Mindanao Star (August 23-24, 2014)

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Mindanao Star The Purveyor of Truth, Justice and Development

Volume II, No. 21

web portal: www.businessweekmindanao.com

Saturday-Sunday AUGUST 23-24, 2014

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to mark history in Guinness World Record

MinDA, partners agencies to plant millions of trees By JENNIFER P. GAITANO

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UTUAN City - In line with the Mindanao-wide campaign dubbed as “TreeVolution: Greening MindaNOW,” the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) together with its partner agencies in the government and private sector aims to plant 4,636,000 trees in multiple locations covering a total of 9,200 hectares in just one hour. “This will also serve as a campaign to improve environmental awareness among all Mindanawons,” expressed MinDA Sec. Luwalhati Antonino in her written statement sent to Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Caraga. Antonino disclosed that on September 26, 2014, Mindanao will mark its history in the Guinness World

A CHAIR FOR EVERY CHILD - Villanueva Vice Mayor Edwin Dagasuhan (4th from left) led the ceremonial acceptance of the 500 new school

chairs worth PhP 0.6 million donated by energy firm STEAG State Power Inc. (SPI) for various public schools in the municipality. More than 3,500 chairs have been donated so far by Steag which by and large enabled the achievement of a 1:1 pupil-chair ratio. The project is part of Steag’s Social Empowerment through Education (SEEd) Program which aims to help produce quality graduates from Villanueva and thereby enhance their competitiveness and employability. (Photo Supplied)

PCA grant P10m to coco farmer

See trees, page 7

DepEd LIS, information for greater access to education Since 2011, the Department of Education initiated the Learners’ Information System (LIS), an online facility that provides for the registration of learners enrolled in public schools. Since its installation, the LIS has allowed the Department to generate the total public school enrolment based on the actual registration of learners. The LIS is an innovative tool that the Department uses to manage information with the aim of promoting transparency, informed decision making, and empowerment at different levels See access, page 7

By Buboy Pabia

Misamis Oriental (2nd District) Rep. Juliette T. Uy shares a lively conversation with Bro. Armin Luistro, Secretary of the Department of Education, with regard to ongoing and soon-to-be commenced education infrastructure projects for 2014. The DepEd has 2014 targets of P160 million worth of classrooms and P7.083 million worth of arm chairs in the province’s second district. (Bong Almonte)

GINGOOG City - Coconut is a tree of life. Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) gives life to both our coco trees and farmers as it grants P10 million assistance. Thus said Gingoog mayor Marie de Lara Guingona as her administration joins the 28th National Coconut Week Celebration of PCA which is under the Office of the Presidential Assistant for Food Security and Ag-

ricultural Modernization, and gratefully acknowledges such agency for releasing a grant assistance worth P10 million to the members of Gingoog Federation of Agricultural Multi-purpose Cooperative (GinFAMCO). The city mayor has been incessantly coordinating with PCA-Gingoog Field Office workers led by Donato Jomen for the increase of coco production which translates to farmers’ See coco, page 7

Agriculturist vies for 2014 Idols ng TESDA CAGAYAN de Oro City The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority in Region 10 (TESDA-10) and the Regional Screening Committee highly endorsed Bayona S.

Baon of Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Corporation (PMFTC) to the 2014 Idols ng TESDA National Search (Wage-employed Category). Baon worked his way from a holder of Diploma

in Agricultural Technology to a Bachelors Degree. He is an indigenous person from the Manubo Tribe in San Fernando, Bukidnon who sailed his life from poverty to affluence.

He is a tech-voc graduate whose achievements are afar limits among his tribe since he is the first person among the Manubo Tribe in San Fernando who had finished a Bachelors Degree.

At present, Baon is designated as Leaf Technician/Jr. Agronomy of Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco (PMFTC) and is assigned at PMFTC Farm located in See idols, page 7

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