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Volume 9 | No. 6 | Cagayan de Oro City | September 13-19, 2021 Aerial Night View of Cagayan de Oro

by Melkizedik Ugat Jr (Melki Aerials)

Oro Chamber to Metro CDO ad hoc cmte endorsed

By MIKE BAÑOS

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HE National Economic and Development Authority Region X office will propose the inclusion of the Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation, Inc. (Oro Chamber) in the Regional Development Council – X (RDC-X) Ad hoc Committee for Metro Cagayan de Misamis.

RDC-X Vice Chairman and NEDA-X Regional Director Mylah Faye B. Cariño said she would propose for the inclusion of Oro Chamber in the Metropolization

Committee during its first formal meeting scheduled next month, October 2021 in response to the organization’s request for inclusion.

“Thank you very much for recognizing

Oro Chamber as a key stakeholder and valuable partner in the regional development agenda of the government,” Oro Chamber President Ruben A. Vegafria wrote in response to Cariño’s favorable response to the chamber’s request.

“As the influential voice of business in Cagayan de Oro and Northern Mindanao, we wish to assure you of our unwavering support and commitment to the metropolization efforts and strategies of your good office.”

Vegafria earlier batted

for Oro Chamber’s inclusion in the Ad hoc committee for Metro Cagayan de Misamis which includes the Northern Mindanao Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), National Economic and Development Authority Regional Office X (NEDA-X), and the local governments of Cagayan de Oro City, El Salvador City, Alubijid, Claveria, Gitagum, Initao, Jasaan, Laguindingan, Libertad, Opol, Tagoloan, Villanueva, Manolo Fortich, and provinces of

Bukidnon and Misamis Oriental.

During its organizational meeting held 9 September 2021, Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Oscar S. Moreno was elected as its Chairperson.

Vegafria took exception to the inclusion of the Northern Mindanao PCCI to represent the business sector, contending it cannot appropriately represent the business sector since it has no jurisdiction over the areas identified for inclusion in Metro CDO.

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“PCCI Northern Mindanao only constitutes a singular office, that of the Regional Governor himself with no support staff, and no fixed regional office. Its role is merely to coordinate the activities of the local autonomous chambers in its assigned area with the PCCI central office in Manila, nothing more,” Vegafria stressed.

“On the other hand, the local chambers like our Oro Chamber and other chambers in Bukidnon and Misamis CHAMBER/PAGE 7

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PH Tatler picks JF Soberano in Gen. T List 2021 Leaders of Tomorrow

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EBU Landmasters, Inc. Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Jose Franco Soberano has been selected as one of the Top 40 Philippine Honorees and Leaders of Tomorrow on The Gen.T List 2021

by the Philippine Tatler.

Franco was awarded under the real estate and hospitality category for putting the community at the heart of real estate development.

In a post in CLI’s social media page, the company declares

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it is committed to communityfocused development throughout the Visayas-Mindanao region of the south and central Philippines. Jose Franco Soberano leads the day-today operations of the familyowned real estate company as it aims to contribute to the growth of the widely underdeveloped and sometimes troubled region. The only

publicly listed real estate company in the VisMin region, CLI has even managed to keep flourishing amid the pandemic, growing its sales by 14 percent in 2020.

According to the Philippine Tatler, the 40 young leaders from the Philippines selected for the Gen.T List 2021 represent the future. They are the successful entrepreneurs, professionals and

creatives whom they believe are the Leaders of Tomorrow. The 40 newest Gen.T honorees from the Philippines are part of the 300 honorees that make up the Definitive Gen.T List 2021of Young Leaders shaping Asia’s future.

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Lt. Gen. Douglas MacArthur conducts a ceremony formally inducting the Philippine Army Air Corps into United States Army Forces Far East at Camp Murphy, Rizal on 15 August 1941. Behind MacArthur, from left to right, are: Lt. Col. Richard K. Sutherland, Col. Harold H. George, Lt. Col William F. Marquat, and Maj. LeGrande A. Diller.

(Center of Military History, United States Army)

Field Marshal of the Philippine Commonwealth Army

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EXT year will be the 80th Anniversary of three seminal events in the Philippines’ history during World War II. On March 13, 1942, General Douglas MacArthur, his family and general staff, disembarked

at Macabalan pier, Cagayan de Misamis, on the first leg of their successful Breakout from Imperial Japanese Navy blockade of Corregidor.

On March 17, 1942, the same party boarded two B-17E bombers and successfully escaped

MacArthur inspects Philippine Scouts, 1936.

JCPML00786.4. Original held by MacArthur Memorial Library and Archives 3713.

MacArthur Memorial Marker at Bgy. Macabalan, Cagayan de Oro City

the Japanese dragnet to Australia. At a railway stop at Terowie, South Australia on March 20, 2 1942, MacArthur was interviewed by two journalists from the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper regarding the Battle of the Philippines.

He said: "The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing an American offensive against Japan, the primary purpose of which is the relief of the Philippines.

I came through and I shall return".

Not the least, on March 26, 1942, Philippine Commonwealth President

Manuel L. Quezon, his family, and some members of his cabinet, boarded three B-17s sent by MacArthur from Australia about midnight and nine hours were breakfasting in Northern Australia.

On March 13, 2008, two monuments commemorating these events were erected at the Macabalan pier in Cagayan de Oro City where MacArthur and party landed, and at the Del Monte Airfield 1 at Dicklum, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon where the two flights to Australia originated.

The events commemorated by these two monuments are undoubtedly significant not only in Philippine History but in the history

MacArthur Memorial Marker at Bgy. Dicklum, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon

Field Marshal Douglas MacArthur wears his Philippine Field Marshal’s Cap.

L-R VP Sergio Osmena, US Hi Comm Paul V. McNutt, Pres Manuel Quezon, Field Marshal Douglas MacArthur, Gen Paulino Santos, PA Chief of Staff.

of World War II in the Pacific as well, since it prevented the invading Japanese a moral victory by thwarting their efforts to capture the two foremost leaders in the Philippines, and was the first step back to eventual victory.

Despite this, however, some people still remain dubious about why Filipinos should dedicate two monuments to an American General, his role in the defense and eventual Liberation

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of the Philippines notwithstanding.

Philippine Field Marshal Not many now remember that General Douglas MacArthur was the first and only Field Marshal in the history of the Philippine Army, while also serving as Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines, which he served concurrently with the rank of Major General.

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Reinstate PH History in High School Curriculum, House urged September 13-19, 2021

Jesuits at EDSA 1986. The crucifix is carried by then- scholastic Tony Moreno, S.J., now President of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP). Marching with him are fellow Jesuits from the Loyola House of Studies (LHS). This crucifix can be found in one of the chapels of LHS.

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SSISTANT Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Representative France Castro has urged the House Leadership to swiftly pass House Bill 8621 mandating the inclusion of Philippine History as a subject in the high school curriculum.

“In the hearing of the Committee on Basic Education and Culture yesterday (Sept. 16), a technical working group was created to consolidate HB 8621 with other similar bills.

The authors of the bills agreed that the need for a separate subject focused on teaching Philippine History and local histories of different regions play a huge role in nation

building and critical thinking. We cannot afford generations of Filipinos not being able to understand the history of our country, the policies implemented through the years and how we can make sure that the mistakes of the past will not be repeated,” Castro said.

“As part of the socalled ‘educational reforms’ under K to 12, the Department of Education through DepEd Order 20 removed Philippine History from the curriculum of high school students. In effect, discussions of events in Philippine history are only integrated in several subjects instead of an independent subject

focused on teaching the narration of facts and ensuring that the students understand the implications of these events in our daily lives today,” Castro added.

“According to many history teachers and professors, students only learn Philippine History at the age of 11 and 12, nothing else is taught thereafter until seven years later when they enter college, if they continue their studies. This leaves with students with very minimal understanding of basic historical concepts and the significance of these events to our daily lives which further limits the capability of many Filipinos to make their own research about our own culture,

appreciate and emulate our national heroes and criticize the sins of the past the have great effects on how our society is today,” Castro stated.

“The destructive effects of the absence of Philippine History in the high school curriculum must be stressed, especially now that there are efforts of historical revisionism. The youth should understand why many decried when Toni Gonzaga interviewed the son of a dictator. The youth should understand the significance of September 21, 1972, the effects of the declaration of martial rule in our country and why the people should fight the tyrannical

rule of the Duterte administration who has been trying to emulate these dark times in our history,” Castro said.

“Erasing Philippine History in the high school curriculum amounts to a deliberate effort to make Filipinos forget the lessons of the past, our hallmarks and pride as a people and a nation, and to render us greatly vulnerable to modern agents of colonization and oppression, at the hands of imperialist powers or another Marcos.

The passage of this bill will correct this error and put Philippine History back not just in the blackboards and modules but in the consciousness of the Filipino youth,” Castro stressed.

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Towards a New Narrative of Philippine General History

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By PAUL A. DUMOL, University of Asia and the Pacific

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HE Department of Education of the Philippine government prescribes a syllabus for a course on Philippine history in Philippine high schools that is probably the closest we get to an official history of the Philippines.

The narrative of this official history presents a thrice-repeated pattern of freedom lost and freedom regained. The first time the pattern appears is with Spanish colonization followed by the proclamation of Philippine independence 333 years later; the second time, with the American conquest followed by the granting of Philippine independence 48 years later; the third time, with Ferdinand Marcos’s declaration of martial law followed by the first People Power Revolution 14 years later. The Japanese Occupation followed by liberation three years later, which would certainly fit the pattern, is referred to as a delay in the attainment of freedom.

The problem with this narrative is its silence on what should be a primary concern for Filipinos: How did the independent villages in the Philippines, bereft of unity among themselves for centuries even when they belonged to the same ethnic group, develop into the nation the Philippines claims to be today?

The official narrative gives no answer; in fact, I do not know of any attempt to date to answer this question methodically. It is clear, however, from the official narrative that this is not a question expected to vex the ordinary grade school and high school student, because from the way the official narrative is written, the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands were already a nation long before the Spaniards came.

This is the unarticulated assumption of textbooks of Philippine history, and the manner of its communication is simple: the islands that make up the presentday Republic of the Philippines are referred to as “the Philippines” and their inhabitants as “Filipinos” even before the coinage of the name “Felipinas” or the arrival itself of the Spaniards is narrated.

The assumption is that the Philippines has always “been there” and Filipinos have always “been around.”

Such a frame of mind, of course, radically affects the narration of Philippine history: the Philippines as territory has always existed, although unnamed, and the native inhabitants of the Philippines have always been a single people with a common culture, although without a central government. All it takes, of course, to reveal the gratuitousness of these assumptions is to review them from the perspective of Tausug, Maguindanao, or Maranao eyes: for these peoples the Philippines and Filipinos had precise beginnings in time.

Surely on this point the Tausug, Maguindanao, and Maranao have got it right, but if this is so, then the official narrative of Philippine history will have to be radically changed.

The concept of the Philippines as territory was originally constructed by a people who did not reside in the islands, and there is no evidence the construct was

accepted by native inhabitants until the end of the nineteenth century. So the new narrative will relate how it took three hundred and more years for the concept of the Philippines as territory to be accepted by the peoples who had been residing on the islands for centuries. It will be the narrative of how the multitude of communities dwelling on different islands and speaking different languages came to regard themselves as one community, as one people.

One consequence of this, of course, is that the Cordillera peoples and the Tausugs, Maguindanaos, and Maranaos are not late entrants into the Philippine nation, but rather have arrived just in time to contribute to its formation. Further consequences would be the more precise way of describing Spanish presence in the Philippines: were they invaders in the same way the Japanese were in 1941? Or the Americans? If there was no nation to invade, then what did the Spaniards invade? And what are we to do about Rizal’s insistence that the inhabitants of the Philippines were never conquered by the Spaniards, but rather that they made peace pacts, treaties, and reciprocal alliances with the Spaniards (see Rizal’s edition of the Morga, xxxiiin1 in the first edition; see also xxxiiin3)?

The Spaniards are frequently described as having been able to rule the Philippines for three centuries because of their policy of divide et impera, but what was there to divide if ethnic groups and indeed villages within the same ethnic group were independent of one another?

On the other hand, the many rebellions against Spain are often presented heroically, without any remark on how most of them were movements away from nationhood, if we understand “nationhood” to mean the unity of different ethnic groups.

If that is so, then should they continue to be presented as the high points of Philippine history they are frequently made out to be? Ironically, it was the two ethnic groups that collaborated most with the Spaniards in the suppression of revolts that were responsible for the Philippine Revolution of 1896; I refer to the Tagalogs and Pampangos.

Even more ironically, the Cordillera peoples and the Muslim communities of Mindanao and Sulu are heroes par excellence in the official narrative of Philippine history precisely because they never accepted Spanish domination.

Together with them, of course, would be the mountain tribes and all the families that preferred to live in the hinterlands, rather than be Spanish vassals, but from this motley crowd you would never have the Philippines. You would have the same villages living independently of one another for centuries.

This particular perspective of nationhood--villages forming towns, towns forming regions, regions forming a nation--casts events and developments in the past in a different light from the official narrative.

The pax hispanica, the prohibition of war between communities that were vassals

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of Spain, becomes an important condition of friendly relations between villages, but there is nothing said about this in Philippine textbooks. The foundation of towns, each with its own native ruler, takes on singular importance as the first step towards a larger community, considering that Philippine towns were agglomerations of villages, but this is never remarked on in Philippine textbooks.

Horacio de la Costa and Nick Joaquin have written on market days and fiestas, which surely played an important role in bringing people from different villages or towns or even ethnic groups together. And then there were the citizen armies coming from towns of the same ethnic group raised to fight the Chinese, Dutch, British, and rebellious native communities, through which males from villages who would never have mixed with each other in times past did so under someone from their own ethnic group.

Underlying the pax hispanica and the citizen armies was, of course, the relationship of vassalage between the native Christian communities and the Spanish crown: this is a topic never touched on in Philippine textbooks which anachronistically insist on seeing native Christian communities from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries as colonies in the Bourbon mold.

And yet the relationship of vassal-lord is key to understanding the relationship between Spain and native communities. I would in fact propose that the history of the Filipino people from the invention of the Philippines as territory in 1521 to the end of the nineteenth century should be limited to those ethnic groups that had accepted vassalage under Spain. These were the first Filipinos.

This would not be a form of discrimination against the Cordillera peoples and the Muslim peoples of Mindanao and Sulu, but rather a gesture of respect toward them insofar as they rejected vassalage to the Spanish king.

On the other hand, underlying the foundation of towns, market days, and fiestas was the Christianization of the largest ethnic groups of Luzon and the Visayas, which brings us to a point of gross ignorance that the new narrative I propose wishes to correct.

The villain of Philippine history is the friar, but this is, of course, the friar of Rizal’s time, Fr. Burgos’s time. Talk to any graduate of any Philippine high school and his knowledge of friarly villainy goes back three centuries to the arrival of Legazpi.

The reason is that Philippine high school students study Rizal’s novels in Filipino language class and subsequently project what they were taught about the friars all the way back to the sixteenth century.

My students are astonished when I read them translations of documents of the Synod of Manila of 1582, with their denunciation of abuses by Spanish soldiers and encomenderos and their defense of the right of native inhabitants to rule themselves.

If the protagonist of Philippine history before the twentieth

century cannot have been “the Filipino people” because there was no such people yet, then who would the protagonist have been?

Obviously, the protagonist would have been multiple: at the end of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth, the villages who accepted vassalage; from the second half of the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth, the various towns that arose from these villages.

This is what we call today “local history”; indeed, but local history as prelude to national history.

How tedious, one might complain. But how else could one capture the quintessentially Philippine experience of multiple communities uniting to form larger ones? Nevertheless, I imagine it would be convenient to write the pre-national histories as the histories of ethnic groups, the history of Ilocanos, Tagalogs, Cebuanos, and so on, while keeping in mind that no ethnic group before the end of the nineteenth century was in fact a community.

The ethnic group as community is a phenomenon rather of the twentieth century.

Concomitantly, the histories of ethnic groups as gestation period of national history would best be written in terms of “clusters,” e.g., the history of the Tagalogs and the Pampangos, the history of the Pangasinenses and the Ilocanos, the history of the Bicolanos, the Samareños, and the eastern Leyteños, and so on. No ethnic group developed in isolation, and each had a preferred ethnic group with which it interacted.

The twentieth century in the official narrative is divided into two parts: the American period and the period of the Philippine Republic.

The American period is seen as an unwelcome interruption of what the official narrative calls the nationalistic movement beginning with the Propaganda Movement and climaxing in the proclamation of Philippine independence on June 12, 1898.

The period of the Philippine Republic was delayed, so to speak, half a century. This is unbelievable distortion. In the first place, the only ethnic groups behind the Philippine Revolution from the time of its outbreak in August 1896 until the Pact of Biyak na Bato sixteen months later were the Tagalogs and Pampangos. The Ilocanos, Pangasinenses, Bicolanos, and the Visayans, although they did not oppose the Philippine Revolution, did not support it either. (It is difficult to see why we persist in calling it the Philippine Revolution.)

Second, in the same year that Aguinaldo proclaimed independence from Spain, the Republic of Negros, the Federal Republic of the Visayas, and the Republic of Lucbuan were all proclaimed in different parts of the Philippines. It is difficult to see 1898 as the birth year of the Philippine nation.

Third, the Cordillera peoples and Muslim communities in Mindanao and Sulu formed for the first time part of the same polity as the people of Luzon and the Visayas under the Americans, so that this was the first time that

Federal Republic of the Visayas

Flags used by various factions at various stages of the Philippine Revolution. all the peoples of the Philippine islands were under the same rule.

Fourth, the present Philippine House of Representatives, the Philippine Senate, and the Philippine bureaucracy all trace their roots to the American period.

Finally, it was under the Americans that ethnic groups in the Philippines first spoke a lingua franca in significant numbers; I refer to English.

Instead of being a pause after the climax, the American period looks like the immediate preparation for the real climax of the twentieth century—the period of the Philippine Republic.

Unfortunately, many understand the Philippine Republic to be equivalent to “the Philippine nation”—a sad deception. In the old curriculum for Philippine History and Government, a subject offered in First Year High School, the distinction is made between state and nation. The one is not the other; similarly, the existence of the Philippine Republic (a state) does not mean that the Philippine nation exists.

Indeed, if we look at the uneven record of the foundation of towns in Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao, there cannot have been a nation at the end of the nineteenth century, not in the Visayas or Mindanao nor arguably in certain parts of Luzon.

But the question of whether the Philippine nation already existed when the Philippine Republic was established would never be asked, because in the official narrative the Philippines was already a nation even before the Spaniards came.

Similarly, in the official narrative the Philippines was already a state even before the Americans came, so there is no

sense of newness, no sense of discovery or learning as the present Philippine state takes shape in the first half of the twentieth century.

The focus rather is on the struggle for independence from the Americans. When independence comes in 1946, there is no sense of achievement, but rather the sense of relief, as when something stolen long ago is finally recovered.

And yet the establishment of the Philippine Republic was significant, because the Philippine nation is taking shape today within the framework of the Philippine Republic (and as the nation takes shape, the Republic itself changes shape, as witness the different constitutions we have put together for ourselves since 1935) and the Philippine Republic (the state) is itself an important agent in bringing about the Philippine nation.

In the official history, the Republican period is a mere chronicle of facts, dutifully going through the different presidencies and enumerating their “achievements.”

It does linger on the Marcos Years—specifically, the declaration of martial law, the assassination of Ninoy Aquino, and the People Power Revolution, treating this series of events like the coming of the Spaniards and the Americans as an instance of freedom lost and freedom regained.

There is no discussion of the fact that in this particular instance the “tyrant” was not a foreigner, but a Filipino, and that after the first People Power Revolution there was no change in Philippine society; it merely returned to what it used to be.

The period of the Philippine Republic has yet to be woven into

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ROPERTY developer A Brown Company, Inc. (ABCI) targets P12 Billion in sales in the next five years. The firm rolls out its upcoming projects in Cagayan de Oro, Bukidnon and now introduces its first real estate venture in the cool hills of Tanay, Rizal.

“ABCI targets the full spectrum of the real estate market in its plans for the next five years offering products for the middlemiddle, upper-middle and premium markets.

Our real estate products promotes healthy, environment-friendly and low-density communities,” said ABCI President Robertino E. Pizarro.

“Our future plans include city-, mountainside-, agrotourism, and lifestyle developments fit for our market,” he added.

A nature-themed

master planned integrated community is coming up at the 300+ hectare property located in Tanay, Rizal. The expanse will host a mixed-use development of premium and mid-cost residential, commercial and farm-lot estates.

For the Cagayan de Oro market, the Uptown Metropolis crossroads the east and west side of Uptown Cagayan de Oro which is set to offer a Central Business District and commercial spaces, an Information Technology (IT) Block, The Shoppe Houses and Townhouses.

The Shoppe Houses shall offer the first commercialhome development in the region with a 3-storey commercial and home development in one building.

For the premium market, on the drawing board in Mountain Pines in Manolo Fortich,

Tanay property presents a majestic view of Laguna Lake and the Sierra Mt. Range

Bukidnon, is a master planned community of agricultural, retirement and fairway farm-lot residential estates with an 18-Hole Golf Course,

Helipad, Commercial Area, Market Place where local produce shall be sold, and Institutional Retirement Amenities such as Clinics, Horse-

Coral Resort Estates is the first residential resort estates in the region.

Bike- and Jogging Trails, and Camping Grounds.

This vast track of land is situated 1,200 meters above sea level in the cool pine tree-bordered confines at the foothills of Mt. Kitanglad.

Plans are on the way for a mid-rise condominium and cluster of townhouses facing the beachfront of Coral Resort Estates in Initao, Misamis

Oriental.

“With all these future offerings, ABCI continues to deliver excellent products and services while creating enlightened, happier, and of course healthier communities,” Pizarro noted.

ABCI is the developer of Xavier Estates in Cagayan de Oro and several lifestyle residential projects in Mindanao.

Gushing falls in the Mountain Pines property.

Makahiya, Kadena de Amor extracts as gout remedy Antigonon leptopus (Kadena de Amor) and Mimosa pudica (Makahiya) plant extracts are scientifically proven anti-gout.

Through the research project, “Standardized Anti-Hyperuricemia Extracts from Selected Philippine Plants” funded by the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP), Dr. Christine C. Hernandez, Regular Member of Division X- Chemical Sciences and Director of the Institute of Chemistry, University of the Philippines Diliman, led the efforts to search for new biologically active compounds from local herbal remedies.

Dr. Hernandez’ screened plant extracts for its potential anti-

(Left photo) Mimosa pudica (Makahiya) | (Right photo) Antigonon leptopus (Kadena de Amor)

gout symptoms using xanthine oxidase.

The xanthine oxidase enzyme, which can be found in the liver and the small intestinal mucosa, oxidizes hypoxanthine to

xanthine and xanthine to uric acid which leads to hyperuricemia and gout. This led to the discovery and identification of Kadena de Amor and Makahiya extracts that

can potentially cure hyperuricemia and gout.

Dr Hernandez’ attained the purpose of the study to examine xanthine oxidase inhibitory activity of extracts from A.

leptopus and M. pudica and isolate and identify xanthine oxidase inhibitor(s) from A. leptopus and M. pudica using an enzyme-guided bioassay scheme.

Gout is a form of

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Oriental which fall within the areas included in the proposed Metro CDO are autonomous and independent,” he noted.

“We do not submit reports to PCCI of our activities and programs. We raise our own funds and run our own affairs devoid of any intervention from PCCI. In other words, we exist as an independent forum for the development of a consensus of the business community in our respective areas on matters of local, regional and national concerns. More importantly, we promote and safeguard the interest of business in the pursuit of the common good through the free enterprise system,” Vegafria explained.

The Oro Chamber chief executive further argued that the Oro chamber has always been on the forefront of the long standing conversation regarding sustainable urban infrastructure for Metro CDO for the past several years.

“We worked with NEDA and RDC in so many forums and meetings and developing opportunities for investments both foreign and domestics.

Our stake on this issue has always been unwavering and beyond reproach,” he added.

Not the least, Vegafria pointed out that PCCI Northern Mindanao will soon be having a new regional governor who could be coming from an area outside the proposed Metro Cagayan de Oro, and might not be conversant with the issues and projects planned for the metropolization of an area he is not familiar with.

Besides the Oro Chamber, other autonomous local chambers operating within the proposed Metro Cagayan de Oro area include the Kaamulan-Bukidnon Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the North Bukidnon Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

According to the press statement posted in the NEDA-X social media page, the ad hoc committee will perform in the interim the governance mechanisms as proposed in the Masterplan for the Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Development in Metropolitan Cagayan de Oro (SUID MCDO), while waiting for the creation of a metropolitan development authority through the passage of a law.

MCMDA Bill Rep. Rufus B. Rodrigues, Deputy House Speaker and 2nd Cagayan de Oro District Representative, has filed House Bill No. 432, entitled: “AN ACT CREATING THE METRO

CAGAYAN DE MISAMIS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, DEFINING ITS POWERS AND FUNCTIONS, PROVIDING FUNDING THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES” which was approved by the House Committee on Government Enterprises and Privatization on September 3, 2020.

In his explanatory note, Rep. Rodriguez cited the economic gains of Cagayan de Oro City and its improvements and investments which will inevitably spill over to neighboring cities and municipalities. Under HB No. 432, the Metro Cagayan de Misamis will cover the cities of Cagayan de Oro and El Salvador and the municipalities of Tagoloan, Villanueva, Opol, Alubijid and Laguindingan.

The proposed Metro Cagayan de Misamis Development Authority (MCMDA) will be providing services in the covered areas in terms of Development Planning, Transport and Traffic Management, Solid Waste Disposal and Management, Flood Control and Sewerage Management, Urban Renewal, Zoning and Land Use Planning and Shelter Services, Health and Sanitation, Urban Protection and Pollution Control, and Public Safety.

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL 10TH Judicial Regional BRANCH 21 Cagayan de Oro City IN RE: PETITION FOR THE RE-ISSUANCE OF OWNER’S DUPLICATE OF OCT 14061 REGISTERED UNDER THE NAME MAURICO TABALBAG, MELODINA B. DRUBBELS,

Petitioner, -versusTHE REGISTER OF DEED OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL,

Respondent. x----------------------------------------------------/

MISC. CASE NO. R-CDO-21-02210-LR

ORDER This is a verified Amended Petition for the re-issuance of owner’s duplicate of OCT P-14061 registered under the name MAURICIO TABALBAG is filed by herein petitioner, MELODINA DRUBBELS, alleging among others that petitioner is a new owner of a land situated in Barrio Cogon, Balingasag, Misamis Oriental, having acquired the same through a Deed of Absolute Sale from the Heirs of Mauricio and Benita Tabalbag on February 9, 2018; that sometime on March 23, 2019, when she was abroad a jeepney coming from Register of Deeds of Cagayan de Oro, she had lost a brown envelope containing document, including the Owner’s Duplicate Certificate of OCT P-14061; that an Affidavit of Loss was executed by herein petitioner to prove the fact of loss and the same affidavit was duly annotated by the Register of Deeds of Misamis Oriental; that the Owner’s Duplicate Certificate of OCT P-14061 was turned over nor mortgaged to any third party of financial institution; that Owner’s Duplicate Certificate of OCT P-14061 in on file and intact in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Misamis Oriental. Thus, this petition.

Finding the amended petition sufficient in form and substance, let the initial hearing be made on OCTOBER 4, 2021 [MONDAY] at 8:30 in the morning at the Ground Floor, Hall of Justice, Masterson Avenue corner Macapagal Road, Upper Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City. During the hearing, the jurisdictional requirements of posting, publication and notice to all persons who have interest which would be affected by this petition, will be proved.

At the expense of the petitioner, let copy of this Order , together with copies of the petition and its annexes, be published at least once a week for three [3] consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Misamis Oriental. Let also a copy of this Order, together with copies of the Petition and its annexes, be posted at the Bulletin Board of the Barangay Hall of Barrio Cogon, Balingasag, Misamis Oriental, where the property covered by the subject title is located; at the Bulletin Board of the Office of the Registry of Deeds of Misamis Oriental; at the Bulletin Board of the Provincial Capitol of Misamis Oriental and at the Bulletin Board of this Court at the Ground Floor, Hall of Justice, Masterson Avenue corner Macapagal Road, Upper Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City at least fourteen [14] days prior to the date of hearing.

Any person having or claiming any interest over the property subject of the lost title is directed file their written opposition and may appear on the said date of hearing.

Let a copy of this Order be furnished to Petitioner’s Counsel, Atty. Odilon Apolinario , and the Register of Deeds of Misamis Oriental.

SO ORDERED. Done this 7th day of July 2021 in Cagayan de Oro City.

(SGD) GIL G. BOLLOZOS Presiding Judge

CT: Sept. 6, 13 & 20, 2021

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President Manuel L. Quezon officially conferred on him the rank of Field Marshal on 24 August 1936 in a ceremony at Malacañang Palace . He was presented at that time with a gold baton and a unique uniform.

MacArthur had retired from the United States Army as a majorgeneral, having previously served as a full general while Chief of Staff of the United States Army.

President Quezon then hired him as a military advisor and commissioned him a Field Marshal in the Philippine Army, tasked with organizing the Philippine Commonwealth Army as a deterrent to increasing Japanese aggression in the Pacific, with practically nil resources and untrained personnel.

Although unofficially considered as the five-star rank in the Armed Forces of the Philippines, MacArthur wore no special insignia as Field Marshal of the Philippines , except for a modification to his army officer’s cap.

To the standard goldtrimmed visor of a United States general’s cap, MacArthur added gilt trim to the front body of the cap, above the visor. MacArthur referred to this modified headdress as his “Philippine Field Marshal’s Cap” and wore it for the duration of World War II and into the Korean War. Together with his aviator sunglasses and distinctive corn cob pipe, the cap has since become icons On December 31, 1937, MacArthur first retired from the U.S. Army and the Philippine Army. He ceased to represent the United States as military adviser to the government, but remained in the Philippines as Quezon’s adviser in a

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a narrative which must answer the question I posed earlier: How did the independent villages in the Philippines, bereft of unity among themselves for centuries even when they belonged to the same ethnic group, develop into the nation the Philippines claims to be today?

The answer to this question in the twentieth century is difficult to discern because the rhetoric emanating from schools, the government, and mass media would have us all believe that the Philippines is already a nation.

Collaborationism under the Japanese, however, the Muslim separatist groups, and the broad stream of emigrants from the Philippines all remind us that the nation is still in the process of formation.

Occasionally, social scientists remind us that the loyalty of Filipinos to their respective ethnic groups is stronger than their loyalty to the nation. That is only to be expected, because regionalism did not exist before the twentieth century, and we are obviously witnessing a stage in the development toward nationalism.

The twentieth century, however, saw more than the emergence of the Philippine state and the rise of regionalism. It

The iconic Cap, Aviator Sunglasses and Corn Cob Pipe at the MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, Virginia.

civilian capacity.

USAFFE In July 26, 1941, MacArthur was recalled to active duty as Supreme Allied Commander South West Pacific Area and the United States Army Forces Far East (USAFFE).

Poorly trained, ill-equipped with antiquated weapons, inadequate ammunition and supplies, and suffering from malaria and food shortages, the USAFFE nevertheless became the only army which managed to stymie the Imperial Japanese Army in its rampage through East Asia.

The six months the IJA needed to defeat the USAFFE was four months longer than the Japanese had planned. Those extra months required the Japanese to invest additional manpower and resources in the Philippines as opposed to other areas of the

Pacific theater, thus buying MacArthur more valuable time in preparing his forces to repel and eventually counterattack the enemy.

And lest we forget, by 1944 the Allies were all for bypassing the Philippines and attacking Formosa instead but MacArthur stood firm, even going as far as going back to Washington, D.C. to personally appeal to US Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his insistence finally resulted in the October 20, 1944 Leyte Landing where he fulfilled his promise made two and a half years earlier, “I shall return.”

MacArthur may have been an American by birth, but he was a Filipino at heart and in deed, and we dedicate these Memorials in humble appreciation for his great love and sacrifice for the Philippines and the Filipinos.

saw the start of at least two more narratives: (a) the rise of modern Philippines with its network of roads, communications, and transportation, tall buildings (today, skyscrapers) of steel and concrete, the full panoply of modern professions manned by Filipinos, and the multi-ethnic city other than Manila, and (b) the birth of movements for social justice and democracy, which are nothing less than the rejection of the traditional native social structure.

These are, of course, unfinished and ongoing narratives, which must be presented as such because it will be the student’s turn to finish them. The second narrative in particular promises to be a saga that will furnish the emerging nation with heroes and martyrs.

The University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) conferred the highest academic rank of full professor on historian and playwright Dr. Paul Arvisu Dumol during its 21st University Day on August 15, 2016. Dumol is a full-time faculty member of UA&P and teaches courses in Philippine History and Rizal. In 2012, he received the Gawad Rizal from the National Historical Commission for his work in Rizal Studies and in the propagation of Rizal’s ideas.

He wrote The Metaphysics of Reading Underlying Dante’s Commedia: The Ingegno and

translated into English rare manuscripts that became published as The Manila Synod of 1582: The Draft of its Handbook for Confessors. The classic Ang Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio, described as “the most frequently performed one-act play in Filipino,” was written

by Dumol when he was in high school.

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About the author: The University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) conferred the highest academic rank of full professor on historian and playwright Dr. Paul Arvisu Dumol during its 21st University Day on August 15, 2016. Dumol is a full-time faculty member of UA&P and teaches courses in Philippine History and Rizal. In 2012, he received the Gawad Rizal from the National Historical Commission for his work in Rizal Studies and in the propagation of Rizal’s ideas. He wrote The Metaphysics of Reading Underlying Dante’s Commedia: The Ingegno and translated into English rare manuscripts that became published as The Manila Synod of 1582: The Draft of its Handbook for Confessors. The classic Ang Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio, described as “the most frequently performed one-act play in Filipino,” was written

by Dumol when he was in high school.

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Italpinas' Chairman to talk about the importance of Infrastructures and Developments

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TALPINAS Development Corporation's Chairman and CEO, Architect Romolo Nati, has been called to talk at an important infrastructure event that will be held on 16th and 17th September 2021. Together with high caliber speakers such as DPWH Secretary Mark Villar, DOT Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat, Andres Pizarro from AIIB (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Ms. Gizelle MaySmith of PWC among others, Architect Nati will discuss

“The Strategic Importance of Infrastructure for Economic Development and Inclusive Growth in the Philippines”.

Coming from the real estate development sector, Nati knows very well that where there is infrastructure there is economic growth and investment potential. He will tell his story and how infrastructure has influenced his business decisions over the past 10 years. The 2-dayevent will hold also several panel discussions to tackle topics such as “the importance

of technology and innovation for the infrastructure sector” as well as feature the heartfelt confessions of how the infrastructure stakeholders have been facing this pandemic.

The tourism sector has been one of the hardest hits and will have Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat talk about “Strengthening Tourism Infrastructure in the Philippines amidst Pandemic”.

The event is also partnered by the Italian Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines

as well as the Infrastructure and Construction Focus Group.

Overall, the stakeholders of the infrastructure and construction sector are eager to hear about the ideas and solutions that will lift the industry out of this current hardship to continue with the enthusiastic construction push that was launched with the Build-Build-Build agenda of the government.

The event will be fully digital and can be accessed by consulting the Facebook page of Mykar events.

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