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As the country welcomes 2017 with an extended holiday, middle and top level managers of the country’s Number One Radio Network will once again converge in Iloilo City from all points in the country for its annual Top Level Management Conference. This yearly, five day strategic planning sessions, intend to create a roadmap for the coming year’s direction for the combined

AM and FM Divisions of the Network. That it is historically done in Iloilo, will showcase Bombo Radyo Philippines’ firm commitment to give the best for its listeners. The conference is a gathering of veteran broadcasters with their wealth of experiences from all over the country directed by a leadership that have vast experience from their field of expertise.

As Bombo Radyo Philippines celebrates its Golden Anniversary of its foundation from July 2016 to July 2017, this year’s Top Level Management Conference will delve into the various aspects of Network operations and how these can be further enhanced so as to remain true to the theme for this year’s conference which is 50 YEARS OF RELENTLESS SERVICE. See bombo, page A7

Approved P4.4b city budget, carries ‘Intel fund’ of P110m By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor

CAGAYAN de Oro City-The local august body here has approved a P4.4 billion 2017 budget of the city government, down by P1 billion from the proposed budget of P5.4 billion. The new annual budget, however, would double the annual business tax paid by the taxpayers in the 2016 annual business assessment, the city treasurer said. “Business Tax would likely increase to 100 percent by next year once the city council approves the 2017 annual budget proposal amounting to P5.4 budget,” City Treasurer Glen Bañez said. Bañez cited an example, stating that if a business establishment has paid for the P1000 tax last year, it

would be doubled to P2,000 next year. If I were to decide dili unta ma approve arun dili nako ma pressure ang mga negosyante dri sa dakbayan, ako napud ang ma hans a kan anis a reklamo , (if I were to decide, I would want that the proposed budget be disapproved, otherwise, my office would, again, be blamed for this), Bañez said. However, Bañez has expressed the confidence that the revenue that could cover the budget could be attained next year, the biggest amount ever proposed since City Mayor Oscar Moreno sat as Mayor. The approved budget, which is still subject to the approval by the Department of Budget (DBM), See budget, page A7

105.75-m Pinoys by end of 2017

THE Philippine population will continue to increase in 2017 and is projected to reach 105,758,850 by December 31, 2017, based on projections made by the Commission on Population (POPCOM) using data from the Philippine StatisticsAuthority (PSA). Included in the projection are 27,293,422 women of reproductive age (aged 15-49). These women are usually the beneficiaries of CONVENTION. From right, Misamis Oriental Governor Yevgeny Vincente Emano, Reproductive Health serformer Cagayan de Oro Mayor Vicente Emano, and and Cagayan de Oro Councilor Nadya Emano-Elipe spearhead the First Regional Convention of Padayon Pilipino vices under the Responsible Parenthood and (PADAYON) on December 20, 2016 in Tagoloan town, Misamis Oriental. Photo by Gerry Lee Gorit for Mindanao Daily

See PINOYS, page A7

Provincial Governor Yevgeny Vincente Emano, the newly elected regional vice chairman of the Padayon, made the announcement during the Padayon’s first regional convention last December 20, 2016. Former Cagayan De Oro City Mayor Vicente Emano

was elected regional chairman. The Padayon is an indigenous political party, organized sometime in 1986, approved and registered as a regional political party by the Commissions on Elections (COMELEC)

Padayon Pilipino mulls alliance with PDP-Laban By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor

SEWAGE TO THE SEA. A boy jumps over a filthy sewage runoff along the shoreline of Dipolog City in Mindanao on Tuesday (December 27, 2016). The untreated sewage largely from commercial establishments drains directly to the sea. The Philippines has laws on solid waste and water management. Photo by Jimmy A. Domingo, contributor

CAGAYAN de Oro City-The regional political party, Padayon Pilipino (Move on Filipino) has expressed plans to ally with the incumbent administration’s PDP-Laban political party.

See alliance, page A7

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Health and wellness chocolate confectionery market offers huge business opportunities Chocolate makers can increase penetration of the growing health and wellness (HW) chocolate confectionery market which is estimated to generate sales value of US$2.5 billion by 2020.

“Over the past decade or so, chocolate has had plenty of positive coverage from a health and wellness angle. While it is still primarily seen as an indulgence product, the words “chocolate” and “healthy” no longer

form an incomputable contradiction in consumers’ minds,” said Euromonitor Digest, a publication of the Department of Trade and Industry-Export Marketing Bureau. It noted that while chocolate for a healthy and happy brain fortified/functional (FF) is carving out a niche for itself, organic is a wellestablished category for now. Organic accounted for

40 percent of health and wellness-positioned value sales in 2015. “For the third year in a row, it delivered solid 7-percent growth, proving its worth as a credible offering, where organic and health and wellness values are not perceived as being in conflict by consumers,” added the Digest culled from Euromonitor International. It identified top five leading growth markets for this

product in 2015 which were Norway, the United States, Australia, Israel and South Africa. In the heartlands of organic, manufacturers are becoming ever more innovative, capitalizing on the fact the organic market is hungry for more sophisticated offerings and ingredients,” the Digest said. While Asia Pacific only accounted for 7 percent of global HW sales in 2015, it

led FF by claiming one third of global value sales, with Japan the largest market in the region. “Asia Pacific may be dominating FF right now, but in the medium to long term, attitudes are likely to shift more in favour of FF chocolate confectionary offerings in thus far rather conservative corners of the globe a trend that will be driven by population ageing,” it added.

MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato--Police and local officials here activated the police force multipliers to prevent a repeat of the Christmas Eve bombing of a police car in front of the town’s parish Church, Police Supt. Bernard Tayong said

Thursday. Tayong, police chief of Midsayap town in North Cotabato’s first district, said all safety measures are in place ahead of the New Year’s Eve mass at 9 p.m. on Saturday. He said clearly, the grenade attack that destroyed a police car and wounded 17 persons, including a police officer, was directed toward the police in retaliation for its successful campaign against illegal drugs. The police have the

CCTV footages of the two men who tossed the hand grenade that went off at 9:30 p.m while the Christmas Eve mass was on going. The blast site was about 30 meters away from the Church main entrance. Tayong also told reporters about what President Rodrigo Duterte told him when the latter visited Midsayap on Christmas Day. In that visit, the President handed over medical assistance to blast victims, five of whom remained in

the hospital. “His directive was clear, that is, we should continue the anti-drug operation and not be cowed by retaliations from drug syndicates,” Tayong quoted the President as telling him. “There should be no let up in your campaign against illegal drugs, I am behind you,” the President told him and other police officials in the province. “It is good we have a President who is supportive of our duties as protector of the people,” Tayong said. He assured residents the police are on top of the situation and that their cooperation is necessary for the campaign against lawlessness to succeed. The anti-drug operation in Midsayap has weakened big time drug syndicates operating in the borders of Maguindanao and North Cotabato. High powered firearms and illegal drugs were seized when police raided the village of Lomopog in Midsayap, including cal. 50 machine guns, assault rifles and mortars. However, drug syndicate leader Renz Tukuran and his men eluded arrest and vowed to get back at the police. “He was our primary suspect in the grenade attack,” Tayong said. A report culled from the Philippine News Agency

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percent or even higher. In 2017, Ortiz Luis said the PHILEXPORT and the Export Development Council (EDC) will push the industry reform agenda that include maximization of the benefits of free trade agreements (FTAs), intensified campaign against corruption and facilitation of infrastructure development, and capacity building for MSME and institutional disaster resilience. He said these trade agreements include the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and the Philippine-European Free Trade Agreement. Ortiz Luis also looked forward to the full utilization of the Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA), an initiative supported by PHILEXPORT. “Breakthroughs in this front also lies on the successful removal of non-tariff barriers that prevent us from entering new or IN SEARCH FOR FOOD. Scavengers rummage through the water lilies in Cagayan de Oro river looking for foods See REFORM, page A7

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Charge what you’re worth and money again. A few days later Henry Ford got the bill in the mail from that top engineer for fixing his factory generator. The bill was $10,000! Ford could not believe how expensive it was, so he called the engineer on the phone. He said: “Excuse me, Sir, but isn’t $10,000 rather high for just 1 hour of tinkering?” The engineer answered: “Mr. Ford, I’m charging you $10 for my 1 hour of tinkering, and $9,990 for knowing WHERE to tinker!” Ford answered: “Well, I guess you’re right.” And Ford paid the engineer his $10,000. Did you know that people will usually accept your own estimate of yourself? In other words, they will give you the same worth you

give yourself. So don’t sell yourself short! I’m not saying we should go around with big egos and pride, thinking we’re better than other people. But if you have special abilities, training, or experience in a certain skill, then you can have reason to be confident in your special ability and charge what you’re worth. You may be skilled and good at working with computers, cooking, sales, building, or something else. The One Who really knows your abilities, Who can help you know what they are, is the One Who created you. And no matter how much you’re worth in the world of work and business, your real worth comes from how much your own Maker was willing to pay for you.

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was glamorized to the point that he became a harbinger of change. His slogan was: “Change is coming.” The public responded to this propaganda. Although unlike Roxas and his group, among them the AquinoCojuangco clan and Makati (Manila’s Wall Street) corporate moguls, Duterte does not belong to the traditional elite dynasties, his campaign was supported by some of the biggest corporate stakeholders, such as the Floirendo agribusiness, and by billionaire investors (Uy, Te, Alcantara, Villar) engaged in mining, public utilities, construction with huge government contracts, etc. We cannot underestimate the Marcos family’s contribution, which added to the P375 million that Duterte allegedly spent. This fact explains why Duterte allowed the controversial burial of the Marcos cadaver in the National Heroes’ Cemetery. Duterte’s father, & other relatives in Cebu, collaborated with the Marcos martial-law regime. Duterte thus belongs mainly to a hitherto excluded fraction of the comprador-bureaucrat capitalist class, with links to the patrimonial landlord families. He now serves as a “populist” front of the parasitic oligarchy that has dominated the class-conflicted order of this dependency since the U.S. directly ruled the country from 1899 to 1946 as a classic colony, and a pacified neocolony during the Cold War up to now. Duterte’s regime prolongs the moribund structure of colonial institutions and practices that feed off the labor of the peasantry, workers, middle stratum, women, Moros, and the Lumads (indigenous) communities—these last two are now mobilized to oppose this predatory status quo. 3. What is your assess-

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ment of Duterte’s intent of becoming more independent of the United States and the moves he’s made in that direction thus far? This was a burning topic before the US elections, when the Cold War was being revived. Duterte got the cue. His move to invoke his youthful experience with the nationalist movement during his student days was a smart one. Tactically, he beguiled the leaders of BAYAN (the major antiimperialist legal opposition) and their parliamentary foot soldiers to join him against the lethargic RoxasNoynoy Aquino fraction of the oligarchy. Obviously he needed symbols of radical change monopolized by BAYAN, which reinforced the outsider image. Part of his strategy is to firm up his base in the Mindanao-Visayas elite and consolidate his hold on the ideological State apparatus controlled by holdovers from the previous reactionary administrations. He has been doing this when Obama, the US State Dept., and the UN entered the scene and began scolding him for his murderous method of amplifying EJKs, his jettisoning of the Philippine Constitution’s Bill of Rights and various UN covenants guaranteeing the right to life and due process for all citizens. Karapatan (a human-rights monitoring NGO), church groups, and civil-society associations blasted Duterte for the “brazen impunity” shown by the orgy of police violence and State terrorism. Cognizant of those criticisms, Duterte offered to renew peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and its military arm, the New People’s Army (NPA) which, up to now, is still stigmatized by the See KILLINGS, page A5

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US State Dept. as terrorist. This broke the long stalemate in the peace talks during the Arroyo and NoyNoy Aquino regimes. Duterte made a token release of 18 political prisoners involved in the talks and promised to grant amnesty to 434 jailed dissenters. This was hailed by the local media as constructive and a promising sign of change-maker. At the same time, Duterte also made noises about meddlesome US military presence in Mindanao, the annual U.S.-Philippines “Balikatan” exercises, and the US intervention in the China Sea prior to his visit to China and Japan. This triggered heavy media coverage, projecting Duterte as a Latino anti-imperialist crusader like Fidel Castro or Chavez. 4. For a while, there were rumors of a CIA plot to kill Duterte. When former president Fidel Ramos berated Duterte for his anti-US polemics and withdrew his support, was there a symptom of some crisis in the regime? No, it was a calculated publicity technique to divert attention away from the bloody police-vigilante blood bath. Duterte’s complaint was mere grumbling, blowhard gestures of the bully in the hood. His “pivot to China” may have calmed down the turbulent waters of the South China Sea, with the US fleet continuing to maneuver from its bases in Hawaii, Guam, and Okinawa. Obama dismissed Duterte as uncouth, ignorant of diplomatic niceties. Vietnam and Japan rolled out their red carpet to the cursing Leviathan of what academics designated as “Hobbesian” Philippines. Poor Hobbes, maybe Machiavelli’s Borgia would have been the more appropriate analogy. Nothing to worry about for Washington and Pentagon. The US military presence all over the islands, legitimized by the 1947 Mutual Assistance Agreement and the 1951 Philippines-US Mutual Defense Treaty, plus the recent Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, (EDCA), insure the continued stranglehold of Washington-Pentagon on Duterte’s military, police, and various security agencies. With Trump’s condoning of Duterte’s “killing fields,” Duterte has proved himself a wily demagogue whose touted popularity, however, is fast eroding on the face of mammoth protests all over the islands, and in the Filipino diaspora around the world. 5. Are we likely to see a decrease in the U.S. military presence in the Philippines soon? Not at all. First of all, as I already mentioned, all the onerous treaties that subordinate the Philippine State security agencies are

safe and stable. Even the Supreme Court and the trial courts follow US protocols, as laid down initially by two well-intentioned civilizing missionaries, Justice George Malcolm and anthropologist David Barrows. Legal scholar Eric A. San Juan has clearly documented this fact in a recent essay, “Cultural Jurisprudence” (Asian Pacific Law & Policy Journal, 2013). In short, we have been thoroughly Americanized according to the racialized, utilitarian bourgeoise standards of the industrialized metropole. Of course, the entire ideological state apparatus, including the military- police, court and prison system, was systematically crafted by the U.S. colonial administrators for surveillance and repression of those unruly natives, as proven by Prof. Alfred McCoy’s research, Policing America’s Empire. Incidentally, Prof McCoy has also documented the role of the pro-U.S. military in the People Power revolt against Marcos in 1986 and the subsequent coups against Corazon Aquino marked by the assassination of radical militants Rolando Olalia and Lean Alejandro. Duterte’s cabinet reflects the conjunctural alignment of class forces in society today. Vice-president Leni Robredo represents the Roxas-Aquino oligarchy which (except for Robredo, whose victory is now challenged by Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Duterte’s patron) lost the May elections. Except for three progressive ministers, all the officials in Duterte’s Cabinet are pro-US, chiefly the Secretary of Defense General Delfin Lorenzana and the Foreign Affairs Secretary Alfredo Yasay. Mo r e r e v e a l i n g o f Duterte’s retrograde bent is the newly appointed Chief of Staff of the AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) Eduardo Ano, the notorious architect of summary killings and abductions of activists in the last decade. He is the prime suspect in the kidnapping of activist Jonas Burgos, among others. The party-list youth group KABATAAN called Duterte’s appointment of this bloodstained general a signal for more massacres of civilians, forced disappearances of critics, and military occupation of the countryside. This is in pursuit of US-inspired counterinsurgency schemes launched from the time of President Corazon Aquino and intensified by the Ramos, Estrada, Arroyo and Noynoy Aquino regimes. L i ke G e ne r a l F i d el Ramos, who succeeded Corazon Aquino, all the military and police officials in the Philippines follow U.S.-ordained training, ideological indoctrination, and political goals. Their logistics, weaponry and operating procedures are transplanted wholesale from the Pentagon and US State Dept., following treaty regulations. Military aid to the Philippines rose during

Tuesday, January 3, 2017 the Carter and Reagan administrations in support of the beleaguered martial-law Marcos regime. From 2010 to 2015, the US military aid totaled $183.4 million, aside from other numerous training and diplomatic exchanges, for example, the active presence of CIA and FBI agents interrogating prisoners at Camp Crame police headquarters. Given the massive archive of treaties, ideological control, customary habits, and various diplomatic constraints, only a radical systemic change can cut off U.S. stranglehold on this neocolony. At least, that’s a first step in changing people’s minds, dreams, and hopes. 6. Will President-elect Trump water down Obama’s “Asian pivot” in view of his isolationist impulse, instead of allowing Duterte to assert a more “independent” foreign policy? That remains to be seen. As of now, there is no real sign of a foreign invasion from China or anywhere else—it’s the U.S. that has re-invaded several times. There’s no sign of a brewing confrontation in the South China Sea today. The threat to the global capitalist system comes from the masses of oppressed workers and peasants, women, Lumads, and especially the formidable forces of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which Duterte has to address by diplomatic means before long. From Marcos up to Noynoy Aquino, for over four decades now, the Moro people have resisted total subjugation and genocide. It would be foolish, if not suicidal, for Duterte to persist implementing a militaristic approach—unless the U.S. (via his generals) needs to dispose of surplus weapons following the imperatives of the profiteering militaryindustrial complex. For all his braggadocio and macho exhibitionism, Duterte is unable to halt the attacks of the dwindling Abu Sayyaf group, the alQaeda-inspired gang of kidnap-for-ransom Moros in Basilan and Sulu. Like drug addiction, the Abu Sayyaf is a symptom of a deep and widespread social and political cancer in society. Studies have shown that its followers have been paid and subsidized by local politicians, military officials, businessmen, and even by U.S. undercover agents. Only a radical transformation of class-race relations, of the hierarchy of power linked to property and economic opportunities, can resolve the centuries-long grievances of the BangsaMoro peoples. 7. Will you address Duterte’s crackdown on drug dealing and drug use, the one thing about him people in the U.S. are likely to have heard about? This is probably the only issue that preoccupies the infotainment industry eager for high ratings/profits. The international media

(e.g.,Telesur, Al-Jazeera, UK’s Guardian, CNN worldwide) does not allow a day to pass without headlining or commenting on the new “killing fields” in the Philippines. The New York Times, Dec. 7 issue, devoted a long elaborate video/print special to this topic, in English and in Filipino(in YOUTUBE), entitled “They are Slaughtering Us Like Animals.” This equals in visual power the TIME report “The Killing Season: Inside Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s War on Drugs” (October 10) that provoked Duterte’s wrath. Harper’s, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and social media have blanketed the atmosphere with Duterte’s EJK performance. Right now, however, reports of Russian meddling in the US elections have marginalized Duterte’s antics, overshadowing even the horrible war in Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan. We might have a reprieve on the carnage in that remote outpost of the Empire. The New York Times reporter Daniel Berehulak counted 54 victims of police raids in the 35 days he accompanied the guardians of law-and-order in the urban complex of MetroManila. Filipino addicts and small-time pushers inhabit impoverished squatter areas in suburban Caloocan, Pandacan, Tondo, outside the gated communities of the rich in Makati or Forbes Park. As of now, the total victims of police and vigilante violence of Oplan Tokhang (the rubric for the drug war) have reached 5,800 suspects killed: 2000 by the police, the rest by vigilante or paramilitary groups. According to the Philippine National Police (PNP) headquarters, there have been 35,600 arrests that netted 727,600 users and 56,500 pushers. Duterte himself initially said he will kill another 30,000 enough to fill the waters of Manila Bay and to make funeral parlors thrive. This represents a new level of ruthlessness that has converted the country into “a macabre house of mourning.” Most of the victims are part of the vulnerable, marginalized sectors of society. Curtailing their basic rights to a life of dignity, denying them due process and equal treatment under the law, will surely not solve addiction. Everyone recognizes that Duterte’s plan is an insane program of solving a perennial socio-economic malady. Scientific studies have shown that drug addiction springs from family and social conditions, contingent on variable historical factors. Only education in healthcare, a caring and mutually supportive social environment, as well as support from government and health agencies, can reduce the havoc wrought by this epidemic. Not by stifling human lives, no matter how damaged or dysfunctional. But as we’ve remarked, the hegemnic

norms of a class-divided society does not allow this consensus to prevail. 8. So there is another motive or underlying purpose behind this terrible war against drugs Surely there is a larger political intent: dividing your enemy, splitting communities, demoralizing the angry citizenry. To some degree the climate of fear and terror has sown animosities among members of the middle class, and incited antagonisms among the lumpen and ordinary citizens toward the relatively well-off and those who welcome authoritarian policies and security in exchange for liberties. Meanwhile, the police rides roughshod over everyone, and so far there is no sustained legislative or court opposition to the relentless executive coercive power behind this unconscionable outrage. Karapatan chairperson Tinay Palabay has acutely

seen through the smokescreen of this drug campaign: the State’s program to pursue counterinsurgency under cover of a hitherto well-meaning campaign. The AFP has labeled national-democratic militants as drug suspects, such as the case of anti-mining activist Joselito Pasaporte of Compostela Valley, Davao. Under cover of the drug war, Oplan Bayanihan, the counter-insurgency lowintensity war of the AFP, proceeds in the form of civic action-peace and development programs. During Duterte’s 100-days in office, Palabay’s group has documented 16 victims of political murder, 12 frustrated killings, two cases of torture, and nine victims of illegal arrest and detentions, mostly involving indigenous peoples in Sumilao, Bukidnon, and farmers massacred in Laur, Nueva Ecija. Today, Dec. 12, See KILLINGS, page A7

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be, you may have some an inkling of how this guy operates, because most of the ambassadors of the United States, but not all, are not really professional ambassadors,” President Duterte said. “Those career at the

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also carries an approved intelligence fund of a whooping P110 million, the largest for a local official outside Manila. Bañez said that the city could meet the required revenue to cover the budget because the city had already collected about P3 billion this year. He said that of the proposed PHP 5.4 billion budget, about P4.049 billion would go under the general fund, P500 million in borrowings, the special education fund would have a share of around P444.340 million and the development fund would be allotted with P281.617 million. “I planned to set up a meeting with the business sectors and explain to them my plan of tax increase, para dili pud sila makurat (so the business group won’t be surprised),” Bañez said. The city treasurer also planned to increase the Real Property Tax (RPT), however, he has to study other options. Ne x t ye ar’s an nu a l budget of P5.8 billion has increased to 60 percent as compared to last year’s annual budget of only P2.4 billion. CD

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Reproductive Health Law. Adolescent girls 10-19 years old will also increase to 10,080,824 next year. Based on the most recent data from the PSA (2014), it is expected that over 200,000 adolescent girls will give birth in 2017. The figures for women of reproductive age and adolescent girls continue to be the highest numbers on record. This trend is expected to continue up to 2022 when the numbers of women of reproductive age are expected to peak at 29.1 million and adolescent girls at 11.3 million. “The continuing increase in population is due to relatively high fertility rates of Filipino women which is 3 children on average; however, 11 of the 17 regions show higher fertility rates than the national average. ARMM, Bicol and Western Visayas continue to have rates ranging from 3.8 in Western Visayas to 4.1 in Bicol and 4.2 in ARMM,” Executive Director Juan A. Perez III of POPCOM noted. Other population trends being tracked by POPCOM for 2017 are number of schoolchildren which are expected to rise to 31.5 million, labor force of 66.7 million and population over 65 years old at 5.2 million. Based on the number of births in 2014 reported by PSA, there were 3.33 Filipinos born every minute that year. More males than females were born with 1.02 males born for every female. Based on PSA projections of 1,691,897 births in 2017, the number of Filipinos born per minute

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

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will go down to 3.22 births per minute next year. (PNA) from page A3

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The days and nights well spent during this conference will be a learning curb for all delegates attending the sessions. The entire proceeding will be presided by the Chairman, Dr. Rogelio M. Florete and the President and CEO, Ms. Margaret Ruth C. Florete. The Network’s best practices will gauge the result of operations for 2016 and will form the basis for ensuring better products and services for the listeners of the Network. Moreover, achievers will be identified and awarded in the highly awaited ceremonies culminating the conference replete with prizes for the deserving officers Indeed, your favorite Bombo Radyo and Star FM stations will continue to innovate so as to be relevant to the time, always ready to be of service to our country... Basta Radyo...Bombo!

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sometime in 2007. Emano said that the Padayon has created a working group that would lobby for the possible alliance with the administration’s PDPLaban political party at the national level. For the past elections, the Padayon, as a regional political party, has not declared an alliance with any national political party, but expressed support to individual political candidates of varied political parties. One of the post Martial Law opposition political parties in the regional level, the Padayon was a formidable political party with a winning streak since its inception three decades ago. Known for its pro-poor political ideology, the Padayon candidate has to undergo a rigid political and social orientation seminar prior to formal admission to the Padayon membership. “With over 60,000 Padayon members in Northern Mindanao, it is high time for the political party to assert its presence in the regional political arena,” Emano said. He said that the Padayon would now actively participate in the regional political arena, particularly in the scheduled barangay elections next year. Emano said that the Padayon is now also working to ally with other local political parties in the regional level. “There were local political parties that remained independent, particularly during national elections that the Padayon could work with during local elections,” he said. Emano said that with the holding of the first regional Padayon Pilipino regional convention, the Padayon leadership has now laid down its political roadmap.

expanding our markets,” he noted. The export group chief added they will continue advocating for the implementation of existing labor laws to ensure the workers’ security of tenure as a middle ground to stopping illegal hiring practice, and the passage of the Comprehensive Tax Reform Act, Ease of Doing Business Act and amendments in the implementing rules and regulation (IRR) of the Magna Carta for MSMEs, among others. Further, Ortiz Luis hopes that the country’s latest export performance will signal the start of the export recovery even amid slower global economic growth. He noted the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) that surged 7.1 percent in the third quarter, topping economic growths of China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia, during the period. Merchandise exports in October rose 3.7 percent for the second consecutive month after the 17-month decline. He also cited the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) thrust to further strengthen the manufacturing sector that is now growing 7 percent to 8 percent compared to 3 percent to 4 percent in the past. Ortiz Luis said the DTI also announced it would set aside an initial P1 billion in 2017 for lending to micro and small firms to “discourage borrowers from turning to usurious lenders.” The funds, which will come from the Office of the President, is targeted to reach P18 billion with each of the region allocated P1 billion. “Exporters with signed contracts and orders in the first half of the year may expect a windfall as the currency gets to a more competitive level hopefully sustainably,” he added. The government expects to achieve its $100-billion export revenue target by 2020.

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the NDFP has documented 18 activists killed, 20 survived from attempted assassination, and 13,000 persons victimized by forced evacuations from their homes. Consider also 14,000 cases of schools, clinics, chapels and civilian infrastructure being used as military barracks in violation of peace agreements on respect for human rights signed by both the government and the revolutionary NDFP. Irked by Karapatan, Duterte has vowed to kill all human rights activists. His agents are already doing their best to sabotage and abort the peace talks. If he dares to carry out this pompous threat, he might drastically shorten his own tenure and stimulate the opposite of what he wants: mass fury against tyrannical rule and police-state barbarism.

9. What is the state of the revolutionary armed struggle that has been going on in its modern form since 1969? As of last week, the revolutionary elan has peaked with huge nationwide mass demonstrations against Duterte’s decision to allow the burial of Marcos in the National Heroes Cemetery. This has politicized millenials and a whole generation otherwise ignorant of the horrendous suffering of the people during the Marcos dictatorship. It has mobilized anew the middle strata of students, professionals, workers, women, urban poor, as well as Lumads, Moros, and the peasantry who constitute the majority of the citizenry. The anti-Marcosdictatorship resurgence has diminished Duterte’s popularity, exploding the myth of his supposed incorruptibility and pro-change posture. It’s more of the same, and even worse. It’s a mixed picture that needs to be viewed from a historical-dialectical perspective. While the size of the NPA has declined from about 25,000-30,000 fully armed guerillas in the 1980s to less than 15,000 today, its influence has increased several times. This is due to deteriorating socioeconomic conditions since the overthrow of the Marcos dictatorship. Thanks also to the immiseration of workers’ lives and the pain inflicted by the vicious rampage of the military and police in the countryside. Large areas in Mindanao, Luzon and the Visayas are under the sway of partisan units of the NPA. Meanwhile, the MILF continues to preserve and defend its liberated zones from AFP incursions. Meanwhile, the character of people’s war has changed in its quality and direction. The shift to political and diplomatic tactics within the strategy of protracted war (following Mao’s teaching) has made tremendous gains in organizing women, students, urban poor, and Lumads. Various cultural and social formations engage in pedagogical and agitational campaigns to expose the chicanery and deception of the Duterte regime. Not a single perpetrator of human-rights violations has been arrested and punished, such as the soldiers guilty of the Lianga and Paquibato massares, the murders of personalities such as Romeo Capala, Fernando Baldomero, Fr. Fausto Tentorio, William Geertman, Leonardo Co, Juvy Capion, Rebelyn Pitao, Emerito Samarca, and hundreds more. Meanwhile General Jovito Palparan, who murdered many activists, continues to enjoy army custody instead of regular civilian detention. The scandalous “culture of impunity” is flourishing in the killing fields of the tropical neocolony. Many disappeared activists (among them, Jonas Burgos, Sherlyn Cadapan, Karen Empeno, Luisa Dominado-Posa, and others) have not been accounted for by the State, while martial law victims and their families have not been indemnified. All these existing anomalies may explain the belief that given the corrupt bureaucracy and justice-system, the only feasible alternative is to join the armed struggle against the rotten, inhuman system. This is why the communist-led insurgency cannot be defeated, given its deep roots in the 1896 revolution against Spanish tyranny

and the resistance against U.S. imperial aggression from 1899 up to the present. 10. What is your assessment of Duterte’s overture to the National Democratic Front of the Philippines and the Bangsamoro insurgency? As I noted earlier, Duterte’s overture was hailed as a positive step to solve a durable, national-democratic insurgency dating back to the sixties, when the Communist Party of the Philippines was re-organized and the NPA founded. The peace talks began with Corazon Aquino’s recognition of the role played by the underground resistance in overthrowing Marcos and installing her. Similarly, Duterte implicitly recognized the political traction of the left-wing representatives in Congress in the last few years. While Duterte welcomed the unilateral ceasefire declaration of the NDFP, lately he declared that he would not grant amnesty nor release any more prisoners unless the NDFP stops fighting and submit to the government’s dictates. The severely punished prisoners are now pawns in Duterte’s gambit to coopt the subversives. Duterte’s mandate has been changed to: One step forward, two steps backward. Duterte allows his military and police to terrorize the citizenry. No substantive reform of those decadent institutions has been carried out. Criminalization of political activities still continues with the AFP arresting Lumad teacher Amelia Pond and peace advocate John Maniquez, charging them with murder, illegal possession of firearms, etc.—the usual alibi of detaining activists which proved utterly barbaric in the case of the Morong 45 during Macapagal-Arroyo’s tenure. Rape, torture, robbery, threat of assassination, and warrantless arrest of innocent civilians remain the State’s formula for safeguarding peace and order in society. No tangible step has been made to seriously confront the Bangsamoro insurgency— unless Duterte’s attempt to cement his friendship with Nur Misuari, leader of the other Moro group, the Moro National Liberation Front, is a tactic to divide the enemy. That may be his Achilles’ heel. On this arena of diverse antagonisms, with fierce class war raging all over the country, Duterte finds himself in dire straits. Sooner or later, he will be compelled to either defy the pro-U.S. imperialist hierarchy of the AFP and the fascist PNP if he is sincere in challenging the status quo, or suppress a rebellion from within his ranks. He has to reckon also with the opposition of the more entrenched, diehard cabal of the Ayalas, Cojuanco-Aquino, the comprador owners of malls and export industries, as well as the traditional warlords and semifeudal dynasties that depend on U.S. moral and financial support. That will be the day when Duterte’s fate as “Punisher” will be decided. Meanwhile, the struggle for national liberation and social justice continues, despite the trumped-up charges inficted on anyone denouncing Duterte and his friend, president-elect Donald Trump.# E. San Juan is professorial lecturer at Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila, and author of recent books US Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines, In the Wake of Terror, Between Empire and Insurgency, and Working

Through the Contradictions. He was previously a fellow of the W.B.Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, and the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin; and emeritus professor of Ethnic Studies, Comparative Literature, and English. Andy Piascik writes for Z, Znet and many other publictions and websites. His novel In Motion was published earlier this year by Sunshine Publishing (www.sunshinepublishing.org)

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is really to undermine government,” he added. President Duterte said Goldberg was expelled as ambassador of Bolivia “because he was undermining the native President there.” “And Goldberg started to dig under, to erode the foundation of the presidency and he was expelled persona non grata,” the President said. President Duterte, however, said he is ready to defend the presidency which he won in the last May 9 elections with 16 million votes or six million margin over his closest rival. “This is my message to the United States and to everybody, to those out there on the streets, and for those who are demanding my resignation: you know, I feel that I have to honor the contract with the people,” the President said. President Duterte said he does not need presidency “at this time of my life” but he promised to work hard to fulfill his campaign promises particularly his fight against illegal drugs, criminal and corruption. “If the people would say I am eagerly happy, I said I don’t need it at this time of my life. But since I ran for the position and I won, so I have to honor the contract,” the 72-year-old Filipino leader said. (PNA)

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monthly savings required for members to join the raffle is P600 and above. When her family learned about her winning Albase said, “My family, the youngest one, she’s very much excited and asking for balato (a cut from someone’s winning) while my eldest daughter suspected that it was a scam.” As for her plans of spending her winning, Albase shared that together with her husband, they are planning to put up a building for business purposes in a lot she ownes at Barangay Consolacion, Cagayan de Oro City. When asked about her experience with Pag-IBIG, Albase shared, “My transactions in Pag-IBIG are all okay. The records are reliable and transparent where you’ll know your total savings.” With the luck she obtained from Pag-IBIG, Albase said, “I advise and give encouragement to my co-employees to increase their monthly savings especially the new entrants.” She also added that PagIBIG gives better security in terms of savings as it also provides higher dividend compared to commercial banks. (Recthie T. Paculba/PIA-10)

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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Secretary Mamondiong turned over ten (10) sewing machines By Joe Palabao

Last December 3, 2016, no less than the TESDA Hon. Secretary Guiling Mamondiong distributed ten (10) Sewing Machines to the Sendong Survivors at the Relocation Site, Phase 3 Habitat for Humanity, resettlement area at Calaanan, Canitoan, Cagayan

de Oro City. The site has more or less 2,007 survivors who are happily now residing in peace and harmony. Barangay Canitoan through its active and dynamic Barangay Captain-Joshua A. Taboclaon with sincere heart personally thanked the Secretary

Mamondiong for making reality his promise in delivering ten (10) units of sewing machines to the Sendong Survivors of the relocation site. Furthermore, Barangay Captain hopes for more assistance from TESDA in terms of training and skills development. Kagawad George Goking

delivered the message of Vice Mayor Rainier Joaquin “Kikang” Uy who was in the relocation site earlier but left earlier for some equally important commitment. He commended the kind effort of the Secretary in delivering the sewing machines for the beneficiaries’ livelihood programs. The ten (10) sewing machines were turned overby DG/ Secretary Guiling A. Mamondiong with DDG Alvin Feliciano and TESDA Regional Director Edgar A. Sales to recipients represented by Tessie M. Andres, the President of Dressmaking Habitat for Humanity survivors with Ruby Madriaga and Punong

Barangay Joshua A. Taboclaon. TESDA Secretary Guiling A Mamondiong committed for the establishment of a

training centre in the relocation site before the end of the year vis.a.vis acquition of a lot by the survivors. KUDOS.