BusinessWeek Mindanao (January 19-20, 2017)

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BusinessWeek MINDANAO CREDIBLE

Volume VII, No. 101

Market Indicators

As of 6:00 pm January 19, 2017 (thursday)

FOREX

PHISIX

US$1 = P49.760

7,156.36

X X Briefly

17.1

33.03

cents

points

Economic growth

PRESIDENTIAL Spokesperson Ernesto Abella announced that the country’s economic landscape continues to show great improvement as necessary policies are being established. “There are more banks that have expressed interest to come to the Philippines,” Abella said, adding that there are improvements in the Bureau of Internal Revenue and Bureau of Customs as part of the tax reform measures. Abella likewise cited the latest positive forecast of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the country’s growing economy.

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By MARK FRANCISCO, Staff Writer

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INDANAO Development Authority (MinDA) chair Abul Khayr Alonto said he is seriously considering the possibility to launch a probe on the Cagayan de Oro flood incident last Monday. Speaking to reporters last Tuesday, Alonto said that he is just awaiting reports from the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) regional office in Northern Mindanao before making a decision. Alonto was dispatched by President Duterte to see for himself the flooding in Cagayan de Oro, believed to be the worst since tropical storm Sendong struck in 2011, killing thousands. This time, however, there were only at least seven casualties reported. The water level on Monday rose up to shoulder level in some areas in the city stranding hundreds of students from the University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines (USTP), formerly MUST, and were forced to wade through flood/PAGE 11

STRANDED. It takes a 6X6 military truck to ferry commuters and workers in Cagayan de Oro City on Tuesday (17 January 2017). Several people were stranded overnight because the highways and roads were made impassable by flash floods that hit the city on Monday, January 16. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo

Davao’s biodiversity DAVAO City -- The government through the Commission on Higher Education has allocated a P7-Million research-fund to study the biodiversity of the city and its hinterlands. Dr. Milton Norman Medina, director for Qualitative Studies in the University of Mindanao said the study brings the opportunity to push the advocacy of knowing the plants in our environment which may been seen but unfamiliar by name and importance to the current generation. He said that through this study, they can pass on to the students the idea to become conservationist by knowing the local species in their surroundings. Medina recalled that in 2011, they formed a research team that would monitor the biodiversity in Mindanao.

IN-DEPTH

FLOODS EVERYWHERE. A day after heavy floods hit Cagayan de Oro on Monday, January 16, continued rain also inundates Narciso Street in Surigao City on Wednesday. Photo courtesy of Jun Ayensa

Rice supply readied for flood-damaged areas NATIONAL Food Authority is ready to supply the rice r e q u i r e m e nt s o f l o c a l government units and relief agencies in areas affected by the recent flooding in Mindanao NFA Administrator Jason Laureano Y. Aquino said that the food agency has sufficient stocks strategically positioned

Minor damage reported Forced evacuation in areas on agri crops in Normin employed near Pulangi River D E PA RT M E N T o f “As indicated by the report Agriculture (DA) Secretary Emmanuel Piñol assured that the f lash f loods in Northern Mindanao has not caused a huge damage to agriculture. In a press briefing in Malacañan on Wednesday, Janu ar y 1 8 , Pi ñol s ai d the flooding in Northern Mindanao did not widely affect the country’s rice and corn production.

coming from Region X, hindi naman ganoon kalawak ‘yung tinamaan na area,” Piñol said. “While of course, we’re sad that this happened, it will not really make a huge dent on the agricultural production on the region considering that is less than a thousand hectares. We can easily recover kasi ready ‘yung interventions,” he added. crops/PAGE 11

in its warehouses nationwide to respond immediately to the needs of the LGUs, and other relief agencies. “We have a standing Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with these relief agencies so they can withdraw their rice requirements anytime during calamities and emergencies,” he said.

According to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) the tail-end of a cold front and a low pressure area have caused massive flooding in Region 10. Cagayan de Oro City and other nearby provinces of Northern Mindanao such as supply/PAGE 11

By WALTER I. BALANE, MindaNews

M A L AY BA L AY C it y – Authorities in neighboring Valencia City have started forced evacuation of residents in threatened areas near the Pulangi River starting late Wednesday evening as rains continue to pour in. J u n e r e y Va l e r o , coordinator of the City evacuation/PAGE 11

WEAKENED BRIDGE. With its foundation weakened by the flood that hit Iligan City Monday evening (16 January 2017), authorities closed this Bailey bridge in Barangay Palao to vehicular traffic. Residents nearby said the flood was chest deep. MindaNews photo by Bobby Timonera

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