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Davao's biz prospects THE Board of Investments has highlighted investment opportunities in Davao after the region suffered a deep economic setback during the pandemic.

BOI Executive Director Bobby Fondevilla highlighted at the Davao Investment Conference in “Davao Region: Strong Today, Stronger Tomorrow,” investment opportunities particularly in real estate, tourism, manufacturing, and agribusiness with its enablers such as ICT, academe & infrastructure that are available in the region. BOI is the investment promotion and generation agency under the Department of Trade and Industry.

Fondevilla also presented the top 10 priority sectors in Davao City namely: Agri-business; Tourism and Recreational Facilities; Light Manufacturing and Assembly; Real Estate/Property Development; Health and Wellness, Educational and Sports Facilities; Environment Protection or Green Projects; Information and Communications Technology; Generation of New Sources of Energy; Transportation and Infrastructure; and PublicPrivate Partnership (PPP) Projects.

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Mining slowdown GENERAL Santos City -- Illegal mining operations in South Cotabato province have slowed down in the past several months due to the intensified monitoring and law enforcement operations.

Siegfred Flaviano, head of the Provincial Environment Management Office, said they have not monitored any major illegal mining activity, especially the destructive “banlas” or sluice method, as of Thursday in various mining areas in the province.

He said some miners have only resorted to panning in the rivers the rocks or ores that are washed down from nearby mountains by the rainwater.

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ITH a string of administrative cases dismissed by the Court of Appeals (CA), incumbent City Mayor Oscar Moreno and his coaccused remain optimistic that they could hurdle the same charges being heard at the Sandiganbayan.

The criminal cases, filed in 2016, stemmed from a complaint filed against Moreno, who was then the governor of Misamis Oriental when he ordered the rental of heavy equipment amounting to about PHP15 million between 2007 and 2012.

In a statement Thursday, Moreno said he is planning on making a comeback to the province by running in the gubernatorial race in the 2022 elections.

The accuser, engineer Antonio Nuñez, alleged that Moreno and two members of the provincial bids and awards committee (PBAC) committed an irregularity when they approved the rental of heavy equipment through negotiated procurement and smallUNFAZED/PAGE 9

HEAVY CATCH. A fisherman in Barangay Mabua in Surigao City catches a 10.5-kilogram queen snapper. mindanews photo by roel n . catoto

CDO affirms adherence to IATF guidelines

Yellow warning BUTUAN City – The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office of Agusan del Sur (PDRRMO-ADS) has warned of heavy rains and flooding as the national weather agency placed the province under the yellow warning category due to the continuing effect of the Intertropical Convergence Zone in Mindanao.

The yellow warning was issued by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) in a bulletin issued at 9:10 a.m. on Thursday.

The towns affected by the prevailing weather system include Prosperidad, San Francisco, Bayugan, Esperanza, San Luis, Talacogon, Rosario, and La Paz.

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BOUNTIFUL HARVEST. Workers in Barangay Miarayon, Talakag carry boxes full of vegetables to be transported to markets in other parts of Mindanao. mindanews photo by froilan gallardo

THE Cagayan de Oro City local government here on Tuesday clarified that the "no vaccine, no entry" policy in some commercial and government establishments is based on the guidelines set by the national Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF).

The city government will stand by the IATF policies, Mayor Oscar Moreno told religious leaders who oppose mand ator y vaccinat ion against Covid-19.

"The IATF made it clear that pastors, priests, and church workers should get themselves vaccinated. There are religious leaders who

believed I set [that policy] but I told them that it’s not my directive but it’s a national government mandate," he said in his daily online briefing.

Mo r e n o i s s u e d t h e clarification after Saturday’s rally staged by religious groups that are against a mand ator y vaccinat ion policy.

Moreno said he had no problem with their rally but he reminded the religious groups to strictly comply with minimum public health standards like physical distancing and wearing of face masks.

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NorMin rice production Bukidnon’s veggie-farming capital is in trouble his cow as he plowed the to improve with green field in circles.

TALAKAG, Bukidnon -- difference in Santos’s farming Santos was lucky that Santos, a farmer of methods these days, compared it rained the past week, P1.8-B irrigation project Adolfo the Talaandig tribe, has been to the days of his youth – the s of tening t he f ields of

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RICE production in Northern Mindanao is expected to improve after the PHP1.8billion irrigation projects were turned over to different organizations during ceremonies here on Tuesday.

The turnover ceremony was at the conference room of the Chali Beach Resort in Barangay Cugman.

D i m a t i m p o s Tomarompong, the president of the Lindongan Farmers Irrigators Association (FIA), Inc. from Tangkal, Lanao del Sur, said in his speech with the irrigation projects of the National Irrigation Authority (NIA), he hopes that local farmers can better contribute RICE/PAGE 9

growing vegetables in the slopes of Miarayon at the foot of Mt. Kalatungan for decades now.

This municip a lity – particularly Barangay Miarayon – after all, has been known as the vegetablegrowing capital of Northern Mindanao.

But there’s a noticeable

48-year-old farmer now uses fertilizers.

Miarayon farmers are beset with growing problems of decreasing yields, dependence to chemicals, and incursions of lowlanders to the Talaandig ancestral land.

During a visit to his farm towards the end of October, Santos was carefully guiding

Miarayon.

He would finish plowing the one-hectare land by the day’s end. The next day, he would be applying chicken manure to the soil. The manure is considered as organic fertilizer that provides nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium to the soil.

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CDO croc bite victim's kin withdraws complaint vs. park mgmt THE family of a 68-yearold man who was bitten by a crocodile inside an adventure park in Sitio Sto. Niño, Barangay Indahag here will no longer press charges against the resort’s management after both parties have come to an understanding.

In a phone interview Tuesday evening, Mercy Joy Chipada, daughter of the victim, said their family and the Amaya View management have come to an agreement signed by both parties.

“Our concern is for our father to be taken care of.

That’s what we are after.

He is now recovering from the surgery,” she said.

The victim was identified as Nehemias Chipada, of Barangay Aposkahoy, Claveria town in Misamis Oriental.

On November 10, Chipada, who was then celebrating his birthday, sustained injuries on his left arm from a bite by one of the crocodiles placed in a fenced enclosure at Noah’s Ark, just one of the amenities at Amaya View, a mountain resort overlooking the city’s urban district.

Chipada’s family posted on social media that the sexagenarian thought the crocodile was just a replica prompting him to climb a

few feet down the animal’s shelter to get near the immobile reptile and tap its head.

A video circulating on Facebook showed Chipada wading in the shallow pond where the crocodile, moments after the headtapping, locked its jaws on the old man’s left arm.

Seconds after, Chipada was heard shouting for help as the 12-foot crocodile let go of his arm.

Blood was seen splattered on the pond’s greenish water. His right hand was also injured.

It was reported that one of the crocodile’s teeth was lodged on Chipada’s arm.

Photos on Facebook showed Chipada and his family posing and taking photos with concrete replicas of animals before the incident.

The incident was picked up by a talk show that airs on national TV, and also has a YouTube channel online that caught wider public attention.

In a statement, the Amaya View management said it has extended financial assistance for the medical expenses of the patient.

“Our company nurse responded immediately; she administered firstaid as he (Chipada) was rushed to the nearest

hospital. He is currently at the Northern Mindanao Medical Center where he had his operation, and is now recovering in a suite room,” it said.

The company added it remains committed to settling all of Chipada’s

medical bills until he is fully recuperated. “We hope and pray for his fast and complete recovery.”

The resort said it condemns the dissemination of false information on social media about the incident

and appealed to the public to refrain from posting any derogatory statements against the patient and his family.

“As a family-oriented resort, Amaya View takes the responsibility of ensuring our guests'

safety with paramount importance and we will continue to be dedicated to our vision and mission of providing safe, fun, and educational attractions and adventures for everyone,” the resort statement added.

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A SYMBOL OF RESILIENCY. Through the festival of lights, the mayor hopes to bring a sense of normalcy in his town and light up some holiday cheer again as the country slowly fights back against the COVID-19 contagion with its swift vaccination campaign. (VPSB/PIA-10)

Lugait illuminates hall, hope for the Holiday Season LUGAIT, Misamis Oriental--Lugait lit up its municipal hall and plaza to commemorate the beginning of the holiday season and the town’s month-long showcase of lights in the new normal.

“Nakita nako karon nga atong katawhan gibati nila ang kaguol nga naa sila sa ilang panimalay.

Mao nga nakahunahuna ko nga maski sa gamay nga pamaagi, mapakita nako sa mga tao sa Lugait ang

atong pag-atiman sa ilang mental health,” said Lugait Mayor Zosimo Perez, Jr, November 22.

(I have observed that our people have felt sad and anxious that they are in their home because

of the pandemic. So, I thought that in a small way, I can show the people of Lugait that we give importance to their mental health) The mayor disclosed LUGAIT/PAGE 9

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PAL eyes direct GenSan-KL flights

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ENERAL Santos City – Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) is planning to open as early as next month direct flights between this city and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, reviving the international status of the newly upgraded airport.

Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade disclosed this development during the inspection by President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night of the airport’s new passenger terminal building and other vital facilities.

“On Dec. 9, PAL formally signified to us that they will again start their international operations (for the) GenSan-Kuala LumpurGenSan (route),” he announced during his speech.

Tugade said the opening of the upcoming flights will upgrade the city airport to international status after being “delayed and suspended” for a long time.

He credited the move to the completion last September of the

rehabilitation of the airport’s passenger terminal building and other facilities, which were part of the PHP959-million upgrade implemented under the flagship Build, Build Build program.

The other completed components are the procurement and installation of navigational aids and the construction of the new Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) administration building.

Tugade said these improvements, which

tripled the terminal building area from 4,000 to 12,000 square meters, doubled the airport’s passenger capacity from one million to two million annually.

He said the airport terminal features an aerobridge and the expanded space now allows the airport to park seven planes at one time from the previous three to four.

They also acquired various new equipment that will facilitate “contactless” operations and transactions at the

airport, among them the flight check-in and baggage drop, he said.

Tugade said the “contactless approaches" at the city airport are so far “the first in Mindanao”.

“This is a good vision.

It shows that those in the airline business are recognizing the changes that CAAP introduced at the airport here,” he said.

The city airport, considered as strategic in terms of location and among the biggest in the country, last served international flights in late 2003.

Indonesian carrier Merpati Nusantara Airlines opened weekly flights between the city and Manado then using a Fokker 70 aircraft but it folded up after a month due to poor passenger traffic.

President Duterte lauded the DOTr for ensuring the “timely completion” of the airport projects despite the challenges posed by the coronavirus disease 2019 or the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Silence Think a minute . . . ”People would be happier if they were as good at silence as they are at speaking.” Studies have shown that constant noise is one of the biggest causes of our daily stress. “Silence is golden because there is so little of it.” Many of us don’t even realize how noisy our daily life is, and how it is robbing our peace of mind, family harmony, and health.

The problem is we have become so accustomed, even addicted, to continually h e a r i n g s om e k i n d of noise—whether it’s talking, news, music, television, the telephone, videos, and other sounds. In fact, many of us simply are not comfortable with silence. Even when we go away on holiday to relax, we still take our smart phone, iPad, laptop, or we watch TV in the hotel room. As someone said: “People today are in such a hurry that we hate to miss one panel of a revolving door.”

Sadly, we lose some of the best things in life because they are found only in the “sound of silence.” In silence we can think of what we need to improve and change in our

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Our Duty to Save the Earth

How amazing it was to listen to the 200 world leaders atte n d i ng t h e re c e nt ly concluded Conference of the Parties (COP26) on the G20 Summit on Climate Change, pronouncing that it is our duty to save the Earth with no less than Prince Charles giving the opening statement that “we don’t just need finer words but more on finer actions!” Everyone is singing that tune now of saving the Earth but still it is business-as-usual.

While environmentalists worl dw i d e are s e r v i ng notice to one and all that in the absence of a major change, the global system will collapse in less than 100 years as the “tipping point”

has already been reached because of two major reasons namely: Climate Change and Economic Unsustainability.

Climate change is glaringly manifested by global warming, the melting of the 386-meter-high iceberg in the Arctic and the Antarctic resulting to the rising of the ocean level, the acidification of the oceans, the extinction of the species, among others.

The unsustainability of the economy is shown in what His Holiness Pope Francis described as “glaring and scandalous social inequities,” stating further “it bids us all to break the bond of oppression and social injustice.” The assets of some 5,000 billionaires on earth are far greater to the total assets of the 7.2 billion people world’s population. These billionaires are fronting the neo-liberal capitalism paradigm called corporate globalization “where economic dictatorship is grafted onto representative d e mo c r a c y g iv i ng w ay to the toxic growth of religious fundamentalism and right-wing extremism, leading not only to the

death of democracy but to the democracy of death,” to quote world renowned e n v i r o n m e n t a l i s t , D r.

Vandanna Shiva. This is the root cause why elections in the Philippines are businessmanaged electoral system full of rhetorical style, body languages and the like where the highly financed candidates by the oligarchs almost always win to promote and protect oligarchical interest as shown by the “Rice Tariffication Law.” In our country, only 50 families are pocketing 70% of the Gross Domestic Products with only a few elite controlling businesses through cartels, conglomerate and monopolies.

The growth-at-all-cost development paradigm that sacrifices Mother Earth and the people to the altar of greed, profit, fame and power is the main culprit in this abovementioned unsustainability that is wrecking ecological havoc, gross inequities, social injustices and dire poverty.

It is paradoxical and even causing nausea to hear these world leaders talked, calling to save the Earth during

these most critical times of planetary emergency where the doomsday clock has been described as just “one minute before midnight,” yet, they continue to advance neoliberal economic paradigm that is causing climate change and so much inequities. While the Philippines is seen “as a frontline state in the battle against climate change, having been battered by relentless storms in recent years, it refrained from giving commitment to stop the usage of coal. That stand should be unacceptable especially to the Mindanawons because in Mindanao alone we have some 6 coal-fired power plants established in different provinces of Mindanao totaling some 2,200 megawatts. Based on scientific findings, burning coal is the leading cause of smog, acid rain, global warming and air toxics. In an average year, a typical coal plant (about 100MW) generates 3,700,000 tons of carbon dioxide, the primary human cause of climate change – as much as carbon DUTY/PAGE 7

Gift giving and receiving and Christmas simply but surely go together. Many times it incurs our indignation. Many of us defer the most important decision during the most jolliest season of the year.

What is the best Christmas gift for our loved ones??? Is it really an important decision, or does it delete the real meaning of Christmas? I am sure, many of us know the real answer.

The giving spirit of the holiday season seems to fade in the light of necessary obligations and finances, along the painful dilemma of giving gifts to those who want to buy for as opposed to those for whom you should buy!

Let's think about it: To whom are we obligated at Christmas: our boss, our

cousins, our parents, our partner or our children and friends as well? What about the children? Should they give presents to people either then family members?

How about the innumerable large families especially in the Philippines, because of economics, resort to the name drawing process at Christmas.

For me firstly Christmas is spirit. You can always find ways to give gifts w it hout exp ens es. The most well known and always remembered gift is to give to someone like giving time. In my family we do this mostly during the holiday season.

But if I look more closely, mmh, sad to say, that "time as gift" doesn't satisfy most of all. Well, it's okay. There are so many ways to use your mind in terms of giving

someone other things than putting Peso or Dollar notes. I am sure you know that home made gifts can also be a very good idea... .

Sure, there is etiquette of gift giving at Christmas and also other occasions.

Homemade gifts are most appropriate especially as Christmas gifts, according to Stu ar t E . Ja c ob s on , book author of "The Art of Giving". Allow me to quote Ja c o b s o n , " Ho m e m a d e gifts are wonderful. A gift of imagination, a gift of creativity, a gift that shows (also!) time was put into it.

A created time is a wonderful present."

When considering a homemade gift, instead of tumbling through crowded shopping malls (as I tried again yesterday!) and getting

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KLAUS DORING a headache (I really got!)!

While stumbling from one mall to the next, I found out again, that the real and whole essence of giving a gift is to bring pleasure to the person receiving it.Jacobson says in his book, "Homemade gifts are also ideal for children to give as presents. Kids can create things because they have a unique imagination.

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Some eschatological considerations We should not be surprised

his image and likeness, his

year, the readings of the Mass these days focus on the end times. They are not meant to scare us but rather to encourage us to be properly prepared and to really lock our attention on what are truly essential in our life.

This is when we have to make what we can refer to as some eschatological considerations.

We have to examine ourselves on how prepared we are to meet our death, which some saints have affectionately called as “Sister Death,” because if we go by our Christian faith, death is actually just a transition from our earthly life of being created and redeemed by God to our definitive eternal life with God who wants to share his life with us, we being

Talking about proper preparation, we have to realize that this is none other our spiritual preparedness.

It is what gives us the full picture of our life and destiny, opening ourselves to a supernatural life with God. We are no mere creatures of nature. We have been made in the image and likeness of God, elevated to be children of his in Christ.

Our spiritual preparedness takes us to a higher ground, giving us a glimpse of what is beyond our human horizons and natural limits. This is not to mention the corrections it will make to our inadequate if not erroneous understanding of our life here on earth.

It affords us an apocalyptic worldview, because it unveils

JHAN TIAFAU HURST that as we end the liturgical children. life, our family, our job and career, and our own personal character. Silence helps us think clearly so we can set goals and understand our life’s purpose. Yet silence can also give us time and freedom not to think at all, but enjoy life’s simple pleasures—like the waves of the ocean, the color and fragrance of flowers, a gentle breeze, or a beautiful sunset. It’s in these peaceful, powerful moments of silence that we can appreciate our beautiful world and begin to understand where we fit in it.

It’s only when we are quiet that we can begin to clearly hear and understand the feelings of those we love and SILENCE/PAGE 7

and reveals, which is what apocalypse means, the true meaning and purpose of our life. In other words, with this kind of preparedness, anything can happen in the world, and we can still manage to come out safe and sound, in the ultimate sense of the words.

As a consequence of pu rsu i ng ou r spi r itu a l preparation, we need to learn how we can relate our earthly and temporal concerns to our ultimate spiritual and supernatural goal. In short, we have to know how to connect time with eternity.

We have to overcome our narrow-mindedness or blindness with respect to the spiritual and supernatural goal of our life, because no matter how much we ignore it, we cannot deny the fact

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ROY CIMAGALA that the full dimensions of our life go beyond the temporal, the material and natural. We are also meant for the eternal, spiritual and supernatural.

And the way to do that is simply to live as fully as possible, in the richness of their practical implications, those divine gifts of faith, hope and charity. All the other human virtues and CIMAGALA/PAGE 7

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A Brown nets 68% higher despite lower revenue

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BROWN Co., Inc. recorded a 68% higher net income for the third quarter of 2021 compared with that in the same quarter last year despite a 23% decline in revenues in the same period.

The listed firm’s net income from July to September 2021 reached P142.18 million from P84.61 million year on year, the company said in a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) on Wednesday.

In a disclosure on Nov. 18, however, A Brown reported topline revenues for the third quarter of 2021 stood at P206.15

million, down by 23% from P270.70 million in the same quarter last year.

For the nine-month period ending in September, A Brown’s consolidated revenues were down by 17.2% to P495.53 million from P598.44 million in the first nine months of 2020.

Nonetheless, the company still recorded a 23% growth in its net income for the three quarters to P368.04 million from P298.24 million in the same period last year.

“Higher margins in the real estate segment due to lower development costs for corresponding units

sold contributed to the higher net income,” the listed firm said.

It added that its “real estate sales delivered 89% of the consolidated revenues.”

A Brown’s real estate sales dropped by 24% to P181.11 million in July to September 2021 from P240.20 million year on year due to the lower percentage of completion of units sold.

Its sales of agricultural goods also went down by 25% to P18.43 million from P24.68 in the same quarter year on year because of “lower sales of crude palm oil, palm stearin, and palm fatty acid

GENERAL Santos City -Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) from parts of Region 12 (Soccsksargen) earned around P35 million in sales during a week-long trade fair here organized by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

Jude Constantine Jaugan, DTI Region 12 director, said on Wednesday the figure was based on the reported cash, booked, and under

negotiation sales generated by the 24 MSMEs that joined the Yaman Dose Trade Expo from Nov. 15 to 21 at the SM mall atrium.

“The recorded sales exceeded our original target of P10 million by 250 percent,” he told reporters.

Dubbed the “Best of Soccsksargen,” the trade expo showcased over 500 new and improved products of MSMEs in the

region, especially those assisted by various support programs of the agency.

The displayed products included fashion bags and accessories, banana chips, coffee, various processed fruits, processed aquamarine, face masks, face mask holder, embroidered shirts, personal protective equipment, tote bags, Tnalak bags, among others.

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Soccsksargen MSMEs generates P35-M sales in trade expo

distillate.”

Meanwhile, the firm’s income for water services grew by 13% in the third quarter of 2021 to P6.60 million from P5.82 million in the same quarter last year brought about by an increase in water connections “due to additional buyers moving in to their units.”

A Brown is primarily engaged in real estate

development in Northern Mindanao and in Rizal.

It also has investments in power generation through affiliates Palm Concepcion Power Corp. and Peakpower Energy, Inc. The company also reported that one of its fully owned subsidiaries, Vires Energy Corp. (VEC), has completed the prefront end engineering

design study for the marine and onshore scope of the natural-gas fired power plant and liquefied natural gas terminal it is developing in Batangas City.

The 500-megawatt project is set to become the country’s largest floating power plant and is expected to open for commercial operations in January 2023.

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Political analyst Tiquia: Lacson-Sotto tandem 'strongest,' readiest to serve on day one The tandem of Partido Reporma chairman and presidential candidate Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and his running mate Vicente “Tito” Sotto III are the “strongest” pair among aspirants in the 2022 national elections and appear to be the readiest to perform the duties of the country’s top posts, top political strategist Malou Tiquia said.

In the “Politics as Usual” program hosted by Pia Hontiveros on CNN Philippines, Tuesday evening, Tiquia said the Lacson-Sotto tandem have all the combined experience compared to other aspirants in the May polls next year, which will serve them well both in the campaign and when the people elect them as

President and Vice President.

“It takes more than just being around and being active in the arena. If you’re going to look at tandems, the tandem of Lacson and Sotto have all the experience, combined experience,” said Tiquia on the program, which discussed the topic “Political capital: Spending it on your anointed.”

“The reason why I always say I look at the LacsonSotto tandem as the dark horse (is) because they have the capability to come from behind. If the President (who is anointing his successor) is saying, let’s look for a strong President, sino 'yun?

Who’s the strongest? If you scale through the list, it would appear ‘yung dalawang ready

on day one is apparently that tandem,” she added.

“It takes more than just that (being close to the President) to be President. I have to remind your listeners (that) we need a leader who has been tested by time because we are going on a reboot. Yung ekonomiya is very important,” Tiquia told Hontiveros.

Former Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno, Lacson’s campaign manager who was also on the program, added: “As Malou says, experience is very important.”

“For example, as she says, the experience of Sen. Lacson and Sen. Sotto. That is unparalleled anywhere, nobody else has that kind of experience, so they don’t

really need endorsements from anybody, their endorsement comes from their own performance themselves,” Puno said.

“They’ve proven, in everything they have done, that they have the wherewithal, the experience, courage and the discipline to be able to do what needs to be done,” he added.

While Lacson and Sotto may not be leading the surveys during this unofficial campaign period, Tiquia expects the landscape to change next year, when the official campaign period begins on February 9.

“But things will change once we hit February. I think in the last 48 days, 50 days, that

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APPLICANT(s)/ PETITIONER(s) request/s authority for the Issuance of Certificate of Public Convenience to operate TH FREIGHT SERVICE on the route: WITHIN CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY AND FROM SAID PLACE TO ANY POINT IN THE ISLAND OF MINDANAO ACCESSIBLE TO MOTOR VEHICLE TRAFFIC and vice versa with the use of ONE (1) unit/s.

This application/petition shall be considered by this Board on December 15, 2021 at 2:00 P.M. at this Board on which date Applicant(s)/ Petitioner(s) shall formally submit his/her/its evidence.

The Applicant(s)/Petitioner(s) shall publish said notice at least TEN (10) DAYS prior to the date of hearing once in a newspaper of general circulation in Mindanao.

Party(s) opposed to the approval/granting of the application/petition must file his/her/its written opposition with supporting documents, unless this Board deems it necessary to require additional documentary evidence and/or his/her/ its oral testimony(s).

WITNESS, AMINODEN D. GURO, Regional Director, LTFRB-Region X, this 22nd day of November 2021 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

APPLICANT(s)/ PETITIONER(s) request/s authority to Extend the Validity of a Certificate of Public Convenience to operate PUJ SERVICE on the line: CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY TO BAUNGON and vice versa with the use of ONE (1) unit/s.

This application/petition shall be considered by this Board on December 15, 2021 at 2:00 P.M. at this board on which date Applicant(s)/ Petitioner(s) shall formally submit his/her/their evidence.

The Applicant(s)/Petitioner(s) shall publish said notice at least FIVE (5) DAYS prior to the date of hearing once in a newspaper of local circulation.

Party(s) opposed to the approval/granting of the application/petition must file his/her/their written opposition with supporting documents, unless this Board deems it necessary to require additional documentary evidence and/or his/her/ their oral testimony(s).

WITNESS, AMINODEN D. GURO, Regional Director, LTFRB-Region X, this 22nd day of November 2021 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

APPLICANT(s)/ PETITIONER(s) request/s authority for the Issuance of Certificate of Public Convenience to operate TH FREIGHT SERVICE on the route: WITHIN CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY AND FROM SAID PLACE TO ANY POINT IN THE ISLAND OF MINDANAO ACCESSIBLE TO MOTOR VEHICLE TRAFFIC and vice versa with the use of TWO (2) unit/s.

This application/petition shall be considered by this Board on December 15, 2021 at 2:00 P.M. at this Board on which date Applicant(s)/ Petitioner(s) shall formally submit his/her/its evidence.

The Applicant(s)/Petitioner(s) shall publish said notice at least TEN (10) DAYS prior to the date of hearing once in a newspaper of general circulation in Mindanao.

Party(s) opposed to the approval/granting of the application/petition must file his/her/its written opposition with supporting documents, unless this Board deems it necessary to require additional documentary evidence and/or his/her/ its oral testimony(s).

WITNESS, AMINODEN D. GURO, Regional Director, LTFRB-Region X, this 22nd day of November 2021 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

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This application/petition shall be considered by this Board on December 15, 2021 at 2:00 P.M. at this Board on which date Applicant(s)/ Petitioner(s) shall formally submit his/her/its evidence.

The Applicant(s)/Petitioner(s) shall publish said notice at least FIVE (5) DAYS prior to the date of hearing once in a newspaper of local circulation.

Party(s) opposed to the approval/granting of the application/petition must file his/her/its written opposition with supporting documents, unless this Board deems it necessary to require additional documentary evidence and/or his/her/ its oral testimony(s).

WITNESS, AMINODEN D. GURO, Regional Director, LTFRB-Region X, this 22nd day of November 2021 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

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tandem (Lacson-Sotto) has remained quiet and was going to and reaching out to people.

Now that is campaigning,” she said.

Tiquia challenged CNN viewers and Filipinos to “patuloy na maging mapanuri.

Hindi pa tapos ang halalan, lahat ng nakikitang ratings

sa surveys, those are precampaign ratings.”

“Let us be conscious of that and let’s look at the platforms, tigilan na natin 'yung personality-driven at tirahan, tingnan natin ang plataporma, kasi ang 2022, mahalagang makabangon tayo,” she added.

Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education By: ALEX ABEJERO VENTERO Teacher III Agusan Elementary School

Mother tongue instructions generally refers to the use of the learners’ mother tongue as the medium of instruction.

Additionally, it can refer to the mother tongue as a subject of instructions. It is considered to be an important Republic of the Philippines Department of Transportation LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING & REGULATORY BOARD Regional Office No.10, Apovel, Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City GL PARAGON INC. Rep. by: FREDELINDO M. MALDO CASE NO. R10-NC-PA-TH 2021-11-2895

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This application/petition shall be considered by this Board on December 15, 2021 at 2:00 P.M. at this Board on which date Applicant(s)/ Petitioner(s) shall formally submit his/her/its evidence.

The Applicant(s)/Petitioner(s) shall publish said notice at least TEN (10) DAYS prior to the date of hearing once in a newspaper of general circulation in Mindanao.

Party(s) opposed to the approval/granting of the application/petition must file his/her/its written opposition with supporting documents, unless this Board deems it necessary to require additional documentary evidence and/or his/her/ its oral testimony(s).

WITNESS, AMINODEN D. GURO, Regional Director, LTFRB-Region X, this 22nd day of November 2021 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

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c o mp o n e nt o f q u a l i t y education, particularly in the early years.

To ensure that children acquire strong foundation skills in literacy and numeracy, schools need to teach the curriculum in a language child understand.

The mother tongue meaning for a child involves more than just language and includes the child’s personal, social and cultural identity.

The choice of words and expression carry different meaning across cultures and where in one language asking direct questions is considered intrusive, in another it is inquisitive. This means that the language chosen when speaking is thought about before it is delivered.

The importance of mother tongue is studied because when children develop their mother tongue, they are simultaneously fostering a whole host of other essential skills, such as critical thinking and literacy skills. It is these skills that they take with them into formal education, and research tells us that any skills and concepts gained in the learner’s home language don’t have to be re-taught when they transfer to a second language.

Language and mother tongue also play a huge role in the development of personal, social and cultural identity. Children with a strong foundation in their first language often display a deeper understanding of themselves and their place within society, along with an increased sense of wellbeing and confidence.

Naturally, this flows down into very aspects of their lives, including their academic achievement.

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Silence... from page 4

care about. Most importantly, it is in our silence that we can begin to hear the voice of our Maker. He keeps waiting for us to be quiet long enough to listen, so we can start receiving His peace of mind and learn to live the right way He created us to enjoy each day of our life. So today, won’t you stop and listen to what He wants to say to you through “the sound of silence?” Just think a minute.

Gift...

from page 4

Children should feel free to give something to anyone they spend a lot of time with.

No monetary value should be placed on what a child should give to someone."

Very well said. I am just afraid that it seems more or less impossible nowadays in these modern times... . +++ You can email me: doringklaus@gmail.com or follow me on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter or visit www. germanexpatinthephilippines.blogspot.com or www. klausdoringsclassicalmusic. blogspot.com.

Cimagala...

from page 4 values that we pursue in our life here on earth should be animated by these theological virtues.

It is through these gifts of faith, hope and charity that we get connected with God who actually always intervenes in our life since he is still creating and redeeming us.

We are still a work in progress.

We are not yet a finished product. Our correspondence to God’s abiding interventions

in our life is through these virtues of faith, hope and charity. This is how we can connect our time with the eternity of God. The fact that we can think and reason out, wish and desire, choose or not, love or not, are clear indications that we are not meant only for the here and now, the tangible and the worldly. We go beyond them.

Duty...

from page 4 dioxide as cutting down 161 million of trees.

In addition to the many air toxics that are causing cancer, abortion, chronic bronchitis, aggravated asthma and premature death, a typical coal plant emits 10,000 tons of sulfur dioxide which causes acid rain that damages forest, lakes and buildings and forms small airborne particles that can penetrate deep into the lungs. Thus, it is so disappointing to note that while the clamor worldwide is to PHASE-OUT the usage of coal, yet, COP26 decided just to PHASE-DOWN, based on the dictate of China and India! Worse, the Philippines’ stand was to refrain from giving any commitment, meaning, continue the usage of coal in the Philippines without let-up. That was the government’s stand in consonance with the oligarch’s stand. Is that the stand of the Filipino People? Of the Mindanawons? NEVER. In several environmental summits, t hous ands of participants had expressed condemnation of the establishment of coal-fired power plants since 2010 but were never listened to.

In these contemporaneous times amidst the glaring

Grading System In MAPEH TRICIA B. BAJENTING Angeles Sisters National Highschool, Cagayan De Oro City

When we look at report cards, we see that the lower portion of the grades show the grades for MAPEH; with Music, Arts, Physical Education and Health having different quarterly grades and having one General Average. This grading system shows two things about MAPEH: (1) how it respects the diversity of a student’s capacity and (2) the student’s holistic ability pertaining specializations.

The grading system has five portions with the four representing each cor resp onding subj e c t and with one being the over-all average of the subject; each of them are computed differently and are represented individually.

B eing one comp ac t subject it should only have one grade however, the curriculum didn’t fail in separately showing the grades of each student.

This is made to ensure that the performance of students in the different courses should not be left unmarked, unchecked or unnoticed; each student has their own capabilities and should never be left in

vain but should however be represented so that they may be able to know and realize that they either excel or needs improvement with a certain field. With each course having different performances and written works they are taught and graded differently without anything being intertwined therefore they can be easily graded without any issues.

The subject MAPEH has the most unique grading system in the curriculum which rightfully is since MAPEH can be considered ver y different from other subjects since it highlights a student’s innate potential regarding these specializations; it shows appreciation and awareness of one’s physical state and attributes that are also considered important and wonderful. So for sure, MAPEH’s grading system allows us to see and witness how unique this subject is and how a student is able to acknowledge his or her abilities and talents. MAPEH is a safe haven for students to show and develop their skills and talents and its grading system easily represents their hardwork.

threats of climate change, there is now an on-going world shift to debunk death causing technologies and replace them with environmentfriendly renewable energy such as solar and wind to stop “business-as-usual” d e vel opme nt p ar a d i g m perpetuated by the neo-liberal capitalism and to replace it with social solidarity economy. The time has come to give priority to the people and the environment and not to business and profits.

Unless these paradigm shifts are pursued by the world leaders, then, all the talks on saving the Earth will just be rhetorical, aptly described by Shakespeare as “full of sound and fury signifying nothing.”

Flights... from page 3

contactless facilities, all the needs of a modern airport,” the President said in his speech.

He said it is another significant milestone under the Build, Build, Program that will usher in tremendous benefits for the area.

The President said it will mainly boost interconnectivity and revive the agro-industrial and ecotourism prospects of the area.

“I’m proud that we have this airport. These are the

things that we will be leaving to all of you here,” he said.

Aside from the airport, the President made a brief stop at the Makar wharf here to also inspect the completed projects.

It includes the construction of the Port Operations Building and other vital facilities, which includes a parking area, covered court, port manager’s quarter or Day Care Center, and drainage system.

“The improved port of Makar will now offer safer, comfortable, and a more convenient port experience to passengers, while ensuring a faster turnaround for vessels, cargo trucks, and other ancillary service providers,” the DOTr said in a briefer.

City Mayor Ronnel Rivera said the local government is “deeply grateful” to the national government for including the city as among the priority areas of the Build, Build, Build program.

He said the completed wharf and airport projects o p e n a w i d e a r r ay of opp or tunities that will generate more economic activities for the city and “a multiple expanded growth to the whole nation.”

“We are one with the Duter te administration in its direction towards

enhancing mobility, safety, and connectivity, apropos to airline travel, maritime travel, and road travel,” he said. (PNA)

Sales... from page 5

provided guidance and related interventions to make the products market-ready, especially on a wider scale.

During the fair, he said thousands of buyers visited the booths of participating MSMEs and the featured special setup display for over 50 products from those supported by their business development programs.

The exhibitors comprised 16 food processors and eight homestyle and wearable manufacturers. Seven of them are from this city, five each from South Cotabato and North Cotabato, four from Sultan Kudarat, and

three from Sarangani.

Aside from the physical selling of products, Jaugan said they organized a five-day online selling via Facebook that attracted over 59,000 viewers.

He said the participants, which were featured per province, recorded total sales of P342,000.

Ya m a n D o s e w a s considered the biggest trade expo organized this year by DTI-12 in partnership with the local government units.

It was the first major physical trade fair held in the region since 2019 after the scheduled event in November 2019, then dubbed “Treasures of Region 12, was scrapped due to the series of earthquakes that hit the region while l ast ye ar’s e d it i on was also suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (PNA)

Effectiveness of technology in enhancing reading comprehension among elementary pupils

By JOCELYN V. CALASAN, Ph.D. Master Teacher I

THE literacy crisis in our country is not because kids can’t learn to read but because they don’t have access to the kind of instruction they need.

Kids learn better with real teachers and tutors, there’s no doubt.

This is a good use of ed-tech to boost, not replace, the human component. Ignite is using technology to make in-person tutoring more

accessible. They have very good results, particularly for kids who are the most behind.

Reading is such a foundational skill, research shows, that students who lag at that point often fail to catch up.

I think that’s too late. By third grade, that gap is widening, and the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. I’m trying to ignite the

Parents and Teachers’ Tandem in Teaching Reading By: AIREL A. CUASITO Sinusa Integrated School Ozamiz City Division

Teachers and parents are in great position to ensure reading is a key part of children’s daily routine in learning. With this new set up of education, a tandem between parents and teachers or even guardians at home and the teachers in school is the most vital tool to c ont i nu ou s l y p e r for m reading activities.

Why do we need to include the teaching of reading amidst pandemic?

Why do we need to develop and enhance the reading skills of our learners? Why can’t we just leave it behind?

How can it be possible to teach reading in this time of health crisis? These are only few questions and queries needed to be addressed optimistically.

Numerous pieces of research conducted have discovered the profound benefits of reading for a child’s development.

Reading is a stable source of information. This stability

allows them to access text in a constant fashion and can be beneficial for children who are growing up in challenging circumstances.

As teacher in a classroom, one can mold a better future of 40 and above individuals face to face, five days in a week and ten months in a year. With a blink of an eye, COVID-19 changes it all.

New setting of education was introduced. Home is the new learning area and parents are the facilitators. One school year was successfully done and a half way there for the second year round of the new normal of education.

There was a great tandem of parents and teachers in promoting good education for the young individuals of today’s generation - the 21st Century Learners.

Parents can really make a huge difference in teaching reading at home, for they are the most important persons as educators in child’s life as of this pandemic time.

system and light a fire under people to get our babies reading when they are supposed to learn how to read.

And that is by the end of first grade.

Tutors can now use visuals as well as sounds, for example, to build context around words and meanings.

Students were able to make their own books using Google Slides. Interactivity blossomed.

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Collaboration: a Recipe to Battle the Pandemic in the New Normal Public School Administration JACKELINE L. OCON, HEAD TEACHER IV

It takes a whole village to raise a child - and in this time of pandemic, it takes the universe to educate one.

Collaboration has been ver y fundamental in all DEED OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL PARTITION WITH SALE OF PORTION OF LAND KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

façade of working set-up today – and collaboration will be number one ingredient to running a school. Those of us in education know that systemic change requires collaboration. And when EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF THE ESTATE WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS & DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE

That the late Sps. EXEQUILA A. BANAAG, who died intestate on June 15, 2011 at Lagonglong, Mis. Or. And LUCRECIO BANAAG who died intestate on July 25, 1991 at Lagonglong, Mis. Or., of a parcel of land with Original Certificate of Title No. P-5330, situated in Cabebehan, Taboc, Lagonglong, Misamis Oriental, containing an area of TWENTY THOUSAND AND THIRTY (20,030) SQUARE METERS, and has been the subject of an DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL PARTITION WITH SALE OF PORTION OF LAND, that for and in consideration of the amount of TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND PESOS (P200,000.00) Philippine Currency, paid to herein PARTITIONERS, VENDORS by the herein VENDEE and the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged and confessed, do by these presents, SELL, CEDE, TRANSFER and CONVEY absolutely unto the said VENDEE, her heirs successors and assigns the portion of parcel of land above-described including all the improvements existing thereon which PORTION containing an area of NINE HUNDRED NINETY EIGHT (998) square meters, more or less, filed by the heirs of Sps. EXEQUILA A. BANAAG and LUCRECIO BANAAG, in favor of SPS. BENJAMIN B. CUBERO and ANIOLINA C. CUBERO, per DOC #499; PAGE #100; BOOK #XLVII; Series of 2018 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. TEOFREDO C. ROJAS.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

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EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF INTESTATE ESTATE OF THE LATE SPOUSES FERNANDO V. TEVES AND NILDA C. TEVES WITH ABSOLUTE SALE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the late FERNANDO V. TEVES who died intestate on August 5, 1992 at Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental and NILDA C. TEVES who died on December 4, 1994 at Cagayan de Oro City, without leaving any debts nor obligations, during their lifetime, the decedents were the lawful and registered owners of a parcel of land with Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-41542 situated in the District of Canitoan, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY SEVEN (377) SQUARE METERS, more or less, and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF INTESTATE ESTATE OF THE LATE SPOUSES FERNANDO V. TEVES AND NILDA C. TEVES WITH ABSOLUTE SALE, filed by the heirs of FERNANDO V. TEVES and NILDA C. TEVES, in favor of MARIA ANA C. CASINO & ERNESTO L. CASINO, per DOC #389; PAGE #78; BOOK #57; Series of 2021 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. PERSEVERANDO L. ARAÑA, JR. BWM: Nov. 12, 19 & 26, 2021

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That the late ISABEL P. CABALLERO who died on June 9, 2012 at Cagayan de Oro City, the deceased at the time of his death left a certain parcel of land with Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-58460 situated in the Barrio of Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED EIGHTEEN (218), square meters, more or less, that We, the HEIRS OF ISABEL P. CABALLERO, have agreed and covenanted to CEDE, TRANSFER and CONVEY unto the HEIR-WAIVEE RYAN T. CABALLERO, who is our first cousin, the ownership and possession of a ONE HUNDRED NINE (109) square meter portion of the abovedescribed property denominated as Lot 2-A as his share in the estate of the decedent. NOW THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the forgoing premises, we hereby waive and renounce, as by these presents, hereby WAIVE AND RENOUNCE our share, right and participation over Lot 2-A to and in favor of RYAN T. CABALLERO and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF THE ESTATE WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS & DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE, filed by the heirs of ISABEL P. CABALLERO, per DOC #278; PAGE #56; BOOK #XIX; Series of 2020 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. ROLAND E. COLLADO.

ERRATUM In connection with the publication of EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF THE DECEASED AIDA H. HOYOHOY WITH ABSOLUTE SALE, late AIDA H. HOYOHOY, published December 4, 11 & 18, 2020 the correct should be Transfer Certificate of Title No. 27587, not as published.

OUR APOLOGY BWM: November 26, 2021

ERRATUM In connection with the publication of EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE AMONG HEIRS, late VENUS OBSIOMA ZAMBAS, published November 10, 17 & 24, 2020 the correct should be Transfer Certificate of Title No.T-28993 containing an area of 5,071 square meters & Transfer Certificate of Title No.T-9245 containing an area of 5,047 square meters, not as published.

OUR APOLOGY BWM: November 26, 2021

Republic of the Philippines Province of Misamis Oriental Municipality of Initao -o0oNOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

November 15, 2021 CCE-0034-2021 R.A 10172

In compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that RAZEL B. ACAIN has filed with this Office, a petition for change of first name from “ “ to “ “ and correction of entry in sex from “FEMALE” to ”MALE” or correction of entry in the date of birth from “ “ to “ “ in the certificate of live birth of RACELL B. ACAIN at Initao, Misamis Oriental, and whose parents are RODOLFO ACAIN and DIONESIA BONALOS.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than December 3, 2021.

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(SGD) ISAIAS A. JARALES Municipality Civil Registrar

trying to implement largescale initiatives require rethinking professional learning, curriculum and instructional materials, family engagement activities, assessment and other aspects of the education system, collaboration is particularly important.

Internal Collaboration.

When Covid 19 shocked the whole world in 2020 – a call of action needs to be done by school administrators.

Leadership had been challenged. School leaders have been called upon to lead through times of ambiguity.

How can we lead when we are even uncertain ourselves?

One of the ingredients is

i nte r n a l c ol l ab or at i on .

C oncer te d relat ionship should exist between teachers and administrators. This p ar t n e r s h ip s h ou l d b e institutionalize and should already be a school culture wherein the school head whole-heartedly accepts and notes the suggestions and best practices of her teacher in the shifting of paradigm and rethinking of professional development.

External Collaboration.

We go beyond borders – acknowledging that the school cannot stand on its own because we need external stakeholders to help

us. On the crafting of the Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan, partnership with stakeholders plays an important ingredient in making education happen in this trying time. Parent engagement has been very vital especially in the distance learning that substituted the face-to-face mode of learning. At first, there w e re a dju s t m e nt s t h at were not fully understood by p arents. Ever yt hing has been new to them; from facilitating teaching in their own households to taming the emotional challenges that their children

are undergoing. But with proper guidance and constant communication – parents have slowly embraced the new normal partnership.

I acknowledge in this article not only how we survive and thrive in this new normal setting – but more importantly how the stakeholders both internal and external helped us in doing so. With this set-up, everything is shared; shared leadership, shared vision, shared planning, shared decision-making and shared responsibility that is built on respect, commitment and trust.

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE OF DECEASED PERSON KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

That the late BENITO LABIANO SR. died on June 2, 1948, MARIA L. RAAGAS, died on March 10, 1980, AGRIPINA LLAMIS LABIANO, died on May 27, 1982, and died single, no issue and no children, ROSARIO LABIANO LAGO, died on April 17, 1984, EPIFANIO LABIANO, died on June 3, 1979, died single, no issue and children and BENITO LLAMIS LABINAO, died on October 6, 1962, all in Cagayan de Oro City, died intestate leaving two (2) parcels of land with Parcel 1-OCT No. RO-577 situated in the Barrio of Bayabas, Municipality of Cagayan, containing an area of FIVE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY NINE (5,859) Square Meters, more or less, OCT No. 7479 situated in the Barrio of Bayabas, Municipality of Cagayan, containing an area of THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY EIGHT (3,458) SQUARE METERS, more or less, and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE OF DECEASED PERSON, filed by the heirs of BENITO LABIANO SR., MARIA L. RAAGAS, AGRIPINA LLAMIS LABIANO, ROSARIO LABIANO LAGO, EPIFANIO LABIANO, BENITO LLAMIS LABINAO, per DOC #268; PAGE #54; BOOK #36; Series of 2021 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. ROWELL B. VALLEDOR. BWM: Nov. 19, 26 & Dec. 3, 2021

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH DEED OF SALE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the late SANCHO P. NAMOCATCAT, Sr., died intestate at Danatag, Baungon, Bukidnon on August 8, 2011, leaving a parcel of land with OCT No. E-18280 situated at Imbatug, Baungon, Bukidnon, containing an area of 199 square meters, and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH DEED OF SALE, filed by the heirs of SANCHO P. NAMOCATCAT, Sr., in favor of MARY N. FLORES, per DOC #313; PAGE #63; BOOK #39; Series of 2021 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. REYNALDO A. VITORILLO. BWM: Nov. 19, 26 & Dec. 3, 2021

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value purchases, which the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) said was a violation of Republic Act 9184 or the Government Procurement Reform Act. Facing the charges with Moreno are former PBAC members Rolando Pacuribot and Cancio Nicanor Guibone.

Moreno and Pacuribot have been charged with 16 counts of violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act and falsification of public documents, as provided under the Revised Penal Code.

Guibone, meanwhile, was Moreno’s co-accused in one of the anti-graft cases.

EXTRA-JUDICIAL PARTITION AMONG HEIRS KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the late MILLARDO M. SUYO and GRETA B. SUYO, that on June 09, 1997 at Naawan, Misamis Oriental, and on January 02, 2004 at Cagayan de Oro City, died intestate respectively without leaving a Will that the decedents at the time of death, left certain real properties with Property No. 1 with Original Certificate of Title No. P-15551 situated Lubilan, Naawan, Misamis Oriental, containing an area of SIXTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED THIRTY TWO (16,632) square meters, more or less, Property No. 2 Original Certificate of Title No. P-12949 situated at Poblacion, Naawan, Misamis Oriental, containing an area of NINE HUNDRED FIFTY NINE (959) square meters, more or less, Property No. 3 Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-9383 situated at Poblacion, Naawan, Misamis Oriental, containing an area of FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY FOUR (524) square meters, more or less, Property No. 4 Tax Declaration Certificate No. 22-0007-00084 situated at mat-I, Naawan, Misamis Oriental, containing an area of SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED (7,500) square meters, more or less, Property No. 5 Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-8508 situated at Barrio Mat-I Naawan Misamis Oriental, containing an area of SEVENTEEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FIFTY FIVE (17,355) square meters, more or less, and has been the subject of EXTRA-JUDICIAL PARTITION AMONG HEIRS, filed by the heirs of MILLARDO M. SUYO and GRETA B. SUYO, per DOC #142; PAGE #29; BOOK #18; Series of 2021 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. AL PONCIANO R. DATU. BWM: Nov. 26, Dec. 3 & 10, 2021

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

That the late SILVERIO BAGARES MACARANDAN AND NAGELA FABRIA LABIS who died respectively on November 10, 1981 and October 29, 1989 decedents are the owner in fee simple of a parcel land with Decree of Registration No. 740267 situated in the Barrio of Molugan, Municipality of Cagayan, containing an area of THIRTY TWO THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY (32,450) square meters, more or less, and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS, for and in consideration of the engagement of the parties of the legal services of ATTY. FRANCO P. ESPINO, the parties hereto have hereunto voluntarily, consciously and absolutely waive their rights and interest over the Five Thousand (5,000) square meters, portion of Lot 10294 unto and in favor of ATTY. FRANCO P. ESPINO, who legal age, Filipino, married and a resident of La Miranda Crest, Gran Europa, Lumbia, Cagayan de Oro City, his heirs, successors and assigns, filed by the heirs of SILVERIO BAGARES MACARANDAN AND NAGELA FABRIA LABIS, per DOC #113; PAGE #23; BOOK #XXXVII; Series of 2021 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. CONCHITO J. OCLARIT. BWM: Nov. 26, Dec. 3 & 10, 2021

The anti-graft court’s 2nd Division issued a resolution denying Moreno’s motion to file a demurrer to evidence on Monday.

A demurrer to evidence is a motion to dismiss on the ground of insufficiency of evidence.

According to the Sandiganbayan, it is a remedy available to the defendant, to the effect that the evidence produced by the plaintiff is insufficient in point of law, whether true or not, to make a case or sustain an issue.

'Not unexpected' Meanwhile, Moreno’s legal team said the mayor and his co-defendants are ready to present evidence to prove their innocence on the cases in the Sandiganbayan. “ This recent turn of events is not unexpected.

It is a foreseeable outcome of regular and ordinar y judicial proceedings, which concomitantly comes with a plethora of opportunities for different courses of legal action,” said lawyer Dale Bryan Mordeno, the mayor’s head legal counsel.

Mo r d e n o s a i d t h e y received the resolution of the 2nd Division of the Sandiganbayan, dated Nov. 22, 2021, on criminal case nos. SB-18-CRM-0114, 01340136, 0137, 0142, 0151, 0229, 0274, 0388, 0395, 0405, 049697, and 0145-50.

“Ultimately, with the denial of our ‘Motion for Leave of Court to file a Demurrer to Evidence’, the time for us to present our evidence becomes certain.

And when we do, the truth remains to be the strongest arsenal in our favor,” he said.

He added it would just be a matter of time for the anti-graft court to dismiss the criminal cases against Moreno and key officials of the Capitol when he was still governor.

Mordeno said the facts and circumstances of the cases are the same as the administrative cases that were already overturned by the CA in July 2019.

"We remain poised to exhaust all the legal remedies that are available for us to utilize," he said. “The OMB even failed to prove guilt based on a lighter requirement of proof, which is substantial evidence in the administrative aspect of this legal action, how much more for the criminal cases, which would require evidence of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”

The CA, in a 33-page

decision signed by Associate Justices Victoria Isabel Paredes, Marlene Gonzales Sison, and Maria Elisa Sempio Diy, dismissed all the administrative cases related to the equipment rentals, saying the Ombudsman failed “to show convincing proof that Oscar Moreno, when he was governor of Misamis Oriental, did wrong in approving the rental of heavy equipment for road repairs.”

The court further chided the Ombudsman after it “acted with grave abuse of discretion in relying only on the audit findings as if the findings were conclusive.”

The CA added that the Ombudsman should have conducted its investigation.

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to the country’s food security with less dependence on imports.

"Let us bring back the liveliness of our farmers so that we can give back to the country instead of importing from other foreign countries," he said in the vernacular.

To m a r o m p o n g s a i d he appreciated the efforts made by the NIA's local m a n a g e m e nt o f f i c e t o super vise the irrigation projects in their area all year round.

Aiding the economy by boosting agricultural production throughout the region, the NIA-10 (Norther Mindanao) turned over 51 projects to three irrigation management offices (IMOs) with the PHP1.8 billion project allocation.

A breakdown of the total allocation included the Bukidnon IMO with a total of PHP1.4 billion for its 29 projects; Lanao del Norte-Misamis OccidentalMisamis Oriental-Camiguin ( L A M IS C A ) IMO w it h PHP326 million for its 19 projects; and Lanao del Sur IMO for three projects with a PHP54 million project allocation.

Abdullah Abdulkahar, President Tongantongan Farmers Association in Madalum, Lanao del Sur, said the irrigation projects were a great help especially in their locality where his fellow farmers had problems with water supply every planting season.

He also said the NIA provided additional training and seminar to the organization's members which were able to provide up d ate d te ch n i qu e s i n

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Cleto Mediante, president of Kalabugao Farmers in Impasugong, Bukidnon, also said the projects could alleviate poverty and hunger.

He said the irrigation project in their community is also part of the development program by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict.

Meanwhile, NIA Deputy Administrator for Engineering and Operations Czar Sulaik stressed the need to speed up the projects to boost production and ensure food security in the region.

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Farming...

from page 1 But what had long been considered good fertilizer is no longer enough these days.

The next day, Santos was scheduled to go to a vegetable trader in Cagayan de Oro City to get a loan not only for him to buy seeds, but chemical fertilizers as well for his carrots to grow well.

“It would have been less expensive to plant carrots had the soil been richer.

In the past, we did not use fertilizer,” said the Talaandig who has been farming since his youth.

At least he could save on labor since for the Santoses, farming is a family affair – his wife and three children help till the field.

Ryan Danio, chief of the Miarayon Lapok Lirongan Tinaytayan Talaandig Tribal Association (MILALITTRA), said the entire 8,000-hectare land of the Miarayon area is covered by the Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title ( C A DT ) i ssu e d to t h e Talaandig tribe in 2003.

“After 18 years, it is only now that we are enforcing our tribal laws,” he said during the 18th anniversary celebration of the issuance of the CADT last Oct. 29.

D anio s aid pr ior to that, lowlanders, traders and corporations were able to purchase land in their ancestral domain.

The Talaandig tribe is one of the seven ethnic tribes of Bukidnon province. They are mostly found living and farming between two of Mindanao’s highest mountains, Mt. Ka latungan and Mt. Kitanglad, particularly in the municipalities of Talakag and Lantapan. They are the people

of the slopes (or “andig” in the vernacular).

The ancestral domain of MILALIT TRA covers five barangays of Talakag town, considered Northern Mindanao’s major vegetable production area.

Talaandig farmers grow p ot ato e s , c au l i f l owe rs , carrots, broccoli, Chinese pechay and other vegetables in the rolling slopes.

Danio said Talaandig farmers also grow Arabica coffee. Miarayon coffee, he noted, is considered one of the country’s best.

“S a d l y, t r a d e r s a n d lowlanders are encroaching on our land. We want to stop them,” he said.

Carlota Madriaga, regional technical director of the Department of Agriculture (DA), said she remembered t h at M i a r ay on w a s s o inaccessible back then such that agriculture technicians took a day hiking going there from the nearest accessible road.

“We hiked up and down the mountains on trails and crossed several rivers before we can reach Miarayon,” she said.

Madriaga said the land was so rich during the 1980s that farmers always enjoyed bountiful harvests without the use of fertilizers and other chemicals.

But deforestation and overuse of the land for agriculture, coupled with the use of chemicals, have affected the soil’s fertility, she pointed out.

Danio said Talaandig farmers, as well as those from the lowlands and even Igorot farmers from the Cordillera in Luzon who migrated to the area 20 or so years ago, have farmed Miarayon’s fields to exhaustion.

“Farmers are now using fertilizers and chemicals even those we consider as very dangerous. They are now heavily dependent on them,” noted Madriaga.

She s ai d t he DA i s monitoring the chemical and fertilizer content of vegetables produced in Miarayon.

Dharvy Jumanoy, the Talaandig Indigenous People Mandatory Representative, said that harvests from the fields of Miarayon have decreased in the past years.

“A corn farmer used to harvest 50 sacks from a halfhectare lot. Now he would be lucky if he gets 20 sacks if he

does not use fertilizers and chemicals,” Jumanoy said.

To help the farmers these days, Madriaga said the DA provided communal irrigation systems and a lowinterest financing scheme for the farmers to avail.

She said they also constructed a vegetable terminal in Barangay Miarayon for the convenience of the farmers.

A study conducted by the Xavier University College of Agriculture in 2015 said that 1,648 hectares in Miarayon need to be reforested to bring back the richness of the land and improve the biodiversity.

The study further noted the slopes in Miarayon, if reforested, are important in preventing flood waters from rushing to communities downstream.

On December 16, 2011, floodwaters triggered by tropical storm “Sendong” rolled down from the slopes of Miarayon to Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, killing over a thousand people and destroyed almost P2 billion in infrastructure, agriculture and school buildings, according to a report by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management C ou n c i l s ai d. ( Froi l an Gallardo / MindaNews, with support from Internews’ Earth Journalism Network and Photojournalists’ Center of the Philippines)

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The city, with 202 active Covid-19 cases as of Monday, is under Alert Level 2 until November 30.

It aims to vaccinate 518,518 or 70 percent of its population.

As of November 15, a total of 274,719 are fully vaccinated, or 52.98 percent of the city's goal. (PNA)

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PPA retains Green Port Award for its CDO port, remains critical on achieving a sustainable port operation

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he Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) received another Green Port Award for its Cagayan de Oro Port, a testament that the agency remains critical on achieving sustainable port operations.

PPA said the award was a culmination of group efforts in its CDO Port, under the Port Management Office of Misamis Oriental/Cagayan de Oro, to maintain an efficient operating processes while maintaining a highlevel of balance with the environment.

The Cagayan De Oro port is dubbed as the Global Gateway to Mindanao for its strategic location at the Northern Coast of Mindanao within Macajalar Bay. The port serves as the entry and exit point of passengers and goods to and from the adjacent urban cities and provinces and other parts of the Philippine archipelago.

It also links conveyances to countries such as Vietnam,

China, Australia and the United States, among others.

In a letter sent to PPA by the APEC Port Services Network signed by its Secretary General Jia Dashan dated 11 October 2021, it was stressed that the CDO port has satisfactorily complied with the scorecard laid out by experts in its Green Port Award System or GPAS. “The GPAS Evaluation Committee has reviewed and evaluated all the applications for GPAS 2021 and scored each applicant according to its compliance to the various indicators,” Dashan explained in the letter.

“The score of your application has reached the criteria of GPAS, and I am very pleased and honored to advise you that the Port of Cagayan de Oro is again awarded the GPAS 2021,” Dashan revealed.

The recipients of this year’s GPAS Award were announced on 16 of November 2021 during the APEC Smart

Port Development Forum in Qingdao, China through virtual process which was attended by PPA officials and Port Managers, among other invited delegates from international organizations and other stakeholders in the Asia-Pacific region. The CDO Port is conferred with GPAS Certificate and Badge.

The GPAS program, meanwhile, is a green evaluation system for ports in the APEC region. The program is intended to improve environmental awareness as well as increase the understanding of green port development strategy, with the aim of achieving a balance between economic development and environmental protection in the APEC ports community; promote the sustainable development of ports in the APEC region and protect the port environment for the benefit of the entire APEC community; contribute to the harmonization of

regulations and improve the interoperability of green port systems in the APEC region; establish an APEC green port performance benchmark based on this program, share best practices and encourage mutual assistance among APEC ports.

PPA General Manager Jay Daniel R. Santiago is both honored and happy upon learning of the award stating that the additional environmental protection measures will be implemented in the future in order to achieve its commitment of reducing the carbon footprint in its port operations.

“PPA is committed heavily in the adoption of measures to fully protect the environment and reduce the carbon footprint of ports in the continuing fight against Climate Change,” Santiago said.

“This award is a big boost to PPA particularly now that we are in the midst of

preparing and developing the PPA Port Environmental Code, which will define the priorities of the PPA in terms of environmental protection.,” Santiago explained.

Aside from the CDO Port—a multiple GPAS awardee, Batangas Port was also given the same recognition a couple of years ago. The two ports also maintain an the Integrated Management System fusing in three international standards, namely: ISO 9001:2015 for Quality Management System, ISO 14001:2015 for Environmental Management System, and BS OHSAS 18001:2007 for Occupational Health and Safety Management, to further solidify its quality, safety, health and environmental policies, and commitment for the protection of the environment, provision of safe and healthy working conditions and improved quality of port operations and services.

Public School Leaders: A Call for Resilience in Challenging Times JACKELINE L. OCON, HEAD TEACHER IV

Leaders are like light in the p at hw ay s du r i ng d ar k n e s s .

However, in the time of pandemic, many school leaders if not all were challenged to shine brightest because of the uncertainties that they are facing. Leading through uncertainty can be daunting - there are no easy solutions, and often no clear paths to follow. How do we lead when we can’t predict what’s going to happen next? Uncertainty requires leaders to adapt quickly to a rapidly changing situation, and to draw on different skills and types of leadership. When faced with uncertainty, school leaders

need to deal with the immediate, while remaining focused on the future, to achieve the best possible teaching and learning environment, and outcomes for students.

According to Kerrissey and Edmonson (2020) some activities differentiate effective leaders from the rest of the crowd when faced with adversity. What is required is a proactive, inclusive and transparent approach that does not downplay information or delay a response.

In challenging times, Lenhoff et.

Al (2019) suggested a framework that may be useful. The 3Ts: Triage, Transition and Transform can be

used to reflect on a crises situation, both during and after the event.

Triage refers to an initial sorting process on the basis of urgency.

The task in the immediate onset of a crisis is to separate the now from the later. At this stage, adrenaline is high; there are plenty of practical things to take care of. In this stage the school head seeks collaboration and help from other stakeholders.

Next, the phase of transition is about adopting new ways of working and being, be it for a short time or a more extended period. After immediate responses to dangers or threats have been

done, communities are often adjusting to new approaches.

For example, in the context of the current pandemic, this phase has involved a combination of remote learning and a transition back to socially distanced classrooms.

Lastly, Transform. Rebuilding school communities after major disruption and trauma requires a rethinking of social capital, resilience, of space, individuals’ roles and their contributions (Nye, 2016). In this phase, schools have a chance to refocus, reenergise and try new ideas. This involves learning and growing

from the experience, and possibly experimenting with a new vision, values and culture.

And of course, school heads should learn to take care of themselves. There is a reason why the crew on a plane will ask you to fit your own mask before attending to others. To take care of others, it’s important to expend energy inwards as well. Engaging in practices that give you energy, lower your stress and contribute to your wellbeing is crucial to taking care of yourself thus being able to take care of others as a school head.

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URC's presence abroad makes it a proud Philippine multinational

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NIVERSAL Robina Corp. (URC) has proven itself as a true multinational company, with consumer products that are now mainstays in millions of shelves across the globe.

Among the company’s market leaders abroad are its Fun-O biscuits and Tivoli wafers in Thailand. Its C2 ready-to-drink brewed tea also remains a top seller in Vietnam.

“We have the passion for producing great products and great global brands,” said Irwin Lee, URC’s president and CEO. URC attributes its strong performance in markets abroad to distribution networks anchored on their strong ties with their retailers.

In Thailand, for instance, its subsidiaries directly service 7-Eleven outlets, as well as supermarkets operated by Makro, Tesco Lotus and Big C, apart from having wholesalers and roving sales staff.

All its products, meanwhile, meet the highest standards wherever they are sold, with facilities that are ISO- and HACCP-certified.

Raw materials are rigorously tested. Only suppliers and distributors with proven track records in quality and efficiency are used.

URC has been venturing into markets abroad since the early ‘70s when it entered Hong Kong. In the 1980s, it put up its first overseas factory in Malaysia. In the same decade, the company entered Singapore, where it now offers popular Filipino snacks such as Potato Chips, Roller Coaster, Dewberry, Cream O and Magic.

The company set foot in Thailand in 1992. It has since set up six production plants and research facilities there to sell biscuits, wafers,

candies and snacks, both domestically and for export.

This was followed by Indonesia in 2002, where it now has two factories and over 700 employees.

URC began its operations in Vietnam in 2004 and introduced C2 in 2006.

URC Vietnam now runs five manufacturing facilities with over 1,500 employees producing Dynamite candies and Cream-O cookies, among others.

URC set up operations in Myanmar in 2015, where it produces and sells cookies, crackers and wafers under the Fun O and Magic brands.

URC is also present in China, where it sells cereals, oats, chips and coffee under the Aces brand. In Hong Kong, it offers snacks, chips, chocolate bars, cookies, coffee, biscuits and muesli bars.

“We capitalized on lifted trade barriers to realign capabilities and manufacture products where economies exist,” said Lee. Lee added that once operations in markets abroad began, URC quickly managed to achieve synergies and make better use of the assets it acquired.

The company then worked on ensuring use of only quality materials at low cost via strategic regional procurement.

URC’s products have been exported across the globe, with Piattos, Chippy, Roller Coaster, Mang Juan, C2, Great Taste and Magic faring well in the Americas, the European Union, and the Middle East.

That has been in large part due to the large presence of overseas Filipinos in these regions.

The company’s reach even extends to Mongolia, East Africa and the Pacific Islands.

Lee said the past year had been challenging because of

Improving the reading comprehension of Grade 5 learners through video lesson

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AS the pandemic continues bringing change to K-12 through the school year, teachers are being more selective about the technology they choose for instructing and engaging students. While hundreds of education companies made their software and services free during the immediate switch to remote learning, many have become more thoughtful about how they help educators master online and blended instruction.

Viewing video clips in prereading appears to be a useful way to help students prepare for learning by providing audio-visual images of different topics. The present study investigated the effects of watching videos during

a pre-reading state on the reading comprehension of students.

As video projectors and smart boards are available in some schools, teachers are encouraged to utilize them in their teaching to be more effective in instructing their students by providing audio-visua l mater ia ls.

Once, films and videos were considered unimportant and time-consuming in the classroom and were just used for entertainment.

It is evident that modern technology had almost no place in education settings in the past. At the same time, English teachers in high schools have generally had difficulties engaging students in reading activities.

the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Everyone across the globe has been affected.

Naturally, our markets abroad also went through difficult times, as various forms of quarantine restrictions were put in place.”

Lee added, “but we’re happy to report that we’ve managed to adjust and cope with this new normal. We’ve minimized both disruptions to our operations and the impact the restrictions and the ensuing downturn have had on our workforce.”

Lee said URC remains focused on maintaining product quality, even as it ensures ample supply for its customers, wherever they may be.

Pinoy classics like Great Taste, C2 and Jack ‘n Jill snacks are some of the many products that URC exports to other countries.

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#KayaNgBata: Adolescents showcase projects on HIV and AIDS Awareness in Young Heroes Initiative - High Five Grand Finals

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FTER a year with the Top 6 National Finalists, Young Heroes Initiative-High Five (YHI-HF) will showcase the implemented projects of the six adolescent-led teams for HIV and AIDS awareness, prevention, and control in the upcoming Grand Finals, Live Shows, and Awarding Ceremony, November 30 and December 31.

YHI-HF started as a social innovation hackathon that utilizes the talents and creativity of children aged 10-17 in providing solutions for issues surrounding HIV and AIDS in the country.

From 32 initial creative outputs from teams across the country, six teams were granted seed money of Php 100,000 each to implement their envisioned projects, and to date, have engaged 2,692 people directly and reached more than two

million young people in the Philippines.

To detail their progress, and how they have made difference in their respective communities, the six teams will present their projects to a panel of judges via Zoom on November 30, which fittingly caps off the National Children’s Month Celebration 2021.

Moreover, in time for World AIDS Day, the Live Shows, where the kids will be directly interacting with a virtual audience to introduce their projects, will be streamed live on December 1, 1:00 PM -4:00 PM via Positive Youth Development Network’s (PYDN) Official Facebook page: https://www.facebook. com/PYDNOfficial. The Awarding will also be streamed on this page on the same date, from 6:00 PM 8:00 PM. This program is presented

by the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC), UNICEF in partnership with ING, and UNAIDS, and is organized by PYDN. “YHI-HF is not just about children addressing HIV and AIDS. At the heart of this program is the promotion of effective adolescent participation which is one of the basic rights of children in the country. YHI-HF shows that kaya ng bata, and with adults supporting them and promoting their engagement in relevant national issues, they can do more,” said Alfred Dicto, Executive Director of PYDN. Prior to the final project presentation, final community visits were conducted to understand deeper the scope of each project and the teams’ impact. Details about the community visits can be found via the PYDN Official Facebook page.