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Volume V, No. 15
Market Indicators
As of 6:13 pm July 10, 2014 (Thursday)
FOREX
PHISIX
US$1 = P43.38
6,937.21 points
7 cents
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33.42 points
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Briefly Livelihood aid THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary, during the turnover of livelihood checks of approved Grassroots Participatory Budgeting Process (GPBP) projects in northern Mindanao, emphasized the need to make sure these funds are put to good use and progress seen in the community. Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda DimapilisBaldoz said that the livelihood support fund should be translated in terms of proper operation of businesses. This additional fund is a huge help as capital and will help augment jobs in the communities and barangays these businesses are located. There are 41 approved GPBP for the 2nd quarter of 2014 turned over to its Accredited Co-Partners, civic organizations, beneficiaries and proponents engaging 5,565 identified beneficiaries in six provinces of northern Mindanao which amounts to P17,661,448.
Nutrition hub OZAMIZ City – The city government here has signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with non-government organizations (NGO’s) and selected barangays for the establishment of the Pinoy Nutrition Hub (PNH), in the city. The PNH is an adaptation of the Positive Deviance Hearth (PDH) in the Filipino context, which will be tested in the selected pilot areas where malnutrition is prevalent, Lelita G. Navarez, City Nutrition Officer, said. She said the PDH is an approach that has been successful in decreasing malnutrition in the communities using local wisdom and local resources for treating and preventing malnutrition.
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On Bangsamoro Law:
1-yr later, same issues hound peace process D
By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews
AVAO City — Between July 8, 2013 and July 8, 2014, the peace panels of the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) had accomplished so much — having signed three of the four Annexes to the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) and the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) itself – but they are back in Kuala Lumpur discussing the very same issues that hounded them last year and the rest of the 17-year old peace process. peace/PAGE 10
Prices of basic commodities in Northen Mindanao stable URBAN GARDENING. An urban container gardening practitioner waters her UCG on stilts in Sitio Puntabon, Barangay Bonbon, Cagayan de Oro City. photo by bong d . fabe
Sendong survivors use organic gardens to mitigate climate change (1st of 3 Parts)
By MIKE BAÑOS, Editor-at-Large
THE Department of Trade and Industr y maintains prices of basic and prime commodities in Region X (Northern Mindanao) are stable and have not gone up significantly, contrary to
some published reports (not on this paper). “Per conf ir mat ion wit h provincial of f ices there were no movements in the movements in the prices/PAGE 11
By BONG D. FABE, Correspondent
PERI-URBAN families — most especially women — mostly sur vivors of Tropical Storm Washi (Sendong) in this capital city of Northern Mindanao
region, have taken upon their slender shoulders the responsibility of increasing food security while at the same time adapting to and mitigating climate change
through small-scale organic farming. These women, from the villages of Bonbon, Indahag and Carmen, have realized organic/PAGE 10
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