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from page 4 such can be owned by the colonizers, so they thought.

In the Philippines, our Indigenous People are also of the belief that land can be owned only when one is using it or working to make it productive otherwise it is owned communally. In fact, they believe that there are things which by their very nature should not be owned or be the subject of commerce because these are means to life and are therefore universal in nature. A good example is air. Just imagine one entrepreneur who is able to develop a technology that can capture all the air available, then, start selling it. Only those with money will survive, isn’t it?

This is also true to water and to electricity, without which we are all doomed. It was unimaginable in the past to sell our water as it is beyond comprehension now to sell air. But in a land where there is the propensity to subject everything to business, who knows? In fact, we have lost our ecological integrity because we have subjected our forest, our seas, our rivers, our agricultural lands and our minerals to be exploited to earn dollars – not for the common good but for a few capitalists. Didn’t you know that we have the finest timber in the world that had commanded high price abroad?

I got an information that one shipment alone of logs would earn the loggers about three hundred sixty million pesos. What a bonanza for one whose only capital was the Timber License Agreement issued to him as political patronage during the past administrations, as disclosed by Ms. Marites Vitug in her book, “Power from the Forests.”

If, at all, we have to own these essentials, i.e., land, forest, water, etc. it must follow the moral tenet that the users should be the owners. Our lumads had “owned” the forest for hundreds, if not, thousands of years, and have used them sustainably with high reverence to nature. Our agricultural lands, when not owned by the communities, are subjected to tremendous amount of poisonous chemicals which have destroyed their natural fertility.

It has become imperative for all of us to rectify social wrongs which are being inflicted upon the people. Following the principle of transparency and accountability, the people have the right to know. Why have we lost our ecological integrity which is now causing horrible environmental disasters? Who were those who have amassed so much from selling the bounty of the forests?

All told, we have to question the dominant development paradigm that subject everything, including those which are means to life, to the commerce of men or women and even to greed, moderate or otherwise, Just like the Indian Chief Seattle, we have to start asking questions, poetically or otherwise.

Listen to the problems of our Indigenous Peoples so that they will not recourse to armed struggle!

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from page 4 and then later segued into that statistics. What happened, the critics had a hay day hitting the government for twisting statistics.

See how good news can explode into the face of the government. And mind you their main target is President Duterte. The turrets of their black propaganda are all aimed at PRRD because of his endorsements and assurances matters.

Thus, we see how they made a big issue of the non-renewal of ABS-CBN franchise which had actually expired. The never made a fuss over the fact that even the Aquino-controlled Congress did not even entertain their application for renewal. When the antiterrorism law was passed they went to the streets to rally as if it’s only the Philippines that have these security measures. Crazy! And a bunch of them made a scene in the Supreme Court asking the justices to issue a TRO. Hours after the Jolo terrorist bombing the other day that killed several soldiers and innocent civilians, a human rights group hurried to the high court to demand a TRO.

Anything they can do to demonize Duterte, the cabal of opposition is not sparing any. When President Duterte flew to Davao City their propagandist conjured a scenario that he flew to Singapore because of health issues and then came back on a chartered Lear jet. When Sen. Bong Go took a picture of the First Family having lunch at their skimp dining room with wife Honeylet holding a copy of a current issue of Manila Bulletin, they said it was photoshopped!

And then VP Leni Robredo, who had always something opposite to say, suddenly had a makeover. A new hairdo that came along with a new pair of eyeglasses. Nice. But it fails to hide her eyes moving while reading from a teleprompter.

Then comes an Ateneo “researcher” made headlines last week after coming out with horrifying estimates that sometime in April to May close to 3- million Filipinos were Covid-19 positive. He did some extrapolations of Covid-19 cases in ASEAN countries did some pencil-pushing and voila he had the numbers to make him famous!

Before submitting his research for peer review, however, Jan Frederick Cruz, went to press instead. Where else but to the rapacious Rappler which, of late, had been demonizing Pres. Rodrigo Duterte. And I thought press freedom and democracy are dead in what Maria Ressa described the Philippines as much worse than any country in a state of war.

And before we thought only Rappler would gobble up the hogwash, CNN Philippines had Cruz on TV. The Ateneo researcher obviously relished his popularity but his supposed peers appear to be wary of his methodology and numerical extrapolation nobody is reacting. One famous professor I sought an opinion from regarding the said research gave me a curt reply: “If you have a copy of that research paper, just throw it in a garbage bin”.

Whether or not the socalled research is garbage, it makes up for good material to incense people in times of crisis and all the way to 2022. Funny, how talks about a revolutionary government is tweaked even suggesting it’s seditious. No matter how the opposition spice up the propaganda dishes to make them a viable alternative, the sad truth is that they are hard stuff to swallow. Thus they will never get away from their own slogan: “Otso deretso sa inodoro”.

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A native of Lagonglong, Misamis Oriental, Pope Francis installed Cabantan as the Fifth Archbishop of Cagayan De Oro City on August 28, 2020. The first Archbishop of Misamis Oriental was the late Archbishop James Thomas Gibbon Hayes, S.J., who served from March 16, 1933 until his retirement on Oct. 13, 1970.

The Archdiocese of Misamis Oriental covers 62 parishes covering the province, Cagayan De Oro City, Camiguin and part of Malitbog, Bukidnon with an estimated Roman Catholic population of over one million.

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from page 1 authorities are withholding information about the incident for security reason.

Hortilloza, however, said that a case has been filed with the suspect who was arrested during a chase with the pursuing police officers early Tuesday morning along Osmeña Street here.

An initial police investigation disclosed that during the chase, the suspect who was driving a car, rammed the service vehicle owned by the Manila Bulletin on corner Osmeña and Ramonal Streets here, which resulted in his arrest.

The suspect, whose name is withheld, is now in the custody of the law enforcers while a probe is going on about the alleged kidnapping.

A police officer told the MDN that the alleged kidnapping victims have been recovered and are in good condition.

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from page 1 non-contact thermometers to more than 300 hospitals around the country. Quezon City and Mandaluyong City also received assistance through the turnover of 50 testing booths and the conduct of 10,000 COVID-19 testing to the city’s residents, while Navotas City received a donation of 500 test kits.

NGCP also donated P10 million to Project ARK, a pooled COVID testing initiative in partnership with local government units in Metro Manila.

Other NGCP COVID-19 response and relief projects currently in the works include the donation of four donning and doffing chambers and five isolation rooms to several government hospitals.

“NGCP’s service to the country does not end with quality transmission services. In the spirit of bayanihan, we are continuously looking for ways to help our nation fight and overcome this unprecedented global health crisis,” NGCP said.

NGCP also engaged in grocery distribution to 1,028 LGUs across the country and other initiatives such as Meals on Wheels, a hot meals feeding program for indigent communities; and a PhP5 million donation to Project Ugnayan, which distributes supermarket vouchers to economically displaced families in Metro Manila.

A monkey pickup up foods at a garbage bin inside an Adventure Park in Initao in Misamis Oriental. Residents living nearby say they saw dozens of malnourished monkey frequenting in their area at this time of pandemic. photo by gerry lee gorit

Hungry monkeys in Misor fested on garbage bins

By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent INITAO, Misamis Orient a l--L o c a l tour ists frequenting the Lasang Adventure Park here are amazed after seeing the dozens of monkeys feasting on the garbage bins placed nearby a resto.

“Among makita diha NGCP is a Filipino-led, privately owned company in charge of operating, maintaining, and developing the country’s power grid, led by almost 22-30 mga unggoy nga diha nagtapok sa basurahan,” said a locaal residents living nearby.

The Lasang Secret Ad venture Park in Initao town is the focal point of the Initao–Libertad protected area developed by the Misa mis Oriental provincial

government in 2009.

majority shareholders and Vice Chairman of the Board Henry Sy, Jr. and Co-Vice Chairman Robert Coyiuto, Jr.

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