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Briefly Locally produced Tomato MINDANAO Development Authority (MinDA) wants to reduce the dependence of local canned sardines makers on imported tomato paste and sauce coming from China by re-aligning the government agency’s massive vegetable development program, which will now prioritize tomato production.

In a statement, MinDA Chair Emmanuel Piñol said MinDA’s Vegetable Derby Program in the Zamboanga Peninsula will now focus on the production of tomatoes in order to supply the 20,000 metric ton (MT) of paste and sauce requirements of sardines factories in Zamboanga every year.

This “twist”, said the former secretary of the Department of Agriculture (DA), came after his consultation with the leader of the sardines-making group based in Zamboanga City.

Lower growth target ECONOMIC managers have slashed the 2021 growth assumption to 4 percent to 5 percent given the brunt of strictest quarantine imposed to address risks from the more contagious coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) Delta variant.

The inter-agency Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) said the earlier growth assumption of between 6 percent to 7 percent for this year “would have been achievable” if not for the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in various areas nationwide, such as Metro Manila which accounts for around 70 percent of the economy’s annual output.

“Our strategy is to continue managing the risks carefully by imposing granular quarantines, while allowing a vast number of people to earn a living. We will continue to use this period to accelerate the roll-out of the vaccination program,” it said in a statement on Wednesday.

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HE Mindanao De velopment Authority (MinDA) yesterday announced that a P500 million coconut processing facility will soon be established in the town of Claveria, Misamis Oriental.

MinDA Chair p ers on Emmanuel F. Piñol said that the facility is planned on the site of a former Virginia tobacco dr ying facility owned by Philip Morris International.

The drying facility was recently donated to the prov i nc i a l gove r n me nt

after Philip Morris halted operations in Claveria.

According to Misamis Oriental Governor Yevgeny Vicente B. Emano, the facility will help improve the coconut industry of the province, which has 10 million productive trees.

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Bukidnon hydropower plant back in operation AFTER more than a year of shutdown, the 32-megawatt Manolo Fortich 1 hydropower facility of Hedcor Inc. of the Aboitiz group was finally back on line and has recommenced augmenting power supply for the Mindanao grid.

In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange ( P S E ) , Ab o i t i z Po w e r Corporation, which is the parent firm of Hedcor, stated

that the hydropower facility’s units 3 and 4 had been back on commercial operation since August 10 (Tuesday) and were synchronized back to the grid “after completion of restoration works.”

The company narrated that the plant had been deenergized since June last year “to make way for pipe repairs” — following the technical OPERATION/PAGE 6

HARDLY HIT BUSINESSES. The food alley boulevard in Balingasag, Misamis Oriental has since lost its dynamism as the global pandemic requires local authorities to impose stricter restrictions. photo by gerry lee gorit

Region 10 has 6 new Delta cases, total at 32

By FROILAN GALLARDO, MindaNews

NORTHERN Mindanao has new six cases of the highly infectious Delta variant detected from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients

from Misamis Oriental, Misamis Occidental, Bukidnon, and Iligan City.

Region 10 now has a total documented Delta variant cases of 32, after Cagayan de Oro’s 25 and one case in Gingoog, also of Misamis Oriental.

Dr. David Mendoza,

Department of Health – Region 10 assistant director, said there were two new cases in Misamis Oriental: a locally stranded individual (LSI) in Alubijid town but originally from the municipality of Magsaysay, and another case from Tagoloan, a town adjacent to Cagayan de Oro. Mendoza said a returning DELTA/PAGE 6

OFW VACCINATION. A medical worker inoculates an overseas Filipino worker during the vaccination rollout for OFWs at the Matina Town Square on Wednesday as Davao City grapples with rising COVID-19 cases. mindanews photo

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Local 9 ex-rebels in Bukidnon get food packs, cash aid MISAMIS ORIENTAL-Emphasizing the benefits of returning to a peaceful way of life, the 58th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army and Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-10 provided

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immediate assistance including family food packs and cash aid to the nine former rebel surrenderees in Bukidnon, August 19.

Each returnee received P10,000 cash assistance from DSWD10 as well as family food

packs, and hygiene and sleeping kits.

"Today, this is a proof na ang ating mga kasama na nagbabalik-loob ay hindi pinapatay ng ating mga sundalo. Instead ay binibigyan pa natin sila ng pagkakataon

na mabuhay nang mapayapa," 4th Infantry Division (4ID) Commander MGen. Romeo Brawner said.

(Today is proof that our former rebels are not being killed by the soldiers. They are instead given the chance to live a peaceful life) The commander further added that the surrenderees will also be part of the government's housing program, of which 4ID has already given P450,000 worth of housing building to each of the 17 returnees in CARAGA two weeks ago.

Livelihoods are also provided such as the implementation of farming programs where former rebels are given land to till, farm equipment, and seedlings.

Former rebels Each rebel returnee receives P10,000 cash assistance from DSWD-10 as well as family can also acquire food packs, and hygiene and sleeping kits, August 19. (VPAB/PIA-10/Misamis Oriental)

skills development courses through the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to broaden employment opportunities.

Brawner added that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) also offer employment to former rebels by enlisting qualified applicants in the agencies' program.

Noting the overwhelming support of the national line agencies and the turnout of a greater number of surrenderees, 58 Infantry Battalion Commanding Officer LtC Ricky Canatoy said, "We are indeed winning in our effort to end the local communist armed conflict in Malitbog, Manolo Fortich, and Impasug-ong. And we have to let the public

know na winning po tayo (that we are winning)."

One of the rebel returnees, alias Marga, said coming back to the fold of the law enabled her to protect her unborn child from famine and exhaustion as they needed to flee from place to place while working with the rebel group.

She added that returning to the fold of the law allowed her to be given proper medical services and prenatal care from skilled health workers.

The event highlighted the surrender of a communist NPA leader and members with six firearms, revelation of eight high-powered arms cache, and the former rebels' other revelations and testimony. (RTP/PIA-10/ Misamis Oriental)

Radio-based instruction

By FRANZELLE MAE G. LIGNES Teacher I Cogon Elementary School El Salvador City Division BALINGASAG, MISAMIS ORIENTAL National Highway Balingasag, Barangay 4, Balingasag, Misamis Oriental Mobile Number/s: 0933-823-3161, 0933-823-3304 Tel. Number: 333-5161 CAGAYAN DE ORO P&J Lim Building, Tiano Kalambagohan St., Barangay 14, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Tel No. (08822) 727-829 / 231-6629 Telefax No. (088) 856-1947 Mobile No. 0933-823-3303 / 0943-708-7065 CAGAYAN DE ORO WAREHOUSE Warehouse 7, Bonbon Road, Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Mobile No. 0917-825-4149 / 0943-708-7065 CARMEN, CAGAYAN DE ORO Vamenta Blvd., fronting CEPALCO, Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Tel. No. (088) 233-2011 Mobile No. 0933-823-3159 CORRALES, CDO Corrales Ave., Barangay 29, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Telefax No. (088) 231-2055

DIVISORIA, CDO A. Velez St., Barangay 9, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Telefax No. (088) 856-1947 Mobile No. 0917-841-4000 / 0933-823-3164 GINGOOG CITY G/F Wyne Militante Bldg., Lugod St., Barangay 22, Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental Telefax No. (088) 861-0104 Mobile No. 0933-823-3168 LAPASAN, CDO National Highway (FICCO Bldg.), Lapasan, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Tel. No. (088) 231-6739 Mobile No. 0933-823-3160 PUERTO, CDO Purok 6, Puerto, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Tel. No. (088) 859-0574 Mobile No. 0943-708-7537 CAMIGUIN B. Aranas St., Poblacion, Mambajao, Camiguin Telefax No. (088) 387-0491 Mobile No. 0943-708-7539

MORE than 6,000 educational TV and radio shows are ready to be aired all over the country, as distance learning in public schools begins next month.

The programs would complement online and modular lessons, which would be the norm as the government has prohibited in-person classes.

DepEd had a system to help parents and students with the

many challenges that came with distance learning.

Public school classes had been postponed for two months to give educators more time to prepare for the new modes of instruction and learning.

A total of 3,120 television lessons and 3,445 radio episodes would be aired in 207 television channels and 162 radio stations nationwide.

That will supplement the instruction that would be given online, or if there is no access to gadgets or the Internet or through self-learning modules.

DepEd had advised school superintendents and regional directors which episodes should be shown on a given day, at what time slots, and for which grade levels.

The information on these shows should also be included in the weekly learning plan for the students.

DepEd would check if students understood the lessons, adding that teachers would know—when students return their activity sheets—if they have learned what was taught.

Parents would also be given contact numbers of teachers if they need to call about their children having difficulty with their lessons.

If parents could not get the self-learning modules themselves, the DepEd would find a way to deliver them to the students.

Matuto sa Radyo is a one-hour radio program that features five to seven episodes of compressed lessons on various learning areas targeting kindergarten to Grade 12 students in the region for the opening week of the upcoming school year.

The DepEd entered into an agreement with these stations to play the materials in broadcast quality.

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Redesigning spaces in architecture and finding sustainable green solutions discussed in recent webinar

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HIGHLY interesting and instructive webinar about work spaces and sustainable green design solutions has been held on Friday August 13 2021.

The event was presented by Bluprint with the partnership of Kone elevators Host Manolet wGarcia tried to understand from two renowned architects like Arch.

Jojo Tolentino and

Arch. Romolo Nati what impact covid-19 had on workspace architecture and design and how to be creative about sustainability focusing on green architecture design & building.

Arch. Jojo Tolentino is the President of Aidea, a design and technology practice that creates transformative solutions for the building industry through partnerships,

innovations and pioneering technologies while Arch. Romolo Nati is the Chairman and CEO of Italpinas Development Corporation, a PSE-listed real estate development company focused on the development of green mixed use buildings in secondary cities in the Philippines.

According to Arch.

Tolentino workspaces will have to take into consideration a changed postpandemic mindset in part of the workforce whereas the feeling of safety, comfort and wellness will play a major role in any work environment in future. Tomorrows office puts the employee at the center of the experience. Architect Romolo Nati, a fierce sustainability advocate, first of all clarified what 'green' means in modern architecture and design.

He said that “nowadays it is mainly used as a marketing tool” while the real meaning is all about sustainability.

“Sustainable design is a design of a

building with the minimal impact on the environment.”

That is why Architect Nati uses specific software to analyse environmental data like the flow of the wind around the building and the exposure to the sun in order to apply it on the design of the building to harmonize the design with the development using natural features given by nature and the immediate environment. In Primavera Residences and Primavera City in CdO, two multi-awarded and EDGE-certified developments in Cagayan de Oro he applied these passive green design features to increase natural light and shading during peak hours as well as the natural ventilation by designing an internal shaft that has a chimney effect once doors or windows are opened, letting the air flow through the units giving it plenty of natural ventilation.

Also the other project of Italpinas Development Corporation, Miramonti Residences, located in Sto Tomas

Batangas, rising right at the Sto Tomas exit of the South Luzon Expressway, features passive green design features and solar panels for the ultimate benefit of the residents and building performance in accordance with the sustainable mindset of the company.

IDC™ is a design driven developer of sustainable properties focused on emerging cities in the Philippines.

Established in 2009

by Arch. Romolo V. Nati, an Italian architect, and Atty.

Jose D. Leviste, III, a Filipino lawyer.

IDC™ is committed to environmental sustainability through elegant architectural solutions and trademark contemporary Italian aesthetic. Its focus is on hyperprospective emerging cities and other next-wave locations in the Philippines.

With its unique design philosophy, IDC™ is committed to sustainable developments in harmony with the environment to bring value to investors, end-users, and the community.

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Workplace checkup (Pt.1) Think a minute… Do you like your workplace? Is it a peaceful and productive place to work every day? Just as we need to get a checkup on our body to see if we are healthy, today and tomorrow let’s get a checkup on our workplace, since we spend so much of our lives there.

The first symptom of an unhealthy workplace is frequent complaining.

Employees criticize and trash-talk their company, their fellow workers, managers, customers, or their products and services.

They also tell their family, friends and others outside the company how bad things are.

A second symptom of an unhealthy workplace is when the employees feel overwhelmed, even hopeless, because no matter how hard and fast they work they can never finish all the tasks they are expected to do each day.

So they must choose either not to do everything, or just rush to get it all finished but not do it well.

Another symptom is jealous competition and conflict between fellow-

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OFW-MRRD's roadmap to liberate the Indigenous People from poverty and oppression “A mockery of the Indigenous Rights Act (RA 8371),” That is the statement from no less than one of authors of IPRA Law when it was enacted in 1997, former Congressman Mohammad Omar Albano Fajardo. Such conclusion came about after hearing the outpourings of narratives of the chieftains and leaders of the Indigenous Peoples of Mindanao during the series of dialogues when the former congressman who is now sitting in the MRRD Execom as Vice President for International Affairs together with his lovely wife, ASEC. Ameenah Fajardo, Assistant Secretary for Special Concerns, DTI, visited the Indigenous Peoples in Bukidnon and Lanao provinces on August 12 to 15.

The Indigenous Peoples’ chieftains and leaders came in droves in every dialogue, narrating how oppressed their respective tribes are whether Higaonon, Manobo, Talaandig and Maranao. It was a shock to Cong. Omar and ASEC. Ameenah when they visited the Manobo-Pulangiyon Tribal Community when they saw more than a thousand IP families now living in extreme p over ty under shattered tents along the highway in Butong, Quezon, Bukidnon. Why? Because they were ousted from their 1,111 ha-ancestral domain by a powerful corporation whose manager is the incumbent Mayor of Quezon, Bukidnon, Mayor Pablo Lorenzo. For more than four (4) years now, they have been living in so much hunger and poverty, eating only “kamote” once a day or nothing at all. All of their utensils are taken out

from garbage and they are drinking from the river where they are taking a bath. The children have to be tied-up because three have been hit already by running cars. The children are all malnourished and suffering different kind of diseases. They have to reclaim back their rich ancestral domain now transformed into plantations where their ancestors are buried but the armed men of the corporation would threaten them. There were times when every night, the armed men would fire their guns using fear as a means to control or subdue them. In fact, the Secretary of the Tribe, Mr. Renato Anglao was shot dead in 2016.

But the horrible story of the Manobo-Pulangiyon Tribe is just “a tip of the iceberg,” so to speak. Early this year, no less than Mr. Ceazar Soriano came with his communication team of PTV-4, documented this great social injustice, among the many social wrongs committed against the Indigenous Peoples which were shown in three episodes in the “Magandang Gabi Pilipinas,” entitled, “AGAW LUPA, AGAW BUHAY.” In Tagbak, Talakag, the Higaonon-Manobo Talaandig Tribe (HIMATA) has narrated how their 39,000-ha. ancestral domain are being landgrabbed in cohort with local officials and agencies of government and when they would resist, they would be tagged as NPAs. In fact, one chieftain has been tied-up one whole evening in a nearby military camp for just being tagged as NPA by a barangay captain who is interested to grab his land.

But the grabbing is not just limited to land. Datu Ben

Anoos has narrated that sometime in 2005, the water coming from their ancestral domain has been converted into a water system by the LGU but not a single centavo has been awarded to the tribe, a violation of the IPRA Law. After spending some hundred of thousands of pesos in their legal struggle, no justice has been done, so they are giving-up their struggle for justice because there those who cannot moderate their greed.

In their narration, a total of 63 IP leaders have already been murdered since 2016 including a pregnant woman and a 5 year-old boy as narrated by BAE Merlita Mayantao whose 5,000-ha. ancestral domain has been fenced into a ranch by a powerful corporation in 2016.

When they protested, rain of bullets came one early morning while they were taking their coffee. Outrightly, three died (including her son} and three wounded (including her daughter who until was not operated, thus, the bullet is still inside her body.)

As mentioned, these are just “a tip of the iceberg,” of the continuing life of oppression of the Indigenous People. Thus in one of the meetings, they asked, “Kami po ba ay tao o basura?” Isn’t it that the most oppressed, the poorest of the poor now, are our Indignous Pe oples? NASAAN NA ANG IPRA LAW? NASAAN NA ANG AHENSYA NG GOBYERNO TINATAG PARA MAPAGLABAN ANG KANILANG KARAPATAN? The visit and dialogues of the Indigenous People with the amazing MRRD-

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ORLAN R. RAVANERA Execom Leader Cong Omar Fajardo together with ASEC. Ameenah Fajardo is a trailblazing moment that has created a great breakthrough to stop oppression, hunger and poverty. Cong. Omar has presented the roadmap of liberation, the empowering path to draw IPs into the mainstream of development processes. What was so amazing is the great trust of the IPs to their beloved President, Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte (MRRD). There was a great celebration when Cong. Omar committed to bring the IP issues to the President himself. Those who came have been shouting their commitment to the present dispensation and should continue the pro-people leadership stating thar there is no greater grandeur sight on earth than to see a leader who is empowering the poor and the oppressed, fighting poverty as the number one enemy of the country and liberating the nation from the control of drug lords.

The leader has even stopped the second longer war in the world – the Mindanao war.

This truism was reinforced by the presentation of Asec.

Ameenah who was appointed by the President to help ROADMAP/PAGE 7

Education reform for the nations Science and medicine were used as justification for the labeling, persecution, and eventual mass murder of millions of people, grounded in a hierarchical system of classification of human beings based on their perceived worth to society (Stacy Gallin, 2019: 38-45)

JHAN TIAFAU HURST I was strikingly stunned when workers. This gossiping, back-stabbing and bullying is called “lateral violence,” which sadly is a problem in many workplaces.

A fourth symptom of an unhealthy workplace is one in which employees do not feel appreciated and recognized for their work. The #1 complaint of employees is: “I can do 100 things right and not hear anything about it, but if I do just one thing wrong, they quickly criticize me and make me feel like a failure.”

Studies show that most employees are looking for more than just a paycheck, they want to feel good about the work they do and that CHECKUP/PAGE 7

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reading a research article by Stacy Gallin, published recently in 2019. It was published i n C arl ow R ou ndt abl e Proceedings by the Carlow University Press in 2019, pages 38-45. This great research was initiated by her motivation of learning from the mistake of past experience: holocaust.

The spirit of the scientific article that Stacy wrote also reminds us—as the nations in the world--of particularly the importance of education reform globally. The reform includes human dignity and human rights for every nation.

Human dignity as symbolized in every individual should be highlighted to make him or her live in liberty.

Liberty in this sense is to educate all the nations’

consisting of individuals with their identities. Their human nature as the characters are blended and they have to exist without being excluded. In the right term, individuals can live naturally, getting involved in society with respect, being honored, and esteemed.

Therefore, the education system needs to be reformed.

Science and technology development should be approached using the values depicted in the individuals’ symbolic properties. No science and technology products, nor such as any biological products from the science development are freely used for negative purposes. Stacy Gallin (2019) reiterated that we have to learn from the past. But, we have to forget the disastrous effect of science and technology development on human dignity.

Now that we have to forget the past, education today requires changes in the new normal. Never think that this Covid 19 comes to an end very soon! We do not know exactly when, but we must be ready to change. It is changing our habits and in education, it is a change in the system. It is better to

adapt to the new normal with changes in behavior; changes in our habits for a better future through education.

All education systems around the world should also focus on bioethics implementation. G.J Annas (2010) gave an example of American bioethics. It has a significant impact on the way medicine is used for health purposes. Like bioethics, the health law is also an applied field (Annas, G.J., 2010). This law is applied in medicine, biotechnology, and public health. They are used for human dignity purposes. It needs a global movement through a global organ.

The United Nations (UN) through UNESCO can take this topic into account. The entire nation with its national education system must be both nationally and globally directed to this bioethics and law that supports it. G.J. Annas also stated that American bioethics and international human rights were born of World War II: Holocaust.

The regulation needs to be enhanced in its real practice.

And, education can be the generator for this movement.

DR. DJUWARI It is the movement of acting now. It can be a reminder for all the nations in the world.

Stacy Gallin warns us through her great academic work. What the world society perceived should be focused on human dignity. Forget the past, protect the future, and act now (Stacy Gallin (2019). Act now and do a reform for education globally today!

Dr. Djuwari is an Associate Professor and the Director of Language Laboratory at Universitas Hayam Wuruk Perbanas Surabaya, the editor of some research journals in the Philippines and Indonesia. He is also a journalist in Indonesia Pos Indonesia; the President of International Association of Scholarly Publishers, Editors, and Reviewers (IASPER).

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CDO Fil-Chinese Community donates 30 oxygen regulators and 600 PPEs to NMMC

The CDO Fil-Chinese Community Vaccination Program enable CDO LGU to extend another 5,000 vaccines to more residents.

CDO Filipino-Chinese Community, MOFCCCII respond to covid challenge

By MIKE BAÑOS

There’s no such thing as donor fatigue for the Cagayan de Oro FilipinoChinese Community and its partner organization Misamis Oriental FilipinoChinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. (MOFCCCII).

As if the millions of pesos worth of donations for frontliners in the Northern Mindanao Medical Center, Region’s X primary covid-19 referral center, and the J.R. Borja General Hospital last year were not enough, the two organizations have continued to share their

kindness and generosity to the frontliners and most affected sectors of the Cagayan de Oro Community in this second year of the global pandemic.

In its latest initiative, the Cagayan de Oro FilipinoChinese Community (CDOFCC) headed by President Sonny Choi donated on August 11, 2021 30 units of Oxygen Regulators and 600 sets PPEs to the NMMC in response to their urgent need for these as covid cases in the region continue to rise. These were received by NMMC Medical

Director Dr Jose Chan and Dr Peter Quiaoit.

The next day August 12, another set of donations comprising 150 sets PPE, 30 units Sharp Purifiers, 10 units UV Lamps and an additional 6 units Oxygen Regulators.

The CDOFCC also lent a hand to the city’s vaccination drive by completing the second dose of Sinovac vaccines it earlier procured from China over a fourday period for a total of 5,155 persons on August 15, 2021. On July 17, the group completed the administration of the first dose to 5,468 persons, also

over a four-day period.

This was the first private sector vaccination program of the CDOFCC. The Sinovac vaccines were procured directly from China through the Federation of FilipinoChinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (FFCCII). The program enabled the city government and the Department of Health (DOH) to vaccinate some additional 5,000 residents as a result.

MOFCCCII Meantime, the Misamis Oriental Filipino Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. (MOFCCCII)

distributed food packs to porters at the Laguindingan Airport and Cagayan de Oro Baseport at Macabalan in partnership with the St Padre Pio Prayer Partners on August 11 and 12, 2021.

Each of the beneficiaries received a sack of rice, and a bag containing assorted canned goods, noodles, and sachets of milk powder for their families. The activity aimed to provide aid to a total of 150 beneficiaries including airport porters.

Port Manager Isidro V. Butaslac Jr. together with the representatives of the partner civic organizations led by MOFCCCII President

Tony Uy led the distribution of the relief packs at CDO Port.

Earlier last July 16, 2021, the MOFCCCII conducted another Covid-19 Food Assistance project in partnership with the St Padre Pio Prayer Partners and Macasandig Kagawad Nixon Baban to distribute 200 food packages to Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) at the St Augustine Metropolitan Cathedral grounds. The activity was preceded by a holy mass, officiated by Rev Fr Jun Balsamo, in celebration of the feast of our Lady of Mt Carmel.

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Provision of technical assistance in the delivery and retrieval of printed self learning modules by mobilizing the barangay PSU (Purok Servicing Unit) JUDY MARIE F. CABRERA MAYOR ALFONSO TAN HIGH SCHOOL Kimat, Tangub City

TO ensure the safety of both teachers and students, the Department of Education (DepEd) said its regional offices and school divisions have contextualized the mode of delivery of the Self-Learning Modules (SLMs) to be used this upcoming school year.

In order to distribute the modules without endangering teachers and students in the delivery of SLMs, regional offices and school divisions established health and safety protocols ahead of the September school opening.

Concerned regional offices and school divisions conduct disinfection of learning materials prior packaging and distribution and forge stronger partnerships with barangay councils that will help in facilitating the distribution and retrieval of modules to their respective barangays.

Regional offices also issued memoranda on strengthened management and response to COVID-19 and the implementation of alternative work arrangements in all levels of governance.

Aside from the formulation of the contingency plan for the COVID-19 pandemic, he noted the inclusion of COVID-19 protocols and other health-

related reminders in learners’ package kits.

Learning modalities per school divisions are delivered in different methods – depending on accessibility and COVID-19 risk severity classification of the areas in the divisions.

In par ticular, scho ol divisions have options such as blended learning, which combines two or more learning modalities, distance learning and homeschooling, which are more applicable for high risk areas.

All regions will be using printed modules, TV-based instruction and radio-based instruction. All school heads shall ensure that the SLMs which are considered as division/school property are properly used, cared for, and safeguarded from any form of damage. It is expected that the provisions of DepEd Order No. 14 s. 2012 and the Handbook for Property Custodianship be used as guide in the handling and custody of SLMs. Therefore, every learner, teacher and school head is directed to exert all diligent efforts to protect the textbooks, Teacher's manual and other instructional materials from damage or loss to prolong its use.

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The six-hectare site will be equipped with 150 steam drying chambers with 17ton capacity each and a fully automated greenhouse nursery. Mr. Emano said the plant will produce at least 11 types of high-value products and is expected to raise the buying price to P25 per nut from farmers.

“The drying chambers will be used to produce clean white copra with the husks processed into coconut fiber and coconut peat and the shells into coconut charcoal briquettes. Other high-value products include coconut syrup, coconut sugar and coconut alcohol,” Emano said.

Piñol said the facility will be equipped with a locallydesigned and fabricated biomass boiler to bring down power costs in steam generation for the drying chambers and make the project viable.

P h i l ip pi n e C o c onut Authority Administrator Benjamin R. Madrigal, Jr. has urged businesses to invest in the coconut industry to boost exports and improve the incomes of coconut farmers.

Mr. Madrigal said the investment environment has become more favorable with the passage of Republic Act No. 11524 or the Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund Act, which sets up a P75billion fund that will support various industry upgrade programs.

troubles due to persistent rains that caused saturation, erosion and mudslides in Bukidnon at the time.

The Aboitiz Power firm conveyed that there had been “pipe dislocations, pipe bursts and damage to the high head penstock line of the plant.”

Subsequently, from the damage that resulted in its stoppage of operations, it took at least 358 days or roughly a year to restore the affected facilities of the power generating plant.

Wit h t he retur n-tooperation of the units 3 and 4 of the Manolo Fortich 1 facility, Aboitiz Power noted that the entire plant is now feeding into the grid full gross capacity of 73.32 megawatts.

Manolo Fortich 1 plant has four (4) units with total generation of 45.94 megawatts; while Manolo Fortich 2 facility has another four units with aggregate electricity generation of 27.38 megawatts.

Aboitiz Power indicated that the output of its Manolo Fortich hydropower facility forms part of the renewable energy portfolio that it has been offering to customers under its “Cleanergy” brand.

In the forward investment trajectory of the company, it has been casting more RE proj e c ts, including hydropower installations, in its bid to balance its portfolio to a 50:50 thermal-to-RE ratio until year 2030.

The company has programmed massive capital spending of at least P190 billion for greenfield projects to be carried out in a stretch of a decade – and a significant fraction of that will be injected into RE ventures.

Aboitiz Power reiterated that in the next 10 years, it will “significantly expand

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its Cleanergy portfolio, in support of the government’s efforts to promote renewable energy in the country and as the company’s contribution to the global renewable energy targets.”

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from page 1 overseas Filipino (ROF) from Tudela in Misamis Occidental was also found to have been infected with the Delta variant, and yet another in Malaybalay City in Bukidnon.

He said two Delta variant cases were also found in Iligan City.

The detection of two Delta variant cases in Iligan City prompted authorities to tighten its border and impose stricter quarantine measures in the city.

Dr. Belinda Lim, Iligan City Health Officer, said the first of the two Delta variant case is a 29-year-old employee of the Quezon City government who went home last July 16.

After showing s ome symptoms, Lim said the employee was swabbed and was found to be COVID-19 positive four days later.

The employee also infected his father, two sisters, two brothers, a nephew and a family friend.

Lim said the employee and the family friend were tested positive of the infectious Delta variant by the Philippine Genome Center.

Lim said because the re s u lt s c a m e l at e , t h e employee was released from the isolation unit and have returned to Quezon City last July 28 after he later tested negative of the COVID-19 virus.

She said the other Delta patient is currently isolated in his home after showing no symptoms.

The discovery of the Delta variant cases came as a shock

to Iligan City, which has moderate cases reported.

In its briefer, the DOH Region 10 reported there were 80 new COVID-19 cases in Iligan on August 17. The same report said there were three deaths on that day.

On the other hand, the DOH reported a spike of COVID-19 cases in Lanao del Norte with 334 cases reported on August 17.

Iligan City information officer Jose Pantoja said Mayor Celso Regencia issued Executive Order No. 192 requiring returning Iligan residents to present negative antigen or RT-PCR tests at the border checkpoints.

Pantoja said non-residents entering Iligan City are required to present cards that they are already fully vaccinated.

He said Regencia also temporarily suspended until further notice the sale of liquor and alcoholic beverages in the city restaurants and bars.

Pantoja said curfew hours start from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m.

MSU-IIT moves up in 2021 Webometrics Ranking ILIGAN CITY--Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) moves up in the Webometrics Ranking Web of Universities: July 2021 among Philippine schools.

This year, it has landed on the 6th spot, which is an improvement from last year’s ranking at 8th.

The Webometrics Ranking Web of Universities is an initiative of a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, the Cybermetrics Lab. This is the largest public research body in Spain.

According to the Webometrics site, the original aim of the Ranking is “to promote academic web presence, supporting the Open Access initiatives for increasing significantly the transfer of scientific and cultural knowledge generated by the universities to the whole Society.”

"The objective is not to evaluate websites, their design or usability, or the popularity of their contents according to the number of visits or visitors. Web indicators are considered as proxies in the correct, comprehensive, deep evaluation of the university's global performance, taking into account its activities and outputs and their relevance and impact," the site says.

MSU-IIT’s website is ranked based on three indicators: visibility (50%), transparency (or openness) (10%), and excellence (or scholar) (40%).

The University ranks #101 in South East Asia, #1166 in Asia, and #3231 in the world.

The complete list of Philippine schools which made it to the Webometrics ranking can be viewed at this link: https://www. webometrics.info/en/Asia/ Philippines (MSU-IIT Office of Public Information)

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COVID Protect Program, w h i c h c ove r s t h e f re e inoculation of employees and their dependents, as well as third-party workers.

CEB has als o b een working hand-in-hand with various local government units to boost the progress of vaccination for its workforce.

On July 30, CEB flew its very first flight manned by fully-vaccinated pilots and cabin crew. It expects to fly more of such flights as the program progresses.

CEB has achie ved a 7-star safety rating from airlineratings.com for its COVID-19 compliance. It continues to implement a multi-layered approach to safety as it endeavors to restore the public’s trust in air travel.

CEB is also the official airline partner of the IngatAngat, a private-sector led campaign that promotes safety measures and vaccination to help foster a nationwide economic recovery.

To date, it has transported over 16.5 million vaccine doses from abroad to the Philippines, on top of over 5.5 million doses flown to 23 provinces across the country.

Thirty Robinsons Malls have similarly teamed up with local government units to provide safe and comfortable vaccination sites.

Meantime, the Aboitiz Group has ramped up the vaccination of its team memb ers, f u lf i l ling its commitment to prioritize their health and safety while ensuring continued operations to keep the economy running towards a ‘better normal, even as cases of the highly transmissible Delta variant surged all over the country, Aboitiz Group President and CEO Sabin M. Aboitiz also received the vaccine and urged all team members to get vaccinated through the Group’s program.

Last July 28, the Group began the initial round of vaccinations, marking the first step towards its goal to vaccinate more than 30,000 Aboitiz team members and its subcontractors nationwide.

The Group partnered with AC Health and Reliance to maximize their network of partner clinics and sites, and leverage their respective apps to streamline the vaccination process.

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That the late EMMA H. DOLOGUIN who died on April 24, 2016 in Cagayan de Oro City, at the time of her death left a certain parcel of land with Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-130988 situated in the Barangay of Carmen, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of NINETY (90) square meters, more or less, and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL PARTITION WITH SALE, filed by the heirs of EMMA H. DOLOGUIN, in favor of MARICHO C. REBOLLIDO, per DOC #429; PAGE #43; BOOK #XIX; Series of 2016 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. SALVADOR O. PACANA BWM: Aug. 13, 20 & 27, 2021

Opening Message by Plant Manager Dr Evers during the 1st day of STEAG’s vaccination on August 12.

Multiple vaccination hubs were set up in key cities and provinces such as Taguig, Quezon, Baguio, Batangas, Pampanga, Bicol, Cebu, Bacolod, Davao, and Cagayan de Oro to ensure that team members can be vaccinated in the areas closest to them and to reduce their risk of exposure when traveling.

Through the close collaboration between Aboitiz and AC Health and Reliance, the end-to-end process was efficient and smooth for team members.

Apart from protecting themselves, Aboitiz team members were also glad they could protect their families and those around them by getting vaccinated.

T h e Ab o i t i z G r o u p bought vaccines through a tripartite agreement with the government and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals Philippines, Inc. Other subsidiaries such as Pilmico and Aboitiz Construction, Inc. (ACI) are also set to start their vaccination rollouts in the coming days, through collaborations with their respective health partners.

Meantime, Aboitiz Group

af f iliate Ab oitiz Power Corporation ramped up its vaccination program for employees, with more than 1,300 team members from Luzon and Visayas having received at least one dose as of Monday, August 9.

Dubbed “We Got Your Vacc,” the program aligned with the Aboitiz Group’s target of vaccinating more than 30,000 team members and subcontractors nationwide.

AboitizPower alone targets to inoculate this year 5,000 team members who have signed up for the program.

Through a consortium of public and private agencies that have procured vaccines for the Philippines, the company was able to secure AstraZeneca doses for its team members while its employees were given the option to buy Moderna or Novavax for their dependents.

Recently vaccinated were mostly team members and subcontractors from the National Capital Region (NCR) where AboitizPower’s corporate office is located while the rest were from Toledo City in Cebu, home to its 340-megawatt thermal

power plant. After NCR and Cebu, AboitizPower is set to roll out vaccination drives in the rest of its sites across the country this month.

AboitizPower has partnered with healthcare administrator Reliance United to facilitate the vaccination activities. Since last year, they have also been with the company to shed light on misconceptions about COVID-19, the available vaccines, and the whole vaccination process, as well as provide medical advice to AboitizPower employees.

Closer to home, STEAG State Power Inc. administered its first batch of the companyp r o c u r e d As t r a Z e n e c a vaccines under its COVID-19 Vaccination Program on August 12 to ensure its employees remain healthy and protected against the dreaded coronavirus disease.

The program aims to inoculate not just SPI’s regular employees but also its subcontractors, dependents and community stakeholders.

Around 7,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines were purchased through Ab oitiz Power an d G o Ne go s yo / B D O Foundation, under the private sector-led ‘A Dose of Hope’ program, a tripartite initiative among the private sector, the government, and the British drug maker AstraZeneca in support of the government’s National Immunization Program which seeks to achieve herd immunity by year end.

Initially, around 198 doses

were administered to SPI power plant employees and sub-contractors on August 12 at the Mindanao Power Plant, certified by DOH-X as its vaccination facility for the administration of the vaccines. Just recently, 44 SPI Head Office employees in Makati together with their dependents completed their first dose of the companysponsored vaccination.

SPI Power Plant Manager, Dr. Carsten Evers encouraged all its employees to be vaccinated from the dreaded COVID-19 virus.

SPI has partnered with Reliance Care Inc., a subsidiary of Unilab for the end to end COVID-19 Vaccine Administration Program for SPI. This is also in coordination with the Department of Health-X and the Local Government Unit of Villanueva, through its Municipal Health Office.

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the OFWs, the peasantry, persons with disabilities, the single parents, the Indigenous Peoples and even the rebel surrenderees. Ang sigaw po nila, “mahal naming Pangulong Duterte ipagpatuloy po ninyo ang inyong liderato. Kami po ay taos pusong sumusuporta sa inyo.”

Cong Omar and Asec Ameenah also inter-acted with the former combatants of the North Eastern Mindanao Front under commander Bravo in Rogongon, Lanao del Norte. They have organized themselves into cooperative and by harnessing

their collective potentials will now uproot the causes of protracted war through cooperativism.

Asec Ameenah had put in clear categorical term the road to peace in Mindanao by presenting the programs of DTI not only on providing livelihood, not only in making their lands productive but more on developing their human potentials. Indeed, developing human capital should be foremost priority to empower the people so that the constitutional declaration that “sovereignty resides with the people and all governmental powers emanate from them” should be put in motion. Indeed, the welfare of the people is the supreme law! Never shall we allow the Indigenous People to be continuously oppressed by the Oligarchs in cohort with powers-that-be. That is the courageous pronouncement of Cong. Omar Fajardo which is now reverberating throughout the land. That is the OFWsMRRD’s roadmap to liberate the Indigenous Peoples from hunger, poverty and oppression.

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they are appreciated at least once in a while for their reliable, quality work.

If you realize your workplace has some of these unhealthy symptoms, why not ask God to help you do what you can to help change it into a healthier, happier place for everyone?

Ask Jesus to take charge of your heart and attitude, and He will give you His wisdom, kindness and strength every day to make a difference where you work. Just think a minute.

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S THE national government staggers to press its vaccination program to protect the maximum number of Filipinos before the year ends, the private sector has lent a helping hand by purchasing its own vaccines for its employees and other stakeholders.

Universal Robina Corp (URC) has begun vaccinating its workforce, as it pursues its role in

keeping the Philippines’ food supply chain robust amid a still lingering Covid-19 pandemic.

URC, one of the Philippines’ largest food and beverage firms, is aiming to have 70% of its more than 33,000 workers fully inoculated end of 2021.

Some 88 to 90% of the workforce at URC Sugar and Renewables’ mills and distillery at its sugar mill SONEDCO and La Carlota

90% of Cebu PAciifc’s pilots and cabin crew have now been vaccinated under the Gokongwei Group’s COVID Protect Program.

Sugar Mill and Distillery located in Kabankalan City and La Carlota City, Negros Occidental were inoculated through COVID Protect, the Gokongwei Group’s vaccination program on July 30 to Aug 2nd in time for the new milling season this August, 2021.

URC said its vaccine rollout will soon span its other workforce in Metro Manila and across the Philippines throughout its network of factories, mills, distilleries, and distribution and logistics hubs.

Most of the company’s workforce are considered as “essential workers” for their role in ensuring food security for a population still coping with various quarantine restrictions to keep the coronavirus in check.

Through budget carrier Cebu Pacific, JG Summit Holdings has helped transport some 16.5 million vaccine doses

from China to Manila.

The airline has also ferried more than 5.5 million jabs across the country.

Cebu Pacific, the Philippines’ leading carrier, recently announced that 90% of its pilots and cabin crew have now been vaccinated, following the completion of the first wave of its employee vaccination program.

Second doses are expected to be administered in the coming months, with the target of completing inoculation in October.

The conglomerateprocured vaccines were administered to over 700 CEB employees at the airline’s headquarters in Pasay City from July 28 to August 4, 2021. To date, 88% of CEB’s total workforce have been inoculated.

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WE GOT YOUR VACC. AboitizPower President and CEO Emmanuel V. Rubio (top, center) shares a light moment with vaccinated AP team members during the We Got Your Vacc vaccination drive at Robinsons Galleria in Quezon City on July 26, 2021.

URC Sugar and Renewables (URC SURE) La Carlota Sugar Mill and Distillery workforce during the Gokongwei Group COVIDProtect vaccination program in La Carlota City.