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BFP-10 to building owners: Follow fire code to prevent incident

By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent

CAGAYAN de Oro City-The Bureau of Fire Protection in Region 10 (BFP-10) appealed on Monday to building owners to comply with the fire code as the agency acknowledged it still lacked the latest firefighting

IN FOCUS With 216 votes, House okays death penalty

THE House of Representatives on Tuesday approved on third and final reading the contentious measure restoring the death penalty.

With 216 votes on the affirmative, 54 negative and one abstention, majority See death, page 7

Bribe try

THE Palace on Tuesday bared that there was an attempt to bribe President Rodrigo Duterte.

Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella confirmed the bribe attempt when pressed on the

equipment.

BFP-10’s concern arose from the rapid urbanization of this city with high-rise buildings popping up all mainly in the downtown area where commercial establishments set up shop.

Fire Senior Superintendent Domingo Tambalo, BFP-10 regional director,

has urged owners of highrise buildings to observe the existing fire code as prevention and law enforcement are still the best deterrent to fire.

“Compliance to building code, the installation of sprinkler system, planning, fire drill and presence of safety officers can help

in tall structures.

Northern Mindanao only has five Rosenbauer fire trucks, with one in Cagayan de Oro. “Rosebauer is the only fire truck that is capable of reaching up to eight-story buildings,” he added.

The city has structures as high as 24 stories and

the BFP-10 is relying on compliance from business operators to prevent fire by putting in place mechanism such as fire sprinkler and exit routes in case of an incident.

Fire Chief Inspector Richie Fabre, assistant regional director for

Suspension of tourist visit in MisOr remains Dodiongan Falls. Pic-

nickers enjoy the scenery at the foot of Dodiongan Falls in Iligan City on Sunday (March 5, 2017).

MindaNews photo

by Bobby Timonera

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Smoking ban

Malacañang on Tuesday said that President Rodrigo Duterte is set to sign an executive order (EO) on a nationwide smoking ban that will follow the Davao model.

Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella said the revised draft of the EO prepared by the See ban, page 7

See PREVENT, page 7

By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor

MISAMIS Oriental--The suspension of tourist, both domestic and foreign, visit in known tourist spots in Misamis Oriental, especially in the province’s outskirts remain in effect, provincial Governor Vicente Emano said Tuesday.

Emano issued the statement after the governor’s office received reports about the burning of the fuel tanker of the contractor of the Del Monte Phil.

Inc. (DMPI) in the outskirt of Balingasag last Monday.

The police reported that about 30 unidentified armed men, believed to be members of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) burned the fuel tanker of the DMPI’s service provider in San Juan, an outskirt village in Balingasag, a town east See TOURIST, page 7

n International Women’s Month March 8, 2017

Yes, they can!

By Ma. Cristina C. Arayata of PNA

As we observe the International Women’s Month this March, the Philippine News Agency listed five women, who, despite having experienced low moments in their lives, managed to rise again and prove that women are not weak.

1. Kooky Tuason Sp oken word ar tist Kooky Tuason was molested by a neighbor when she was nine. It was the lowest point in her life, and admitted that

prevent fire in high-rise structures,” Tambalo told reporters during the press conference held at the BFP10 headquarters in Barangay Carmen on yesterday.

But he said the bureau’s main challenge at present is its lack of firefighting equipment that would address possible fire incidents

More women needed in police force, top govt posts

By AZER N. PARROCHA of PNA

she cried every night, asking God why it happened to her.

Years have passed and it was a daily battle for her. The incident made her feel she couldn’t trust people, and that she had no friends other than her pen and paper.

She decided to forgive, though she admitted she feels the pain every time she remembers that moment.

According to her,

THE military, police force and other policy-making bodies need more women, Sen. Juan Edgardo Angara said Tuesday urging the government to intensify programs that promote the participation and equitable representation of women.

“We call on all government agencies to take proactive steps to capacitate women employees to strengthen their qualifications and performance to compete for third-level positions,” Angara said.

“Competence and work experience should be main considerations for promotions and top positions, not gender,” he added.

Angara made this call noting that data from

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See POSTS, page 7

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Greenpeace joins call for Lopez confirmation as DENR secretary GREENPEACE Philippines on Mrach 1 added its voice to the growing number of people, organizations, and communities calling for the confirmation of Regina Paz L. Lopez as secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

In a statement, Amalie Obusan, Country Director of Greenpeace Philippines, said: “We support the actions that the incumbent has undertaken thus far, especially in the mining See joins, page 6

Related: CA amends rules on appointment of nominees/p.5

DENR Secretary Regina Lopez speaks before residents and local leaders of mining host communities in Caraga during the dialogue in Butuan City on February 25, 2017. She told participants to prepare for a “green economy” in their communities. At right, at least 3,000 anti-mining protesters hold a rally in Surigao City on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 in support to Environment Secretary Regina Lopez’s decision to close 14 mining firms in Caraga Region. MindaNews photos by Roel N. Catoto

doc’s killing, an isolated case, says DIMAPORO

Lanao Norte to play host to PBA game

By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent

CAGAYAN de Oro City-The provincial government of Lanao del Norte on Monday has assured residents and visitors that the province is generally peaceful and that the killing of Dr. Dreyfuss Perlas last week was an isolated case as it is set to host a Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) outof-town game later this month.

Perlas, 31, was gunned down by two motorcycle-

riding men in Barangay Maranding Annex, Kapatagan town as he was on his way to his residence in Barangay Maranding in Lala town from a medical mission in the municipality of Sapad, all in Lanao del Norte.

At the time of his death, the victim was one of the active physicians hired by the health department under the Doctors to the Barrios program. He had been assigned as the Sapad municipal health officer for more than five years.

B u t G o v. I m e l d a

Quibranza-Dimaporo has allayed fears of conflict that might escalate from the shooting incident as she advised Senior Superintendent Faro Antonio Olaguera, the provincial police chief, to give the case a special treatment.

The governor also said she instructed Olaguera to organize a special task group, which would include the police chiefs of Kapatagan, Lala and Sapad, to focus on identifying the perpetrators and solving the murder right away.

She s aid t he p olice

chiefs in the three towns could help in gathering information that could be used to track down the suspects and bring them to justice.

“He went even to the remote barangays in Sapad and he was loved by the people there. His death was a great loss to the province,” Q uibranzaDimaporo said.

However, she said, Perlas’ death was not a common occurrence in Lanao del Norte as the province is still a peaceful place and that people don’t have to

worry about the peace and order situation there.

In fact, she said a PBA event is expected by not just the people in province but by neighboring places, as well.

Provincial information officer Lyndon Calica said PBA teams Star Hotshots and Global Port will play at the Mindanao Civic Center Sports Complex in Barangay Sagadan in Tubod town on March 25.

The province is also preparing for the annual “Araw ng Lanao” to be held this July, Calica added.

Cigars with fake stamps now being monitored GENERAL Santos City-Revenue and customs personnel here have widened their monitoring in the local markets for the presence of cigarette products that carry counterfeit or fake tax stamps.

Esmeralda Tabule, Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)-Revenue Region 18 regional director, said Tuesday they are currently conducting inspections on commercial establishments in the area to check the sta- Bayanihan. Neighbors and relatives help carry a house in the village of Olandang along the border of Midsayap, tus of their cigarette stocks. North Cotabato and Datu Piang, Maguindanao on Monday (March 6, 2017). Called Bayanihan, the practice of helping She said the move one another without expecting something in return remains alive among Filipinos in rural areas. A salo-salo or free See FAKE, page 6

breakfast hosted by the house owner will follow as a gesture of gratitude. MindaNews photo by Ferdinandh Cabrera

Creation of power, railway corps Ok’d Three panels of the House of Representatives have jointly approved measures seeking to create the Mindanao Power Corporation and the Mindanao Railways Corporation in a bid to spur economic development in the Mindanao region.

In joint hearings, the Hous e committe es on Government Enterprises and Privatization, and on Energy have approved the consolidation of House Bills 122 and 357, both of which seek to create the Mindanao Power Corporation.

HB 122, authored by Zamboanga City Rep. Celso Lobregat, seeks the nonprivatization of the Agus and Pulangui Hydropower Complexes, which bring low power rates in the Southern Philippines.

Lobregat also pushes for a viable way for government to operate and maintain these sources of cheap power.

Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Maximo Rodriguez Jr., author of HB 357, expressed confidence the Mindanao Power Corporation will serve as the solution to the recurrent power crisis in Mindanao.

“Privatization will not happen because the people of Mindanao always oppose it. And even the President of the Republic has enunciated his favor to retain the Agus-Pulangui Complexes,” said Rodriguez.

The National Power Corporation (Napocor) and the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management, Corp.

(PSALM) have expressed support for the passage See CREATION, page 7

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Poets as/are gifted beings Second part

It was the criticism of Peacock that poets were useless beings and poetry was the most worthless of all intellectual exercises that prompted English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to write “A Defence of Poetry”. In this essay, written in 1821 and published posthumously in 1840, Shelley defended poetry as the highest form of literature by advancing major points. Here it is which I culled from an Internet post: Correct definition of poetry. Shelley defines poetry as the expression of imagination and considers that all who express their imagination of life are poets, like sculptures, artists, musicians, founders of religions and peasants. All the arts are poetry because they render imagination but rhythmical language provides the highest kind of poetry since language is itself created by imagination and is an intellectual medium. This is not true for any other medium.

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grief and pleasure, eternity and change. It subdues all unconceivable things to union under its light yoke.

Poets are the individuals of unapprehended inspiration, the mirrors of gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present, the words which express what they do not understand, the trumpets which sing to the battle and feel not what they inspire, the influence which is not moved but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

No doubt Shelley succeeds in conveying a sense of the immense significance of poetry even to those who disagree with his position.

Indeed poets are gifted beings. And I hope you will not consider it as selfserving if I will say I am a poet! Hmm. **** Email me rgmoldez@ gmail.com

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language the moments of his contact with the ideal world. According to Shelley, poetry is something divine.

It is immediately the center and the circumference of knowledge. It is that which comprehends all science and that to which all science must be referred.

One writer argues that poetry purifies our inner self. The poet binds together, by passion and knowledge, the vast empire of human society spread over the whole earth and over all time. Poetry is the record of the happiest and the best moments of the happiest and best minds.

Poetry thus makes immortal all that is most beautiful in the world. A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with waters of wisdom and delight.

Let us reflect further on Shelley’s words: Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of divinity in man. Poetry turns all things to loveliness. It exalts the beauty of that which is most beautiful and it adds beauty to that which is most deformed. It marries exaltation and horror,

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moral effect of poetry lies in its appeal to the imaginative and emotional faculties; in the development it gives to these, it enlarges the powers of the mind itself.

Imagination always plays a vital role in the growth of moral sense because dirt of imagination means want of sympathy which produces callousness and cruelty.

Ergo, the morality in poetry is higher than that a teacher can directly inculcate.

Immortality of Poetry.

Shelley stresses that even though poets speak of love, lust and vanity but still it is not poetry that abuses man’s wit, rather it is man’s wit that abuses poetry. Obscenity is far from poetry because it is a blasphemy against the divine beauty of life of which poetry is the embodiment.

Poetry remains in every age, however corrupt it may be, the light of life, and communicates all the pleasure men are capable of receiving.

Rhapsody on the poet.

Shelley concludes his essay with a brief summary of his arguments and in the last paragraph we see the picture of the poet as an inspired individual capturing in the

it even if he grows old…”

(Proverbs 22:6, the Holy Bible).

-oooSTUDENT PAINTING CONTEST TO MARK ROTARY FOUNDATION’S “100 YEARS OF DOING GOOD IN THE WORLD”: What would it be like for a collegiate fine arts student to be recognized as a champion painter in a painting contest that Rotarians are staging to celebrate the Rotary Foundation’s “100 years of doing good in the world”, with the generous support of the country’s top patron of the arts, Ayala Corporation, and of top radio and TV stations and respectable newspapers as media partners?

We will soon find out, on account of the launching next week, March 09, 2017, of the “Art Serving Humanity” painting contest of the Rotary Club of Intramuros, which is one of the 100 or so clubs of Rotary International District 3810 that covers Manila, Pasay City, Cavite and Occidental Mindoro.

Angelina Domingo Mauricio, my wife who is the All Star President of RC Intramuros, said the painting contest will run between March 09, 2017, on the day of its launching, until the completion of its final selection process for the winning painting entries on June 01, 2017, which actually marks the 100th year of the Rotary Foundation’s establishment. District 3810 Gov. Ernesto D. Yuyek approved the holding of the contest.

-oooC ON T E ST TO E N COURAGE PINOY KIDS TO DEVELOP ART TALENT: Technological University of the Philippines Profess or Dr. Meliton Baccay, the chair of RC Intramuros’ humanitarian services, has been tapped to lead the committee that will oversee the holding of the painting contest from its start to finish.

Baccay announced that the contest is open to all fine arts students from Metro Manila schools, colleges and university, in a bid to encourage Filipino kids to hone their painting and art talents.

The painting entries will focus on what the Rotary Foundation has done towards the fulfillment of the

so-called six areas of focus of all Rotary every Rotary year (which starts on July 1 of each year and ends on June 30 of the succeeding year)---which are peace and conflict prevention and resolution, disease prevention and treatment, water and sanitation, maternal and child health, basic education and literacy, and economic and community development.

The Rotary Foundation is a separate non-profit corporation that supports the efforts of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs. The Foundation was started by Arch C. Klump in 1917. Klump was a president of Rotary International.

-oooRULES ON PAINTING CONTEST: Entries should be submitted at the Office of the Graduate Programs and External Studies, 2nd Floor Center for Academic Programs, Technological University of the Philippines, Ayala Blvd., San Marcelino St., Manila, on or before May 05, 2017.

For more information, interested parties may call or email Dr. Bacay at 0998

202 4606, and melbaccay@ yahoo.com.

All Star President Angelina Mauricio on the other hand disclosed that Philippine Star, Manila Bulletin, PTV 4 and Radyo Agila’s DZEC are now officially accredited as the media partners of RC Intramuros for the project. She said that other patrons, donors, and supporters are expected to assist towards a successful completion of the contest.

The launching of the painting contest on March 09, 2017 at the Ilustrado Restaurant in Intramuros, Manila, coincides with the celebration of the 36th Charter anniversar y of the Rotary Club of Intramuros, where the Club is scheduled to honor its past presidents who have continued helping it in its varied charitable and humanitarian projects.

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It must be a matter of pride

IT MUST be a matter of pride to every Iliganon, proud of the good name of City Mayor Celso G. Regencia, and the accomplishments of Iligan City has reached so far under his administration, despite his suspension for six months and also for his incarceration for more than a year of the crimes he have not done and will never do in his lifetime.

The simple fact was that when the interest of the Iliganons imperatively demanded that a certain act should be done, and he, City Mayor Celso G. Regencia, had the courage to do it, he did it unless it is specifically provided by law, instead of timidity and cowardice for refusing to do it, he will do it with enthusiasm and that is, of course, for the greatest good for the greatest number of Iliganons that he is duty bound to serve with honesty and integrity.

In his judgment, history had taught a lesson that every chief executive has powers; but that if he is coward or a selfish man, afraid of responsibility and afraid of risks, he can manufacture ingenious excuses for his failure to exercise them.

It is perfectly true that, if he had wished to shriek his responsibility, if he had been afraid of doing his sworn duty, he could have pursued a course which would have prevented the ire of his political adversaries, and

which would have left the Regencia administration a surrogate to their whims and caprices, no nearer succeed the demand of moving Iligan City forward to total development and in accommodating the Sendong victims with house and lot that they have waiting of for quite sometime, which will soon be implemented and, in fact, there is already an allocated funding for the purpose.

The 42 hectares land area that the Regencia administration had purchased that reached to the Ombudsman due to the complaint made by former City Vice Mayor Ruderic Marzo.

The Ombudsman uphold subject purchase which, as its consequence, had delayed the implementation of the housing project of Typhoon Sendong victims.

The subject 42 hectares land area could accommodate more or less 3,490 housing units at 70 square meters per unit.

He has also purchased dump trucks and other heavy equipment to fast track the garbage collection activities as well as in the construction of farm to market roads especially in the hinterland barangays, which will be delivered soon. This includes the proposed construction of the new public market in Palao, which funding for the purpose has also been allocated. The Regencia

administration would not have to borrow money from any banking institution for the subject construction because the city can afford; unlike the previous city administration.

The political adversaries of City Mayor Celso G. Regencia, who at any stage, had opposed or condemned the action he actually taken, especially so regarding the concerted effort of the Regencia Administration and the 16th City Council to implement the housing project for Sendong victims, to hasten the garbage collection activities, the construction of new public market at Palao and that of farm to market roads, and, more importantly, regarding the reopening of the National Steel Corporation in much too soon, have been an opponent to the effort of the Regencia administration to move Iligan City forward to total development.

Despite his being incarcerated before and yet he commanded the respect of the 16th City Council and the department heads, and the people of Iligan as well, which is why Iligan City is moving forward in a booster like pace of development that we, Iliganons, are dreaming of. Now that he is out of the dungeon because the fabricated crimes filed by his arch political enemy former Congressman Vicente Belmonte Jr. against him failed to hold water.

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Will federalism hold the Bangsamoro hostage?

By H. Marcos C. Mordeno of MindaNews

Demosthenes P. Maglasang Sr.

At this instant, he is now personally supervising and monitoring all the implemented projects and soon to be implemented, and the peace and order condition of the city as well.

The action of former congressman and his cahoots against City Mayor Celso G. Regencia was condemnable. Why should they not set aside politics for a while, anyway 2019 election is too far yet. But how could they be able to participate the 2019 election when they were perpetually disqualified from holding public office, as a consequence of the Ombudsman’s decision?

Why should they still prepare to choose to be rumor mongers for the rest of their lives instead of praying for clemency and forgiveness to God, the offended Power, for all the wrong doings they have done against the innocent City Mayor Celso G. Regencia? Do their hearts no longer have any Christian content anymore? AGREE OR DISAGREE! Demosthenes P. Maglasang, Sr., City Information Staff, Office of the City Mayor, City of Iligan.

Road Wedding. A makeshift stage on the national highway serves as venue for a colorful Maguindanao wedding on Monday (March 6, 2017) in Datu Piang in Maguindanao. MindaNews photo by Ferdinandh Cabrera

In his inaugural speech on June 30, 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte declared that [his] administration “is committed to implement all signed peace agreements “in step with constitutional and legal reforms.” Apparently, the phrase “constitutional and legal reforms” refers to his agenda to shift from a unitary to a federal form of government.

While the idea of federalism seems to fit into the demand of the Moro people in Mindanao for selfdetermination, fears are rife that it may defeat such aspiration which is to be embodied in the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), granting Congress allows its passage.

This was among the concerns that emerged during the March 4-5 meeting in Davao City of the Internal Mediators, a discussion group on the Bangsamoro with members from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Moro National Liberation Front, lawyers, academicians and other Muslim intellectuals.

In his presentation, lawyer Jose Lorena said “the federalization of the country should first transform the regions from lagged to more advanced and progressive regions even as we start to break and federalize the country beginning with financially and economically capable regions.”

“The approach to federalization should be tiered and by phases,” Lorena, a member of the government panel in the Bangsamoro Transition Commission, the body tasked to draft the BBL said.

He added the government proposal is to initially form four federal states — Mindanao, the Visayas, Luzon and Metro Manila.

But this setup, the participants pointed out, will reduce the Bangsamoro into being an “enclave” of the Mindanao state.

As per the government timeframe for the BBL, the president will submit the bill to Congress in July 2017, Congress is expected to pass it in December, and a plebiscite for its ratification will take place in May 2018.

Once ratified, the Bangsamoro Transition Authority will be organized.

For federalism, a Constitutional Commission, along with a Constituent Assembly (the two Houses of Congress convened as one body) will start drafting the new charter in 2018 and submit it for ratification in mid-2019. It remains uncertain however if the Senate will agree to a Constituent Assembly. If it won’t, the only other option is to elect members of a Constitutional Convention.

After ratification of the new constitution, the period 2019-2022 will mark the transition to the new form of government, including elections of a new set of officials.

Beginning in 2022 and until 2017, there will be reconfiguration into smaller federal states, including one for the Bangsamoro, Lorena said.

But lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, a former executive secretary of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, noted that “there is no platform allowing us to participate in the federalism discourse.”

[For the national government] the basis of federalism is financial and economic viability which is an issue to the Bangsamoro, Sinarimbo said.

He stressed that the issue of the Moro people is the right to self-determination, including the right to natural resources which is hampered by the Regalian Doctrine.

He warned that if, by 2019, “we are still haggling for the enabling law, the process and substance of the agreement will have to change. We will be forced to follow the federal constitution if we fail to negotiate or negotiate under the terms of the agreement. The minimum goal under federalism should be to negotiate to preserve the gains of the peace process.”

“Create a platform where these issues can be taken up, as we don’t expect the armed groups to follow the president and just go along with federalism,” he said.

Sinarimbo proposed holding a Moro Congress as the platform where the Bangsamoro can define its own federalism framework which is not reflected in the national federalism framework.

The last Moro Congress happened in 1971, See hostage, page 6

CA amends rules on appointment of nominees

THE Commission on Appointments (CA) on Tuesday formally amended its rules on the appointment of nominees.

One of the main changes to its rules is that an appointee or nominee, after being bypassed for three times, would require the CA to decide whether to confirm or reject him or her.

Senate Pres. Aquilino Pimentel III said that another rule introduced was a third mode of voting which is via ballot.

“Aside from ayes and nays, raising of hands, we introduced a third mode of voting, ballot, it will now be a recognized mode of voting in CA,” Pimentel told reporters in an interview.

The CA has also shortened the required minimum period to notify the members of a committee about its hearings to 24 hours.

“Upon receipt of the commission of the nomination or appointment of President, the chairman can immediately refer it to the committee chairman so that they can start hearings,”

Pimentel explained.

Before, the CA would still wait for the completion of the papers of the appointee or nominee. Now it will be the committee chair’s responsibility to remind the appointee or nominee to complete his papers.

Pimentel said that the new rules were decided based on the

collective wisdom of the members of the CA. Sen. Vicente Sotto III said that the panel has retained the same members despite the reorganization that took place in the Senate last February 27.

He said that these rules will all be effective on Wednesday. philippine news agency

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sector, where industry giants continuously put our environment and communities in danger, and the agency’s ongoing dismantling of illegal fish pens in Laguna de Bay that threaten our small fishermen.”

Obusan also expressed optimism that Secretary Lopez’s focus and “political will” would extend as well to other urgent environmental issues, such as stopping the proliferation of coal; arresting coastal reclamation; the need for a pollution release and transfer registry (PRTR); addressing plastic pollution; wildlife trafficking; waste importation and the ratification of the Basel Ban Amendment; opposing waste-to-energy (WTE) technologies; going after illegal fishers and supporting small fishermen and poor Filipinos; among other concerns.

“We look forward to her fearlessness and fervor expanding to address these other environment challenges as well. But her non-confirmation may put a halt to the progress and achievements already being made by the Department that we have not seen since it was first created. As-

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on the eve of the war of secession waged by the then undivided MNLF led by founding chair Nur Misuari.

“Submit tangible proposals to Congress that will lead to a state constitution for the Bangsamoro,” Sinarimbo said.

He added that in negotiating for a Bangsamoro federal state, issues that were sidelined due to the junking of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain can be revived, for example, the treatment of Davao Oriental and Moro Gulf. “Other groups will not bring these issues to the national debate.”

Kagan Muslims live in parts of Davao Oriental as well as in Davao City and other areas of the region.

A participant agreed with Sinarimbo that since

is in connection with the recovery of around P215 million worth of cigarette products with counterfeit tax stamps from a warehouse along Aradaza Street in Barangay Lagao here last week.

BIR and Bureau of Customs (BoC) central office personnel seized 11,044 master cases of cigarette products manufactured by Mighty Corporation.

“It’s possible that part of these products were already distributed in the markets as the volume is really sizable,” Tabule told reporters.

Among those being checked by the agency are supermarkets, stores and other commercial outlets selling cigarettes, she said.

She said their personnel already found packs of cigarettes with fake stamps in an inspection on a local store.

On Monday, BIR-18 and BoC personnel here conducted an inventory of the seized cigarette products at the Sunshine Corn Mill Corp. warehouse.

Using mobile verification devices, Tabule said they confirmed that the BIR or tax stamps of the products were fake.

Those found with fake stamps were sealed packs of Mighty red and green, King Platinum, Marvel Filter Kings and Chelsea brands.

Tabule clarified that the recovered cigarette products, which were all manufactured in the country, were genuine and only their tax stamps were fake.

“After manufacture and packaging, the BIR stamps should be attached in each pack to represent the paid P30 excise tax. But the stamps we found attached to the products are fake,” she said.

Angelito Agulto, BoC port collector here, said

that based on their initial assessment, the “evaded taxes” from the seized cigarette products could reach P165 million.

He said the P215 million initial assessed value of the products was based on their current market prices.

The official clarified that since the products were locally-manufactured, they were also shipped to the area through local carriers or shipping lines.

“So technically, these did not pass the BOC GenSan,” he said.

Agulto said the results of the inventory will be used by the BIR and BoC in the filing of appropriate charges against the owners of the recovered cigarette products.

(MindaNews)

the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro is anchored on the 1987 Constitution, the BBL will become irrelevant once a new charter is ratified under federalism. [The new constitution] “will diminish, if not obliterate, the powers of the Bangsamoro,” he said.

He said the assumption is that the BBL will be lesser than a federal state, and the Bangsamoro will have no power to amend the enabling law. The solution, he added, is to put provisions in the federal constitution allowing the Bangsamoro parliament to come up with its own system, even one that is dismissive of the BBL. Apprehensions t hat people who are not wellversed about the Mindanao problem might be elected to the Constitutional Convention emerged, too.

Lawyer Bong Parcasio of the MNLF-Misuari group said that aside from being overtaken by events related to federalism, the Bangsamoro agenda could suffer a setback if the popularity of President Duterte wanes.

He agreed to the holding of a Moro Congress.

He said Muslims need not wait for government if they want self-determination.

“Reassert precolonial sovereignty to rectify historical injustice as envisioned in the Jeddah Accord…

Establish a Minsupala (Mindanao-Sulu-Palawan) federal state and not just settle for the Moro-dominated provinces.”

Signed on 3 January 1987, the Jeddah Accord between government and the MNLF created a joint commission tasked to draft the mechanisms of the proposal to grant full

autonomy to Mindanao, Sulu, Basilan, Tawi-Tawi and Palawan “subject to democratic processes.” It was overtaken however by the ratification of the 1987 Constitution, although the charter contains provisions on regional autonomy that serve as the bases for the creation of what is now known as ARMM. “Sababihin nila, hanggang Moro-dominated provinces lang kayo, yan ang hawla ninyo. Gawin nating gintong hawla, pero hawla pa rin (They would say, remain in Moro-dominated provinces, that’s your cage.

We will make it a golden cage, but it’s still a cage),” Parcasio said.

Lawyer Ishak Mastura said that former Senate president Aquilino Pimentel Jr.’s proposal that the Bangsamoro state will only cover the ARMM does not address the issue of territory.

signing someone else who does not possess Secretary Lopez’s same resolute drive and commitment may be a step back for the DENR,” she said “Confirmation of the incumbent Secretary is a matter of both urgency and continuity for environmental reforms, and one sign that the Duterte administration is actually committed to its promise of positive change over the greed of the few that has for many years ravaged the environment and the lives of the Filipino people,” the statement read.

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COTABATO City––Health officials in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on Tuesday offered prayers for Dr. Dreyfuss Perlas and urged authorities to speed up the quest for justice for the slain doctor.

Perlas, the chief health officer of Sapad, Lanao del Norte, was murdered on March 1, an act that shocked the country’s health providers.

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For lawyer Omar Sema, the current framing of the BBL does not preserve the “incremental gains” of the peace process. He cited, for instance, that the provision on territory seems to support the possible disintegration of the core territory.”

Guiamel Alim said time also poses a challenge to the peace process. He noted that it took the current government eight months to reconstitute the BTC, and it has yet to act on the recommendations of the Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC). In contrast, he said, the federalism agenda is moving fast.

personnel in the ARMM wore black arm bands as a show of sympathy to the family of the slain doctor.

“We condemn this act, we demand that justice be served to our colleague,” Sinolinding later told reporters.

He also called for justice for all health providers who have become victims of violence while performing their duties in the region.

“We also cry for justice for previous victims of senseless killings among our ranks,” Sinolinding said.

He said Perlas was a down to earth doctor who joined the “Doctor to the Barrio” program of the government. “Despite hard-toresist offers for other posts, he opted to stay in Sapad because he had started to love the people,” Sinolinding added.

For many years, Sapad has no municipal doctor so Perlas preferred to stay there, he said. According to Sinolinding, Perlas had just led a medical outreach program in one of Sapad’s far flung barrios, and was heading for home on a motorbike when he was gunned down. (PNA) The TJRC was created by the government and the MILF under the Annex on Normalization to the peace agreement. Its mandated is to make recommendation on how to address historical injustices, legitimate grievances (of the Bangsamoro), human rights violations and marginalization through land dispossession, with the view to promote healing and reconciliation.

Alim expressed apprehensions that if the Moro fronts fail to converge and push the Bangsamoro agenda together, the government might use it against them.

If the president can stop the peace process with the National Democratic Front,, there is a possibility that he will stop the Bangsamoro peace process given “the tendency of fascism at the moment,” he said. (H. Marcos C. Mordeno/MindaNews)

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administration, for his part, said the agency needs aerial ladders as an addition to its current inventory as they are seeking assistance from the city government for its acquisition.

“The effectiveness of our services is highly dependent on our equipment,” Fabre said.

Fire Chief Inspector Franklin Ratunil, assistant regional director for operations, said that all fire fighters are highly capable in responding to fire, but they lack the proper equipment and gear, such as self-contained breathing apparatus.

“It is time for the local government units to help us in the procurement of equipment,” Ratunil said.

Also, the BFP has limited capabilities in putting out fires caused by chemical combustion, he said.

Ratunil added in the region, there are less fire incidents, by about 30 percent, last as compared in 2015, but damages caused by conflagration has also increased, by about 7 percent.

The BFP-10 said that aside from lack of equipment, the bureau is undermanned.

The city alone, Ratunil said, has about 21,000 business registrants that needed inspection by the agency, and that going through each one is already a challenge for them.

“The BFP and LGUs need to work together, we acknowledged that not all towns here have their own fire stations, but we are working on it, still it is timely for the BFP-10 to get help from the LGUs,” he added.

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of Misamis Oriental.

Insp . Julieto Caseres, the town’s police chief, said they received the report that fully armed men barricaded the road in San Juan and ordered the driver and truck helper of the fuel tanker to disembark before the tanker was set ablaze.

Caseres said that the tanker was filled with gasoline and diesel for rationing to the DMPI’s heavy equipment machineries in San Juan where the company maintains a plantation.

Last Monday, Col. Francis P. Carandang , commander of the 58 th Infantry Battalion, based in Claveria, Misamis Oriental, reportedly issued a statement assuring the safety of tourists in Misamis Oriental.

Emano , however, said that the burning of the fuel tanker in the village of Balingasag last Monday only showed that Misamis Oriental is not safe for tourist at the moment.

“I want to make sure that the tourist visiting Misamis Oriental would be safe and secured. The incident in Balingasag only indicated that there is a serious prob-

lem of security in Misamis Oriental,” Emano said.

He said that last week, he ordered the provincial tourism office to issue a directive that would ban all mountain climbers and hikers to desist from scaling the mountains of Misamis Oriental due to the intermittent firefight occurring between the NPA and the government forces.

“While some had qualified that the ban on tourist was unnecessary because the fighting between the rebels and the government forces was taking place in far flung mountains, we just want to make sure that the tourist who might visit some of the tourist spots here would be safe,” Emano said.

Last week, two government troopers were killed while four others wounded when the military and the communist rebels clashed in a running gun battle that lasted for four days in the borders of Sugbongcogon, Salay, Medina, and Balingoan, all eastern towns in Misamis Oriental.

President Rodrigo Duterte flew to Camp Evangelista in Cagayan De Oro City, the largest military camp in Northern Mindanao, last Friday to pay his last respect to the fallen army soldiers and visited the wounded in the camp’s army station hospital.

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the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) showed that the number of female cadets is limited to not more than 5 percent.

The senator also congratulated Cadet First Class Rovi Martinez who topped this year’s PMA graduating cadets, and the other seven female cadets who landed in the top 10.

“They are proof that it is not only men who can excel in this. That is why we should make sure that we give equal opportunities to serve military,” Angara said.

Data from the Philippine National Police (PNP) showed that female police officers compose 18 percent or 25,862 of the 168,897 police personnel.

Meanwhile, data from the Civil Service Commission showed that while there are more female than male of the total 1.86 million government workforce, the men still outnumber the women in top level or decision-making positions.

Of the 2,013 top level positions, 1,135 slots or 56 percent are filled by male while 878 or 44 percent are female. The top or third level positions include the Undersecretary, Assistant Secretary, Bureau Director, Assistant Bureau Director, Regional Director, Assistant Regional Director, Chief of Department Service and other officers of equivalent rank, all of whom are appointed by the President.

Angara, during his days in the Lower House, was one of the authors of the

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Magna Carta of Women or Republic Act 9710 that seeks to eliminate discrimination by recognizing and protecting the rights of Filipinas.

In celebration of National Women’s Month, he noted a provision in the Magna Carta’s implementing rules and regulations that seeks to increase the quota to 20 percent for female admission into schools and institutions in the military and police.

The Magna Carta further states that women in the military and police force shall be accorded the same promotional privileges and opportunities as men, including pay increases, additional remunerations and benefits, and awards based on their competency and quality of performance.

Apart from equal employment opportunities, Angara stressed that the Magna Carta of Women mandates the government to ensure that women are provided with equal access to formal sources of credit and capital, equal share to the produce of farms and aquatic resources, livelihood opportunities for returning women migrant workers through entrepreneurship development, among others.

Angara said the number of women in third level or supervisory positions in government must be increased to achieve a 50-50 gender balance as mandated under RA 9710.

He said that it has been almost eight years since the comprehensive women’s rights law was enacted and yet, gender gap in economic and political participation persists.

“Gains have definitely been made but there’s still more that we can do to finally close this gap and fully realize women’s role as agents and beneficiaries of development,” Angara said.(PNA)

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the incident led her to know God, and to discover her passion for poetry. Also, she helps children who had the same experience. “If it hasn’t happened to me, I wouldn’t have thought of helping them,” she said.

2. Miriam Quiambao Unknown to many, former beauty queen Miriam Quiambao thought of committing suicide after her failed marriage to businessman Claudio Rondinelli.

She was so depressed.

Quiambao thinks her failed marriage led her closer to God. It was through the Bible that she found hope.

Quiambao became a book author, inspirational speaker, and a co-host in The 700 Club Asia, a talk show featuring spiritual stories from a Christian perspective.

3. Jean Goulbourn Stylist Jean Goulbourn’s daughter, Natasha, committed suicide years ago. Instead of losing heart to continue living, she decided to put

up the Natasha Goulbourn Foundation (NGF).

The NGF aims to prevent suicide incidents and help people fight depression.

The foundation has also partnered with the Department of Health in giving light and hope to people dealing with depression.

4. Cynthia Magdaraog Cynthia’s son, Juan, has a Pompe disease, an often fatal disorder that disables the heart and the skeletal muscles.

To be able to survive having that kind of disease requires a lot of money.

Cynthia didn’t just opt to help her son, but also other people suffering from rare diseases.

She is currently the president of the Philippine Society for Orphan Disorders, a support group helping patients with rare diseases.

5. Kim Domingo She may be the country’s latest “Pantasya ng Bayan”, but did you know that Kim Domingo had her fair share of failures and rejections?

Kim tried her luck auditioning in a talent search as well as in a reality show, but she didn’t pass. She was always an extra or “part of the crowd” when she was starting her career.

“I came to a point when I was losing hope, and was asking myself, ‘Am I ugly?” she told PNA. “I did my best but I didn’t get it. I was so down at that time,” Kim said, referring to the moment she auditioned in a talent search.

Those rejections didn’t discourage her. Apart from a regular TV show in GMA 7, she has also graced a magazine cover, and was featured in the 2017 calendar of a liquor brand.

Oftentimes, women are perceived to be weak. But these ladies proved that no matter how big the challenges they faced, and even if they experienced those low points in their lives, they were able to conquer.

Yes, they can! (PNA)

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matter during a Palace briefing.

“Actually that’s really a matter of Cabinet conversation. However, since you have brought it out, he simply was saying… he was not berating Mindanao politicians. He was simply saying that in time past, there was a certain attempt to influence him financially,” Abella told reporters.

However, the Palace official declined to provide any other information on who made the bribery attempt saying only that “these things were discussed -some things were discussed in the Cabinet and it’s best to leave it there for the moment.”

Asked if the President ordered the arrest, prosecution or investigation of anybody involved in the matter, Abella told reporters to “watch DOJ [Department of Justice] go ahead.”

In the meantime, Abella said that the President is strongly against corruption in government and said that those who tried to influence government officials should be scared.

“The President puts priority on anti-crime, anti-corruption and antiillegal drugs. That’s part of his three-point campaign promise. So he is very high on that,” he said.

“They should be scared… because the law will come down full force upon them,” Abella said. (PNA)

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of the congressmen passed House Bill No. 4727, or an act imposing the death penalty on certain heinous crimes.

Two hundred fifty-seven members were present during Tuesday’s plenary session presided over by Deputy Speaker Eric Singson.

Majority Floor Leader Rodolfo Fariñas noted that this is the biggest attendance of members in the 17th Congress.

Among the notable lawmakers who voted against the measure include Deputy Speaker and Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Marcos, Batangas Rep. Vilma Santos, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, Quezon City Rep. Kit Belmonte, and the seven-member Makabayan bloc, among others.

Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said he will stand pat on his policy to replace members holding key posts in the House of Representatives if they vote against the contentious measure restoring the death penalty.

Before the nominal voting, Lagman raised the issue of unconstitutionality as the scheduled third reading approval of the death penalty bill on Tuesday violates the three-day notice rule prescribed in the 1987 Constitution.

Lagman was referring to Section 26(2) of Article VI of the Constitution, which provides that: “no bill passed by either House shall become a law unless it has passed three readings on separate days and printed copies thereof in its final form had been distributed to its Members three days before its passage, except when the President certifies to the necessity of its immediate enactment.”

Fariñas said the distribution of printed copies to congressmen’s offices complies with the personal service rule.

Fariñas also stressed that the purpose of the three-day rule accords notice to congressmen that the measure will be taken up for third reading.

The bill seeks to repeal Republic Act 9346 that prohibits the imposition of death penalty in the Philippines. It also seeks to further amend the Revised Penal Code and the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

Under the bill, the mode of capital punishment could either be through hanging, by firing squad or lethal injection.

The new version limits the crimes punishable by death to only drug-related offenses in a bid to strengthen the Duterte administration’s relentless war on drugs.

The bill said the penalty of life imprisonment to death and a fine ranging from P500,000 to P10 million shall be imposed upon any person involved in any of the following acts: - importation of dangerous drugs and/or controlled precursors and essential chemicals; - sale, trading, administration, dispensation, delivery, distribution and transportation of dangerous drugs and/or controlled precursor and essential chemicals; - maintenance of a den, dive or resort where any dangerous drug is used or sold in any form; - manufacture of dangerous drugs and/or controlled precursors and essential chemical; - qualifying aggravating circumstances in the commission of a crime by an offender under the influence of dangerous drugs; - criminal liability of a public officer or employee for misappropriation, misapplication or failure to account for the confiscated, seized and/or surrendered dangerous drugs; - criminal liability for planting evidence.

Meanwhile, possession of illegal drugs will be meted the penalty of reclusion perpetua or life imprisonment.

The bill said the death penalty will not be imposed when the guilty person is below 18 years of age at the time of the commission of the crime, or is more than 70 years of age.

The measure also requires the Public Attorney’s Office and the Office of the Solicitor General to create a special panel composed of senior lawyers to handle the automatic review or appealed cases of the death penalty.

The bill said another amendment requires the public prosecutor to furnish copies of case information to the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), the Free Legal Assistance

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Group (FLAG), and other religious and civic organizations.

Capital punishment was last suspended in 2006 by former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

President Rodrigo Duterte, however, has called for the passage of the measure to stop the proliferation of drugs and criminality. (PNA)

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Department of Health (DOH) has already reached the President’s desk on Tuesday morning.

“It will be signed as soon as the President comes to the office. The revision was already submitted at 8 a.m. this morning (Tuesday) to the Office of the Executive Secretary and then -- and then it will be signed as soon as the President comes back,” Abella said.

The Palace official said that under the EO, smoking inside buildings would also be prohibited aside from public places.

“Basically, (Health) Secretary (Paulyn) Ubial was given the directive to make sure that part four of the existing EO would be revised and to follow the Davao model,” he said.

D avao City, w here, Duterte was mayor for more than two decades, has been implementing a total smoking ban in public places.

“The Davao model does not include smoking indoors. And so that was revised and so there would be no smoking indoors,” Abella said. (PNA)

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of the substitute bill, with the latter noting that the proposal should be consistent with the EPIRA law.

The Energy Regulatory Commission also backed the bill as it is consistent with the administration’s thrust to ensure that the marginalized-end users will benefit from the complexes.

In a separate hearing, the House committees on Government Enterprises and Privatization, and on Transportation jointly approved five measures creating the Mindanao Railways Corporation.

Transportation committee vice-chairman Samar Rep. Edgar Sarmiento said the proposed creation of the Mindanao Railways Corporation is included in the legislative agenda of the House this 17th Congress.

Sarmiento said that while the bill had languished in the previous congresses, he is confident that the 17th Congress will push for the construction and operation of the Mindanao railways system.

Lobregat said his HB 123 aims to “complement government projects that will address the lingering problems of poor quality of roads and incomplete road networks” in some parts of Mindanao.

The 2000-kilometer railway system is expected to connect major cities such as Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, Zamboanga, Butuan, Surigao, Davao, and General Santos. (PNA)

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Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 10th Judicial Region BRANCH 28 Mambajao, Camiguin IN RE: PETITION FOR CONSOLIDATION OF OWNERSHIP OF KATIBAYAN NG ORIHINAL NA TITULO P-14925; TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-2942 AND KATIBAYAN NG ORIHINAL NA TITULO P-14924 UNDER PACTO DE RETRO SALE,

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MIRAFLOR R. MACA Petitioner, -versus – EMERITA E. BLAKEMORE, Respondent.

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TO: = EMERITA E. BLAKEMORE

Bug-ong, Mambajao, Camiguin GREETINGS:

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SUMMONS

WHEREAS, the Court issued an Order dated June 30, 2016 granting the Petition for Summons by Publication filed by the petitioner on June 30, 2016. The petitioner is allowed to summon defendant by publishing the Summons and the petition in its entirety, in a newspaper of national circulation for at least three (3) weeks.

WHEREAS, quoted hereunder is the Plaintiffs’ Petition, to wit: “PETITION

Petitioner by counsel unto this Honorable Court most respectfully states,to wit:

1. That petitioner is of legal age, Filipino citizen, married and a resident of Zone 1. Agusan, Cagayan de Oro City, where she may be served with orders and processes of the Honorable Court; 2. That respondent is of legal age and a resident of Bug-ong, Mambajao, Camiguin, Province, where she may be served with summons, orders and processes of the Honorable Court; 3. That respondent is the owner end possessor of the following real properties, to wit;

a) A Parcel of Land , Lot 5155, C-9, CAD. 473 under Katibayan ng Orihinal na Titulo P-14925, containing an area of THREE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY TWO (3,182) SQUARE METERS. located at Sitio Timugsay, Barangay Bug-ong, Municipality of Mambajao, Province of Camiguin;

b) A Parcel of Land , Lot 4050, C-7, CAD 473, under Transfer Certificate of title T-2942 containing an area of ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FIVE (1,105) SQUARE METERS, located at Upper Cogon, Barangay Agoho, Municipality of Mambajao, Province of Camiguin;

c) A Parcel of Land , Lot 5331, C-9, CAD. 473 under Katibayan ng Orihinal na Titulo P-14924, containing an area of TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY SIX (2,556) SQUARE METERS, located at Barangay Bug-ong, Municipality of Mambajao, Province of Camiguin; 4. That the petitioner bought under pacto de retro from the vendor-respondent, the abovementioned parcels of land, as evidenced by an instrument dated July 17, 2014, a copy of which is hereto attached and made a part of this petition as ANNEX “A”; 5. That the date for repurchase, namely-that the Vendor-Respondent in executing this CONVEYANCE, hereby reserves the right to REPURCHASE, and the Vendee-Petitioner, in accepting same, hereby obligates itself to RESELL, the property herein conveyed within a period of ONE (1) YEAR from and after the date of this instrument, for a price of THREE HUNDRED NINETY TWO THOUSAND PESOS (Php392,000.00), Provided, however, that if the Vendor shall fail to exercise her right to repurchase as herein granted within the period stipulated, then this conveyance shall become absolute and irrevocable, without necessity of drawing up a new deed of sale, subject to the requirements of the law regarding consolidation of ownership of real property, 6. That to date, the right to repurchase having been expired and the vendor-respondent not being able to repurchase the same under the terms and conditions herein stated, the ownership over the said real properties has now become consolidated in the vendee-petitioner; 7. That for purposes of recording in the Registry of Property, the said consolidation or ownership in the vendee-petitioner, it is necessary that a judicial order be issued to this effect, pursuant to the provisions of Article 1607 of the New Civil Code.

WHEREFORE, after due notice to the vendor, it is respectfully prayed that and order be issued by this Honorable Court, ordering the consolidation of ownership on the real properties herein mentioned in the vendee-petitioner for all legal purposes.

Other reliefs just and equitable are prayed for.

For the Municipality of Mambajao, Camiguin Province, Cagayan de Oro City, 7 April, 2016.

DELTA LAW OFFICE (Atty. Lorimer A. Delima, Sr. & Atty. Rodrigo D. Talledo, Sr.) 6th/17th Sts.Nazareth Cagayan de Oro City Cell Number: Smart – 09219659951 / TM – 09753060637 By: SGD: RODRIGO D. TALLEDO. SR. RODRIGO D. TALLEDO. SR. PTR No. 3013448 12-10-15 Cagayan de Oro City IBP Roll No. 43330 5-5-1999 IBP O.R. No. 1011615 12-10.15 TIN NO. 114-751-435 MCLE Compliance No. V – 0000904 October 11, 2013 Cagayan de Oro City COMPLIANCE TO THE EFFICIENT USE OF PAPER RULE (OR A.M. NO. 11-9-4-SC)

In compliance with Section 3 and 4 of A.M. 11-9-4-SC otherwise known as the Efficient Use of Paper Rule, the instant Petition is written in single space with one-and-a-half space between paragraphs, using an easily readable font style, of 14-size font and on a 13-inch by 8.5-Inch bond paper. The left hand in margin is 1.5 inches from the edge, right hand margin is 1.0 inch from the edge, upper margin of 1.2 inches from the edge and lower margin of 1.0 inch from the edge.

Also, every page is consecutively numbered.

Republic of the Philippines ] City of Cagayan de Oro ] S.S.

SGD: RODRIGO D. TALLEDO, SR. ATTY. RODRIGO D. TALLEDO SR. VERIFICATION AND CERTIFICATION OF NON-FORUM SHOPPING

I, MIRAFLOR R. MACA, of legal age, married and a resident of Zone 1, Agusan, Cagayan do Oro City, after having been duly sworn to in accordance with law, depose that I am the Petitioner in the foregoing pleading, and that I have caused the filing of the same, and that I have read and have understood the contents thereof, and that, to the best of my own knowledge and belief, the allegations therein are true and correct; and

That I hereby further certify that I have not theretofore commenced any action or claim against herein the same adverse party/ies involving the same issues in any court, tribunal or quasi-judicial agency, and, to the best of my knowledge, no such action or claim is pending therein, and If I should thereafter learn that there is such an action or claim therein, shall report such fact to this Honorable Court within Five (5) days therefrom.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my signature this APR 07 2016, in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

Sgd: MIRAFLOR R. MACA

MIRAFLOR R. MACA Affiant

SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this APR 07 2016 in the City of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines. Affiant exhibited to me her BIR TIN: 937-716- 830.

Sgd.) RODRIGO D. TALLEDO, SR. Doc. No. 244 RODRIGO D. TALLEDO, SR. Page No. 49 NOTARY PUBLIC Book No. I Until December 31, 2017 Series of 2016.

From El Salvador City, Cagayan de Oro City to Binuangan Misamis Oriental NC-2016-054 dated 4 January 2016

PTR No. 3013448 12-10-15 Cagayan de Oro City

IBP Roll No. 43330 5-5-1999

IBP O.R. No. 1011615 12-10-15 TIN NO. 114-751-435

MCLE Compliance No. V —0000904 October 11, 2013 Cagayan de Oro City”

NOW THEREFORE, you are hereby required to answer the complaint within sixty (60) days from the date of the last publication. You are reminded of the provision in the IBP-OCA Memorandum on Policy Guidelines dated March 12, 2002 to observe restraint in filing a motion to dismiss and instead allege the grounds thereof as defenses in the Answer. If you fail to answer within the time fixed, the plaintiff will take Judgment by default and may be granted the relief applied for in the Complaint.

WITNESS the NON. NANNETTE MICHOTE E. LAO, Presiding Judge of this Court, this 4th day of July 2016, at MambaJao, Camiguin.

MDN: Feb 22, Mar 1 & 8 2017

(Sgd.) ALMA LOREJO-SABUGA Clerk of Court VI

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CONGRATULATIONS

To the New Fraternal Order of Eagles NMR-1 ASSEMBLYMAN MSU-iiT naTional MUlTi-PURPoSE CooPERaTiVE

To: notice to all Members in Good Standing (MiGS) 39th annual General assembly by Cluster Schedule: ORDER OF BUSINESS

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Call to Order Proof of Due Notice Determination and Declaration of Quorum Consideration and Approval of the Minutes of the March 19, 2016 Annual General Assembly by Cluster Matters arising from the Minutes of the March 19, 2016 Annual General Assembly by Cluster Confirmation of BOD Resolutions: January to December 2016 Presentation of Officers and Management’s Reports a. Chairperson b. Joint BOD and Management c. Audit d. Election e. Credit f. Other BOD Committees 8. Presentation of Audited Financial Statement of 2016 Financial Condition of Operations 9. New Business: a. Approval of Strategic Plan for 2017-2019 b. Approval and Confirmation of Budget for 2017 c. Appointment of External Auditors for 2017 d. Proposed New Sunshine Guidelines e. Proposed Amendments of the Bylaws f. Presentation and Confirmation of the Newly-elected Coop Officers 10. Other Matters 11. Adjournment BRANCH General Santos City (Cluster 6)

DATE February 25, 2017

TIME 7 AM – 12 NOON

Davao City (Cluster 6)

February 26, 2017

7 AM – 12 NOON

Cagayan de Oro City (Cluster 3) Bulua, Cogon, Carmen, Puerto and Laguindingan Butuan City (Cluster 5)

March 4, 2017

7 AM – 12 NOON

March 5, 2017

7 AM – 12 NOON

Maranding, Tubod LDN, and Pagadian (Cluster 4)

March 11, 2017

7 AM – 12 NOON

Iligan City (Cluster 2) Pala-o, Buru-un, Tubod, SuarezTominobo, Poblacion and Bacolod LDN Iligan City (Cluster 1) Tibanga Main, Kiwalan and Manticao

March 18, 2017

1 PM – 5 PM

March 19, 2017

7 AM – 12 NOON

VENUE Robinson’s Mall Activity Center, General Santos City USeP Social Hall, Obrero St., Davao City Brgy. Nazareth Gymnasium, Cagayan de Oro City FSUU Gymnasium, Butuan City Christ the King College de Maranding, Maranding, Lala, Lanao del Norte MSU-IIT Gymnasium, Tibanga, Iligan City MSU-IIT Gymnasium, Tibanga, Iligan City

Prepared by: Engr. Jeremy V. Pinzon Board Secretary

Attested by: Dr. Rhodora S. N. Englis Chairperson, Board of Directors

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Please bring at least one (1) valid I.D. for verification of identity.

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Election 2017 will be done simultaneously with opening program and business meeting.