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DAVAO C i t y – – Three lumads were injured in two separate traffic accidents Wednesday at the height of the holiday season’s influx of indigenous people coming down to the city from the hinterlands, an annual event that city officials have tolerated for years.

Mcmillan A. Lucman: Acting Regional Secretary of DAR-ARMM.

DAR-Armm entry to the 2014 SORA Executive summary

COTABATO City--One of the major programs of the department is land distribution. For 2014, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) targeted a total of 6,087 hectares for distribution to program

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Gonda: Cocpo’s morale still high

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11 hurt in Bukidnon stampede

By CHENG ORDOÑEZ Associate Editor

By MARK FRANCISCO Staff Writer

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MEGAWORLD SUNTRUST-DAVAO. Engr. Leonora P. Guutierrez , Assistant Vice President Davao Branch T H E m o r a l e o f t h e Operations, with Deanna Jean A. Claveria , CPA, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and Jerry crowd of 3,649 people inside 3,000-strong members of the Cagayan de Oro Police Office (Cocpo) are still high, Cocpo operations head Supt. Lemuel Gonda assured the public.

This despite four of their colleagues are now facing murder and frustrated murder complaints before

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Fishing boat sinks off Basilan; 25 crewmen rescued

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R. Rubis, First Vice President for Marketing and Business Development Division, all of Suntrust Properties, Inc. and Dante M. Sudaria of BusinessWeek Mindanao Group of Newspapers during the ceremonial cutting of ribbon for the soft opening of Suntrust-Davao office located at Claveria Street, Davao City on December 16, 2014.

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DAR-Agusan Norte turns over P3.7m project to farmers’ coop Editors’ Note: The banner story of our regional story for Caraga region, which we published yesterday (December 18, 2014), should be read as “Dar-Agusan Norte turns over P3.7m project to farmers’ coop” and not “DAR-Agsur turns over P3.7m project to farmers’ coop.” We are reprinting the story. Our apology to Mr. Gil Miranda and to our readers for the mixed up.

By GIL MIRANDA

JABONGA, Agusan del Norte – The Agusan del Norte Provincial Agrarian Reform Office handed over more than P3.7 mil-

lion worth of post-harvest facility to Libas Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (LFMPC) in Barangay Libas here last December 5, 2014.

Following a ribbon-cutting ceremony, Department

a gymnasium in Valencia, Bukidnon, panicked and scampered to safety after See hurt, page A11

of Agrarian Reform (DAR)Caraga Regional Director Faisar Mambuay, Jabonga Mayor Jasmin Monton and Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer Andre Atega unveiled the project marker to the delight of the 117 members of the farmers’ cooperative.

Mayor Monton thanked Director Mambuay See coop, page A11

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AVAO CITY – Three lumads were injured in two separate traffic accidents Wednesday at the height of the holiday season's influx of indigenous people coming down to the city from the hinterlands, an annual event that city officials have tolerated for years.

The incidents happened near the barangay hall of Toril, which houses around 2,000 lumad families, and Buhangin.

Injured were Palabio Omaling, 15 years old and a resident of Barangay Mapula, Paquibato District; Aldrin Cabantao, 9, of Sitio Pamuhatan; and Wilslie Apang, 6, from Marilog, According to the Davao City Police Office, Omaling was injured after being hit by a motorcycle driven by Jefrey Sacupayo around 7 a.m. near the gym in Buhangin.

The DCPO report said the motorcycle was traveling along CP Garcia Highway headed to Panacan when the motorcycle hit Omaling. Sacupayo and Omaling were rushed to the Southern

Philippines Medical Center for treatment.

Cabantao and Apang, meanwhile, were reportedly sideswiped by a motorcycle near the shelter area in Toril, according to the City Social Services and Development Office (CSSDO).

The CSSDO said there are almost 12,000 families in the city's eight shelters as of Wednesday.

The incidents happened barely a week after Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte warned motorists of being "extra careful" when driving on the streets, owing to indigenous people who may not be aware of the traffic rules in the city.

The mayor also tasked the barangay councils to monitor the shelter situation upon hearing reports

of some lumads already sleeping at the road shoulders, especially in shelters like the one in Barangay Buhangin.

Meanwhile, the sectoral representative for indigenous peoples asked the city council to draft an ancestral domain sustainable development and protection plan (ADSDPP) to address the needs of Ata tribes people in Paquibato District.

At a speech delivered at Tuesday's regular session at the Sangguniang Panlungsod, IP representative Berino Mambo-o Sr. said it was useless for IPs to receive ancestral domain titles without any development plan in place.

“No matter how large such land, if left without development, the economic state of the lumad will remain as it is,” Mambo-o said.

Mambo-o cited the case of the Ata people of Paquibato, which were awarded

a certificate of ancestral domain covering at least 87,000 hectares.

The city's Comprehensive Land Use Program (CLUP) has already identified Marilog and Paquibato districts as exclusive zones for agro-forestry development program, as well as for upland agricultural development.

Marilog and Paquibato, along with Baguio district, are known to be inhabited by indigenous people.

The document identified barangays Baganihan and Datu Salumay, both in Marilog, as tourism development zones, conforming to tourism standards on eco- and cultural tourism.

The CLUP maps out the government's plans for the city, from 2013 to 2022.

In Barangay 5A, the barangay chair said the shelter area located in Bankerohan has been slowly decongested, with lumads

relocating to their places of origin.

“The lumads have started going back home since Monday this week,” 5A chief Edgar Ibuyan Jr. said at the sidelines of Wednesday's forum on rabies held at the third floor of the Sangguniang Panlungsod.

He said the Bankerohan gym is considered to be a “critical area” since it housed IPs from different tribes belonging to different areas.

Sheltered at the gym since early December were around six truck-loads of more than 1,000 families of IPs from Paquibato, Marilog, Bukidnon and Cotabato.

Some have decided to go back home using trucks from the City Engineer's Office, with others hiring jeepneys using their own money.

Ibuyan said the management of the lumads comes from around 14 years’ worth

of experience.

“During the first day, we have had a lumad giving birth at the shelter,” Ibuyan said.

He added that there was also one lumad that got drunk and had to be arrested after causing a commotion.

The barangay chair said it was a policy at the Bankerohan shelter for lumads who were armed with bolos and knives to surrender the items to authorities while at the gym.

The lumads are being housed at the Bankerohan, Matina, Buhangin, Bunawan, Toril, Tugbok, Mintal and Calinan gyms.

Last Sunday, Duterte tasked Traffic Management Center chief Rhodelio Poliquit to monitor the situation at Buhangin after hearing reports that lumads were already sleeping on road sides because of the congested gym in the area.

(MindaNews)

In a bid to achieve a 100% Tobacco Free Environment, ComVal holds its 2nd Provincial Red Orchid Award 2014 on December 15 with Gov. Uy conferring the certificates, plaques and cash prizes to the Red Orchid Awardees.

With him are Assistant PHO Chief Dr. Georgie Arvin legaspi, DOH Region XI Non Communicable Diseases Cluster Head Dr. Sharon Valdez and DOH Region XI Non Communicable Diseases Coordinator Rosemarie Basañes and the awardees. (r. Renoblas/ids comval)

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Proofs ought to be clearer than the light Two police officials and two other non-commissioned police officers were charged with multiple murder and frustrated murder with the City Prosecutor’s Office here this week.

There were also civilians, including an alleged lawyer, and many other “John Does” who were charged together with the police officers.

While the filing of the case was based on the testimony of one of the survivors, the testimony could still be questioned in court.

We also commend the courage of the witness to come out and expose the alleged criminal acts of rouge law enforcers. It is also our desire for the court of law to resolve the case as soon as possible.

By the way, we are not discussing the merit of the case here. As a taxpayer, we enjoy the right to express our thoughts without an intention to demolish an argument submitted by the complainant.

It is not also our intention to influence the

Does a congressman or senator—or any public official, for that matter—have the right to be re-elected at taxpayers’ expense? Of course not, but this presumptuous attitude underpins the insistence of certain people that funds be set aside for legislators and other public officials to use at their discretion.

In fact, a congressman from Davao Oriental was famously quoted as saying: “If you take away the pork barrel, what would we in Congress do for our districts?” It didn’t occur to him that making wise laws on behalf of his constituents was what he was supposed to be doing, and not only for his district.

Such misguided officials actually think this perverted attitude justifies their misuse and abuse of government funds while engaged in “public service.” So there’s no telling what they’ll think of next to recover lost benefits, being experts at detours and shortcuts.

But what’s really pernicious is how their values and attitudes attract or encourage political freeloaders and parasites to run for office at all levels of the bureaucracy in hopes of taking their turn at the till. *****

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opinion of the prosecution because we believed in the independence of the court.

We are emphasizing this disclaimer, otherwise we could be accused of exonerating or favoring the accused in the instant case.

Besides, we are careful of mentioning any names here. We are presenting a case based on a real scenario, although the actors are figments of the imagination.

Anyway, the accused could, at all times, deny the accusation hurled against them. It is true that the testimony of a witness could

be a material evidence, but it does not mean that a material evidence could not be demolished.

The positive identification by the witness of the suspect does not also mean a conviction. While the positive identification of the suspect could bolster a case, it is not a sufficient ingredient to win a case.

There is also a conflict in a scenario where one or more crimes were committed in a separate place from where the testimony of the other victim occurred. A person accused of committing a crime in “District A” could not be held liable of the crime in “District B,” especially if the acts were committed at the same time or period of the day. This principle follows the maxim that: “A person cannot be in two places at the same time.”

Following the principle of due process, like the aggrieved party who seeks justice, the accused has also the right to justice. In other words, if the accuser

Attitude matters a lot The Worm’s Eyeview

Manny Valdehuesa

It was, is, the ease in accessing government funds that enables unscrupulous officials to finance the campaigns of relatives, cronies, or sycophants who would then team up with them in looting the treasury. Remember how the Makati vice mayor admitted he profited as a crony of Mayor Jojo Binay back when they were still close?

Such connivance has had the effect of overloading the bureaucracy with unfit administrators, legislators, representatives, or kagawads down to the barangay. They make government a source of livelihood or a family enterprise for their dynasty, even supplying cakes for senior citizens.

This practice started more or less contemporaneously with the introduction

of internal revenue allotments (IRA) to all local governments starting in 1992.

Awash with new-found cash, even the lowly barangay started to look like the proverbial Horn of Plenty to the unemployed and unemployable in the neighborhoods. ***** Thus, even barangay positions came to be hotlycontested in the neighborhoods, wrecking solidarity in the community.

When it came time to file certificates of candidacy, Comelec offices filled up to bursting point as wannabes elbowed each other to get ahead in the lengthening lines of petty trapos.

It wouldn’t have been so bad if the DILG and concerned congressional committees took the trouble before or after elections to prime the community on pertinent features of the so-called Local Government Code that enable them to oversee local corruption.

But no one cared about how the new autonomy law was implemented or complied with, leaving the local officials to implement the Code anyway they pleased. No one and no agency bothered to do so elementary a task as ex-

has the right to plead for the imprisonment of the probable culprit, the offender has also the right to be free.

Thus, it is also the right of the accused or the suspect to avail of the protection of the law. This is the reason why the respondent and the plaintiff are given a day in court. The court then will determine the merit of the case.

At any rate, the court believes that the conviction of the accused is easily said than done. After all, the burden of proof always lies in the hands of the accuser.

Under the circumstance, the court would carefully determine the truth on the bases of facts and evidences presented.

We are always confident that, in a criminal case, the court will always decide under the principle: “In criminalibus, probationes bedent esse luce clarioses.” (In criminal cases, the proofs ought to be clearer than the light.) -0- react: crisguardian@yahoo.com

plaining the background, rationale, or importance of various features of the Code—especially how it profoundly affected the Republic’s political structure bottom-up. ***** Consequently, even today people barely have an idea of their mandated role in local governance, let alone the urgency of performing it.

Worse, the elected officials—being inadequately informed or ignorant of the law—simply carry on as if governing is their sole prerogative, the powers of government theirs alone to wield, which explains why they treat their constituents like spectators, and manipulate them as partisan cheering squads.

Thus to this day no one knows how erroneous it is for a barangay chairman to sport the colonial title of “Kapitan.” It isn’t even used anywhere in the Code— the actual designation prescribed being “Chairman” or “Punong Barangay.”

This error persists because no one explains why it is inappropriate, why it causes problems at cognitive and operating levels. ***** Not even the department See vadehuesa, page A6

Daily Inspiration Not enough “Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

Willing is not enough; we must do.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Writer, artist, biologist, physicist (1749 – 1832)

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books, take a class and gather how-to information. Your next step is the “doing” stage. Isn’t it interesting to realize there is a gap between KNOWING and DOING. When it comes to accomplishing a goal, it requires more than WILLINGHave you ever tried to kick a bad habit, NESS and KNOWING. If you want to lose weight, or get organized? The first accomplish your goal, commit yourself steps may be to read articles, appropriate wholeheartedly to applying and doing.

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Priest starts Mindanao leg of ‘Climate Ride’ S URIGAO CIT Y

– After finishing the Baclaran-Leyte route on Tuesday, Redemptorist priest Fr. Amado Picardal began the Mindanao leg of his bike tour for the climate Wednesday from the Lipata Port in Surigao City.

The 60-year-old priest started pedaling around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, shortly after arriving here from Liloan, Southern Leyte via a roll-on-roll off vessel.

“I embarked on this bike-tour in memory of the victims of super typhoon ‘Yolanda’ (2013), ’Pablo” (2012) and Sendong (2011),” he told MindaNews.

Picardal left Baclaran in Manila last Wednesday for a bike journey that he hopes would raise awareness about climate change.

M i n d a Ne w s j oi n e d Picardal from Surigao City up to the junction of Badas, Placer town in Surigao del Norte, a distance of 30 kilometers, along with Jayjay Baldonado, a triathlete from this city.

“We should do something to respond to disasters because this is a serious threat to humanity,” Picardal said, adding the typhoons that hit the country claimed thousands of lives.

Picardal’s bike tour stretches a total of 1,800 kilometers. His final destination is Iligan City, on Dec. 23.

“My bike from Luzon to Visayas was colorful. I was impressed by the beauty of nature in those places, I really appreciate it well.

I saw poverty here, there and everywhere,” he said.

Down twice

Picardal said his advocacy is what keeps him going because “this keeps me energized”.

But he said he had fallen from his bike twice already – the first after hitting an uneven road somewhere in Plaridel in Luzon, and the second was on a descent along the Quirino Highway also in Luzon.

“In the second accident I did not notice that the road had loose gravel. I got minor bruises and my knee is still swollen after those accidents,” he said.

Picardal said he could not go beyond 20-27 kilometers per hour because he has to maintain a heart rate of below 140 beats per minute.

He added that on his first 50-kilometer run he suffered leg cramps that forced him to reduce his speed. “I have to relax because my muscle in the legs had tightened.”

With no support vehicle, as he finds it awkward for his campaign, he said he just uses mental toughness to reach his goal.

Picardal also got flat tires twice which delayed his arrival in some places.

Nonetheless, he managed to make it to Tacloban City from Baclaran in five days, which was shorter than his previous trip along the same route.

In 2000, Picardal did a ‘bike for peace’ advocacy with a total distance of 2,080 kilometers from Davao to Pagudpud in Ilocos Norte, after deposed president Joseph Estrada waged allout-war against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

In 2006, he did a bike

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around Mindanao for the Life and Peace campaign, covering a total distance of 2,100 kilometers, to protest extra-judicial killings, human right violations, mining and logging.

He endured a 5,160-kilometer bike tour in 2008 from Davao to Aparri in Cagayan Valley and back to Davao.

Picardal also hiked from Davao to Appari via the Cordilleras.

Calling himself an ultramarathoner, the priest said that in Spain, he ran 800 kilometers barefoot.

“In all of these, it’s not about bike and run per se, but once I’m in the church I always ask if I could preach on my advocacy,” he said.

Aside from the church, he said he shares his advocacy everywhere, on the road, in a store or in a waiting shed while taking rest.

Prior to this tour, his doctor warned him not to proceed citing the risk. “I was diagnosed with atherosclerosis and myocardial ischemia. It’s a mild heart

ailment,” he explained.

But Picardal went on despite the risk and even if he had tooth extraction prior to the tour. “I can’t bear the pain. I was advised by my dentist not to proceed.”

Misa de Gallo Last Sunday, Picardal held a mass at the Redemptorist church in Tacloban where he told the churchgoers about what he’s doing.

“People were shocked by what they heard. They were awed by what I did and what I’m doing right now,” “It’s not about disasters but it’s about the cause of it,” he told the churchgoers.

He said he just wanted to remind people that climate change is a serious threat to humanity. “We need to act, we need to tell the government to do something about this and the people must respond to this by doing simple things like riding a bike in going to office or school instead of riding a car.”

Picardal stopped Wednesday by Prosperidad in Agusan del Sur where he

Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province: Agusan del Norte City/Municipality: Butuan City

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

CEE#1773-2014

Date: December 10, 2014

In compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1, the Guidelines in the Implementation of Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR of RA 10172), notice is hereby served to the public that MARJORIE HINSOY SELLON has filed with this office, a petition for correction of entry in the child’s sex from “MALE FEMALE” to “FEMALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of MARJORIE HINSOY SELLON at Davao City and whose parents are JOEL KINASO SELLON and ENARCISA D. HINSOY. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office not later than December 31, 2014.

(Sgd.) Atty. LEO ANTHONY R. BRACEROS

City Civil Registrar MDN: Dec 12 & 19, 2014

R.A. 9048 Form No.10.1 (LCR O) Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province; Lanao del Norte City/Municipality: Iligan City NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION In compliance with Section 5 R.A.9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that MA. LUISA M. DELGADO has filed with this Office a petition for Change of First Name from MARIA LUISA to MA. LUISA in the Certificate of Live Birth of MARIA LUISA GURRIA MONTEJO who was born on 31 JANUARY 1967 at Iligan City, Lanao del Norte and whose parents are Maria Fe M. Gurria and Vicente B. Montejo.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this office not later than JANUARY 2015.

(Sgd.) MARIA PURA C. MASCARIÑAS City Civil Registrar MDN: Dec 12 & 19, 2014

five to six hours a day. But on his trip to Surigao from Liloan, he slept for only one hour.

“Feel groggy, would just find a waiting shed and take some rest for a while,” he said with a smile.

Training Fr. Picardal said he trained on his own for at least three months before the tour. “I do bike 3-4 days in a week. That’s when I go to the office and back to where I stayed.”

He said he did long rides on weekends. “I bike from Baclaran to Tagaytay, Pico de Loro, Nasugbu, Lipa, among others.”

Triathlon A certified marathoner cum cyclist, there is one thing he wants to do next -- become a triathlete.

“I want to compete in a triathlon race. But right See Priest, page A6

Republic of the Philippines FOURTH SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT Fourth Shari’a Judicial District Iligan City IN RE: JOIN PETITION TO APPROVE AND REGISTER THE DIVORCE BY SPOUSES ROMMEL S. GRATE AND HAZEL S, GALEOS-GRATE,

CIVIL CASE NO. 2014-145

ROMMEL S. GRATE AND HAZEL S. GALEOSGRATE, Petitioners X----------------------------------------------------------/

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ORDER

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that ALFREDO JR. MAGNO CALO has filed with this Office a petition for Change of First Name from “ALFREDO BERNARDO” to “ALFREDO JR.” in the Certificate of Live Birth of ALFREDO BERNARDO CALO who was born on Oct. 8, 1953 at Emmanuel Hospital, Butuan City, Agusan and whose parents are ALFREDO V. CALO and MERCEDES MAGNO. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than 2 January 2015.

Before this court is verified petition for Judicial approval of the registered divorce filed by the petitioner.

Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance, let the case be scheduled its initial hearing and the same be published in a newspaper of General Circulation in three (3) consecutive weeks. Attendance of the petitioners to the said hearing is mandatory

WHEREFORE, premises considered, the hearing of the case shall be on January 5, 2015, at 9:00 o’clock a.m. at which time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this order be published in a newspaper of General Circulation in the Northern Mindanao once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner.

SO ORDERED.

Iligan City, Philippines, December 4, 2014.

(SGD.) JUDITH ALVIZO-CALO, LLB, MPA

City Civil Registrar MDN: Dec 19 & 24, 2014

(Sgd.|) HON. OSOP M. ALI

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officiated the traditional Misa de Gallo Thursday. On Friday, he will do the same in New Bataan, Compostela.

He said that since the start of the nine-day Misa de Gallo on Dec. 16, he would request to preach at a church in the place where he would sleep for the night.

‘One day, one eat’ Picardal’s food intake follows a Spartan regimen.

He said he doesn’t take breakfast, only a cup of coffee before getting on the bike.

By lunch time, he just takes water and a few minutes of rest. He said he had tried surviving a few days with just water. “I rest, I do catnaps. That makes me recover when I get tired.”

At evening, it’s refueling time for the priest. “I eat heavy meal at dinner for me to fully recover.”

He said he sleeps only

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Publication Notice R.A. 10172

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

In compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No: 2013-1 Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that ERLINDA IRORITA SANTELLAN has filed with this Office,a correction of entry in the month and day of birth from “APRIL 2” to “MARCH 24” in the certificate of live birth of ERLINDA IRORITA at Malita,Davao del Sur and whose parents are SANTIAGO IRORITA and ANTONINA S. IRORITA. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than December 31, 2014.

In compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1, Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that BENJIE SANICO ESCOBIDO has filed with this office a petition for Change of First Name from “JANITH” to “JOCELYN” and Correction of entry in the child’s date of birth from “AUG. 8, 1962” to “JULY 3, 1962” in the Certificate of Live Birth of JANITH SONCIO, who was born on Aug. 8, 1962 at Anakan, Gingoog, Philippines and whose parents are MELBA RODRIGUEZ and CRESENCIANO SONCIO.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than 5 January 2015.

(Sgd.) JOSEPHINE A. MARQUEZ

Municipal Civil Registrar

(SGD.) JUDITH ALVIZO-CALO, LLB, MPA City Civil Registrar

MDN: Dec 12 & 19, 2014

R.A. Form No.10.1 (LCRO) Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province: Davao del Sur City/Municipality: Malita NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION In compliance with section 5 of R.A. Act No. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that BELINDA OLMEDO has filed this office a petition for change of first name from PSYCHE MAE to MARIE MAE in the birth certificate of PSYCHE MAE OLMEDO who was born on JULY 20, 1985 at MALITA,DAVAO DEL SUR and whose parents are BELINDA OLMEDO. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than DECEMBER 31,2014.

(Sgd.) JOSEPHINE A. MARQUEZ

Municipal Civil Registrar

MDN: Dec 12 & 19, 2014

MDN: Dec 19 & 24, 2014

R.A. 9048 Form No.10.1 (LCR O) Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province; Lanao del Norte City/Municipality: Iligan City NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION In compliance with Section 5 R.A.9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that JOSE B. GAITE. has filed with this Office a petition for Change of First Name from JOSE LEONCIO to JOSE in the Certificate of Live Birth of JOSE LEONCIO GAITE who was born on March 12, 1952 at Iligan City, Lanao del Norte and whose parents are Buenaventura Belbes and Leoncio Gaite.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this office not later than January 2015.

(Sgd.) MARIA PURA C. MASCARIÑAS City Civil Registrar MDN: Dec 12 & 19, 2014

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Fortun wants transparency in project implementation

By PAT SAMONTE Butuan News Bureau

BUTUAN City––Agusan del Norte First District Rep. Lawrence Lemuel Fortun stressed the importance of transparency and accountability in accordance with good governance in the implementation of infrastructure projects.

In his message dur-

ing the inauguration and turn-over of P12.6-million school buildings to Butuan Central Elementary School here last December 12, 2014, Fortun said his policy since he entered government service has been to make projects clear and transparent for the benefit of the public.

The school project consisted of two units two-

Oro dads okay 2015 budget THROUGH Ordinance No. 12903-2014, the City Council during its regular session Monday presided over by Vice Mayor Caesar Ian E. Acenas approved the annual budgets of the General Fund with an estimated income of P1,872,217,094.00 and of the

Special Account: Economic Services with an estimated income of P67,166,522.00 for the City Economic Enterprises and P13,333,478.00 for the East-Westbound Terminals and Public Market, and P128,522,838.00 for

Priest...

chanic assistant and now considered one of the strongest and fastest triathletes in Caraga Region said he wanted to join Picardal in trips around Mindanao but his work won’t allow him to do so.

“It’s my first time in my life to meet a person who has made a remarkable personal record and with a passion for advocacies.

I salute him for that. He is awesome, he is the man,” Baldonado said. (Roel N. Catoto/MindaNews)

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now I have to finish this mission,” he said.

But he admitted that becoming a triathlete is quite difficult because he needs more time to train.

“I have to go on out of town trips in a month. I need to undergo a total immersion in swimming.”

Baldonado said he was amazed by the priest’s feats and advocacy.

Baldonado, a shop me-

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ment of the interior and local government (DILG), or its Local Government Academy in Los Banos has bothered to explain the context behind the adoption of “chairman” or “punong barangay” as the correct title—and not “kapitan” or “teniente” as in colonial times.

They don’t know how inappropriate it is to give a military title to the presiding officer of a democratic community of peers or equal citizens?

Barangay chairmen are the chief public servant of the community, not its commander or dictator.

They aren’t elected to give out commands; the constituents who elect them are his bosses.

To let them use “kapitan” fuels the attitude that barangay citizens are their

See budget, page 11

subordinate soldiers and orderlies instead of sovereign citizens to whom they are answerable.

It’s unbelievable that no one in the vast bureaucracy of the DILG has figured out that a “Kapitan” by definition is a dictator—someone who dictates or gives out commands; thus entirely wrong and inappropriate for the “prime minister” of the barangay’s parliamentary government.

Manny is former UNESCO regional director for Asia-Pacific; secretary-general, Southeast Asia Publishers Association; director, development academy of Philippines; member, Philippine Mission to the UN; vice chair, Local Government Academy; member, Cory Govt’s Peace Panel; awardee, PPI-UNICEF outstanding columnist. He is president/ national convenor, Gising Barangay Movement Inc. valdehuesa@gmail.com

R.A. 9048 Form No.10.1 (LCR O) Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province; Lanao del Norte City/Municipality: Iligan City NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION In compliance with Section 5 R.A.9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that IQBAL B. MACARAYA has filed with this Office a petition for Change of First Name from JASNIARA to JAZEMA in the Certificate of Live Birth of JASNAIRA BENITO MACARAYA who was born on 05 August 1994 at Iligan City, Lanao del Norte and whose parents are Jasmin L. Benito and Iqbal B. Macaraya.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this office not later than January 2015.

(Sgd.) MARIA PURA C. MASCARIÑAS City Civil Registrar MDN: Dec 19 & 24, 2014

storey four classrooms, one unit two storey two classrooms and two storey two classrooms school buildings constructed at the back portion of the Butuan Central Elementary School complex.

In the presence of teachers and schoolchildren, the Butuan solon turned over the new school buildings to Butuan Schools Division Superintendent Dr. Josita Carmen following a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

According to Fortun, the Department of Public Works and Highways-Butuan District Engineering Office had been “strict” in implementing the schoolbuilding project.

He also revealed that the agency had already bidded out his projects in this city for implementation in 2015.

PNP SUPPORT – VICE GOVERNOR JOEY G. PELAEZ provides support to the PNP Provincial Public Safety Company, 1st Maneuver Platoon, assigned at Camp Idano, Brgy.

25, Gingoog City. The assistance will help in hastening the office-related work of the PNP, affording them more time to serve the general public. Present during the simple turn-over ceremony were Company Commander PSUPT Hadji Pioig Ballangan, Platoon Leader PINSP Garry Gelmer Valentino, former City Councilor Tata Condeza-Heine, Barangay Chairman Mariecel Orillo Garcia and the Barangay Council. photo provided

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CAGAYAN de Oro City--A senior official of the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) yesterday vowed to confiscate and impose a fine of P50,000 any erring vendor found violating the Meat Inspection Code of the Philippines.

Director Angelita Barcelona of NMIS in Region 10, an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture (DA), conducted on Thursday a suprised inspection on meat vendors at Cogon market.

During the inspection, Barce-

lona said some vendors merely committed minor flaws. “(Some) meat vendors in Cogon do not practice standard sanitation procedures while selling their stuff,” she told reporters as she spearheaded the Oplan: Pasko Na Naman, a bantay karne operations jointly undertaken by the local government unit (LGU) and NMIS, here in Cagayan de Oro City.

She said the Oplan: Pasko Na Naman will be implemented in all meat markets in Northern Mindanao.

Barcelona found out that some meat vendors are selling imported

frozen meat even if they are not authorize to do so.

She also found out that meat vendors do not have the proper freezers, chillers, and refrigerators where they can store the meats that they are selling.

For instance, she said imported meat needs to be store at a specific cool temperature.

Meat vendors, she added, are still using wooden board to cut the meat that they are selling to would-be customers. This, she said, a clear violation to Republic Act 10536, otherwise known as the Meat Inspection Code of the Philippines.

Dads condemn death of PDEA agent during buy-bust oprns in Barangay 31 Authorizes release of funds as financial assistance to his family

Under the law, plastic boards are required because splinters coming from the wooden chopping board might go into the meat.

She warned the public to always look for the “Tatak ng Pagkakasuri” before buying the meat.

Vendors must also possessed the needed inspection certificate.

She said that high quality pork is colored pinkish, high quality beef must be brick red in color while high quality chicken must be in grayish pink.

Despite the various violations, Barcelona said that unlike in other areas, double dead meat is not common in Cagayan de Oro City.

THROUGH Resolution No. 1186-2014, the City Council during its regular session Monday presided over by Vice Mayor Caesar Ian E. Acenas condemned in the strongest possible terms the death of Philippine Drug Enforcement (PDEA) agent Joel Genita, a resident of Barangay No. 1,who was killed in the recent buybust operation in Barangay No. 31.

Legislators authorized the release of funds from any available sources as financial assistance for his family.

Jamaca alleged that he and his girlfriend, Maria Erika Yabut, were taken by the suspects on board a vehicle and brought to F.S. Catanico where they were shot by the suspects. Yabut died of the gunshot wounds while Jamaca survived by playing possum.

Jamaca’s cousins Harold Jamaca and Roland Jamaca were later dumped dead

with gunshot wounds in the head in Mambuaya, a suburban village, southwest of Cagayan De Oro City Thursday morning.

In a complaint filed before the City Prosecutor’s Office here, Jimboy Jamaca alleged that he was able to identify the suspects during a police line-up because he recognized the police who shot him and his girlfriend.

Family of victims of police shooting seeks protection

By Cris Diaz Executive Editor

CAGAYAN de Oro City–– The complainant against the police officers who were accused in cases involving alleged “summary killings” here on Wednesday is seeking protection after expressing fear for their lives.

Retired Senior Police Officer Rolando Jamaca,

the complainant, said that some unknown persons have been casing their home in the past days before he filed the case Tuesday afternoon.

Charged with multiple frustrated murder are Pol. Senior Insp. Ludwig Charles Espira, 38, of Xavier Heights; Pol. Insp. Arnel Gighe, 45, of Pinikitan; PO1 Manuel Quipanes, 31, Bontong, Camaman-an;

PO1 Junrel Barrientos, 30, Balulang, all of Cagayan De Oro City and members of the local police force here.

Marlon I. Yap, reportedly a lawyer, of Bloomingdale, Iponan, this city and certain Reggie, Sammy, Toto, and several John Does were also included in the complaint.

Jamaca said he has been receiving threats warning

him of “serious consequences” once he would pursue the filing of cases against the suspects.

The case stemmed from the testimony of Jimboy Jamaca, a nephew of the retired police officer, who miraculously survived a slay try when allegedly shot in the head by one of the suspects last Wednesday evening.

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13 more arrested in anti-drugs ops

ZAMBOANGA City -More 13 suspected drug pushers were arrested over the week as the Zamboanga City Police Office stepped up its operations against the illegal drugs trade in this part of the region.

In his report during the press briefing yesterday, city police director Sr. Supt. Angelito Casimiro said the police anti-drugs conducted 12 operations that resulted in the arrest of 13 suspects who yielded 21 sachets of suspected shabu, drug paraphernalia and marked money used in the buy busts.

He identified those arrested as Arnulfo Angeles, Benjamin Hamis, Regie Pacis, Leo Palangca, Nurhada Tamsi, Benhar Sappayani, Dominador Montuno, Omar Dammang, Momal Jihal, Erbert Carpizo and Jinul Alam.

Meanwhile, Casimiro reported that the police operatives from Tetuan also

confiscated a total of 150 sacks of alleged smuggled rice loaded in three vehicles in Barangay Kasanyangan.

The sacks of rice were turned over to the Bureau of Customs for proper disposition.

On the Illegal quarrying campaign, the in Sta. Maria confiscated 61 sacks of sand and gravel quarried from the river bank of Salum in Barangay San Roque.

The traffic division, on the other hand, conducted 143 operations and issued citation tickets to 650 violators, while 65 others were issued temporary operating permits.

Yesterday’s press briefing was held at Astoria Plaza of Grand Astoria Hotel as it coincided with Mayor Beng Climaco’s annual Christmas party for members of the Fourth Estate in Zamboanga City.

Vice Mayor Cesar Iturralde was also on hand to assist the mayor. (Vic Larato)

143 new soldiers hurdle recruit training in Zambo Sur

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AGADIAN City – A total of 143 army recruits finished their rigid training in various fields conducted by the 1st Infantry Division in Labangan town in Zamboanga del Sur. Officials said the new soldiers underwent training on Jungle Warfare and Mountain Operations Course as part of the Candidate Soldiers Course.

The soldiers, whose ages ranged from 21 to 26, came from different provinces in Zamboanga Pe n i nsu l a , L an a o an d Misamis Occidental, and have passed the rigid and meticulous screening and processing standard set by the Philippine Army.

Capt. Franco Suelto, an army spokesman, said the soldiers – now enlisted as Privates - would be deployed to different units of the 1st Infantry Division to help maintain peace and security in western

Brigadier General Gerardo Barrientos, Jr., commander of the 1st Infantry Division, addresses new soldiers in Zamboanga del Sur province. (Mindanao Examiner)

Mindanao.

The enlisted men belong to the “Matalim” (Mandirigmang Tagapagligtas na Laging Iniisip ang Kapakanan ng Mamamayan) Class 348 – 2014.

Suelto said Private Rogen Peregrino, a vocational IT graduate from the town of Mahayag in Zamboanga del Sur and son of a hollow blocks maker and a housewife, received

an award from the 1st Infantry Division Award for graduating Number 1.

Brigadier General Gerardo Barrientos, Jr., commander of the 1st Infantry Division welcomed the new soldiers and congratulated the 1st Division Training School (1DTS) which is responsible for the training of the soldiers.

“Isang malaking responsibilidad ang kaba-

likat ng inyong pagtatapos ng training na ito. Mahalaga ang inyong katungkulan at ang pagsapi nyo sa organisasyon AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) ay isang opportunity para magserbisyo sa ating bansa. Malaki ang inyong mai-aambag sa pag-accomplish ng misyon ng AFP sa kapayapaan at kaunlaran.”

“Naniniwala ako na sapat ang pagsasanay sa inyo ng 1DTS upang gampanan ang inyong tungkulin. Lagi lamang ninyong alalahanin ang slogan ng ating AFP Chief of Staff (General Gregorio Pio Catapang, Jr.) na ang - Kawal ay Disiplinado, Bawal Abusado, Dapat Asintado - at ang Army Core Values ayon sa Army Transformation Roadmap na honor, duty and professionalism upang lalo nating mapaigting ang ating serbisyo sa mga tao,” Barrientos said. (Mindanao Examiner)

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Placer folk complain of ‘different taste’ of potable water; officials say it’s still safe PLACER, Surigao del Norte-Residents have complained of a change in the quality of their potable water supply since late last month and some even claimed to have suffered diarrhea, but local officials dismissed the claim and maintained that water in this town has remained safe for human consumption.

Nonetheless, Placer mayor Filemon Napuli Jr., said they were investigating the complaint and had sent water samples from different sources to a laboratory in Davao City for testing.

Napuli said the findings will be known after two weeks and made public.

“Every day we are discussing it with the manager of the Placer Water District to find solutions to it,” he told reporters.

He said the water is still safe to drink despite the change in quality. He added that he and Andro Michael C. Bugas, the manager of the local water district, drank it and found no problems except for the changed taste.

The mayor dismissed claims many people suffered diarrhea from late November to early December saying there was no such report from the Municipal Health office.

Dr. Chuckie O. Trugillo, municipal health officer told MindaNews Tuesday a few people had suffered diarrhea but said he could not point to the town’s potable water supply as the cause.

He said they have sent water samples to different laboratories.

At the Surigao del Norte Provincial Hospital in Bad-

Congressman Rufus B. Rodrigues explains the necessity of Resolution of Both Houses No. 2, which he filed in the House of Representatives entitled Resolution Of Both Houses Granting The State Authority To Take Over Or Direct The Operation Of Any Privately-Owned Public Utility Or Business Affected With Public Interest Pursuant To Article Xii (National Economy And Patrimony), Section 17 Of The 1987 Philippine Constitution In View Of The Looming Power Crisis In 2015. This Resolution, if adopted by the House of Representatives, will help ease the effects of said looming power crisis in 2015. Also present during the Committee on Energy meeting is Committee Chairman Rep. Reynaldo Umali and Rep. Rosenda Ann Ocampo.

as, Placer, Dr. Cosnarie E. Seguis, chief of clinics said there were three patients from Placer town who suffered diarrhea. But she could not say what caused it.

She said most of the patients who suffered diarrhea came from the towns of Claver, Gigaquit, Bacuag and Mainit.

Jerry Raro, Municipal Health Sanitary Inspector said that early this month they conducted water sampling at their sources of potable water in Barangays Anislagan and Cagaasan.

He said the source in Anislagan was found negative but the source in Caga-

asan was found to have coliform, according to the bacteriology water result at Caraga Regional Hospital in Surigao City. But Raro stressed that water from these sources would undergo treatment before it reaches the consumers.

Rotche S. Lucino, a resident of Barangay Poblacion said she would not drink water supplied by the local water utility saying the taste was undesirable.

“Bahog patay nga ilaga ug lad-ang,” (It smells like there is rotten rat, the taste is bad) she said.

Niel D. Duhaylungsod, also a resident of Barangay

Amoslog said the water now tasted different, adding he didn’t want to drink it after news of people getting sick allegedly because of it reached him.

Anxious residents are now getting their drinking water from purified water stations in the town.

But others who couldn’t afford to buy purified water prefer to filtrate and boil the water from their faucets.

One of them was Jun Platil of Poblacion, who said he would sterilize his water “to make sure”.

Residents could not tell why the quality of their potable water has changed, a

Davao among cities with most rabies cases this year

DAVAO City––Davao City is among the top 10 cities in the country with the highest number of rabies incidences this year, with 10 cases as of November, according to Rafael Mercado, Department of Agriculture assistant regional director.

Speaking at the Rabies Awareness Forum Wednesday for barangay officials at the Sangguniang Panlungsod Wednesday, Mercado said Quezon City tops the list with 24 cases.

Pateros, Mandaluyong, Valenzuela and Navotas do not have reports of animal or human rabies cases.

The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao recorded no rabies cases in 2012 and 2013.

In 2013, there were 27 animal rabies cases in region XI, with 16 human cases reported for the same year.

Mercado said that as of

November, 552 out of 1,954 samples sent to various animal control units nationwide turned out positive for rabies, with 97% of the cases coming from dogs.

Others were from cats as well as pigs that were bitten by dogs.

Rabies caused by dog bites accounted for 35% of the cases in 2014, he sad. The number is almost twice the 2013 figure of 17%.

Department of Health regional director Abdullah Dumama Jr. said the Philippines wanted to eliminate rabies by 2016.

Dumama said a region is considered rabies-free if it has no cases recorded for two consecutive years.

Mercado the DOH had pledged a total of P69.5 million for the anti-rabies program in a Memorandum of Agreement signed last month.

Mercado said it only costs owners to P35 to P50 to vaccinate their dogs, in contrast to the rising costs of the antidote for rabies.

The city already has an ordinance that promotes responsible pet ownership.

City Ordinance 1457 prohibits stray dogs or cattle.

Stray dogs are defined as dogs found wandering in streets, plazas, markets, school premises and other public places.

The apprehended dogs will be impounded at the dog pound inMaa, while the owners will be fined P250 for the first day and an additional P50 for the succeeding days.

After three days, the dog will be euthanized by the City Veterinary Office.

Mercado said that ideally, 70% of the dogs in an area should be vaccinated to isolate the foci of incidence.

He noted that while there are already laws that penalize irresponsible dog owners, no one has filed a case so far.

Dumama said some local government units have been doing it proactively.

“Other LGUs even have a bracket of penalties for cases of dog bites,” he said. “The fines in some LGUs depend on whether the victim was bitten while at work as well as rules for different situations and where the dog bit the victim.”

He said he was in favor adopting such a rule in Davao City.

Republic Act 9482 or the Anti-Rabies Act of 2007 penalizes pet owners P2,000 for failing to getting their dogs registered and immunized.

Owners who refuse to have their dogs See rabies, page A10

fact admitted by the Placer Water District which services 2,600 households.

In a statement dated Dec. 12, the water utility said the change was noted in the supply coming from the Cagaasan spring in Macalaya-Boyongan.

“Until now the management has no information on the changes of water quality. The management since November 18 until today is currently taking samples almost every day to bring safe water to water consumers,” it said.

It also said that based on the water analysis there was neither bacteria nor heavy

metals on the water.

“The Physical-Chemical Testing results showed that there is a change in total dissolved solids and chlorides which cause the chance in taste,” it said.

Based on the Philippine National Standard Drinking Water, this result is safe for human consumption.

“Dili kini sama sa toxic or poisonous, dili sama sa heavy metals sama sa mercury, lead, arsenic, cyanide, etc. nga makamatay,” the statement further said. “We asked everyone to remain calm and not be panic.”

(Roel N. Catoto/MindaNews)

Upgrading of South Cotabato provincial hospital starts in 2015

GENERAL Santos City–– The provincial government of South Cotabato is targeting to begin early next year the upgrading of its provincial hospital following the approval of a P70-million grant from the Department of Health (DOH).

Dr. Rogelio Aturdido Jr., South Cotabato Integrated Provincial Health Office chief, said Thursday they have already submitted to the DOH central office the detailed plan for the project, which will involve the rehabilitation and expansion of the hospital’s main building, wards and other vital facilities.

He said the hospital’s upgrading, which is among the top priorities of the local government, initially received a funding of P20 million early this year from the DOH’s Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP).

But the agency approved an additional P50-million grant for the project following a visit and inspection of the facility last July by Health Secretary Enrique Ona and Senate President Franklin Drilon.

“They personally saw the hospital’s situation and the need for its immediate rehabilitation and upgrading so they pushed for the release of the additional funding,” Aturdido said.

Aside from the P70million grant, the official said South Cotabato Gov. Daisy Avance-Fuentes is currently working for another “bigger project” for the provincial hospital.

The DOH earlier agreed to send a team of experts to the area to study and evaluate the operations of the provincial hospital.

The team will help the local government See starts, page A10

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DOST releases over P36m to MSMEs in Region 12 GENERAL Santos City–– provinces of South Cotabato, The Department of Science Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, and Technology (DOST) in North Cotabato and the cities Region 12 has released some of General Santos, Koronadal, P36.65 million worth of “in- Tacurong, Kidapawan and novation support” this year Cotabato. to various micro, small and “The assistance allowed medium enterprises (MSMEs) the beneficiaries to acquire in the region. and adopt new technologies Dr. Zenaida Hadji Raof- and innovations to address Laidan, DOST Region 12 their technical problems as director, said Thursday the well as improve their producassistance comprises the re- tivity and product quality,” gion’s allocation this year Laidan said. under its flagship Small EnA report released by terprise Technology Upgrad- DOST-12 showed that four ing Program.

MSMEs based in this city She said a total of 27 received financial and techMSMEs in the region have nical assistance under the benefited from the program, program. which included the provision These are the JPRG Trade of technical support and other and Services, KM Food Prodrelated services. ucts, Greenlands Agri-Tech The agenc y released Ventures and CLG Food P11.69 million worth of as- Products. sistance to 11 beneficiaries The agency provided during the first half of the year a package of technical aswhile the remaining P27.55 sistance to Angel Resort, million was distributed to Aquaculture and Agriculture 16 others in the second half, Farmlands, Inc. based in she said.

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recipients were the Matutum Coffee Ventures in Senator Agri-Lime Marketing, Durian Ninoy Aquino; Isulan Glass Garden and Monte Farms and General Merchandize in in Polomolok town; Villa Isulan; Erese Sugar Mill in Edna Farm and Niños Food President Quirino; and, MuProducts in Tupi; Sunrice nicipal Aggies Multi-Purpose Solivio Rice Mill in Surallah; Cooperative in Esperanza. and, Pascual Bakery EquipLaidan said the technical ment and Services, Balaoing assistance that they extended Enterprises and Mang Gorio focused on boosting the proBahay Kainan in Koronadal ductivity and competiveness City. of the beneficiary-MSMEs. In North Cotabato, the She said the support firms that received support includes human resources from the program were Joyce development, cost minimi& Jong Machine Shop and zation, waste management, Motor Parts, NCV Workshop product standardization, opand Tecuala Mini Sawmill and eration-related activities and Woodworks in Kidapawan identification of necessary City; FC Martinez Industrial or appropriate machineries Machine Shop in Midsay- and equipment. ap; and, King JEM Coconut The MSMEs that were Products Philippines, Inc. in covered by the program were Makilala. The agency also engaged in food processing; assisted Salinas Breadtop, manufacture of furniture Danwel Furniture & General and home furnishings, gifts, Merchandize, 3DCs Light holiday decors and fashion acand Heavy Equipment Re- cessories; marine and aquatic pair Shop and Engineer- resources; horticulture; metal november 26, 2014 ing Services and Gabato andwednesday, engineering; informaAdvertising and Editorial Machine Shop in Tacurong tion and communication E-mail : mindanaodailynews@gmail.com 0947-8935776 nos. : 0917-7121424 City; Toreña Aqua FarmContact technology; and,• Halal food in Lebak; Sultan Kudarat production. (MindaNews)

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Fishing boat sinks off Basilan; 25 crewmen rescued

ZAMBOANGA City––A fishing boat sank early Thursday off Basilan province after seawater entered it through a hole on its wooden hull, an official said.

Lieutenant Senior Grade Jomark Angue, Coast Guard District Southwestern Mindanao spokesman, said all of the ill-fated fishing boat’s 25 crewmen were rescued separately.

Angue said the boat sank around 12:30 a.m. Thursday near the two Sangbay Islands (Big Sangbay and Small Sangbay) in Hadji Muhtamad, Basilan.

He said the boat came from the Zamboanga Fish Port Complex in Barangay Sangali here bound for Basilan to fish.

He said 16 of the crewmen were immediately rescued “by the passing motorized bancas” while the remaining nine were rescued by coast guard personnel in a search and rescue operation hours later.

He all of the crewmen are residents of Sangali. (MindaNews)

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identify problems and recommend the necessary reforms to help improve the management and operations of the hospital.

As of end-November, the facility already generated around P160 million in revenues that was up by nearly P30 million compared to last year.

The provincial hospital posted a total income of P133 million in 2013 and P89 million in 2012.

Aturdido said they had been pushing for the hospital’s upgrading to mainly cope with its growing occupancy rate and demand for various hospital-related services.

Although listed by the DOH as a 200-bed tertiary facility, the provincial hospital’s daily oc-

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placed under observation will be fined P10,000, while owners who refuse to shoulder the expenses of any person bitten by their dogs will be fined P25,000.

Owners who refuse to put their dogs on a leash will be fined P500.

The city, meanwhile, penalizes owners of dogs who do not pick up the

cupancy rate reaches as high as 170 percent, which is equivalent to a total of 340 patients.

Aside from being overcrowded, he said the hospital has a total work force of only 479, which is 130 less than the ideal manpower set by the DOH for a 200-bed facility.

In 2013, the DOH invested a total of P26.5-million for the initial improvements at the provincial hospital through the HFEP. Around P20 million was spent for the rehabilitation and construction of hospital facilities while the P6.5 million was utilized for the acquisition of various equipment.

For this year, the DOH allotted an additional P48.7 million under HFEP to fund various projects in the province, specifically the improvement of the area’s three district and municipal hospitals.

feces of their pets up to P1,000, and encourages the adoption of stray dogs in separate ordinances.

A councilor, meanwhile, proposed building one animal shelter in each district in a bid to eliminate rabies cases in the city.

Councilor Mary Joselle Villafuerte, chair of the committee on health said Wednesday the move does not require an ordinance.

(MindaNews)

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF LANAO DEL SUR 12th Judicial Region BRANCH 9 Hall of Justice, Marawi City IN THE MATTER OF PETITION FOR CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH IN THE RECORDS,

SPL. PROC. NO. 2232-14

CADIDIA ALI PIMPING,

Petitioner, -versusTHE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF MARAWI CITY, LANAO DEL SUR,

Respondent ORDER

Before this Court is a verified petition for correction of entry in the Certificate of Live Birth of the petitioner which was registered on November 18, 1999 with the Office of the Civil Registrar of Marawi City, Lanao del Sur. and which allegedly contains erroneous entry as to her date of birth which was inadvertently entered as April 1, 1956 instead of April 1, 1955.

Finding the aforesaid petition to be sufficient in form and substance it is hereby ordered that the same be set for hearing before this Court on January 15, 2015 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning.

Let a copy of this Order be published at the expense of the petitioner in a newspaper of general circulation in Marawi City and lligan City for three (3) consecutive weeks.

The Civil Registrar of Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, and the Civil Registrar General National Statistics Office (NSO), Manila, or any person or party who has an interest in the petition may file his/her opposition thereto within fifteen (15) days from notice of this petition or from the last day of publication of this Order.

Further, let this Order be posted for fifteen (15) days prior to the date of hearing on the Bulletin Board of the City Hall of Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, and the Bulletin Board of this Court, also at the expense of the petitioner.

Serve copies of this Order, together with copies of the Petition dated November 10, 2014 and its annexes, to the Civil Registrar, Marawi City, Lanao del Sur the Honorable Solicitor General, OSG, Makati City and the Civil Registrar General, NSO, Manila.

SO ORDERED.

Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, Philippines, December 11, 2014.

(Sgd.) WENIDA B.M. PAPANDAYAN

Acting Presiding Judge MDN: Dec 19, 24 & 29, 2014

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the Cagayan de Oro City prosecutor’s office after an execution survivor ratted out the names of the respondents.

Gonda said that his colleagues at Cocpo remain committed in maintaining security in the city during the Yuletide season and beyond and added that this development will instead be a lesson for them to uphold the law at all times.

Gonda also asked the public to refrain from speculating on the circumstances surrounding the case since it’s already up to the prosecutor.

“It is the concern of the complainant to prove his case before the prosecutor, it is also the concern of the respondents to defend themselves. That is entirely up for the fiscal to determine whether to dismiss the cases or to forward them to the court,” Gonda said. “Dili kini nagpasabot nga sadan sila.”

The four police officers – Senior Insp. Ludwig Charles Espera, Insp. Arnel Gighe, PO1 Manuel Quipanes and PO1 Jun Riel Barrientos – are now restricted at Cocpo headquarters in Camp Maharlika, barangay Carmen, this city.

They are also being stripped of their issued firearms, added Gonda.

Along this line, Councilor Ramon Tabor welcomed the filing of the complaints against the four police officers.

“This will be their chance to defend themselves and this will also be a wake-up call sa tanan nga mga hohongihong sa kadaplinan nga matod pa ang mga pulis allegedly involved daw sa mga salvaging,” Tabor said.

Meanwhile, the victim – Jim Jamaca – is currently under heavy guard inside the premises of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) regional office in Camp Evangelista, headquarters of the Philippine Army’s 4th Infantry Division.

Despite the camp being the home of the Philippine Army’s largest unit in Mindanao, authorities are not taking chances.

CIDG has requested the Philippine National Police EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE OF A PORTION OF LAND

Notice is hereby given that the intestate state of deceased ISAAC ABECIA, who died long time ago who left no will and testaments and debts to any persons and left several parcels of land including this parcel of land located at Kuguita, Mambajao, Camiguin,Province bearing tax declaration no. 0811622, denominated as Lot No. 1852, embraced with OCT No. 7130 consisting an area of 7,610 sq. meters; SOLD PORTION: LOT NO. 1852-A; WITH AN AREA OF 657 SQUARE METERS; (SKETCH PLAN HERETO ATTACHED); is the subject of EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE OF A PORTION OF LAND; Under Public ATTY. VITO M. CARILLO; As Per Doc. No. 163; Page No. 35; Book No. 77; Series of 2013.

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to November of this year DAR-ARMM was able to developed a partnership with a total of 2 service providers who would be direct partners of the Department in implementing the business development services of the ARCCESS as well as Agricultural Extension Services (AES). Presently, a bidding is going on for the implementation of the Progress and Process Monitoring Services (PPMS) of from page A1 the ARCCESS second batch projects in the ARMM. beneficiaries.

As of November 25, pd-advt 2014, DAR-ARMM regionwide were able to come up from page A1 with a total signed CLOAs and PARPO Atega for of 1,365 with a total area of 3,093.0475 hectares. Out of facilitating the project and these 1,365 signed CLOAs, DAR’s several interventions 711 are already registered that benefited the farmwith the ROD with a total ers in her town’s agrarian area of 1,629 hectares as reform community and evidenced by an ROD report greatly contributed to the submitted to the regional increase of the soil tillers’ office. LAD accomplishment income and raised their is measured by the number economic standing.

“I encourage the LFMPC of CLOA/EPs with its corresponding area registered to take care of the project and make their business at ROD. The Department is also become commercially viin strong linkage with the able,” she said.

Director Mambuay said ARCP II-National Project Coordinating Office the municipality of Jabonga (NPCO) and concerned has been recipient to milLGUs in the implementation lions of pesos worth of of foreign assisted programs small-scale interventions and projects in the ARMM. including farm-to-market In ARCP II or the Agrar- roads, irrigation system, ian Reform Communities and agri-enterprise projects.

PARPO Atega in his Projects Phase II, a total of 13 sub-projects were com- remarks, praised Mayor pleted and are now subjected Monton and the local govto final inspections by the ernment of Jabonga as good NPCO in coordination with project implementors.

The post harvest facilDAR-ARMM, concerned LGUs and COA. A total of 17 ity has a floor area of 200 sub-projects are now being square meters with five implemented in the differ- rooms, a fully-furnished ent provinces of the region. office, lighting and a water One (1) project was also system suitable for the cocompleted in the munici- operative’s proposed coco pality of Masiu, Lanao del virgin oil processing plant.

LFMPC Chairman Elson Sur funded under ARISP III program. A total of three (3) Morada lauded DAR-ARISP sub-projects under ARISP III for providing his coopIII are still on-going in the erative “another window of municipalities of Masiu and opportunity” for the exSaguiran in Lanao del Sur. pansion of its coco virgin The ARCCESS (Agrar- business venture.

The project is jointly ian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic funded by the Philippine Support Services) is also Government and Japan Bank implemented by the Depart- for International Coopment as it is being adopted eration (JBIC) and impleby DAR nationwide, to en- mented under DAR’s Agrarhance delivery of support ian Reform Infrastructure services to agrarian reform Support Project Phase III beneficiaries and their or- (DAR-ARISP III) and the ganizations. From January Municipality of Jabonga.

regional office for additional protection. It sent members of its elite Regional Public Safety Battalion and Special Action Force to secure Jamaca.

Jamaca will remain there until his Witness Protection Program (WPP) application is approved. The WPP under a separate branch, the Department of Justice (DOJ).

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the J.R. Borja General Hospital, all for Calendar Year 2015, to finance estimated various expenditures of the same amounts for 2015.

Councilor President Elipe, chair of the committee on finance and ways and means, who presided over budget deliberations of the City Council as a Committee of the Whole to review the executive budget, said last year the budget was approved in February or March to wait for the submission of some documents.

He said for 2015, the City Council opted to approve the budget before the end of the year in compliance with the law.

“Sa balaod dapat tiwason ang budget before the end of the year, last year naghulat ta sa papeles, nadugay, karon, we won’t wait for papers,” he stressed.

INCOME Councilor Elipe said the Committee on the Whole called for a meeting on income November 7 to discuss the proposed increases in sources of funds for the P3.8 billion budget submitted by the executive department for next year.

He, however, said no one was there to defend the proposed income for 2015.

“Walay maski usa nga nitambong, wala ang finance para modepensa, wala ang budget officer para modepensa, wala ang accountant para motubag sa pangutana nganong inyong gi-increase ang inyong target collections para sa city hall? Unsa may basehan sa konseho?”

“Actual performance for 2013, actual performance for 2014, that’s how the council came up with the amount for 2015 estimates,” Elipe explained.

EXPENSES Councilor Elipe said during budget deliberations department heads were requested to submit actual expenses or summary of expenses during the year so that this will be the basis for the budget for next year.

He, however said, there was only a commitment that the documents will follow but these were not

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“For the record, the executive budget as proposed by the mayor does not reflect the expenses actually spent for 2014. How would you know kung pilay gigasto sa usa ka department sa tuig 2014 para makabudget ta sa 2015? That’s the reason why they were asked to submit the summary of expenses,” Elipe said.

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an unattended bag was suspected to contain a bomb, sending 11 people to the hospital.

Christopher Capinpin, provincial head of DSWDBukidnon, said they were paying out half of the members of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in Bukidnon province when the false alarm occured at around 10:20 a.m. Tuesday.

Capinpin said the stampede took place inside the Valencia City Gymnasium, just when members of 4Ps -those without ATMs -- were gathered for the pay-out.

Authorities said a bag with a lunch box inside caught the attention of others and mistook it as a bomb.

Three of the victims, including a four-month old pregnant woman, were among those immediately rushed to the hospital for medical attention.

Authorities identified 9 of the 11 injured in the stampede.

They are Lila Tipson, 52, of Lumbayao Valencia City; Alma Arante, 42, of P-2 Conception Poblacion, Valencia City; Helen Sumlingo, 43, of Bantal Banlag Valencia City; Hazel Joy Delima, 11, of Malaybalay City; Luzmelyn Amosa, 35, of P-2 Maapag, Poblacio, Valencia; Marjorie Flores, 22, of Tugaya Poblacion, Valencia; Minda Son, 42, of Pangantucan Kimana-it; Lynlyn Dayon of Banlag; and Erlinda Cabillon, 60, of Mt. Nebo, 60 yrs.

The DSWD 10 has extended medical assistance to the victims who are now DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE OF REGISTERED LAND

Notice is hereby given that NESTOR Q. SANTOS of legal age, Filipino, married and residents of Poblacion, Maramag, Bukidnon, Philippines, is the owner of a parcel of registered land situated in the Barrio of Poblacion, Municipality of Maramag, Province of Bukidnon, Philippines and more particularly described as follows: “A parcel of Land (Lot no. 2139, Pls-98) situated in the Barrio of Poblacion Municipality of Quezon, Province of Bukidnon, Island of Mindanao, Philippines. Containing an area of FIVE HUNDRED NINETY EIGHT (598) Square Meters, more or less. Covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-70195” is the subject of a DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE OF REGISTERED LAND, That for and in consideration of the sum of One Million (P 1,000,000.00) PESOS, Philippine Currency, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged; do hereby SELL, TRANSFER, and CONVEY to GEORGE D. GARCES, of legal age, Filipino, married and a resident of Poblacion, Pangantucan, Bukidnon, Philippines, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, the above-described parcel of registered land. Under Notary Public ATTY. POLICARPO I. CATALAN, JR. CPA; As per Doc. No. 47; Page No. 10; Book No. CXXII; Series of 2014.

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recuperating from their wounds and fractures.

Due to the incident, the DSWD has extended the pay-out until Wednesday and Thursday.

The incident happened a few days after a bomb ripped through a passenger bus while at Maramag, Bukidnon, killing 10 people and injuring 42 others.

NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that the estate of PAULINA MALABAGO LOPEZ, who died intestate on July 18, 2014 at Purok 7, Calot, Villakananga, Butuan City, consisting of: 1) A parcel of lot situated at Purok 7, Calot, Villakananga, Butuan City, under Tax Declaration No. 08-07-0006-04047 covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. RT-54007, containing an area of 142 square meters; 2) A parcel of land situated at Calot, Villakananga, Butuan City, under Tax Declaration No. 08-07-0006-02740 covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. RT-42508, containing an area of 480 square meters; 3) A parcel of land (Lot 2-B, Psd-13-0007979, being portion of Lot 5 Pcs-13-000761) situated at Villakananga, Butuan City, under Tax Declaration No. 0807-0006-02736 covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. RT-43202, containing an area of 190 square meters; 4) A parcel of land (Lot 1-B, Psd-13-0007979, being portion of Lot 1 Pcs-13-000761) situated at Calot, Villakananga, Butuan City, under Tax Declaration No. 08-070006-02734 covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. RT-43201, containing an area of 299 square meters; 5) A parcel of land (Lot 12, Pcs-13-000761, portion of lot 658-E-2 & 658-E-3, Psd-10-0077989 (OLT) situated at Villakananga, Butuan City under Tax Declaration No. 0807-0006-02737 covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. RT-45199 containing an area of 358 square meters; 6) A parcel of land (Lot No. 5-B-2, Psd-13-015576, being a portion of lot 5-B, Psd-13-007979) situated at Villakananga, Butuan City, under Tax Declaration No. 0807-0006-04572 covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. RT-55717 containing an area of 144 square meters; 7) A parcel of land (Lot 5-A, Psd-13-0007979 being portion of Lot 5 Pcs-13-000761) situated at Villakananga, Butuan City, under Tax Declaration No. 08-07-0006-03999 covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. RT-53713 containing an area of 144 square meters; 8) A parcel of land (Lot 377-A-1-D, Psd-13-007094 being portion of Lot 377-A-1, Psd10-007985 (OLT) situated at P-7, Villlakananga, Butuan City, under Tax Declaration No. 08-07-0006-00424 covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-19777 containing an area of 1,056 square meters; 9) A parcel of land (Lot 1-A, Psd-13-008784, being portion of Lot 1, Pcs-13-000760) situated at P-7, Calot, Villakananga, Butuan City, under Tax Declaration No. 08-07-0006-05782 covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-33429 containing an area of 1,000 square meters; and 10) A parcel of land situated at Villakananga, Butuan City under Tax Declaration No. 08-04-0002-03989 under Transfer Certificate of Title No. RT-60543 containing an area of 285 square meters, is the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF THE ESTATE OF DECEASED PAULINA MALABAGO LOPEZ WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS made and entered into by deceased Paulina Malabago Lopez’s sole heirs, namely, Arielito V. Lopez, Arniel Malabago Lopez, Arielito Malabago Lopez, Jr., Ariel John Malabago Lopez, and Arvin Jay Malabago Lopez, per Doc. No. 10; Page No. 3; Book No. I; Series of 2014 of the Notarial Registry of Atty. Nestor T. Escalona, CPA, MPA, Notary Public.

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administrative manager of Don Bosco Network Multi Purpose Cooperative.

Declaring no profit and patronage refund, workers insisted on their claims for

dividends. “Gipasaligan mi sa Don Bosco nga dunay patronage refund inig abot sa lima ka tuig (Don Bosco promised there will be patronage refund after five

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300 terminated workers get benefits thru DOLE AGAYAN DE ORO CITY - Around 300 service workers get benefits from compulsory termination after two conferences, through a request for assistance filed under the Single Entry Approach (SEnA) of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Western Misamis Oriental.

The workers of Don Bosco Network Multi-Purpose Cooperative claimed for coop share, savings, dividend or patronage refund, 13th month pay, and separation pay.

Immediately after two SEnA conferences, payment was made to workers on October 29, 30, and 31, 2014, at the DOLE Office.

At the time, it totaled to P849,589.47 representing claims on coop share and savings, and 13th month pay.

Separation pay will have to be decided by the Coop Board when they convene.

All benefits will be paid except for the separation pay and the patronage refund, said Sophia Bautista,

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years),” refuted one worker.

“Ocho ka tuig ko nga nagtrabaho sa Don Bosco isip usa ka fruit peeler sa DMPI. Nangayo mi ug tabang sa See workers, page B2

Manny Villar, chairman of the Villar Group, celebrates his birthday with the officers and employees of his various companies gathered at the Philippine International Convention Center. photo supplied

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House panel okays measure that will expand support to native animal breeders

By Sammy F. Martin

The House Committee on Food and Agriculture has approved a bill that will pave way for greater government support for Philippine native animal breeders.

Authored by AAMBIS-Owa Party-list Rep. Sharon Garin, House Bill No. 3880 or the proposed Philippine Native Animal Act of 2014, which provides for the promotion of scientific propagation of native animals in the country by introducing effective animal breeding system, is expected to be calendared in the plenary when Congress resumes session on Jan. 19, 2015.

“Filipinos will find more native livestock in the market and be assured of ample supply and affordable prices of poultry and other livestock when House Bill No. 3880 becomes a law,” Garin said.

“This will develop and promote native animals as a reliable source of food for Filipinos and potential niche product of

the Philippines. This will also generate additional income for small-scale farmers and other rural dwellers,” she added.

T h e prop o s e d l aw seeks to create a Philippine Native Animal D e v e l opm e nt C e nt e r (PNADC) under the Department of Agriculture (DA).

The PNADC advisory board shall be composed of the DA secretary as chair and 12 other members which include two representatives from animal farmer groups and two representatives from the academe offering veterinar y medicine and animal science courses.

DA Technical Working Group (TWG) resource person and University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) Associate Prof.

Veneranda Magpantay has defined native animals as “those found in one geographical location that developed unique physical characteristics, behavior, product attributes, adapted to the local environment and See house, page B2

The ceremonial switch on of the Peakpower San Francisco Inc. (PSFI) peaking plant with ASELCO GM Emmanuel Galarse, San Francisco SB member Neresa De Leon, Rep. Edgardo R. Masongsong (1-CARE Party List), Agusan Sur District II SP Member Edward P. Mellana, ASELCO Board President Corazon D. Cullantes, and PSFI President Roel Z. Castro. PSFI & A. Brown Company Inc. Chairman Dr. Walter W. Brown applauds in the background while PEI VP for Marketing & Regulatory Edgardo Calabio is at the podium. (photo by Mike Baños, NPN)

Tripartism: Raising one voice in Northern Mindanao CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- Thirty officers from different provincial Tripartite Industry Peace Councils (TIPCs),representing 15 from labor sector and 15 from management or a total of 21 companies, convened recently in raising one voice for tripartism in the region.

This developed after these representatives successfully elected the Regional Tripartite Industrial Peace Council (RTIPC) calendar year 2015-2017 officers on November 28, 2014 at the Deluxe Hotel, this c DOLE-X aims to estab-

lish good labor-management relationship, economic and social policies in succeeding industrial peace between labor and management representatives from six TIPCs namely Bukidnon, Camiguin, Lanao del Norte, Misamis Occidental, MisaSee voice, page B2

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DOLE aron mabayaran ko sa mga benepisyo sama sa separation pay ug uban (I worked eight years with Don Bosco as fruit peeler of DMPI. I asked help with DOLE for the payment of my benefits on separation pay and others),” said another worker.

DOLE recommends raising the issue on dividends with the appropriate authority. The Office is bounded to resolve concerns on labor standards. The Department can only do so much in resolving claims on coop benefits, stressed DOLE Provincial Head Leila P. Labor.

“The Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) can probe on the matter,” said Labor.

Don Bosco Multipurpose

Cooperative, a manpower provider of Del Monte Philippines, Inc. for several years, ceased to bid new contract.

Instead workers assigned in the canning factory, Bugo, Cagayan de Oro were endorsed to an agency that also provides services to the pineapple company.

“The Coop Board has met and come up with its decision on the separation pay.

To date, we are still waiting the official communication from head office. For the meantime, the workers may call our Admin Manager for inquiry,” said Marivic Abragan, officer-in-charge of Don Bosco Cagayan de Oro branch, in a telephone conversation with DOLE personnel.

Workers who failed to collect on the scheduled dates on October may visit the Don Bosco Network

Multi-purpose Cooperative in Bugo during Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., said Abragan. (Aloha B. Jaudian, DOLE X /PIA10)

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products of selection with no infusion of exotic breed for at least five generations.”

Magpantay said that examples of native animals include native chickens, goats, pigs, ducks, cattle, sheep, and horses.

“Since native animals are well adapted to their natural environments with minimum human intervention, it is no surprise that majority of the animals which survived typhoon 'Yolanda' were native animals,” Bureau of Animal Industry Director Rubina Cresencio said during the

hearing.

“Despite native animals’ valuable contribution in the economy of farming communities, lack of adequate research facilities and appropriate technology in propagating local breeds hindered the development of native farming sector for years,” she lamented.

When the bill becomes a law, the DA shall link small-scale farmers and entrepreneurs interested in venturing into native animal farming to the Land Bank of the Philippines, Development Bank of the Philippines, and financial cooperatives for loans, grants, and incentives.

To ensure quality, the National Meat Inspection Service shall enforce standards on propagating, processing, and transportation of native animals.

Infrastructure like postharvest, storage facilities, and transport services will be provided to qualified farmers or cooperatives using the existing facilities of the NMIS and attached bureaus under the DA. The D ep ar t ment of Science and Technology, Bureau of Animal Industry and some State Colleges and Universities will provide farmers training and latest technology to ensure high yield.

Garin, who hails from the rural town of Guimbal, Iloilo, encourages Filipinos to consume native livestock this holiday feasts to patronize native animal breeders.

“Western Visayas’ Inasal recipe is most delicious when native chicken is used. Native poultries are not just healthful to eat, but also tasty and safe,” she said. (PNA)

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mis Oriental East and Misamis Oriental West convened to unanimously elect the RTIPCX officers.

Regional director Raymundo G. Agravante, in his message, thanked the outgoing RTIPC officers and gave emphasis to tripartism as a tool to deliberate issues and concerns affecting the industry, set-up voluntary modes of complying the labor standards laws and assist DOLE in the formulation of policies for the benefit of both labor and management sectors.

RTIPC-X officers elected were: vice-chairman for labor – Atty. Gregorio A. Pizarro (National President of FDLO); vice-chairman for management – Rebecca V. Inubio (Granexport Manufacturing, Corporation) with the following board of directors for labor sector: Abraham Romano (Crystal Sugar, Corporation); Jennifer Astillo (Dole SkylandSouth); NerioAlbao (Dole Skyland-North); GodofredoSandigan (Lafarge); Gerardo Clet (Fil-Eslon); VirgilioLomonsod (Newtech Pulp); Agustin Orot (RCEU-FDLO);

RamirLabadan (Philippine Sinter Corporation); Redentor Sala (Vicmar); Rudy Megalbio (Ororama); Billy William Barsumo (Nestle Phils., Inc.) and ArquipoCababaros (OroportCargohandling Services Inc.). While Kristine Baguio (Pilmico); EmBobbykins Sun (Mabuhay Vinyl, Corporation); Lita D. Gaid (DL Bonita Merchandise); Eugenio C. Olandria (Pilipinas Kao, Incorporated); Maristela M. Maape (Apple Tree Resort and Hotel); Clint Harvey Maestrado (Vjandep); Estrella Pabecca (St. Mary’s Academy of Tagoloan) represent the management sector.

Other officers include secretary Maristela Maape (Apple Tree Resort and Hotel); treasurer (Merlyna Macaambac (Nestle Phils., Incorporated); auditor Sister Ma. Maricor Valdehueza, RVM (St. Mary’s Academy of Tagoloan) and PRO EmBobbykins Sun (Mabuhay Vinyl, Corporation).

Meanwhile, TSSD chief Atheneus A. Vasallo presented the Incentivizing Compliance Program and addressed concerns raised by the participants. Among those include the devising on contracting/ sub-contracting; and Department Order (DO) 18-A. In his acceptance speech, labor sector vice-chairman Pizzaro accented that the RTIPC serves as the venue of the TIPCs in various labormanagement concerns, thus raising the same as the “voice for an effective tripartism in northern Mindanao” that primarily protects workers by providing them social protection and protection from labor only contract system.

The undertaking is to rationalize the role of government on labor policy enforcement and promote industry self-regulation and code of good industry practices, inclusive tripartism is one of the reform packages that DOLE targets to institute in achieving the current administration’s 22-Point Agenda on Labor and Employment.

The oath-taking ceremony is scheduled on the 1st quarter of 2015. (Glenford C. Labial/ DOLE-X)

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A NEW GLOBAL TOURIST DESTINATION

By: DECIUS L. ESMEDALLA

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he Department of Tourism, with its famous brand (or “Tagline) “It’s More fun in the Philippines” and the Philippine Tourism Promotions Board spearheaded the participation of various cities and provinces including tour operators and travel agents in the recently concluded World Travel Market last November 3-6 , 2014 at the Excel Exhibition Center in London. The WTM brings together the most influential figures in and out of the industry who deliver the latest trends and updates of the world’s dynamic travel industry. Put together under one roof, one can view the vastness of the tourism potentials from South Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia. One of the major and most visited exhibitors in the event was the famous and beautiful island Province of Camiguin in Northern Mindanao, the Philippines. This province, known for its hot and cold springs, waterfalls, white sand beaches, historical and natural landmarks captured the hearts of the visitors especially those coming from England and other countries all over the world. Part of the strategy in promoting the province to the world market

was a video presentation showcasing the unique , breath taking , and awesome sights of the province that successfully seized the attention of the potential investors , buyers and holiday seekers.

The Provincial Government of Camiguin together with Department of Tourism – Region 10 , prepared collateral materials such as brochures , gazette, CD’s, and a number USB’s that were given to each visitor as they dropped by and took time to appreciate the magnificence of the island through a well designed business center, with a huge framed photo backdrop of the whole island captivating the intense beauty of its natural wonders. This has also added to the splendors of the entire Philippine Pavilion.

One of the highlights of the event was the presence of a double decker bus prominently bearing the name of the province “CAMIGUIN’ with sunny beaches and cool springs painted on its outer walls traversing the main thoroughfares of the City of London. This beautiful bus, also served as one of the official vehicles of the country delegation which brought them to and from the venue, but most of all, greatly added

The venue for the World Travel market 2014 ExCEl Exhibition Center, London

to the promotional mileage in bringing the Province of Camiguin closer to the world.

Another milestone of the event was the meeting of possible investors who would bring in more tourists to the island province by establishing new routes for Cruise Ships, inclusion of the Camiguin Province to their tour packages in Asia and opening of new business ventures through our resort operators and other tourism related facilities in the province. The team also had the opportunity to intensify linkages with other local travel agents and tour operators present during the event.

The attendance of Camiguin Province in this world travel arena was also a welcome respite for travelers around the globe, for they also needed to explore new places to offer to their clients. Private investors seeking new destinations and longing for new experiences, inquired in terms of culture, arts, food and natural activities as new products, which they can develop and eventually sell to the industry stakeholders and partners.

The team from Camiguin Province was led

by Congressman Xavier Jesus D. Romualdo (Lone District of Camiguin Province), Provincial Governor Hon. Jurdin Jesus M. Romualdo, Mr. Ynigo Jesus D. Romualdo (Office of the Congressman, Lone District of Camiguin) , Mayor Maria Luisa D. Romualdo Municipality of Mambajao ) , Mayor Joseph G. Uayan (Municipality of Sagay ) Mayor Joanne Marie C. Rubin ( Municipality of Guinsiliban) , Ms.

Taken during the Opening of the World Travel Market 2014 at the EXcel Exhibition Center in London last December 3-6, 2014. From left: DOT-10 Regional Director Catalino E. Chan III, Governor Jurdin Jesus M. Romualdo, Hon. Ma. Luisa D. Romualdo (Mayor, Municipality of Mambajao), Hon. Joanne Marie C. Rubin (Mayor, Municipality of Guinsiliban), Hon. Joseph G. Uyan (Mayor, Municipality of Sagay) and Hon. Xavier Jesus D. Romualdo, Rep. Lone Dictrict of Camiguin.

Camiguin Province Governor, Hon. Jurdin Jesus M. Romualdo, personally briefed, and presented the tourism potentials of the Province of Camiguin to possible European investors.

From left: Congressman Xavier Jesus Romualdo, guest Hon. Baby Romualdo, Governor JJ Romualdo and Mr. Inigo Romualdo wearing headress in time for the launching of visit Philippines 2015 at the WTM 2014.

Double Decker Bus in London featuring the Island Born of Fire “Camiguin Province “, in time for the World Travel Market 2014.

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MYTHS ABOUT MARRIAGE And They Lived Happily Ever After…

We often watch Disney Princess movies; how their lives started to experience hardships and cruelty from an evil step mother. How they were able to meet Prince Charming and towards the end got married and ended with the quote, “And They Lived Happily Ever After. The End.” The problem with the movie; it never showed the part two. How they at time, have disagreements and how they intentionally or intentionally hurt each other. How they were able to patch up and fix their relationships.

Believe me, there is no such thing as a perfect marriage since we all have selfish and sinful nature. We are talking about two imperfect beings that has flaws and weaknesses put together by God in order to become better persons.

That is the reason why we just need to admit that we need to CHANGE and

IMPROVE. The greatest room that we can ever have in our lives is CHANGE & IMPROVEMENT. So let us continue to ask and evaluate ourselves.

What are the things we can CHANGE & IMPROVE? Is it your temper issues? You easily get irritated or get angry if things did not happen according to your plan or way.

Is it a bad habit? You just have a hard time closing doors or drawers once you open it.

Is it your spending issues? You just have a hard time controlling yourself to spend even if there is no need for you to buy things.

The issue is not the weakness but the issue is if you are willing to admit and accept that you need to CHANGE & IMPROVE? The first step towards a better marriage is ADMISSION that you need to fix the issues.

Me and my wife were so glad that many people inside the room were so brave to admit that they have issues, that there is a need for CHANGE & IMPROVEMENT. How about you?

Are you also open for CHANGE & IMPROVEMENT? THINK. REFLECT. APPLY. What are the issues you have in your life? Is it a bad habit? Is it a pride issue? Is it a money issue?

Are you willing and open for CHANGE & IMPROVEMENT? If you are, what are you planning to do about it?

Almost 200 couples were there; young and mature couples. I and my wife were so blessed that we were given the opportunity to help them and share to them our personal experiences on how God use our marriage in order encourage others.

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Governor Jurdin Jesus M. Romualdo (left). DOT-10 Regional Director Catalino E. Chan III (right) Hon. Ma. Luisa D. Romualdo, Mayor, Municipality of Mambajao (seated) during the Launching of Visit Philippines 2015 at the Philippine Pavilion, specifically at the Camiguin Stand.

Gov. JJ Romualdo entertaining foreign guests at the Camiguin booth during the World Travel Market 2014 in London

Mayor Baby Romualdo (leftmost) together with Director Butch Chan (Seated in coat and tie) entertaining Camiguingnons who are now residing in London at the Camiguin Stand/Booth during the second day of World Travel market 2014 in London.

Mayor Ma. Luisa D. Romualdo of Mambajao Camiguin presented a token to a foreign guest during the WTM 2014 at Excel Exhibition Center in London.

dice Naomi B. Dael, Provincial Tourism Officer , Hon. Yves Dann C. Romualdo – Chairman Committee on Tourism, Ms. Paz D. Oclarit Provincial Budget Officer , Atty. Frances Margaret C. Aparte- Provincial Legal Officer and Ms. Bernadette Q. Bullas , Manager of Villa

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The Regional Office of the Department of Tourism -10 was also represented by Director Catalino E. Chan III, and Marketing and Promotions Officer Mr. Decius “Yoyong” L. Esmedalla.

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I watched Exodus: Gods and Kings last night so I’m inspired to write a column about the origins of Christmas. Mind you, without these few heroic people in the Old Testament, the birth of Jesus would have never occurred.

It all started when Abram was called by God to lead “the chosen people” into the wondrous land of Egypt. It was two generations later when Joseph – Abram’s grandson – ultimately fulfilled the promise by God and he was able to sneak into Egypt by wonderful accident. He was sold by his own brothers to the Egyptians. Pretty soon, the Israelites (named after

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Joseph’s father Israel or Jacob), grew in number and the Egyptians especially the ruling Pharaoh were harsh to them and treated them as slaves. The slaves were violently punished while working huge construction sites such as the pyramid and the Pharaoh’s own monument.

I knew this story since childhood but knowing the story from a teen’s point of view and from an adult point of view is something different. When I was a child, I had with me an illustrated book describing vividly the Israelites’ escape into the Red Sea, the burning bush and the etching of the Ten Commandments. When

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But there he is in all his majestic form ruling the cinema with Exodus: Gods and Kings with an equally competent cast in the form of Christian Bale as Moses and Joel Edgerton as Pharaoh Rameses.

The next interesting part of the Old Testament will be the reign of the Judges.

And on with the reigns of Kings Saul, David and Solomon. Then after that, there were the reigns of the major prophets Isaiah, Jermiah and Ezekiel and the minor prophets Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi.

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the iconic duet by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey came into being in Prince of Egypt, it was another wondrous and awesome spell. You’ve got to imagine the lyric of the song: There can be miracles when you believe Who knows what miracles you can achieve Somehow you will when you believe Now here is a version by the great old director Ridley Scott. Imagine that the guy is now 77 years old and he’s still reeling with the sudden death of his little brother Tony. Imagine how distracted he should have been while making Exodus: Gods and Kings.

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that, Jesus was born via Joseph and Mary. That will be our first Christmas celebration. But prior to that, these heroes I have mentioned earlier were really instrumental in bringing out the first Christmas. Without Noah leading “the chosen people” into Ur and Haran, there were no Jews. Without Joseph leading the Israelites into Egypt, there were no “chosen people” to this day. Without Moses leaving the Pharaoh’s comfort as a prince and a general and leading “the chosen people” out of his kingdom and into the barren land of Canaan filled with Hittites and other barbaric tribes, there would have been no Jewish people

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Mom’s Pig Out opens branch at SM City CDO

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agayan de Oro’s best boneless lechon belly now serves uptown lechon lovers as it opens its third branch at SM City yesterday, December 18.

According to Carlo Chiong, owner, Mom’s Pig Out started its humble journey in 2012 as the city’s whole lechon hub but then shifted to boneless lechon belly after three months.

“Mom’s Pig Out came to life because of my family’s love for lechon. We love lechon so much,” Chiong said.

Mom’s Pig Out does not only offer delicious lechon belly but also other affordable dishes, families will surely enjoy.

“Our bestseller aside from our signature lechon belly includes Dinuguan, Paklay, Kilawin,

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“We also have appetizers like crispy kangkong, crispy onion rings, banana heart salad, and our bento meals of braise pork and lechon kawali,” Chiong added.

“Also our delicious side dishes, Steam Lapu-lapu, Oxtail Karekare, Hainanese chicken, Kawali in Bagoong with Eggplant, Stir Fried Noodles, Lumpia Shanghai, Stuffed shrimps, Sinuglaw, Pinakbet, and Stir Fried Garlic Kangkong,” Chiong said.

Visit Mom’s Pig Out at SM City Cagayan de Oro now and savor the taste of boneless lechon belly!

Mom’s Pig Out has other branches also in JR Borja Extension and Carmen, this city.

(Second from left) Carlo Chiong and Cristina Chiong, owners lead the ribbon cutting ceremony as Mom’s Pig Out officially opens third branch at SM City Cagayan de Oro yesterday, December 18, 2014. With them are (extreme left) Ivy Guantero, SM City CDO Public Relations Manager, (Fourth from left) Lilybeth Paredes, BPI branch manager, Pastor Gaspar Ang, and Carla Elizaga, SM City CDO mall manager.

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