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By Teofilo P. Garcia Jr.

Ex-mayor, 2 others face graft raps

THE Office of the Ombudsman ordered the filing of criminal charge against local government officials of Manolo Fortich in the province of Bukidnon for the unauthorized increase in the salary grade of the municipality shop foreman.

In a nine-page Resolution, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales found probable cause to charge former Mayor Rogelio Quiño, Municipal Budget Officer Cecilia Quiño-Rejas and Municipal Shop Foreman Antonio Quiño, Jr. for violation of Section 3(e) of Republic Act No. 3019 (Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act).

The Resolution narrated that from 2009 to 2012, respondents Mayor Quiño and Municipal Budget Officer Quiño-Rejas upgraded Antonio’s salary grade from SG11 to SG15 then to SG18 which violated Sangguniang Bayan Ordinance Nos. 2000-151 and 2001-57 as well as Republic Act No. 6758 (Compensation and Position Classification Act of 1989).

They also approved and authorized the increase of Antonio’s daily wage rate from P765.13 to P1,157.90 to the damage and prejudice of the government.

See graft, page A11

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ZAMBOANGA City–– Mayor Ma. Isabelle Climaco-Salazar led the series of activities Monday for the Dia de Roseller Lim (Roseller Lim Day) marking the 100th birth anniversary of the one and only Zamboangueño senator, Roseller Tarroza Lim. See FULL STORY, page A6

Militants slam DTI CARAVAN FOR PEACE.

Mamasapano town Mayor Benzar Ampatuan (above photo, left) greets Sultan Ashary P. Maongco (right), the newly installed project supervisor and acting general manager of the Maguindanao Electric Cooperative (Magelco) and an official of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA). Maongco spearheads the just-held caravan for peace and development in the town of Mamasapano in Maguindanao.

Photos by Sonny Sudaria/Mindanao Daily

Magelco holds caravan for peace, devt

By SONNY SUDARIA Armm Bureau Chief with REY TENORIO Contributor

SULTAN Ashary P. Maongco, the newly installed project super visor and acting general manager of the Maguindanao Electric Cooperative (Magelco), led

the just-held caravan for peace and development in the town of Mamasapano in Maguindanao.

Maongco, af ter t he caravan group of Magelco reached the crossing of Barangay Tukanalipao where scores of armed Moro rebel groups and elite police unit

of the Philippine National Police (PNP)-Special Action Force (SAF) died, ordered his men to replace three dilapidated wooden posts to three brand new 35-footer steel posts.

He also ordered his men to fix the arrangement of wiring from its sagging posi-

tion to make it orderly––and replace 10-KVA transformer to 24-KVA to answer to the needs of their fast-growing customers.

Maongco also met with Mamasapano town Mayor Benzar Ampatuan and other local officials nearby See caravan, page A11

Groups conduct probe on US hand in ‘Operation Wolverine’ DAVAO City––Some 150 representatives from civil society organizations (CSOs) launched an investigation Sunday on the alleged involvement of the United States in “Operation Wolverine” in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, among others.

The group left Davao City Sunday morning on board four vehicles, in what they described as the “Mission for Truth and Accountability.”

Among the groups that joined the Mamasapano mission, which will last until Thursday, are the militant Kawagib Moro

Human Rights and the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Southern Mindanao.

Kurt Hoyer, press attaché and the spokesperson of the US Embassy in Manila, earlier denied that the US government had a participation in the Mamasapano operation.

“Let me be clear. Our involvement was as I stated. At the request of the AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines], US service members serving in JSOTF-P (Joint Special Operations Task Force See probe, page A11

A MILITANT labor group slammed the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for its alleged failure to implement substantial price cuts on basic commodities as the decrease in the prices of petroleum products seemed to have lost steam after dropping to its lowest levels in five and a half years.

Citing news accounts over the weekend that reported that industry players are expecting a P2 increase per liter in pump prices this week after the Dubai crude, which is the Asian market’s benchmark, marked a 14 percent cost increase to $52 per barrel from $45.50 per barrel on average last month.

“Hindi pa man kami nakikinabang sa pagbaba ng presyo ng langis mula pa nung isang taon ay magtataas na ulit,” said Gie Relova of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP) in a press statement.

The labor leader called the DTI “toothless” for what he claimed was “gross negligence of its mandate to protect consumers, as proof of its abandonment and bias towards manufacturers and traders” despite the huge drop in prices of petroleum products since the late last year.

As of February 3, the Energy department website posted that on average, gasoline retail prices stood at P37.60 per liter, this after a 60 percent drop in oil prices in the international See slams, page A11

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By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA, DavaoToday.com

AVAO CITY – Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte remains critical of the Aquino government’s handling of the bloody Mamasapano clash saying that it was careless when it authorized the anti-terrorist raid that led to the massacre of 44 Special Action Force police, 17 MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) fighters and 9 civilians.

In his Sunday television program, Duterte said that “In the eyes of the President, PNP Chief Alan Purisima was a brilliant soldier (but), the fact remains that he was suspended. He was not supposed to exercise the powers of his office. You order soldiers to go there and die…when you ought

not to be moving around with (that) authority.”

Duterte said that what happened was “a special operation” and that “(one can) throw caution to the winds.”

“If you fail to inform the MILF, there would really by a misencounter. Suddenly you burst out in the open

and you are there as if you are conquering soldiers?

You will surely shoot each other there,” he said.

He said he “should know of the dynamics” as he is from Mindanao and his experience of being the Regional Peace and Order Council chairperson.

Duterte also revealed that on the day of the incident, he was in Zamboanga City along with the President and some of his cabinet secretaries and staff.

Although Interior and Local Government Sectary Mar Roxas did not inform him of the Mamasapano, another government official told him of it when he was on his way out.

Purisima’s involvement is subject to the investiga-

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tion of the police’s Board of Inquiry.

In a television interview Tuesday night which Purisima granted for the first time since the incident, he said he “did not have a direct hand” in the incident.

“I only gave guidance for the SAF. The go signal is from SAF itself: when to walk, when to move (and) when to bring their things.

It is already stipulated in their plans,” Purisima said.

Purisima said he resigned to “give the President space.”

President Aquino, in his speech Friday night accepting Purisima’s resignation, said that he and Purisima “have spent a long time together.”

He said that Purisima was the one who trained him in a “modified VIP protection course” and “against powerful interests that may put us in peril.”

Questions were raised as

to how the operation was planned, who gave the final “go signal” and whether it was coordinated with the Army and MILF with whom the government has a pending law in Congress.

For its part, labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) said “Aquino clearly wanted to undercut Filipinos’ mounting anger at him and growing call for his resignation and he utterly failed.”

Labog also said “the US government and Aquino are directly responsible for the deaths resulting from the Mamasapano operation.”

The role of the United States in the operation has been also persistently reported as US troops were seen in a “medical rescue operations” after the incident.

Several reports citing different unnamed sources in the police force tells of the involvement of the US either in intelligence operations

R.A. Form No. 10.1 (MCRO) Republic of the Philippines Province of Davao del Sur Municipality of Santa Cruz OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR NOTICE OF PUBLICATION In compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that JAYVEE C. PARBA has filed with this Office, a petition for correction of entry in sex from “FEMALE” to “MALE” in the certificate of Live Birth of JAYVEE CASAS PARBA at Poblacion Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur and whose parents are FERDINAND PARBA and EDEN CASAS.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than 2nd day of March 2015.

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and realtime surveillance using spy drones.

A national newspaper, however, alleged that the US “funded” the operation, planned it in a beach resort in Zamboanga City and participated themselves in the operations.

The report said the SAF troops acted as “guards” of US operatives and were monitored by Aquino himself in a “drone center” and was the one who gave the order for reinforcements to “stand down” in order not to compromise the presence of the Americans.

The report also said that drones were only monitoring the SAF group who the Americans went with and not the other SAF group who were trapped in a cornfield.

The group in cornfield were decimated, 36 of them died and only 1 survived while the assault group only had 8 dead as they were allegedly being watched by the drone, said the report.

The source of the report said that American casualties were the first evacuated by the US helicopter in a helicopter, which was also featured in television news reports.

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), in a statement said the operation was a “US-instigated and directed operation to assassinate Marwan.”

The CPP said that the US military has “intensified its presence and operations in the country. The See POWERS, page A6

Publication Notice R.A. 10172 NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC CCE-004-2015

Date: February 3,2015

In compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No.1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that LUZVIZMIN AMORA TORRES has filed with this Office, a correction of sex from “FEMALE” to “MALE” in the certificate of Live Birth of LUZVIZMIN AMORA TORRES at Malita, Davao del Sur and whose parents are CONSTANTINO TORRES JR. and ENDALECIA AMORA.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than February 27, 2015.

(Sgd.) JOSEPHINE A. MARQUEZ

Municipal Civil Registrar MDN: Feb 3 & 10, 2015

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT/ ADJUDICATION WITH SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY NOTICE is hereby given that the intestate estate of the late ROMULO E. SINDOL, was a depositor of Philippine National Bank, Lim Ket Kai Branch, Lapasan, Cagayan de Oro City under Savings Account No. 3056840400000019, under the Notarial Registry of Atty. Audie G. Paduganan, per Doc. No. 81; Page No. 17; Book No. 54; Series of 2015.

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EDITOR: RUEL V. PELONE • ruel_pelone2002@yahoo.com

Quality of teacher-education needs upgrading There is much to be desired in the present situation of the country’s teacher education quality. A lawmaker deems it necessary to upgrade the state of teacher-education and improve the delivery of quality education.

It is undeniably true that to a large extent, the quality of education depends on the qualifications and competence of teachers.

It is very laudable to institute a measure directing the Committee on Higher and Technical Education to inquire, in aid of legislation, on the state of teacher education in the country, particularly on the low passing rates of examinees in the Licensure Examination for Teachers, with the end in view of improving the quality of teachers and the delivery of quality education.

A World Bank study showed that most of the Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) graduates do not pass the Licensure Examinations for Teachers (LET) even if it replaced the Professional Board Examination for Teachers (PBET), which had an average national passing rate of only about 24% from 1992 to 1995, with the enactment of Republic Act 7836.

The same study also showed that between 1996 and 1998, the number of TEIs increased and reached more than 800, which resulted in the opening of lowquality programs that did not meet the minimum standards of accreditation and only less than 30 percent complied with the minimum standards set by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for teacher education.

In 1991, the Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM) recommended important measures to enhance teacher effectiveness . This emphasized on the following: 1) imposition of higher admission requirements for pre-service teacher education; 2) establishing centers of excellence for teacher education to attract the best candidates; 3) providing targeted scholarships for mathematics and science teacher education; 4) establishing periodic licensure tests to qualify college graduates to teach and to determine promotions; and 5) improving and establishing teacher benefits, among others.

With the rapid increase in enrollees in teacher education, the proliferation of TEIs offering teacher education

The politicization even of the police force can be best gleaned from the statement of national police officer in charge Leonardo Espina when he said, supposedly with tongue in check, that the country’s police force is in crisis.

Espina’s basis in making such statement is the death of the 44 police Special Action Force operatives on Jan. 25 during an armed clash with Moro guerrillas identified with the Moro Islamic Liberation FrontBangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.

The statement proves the politicization of the police force because as part of the country’s armed and uniformed state security forces, such statement has no place whatsoever. It is for this reason that the armed and uniformed state security forces have adopted the motto, “Obey first before you complain.”

Complaints have no place in the armed and uniformed state security forces for the simple reason that they have the biggest advantage over anyone because they are armed and have control of the state’s other weapons of mass destruction. Just imagine the dangers the citizenry will face if these

A deeper view

Editorial created a situation where TEIs not only produced too many graduates but contributed to the worsening problem of low quality teachers.

Based on a study conducted by the Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) on the LET performance of all TEIs in the country for nine (9) instances of LET from October 2009 to September 2013, the national passing rate was only 54 percent. The same study showed that only eight (8) out of 16 graduates who are first time takers pass the LET while the other eight repeaters have an average passing rate of only 16 percent.

While there are top TEIs, the study found it also alarming that there are more than 100 TEIs that perform below the national passing rate and are considered ‘worse performing schools’ because only less than 20 percent of their graduates pass the LET, while 17 TEIs were considered ‘worst performing schools’ for having zero passers in the LET since October 2009 for both firsttime takers and repeaters, based on data from the Profes-

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state security forces are allowed to complain.

There is only one way by which the elements of the state’s security forces can complain and that is by using their guns.

For Espina to say that the country’s police force is in crisis because of what happened in Mamasapano, Maguindanao on Jan. 25 is in reality agitating the police organization to be restive. The SAF units may be in crisis over the death of their comrades in arms.

But I certainly do not believe this is the general situation in the PNP. Espina is just exaggerating apparently because he is hurt he was never informed about the Mamasapano raid before it was actually undertaken. Espina got wind

of the raid only after the fact when the SAF commandos were already being extracted from the area and when they encountered the heavily armed guerrillas.

There are certain quarters agitating President Aquino to now appoint a national police chief vice the suspended national police chief Alan Purisima. I believe Aquino should not appoint Espina to that lofty post. In his handling of the Mamasapano crisis, Espina just showed his lack of qualities one should possess as national police chief.

Adding trouble to the already troubled situation by saying the police force is in crisis is childish especially if viewed from the fact that he is hurting because he was never given the courtesy of an advance information on the service of arrest warrants against Marwan and Usman. Before opening his mouth, Espina should have been more circumspect on the ramifications of his statement.

No country in this world can survive with a highly politicized armed and uniformed state security forces.

Espina’s statement just politicized the country’s police.

And this politicization is coming from Espina himself

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sional Regulation Commission (PRC),” the proponents argue.

For the 2014 LET, only 35.74 percent or 23,301 elementary teachers out of 70,786 examinees, and only 34.40 percent or 26, 767 secondary teachers out of 77,803 examinees passed the LET given on august 17, 2014. In January 2014, the PRC announced that only 28.95 percent or 11,120 elementary teachers out of 38,377 examinees, and only 28.41 percent or 12,033 secondary teachers out of 42,358 examinees successfully passed the LET. It is lamentable that in the “Review and Assessment of Programs offered by State Universities and Colleges (SUCs)” conducted by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) in March 2014, it was revealed that the average passing rates of SUCs in LET from 2004 to 2011 have been below 30 percent of the national passing average.

There is an urgent need to look into the state of teacher education in the country and to implement the necessary reforms that will address the various issues and concerns and prevent the further deterioration of the quality of teachers in the country.

thus making his courtesy of resigning from his post a must so hecan join in the political arena where he can freely express his political views without the advantage of carrying the firearm the state is providing him with.

What really happened?

Many are asking what really happened in Mamasapano, Maguindanao on Jan. 25, 2015? This question can already be answered given the dose of information being put forth by the authorities that they call as initial investigation.

What happened was a simple service of arrest warrants on two internationally recognized terrorists that gone haywire or that went sour.

Why it has gone haywire or went sour is because heavily armed MILF-BIFF guerrillas did not like what the police did, serve the warrant of arrest on Marwan and in the process of serving such warrant, the subject of the arrest warrant was killed as confirmed by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation no less.

Why the heavily armed MILF-BIFF publicly expressed their anger over what the police did to Marwan is something that See bacon, page A11

might think that the deep respect would be directed toward the other person.

However, it is apparent that the deep respect must reside in the one extending the trust. To trust others one must first trust self. In other words, one must value their own integrity, character qualities as well as possess a strong confidence in one’s self. What does your self-trust look like?

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City hall official refutes dad’s uproar on tax-take CONTRARY to the remarks of Councilor Leon Gan, only a few owners of business establishments have failed to settle their 2014 tax obligations to the city government of Cagayan de Oro, said City Information Office Maricel Rivera yesterday.

Rivera told Mindanao Daily News that the City Treasurer’s Office has already collected a total of

P434,343,112.04 million in January for annual business renewals alone.

This, she said, despite the call of the City Council for businesses to heed the March 31 deadline instead of the January 31 imposed by the city government.

The whooping increase by 18 percent in the amount of P65,725,516.58 million in business renewal payments was also realized despite the Oro Chamber’s position for businesses to pay their annual dues by January 31

but “under protest.”

“As of now, I have not learned of any business which declared their renewal dues under protest,” Rivera said.

“If ever there are those who failed to pay before the deadline set forth by the treasurer, this only constitutes a very minimal percentage,” she added.

Under the automated billing system of the City Treasurer’s Office, enterprises billed in the month of January could still settle

their obligations without incurring a surcharge and penalty.

But for those businesses which failed to settle their dues within January 31 and were already billed under the month of February 2015, they would automatically incur two percent surcharge and five percent penalty.

“Still, these businesses have hope,” said Rivera.

“However, they may just see and explain to the city treasurer in person why they were not able to beat

the January 31 deadline,” she said.

Earlier, Gan called on all business taxpayers in the city which were billed the surcharge and penalty to immediately file a complaint before the city prosecutor’s office for violating City Ordinance 12904-2015 which extended the business renewals deadline to March 31, 2015.

That ordinance was not honored by City Hall though, Rivera said.

She said that the first

course of action must be to settle things first with the City Treasurer’s Office.

“If there’s a reasonable cause of why the businessman has not met the deadline, then the city treasurer may forego the surcharge and penalty,” she said.

A total of 12,189 commercial establishments renewed their businesses for 2015 and were able to beat the January 31 deadline set by the City Treasurer’s Office, thus contradicting the ordinance.

CAGAYAN de Oro City will entice development in five urban growth areas through the provision of basic and excellent facilities until 2022.

This is one of the major spatial development strategies in the preferred development thrust of the city in

the next years as listed under the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) which was approved by the 17th City Council headed by Vice Mayor Caesar Ian E. Acenas through Resolution 11914-2015.

Pursuant to this, the Western Urban area will

be developed as a major convergence point for goods and products, people and transport service to and from the western part of the region and from Laguindingan airport.

Meanwhile, the expansion of the West-Uptown area will cover the baran-

gays of Carmen, Canitoan, Lumbia and Pagatpat as a medium to high-density, mixed use pedestrian friendly center with high end low-density type of development for residential and commercial uses. Based on the CLUP, the Lumbia airport shall be converted

into an industrial area/economic zone.

The expansion of the East Uptown Area will involve barangays Gusa, Indahag, Macasandig and Camamanan, which houses high-end subdivisions and convention and government centers as well as heritage area.

The Eastern Urban development, meanwhile, will be composed of sub-nodes namely : Upper Puerto, Lower Puerto and Bugo, Agusan and Balubal and Tablon while the Downtown Development will continue in the next years.

By MARK FRANCISCO Staff member

Development of more growth areas in C. de Oro seen

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The commemoration, which is now on its 9th year, kicked off at 7:30 a.m. with the unveiling of the installation art at the historic Plaza Pershing and was followed by the

flag raising ceremony at 8 a.m. at the Plaza Rizal in front of City Hall.

T h i s y e ar’s D i a d e Roseller Lim commemoration is anchored on the theme “celebrating a cen-

tury legacy of greatness and service.”

The immediate family and relatives of the late Senator Lim to include his daughter Rosamie Lim, brother former Vice Mayor Roberto Lim and nephew former Councilor Rodolfo Lim joined the activities.

Salazar, after the flag rais i ng ceremony, le d the Lim family and other guests including city government officials and employees in the viewing of the R.T. Lim memorabilia exhibit at City Hall lobby

ZAMBOANGA CITY – More than a thousand children in the country are victims of child abuse, and most of them were victimized online in 2014 alone.

According to the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) child abuse preliminary report as of January, this year, 1,319 children were abused sexually. For the last three years, sexual abuse and exploitation has ranked second in reference to child abuse cases in the Philippines.

Last year, Justice Secretary Leila De Lima has

shared the grim statistics, that online child sexual abuse is by far the “biggest source of cybercrime in the Philippines”, accounting for 46 percent of cybercrime cases being handled by the authorities.

The government, in partnership with private entities and civil society groups has been intensifying advocacy efforts to put a stop to child sexual abuse including those that are perpetrated online.

“The [Department of Justice] is working with telcos for a filtering software to restrict access to porn/

banned sites as we fight against online child sexual abuse,” she said in an article posted in Futuregov.asia.

As per Presidential Proclamation 731 series of 1996,

By Teofilo P. Garcia, Jr

AMBOANGA CITY -- Mayor Ma. Isabelle Climaco-Salazar led the series of activities Monday for the Dia de Roseller Lim (Roseller Lim Day) marking the 100th birth anniversary of the one and only Zamboangueño senator, Roseller Tarroza Lim.

featuring the late senator’s personal effects and other mementos.

Salazar said the activities will continue in the afternoon with commemorative mass at 4 p.m. at the Carmelite Monastery.

It will be followed by the wreath-laying ceremony at the R.T. Lim monument along Normal Road at 5 p.m.

Lim was born on February 9, 1915 and served as a member of the Senate and House of Representatives from 1949 to 1963.

He also served as Court of Appeals Justice from his appointment in 1973 until his death due to fatal heart attack on July 5, 1976 at the age of 61.

Public records show that Lim was known as the “Great Filibuster,” after he filibustered for more than 18 hours in April 1963 in an attempt to prevent the election of Ferdinand Marcos as president of the Senate.

A municipality in the third district of Zamboanga del Sur, now Zamboanga

Sibugay, was named after the late senator by virtue of Batas Pambansa 183 issued by the President Marcos on March 16, 1982.

A boulevard in this city was also named after the late senator.

Salazar said the awarding of the Five Outstanding Zamboangueño Young Leaders 2015 at 6:30 p.m. will cap the commemoration rite.

The commemoration of Dia de Roseller T. Lim is based on Ordinance 283 enacted in 2006. (PNA)

every second week of February is known as the National Awareness Week for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation.

This year’s observance will

be held on Feb. 8-14, and aims to provide awareness to the communities, children, parents and the society as a whole on the said issue.

In support of this week’s awareness drive, Stairway Foundation will have their “Break the Silence Movement,” a school caravan on online safety simultaneously in NCR, Cebu, Davao, Bacolod, Dumaguete and in Zamboanga.

The Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC), one of DSWD’s attached agencies spearheads this week’s activities, to include

a series of engagements and forums with children on the national level.

April Obtinario, CWC focal for Mindanao encourages different agencies, local government units and stakeholders to join in the advocacy. “The CWC invites all sectors to participate and make our voices be heard so we can put a stop to child sexual abuse in our own communities,” Obtinario said.

This year’s awareness week theme is: Labanan ang Pang-aabusong Sekswal sa mga Bata: NOW NA! (FPG/ DIS/PIA9-Zamboanga City)

DSWD: 1,319 children sexually abused, exploited in 2014

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Special Operations Task ForcePhilippines (JSOTF-P) has maintained its base in Zamboanga and has launched operations in and around Western Mindanao.”

The CPP said that the US’ operations aims to “dominate the Bangsamoro ancestral lands and ensure that big US companies seize control of the contracts to plunder the resources in the vast Liguasan marshland and other resource-rich areas.”

Meanwhile, 54 individuals from Davao City left for Maguindanao Sunday for a “People’s Fact-Finding Mission.”

The group, headed by Moro organization Suara Bangsamoro and Moro human rights group Kagawib, said the mission wants to “investigate and verify cases of human rights violations against civilians; seek an understanding of the context, antecedents, and implications of the incident; determine and analyze United States’ involvement; and express interfaith solidarity and unity with the affected communities.” (davaotoday.com)

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CHR-Caraga, UNHCR to hold IDP Protection & Data Gathering training BUTUAN CITY – The Commission on Human Rights (CHR), in partnership with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is organizing the two-day Training on IDP Protection and Data Gathering on February 17-18, 2015 at Dotties Place Hotel, this city.

“We continually give high regards for the protection and welfare of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) caused by internal conflict and natural disasters in the region. The CHR and UNHCR wanted to develop a database on such incidents,” bared Atty.

Marylin Pintor, regional human rights director.

Pintor further disclosed that on the gaps that is commonly encountered in this kind of endeavor is the gathering of data with regards to the plight of the IDPs. “Some important data are sometimes left out or unavailable. There are also unreported cases of displacement happening in some areas of the Caraga region due to non-established links and lack of capacity in data gathering and processing,” added Pintor.

IDPs are the people who are forced to flee their home but who remain within their country’s borders. (Jennifer P. Gaitano, PIA-Caraga)

Surigao Sur planning and dev’t office cites “Fallen 44” in report

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ANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, Feb. 9 (PIA) – The Provincial Planning and Development Office (PPDO) in Surigao del Sur has highlighted two special projects as their main report for the Monday flag ceremony program at the capitol lobby here via two separate video presentations.

Engr. Merlinda Baure, PPDO coordinator pointed out “We have purposely chosen to highlight these two special projects under our office because these aim to fight poverty, the very root and underlying cause of rebellion and unrest in our country and the very reason for which the Fallen 44 SAF Fighters

paid the ultimate price for peace and development to prevail and succeed.”

The first one showed the “Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) Program” while the last bore the “Mindanao Rural Development Program (MRDP),” which were both carried out in the province.

Baure said, “In 2014,

PAMANA thru the DILG released over P63 million in various projects comprising of 10 Level II Potable Water Supplies, rehabilitation of 16-kilometer Farm-toMarket Roads (FMRs) and the installation of street lighting in Hornasan, San Agustin.”

Moreover, she bared that “Under the PAMANA-DA (Dept. of Agriculture) for the same year, a whopping P167 million worth of concreting of FMRs was released stretching to over 13 kilometers in length.”

“Notable among these projects is the one that traverses Barangay Diatagon to Km 16 in Lianga,

Republic of the Philippines 4th SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT Fourth Shari’a Judicial District Iligan City IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE AND REGISTER THE DIVORCE OF SPOUSES JUANCHO MARA VILLAS TATARO AND AGNES FONTILLA-TATARO,

Republic the Philippines Province of Zamboanga del Sur Municipality of Tukuran OFFICE OF THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR R.A.9048/10172 Form No.10.1 (LCRO) NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC In compliance with Section 7 of R.A. No. 10172, a notice is hereby served to the public that FEBIE CANILLO BASILLOTE has filed with this Office a petition for correction of clerical error particularly in the GENDER From “Female” to “Male” in the Certificate of Live Birth of FEBIE CANILLO BASILLOTE who was born on Feb. 11, 1986 at Tukuran, Zamboanga del Sur and whose parents are Antonio K. Basillote and Lucina S. Canillo.

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

CIVIL CASE NO.2015-014

JUANCHO MARA VILLAS TATARO AND AGNES FONTILLA-TATARO, Petitioners.

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a known gateway to the lair of the New People’s Army (NPA). This road will connect to Sitio Lagangan in Caras-an, Tago,” Baure commented.

“Combined, PAMANA-DILG and PAMANADA benefitted around 4,500 farmers,” she said further.

Als o, B aure told capitol employees that “the recently concluded M R D P ” h a s bro u g ht “close to P400 million in various infrastructures, livelihood & environmental projects spread over five years in 11 localities province-wide.” (NGBT/ Greg Tataro Jr., Radyo ng Bayan-Tandag/PIASurigao del Sur)

Republic of the Philippines 4th SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT Fourth Shari’a Judicial District Iligan City IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE AND REGISTER THE DIVORCE OF SPOUSES ASHMONREEH RAMOS MADALE AND CHRISTINA M. YANGYANG-MADALE,

CIVIL CASE NO.2015-013

ASHMONREEH RAMOS MADALE Petitioners.

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Before this Court verified joint petition for the approval and registration of the Divorce filed by the petitioners and alleging among others.

That petitioners are husband and wife respectively in a marriage performed under Civil rites on February 14, 2002 at Midsayap, Cotabato, both of them can be served with summons and other legal processes relative to this case at their residents at B8 L30, Steel Town Subdivision,Iligan City;

That said marriage did not last long due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioners and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated for more than two (2) years already,since April 2013, they decided to separate live physically in bed and board, thereby, executed Memorandum of Agreement in order to formalized their separation. Since their separation, they had never been communicating or supporting either financially or emotionally to each other, neither minding each other,neither minding each other affair’s; Petitioner’s seek judicial decree of divorce, thereby, severing their marriage bond on February 14, 2002, so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burdens. Reconciliation between them had already been diligently employed but all proved futile.

WHEREFORE, finding this petition to be sufficient in form and substance, set the initial hearing of this case on February 27, 2015 at 9:00 a.m at which time, date and place. Any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a news paper of General Circulation in the City of Iligan once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioners.

SO ORDERED.

Iligan City, Philippines, this 5th day of February, 2015.

(Sgd.) GINALYN O. ACUÑA

City/Municipal Civil Registrar

(Sgd.) HON. OSOP M. ALI

Presiding Judge

MDN: Feb 3 & 10, 2015

MDN: Feb 10, 17 & 25, 2015

PRA Form No. 10.1 (LCRO)

PRA Form No. 10.1 (LCRO)

ORDER

Before this Court verified joint petition for the approval and registration of the Divorce filed by the petitioners and alleging among others.

That petitioners are husband and wife respectively in a marriage performed under Civil rites on August 18, 2001 at Iligan City, both of them can be served with summons and other legal processes relative to this case at their residents at Hill Side St., New Day Homes, Dalipuga,Iligan City;

That said marriage did not last long due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioners and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated for more than two (2) years already,since July 13, 2012, they decided to separate live physically in bed and board, thereby, executed Memorandum of Agreement in order to formalized their separation. Since their separation, they had never been communicating or supporting either financially or emotionally to each other, neither minding each other,neither minding each other affair’s; Petitioner’s seek judicial decree of divorce, thereby, severing their marriage bond on August 18, 2012, so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burdens. Reconciliation between them had already been diligently employed but all proved futile.

WHEREFORE, finding this petition to be sufficient in form and substance, set the initial hearing of this case on February 27, 2015 at 9:00 a.m at which time, date and place. Any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a news paper of General Circulation in the City of Iligan once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioners.

SO ORDERED.

Iligan City, Philippines, this 5th day of February, 2015 (Sgd.) HON. OSOP M. ALI

Presiding Judge MDN: Feb 10, 17 & 25, 2015

R.A Form No. 10.1 (LCRO).

Republic of the Philippines LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OFFICE PROVINCE OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL Cagayan de Oro City

Republic of the Philippines LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OFFICE PROVINCE OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL Cagayan de Oro City

Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province of North Cotabao City/Municipality of Pikit

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. No. 10172, a NOTICE is hereby served to the public that SIGRID DURAN NAYAL has filed with this Office a petition for the correction of clerical error in the entry of the child’s SEX from “MALE” to “FEMALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of SIGRID DURAN NAYAL who was born on DEC. 11, 1995 in Cagayan de Oro City and whose parents are HERMIE ORBANO DURAN and ADVENTURE SECOSANA NAYAL. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than February 12, 2015.

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. No. 10172, a NOTICE is hereby served to the public that BRENNAN S. ODCHIGUE has filed with this Office a petition for the correction of clerical error in the entry of the child’s SEX from “F” to “MALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of BRENNAN SANDOVAL ODCHIGUE who was born on October 9, 1978 in Cagayan de Oro City and whose parents are REINFREDO O. ODCHIGUE and LYDIA SANDOVAL. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than February 12, 2015.

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. Act No. 9048 a notice is hereby served to the public that Geralyn Teomera Sambaan has filed with this Office a petition for change of first name. From “GERALDINE” to “GERALYN” in the birth certificate of GERALDINE MEREÑO who was born on July 27, 1967 at Pikit, North Cotabato and whose parents are Leonardo Teomera and Floria Meriño.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than____________.

(SGD.) NORMA S. DIPUTADO

City Civil Registrar

(SGD.) NORMA S. DIPUTADO

City Civil Registrar

MDN: Feb 3 & 10, 2015

MDN: Feb 3 & 10, 2015

Republic of the Philippines Region X Province of Lanao del Norte Municipality of Kapatagan

Republic of the Philippines Region X Province of Lanao del Norte Municipality of Kapatagan

Office of the Municipal Civil Registrar

Office of the Municipal Civil Registrar

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that CONSTANTINO HERANA CODASTE has filed with this Office a petition for change of first name from “Costan” to “Constantino Codaste” in the birth certificate of Costan H. Codaste who was born on August 19, 1953 at Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte and whose parents are Valentin Codaste and Felomina Herana.

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

R.A. 10172 Form No. (LCRO) NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 7 of R.A. 10172, a notice is hereby served to the public that DIOSANEL S. DIOQUINO has filed with this Office a petition for change of GENDER from “Male” to “Female” in the birth certificate of N/A who was born on January 06, 1987 at Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte and whose parents are Lolito Dioquino and Nellie Salagunting.

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

(SGD.) IVY REYES TONGCO

Municipal Civil Registrar

(SGD.) IVY REYES TONGCO

Municipal Civil Registrar

MDN: Feb 3 & 10, 2015

MDN: Feb 3 & 10, 2015

(Sgd.) GINALYN O. ACUÑA

City/Municipal Civil Registrar MDN: Feb 3 & 10, 2015

Republic of the Philippines Province of Davao del Sur CITY OF DIGOS OFFICE OF THE CITY CIVIL REGISTRAR Publication Notice R.A. 10172

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC January 30, 2015 In compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that ELAINE T. JESURO has filed with this Office, a petition for correction of entry in sex from “MALE” to “FEMALE” in the certificate of Live Birth of ELAINE TORREGOSA JESURO at Sunga Hospital, Digos, Davao del Sur and whose parents are Joy Jessie A. Jesuro and Sharon Jean M. Torregosa.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than February 19, 2015.

(Sgd.) MARISSA C. NEBRADA

City Civil Registrar MDN: Feb 3 & 10, 2015

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The Duties and Responsibilities of Parents in the Educational Journey of the Learner

By Lindo M. Cayadong Teacher III Opol National Secondary Technical School Opol, Misamis Oriental

Quality education is not only a privilege but a right of every Filipino. It is one of the basic needs which require quality and with superb quality of delivery. However, parents do play a big role in the educational formation of every child in their respective families.

Parents are answerable to the process. They are one of the most essential components in the educational journey of the child. They are the effective partners of the school in the total learning development.

Hence, the following duties and responsibilities are suggested to be observed, to wit: 1. Support Department of Education. Department of Education is constantly designing programs and projects.

Parents do have roles in the implementation.

2. B e r e g u l a r l y

aware in the learning outcomes of your child. Attend meetings in the homeroom and in the school level.

3. Assist the school in the implementation of possible projects and programs. Be an effective partner of the teachers and the administration.

4. Monitor the learning process of your child.

When they are home, observe your child. If possible, check the books and test papers in their bags.

5. Talk to your child.

You need to constantly talk to your child. Give enough space to ventilate their feelings and even observations for the class day that passed by. If problems are noted, make constructive action/s to pacify the matter.

6. Extend considerable financial and emotional needs of your child.

Every move the child made, financial needs always arise. Projects do require

financial support.

7. R e m i n d t h e child for the proper use and maintenance of the school facilities. Government spent financial resources to acquire such. In turn, extra care should be built in their understanding so others could still avail it.

8. Regularly attend homeroom/PTA meetings. In this activity, brilliant minds could be pooled together to come up with the best ideas.

9. Help promote harmonious relationships among parents and teachers. A healthy relationship in an organization promotes happy disposition.

10. Follow up the lesson/s of your child.

At the end of a class day, check your child.

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Text2Teach: Blend of Mobile Technology and Education

By Mary Amor B. Luceño Master Teacher Dampil Elementary School Lagonglong District

It is a fact that learning involves complex process. It is a challenge that requires strategies and collective efforts in order to produce better outcomes.

Text2Teach is one program that aims the same purpose. It is a mobile learning program that motives to elevate the quality of teaching and learning in underser ved schools and communities in the Philippines. It is conducted to various public elementar y schools and makes use of advanced mobile technology, integrated with teachertraining method.

The method of teaching is through educational videos and lesson guides aligned with the curriculum set by Department of Education (DepEd) for public elementar y schools nationwide.

It p r ov i d e s f o c u s o n h a rd - t o - t e a c h concepts and leastlearned competencies in subjects such as English, Mathemat-

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ics, Science, and Values Education.

The Text2Teach is a program under international program BridgeIT initiated by Nokia, Pearson, the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Philippines is one of the countries where program is pilottested because it is cited by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) as one having best practices for mobile technology in education, and also of its improving mobile technology infrastructure and of Filipinos’ extensive use for mobile phones.

Text2Teach program targets grade 5 and 6 students. In addition to that are beneficiaries-students in grade 4, school heads and teachers of a public school, depending on the particular circumstances of each school.

On the first two years of the program, it was piloted in 81 schools in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao islands.

In 2005, Text2Teach was introduced to 124 more public schools in Mindana through

the efforts coming from SEAMEO INNOTECH, a member of the Education and Livelihood Skills Alliance (ELSA), and Ayala Foundation, a corporate social responsibility arm of Ayala Land Inc. In the same year, an expansion and improvement was done through funds coming from USAID. Thus, new videos and teachers guides were developed.

In 2007, 350 new schools benefit from the program through a grant provided by Nokia. In April 2012, it further reached 352 new schools in Luzon.

To date, Text2Teach has served over 300, 000 students from 1,103 schools nationwide, covering a total of 78 cities and municipalities.

More than 10 countries around the globe already enjoy Text2Teach program.

It is overwhelming to realize how mobile technology can be used for education and how could it be so beneficial to students, teachers, schools and to Philippine Education, in entirety.

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Barroso: Borja bridge facilitates fast delivery of services, decongest traffic

By Cheng Ordonez Business Editor

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AGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Singson graced the opening last Friday of the P271.8 million newest bridge in Cagayan de Oro City, linking the streets of JR Borja and Max Suniel in Carmen, here.

The JR Borja Bridge is the 6th bridge that connects one side of Cagayan de Oro river to the other.

Sec. Singson thanked the Spanish government, through Centunion company, represented by its president, Javier Graje, for their counterpart worth 92 million.

DPWH-10 Regional Director Evelyn Barroso said the 20-ton, 307.79 linearmeter-length Borja bridge is the longest-assisted bridge construction project supported by the Spanish government in the Philippines.

The Spanish government have supported, at least, 91 bridges in the country -- half of which have already been inaugurated, according to Graje.

Construction of the JR Borja bridge started March 2013 and was completed December 2014, one month ahead of schedule.

"The JR Borja bridge is expected to facilitate fast delivery of goods and services aside from decongest traffic," Dir. Barroso said.

Two more bridges are envisioned to be constructed in the city, even as the DPWH, through the Mindanao Logistics Network, has allocated 30 percent of its 2015 national budget to Mindanao. also present during the inauguration of the Borja bridge and approaches are top officials led by City Mayor Oscar Moreno, Reps. Rufus Rodriguez and Rolando "Klarex" Uy and Justice Romy Borja.

Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Singson is flanked by City Mayor Oscar Moreno (left) and 2nd District Representative Rufus Rodriguez during the inauguration of the JR Borja Bridge and Approches, Friday, Feb. 3, 2015, Cagayan de Oro City.

(Cheng Ordonez)

ARMM investment up despite Mamasapano clash

PARPO II Zoraida Macadindang (seated at center) of Misamis Oriental shared the moment with the members of the Upper Puerto CARP Beneficiaries Association after they received the Certificate of Land Ownership Award for the contested property. supplied photo

DAR installs ARBs in Oroville property

CAGAYAN DE ORO -After more than 25 years of protracted legal battle, all efforts and sacrifices of the agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) paid-off.

Blood, tears and sweat was too high a price to pay to achieve their most elusive dream - to own the land they till for so long a time.

On December 12, 2014, the dream became a reality when the Department of Agrarian Reform-Misamis Oriental headed by PARPO II Zoraida OmarMacadindang, Al Hadja, together with some provincial staff and field personnel and with the assistance of the City Public Safety

Company of the Philippine National Police headed by Police Chief Inspector Arnel Polo and about 3 teams of police personnel proceeded to install the twenty-one (21) farmer-claimants on the landholding that used to be part of the Oroville Development Corporation property in Upper Puerto, Cagayan de Oro City.

The subject landholding covers an area of 23. 8641 hectares.

In her message during the joint installation and distribution of Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOA) ceremony, PARPO Macadindang thanked the ARBs for holding on despite

the hardships and difficulties they encountered in their long struggle.

She also ventured to explain to them the three (3) components of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) which are land tenure improvement, program beneficiaries development and agrarian justice delivery.

Further, PARPO Macandindang discussed the qualifications of ARBs and stressed their corresponding rights and obligations. These include their actual cultivation and management of the land as well as the payment of realty taxes which will commence a year after the

land was awarded to them.

PARPO Macandindang further informed the ARBs about the prohibitions on the sale and alienation of the land within the prohibitive period of 10 years from the date it was awarded to them.

In response, Gemma Herrera, the president of the Upper Puerto CARP Beneficiaries Association expressed her profuse thanks to the Department of Agrarian Reform-Misamis Oriental for the unceasing support and assistance it has extended to their group during the years of their struggle. (Wenceslao Magallanes/ERS)

MARAWI CITY -- The recent incident in Mamasapano in Maguindanao failed to weaken the enthusiasm of investors over prospects of pouring money in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

According to the ARMM Regional Board of Investments (RBOI), two projects with a combined value of P863.05 million have been cleared of technical and procedural hurdles and are now up for final approval after the go signal from the board's management committee (Mancom).

The endorsement by Mancom means the projects will now go through deliberations and possible approval by the Board of Governors of the RBOI who will meet before the end of the month.

The two projects are the

P741.8 million nickel-ore mining project of Chan C Mining, Inc. in Panglima Sugala in Tawi-Tawi, and the P121.25 million petroleum depot project of Tawi-Tawian Petroleum Trading Corporation, also in Panglima Sugala.

The mining project is expected to produce 1,000,000 MT of nickel per year, while the depot project has a 7.6 million liters capacity.

Despite the Mamasapano incident, RBOI is currently processing investment projects in Maguindanao, particularly on renewable energy and oil palm and banana plantation.

RBOI is also assessing the multi-billion peso logistics center proposed at the Port of Polloc in Parang, Maguindanao.

(Bureau of Public InformationARMM/APB/PIA-10)

Water bottling firm opens in Zambo ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Eco Bottling Enterprises has inaugurated over the weekend its Php 6 million water bottling facility inside the Zamboanga City Special Economic Zone Authority (Zamboecozone).

Cliff Reynera, Eco Bottling Enterprises general manager, said the firm aims to supply the entire Region IX and the autonomous region’s provinces of Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi.

Reynera said the facility could produce a minimum of 32,000 bottles to a maximum of 100,000 bottles per day, the production of which is

in compliance to the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) standards.

The Eco Bottling Enterprises’ product, which will be known as Eco Water, will be available in the market by the end of this month.

Alfonso Basilio Marquez, Zamboecozone information officer, said the highly mechanized bottling plant will have a minimal direct employment of only 15 personnel for the first year of operation.

Mayor Ma. Isabelle Climaco-Salazar welcomed the entry of the Eco Bottling Enterprises in this city. (PNA)

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DepEd Cagayan de Oro Division Conducts Integration Program For Newly Appointed Personnel

HR CORNER

By Derrold Marl S. Aves

Fueled by its commitment to continuously translate its visionmission into reality, the Department of Education Division of Cagayan de Oro City conducted a 3-day live in Induction Program for the newly hired personnel under the rationalization program last February 3-5, 2015 at Koresko Hotel. The Induction program which was designed to orient the newly hired personnel on their duties and responsibilities was spearheaded by Schools Division Superintendent Elena M.. Borcillo,CESO VI and assisted by the Assistant Schools Superintendent, Dr. Reynaldo E. Manuel,Jr. In her message to the newly hired personnel, Supt. Borcillo stressed the urgent need for transformation in pursuing the dream to foster and nurture a heart for service to contribute meaningfully to building the nation and making a difference in the lives of each and every Filipino.

On the other hand, ASDS Dr. Manuel challenged the newly hired personnel to realize their full potentials as catalysts for change.

The Integration program was equipped with workshops to give the participants hands-on exposure to what they are supposed to do in carrying out their duties and responsibilities.

Schools Division Superintendent Elena M.. Borcillo, CESO VI

Asst. Schools Division Superintendent, Dr. Reynaldo E. Manuel, Jr.

The pencil and the paper

By RHEA MAY LUMBAY Contributor

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RE you tired of waiting to Mr. and Miss Right? Have you ever complained of your messed-up life? Congratulations! You are not a numb! Your heart is not yet a sedimentary rock nor a metamorphic rock.

So, let me tell you my story about The Pencil and the Paper.

Here it goes …

One day the pencil told the Creator: “I am tired of this job, I often broke the lead. And when I got sharpened, it made me bleed.

When I walked, I often stumbled, my marks became futile. I became a scratch with just seconds around her fist. Please help me find a new Paper for me. A Paper who will understand and accept my flaws and who will not only see my weaknesses but will turn them into my strengths.”

The wind blew softly. The clouds cried with joy. The rainbow sang sweetly. The leaves were falling from the tree. Brown and Green came.

The white Eraser heard the Pencil. So she said to the Pencil, “It seems that the road is too rough to walk along this journey. So I need to find a new Paper for you.

A Paper who will understand you and who will cherish you. And whenever you lead breaks, she will wait for you and grow old with you to love you beyond the horizon.”

“How can we find a Paper like that my dear white Eraser?” the Pencil asked.

Here came a boy who loved to draw. His name was Mucho.

Every time he will not get an excellent remark of his works, he threw it away.

One day, the white Eraser was watching over Mucho.

“Oh! He had a lot of papers

on his table. Hmm..you were throwing it away (sad face) Bad idea Mucho!”

“But I cannot reach the paper,” the white Eraser sighed.

“Hmm.. Let the wind blew!”

Wuusshhh…

“Success! Great job! I got the Paper,” the white Eraser exclaimed.

The Pencil was always in a rush and every time he got mistakes, the Paper got hurt when an eraser was rubbed on her.

One day, the Paper said to the Pencil with her sweetest smile, “Life is not all about race.

It is not how long you live that really matters but how you make it along your journey. So take it gently.”

The Pencil then wrote to the Paper softly. He wrote everything to the sweetest Paper he ever had.

He rarely got mistakes unlike the first time he learned how to write.

He had enough strength to take the sharpener whenever he broke the lead.

“I think I can have a vacation now to heaven,“ said the white Eraser to the Pencil and the Paper.

Did you pray for a man or a woman for you just like the Pencil? If yes, wow! You are hopeful for today and for tomorrow. Indeed, patience is a virtue. Is the man or woman that you love today is what you have prayed for? If yes, wow! You are like a jackpot lotto winner, a great prize to keep forever. But if your answer to my questions above is a big NO, I say, it is not yet the end of the world. Ask. Pray. Believe.

Try to look the other corner of the paper. Let me tell you this.

As pilgrims of this chaotic world, we are like the pencil, its job is to give writings. But if you do not know how to hold it, if you do not have enough strength with it, you may have a scribbled writing just like a three-year old child who is still learning how to write.

Thus, if you do not have the determination and faith to continue along your journey, you will never reach the bottom of the most beautiful paper that God has given to you which is called life - the paper that you cannot buy at any store because it has no price, it is priceless!

So once you get I, hold it firmly but gently because it can easily be blown by the wind.

Someone out there wants to take this away from you. Can’t you see the 44 SAF commandos? Their papers are now a trash but their writings have left us meaningful remarks. They gave honor and sacrifice to our country. Will you recycle the trash they had? Will you give honor and sacrifice to your fellowmen too?

Always remember what the Paper said to the Pencil, “Life is not all about race. It is not how long you live that really matters but how you make it along your journey. So take it gently.”

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should be looked into by the authorities. Further, authorities should look into why the MILF and BIFF were sleeping together while keeping watch over Marwan in their area of responsibility.

At the rate the police, military and the rest of the civilian bureaucracy are blaming each other on the Mamasapano fiasco, the real issues that should be looked into such as the question I posed above are just buried to oblivion.

The question at this point is no longer why 44 SAF members died in that ordinary act of serving the warrants of arrest against Marwan and Usman. We already know why. But what we don’t know is why the MILF and BIFF combined their forces in retaliating for the death of Marwan.

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Section 6 of R.A. No. 6758 states that “all positions in the government shall be allocated to their position titles and salary grades in accordance with the Index of Occupational Service, Position Titles and Salary Grades of the Compensation and Position Classification System which shall be prepared by the DBM.” Ombudsman Morales stated that “absent any proof of compliance with DBM circulars, the salary grade increases were clearly made without basis and violated the rules on compensation and position classification set under R.A. No. 6758.”

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to inform them about the plan of Magelco.

He added that Magelco’s concern is not just to make its customers happy by providing better power supply to the local residents but the coop is also supporting the peace initiative of the local and national government.

Likewise, Maongco said that Magelco was able to pay P7.5 million in taxes in November 2014––and it continue to increase.

In January this year, he said Magelco had 110-percent collection efficiency.

He attributed such huge collection efficiency to its [Magelco’s] commitment to have a strong collection efficiency program, and online payment program.

In June this year, Maongco is expecting the Magelco will be able to implement the metering system.

“We now have stable power supply,” said Maongcö, adding, “this is due to our strong management strategy.”

“At the start, when I came in in November 2014, we have the standing balance to the National Grid Cor-

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4 towns in Maguindanao launch Task Force Iranun

By SONNY SUDARIA Armm News Bureau With LUDY DEGRACIA Contributor

PARANG, Maguindanao—Four municipalities of Maguindanao—the Parang, Buldon, Matanog and Barira--launched the Joint Task Force Iranun (JTFI) through the signing of Memorandum of Agreement/Rules of Engagement and expression/gesture of Solidarity in Tomawis gym, Parang, Maguindanao last January 16, 2015.

The JTFI initiatives for peace and security was launched, starting with a caravan at Parang municipal plaza, followed by program proper with an overview of the JFTI, expressions of solidarity by the four mayors, message of support

by DILG-ARMM Secretary Anwar Malang, Statement of Support by Mr. Barry J. Reed, Chief of Party of USAID’s ENGAGE Project and Messages of Support by Datu Lester Sinsuat, representing Provincial Governor Esmael Mangudadatu, Police Regional Office (PROARMM) OIC-Director Noel P. Armilla, and 6ID Army Chief MGen. Edmundo R. Pangilinan.

Parties and signatories to the agreement are Mayor Ibrahim P. Ibay of Parang, Abolais A. Manalao of poration of the Philippines (NGCP) in the amount of P55 million, I reduced it to P19 million to P5.7 million to P3.5 million and currently, we were able to pay in full,” he said.

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market since June of last year.

“It is inexcusable that the DTI could only boast of a mere P0.35 centavo to P1.75 decrease in the retail prices of milk, sardines, coffee, noodles and soap, detergents when the effects of the oil price cut should have been universal since all industries rely on oil for their products to reach the marketplace,” Relova claimed.

He said: “Petroleum being an essential commodity that bears a significant weight on the production costs of all other products has been significantly reduced and is on the verge of increasing again and yet the DTI is contented with a mediocre 30 centavo cut in only a number of products”.

Relova described the minuscule price decreases as “crumbs falling from the grand banquet of the lords of commerce and industry only to be taken back at the first instance

Buldon, Abdulradzak D. Tomawis of Barira, and Mohammad Ali S. Guro of Matanog.

According to Dr. Ibay, host of the activity, “Magkakatulungan kaming apat na munisipyo regarding peace and security including development matters. We have already formulated rules of engagement which was launched today as a working pattern.”

With us here are the PNP and Phil. Army- the 6ID, the 603rd Brigade of the Philippine Army specifically the 37th Infantry Battalion, the unit assigned in this area.

We will be having a meeting again this month and it will be a series of updates and development plans and actions. There is a technical working group assigned per municipality and there will be assessment/evaluation to be done quarterly.

The technical working groups are: For the Municipality of Parang-the Municipal Administrator, for Barira- also the Administrator-Atty. Mascud, For Buldon- Atty. Tago and for Matanog-the MPDC. We will be monitoring it regularly and we will be going to each municipality for and there will be meetings and reports to be made according to the action plans where the host municipality

is the chairman.

Most of the problems encountered in these areas are ‘rido’. Included also are cases of cattle rustling and ‘maratabat’ in marriages, drugs and any violation of human rights. The tasks of the police and the military are the bases in which the Task Force can support in coordination and in partnership with the security sectors as these agencies themselves have their own programs.

They cannot handle this alone, thus the support of the different local agency units are needed from the municipality down to the barangay level and implementation of which from the regional, provincial peace and order councils.

The clustering of four municipalities is a product of the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) Meeting and headed by Governor Esmael Mangudadatu with the Department of Interior and Local Government last year in General Santos City. AntiCriminality plans and actions were then discussed ‘We are the first group who have done this and there was no change made in the clustering suggested by the DILG, said Ibay.

There will be trainings for the Barangay Tanod to be conducted by the PNP

of market instability”.

They also lamented that despite the price drop of petroleum products, only jeepney fares were rolled back, insisting that airfare, passenger ship and train fares should have also been significantly reduced.

The militants clamored that workers and the poor are in dire need of an economic relief more than ever since their wages have remain dormant and deprived of basic social ser vices. “With the increase of the LRT and MRT fares, increases in SSS and Philhealth contributions last year, we are violently being pushed down below the poverty line.”

Relova likewise called on the officials of the Energy departments to closely monitor abusive oil and gas corporations as well as retailers who are too eager to hike pump-prices as the market remains jittery and prices volatile.

“This gross ineptitude of the Aquino government only goes on to show that its rabid pursuit of neoliberal policies, not only the deregulation of the oil industry but of the entire economy has legitimized the place of private sector profit over and above interests of the poor majority,” he said.

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-Philippines) responded to assist in the evacuation of casualties after the firefight in Maguindanao,” Hoyer told MindaNews.

In a statement, the CSOs said the fact-finding mission to Mamasapano also seeks “to investigate and verify cases of human rights violations against civilians, seek an understanding of the context, antecedents, and implications of the incident, … and express interfaith solidarity and unity with the affected communities.”

Part of the delegation will also conduct a psychosocial intervention to affected children.

The initial report by some members of the delegation said “there were instances of extrajudicial killing, destruction of properties and forced evacuation.”

At least 1,500 residents were also displaced by the encounter, the report said.

Rius Valle, advocacy officer of the Children’s Rehabilitation Center, described the fact-finding mission as “an independent probe to seek for truth and accountability because we do not want to rely on the Board of Inquiry formed

TASK FORCE IRANUN. Mayors of four municipalities of Maguindanao--Mayors Abolais A. Manalao of Buldon, Abdulradzak D. Tomawis of Barira, Dr. Ibrahim P. Ibay of Parang, and Mohammad Ali S. Guro of Matanog-launch Joint Task Force Iranun (JTFI) through signing of memorandum of agreement/rules of engagement(above photo) and solidarity gesture (bottom photo) in the presence of ARMM and Maguindanao Officials in Tomawis Gymnasium, Parang, Maguindanao, January 16, 2015.

Photos courtesy of the municipality of Parang to ensure that the discharge of tasks and responsibilities are properly and legally implemented.

The activity ended with the signing on the Commitment Wall by the municipal

mayors, honored guests, representatives from the MILF, the ABC President and representatives of Civil Society Organizations, Youth, and other support organizations; and the Gesture of Solidary.

by the government.”

The Mamasapano encounter last January 25 left 44 members of the elite Philippine National PoliceSpecial Action Force and 18 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) fighters dead.

The PNP-SAF launched “Operation Wolverine” to arrest alleged Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir alias Marwan and his Filipino cohort Abdul Basit Usman. Both are wanted by the US government, which offered a bounty of US$5 million for Marwan and US$1 million for Usman.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has recently announced that the results of the DNA tests they conducted confirmed that Marwan was indeed killed in the encounter.

In a statement published at the Philippine Star last Saturday, former Bayan Muna Partylist representative Satur Ocampo said “there were two leads to the alleged US involvement in the operation.”

First was the statement of the FBI, which noted its “partnership” with the PNP, and next was an anonymous source, presumably a highranking PNP official, saying there were Americans training the SAF personnel for Operation Wolverine, he said. (MindaNews)

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Environment Environment protection is also in the list is of the city’s major spatial strategies.

The city seeks to intensify and sustain urban greening in poblacion, Isla de Oro and along riverbanks, intensify greening and fruit growing in sloping areas of barangays Bayanga, Lumbia, Agusan, Baikingon, Besigan, Caman-an, Canitoan, Carmen, Taglimao, Pigsag-an, Balulang, Tignapoloan and Dansolihon and pursue mangrove reforestation in barangays Bayabas, Bonbon, Agusan, Tablon, Cugman, Bugo, Puerto and Bulua, among others, based on the CLUP. The updated land use plan was reviewed and endorsed by the committees on subdivision and landed estate chaired by Councilor Alexander Dacer and on laws and rules chaired

by Councilor Ramon Tabor.

It was approved by the City Development Council headed

by Mayor Oscar Moreno and endorsed by the Regional Development Council (RDC).

Vice Mayor Acenas expressed his thanks to all those who took part and shared their expertise in the formulation of the CLUP which he said will be a legacy to the people of Cagayan de Oro and the next generations to come.

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First "game of the generals" tourney in oro a success

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AME of the Generals is a board game invented by a Filipino inventor named Sofronio “Ronnie” Pasola, Jr. in the 1970s who holds the patent.

It is an educational board game that you can learn and play in the short time of 20 to 30 minutes; yet, the game has limitless variations to challenge you for a lifetime. It is designated for two players and requires 100 percent skill. The game engages your psychological prowess, sharpens your memory and deductive thinking as well as develop awareness for

strategy and organization.

It is recommended for all ages.

The game simulates armies at war trying to outsmart and outmaneuver each other. As in an actual warfare, the game allows one side only a sketchy view of the other side’s plan. Certain strategies or tactics; however, allows both sides chances of securing a better idea of

the other’s plans as the game progresses.

1 1 1 1 E mp i r e , In c . headed by Elmer Francisco, is the official nationwide distributor and the exclusive global distributor of Game of the Generals game sets. The company is accepting dealers within the Philippines and country distributors worldwide.

Currently, there are three official versions of the game sets namely: NGS, MPR and RTO. NGS is the high end version with a hard board and aluminum pieces with sticker labels that costs P2,500 per set, MPR is the standard version with a hard board and mark-proof plastic pieces with paper labels that costs P500 per set while RTO is the starter version with a rollable soft plastic board and mark-proof plastic pieces with paper labels that costs

P300 per set.

The company is setting up clubs called regiments in every city/municipality in the world. The objective of the clubs is to teach and train people of all ages who would love to learn the game or would like to compete in local, regional, national and later on international tournaments.

PhilGGO or Philippine Game of the Generals Organization co-founded

by Francisco and Catalino Enriquez is the tournament organizing and management ar m of t he comp any.

PhilGGO organizes Game of the Generals tournaments nationwide to cater to the club members and everyone who loves the game.

The February 8, 2015 open tournament dubbed as Game of the Generals - The Siege in cooperation with SM

Photo by MARK FRANCISCO

City - Cagayan de Oro, www.

EmpressMichelleFrancisco. com, ABS-CBN Cagayan de Oro, Business Week Mindanao, Mindanao Daily, Mindanao Star and Cagayan Times was a huge success.

Out of 57 persons who participated in the seven rounds of the day-long competition, Bong Beberino

topped it.

The next tournament is on March 7, 2015 at the same venue for the inter-school tournament and March 28, 2015 again at the same venue for the inter-barangay tournament. There is also a scheduled open tournament on March 8, 2015 at SM Center - Las Piñas.

Iponan’s Kalumpangan Festival 2015 kicks off PHOTOS COURTESY OF KAGAWAD DONDON ALLORIN

IT’s been already over a decade since Kalumpangan Festival in Barangay Iponan in Cagayan de Oro City started last 2003 with a very festive mood of cultural dances and music that they offer

to its ancient tree called kalumpangan which can be still seen until now in the vicinity of its barangay plaza.

This year, colorful weeklong activities are lined up that started with a novena

in the afternoon of February 1 followed by the opening salvo of the festival that kicked off the ten-day event where as shown in the photos accompanying this story, unique and amazing cultural presentations were rendered by inter-units of the said barangay.

Iponan is also known for its native delicacies such as suman, bibingka, ibos, puto bombong and many other mouthwatering foods where residents of the place still manage to prepare such kind of delicacies specially at the dawn of the feast day where these delicacies are being served after diana,a procession of their patron saint San Guillermo at the

main thoroughfare of the village.

Barangay chair Rudy Goligado said that he is very thankful to his constituents for the cooperation they rendered to the barangay council as for the past days, the daily events were so smooth and peaceful. Other big events include the Battle of the Singing Champions, Color Fun Run, basketball games, dance contest, motocross, the coronation night for Miss Iponan 2015, mass wedding, parade, field demonstration and disco.

The theme for this year is “Gugma ug Tingog sa Katawhan Giya sa Kapanahonan, Kalambuan sa Barangay Iponan.

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