BusinessWeek Mindanao (August 24, 2016)

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‘Telepsychiatry’ THE Cagayan de Oro City’s J.R. Borja General Hospital (JRBGH) launched yesterday a new medical technique to treat mentally change persons, a hospital executive said Monday.

Dr. Ramon Nery, the city hospital’s chief executive officer, said that the new method was known as “Telepsychiatry,” as a way of treating mentally ill patients, through video conferencing and telecommunications.

With the new approach, the city would no longer send mentally ill patients to other cities for treatment and consultation by psychiatric physicians, Nery said.

Best milk REITERATING the need to breastfeed, the Department of Health in Region 10 reminds mothers to put their babies interest first.

Dr. Jocelyn P. Torrecampo of DOH during the “Talakayan sa PIA” media forum held in Cagayan de Oro city on 19 August said pregnant women should do breast feeding because it’s the best milk, “while it’s economically wise, it gives the best start and protection to infants,” she added.

Data shows that of the total 104,685 live births in the region, this year, only 92,779 or 88 percent were exclusively breastfed.

Unconstitutional A DAVAO City ordinance banning aerial spraying for agricultural purposes was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court (SC) for being unreasonable and violating due process.

Approved by then mayor and now President Rodrigo R. Duterte, Davao City Ordinance 0309-07 required all agricultural entities in the Southern city to stop aerial spraying of pesticides and other substances within three months from the effectivity of the directive.

In a unanimous judgment, the High Court ruled in favor of the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association, Inc. and the Court of Appeals, which argued and ruled respectively that the ban on aerial spraying was oppressive for disregarding existing regulation by the Fertilizer and Pesticides Authority (FPA).

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AVAO City Construction corporations from China and Japan are interested to implement the 2,000-kilometer Mindanao Railway System proposed to run from Davao to the eastern part of Mindanao.

C ompare d to Japan, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia said China is more aggressive in doing the project that could start next year.

“Probably, both can do the project but I do not know how we get them together,” said Pernia, also the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Director General. railway/PAGE 11

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MRXUH launches new radiologic technology

By MARK FRANCISCO, Staff Writer

ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION. SM Investments Corporation executives (from left) Corazon P. Guidote, senior vice president and Tim Daniels, investor relations executive, along with Ivy Guantero, SM-Cagayan de Oro corporate communications officer, brief a select group of reporters in Cagayan de Oro City yesterday during a round-table discussion at Pryce Plaza Hotel on the company’s business outlook and why they are bullish on investments in the Visayas and Mindanao regions. photo by gerry lee gorit

P39-B mega harbor Steag introduces ‘social cultivators’ project a big ticket to grow trees in forest carbon sink Steag assistant spokesperson to ‘Global Mindanao’ Ryan Orteza explained that social

By MARK D. FRANCISCO, Staff Writer

DAVAO City -- Port developer and operator Mega Harbour Port and Development Corporation Inc. has expressed optimism on the realization of a “Global Mindanao” as the company is set to implement the P39harbor/PAGE 11

STEAG St ate Power Inc. has introduced what they call as “social cultivators” in their forest carbon sink at the sprawling Pelaez estate along the Mapawa Nature Park in Cagayan de Oro City.

cultivators are those who guard and grow the thousands of trees that have been planted at Mapawa for the past decade.

In return, the social cultivators are steag/PAGE 9

CAGAYAN de Oro City’s Maria Reyna Xavier University Hospital marked its 58th anniversary on Monday with the introduction of its stateof-the-art new radiologic technology facilities.

During the ceremonial program in the morning banking on the theme Mercy and Compassion: A Call and Challenge, a 40-year-retired employee was also honored.

Medical director Dr. Raul Winston Andulan said they are offering the following new services – conventional 3D radiotherapy, complex 3D radiotherapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy and 2D brachytherapy.

A n du l an s ai d t h e s e pro c e du re s c an d e t e c t breast, lung, rectal, cervical, endometrial and prostate cancer as well as brain tumor.

Me a nw h i l e , nu c l e a r medicine head Dr. Susan Camomot said the new facilities in her unit are capable of the following imaging procedures: bone s c an ( 3 - ph a s e ) , bre a st radiologic/PAGE 11

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In organic agriculture, nurturing soils means nurturing life (Part 1 of a series)

Texts and Photos By BONG D. FABE, Contributing Editor

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”

-- President Franklin D. Roosevelt

JOJO ROMO. The father of Urban Container Gardening (UCG) plants vegetables in plastic containers in his backyeard in Davao City using his own soil mix called “UCG soil.”

WITH sweat trickling down his brows, a worker pours fermented human urine into a compost heap of animal manure, biochar, sawdust, river sand and other organic materials f rom kitchen biodegradable wastes to create the “designer compost”

that WAND Foundation has expertly wielded to coaxed magic back into the lives of the victims of Yolanda (Haiyan) in Ormoc, Leyte as well as breath life back into fallow soils in some areas in Mindanao. organic/PAGE 9

DESIGNER COMPOST. A worker pours fermented human urine into a compost heap of animal manure, biochar, sawdust, river sand and other organic materials from kitchen biodegradable wastes to create the “designer compost.”

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AMBAJAO, Camiguin -The Department of Energ y (DOE) is set to deploy some 100,000 locally made electronic t r i c y c l e s ( E - Tr i k e ) powered by lithium-ion b atter i es to ke y citi e s and municipalities in the country, this year.

D OE of f ici a ls b are d t h i s du r i ng t h e mu lt i sectoral forum on cleaner alternative fuels and energy technologies and efficient utilization of energy held in Camiguin, last week.

It t a r g e t s t o r e a c h motorcycles/tricycles as it consists around 50 percent of the total public transport population.

Jorge Vincent Bitoon o f D O E s a i d E - Tr i k e te chnolog y has a go o d f u e l s av i ng s p ot e nt i a l , roughly at around P1.5

kilometer or P120 daily fuel savings. It is also capable in going through steep slopes (12 degree slopes) while providing added safety and comfort for both passengers and drivers. “ T h e re i s n o i n it i a l payment required form the drivers and the ownership of unit is a five-year boundary-hulog (rent to own) scheme, with five years warranty on the unit and lithium-ion batteries (or 80,000 km drive whichever comes first),” Bitoon said.

DOE said, the package also comes with guaranteed registration and comprehensive insurance of three years, establishment of service centers, provision of solar charging stations and training for driver and operators.

DOE supervising senior

science research specialist Federico Domingo, meanwhile, egged on transport groups in the province to be open not only to the technology but

also to the concept of the project.

“We are not selling the E-Trike project, rather we are opening opportunities to the less privilege members

of our society to live up their integrity and get the chance to earn,” he said.

Domingo assured the transp or t s ector of the economic viability of the

project, but challenged them to give way for the additional 100 units that will come in, if they decide to pursue the proposal.

(JCV/PIA-10)

CDO Ecological Solid Waste Mgmt sets 2019 goals THE technical working group of the Ecological Solid Waste Management (ESWM) of the city government of Cagayan de Oro has laid out its 2019 goals during the planning workshop facilitated by Xavier University’s Governance and Leadership Institute (GLI) on August 9.

The City ESWMTWG’s vision of having a “clean” city with “disciplined and responsible” Kagay-anons by 2019 can be achieved

through the following strategic goals: (1) Strengthened community participation; (2) Strict implementation of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 (RA 9003); (3) Active barangay governance; (4) Sustainable ESWM programs; and (5) massive information and education campaign on ecological solid waste management, ranging from household to city levels.

“The need now is giving special attention

to enabling barangay governance in the management of solid waste in the city,” ESWM focal person Elvisa Mabilin.

The City ESWMTWG is composed of the City Local Environment and Natural Resources Offices, City Health Office, City Planning and Development Office, City Engineers Office, City Public Services Office, City Information Office, CDO Liga ng mga Barangay, CDO Mangaycayay Landfill

Association, CDO Junkshop Association, Balay Mindanao, Mindanao University of Science and Technology, Liceo de Cagayan University, and XU through its Social Development cluster’s Advocacy Program and Green Campus Agenda.

XU president Fr. Roberto C. Yap SJ, who is also an environmental economist, serves as the chairman of the City ESWM Board. (Wilson J. Hormeguera/XU Comm)

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Globe myBusiness is Therma South’s Davao plant How making SMEs more marketable undergoes maintenance

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BOITIZ Power Corp.

(AboitizPower) said on Monday that its subsidiary scheduled “corrective measures” to the 150-megawatt (MW) first unit of its 300-MW coal-fired power plant in Davao City that could last for over two weeks.

The planned maintenance of Therma South, Inc.’s power plant unit comes a few weeks after the scheduled outage of the second unit that has reduced much needed power supply in Mindanao. “ This maintenance activity is necessary to review Unit 1 and to implement some corrective measures as needed which should be similar in nature to the coverage of work done in the recently planned outage of Unit 2 from June 18 to July 13,” Sebastian R. Lacson, Therma South president and chief operating officer, said in a statement to the stock exchange.

The temporary shutdown

started on Monday, Aug. 22 and is estimated to last until Sept. 7, the company said.

“We are confident that after this outage, (Therma South) should be better equipped to reliably meet the needs of our customers.

As always, we will try our best to keep the duration of this interruption to a minimum,” Mr. Lacson said.

The planned maintenance was originally scheduled to start on Aug. 6, but was moved to the new schedule “to better adjust to the grid situation,” AboitizPower said.

It added that Therma South, the project company for the power plant, was coordinating with its customers, which are electric cooperatives and distribution utilities in Mindanao, “in order to implement measures to mitigate the impact of the maintenance activity.”

The first unit started commercial operations on September 2015, while the second unit was launched

Ayala eyes P1 billion from automotive business AYALA CORP. is growing its revenues from the automotive business to P1 billion within the next two years, in line with its target to expand the equity earnings contribution of non-listed units to 20% by 2020.

“Our 2020 plan says that we want 20% of our income to come from the non-listed companies; today, that’s less than 10%,” Ayala Chief Finance Officer Jose Teodoro K. Limcaoco said in an Aug. 11 interview.

The countr y’s oldest conglomerate announced the five-year plan dubbed “Ayala 2020” during an annual stockholders’ meeting in mid-April. It wanted, among others, to increase net income to P50 billion.

The plan seeks to improve s h are h ol d e r re tu r n on common equity to 15%; expand equity earnings outside Bank of the Philippine Islands, Globe Telecom, Inc., Manila Water Company, Inc. and Integrated MicroElectronics, Inc. (IMI) to 20%; and increase Southeast Asian operations’ share in equity earnings to 10% alongside.

Ay a l a i s b u i l d i n g an automotive and manufacturing portfolio under AC Industr ial Technology Holdings, Inc. -- formerly Ayala Automotive Holdings, Inc. -- as part of efforts to push the plan forward.

AC Industrials will house the existing and future assets of Ayala in the automotive and manufacturing sectors, including its manufacturing operations for the group’s KTM AG partnership.

IMI will begin producing motorcycles for the

partnership in January. It will initially manufacture 10,000 units a year from a facility in Laguna whose capacity is planned to double by the end of the following year.

Asked how much could the automotive business rake in moving forward, Mr. Limcaoco said: “[It’s] hard to tell because right now the automotive brings in I think for the first half, P400 million.”

“I don’t know if that really doubles because there was a good performance by the distributorship of Isuzu that came in, but certainly when we look at auto, we hope that becomes a billion peso in terms of income maybe in the next two years,” he added.

Also, the listed conglomerate is expanding its footprint in the healthcare and education sectors through Ayala Healthcare Holdings, Inc. and Ayala Education, Inc. as investment in social infrastructure.

Ayala Health plans to grow the Generika Drugstore network to 1,000 branches until 2020, its Chief Executive Officer Paolo Maximo F. Borromeo said in an Aug. 16 media briefing in Makati City.

For this year alone, Ayala Health will add 120 stores to the network currently comprising 614 outlets, its Head of Marketing and Community Engagement Maria Carissa Alejandro noted in the same briefing.

Ayala Healthcare acquired 50% of Generika Drugstore in July 2015 from the family of Julien Belo, who co-founded the retailer of affordable, ayala/PAGE 8

in January 2016 ahead of its commercial run a month later. The circulating fluidized bed coal-fired power plant is in Barangay Binugao, Toril District, Davao City and Barangay Inawayan, Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur. On April 8, AboitizPower disclosed that the first unit had tripped in the early afternoon of April 6 because of a boiler tube leak. It scheduled the repair work to last 14 days.

AboitizPower previously

said that the plant was put up to help alleviate the worsening power supply situation in Davao City and the entire Mindanao island.

The power plant supplies baseload power to more than 20 electric cooperatives and distribution utilities. These cover a big portion of the power supply to the cities of Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Gen. Santos, Zamboanga, Butuan, Kidapawan, Tagum, Koronadal, Digos, Pagadian and Cotabato, among others.

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May it be through passive or aggressive marketing, these companies are seeking the best medium to excite its consumers and eventually turning them into loyal customers.

Businesses nowadays need the proper tool or platform to market their products or services. In the Philippines, the online platform has already taken over the marketing industry by storm.

It has now captured various netizens, demographics and

is even geographic that it is able to reach out to the target audience depending on your business’ needs.

Globe myBusiness finally introduces its managed digital advertising service, DigiAds. It aims to handhold entrepreneurs on the appropriate online content and platform to maximize its returns. DigiAds is an avenue for SMEs to be able to take control over its marketing direction.

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of Aleppo.

What’s t he pr ice of idleness? In view of this new dimension of suffering, there’s no doubt that these demands are as important as they are justified. At the same time, they show how limited the West’s options have become to influence current developments. To noticeably ease the besieged population’s hardship, it would take a cease-fire lasting several days, or the end of all fighting - in particular after the creation of safe corridors turned out to be staged by Russia and the Assad regime.

Diplomatic appeals won’t be enough to push through such demands. And that’s the dilemma. Put more bluntly: the West’s total failure lies in the fact that decision makers in Washington and Brussels decided early on not to intervene militarily in Syria, but instead to “let the conflict bleed out,” as one western diplomat so cynically put it.

“As international journalist L o ay Mu d ho on , a ls o reporting for the GermanInternational Deuts che Welle, says: By the time it became clear that Bashar al-Assad’s violent regime had allowing what started as a peaceful revolution to become militarized, and

was working to split society along religious lines, the West should have more vigorously supported the opposition in order to prevent radical Islamists from moving into the power void.

While Assad received massive backing from Russia, Iran and Shiites in Lebanon and Iraq, the West failed to come up with a joint Syria policy. This inertia, in particular the Obama administration’s watering dow n of t he “re d line doctrine” after poison gas was used in the conflict, led to the West’s massive loss of credibility and assertiveness in this conflict.”

So, what should the West do? The question is difficult to answer.

It all depends on Vladimir Putin’s political goals. When he intervened a year ago, the Russian president turned the military tide in Assad’s favor: his regime has meanwhile stabilized, also thanks to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Shiite militia. A political solution for the complex proxy war in Syria against Moscow’s wishes appears impossible.

Diplomatic appeals won’t be enough to get Putin to relent, as Mudhoon stated in his opinion. I agree, because the head of the Kremlin is

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out to demonstrate power, also as a signal to the West with regard to Ukraine. He has clear goals in Syria, with hardly a thought for the Syrian people’s plight and the massive destruction of their country. The conflict’s current constellation can only shift once the US government drastically changes its policies on Assad and his protective powers in Moscow and sheds its pretended powerlessness.

But the election campaign has virtually paralyzed US foreign policies, which gives Putin a free hand in Syria until the end of the year.

Europe will feel the effects of his cynical policies. +++ Email: doringklaus@gmail. com or follow me in Facebook or Twitter or visit www.germanexpatinthephilippines. blogspot.com.

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The Gifts That Count Think a minute…I know a woman who gets sad when her husband sends her roses!

She says: “The only reason my husband gives me flowers is because it’s Valentine’s Day and he thinks he’s expected to. I’d much prefer for him to show his love in the way he talks to me and treats me every day. I wish he’d do the little things like helping me with the kids, taking me out on a date, or just spending some time alone together. I’d be happy if once in a while he’d thank me for all the daily work I do like cooking his favorite food or washing his clothes.”

A n o t h e r w o m a n ’s husband was absent-minded and always forgetting her birthday as well as their wedding anniversary. When her friends asked her what she did on her birthday, she told them that he forgot again. However, then she added: “But last evening we took a long walk together and talked; and that meant much more to me than getting a gift just because it’s my birthday and he was expected to.”

Many children buy or make Mother’s Day cards and presents. The mother tells her children how much she likes them; but she remembers how disrespectful and rude her son was to

The situation in Aleppo/ Syria appears increasingly hopeless. This civil war is on the brink of its greatest humanitarian disaster. But there’s not much the West can do on its own.

The United Nations’ demanding President Duterte to stop Philippines’ nonjudicial killings sounds like a cheap joke comparing many other global war places.

When the siege around eastern Aleppo was surprisingly broken two weeks ago, there was no notable improvement for the civilian population. The insurgents may have defeated the Assad regime and its Russian protecting power, but in fact up to 300,000 people are still trapped in Aleppo.

The supply situation is dire: 1.5 million people have no electricity, no clean drinking water. The biggest humanitarian catastrophe of the Syrian civil war looms.

It’s highly appreciated that German Development M i n i s t e r G e rd Mü l l e r has sounded the alarm, demanding more aid from the EU for the victims of the war. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says it might even become neccessary to set up an “air bridge” to supply the people

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Jhan Tiafau Hurst her the day before. Or how many times she wishes her children would help her with the work around the house without her having to ask them. When love is expressed ONLY on special days that it is expected, it almost can hurt the person receiving it if there is no thoughtfulness and kindness every day. If there are no words of appreciation and love the rest of the year.

That’s why Jesus Christ said He would rather have us love Him by obeying and living for Him every day than for us to give a gift to the church once in a while, so we can try and make up for the way we live the rest of the time. Jesus loves us all very much! He always listens to us and forgives us, no matter how wrong hurst/PAGE 11

LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “…

Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer…”

(Deuteronomy 10:16, the Holy Bible).

-ooo S E NAT E P R O B E CONFIRMS NECESSITY OF FIERCE WAR VS. DRUGS: The Senate inquiry on what is now known as “extra-judicial k i l lings” st rengt hene d, rather than weakened, the campaign against illegal drugs that is being waged quite ferociously by President Duterte and his government since its installation on June 30, 2016.

A m on g m any ot h e r

things, the inquiry showed that the illegal drugs menace in the Philippines poses a big, big threat not only to individual Filipinos but to the whole nation as well, thereby making it a national c a l am it y t hat must b e addressed, violently if need be, if we want to stop the slide of the country towards a system where we are ruled by drug cartels, drug lords, and drug syndicates.

Yes, there will be missteps and abuses, particularly by rouge policemen or other law enforcement authorities who would be exploiting, as some of them have indeed already exploited, Duterte’s

marching orders against drug addicts and drug lords, but, indeed, we are now facing a war where our country’s survival is at stake, a war which is vicious, and violent, and deadly, and which was brought and foisted upon us by those who have been profiting from the illegal drugs trade for some time now.

-ooo ANOTHER CAMPAIGN VS. DRUGS MUST BE WAGED: Be that as it may, I reiterate my submission: in the campaign against drugs, crime, and corruption, it would be a criminal mistake if the Duterte government

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Atty. Batas Mauricio will solely be using the might, force, and the awesome powers, of the State, to crush those who have been engaged in drug pushing. batas/PAGE 8

The gratuity of grace That may be a redundancy, since grace by definition is always gratuitous. It is something given to us at the sheer initiative of our creator.

It is something that we have no right to claim, but is given to us just the same.

And that’s simply because God, our Creator and Father, out of pure goodness and love, wants it that way. He wants that we participate in his very own life by making us his image and likeness and, in fact, children of his.

And in spite of our sin, God still wants to give it to us.

That’s how much he loves us as shown by Christ, the son of God who became man to be our redeemer, who assumed all our sins by dying on the cross and then resurrecting.

As the Compendium of the Catechism would define it, grace is “the gratuitous gift that God gives us to make us participants in his Trinitarian life and able to act by his love.” (423) We cannot love as we are supposed to do unless we have this grace.

T h i s g r a c e i s m ore properly called as the habitual or sanctifying or deifying grace because “it sanctifies and divinizes us. It is also called supernatural because it depends entirely on God’s gratuitous initiative and surpasses the ability of the intellect and the power of human beings. It therefore escapes our experience.”

(423) Aside from this sanctifying grace, there also are the actual

graces which are meant for specific circumstances, sacramental graces which are proper to each sacrament, and other special graces or charisms that are intended for the common good.

Among the charisms are the graces of state that accompany the exercise of Church ministries and the different states and responsibilities of life. (cfr.

424) Examples would be the charism of being a founder of a spiritual group, a leader of a nation, etc.

We have to be aware of the role of grace in our life and activities, since grace is what makes everything that we are and do pleasing to God. Though its presence and action in us is beyond

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Fr. Roy Cimagala our perception, it would help greatly to be aware of it so we can cooperate with it as much as we can and should.

Most importantly, grace enables us to earn merits before God for any good action that we do, since this cimagala/PAGE 7

5 Cebu Landmasters’s pioneering project in Mindanao enjoys fast take-up M Advertising and Editorial E-mail : businessweekmindanao@gmail.com Contact nos. : 0917-7121424 • 0947-8935776

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esaVerte Residences, the pioneering project of Cebu Landmasters, Inc. (CLI) in Cagayan de Oro, is enjoying fast sales takeup, less than a year from its launch last November 2015 and a few weeks from the opening of its showroom early last June.

“Exceeding all expectations, sales for MesaVerte Residences has already reached 85% a little less than a year from launch. The fast take-up is making some of our sales people dizzy with success,” said CLI Chief Executive Officer and President Jose Soberano III. CLI’s first venture into Mindanao, MesaVerte Residences is riding on the current spike in the demand for residential condos in the land of promise and will be opening its Building 3 to the market soon. MesaVerte has three 15-storey towers which will be constructed in 2 phases.

“Cagayan de Oro is the gateway to northern Mindanao and MesaVerte Residences sits perfectly as an emergent living space and community right at the very heart of the city’s thriving commercial

and lifestyle center,” said Soberano.

The real estate project is positioned on a prime 8,740 square meter area amidst the busy Corrales and Osmeña extensions, making the location easily accessible and within the radius of major establishments like schools, hospitals, churches, shopping malls, and offices.

“We still have studio and bedroom units available on affordable payment terms.

We invite prospect buyers and investors to drop by our showroom during office hours from Mondays to Saturdays to check out our featured units,” said Soberano.

The showroom features different unit types; a deliverable 20 square meter studio, 2 studio units combined to make one bedroom, 3 studio units combined to make two bedrooms, as well as 1-bedroom unit layout. The project is expected to be completed by December 2018.

For inquiries and more information, contact the CLI office by phone at (088) 880 8678 and 0917 251 7544 or visit the CLI website at www. cebulandmasters.com.

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Bridging the gap for better workforce management operations. Fujitsu Philippines, Inc., a leading information technology (IT) solutions integrator, recently ties up with Aspect Software, a provider of fully integrated consumer engagement, workforce optimization and self-service, solutions, to integrate its workforce management solutions to the existing Fujitsu cloud services in the country. The said partnership aims to optimize manpower industry in the country by introducing cloud-based platforms that feature intuitive dashboard-based UI; a centralized visibility into employee characteristics, preferences, schedules and performance; sophisticated forecasting algorithms that support multiple business objectives; and a simplified management of workforces across multiple sites and outsourced locations, among others. L-R: Mr. Sanjay Gupta, Head of Cloud Business – APAC, Aspect Software Inc.; Mr. Mark Pandy - Managed Services Business Unit Head, Fujitsu Philippines Inc.; Mr. Cricket Santiago, Chief Executive Officer, Fujitsu Philippines Inc.; Mr. Jagannath Narendran, Senior Vice President - APAC & Middle East, Aspect Software Inc.; Mr. Richard Loberas, Head of Sales – ASEAN & Korea, Aspect Software Inc.

Patients not adhering to medication exposed to potential harm

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Honors its Stakeholders in Region XII and ARMM

It is a prevailing trait of Filipinos to stop or cut down their medicine intake during treatment procedure despite a prescription by a doctor. This is either because they are on a tight budget or they are simply apathetic particularly if the condition is not yet serious.

What many do not realize however, is that the consequences of not adhering to the prescribed treatment regimen almost often becomes severe.

According to a USbased research, patients get hospitalized for an average of 8 to 12 days longer for not complying with treatment regimen.

Aside from the additional costs, brought about by hospitalization, are the complications brought about by the illness itself.

Such risks, however, can be prevented if patients will thoroughly adhere to their medications and follow their doctors’ directions to the letter.

Pharex HealthCorp. acknowledges the dangers patients may

Monetary Board Member Valentin A. Araneta led the awards ceremony for stakeholders of the Bankgo Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) in Region XII and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) during the annual appreciation lunch held at the Pandan Ballroom A, Greenleaf Hotel, san Miguel St., General Santos City on 23 August 2016.

Yellow Bus Line, Inc. was chosen as the Outstanding Respondent among Large and Medium Firms while Horizon Can Corporation was recognized as the Outstanding Respondent among Small Firms for the Business Expectations Survey (BES) in Region XII and ARMM. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)-Region XII and the Regional Board of Investments (BOI)-ARMM both obtained the award for Outstanding Partner for the Report on Regional Economic Developments. Meanwhile, the Outstanding Credit Surety Fund (CSF) Local Government Unit (LGU) Partner was conferred to the Provincial Government of Sarangani.

The Outstanding Regional Partner in Currency Programs of the BSP was conferred to the following; for Clean Note Policy-Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company;

face for not adhering to the treatment regimen.

It is because of this that it introduced the Pharex Compliance Pouch.

This innovation ensures that patients suffering from chronic but manageable illnesses can have a good quality of life by maintaining their adherence to the treatment regimen in a more convenient and affordable way.

“Compliance with prescribed medication helps decrease the risk of hospitalization and the accompanying complications,” said Tomas Marcelo Agana III, president and CEO of Pharex. “Taking accurate and on-time anti-hypertensive drugs, for instance, can cause better control of blood pressure and can even

reverse the condition or prevent it from getting worse.”

Pharex is known for its pharmaceutical excellence and genuine care for the health of Filipinos over the years, offering world-class but affordable products.

“With our wide-range of affordable and quality medicines, patients will be able to comply with their treatment regimen,” Agana added, “Aside from being safe, we ensure that our medicines are affordable and accessible.”

Pharex Compliance Pouch is designed to ensure that patients have the adequate supply of quality medicines until the next payday. This means that patients are able to better budget for their

essential medicines and avoid cutting corners where their health is concerned. it also comes in durable, water-proof and resealable foil pouches that keep the contents clean, dry and conveniently available anytime the patient needs it.

Agana concluded, “In Pharex, we are conscious of the value of medication adherence to secure a healthy state of life. That is why we are inclined to innovating products that help to guarantee patients’ compliance to their medications.”

Pharex’ 15-day Compliance Pouch is available in all leading drugstores. To get more information about the brand, contact 433-8088 (local 820).

for Coin RecirculationSave Kusion Reef; and for Demonetization of the New Design Series-Office of the Regional Treasurer-ARMM and the Department of Trade and Industry-General Santos City Field Office. Lastly, the University of Southern Mindanao-College of Business, Development Economics and Management was recognized as the Outstanding Regional Partner in implementing BSP Advocacy on the Conduct of P u bl i c In for m at i on Campaigns. Each awardee received the “D ynamic Balance, Philippine Eagle” trophy crafted by visual artist and multi-awarded sculptor, Mr. Ferdinand Cacnio.

The awards ceremony attest to the succesful alliances that have helped the BSP maintain price and financial stability and ensure an efficient payments and settlement system.

Stakeholders of the BSP in the National Capital Region were earlier recognized during the awards ceremony at the BSP Main Complex, Manila on 13 July 2016. This year’s awards ceremony and appreciation lunch for stakeholders in Region XII marks the seventh time that the BSP has awarded stakeholders in Region XII and ARMM and is the seventh in a series of 12 regional events for this year.

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P R O P O S E D tax incre as e for oil products is counterproductive and will negate any relief people could get from the reduction of personal income and corporate taxes, according to a party-list lawmaker.

“This proposal is antipeople and would definitely have an adverse effect on consumers. Higher taxes for oil would create a domino effect that would spike the prices of basic goods and ser vices like water and electricity,” said Party-list

Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate of Bayan Muna.

He made an example to illustrate the folly: imagine, he said, how a P10-increase in gasoline and P6-increase in diesel would impact prices of rice, fish and meat.”These would be so burdensome to

ordinary citizens,” he added, speaking in Filipino.

He expressed hope that Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez would consider delisting the petroleum tax from the options being eyed by fiscal managers in order to cover the forgone revenue

BSP approves creation of personal trust accounts THE CENTRAL BANK has allowed the creation of personal management trust (PMT) accounts as a new product that may be tapped for estate planning.

In a statement, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said it has approved a new rule establishing the PMT, which will replace the current living trust account (LTA) instrument

used in saving up funds for the future.

Unlike the LTA, a Filipino who owns a PMT may choose to appoint himself as the fund beneficiary, apart from relatives or a third party. BSP Governor Amando M. Tetangco, Jr. said the new fund is a response to an emerging trend of “one-person households” in the country and across Asia.

BSP reminds public to always protect PIN and PASSWORD THE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reminds financial consumers to always protect their personal identification number (PIN) and password against identity theft.

To guard against identity thieves, the BSP advises financial consumers to always select a PIN or password that is easy to remember but is not based on obvious personal information such as a birthday, an anniversary, an address or a telephone number.

The BSP also urges financial consumers to refrain from using easyto-guess entries such as “password” or “123456.”

To strengthen PIN and password, the BSP recommends the use of character combinations (e.g. symbols, punctuation marks, numb ers, and uppercase and lowercase

letters). As a f ur t her precaution, the BSP urges financial consumers to regularly and systematically change PIN and password.

Aside from the judicious selection of password and PIN, the BSP advis es financial consumers to strictly avoid sharing said information to anyone, even with families and friends.

Moreover, the BSP advises the consumers to avoid using a single PIN or password for all their accounts as this will only make it easier for identity thieves to access financial information from said accounts.

The BSP promotes financial education and financial consumer protection in view of its belief that consumers who can make well-informed financial decisions are reliable partners in fostering Financial Stability. (PNA)

“The PMT is expected to address the clamor of the market, especially those who have no capacity, or who do not see the necessity of appointing thirdparty beneficiaries,” the BSP said.

A person may put up a PMT for a minimum P100,000 investment, which will be handled by a fund manager who will raise or preserve funds or properties that will finance education, retirement, and wealth accumulation, among other goals.

Existing LTAs will be migrated and considered as

PMTs once the central bank releases a formal circular on the new investment tool, which would also signal the winding down of LTA offerings.

The BSP first issued guidelines covering LTAs in 2006, which allowed a person to convey property or a sum of money to be managed by a trustee under an agreement that details the purpose of the trust fund, the nature and value of the entrusted assets, and the terms of how the trust will be released to a person’s heirs.

expected once the Duterte administration fulfills its promise to cut personal income and corporate taxes, currently among the highest in Asia.

The DOF should look for other non-tax means that would not hit the poor as hard, Zarate said. “We can look at the national budget for other items that could defray the lost tax revenue from lowering income taxes,” and gave as examples: the Risk Management Fund at P30 billion, the Comprehensive Automotive Resurgence Strategy at $600 million or P28.2 billion as well the Industry Competitive Fund at P5 billion.

B as e d on t he D OFproposed comprehensive tax reform package, an excise tax increase on gas, diesel and other oil products would bring an estimated revenue gain of P178 billion in the

first year of implementation.

The DOF’s proposal was to raise the tax on regular kerosene and other products to P10 per liter.

Under the proposal, similar hikes are contemplated on products subject to excise tax like aviation turbo jet fuel, lubricating greases and oils, leaded and unleaded premium gasoline, naphtha as well as petrolatum and waxes.

Finance has also proposed a tax increase of P6 per liter for diesel as well as other products currently exempted from excise tax, including asphalts, bunker fuel oil, denatured alcohol used for motive power, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and processed gas.

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Nutrition Month Culmination Program 2016 of Panampawan Elementary School Panampawan, Claveria, Misamis Oriental

By EVANGELYN L. ARAZO

Presidential Degree 491 or the Nutrition Act of the Philippines appointed the National Nutrition Council as the lead agency to coordinate the nationwide celebration of this annual event held every July, the Nutrition Month.

The National Nutrition Council released its theme for this year “First 1000 days ni baby pahalagahan para sa malusog na kinabukasan”, which was based on the winning entry of Desiree P. Reyes of Los Banos, Laguna.

Nutrition Month 2016 has two main objectives: a) to create awareness on the importance of proper infant and young child feeding prac t ices, p ar t ic u larly exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months while continuing breastfeeding; and b) to promote

collaboration among various stakeholders both at the national and local levels for programs serving families with pregnant mothers and children less than two years old.

Ever y school was mandated by the National Nu t r i t i o n C o u n c i l t o help the school children celebrate their nutrition month program. And so, in order to help the school ch i l d re n c e l e br ate it s nutrition month, the active stakeholders of Panampawan Elementary School find its own simple way to facilitate this event by giving in-school feeding program, market day (display of different fruits and vegetables) and most of all, the “Search for Nutri-King and Queen 2016” which is the highlight of the event.

Fe e d i n g w a s m a d e to happen through the collaborative effort of five (5) teachers namely: Mrs. Evangelyn Arazo, Mrs. Irish Fabre, Mrs. Disire Fabela, Mrs. Annalyn Enlawan and Mrs. Gretchen Nova Manoop, who wholeheartedly gave their support by funding the said feeding to the school children from Kindergarten to Grade 6 for free from their own pocket expense.

And of course with the aid of the helping hands from the benevolent parents who voluntarily rendered their effort in cooking the agreed menu for the children.

The display of fruits and vegetables or “market day” was also over and done with the help of individual pupils in each grade level.

Every pupil was assigned to broug ht f r uits and

vegetables available in their communities.

And the climax of that day’s event was the “Search for Nutri-King and Queen 2016”. A pair of boy and girl every grade level was chosen to represent their class on that search. And there was a total of six pair’s contender for Nutri-King and Queen 2016. At the end of the program, contender from Grade 4 was declared winner and crowned as the NutriKing and Queen 2016 in the person of Jett J. Amontos and Jephanaia S. Amante.

The nutrition month culmination program 2016 of Panampawan Elementary School was indeed simple yet fulfilling not only to the stakeholders but most particularly to the schoolchildren who is the heart of everyone’s endeavor.

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Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL 10th Judicial Region Cagayan de Oro City Branch 22 OFFICE OF THE PROVINCIAL SHERIFF SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE File No. 2016-384 Upon Extra-Judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended filed by NATIONAL HOME MORTGAGE FINANCE CORPORATION (NHMFC), mortgagee, with postal address at 104 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City against REYNALDO SERINA MORENO, single, mortgagor/s, of legal age/s, Filipino/s with postal address at Block 4, Lot 14, Scions Elite 400 Subdivision, Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City, to satisfy the mortgaged indebtedness which was as of February 18.2016 amounts to EIGHT HUNDRED SIXTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED NINETY NINE PESOS AND 41/100 (P 816,699.41) Philippine Currency excluding, penalty charges, attorney’s fees and expenses of foreclosure, the undersigned sheriff will sell at public auction on September 26,2016 at 10:00 a.m. or soon thereafter at the RTC Branch 22 Office, City Tourism Hall, City Hall, Cagayan de Oro City, to the highest bidder, for CASH and in Philippine Currency, the herein described property and all improvements thereon to wit: TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-60280 A PARCEL OF LAND (Lot 14, Block 4, Psd-10-013199, being portion of PCS-10-000133), situated in the Barrio of Kauswagan, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY EIGHT (188) SQUARE METERS more or less, and all other improvements thereon.

Prospective bidders may investigate for themselves the title of the herein described property and encumbrances thereon, if any there be.

All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above stated time and date.

In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be on the next working day without further notice.

Cagayan de Oro City, August 15, 2016.

FOR THE PROVINCIAL EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF: (Sgd.) JOEL LYDVEL G. PAKINO Sheriff IV

BWM: Aug. 24, 31 & Sept. 7, 2016

Republic of the Philippines REGIONA TRIAL COURT OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL 10th Judicial Region Cagayan de Oro City Branch 40 OFFICE OF THE PROVINCIAL SHERIFF SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE EJF File No. 2016-383 Upon Extra-Judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended filed by BALIKATAN PROPERTY HOLDINGS, INC., mortgagee, with postal address at 23/F RCBC Savings Bank Corporate Center, 26th & 25th Streets, Bonifacio South, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City against EMILDA B. OCO, mortgagor/s, of legal age/s, Filipino/s with known address at Villa Candida Subd., Barangay Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City, to satisfy the mortgaged indebtedness which was as of July 20,2016 amounts to TWO HUNDRED FORTY ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY EIGHT PESOS AND 76/100 (P 241,748.86) Philippine Currency excluding interest, penalty charges, attorney’s fees and expenses of foreclosure, the undersigned sheriff will sell at public auction on September 23,2016, at 10:00 a.m. or soon thereafter at the RTC Branch 40 office, Capitol Compound, Cagayan de Oro City, to the highest bidder, for CASH and in Philippine Currency, the herein described properties and all existing and future improvements thereon to witTRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-80235 REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF EMILDA BACULIO OCO A PARCEL OF LAND (Lot 20,Block 14, Psd-104305-017783, being a portion of Lot Block 22, Psd-10-015484), situated in the barrio of Bulua, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao.Bounded on x xx, Beginning at x xx; Cad-237, Cagayan Cadastre, Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED (100) SQUARE METERS more or less, and all other improvements thereon.

Prospective buyers/bidders may investigate for themselves the title of the herein described property and encumbrance thereon, if any there be.

All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above stated time and date.

In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be on the next working day without any further notice.

Cagayan de Oro City, August 15, 2016.

FOR THE PROVINCIAL EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF:

(Sgd.) ALAN M. BANAAG Sheriff IV

BWM: Aug. 24, 31 & Sept. 7, 2016

NGCP warns illegal settlers of dangers of living under transmission lines With its ongoing campaign against constructing houses and living underneath highvoltage transmission lines and towers, NGCP once again reminded the public, particularly illegal settlers in urban areas, to respect transmission line safety clearances.

The warning came after a fire broke out at late last month, at a highly populated area 300 meters away from NGCP’s Quezon Substation at Baesa, Quezon City. The fire emanated from an upholstery shop located under the Quezon – San Jose 230kV backbone line, between towers 58 and 59, and adjacent Quezon – San Rafael 230kV backbone line, between towers 508 and 509.

The close proximity of the fire to the two transmission lines puts

NGCP’s operations at risk as the heavy smoke of the fire could have tripped the transmission lines serving Metro Manila and the surrounding provinces. Both lines carry a combined capacity of 1264 MW, with Quezon –San Jose 230kV lines 1 and 2 having 618MW load each, and Quezon – San Rafael 230kV with 28MW load.

“We are grateful that the Bureau of Fire Protection responded immediately to put out the fire. Heavy smoke underneath high voltage transmission lines can cause interruption of transmission services. Since these lines are critical to delivering power to Metro Manila, we could have suffered through a metro-wide power interruption had the fire not been abated quickly,”

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merit it even if it is God’s pure initiative to give it to us gratuitously.

This aspect of grace in relation to us is not easy to understand, because we can always ask why should it be merited if after all it is given to us gratuitously and freely? To this question, a number of possible answers have been offered, ranging from the extreme of pure gratuity without merit at all to the other extreme of pure merit and thus undermining the gratuity of grace.

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action would be united with the most pleasing sacrifice of Christ to his Father.

Such awareness would lead us to be most thankful to God and to do everything with rectitude of intention, t h at i s , w it h hu m i l it y, with desire to do things as best as we can, with deep understanding of the twists and turns, the ups and downs of our life. It endows us with a sense of purpose in life. It prevents us from getting lost in life, or confused and swept away by worldly forces.

With such awareness, we would know that we are never alone in our life, that the source of everything good is God always and not just ourselves or some natural resources. It makes us objective and realistic, not simply subjective and inventive, and much less, up in the clouds.

The nature of grace is such that, given our human condition as God’s children, we need to ask for it and

Hike... from page 6

much of the exemptions - the government, said Zarate, should even “help us in scrapping VAT from basic services like electricity, water, oil products and even systems loss. Hindi dapat sabihin na kapag may lower income taxes ay magtataas naman sa VAT o palalawakin ito, may iba pang paraan para mapunan ang mawawalang kita, isa na dyan ay galingan nila ang pagkolekta ng tamang buwis.”

stated NGCP. The fire was declared under control two and a half hours after it broke out.

The company also took the opportunity to reiterate the effect of ROW violations, specifically squatting underneath transmission facilities, on the safety and security of the host communities, and the smooth delivery of electricity.

“Living underneath our lines is not only unsafe, but it poses a real threat to the security and reliability of the grid. Breaching our ROW clearances can cause line tripping and possible grid collapse.

These homes and structures should never have been built so close to, or directly underneath our lines, given the inherent danger of the area, and the critical nature of these facilities in the

delivery of power to the different parts of the country,” NGCP stressed.

NGCP is a privately owned corporation in charge of operating, maintaining, and developing the country’s power grid.

It transmits highvoltage electricity through “power superhighways” that include the interconnected system of transmission lines, towers, substations, and related assets. The consortium, which holds the 25-year concession contract to operate the country’s power transmission network, is comprised of Monte Oro Grid Resources Corp. led by Henry Sy, Jr., Calaca High Power Corporation led by Robert Coyiuto, Jr., and the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) as technical partner.

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Ayala... from page 3

quality generic medicines with Teodoro Ferrer in 2003.

To further deepen its foray into health care, Ayala launched primary care clinics under the brand FamilyDOC in December 2015. The first two clinics were opened in Las Piñas and Imus, Cavite.

Ayala Health will open four more FamilyDOC clinics within the fourth quarter in Sabang, Dasmariñas; Golden City, Imus; Marcos Alvarez, Las Piñas; and Molino, Bulacan.

Fam i ly D O C i nte nds to continue expanding its presence in south of the National Capital Region and eventually to other parts of the country, identifying middleclass communities as potential sites for expansion.

Ay a l a E d u c a t i o n , meanwhile, has also breached the 10,000 mark for enrolment i n A f f o r d a b l e P r i v at e Education Center (APEC) Schools, a partnership with the United Kingdom-based Pearson Affordable Learning Fund.

In a separate media briefing in Makati City on Aug. 16, Ayala Education Chief Executive Officer Alfredo I. Ayala said APEC Schools admitted 10,300 students for the academic year, exceeding its target of 9,000 target.

Ayala first opened APEC Schools for academic year 2013-2014, taking in 130 students. The school has since grown 27 branches, with the latest addition in Naga Road in Las Piñas, E. Rodriguez

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Avenue in Quezon City and Concepcion Dos in Marikina.

The conglomerate is investing in businesses supporting the country’s economic growth, spending over P500 billion on capital expenditures over the last five years and employing 90,000 Filipinos.

Ayala has earmarked another P174 billion in capital expenditures, including P22.4 billion on the parent level, for this year alone.

In the six months to June, Ayala booked P13.8 billion in net income attributable to the parent, a 32% improvement from the P10.40 billion posted a year earlier. Equity earnings across businesses rose 24% to P16.4 billion, as consolidated revenues increased 12% to P108.35 billion.

Among the non-listed business es, AC Energ y Holdings, Inc. tripled its earnings to P578 million on higher contributions from its operating thermal plants, GNPower in Mariveles in Bataan and South Luzon Thermal Energy Corp. in Batangas.

Earnings from the automotive segment, meanwhile, more than tripled to P402 million on strong sales across the Honda and Isuzu brands and higher contributions from the Isuzu distribution businesses.

The Ayala group netted another P27 million from its t ransp or t business, following the takeover of AC Infrastructure Holdings Corp. of the Light Rail Transit-Line 1 in September last year.

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Through DigiAds, business owners will be able to consult on appropriate content and platforms for their specific requirements including guidance on the overall digital campaign execution and reporting to measure the performance.

With a minimum campaign or subscription period of three (3) months, Globe myBusiness customers can avail of packages starting at P4,500/month.

DigiAds’ advertising platforms include Facebook, Instagram, and Google Search. These platforms can be mixed and match depending on the customer’s budget and preference.

Batas... from page 4

True, no criminal syndicate can ever match the firepower of the government’s armed forces, and no one can question the right of those in power to use all force that would be necessary to eliminate or stop the scourge of drug addition and drug peddling among our countrymen.

But I am sure that for every drug addict or drug lord who maybe killed while Duterte is in power, other persons would simply take their places as time goes by, and would become the new addict or the new drug lord. The frightening scenario here is the “mutation” of these new addicts or new drug lords into fiercer, greedier, and more determined drug personalities, particularly when Duterte is no longer around, perhaps in 2022, or, God forbid, sooner than is expected.

-ooo DUTERTE GOV’T MUST TRY TO CHANGE FILIPINOS IN THEIR MINDS AND HEARTS: I reiterate: side by side with the on-going violent and unforgiving police and military campaign to eradicate illegal drugs, there must be a parallel campaign

to change the minds and hearts of Filipinos, from being supportive of drug abuse or drug use, for whatever reason, to being abhorrent of all forms of illegal acts and practices.

This can only be done by bringing our people back to the basics of good manners and right conduct, of loving and fearing God above all else, with all their heart, with all their souls and all their might, and of treating other persons as they would want themselves to be treated, or talked to, or considered.

How do we do this? We can start by imitating what the Supreme Court has done in all the courts nationwide---require people who have anything to do with the dispensation of justice to pray to a God who is “the supreme Judge”.

Duterte can order all the offices in the executive department to gather its officials and employees every morning, before any transaction is to be carried out, to also pray. The prayer of a righteous man, after all, is powerful and effective!

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Phone: 0922 833 43 96, 0918 574 0193, 0977 805 9058. Email: batasmauricio@yahoo.com.

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF LANAO DEL SUR 12th JUDICIAL REGION BRANCH 10 Hall of Justice, Marawi City IN THE MATTER OF CANCELLATION OF THE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH OF PACITA N. MACMAC

SPL. PROC NO. 2401-16

PACITA N. MACMAC Petitioner, -versusTHE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF MARAWI CITY, and THE ADMINISTRATOR AND CIVIL REGISTRAR GENERAL OF THE PHILIPPINES STATISTICS AUTHORITY Respondents, x--------------------------------------------------------x ORDER Before this court is verified petition for cancellation of the certificate of live birth of PACITA N. MACMAC dated 21 June 2016, and which reads in part: 1. Petitioner is of legal age, married and resident of Roxas Street, Marawi City where she may be served with the orders and other processes of this court; 2. Respondent Local Civil Registrar (LCR) of Marawi City is the custodian of all records of birth of persons born in the City of Marawi, and may be served with the orders and other processes of this Court at the office of the Civil Registrar , Marawi City Hall Compound, Marawi City; 3. Respondent Civil Registrar General and Administrator of the Philippines Statistics Authority is the central custodian of all records of birth in the country and may be served with orders and other court processes at the NSO building, East Avenue, Diliman , Quezon City; 4. Petitioner was born to parents MACMAC T. SAROMANDANG and H. NORON S. SAROMANDANG on September 16,1962; 5. Petitioner Belatedly registered the fact of her birth with Respondent LCR of Marawi on July 1999, a copy of her Certificate of Live Birth (COLB) is hereto attached and marked as Annex “A” and as Annex “B” is a copy of Municipal Form No. 102 (LCR Form) covering the belated registration of petitioner’s birth; 6. Unknown to her, her birth was belatedly registered on February 25, 1998. As a matter of fact, she had existing COLB under Registry No. 98-988 (Annex “C”); 7. Unfortunately, the said COLB reflects an erroneous entry as to her date of birth. The said COLB states that she was born on September 25,1965 instead of her correct date of birth which is September 16,1962; 8. COLB No. 98-988 states that the informant thereof was NORMINA MACMAC. Further, the relationship of the informant to the petitioner, as stated therein, is SISTER, when in truth in fact NORMINA is the petitioner herself after she has performed hajj pilgrimage; 9. The existence of COLB 98-988 is unknown to herein petitioner much more the cause behind the erroneous entries thereto; 10. Since petitioner begun transacting with public and private entities alike, she has been consistently using September 16,1962 as her date of birth. To prove such consistent use, attached as Annex “D” is petitioner’s Certificate of Marriage and as Annex “E” is the Certificate of Muslim Filipino Tribal Membership duly issued by the National Commission on Filipinos; 11. COLB No. 98-988 should be cancelled, not only because it contains an erroneous entry but more because it raises an unreasonable confusion as to the identity of the petitioner; 12. Further, this petition is never intended to defraud anyone, much more the government of the Republic of the Philippines but solely for the purpose of straightening the records of the petitioner; 13. Lastly, petitioner submits nobody will be prejudiced by the granting of this petition.

Finding the aforesaid petition to be sufficient in form and substance, it is hereby ordered that the same be set for hearing before this Court on August 25,2016 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning.

Let a copy of this order be published at the expense of the petitioner in a newspaper of general circulation in Lanao del Sur or Marawi City or Iligan City for three (3) consecutive weeks.

The Local Civil Registrar of Marawi City and the Civil Registrar General, or any oerson or party who has an interest in the petition, may file his/her opposition thereto within fifteen (15) days from notice of this Petition or form the last day of publication of this Order.

Further, let this Order be posted for Fifteen (15) days prior to the date of hearing in the Bulletin Board of the Local Civil Registrar of Marawi City and the Bulletin Board of this court, also at the expenses of the petitioner.

The petitioner is directed to notify this Court of publication of this Order not later than three (3) days before August 25,2016.

Furnish copies of this Order, together with the copies of the petition to the Local Civil Registrar of Marawi City, the Hon. Solicitor General, Makati City; and the Hon. Civil Registrar General, Philippine Statistics Office, Santa Mesa, Manila.

SO ORDERED. Marawi City, Philippines. July 12,2016.

(Sgd.) WENIDA B.M. PAPANDAYAN Presiding Judge BWM: Aug. 10, 17 & 24, 2016

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“The biochar improves carbon-nitrogen ratio and improves soil in general; the sawdust improves the carbon ratio as well as traps urine, which improves the overall N-P-K level of the compost. And we add lactobacilli to degrade the manure faster,” explained Dr. Elmer Sayre, in-house adviser to the internationally-acclaimed Water, Agroforestry, Nutrition and Development Foundation, based in Libertad, Misamis Oriental.

In Barangay Pagatpat, Cagayan de Oro City, Honorio Cervantes is busy mixing what is now famously known as “Cervantes Mix” which he is using to infuse FAITH (Food Always In The Table) to whoever is willing to listen and learn.

“We use cow manure, chicken dung, goat dung, b-char or bamboo charcoal, vermicast, ‘Sendong soil’ ( f rom t he C ag ay an d e Oro River). We dry these ingredients, pulverized them and then mix all of them in equal parts. To this, we mix lime to neutralize the acidity of the soil. Then we subject the mix to composting. After several days, we have very rich soil for our square-foot garden,” the retired colonel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) told this reporter.

Cervantes’ three-hundredsquare-meter (300 sq.m) S quare-Fo ot Garden is an Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) learning site that is hailed for Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), the first here in the city.

In Davao City, Jojo Rom, the Kagay-anon who has gathered local, national and international awards and recognition for democratizing agriculture through his innovative urban container gardening (UCG), teaches visitors the “secret” of his success: a mix of kitchen ash, tops oi l, p owdere d charcoal, coco peat, vermicast and compost made from biodegradable kitchen wastes.

Into this “UCG soil” compost, he mixes a concoction of rice wash, fermented urine and barrel composting juice to further elevate the richness of the soil.

Through UCG, Rom is equipping whoever is willing to listen and learn how to “fight” giant agricultural companies, like Monsanto, by elevating [urban] agriculture as the noblest profession.

“UCG is the cheapest and healt hiest way of fo o d production as it utilizes biowastes as sources of fertilizers in growing crops,” he said.

Life depends on soils Common to these three organic agricultural leaders is their homage to soil, which they recognized as “the foundation of organic farming.” This is the reason why they go the extra distance in creating their own version of the “perfect soil” to grow food. It is also their way of connecting to the earth as they all believe that life depends on soils. Why? Because soils

play a key role in supplying us, human beings, with our most basic needs, especially food. “Thus, special attention must be paid to soils,” Sayre said.

But it is very ironic that humans, in our effort to make soils more productive, poison the very earth that sustains life through the application of various laboratory-made chemicals. Modern homo sapiens who are supposed to know better as sentient beings treat soils as dirt instead of as an endowment to sustain and nurture life. Humans have degraded soils and alter their life-giving properties in the name of mass food production.

And blame is laid squarely at the foot of today’s dominant agricultural system that teaches farmers to focus on the chemical components instead of on soils’ biological components, all in the name of agricultural productivity.

A n d t h i s “ag r i c u ltu r a l productivity” to feed the w o r l d ’s e v e r - g r o w i n g population is responsible for most of the world’s soils’ degradation.

Thus, to infuse life back into soils in order for soils to sustain life, organic farmers like Sayre, Cervantes and Rom treat with respect the ground beneath their feet,

adding organic matters to it to “feed” and maintain the health of the biology of the soil because organic farmers know that it is the biological components of soils that aid plant growth and minimizes pressure from pests, weeds and diseases.

“Organic wastes are sources of naturally-processed minerals and nutrients readily absorbable by plants. Thus, it is important to add organic materials [to soils] because it feeds the micro-organisms responsible for breaking down biomass into simple forms readily absorbable by plant root system. Organic materials also create an enabling environment for gas (CO2-O2) exchanges to occur freely in the rootzone at the same time loosens the soil so that ‘feeder roots’ can freely move around, thus fast apical and lateral growth of plants are expected.

They also strengthen both functions of the root system: anchorage and absorption,” Rom explained in an email.

Richard Stehouwer of the Department of Crop and Soil Science of the Penn State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences said that healthy organic soil is populated by millions of organisms, including different types of bacteria, fungi, yeasts

and earthworms. And these are the biological components of soils that organic matters “feed”.

According to the International Federations of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)— Organics International, “biological activity is a primary indicator of soil quality and health. Highquality, fertile soils are living systems with an overall capacity to act as the foundation of a regenerative ecological system. The more that soil biological activity is encouraged, the greater the potential it has for being productive.”

In short, “organic matters improve soils’ structure and overall fertility...If soil is healthy so are the plants growing on it, and then animals feeding on plants become healthy too, then man utilizing farm productivity both plants and animals will then be healthy too,” Sayre said. from page 1

are allowed to plant crops in between the rows of trees, thus creating a fireline that prevents repetitive blazes that have been haunting Mapawa every summer and especially during the height

AFFIDAVIT OF ADJUDICATION BY SOLE HEIR OF THE ESTATE OF DECEASED PERSON I, ROSALINA V. QUIÑOLA, of legal, Filipino, widow, with residence and post office address at Poblacion, Baroy, Lanao del Norte, Philippines, after been duly sworn to in accordance with law, hereby depose and say.

2.

That I am the sole heir as the surviving spouse in the second marriage of deceased FORTUNATO Q. QUIÑOLA who died intestate and without any issue in Baroy, Lanao del Norte, Philippines, on December 24, 1994 as evidenced by Certification of Fact of Death dated April 8, 2015 issued by the Office of the Municipal Civil Registrar, Tubod, Lanao del Norte, hereto attached as Annex “A” and made an integral part of this affidavit; That the said deceased FORTUNATO Q. QUIÑOLA at the time of his death left an estate which is a parcel of agricultural land situated at Barangay Princesa, Baroy, Lanao del Norte, more particularly described as follows: “A parcel of land, designated as Lot No. 2390, Pls-13 situated at Barangay Princesa, Baroy, Lanao del Norte, Island of Mindanao Philippines, Bounded on the NW., along lines 2-3 by Lot No. 1377 ,Pls 13; on the NE ., along lines 3-4-5 by Ininguian River; on the SE., along lines 5-6-1 by Lot No. 1376 and on the NW., along lines 1-2 by Lot No. 1367 , Pls-13; Beginning at a point marked “1” OF Lot 2390, Pls-13 being N, 48 deg., 07’E, 228.28 m from BLLM No. 112, Pls-13, thenceN 41 deg 57’W 52.78 m. to pt. 2; N 43 deg 59’E 251.85 m to pt. 3 N 76 deg 36’E 108.90 m. to pt. 4; S 70 deg 36’E 68.56 m to pt. 5 S 66 deg 11’W 15.23 m. to pt. 6; S 60 deg 42’W 339.77m to pt.1, Point of beginning.”

Containing an area of TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED THIRTY (28,930) square meters more or less, Covered with Original Certificate of Title No. P-7954 issued by the Office of Register Deeds for Province of Lanao del Norte in the name of Felisa Q. Quińola married to Fortunato Q. Quiňola, with Tax Declaration No. G1500627 in the name of Felisa Q. Quiňola and with an assessed value of ₱55,420.00

That Felisa Q. Quiňola is the wife of Fortunato Q. Quiňola in his first marriage who died without any issue leaving Fortunato Q. Quiňola as her sole heir; That to the best knowledge and information of the party hereto, the deceased Fortunato Q. Quiňola left no debts; That aside from the herein party the deceased has no other legal heirs and he died without any issue; That pursuant to Rule 74,Sec. 1 of the Revised Rules of Court, I hereby adjudicate unto myself the whole portion of the above-described real property by means of this Affidavit and hereby files the same with the Register of Deeds of the Province of Lanao del Norte, with the request that the said adjudication be made effective without judicial proceedings as prescribed by the aforementioned Rules of Court, IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of August 2016 in the Tubod, Lanao del Norte, in the Province of Lanao del Norte, Mindanao, Philippines.

ROSALINA V. QUIÑOLA Affiant WITNESS: _______________________________

__________________________________

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 6th day of August 2016 in the Municipality of Tubod, Lanao del Norte, Philippines. Affiant exhibited to me her document of identity which is her Senior Citizen ID No. 6387 issued on December 10, 2012, known to me to be the same person who executed the foregoing affidavit, and she acknowledged to me that the same is her free act and deed.

WITNESS MY HAND AND NOTARIAL SEAL on the date and at the place first above written.

Doc. No. 429 Page No. 86 Book No. LXXN Series of 2016

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Atty. DOROTHEA SALIGAN BASALO Notary Public Until December 31,2016 PTR No. 2849374/ Jan. 04,2016/Tubod,LDN IBP OR NO.1016148/ Jan.08,2016 LANAO DEL NORTE CHAPTER Roll No.53300 MCLE Certificate of Compliance No. V-0001332

“ The benefits of this project are far reaching. Aside from improving biodiversity and sustaining water supply, good forest covers prevent s oi l e ro s i on and ave r t catastrophic floods,” Steag forestry consultant Cesar Nuevo said.

Forests are carbon stores and they are carbon dioxide sinks when they are increasing in density or area.

The 1,290-hectare Mapawa Nature Park operates on an integrated forest management agreement (IFMA) and has been cited as a model reforestation project.

The 232-MW combined capacity of the two coal-fired plants of Steag State Power, Inc. has been operating since 2006 from nearby Villanueva, M i s a m i s O r i e nt a l a n d supplies electricity to the Mindanao grid.

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of El Nino.

There were about 134 people’s organizations that are assisting the project, Orteza said.

The forest carbon sink at Mapawa is a joint endeavor between the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB), Steag State Power Inc. and Mapawa Nature Park. In fact, newly installed EMB director Emil Gonzales visited the area last week.

T h e 2 5 - ye ar- proj e c t which started in 2004 has already caused the growth of more than 250,000 trees, mostly gmelina, mahogany, pine and falcata.

B eyond random tree planting, EMB is injecting technology into the project, intro ducing germplasm genetics and soil analysis to maximize the growth of all seedlings that have been planted.

NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE EJF No.: 2014-07-2016 Upon the Extra Judicial Petition for Sale Under Act 3135/1508, as amended, filed by the LAND BANK OF THE PHILIPPINES Branch Office Cagayan de Oro Lending Center, 2/F Green Tower Bldg. Velez- Luna Sts., Cagayan de Oro City against BONITA AND CESAR CABATAÑA SR., CHERRY CABATAÑA AND CHRISTIAN CABATAÑA, Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte to satisfy the indebtedness which as of October 30, 2015 amounting to ONE MILLION NINE HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR THOUSAND EIGHTEEN PESOS AND 91/100 (Php 1,944,018.91) excluding penalties, changes, attorney’s fee and expenses of foreclosure, the undersigned or his duly authorized deputy will sell at Public Auction on 21st day of September 2016 at 10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter at the Regional Trail Court, Branch 07, Provincial Capitol of Lanao del Norte, Pigcarangan, Tubod, Lanao del Norte to the highest bidder for cash or manager’s check and in Philippine Currency, the following property with all its improvements, to wit: 1. TRANSFER OF CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-12,770 A parcel of land (Lot 6468) situated in the Barrio of Rebucon, Kolambugan LN Municipality of Kolambugan, Province of Lanao del Norte, Island of Mindanao. Bounded on the S. along line 1-2 by Lot 6505, Pls-89 Ext. on the SW, W., and NW., along lines 2-3-4-5-6-78-9 by Rebucon Creek; on the N., along lines 9-10-11 by Lot 6475.

Pls 89 Ext., and on the N., and NE., along lines 11-12-13-14-15-1

by Muntay Creek. With an area of SIXTY TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR (62,744) SQUARE METERS. With all the improvements found thereon.

2. TRANSFER OF CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-12,771 A parcel of land (Lot 4525) situated in the barrio of Kolambugan Lanao del Norte Municipality of Kolambugan, Province of Lanao del Norte. Island of Mindanao. Bounded on the N., by Lot 6468 of Maigo Pls-89; on the E., by Lot 6467, of Maigo Pls-89; on the SE., by Lot 6467 of Maigo Pls-89 and Rebucon Creek; and on W., Rebucon Creek; with an area of (69,883) Square meter with all the improvements found thereon.

3. TRANSFER OF CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-16,510 A parcel of land (Lot 7346) situated in the barrio of Magpatao, Lala Lanao del Norte, Island of Mindanao. Bounded on the W., along line 1-2 by Lot 362, Pls-13; on the NW., along line 2-3 by Lot 7347, swo-24530; on the E., along line 3-4 by National Highway; and on the SE., along line 4-1 by Lot 7345, swo-24530. With an area of (585) square meter with all the improvements found thereon.

4. ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. P-466 A parcel of land (Lot_______) situated in the barrio of Tubod, Lanao del Norte, Island of Mindanao. Bounded on the NE., along line 1-2 by Maciano Maghinay; along line 2-3 by BUREAU OF FORESTRY; on the SE., along line 3-4 by ALEJO CAPAMPANGAN and RONOLFO CABYLE; on the SW., along line 4-5 by DOMINADOR BIHAG; and on the NW., along line 5-1 by NATIONAL HIGHWAY. With an area of (427) square meter more or less with all improvements found thereon.

“All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above stated time and date.

In the event that the Publication Auction cannot take place on the said date, it shall be held on September 28, 2016 without further notice.

Tubod, Lanao del Norte, Philippines, this August 2, 2016.

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For the Clerk of Court and Ex-Officio Sheriff (Sgd.) CONRADO V. HINGCO, JR. Sheriff

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Sikat ka Higala

By SHERYL MACALE

B

eauty Pageants are like a breathof fresh air. It brings excitement, thrill and just over all expectacular.

Recently we had just crowned Miss Silka Northern Mindanao 2016. I was one of the resident judges and this is year 2. Rylle production headed

by Jessryl Torres and his team had done a good job. Its been a well experienced and professional organizer to make a pageant with finesse. It was an honor to grace it. With over 70 applicants and a good straining of 50 down to 25 and down to 15. The candidates were the best and its best. Beauty and brain is difficult to

find but the 15 lovely candidates were picked carefully giving the judges a hard time of judging. From the presentation to the Talent Competition held at Gaisano City Mall ,to the Swimsuit Competition at the Apple Tree Resorts and Hotel I was there and all of them made a very good impression.

The candidates were amazing just vying for the crown means an opportunity to be an endorser or a commercial model one day. Silka has given dreams to become a reality by staging pageants such as this.

The pageantry in the Philppines are one of the most prestigious event. Even more exciting that the Miss Universe will be held in the Philippines next year of January 2017.

I have coached so many beauty queens that it was an honor for me to receive and prepared the Homecoming of now Miss Universe Pia Wurztbach last May of 2015. Charinna Barro Miss Cagayan 2015 runner up of Miss Earth and crowned Miss Silka 2014 I became her manager and coach and she has gone this far. Making beauty Queens are of pure determination and taking a dream to reality. I always tell them when you dream ,you dream big. You do not dream and do not work hard for it. It needs a lot of commitment and putting your heart at the line and making that aspiration a goal and making it happen.

I always try to build confidence in them because that is the only tool they need to get up on that stage

THE Crowned Miss Silka Northern Mindanao 2016 Ericka Zayas. all photos by angelo rodriguez jr .

without it you lose focus and courage. There are a lot of factors in being a Queen. The whole Miss Silka organization is an institution now since the pageant gets a good widespread response. Its one of the most outstanding pageantry in the history. I would like to thank Sean Oliver Moreno in supporting

the pageantry, Steve Limen the Area manager of Silka, April Barro Miss Silka 2015 Jessryl Toress the Organizer and Team. In behalf of Mindanao Daily and RPN TV 2/CNN I would like to congratulate the Winners 3rd Runner up Caroline Pohl 2nd runner Up Berjayneth Chee 1st runner MaryJoy Unson and newly crowned Miss Ericka Zayas the Miss Silka Northern Mindanao 2016 who will represent us in the Nationals. To all the photogprahers and my official photographer Angelo Rodriguez Jr. All the photos credited to him. To all the candidates you are all winners Sikat Kayo Mga Higala.

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Railway...

There are also reports that South Korea has offered as well to do the project.

The administration of President Rodrigo R. Duterte wants to start the construction of the railway system under his term.

Pernia said the project will be done in segments, starting from Davao to the eastern part of Mindanao toward Cagayan de Oro City.

It will go beyond the six-year term of President Duterte.

The Mindanao Railway System is one of the major infrastructure development projects of the administration over the next six years.

Aside from the Mindanao railway, President Duterte plans to build the ManilaNueva Vizcaya, ManilaS ors ogon, and ManilaBatangas line. He wants t he proj e c ts owne d by the government given the contentious procedures of the projects under the PublicPrivate Partnership (PPP) program.

As to funding for the project, Pernia said, “The money is not really a major c ons i d e r at i on , b e c aus e there are so many investors interested.” He cited the partnership of local and foreign investors and the Official Development Assistance (ODA), a loan or a grant administered with the objective of promoting s u s t ai n abl e s o c i a l an d economic development and welfare of the country.

ODA resources must be contracted with governments of foreign countries with whom the Philippines has diplomatic, trade relations or bilateral agreements; or which are members of the United Nations, their agencies, and international or multilateral lending institutions.

N E DA- X I R e g i o n a l Director Ma. Lourdes Lim said the feasibility study of the railway system will be completed within the month.

“It is almost complete and the FS is being done by a team where NEDA commissioned ten consultants to handle the work,” she said.

Once the FS is completed, it will be reviewed with further recommendations by the NEDA Board and then submitted to the Inter-Agency Cabinet Cluster.

Lim said the system is to provide access for fast movement in transporting cargoes in the island of Mindanao.

Under the initial proposal, Lim said the railway system would traverse towards the outer coastal areas of Mindanao, but it was redesigned in consideration of the project cost.

Last Wednesday, Senator Richard Gordon filed a Senate bill aimed at creating t he Mi nd ana o R ai lw ay Corporation, an agency that will be authorized to establish and maintain an efficient railway system.

Gordon said a railway system in Mindanao will spur economic growth and development in the second largest island in the country.

“Mindanao is known as the Land of Promise, yet until the present, the State has failed to maximize the potential of the island to contribute to regional and national economic development. It is essential to facilitate transportation for both people and goods to spur economic growth and development in Mindanao,” he pointed out.

Gordon said the creation of the Mindanao Railway Corporation is a crucial step in the government’s efforts to fully harness the natural and human resources of

DEED OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL PARTITION OF ESTATE OF SOLE HEIR WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE

DEED OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL PARTITION OF ESTATE OF SOLE HEIR WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE

KNOWN ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: that we, CIRILO J. SOBRIO of legal age, widower, Filipino and resident of Zone 9, Patag, Cagayan de Oro City, hereinafter referred to as the HEIR-VENDOR, and CHERRY ANN G. POPERA, of legal age, married to Judy P. Popera, Filipino and resident of Zone 9, Patag, Cagayan de Oro City, hereinafter referred to as the VENDEE; MANIFEST: That I am the only, sole, legitimate and surviving legal heir of the late LILIOSA ADANZA SOBRIO, who died intestate on 27 May 2013 and died without any child nor adopted children, at Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oreintal; that the deceased at the time of her death left a Residential Land, known as Lot 16, Block 22, Psd-10-011967 situated in the Barrio of Patag, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao.

Containing an area of NINETY ONE (91) SQUARE METERS declared in the Heirs of late LILIOSA ADANZA SOBRIO is the subject of “DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL PARTITION OF ESTATE OF SOLE HEIR WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE” Under Notary Public BUENAVENTURA E. SAGRADO. Per Doc No. 245; Page No. 49; Book No. 114; Series of 2016.

KNOWN ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: that we, CIRILO J. SOBRIO of legal age, widower, Filipino and resident of Zone 9, Patag, Cagayan de Oro City, hereinafter referred to as the HEIR-VENDOR, and MARIA IDA J. MORENO, of legal age, married to Jaime Moreno, Sr., Filipino and resident of Zone 9, Patag, Cagayan de Oro City, hereinafter referred to as the VENDEE; MANIFEST: That I am the only, sole, legitimate and surviving legal heir of the late LILIOSA ADANZA SOBRIO, who died intestate on 27 May 2013 and died without any child nor adopted children, at Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oreintal; that the deceased at the time of her death left a Residential Land, known as Lot 16, Block 22, Psd-10-011967 situated in the Barrio of Patag, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao.

Containing an area of NINETY ONE (91) SQUARE METERS declared in the Heirs of late LILIOSA ADANZA SOBRIO is the subject of “DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL PARTITION OF ESTATE OF SOLE HEIR WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE” Under Notary Public BUENAVENTURA E. SAGRADO. Per Doc No. 246; Page No. 50; Book No. 114; Series of 2016.

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Mindanao for the benefit of the island’s inhabitants and the Filipino people as a whole.

“To invest money and t i me i n t he Mi nd ana o Railway System would be risky beyond anything ever before attempted, but when it is completed, it would link the entire island of Mindanao, forever changing the nature of Mindanao’s politics and economy,” he added.

The measure also proposes to give a 10-year national and local tax exemption to all properties, whether real or personal, that would be actually, directly, and exclusively used in the Mindanao Railway System.

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Harbor...

from page 1 billion mega harbor project in Davao City.

Mega Harbour Chairman Reghis M. Romero II said the mega harbor project for Davao City is fully aligned with President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s vision of federal system of governance. The port project, when completed, will serve its inherent role as a major generator of revenues, employment, livelihood, business opportunities and entrepreneurial activities, he said.

“In today’s era, not having the port of that kind could pose a formidable disincentive and a severe bottleneck to the supply chain, and prevent the entire South from optimizing its great economic potential,” Romero said, referring to foregone foreign investments and trade opportunities with vast overseas markets, including agriculture and cruise tourism in an essentially archipelagic

country like the Philippines.

“The P39-billion mega harbor port development project in Davao City will be the key to filling up that gaping gap,” Romero explained.

With a modern and ecofriendly international port, Davao City can help the entire Philippines take advantage of its vaunted strategic location in Southeast Asia and enable this city to flourish as the capital of EAGA (East Asia Growth Area), Romero said.

“Thus, Davao City will then serve as the national model for the rise of similar ports across the archipelago,” Romero said, hinting at a plan to replicate the project in key areas elsewhere.

The way to the realization of a “Global Mindanao” will be presented by Mega Harbour at the 18th Davao Agri Trade Expo 2016 (DATE 2016) on Sept. 22 to 24 at the SMX Convention Center, SM Lanang Premier in Davao City.

An estimated 10,000 to 12,000 delegates from the business sector and other stakeholders in Mindanao and other parts of the country are expected to join the 18th DATE. This year’s numbers are more than double the number at previous DATE events – from 4,000 in 2011 to 4,856 in 2015.

Doromal said sales for this year’s DATE are also expected to increase, as the event had already proven the surge of its sales to 550 percent – from P61.5 million to a whopping P342.8 million for the last five years.

Romero, meanwhile, reported that Mega Harbour’s sister firm, the Harbour Centre Port Terminal (HCPT)

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL 10th Judicial Region Cagayan de Oro City OFFICE OF THE REGIONAL TRIAL COURT SHERIFF NOTICE OF EXTRA JUDICIAL SALE EJF File No. 2016-297 UPON Extra-Judicial Petition for Sale under Act No. 3135 as amended by Act No. 4118, filed by HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND (Pag-IBIG Fund) against LUZ B. VENDER married to AMADEO VENDER, JR., with postal address at Villa Corito Subdivision, Surigao City, Surigao del Norte, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of May 18, 2016 amounts to ONE MILLION FORTY NINE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY SEVEN PESOS and 39/100 (Php 904,227.39) inclusive of interests and penalty, charges, and expenses of foreclosure, the undersigned Sheriff will sell at public auction on September 13, 2016 at 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, at the Office of the Clerk of Court, Regional Trial Court, City Tourism Hall, Cagayan de Oro City, to the highest bidder, for cash or manager’s check and in Philippine Currency, the following property described below including all existing improvements found thereon; TCT No. T-175948 “A PARCEL OF LAND (Lot 35, Block 13, of the consolidated subdivision plan, (LRC) Pcs 6631, being a portion of the consolidation of LOT 2905, to 8 Cagayan de Oro Cadastre xxx situated in the Barrio Macasandig, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of Two Hundred Forty (240) sq. m. more or less. Xxx All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above stated time and date.

In the event auction sale cannot take place for whatever legal reason, the same will proceed on the following working day, without further notice, posting and publication.

Prospective buyers may investigate for themselves the title herein above described and encumbrances thereon, if any there be.

DONE this 10th day of August, 2016, in the City of Cagayan de Oro.

BWM: Aug. 17, 24 & 31, 2016

(Sgd.) ENRIQUE M. TALAG, JR Sheriff IV

in Manila, had doubled its cargo volume from 3.0 million metric tons to 6.0 million over the past five years.

HCPT’s 1.115-km berth will be increased by another kilometer and its 12-hectare apron and storage area expanded by an additional 2 0 he c t are s t h rou g h a reclamation project seen to be completed in just a year, he added.

Radiologic... from page 1

scintimammography, gastric emptying scan, glomerular filtration rate, G.I. bleeding/ RBC tagging, hepatobiliary imaging, gastroesophageal reflux scinitgraphy, liver/ spleen scintigraphy, lung perfusion/lung ventilation, Me c k e l s d i v e r t i c u l u m , parathyroid scintigraphy, renal with captopril, renal with furosemide, renal scan DMSA, testicular scan, whole body rai, thyroid scan, cystogram, myocardial perfusion imaging sestamibi and thallium.

T h e i r b on e m i n e r a l densitometr y is capable of scanning dual hip, fat analysis, forearm, lumbar spine/hip and whole body with fat analysis in planar imaging but can easily be upgraded to 3D imaging.

Nuclear medicine is a branch of medical imaging that uses small amounts of radioactive materials called radiopharmaceutical/ radioisotope to diagnose or treat a variety of diseases including many types of cancer, heart diseases and

other abnormalities within the body. “ W e u s e a multidisciplinary approach in treating cancer patients.

If the patient needs surgery, then we arrange for that. If a patient needs only radiation, then we can do that too. But if the patient needs both plus radiation, then we are capable of that too,” Andutan said.

Xavier University Maria Reyna Hospital has around 230 physicians.

T h e f a c i l it y op e n e d its new medical specialty center in 2010. The fivestorey building houses the cancer center, hemodialysis center, eye surgi-center with specialists from C ebu, gast ro intest inal c e n t e r, c a r d i o v a s c u l a r center, diagnostic center, hearing center and facilities f o r nu c l e a r m e d i c i n e , rehabilitation sports and medicine and bone and joint.

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Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL 10th Judicial Region Cagayan de Oro City OFFICE OF THE PROVINCIAL SHERIFF NOTICE OF EXTRA JUDICIAL SALE File No. EJF-2016-367 Upon Extra-Judicial Petition for Sale under Act 3135 as amended, filed by ORO INTEGRATED COOPERATIVE, a cooperative duly organized and existing under the laws of the Philippines, with principal office address at Yacapin-Tiano Streets, Cagayan de Oro City, against SPS. NICANORA M. OBSIOMA and LOREMIER M. OBSIOMA and NOEL ANTONIO A. MONTEBON, with residence at Jesus Seriña Street, Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness based on the Statement of Account dated July 11,2016 amounting to EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FUFTY FIVE PESOS & 43/100 (P 827,555.43) Philippine Currency, as mortgagor’s principal and outstanding balance of indebtedness including interest, penalty and attorney’s fees, excluding other necessary fees and expenses of Extra-Judicial Foreclosure and Sale, the undersigned Sheriff-in-charge will SELL at Public Auction on OCTOBER 17,2016 or soon thereafter at 10:00 o’clock in the morning, at the City Tourism Hall, City Hall, Cagayan de Oro City, to the highest bidder for CASH and in the Philippines currency, the real properties mortgaged together with all existing and future improvements thereon, to wit: TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-159315 Registered in the name of MRS. NICANORA M. OBSIOMA “A PARCEL OF LAND (Lot 11,Block 1, Psd-104305-020294, being a portion of Lot 3868-B, Psd-10-004700). Situated in the Barrio of Carmen, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao. Bounded on the x x x. Beginning at x x x x; containing an area of One Hundred Twenty (120) Square Meters, more or less” Prospective Buyers/Bidders may investigate for themselves the titles herein above described and encumbrance thereon, if any there be.

-In case October 17,2016 will be declared holiday or non-working day, the Public Auction Sale shall be held on October 21,2016 without further notice, publication and posting.

Cagayan de Oro City, August 5, 2016.

FOR THE EX-OFFICIO PROVINCIAL SHERIFF By:

BWM: Aug. 10, 17 & 24, 2016

(Sgd.) JOSEPH C. MAAGAD Sheriff IV

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