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Duck raising MISAMIS Oriental -– The p ro v i nc i a l g o v e r n m e n t launches a “duck raising project” as a means to fight poverty in the province, Gov. Yevgeny Vincente Emano said Tuesday. Known as “Itikan sa Kalamboan” (duck raising for progress), the project aims to work with peoples’ organizations (POs) and cooperatives in the province, Emano said. He said that initially, the province would provide the POs with 100 heads of ducks, 15 bags of feeds, and four bags of corn seeds.
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MINDANAO business leader wants an investigation of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) to establish whether it is accountable for its failure to protect the transmission lines from the Mindanao grid that resulted to the worsening power outages in Mindanao. Mindanao Business Council (MBC) chair Vicente Lao said the power sector has been privatized, thus NGCP has the duty to see to it that the transmission lines are properly protected. “We have read about some of the weaknesses of NGCP…
since it is now a private sector it is the duty of the NGCP to see to it that the grid is properly protected,” he said, adding that “if in case NGCP will not be able to protect the grid or will not make efforts, I still believe that NGCP must outages/PAGE 11
The newly-built coal-fired power plant by herma South, Inc., a subsidiary of AboitizPower Corp.
Aboitiz coal-fired power plant opens, but brownouts to continue in Davao
New eco zone DAVAO del Norte -- A 63-hectare agri-industrial economic zone breaks ground this morning in Panabo City. Situated adjacent to the Davao International Container Terminal (DICT), the Anflo Industrial Estate, owned by the Anflo Group of Companies, features a self-sustaining economic zone for manufacturing and warehousing agro-industrial components. Damosa Land Inc. Vice President Ricardo Lagdameo highlighted that the estate offers stable power supply, clean water for processing, wide road networks and modern drainage system. Philippine Economic Zone Authority Director General Lilia de Lima and officials of the Anflo Group of Companies led the ground breaking ceremony.
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BLAMING THE PRESIDENT. Students join their elders in a rally in Marawi City on Monday blaming President Benigno Aquino III for the non-passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law. mindanews photo by froilan gallardo
Basic government services all set as Gingoog holds 2-day Serbisyo Caravan By BENCYRUS G. ELLORIN, Editor-at-Large
GINGOOG – All key government services will be focused here as the administration of Mayor
Marie L. Guingona holds the two-day Serbisyo Caravan on February 3 – 4, 2016. caravan/PAGE 10
DAVAO City— Aboitiz Power announced Monday its 150-megawatt second unit of Therma South Inc. will start commercial operation on Tuesday, a week after undergoing a corrective maintenance shutdown that brought to three hours the rotating power outages within the franchise area of
the Davao Light and Power Company. In a st atement, T SI president and chief operations officer Sebastian R. Lacson said the plant’s operation will contribute to addressing power shortage in Mindanao. “The commercial operation of the Unit 2 could not have come at a better
time as Mindanao suffers from power supply problems brought about by El Nino,” he said. The DLPC franchise area, which cover Davao City, Brgy. Bincungan in Tagum City, and Carmen, Sto. Tomas and Braulio Dujali towns in Davao del Norte, has contracted 50 MW from TSI 1 since it went commercial in September brownouts/PAGE 11
Oro City Council to look into rampant illegal sale of gasoline
THE CAGAYAN de Oro City Council will look into the complaints of gasoline dealers about the proliferation of “illegal gasoline peddling” here, a city councilor said Monday.
City Councilor Teodolfo Lao, chair of the council committee on energy, said that the legitimate gasoline operators wrote a letter last week about the rampant illegal selling of gasoline in
the streets here. Lao said that the Cagayan De Oro Petroleum Station Dealers and Operators were asking to put a stop on the illegal sales for safety reason. gasoline/PAGE 11
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DOLE-10 pays wages to 208 TUPAD worker-beneficiaries in MisOcc
OROQUIETA City -- The Department of Labor and Employment Region 10 (DOLE-
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clean-up service in the covered barangays. The DOLE also provided the emergency employment workers Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and enrolled them with the Government Service Insurance System for micro-insurance coverage. “TUPAD is an emergency employment program of
on 21 December 2015 at the Covered Court, San Vicente Bajo, Oroquieta City. DOLE-X Misamis Occidental Provincial Field Office Head Leonardo G. Rodrigo personally paid in cash the wages of the beneficiaries, who each received an amount of P3,180 as income support for rendering a 10-day community
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Made for pleasure Think a minute…Sex was God’s idea. God created sex in marriage for pleasure. The problem is that we have misused and twisted God’s plan for sex. We ruin this beautiful gift from God by using sex wrongly. So we actually hurt ourselves with wrong kinds of sex that were never intended for us. Sex is like our other appetites. Just like our appetite for food is to keep our body strong and healthy, sex has 2 main purposes: for PLEASURE and PROCREATION or having children. So we must use our sex drive in the right way for it to work best for us. The only way sex can be fully enjoyed is in marriage. It’s not lust and desire for anybody we want, so we can just use them to make us feel good for the moment. God designed us so that sex we have with anyone who is not our wife or husband is not pleasure that will keep satisfying us for a lifetime, because it’s not a permanent, secure relationship. What’s more, sex with others you do not know well is extremely dangerous because of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Remember, you’re not only having sex with that one person, but you’re having sex with every other person
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Ode to the Special Action Force Years into the future, how will writers write about the debacle/massacre/misencounter at Mamasapano? Let me make an educated guess based on the treatment of famous military disasters in history. One such military disaster was “The Charge of the Light Brigade”. The “Charge of the Light Brigade” happened 192 years ago in Balaclava, in what is present-day Crimea. The battle was fought between the British (who were part of a coalition) and the Russians. The coalition was contesting t he p e rce ive d g row ing influence of the Russians in the region. About 600 British soldiers were supposedly on a mission to intercept a munitions t r ai n . But s ome w he re, along the line, somebody blundered. Call it failure of communication since the protagonists at that time did not have access to text messaging. Orders to field commanders were given via horse riders. To cut a long story short, t he Br it ish mist a ken ly and frontally assaulted a heavily fortified position being defended by Russians and Cossacks. The results were horrible. One out of three British soldiers who participated in the assault did not return from the “valley of death”. There were investigations, no doubt. There was the usual finger-pointing. There was
political grandstanding. But poet Alfred Lord Tennyson preferred to ignore them. Te n n y s o n i n s t e a d focused on the valor of the ordinary soldier and his stoic, unquestioning, obedience to orders. Tennyson’s poem became such a big hit that years after it was written it became a favorite declamation piece among British, American and, later of course, Filipino high school students. Borrowing from Tennyson, a later-day writer would probably write about Mamasapano in the following manner: Forward, the SAF ONE HUNDRED!” Was there a man dismay’d? Not tho’ the SAF knew PNOY(?) /PURISIMA/ NAPENAS had blunder’d: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the CORNFIELD OF DEATH Walked the SAF ONE HUNDRED. MILF to the right of them, BIFF to the left of them, PRIVATE ARMED GROUPS in front of them Shouting, firing and looting; Storm’d at with shot and shell, Boldly they fought back and well,
SIR, REINFORCEMENT, SIR! SIR, CAS EVAC, SIR! THEIR COMMANDER, SAFELY MILES AND MILES AWAY, IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES AND SMILING WAS TEXTING AND TEXTING WHILE into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Walked the SAF ONE HUNDRED. When can their glory fade? ALAS, A BRAVE BUT UNCOORDINATED charge they made! All the world and ENRILE wondered. STILL, we honor the charge they made, Noble and BRAVE ONE HUNDRED. . Rudyard Kipling, another British poet, also wrote a piece thirty-six years after the famous charge. Entitled “The Last of the Light Brigade”, Kipling’s work did not achieve the same prominence and fame as that of Tennyson’s. Kipling reported on the hardships of the veterans in their old age. Kipling rebuked the British public for their insensitivity to and total disregard of the welfare of the “Heroes of Balaclava”. He even took a dig at Tennyson (already in his eighties) for failing to come up with a
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Ignacio Bunye sequel which should have highlighted the plight of the veterans. This probably explains why the reception of Kipling’s work by the British was less than enthusiastic. The first two stanzas of Kipling’s poem read as follows: There were thirty million English who talked of England’s might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night. They had neither food nor money, they had neither service nor trade; They were only shiftless soldiers, the last of the Light Brigade. They felt that life was fleeting; they knew not that art was long, That though they were dying of famine, they lived in deathless song. They asked for a little money to keep the wolf bunye/PAGE 10
Zika, the promised virus for madness LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “… the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control…” (Galatians 5:22, the Holy Bible). -ooo Z I KA A N D “BA SIC INTRUCTIONS BEFORE LEAVING EARTH”: Zika is a much dreaded word in Brazil and among experts and officials of the World Health Organization today, because it is a virus that can induce brain malfunctions and neurological disorders among infants through m o s q u it o bit e s . W HO officials met on Monday, February 01, 2016, to see if the illnesses Zika gives rise to can affect people on a worldwide scale. Does this new virus have something to do with predictions, made thousands of years ago, which say people will be afflicted with diseases until they are destroyed, diseases which give rise to fever and inflammation, and which will waste them until they are killed? And, is Zika the virus that will make possible the promised or prophesied mental disorders, madness, and confusion of mind among a lot of people? What makes Zika interesting is the fact that it is incurable.
Now, why is this kind of mental disease afflicting the world? What is the remedy, if there is no cure? It maybe funny to some, but answers can be found in a little book containing “basic instructions before leaving earth”. -ooo C E R T I F I C AT E O F LEGAL CAPACITY: Ligaya Santos is the fiancée of an Ame r ic an name d Joh n White. John wants to marry Ligaya so he can bring to the United States where they both want to spend the rest of their lives. However, when they applied for a marriage license in the town of Ligaya up north in Luzon, he was told he had to produce a certificate of legal capacity to marry. They came to me to asking what is a “certificate of legal capacity to marry”. Well, under Art. 21 of the Family Code of the Philippines, a “certificate of legal capacity to marry” is a document required when the parties to a marriage are either or both are citizens of another country. This certificate is to be obtained by the foreigner from the diplomatic or consular officials of the US (or of the country where the foreigner is a citizen) stationed in the Philippines. This certificate
must be obtained, and then submitted, to the Local Civil Registrar of the place where the marriage license is applied for. No marriage involving a foreigner can be performed here unless that certificate is submitted. -ooo PEOPLE WITH LAVISH, OPULENT LIFESTYLES: Have you ever met people who are openly engaged in lavish and opulent lifestyles yet do not have businesses or any other legitimate sources of income? We have many of these in the Philippines, and it is almost always a common denominator among them that they are either politicians or are employed in government. They may deny to high heavens that the source of their wealth and their fabulous style of living are government funds that have been entrusted to them by virtue of their positions, but the stark reality that they cannot deny is that, before they joined the government they literally had nothing at all. Yet, these people profess they have faith in God and that they pray to Him regularly. Can someone who had been stealing government money really have faith in God, or could he really be praying to Him regularly?
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H E P h i l i p p i n e s’ u n i v e r s a l healthcare program will get additional boost a s s i n t a x c o l l e c t i on s continue to p ost large increases. Data released by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Tuesday showed that the government once again surpassed its target in 2015 after collecting PhP141.84 billion, or 19.11 percent higher than the PhP119.08 billion target for the year. Of the total, tobacco products posted the highest contribution amounting to PhP100.02 billion, or 29.09 percent higher than the PhP77.48 billion target for last year. Fermented liquors followed at PhP28.26 billion. This is, however, 1.01 percent lower than the PhP28.55 billion target. Taxes f rom dist i l le d spirits and compounded liquors came in third at P h P 1 3 . 5 1 bi l l i on , 3 . 5 9 percent higher than the PhP13.04 billion target. Wines contributed the l e a s t t a x e s at P h P 0 . 0 5 billion but it posted the l argest excess vis-a-vis the target after it jumped
426.4 percent against the PhP0.01 billion goal. Compared to the 2014 sin tax collections, last year’s total collections rose 25 percent from PhP112.8 billion. In 2014, excise tax f rom tob a c c o pro duc t s amou nte d to Ph P 7 5 . 5 1 billion, fermented liquors PhP24.74 billion; distilled spirits/compounded liquors - PhP12.52 billion; and wines - PhP0.04 billion. The country’s Sin Tax Law was amended in December 2012 in a bid to align the taxes to current prices instead of the 1996 prices. The Reformed Sin Tax L aw to ok ef fe c t in January 1, 2013. Aside f rom a lig ning taxes to current prices, it a l s o t arge t s t o c u r b cigarette use among the young and the poor as these are the vulnerable group in terms of tobacco-related diseases. Proceeds of the Reformed Sin Tax Law was mandated to be used for the government’s universal healthcare program and livelihood programs for tobacco farmers. Finance Secretary Cesar
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Purisima said the rise in sin tax collections “is not small feat.” “I expect (BIR) Commissioner (Kim) Henares and the BIR to continue to expand the fiscal space we need to i nve st more he av i ly i n universal healthcare,” he said.
“Wit h t he f i g u re s in for its t hird ye ar of implementation, Sin Tax Reform is a less on in good governance: sound policy and tough enforcement going hand in hand to deliver results for the uncovered and most v u l n e r ab l e ,” h e a d d e d . (PNA)
THE Senate on Monday approved on third and final reading its amended version of House Bill 5417 – otherwise known as the ‘Act Regulating the Philippine Credit Card Industry - with the measure garnering all the 16 votes from the senators who constituted the quorum. The House of Representatives had passed the original version of HB 5417 in February 2015. Un d e r t h e S e n at e ' s
amended version, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is given the authority to regulate the local credit card industry, including t he issu ance of the rules of conduct, establishment of standards, and ensuring compliance with these regulations. The BSP is also given the authority to limit and prohibit the charging of annual membership fees for credit cards under the reform/PAGE 10
The Importance of Remediation Classes for Students at Risk in Mathematics By Evangeline M. Pailmao SST-1, Bulua National High School
Remediation was conducted to Grades 7 and 8 students of Bulua National High School in the School Year 2015-2016, for the purpose of helping the students at risk in coping up their previous grades in Mathematics. Students in the afternoon session were having their remedial classes during the vacant time of the teacher in the morning while the students in the morning s ession were aske d to report in the afternoon. During the remedial classes, at first students
really don’t know the basic concepts especially the operation of polynomials which are necessary when they will be having their higher mathematics. The te ache r g ave f irst t he activity and let the students answered those items given to them. It was found out that all of them got the wrong answers. So, the teacher discussed to them on how to perform the operation. Another activity was given to the students after the discussion. The teacher required the students to explain their
answers. Misconceptions of the student’s knowledge were evident during the presentation of their work. As soon as they got the correct answer, the teacher gave another activity and at this time they were informed that the result will be graded already. It is indeed a success of having remedial classes b e c au s e s tu d e nt s h a d solved it successfully. The teacher was happy then because these students were participating in the class discussion the time t he y go b ack in t heir
classroom. As a teacher, I felt fulfilled because these students were given a chance to have individualized instruction. Not a l l i d e nt i f i e d students needing remediation reported the scheduled time. When the teacher approached these students, they promised to report to the teacher as soon as possible. Grade 8 students were having a one-on-one consultation. The remedial classes will continue until the end of this school year especially if the need arises.
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Seda Centrio Celebrates the Chinese New Year with Sumptuous Feasts
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display, also at the 4th floor area. According to Chinese traditions, launching fireworks to welcome the New Year will drive away anything that’s evil. The person who will launch the first firework will have good luck for the whole year. As February 08 is a holiday, you might want to celebrate the Chinese New Year at Seda by partaking of their specially-prepared lunch and dinner buffets. The lunch buffet is from 11am to 2pm, while
dinner buffet starts at 6pm and will go all the way until 10pm. For only Php599 nett per person, you’ll be able to feast on traditional Chinese delicacies that are sure to satisfy your palate and your senses. Welcome the Chinese New Year with a lot of good luck and prosperity. Celebrate with Seda Centrio! Call 088-323 888 or 0917-577 5910 for your inquiries and reservations. See you at Seda Centrio! Gong Xi Fa Cai!
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may launch 6-8 Vista Land raises fund for RLC new projects in 2016 2016 capital expenditures V ista L a n d & L ifescapes, Inc., t h e c o u n t r y ’s leading integrated property developer, has completed its anticipated capital expenditure requirements from external funding sources for the year. This is after successfully raising US$125 million from the offshore bond marke t v i a a re - t ap of Vista Land’s existing 7.375 percent senior unsecured
bonds due June 2022, off its $1 billion Medium Term Note Program. “With this fund-raising, Vista Land is well positioned to achieve our targets for residential developments and commercial expansion f o r 2 0 1 6 ,” Vi s t a L a n d president and chief executive officer Manuel Paolo A. Villar said. He added that “we are extremely pleas ed with our ability to successfully tap the international bond
market despite all the recent m a r k e t v o l at i l i t y. O u r ability to access offshore medium term funds reflects the strong confidence that credit investors have placed in us.” The fresh funds were raised at a price of 102.00, which represents a yield of 6.979 per cent per annum. By accessing the international bond market, Vista Land said it has also been able to preserve appetite for future
financing requirements in the local peso market. Vi s t a L a n d re c e nt l y acquired Starmalls Inc., the mall development arm of the Villar family. Starmalls owns and operates 10 retail malls and two business process outsourcing (BPO) commercial centers, with a combined gross floor area of 509,385 square meters. The funding last week marks the company’s first capit a l raising exercis e after the acquisition of Starmalls. The proceeds will be utilized to fund the capex plans of the combined entity. Vi s t a L a n d s a i d i t continues to diversify its f u n d i n g s o u rc e s w h i l e expanding the Communicity model throughout the country. T he f ir m inte nds to focus on the development of Communicities, integrated urban developments combining lifestyle retail, prime office space, university town, healthcare, themed residential developments and leisure components.
Arabia and Iran spill over to the rest of the Middle East, where there are an estimated 2.2 million OFWs. Money sent home by overseas Filipinos stood at $22.83 billion at endNovemb er, up by 3.6% from a year earlier and closer to the central bank’s downwardly revised projection of P25.3 billion in total cash remittances for 2015. For its fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2015, Robinsons L and generated P6.62 billion in revenues from the residential segment, up 13% year on year from P5.87 billion. The real estate firm saw a 20% increase in earnings to P5.7 billion in fiscal 2015 from P4.73 billion in the prior year, as all its businesses expanded at a double-digit pace. Robinsons Land is spending P17 billion in the current fiscal year, 54% of which will be allocated for the construction of malls, office buildings and hotels, and 25% for the residential division. The remaining 21% will be earmarked to increase its land bank. rlc/PAGE 9
ROBINSONS Land Corp. (RLC) is gearing up for t he launch of as much as P14 billion worth of residential projects in the fiscal year 2016, although the Gokongwei-led property developer says it is keeping a “cautious” eye on the market. “We have in the pipeline maybe six to eight projects that we can launch but whether we launch them or not, we always play it by ear,” RLC President and Chief Operating Officer Frederick D. Go said in an interview last week. These upcoming projects have a combined sales value of P14 billion, Mr. Go said. The residential market is “still doing okay” despite t h re at s of a s l owd ow n in remittances from the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) -- one of the key d r ive r s of d e m an d for real estate products in the country. “Everybody’s cautious and so are we, but no signs of slowdown yet,” Mr. Go said. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas had warned that remittances could suffer a huge blow should ongoing tensions between Saudi
Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF LANAO DEL NORTE 12TH Judicial Region BRANCH 07 Tubod, Lanao del Norte IN THE MATTER OF PETITION FOR THE CORRECTION OF ENTRIES IN THE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH
SPL. PROC. NO. 314-07-2016
VENICE TAPUYAO INOCENCIO, herein represented by her mother, BROOKE LOU TIRO TAPUYAO, Petitioner, - versus – OFFICE OF THE CIVIL REGISTRAR, Municipality of Kolambugan, Province of Lanao del Norte, Respondent. And BENIE LINDA INOCENCIO, Respondent. x------------------------------------------/ ORDER This is a petition for correction of entry in the Certificate of Live Birth of VENICE TAPUYAO INOCENCIO, represented in this case by her mother, BROOKE LOU TIRO TAPUYAO, praying among others that after notice and hearing, an Order be issued directing the respondents to effect the correction sought for. Petitioner alleges that she is of legal age, single, and a resident of Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte. Public respondent is sued in her official capacity as such. Petitioner is a single mother after having given birth to VENICE TAPUYAO INOCENCIO on June 1, 2009 at St. Mary’s Hospital, Iligan City. That the name of father is BENIE LINDA INOCENCIO, Filipino, Roman Catholic, an AFP officer, and was 35 years old when Venice was born. However, said person never married petitioner for reasons only known to him. Despite the fact that petitioner gave birth to her daughter, she remains unmarried until today and proof of such is the Certificate of Non-Marriage issued by the National Statistics Office. However, despite she, being single, item Nos. 13 and 18 of the Certificate of Live Birth of her daughter, VENICE, it is reflected that she is married to BENIE LINDA INOCENCIO which is not correct. The truth is, Petitioner never married Private respondent BENIE LINDA INOCENCIO. She is not even aware of the latest residence of said person. Though she admitted that when she delivered Venice, private respondent was there and even the one who caused the registration of her birth, but petitioner is not aware of the facts that private respondent provided to the Local Civil Registrar of Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte. Since then, their communication with the private respondent was cut off. It resulted that the Birth Certificate of her daughter, Venice, contains erroneous entries, particularly the facts implicating that petitioner is married to the private respondent, BENIE. Hence, this petition seeking for the correction of entries. Set the initial hearing of the petition to April 25, 2016 at 8:30 in the morning before the sala of this Court. Furnish copy of this Order containing the petition to the office of the Solicitor General at Makati City, Office of the Local Civil Registrar in Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, to Atty. Jonathan Puno and to the petitioner Brookie Lou Tiro Tapuyao, at her known address. The petitioner is hereby directed to publish copy of this Order in a newspaper of general circulation within the province of Lanao del Norte for three (3) consecutive weeks, at her expense. Any person/s interested to the petition may come to Court on the scheduled date of initial hearing to show cause why said petition should not be granted. SO ORDERED. Tubod, Lanao del Norte. January 29, 2016. BWM: February 3, 10 & 12, 2016
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P20M worth of farm mechanization assistance turned-over
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alwangan, Malaybalay City – Fomenting its f ar m me chan i zat ion assistance, the Department of Ag r i c u ltu re – R e g i on a l F i e l d O f f i c e 1 0 ( DA- R F O 10) turned-over nearly P20 mi l lion wor t h of far m machineries and equipment to farmer associations (FAs) and organizations and local g o v e r n m e nt u n i t s ( L G Us ) throughout Northern Mindanao, this town on January 26, 2016. A total of 1 unit mini fourwheel drive tractor, 9 units
water pump and engine set, 10 units power tiller – floating (turtle), 50 units power tiller – hand tractor (riding), 21 units mechanical rice transplanter, 27 units mechanical rice thresher, 5 units cassava grater and 6 units mobile corn mill were formally entrusted to projectbeneficiaries. In her message, Engr. Roxana H. Hojas, Assistant Regional Director of DA-RFO 10, stressed the rationale in the conduct of a mass turn-over ceremony. Since the agency is keen
to help out its clienteles, she highlighted that the activity is an imperative, so as to ensure that the technical specifications of the projec ts s oug ht will perfectly suit to the needs of the proponents and fast track its implementation, at the same time. Dir. Hojas also underscored that the downpour of farm machineries and equipment are geared towards reducing f a r m e r s’ p r o d u c t i o n c o s t , bolstering their farm efficiency and warranting timeliness of
farm operations that would ultimately augment farmers’ income and livelihood. “ We j u s t h o p e k a n i n g mga inter ventions/projec ts makatabang sa inyo, makapalambo sa inyong panginabuhian ug matabangan nato ang atong nasud. Ug dili moasenso ang atong nasud kon dili molambo ang atong kaugalingon,” she aptly ended. Cited projects were materialized through funding from the department’s banner
programs: Agr i-Pinoy Rice and C or n, w here e ach FA/ organization or LGU counterparted 15% of the total project cost per unit while the DA shouldered the rest (85%) With the exception of some 55 projects, these were given full grant to qualified projectrecipients. In which, majority of these were handed-over to the different LGUs to form part of their machinery pool in support to their quick response initiatives for El Niño. # (JLOlson, DA-RFO 10)
Representatives from Sitio Compra, Curva Miagao FA, Sudlon Livestock FA and Poblacion Farmers Livestock Association of Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte receive their certificate of award from Engr. Roxana H. Hojas, Assistant Regional Director, assisted by Carlota S. Madriaga, Field Operations Division chief and Juanita T. Salvani, NMACLRC chief of DA-RFO 10, for their 1 unit power tiller – floating (turtle type), which is seen to help them efficiently cultivate and aerate their soils in preparation for the farmers’ new planting activities.
R-10 provinces enhance PCIP to engage more stakeholders Region 10 provinces are enhancing their Provincial Commodity Investment Plans (PCIP) to access interventions not only thru the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) of Department of Agriculture (DA) but other government funding agencies as well. “The PCIP is the main reference in developing agri-fishery sector in the area,” said I-PLAN Specialist Cerenio T. Tila from PRDP Support Office, Davao City. Tila discussed the guidelines in enhancing PCIP in a briefing conducted by Region 10 PRDP I-PLAN Team, attended by provincial and citylocal government units (LGUs), line agencies, and private sector. I-PLAN stands for theInvestment in AFMP Planning at the Local and National Levels, a component of PRDP aimed to strengthen the DA’s planning, programming and budget execution process in support to the Agriculture and Fishery Modernization Plan (AFMP) as the basis for resource allocation and
prioritization of the DA programs, projects, and activities implemented at the national and regional levels. PRDP is a six-year national project under DAjointly funded by the World Bank, the National Government, and the LGUs. It aims to establish a modern, valuechain oriented,and climate-resilient agriculture and fisheries sectorthru provision of key infrastructure, facilities, technology and information to raise incomes, productivity and competitiveness in targeted areas, based on the PCIP. PCIP serves as basis for selecting eligible interventions/ sub-projects under the Infrastructure and Enterprise Development components of PRDP. Tila said the World Bank had noted some gaps and weaknesses in the submitted PCIPs, thus recommended for its enhancement. “The enhanced PCIP will include engagement not only DA and its banner programs but other line agencies including human and financial resources
so that overlapping/ conflicting projects implemented in the provinces can be corrected.” Likewise, Tila emphasized the importance of prioritizingof commodities in the plan to correspond with
limited resources using the vulnerability and suitability assessment (VSA) tool, ensuring such commodities have value-chain analysis (VCA). Meanwhile, new VCAs forCoco Fiber, Fresh Mango, and Coffeewerepresented
byR-10 I-PLAN Head Lourdes P. Rudinas and Planning Staff Urcesia B.Creusduring the meeting for inclusion in the PCIP. Commodities with VCA already included in PCIPs are banana, rubber, cacao, cassava, oil palm, abaca, and
seaweeds. Subsequent to this event, R-10 I-PLAN Team is scheduled to conduct a series of briefing/coaching at the provincial level to hasten enhancement of PCIPs.# (Rosie R. E. Paasa, DA-PRDP RPCO 10)
“The PCIP is the main reference in developing agri-fishery sector in the area,” said I-PLAN Specialist Cerenio T. Tila from PRDP Support Office, Davao City a he discussed the guidelines in enhancing PCIP, in a briefing conducted by Region 10 PRDP I-PLAN Team, attended by provincial and city LGUs, line agencies, and the private sector while I-PLAN Head Lourdes P. Rudinas presented the VCA on Coco Fiber and Mango.
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An estimated 15,000 p e opl e w i l l b e b e n e f it from different services and projects to be rolled out by national government age nc i e s and t he l o c a l government of Gingoog. The Guingona a d m i n i s t r at i on i s a l s o mobilizing local and national government resources to reach out to poor constituents in the rural conflict areas and in the urban and coastal barangays in the two-day Serbisyo Caravan. Department of Education Secretary Armin Lluistro will be keynote speaker in the 1st day of the Serbisyo Caravan in barangay Kalipay, around 45 minutes away from the city center. OPAPP Sec. Ging Deles will be the keynote speaker on day 2, Feb. 4 at the City Gym. At brgy. Kalipay, around 5,000 people will benefit from various services like free dental and medical clinics, dist r ibut ion of PhilHealth Cards, nutrition p a c k a g e s , s e e d l i n g s of various agriculture crops, tree planting materials, motor boat engines, food packs and free legal and notarial services. On day 2 at the City Gym, around 10,000 people will benefit from the same public services. Participating national agencies include the PhilHealth, Dept. Of Health, Dept. of Agriculture, Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources, Dept. of Education, OPAPP, Dept . of Science and Technology, Dept. of Social Welfare and Development, Dept. of Trade and Industry,the Dept. of Justice – Public Attorneys’ Office, National Commission on the Indigenous People, Dept. of Agrarian Reform, NEDA-RDC, Phil. Drug E n f o r c e m e n t A g e n c y, Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The Serbisyo Caravan is a showcase of Mayor Guingona’s efforts to jump start peace and development of the chartered city of Misamis Oriental. It is anchored on the theme: Serbisyo alang sa katawhan; Kalambuan sa dakbayan! Let’s go na! Serbisyo na!
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from the door; And the thirty million English sent twenty pounds and four! xxx At the rate fiascos and blunders are occuring at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, netizens are beginning to ask if a change of name is now in order. The airport was so named to honor a beloved martyr for CAGAYAN DE OROnetizens MAIN BRANCH freedom. But ask: P & J Lim Bldg., Tiano Brothers Would the honoree himself Kalambagohan Sts., Tel. # (08822) rest well, with727-829 his* name Telefax # (088) 856-1947 being associated with what CAMIGUIN BRANCH has become a monument to B. Aranas St., Poblacion, Mambajao, incompetence? Camiguin Tel. # (088) 387-0491 At the start, complaints CORRALES BRANCH wereCorrales onlyAve.,about dirty Cagayan de Oro Cityand smelly toilets and the lack DIVISORIA BRANCH ofAtty. rudimentary security Erasmo B. Damasing Bldg., #61 Don A. Velez St., Cagayan de Oro CityThen devices such as CCTVs. Tel. # (088) 857-3631 increasingly, complaints LAPASAN BRANCH focused on the traffic at Lapasan Hi-way, Cagayan de Oro City the tarmac which has been Tel. # (088) 231-6739 cited as CARMEN the frequent cause BRANCH Vamenta of Blvd., Cagayandepartures de Oro City of delays plane Tel. # (088) 231-2011 and arrivals. More recently came an avalanche of complaints: exorbitant fees being charged by airport taxis, indiscriminate Bukas Balikbayan Boxes, Bukas Diplomatic Pouch (belonging to the Japanese Emperor, no less), Tanim Laglag Bala. And just last week: Laglag Kisame. Wh e w. O n ly i n t h e Philippines! Note: You may email us at totingbunye2000@gmail. com.
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the setting of interest charge limits, over fears that credit companies would tighten their credit card requirements to offset the risks involved with such financial services. As of November 2015, the CCAP said that around 10 to 15% of the loan portfolios of large banks are exposed to credit card services, with an estimated P130 billion worth of receivables. Disclosure of essential information to credit card holders and potential card owners has also been included in the bill, which includes among others the finance charges for unpaid amounts after due date, the periodic (annual/monthly) interest rate, the default late payment fees, as well as other dues including the membership or renewal fees, processing fees and over-the-limit fees.
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RLC is part of JG Summit Holdings, Inc., which has i n t e r e s t s i n Un i v e r s a l Robina Corp., JG Summit Petrochemical Corp., CP Air Holdings, Inc., and Robinsons Bank Corp. The conglomerate also holds a stake in Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. and Manila Electric Co.
Republic of the Philippines Province of Misamis Oriental Municipality of Manticao OFFICE OF THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC In compliance with Section 5 R.A No. 9048/RA 10172, a notice is hereby served to the public that BERNIE N. JACOB has filed with this Office a petition for correction of GENDER from FEMALE to MALE in the birth certificate of BERNIE N. JACOB who was born OCTOBER 17, 1950 at Poblacion, Manticao, Misamis Oriental and whose parents are BENJAMIN T. JACOB and ELNORA T. NACALABAN Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than February 18, 2016.
(SGD.) DOROTHEO O LACBAIN, JR. Municipal Civil Registrar
BWM: February 3 & 10, 2016 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 THE PETITION FOR SPL. PROC. NO. 2298-15 CORRECTION OF ENTRIES IN THE CERTIFICATE LIVE BIRTH OF SHARIFA MAGLANGIT PANDACA AS ENTERED IN THE RECORDS OF THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF MARAWI CITY SHARIFA PANDACA DOMAUB Petitioner, -versus-
CDO MAIN BRANCH P & J Lim Bldg., Tiano Brothers Kalambagohan Sts., Tel. # (08822) 727-829 * Telefax # (088) 856-1947
DIVISORIA BRANCH Atty. Erasmo B. Damasing Bldg., #61 Don A. Velez St., Cagayan de Oro City Tel. # (088) 857-3631
CAMIGUIN BRANCH B. Aranas St., Poblacion, Mambajao, Camiguin Tel. # (088) 387-0491
LAPASAN BRANCH Lapasan Hi-way, Cagayan de Oro City Tel. # (088) 231-6739
CORRALES BRANCH Corrales Ave., Cagayan de Oro City
CARMEN BRANCH Vamenta Blvd.,Cagayan de Oro City Tel. # (088) 231-2011
Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF LANAO DEL NORTE 12th Judicial Region BRANCH 07 Tubod, Lanao del Norte SPL. PROC. NO. 313-07-2016 IN RE: PETITION FOR CORRECTION OF ENTRY IN THE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH OF PEDRO BUCTOLAN BUCA, JR. UNDER THE “DATE OF BIRTH” FROM OCTOBER 14, 1959 TO OCTOBER 14, 1961 PEDRO BUCTOLAN BUCA, JR., - versus –
Petitioner,
THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF TUBOD, LANAO DEL NORTE, Respondent. x-----------------------------------------/ ORDER
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proposed law. In November last year, the Credit Card Association of the Philippines (CCAP) expressed disagreement with
The same measure also prohibits harassment and abuse in the manner of debt collection, with the central bank defining the limits of debt collectors in collecting dues. Violators of any provision of the bill will be subject to a prison term of two years to 10 years and a fine of P50,000 to P200,000.
Filed before this Court is a petition for correction of entry in the Certificate of Live Birth of PEDRO BUCTOLAN BUCA, Jr. relative to the date of his birth which was erroneously entered as “Öctober 14, 1959”, instead of “October 14, 1961”, praying among others that after notice and hearing, an Order be issued directing the Respondent to effect the correction sought for. Petitioner alleges that he is of legal age, married and a resident of Poblacion, Tubod, Lanao del Norte. Respondent is sued in her official capacity. Petitioner was born to spouses Maura G. Buctulan and Pedro Buca at Pualas, Tubod, Lanao del Norte. However, the registration of the facts of his birth was only done on July 3, 1985 by his mother. Unknown to him, his mother registered the “date of his birth” as 14 OCT, 1959 when his correct date of his birth is 14 OCT 1961, and that is the very “date of birth” indicated in all his documents of importance as appearing in his Marriage Contract, Certification from the National Police Commission, PHILHEALTH Member Data Record, Bureau of Fire Protection ID and Payslip of the Bureau Protection. He filed the herein petition in good faith and is not intended to conceal the commission of a crime and/or defeat the investigation and prosecution of the same but with the sole intention to straighten his birth records before the Respondent’s office. Hence the petition. Set the initial hearing of the case to March 28, 2016 at 8:30 in the morning before the sala of this Court. Furnish copy of this Order to the Office of the Solicitor General, Makati City, the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor in Capitol, Tubod, Lanao del Norte, Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Tubod, Lanao del Norte, Atty. Dorothea Basalo, petitioner’s counsel and to the petitioner himself at his known address at Poblacion, Tubod, Lanao del Norte. Petitioner is hereby directed to publish copy of this Order to a newspaper of general circulation in the province of Lanao del Norte, at her expense. So ORDERED. Tubod, Lanao del Norte. January 22, 2016.
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(Sgd) DENNIS P. VICOY Acting Presiding Judge
THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF MARAWI CITY And THE ADMINISTRATOR and CIVIL REGISTRAR OF PHILIPPINES STATISTICS AUTHORITY (PSA), Respondent, X - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - / ORDER Before this court is verified petition for correction of entry in the certificate of live birth of SHARIFA PANDACA DOMAUB dated 23 November 2015, and which reads in part: 1. Petitioner is 42 years old, married to EKSHAN B. DOMAUB, and a resident of 035 Barangay Datu Saber, Marawi City where she may be served with the orders and other processes of this Court; 2. Respondent is the incumbent Local Civil Registrar of Marawi City whose office is located at City Hall Compound, Bangon, Marawi City where it may be served with the orders and other processes of this Court; 3. Petitioner was born on 26 November 1973 in Marawi City but her birth was belatedly registered by her mother on January 14, 1985 under Registry No. 85-14 personal copy of which is hereto attached as Annex “A”, 4. Just recently, she applied for the issuance of an NSO copy of her certificate of live birth (COLB) with Registry No. 85-14 and she was very surprised to learn that her birth entry therein is erroneously entered as 26 12 84 or 26 December 1984 instead of 26 November 1973. A copy of her NSO Certificate of Live Birth is hereto attached as Annex “B”; 5. Petitioner went to the Office of the Respondent City Civil Registrar to see the other copy on file with their office; however, she was informed that her file no longer exist in their office and that the only files records that exist in their office are those from 2000 and up; 6. Petitioner has been consistently using the date of birth 26 November 1973 in all her transactions and dealings as evidence by the following attached documents with their markings, to wit; a. Certificate of Eligibility from CSC marked Annex “C”; b. Identification Cards (IDs) issued by PRC, GSIS, BIR and COMELEC marked Annex “D”; c. Members Data Form from Pag-IBIG marked Annex “E”; d. Certificate of Compensation Payment/Tax Withheld or BIR Form no. 2316 marked Annex “F”: e. Service Record from Department of Education marked Annex “G”; f. Certificate of Membership from GSIS marked Annex “H” and g. Official Transcript of Records from MSU for her Masteral Degree marked Annex “I”. 7. All the above documents indubitably prove that the correct date of birth of the petitioner is 26 November 1973 and not 26 December 1984 which is even improbable considering that she finished her college education in 1995 (see Annex “I”); 8. Petitioner submits that nobody will be prejudiced by granting 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 MARCH 9, 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 person or party who has an interest in the petition, may file his/her opposition thereto within fifteen (15) days form notice of this Petition or form the last day of publication of this Order. Further, let this Order be posted to 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 the publication of this Order not later than three (3) days before March 9, 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 Authority, Santa Mesa, Manila. SO ORDERED. Marawi City, Philippines, January 4, 2016 BWM: Jan. 20, 27 & Feb. 3, 2016
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held accountable.” Lao warned that if the grid breaks down, then government must rescind contract with NGCP of bringing the electricity produced by power plants to distribution utilities. This developed as t h e Mi n d an a o e l e c t r i c cooperatives and power d ist r ibutors u nd e r t he Mindanao Electric Power Alliance (MEPA) will be meeting on Thursday with members of the Mindanao Power Monitoring Committee (MPMC), which spearheads and coordinates the efforts of the national, regional and local governments, and power industry stakeholders to improve the power situation in Mindanao. Lao said they wanted to know the real situation in view of the many reports about the weaknesses of NGCP and the bombing of towers. “I think they (NGCP) are just pressuring the gove r n me nt ,” L a o s ai d referring to issues such as road right of way or problems, cutting of trees near transmission lines that they wanted the military to assist. He said he also received information on cost savings made by NGCP that created problems inside the grid itself especially on the slashing of the budget of its social components. “This must be evaluated carefully on what they have done,” L ao said during Monday’s Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM Davao Annex. “We want to know the real reasons for the outages,” Lao said. He added they have
not really been informed about the real situation if the problem is brought by the bombings, climate change that impact on water level situation at the two Agus plants, which supply power to Mindanao. If its climate change, Lao said then it would be sacrifice. “I don’t think there is problem in generation. The problem is in t he transmission,” he pointed out. Lao emphasized that the new power suppliers such as the coal-fired power plant of Therma South Inc. would be useless if there is NGCP transmitting the power to the distributors. “When asked how much losses have the Mindanao business sector has been incurring due to power outages, Lao said it is difficult to quantify. He, however, disclosed that some businessmen have already complained about damages to their equipment. (PNA)
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2015 and additional 50 MW from TSI 2. “TSI’s Unit 2 has been undergoing testing and commissioning for the past several months and has, in fact, been delivering, on a non-committed basis, commissioning energy to its customers at discounted rates,” the statement read. A b o i t i z s a i d T S I ’s consumers comprised of 20 electric cooperatives and distribution utilities in Mindanao can now receive their full contracted capacity after Tuesday’s start of commercial operations. T S I s u p p l i e s p ow e r
to the cities of Davao, C ag ay an d e O ro, G e n . Santos, Zamboanga, Butuan, Kidapawan, Tagum, Koronadal, Digos, Pagadian, and Cotabato. DLPC, however, said its franchise area will still experience brownouts of 30 minutes to one hour. The company blamed the outages on the “hydro power plants that remain to be isolated and have reduced capacity due to El Nino and the collapsed towers due to bombing.” Agus 1 and Agus 2 have remained isolated after owners of the lot where the bombed Tower 25 stood did not allow personnel of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines to do repair works. DLPC has been affected by supply lack after receiving only 105 MW of its contracted capacity of 151 MW from the National Power CapacityPower Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. The Agus-Pulangui hydropower complexes, which supply over 50 percent of Mindanao’s power needs, have noted a decrease in its generating capacity due to lower water inflow to Lake Lanao in Lanao del Sur and Pulangui River in Bukidnon due to El Niño. Other sources of DL P C su ch a s A l s ons’ Western Mindanao Power Corporation supplies DLPC with 18 MW, Therma Marine Inc. w it h 30 M W, and Hedcor-Sibulan with with 48 MW. DLPC experienced last week a deficit of 90 MW translating to three hours of rotating brownouts. Scrap EPIRA The Bagong Alyansang
Makabayan Southern Mindanao Region called on the government to junk the 15-year-old Electric Power Industry Reform Act saying it has failed to address power woes in Mindanao. “ We d e m a n d t h a t t he p ower indust r y b e nationalized and put in the hands of the people given that the private sector cannot solve the energy crisis. “Eve n w it h t h e f u l l operation of the 300-MW Therma South Inc. coalfired power plant (CFPP), the government fail to solve the energy problem in Davao City,” the group stated in a separate statement. “F i f t e e n y e ar s af t e r EPIRA, the government is yet to solve the energy problem in the countr y. Many households have yet to experience electricity,” it added. Citing a report from the International Energy EXTRAJUDICICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH A DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE OF A PARCEL OF LAND Notice is hereby given that the intestate estate of the Late CRISTILLANO JANUBAS represented by his surviving spouse BELEN CABURAL JANUBAS and their legitimate children, namely: EVA C. JANUBAS and RICKY C. JANUBAS who inherited the property which she sold to the herein buyer/ vendee is of legal age, widow and a resident of Purok 2, Kalabaylabay, El Salvador, Misamis Oriental, all herein after referred to as the seller/vendor left a parcel of land situated in Barrio of Kalabaylabay, Municipality of El Salvador, Province Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao and which property described as follows; Original Certificate of Title No. OE-230 LOT NO. 33 CSD-10002121 (OLT) containing an area of TEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FIFTY SIX (10,156) square meters more or less is the subject of EXTRAJUDICICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH A DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE OF A PARCEL OF LAND Under Notary Public of ATTY. EMELITO J. MARQUIÑO per Doc, No. 92; Page No. 18; Book No. XII; Series of 2016. BWM: Jan. 27, Feb. 3 & 10, 2016
Republic of the Philippines Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao PROVINCE OF LANAO DEL SUR MUNICPALITY OF BINIDAYAN
Republic of the Philippines Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao PROVINCE OF LANAO DEL SUR MUNICPALITY OF LUMBA-BAYABAO
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
In compliance with section 5, of R.A. 10172 a NOTICE is hereby served to the Public that LAILANIE AMPUAN JALAL has filed with this Office a Petition for Correction of Clerical Error in the entry of the child’s SEX from “FEMALE” to “MALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of LAILANIE AMPUAN JALAL in Binidayan, Lanao del Sur, and whose parents are H. MADID T. JALAL and ANISAH A. AMPUAN.
In compliance with section 5 of R.A. 10172 a NOTICE is hereby served to the Public that ABDULAZIS MITMUG MONTE has filed with this Office a Petition for the Correction of Clerical Error in the entry of the child’s SEX from “MALE” to “FEMALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of ABDULAZIS MITMUG MONTE who was born on November 19, 1989 in Lumba-Bayabao, Lanao del Sur, and whose parents are SOMA BONSALAGAN MONTE and SITA LAMPING MITMUG.
Any person adversely effected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than ___________.
(SGD.) JEHAN A. YACOB Municipal Civil Registrar
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Any person adversely effected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than ___________.
(SGD.) SHAHANIE M. MAMOSAKA Municipal Civil Registrar
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Republic of the Philippines Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao PROVINCE OF LANAO DEL SUR MUNICPALITY OF PUALAS
Republic of the Philippines Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao PROVINCE OF LANAO DEL SUR ISLAMIC CITY OF MARAWI
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
In compliance with section 5 of R.A. 10172 a NOTICE is hereby served to the Public that AHMILON AMPUAN HADJIFAISAL has filed with this Office Clerical Error in the entry of the child’s SEX from “MALE” to “FEMALE” and the Family Name of child’s from “HADJIFAISAL” to “HADJI FAISAL” who was born on December 18, 1990 in Pualas, Lanao del Sur, and whose parents are PAIL DAOGAN PLAWAN and COBRA AMPUAN PLAWAN.
In compliance with section 5 of R.A. 9048 a NOTICE is hereby served to the Public that JAWIRA JALANIE DIALEM MACALA has filed with this Office a Petition of change of First Name from “JAWIRA JALANIE” to “JAWIRAH” in the certificate of Live Birth, who was born on May 01, 1981 at Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, whose parents are MAKATANGKIG B. MACALA and MAYSARAH D. MACALA.
Any person adversely effected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than ___________.
Any person adversely effected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than ___________.
(SGD.) MR. ADALIN SARIPADA TANOG, LLB Municipal Civil Registrar
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(SGN) ESMEAL A. RADIAMODA City Civil Registrar
Agency, it estimated around 21 percent of the Philippine population does not have access to electricity. “EPIRA has allowed the privatization of Napocor assets and of the entire electric power industr y. In railroading EPIRA, the former administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo promised that privatization is the key to solving the energy crisis in the country. But our 15-year experience clearly shows that privatization of the energy industry won’t solve the energy problem in the country,” it said. The group demanded that approach to solving power woes should be treated as a basic service that “is much needed by and must be provided to the people so that they can develop the society.”
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“Aside f rom hur t ing the sales of the legitimate gasoline dealers, the gasoline dealers underscore the safety of the buyers and sellers,” Lao said. He said that the illegal peddlers were selling the petroleum products without safety equipment as required. Lao said that the peddlers don’t have the needed business permits and certificate registration for such business from the Bureau of Internal Revenue. The legitimate gasoline and petroleum dealers also informed the city council that the D OE prohibits the peddling or sale of petroleum in containers or bottles, Lao said. (PNA)
Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 12TH Judicial Region, Branch 21 Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF MINOR JOEL PHILIP SANTELLAN, SPOUSES CRISPIN R. RAGMAC AND CASAMERA B. RAGMAC, Petitioners.
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- versus THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR, Lala, Lanao del Norte, Respondent. x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -/ ORDER Before this Court is a petition for adoption filed by petitioners Sps. Crispin R. Ragmac and Casamera B. Ragmac on January 7, 2016. The petition alleges, that: “1. That petitioners are 53 years old and 52 years old, respectively, spouses and residents of Panoloon, Sapad, Lanao del Norte, where they may be served with the notices and processes of the Honorable Court; 2. That respondent is the Local Civil Registrar of Lala, Lanao del Norte, wherein the birth, marriage, death and other status of the residents of Lala, Lanao del Norte are being recorded and its office is at the Municipal Hall of the municipality (Lala) where it may be served with the notices and processes of the Honorable Court; 3. That the petitioners are spouses as they contracted marriage on December 28, 2004 in Panoloon, Sapad, Lanao del Norte, a copy of the Certificate of Marriage is hereto attached as Annex “A” hereof; 4. That after the lapse of about eleven (11) years from the time of their marriage, the petitioners have no child of their own; 5. That the petitioners have expressed their desire and interest to adopt as their own child, JOEL PHILIP SANTELLAN, who was born on September 18, 2010 in Maranding, Lala, Lanao del Norte and who is now five (5) years old, a copy of the child's Certificate of Live Birth is hereto attached as Annex “B” hereof; 6. That the above-named child is the illegitimate son of MELISA GESTOPIA SANTELLAN as shown in the Certificate of Live Birth (Annex “B” hereof), and the child's putative-father is unknown; 7. That the mother of the child, MELISA GESTOPIA SANTELLAN, at first entrusted the care and custody of the child to the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office in Baroy, Lanao del Norte sometime in 2010; 8. That the Social Welfare and Development Office in Baroy, Lanao del Norte contracted the petitioners of the availability of the child for adoption as the mother had already abandoned the child; 9. That the case of the child had been reported to the main office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Quezon City and said office later issued a Certification of A Child Legally Available for Adoption, a copy of the certification dated October 5, 2012 is hereto attached as Annex “C” hereof; 10. That the petitioners are in possession of full civil capacity and legal rights to adopt and they are in a position to support and care for the child; 11. That the petiitioners have possessed all the qualifications and none of the disqualifications to adopt and the child is qualified to be adopted; 12. That as the mother abandoned the child and the putative father of the child is unknown, the written consent of the parents to the adoption can no longer be obtained by the petitioners; 13. That the adoption will surely serve the best interest and well being of the child. Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance, the same is hereby set for initial hearing to APRIL 18, 2016 at 8:30 o'clock in the morning at the session hall of this Court, RTC, Branch 21, Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte. Let this order be published before the hearing at least once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the province of Lanao del Norte at the expense of the petitioners. The Office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, of the Municipality of Lala, Lanao del Norte as well as the Office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, Sapad, Lanao del Norte are directed to submit their respective report relative thereto on or before the scheduled initial date of hearing. Any interested party is hereby directed to come to Court on the hearing of the petition and bring proof why the same should be denied. Furnish copy of this Order to the Office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, of the Municipality of Lala, Lanao del Norte; the Office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, Sapad, Lanao del Norte; the Office of the Honorable Solicitor General, Makati City; the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor of Lanao del Norte, the National Statistics Office, East Avenue, Quezon City; The Local Civil Registrar of Lala, Lanao del Norte and the petitioners.
SO ORDERED. Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte, Philippines January 15, 2015.
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Shoe-shine project gives hope to street dwellers By Maria Monica Borja and Caryl Be Trabadillo
The sun glints off overhead as Wendel Cris Sorono, clad in a blue polo
shirt and an old pair of pants, enters the gate of Xavier University. It’s a
Department of Social Welfare and Development Regional Office 10 (DSWD-10) Social Welfare Officer Rossana Akut releases the stipend of one of the senior citizens, who were among the 1,341 beneficiaries of the city under the Social Pension Program for Indigent Senior Citizens during the third day of a series of payouts for the First Quarter of 2016, held last Friday, January 29, at the City Social Welfare Office, ground floor of the Sangguniang Panglungsod building, near City Hall, Cagayan de Oro City. (cheng ordoñez)
usual day for him. But he’s neither here to teach nor to study. He’s here to shine shoes. Twenty-eight-yearold Sorono is one of eight beneficiaries of the Shoe Shine Project for Street People (SP4SP), a livelihood venture initiated by XU for street
dwellers. Sorono recounts that he didn’t initially want to be part of the project, preferring instead to do side jobs like “barking” for jeepneys. Yet what pushed him to join is his growing family. He has a two-yearold daughter who inspires him to look for a better
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occupation. “Para ni sa kaugmaon sa akong pamilya,” says Sorono, firmly pushing a shoe brush from side to side to polish a customer’s black leather shoe. (This is for my family’s future.) Empowering people A project of the
University Chaplaincy under the leadership of Fr. Richard Ella SJ, in partnership with Street Tutorial Advocacy (STA) headed by Jerome L. Torres of First-Year Formation Program (FFP), SP4SP provides not just a profitable enterprise for the street dwellers, but also an opportunity to learn. “Through this project, they will discover something that will help them improve their lives. They won’t just be thinking of how they can survive for the day,” says Torres, who tutored Sorono under STA. “Giving them the opportunity to learn [Basic English and Math] is not enough. This led me to the idea that if I empower them through this livelihood, they will realize that they can improve their lives,” continues Torres who related that his Shine/PAGE B2
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DTI Camiguin seeks to consolidate gains in LGU Competitiveness By Mike Baños, Editor-at-Large
fter pl ay ing a key role in helping Camiguin establish itself as a bastion of overall competitiveness in 2014, the Department of Trade and Industry Camiguin prov i n c i a l of f i c e n ow seeks to further strengthen the performance of the provincial government and its component units.
“DTI Camiguin will seek to sustain the momentum gained in 2015 by improving the competitiveness of the local government units of Camiguin province and its component municipalities,” said Provincial Director Joselito S. Enot at the sidelines of the DTI Media Briefing for 2015 Accomplishments of Region 10 held December
11, 2015 at a hotel in Cagayan de Oro. “The Camiguin provincial government finished in the Top 10 of the National Competitiveness Council’s in overall competitiveness among the participating provinces in the NCCs 2014 Cities and Municipalities C omp et it iveness Index (CMCI) and we wish to help it improve a notch higher to say, number 7,” Dir. Enot
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off last January 5, is now making waves inside the university. The shoe shiners are stationed by the benches along the campus main lane with students, faculty and staff comprising their clientele. Outside classroom discussions More people and organizations are supporting the shoe-shine project by bolstering their marketing and promotional strategy
online and otherwise to help them reach out to as many clients as possible. “One of my objectives is to help people realize that they can help themselves knowing that there are people supporting them,” Torres adds. The shoe-shiners are expecting more clients now that more people know about them from online posts. Besides, they also hope to learn
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compassion and concern for the less fortunate stem from the struggles he experienced as a youngster. “There were no opportunities given to me. I had to discover them myself,” he says. “I don’t want them to experience that.” The shoe-shine project, which kicked
added. “The capital town of Mambajao was adjudged the best performing LGU among the 3rd-6th class municipalities categor y and we also wish to help it maintain its lofty standing.” Among the 987 municipalities which participated in the NCC’s Competitiveness Survey in 2014, Mambajao emerged with the most number of recognitions with three (2nd about customer relations and interpersonal communication. Sorono, along with other shoe-shiners, is very thankful for the opportunity given to them to earn money and learn important life lessons, to Torres for his dedication to help them and to the Xavier community for giving them the venue and support to stand on their own two feet.
in Economic Dynamism, 2nd in Government Efficiency and 1st in Overall Competitiveness). DTI Camiguin was instrumental in helping b o t h L G Us at t a i n t o p 10 status in the NCC’s Overall Competitiveness R ating. Among its ke y accomplishments in 2015 was the establishment of the Mambajao Negosyo Center at the New Mambajao Municipal Hall in July, 2015. “Through the Negosyo Center we sustained assistance to 225 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) through technology transfer, production, training, product development, access to financing, consultancy ser vices and marketing assistance,” Dir. Enot said. Furthermore, DTICamiguin was able to attain a 111% fund utilization rate as a manifestation of its improvement in the procurement process, transparency, timeliness in programs implementation, and support services for both internal and external clients. Training for start up businesses were consolidated for the 3rd year through the SME Roving Academy (SMERA) and a further 1,500 beneficiaries benefitted from the agency’s regular training programs in entrepreneurial skills development, basic and upgrading technology trainings, and quality and productivity measures to improve MSME efficiency. Another key accomplishment of the agency was the establishment of 12 shared service facilities (SSFs) as of November 30,
2015 with total equipment cost of PhP15-million. “ D T I C a m i g u i n’s assistance impacted on the local economy especially through MSME’s in the tourism and support sectors which is the prime mover of the island’s economy,” Mr. Enot said. Besides product development and access to financing, the agency also extended marketing assistance to these priority sectors by facilitating their p ar t i c ip at i on i n maj or domestic trade fairs such as the SM Food Fair at SM Megamall (March, 2015), Ugmad Trade Fair (October 18-25, 2015 in time for the Lanzones Festival), and the Kahimunan Trade Fair in SM Cagayan de Oro City during the city’s fiesta month of August. Not t he le ast , DTICamiguin was recognized last Sept. 2015 as a sample model in a 3rd Party Audit by Deloitte Philippines that lead to the successful validation of all claims by DTI C entral Office for breakthrough goals which helped DTI and 11 other agencies being cited as the Philippines first “Island of Good Governance”. The citation, the first of its kind ever, was meant to highlight the high-impact programs DTI pledged to deliver. As a sample model, DTI Camiguin fully enforced full compliance of all laws and regulations against corruption, especially the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, the Anti-Red Tape Act (ARTA), National Guidelines on Inter nal Control Systems and the Procurement Law.
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