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Briefly Women's trade fair BUTUAN City – In celebration of International Women's Month, the Department of Trade and Industry in Caraga (DTI-13) ) has opened a month-long trade fair at the Atrium in SM City here, displaying the products of women entrepreneurs from across the region.

In a statement Wednesday (March 2), the DTI-13 said for this year, five booths are installed to exhibit the products from the provinces of Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Dinagat Island, Surigao del Norte, and Surigao del Sur. Dubbed as “Buy Caraga By Caraga: Women OTOPrenuer Trade Fair”, the DTI-13 said the products are created by women-led micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) that have been assisted by the trade agency through its One Town One Product Next Generation (OTOP Next Gen) program.

Diskwento caravan BUTUAN City – The Department of Trade and Industry – Caraga’s (DTI-13) Diskwento Caravan (DC) in the region last year by has generated total sales of P5,757,913.

DTI-13 Information Officer Mike Ariel Plaza said on Tuesday the activity was led by DTI-13 Regional Director Gay Tidalgo and was participated in by at least 40 representatives from the media and civil society organizations (CSOs).

In her presentation on Monday’s media briefing and CSO consultation, Tidalgo said a total of 18 manufacturers from the region joined the different DC activities in 2021 and served around 4,788 household beneficiaries.

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Govt seeks nuclear power to replace coal plants

By MYRNA M. VELASCO Contributor

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E W LY- i s s u e d Executive Order 164 of President Rodrigo Duterte has stipulated that the country’s need for baseload electricity supply shall be plugged by nuclear power facilities, which will serve as replacement to the targeted eventual phase out of coal-fire d electric generating assets.

“Nuclear power shall be tapped as a viable alternative baseload power source along with alternative energ y resources, to address the projected decline of coalfired power plants which come under increasing environmental opposition,” the Malacanang EO has emphasized.

Baseload power is a technology in electricity REPLACE/PAGE 11

POWER SUMMIT. Officials discuss points on the CAMELCO issue during the Power Summit held at Mambajao, Camiguin on Thursday (March 3, 2022). From left - Camiguin Cong. XJ Romualdo, Camiguin Gov. Jurdin Jesus Romualdo, and DOE Usec. Felix William Fuentebella. photo ' s by gerry lee gorit

Agusan oil palm plantation workers to get land titles before Duterte term ends

By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN, MindaNews

RO S A R IO, Ag us an d el Sur – Agrarian Reform Secretary Bernie Cruz has assured individual land titles for Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) who are former farm workers of the oil palm plantations in this province.

Cruz, who met leaders of three ARB groups at the guest house of oil palm plantation areas in the village of Maligaya over the weekend, said the titles will be

distributed before President Rodrigo Duterte ends his term on June 30.

But he said they will try the distribution of individual titles covering at least three hectares for each ARB within a month.

The individual titling initiative is part of the Support for Parcelization of Individual Titles (SPLIT) project of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) covering 1.38 million hectares

in the country at a cost of P24 billion, 78 percent of which is funded by a World Bank loan.

Two we eks ago, t he Registry of Deeds has already processed computerized titles for the SPLIT beneficiaries in the 20 provinces of the country. Two individual Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CLOA) will be given to ARBs in Agusan del Sur as a ceremonial launch of the conclusion of the project.

A total of 3,150 hectares TITLES/PAGE 11

Davao eyes reopening Night Market as virus cases dip

By ANTONIO L. COLINA, MindaNews

DAVAO City– The local government is discussing the possible reopening of the popular Roxas Night Market following the downgrading of the city’s alert status to level 1 from March 1 to 15 as the number of COVID-19 cases continue to decrease.

Dr. Michelle Schlosser, spokesperson for Davao City COVID-19 Task Force, said in her program “COVID-19 Alert” on Wednesday that the Business Bureau has discussed the plan with

due consideration of the guidelines under alert level 1 that have to be threshed out with the health cluster of the task force.

She said an activity that could result in high transmission of the virus may not be allowed.

“If it will remain high risk, there might be a possibility that we will not follow the guidelines for alert level 1.

With regard to Roxas, it may be reopened but there should MARKET/PAGE 11

Bird flu alert THE Provincial Veterinary Office (ProVet) of Misamis Oriental announced on Monday that it will implement stricter border controls to prevent the Avian Influenza virus, commonly known as the bird flu, from entering the area.

ProVet head Dr. Benjamin Resma made the announcement during the flag-raising ceremony at the capitol, which he said was ordered by Governor Yevgeny Vicente Emano following the outbreak in Luzon, specifically in Pampanga and Bulacan.

Resma said they met with the National Veterinary Quarantine to prohibit the entry of the “balut” (fertilized duck egg) supply at Laguindingan Airport here.

CATCHING THE SUNSET. Among the areas in the SOCCSKSARGEN region, the municipality of Glan in Sarangani province has an extensive coastline where one can catch the setting of the sun. For this young boy, though, catching fish with a rod line is what excites his late afternoon. mindanews photo taken 1 march 2022 by jules l. benitez

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EU-funded program turns over P27-M ICT equipment to BARMM COTABATO City – The European Union (EU)-funded Support to Bangsamoro Transition (SUBATRA) Program turned over on Wednesday P27 million worth of information and communications technology (ICT) equipment to the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao's (BARMM) Office of Chief Minister (OCM) Ahod Ebrahim and the regional parliament.

The SUBATRAdonated equipment included laptops, desktop computers, projectors, printers, communications equipment, office furniture, and conference tables.

Engr. Mohajirin T. Ali, Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority (BPDA) director-general, said that through the donated equipment, they hope employees of the concerned agencies would be able to provide good services and improve and streamline their respective operations.

“We’re hoping that these pieces of equipment will help the BARMM employees enhance their capacity and skills in delivering good services,” Ali said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Datu Aldren Utto, an administrative assistant from the OCM-Administration PROGRAM/PAGE 10

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Philippine tarsier released back to the wild in Agusan Norte

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UTUAN City – The Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) in Nasipit has released a Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta) found and rescued by a concerned citizen in the municipality of Las Nieves in Agusan del Norte province back to its natural habitat.

In a statement Wednesday, the CENRONasipit said the released tarsier has a length of 36.5 centimeters.

“Mr. Edward M. Ruiz, a resident from Barangay Matabao, Buenavista, Agusan del Norte turned over the tarsier to this office. He rescued the wildlife last February 22,

2022 in Purok 22, Sitio New Cana-an, Barangay Lawan-lawan in Las Nieves town,” the CENRO-Nasipit said.

The agency said the tarsier was in good physical condition when released Monday in Barangay Bokbokon, Las Nieves.

Based on Administrative Order No. 2019-09 or the Updated

National List of Threatened Philippine Fauna and Their Categories, the Philippine tarsier is classified as a threatened species.

There are 5,000 to 10,000 remaining tarsiers in the country but the group International Primate Protection League said the number is dwindling as the wildlife is facing multiple

threats to its existence due to low birth rates, exploitative tourism, and habitat degradation from extractive activities such as logging and mining.

The Philippine tarsier is categorized as "near threatened" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species. (PNA)

The Agricultural Training Institute-Regional Training Center (ATI-RTC)-10 launches its first Farmers Information and Technology Services (FITS) center in Barangay Digkilaan, Iligan City to reach more farmers at the barangay level. (ATI-RTC-10)

First Barangay FITS Center established in Iligan City ILIGAN CITY--More farmers in Barangay Digkilaan, here, will now have access to agriculturerelated information and technology that could help increase their farm productivity and enhance their agricultural practices.

The Agricultural Training InstituteRegional Training

Center (ATI-RTC)-10 recently launched its first Farmers Information and Technology Services (FITS) center in Barangay Digkilaan, Iligan City to reach more farmers at the barangay level.

The FITS center will serve as the barangay information center, which aims to offer

farming technology and agriculture-related information services. The creation of the center also targets to increase farmers’ awareness and understanding of the programs and services of ATI. The Farmers Information and Technology Service (FITS) along with MagsasakaSiyentista (MS) forms part of the components under the Techno Gabay Program (TGP) previously handled by the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD).

“I am thankful for our partnership with ATI. As pilot for the FITS center in the barangay, we hope that this will help the farmers of Barangay Digkilaan and its neighboring community to improve their knowledge and skills in farming,” Supervising Agriculturist Marie Ann J. Beley said during the launching ceremony.

The newly launched FITS center was furnished with corporate books, Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials on farming and other agriculture-related publications.

Barangay Captain Michelle I. Malasado along with the members of the barangay council, CENTER/PAGE 10

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ILIPINO exporters are encouraged anew to maximize free trade agreements (FTAs) between Asean member-countries and trading partners to enhance trade and investment opportunities.

But Jan Redmond Dela Vega of the Department of Trade and IndustryBureau of International Trade Relations said that

apart from markets of the United States and Japan, there is also potential in the Asean.

“In terms of our performance and in terms of our agreements that are existing, we only have those in place which are the Asean FTAs. And in recent years, we see that the Asean market is also a very important component or very important

trading partner of the Philippines…,” he said in a recent virtual forum.

Dela Vega identified top exports to Asean which are still electronic products and manufacturing goods, such as other machinery and transport.

“Looking into these FTAs that we have, there is also potential for other goods and also services

that we can export to other markets, not just within Japan, China rather but also within Asean,” he added.

Dela Vega said the Philippines is a party to seven Asean FTAs including those with China, Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand, India, and Hong Kong, and the Asean Free Trade Area (AFTA).

PH manufacturing score in February hits 3-year high THE country’s manufacturing score in February has improved to 52.8, its highest since December 2018, the IHS Markit Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) reported Tuesday.

Last month’s manufacturing PMI was also better than the 50 index registered in January.

IHS Markit economist Shreeya Patel said there

were solid expansions in output and new orders that supported the growth of the local manufacturing sector.

“While the relaxation of restrictions was no doubt the latest driver of growth, there were also tentative signs of improvements in material availability, as delivery times lengthened to the least marked extent for a year,” she said.

Patel said firms’

purchasing activity also rose at the sharpest rate for over three years while boosting pre and postproduction inventories.

“There were, however, areas of concern surrounding prices and employment.

Inflationary pressures were historically elevated which forced firms to push through hikes in selling charges. At the same time, voluntary resignations continued,

which has been seen since the pandemic hit the Philippines’ economy two years ago,” she added.

In Asean, the Philippines had the thirdhighest manufacturing score for February, only behind Singapore at 58.3 and Vietnam at 54.3.

Meanwhile, the outlook of the sector remains positive amid the upcoming elections wherein greater demand is expected. (PNA)

He said once the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement entered into force, “we also see potential, wider areas of cooperation and more simplified rules of the game in dealing in terms of our trade.”

The RCEP agreement entered into force on January 1, 2022 for 10 signatory states, namely

– Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam, Australia, China, Japan, and New Zealand.

The deal was ratified by President Rodrigo Duterte last September 2 and is under Senate deliberations to secure concurrence.

Dela Vega said the country currently also has two bilateral nonTRADE/PAGE 10

Iligan Light and Power seeks nod for P142-M projects ILIGAN Light and Power, Inc. has asked the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to approve its proposed electric and non-electric projects “to address load growth.” “[The company has] several electric and nonelectric capital projects planned which are necessary to maintain the reliable and safe operation of its distribution network as well as to provide for the growing electricity demand in the franchise area,” Iligan Light said in its application filed with the regulator on Feb. 14.

In its filing, Iligan Light also submitted the breakdown of its proposed projects totaling to P142.4 million.

The biggest chunk of the budget, which is P39.48 million, will go to the construction of its Tubon 20/30 mega volt ampere (MVA) substation, a project carried over from its 2021 regulatory year and will be continued this year.

Iligan Light will also spend P23.64 million for line construction projects and P11.96 million to buy PROJECTS/PAGE 10

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ORLAN R. RAVANERA Election day is fast approaching. If your vote is for a wrong leader whose vision of the future is only up to the next election, then, you are voting to put society in disarray.

But voting isn’t just done during elections or in choosing who should lead us. If fact, you cast your vote every time you buy as you choose from different e c on om i c a lt e r n at ive s , i.e., local versus foreign, organic versus inorganic, the essentials versus junks.

Buying between local and foreign products, the latter has been winning in all fronts as Filipino consumers are overwhelmingly choosing foreign products. Truth is, when you buy products from other countries, you are supporting the economies of those countries where the products are coming from. Not only that. By buying foreign products, you also support the job generation in those countries where the products are being produced and manufactured.

This is the reason why some 6,000 Filipinos were going abroad daily during the pre-

pandemic period, leaving their love ones behind just to work in other countries.

Indeed, our country has become a dumping ground of finished products and as cheap source of raw materials following extractive economy.

Don’t you know that we have lost some 17 million hectares of dipterocarp forest as the Philippines being a tropical country has the best and finest timber in the world, i.e., red lauan, narra, mahogany, etc.

Through massive logging, these finest of trees did supply the timber needs of the whole world in the last century.

Worse, our timbers were processed into plywood, and furniture and sold back to us at a high price. We are likened to a dog whose tail has been cut. After cutting the tail, they cook the dog’s tail and have it eaten back by the dog. That’s not only true to our timber. Where have all our mineral gone? Gone to foreign miners everyone, then processed into gold, silver and bronze and sold back to us.

Yes, we are consuming what we are not producing.

T h at sp e a k s we l l of a captive mind, an offshoot of the bombardment of advertisements by transn at i on a l c or p or at i on s , burying us in unbridled consumerism and materialism following money-must-grow principle but sacrificing Mother Earth and the people to the altar of greed and profit.

According to an Oxfam Study, there is so much veneration to the profit motive that

has already captured the mindset of all governments, all institutions, all universities and even of religious groups.

In effect, there is so much denigration of spirituality and growth of religious fundamentalism, giving so much veneration to images inside churches which were in fact originated from the imagination of the painter named Leonardo Da Vinci.

The truth is creation is the reflection of the Creator as nature and all the billion species created long before G o d created the homo sapiens speaks of the truest divinity following the one life principle of oneness and inter-connectedness. But the human beings are the most flawed species that has put the earth now in the state of planetary emergency. Has God really created the homo sapiens in his own image and likeness? That biblical statement seems to be the contrary as man has reduced the image of God to his own image!

Let us be mindful of the fact that a country that is not producing what it is consuming will always be penalized by slow growth.

Buying between organic and inorganic, the latter wins hands down. Consumers do not know that those inorganic products come from the massive practice of “conventional agriculture,” which is tied-up to the heavy usage of chemicals.

This dominant agriculture paradigm has robbed farming communities of farming

that is controlled through corporate globalization by trans-national corporations.

That is the reason why everyone is profiting from farming like fertilizer dealers, HIVs agri-corporations, compradors, usurers but not those who are doing the backbreaking job of farming – the poor farmers.

Buying organic means that we don’t have to import massively chemicals that have already done so much harm to the integrity of the ecosystem, even causing sickness and deaths due to cancer. Buying organic means lowering production cost by way of our farmers trusting in the innate processes of nature and saving beneficial insects which are now nowhere to be found. It also means saving our water tables from being polluted through the massive use of toxic nonbiodegradable chemicals.

Unbridled materialism and consumerism have characterized society’s way of life-giving high veneration to money-must-grow principle at the expense of the fragile environment that as if nature is inexhaustible. Let us remember what Mahatma Gandhi had said several decades ago, “reduce your want and provide for your own needs,” and that, “if mankind has to be saved from doom, development must be in harmony with nature and not at its own expense.”

This time, let us give notice to one and all that the Filipino consumers have BUY/PAGE 10

Ash Wednesday begins the Lenten season

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Recognizing Royalty Think a minute… Successful country singer Lonzo Green was visiting his relatives.

His teenage nephew, Jim, and all his friends gathered in Jim’s house to meet his famous uncle. But there was one quiet 15-year-old boy whom Jim’s parents would not allow to come inside their house. Simply because this kid was poor, they treated him as an inferior, lowerclass person, even calling him “white trash.”

When Jim told Uncle Lonzo that this boy outside had a guitar but did not know how to tune it, Lonzo gladly offered to show the boy how. Since he was not allowed inside the house, they arranged to meet outside by the street.

It was obvious to Lonzo that this teenage boy was embarrassed and felt out of place in this upper class neighborhood. The boy’s guitar was old, cheap, and hung around his neck with just a piece of string. After L onzo showe d t he shy teenager how to tune his guitar, he offered to teach him some songs. The boy was so surprised and happy

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JHAN TIAFAU HURST that Lonzo would spend two whole hours playing and singing with him, he actually started feeling confident in his own ability to play and sing.

Lonzo never met that boy again, at least not face to face.

For that same boy who was not allowed to come inside the house, became the King of Rock n’ Roll: Elvis Presley.

There is a similar true story about another king who was not allowed to come inside people’s homes and hearts. In fact, He is the King of all kings. Yet even though He is the Maker of the universe, He chose 2,000 years ago to humiliate Himself by becoming a human being ROYALTY/PAGE 10

Thank God, for a good number of reasons, Ash Wednesday is celebrated in our country in a very popular way. Even if it exudes a dire, gloomy air, what with all the liturgical protocols on fasting, abstinence, and other forms of self-denial, it continues to enjoy a large following among us. Even those who are not very faithful in their Sunday obligation would exert the effort to have their foreheads marked with ash on that day.

Obviously, we should continue to clarify the true significance of this day. Ash Wednesday begins the season of Lent which is meant to prepare us for the culmination of C h r ist’s re d e mpt ive mission that is liturgically celebrated in Easter. It somehow encourages us to have another renewal of our baptismal commitments or to have another conversion.

In the gospel of that day, we are reminded of having purity of intention in all our deeds. We have to understand that the intention plays a very

crucial role in our life. That’s where we choose where we want to be --with God or with ourselves, to truly love God and neighbor or to indulge in self-love.

Wit h our intent ion, we can direct our acts to God, following what was once indicated by St. Paul, “Whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, do all to the glory of God.” (1 Cor 10,31) That’s how our acts become good, or moral.

Otherwise, they are bad, or at least dangerous.

This is so, since God, being the Creator, is the standard for everything. And more than the standard, he is, in fact, the very substance of what is good, true and beautiful, what is fair and just, what is perfection itself.

Nothing is good, true and beautiful, nothing is fair and just, nothing is perfect if it is not done with God and for God. In short, we need to refer all our acts to God. We have to make this affirmation very clear in our mind and do everything to make that

ideal a reality.

We need to realize then that we have to take utmost care of our intention, making it as explicit as possible, and honing it to get engaged with its proper and ultimate object who is God. We s h o u l d t r y o u r best to shun being simply casual or cavalier about this responsibility. We can easily play around with it, since intentions are almost invariably hidden from public knowledge. We are urged to be most sincere in directing our intentions properly.

We can easily fall into hypocrisy and deception, doing what can appear good externally but is not internally, since we could refuse giving glory to God, which is the proper intention to have, and instead feed and stir our vanity, pride, greed, lust, etc.

We need to actively purify our intentions, since we have to contend with many spoilers in this regard these days. In fact, we just have to look around and see how openly

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ROY CIMAGALA opposed many people are of directing their intentions to God. To t hem, intent ions are strictly personal and confidential matters that others do not have any right to meddle. While there is a certain truth to this claim, we have to remind ourselves that our intentions too are subject to a moral law.

That is why we have to pay serious attention to where our intention tilts, to who or what actually holds our heart, for it is the heart, the home of our intention, where we determine the morality of our acts and ultimately where we find our true identity.

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HE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) forecasts a faster inflation rate for February at 3.2 percent, mainly driven by the increases in prices of oil, rice, and some meat products.

The projection is higher than the previous month’s 3 percent and is the midpoint of the central bank’s 2.3 percent

to 3.6 percent forecast range for the month.

“The series of oil price hikes, along with the higher price of rice and meat, are the primary sources of inflationary pressures in February,” BSP Governor Benjamin Diokno told journalists in a Viber message on Monday.

The upside risks to the inflation rate this month are expected to be countered by lower electricity rates in areas being serviced by the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) and the decline in the prices of fish and vegetables as supply improves, he said.

“Looking ahead, the BSP will continue to monitor

emerging price developments and possible second-round effects to achieve its primary mandate of price stability that is conducive to balanced and sustainable economic growth of the economy,” he added.

BSP’s policy-making Monetary Board (MB) recently hiked the central bank’s average inflation rate

projection for this year from 3.4 percent to 3.7 percent due to the continued hike in global oil prices and its impact on food prices.

Amidst the change, monetary authorities said the projection remains within the government’s 2 to 4-percent target band for this year.

(PNA)

BDO posts higher AMLC issues freeze orders vs 16 groups designated as terrorists profit in 2021 THE ANTI-MONEY Laundering Council (AMLC) ordered banks, real estate brokers and developers, and government agencies to immediately carry out freeze orders on accounts and assets of 16 newly designated groups by the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC).

Through AMLC

Resolution No. TF-50, Series of 2022 posted on its website, the “dirty money” watchdog said the orders should be implemented immediately against organizations designated as terrorists by the ATC’s Resolution No. 28 (2022) dated Jan. 26.

The orders cover funds and assets of 16 groups including the

Revolutionary Council of Trade Unions, Katipunan ng mga Samahang Manggagawa or Federation of Labor Organizations, Pambansang Katipunan ng Magbubukid or National Association of Peasants, Malayang Kilusan ng Bagong Kababaihan or Patriotic Movement of New Women, Kabataang Makabayan or Patriotic

12th SEAMEO Regional Congress MARILYN S. BUTASLAC Teacher 1 Misamis Oriental General Comprehensive High School

The 12th SEAMEO research congress aims the following. First, it encourage research and innovation in mathematics among youths. Second, it provide a platform for sharing ideas and experience among youths. Third, it provide a platform for intellectual interactions among youths and educators. Fourth, it recognize young scientists in SEAMEO member countries.

The SEAMEO research congress is an avenue for student development in research and in mathematics. The research of students is a manifestation that teachers are eager and willing to learn mathematics beyond what is expected of them in the curricula of mathematics.

It is implied that educators, teachers, school, community, stakeholders, parents and district are supportive, competent and performing as evidenced in their students’ output. Students research are

important in order to develop/arouse their talents and gift in this field of specialization.

The education sector is still in awe to know that students are still in love to learn mathematics and research. Despite the fact that some learners’ attention and interest are diverted to technology and entertainment like being hooked to mobile games, facebook or K-pop personalities. Their study is awesome, as if they are already in college, as to their level of knowledge in research. Their discovery today maybe a treasure in the coming years like the theorems that are currently used in industry, technology and engineering. The end product of their research will be of great impact in the body of knowledge and in the actual application of technology, industr y, engineering and other field of science.

Preventing violence at schools

BY JULIETA C. GABE Lubilan Integrated School

School violence is violence that occurs in the school setting. It describes violent acts that disrupt learning and have a negative effect on students, schools, and the broader community. School is the location where the violence occurs, not a type of violence. All students have the right to learn in a safe school environment.

The good news is school violence can be prevented. Many factors contribute to school violence. Preventing school violence requires addressing the factors that put people at risk for or protect them from violence. Research shows that prevention efforts by teachers, administrators, parents, community members, and even students can reduce violence and improve the school environment.

All schools work to prevent school violence and schools are very safe places.

Students, staff, and parents all have an important role in promoting school safety.

Adults can provide leadership by reassuring students that schools are generally very safe places for children and youth and reiterating what safety measures and student supports are already in place in their schools.

In addition, A common way to reduce

violence in schools is to implement stronger security measures, such as surveillance cameras, security systems, campus guards and metal detectors.

Surveillance cameras can be placed in hallways, classrooms and near doors to provide school safety personnel the ability to monitor unfamiliar faces, loitering guests and dangerous situations from afar.

Install security systems to control building access. Restrict how people enter the school by assigning the main door as the only entrance point and locking all side doors from the exterior. Or, restrict when people enter the school by setting up an alarm that contacts local law enforcement if a door opens outside of regular school hours.

Employ security guards to patrol the school, parking lots, campus grounds and other common areas. Security guards watch for suspicious behavior and can remove dangerous individuals from school grounds before they cause any harm.

Schools with weapon or gang violence issues may implement extreme security measures, such as metal detectors and routine bag searches, to deter students from behaving violently.

Youth, Katipunan ng Gurong Makabayan or Association of Patriotic Teachers, Makabayang Samahan Pangkalusugan or Patriotic Health Association, and Liga ng Agham para sa Bayan or League of Scientists for the People.

Other groups that were also designated as terrorists include Lupon ng Manananggol Para sa Bayan or Committee of Lawyers for the People, Artista at Manunulat Para sa Sambayanan or Artists and Writers for the People, Makabayang Kawaning Pilipino or Patriotic Government Employees, Revolutionary Organization of Overseas FREEZE/PAGE 11

BDO UNIBANK, Inc. recorded a higher net income in 2021 following the recovery of its noninterest earnings and lower loan loss provisions.

The bank’s net income rose by 51% year on year to P42.8 billion from P28.2 billion in 2020, it said in a filing with the local bourse.

Return on equity improved to 10.5% in 2021 from 7.6% in 2020.

However, the bank’s income was 3% below the P44.2 billion it booked in 2019 before the crisis.

“BDO’s full-year profits were buoyed by an 11% increase in non-interest income and normalized provisions,” the bank said.

BDO in an e-mail said

its net interest income for 2021 decreased by 1.79% year on year to P131.3 billion from P133.7 billion.

Meanwhile, noninterest income rose by 11% to P61.3 billion from P55.2 billion.

Loan growth was at 6% last year, faster than the industry rate of 5%.

This was supported by improving business conditions in the latter part of the year, which partly offset muted credit activity for most of 2021.

Asset quality at end2021 improved as BDO’s nonperforming loan (NPL) ratio declined to 2.8% from 3.1% as of the third quarter. The ratio stood at 2.65% as of end-2020.

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EDSA PEOPLE POWER AND MARTIAL LAW Fifty years ago, Martial Law was declared by President Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972. This month we are celebrating the 36th anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution of 1986 that ended 14 years of this dictatorial regime without resorting to arms. As ecumenical religious leaders, we can look back and reflect on the lights and shadows of this period.

The Martial Law regime was one of the darkest, if not the darkest, period in the history of our nation, if only because it pitted Filipinos against Filipinos, the government against its own people.

This can be gauged in terms of the outbreak of violence in various forms: 107,000 primary victims of human rights violations; 70,000 persons arrested, mostly without warrants of arrest; 34,000 people tortured; and 3,200 killed by the military and the police. These figures do not include the thousands of displaced Christians and Muslims affected by communal violence in Mindanao triggered by the declaration of Martial Law. Based on a Supreme Court ruling in July 2003, $683 million (or P34 billion) worth of Marcos assets in various Swiss banks were declared illgotten. An estimated $5-10 billions of ill-gotten wealth was plundered by the Marcoses during their two decades in Malacañang. A number of these plunder cases are still pending, with the son, Ferdinand Jr., representing the Marcos estate.

Martial Law was preceded by the Jabidah Massacre on Corregidor Island in 1968. This gave rise to the formation of the Moro National Liberation Front and the successive rounds of communal violence against Christian and Muslim communities in many parts of Mindanao during the 70’s and 80’s. In the same year 1968, the New People’s Army was organized which fomented a Communist-inspired armed struggle in almost all regions of the country. Hence, either as cause or effect, the earlier Marcos Administration in the late 60’s, followed by Martial Law, deepened the polarization as well as the pauperization of Philippine society.

On the other hand, the People Power Revolution manifested a nation’s yearning for the return of democratic institutions — particularly in terms of due process, freedom of the press, and respect for human rights. The image of Mary, later acclaimed

as Our Lady of EDSA, became a focal point for the thousands of people, ostensibly without a leader, that filled the national highway intersecting the two military forces in Camp Aguinaldo and Camp Crame. The continued broadcasting of Radio Veritas, despite the attack on its main transmitter station, kept up the spirits of the street protestors throughout the four days of non-violent action and prayer.

Starting from the core value of the HUMAN DIGNITY of every person, we religious leaders can help build in Philippine society a Culture of Life, a Culture of Human Rights and a Culture of Peace. It is these Gospel values — of being makaDios, maka-Tao and maka-Kapayapaan— that we look for in our candidates for public office. No to extra-judicial killings. No to warrantless arrests.

No to plunder and corruption that ultimately deprive the poor of their basic needs. But Yes to the resumption of peace talks. Yes to addressing the root causes of un-peace and working for reconciliation among warring groups.

Along with concern for the dignity of every person is the complementary value of working for the COMMON GOOD. In this sense, we look for candidates who are maka-Kalikasan and maka-Bayan, working for the protection of the environment as our common home. No to irresponsible mining and coal-fired power plants.

No to the wholesale exploitation of our natural resources by foreigners. No to the destruction of our remaining forests.

The candidate should manifest an option for the poor through the implementation of Social Justice measures such as agrarian reform, urban housing and recognition of the ancestral domains of indigenous people. The candidate should also be able to defend the sovereignty of the country over its offshore islands and maritime economic zone against the incursions of a foreign state.

As ecumenical religious leaders, let us then commemorate the People Power Revolution of EDSA by not forgetting the dark shadows of Martial Law — the dire opposite of a Golden Age. In our discernment of candidates for these coming elections, let us choose persons committed, in word and deed, to the promotion of Human Dignity and the Common Good of our communities

Signed,

Fr. Renerio Sabuga, SSJV Parochial Vicar, St. Francis Xavier Pueblo, Cagayan de Oro

Abp. Jose A. Cabantan, D.D Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro

Fr. Erdman B. Pandero, SSJV Parish Priest, Consolacion, Cagayan de Oro

Bishop Felixberto Calang, IFI Bishop of Cagayan de Oro Abp. Emeritus Antonio J. Ledesma, S.J, D.D Archbishop Emeritus of Cagayan de Oro Bishop Guillermo Dela Vega Afable, D.D Bishop of Digos Msgr. Tex Legitimas, PC Parish Priest, San Isidro Labrador Gusa, Cagayan de Oro Bro. Karl Gaspar St. Alphonsus Theological and Mission Institute, Davao City

Fr. Ritche B. Elot, S.J Parochial Vicar, Lumbia, Cagayan de Oro Fr. Jose Nazareno Gabato, CRSP Parish Priest, Calaanan, Cagayan de Oro Datu Mantimongmong Impahanong, Malitbog, Misamis Oriental Datu Meloy Pinagawa Minalwang, Claveria, Misamis Oriental Datu Mantangkilan Hagpa, Impasug-ong, Bukidnon

Pastor Nasalli Silava Evangelical Church, Cagayan de Oro

Datu Bisoy Dansolihon, Cagayan de Oro

Fr. Gil Escalante, SSJV St. Patrick’s House

Datu Tony Claveria, Misamis Oriental

Teacher Researcher

BY PRINCESS ANNE ACUT

How do teacher and researcher differ?

Of course, with their profession, the job itself is really different. But, what if the two collide? Is it possible?

Te a c h i n g p r o f e s s i o n i s v e r y n o bl e w h i c h c om e s w it h s o mu c h responsibility and duty towards student. While a researcher is someone w ho studies a subj e c t sp e ci a l ly to discover new information.

When this two character merged, a teacher researcher could be developed.

In many ways, te acher s e arch and

re s e a rc h f or m ore s t r at e g i e s t h e y could apply to the teaching and learning process inside a classroom.

The strateg y could be a tool for learning, a game for assessment or a de velopment a l t ask to ma ke t he lesson easier.

Mo st of t he te a che rs now a d ay s engaged to research for the students' performance. It is one way on how he/she could help every student. And most of the teacher’s research is for student’s successful future.

NOTICE

PAUNAWA

Notice is hereby given that VCDU Realty Corporation has filed with this Office a sworn registration statement for the sale of house & lot packages in SHANGRILA 3 SUBDIVISION located at Barangay Villa Kananga, Butuan City and more particularly described as Lots 1-25 of Block 1, Lots 1-24 of Block 2, Lots 6-26 of Block 3 and Lots 1-22 of Block 4, all in Pcs13-003573 containing an area of 19,203.00 sq.m. and covered

by Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) No. 157-2015002507 and 157-2015001004.

Ipinagbibigay-alam na ang VCDU Realty Corporation ay naghain sa Tanggapang ito sinumpaang aplikasyon para sa pagbebenta ng mga bahay at lote sa SHANGRILA 3 SUBDIVISION na matatagpuan sa Barangay Villa Kananga, Butuan City at sinasakop ng Lote 1-25 ng Block 1, Lote 1-24 ng Block 2, Lote 6-26 ng Block 3 at Lote 1-22 ng Block 4, ng Pcs-13-003573 na may kabuuang sukat na 19,203.00 sq.m. sa ilalim ng titulo bilang 157-2015002507 at 157-2015001004.

The foregoing project is utilizing specifically Lots 2-19 of Block 1 and Lots 1-34 of Block 2 of Sherwood Subdivision located at Barangay Ambago, Butuan City, as its compliance pursuant to Section 18, of Republic Act (RA) No. 7279, as amended by Republic Act No. 10884.

All papers relative thereto shall, upon request be available for inspection during business hours by any person having legal interest thereon.

Absent any legal impediment, the above-cited project is deemed registered and a certificate, in evidence thereof, shall forthwith be issued after five (5) days from the last day of publication.

Butuan City this 28th Day of February 2022.

Ang nasabing proyekto ay ginagamit ang Lote 2-19 of Block 1 at Lote 1-34 of Block 2 ng Sherwood Subdivision na matatagpuan sa Barangay Ambago, Butuan City bilang pagtupad sa Seksyon 18 ng Batas ng Republika Blg. 7279, at bilang susugan ng Batas ng republika Blg. 10884.

Lahat ng mga kasulatang kaugnay nito ay maaaring suriin ng sinuman na nagtataglay ng legal na interes ditto matapos humiling ng pagsusuri sa tanggapang ito.

Kapag walang sagabal na legal, ang proyektong nabanggit ay ituturing na rehistrado at maaari nang bigyan ng sertipiko bilang katibayan nito, pagkalipas ng limang (5) araw mula huling paglalathala.

Lungsod ng Butuan, ika-28 ng Pebrero, 2022.

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Globe prioritizes kids’ online safety in #MakeITSafePH campaign

THE onset of the pandemic has seen greater screen time for children, which also increased their risk of exposure to malicious content, making it all the more crucial for parents to take action in ensuring their safety and privacy online.

The US-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, meanwhile, reported a 209% rise in cyber tips or information on child exploitation in the Philippines in 2020, the first year of strict quarantine restrictions.

The Department of Justice earlier said cases of online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (OSAEC) in the Philippines rose by 264.6% to 202,605 when Luzon was under lockdown from March to May 2020.

In a webinar held last February 8, Globe, along with its partners from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Internet Watch Foundation, CitizenWatch, and Bantay Konsyumer, Kalsada, Kuryente (BK3), discussed the importance

of having a holistic approach in addressing OSAEC and safeguarding children’s online safety.

“Parents play a vital role in safeguarding children’s online safety.

More than just monitoring their kids’ devices and managing their screen time, it is equally important for them to educate their children on how to protect themselves and look out for their peers when faced with dangerous situations online,” said Globe Chief Privacy Officer Irish Salandanan-Almeida.

Almeida stressed that it is key for parents to be aware of what their children do online, who they talk to, where they go, and what they download and use. She highlighted how Globe is prepared to support parents in this endeavor, with their children’s activity book entitled “Safe Space: A Kid’s Guidebook to Data Privacy” available on the Globe e-Library. The material was developed as part of Globe’s partnership with the National Privacy Commission (NPC) on

the Kabataang Digital Program.

Through its #MakeITSafePH campaign, Globe continues to invest in infrastructure that supports the government’s campaign against online child pornography. To date, the company has spent US$2.7 million to establish an effective content filtering system, and has blocked 9,329 sites and online content that promote OSAEC. Globe also partners with local and international institutions

Importance of computer literacy among learners

BY CHERYL L. SOLIJON TEACHER III

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the nation, more and more school districts are continuing remote learning into the fall. Even those that are reopening are also planning for the need to close again if an outbreak occurs. As a result, districts are racing to get technology and internet access to students who do not currently have those resources. Providing computers and hotspots is just step one in closing the digital divide, however. Schools will also need to address disparities in computer literacy, so that students who are unaccustomed to using computers regularly are not left behind.

And yes, the digital world offers tremendous benefits to us all. It provides platforms that allow us to connect and collaborate. It opens up opportunities to learn about new and important issues, and empowers innovation in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago.

Computer literacy is the knowledge and

ability to use computers and technology efficiently. Computer literacy can also refer to the comfort level someone has with using computer programs and other applications that are associated with computers.

The precise definition of “computer literacy” can vary from group to group.

However, “computer literate” often connotes little more that the ability to use several specific applications (such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Internet Explorer) for certain very well-defined simple tasks.

Educators are pushing greater computer literacy requirements since student exposure does not necessarily translate to understanding.

More so, computer literacy is a crucial component for success at a higher education institution since the student interacts with the school, the faculty, and the community by using the computer. Students cannot complete their coursework or search for online solutions without this competency.

Can You Feel and Find Me?

BY MARIE ANN T. SALISE

It is written from a known article that Mathematics is everywhere. Do you agree with this statement? In what aspect could we prove that Mathematics is being used wherever we are?

Yes, I fully agree that Mathematics is everywhere. Though some may not be aware but it exists in whatever we do. From spending money, purchasing daily needs, counting something to know its quantity, to constructing buildings, bridges, and other things related to engineering works and the like.

On t he ot her hand, in s cho ol, Mathematics teachers are fully aware of the great challenges in motivating and teaching students to uplift the numeracy level of individuals and to prepare them for the great applications of Math to reality.

In addition , some fails to give importance even the basic operations in Math ( addition,

subtraction, multiplication, and division) which are fundamentals in learning the subject. One of the evident reasons on this effect is the absence of interest because of the competent games online that can simply attracts their( students) attentions.

Moreover, the current situation of this pandemic and crisis made the challenges more visible. No one expects this to happen, nobody is put into blame if the academic achievements of the students is minimal.

Yes, together we could still hope that this pandemic will end, so that we could double our efforts on reaching the much quality of education and do something for the equally competent abilities of our learners by unlocking their difficulties and nourishing their undiscovered potentials.

The near future is our time to shine. Good luck to us!

such as UNICEF, with whom the company has been working to promote online safety and security among children since 2019, the Internet Watch Foundation, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P), and many others.

The #MakeITSafePH campaign is one of Globe’s key programs that provides practical tips and easy-todigest information about

cybersecurity and safety. It promotes online vigilance to help Filipinos defend themselves against online hacking, identity theft, and other cybercrimes.

Globe also supports government initiatives to fight online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (OSAEC) and continues to invest in public education tools and platforms on digital citizenship and

responsibility. This includes the Digital Thumbprint Program (DTP) and the Global Filipino Teachers (GFT) program.

To learn more about Globe's Digital Thumbprint Program, you may access the eModules at https://www.youtube. com/user/GlobeCSR/ playlists.

Globe supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly UN SDG No. 9 which highlights the roles of infrastructure and innovation as crucial drivers of economic growth and development, and UN SDG No. 17 which emphasizes the value of partnerships in achieving the sustainable development goals. Globe is committed to upholding the United Nations Global Compact principles and contributing to 10 UN SDGs. To learn more about Globe, visit www.globe. com.ph.

Recognizing learning styles among learners

BY JAMES MICHAEL C. GABE Macabagla Elementary School

In recent years, the idea that learning styles are the best way to learn for a student has been debunked. However, learning styles are widely accepted in education as a way to promote the idea that every student learns differently.

Learning styles are not a prescription for teaching students, but they help a teacher recognize the preferential way in which a student processes and retains information.

The visual learners in your classroom like to see and observe the things that they are learning about. Visual learners like to use pictures, diagrams and written directions to access information. This learning style has also been known as “spatial.” The students who are visual or spatial learners might draw, make lists or take notes in order to interact with and process information.

More so, some of the more traditional styles of teaching support visual learners, such as whiteboards or projecting

information onto a screen. Assignments could ask learners to make pictures or diagrams. In addition, providing class notes or handouts that students can follow along with are a great way to integrate visual learning into your curriculum.

Visual learners may have a tough time with lectures and could need more time to process information that they hear auditorily.

Thus, every teacher can probably recognize yourself in one of these descriptions. In your own education degree coursework, you may find it easier to read diagrams and charts rather than listening to a lecture. Or you might find that acting out a scene in the classroom makes more sense for you than researching what to do about a particular classroom management problem. As an educator, you should recognize your own learning preferences and be mindful to incorporate activities and opportunities for all types of learners to feel comfortable and engaged.

Bannering inclusive education

BY MARIA ELAINE R. ABAO

Around the world, children are excluded from schools where they belong because of disability, race, language, religion, gender, and poverty.

But every child has the right to be supported by their parents and community to grow, learn, and develop in the early years, and, upon reaching school age, to go to school and be welcomed and included by teachers and peers alike.

When all children, regardless of their differences, are educated together, everyone benefits—this is the cornerstone of inclusive education. Inclusive education means that all students attend and are welcomed by their neighborhood schools in age-appropriate, regular classes and are supported to learn, contribute and participate in all aspects of the life of the school.

Inclusive education is about how we develop and design our schools, classrooms, programs and activities so that all students learn and participate together. Inclusive

education is about ensuring access to quality education for all students by effectively meeting their diverse needs in a way that is responsive, accepting, respectful and supportive. Students participate in the education program in a common learning environment with support to diminish and remove barriers and obstacles that may lead to exclusion.

And yes, inclusive education is carried out in a common learning environment; that is, an educational setting where students from different backgrounds and with different abilities learn together in an inclusive environment. Common learning environments are used for the majority of the students’ regular instruction hours and may include classrooms, libraries, g ym, performance theatres, music rooms, cafeterias, playgrounds and the local community. A common learning environment is not a place where students with intellectual disabilities or other special needs learn in isolation from their peers.

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By (Signed) SYLVIAN GERALD L. SABIO IBP CDO Temporary Receipt No. 594, January 6, 2021 PTR CDO O.R, No. 4929182 A, January 5, 2021 MCLE Compliance No. V-0009408, July 27, 2015 MCLE Compliance No. VI-0000814, Sept.29, 2016 TIN 178-265-979; Roll No. 45542 Email address: sabio.sylvangerald@yahoo.com Tel No. 09562755880

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL 10th Judicial Region BRANCH 21 Cagayan de Oro City EMY J. PIE, Petitioner, SPEC.PROC.NO. R-CDO-22 -versus- 00010-SP NOEL A. BANGOT AND LOCAL CIVIL FOR: JUDICIAL RECOGNITION OF REGISTRAR OF CAGAYAN DE ORO FOREIGN JUDGEMENT OF CITY, DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

Respondents.

----------------------------------------------------x ORDER (SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION) TO: NOEL A. BANGOT Room 47, 24 Milne House, London St., Paddington, London, W21HH United Kingdom GREETINGS: WHEREAS, a Petition for Judicial Recognition of Foreign Judgement of Dissolution of Marriage was filed by Petitioner, EMY J. PIE, alleging that defendant NOEL A. BANGOT resides outside of the Philippines, Hence, this Court finds it proper for the service of Summons to said defendant by publication.

WHEREAS, quoted hereunder is the Petition sought to be published to wit: PETITION Petitioner, by counsel, and unto his Honorable Court, most respectfully files this petition and states, to wit; 1.

That the EMY J. PIE is of legal age, single, British citizen [1], presently residing at 608 Coppetts Wood House 48 Lawn Road London, NW3 2AX, where he [sic] may be served with summons and other orders and processes of this Honorable Court;

2.

That PRIVATE RESPONDENT NOEL A. BANGOT is of legal age, presently residing at Room 47,24 Milne House, London St., Paddington, London, W2 1HH United, where he may be served with summons and other orders and processes of this Honorable Court;

3.

That PUBLIC RESPONDENT Local Civil Registrar of Cagayan de Oro City, herein impleaded as nominal party, is a government agency and whose main governmental function is to keep and store the marriage certificate of all the marriage certificate of all the marriages contracted within Cagayan de Oro City;

4.

That on July 7, 2021, the petitioner and Private Respondent entered into a union of marriage in Cagayan de Oro City. The Certificate of Marriage issued by the Philippine Statistics Office is hereto attached and marked as Exhibit A.

5.

On November 2002 petitioner moved to London and July 2003 respondent followed. Since then petitioner and respondent lived at the United Kingdom and eventually acquired British Citizenship by virtue of British Nationality Act of 1981.

6.

That during their marriage, petitioner and private respondent not begotten any child;

7.

That on July 30,2013 petitioner and private respondent, have live apart for a continuous period of at least FIVE (5) YEARS and there have been irreconcilable differences between them and substantial reason have existed for them not to continue with their marriage which made them conclude that there is indeed no possibility of reconciliation between them. Thus, they separated on July 30, 2013.

8.

That on July 29, 2019, petitioner filed a petition for the dissolution of her marriage with the respondent In the Family Court at Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, docketed as No. of Matter; BV19D20239, praying among others the following; that the marriage be dissolved on the ground that petitioner and respondent have lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years. Copy of the petition for dissolution of marriage filed by petitioner before In the Family Court at Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is hereto attached and masked as Exhibit B.

9.

That on February 12, 2020 Deputy Judge Tattersall sitting at the Family Court at Bury St. Edmunds issued a order declaring that petitioner and respondent have lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years immediately preceding of the petition and further states that the marriage solemnized on July 7,2001 at RTC- Branch 37, Hall of Justice, Cagayan de Oro City between Emy Pie Bangot the petitioner, and Noel A. Bangot, the respondent, has broken down irretrievably and decreed that the said marriage be dissolved unless sufficient cause be shown to the Court within six weeks from the making of this decree why such decree should not be made absolute. Coy of the decree is hereto attached and marked as Exhibit C.

10. That on June 5, 2020 the Family Court at Bury St. Edmunds in No. of Matter: BV19D20239 issued an order of the finality of the dissolution, by saying “Referring to the decree made in this cause on the 12th February 2020 whereby it was decreed that the marriage solemnised on the 7th July 2001 at at RTC-BRANCH 37-HALL OF JUSTICE CAGAYANDE ORO CITY between Emy Pie Bangot the Petitioner and Noel A. Bangot the Respondent be dissolved unless sufficient cause be shown to the court within six weeks from the making thereof why the said decree should not be made absolute, and no such cause having been shown, it is hereby certified [sic] that the said decree was on the 5th June 2020,made final and absolute and that the said marriage was thereby dissolved. Date: 5th June 2020.Copy of the finality of decree of dissolution is hereto attached and marked as Exhibit D. 11. To support and prove the factual allegations, hereto attached is the Judicial Affidavit of EMY J. PIE, and other factual allegations not supported by exhibits hereto attached, has an evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for discovery. And plaintiff expressly reserves his right to submit supplemental judicial affidavit or judicial affidavit of other witness after the issues will be joined, if necessity arises.

WHEREFORE, premises considered, it is most respectfully prayed of this Honorable Court that, after due notice and hearing, judgement be rendered as follows; 1.

2.

Recognizing the foreign judgement of dissolution marriage between EMY PIE BANGOT AND NOEL A. BANGOT. Directing the Local Civil Registrar of Cagayan de Oro City to record the Final Decree of Divorce of the petitioner and private respondent, in accordance with the law.

Other relief and remedies just and equitable under the premises are likewise prayed for.

Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. December 15, 2021

ATTESTATION (In compliance to Section 3, Rule 7 of the New Rules on Civil Procedure-A.M.No. 19-10-20-SC) I HEREBY ATTEST AND CERTIFY, that my signature as counsel for the petitioner constitute as a certification that I read the pleading and documents and to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances, it is not being presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass, cause unnecessary delay, or needlessly increase the cost of litigation, the claims, defenses, and other legal contentions are warranted by existing law or jurisprudence, or by a non-frivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existing jurisprudence, The factual contentions have evidentiary support or, if specifically so identified, will likely have evidentiary support after 3vailment of the modes of discovery under Rules of Court.

(Signed) Sylvan Gerald L. Sabio Subscribed and sworn to before me this DEC 16 2021 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

Doc. No. 87 Page No. 18 Book No. 5 Series of 2021 (Signed) ROLAND B. INTUD Notary Public Until December 31, 2021 IBP CDO Temporary Receipt no. 595, January 6, 2021 PTR CDO O.R No. 4929183 A, January 5, 2021 MCLE Exmept, TIN 934-398-254 Roll No. 75290 Email address: roland.intud@gmail.com Cell No. 09171572657 Unit 2 Ground Floor RPM Building Golden Glow North Commercial, Macapagal Road, Upper Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City VERIFICATION AND CERTIFICATION OF NON-FORUM SHOPPING I, EMY J. PIE, of legal age, single, British Citizen, presently residing at 608 Coppetts Wood House 48 Lawn Road London, NW3 2AX, after having sworn to in accordance with law depose and say, to wit; That I am the petitioner in the above-entitled case and the all the allegations in the petitioner are true and correct based on my personal knowledge, or based on authentic document. That the petition is not filed to harass, cause unnecessary delay, or needlessly increased the cost of litigation; and the factual allegations therein have evidentiary support or, if specifically, so identified, will likewise have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for discovery.

That I have not theretofore commenced any action or filed any claim involving the same issues in any court, tribunal or quasi-judicial agency and, to the best of my knowledge, no such other action or claim is pending therein; that I should thereafter learn that the same or similar action or claim has been filed or is pending, I will report the fact within FIVE (5) CALENDAR DAYS therefrom to the Honorable Court.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I HEREUNTO AFFICED MY SIGNATURE THIS Dec 16 2021 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

(Signed) EMY J. PIE Affiant United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Passport No. 124035335 SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this DEC 16 2021 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

Doc. No. 88 Page No. 18 Book No.5 Series of 2021 (Signed) ROLAND B. INTUD Notary Public until December 31, 2021 IBP CDO Temporary Receipt no. 595, January 6, 2021 PTR CDO O.R, No. 4929183 A, JANUARY 5, 2021 MCLE Exmept, TIN 934-398-254 Roll No. 75290 Email address:roland.intnd@gmail.com Cell No. 09171572657 Unit 2 Ground Floor RPM Building Golden Glow North Commercial, Macapagal Road, Upper Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City NOW, THEREFORE, you are hereby required within THIRTY (30) days after service of this summons upon you to file with this court and serve on the plaintiff your Answer to the Petition, a copy of which is attached, together with the annexes. You are reminded TO OBSERVE RESTRAINT in filing a Motion to Dismiss and instead allege the grounds thereof as Defenses in the Answer. If you fail to answer within the time fixed, the plaintiff will take judgement by default and maybe granted the relief applied for in the petition.

To monitor the service of the Summons by Publication, set this case on MARCH 29, 2022[TUESDAY] AT 1:30 IN THE AFTERNOON. WHEREFORE, pursuant to Section 16, Rule 14, of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure as amended by Administrative Matter No. 19-10-20-SC, it is hereby ordered that this Order be published in the national newspaper of general circulation for at least three (3) consecutive weeks and that the same be posted in the City Hall of Cagayan de Oro City and in the Hall of Justice, this City.

SO ORDERED. Issued this 12th day of January 2022, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines

SABIO LAW OFFICE Counsel for the petitioner Unit 2 Ground Floor RPM Building Golden Glow North Commercial, Macapagal Road, Upper Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City

SGD. GIL G. BOLLOZOS Presiding Judge BWM: March 4, 11 & 18, 2022

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Vivamax presents a new erotic treat with L STARTING this February, VIVAMAX gives you an erotic triple treat with the three-part series “L”, starring Vince Rillon and VIVA’s newest and hottest sexy stars, Cara Gonzales, Ayanna Misola, Cloe Barreto and Stephanie Raz. Every Sunday, starting this February 27, we get to experience the first part of L. Written and produced by award-winning director Jon Red, “L” is an erotic trilogy featuring short films from three great directors.

The movie starts with Lucas (Vince Rillon), a young freelance artist who’s trying to overcome loneliness after his girlfriend Lana (Stephanie Raz), suddenly left him. Strange turn of events leads Lucas to meet 3 different girls who will drive his lust over the edge.

EPISODE 1 LARAWAN. The first story titled “Larawan,” is directed

by Topel Lee. Left alone, Lucas is pushed by his friend to get out and get a breath EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the late SPOUSES CERILO PADER and SUPREMIDA M. PADER, who died both without any will at Cagayan de Oro City sometime in March 20, 1997 and July 31, 1997 at the time of their death left a certain real property with Tax Declaration No. G-083503 situated in Bayabas, Cagayan de Oro City, containing an area of FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY EIGHT (578) square meters, more or less, and has been the subject of an EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY, filed by the heirs of SPOUSES CERILO PADER and SUPREMIDA M. PADER, per DOC 34; PAGE #24; BOOK #1; Series of 2022 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. ROBERT W. RAYPON. BWM: Feb 25, Mar 4 & 11, 2022

of fresh air. Lucas finally decides to drive to Batangas and visits an art gallery.

At the gallery, he finds a stunningly beautiful girl and starts stalking her until he gets a chance to talk with her. She introduces herself as Louise (Ayanna Misola), and after getting a few drinks, they end up at her apartment and have passionate sex.

There, Lucas discovers something about Louise that would surprise him.

EPISODE 2 - LIKO The second story is “Liko” and is directed by EJ Salcedo. Still loveless after Lana left, Lucas started a habit of driving around the streets of Manila.

One night on his drive, He picks up Liza (Cloe Barreto), an attractive woman whom he thought was a prostitute.

They talk, and then checks in at a motel and have sex.

Before parting ways, Lucas attempts to pay for Liza’s services but she refuses to accept the money, telling Lucas she is not a prostitute but just a poor and lonely housewife. This excites Lucas all the more, and he meets with her a few more times and Liza also starts accepting EXTRAJUDICIAL PARTITION OF REAL ESTATE WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the late LESLIE T. MAGHILUM who died intestate on 6 September 2019 in Cagayan de Oro City, leaving a parcel of land with Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-95103 situated in the Barangay of Bugo, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED THIRTY SEVEN SQ.M. (137), and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL PARTITION OF REAL ESTATE WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS, filed by the heirs of LESLIE T. MAGHILUM, per DOC #437; PAGE #88; BOOK #9; Series of 2022 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. CHRISTIAN C. PELIÑA. BWM: Feb 18, 25 & Mar 4, 2022

Republic of the Philippines AUTONOMOUS REGION IN MUSLIM MINDANAO Province of Lanao del Sur Municipality of Wao OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR RA 10172/9048 Form No. (LCRO) NOTICE OF PUBLICATION In Compliance with Section 7 of RA No. 10172, a notice is hereby served to the public that JANITHA BERNAL LADRILLO has filed with this office a petition for correction of clerical error particularly on GENDER from “FEMALE” to “MALE” in the certificate of Live Birth of KYRIE JHON BERNAL LADRILLO who was born on April 10, 2005 at Wao, Lanao del Sur and whose parents are RICKY NAVEA LADRILLO and JANITHA BALICAO BERNAL-LADRILLO. Any person adversely affected by the said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office not later than March 2022.

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the money that Lucas gives him. Then one night, Lucas cannot find Liza anymore.

And after a month he finally finds Liza again, but it is already too late for Lucas.

EPISODE 3 - LIPAT. The third story “Lipat” is directed by Roman Perez, Jr. Trying to start to move on again with his life, Lucas decides to look for a more modest place to live. He finds a simple apartment and asks for details from the caretaker. While looking around the apartment, a beautiful mysterious woman named Lucy (Cara Gonzales) comes in and starts inquiring about the apartment with Lucas. He assumes the role and gives her the information that he already got from the caretaker. They meet again the next day to finalize the deal and they also start telling personal stories to each other. Lucy admits to Lucas that she has been unfaithful with her husband.

That night ends with a passionate sex. The next day, Lucas goes back to the apartment to look for Lucy, but the caretaker says that the only Lucy the caretaker knows is the former tenant of the apartment who has been gone for so many years.

(SGD) PERLA A. INIEGO Municipal Civil Registrar

Does Lucy really exist?

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Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF LANAO DEL NORTE 12TH Judicial Region Branch 07 Tubod, Lanao del Norte IN RE: PETITION FOR CORRECTION OF ENTRY IN THE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH OF LEMUEL LAWAS LACSON UNDER THE DATE OF BIRTH FROM JANUARY 26, 1963 to JANUARY 26, 1966.

LEMUEL LAWAS LACSON, Petitioner,

SPL. PROC. NO. 355-07-2021

- versus –

The LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF TUBOD, LANAO DEL NORTE, Respondent. x------------------------------------------/ ORDER Filed before this Court is a Petition for Correction of Entry in the Birth Certificate of LEMUEL LAWAS LACSON in the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Tubod, Lanao del Norte by the herein Petitioner praying among others that upon due notice, publication and hearing, judgment be issued granting the petition.

Petitioner alleges that he is a Filipino citizen, married and resident of Zone 34, Ayala, Zamboanga City. The Respondent is sued in her official capacity as such. Petitioner was born to spouses Gonzalo C. Lacson and Andrea M. Lawas at Poblacion, Tubod, Lanao del Norte. That Petitioner, ever since has been using January 26, 1966 in the entries as to the date of his birth as can be gleaned in all his documents of importance. He was issued a Certification of the then Local Civil Registrar Engr. ABENIANO M. ER-ER as to the fact of his birth on January 26, 1966. That it was sometime in 2008 when he tried to get a copy of his birth record from the National Statistics Office that he was issued a Negative Certification of his birth.

When he obtained a copy of his Certificate of Live Birth at the Philippine Statistics Office (PSA), the date indicated therein was January 26, 1963. Hence, this petition for correction of entry of the date of birth of Petitioner from January 26, 1963 to January 26, 1966. In support of his petition, petitioner submits to the Court the following: his Official Transcript of Records issued by the Office of the Registrar of HMIL FOUNDATION, PHILIPPINE ISLAMIC COLLEGE, INC, BCC Compound, Baliwasan Grande, Zamboanga City; Service Record from the Philippine National Police, Police Regional Office IX, Camp Romeo A. Abenden, Mercedes, Zamboanga City; PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE (PNP) ID Card issued by the Philippine National Police with a rank of PO3; Driver’s License ID Card, issued by LTO Zamboanga City District Office; Philhealth ID No. 14-000060485-9 issued by the PHIC, National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Clearance; COVID-19 RT-PCR TEST REPORT & CERTIFICATION and COVID-19 VACCINATION CARD.

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EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT AMONG HEIRS with SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY (Bank Account) We, EDWARDO L. ARNEBAL (husband), JANICE A. TANDE, MAYFLOR P. ARNIBAL, JAMES EDUARD P.. ARNIBAL, REY NOEL P. ARNIBAL and MAY ANN P. ARNIBAL., all of legal age, Filipino citizens and residents of Looc, Salay, Misamis Oriental; WITHNESSETH: 1. That the above named parties are the husband and the legal heirs of the late AGUSTINA PACUIT ARNIBAL who died last November 10, 2021; 2. That the said decedent, at the time of her death, left a bank deposit with which is more particularly described as follows: 3. “Bank Deposit as evidence by Account Number 5-08534-811-3 registered in the name of AGUSTINA PACUIT ARNIBAL with DEVELOPMENT BANK OF THE PHIIPPINES, Capistrano Branch, Cagayan de Oro City” 4. That there is no personal properties are involved in this Extra Judicial Settlement; 5. That to the best knowledge and information of the parties hereto, the said decedent left no debts; 6. That the parties hereto are being of legal age and have the capacity to enter into a contract, hereby by these presents agree to divide and adjudicate equally among themselves, the above described bank deposit and they hereby further authorize, JANICE A. TANDE, of legal age, Filipino Citizen and a resident of Salay, Misamis Oriental to receive the said amount in behalf of all the other heirs; IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we hereunto set our hand this 22nd day of February 2022 at Balingasag, Misamis Oriental Philippines;

That the petition is filed 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 the record of his birth and as to avoid confusion and future inconvenience it may cause.

Set the initial hearing of this petition to April 7, 2022 at 8:30 in the morning before the sala of this Court. Any person interested to the said petition may come to Court on said date and time to show cause why said petition should not be granted.

Furnish copy of this Order to the Office of the Solicitor General in Makati City, the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Tubod, Lanao del Norte, the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Tubod, Lanao del Norte, the Philippine Statistics Authority at East Avenue, Quezon City, Atty. Dorothea S. Basalo, counsel for the petitioner and to the petitioner himself whose address is at Zone 4, Ayala, Zamboanga City.

Let copy of the Order containing the petition be published in a newspaper of general circulation for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner. Another copy be posted at the Bulletin Board of this Court.

SO ORDERED. January 17, 2022.

Tubod, Lanao del Norte.

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Royalty... from page 4

born into a poor, workingclass family. Most people did not even recognize Him. In fact, not only was He rejected

by His own people then, but by most of us today.

Remember, Jesus never said He was only a good man, teacher, or prophet. He absolutely claimed that He is God Himself. God the Son Who came to save us, and will also come again to judge the entire world for all of our wrong, sinful living. So either Jesus is a liar, a lunatic, or the Lord of everyone, whom He clearly proved to be. No other religious leader in history claimed to be God, except Jesus.

He desperately wants to forgive us for all our wrongs, so He can give us His full and everlasting life. He has done everything He possibly can, to the point of sacrificing His own life for our sins, to make the way for us to come home to Him. But it is our choice!

Will you recognize your King today? Won’t you ask Him to forgive you and take full charge of every area of your life? Until you do, you can never have His true, full life of love, satisfaction, and peace of mind He created EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF THE ESTATE OF THE LATE PATRICIO ROSALES ROBLE WITH WAIVER RIGHTS KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the late PATRICIO R. ROBLE the latter died intestate, without debts, on December 23, 2011 at Cagayan de Oro City; upon his death, said PATRICIO R. ROBLE, left two (2) parcels of land with Parcel 1- Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-23226 situated in the Dist. of Bulua, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao, that the subject Lot 6569-0-14, be surveyed and sub-divided into Three (3) portions, that the Lots adjudicated in favor of Sofia Joy Factura Roble are the Lot No. 6569-0-14B; containing an area of SEVENTY SEVEN (77) square meters, more or less and Lot 6569-0-14-C containing an area of ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THREE (153) square meters, more or less, that Lot No. 6569-0-14-A containing an area of SEVENTY SIX (76) square meters more or less, is adjudicated in favor of Gilda Gay Factura Roble-Iyog, Parcel 2- Original Certificate of Title No. P-2516 situated in the Barrio of Tin.ao, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao, and has been the subject of an EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF THE ESTATE OF THE LATE PATRICIO ROSALES ROBLE WITH WAIVER RIGHTS, filed by the heirs of PATRICIO R. ROBLE, per DOC # 371; PAGE #75; BOOK #IX; Series of 2022 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. ALBERT WENCES C. DABA III. BWM: Feb 25, Mar 4 & 11, 2022

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you to have now and forever.

Remember, Jesus Himself said: If you refuse to recognize Him daily as your personal Lord now, by free choice, you will be forced to later after it’s too late, and will suffer everlasting separation from Him and His true family of followers who chose to wholeheartedly love and live for Him. Just think a minute.

Buy...

from page 4 now awakened to the material fallacies of life. Not anymore to buy this or that to be happy because happiness is something internal. Serve the people, protect God’s vanishing creation for God’s greater glory, such is the essence of truest joy and happiness which is true love.

This time, let us vote right, choose right by buying what we have produced and in doing so, buy what are locally made, buy essentials, buy healthy, buy organic, buy Filipino! By doing so, you support the livelihood of Filipinos and generate more jobs so that the Filipinos will not anymore leave their families behind just to find jobs in other countries. By buying Filipino products, you will draw those in the margins into the mainstream DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE OF DECEASED PERSON WITH QUITCLAIM AND WAIVER OF RIGHTS KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the late NUMERIANO G. ESCALANTE, JR. they acquired conjugal propetie consisting of four (4) parcels of land with Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-41506 situated in the District of Bulua, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of FOUR HUNDRED (400) square meters, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-55762 situated in the District of Bulua, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of FOUR HUNDRED (400) square meters, more or less, KATIBAYAN NG ORIHINAL NA TITULO situated in the Barrio of Aplaya, Municipality of Jasaan, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing area of FOUR THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED SEVEN (4,407) square meters, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-37715 situated at (now Plaridel, Claveria, Misamis Oriental, containing an area of TWENTY ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY TWO (21,452) square meters, more or less, and has been the subject of an DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE OF DECEASED PERSON WITH QUITCLAIM AND WAIVER OF RIGHTS, filed by the heirs of NUMERIANO G. ESCALANTE, JR., per DOC #364; PAGE #73; BOOK #32; Series of 2019 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. MANUEL A. NOLASCO. BWM: Feb 25, Mar 4 & 11, 2022

of development.

It is in this context that we now ask, why must the Department of Health through the Department of Budget and Management allocated some 63 billion pesos and chose a Chinese Company called Pharmally selling products from China despite the fact that the products, i.e face masks. shields, etc. being bought from China were available locally and were cheaper and of better quality? Again, the Filipino people have been the victims of the fallacies of life because of massive corruption! HOY GISING!!

Trade... from page 3

Asean FTAs with Japan and European Free Trade O r g a n i z a t i o n ( E F TA ) member states of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

“What these FTAs do is to simplify, provide a ‘super highway’ that exporters can avail of when dealing with external partners or when venturing outside of the country. At the same time, it also attracts investment, b e i n g p ar t of an F TA arrangement. And als o (these) complement existing efforts of the government to improve the business environment,” he added.

Dela Vega said FTAs enhance access to markets of trading partners and new ones, and provide safe or improved “rules of the game”.

“We also see recently in

the FTAs that the Philippines engaged on is adoption of rules particularly not just with specific goods but also in terms of dealing with electronic commerce so we see here that at the same time, there is also disciplines that could assist our businesses or exports through for example, prote c t ion of intellectual property rights and enforcement,” he said.

A p a r t f r o m F TA s , D e l a Ve g a s a i d o t h e r trade engagements of the Philippines include the G e ne r a l i z e d Sy ste m of Preferences (GSP) and cooperation mechanisms.

Sherrylou Marzo, manager of Export Marketing and Sales Section at Century Pacific Food, said the different FTAs and GSP have benefited her company, with tuna and sardines as its biggest exports.

“To all small and medium enterprises, I really encourage (you) to avail this preferential tariff since it will really help you because it will minimize taxes on goods… at the same time it’s also an advantage on your part so that you could be competitive in terms of pricing,” she said. (PR)

Projects...

from page 3 poles.

The projects, which are mostly covering improvement on safety, capacity, vehicles, and electrification, were from 2015 until 2021. If granted approval, Iligan Light can st ar t t he const r uc t ion, implementation, ownership,

or operations of the projects.

“The proposed electric and non-electric capital projects will not have a direct impact on the current rates of [Iligan Light] until approved by the Honorable Commission as part of [its] Regulatory Ass et B as e in its next regulatory reset application under performance-based regulation,” the company said.

Iligan Light is among the largest private utilities in the country, covering Iligan City, Lanao del Norte province in Mindanao.

Center... from page 2

SK Chairman Rolan C. Abaro and 4-H club officers organized the said launching, February 18. The event was also in coordination with the City Agriculture Office.

FITS point person Honeylou C. Bastasa was joined by technical staffs Angelli C. Doña and Cassandra Camille R. Sabasaje, who represented the center on behalf of Center Director Maria Lydia A. Echavez.

Through establishment of FIT S centers in the country, the Agricultural Training Institute continues to strengthen the Techno Gabay Program as a knowledge management initiative and a mechanism in enhancing access to upto-date information and new agricultural technologies in the countryside. (ATIRTC-10/PIA-10)

Program... from page 2

Management System Human Resources Management, expressed his gratitude to SUBATRA. “I am one of those who will benefit from the donated equipment. These will help us perform our duties better because it will speed up our work,” Utto said.

Aside from providing ICT equipment, SUBATRA is also committed to providing various training and workshops to BARMM employees to further enhance the capacity of each agency.

A ls o pre s e nt at t he turnover ceremony were B angsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) Parliament Deputy Speaker Omar Yasser Sema; BTA Majority Floor Leader Lanang Ali Jr., heads and representatives from offices under OCM and BTA; SUBATRA team leader Bernard Jolly; and United Nations Office for Project Services Project Manager for SUBATRA Cristina Elisse Capistrano.

SUBATRA is an EUsupported program that promotes good governance environment for the efficient implementation of policies set up by the transition plan with a focus on capacities that are critical for the sound functioning of interim institutions. (PNA)

Addressing online bullying

BY ENELYN G. LOPLOP Teacher II

Bullying can threaten learners’ physical and emotional safety at school and can negatively impact their ability to learn.

However, bullying does not only happens in school but it is also present in their own homes and it causes a different behavior to the child, to the learner that is why the best way to stop bullying is to better stop it before it happens, before it occurs. Especially now that we are in the new normal education wherein use of the internet is a necessity.

To better address bullying, teachers can somehow use these following strategies and apply it in their own setting. 1) Assess bullying in your school- conduct assessments in your school to determine how often bullying occurs, where it happens, how pupils and adults intervene and whether the prevention efforts are working; 2) Engage parents and the youth- it is important for everyone to work together to send a unified message against bullying, launch an awareness campaign to make the objectives known

to the school, parents, and community members and better establish a school safety committee or task force to plan, implement and evaluate your school’s bullying program; 3) Create policies and rules- create a mission statement, code of conduct, school-wide rules and a bullying reporting system, these will establish a climate in which bullying is not acceptable and better off communicate and disseminate it widely; 4) Build a safe environment- establish a school culture of acceptance, tolerance and respect, use staff meetings, assemblies, class and parent meetings to establish a positive climate at school, and reinforce a positive social interaction and inclusiveness; and 5) Educate learners and school staffbuild bullying prevention material into the curriculum and school activities and train teachers and staff on the rules and policies and give them the skills to intervene consistently and appropriately.

As teachers, yes we can do it and we can make a difference in doing so.

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE OF SPOUSES ERMITO FABRE AND ZOSIMA JANGAO WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE That the late SPOUSES ERMITO FABRE who died on 12 May 1989 at Alubijid, Misamis Oriental, and ZOSIMA JANGAO who died on 23 October 2012 at Alubijid, Misamis Oriental, that said deceased died intestate, without a Last Will and Testament and without any outstanding debts in favor of any person or entity; that the deceased left the following real property with TCT No. T-2131 situated at Barrio Poblacion, Municipality of Cagayan, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of THREE HUNDRED TWENTY ONE (321) SQUARE METERS, more or less and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE OF SPOUSES ERMITO FABRE AND ZOSIMA JANGAO WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE, filed by the heirs of SPOUSES ERMITO FABRE and ZOSIMA JANGAO, per DOC #374; PAGE #75; BOOK #40; Series of 2020 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. ARCHIBALD R. LAGAMON. BWM: Feb 18, 25 & Mar 4, 2022

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Profit... from page 5

T h e b a n k ’s N P L coverage was also higher at 111% despite normalizing provisions.

On the funding side, total deposits with the bank increased by 8% year on year, supported by the 13% growth in current account/savings account deposits.

BDO’s total capital base increased to P424.5 billion in 2021. At end-2021, the capital adequacy ratio was at 14.6%, which is above the regulatory minimum.

Its book value per share rose by 8% year on year to P95.26 in 2021 from P88.11.

BDO said it will continue to prioritize digital initiatives.

Last year, the bank launched its mobile wallet called BDO Pay. Meanwhile, the rollout of the QR-based branch processing now covers about 65% of the network, with full completion targeted by m i d ye ar. QR- b a s e d processing allows 80% of branch transactions to be processed straight-through end-to-end significantly, which improves branch productivity and customer experience.

BD O has over 1,500 cons olid ate d op erat ing branches. It is the country’s biggest bank in terms of its assets, which was at P3.409 trillion as of September 2021, based on central bank data.

The Sy-led lender’s shares closed at P130.10 apiece on Thursday, down P4.70 from its previous finish.

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Filipinos and their Families, Christians for National Liberation, Cordillera People’s Democratic Front, Moro Resistance and Liberation O rg an i z at i on , an d t h e Revolutionary Organization of Lumads.

The AMLC told covered institutions and relevant government agencies to immediately submit a written return for freezing the funds and assets of the designated groups.

Covered institutions are ordered to freeze the property or funds owned or controlled by the subject of designation.

The AMLC said this is not limited to those that are directly related or can be tied to a particular terrorist act, plot, or threat.

Relevant government agencies like the L and Tr ans p or t at i on O f f i c e, Land Registration Authority, Registry of Deeds, Maritime Industry Authority, and the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines were likewise alerted of the freeze order.

Assets that are wholly or jointly owned by the designated persons, as well as those generated from funds of the designated are also expected to be frozen.

Property or funds of persons and entities that are acting with the direction of designated groups are likewise covered by the freeze order.

“All covered persons

are mandated to submit as Suspicious Transaction Report all previous transactions of the designated persons within five days from effectivity of this order,” the AMLC said.

The dirty money watchdog said persons and organizations that have been designated may avail of remedies to challenge this.

The Anti-Terror Act of 2020, which provided for the creation of the ATC, was meant to strengthen measures versus terrorist financing and dirty money. However, several petitions are pending before the Philippine Supreme Court questioning the law’s threat to freedom of expression and human rights.

Last year, the AMLC said the Financial Action Task Force will closely monitor urgent compliance by covered persons to freeze orders after the country was included in the global dirty money watchdog’s “gray list” in June 2021.

Government officials hope the country will exit the gray list by January 2023.

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generation that can be depended upon for roundthe-clock power supply; and these are often of massive scale megawatt-installations.

EO 164 touted that based on the experience of other developed and emerging countries, nuclear power has been serving as efficient and reliable source of electricity supply that underpinned their economic growths.

The Palace directive fundamentally calls for the crafting of the country’s “Nuclear Energy Program” that will eventually pave the way for the integration of nuclear power in the country’s power mix.

To recall, the Department of Energy (DOE) decreed ‘coal moratorium’ since last year; and that was the policy enforcement which signaled the slowdown; if not total phaseout of coal plant installations in the Philippines in the years to come. “ The State envisions nuclear power as a viable component to bridge the gap between rising energy demands and supply, taking into account le ar nings from the past, national, social and economic development pathways, as well as international legal and regulatory frameworks,” the EO stated.

It similarly pointed out

nuclear technology “could help minimize the possible trade-offs between emissions and t he e nv i ron me nt ,” emphasizing that “life cycle emissions from nuclear power chains are comparable with the best renewable energy chains and several orders of magnitude lower than fossil fuel chains.”

The EO added “nuclear power can contribute effectively to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, and has strong potential to decarbonize the power sector.”

In a briefing with reporters, Energ y Unders e cret ar y Gerardo Erguiza Jr. noted that the Presidential EO sets the tone for the crafting of policy as well as regulatory frameworks that will eventually govern nuclear power developments in the country.

With a policy in place, as sanctioned by the EO, he indicated that even in the new administration, the next batch of DOE officials can already lean on a fiat that will allow them to integrate nuclear power in their energy planning.

“Un l i ke i n t he p ast when they adopted nuclear, there is no clear policy that was studied in whole of government approach; so with the change in administration, it’s also lost,” Erguiza stressed.

Given the forthcoming ch ange of gove r n m e nt leadership by July this year, he said “they don’t have to put up a policy anymore… it will take 5-6 years to put up policy, because when you start a nuclear program and you still have to come up with policy, then you have a very, very big problem.”

He asserted “adopting a nuclear program is not just about constructing nuclear power plants. It is a matter of energy and national security.

Should it be decided in the future that the Philippines is fit and finally ready to embark on its nuclear energy journey, then we would be able to look back and appreciate this landmark issuance.”

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Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program in 1988.

Former President Corazon Aquino personally turned over the Collective Certificate of Land Ownership Award to the farmworkers of the c o mp a ny w h o f o r m e d themselves into NGPI MultiPurpose Cooperative (NGPI MPC) on December 12, 1988 in Cagayan de Oro City.

As collective landowners of the oil palm plantation, NGPI MPC has entered into a leasehold contract with NGPI, which was later known as Filipinas Palmoil Plantation, Inc. in March 1990. The company voluntarily turned over the management of the plantation in November 2013 as the cooperative continued to demand higher rentals of the land.

Infighting among leaders and members of the cooperative has led to the split up into three groups, which already separately positioned and developed their areas initially surveyed

by DAR to prevent further atrocities.

During the meeting, the original NGPI MPC with 843 members led by Nestor Alcular proposed to Cruz a 62-hectare industrial zone where they want to build an oil palm milling plant but the two leaders of the split group opposed the plan.

But a member of Alcular’s group, Menio Orcullo, stood up to oppose the plan. In an interview after the meeting, Orcullo said the 62-hectare industrial zone will even lessen the area of each individual title and thus detrimental to the ARBs’ dream of having an exact three-hectare farmland.

Alcular’s group filed a case at the Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board (DARAB) September 1 last year for the recovery of possession of the ARB total land area but the case was dismissed on December 28 for lack of jurisdiction.

The case was filed more than a year later after the three groups reached and signed a compromise agreement in the presence of DAR central office officials that would split the plantation lands according to the number of ARB members.

E m m a n u e l S u s t i n o, chairman of ARB Diversified Planters Association with 151 ARB members, said they had

no plans to build a milling plant since the areas they tilled are still unstable and they need to replant more oil palm trees.

For their part, Metodio Ab a layan, chair man of Maligaya Credit Cooperative (MACCO) with 149 members, said their members can now personally hold their individual titles after the distribution but have agreed that the oil palm plantation areas will still be maintained by the cooperative until they will fully replant the farmlands and fully paid the company the development cost for the 300 hectares of replanted oil palm trees.

Based on the agreement, MACCO ARBs will allow maintenance and development by the management with 70-percent share from the gains of their product while the remaining 30 percent will be allocated for maintenance and operation.

Among the three groups, MACCO ARBs has been fortunate with their cooperative management as they received an average P117,000 yearly dividends.

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be a process, including rules and regulations that should be implemented in opening Roxas,” she said.

She said the local government wants economic recovery while managing at the same time the spread of infections.

“What we want is to recover the economy… but we need to balance health and economy. So, if we are to open Roxas, there should be implemented rules and regulations so that their clients are safe as well as our sellers and vendors,” she said.

Around 500 vendors and massage therapists were displaced when the local government closed the night market on March 12, 2020, to avoid transmission of COVID-19.

It reopened on September 12 but was closed again two months later, on November 20, when COVID-19 cases surged beginning third quarter of that year.

The Roxas Night Market was a popular destination for street food, ukay-ukay (used clothes) and street massage.

Section 6 of the amended

guidelines from the InterAgency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases provides that for areas downgraded to Alert Level 1, all private offices and workplaces, including public and private construction sites, may operate at full capacity consistent with national issuances on vaccination requirements for on-site work.

It said they may “continue to provide f lexible and alternative work arrangements as deemed appropriate based on function or individual risk.”

Agencies and instrumentalities of the government shall adhere to 100% on-site workforce, according to the guidelines.

It added that off-site work shall be under such work arrangements subject to relevant rules and regulations issued by the Civil Service Commission and the Office of the President.

It said public transportation in areas under Alert Level 1 shall be at full seating capacity.

“For int razona l and interzonal travels involving public land transportation between an area with a higher alert level classification and an area under Alert Level 1, the passenger capacity shall be that which has the lower passenger capacity rate between the point of origin and point of destination,” it said.

For aviation, maritime and rail public transport operating in and out of Alert Level 1 areas, the passenger capacity will be at 100% while the use of acrylic and/or plastic dividers shall not be required, it said.

As of March 2, Department of Health-Davao reported 22 new infectionss, bringing total cases to 72,091 with 266 active, 69,881 recoveries, and 1,942 deaths.

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LDT’s wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has powered barangays Tablon, Gusa, Lapasan, and Bulua in Cagayan de Oro City with public WIFi to boost the local government’s services.

Through Smart’s Barangay Connect Project, users in the area can avail of fast and reliable wifi for free. A retail partnership between the barangays and Smart also provides additional sources of livelihood for these communities.

“We thank Smart for choosing our barangay as a beneficiary of the Smart WiFi project and for offering us livelihood programs to help our community,” said Lapasan Barangay Chairman Julito Ogsimer.

For Barangay Tablon

Chairman Billy Kid Auza, the public WiFi service helps barangay workers and residents with their online transactions and students with distance learning.

Jericho Balbuena, Tablon’s Community-Based Drug Rehabilitation Program Manager said, “Smart WiFi helps expedite our work. We can easily conduct research and quickly send out reports to our stakeholders.”

In Barangay Gusa, the free WiFi service supports the barangay’s COVID-19 programs. Jose Victor Espiritu, Barangay Health Emergency Response Team (BHERT) focal person, said, “The free Smart WiFi has helped us with contact tracing, as we monitor incoming travelers and guests at the office.”

Barangay Bulua uses the Smart WiFi facility in

tandem with Smart Infocast, an SMS-based service.

“We have been able to use Smart's services in sending out announcements, like

the schedules of National ID registration, to our residents,” said Antonio Glema, Bulua Barangay Secretary.

Aside from empowering barangays, Smart WiFi services will also be extended to public terminals and markets, as well as key

government offices of the city.

The deployment of Smart WiFi in LGUs, educational institutions, health centers, public markets, and tourist attractions, is pursuant to RA 10929 or the ‘Free Internet Access in Public Places Act’, which recognizes the vital role of Internet connectivity to nation-building.

These key initiatives of Smart and PLDT demonstrate the application of ICT for development, in support of the groupwide advocacy to promote digital inclusion and help the Philippines attain the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), particularly SDG No. 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure and SDG No. 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities.