and Restituta Q. Baguio. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than August 18, 2016. (Sgd) MARISSA C. NEBRADA City Civil Registrar MDN: Aug. 1 & 8, 2016
PRA Form No. 10.1 (LCRO) Republic of the Philippines LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OFFICE PROVINCE OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL Cagayan de Oro City NOTICE OF PUBLICATION In compliance with the Section 5 of R.A No. 10172, a NOTICE is hereby served to the public that JUVELYN A. DANAGO. Has filed with this office a petition for the correction of clerical error in the entry of the child’s sex from “MALE” to “FEMALE” in the certificate of live Birth of JUDAY KIM AFEREZ DANAGO who was born on DECEMBER 24, 2013 in Cagayan de Oro City and whose parents are BALDOMERO ONDORAS DANAGO JR. and JUVELYN ABA ALFEREZ. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than August 7, 2016. (SGD.) NORMA S. DIPUTADO City Civil Registrar MDN: Aug. 1 & 8, 2016
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Rotary... from page A4
Circle, Erwin Macam, RC Metro Escolta, and Leonora Al Bawardy, RC MOA Pasay. -oooF O R E WA R N E D I S FOREARMED: While Rotary International’s focus in its peace and conflict prevention and resolution initiatives are world disputes that threaten the overall peace of different regions, District 3810 seeks to address disputes and disagreements among ordinary people who struggle in their day to day living. The objective, as I explained to District Gov. Ernest Yuyek on Friday, is simply to equip the many sectors of Philippine society which, because of their work or their official positions, are in the forefront of confronting conflicts in the social milieu they have been thrust into. Armed with even the basic rudiments of legal principles that govern the way people act and behave daily, these sectors could become peace fellows without them even knowing it, contributing to lessening or resolving a dispute that could otherwise erupt into a volative situation. -oooTHANK YOU, FELLOW ROTARIANS: In line with this, I thank the support given to the peace and conflict initiatives of District 3810 by the members of RC Intramuros, especially those who attended Friday’s seminar: Past President Floren Naguit and his wife Cynthia, President Elect Aries Balanay and his mother, President Nominee Susan Balanay, Secretary Debbie Tenorio, Rotarians Meds Casalta and Elvie Cabungcal Domingo. Thanks also to the administrative staff: Bing Mateo, Aris Dela Cruz, and Gil Adarayan.
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In a press release issued on August 6, Capt. Rhyan Batchar, chief of the Division Public Affairs Office (DPAO) of the Eastmincom’s 10th Infantry Division, said two soldiers from the Charlie Company of the 25th Infantry Battalion were wounded in a 15-minute firefight with the NPA along Kilometer 56 in Barangay Rizal, Monkayo at at around 1:30 p.m. on August 4. The injured soldiers were immediately airlifted to Camp Pancan Station Hospital in the EastMinCom in Davao City. The pursuing troops again clashed with the NPA at around 7:50 a.m. on August 5. Batchar said some 60 members of the NPA “attacked the outnumbered troops utilizing IED (improvised explosive devices) and high-powered firearms.” In a statement, the NPA owned up the ambush. Batchar said the clash lasted about 45 minutes and
left three soldiers dead and 10 others wounded. He said the three soldiers “were declared dead-onarrival by the attending physicians” at the Camp Panancan Station Hospital, where the 10 injured soldiers were also brought. The NPA, he said, “carted away the rifles and personal belongings of the dead soldiers” but “a dead body of an unidentified female (NPA) left behind by her fleeing comrades was recovered by the pursuing soldiers.” Batchar said three other NPA guerrillas were arrested, among them an injured guerrilla who was administered first aid by the troops. The arrested members were turned over to the Philippine National Police “for proper disposition and subsequent filing of charges.” Maragusan clash Another clash between soldiers and the NPA occurred in Barangay Parasanon in Maragusan town also in Compostela Valley province, at around 1 pm. on August 5. Soldiers from the 71st IB engaged in a firefight with around 30 members of the NPA which Batchar identified to be from the Guerilla Front 27 of the NPA’s Southern Mindanao Regional Command. Batchar told MindaNews the soldier initially reported as wounded died on the way to the hospital. “The troops recovered another dead body of an unidentified NPA, one carbine rifle, one IED and several personal belongings from the fleeing NPAs,” Batchar’s statement said. The bodies of the slain NPA are in a funeral parlor in Panabo City, he told MindaNews. NPA version The New People’s Army Regional Operations Command in Southern Mindanao Region (NPA-SMROC) e-mailed a statement to media outlets at 8:11 p.m. on August 5, titled “Abusive AFP operating troops in Monkayo, Comval struck in NPA counter-offensives, 6 firearms seized” but said nothing about the death toll on their side. The statement, signed by Rigoberto Sanchez, said the 8th Pulang Bagani Company-NPA carried out what it described as a “series of counter-offensives against the operating troops of the 25th Infantry Battalion, punishing 11 fascist soldiers and seizing six firearms during a raid, an attritive action and an ambush on August 2, 4 and 5, 2016 in Monkayo town, Compostela Valley.” “The NPA’s punitive action is a just reprisal in the face of atrocities committed by the 25th IB combat soldiers such as ransacking of civilian houses and farms, mauling and intimidation of peasants and Lumads in Monkayo town since June,” Sanchez said, adding that the Army “had not reduced
the intensity of its combatintel-psywar operations in the communities” within the period the unilateral ceasefire of Duterte was in force from July 25 to July 30. Duterte declared a unilateral ceasefire during his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 25 but lifted it at 7 p.m. on July 30 after the NDF did not reciprocate his ceasefire at 5 p.m that day. Duterte gave the NDF 24 hours or until 5 p.m. of July 30, to reciprocate government’s unilateral ceasefire following the ambush by the NPA in Kapalong, Davao del Norte where one Cafgu member was killed and four others were injured. Sanchez said the 8th PBC-NPA on August 2, “neutralized Cpl. Castro, an intelligence operative of the 25thIB who was caught conducting combat intel operation in the communities of Brgy. Baylo, Monkayo” and seized from a 9mm caliber and .22 caliber pistols. On August 4, he said, the NPA engaged a platoon of the 25th IB in Barangay Pasian, Monkayo, “killing two Army soldiers and wounding three others.” Sanchez said that at around 7:30 a.m. on August 5, the NPA “successfully ambushed a company of the 25th IB in Sitio Inuburan, Brgy. Rizal, killing 5 AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) troops, seizing two M203 grenade launchers, one M4 rifles, Harris radios, and several other military hardware.” He said the 8th PBC’s tactical counter-offensives against the military “should serve as a stern warning to other operating Army units in Southern Mindanao region. “These AFP troops that are active in combat-intelpsywar operations in the countryside continue and remain to be legitimate targets of the Red Army,” Sanchez added. Sanchez also said the NPA-SMROC has directed its fighters in the region “to remain on alert status, intensify its base building and base defense work, expand its services in the guerilla bases and guerilla zones, punish AFP troops operating in civilian communities, and pursue revolutionary justice for the basic masses who are victims of repression and fascist abuses.” He said they will “defend its ranks and the masses through armed offensives and counter-offensives, foil the AFP’s treacherous and ruthless military operations, and remain committed in addressing the roots of the armed conflict” while it “awaits positive development” in the forthcoming peace negotiations with the government. The government and NDF are scheduled to meet on August 20 to 27 in Oslo, Norway for the first round of formal peace talks. ‘Senseless violence’ In a statement, Maj. Gen. Rafael Valencia, 10th ID
chief, expressed his grief over the death of his four soldiers and the injuries to 12 others. “It is time for us to stop these senseless violence. All those who died and got wounded in these incidents are all Filipinos,” Valencia said. While the AFP joins the Filipino people’s cry for peace, the soldiers “will not hesitate to use legitimate force to protect the communities and the people from any armed group who terrorizes them.” Maj. Gen. Benjamin Madrigal Jr., chief of the 4th Infantry Division congratulated his troops “for successfully pushing the NPA extortionists away from that peaceful community” but expressed sadness that one of his soldiers “paid his ultimate sacrifice when he offered his own life just to free our people from NPA atrocities.” “For the NPA in that area, this is a lose-lose situation whenever we see Filipinos losing their precious lives in this conflict. There’s nothing noble about making our people miserable. We urge you to heed the call of the government to stop this non-sense armed struggle and start living peacefully with your families,” the 4th ID statement quoted Madrigal in its statement. President Duterte is expected to visit the wake of the four soldiers in Camp Panacan as well as visit the wounded soldiers in the hospital. (Carolyn O. Arguillas / MindaNews)
Business... from page A1
that would be affected once “endo” is stopped. “If it could mean a reduction of your corporate profits, fine, share it to the people. If you think that you would lose, close shop. You can turn to farming,” Duterte had said. ‘Endo’ and the executive branch On one hand, research group IBON Foundation said the Duterte administration can take the initial step of stopping contractualization within the executive branch. It said Duterte can start with the government departments down to the different agencies and local government units (LGUs) known to employ a significant number of contractual workers. The IBON said Duterte can then encourage legislators to amend Articles 106-109 of the Labor Code, also known as the Herrera Law, which gives the labor secretary the power to issue orders promoting contractualization. Under the contractualization scheme, the group said employees are hired for less than six months per contract and paid low wages without benefits, despite performing essential tasks for the company. The group said four out of 10 (43.5%) of rank-andfile workers are in non-
regular work--meaning contractual, probationary, casual, seasonal, and apprentice workers – or are agency-hired. Also according to IBON, an estimated 24.4 million or around 63% of total employed are actually in poor quality work, consisting of: non-regular and agencyhired workers (6.6 million), private households (2.0 million), self-employed without paid employee (10.7 million), employer in own family-operated farm or business (1.2 million), or unpaid family work (3.9 million). Solon files ‘no Endo law’ Inspired by one of the campaign promises of Duterte, Bayan Muna partylist Rep. Carlos T. Zarate filed House Bill no. 1208, otherwise known as the “no Endo law.” “Labor contractualization blatantly violate the workers’right to security of tenure,” said Zarate in his explanatory note as he filed House Bill no. 1208. He said majority of the country’s 37.6 million employed persons are either employed in contractual, temporary, probationary, seasonal, and odd jobs. Based on official government data, an estimate of 44% of workers in various industries are not regulars. Zarate said the rate of contractual employment is also high in the construction sector (81%) and quarrying (59%). In general, the lawmaker said, contractualization is aimed at pressing down workers’ wages and increasing capitalists. Biggest Endo lords In a press statement, the Partido Manggagawa asked Duterte to also run after the biggest Endo lords and named them in public. “Naming them in public might be a good step in pushing the endo war down at the ground level,” the statement read. PM Chairperson Renato Magtubo said: “Maybe the most respected endo lords can be shamed into stopping their abusive contracting schemes once they are named by the President. It is common knowledge that endo is the norm among the malls, airlines, hotels, restaurants, shops, factories and even plantations.” “We appreciate the President’s belligerent warning against endo lords as the signal fire in a war against contractualization,” Magtubo said, adding, “but we hope to see endo lords end the practice not because they are just afraid of the ‘bully’ President but mainly because the workers were demanding decent work as a matter of entitlement or human rights.”
Mayor... from page A1
Police said some of those arrested were relatives of Sabal but the mayor denied this. “I was not there during the police raid, I was only in
that house once or twice last May to attend a wedding of my wife’s relatives,” he said. “I was there because he was a relative of the couple who was wed,” Sabal added. Sabal even challenged the police in Sultan Kudarat to show proof and not provide only “raw information.” “They cannot use raw or intelligence information to pin me down, I was once a policeman,” said Sabal, a former police officer of the Special Action Force (SAF) before becoming a mayor. He admitted that sometime in 2007 he was into illegal drugs but abandoned it when he joined politics and won. He also vowed to do away with illegal drugs before the Holy Quran and before officials of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Sabal is a son of an MILF leader known as “Commander Rambo 5 who is a brigade commander of the 106th base command. Sabal said he is ready to face Philippine Naitonal Police chief Ronald dela Rosa and the Department of Interior and Local Government for investigation. “But I am taking my time. Not now,” he said, adding he will “wait what will happen to Mayor Rasul Sangki of Ampatuan town who surrendered to police authorities.” Sabal lamented the police reports “because it has affected my family and my children.” (Ferdinandh B. Cabrera / MindaNews)
Fishermen... from page A6
we are also trying to negotiate with the mining companies in this town to hire the fishermen so they won’t go back to their illegal activities,” he said. When the news of the first 15 surrenderees broke out in MindaNews Wednesday, several marine environment advocates lauded the efforts of the police in Claver. Vince Cinches, oceans campaigner of Greenpeace in the Philippines, was happy to hear of the development. “We have been calling the current administration to treat illegal fishing similar to drugs,” he told MindaNews via Facebook. “We are here to request for a dialogue and to remind President Duterte of his campaign promise to address fishers’ and marine issues, and to end very high poverty incidence among people directly relying on seas for food and for a living. His administration will play a critical role in the country’s transition to sustainable fishing. We expect nothing less than strong, resolute implementation of the amended fisheries law against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUUF). Doing less is a disservice to millions of Filipinos who have been clamoring for change,” Cinches said. (Roel N. Catoto / MindaNews)
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