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Rice sufficient AGRICULTURE Secretary William D. Dar said the rice inventory is sufficient until the end of the year despite widespread crop damage caused by consecutive typhoons.

In a television interview Thursday, Mr. Dar said at the end of the year, the rice inventory will be good for 82 days’ demand despite the damage sustained by the agriculture sector.

“The current supply will bring us another 82 days’ worth of rice (starting) January 2021. After that, we will have new production that can be harvested by late March and April,” Mr. Dar said in an interview on ANC.

Non-tarrif measures THE Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), which the Philippines is part of, has signed a new document that will address non-tariff measures in trading coronavirus-related products within the region.

In a statement Thursday, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez said economic ministers of Asean signed the memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the Implementation of non-tariff measures (NTM) on essential goods at the sidelines of the 19th Asean Economic Community Council Meeting last Nov. 10.

Under the MOU, Asean member states were urged to refrain from “introducing or maintaining trade restrictive measures on essential goods”.

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ESPITE the worldwide onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic, SM Prime Holdings, Inc. continued its expansion binge opening a new mall in Zamboanga City, a week after it launched SM Butuan City.

RELIEFS FOR ULYSSES VICTIMS. Veteran photojournalist Froilan Gallardo (right) gives his send off message for the donations intended for the victims of Typhoon Ulysses in Cagayan Valley initiated by the Phil. Army's 4th Infantry Division at the Lumbia airfield in Barangay Lumbia, Cagayan de Oro on yesterday. From his right is Gingoog City Mayor Erick Canosa, Mis. Or. 1st District Rep. Christian Unabia, and 4ID Assistant Division Commander Col. Michele Anayron Jr. photo by gerry lee gorit

In a statement on We dnes d ay, t he Sy-le d property developer said it is opening SM City Mindpro at the end of this week — its first mall in Zamboanga City and seventh mall in Mindanao.

The building will have nearly 38,000 square meters of gross floor area, where more than 90% of the space-lease has already been awarded to tenants.

“The opening of SM City Mindpro in Zamboanga is a testament to the flourishing e c onom i c a c t iv it i e s i n Mindanao boosting the confidence of SM Prime to continue its expansion plans

in the region,” SM Prime President Jeffrey C. Lim said in the statement. “ We a r e d e l i g h t e d to welcome our fel low Zamboangueños to this newest SM mall, and assure every one of safety protocols implemented in accordance to government guidelines.”

Unlike the lockdown in Metro Manila — where most of SM Prime’s existing mall footprint is located — Zamboanga City has been under a “modified general community quarantine” since mid-August. This is the most relaxed form of lockdown by EXPANDS/PAGE 10

Agusan oil palm farmworkers to receive their land titles

By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN, MindaNews

SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur– After 32 years, thousands of oil palm plantation farmworkers

of a multinational company turned agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) OIL/PAGE 10

3 N. Mindanao schools join QS world ranking in Asia CAGAYAN de Oro City – Three universities in the Northern Mindanao region made it to the Quacquarelli

Symonds (QS) World University Rankings in Asia this year, joining RANKING/PAGE 9

Oil palm workers in Agusan del Sur.

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NorMin fosters women, children protection amid contagion CAGAYAN DE ORO-Ensuring women and children's protection amid the coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 contagion, the regional committees on ending violence against women, juvenile justice and children's welfare bared various activities during the Talakayan sa PIA, November 25.

With the theme, "Kabataan, kababayenhan protektado ka sa panahon sa pandemya," Talakayan sa PIA underscored online activities of the Regional Inter-Agency Committee Against Trafficking, Child Pornography, Violence against Women and their Children (RIACAT-CPVAWC), Regional Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council (RJJWC), and Regional Committee for the Welfare of Children (RCWC) in northern Mindanao that also targets to uphold the rights of women and children.

VAW initiatives amid the new normal In observance of the 18-Day Campaign to End VAW, RIACAT-CPVAWC rallies with the government’s goal of protecting the human rights of women and girls by ratifying its commitment to answer all forms of gender-based violence in the region and promote awareness, information, and services on VAW prevention and response.

"To empower our women, our committee is conducting advocacy campaigns especially to the victims, as we work hand in hand with other government agencies and LGUs," Marylou L. Aniñon, lead secretariat of RIACAT-CP-VAWC-10 said, emphasizing the importance of the 18-day campaign and showing visibility.

Further, as the

COVID-19 pandemic limits physical interaction and mass gatherings due to health safety protocols, the committee focuses on augmenting its barangay VAW desks.

Such targets to bolstering local support mechanisms like providing local barangay officials the required competencies, and boosting information dissemination using triFOSTERS/PAGE 11

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The regional committees on ending violence against women, juvenile justice and children's welfare bare various activities during the Talakayan sa PIA, November 25 to uphold women and children's right amid the contagion. (PIA10)

NorMin sends off donations for flood victims in Cagayan Valley CAGAYAN de Oro City – Groups and individuals in Northern Mindanao have started sending their first batch of goods and items for the flood victims of Typhoon Ulysses in the Cagayan Valley and Isabela provinces.

On Thursday, a batch of relief goods and items would be loaded via C-295 aircraft at the Philippine Air Force Tactical

Operations Group-10, with the assistance of the Army's 4th Infantry Division.

Maj. Rodulfo Cordero, 4ID's public affairs chief, said that agencies and organizations involved in this donation drive would like to seek support for

transparency and for the people to know that their donations will be delivered to intended beneficiaries.

Cordero said the 4ID was able to raise 740 sacks and boxes of assorted clothes; 422 blankets and towels; 283 boxes of canned and assorted

goods; 38 sacks of rice; 500 pieces of water jars; 61 bags and boxes of personal hygiene kits and face masks; and 1,351 assorted kitchenware and cleaning aids.

He added the relief goods came from local DONATIONS/PAGE 11

DSWD releases P86-M fund for Covid-19 response in Caraga BUTUAN City– The Department of Social Welfare and Development in Caraga Region (DSWD13) has released some P86.8 million through the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KalahiCIDSS) program for the coronavirus disease 2019

(Covid-19) response in the area.

Ester V. Villamor, the deputy program manager of KalahiCIDSS in Caraga, said the program has been serving as a disaster response mechanism for struggling communities.

“Kalahi-CIDSS, in accordance to

Proclamation No. 929, has activated the Disaster Response Operation Procedure (DROP) in the areas covered by the program, particularly in areas where the National Community Driven Development Projects (NCDD) are implemented,” Villamor FUND/PAGE 10

DepEd payroll processing

By JACKELOU CORONEL FACTURA Administrative Assistant III Kauswagan Central School

Called An Act Providing for the Regionalization of the Department of

BALINGASAG, MISAMIS ORIENTAL National Highway Balingasag, Barangay 4, Balingasag, Misamis Oriental Mobile Number/s: 0933-823-3161, 0933-823-3304 Tel. Number: 333-5161 CAGAYAN DE ORO P&J Lim Building, Tiano Kalambagohan St., Barangay 14, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Tel No. (08822) 727-829 / 231-6629 Telefax No. (088) 856-1947 Mobile No. 0933-823-3303 / 0943-708-7065 CAGAYAN DE ORO WAREHOUSE Warehouse 7, Bonbon Road, Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Mobile No. 0917-825-4149 / 0943-708-7065 CARMEN, CAGAYAN DE ORO Vamenta Blvd., fronting CEPALCO, Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Tel. No. (088) 233-2011 Mobile No. 0933-823-3159 CORRALES, CDO Corrales Ave., Barangay 29, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Telefax No. (088) 231-2055

DIVISORIA, CDO A. Velez St., Barangay 9, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Telefax No. (088) 856-1947 Mobile No. 0917-841-4000 / 0933-823-3164 GINGOOG CITY G/F Wyne Militante Bldg., Lugod St., Barangay 22, Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental Telefax No. (088) 861-0104 Mobile No. 0933-823-3168 LAPASAN, CDO National Highway (FICCO Bldg.), Lapasan, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Tel. No. (088) 231-6739 Mobile No. 0933-823-3160 PUERTO, CDO Purok 6, Puerto, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Tel. No. (088) 859-0574 Mobile No. 0943-708-7537 CAMIGUIN B. Aranas St., Poblacion, Mambajao, Camiguin Telefax No. (088) 387-0491 Mobile No. 0943-708-7539

Education (DepEd) Services Division, House Bill No. 4981 mandates the establishment of a Regional Pay ro l l S e r v i c e Un it (RPSU) in every regional DepEd of f ice including the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mind anao (ARMM).

Under the bill, the RPSU has the responsibility of processing, printing, and dist r ibut ing s a l ar y che cks of te aching and non-teaching personnel in public elementar y and secondar y schools. by decentralizing the payroll, teachers can easily follow-up on their salaries without spending so much.

The RPSU is to provide a pay slip containing information on the d ate of t he issu ance of t h e c h e c k , t ot a l s a l a r y due for a given period, itemized deductions, and the amount being released.

Furthermore, it is tasked to adopt measures to ensure that the teaching and nonteaching personnel will receive their checks not later than three days before the due date, which is at the end of each month.

The RPSU is also mandated to take necessary steps to ensure that salaryrelated complaints from teachers and non-teaching personnel are attended to within seven days.

The Budget and Finance Division provides advice to the Regional Director on the financial resources of the Region and its ut i lizat ion and provide ser vices in budgeting, accounting, payroll processing, reporting a n d c o o r d i n at i n g w i t h government oversight and fiscal agencies in order to ensure judicious expenditures ,to support and attain the Department’s vision, mission and goals.

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PAL plans court protection as pandemic hits finances P

HILIPPINE Airlines plans to seek court protection from creditors while it pursues debt restructuring with government help, the finance minister said on Wednesday, as it fights to survive a pandemic that has battered the industry globally.

Stockholders okay Cebu Air stock rights offering CEBU Air, Inc. has obtained approval from stockholders for its plan to issue convertible preferred shares and bonds, as the operator of Cebu Pacific seeks to raise $500 million (about P24.13 billion) to survive the coronavirus pandemic.

In a meeting with stockholders on Friday, the Gokongwei-led company said stockholders representing 87.36%

of its total outstanding capital stock approved its previously disclosed fundraising plans.

Specifically, the stockholders gave the go-signal to increas the company’s authorized capital stock to P1.75 billion from P1.34 billion at present, from which it will create a new class of convertible preferred shares.

These shares will be

offered for sale through a stock rights offering, which should generate about $250 million (about P12.07 billion) for the company. The underlying common shares of the convertible preferred shares will then be listed at the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE).

The stockholders also greenlit the issuance of convertible bonds, STOCKS/PAGE 10

The loss-making flag carrier, partly owned by Japan’s ANA Holdings Inc., informed the ministry of its plans last week but gave no details as to what kind of government assistance it needs, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III told reporters.

Philippine Airlines, which last month

announced a reduction of 2,700 jobs, or a third of its workforce, did not immediately respond to request for comment.

As of end-September, the listed operator of Philippine Airlines reported 198 billion pesos ($4.12 billion) in lease and long-term debts.

Net losses in January to September surged to

28.9 billion pesos, more than three times the 8.5 billion for the same period of last year.

Philippine Airlines halted operations in mid-March as the country imposed one of the world’s strictest and longest coronavirus lockdowns. It is slowly increasing operations amid pandemic travel curbs.

AC Energy readies sale of stake in Bataan and Mindanao power projects AYALA-LED AC Energy, Inc. plans to sell its investments in coal-fired power plant projects in Bataan and Lanao del Norte in line with its goal to generate more than half of its energy output from renewables by 2025.

Eric T. Francia, AC Energy president and chief executive officer, said the company had completed the transfer of all onshore Philippine assets to publicly listed subsidiary

AC Energy Philippines, Inc., or ACEN, except for these projects.

“Ang hindi lang ininfuse na Philippine assets ng AC Energy, Inc. is the GNPower plants, both Mindanao, Kauswagan; and ‘yung AA thermal, ‘yung Dinginin and tsaka Mariveles,” he told reporters in an online briefing.

(The Philippine assets of AC Energy, Inc. that were not infused are the

GNPower plants, both the one in Kauswagan, Mindanao, and those under AA Thermal, Inc.— the projects in Dinginin and Mariveles.)

GNPower Kauswagan Ltd. Co. is building a fourunit, “clean”, coal-fired power plant, each with an identical capacity of 138 megawatts (MW) or a total of 552 MW in Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte.

AC Energy has a stake POWER/PAGE 9

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Field of gold Think a minute… This is the true story of an Australian man named Jack Smythe.

During the mid-1800’s Jack worked as a carpenter until he heard about the Gold Rush in the state of Victoria, southeastern Australia. Soon Jack left the tools of his trade and set out to find his own field of gold.

He worked long and hard, searching in streams and digging holes in hillsides, yet he found nothing. Finally, he was so tired and discouraged that he gave up. But Jack was too proud and embarrassed to go home with nothing, so he picked the most remote place he could find to settle down and simply live off the land.

Yambuk, Victoria was a little abandoned town built over an old empty gold mine.

The Gold Rush was finished both for Jack and this tiny town he now called home.

Yambuk had no trees or wood, so the final shame of Jack Smythe's failure was that he, a skilled carpenter, had to build his last house out of mud.

Tragically, Jack Smythe never knew that the land on

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Improving sentiment boosts emerging East Asian bond markets amid COVID-19 Accommodative monetary stance sustained the growth of local currency bond markets in emerging East Asia, with currencies and equity markets gaining in early November.

“We saw an improvement in the global investment sentiment, but uncertainty ove r t h e t r aj e c t or y of the coronavirus disease (C OVID-19) p ande mic still weighs on the region’s economic outlook,” said ADB Chief Economist Yasuyuki Sawada. “The region’s large and growing local currency bond markets can help finance a sustainable and inclusive post-COVID-19 recovery.”

E me rg i ng E ast As i a compr is es t he Pe ople’s Republic of China (PRC); Hong Kong, China; Indonesia; the Republic of Korea; Malaysia; the Philippines; Singapore; Thailand; and

Viet Nam. Local currency bonds outstanding in emerging East Asia reached $18.7 trillion at the end of September, a 4.8% expansion from June this year and 17.4% higher than a year ago. Emerging East Asia’s bond issuance in the third quarter climbed to $2.2 trillion, up 6.4% quarteron-quarter and 39.8% yearon-year, as governments borrowed to support largescale stimulus programs.

As a share of g ross domestic product (GDP), emerging East Asia’s bond market rose to 95.6% at the end of September from 91.6% at the end of June. The rising share of bonds outstanding to GDP was mainly due to regional governments’ increased financing to combat the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Government bonds remain

the dominant contributor to the region’s bond market at $11.5 trillion at the end of September. Corporate bonds reached $7.2 trillion. The PRC is the largest local currency bond market, comprising 77.5% of emerging East Asia’s total bond stock.

COVID-19 remains the biggest downside risk to emerging East Asia’s bond market and the global outlook, particularly the possibility of new waves of positive cases and related lockdowns and other restrictions on economic activities. Ongoing trade tensions between the PRC and the United States is an additional risk.

In the latest issue of Asia Bond Monitor features four discussion boxes exploring COVID-19’s impact on global financial markets and capital flow dynamics; financial stability in Southeast

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Asia; local currency bond markets and exchange rate risks; and the duration of recoveries from economic shocks. A special section of the monitor looks at how sustainable finance can contribute to green and inclusive development in the post-COVID-19 era, and a special theme chapter discusses the link between bank efficiency and bond market development.

No to development aggressions!

Cooperativism: Empowerment of the poor and vulnerable

Pover ty amidst plenty?

Why?? No question about is as stated by Dr. Kent Carpenter, President of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (UN-FAO), “the Philippines is so rich ecologically.” Per unit area, the Philippines abounds with so much flora and fauna which are only endemic in the country.

Would you believe that in a 5,000-hectare. Mt. Kitanglad Range the number of flora and fauna is far greater in number compared to those found in one billion-hectare continent of North America?

Indeed above the ground our countr y oozes with tremendous ecological wealth in terms of bio-diversity; and beneath are minerals,

about 42 kinds – i.e., gold, silver, bronze, copper, iron, manganese, etc, that’s how rich we are. But the wealth does not end at the shorelines.

The Philippine Archipelago has been described as the “the center of the center of marine life on earth.” But who controls? Who decides?

Who benefits? Before, the colonizers were the ones who controlled. Today, the neo-colonizers!

After losing all the 17 million of dipterocarp forest and with it, the billions of life forms that are now extinct. We have lost our watersheds as some 15 of the 25 major rivers are already dried-up or polluted. We have also lost our minerals that have been the subject

of so much extraction by foreign miners. Our marine and fishery resources are now all gone. Of the 13 major bays in the country, 10 are already biologically dead, to the detriment of our coastal communities who are becoming the poorest of the poor.

Everything has been lost because of what you call “development aggressions!

Eve n t he l ands of t he Indigenous Peoples have been taken from them and have been transformed into massive plantations to satisfy the consumerist lifestyle of the people in the Northern Countries while we cannot even satisfy our basic staples like rice and milk.

Let there be no mistake

KIM'S DREAM

ORLAN R. RAVANERA on the ver y essence of cooperativism that we are now advancing otherwise we are no better than the neo-liberal capitalists whose development paradigm can be likened to the workings of an auto-immune disease syndrome (AIDS), where no less than the body’s defense COOP/PAGE 11

Online selling fuels economic activity during pandemic W H E N you go t o t h e

to online shopping. They

climbed to approximately 4.9

restaurants, and groceries, you would see ver y few people inside. Not many activities can be seen in these establishments. And since we are a country that is known to prefer doing shopping in the actual stores and prefer eating out, seeing these establishments almost empty, will give one an impression that our economy is still at a stand still. You would think that Filipinos have no money, therefore, are not buying.

But this is not actually true.

While people have stopped or limited their visits to the malls, department stores. groceries and restaurants, they continue to shop, they continue to spend. What happened was that they changed from retail shopping

to virtual space for their buying activities.

And we have the pandemic to thank for that. Prior to the pandemic, the Philippines ranked low in e-commerce compared to other Southeast Asian countries like Singapore or Malaysia. We were not as e-commerce savvy as our SE Asian counterparts. But the pandemic accelerated our shift to the online economy.

The e-commerce monitor said that among the SEA countries, the Philippines experienced the highest increase in the terms of shopping app utilization (53 percent), as well as online spending (57 percent).

Accordingly, the total number of visits to shopping applications in the Philippines

period. These visits translate to actual online spending that puts money in the pockets of our online sellers.

As more shoppers go online, more retailers/sellers have also brought their products to and strengthened their online presence.

For instance, Shopback (a cashback reward program platform) reported that from 370 partner stores in 2019, 510 partner stores from different categories. are currently on board.

The better news is that most of the new online sellers are from MSMEs. These are the store owners and sellers who were initially affected and displaced at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thankfully, they eventually

JHAN TIAFAU HURST malls, department stores, shifted from physical space billion during the lockdown which he staked his last claim was rich, fertile farmland.

This was only discovered years later after Jack was gone.

When his neighbor took over Jack's land, he decided to tear down Jack’s mud house so he could plant crops there. As the mud bricks crumbled into dust, the neighbor noticed a shiny substance in it. They were specks of gold! The clay that Jack had dug out of the old mine shaft was actually part of a huge gold deposit.

Suddenly the empty little town of Yambuk came alive again. In fact, for years it became one of the most prosperous gold-mining areas in Victoria. But it was too late for Jack Smythe. Tragically GOLD/PAGE 11

MINDFUL

JAY LEDESMA adapted and shifted to an online platform. Not only are they surviving, but they are also even thriving during the pandemic.

From face masks, cookies, pajamas, skincare, plants to insurance...name it you can find it online. Top sellers or sectors are home and garden, health and fitness, food and SELLING/PAGE 11

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SSS eyes 2nd tranche of pension increase THE Social Security System (SSS) is not closing the possibility of implementing the second half of the P2,000 pension increase, but this is being studied carefully since contributions have dropped during the pandemic, the pension fund’s top official said Wednesday.

During the public briefing program aired over PTV 4, SSS president and chief executive officer Aurora Cruz Ignacio said a lot of SSS members were not able to pay their contributions, which was attributed to job losses and movement restrictions.

“We are studying this (implementation of the second tranche of pension hike) because under the law, SSS funds should be actuarially sound before we implement it,” she said in Filipinos.

Only PHP1,000 additional increase in SSS pensions was implemented in 2019 out of the total P2,000 hike.

The estate pension fund for private workers deferred the implementation of the second half this year after weighing its impact on the agency’s actuarial life.

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Ignacio said the contribution increase they implemented last year is a “big help” in boosting SSS’ funds but the agency has to extend several benefits to its members such as calamity loans and unemployment benefit packages due to the pandemic.

“We are now managing our funds because contributions are declining. We want to cover them (pensioners) that’s why we extended the contribution payments to collect these,” she added.

Ignacio said SSS members have until Nov. 30 to pay unpaid contributions on account of the movement restrictions implemented by the government to help address the rising coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infections.

She said members who will pay before the extended contribution payment deadline will not be slapped with penalty on their dues.

“We will not also record gaps in your contribution unlike before. This time, we allowed that gap but you need to pay your contribution until Nov. 30,” she added. (PNA)

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Banks to continue digital shift in post-pandemic world

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ANKS will continue to beef up digital capabilities and rethink branch strategies as consumers are likely to keep engaging in off-thebranch transactions in a post-pandemic world, Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) President and Chief Executive Officer Cezar P. Consing said on Wednesday.

Mr. Consing said that the lockdown caused a massive shift in banking behavior among clients and “there is no going back” to old habits for some who have experienced the convenience of transacting

digitally.

“I think the baseline was about 70% of transactions [by volume] were done via ATMs (automated teller machines), online or mobile pre-COVID (coronavirus disease 2019). The moment you had the lockdown start in the middle of March, that percentage grew to over 90%,” Mr. Consing said.

Mr. Consing said they saw about 20,000 to 30,000 clients enrolling in the bank’s online banking facility during the lockdown. To date, he said more than half of BPI’s about eight to nine million

clients now have online accounts.

As restriction measures were gradually eased, offthe-branch transactions dropped to about 80%, which is “still very, very high” considering the baseline before the pandemic was at 70%, he said.

He noted that the bulk of transactions in terms of value are still being done in branches. However, the volume of branch and ATM transactions remained lower than preCOVID levels.

This became the trend as people realized the convenience of

transferring money digitally, Mr. Consing said.

“It [branch transactions] may never recover, so it raises the issue of branch network.

How do you configure the branch network?” he said.

“I don’t think there’s any real turning back…

Come the vaccine, I think it’s a combination of high tech and high touch… “phygital”, which is physical and digital.” Mr. Consing said.

He noted that most Filipinos prefer to make payments in person as they are “one of the most tactile people in the world” DIGITAL/PAGE 9

BSP denies spending for new logo THE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on Tuesday denied allegations that it spent millions for the design and development of its new logo.

In a statement, the central bank said the new logo, a gold-colored full-bodied eagle with wings spread upward, “was developed by inhouse talents who shared

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their skills in the process.

Thus, no procurement was required.”

“There is no truth to reports that it spent millions of pesos in relation to its new logo,” it added.

The statement was issued a few days after a news report said the central bank allocated about P52.5 million for

this year for its new logo.

Quoting the central bank’s final annual procurement plan for 2020, Bilyonaryo.com. ph cited the P30-million budget of the Corporate Affairs Office (CORAO) for public relations and advertising programs for BSP branding, circulars, advisories, notices and corporate ads; and the P15

million for production and replication of advertising materials for television and radio, among others.

It also cited the P7.5million budget allocated for public relations and advertising programs for the whole year.

Earlier, the central bank said the new logo will be done in phases, DENIES/PAGE 10

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THE TEACHING BY PRINCIPLES OF DOUGLAS BROWN: KEY TO BETTER ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

By JERRY G. ROBLE

All things flow; nothing abides One cannot step twice into the Same river; Into the same rivers We step and do not step; We are and we are not.

--Heraclitus--

Globe encourages rainforestation to combat adverse effects of natural hazards and climate change

THE location of the Philippines in the Pacific has always made the country vulnerable to strong typhoons. An average of 20 typhoons pass through the Philippine Area of Responsibility annually, about 8-to-9 of which make landfall.

However, over the past years, climate change has brought more violent storms to the country, causing severe damage to lives and properties.

The recent calamities brought by Typhoons Quinta, Rolly, and Ulysses in vast areas of Luzon are a clear manifestation that climate change is a very serious matter and demands the utmost sense of urgency and response.

A study shared recently

by Alcala, Cagayan town mayor Cristina Antonio, for instance, connects environmental deterioration to the severe flooding brought by Typhoon Ulysses. Among the factors that contributed to the abnormal flooding are the loss of forests along the mountains and watersheds in the whole of Cagayan Valley which naturally regulate water flow and prevent soil erosion.

While resilient infrastructure and disaster preparedness are important during severe weather conditions, nature-based solutions such as rainforestation and watershed conservation play a vital role in mitigating the adverse effects of these natural phenomena.

The Philippines continues to experience the rapid decrease of its primary rainforests from 70% forest cover in the 1990s to only less than 1.8% to date. This rate of environmental degradation contributes negatively to global climate change and local water and food shortages, affects the country's pristine natural habitats and endangers

the lives of the local communities, especially those in vulnerable lowland areas that serve as catch basins.

“Globe believes in the importance of promoting environmental sustainability in order to protect these ecosystems to combat climate change.

This is also why we encourage everyone to help in this undertaking in whatever way they can,” said Yoly Crisanto, Globe Chief Sustainability Officer and SVP for Corporate Communications.

So far, Globe and its customers have raised PhP 14.8 million equivalent to 148 hectares of reforestation sites in several areas in Bukidnon and Lanao del Sur as part of Globe’s partnership with Hineleban Foundation, Inc., a non-stock, nonprofit organization based in Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon.

Aside from enhancing critical watersheds in order to achieve water and food security, these efforts also help increase biodiversity, establish forest habitats, sequester greenhouse gases and improve livelihoods of local communities.

"Rainforestation efforts in the Philippines are of importance as they aid in protecting and enhancing critical watersheds that provide water to downstream communities.

Rainforestation has major benefits that can be observed from ridge to reef, such as the mitigation of landslides and floods, the creation of microclimates, and the protection of wildlife habitats," said James Tuason, Hineleban Foundation Head of Reforestation.

Primary rainforests play an important role in regulating oxygen and carbon cycles. Since the beginning of the partnership between Globe and Hineleban in 2016 until the end of 2019, a conservative estimate of

16,411.67 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) have been sequestered or captured by the trees planted. Hineleban estimates the total amount to reach at least 94,000 metric tons CO2 by 2025.

This is equivalent to the electricity use of 15,926 homes for one year, 20,323 passenger vehicles driven for one year, or around 12 billion smartphones charged.

Globe customers who want to be part of the rainforestation advocacy may donate their Globe Rewards points to Hineleban Foundation.

Every 100 Rewards points donation is equivalent to one tree. To donate, just download the Globe Rewards app on your mobile device and click on the “DONATE” banner.

Tap “HINELEBAN100” and press “REDEEM”.

Download the app via https://www.globe. com.ph/rewards. html#GRewardsApp. As a purpose-driven company, Globe remains committed to the 10 UN Global Compact principles and contributes to 10 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals such as UN SDG No. 13 which underscores the importance of climate action to save lives and livelihoods to address climate emergencies, and UNSDG No. 15 which promotes the protection, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems.

Globe joins over 9,600 companies demonstrating commitment to environmental transparency by disclosing through CDP, a global non-profit organization that runs the world’s leading environmental disclosure platform.

To know more about Globe’s sustainability initiatives, visit https:// www.globe.com.ph/aboutus/sustainability.html

The teaching principles pioneered by Brown would definitely serve as true basis in language teaching. There are three basic teaching principles, namely: Cognitive, Affective, and Linguistic.

As regards cognitive aspect, language teachers are expected not be hooked to teaching of the target language, English in a structural way. Although, grammatical competence is but part of the communicative dimensions, but one should consider that mastering forms alone is a futile exercise without meaning. Thus, Canale and Swain valuably substantiate the intermarriage between form/structure and meaning in the teaching of language. Once properly established, students would employ language in an automatic way without mental reservations. Thus, the students would basically experience a life-long and meaningful learning.

In addition, once such level of linguistic competence is fully satisfied, students would be driven to do things more in consonance with their knowledge and skills of the English language. Since they have now built “self-confidence” as well as intrinsically motivated in using it, the students would not be afraid in doing future works/transactions done in English for they would be expecting(anticipating) better results in the future. Hence, they could easily manage to dwell on whatever language activities they would meet in the future.

Affective principles(warm and fuzzy principle), on the other pole, would also boost the morale/ego of the students in using the target language, English. Assisting the students properly kindled with matching sense of emotions would basically stimulate their inner drives to learn the language incessantly though with errors. However, errors are part of learning. Once, the students would be able to cross the bridge(new mode of thinking, feeling, and acting—second identity), they would be incessantly crafting their inner self-confidence necessary in combating future language difficulties.

Once self-confidence is honed in them, students would become risk-takers in producing and interpreting language that is a bit beyond their language capacity. Thus, exposing students to any communicative situations would challenge them to engage in manifesting their knowledge and skills in the employment of the English language.

At one hand, in the process of teaching the English language, it could not be reneged that every language teacher is expected to inject cultural values, practices, and norms associated with the language—for language is culture. Consequently, if students understand the culture of the target language, English, they would be eager to learn more about how to use it in transacting future endeavors without fear.

In terms of linguistic principles, individual learner is assumed to acquire language in an unconscious manner since he/she is endowed with the innate capacity to learn the language(Chomsky as cited in Brown, 2000). Such capacity is contained in a black box known as the Language Acquisition Device(LAD), the universal linguistic theory.

As divulged, students’ native language has a strong influence on the acquisition of the English language system. Though the native language will have facilitating and interfering effects on the production and comprehension of the new language, the

students would then acknowledge that such interfering effects would pave them to assess and identify that the structure of the native language is entirely different from that of the English language. As a result, they would start thinking directly on the target language, which is a salient feature in learning it. Such practice would actually aid students to avoid the first language “crutch” syndrome. Although in the process of learning a new language, students tend to nativize the target language(interlanguage effect= L1 and L2) which lead them to commit errors classified as local or global. For instance, a certain student who says “Does Eric can write?” may sound to be correct since it follows an internalized systematic rule which requires a pre-posed do auxiliary for English question formation. Teachers on this context should never interfere in correcting such local error but rather provide other similar samples for students to internalize the “correctness” of their statements. Hence, the principle of automaticity works here.

However, if meaning suffers because of construction(global error), language teachers should come in and provide constructive feedbacks(verbal and non-verbal forms) so students would have an open arm to accept suggestions for possible growth and development in the process of learning and acquiring a new language, English.

Synthesizing the preceding contexts, one can infer that if students are honed to possess all those experiences, their communicative competence would be at par.

Communicative competence, according to Dell Hymes(in Brown, 1994, 2000), refers to the aspect of a person’s competence that enables him to convey and interpret messages in order to negotiate meanings interpersonally within specific contexts. There are four components or subcategories that make up the construct of communicative competence (Canale and Swain as cited in Brown, 1994, 2000). These are: (1) Linguistic or Grammatical Competence which encompasses “knowledge of lexical items and of rules of morphology, syntax, sentence-grammar semantics, and phonology.

Thus, it is the competence that one associates with mastering the linguistic code of a language—focusing on sentence-level grammar; (2) Discourse Competence(the complement of linguistic competence in many ways) which refers to one’s ability to connect sentences in stretches of discourse and to form a meaningful whole out of a series of utterances. In short, discourse competence is concerned with intersentential relationships; (3) Sociolinguistic Competence which refers to the knowledge of the sociocultural rules of language and of discourse. As such, this competence basically requires an understanding of the social context in which language is used: the role of the participants, the information they share, and the function of the interaction; and (4) Strategic Competence which pertains to the “verbal and non-verbal communication strategies that may be called into action to compensate for breakdowns in communication due to performance variables or due to insufficient competence.”

As glossed, the various teaching principles of Brown have paved us language teachers an avenue to really develop the language competency of our students. We need to approach language problems(local or global) of our students in a holistic point of view so as not to jeopardize their innate capacity to learn the target language, English.

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NATIVIZED HISPANIC BORROWED WORDS

BY JERRY G. ROBLE

This paper assumes that Hispanic words borrowed in Cebuano Visayan are acculturated through lexical nativization.

This assumption is substantiated by the theory of phylogenetic change stressing on linguistic borrowing as Hockett (365-366) explains: The design of any language changes as time goes by….one of the mechanisms of phylogenetic change is linguistic borrowing. Whenever languages come into contact, one or both may be modified.

There are three major processes involved in Language Borrowing (Hockett in Hoffer 1-36): (1) Loanword (2) Loanshift (3) Loan-translation More significantly, the mere contact of language A and B does not guarantee that one will borrow from the other. Wonderly (450) explains: For a borrowing to occur, say B to A, two conditions must be met: (1) The speaker of A must understand, or think he understands the particular utterance in language B

which contains the model; and (2) The speaker of A must have some motive, overt or covert, for the borrowing.

In the case of the one hundred ten languages spoken in the Philippines, which was colonized by Spain for three centuries, Spanish words have definitely been borrowed through the two conditions for language borrowing. These borrowed words have definitely been Filipinized in terms of morphology and phonology.

Nativization definitely occurred within three centuries of borrowing.

To investigate this phenomenon of linguistic borrowing by Philippine languages which nativized these borrowed Hispanic words, a prototype print media article is focused as a model textuality for lexical analysis: “Ang Problema sa K12” extracted from Sunstar SuperBalitaCebu, Vol 39, no.20, 24 August 2014, page 8.

Cebuano Visayan is the linguistic medium.

The article contains ten paragraphs: Paragraph 1 has one long sentence with thirty-five words Paragraph 2 has one long sentence with 23 words Paragraph 3 has one long sentence with 26 words Paragraph 4 has one long sentence with 28 words Paragraph 5 has one sentence with 14 words Paragraph 6 has one sentence with 20 words Paragraph 7 has one long sentence with 28 words Paragraph 8 has one long sentence with 32 words Paragraph 9 has one sentence with 12 words Paragraph 10 has one long sentence with 27 words The Hispanic borrowed words are 13 nouns, 1 verb, 1 adjective, and 1 adverb which are analyzed employing separate matrices.

Table 1. NOUNS BORROWED FROM SPANISH

Of the thirteen Hispanic borrowed words, the following divulge the linguistic acculturation of orthographic nativization: ADMINISTRASYON(Spanish administración, English administration) changes C to S; EDUKASYON(Spanish educación, English Education) changes CI to SY; REAKSYON( Spanish educación, English reaction) changes CI to SY; SEKTOR(Spanish sector, English sector) changes C to K; GALASTUHAN(Spanish gastos, English expenses) changes OS to LA and UHAN; ESTUDYANTE(Spanish estudiante, English student) changes DI to DY; ESKWELAHAN(Spanish escuela, English school) changes CU to KW plus han; MATERYALES(Spanish materiales, English materials) changes IA to YA; TRABAHO(Spanish trabajo, English work) changes J to H; GOBIYERNO(Spanish gobierno, English government) changes IE to IYE; PREPARASYON(Spanish preparación, English preparation) changes CI to SY; Native Cebuano Visayan affixes LA- and HAN are added to the Spanish GASTOS(expenses) to pluralize it.

The only verb borrowed from Spanish changes its orthography and added native Cebuano Visayan affix –I as portrayed in the word: ISUSPENSO adds the prefix I to the root suspenso to indicate simple past form of the verb(Spanish suspendido, English suspended) Table 2. VERBS BORROWED FROM SPANISH

Only one adjective borrowed from Spanish changes its orthography and added nativized affix –ng to the root negatibo, with a nativized respelling of V to B. Table 3. ADJECTIVES BORROWED FROM SPANISH

Table 4. ADVERB(S) BORROWED FROM SPANISH

Only one adverb retains its Spanish spelling: MÁS(English MORE) from the Spanish MÁS. In a synthesis, the Hispanic borrowed words in Cebuano Visayan are acculturated by generally nativizing their orthography, which definitely corresponds to nativized phonology, since Cebuano Visayan(as all Philippine languages are) is a phonetic language(spelled as pronounced) and by adding native prefixes and suffixes: a clear process of lexical nativization.

In conclusion, therefore, it has been proven that Hispanic words borrowed in Cebuano Visayan are acculturated through lexical nativization.

In effect, it is, thus recommended that a parallel lexical investigation be conducted in different genres of mass media, literature textualities, and communicative verbal transaction as well as documents across the varied Philippine languages.

DOH-10 Regional GAD Focal Person Dr. Emma Pilar Imperio shares the department's initiatives in observance of the 18-Day Campaign to End VAW during Talakyan sa PIA, November 20. (JAKA/PIA10)

DOH-10 augments personnel to boost VAW health interventions CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY--In observance of the 18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women (VAW), the Department of Health (DOH)–10 augments their health personnel specializing in handling VAWC health interventions and the provision of funding for the operational costs of its Women and Children Protection Unit (WCPU).

“The role of the DOH for its women and children protection unit is to provide technical assistance by means of providing training to our DOH retained hospitals in Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC), Mayor Hilarion A. Ramiro Sr. Medical Center (MHARSMC), and Amai Pakpak Medical Center,” DOH-10 Regional Gender and Development (GAD) Focal Person Dr. Emma Pilar Imperio said during the Talakyan sa PIA, November 20.

In adherence to Administrative Order No. 2013-0011 or the revised policy on the Establishment of Women and their Children Protection Units in all government hospitals, Imeprio said they are monitoring their health institutions here in the region to ensure compliance.

The said AO aims to upgrade operational capacities and train health

care personnel with the recognition, recording, and reporting of VAWC cases.

“We were given a memo from our central office to monitor the effects of the pandemic in our WCPU's, and assess areas of improvements last august, in our findings we saw that there is still support from the hospital (for VAWC cases), “she added.

As the country reels from the economical, health, and social uncertainty brought by the pandemic, gender, sexual and domestic abuse issues due to the implementation of home quarantine measures were magnified.

Imperio notes that aside from the physical interventions, they are also focusing on psychological support for the survivors.

“The health impacts of these are primarily on the physical abuse in households, but also on top of that there’s also depression and trauma, so part of the services provided is psychological support, we have a psychologists where we refer survivors to,” she said.

Imperio also emphasized the significant role of psychological support in aiding survivors cope with their traumatic experience for their fast BOOST/PAGE 9

Improving the Quality of Education

By CRISPIN P. CAARE Teacher III Tablon Elementary School

FOR many kids, the best setting may still be a traditional public school.

But we know that every child is different, with unique talents and abilities. No single approach works, and the goal has to be to help students find their interests and talents, and to awaken a love for lifelong learning.

We know every student learns differently and that the traditional model is too rigid and standardized to accommodate that. One of the impacts of the ongoing coronavirus is to lead families to reevaluate how their children should learn.

For many, the one-size-fitsall response doesn’t work for their son or daughter, and instead millions have embraced new online models, tutors, micro-schools, learning pods and other ways to address each individual student’s needs. Rather than

discourage these models, we should encourage them, and support the families who feel they’re the right fit for their child.

Wh e n it c om e s t o something as important as our kids’ education, we can’t try to preserve the system in amber, treating innovation and mo dernization as something to fear. We need to work with families to find new and better ways to help kids unlock their talents and become life-long learners.

We need officials within the system to help improve it, not try to fight off any attempts at change. That’s the best way to ensure that all our kids get the education that’s right for them.

A s i t h a s “n e a r l y addressed” the remaining gaps in terms of access to education, Education Secretary Leonor Briones said that said the focus of the Department of Education

(DepEd) this starting this year – and in the coming years – would be on quality.

In terms of quality, Briones explained that DepEd shall conduct a review of the curriculum and upgrade the professional development of teachers and school leaders.

DepEd will also intensify further its efforts to strengthen not only formal education but also the informal system of education. As such, DepEd will continue to expand and intensify its Alternative Learning System (ALS) —a second chance education program for out-of-school youth and adults.

DepEd will also continue its programs such as the school-based feeding and last mile schools, and establish schools in barangays without elementary schools, and in areas with limited secondary schools.

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11 other universities in the country.

In a statement Wednesday evening, Dr. J. Prospero de Vera, chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (Ched), said these are the Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technolog y (MSU-IIT) in Iligan City, which ranks between 551 and 600; Xavier UniversityAteneo de Cagayan (XU) in this city, and Central Mindanao University (CMU) in Maramag, Bukidnon, both having a rank around 601.

For MSU-IIT and XU, this was not the first time they landed on the QS Ranking: XU first entered the charts in 2016, while MSU-IIT first appeared in 2018. Based on de Vera's pronouncements, both returned to the ranking this year.

"Since 2016, many Philippine HEIs (Higher Education Institutions) have gained increased exposure and visibility by attending educational fairs and international conferences, mobilizing student and fac u lty exchanges, an d bu i l d i ng s t r ate g i c partnerships and linkages which have contributed to the fulfillment of this wonderful achievement,” de Vera said.

He said that the i nte r nat i ona l i z at i on of Philippine HEIs has been a key strategy of the current administration to improve the quality of education to produce world-class graduates, adding that it is a "key component of our efforts to improve access to quality education".

"The Duterte administ rat ion a lre ady provides free tuition and miscellaneous fees (in all state universities and colleges) to 1.3 million students and

provides financial assistance to some 1.8 million Filipino students. The recognition given to the additional HEIs as among the best in Asia is welcome news to show that our efforts to provide access to quality education are bearing fruit," he said.

He added that MSU-IIT, CMU, and Central Luzon State University, are grantees of the “Fostering World Class Philippine University,” a CHED-initiated project that aims to boost the global presence of the Philippine higher education sector and cultivate world-class Philippine universities.

Some 300 university leaders and officials have been sent to Canada and the United States for study tours and meetings so they can meet their counterparts and observe best practices in world-class universities.

De Vera said that these univers it y l e a ders w i l l be the vanguards for the internationalization of their universities.

The QS World University R an kings is an annua l publication popular among the academic community in the world, as it evaluates learning institutions based on different criteria, such as in the fields of research and faculty performances, among others. (PNA)

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in the 632-MW GNPower Mariveles Coal Plant Ltd. Co. and in the 668-MW sup ercritical coal-f ired plant GNPower Dinginin Ltd. Co. AA Thermal holds AC Energy’s interests in the Mariveles and Dinginin projects.

AC Energy, whose change of name to AC Energ y and Infrastructure Corp.

(ACEIC) was approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Nov. 18, is

the holding firm for ACEN’s energy platform. “‘Yung naiwan kay ACEIC because we have plans of divesting those coal plants…

We didn’t feel the need to infuse those large coal plants in ACEN,” Mr. Francia said.

He e arlier s aid t hat ACEN would need around $1.8 billion to $2 billion to help it realize that vision.

He said that the company would undergo corporate restructuring in the next couple of years, and that ACEN would seek to raise funds of $500 million to $600 million as growth capital to add to its $700 million cash reserves.

The company aspires to exceed 5 gigawatts of attributable capacity and generate at least 50% of energy from renewables by 2025.

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and they value physical contact.

“So if you can combine both high tech and high touch, I think that will be the answer for the future, at least for Filipinos,” Mr. Consing said.

The central bank targets to make the country a cashlite society by 2023, where 50% of payments are done digitally both in terms of value and volume.

A study by the Better Than Cash Alliance found that 10% of total transactions in terms of volume were done digitally in 2018 from a mere 1% in 2013. By value, e-payments made up 20% of the total in 2018 from 8% in 2013.

With online banking transactions growing exponentially, Mr. Consing added that cybersecurity is of utmost importance as threats have also evolved.

He said BPI has had to take down an average of 10

phishing sites every day.

These sites usually try to convince clients to give away account details, the official said.

“So the way to battle that really is with customer education. You have to continuously repeat that responsible banks will never ask customers for their information,” he said.

The BPI chief added that there is also a need to review current regulations and laws on cybersecurity as new fraud trends emerge.

“Our cybersecurity laws, when they were first drafted, were targeted at the hardware.

They have to adjust now that they [scams] happen to be targeted towards this kind of social engineering,” he said.

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recovery, and giving them enough confidence to stand up for themselves and return back to their normal lives.

“Physical abuse is given appropriate medical confinement and management, along with that comes the emotional abuse with the depression because of what they went through, but it’s good that we have psychologists in our DOH retained WCPU’s to aid them in their psychological trauma to gradually bring them back to their normal routine and the community," she adds.

Despite the halt of their technical training for new WCPU personnel due to t r avel re st r i c t i ons and social distancing protocols, Imp e r i o s ai d t h e y are currently in the process of sending the documents for the augmentation of their WCPU centers as soon as the trainings resume and are giving out full support to continue its services here in the region despite the pandemic. (VPSB/PIA10)

MODULAR DISTANCE LEARNING

BY BOB DEVANEY G. MAESTRE

The year 2020 started with a lot of optimism in the minds of millions of filipinos. New year resolutions were set, Plans have been envisioned, Graduations are fast approaching, and celebrations were booked.

But there was never in our minds that thought of a lockdown. Just almost three months of the year 2020 lot of those plans and dreams were cancelled.

The new Corona Virus also known as COVID 19 had devoured the entire face of the earth with its strains as lethal as SARS from way back then.

Millions have died, Economies were paralyzed, mobilizations have stopped and most of all Education were cut off in the hope that a new vaccine will rise to cure us all.

But the Department of Education never ceased to breath and innovate.

This Coronavirus must not mar its visions and missions and its core values to mold responsible citizen of our beloved country.

As early as March, Plans were laid out and what’s going to be next for Deped after it was advised by the IATF to put education on hold.

Mass trainings were held throughout the Philippines for the so called MODULAR DISTANCE LEARNING.

Modular Distance Learning is the way to bridge Education and learners in the midst of this pandemic.

There are a lot of alternative learning modalities were introduce but modular learning is the best way possible and convenient way to access education.

Why? B ecause it do esn’t need electricity, and internet. With the help of Bayanihan Law, Budgets were aligned and supplementary budgets were given to provide additional supplies for the production of self learning modules. This modules are given with the ratio of 1:1 if budget will allow but at most schools are preparing for 2 sets in every school.

With the cooperation of parents and guardians they were oriented on what to do with the modules regarding its distribution and retrieval. Modules are given on a specific date and are returned also on a specific date in exchange for another set of modules and that’s how the cycle goes.

With the start of school year 20202021 last October 5, 2020. Everything ran smoothly as expected. Protocols were set upon entering schools. Face mask are required and temperatures are checked. Isolation and waiting areas were installed whenever needs

arises. All these were done to avoid further transmission of the virus.

Everything gone according to the plans.

Unfortunately, the only downside of this modality is that. The teachers have found out the some parents were not able to supervised their child and what happened is that sometimes they the parents themselves are the one answering the modules just to cope up with the time. Its very hard to monitor and check the progress of the learners if we don’t know their actual output. Gladly teachers were willing to innovate and put extra time on home visitation and provide them with weekly activity as part of their performance task.

The school year 2020-2021 is different and unique in its own way.

This is the New Normal and were going to embrace this as long as we are not safe against this virus. Hopefully soon vaccine will be developed and put an end to this very long nightmare on which we long to wake up in a safe and normal self.

Department of Education is true to its mandate that no one is left behind even in the midst of this global crisis.

We will Serve!

BE MORE! ……

Misamis Oriental By: LIZA J. MAGSAYO MT-1

This is the philosophy of Dr. Jonathan S. Delapena, Schools Division Superintendent of DepEd Misamis Oriental that cascaded to every school under his jurisdiction.

This encourages all schools’ personnel to do everything they possibly can for according to him, let’s bring excellence in the Division of Misamis O r i e nt a l i n r e l e v a nt to education. A life of excellence is a life that surpasses the standards and that quality comes from inside and out. Actually every person has a different and his own definition

of excellence. A life of excellence….is a life with a purpose…if there’s no purpose there are no goals.

Moreover , the thought also implies as the saying goes, do not limit your challenge rather, challenge your limit.

It means we must go beyond our comfort zones using different resources and have discretion to adopt appropriate modalities of instruction from face to face bounded with four corners of a classroom to a new normal experiences provided that we follow strict compliance to the guidelines , policies and reminders by DepEd.

DepEd: Innovation and efficiency in the new normal By: NESTOR A. ABECIA JR.

Wit h t h e p an d e m i c effectively turning the entire Filipino economy upside down, it is nigh on impossible for businesses and departments to maintain any level of efficiency even remotely close to that of what is now the “old” normal.

What with the new normal in play, many if not most transactions have turned to the online platform to conduct the same old business, at a safer distance. It is no different for the education sector, whose people have been subjected to a handful of changes and innovation.

Efficiency of the new methods are sadly noticeably lesser than the standard method of teaching, but considering how unadvanced the reach of actually feasible internet that is enough to sustain any meaningful value of clear information is, it is the best we can make.

However, that’s not to say there is no more room for improvement; since the situation is still fresh in terms of our response, new methods may still come into play.

Inste ad of wast ing time, in areas with little or inexistent internet connectivity, the modular form of learning is deployed; wherein no

internet is needed. This shows that the Department of Education (DepEd), is not watching valuable time pass by and instead chooses to put in the effort to at least get something out of what their students have most of nowadays; free time.

There is no arguing on whether modular is less effective than online learning; the presence of a teacher figure alone is key.

However, there are some that opt to a combined style of learning; a combination of online and modular conveniently named “Blended” learning.

In this case, DepEd has given the regions and/or particular institutions free reign on whatever method they select, as long as it is agreed upon. The selection of three methods suits the style of the Philippines quite well, what with some areas more advanced than others.

By diversifying the range of choices in the DepEd’s teaching arsenal during the Covid 19 pandemic, they are better suited to emulate the necessar y information into the youth of the country.

We may not be at the same level as our former selves yet, but this is a huge stride of progress for the nation at large.

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said in a media forum on Wednesday.

In Caraga Region, DROP was activated in 202 communities in 10 towns and three provinces, she said, following the pandemic declaration in March.

Villamor said the region has a total allocation of P96.5 million for Kalahi-CIDSS projects this year.

“Completion of disaster response projects amounting to P9.6 million is still ongoing, and we are hopeful this will be completed this month of November,” Villamor said.

DSWD-13 information officer Marko Davey Reyes said that as a disaster response mechanism, Kalahi-CIDSS projects are mainly focused on protecting the residents in the program areas from the threats of Covid-19.

“Identification of disaster response projects depend on the residents of communities that are based on their needs,” Reyes said, adding most of the projects for this year include refurbishing of buildings converted as quarantine facilities and the procurement of personal protective equipment. (PNA)

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the government that allows more economic activity.

“The easing of quarantine protocols in various areas in the country has led to the reopening of businesses that will help our economy bounce back quicker. We hope that through SM City

Mindpro, which provides a center of convergence for economic, social and cultural activities, Zamboangueños will experience utmost convenience as they seek essential services as well as entertainment during these times,” Mr. Lim said.

SM Mindpro will have four levels and a carpark, with stores and facilities ranging from a department store, a supermarket, foreign retail brands, sports brands, health stores, hardware shops and a cinema, to name a few.

Earlier this month, SM Prime also opened a new mall in Agusan del Norte to tap the growing economic activity in the region.

SM Prime booked P18.3 billion from the operations of Philippine malls in Januaryto-September, down 57% from a year ago, due to temporary mall closures and low foot traffic.

Its attributable net income dropped 48% to P14.37 billion.

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will finally get their individual land titles next year when the Department of Agrarian Reform implements the Support for Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) program.

The DAR provincial office here has identified about 3,800 hectares of Collective Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CCLOA) title of NGPI Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries MultiPurpose Cooperative (NGPI ARB MPC) as priority to be surveyed for individual titling

Bruised, not defeated By: NESTOR A. ABECIA JR.

A battery is quite something.

It can be used as a power source for various electrical appliances, last for a good while, replaced when their charge runs out, and be used to describe what the Philippines has gone through in 2020.

As if becoming the Covid 19 hotspot in Southeast Asia wasn’t enough, we were washe d t hroug h and through by Typhoon Ulysses, among the string of typhoons that have and are yet to come in contact with the country. And, it appears we have finally had enough of the whole “praising perseverance as a cover for shortcomings” modus.

It’s never easy. Hardships this year are packed from base to cap, and without leadership and teamwork, the damage would have been extremely more severe. This highlights that although perseverance is embedded in our nature, we still need to cooperate hand in hand.

When the tide swept the worldly possessions of our fellowmen, it was a huge ordeal to our morale.

But this calamity prompted kindness to sprout from every nook and cranny of the Philippine archipelago.

Individuals reached out

and became groups that had the sole purpose of easing the grief and loss of those affected. This, of course, all happening under the pandemic.

Yes, unity is important.

But if the goal truly was to put an effective stop to the scourges we face today, we need to stand in unity also to what future we want for our motherland.

There truly is nothing more powerful than a group of determined Filipinos standing under one purpose.

Not for the betterment of self, but for the betterment of all. We need to stand as one not only to brace for calamities, but also towards taking the right steps in ensuring we do all we can to never have a repeat of the horrors we faced.

Possibly one of the biggest hurdles in attaining unity is the lack of accessibility. As the new normal prompted us to shift online, many were left stranded with no safe and viable means to get up to speed. If we were to start moving and acting as one, we need all the members.

Each voice has a purpose.

Each voice has importance.

We may be beat up and downtrodden, but we will never give up.

for the first quarter next year as part of the targeted 51,000 hectares in Agusan del Sur to be implemented in a span of three years.

Other large tracts of land owned by splinter groups of ARB cooperatives within the oil palm plantation will be also surveyed for individual titling.

NGPI ARB MPC with 864 members were former farmworkers of the some 7,000 hectares of oil palm plantation op erated by the defunct NDC Guthrie Plantations, Inc. (NGPI) which was covered under Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) of which CCLOAs were personally given to NGPI workers as ARBs who formed into cooperatives by the late former President Corazon Aquino in Cagayan de Oro City in 1988.

The SPLIT program is a World Bank-funded P24billion project covering 904,000 hectares benefitting 1.1 million farmers nationwide. DAR allocated P500 million for the project.

Jamil Amatonding Jr., Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II, said with SPLIT at hand ARB farmers can now freely determine what to do with their farms.

He said the DAR provincial office has targeted some 24,000 hectares that will be covered by the SPLIT program next year.

Each ARB will be given at least three hectares each for their individual CLOA, the ultimate goal of the CARP to redistribute private and public lands in the country to achieve genuine land reform, a centerpiece program of the Aquino administration after she was catapulted into power after the EDSA People Power revolution in 1986.

Implementation of SPLIT will also involve the local government units in validating the land use of the ARB lands while the Land Registration Authority through the provincial office of the Registry of Deeds will work on the cancellation of CCLOAs and registration of individual CLOAS in the name of ARBs. The program has drawn mixed reactions from leaders and members of NGPI ARB MPC. The leaders opposed the implementation of the SPLIT Program, saying collective ownership of ARB lands is favorable for the cooperative to productively operate.

Raul Batiao, manager of the cooperative, said they will consult with their lawyer on the possible legal action to stop the implementation of SPLIT Program. He added other leaders and members expressed opposition to the program as they will leave it to the general assembly to decide on the matter.

But some concerned members welcomed the move to implement the program.

Menio Orcullo, cooperative member and former councilor of Rosario town, said splitting the CCLOAs into individual land titles has been a long

cherished dream of the oil palm plantation farmworkers.

Orcullo suspected that the move of their leaders to block the program has ulterior motives in protecting vested interest. “I smell something about financial mishandling of the cooperatives’ income from the harvest of oil palms sold to milling plants. It’s been a while that we have been given a share from our dividends,” he noted. (Chris V. Panganiban / MindaNews)

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warrants, bonds with detachable warrants and other similar securities, whose underlying common shares will likewise be listed on the PSE. The measures are part of Cebu Pacific’s “Business Transformation Fundraising Plan,” which the company crafted to strengthen its balance sheet amid the crisis.

When the company first announced this plan in October, Cebu Air said it has been struggling to cope as passenger traffic plunged due to travel restrictions.

As of end-September, Cebu Pacific’s net loss has reached P14.69 billion, reversing last year’s profits of P6.77 billion. Revenues slumped 70% to P19.34 billion, as air passenger traffic dropped 72% to 4.7 million.

In a separate statement, Cebu Pacific said on Friday it is adding self-service features to its online booking portal to allow travelers to manage their information more easily.

“We have been enhancing our contactless experience and accelerating our digital initiatives because these provide quicker and safer options for our passengers.

Our customers remain at the heart of our business, so you can expect more enhancements from us that further support and enable a self-service journey for everyone,” Candice Jennifer A. Iyog, Cebu Pacific vicepresident for marketing and customer experience, said in the statement.

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with details scheduled to be announced in January next year.

“The current logo, which was introduced in 2010, will still be used in the meantime,” it said, adding “the new logo was endorsed by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines prior to the Malacañang approval in November 2020.” (PNA)

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and ironically he had already died of starvation in a valley that could grow an abundance of food, and in a house that was worth its weight in gold!

You yourself may not have realized that the life you’ve always wanted is here right now for you to fully live and enjoy. Before it’s too late, won’t you ask Jesus to forgive you for your wrong way of living, and to take full charge of your heart, so you can start experiencing His life of true satisfaction, security, and success that is only found in Him? Just think a minute…

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drinks, and beauty.

The birth of the Plantitas and Plantitos caused the online sales of plants to grow by 600% during the lockdown.

One plant seller said,” in previous years, we were only selling 10 plants a week, now it’s 40-50 weekly”.

Just mere obs er ving the number of the pink and green riders coming in and out of our villages every minute, already tells me the kind of growth the online food delivery sector is experiencing. In the few times I go to restaurants, the take out or pick up is lined up with these men in pink and green.

Lazada and Shopee just had their Mega 11/11 sale.

This mega sale event drove a horde of online shoppers to a panic buying spree.

Ac c o r d i n g t o N i n a Cabrera, the young CEO of the local makeup brand Colourette Cosmetics, she still cannot believe that in the first 35 minutes, they already broke their 2019 11/11 sales.

They sold 35,800 of their products (thru Lazada and Shopee) by 12:35 am vs their 25K sales for 1 day last year.

Ev e n t h e i n s u r a n c e sector has joined the online b a n d w a g on . In s u r a n c e companies had to fast track their online platforms, especially when the Insurance Commission allowed digital selling of life insurance versus the traditional face to face selling we’re used to.

However, since most clients are still uncomfortable doing face-to-face meetings, insurance sellers have to find a way to be present in the digital space of their clients.

This prompted top advisor Jay Magleo of Philamlife to create his “Online Insurance Tindahan”. Says Jay, “my biggest challenge when p and e m i c happ e ne d is prospecting. Out of the 468 prospects from my natural market that I connected with, I got ZERO sales. I know I had to broaden my reach digitally. I had to tap the unfamiliar COLD MARKET. S o I studie d Faceb o ok Advertising because almost everyone has Facebook. And that gave birth to my online insurance tindahan which has so far generated for me 2500++ followers/leads”.

Thanks to the online selling sector, we are seeing

more economic activities.

With this trend, it’s most likely that from a 10% contribution to GDP in 2015, e-commerce will hit the 25% level.

But with this growth comes responsible internet advertisement and selling.

Online sellers should be mindful that they have the obligation to deliver their products and services as promoted and advertised.

That there number one objective remains to be client satisfaction!

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mechanisms are attacking the vital organs.

Let notice be ser ved to one and all that we in the cooperative movement are firmly adhering to the United Nations’ definition as the full development of human potentials, the expansion of choices and opportunities. That for development to be so, it must pass a three-way test: First, is it e colog ic a l ly sustainable? This means it does not harm the environment but instead nurtures it; Second, does it benefit the people? This means, responsive to their needs; and Third, does it have people’s participation?

Un less a l l of t he t hre e criteria are satisfied, no development can take place, only mal-development or development aggressions!

It is quite puzzling that s o much has b e en s aid about development, yet, we have totally destroyed the ecosystems and left the ecological people wallowing in poverty. It is even a glaring paradox that we talk of agricultural development, yet, our country is still not self-sufficient even on basic staples like rice and milk.

Yes, everyone is profiting from farming except the farmers.

The IMF-World Bank s p o k e o f d e v e l o p m e nt before, toppling down the forest to give way to Chico River Dam in the Mountain Province despite the serious resistance from the Ifugaos led by Macliing Dulag. It was then the time of Marcos dictatorship when projects were just rammed down the throats of the populace and no amount of protest could stop such outpourings what had been described then as development aggressions.

That name was again invoked in putting-up the B at a a n Nu c l e a r Pow e r

Plant that cost the country more than two and half billion dollars, when the pr ice shou ld on ly b e a billion or so. For interest alone, the Philippine government is paying an amount yearly bigger than the annual budget of the h e a l t h d e p a r t m e nt f o r a mega project that had not at all produced even a single watt of electricity as it was established in an earthquake-fault area.

What a tragedy in a country that cannot even put-up a hospital for the Indigenous People who are dying early for not knowing what an anti-biotic means!

It was the height of the travesty, a Trojan horse that has sucked the nation dry of its economic blood burying us in heavy foreign debt that even the new born must pay for something that has not at all benefit the country.

But we need not look far to see how the word is mangled beyond recognition. The loggers have decimated our forests, indust r ies have t re ate d the bays as their waste pits, costly agricultural technologies tied up to use of heavy chemicals promoted, mangroves destroyed to give way to structures - - all done in the name of DEVELOPMENT! All these speak well of development aggressions that must be rectified as we now advance Biyaya ng Pagbabago.

Before the rectification process, it behooves upon all of us to re-examine what really is the essence of development and to define what it is not. It is not just providing for basic necessities such as food, shelter or clothing – even those in prisons have those.

It is not increases in Gross National Products as such may have just made a few elite richer at the expense of the many wallowing in dire poverty.

Still in the dark on the essence of development?

If you are a member of a cooperative, REJOICE! You are highly adhering to the time-honored and universally-accepted c o o p e r at i v e p r i n c i p l e s and practices which are now the counter vailing force to stop development aggressions. Indeed, be transformative for people, planet, prosperity and peace – all for the greater Glory of God!

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media to gather public support for the campaign.

Further, RCWC Technical Staff Rhea Jane A. Camanga s ai d , " T h e D S W D h a s provided technical assistance and resource augmentation and this is continuing despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Upon assessment, we found that LGUs are compliant and have established VAWC desks per barangay."

Alongside communitybased programs, S ocial Welfare and Development ( S WA D ) Te a m L e a d e r for Cagayan de Oro City and Children in Conflict with the Law (CICL) Focal Person Edgar G. Requilme emphasized the importance of e mp owe r i ng VAWC survivors when it comes to filing complaints against their perpetrators through counseling and community support.

In the circumstances where-in VAWC victims are still not prepared to ask for help from their barangay VAWC help desks or authorities, Aniñon said they have VAWC hotlines so victims can call for advice, consultation, and support instead.

"Break the silence. To my fellow my sisters, let us break the chain of violence, you are not alone in this fight, we, the DSWD are one with you and are working for your protection, don't be afraid to approach us or call our hotlines, we are here for the protection of women and children, " Aniñon said.

Emphasizing children’s rights amid pandemic Giving updates on the region's juvenile delinquency in light of its annual Children’s month celebrations, RJJWC Team Leader Ronnie G. Barros said their theme for the 9th JJ week celebration is "Karapatan ng Bawat Bata sa Panahon ng Pandemya Siguruhin, Pagpapatupad ng Juvenile Justice law Paigtinin."

To discourage the youth from committing illegal acts especially with the new normal disrupting usual e conomic me chanisms, Camanga said they have intensified public awareness for the rights of children

in communities, and are institutionalizing barangays and LGUs to make them more child-friendly.

As for protecting children through shelters for CICLs, Barros said, "We only have a few cases here since we have challenges in bringing them there, however, we have done steps for community-based rehabilitation especially in this pandemic."

On upholding children’s rights during the pandemic, the RCWC aims to continue its initiatives in providing protection and support for the youth in compliance with the national and local directives of Proclamation No.929 from the Office of the President.

Thus, they participated in the national kick-off led

by DSWD Central Office, November 3, conducted webinars shared in social media pages and disseminated to the local government units (LGUs), and granted radio guesting that highlight youth development and protection.

"Let's support our activities of our partner agencies and RCWC to promote the protection and rights of women and children.

In compliance with the new normal, let us support them by sharing our advocacies in social media," Camanga added.

The 18-Day Campaign to End VAW is observed through the country, November 25 to December 12. (VPSB/PIA10)

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Mayor Sancho Fernando Oaminal donated PHP750,000 financial aid to the city government of Tuguegarao to help families of the casualties of flooding and landslides caused by Typhoons Rolly and Ulysses.

“Despite the many challenges that we are facing, we remain fortunate, we remain blessed and we remain prepared to help,” he said.

Oaminal also said Tuguegarao City has been brought down by a wave of consecutive typhoons which resulted in the loss of lives and properties.

"As for the damages, more than 90 percent of their barangays have been greatly affected. Many are displaced. The people of Tuguegarao are crying for help,” he said.

Oaminal said the people of Ozamiz are blessed that they have remained unscathed despite the many calamities that struck the country.

“We only very minor impacts as compared to the other areas. It is right that we extend a helping hand. In the spirit of Bayanihan, we have done our share and have responded to Tuguegarao’s cry for help,” he said.

The local government also hopes that the donation could help Tuguegarao City rebuild their lives back to normalcy.

He also urged the affected residents to continue to strive on the road to recovery and healing. (PNA)

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governments of Cagayan de Oro, Gingo og City, Oroquieta City, Talakag, Bukidnon, and Dumalinog, Zamboanga del Norte, and from individuals and civil society organizations.

Other batches of donations were already loaded through shipping cargo on Nov. 22 courtesy of Team CDO. Meanwhile, the Ozamiz City government through

DEED OF ADJUDICATION OF SOLE HEIR KNOW ALL MEN BY THIS PRESENTS:

That the late EUGENIO I. CASADIO who died on February 26, 2015 at Claveria, Misamis Oriental, without will and testament, and without any outstanding debts in favor of any person or entity; at the time of his death left a parcel of land with Original Certificate of Title No. P-14514 situated in the barrio of Lanise, Municipality of Claveria, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of TWENTY THREE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-EIGHT (23,788) SQUARE METERS, more or less, and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE, filed by the heirs of EUGENIO I. CASADIO, in favor of CHERRY MAE L. LIMBACO, per DOC #359; PAGE #74; BOOK #III; Series of 2020 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. LAURENCE EDGARDO A. DEL PUERTO.

That the late RAUL O. VILLARIN, who died on December 06, 2018 at NMMC, Capitol Cmpd., Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, without any will, that the deceased died intestate without leaving any known debts which has remained unpaid or unseattled up to the present, and all the obligations incurred during his death were all paid and/or settled, that the said deceased at the time of his death, left a parcel of land with Transfer Certifiacte of Title No. T-175939 situated at Cugman, Cagayan de Oro City, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of SIXTY FOUR (64) SQUARE METERS, more or less and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT BETWEEN HEIRS WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE, filed by the heirs of RAUL O. VILLARIN, in favor of ROSEMARIE EBARE LANGAM, per DOC #77; APGE #16; BOOK #CXVII; Series of 2020 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. JORGE E. MAGDAONG, JR.

That the late GUILLERMO J. DABLIO, who died last June 13, 2010 at Cagayan de Oro Medical Center, Cagayan de Oro City and BABYLOVE D. DABLIO, who died January 31, 2016 at Cagayan de Oro Medical Center, Inc.; the deceased at the time of their death they left a parcel of land with 1) Transfer Certificate of Title No. 53541 situated at Iponan, Cagayan de Oro City, containing an area of 21,786 square meters, more or less, 2) Original Certificate of Title No. P-2384 situated at Baikingon, Cagayan de Oro City, containing an area of 16,026 square meters, 3) Original Certificate of Title No. P-2738 situated at Iponan, Cagayan de Oro City, containing an area of 588 square meters, more or less, 4) Original Certificate of Title No. P-15443 situated at Malanang, Opol, Misamis Oriental, containing an area of 10,966 square meters, more or less, 5) Tax Declaration No. G-170694 and TCT-80760 situated at Baikingon, Cagayan de Oro City, containing an area of 14,179 square meters, more or less, and has been the subject of an DEED OF ADJUDICATION OF SOLE HEIR, filed by the heirs of GUILLERMO J. DABLIO and BABYLOVE D. DABLIO, per DOC #161; PAGE #33; BOOK #202; Series of 2020 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. GIL U. BANAAG.

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Friday|November 27, 2020

4 MisOr Firms Adopt DOST’s E-Nutribun Technology

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OUR Misamis Oriental beneficiaries of the Department of Science and Technology 10’s Small Enterprises Technology Upgrading Program (DOSTSETUP) have adopted the DOST Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI)’s Enhanced Nutribun or E-Nutribun technology.

The bakery businesses joining the list are Bestfriend Goodies, SG Business Venture (Bake O’Clock), Inc., and The Life-Giving Products & Specialty (Manhu – The Lifegiving Bread) Corp., which are all in Cagayan de Oro City, alongside Yum Breadhauz and Food Products in Gingoog

City. These four food enterprises obtained the Technology License to produce the Enhanced Nutribun after they attended a three-day Online Technology Training conducted by DOST FNRI. The training was also supported by the DOST 10 Regional Standards and Testing Laboratory (RSTL) to ensure that the desired moisture content of the ingredient is met for every production.

The DOST-SETUP assisted these micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in boosting their productivity and competitiveness by upgrading their facilities. Now, with the upgraded facilities, these MSMEs are helping the

government address the prevalence of malnutrition through the production of E-Nutribun.

The E-Nutribun is reformulated by DOST FNRI from the 1970’s Nutribun, a bread product that was enriched with micronutrients, particularly iron, vitamin A, and zinc.

According to the FNRI, the E-Nutribun is now improved with the inclusion of calcium, potassium, and protein in the formulation. The implementation and roll-out of this new vitamin-packed bread technology started in July 2020 in some areas of the country.

A Technology Licensing Agreement (TLA) was signed between each

enterprise and the DOST-FNRI allowing the adoption of the technology for the production of E-Nutribun. The TLA provides a fiveyear license for the enterprise to produce and commercialize the bread. It strictly binds the adopting enterprise to maintain the nutritional quality and safety of the E-Nutribun they produce. This sciencedriven solution to malnutrition provides technology adopters the opportunity to link their products to the demand for these food items.

“Lami gyud s’ya.

Salamat sa DOST,” said all the four trained entrepreneurs who expressed thanks to DOST not only for

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the new technology they gained but also for the science-based technique of producing nutritious buns of consistent quality.

These four licensed technology adopters in Misamis Oriental are now ready to take your orders of Enhanced Nutribuns not only to feed undernourished children, pregnant

women, and lactating mothers, but to satisfy all individuals in all occasions. To contact any of these E-Nutribun producers, please visit DOSTMisamis Oriental along Antonio Luna St., Cagayan de Oro City or call (088) 8803627.

(Mary Claire Estoque/ DOST-Misamis Oriental)