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Rice prices up THE farmgate price for palay, or unmilled rice, rose 8.71% year on year in the second week of May to P20.97 per kilogram (kg), the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said. According to the PSA’s “Updates on Palay, Rice and Corn Prices” report, palay prices in the second week of May were little changed from a week earlier, where they were at P20.96. The PSA also reported that the wholesale price of well-milled rice rose 6.67% year on year to P41.12 per kg but fell 0.02% from the previous week.
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By ANTONIO L. COLINA IV, MindaNews
AVAO City – President Rodrigo Duterte signed Republic Act No. 11032 or the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act on Monday, May 28.
An amendment of the Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007, the new law seeks to make the process of putting up and running a business in the Philippines easier and
more efficient. In his speech in Malacañang, Duterte hopes the law will “solve the perennial problem of law/PAGE 11
Davao’s P8.6B budget DAVAO City -- The city’s total budget next year is projected at P8.6 billion, 7 percent higher than this year’s, a City Council member said. Councilor Danilo Dayanghirang, chairperson of the finance, appropriations, ways and means committee, said the budget will ensure the delivery of basic services to the city’s 1.5 million residents and fund the local government’s operations. Dayanghirang said 45 percent will be allocated for maintenance and operating expenditure, a sizable amount enough to pay for upkeep of a city with a territory covering 244,000 square kilometers. He said the operation expenses include the maintenance and salary of the personnel of Central 911, which operates 24 hours a day, as well as for the operations of the Task Force Davao.
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SAND MINING. A worker repairs a wide hull boat used in manual sand mining along the Davao River in Barangay Waan, Davao City. mindanews photo by manman dejeto
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A bountiful rice yield to once deserted laterite-laden farms By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
CLAVER, Surigao del Norte – Farmers in this rich mining town have reaped a bountiful harvest on their organic rice lands which many thought it was impossible to bring back to life a laterite-laden wasteland deserted 12 years ago. Ignacio Lauzon, chief executive officer of Good Harvest Bio-organic Farming Inc. who helped restore the abandoned farms, said the harvest yielded at least 130 sacks per hectare to the big surprise of farmers in the village of Urbiztundo. The rehabilitation of rice farms were jointly initiated by the Army’s 36th Infantry Battalion and Taganito HPAL Nickel Corp to let residents
Lt. Col. Xerxes Trinidad, commander of the Army 36th Infantry Battaion, proudly shows a bundle of rice stalks he sickled at the once deserted laterite-laden wasteland in the rich mining town of Claver in Surigao del Norte. chris v. panganiban
go back to sustainable farming for them to get ready after the life of mining operation in the next 21 years.
Alsons earmarks P7-B capex for power projects
Davao City pushed as medical tourism hub
By MYRNA M. VELASCO, Contributor
DAVAO City -- The local government has pushed to develop the potential of the city as a medical tourism hub by building more specialized medical facilities like cancer centers and retirement villages. “The city provides incentives for these types of investments. Health and wellness facilities include hospitals, research and development facilities medical/PAGE 9
THE power business of the Alcantara Group will be cornering P7.0 billion in capital expenditures (capex), which is essentially the lion’s share of the P9.0billion spending that the conglomerate had earmarked
for all project this year. According to Alsons Consolidated Resources, Inc. (ACR) Chief Financial Officer Robert F. Yenko, the hefty portion of the capital outlay will be for unit 2 of alsons/PAGE 11
The organic rice farm project which was introduced by the 36th IB to the conflictstricken village of Lindoy in farms/PAGE 11
By ANTONIO L. COLINA IV, MindaNews
ENROLMENT. Students, mostly accompanied by their respective parents, cramp up as they enroll at Cagayan de Oro National High School for the incoming academic year which starts in June. photo by mark francisco
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UN-Habitat to build 1,500 core shelters for IDPs By CALVIN PENACO, Contributor
MARAWI City -- In partnership with the Marawi government, Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC), and the government of Japan, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) will build 1,500 core shelters for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in support of the rehabilitation process of Marawi City. The concerned parties signed the Memorandum of Understanding for the said project at the Bagumbayan Hall, May 24. In his speech at the signing ceremony, Marawi City Mayor Majul Gandamra stated the value of this project for the
IDPs. “As much as we are pleased with the temporal shelters, we feel that our people need more permanent dwellings in the long-term for many have lost everything in the siege. They have lost their sources of livelihood. Many are forced to rely on help from the government and even from private sectors,” he said. Task Force Bangon Marawi (TFBM) Chairperson, Secretary Eduardo del Rosario announced that the floor area of each house will have a minimum of 36 square meters instead of the usual 25 square meters. He explained that a bigger
floor area is necessary for the average family size in Marawi City, which is six to 14 members. Del Rosario added that the housing project aims to build a community similar to a subdivision, including a school for the education of the children. He said, “Iyong gagawin natin ay hindi just housing units. It will be a community. Parang subdivision ang gagawin. Merong common facilities for livelihood or training center. Pagagawa na rin tayo ng eskwelahan kung saan gagawin iyong subdivision para hindi na magta-travel ang ating mga anak sa malayong eskwelahan.” [What we will build are not just housing units.
It will be a community similar to a subdivision. There will be common facilities for livelihood or training center. We will also build a school for the subdivision so that our children will no longer have to travel to distant schools.] UN-Habitat Country Programme Manager Christopher E. Rollo explained the project’s community-driven approach called the People’s Process, which will require the leadership of the community with support from the local and national government. “The People’s Process
involves strong community and stakeholder participation as family partners will be involved and take part in deciding where they will return and stay, what house they will live in, what facilities they will prioritize, how they will take the leads in project management, in procurement, in financial management, in quality control, and project monitoring,” said Rollo. He added that the approach has been proven effective in post-conflict situations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. For his part, chairman of the Marawi Sultanate
League, Sultan Nasser Sampaco explained the role of the league in Marawi’s reconstruction and rehabilitation. “Our major purpose in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Marawi as traditional leaders is to guide our developer and our Task Force Bangon Marawi in arriving at a meaningful comprehensive master development plan that will not compromise our cultural heritage and religious beliefs,” he said. The project also aims to address livelihood needs by providing trainings in construction, small-scale habitat/PAGE 9
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Cebu Landmasters partners with Lyceum of the Philippines for university township project
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isted company Cebu Landmasters Inc. (CLI) expands its presence in the booming city of Davao by collaborating with globally competitive higher education institution Lyceum of the Philippines University (LPU) to develop the latter’s Davao campus into a mixed-use, and world-class University Town. CLI is signing a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Lyceum of the Philippines University for LPU Town Davao, which is set to begin development by Q4 2018. It is a 17-hectare mixed-use development that has academic, residential, commercial, office, hotel and convention components. 5.2-hectares of which is dedicated for its LPU Davao campus including an academic resource center, a pool, dormitories, maritime center, and a football field inside this development in Buhangin, Davao City. Under the MOA, CLI will be the project planner and manager of this development. It will
also bring its flagship brand Casa Mira Towers to LPU Town Davao. This will serve as a convenient housing option for LPU students, and those seeking to reside comfortably in Uptown Davao. CLI will also build phase 1 of the commercial component of LPU Town. “Our vision together with Lyceum of the Philippines University is to make LPU Town Davao a premier university township. CLI is truly honored to work with the higher educational institution that has produced esteemed graduates like our President Rodrigo Duterte who puts VisMin as a major area of priority for development.” said CLI Chairman and CEO, Jose R. Soberano III. “LPU is happy to partner with Cebu Landmasters. With their track record being the leading VisMin-based real estate developer, we are confident that this project will be what we envisioned it to be. We are proud to pioneer this University Town concept, starting with LPU Davao,” LPU Davao president Peter
An architect’s render of LPU Town Davao, a 17-hectare mixed-use development that willhave academic, residential, commercial, office, hotel and convention components. Owner LPU has tapped leading VisMin-based real estate property Cebu Landmasters to be the project planner and manager.
Laurel underscored. Located at Sun City Road, Buhangin, Davao, Davao del Sur, less than 10 minutes away from
the Davao Airport, LPU’s Davao campus is the sixth addition to the LPU system which has campuses in Manila,
Makati, Cavite, Laguna, and Batangas. The campus will be offering College and Senior High School Programs.
LPU has been awarded by the Commission on Higher Education with a number of Centers of project/PAGE 10
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LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “… Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious Member: of those who do wrong; for like the grass they will soon Philippine Press Institute wither, like green plants they will soon die away…” Oro Chamber (Proverbs 37:1-2, the Holy Bible). -ooo G R AV E R LAND DISPUTES TO ARISE FROM BINONDO FIRE: In told them that he forgot a matter of hours after a fire think a minute again. However, then she of undetermined origin razed added: “But last evening we several buildings in the heart took a long walk together and talked; and that meant much more to me than getting a gift just because it’s my birthday and he was hints and traces expected to.” M a ny c h i l d r e n b u y or m a ke Mot h e r’s D ay cards and presents. The jhan tiafau hurst mother tells her children how much she likes them; Think a minute…I know a but she remembers how woman who gets sad when d is re sp e c t f u l and r u d e her husband sends her roses! her son was to her the day She says: “The only reason before. Or how many times my husband gives me flowers she wishes her children roy cimagala is because it’s Valentine’s Day would help her with the and he thinks he’s expected work around the house to. I’d much prefer for him w it h out h e r h av i ng t o W E n e e d t o g i v e d u e to show his love in the way ask them. When love is attention and care for our he talks to me and treats me expressed ONLY on special spiritual faculties of the every day. I wish he’d do the days that it is expected, it intellect and will. As our little things like helping me almost can hurt the person Christian faith tells us, of all with the kids, taking me out receiving it if there is no the powers and capabilities on a date, or just spending thoughtfulness and kindness we have, it is the intellect and some time alone together. every day. If there are no the will that make us image I’d be happy if once in a words of appreciation and and likeness of God before while he’d thank me for love the rest of the year. all the other components all the daily work I do like That’s why Jesus Christ of our humanity, like our cooking his favorite food or said He would rather have body, can partake of the washing his clothes.” us love Him by obeying and same dignity. A n o t h e r w o m a n ’s living for Him every day That’s simply because husband was absent-minded than for us to give a gift to these powers of ours enable and always forgetting her the church once in a while, us to know and to love, and birthday as well as their so we can try and make up therefore, allowing us to wedding anniversary. When for the way we live the rest enter into communion with her friends asked her what of the time. Jesus loves us the objects of our knowledge she did on her birthday, she gifts/PAGE 11 and love. They are spiritual
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not treat its users’ personal information with disdain. The hearing saw him admit that his company had not done enough to prevent the service it provides being used for fake news, foreign interference in elections and data leaks. In March, it emerged that a political consultancy called Cambridge Analytica used data harvested from millions of Facebook users without their consent. The scandal rocked Facebook to its core and has forced its founder to reconsider how it does business. In the latest round of his grand apolog y tour Zuckerberg faced the European Parliament this week (it’s Friday, May 25, 2018 while writing this piece!)
and faced even tougher questioning, just as Europe is poised to introduce new laws that will give it some of the strictest data privacy rules in the world: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Actually, during the first year, I found Facebook’s e volut i on and s o c i e t a l f u n c t i on b ot h e q u a l l y fascinating and disturbing. The biggest question of all that gnaws at the back of my mind is whether there is any stopping Facebook in the future? It looks increasingly like the answer is no. “Friendster failed for simple reasons: the time wasn’t right,” says Bernie Hogan, senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet doring/PAGE 8
Graver land disputes to arise from Binondo fire
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Actually I started with “Friendster”. Friends from the whole globe! Facebook was introduced to me as new site for college kids. Nowadays, May 2018, we’re experiencing different headlines, when we it comes to social media networks. Despite scandals over fake news and data privacy, one thing is for sure: the social network Facebook is unlikely to disappear any time soon. Fast forward to April 2018: founder and CEO of “The Facebook,” Mark Zuckerberg, sat before US Congress trying to convince lawmakers his social network, initially set up as a way for students to stay in touch with each other, does not pose a threat to the stability of Western democracy and does
of Binondo, Manila, there appeared a highly noticeable trending of news reports about the calamity which tried to draw attention solely to the damage sustained by one of the buildings that went up in smoke, the National Archives. I suspected that this trending of the news was an attempt to manipulate the public’s perception about the fire. Yes, it maybe true that significant mementoes of our country’s history which were necessarily stored in the Archives got destroyed because of the fire but, the truth is that, what should really be bothering the Duterte government in this fire right now are the documents in the files of the Land Management Bureau which appeared to have also perished, when the fire broke out in the very offices of the Bureau in the wee hours of the morning of Monday, May
28, 2018. This is so because, at this point, the records of all lands in the Philippines---those which have been allowed to be owned by private parties, and those which remain incapable of being titled in the names of any private person---are in the custody of the Lands Management Bureau. Now that all of these records appear to have been burned, we should expect graver land disputes in the whole country in the days to come, in a manner that would be worse than the disputes we are having now. -ooo BINONDO FIRE MUST BE THOROUGHLY PROBED: That being the case, I am asking President Duterte to immediately direct Justice Secretary Meynardo Guevarra to undertake a no-nonsense investigation into the fire, employing the expertise and the proven
investigative capability of the National Bureau of Investigation. The fire raises serious and grave doubts about its origin, especially because it struck at a point where the Duterte government is moving towards t he confiscation of lands which, although incapable of being registered in favor of private owners under existing laws, have nevertheless been appropriated and are now being used for business and other personal purposes by the rich and the powerful, including politicians of different colors and persuasion. Some well-known examples of these lands are those in Boracay, Coron, Pa l aw a n , Fo r t u n e a n d Verde Islands, and some 100 or so more places. These lands are still “unclassified public forests” according disputes/PAGE 8
Taking care of our spiritual powers powers that transcend the dynamics of our physical or material constitution, i.e., our biological, chemical make-up, etc. As such, these powers of ours are capable of receiving and acting not only on things of nature, but also on the spiritual and supernatural realities. A philosophical term is applied to this phenomenon. And this is called their “obediential p o t e n c y,” t h a t a l l o w s them to be elevated to the supernatural order, to the world of grace, the world of the spirit and of God. As a Catholic dictionary would put it, obediential potency is “the capacity to receive either a miraculous change or a supernatural perfection that exceeds the natural capacities of a being.” Of all the creatures of God, we, together with the angels, have that potency. It s t a n d s t o re a s on therefore that we have to give due attention and care for these powerful faculties of ours. We just cannot allow
them to develop on their own, simply guided by what our senses can discern. They have to be inspired and guided by the things of God who give us a share not only of his knowledge but also of his very life through the gifts of faith, hope and charity, or the gift of grace in general. Unless our spir itual faculties of intellect and will are guided by faith, hope and charity, they can only go anywhere and nowhere, and in fact can expose and lead us to a lot of dangers. Indeed, they can be our worst enemy, our gravest curse! Without faith, hope and charity, or without grace, we may know a lot of things and get involved also in significant human affairs, but we will fail to reach the goal meant for us. We would be prone to get entangled in controversies and endless contentions. That is why nowadays we see a lot of controversies and wranglings, bashings,
not to mention sins that are now considered as the right things to do, like abortion, contraception, corruption, same-sex marriage, divorce, etc. With faith, hope and charity, or with grace, we get to see and behave beyond the physical sense and to reason beyond the human sphere. In short, we get to reflect the life and the ways of Christ in our own lives, Christ who is the very pattern of our humanity and the redeemer of our wounded humanity. To be sure, letting our intellect and will to be inspired and guided by faith, hope and charity does not undermine the natural operations of these spiritual faculties of ours. If at all, it will only enhance their functions, using them in their fullest potentials. With faith, hope and charity, our intellect and will can avoid getting trapped in a bubble that isolates them from the spiritual and supernatural world. With Powers/PAGE 8
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DoF exec says don’t blame TRAIN for inflation surge A CONFLUENCE of international and domestic events led to the 4.5-percent spike in inflation last April, with the implementation of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law at the start of this year playing only a minor role in it, a ranking finance official said. Finance Undersecretary Karl Kendrick Chua said “inflation rose mainly on local and global factors. TRAIN only accounted for 0.4 percentage points of the 4.5 percent. In other words, if you could buy items for P100 last year, you need to spend P104.50 now for them and of that increase, only .40 centavos was due to TRAIN.” A spike in the price of rice because of an alleged shortage, a weaker peso, rising world crude prices, better tax compliance from local cigarette sales and a growing consumer demand led to April’s inflation figure, the Department of Finance (DOF) clarified in a press statement Friday. Chua said that it is convenient to blame the tax reform package and ask for its suspension but “we have to match the proposed solution to issues we want to address, and
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TRAIN is not the main reason for inflation.” He was apparently referring to the rising clamor to suspend the enforcement of the TRAIN law, especially on petroleum products amid rising global prices. The additional excise tax on oil products arising from TRAIN accounts for only 0.2 percentage points of the inflation figure, he added. Despite the inflation uptick, however, selfrated poverty and hunger incidence in the country “fell to record lows,” Chua noted citing a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS). The SWS survey placed self-rated poverty at 29 TRAIN/PAGE 8
Hike in revenue collections enabled spending sans deficit FINANCE Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said Friday the impressive increase in revenues, particularly on tax collections by revenue agencies for the first four months of 2018 as a result of the effective implementation of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law, enabled the government to sustain its aggressive spending policy without breaching the programmed budget deficit. Dominguez said the government did not underspend as erroneously reported but dramatically exceeded revenue
collections, which is why actual deficit was kept below the programmed level. The Bureau of Treasury (BTr) reported Wednesday that the national government registered a P105.9 billion deficit for January to April 2018 on the back of strong revenue collections despite the surge in government spending. The actual deficit is lower by P61.2 billion than the P167.1 billion programmed deficit. “The reason we didn’t exceed our target deficit is because we exceeded our total revenues by P58.2 billion as of the first
four months of 2018. Tax revenue from January to April was impressively higher than last year’s collections for the same period,” Dominguez said. “We have to put this in the proper context.” As of four months of 2018, tax revenues amounted to P927.4 billion, higher by P58.2 billion than the target of P869.2 billion. BTr data show that BIR was able to sustain double-digit year-on-year growth for the month of April, with collections of P232.6 billion coming in 24 percent or P44.9 billion better than last year’s. This led to a P655.7 billion
collection for January to April, 17 percent or P97.6 billion better than the amount posted for the same period in 2017. “Higher excise tax take due to the implementation of the TRAIN law as well as improved and correct valuation and tariff classification drove the robust growth,” the BTr said. Meanwhile, BOC collections for April registered at P46.8 billion for a dramatic 50 percent year-on-year growth, its highest since the start of the Duterte administration. January to April BOC collection is hike/PAGE 8
UnionBank welcomes BSP cut on reserve requirement UNION Bank of the Philippines President and Chief Executive Officer Edwin Bautista has welcomed Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) move to cut banks’ reserve requirement ratio by 1 percentage point, as this will allow more liquidity in the market On the sidelines of UnionBank’s annual stockholders’ meeting
Friday, Bautista said this decision by the policy-making Monetary Board (MB) will allow banks to lend more without having to raise more funds. “Currently, market’s liquidity is tighter because of the increase in interest rates,” he said. Early this month, the MB hiked policy interest rates by 25 basis points.
But the central bank also announced Thursday the reduction of reserve requirement which will take effect next month. “That would help. It puts more liquidity in the market and we can continue to lend,” said Bautista. Meanwhile, Bautista said UnionBank is on track in achieving its FOCUS 2020 goal -- the
bank’s initiatives on fiscal value, operational excellence, customer franchise, UnionBank experience, and superior innovation. He added that the bank will continue to incorporate new technologies such as blockchain in its business to cut operational cost. UnionBank is also well on its way to
becoming a digital bank, which means the company needs to retool its employees’ skill set particularly those involved in operations or other front-line functions such as the tellers, among others. Bautista noted that while UnionBank is turning digital, the bank is also creating value added jobs. (PNA)
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DENR secretary commends army trainees for help in excavating buried pipes in Boracay
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nvironment Secretary Roy A. Cimatu commended the 100-strong Philippine Army trainees from 3rd Infantry Division in Hamindan, Antique for successfully excavating 28 buried pipes, thus shortening the period of exposing detected pipes from one month to one day. “Your combat boots left a mark here in the beach of Boracay. You will leave behind here the footprint of service,” Cimatu told the trainees. “Ang ginawa nyo sa araw na ito ay akala ko gagawin namin ng isang buwan,” he added. The DENR chief also reiterated the reason for the cleanup of Boracay. “Ang sabi ni Presidente ang Boracay ay isang ‘cesspool’. Ibig sabihin nito, yung mga nahukay ninyong mga tubo na papunta sa beach ay galing sa mga establishment na may dalang bacteria na galing sa dumi ng tao. Ito ay tinatawag na e-coliform.” Earlier, during the opening ceremony, Cimatu called the PA trainees as Boracay
Centurions. “I will call you ‘Boracay Centurion’. My order to you is “search and destroy” the illegal pipes, not with rifles but with shovels,” Cimatu said, as he introduced them to the media. The shovels were provided by Aklan Governor Florencio Miraflores. The provincial government also provides three backhoes and manpower assistance to the DENR, also in excavating buried pipes. The Boracay Centurions, headed by Col. Dennis Tanzo, were deployed in all three stations of Boracay’s front beach, with total length of 4.5 kilometers. At the closing ceremony, Tanzo reported to Cimatu the completion of their mission and requested for clearance to pull out. The “Boracay Centurions have completed their mission, sir, with the excavation of a total of 28 pipelines: in Station 1 = 8; in Station 2, 10; and in Station 3, 10. Of the 28 excavated pipes, 26 pipes were leading to the sea, Cimatu
said. The army trainees are currently on a 4-month training at Camp Peralta, a requirement prior to their enlistment to the army. In response to their service, Cimatu told the trainees that he will attend their closing ceremony in July.
Boracay was ordered closed to tourists for six months starting last April 26 to pave the way for its rehabilitation. This means the DENR and other government agencies in charge of the rehabilitation have until October 26 to finish the restoration works. However, Cimatu
said the discovery of illegal pipelines at the beachfront was a setback in the completion of the rehabilitation efforts. “Na-offset na ‘yung timetable natin. Wala sa initial plan ‘yung ganitong trabaho sa beach front,” Cimatu lamented. Cimatu earlier disclosed that at least
43 sites with “possible buried illegal pipes” were detected by a technical team from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau using a ground penetrating radar, along the beachfront. A total of 26 pipes have already been excavated and found to be leading to the shoreline.
Cimatu hopes to prevent future Boracay-like crisis with ecotourism tracking tool Environment Secretary Roy A. Cimatu has high hopes for the newly launched ecotourism tracking tool (ETT) that will help monitor and evaluate activities in ecotourism sites across the country to prevent another Boracay-like crisis in the future. Cimatu said the ETT, which was developed by the Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (ERDB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), will help systemize the conservation and protection of ecotourism destinations prone to environmental degradation. “I am confident the ETT will enable not just the DENR but all stakeholders to efficiently assess to which degree an ecotourism site is managed according to a set of sustainability indicators,” Cimatu said. “I have no doubt it will support proactive management of all ecotourism sites in the country.” ERDB was earlier tasked by Cimatu to conduct a study that will determine the capacity of ecotourism sites, including the pollution-challenged
Boracay Island, which has been ordered closed to tourists for six months starting last April 26. Cimatu admitted that one of the reasons why Boracay suffered from environmental degradation was the “lack of guidelines, standards or certification mechanisms towards its effective management as an ecotourism area.” This concern, according to ERDB Director Henry Adornado, will be addressed by the ETT manual, which was developed through an ERDB-led study from 2013 to 2014, in order to provides a quality certification system and sets parameters for the effective management of ecotourism sites. “As ecotourism is one of the fastest growing sectors of the travel industry today, everyone wants to ride on its popularity,” Adornado pointed out. “Some travel operators only show in their advertisements the positive image of their ecotourismrelated activities, showing no or less considerations on the environmental degradation, social and cultural exploitation,” he prevent/PAGE 7
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Partners promote sharing acts of kindness among individuals, organizations Leading telecommunications firm Globe Telecom and The Walt Disney Company, Philippines, announced a major collaboration to promote volunteerism among Filipinos. The two companies partnered to launch “Time Please,” a nationwide volunteering program that encourages and empowers Filipinos including companies, organizations, employees, families, and friends to provide volunteer activities or participate in existing volunteer programs. Time Please supports the telco’s commitment to nine (9) of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and appeals to the Filipino strong culture of volunteerism rooted in the bayanihan spirit to collectively contribute to social development. Through the volunteer matching portal www. timeplease.ph, developed with Globe Future Maker iVolunteer Philippines and the volunteer portal of Gawad Kalinga, Time Please strives to match individuals or groups
of volunteers with various volunteering opportunities around the country. Companies, organizations or groups with existing volunteer programs can also enlist their volunteer activities in the platform and get their volunteer hours registered in this initiative. “We look at Time Please to extend Globe Telecom’s purpose-led culture to our customers. With the help of technology, we wish to make volunteering more accessible to many Filipinos, thereby, making it easier for our partners and customers to contribute to nation building,” said Ernest Cu, President and Chief Executive Officer of Globe Telecom. “Disney VoluntEARS are committed to supporting and inspiring communities by dedicating our time and skills to help kids and families in need. Time Please is a unique platform that allows kids and families to spend meaningful time together for social good,” shared Veronica Cabalinan, Country Manager of The Walt Disney Company, Philippines.
Mahesh Samat, EVP & Managing Director The Walt Disney Company South Asia and Ernest Cu, Globe President and CEO
“We believe that it is our collective responsibility to be at the service of the community where we live.” Globally, the Philippines ranked 7th for the highest number of people volunteering their time with 25 million Filipinos volunteering in 2016 (Charities Aid Foundation [CAF] World Giving Index
2017). Volunteer activities are mobilized by various sectors, such as nongovernment organizations (NGOs), government agencies, companies usually through their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) departments or corporate foundations, the academe via school activities such as
Brigada Eskwela, and the private sector. Time Please provides a robust menu of volunteering activities and unites the volunteering ecosystem by connecting the volunteers to volunteer organizations using a simple, convenient and easy to understand web platform. Through any device with online access, individuals from all regions in the Philippines can now sign up for free and form groups to join volunteer activities enrolled in Time Please. Time Please will run from May 25 to August 19, 2018 and is open to individuals willing and capable to do
volunteer work. Each group should have a minimum of two (2) and a maximum of four (4) individuals to be able to join. The group should also nominate a Team Leader who is at least 18 years of age with an active Globe or TM number to register the group. The group with the most number of volunteer hour credits at the end of the program will win an allexpense paid trip for 4 to Hong Kong Disneyland. Globe customers, partners, and other organizations are invited to register and volunteer at www.timeplease. ph and at the volunteer portal of Gawad Kalinga.
PSALM issues Certificate of Effectivity on AboitizPower subsidiary’s purchase of Naga power plant complex
Local Prince of Haute Couture Gil Macaibay III once again wows Kagay-anons after his collection of newlytrained models paraded themselves in their catwalk recital last Saturday at Centrio Mall in Cagayan de Oro City. photo by mark francisco
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added. Using the eight-point ET T, res or ts and other recreational and tourism operators will be monitored and evaluated in relation to their friendliness to the environment and adherence to ecotourism principles. The parameters in evaluating ecotourism sites are policies, operations, management, sociocultural ecotourism products and services, economic benefits, f i n a n c i n g / e nt e r p r i s i n g bui lding , bio e colog ic a l features, and facilities.
Up on c ons u lt at i on with DENR’s Biodiversity Management Bureau, Forest Management Bureau, Department of Tourism, Department of Science and Technology, and University of the Philippines – Los Baños, local government units, park managers, and private and community tour operators, the ERDB came out with a set of standards for ecotourism sites. The bureau tested and validated the draft tool in selected potential ecotourism destinations in the country with two sets of respondents. The first set of
respondents include resort owners/managers, p a r k au t h o r i t i e s , t o u r operators and guides, government officials engaged in operating tourist destinations. Concerned stakeholders affected by tourism activities, people’s organizations, nongovernment organizations, religious groups and the academe form the other set of respondents. The tracking tool consisted of 62 questions, which were presented in a table format s o as to record the details of the assessment. Adornado said the ERDB
recommends the ETT for us e by the Depar tment o f To u r i s m , D E N R’s Biodiversity Management Bureau, the local government units, ecotourism project implementers, private and community-based travel and tour operators. Copies of the manual are already available at DENR-ERDB and it is also downloadable for free at the ERDB website (erdb.denr. gov.ph). The DENR-ERDB has also started distributing copies of the manual to various government offices, protected area managers, and local government units.
AboitizPower subsidiary Therma Power Visayas, Inc. (TPVI) has received the Certificate of Effectivity (COE) from the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) to initiate the former’s purchase of the Naga Power Plant Complex located in Naga City, Cebu. The COE implements the Sept. 28, 2015 decision of the Supreme Court, which upheld the April 30, 2014 award of the facility to TPVI. "We appreciate the decision of PSALM and we look forward to operating the facility and
contribute to securing the energy needs of the Visayas," AboitizPower President and COO Antonio R. Moraza said. PSALM issued a notice of award to TPVI in 2014 after TPVI posted the highest bid of P1.088 billion for the asset after two failed bidding. The Supreme Court in a Sept. 28, 2015 decision upheld the validity of PSALM’s public bidding. The High Court reiterated its decision in an Oct. 5, 2016 resolution. The Naga Power Plant Complex is composed of diesel and coal power plants with a combined capacity of 153.1 MW.
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Institute. “Not only is it about the readiness of people to participate in a social networking site, but it’s also just about the nuts and bolts.” Friendster and MySpace helped blaze the trail for Facebook’s global popularity, but they failed to achieve even close to the same success as their successor. The kind of engineering that allows Facebook to function every day simply w a s n’t a v a i l a b l e b a c k in the early days of the new millennium. But by 2004, internet speeds had increased and the coding that underpins websites had become more sophisticated. The technical limitations of earlier social networking sites like Friendster and Friends Reunited cleared the runway for Facebook. But despite technical barriers, those other sites paved the way for Facebook at a time when people were still a little wary of putting too much of themselves out on the internet. In the 1990s, internet users were warned against even sharing their first name online, but now words like “oversharing” and “selfie” are so common they are recognised by the Oxford English Dictionary. Facebook - bone or ban? Fact is, Facebook is becoming that de facto, online identity provider. I am with Twitter and LinkedIn. But bear with me, most time, I spend being online in Facebook. Once the mid-2000s rolled around, Facebook
was also able to hire a lot of talented engineers from Silicon Valley, which helped it put together the kind of website infrastructure that could scale-up with an exponentially growing user base. Your Newsfeed doesn’t curate and customise itself – its launch needed engineers to cook up algorithms that picked the most valuable updates from your friends’ updates. But Hwang points to another serendipitous factor in Facebook’s global rise: mobile phones. In a lot of developing countries, people only have cheap mobiles to access the internet. In fact, a lot of these users think Facebook is the internet. “We can’t discount the p ower of mobile,” says Hwang. It’s made “social networks much, much more pervasive. You have social media at all times in your pocket, which makes it this powerful platform for news and conversation that operated in a slower way in the desktop-only era.” People are describing Facebook and its nine lives. As Facebook’s popularity has spread, so too have predictions of an imminent “tipping point”. One 2014 study from Princeton University forecast that Facebook could lose “80% of its peak user base between 2015 and 2017.” This prediction was made long before the Cambridge Analytica scandal did so much harm to the company’s reputation. So, how has Facebook managed to accumulate the business equivalent of a cat’s nine
lives? For starters, it has become so engrained and intertwined in the digital ecosystem of the 21st Century that it is hard to now untangle it. Oxford’s Hogan points to a concept he calls “interoperability.” This is where a Facebook login is often required to use and operate other online services. “Just today I went out to buy concert tickets,” Hogan says. “I had to log into Facebook. I don’t use Facebook, but I had to dust off my login. Facebook is becoming that de facto, online identity provider.” I am sure, you experienced the same my dear readers. Facebook also taps into basic human needs, according to psychologists. Even with social media movements like #DeleteFacebook, mass privacy concerns or even just calls to leave the site on the back of pedestrian design tweaks, people just can’t stay away. “A l m o s t e v e r y b o d y comes back,” says Catalina Toma, associate professor of communication science at the University of Wisconsin. “Social networking sites tap into what makes us human: we like to connect with others.” Yes, we don’t go out and meet friends somewhere for a chat or a beer or coffee. We are connected with them via Facebook. But there are tangible benefits beyond those that keep people hooked. “Lots of studies show the more people use Facebook, the more social capital they derive – resources that we get from just being connected
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 SPL. PROC. NO. 337-07-2018 IN THE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH OF ANALYN ESPINOSA YBAÑEZ UNDER THE DATE OF BIRTH - for FROM FEBRUARY 17, 1997 to FEBRUARY 17, 1977. Correction of Entry ANALYN ESPINOSA YBAÑEZ – NULUD, Represented by: JOCELYN B. CALAYAG, Petitioner, - versus – THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF KOLAMBUGAN, LANAO DEL NORTE, Respondent. x----------------------------------/ ORDER This is a verified petition for Correction of Entry in the Certificate of Live Birth filed by the herein petitioner, ANALYN ESPINOSA YBAÑEZ-NULUD, represented by her sister, JOCELYN B. CALAYAG. The petition alleges that petitioner is of legal age, Filipino, married and a resident of Bancal, Guaga, Pampanga, represented by Jocelyn B. Calayag, Filipino, of legal age, married and a resident of Poblacion, Tubod, Lanao del Norte. Respondent is sued in her official capacity as the Local Civil Registrar of Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte. Petitioner was born to spouses Processo T. Ybañez and Rebecca C. Espinosa. That unknown to petitioner, her mother caused a late registration of her birth on October 27, 2016 with Registry No. 2016-0961 and registered the date of her birth as February 17, 1997 instead of February 17, 1977 which is the true and correct date of her birth. In support of her petition, petitioner submitted the following documents to prove her allegations, a) her Certificate of Marriage; b) her Certificate of Baptism; c) her COMELEC Voter Certification and d) her National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Clearance. She filed this petition in good faith and 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 her birth. She is also desirous to correct the entry in her birth record so as avoid confusion and future inconvenience. WHEREFORE, finding this petition to be sufficient in form and in substance set the initial hearing of this case to July 13, 2018 at 8:30 in the morning before the sala of this Court. Furnish copy of this Order to the Office of the Solicitor General, Makati City, to the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor, Tubod, Lanao del Norte, to the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte, to Atty. Dorothea Basalo, counsel for the petitioner and to the petitioner through her sister, Jocelyn B. Calayag of Poblacion, Tubod, Lanao del Norte. Let copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of general circulation for three (3) consecutive weeks, at the expense of the petitioner. So ORDERED. Tubod, Lanao del Norte. May 28, 2018. BWM: May 30, June 4 & 11, 2018
(SGD.) DENNIS P. VICOY Acting Presiding Judge
to other people,” says Toma. “There’s emotional support, asking for advice, asking for recommendations.” For many Fa c eb o ok users, the pros outweigh the cons: tracking down longlost friends, getting leads to a job, expanding their business. They can deal with the glamorized glimpses. All this keeps people coming back for more, despite the onslaught of what Toma calls “glamorized glimpses”. These are the carefully curated peeks into the lives of everyone else, who all seem to be doing better than you. “They feel worse, but they cannot stop,” Toma says. I strongly have to agree! Facebook is bound to have a grip on our lives. “Social media companies seek to exploit one’s attention for profit,” Hogan says. “It’s not even ambiguous. It’s exactly what Zuckerberg said in Congress: ‘Where do you get your money?’ ‘We get it from ads.’” Right place, right time: the rise of internet-connected mobile devices in turn fueled the rise of Facebook. But even after the Cambridge Analytica disaster – Zuckerberg eventually published an apology to the 87 million Facebook users whose data was inappropriately shared – there’s still no stopping the social media steamroller. “Facebook’s business is still going to accelerate,” says Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at New York University who wrote The Big Four, a book about how powerful a tiny handful of technology companies are becoming. “Consumers talk a big game but where is the first place they go to express their rage? Facebook and Instagram. And with 2.2 billion monthly active users, advertisers have no choice but to be on Facebook.” That could change, though, as advertising dollars follow young users who abandon the platform. Still, there’s plenty of stability with older people – even among senior citizens. The site’s true future could boil down to what world governments decide to do, if anything, about Facebook’s growing influence. “I don’t think the question is [what is] ‘killing Facebook’,” says Sherry Turkle, professor of the social studies of science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “I think the question is what would get people to an appropriate use of Facebook. To the extent that we ‘knew’ about it before, we found ways to put it out of mind. Now, we can no longer do this.” We’re now all too familiar with the dangers of data leaks and fake news. Let’s face it: there’s also the simple fact that Facebook has a monopoly. “Facebook’s sheer size and cash on hand means that they can either acquire or effectively shut down any competition,” says Galloway, pointing to examples like WhatsApp and Instagram, which were eventually absorbed into the
Facebook behemoth. For now, Facebook is still so entrenched in our daily lives, there’s not going to be an immediate escape.“What’s more likely to happen is that people start to realize the markets and economy might be better off – by stimulating innovation, creating new jobs – if we were to break it up and have multiple firms instead of just one,” Galloway says. That’s the more likely outcome than Facebook just crashing, burning and disappearing altogether, according to the experts. For t his to happ en, governments will crack down on regulation to make Facebook less powerful. And while Facebook’s success has satisfied our human needs for connections, its sheer size, massive user base, and staying power has brought with it unprecedented scrutiny – like the kind we’ve seen this week in Europe. Rest in peace, Facebook? Surely a big NO! +++ Email:doringklaus@gmail. com or follow me in Facebook Twitter or LinkedIn or visit www.germanexpatinthephilippines.blogspot.com or www. klausdoringsclassicalmusic. blogspot.com .
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to the Supreme Court and, consequently, cannot be appropriated or owned and used by any private person. Yet, they are now the source of hundreds of millions of illicit revenue for the unscrupulous and the corrupt, for quite a long time now. -ooo C O R R U P T LANDOWNERS TO B E N E F I T F R OM T H E BINONDO FIRE: Of course, now that the records of the Lands Management Bureau have been destroyed by Mon d ay ’s f i re , g re at e r economic benefits are to be enjoyed by the people who possessed, and still are in possession of, the lands still classified as “unclassified public forest.” It would be very difficult throwing them out from these lands now, simply because the proof that they are still owned by the government have been destroyed. We should not forget that with the kind of system that our country employs today to put in order lost or destroyed government documents, decades are sure to pass before such documents are recovered or restored, if ever. It is not far-fetched that the documents may not even be restored anymore, or that the government in the long run will simply run out of interest to pursue such document restoration. This endeavor of restoring t he bur ne d do c uments would now partake of a “mission impossible” for the government, and I am betting that the rich and the powerful who are now reaping hundreds of millions of pesos in underserved revenue from the lands in question would even want to give them up at this point. Yes, the country
and the people are the only ones who will suffer for this. As it is often said hereabouts, “only in the Philippines”. -ooo FOR QUESTIONS, REACTIONS: If anyone would like to ask me any question about what the burning issues of the day mean, or what we have discussed here, or to consult on any problem, whatever it maybe, please call 0917 984 24 68, or email me at batasmauricio@yahoo.com, or post your concerns at www.facebook.com/attybatas. Promise, I will answer right away. Thank God in the Name of Jesus, Amen!
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up 31 percent over the last year to total P176.6 billion. Non-tax revenues surged during the said period as well. From January to April, BTr income amounted to P37.0 billion, up 23 percent from a year ago. Non-tax revenue from other offices amounted to P50.4 billion, up 32 percent year-on-year, the BTr said. On t he ot her hand, actual spending for the same period reached P1.033 trillion, or a shortfall of only P3.0 billion as against the programmed spending of P1.036 trillion mostly because the government saved P3.4 billion in interest payments, which was programmed at P123.8 billion, but actual payment was only P120.3 billion. “We didn’t hit our deficit t arge t not b e c au s e we underspent, but because of revenues. Total spending is lower by P3.0 billion mainly because of the P3.4 billion interest savings. Clearly, there is no underspending as actual non-interest expenditure is higher than the program by P400 million,” Dominguez said. (PR)
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percent in the first quarter of 2018 compared to 35 percent during the same period last year. “This indicates that price increases are still moderate and that living standards are improving, most likely due to higher income from TRAIN and better jobs,” the finance official added. (DOF PR)
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and retirement villages as preferred investment sub-activities,” Davao City Investment Promotions Center head Lemuel Ortonio said on Monday. C i t y To u r i s m h e a d Generose Tecson said the city has a potential because it has several professionals in the medical field that are offering more competitive rates than those in Manila and Cebu while hospital fees are relatively lower. In an interview during the 5th general membership meeting of the Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. at Ritz Hotel on Friday, Roberto Alabado, director for Medical Travel and Wellness Tourism at the Department of Tourism, said the city has internationally renowned medical schools and universities producing doctors, dentists, nurses, and related professionals. Alabado discussed the city’s potential for medical tourism because there are many doctors and nurses who have international training and exposure, and it has the natural setting for wellness resorts such as mountains and beaches. He said the Department of Tour ism (D OT) has pushed for a six-month medical visa as the agency will start to promote the Philippines as medical travel and wellness destination. He said the Philippines h a s hu ge p ote nt i a l for medical tourism, considering the number of hospitals with topnotch facilities and the
growing number of highly skilled human resources in the medical field. He said the country has the key ingredients to be the next medical tourism destination in the world, as Filipinos are known for their innate skills and attitude to take care of their clients and their ability to integrate wellness, medicine, and tourism. He said the Interagency C ommitte e on Me dica l Tr a v e l a n d We l l n e s s Tourism, consisting of the D ep ar t ment of He a lt h, B o a rd of Inv e s t m e nt s , Depar tment of Foreign Affairs, and DOT, has just started the discussion on the possibility of granting medical visas to foreigners. Medical visas will be issued to tourists who will come to the Philippines to seek medical treatment and medical surgery, he said. The official said the top markets of the Philippines for medical tourism are US, Canada, Indonesia, Pacific island nations, Middle East and Australia. He claimed the Philippines is receiving several clients from the Middle East for executive checkups while the agency partners with Philippine Airlines (PAL). Alabado said they are also bringing insurance companies and medical practitioners from Papua New Guinea, which lacks hospitals, to visit hospitals here. He said PAL ser vices d i re c t f l i g ht s b e t w e e n Manila and Papua New Guinea.
“PAL right now is in p ar t n e rs h ip w it h D OT because Papua New Guinea, they don’t have enough hospitals, they want to access Manila hospitals. We want PAL to bring travelers to Philippines via medical tourism,” he added. He said the Philippines i s c o mp e t i n g w i t h i t s neighbors for these markets such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Taiwan but they are doing their best to attract more visitors to explore the capabilities of the hospitals in the Philippines. The Filipino doctors, many of whom studied abroad, are known for their expertise in cardiolog y, minimally invasive surgery, orthopedic, ophthalmology, aesthetic, cosmetics, cancer, and cancer care, he said.
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enterprise development, and project, business, and financial management to strengthen the livelihood capacity of communities. Components and proposed activities under the project include shelter support, livelihood support, community development supp or t, inf rastr uc ture support, cultural and post-conflict support, and community mapping of tenurial rights. Meanwhile, the Japanese government’s involvement comes in the form of 1.1 billion Japanese yen or P500 million, which, Rollo said, will go directly to the people through the communitydriven approach. (Calvin Penaco/PIA ICCC)
Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL COURT OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL Office of the Clerk of Court 10th Judicial Region Cagayan de Oro City
Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 10TH Judicial Region Branch 43 Gingoog City -oOoREY CONSTANTE and TESSIE CIVIL NO. 2017-1095 CONSTANTE, Plaintiffs, FOR: ANNULMENT OF DOCUMENTS, RECONVEYANCE AND DAMAGES -versusDANTE CONSTANTE and JERRY CONSTANTE, Defendants. x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -/ ORDER It appearing that the defendants Dante Constante and Jerry Constante are no longer residing in the given address and that plaintiffs has no other personal knowledge of alternative addresses of summons in a newspaper of general circulation at the expense of plaintiffs, particurlarly as follows: “Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 10TH Judicial Region BRANCH 43 Gingoog City SUMMONS To: DANTE CONSTANTE Purok 9 Kimaya, Barangay Consuelo Magsaysay, Misamis Oriental JERRY CONSTANTE Purok 6 Kimaya, Barangay Consuelo Magsaysay, Misamis Oriental GREETINGS: You are hereby required to file within sixty (60) days from date of publication of this summons with this Court, your answer to the complaint stated as follows: 1. Plaintiffs, Rey P. Constante and Tessie P. Constante, are both of legal age, Filipino, and residents of Purok 6 Kimaya,Barangay Consuelo, Municipality of Magsaysay, Misamis Oriental and Purok 1 Barangay Talisay, Gingoog City, respectively, where they may be served with summons and other legal processes of this Honorable Court; 2. That defendant, Dante P. Constante, of legal age, married, Filipino, and resident of Purok 6 Kimaya, Barangay Consuelo, Municipality of Magsaysay, Misamis Oriental where he can be served with summons and other processes of this Honorable Court; 3. Plaintiffs and defendant are the the legal heirs of the late Catalino Constante, who died intestate on May 10,1966 at Talisay, Gingoog City, leaving a certain real property situated at Consuelo, Magsaysay, Misamis Oriental, covered by OCT No. P-31355 in the name of HRS. of CATALINO CONSTANTE rep. by JERRY CONSTANTE; 4. That on December 8, 2003, Dante P. Constante, through FORGERY, FRAUD, and DECEIT, made it appear that plaintiffs and defendant, together with Guillerma P. Constante and Eddie P. Constante, executed a document captioned EXTRAJUDICIAL PARTITION OF STATE AMONG HEIRS WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS in favor of all the heirs of CATALINO, thus, caused the transfer into Dante’s name of No. 3502-E. As a consequence of the said fraudulent transfer, OCT No. P-31355 was cancelled and TCT no. T-48465 covering Lot No. 3502-E was issued by the Registry of Deeds of Misamis Oriental. Machine copies of the forged Extrajudicial Partition of Estate Among Heirs with Waiver of Right, as well as TCT No. T-48465 are attached as Annex ‘’A’’ and ‘’B’’, respectively; 5. Consequently, there is a need to annul the Extrajudicial Partition of Estate Among Heirs with Waiver of Right and all other documents that has its genesis and roots in the said Extrajudicial Partition of Estate Among Heirs With Waiver of Right. Among these documents is the Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-48465 in the name of Dante P. Constante; 6. Plaintiffs are not claiming any damages but asks for reimbursement of their expenses for litigation and P8,000.00 per appearance fee since plaintiffs were constrained to file this case in spite of the fact defendant acted with malice to defraud his siblings and mother. WHEREFORE, it is most respectedly prayed of this Honorable Office that notice and hearing, judgment be rendered annulling the Extrajudicial Partition of Estate Among Heirs with Waiver of Rights allergedly executed by GUILLERMA P. CONSTANTE, EDDIE P. CONSTANTE, REY P. CONSTANTE, JERRY in favor of Corazon Pepito as P. CONSTANTE well as all documents issued by reason of the said documents including Transfer Certificate of Title NO. T-48465 which cancelled Original Certificate of Title No. P-31355. Other reliefs, just and equited in the premises, are also prayed for. December 5, 2017 at Gingoog City, Philippines. (SGD) ATTY. RICARDO V. MATEO Roll No. 50070 IBP NO. 1059543/January 6, 2017 PTR NO. 8007055/January 5, 2017 MCLE Compliance Cert. VI-0001169/Nov. 16, 2016 c/o NCIP-Misamis Oriental Provincial Office Provincial Capitol Building Cagayan de Oro City
SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE EJF FILE No. 2018-482 Upon Extra-Judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended, filed by HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND or PAG-IBIG FUND, mortgagee, with office address at Pag-ibig Building, J.R Borja St., Cagayan do Oro City against MR. NOLAN J. YAP, married to Ms. Cherryl F. Yap, of legal age, Filipino citizen, with postal address0 AT Lot 8, Block 28, San Agustin Valley Homes, Canitoan, Cagayan de Oro City, and or at Poblacion, Villanueva, Misamis Oriental of the mortgaged indebtedness which was, as of April 3, 2018 amounts to THREE HUNDRED THIRTY THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED SEVEN PESOS & 47/100 (Php 333.207.47), Philippine currency inclusive of interest and penalty charges, excluding foreclosure expenses and other monetary obligation, the undersigned sheriff will sell at public on June 18, 2018, at 10:00 o’clock in the morning to 4:00 o’clock in the afternoon soon thereafter at Goldridge Bldg.,(Hall of Justice ), Mastersons Ave., Upper Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, to the highest bidder, for CASH and in Philippine Currency, the herein described property including all improvements thereon, to wit: TCT No. T-159281
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Lot 8, Block 28, Psd-10-039732 Lot 1, Pcn-104305-00191 Canitoan, Cagayan de Oro City Fifty Fourt (54) square meters, more or less.
Prospective buyers/bidders may investigate for themselves the title of the herein described property and encumbrances thereon, if any there be. All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above stated time, date and place. In the event the public auction falls on a HOLIDAY, it shall be on the next working day without further notice, and publication. City of Cagayan de Oro, May 15, 2018. FOR THE PROVINCIAL EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF By: (Sgd.) MA. TERESITA QUIBLAT-INSO Sheriff IV BWM: May 21, 30 & June 4, 2018
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES) CITY OF GINGOOG, MIS. ORIENTAL)S.S
VERIFICATION CUM AFFIDAVIT OF NON FORUM SHOPPING
I, REY P. CONSTANTE, of legal age, married, Filipino, and a resident of Purok 6 Sitio Kimaya, Barangay Consuelo, Municipality of Magsaysay, Mismis Oriental and TESSIE P. CONSTANTE, of legal age, single, Filipino, and resident of Purok 1, Barangay Talisay, Gingoog City, after having been sworn to an oath in according with law hereby depose and say: That I am the complainant in the above-entitled case for ANNULMENT OF DOCUMENTS, RECONVEYANCE AND DAMAGES and that I have caused the preparation of the foregoing which I have read and the contents thereof are true as to my personal knowledge; That I have not commenced any any other action involving the same issues or proceeding before the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, other Regional Or Municipal Trail Court, or any other tribunal or agency, and if I should thereafter learn that a similar action or proceeding has been filed or is pending before the Supreme Court, the Court of appeals, other Regional or Municipal Trail Court, or any other tribunal or agency, I hereby undertake to report that fact within five (5) days therefrom to his Honorable Court.
IN WITNESS WHEROF, I hereunto affixed my signature this 16 of DEC.2017, at PUROK 6 SITEO KIMAYA, Philippines.
(SGD) REY P. CONSTANTE (SGD) TESSIE P. CONSTANTE Affiant Affiant
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 16 day of DECEMBER 2017.
(Sgd.) ATTY. ISIDRO L. REVELO Notary Public/NO.15-17 UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 2018 PTR NO. 1970417, 1-19-17. G.C. TIN-137-352-403, ROLL NO. 26089 Doc. No. 269; Page No. 53; Book No. X; Series of 2017”
Let the initial hearing of this case be set on August 01, 2018 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning.
25 April 2018, Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental.
SO ORDERED.
(Sgd.) MIRABEAUS A. UNDALOK Presiding Judge BWM: May 21, 30 & June 4, 2018
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Apple Tree’s Grandest Endless Summer Beach Festival 2018 Features:
- Shore-Breaks 4 Skimboarding Competition - Open Beach Volley Competition - Zumbathon by the Bay - Photography Workshop
By Joe Palabao
Three days of endless summer beach nostalgic and spectacular activities from May 25-27 earmarked the 4th Endless Summer Beach Festival 2018 sponsored by the premier and Multi Awarded Apple Tree Resort and Hotel at Taboc, Opol, Misamis Oriental. For Skimboarding Competition, an estimated seventy Skimmers participated in the event, twelve teams for the Open Beach Volley Completion, forty for Zumbathon by the Bay and and a dozen for the Photography Workshop. A grand opening and presentation of the participants awaited on
the first day. The more or less seventy Skimmers were coming from all over Mindanao and the Visayas. They came from the Province of Misamis Oriental, Municipality of Opol, Cagayan de Oro City, Iligan City, Tandag CitySurigao, Digos City-Davao del Sur, General Santos City, City of Mati -Davao Oriental-Philippines and Dumaguete City. A hilarious Reggae Night was the first Salvo of the Endless Summer Beach Festival 2018 participated in by the Skimmers and skimboarders, domestic and local Tourists and guests. The highlight was the “Abri Bikini
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Contest”. The second day was continuum of the elimination round of Skimboarding Competition, the Open Beach Volley Tourney and the 3rd Zumbathon by the Bay where participants danced, danced with the guidance of Zumbathon dancers for a non-stop straight three long hours. The second day ended with A Foam Pool Party at the SeaHorse Shaped Infinity Pool of the premier Apple Tree Resort and Hotel at Taboc, Opol, Misamis Oriental. More than a hundred guests danced at the pool with the flowing of the foam that made them giddy. A non-stop music made the night so spectacular with the VJs from Cebu and local VJs led a beautiful lady based VJ from Cebu. Day 3 was the final round of the Northern Mindanao Shore Breaks4 Skimboarding Competition. Winners for the Kids Category are the following 4th Jimlie Sacedor, 3rd John Paul Ortiz, 2nd Luther Ubon 111, 1st Giller Quotation
and the Grand Champion Daniel James. For the Beginners Category 3rd Place Marle Vincent Mamparo, 2nd Ian John Yana,1st Vicmar Larosa and the ChampionJulieta Lang Lang Aporbo from Mati City. Advance Category- 3rd place Richard Escalante, 2nd Johule Obsioma,1st Junilo Monares and the Champion Crismar Lariosa. Masters Category3rd place Jaygo Missiona, 2nd Leeart Lagmay, 1st Sonny Boy Yana and the Champion Sonny Boy Bayogyog Aporbo. Open BeachVolley Champion Team Igpit Titans, Jonard Vacalares and Jenny Bacayana, 1st Runner Up Team Love Wins Marvin Villanueva and Brithany Antiquitina, 2nd Team Fearless Princess Ramire, Eddsel Cris B. Borres and Lizanne Jonae Q. Macapayag, 3rd UPS. For the Zumbathon by the Bay 1st is Ms. Marissa, 2nd Lou Maceda. Ultimate Shore-Breaker for the Masters Category is Bayogyog Aporbo, Crismar Lariosa for
Advance Category and the Ultimate Shore-Breaker for Beginners Category is Lang Lang Aporbo from Mati City. The Grand Endless Summer Beach Festival 2018 of the premier Apple Tree Resort and Hotel was supported by the Department of
Tourism X under the helm of Regional Director May Salvana Unchuan, the Provincial Tourism Office, the Tourism Office of the Municipality of Opol in partnership with Tangcalagan Enterprises, Business Week Mindanao and Mindanao Daily News. Congratulations!
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bureaucratic red tape in our government institutions.” “This law will introduce simplified requirements and streamlined procedures that will finally spare our people from the intolerable waiting time and long lines in frontline government agencies,” he added. The President said the l aw wou ld st and ardize the processing time for transactions of business entities with government – three days for simple, seven days for complex, and 20 days for highly technical transactions. D uter te s aid t hat it would limit to a maximum of three the number of signatories for applications for licenses, clearances, permits, certifications, and authorizations. He added electronic signatures would be recognized and a “zeroc ont a c t p ol i c y w i l l b e i mp l e m e nt e d t o av oi d improprieties” while local governments are mandated to automate their business permit and licensing systems, set up one-stop business facilitation services, and use online unified business application forms. “This complements the mandate of the Department of Information and Communications Technology o r D I C T t o au t o m at e business-related transactions through web-based software and technological platforms,” he said. Duterte said his administration prioritizes encouragement of competitiveness and improvement of the overall business environment as provided for in his 10-point socioeconomic agenda. “We intend to accomplish that by promoting integrity, accountability and good governance in all government transactions,” he said. The President believes they can bring people closer to government and forge a vibrant and production relationship that will redound to benefit of the people by “automating our bureaucratic processes and integrating online mechanisms in dayto-day transactions.” Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said the law aims to further ease doing business in the country by reducing the procedures and processing time for-business related transactions. “The Philippines has become more efficient, business-friendly, and hasslefree for local and foreign businessmen and investors,” he said, adding that this is another milestone of the Duterte administration as this is part of his priority legislative agenda.
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Tago town in Surigao del Sur under “the “Project: Kapalayapaan” was broached by Lt. Col. Randolph Rojas, former commanding officer of the Army unit.
Kapalaypaan was coined from “kapayapaan” (peace) and palay (rice). Since the farms were planted with hybrid organic seedlings in January 26, residents were skeptical for the plants to survive especially that the rice fields were submerged with floodwaters on February 18. “Our rice will do the talking, do the inspiring,” said Genevieve Chua, THPAL C ommunity Relations Manager in her remarks during the “Kaninhawaan Harvest Feast Day” celebration. The nickel processing company has donated a P1.5 million tractor cum harvester used during the harvest. Br i g . G en . Nemesi o Gacal, commander of the Army’s 402nd Brigade, said Kapalayapaan will be replicated in the entire Caraga region with about 107,000 hectares of rice lands, farmers can earn at least P30 billion per harvest. Twelve years ago, the farmers here stopped tilling their rice paddies because the yield was so low that whatever they got had barely sustained their families until the next harvest. Julius Dalubatan, 52, recounted that their yield started to decrease as more laterite wastes flowed into their farms. It was at the height of the mining boom in the so-called “Red mountain,” which refer to the mountain ranges that have large nickel ore deposits that traverse this coastal town and Carrascal town in neighboring Surigao del Sur. “Laterite wastes from the mining operations would flow into the Taganito River, which would swell and inundate our farmlands during heavy rains,” Dalubatan, a father of five, said. He said laterites made the soil hard when dried, killing rice plants or made them produce less tuft of grains and drastically reduced their harvest to just about 30 sacks per hectare. Dalubatan said they believed the laterites came
from the upper part of the red mountain, where Adnama Mining Resources and Taganito Mining Corp. had been operating. Abandoning farming because of dismal yield, Dalubatan and other farmers in Urbiztondo said they had to look for jobs to support their families. “We found jobs in the mining companies,” he said. But farming was his life so when told of the experiment to make their abandoned farms productive anew, Dalubatan said he readily agreed. Lt. Col. Xerxes Trinidad, the commander of the 36th Infantry Battalion, said the effort to make an initial of 10 hectares of farms productive anew was part of the military’s farming for peace program, to address the high cost yet low yield problems of the farmers. Lauzon believed that the nutrients of the soil had already been restored after 12 years of no activity. But even then, the farmers involved had to do a lot of work such as plowing into the field many times over before planting seedlings. In fact, the soil preparation took a month to finish, Lauzon said, which saw the farmers repeatedly plowing into the field with tractors and carabaos while broadcasting organic fertilizers at a rate of 10 sacks per hectare. Lauzon said this would help ensure that the goal of 100 sacks per hectare would be achieved, along with the use of organic pesticides and good farm management. “ The use of organic fertilizers was instrumental in achieving at least 150 sacks per hectare in my own farm in Bayugan City,” Lauzon said. He said good management means that the farmers would also tediously monitor the growth of the plants. Lauzon said bio-organic farming would also change the attitude of farmers to become hardworking since it involved a lot of manual
The other power project commercial commissioning of the Alcantara group in year 2021; while the Siguil that will be advancing to hydro facility is eyed on implementation phase this stream by year 2020. year will be its 15.1-megawatt For the Sarangani plant, S i g u i l h y d r o p o w e r Alsons Power Group Chief development, of which total Executive Tirso G. Santillan project cost had been placed said “the company has already secured power sales at P3.9 billion. Yenko indicated that agreements for its currently p r o j e c t c o n s t r u c t i o n operating and prospective timeframe will likely be baseload coal plants.” decided around third quarter this year – and when that is firmed up, it will require from page 4 additional capex on top of all very much! He always the budgeted P7.0 billion listens to us and forgives for the power sector. us, no matter how wrong “For Siguil, we don’t or hurtful we’ve been. Jesus have any capex at this point, is just waiting for you and but when we sign the EPC me to choose to love Him in (engineering, procurement return. He’s patiently waiting and construction) contract for us to spend time alone by the third quarter – then with Him so we can get close we’ll put out a billion pesos to Him, not just on special additional for it,” he stressed. days like Christmas and The 105-megawatt San Easter but every day. And as Ramon coal-fired power you spend time with Him, facility of the company that Jesus will help you change will be sited in Zamboanga to become more like Him. City will als o have its Then you can start giving development kick-off this gifts of real love to others, year, but the ACR chief not just on special days, but executive has emphasized every day of the year. Just that capital outlay will still Think a Minute… be minimal this year. “At San Ramon, we’re also programmed to start latter part of the year. But that’s still a very small portion of our capex, I don’t foresee that as a major expense this year,” he said. from page 1 The San Ramon power the company’s Sarangani venture is targeted for Energy Corporation (SEC2) power plant project that Republic of the Philippines will be adding up 105MW on REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL its electric capacity portfolio. 10TH Judicial Region Branch 43 “For power this year, we’re Gingoog City completing the bulk of SEC-2, so that should be P7 billion NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE this year alone,” he said. This File No. 231-2018 project, which is targeted for completion next year, entails Upon Extra-Judicial Petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended by a total capital spend of P15 Act 4118, filed by BDO, UNIBANK INC. with principal office address at BDO Corporate Center, 7899 Makati Avenue, Makati City represented billion. The rest will b e for by Ma. Myla M. Aspera and Trajan Galerius F. Alteza, against SPS. preliminary works on other CARLOS G. CONDEZA AND LORENA C. CONDEZA, both of legal Filipino and are residents of 1350 Brgy. Punong, Gingoog City, projects as well as a major ages, Misamis Oriental, to satisfy the Mortgage indebtedness which as of real estate development that March 20, 2018 have amounted to FIVE MILLION EIGHTY EIGHT the Alcantara Group will be THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE PESOS AND 93/100 pursuing in Davao City – (P 5,088,425.93) including interests, penalties and expenses incidental the P20-billion Azuela Cove thereto ( ‘’Subject Obligation’’) and other charges, excluding foreclosure mixed-use estate which is its expenses, and other litigation expenses and excluding other expenses joint venture with Ayala Land, that may be hereinafter incurred, the undersigned Sheriff will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for CASH on July 9, 2018 at 9:00 Inc. o’clock in the morning to 4:00 o’clock in the afternoon at the Regional labor compared to traditional farming using inorganic inputs. THPAL’s role was to provide financial support to the farmers. Trinidad admitted that introducing Kapalayapaan in Urbiztondo was a big challenge, especially so that it was a new idea to the farmers. In the past, Dalubatan and his peers relied heavily on chemical inputs and pesticides; and petro-based fertilizers to produce. “We are true to our intent to bring food to the table of every Filipino home,” adding that “If the stomachs of every family member are full, no one would think of doing bad things.” He said they were hoping to replicate in Urbiztondo the experience of farmers in Barangay Lindoy. Although the farmers there did not suffer from laterite wastes, they also experienced low harvest until after they shifted to organic farming. Siblings Bonifacio and Alhamar Baldinar, who were both members of the Lindoy Bio-organic Farmers Association, said they could now easily harvest 100 sacks per hectare after embracing bio-organic technology.
Special Proceeding No. 467-2018 FOR: Cancellation of Annotation of Legitimation in the Birth Certificate of the Petitioners with Registry Nos. 2002-214 and 2002-212 & Cancellation of Registered Affidavit of Legitimation with Reg. Nos. 2009-57 and 2009-58
ORDER The petition being sufficient in form and substance, the same is given due course. Let the hearing of this Petition be set on JUNE 20, 2018 at 8:30 A.M. Any interested party may oppose the petition within fifteen (15) days from notice of the petition or form the last day of publication whichever comes first. The petitioner is hereby directed to cause the publication of this Order in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Misamis Oriental at her expense once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks. Likewise, let copy of this Order and Petition be furnished the Office of the Solicitor General, the Deputy City Prosecutor, the Local Civil Registrar of Gingoog City.
SO ORDERED. Done this 24th day of April, 2018 at Gingoog City.
BWM: May 21, 30 & June 4, 2018
CAGAYAN DE ORO MAIN BRANCH P & J Lim Bldg., Tiano Brothers Kalambagohan Sts., Tel. # (08822) 727-829 * Telefax # (088) 856-1947 CAMIGUIN BRANCH B. Aranas St., Poblacion, Mambajao, Camiguin Tel. # (088) 387-0491 CORRALES BRANCH Corrales Ave., Cagayan de Oro City
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Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 10TH Judicial Region BRANCH 43 Gingoog City ANGELO SEGUBRE and By their biological mother EPIFANIA MIFA SEGUBRE, Petitioners, -versus – LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF GINOOG CITY, MISAMIS ORIENTAL, Defendant. x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -/
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(Sgd.) MIRABEAUS A. UNDALOK Presiding Judge
DIVISORIA BRANCH Atty. Erasmo B. Damasing Bldg., #61 Don A. Velez St., Cagayan de Oro City Tel. # (088) 857-3631 LAPASAN BRANCH Lapasan Hi-way, Cagayan de Oro City Tel. # (088) 231-6739 CARMEN BRANCH Vamenta Blvd., Cagayan de Oro City Tel. # (088) 231-2011
CDO MAIN BRANCH P & J Lim Bldg., Tiano Brothers Kalambagohan Sts., Tel. # (08822) 727-829 * Telefax # (088) 856-1947
DIVISORIA BRANCH Atty. Erasmo B. Damasing Bldg., #61 Don A. Velez St., Cagayan de Oro City Tel. # (088) 857-3631
CAMIGUIN BRANCH B. Aranas St., Poblacion, Mambajao, Camiguin Tel. # (088) 387-0491
LAPASAN BRANCH Lapasan Hi-way, Cagayan de Oro City Tel. # (088) 231-6739
CORRALES BRANCH Corrales Ave., Cagayan de Oro City
CARMEN BRANCH Vamenta Blvd.,Cagayan de Oro City Tel. # (088) 231-2011
Trials Court, Branch 43, Hall of Justice, Dugenio ST., Gingoog City, the following properties with all the improvements existing thereon, to wit: TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-17504
LOT : C, Pcs-10-003060 PORTION OF LOT :10075 & 10076, Cad-295, Gingoog Cadastre LOCATION : Poblacion Gingoog, Mis. Or. NW ., line 2-3 by Tuto Street NE ., line 3-4 by Lot 100755, Cad-295 SE. ., line 4-1 by Lot D; SW., line 1-2 by Lot B, both Pcs-10-003060 AREA : ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY SIX (176) Sq.m.more or less All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above stated date and time. In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be held on the next working without further notice and republication The prospective buyer/s may investigate for themselves the title of the herein described property/properties and the encumbrances thereon, if any there be.
Gingoog City, May 7, 2018.
FOR THE EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF BY: (Sgd.) FLORA C. PEREZ Sheriff IV BWM : May 21, 30 & June 4, 2018
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SM Foundation conducts medical and dental missions S M Foundation through its Health and Medical Program conducted Medical and Dental Missions in Cagayan de Oro on May 8 and 9 respectively. A total of 2,000 underprivileged community especially the elderly and the children received free medical and dental assistance on May 8 at the ground f loor, carpark building of SM City Cagayan de Oro and on May 9 at the upper third, carpark building of SM CD O Downtown Premier. SM Foundation initiated "Gamot Para Sa Kapwa", a comprehensive medical and dental mission, in
response to the need of the indigent families to be provided with complete healthcare. Volunteer doctors, dentists and several nurses from the City Health Office, Northern Mindanao Medical C enter, JR B orja Hospital and Camp Evangelista Station Hospital assisted, examined and treated the patients mostly consisted of senior citizens who are members of the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps in cooperation with the City Social Welfare and Development (CSWD). SM Foundation has offered free chest X-ray, ECG, blood sugar screening, blood
pressure monitoring, medical consultation, dental ser vices and free medicines to patients in cooperation with
the City Health Office, City S ocial Welfare and Development and the City Government of Cagayan de Oro.
Meanwhile, patients also received proper and complete dosage of medicines and vitamins through the
“Gamot Para sa Kapwa” medicine campaign. For SM Foundation, caring for the sick and the less fortunate has gone beyond traditional. It means promoting the total wellbeing of individuals by providing them basic health ser vices and most of all, encouraging them to have a positive outlook despite life's many challenges. SM Foundation Inc., SM's outreach and community ser vice organization, has four areas of advocac y : education through scholarship and donations of schoolhouses, mallbased outreach programs, health, and community projects.