BusinessWeek MINDANAO CREDIBLE
Volume VII, No. 138
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Briefly E-cigars THE Electronic-Cigarette, also known as the E-Cigarette, is more harmful than the common cigarette. This was explained by Dr. Jocelyn Torrecampo of Department of Health (DOH) Region 10 during the meeting last week of the Cagayan de Oro City Council committee on health and sanitation and health insurance chaired by Councilor Maria Lourdes Gaane. The committee discussed updates on the proposed SmokeFree CdeO ordinance. It may be recalled that the inclusion of the e-cigarette in the ordinance was proposed.
Citizen’s charter IN line with Republic Act No. 9845, otherwise known as the Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007, the Cagayan de Oro City Council during its regular session presided over by Vice Mayor Raineir Joaquin V. Uy approved Resolution No. 126592017, adopting the city’s revised Citizen’s Charter. RA 9845 is an act to improve efficiency in the delivery of government service to the public by reducing bureaucratic red tape and preventing graft and corruption. It mandates all government agencies including departments, bureaus, offices, instrumentalities, or government-owned and/or controlled corporations, or local government or district units to set up their respective service standards to be known as the Citizen’s Charter in the form of information billboards which should be posted at the main entrance of offices or at the most conspicuous place, and in the form of published materials written either in English, Filipino, or in the local dialect.
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Monday | April 17, 2017
By ANTONIO COLINA IV, MindaNews
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ITH a growing interest from potential investors, Mexican Ambassador Julio Camarena Villaseñor said Mexican companies have signified the interest to explore investment opportunities in Mindanao in areas of agriculture, tourism, hotel, and health.
“We are looking at all over Mindanao. Mindanao is one of the fastest growing areas in the Philippines. We keep our optimism because find the entrepreneurial approach of the Filipinos very active,” he told reporters. He added that they expect more Mexican investors to meet with their counterparts in the country to discuss possible investments that will strengthen the bilateral ties between the two countries in terms of trade and investments. “I think so many new (potential) investors coming weekly,” he said. He added Mexican investors are interested in cement, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), information technology (IT), telecommunication, and manufacturing. mexican/PAGE 11
REFRESHING. A man tries to beat the summer heat beneath the waterfalls in Barangay San Juan, San Benito town in Siargao Island, Surigao del Norte on April 8, 2017. mindanews photo by roel n. catoto
184 babies die in childbirth in Northern Mindanao in 2016 By MARK FRANCISCO, Staff Writer
A TOTAL of 184 children died before and during chi ldbir t h last ye ar in Northern Mindanao while 1,127 more did not reach the age of five. According to a report released by the Department of
Livelihood program BUTUAN City -- In line with the celebration of National Women’s Month in March, the Provincial Agrarian Reform Office in Agusan del Norte conducted two sessions of seminars on Rural Women Enhancement and Entrepreneurial Skills Training held last March 3031, 2017 here. The seminar was attended by at least 40 rural women Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) who are members of 15 Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Organizations (ARBOs) from different agrarian reform communities in the province. According to CARPO Judith M. Domingo, the agency remains committed to assist the rural women ARBs to increase their income not only in crop production but also to become a small-business owner and entrepreneur at the community level.
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The first batch of graduates at the Residential Treatment and Rehabilitation Center in Agusan del Sur during their graduation ceremony. photo courtesy of monique katrina legaspi .
New lives for reformed former drug addicts By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN, Contributing Editor
PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur -- 21-year-old FilipinoJapanese Haru (not his real name) was a spoiled brat who was hooked into drugs at 15
but whose case got worst when he was imprisoned three years later for peddling shabu (methamphetamine reformed/PAGE 11
Health (DOH) last Tuesday, there were 99 dead male childbirths during the period known as perinatal deaths while there were 85 female stillborns. The gender breakdown of the kids who did not reach
the age of five is the following – 573 girls and 554 boys. For the stillborn babies, the figure represented 2.01 percent of the total pregnancy rate in the region in 2016 considering that there were 91,754 childbir ths that occurred here during the babies/PAGE 11 BAYANIHAN. Neighbors and relatives help carry a house in the village of Olandang along the border of Midsayap, North Cotabato and Datu Piang, Maguindanao. Called Bayanihan, the practice of helping one another without expecting something in return remains alive among Filipinos in rural areas. A salo-salo or free breakfast hosted by the house owner will follow as a gesture of gratitude. mindanews photo by ferdinandh cabrera
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