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A MAN stares at the sunset as he boards a pump boat bound for Jordan, Guimaras, Nov 8, 2017. Thousands of Guimarasnons cross the Guimaras-Iloilo Strait daily to work in Iloilo City and nearby Iloilo towns. Survey shows that 20 out of 100 Guimarasnons are poor. A resident of the island-province needs at least P1,928 monthly to live above the poverty line.(Ricky D. Alejo)

By Jennifer P. rendon

THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Region 6 conducted six buy bust operations all over Western Visayas in a month.

Aside from the drug busts, PDEA-6 also mounted three op-erations for the implementation of arrest warrants, 15 greyhound operations, and 12 seaport/airport inspections and interdiction.

By Maricyn a. de los santos

THE Guimaras Sangguniang Panla-lawigan (SP) extended the boundary of Barangay Inampulugan in Sibunag town to allow the election of its Sang-guniang Barangay (SB) and to make social services available to more than 300 residents.

“For how many years, Barangay In-ampulugan has not had any government body,” said Governor Samuel Gumarin in a press conference Nov 9, 2017.

Since 1993, one family from Negros reigned over the island barangay and its inhabitants.

The SP resolved the problem by

ILOILO’S YOUNGEST MAYOR EARNS SGLG ON 1ST TERMSix LGUs in 4th district also get good governance seal

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BRAEDEN JOHN Q. Biron, one of the Philippines’ youngest local chief execu-tives, clinched the coveted Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) on his first term as mayor of Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo.

Biron was 22 years old when he was elected mayor in May 2016. He is now 23.

The young mayor said he credits the award to the cooperation of Vice Mayor George Demaisip and the Sangguniang Bayan and the entire Barotac Nuevo workforce and department heads.

SGLG is given to local government units (LGUs) that met the six basic elements – good financial keep-ing, disaster preparedness, social protection, busi-ness friendliness and competitiveness, environment management, and peace and order.

The 4th congressional district of Iloilo repre-sented by Congressman Ferjenel G. Biron, father of Mayor Biron, also scored big in the award as six LGUs under the district also got the SGLG – Passi City headed by Mayor Jesry Palmares; Anilao headed by Mayor Nath-alie Ann Debuque, Dingle under Mayor Jessie Alecto, Dueñas headed by Mayor

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A FORMER student leader is one of the three fatalities in the encounter between state troopers and suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) last Nov 7, 2017 in Cuartero, Capiz.

Brigadier General Pio Diñoso, commanding of-ficer of the 301st Infantry Brigade, identified one of the fatalities as Remy Beraye, a resident of Barangay Baldoza, La Paz, Iloilo City.

Beraye used to be the chairman of the League of Filipino Students (LFS) at West Visayas State Univer-sity-Main Campus in La Paz, Iloilo City.

He later became the vice chairperson of the WVSU University Student Council sometime in 1995.

Beraye married lawyer Geobelyn Lopez, also a former chairman of LFS-WVSU chapter and WVSU-USC president.

The couple had two daughters.Diñoso said Beraye’s identity was not immediately known

because he was not on their list of suspected rebels.“It’s either he’d been using a different name while

with the group or he just joined his comrades in the mountains,” he added.

NPA surrenderers, Diñoso explained, sometimes just knew fellow rebels based on aliases.

“And maybe, his real name was not really known to some NPA combatants.”

But Diñoso is certain that Beraye was an NPA mem-ber and he was with the group when the armed encounter happened between the alleged rebels and a composite team of the Philippine Army’s 61st Infantry Battalion.

Aside from Beraye, also killed in the clash were Fedirico Diaz of Barangay Mahabang Sapa, Cuartero, Capiz; and Allan Lerona alias Felizardo Cerilo of Mambusao, Capiz.

The three were alleged members of the NPA’s No-nito Aguirre Sr. Command.

Diaz (alias Val/Bansoy) and Allan Lerona (alias Bong) are believed to be the vice commanding of-ficer and finance logistics officer, respectively, of the Sangay Partido sa Platon (SPP) of the NPA’s Eastern Front Committee-Komiteng Rehiyon Panay.

The Army said they recovered an AK-47 assault rifle, an M16 armalite rifle, and five backpacks.

Diñoso said the clash between the 61IB soldiers and more or less 30 communist terrorists from SPP-EFC happened at Sitio Tigpaka Gamay, Barangay Puti-an, a hinterland village around 10 kilometers from the town proper.

Reports claimed that Diaz led the group.The firefight lasted for about an hour. The reb-

els then retreated towards Barangay Bongbongan, Maayon.

By louine HoPe conserva

ILOILO Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr. is among the five governors in the country invited by Pres. Rodrigo Duterte to the gala dinner of the 50th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Nov. 12, 2017 at SMX Convention Center.

Out of the 81 governors in the country, the President only invited Governors Defensor, Florencio Miraflores of Aklan, Edgardo Chatto of Bohol, Lilia Pineda of Pampanga, and Ryan Singson of Ilocos Sur, who is also the president of the League of Provinces of the Philippines.

By Jennifer P. rendon

EIGHT students were rescued after their motor banca capsized at the waters of Estancia, Iloilo afternoon of Nov. 8, 2017.

Rescued were:1. Rodel Gonzales, 16,

of Barangay Bitoon, Carles, Iloilo

2. Justine Vegare, 15, of Talingting, Carles

3. Rozel de la Cruz, 17, of Barangay Gogo, Estancia

4. Charmaine Joy Hiasa, 16, of Villa Patena, Barangay Canoan, Estancia

5. Arriane Boromeo, 14, of Villa Reyes, Brgy Poblacion, Zone 1, Estancia

6. Blessed Lyn Mianne, 16, of Tabugon, Carles, Iloilo

7. Izzume Villanueva, 18, of Poblacion, Zone 1 Estancia, Iloilo

8. Aira Barres,17, of Baran-gay Bitoon, Carles

According to Lieutenant Commander Ramil Palabrica of the Philippine Coast Guard Iloilo Station, the group came from Barangay Talingting, Carles and was on their way to Estancia town when the mishap happened.

Palabrica said Gonzales acted as the boat captain since his family owned the motor boat.

The group allegedly decided to go boating and safely arrived at Talingting.

They were sailing along Bulobadiang Islet, some four nautical miles from Estan-cia town proper, when strong winds and big waves knocked the banca.

Palabrica said there was no reported weather disturbance when the incident happened.

“Usually, sudden squall would cause big waves,” he added.

A concerned citizen in-formed the Coast Guard of the incident at around 4 p.m. The students were rescued at

By Jennifer P. rendon

A 76-YEAR old man was arrested more than a decade after he was accused of molesting a minor.

Toribio Barrientos, 76, a resident of Centro Norte, Pandan, Antique, was collared 9 a.m. of Nov. 8, 2017 at Centro Poblacion, Culasi town.

Joint elements of the Culasi and Pandan Police Station and the Regional Intelligence Unit 6 (RIU-6) arrested Barrientos for three counts of rape docketed as Criminal Case Numbers P-752, P-753, P-754.

Senior Police Officer 1 (SPO1) Riza Jamelarin of the Pandan PNP Women and Children’s Protection Desk (WCPD) said the suspect was accused on March 14, 2006 of raping a then 13-year old girl.

The girl now has a family of her own, Jamelarin noted.Barrientos, who owned a poultry supply store, allegedly lured

the girl by giving her money in exchange for sex.It remains uncertain if he used threat or intimidation on the

complainant.Jamelarin said that the suspect then went into hiding after the

filing of the case. He allegedly fled to Metro Manila, Buruanga in Aklan and Culasi in Antique.

Jamelarin said the suspect may have been visiting or staying with his child in Culasi during his arrest.

Barrientos is now detained.

GUiMARAS Gov. Samuel T. Gumarin (left photo, standing) delivers his 2017 State of the Province Address before the Sangguniang Panlungsod led by Vice-Governor John Edward Gando (2nd from right), and Guimaras Lone District Rep. Lucille Nava (right), Nov. 8, 2017 at GTIC Hall, Brgy San Miguel, Jordan. Also present were (right photo) Mayors Luben Vilches of Sibunag, Emmanuel Galila of Nueva Valencia, Eugene Reyes of Buenavista, Ninfa Gajo of San Lorenzo, and Ruben Corpuz of Jordan. (Ricky D. Alejo)

By Maricyn a. de los santos

GUIMARAS Governor Samuel T. Gu-marin highlighted the economic and tour-ism gains of the island-province in the 2017 State of the Province Address (SOPA) he delivered on Nov 8 at GTIC Building,

Provincial Capitol in Brgy San Miguel, Jordan town.

“Guimaras has improved in the last years in terms of tourism, poverty index, job generation, livelihood, among others, which made life of Guimarasnons easier,” said Gumarin.

Gumarin cited government statistics, particularly the Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index of the National Competitiveness Council (NCC) to prove his claims.

The NCC survey measures the overall

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IN HIS response after receiving the Bagani-han Award, DILG Undersecretary Austere Panadero commented that he did not know

about the events of the Negros Revolution of 1898. The audience watched, prior to the

distribution of the awards, a docu-mentary on that upris ing. Why were they not told about it? He then challenged the Department of Education to in-clude local history in the curriculum. In truth it is there, but how’s the implementation? The result speaks for itself.

The suggestion of Usec Panadero is not new. So many people had been talking for a long time about the need for the young to know their his-tory. In few cases local history was (supposed to be) integrated with other social science subjects. But this did not happen thus we find an almost universal ignorance of local history. Ask any student about their town or city’s history and chances are they will stare back, confounded. How about asking the teachers, or for that mat-ter local officials?

At one time I chanced in a party a group of principals and supervisors. I asked about the origin of the name of their city. They didn’t

know. So, what can we expect of the students and those who graduated to become leaders of their community? Thus the ignorance becomes a legacy in itself.

Last Monday, several Bacolod City officials and officers and members of the Bacolod Cul-tural Foundation posed before the marker after they laid a wreath at the place where they said stood the house of “Don Jose Ruiz de Luzur-iaga and the site of the signing of the Act of Capitulation” that ended the Negros revolt of November 1898.

There are two errors here. First, the house where the Act was signed belonged to Luis Luzuriaga, and second the location of that house is over 50 meters away from the marker. The marker is where once stood Don Jose’s house, but no signing took place there.

The photograph of Don Luis’ house taken at that time has the caption so that one ought not to have missed it. Moreover the house of Don Jose had a different design and size than that of Don Luis.

This is a case of perpetuating a historical er-ror simply because our officials don’t bother to check and, worse, they also belong to the crowd that don’t bother to know. They just assume. I don’t blame them for lack of historical sense because they did not study and thus failed to appreciate their history.

Another case is the date of the Bacolod Char-ter but let us not belabor that anymore since the error has been corrected.

But take a look at the name of our province as officially used. The provincial government uses

“Negros Occidental” but the law that created the two Negros provinces declared it as “Occidental Negros” and “Oriental Negros” for the eastern side. Look up at the main entrance of the Oc-cidental Negros Capitol building and there is it is - the correct name of the province.

Actually the descriptive “Occidental” and “Oriental” are interchangeable depending upon what language one uses. It is “Negros Occidental” if one uses Spanish, but “Occi-dental Negros” when one uses English. It is a matter of grammar. However, since we use English, “Negros Occidental” is grammati-cally wrong.

Another evidence of common errors is about names of places or their origin and meaning. There is plenty of guesswork and the guess becomes “the fact”, even officially adopted.

Manapla, for instance is said to be named after an old woman called Manang Pula, but there is no identification of this woman and the name Manapla already existed by the time the Spaniards arrived, and in fact is listed as a village in 1574.

How about Binalbagan, where the Spanish missionaries listed as the first town in this island in 1572 and yet named supposedly because a big snake blocked the railroad bridge to the town? The problem is that this railroad bridge was constructed only in the 1920s to be used as passage for trains transporting sugarcane. Clearly the snake and the bridge had nothing to do with the name.

There are many more of these officially adopted historical oversights.

ITS strike two for the Iloilo Police Provincial Of-fice (IPPO) after two gun raids in the province since October 2017.

The first is against businessman Jojo Sanson of Sara, Iloilo and the second was against a village chief Andres Bedro of Kinalkalan, Balasan who also hap-

pens to be the Association of Barangay Captains president.

In the Sanson raid, the spe-cial operations group of IPPO failed to find a gun or any con-traband from his house.

In Balasan, they did find a gun but it was covered by a licence which will expire in 2020 yet. In the second raid, Senior Insp. Pinuela said they received intelligence reports that the barangay captain was hoarding unlicensed guns and

was employing goons.It appears then that Pinuela’s intelligence report

is hardly intelligible. If he indeed validated the intel report, they would have known that the barangay captain owns a licensed gun.

This is very disconcerting since the PNP is under fire for alleged incompetence aside from accusations of summarily executing suspected drug peddlers and “evidence planting.”

If intelligence officers like Pinuela cannot get their acts together, how can we lick the illegal drug problem?

QUARRELTwo factions of Duterte supporters in Visayas

are at each other’s neck.Kilusang Pagbabago has been lambasting

the faction of Presidential Adviser for Visayas Michael Diño over supposed unfinished projects in super typhoon-Yolanda affected areas.

We have received several press releases from KP which placed Diño in a bad light.

Meanwhile, Diño has been trying to convince Ilonggos that Duterte loves us, despite calling the city and province as “most shabulized” and “bedrock of illegal drugs.”

The KP-Diño is a classic example of how politi-cal supporters quarrel among themselves for the spoils of their electoral victory and attention of the sitting president. Same old, same old.

Racket?The federalism bandwagon is becoming a rack-

eteer’s template to dupe the public. Department of the Interior and Local Govern-

ment (DILG-6) regional director Anthony Nuyda issued the warning against groups posing fed-eralism advocates and asking money from local politicians.

Aside from fundraising, some ambitious Duterte supporters use federalism to enter or resurface in the political arena.

This is what happens in the absence of a clear template for this animal called federalism.

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History oversights

A PROSPECTIVE investor in the Philippines usu-ally takes 28 days to get a

permit to open a business, going through 16 different procedures and paying various fees equivalent to $565.65 which is about 15.8 per-cent of the gross national income (GNI) per capita.

In Thailand, one can get a busi-ness permit in 4.5 days, passing through 5 procedures and spending about $350 (6.2 percent of GNI per capita). In Vietnam, 22 days and 9 procedures, with estimated application costs of $133.25 (6.5 percent of GNI), are the compa-rable numbers.

These are only a few of the fac-tors that, according to findings in the latest World Bank annual “Do-

ing Business” study, determine the pace of business activity and help create more jobs and lift people out of poverty in a country. The annual reports focus on promoting reform in about 41 dif-ferent aspects of business regula-tion grouped into 10 indicator sets.

The 10 catego-ries are: starting a business; dealing with construc-tion permits; getting electricity; registering property; getting credit; protecting minority investors; pay-ing taxes; trading across borders; enforcing contracts, and resolving insolvency. World Bank teams and consultants, using a complex for-mula, score and rank the regulatory

performance of economies covered in the study.

Not in the annual review’s scope are such factors as macro-economic stability and its impact

on business, de-velopment of the financial system and market size, the incidence of bribery and cor-ruption, and the

quality of the labor force.

113th among 190 nationsThe Philippines landed on 113th

place among 190 states and econo-mies covered in the 2018 report released this week. This marked a drop of 14 places from its rank in last year’s report, and down 10

places from the 2016 list.During the year under review

(data as of June 1 this year), the Philippines scored high in reduc-ing the time to get an electricity connection by implementing a new asset management system and by creating a new scheduling and planning office. For these moves, the Philippine regulatory status in “getting electricity” ranked 31st worldwide, which was still a downgrade, however, from the 22nd place the previous year in this same category.

Another major reform initi-ated by the Philippines, making it easier for businesses to pay taxes through a new electronic system for payment and collection of

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OUR life is, of course, like a puzzle. Mysteries and other inexplicable events and insoluble problems abound. There are many dots that need to be connected to see the whole

picture. We can try to connect them ourselves, using our best efforts. But would that assure us of success?

If we have faith in God, then we would know that in him we have the best guarantee of seeing the whole picture, of finding meaning, reason and pur-pose for everything that takes place in our life.

God is the creator of the universe, the giver of existence to everything. As such, he is in every-thing and guides all to him, their ultimate end. In a manner of speaking, he has the master plan and knows what to do however the plan is executed by us who are supposed to be his agents. It’s he who can give us the whole picture, who gives the full meaning, reason and purpose for all the events in our life.

And with our sinfulness, it is he in Christ through the Holy Spirit who can resolve everything, giving us his mercy, restoring our dignity. He is the one that connects the dots and enables to see the whole picture.

God in Christ through the Holy Spirit is the one that connects heaven and earth, the spiritual and the material, the supernatural and the natural, eternity and time. He is the one who can right all wrongs, can make the impossible possible, can cure all sicknesses, can resolve all problems, can resurrect the dead.

We need to learn to refer everything to God. More than that, we have to live our life as fully as possible with God. This is not

to undermine our autonomy and freedom. This is what would precisely perfect our freedom and assures us that we are using and living it properly.

In this regard, we have to learn to especially refer to him the mundane things of our life. We usually refer to him the sacred ones, but the mundane, the technical, etc., are usually regarded as having nothing to do with God. We have to correct that misconception.

In fact, it is in our mundane, technical and temporal affairs that are in great need to be referred to God. All of them play a role in the providence of God. We have to figure out how they should be pursued in keeping with God’s will and providence.

We have to develop some kind of instinct, an urge to refer everything to God. This can mean many things. One could be that before we start to do anything or to get involved in anything, we should already offer it to God, and in our prayers and medi-

tation, try to discern how these things fit in God’s providence.Such instinct and urge should lead us to see God in everything.

If we have faith in him and are always inspired by hope and charity, we can readily see him wherever we are. And we can gradually understand his ways and play our part.

We can also be the ones addressed by Christ when he told the apostles: “Blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear...Many prophets ad righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it...” (Mt 13,16-17)

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PROBABLY emerging from the short comings of men who are thought to be exemplary – civil, political, ecclesiastical leaders – many of today’s minds have been accustomed to

condemning someone as a hypocrite whenever there seems to be an inconsistency between the beliefs or on one’s expectations and the conduct of a certain person. We hear of similar condemnations on the Gospel wherein Our Lord Jesus Christ would be addressing the scribes and Pharisees as “Hypocrites,” “brood of vipers,” or “white washed tombs” (Mt. 23). It is interesting to note that the minds of today seem to have adapted the same authority of Christ in their condemnations of the “hypocrites” although some, if not most, of them do not identify themselves with Him nor do they profess His teachings in word or deed.

This quick detection of the “Hypocrites” seems to be rising to an impulsive and unprincipled level. It is, therefore, important to distinguish principled or inevitable inconsistencies between ac-

tual hypocrisies before one attempts to assume Christ-like authority in detecting “the hypocrites.”

In the Gospel, Our Lord con-demns the scribes and the Pharisees as hypocrites on account of their vain motives in their religious obser-vance. The scribes and the Pharisees conducted their religious observance in the pursuit of recognition and praise. They practiced their religion in a higher and more pious degree not because their convictions called them to do so but because it lifted their social status and it made men look up to them thus building for

themselves pedestals of influence and authority.In the same way, men, from the highest political position to

the homeless street dweller, who perform heroic or meritorious actions in an effort to obtain recognition, praise, or honor, (and to some, political or social influence) are the ones who are rightly called hypocrites not the family in the province who have been accustomed to make use of their expensive cutlery only during the town fiesta while contenting themselves with a humble stain-less spoon and a plastic plate for the rest of the year or the class president who is struggling with his grades but is still exhorting his classmates to study diligently or the school teacher who en-courages her students to be serious with their studies despite not being an excellent student in her days.

In some cases, there are occasions in which one is compelled, by a greater cause, to be inconsistent regarding principle and practice. These occasions would seem inevitable. These occa-sions should emerge from charity and sincere kindness. In these instances, one is normally compelled by courage to be steadfast in principles and, by charity, to be tolerant and kind. For instance, the Catholic Church, in principle, is intolerant because faith de-mands her to be steadfast in what she believes; in practice, she is tolerant because she is filled with a genuine love for humanity. In principle, the Church cannot tolerate sin (be it murder, substance abuse, or theft) because it is harmful to those who will be affected and to the soul of the individual who is committing sin, however, she tolerates the sinner, not the sin, with the hope that he will have a change of heart and return to his natural goodness. This inconsistency is not hypocrisy but an act of charity as much as the non-smoking ordinance passed by a mayor who is struggling against his own smoking habits is an act of righteousness. The priest who preaches chastity but is also struggling (to the best of his abilities) against his impure thoughts at night is not guilty of hypocrisy but is simply fulfilling the demands of his office to preach virtue. Inconsistencies between principle and practice are not always hypocrisies but are sometimes acts of prudence, acts of charity, courage, valor, and virtue.

Hypocrisy is the willful and deceptive appearance of virtue or goodness not the struggle against vice or the struggle towards perfection. It isn’t just an inevitable inconsistency of principle and practice. Hypocrisy in itself seeks to deceive. The struggle towards perfection is honest and is not always victorious. The sinner on the process of becoming a saint sometimes falls again into sin- that does not make him a hypocrite.

Everyone is a hypocrite to some degree. Whenever we allow ul-terior motives to take over our actions rather than the noble motives, we commit acts of hypocrisy. When we demonstrate our academic caliber, our talent, our skill only to exalt ourselves or to influence oth-ers without aligning them to noble principles and motives be it civic, political, or religious, we become hypocrites. All actions then, all endeavors should be aligned, directly or indirectly to noble motives, greatest of these motives is the greater glory of God in the salvation of souls (Ad maiorem Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem).

Ultimately, our motives, the ones that we do not declare, lie in the depths of our hearts. No one but god and ourselves can view our hearts and our consciences. No one, not even the devil or our guardian angels can view them. No one but God and ourselves. Rash judgment, therefore, is always wrong as much as it emerges from vanity and not charity. It is therefore important to avoid judgment, especially rash judgment. When inevitable, let judgment always emerge from an overflow of genuine charity and should be accompanied by prayer.

Lance Patrick Enad y Caballero is a grade XII Seminarian from Pope John XXIII Seminary of the Archdiocese of Cebu. He will turn eighteen on the fourteenth of November.

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housing development fund contributions, pushed the country to No. 105 worldwide in the “paying taxes” category, marking an upgrade from its 115th position the previous year.

But the Philippines remains a laggard in the other key areas of business regulation: 173rd in “starting a business” (noted in the first paragraph of this article), 149th in “enforcing contracts” (enforcement takes up to 962 days, 146th in “protecting minor-ity investors” (low ratings on shareholder rights, discosure and director liability), 142nd in “getting credit”—all lower com-pared to the 2017 rankings.

A saving grace is that in a Doing Busi-ness measure of a country’s “distance to frontier” (which compares the country’s score against those of the best performers), the Philippines’ 58.74 points represented a positive change of +0.42, interpreted by the World Bank analysts as “an improvement in the overall business environment” over the year in review.

How neighbors faredAmong the 10 member-states of the

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Philippines was ahead of Cambodia which was on 135, Laos 141, and Myanmar 171. Cambodia and Laos had no known business-friendly reforms implemented during the period. Myanmar had one each in “registering property” and

“getting credit”.Singapore, which maintained its No. 2

position overall, was the region’s leader in making it easier to do business. Although it has been ahead for many years, Singapore still continues to initiate reforms to further make its policy framework attractive for business. In the latest study, Singapore got high marks for making exporting and importing easier by improving infrastruc-ture and electronic equipment at the port, and making resolving insolvency easier by setting up a new scheme of arrangement procedure with features of the debtor-in-possession reorganization regime and introducing provisions applicable to pre-packaged restructurings.

Indicating the progress of their reforms in improving regulatory environment for local entrepreneurs, Thailand surged ahead by 20 steps to land on 26th spot, Indonesia climbed 19 positions up at No. 72, while Brunei and Vietnam moved up by 16 po-sitions to No. 56 and 14 places to No. 68, respectively.

Thailand and Brunei compiled the largest number of business regulation reforms among ASEAN nations—8 each across the 10 indicator groups—while Indonesia implemented 7 reforms. Thai-land also made it to the top 10 improvers worldwide.

For example, in the “starting a busi-ness” framework, Thailand has abolished the requirement to obtain a company’s seal and eliminated the need for company

work regulations approval from the Labor Department. Thailand has also strength-ened minority investor protections by making it easier to sue directors in case of prejudicial related-party transactions, increasing shareholder rights and role in major corporate decisions.

It is interesting to note that in the case of Thailand, despite its government being installed through a military takeover in 2014 and strict restrictions on certain ac-tivities and democratic freedoms, reforms toward making doing business easier have still been pursued.

Thailand has recently announced a plan to launch in 2019 a “comprehensive Doing Business portal to provide easier and faster services to business owners.” Its gains in making doing business easier, according to analysts, could translate into a “strong business environment and more good jobs” for its people.

The World Bank Doing Business report is the third global scorecard where Vietnam has overtaken the Philippines. In the United Nations’ Human Development Index re-leased in March this year, the Philippines’ rank sustained a drop (the only country in the region to post a decline) while Vietnam moved up strongly to land on top of the Philippines. In September, in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitive-ness Report, Vietnam also improved its attractiveness to investors and, along with Brunei, outscored the Philippines in the rankings. (ABS-CBN News)

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BACOLOD City – “Ginpakahuy-an nila ang akon bata (They shamed my child).”

This was the reaction of the mother of Eric Hain Demafeliz, a Grade 8 student of the Ramon Torres National High School (RTNHS) who committed suicide by hang-ing after he was accused of stealing his classmate’s iPad.

Warlina Demafeliz, said she wants jus-tice for her son and expressed her desire to pursue a case against her son’s adviser to prevent a similar case from happening

again.Warlina claimed his son was allegedly

“shamed” by the school’s staff and fel-low students by publicly accusing him of stealing the iPad during a flag-raising ceremony.

She said Eric did not reveal the inci-dent.

The mother also confirmed that officials from the local Department of Education (DepEd) of Bago City visited her son’s wake but they did not provide any assis-tance or made any assurance in resolving her son’s death.

Earlier this week, the legal counsel of DepEd-Bago, Rex Cabarles, denied that RTNHS staff brought Eric to the Bago City Police Station following accusations of thievery.

Task Force Kasanag (TFK) national commander John Chiong, questioned the school staff’s handling of the case, say-ing they should have first contacted the student’s parents before involving the police.

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in Negros Occidental has initiated an investigation into the incident.

BACOLOD CITY Mayor Evelio Leonardia is one of the select mayors in the country invited by President Rodrigo Duterte to the Special Gala Dinner Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Na-tions) on Nov 12, 2017 at the SMX Convention Center in Manila.

Ten heads of state of the ASEAN member-nations, 12 dialogue partners, Cabinet secretar-ies, ministers, senators, congressmen, business leaders, and several mayors have been invited by Duterte to the grand celebration.

Leonardia said, “This is a singular honor for Ba-colod to be part of this historic and significant oc-casion that may happen only once in 50 years.”

“This shows that Bacolod is being recognized as a big player in the ASEAN community, be-ing the first LGU (local government unit) to express its active participation in the ASEAN integration, especially in the light of enormous challenges and benefits such integration brings,” he added.

“I thank the President for this great honor and privilege of being invited to the Special Gala Celebration of ASEAN’s 50th Anniversary,” Leonardia said.

Duterte was the guest of honor at the MassKa-ra Festival twice in a row. He opened the festival last year on Oct. 2, and attended the last day of this year’s festival on Oct. 22.

The theme of the just-concluded 38th MassKara Festival was “Bacolod: City of South-east Asia” which highlights the role and the place of Bacolod in the ASEAN community.

On March 21 to 24 this year, Bacolod hosted the 15th Meeting of the ASEAN Senior Officials Responsible for Information at the SMX Con-vention Center.

Four months after on Aug 8, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) chose the Bacolod City Government Center as one of the prominent and historic structures in the country to participate in the simultaneous ASE-AN Landmark Lighting Ceremonies. (PIO)

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BACOLOD City – National Housing Authority (NHA)-Ba-colod head Engineer Alejandro Ongsuco said they aim to finish all housing projects for typhoon Yolanda survivors in Negros Occidental by 2018.

Ongsuco said one housing unit costs P290,000 (P195,000 for the construction of the house and P95,000 for the lot

acquisition).The lot has an area of 40

square meters, while the floor area for the house is 28.4 square meters.

Ongsuco said once the hous-ing units are finished, they will also construct a new school building and a multi-purpose center.

Beneficiaries of the housing units will also be enrolled in the government’s livelihood projects.

He explained that residents can live for free in the housing units for the next five year, but on their sixth year, they have to pay P200 per month for the lot.

Ongsuco said construction of units started in 2015, two years after Yolanda hit the Visayas. Slow release of funds hampered the completion.

Around 27,055 housing units are allocated for Negros Occidental alone.

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BACOLOD City – The PNP here vowed to eliminate the “fear of crime” brought about by the spate of robberies here in October 2017.

Police Regional Office- 6 spokesman Supt. Gilbert Gorero told reporters here that some of the police officers were assigned here for the MassKara Festival and the arrival of President Duterte were made to stay in the city to augment local cops.

He said the additional officers will heighten police visibility in the city and “make Bacolenos feel that they safe”.

“We have to erase the fear or crime,” said Gorero who was here for the PNP Interfaith activity held Nov.9, 2017 at Camp Alfredo Montelibano Sr.

He noted that crimes like hold-ups are on a downtrend.

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BACOLOD City – A 17-year old girl admitted to killing her grandmother after the lat-ter “visited” the lass in her dreams.

According to PO3 Nineveh Mallorca of the La Carlota City Police’s Women and Children’s Desk, the suspect is believed to be suffering from mental illness.

Mallorca said the victim, 62-year old Gaylen Samillano, suc-cumbed to knife wounds in the neck and some parts of her body.

Mallorca said parents of the suspect brought the latter to the police last week.

The teener allegedly admit-ted the crime.

She was turned over to the DSWD but was later returned to her family.

The teener, whose iden-tity is being withheld, said she stabbed her grandmother when the rest of their family went to the cemetery on Oct 29, 2017.

She admitted the crime after her grandmother was buried last Nov 4. A dream about her late grandma also prompted the lass to confess.

The La Carlota City PNP awaiting the family’s decision on the filing of the case.

Mallorca said the family could not still ascertain what pushed the teenager to kill her grandmother.

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to excel and win the sport.“To those who want to join

in the said camp, they can send me a private message via the

TeamLegends Legends Face-book account,” Villaruz said.

The camp is free of charge aside from a free meal and a free camp shirt.

Spike and Serve is a commu-

nity service project of Tiamzon which aims to create avenues for sports development, pro-mote healthy competition and enhance community building in the grassroots level.

organized this event to develop and promote sports by encour-aging sports programs to foster

self-discipline, teamwork, and excellence for the development of a healthy citizenry.

Aside from the Visayas Leg, Batang Pinoy will also

take place in Vigan City, Ilo-cos Sur (Luzon) on Oct. 22-28. Organizers are still finalizing the venue of the Mindanao Leg.

Defensor said he already confirmed his attendance at the special gala celebration.

“It will be a purely social event,” he said.

The Philippines was chosen to host the golden anniver-sary of ASEAN summit, with President Duterte appointed as

chairman.ASEAN is comprised of 10

countries – Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philip-pines, Singapore, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and Brunei.

Iloilo City was chosen to host several meetings such as the 22nd Senior Officials Com-mittee for the ASCC (SOCA) and the 17th ASEAN Socio-

Cultural Community (ASCC) Meeting in March.

Iloilo City and the towns of Mina and Badiangan in Iloilo Province were also among the 50 local government units in the country that led the simul-taneous lighting of the Associa-tion of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Landmark on Aug. 8, 2017.

competitiveness of cities and municipalities on three main pillars: economic dynamism, government efficiency, infra-structure, and resiliency.

“From 52nd spot in 2016, we have successfully escalated notches higher to 27th spot this year,” he said.

He attributed the province’s improvement in competitive-ness to the development efforts of the five Guimaras towns.

From the same index, the municipalities of Buenavista, San Lorenzo, Nueva Valencia, and Sibunag improved their competitiveness ranks in 2017 compared to 2016: Buenavista (2nd class) - 150th from 190th, Nueva Valenca (3rd class) 28th from 101st, San Lorenzo (5th class) - 414th from 570th, and

Sibunag (4th class) - 456th from 478th. On the other hand, the capital town of Jordan (3rd class) dipped in the ranking at 79th from 67th.

The number of registered businesses also increased by 4.74 percent, from 2,487 in 2015 to 2,605 in 2016.

This, Gumarin said, also mean increase in capital invest-ments in the province at P775.3 million in 2016 from P766.1 million in 2015.

Gumarin said his administra-tion aims to continuously lower the cost of doing business in the island province “to attract more investors and sustain its economic activities and development.”

Meanwhile, the governor said the province and the private sec-tor is on track to reach its goal of becoming the agri eco-tourism capital of Western Visayas.

“Our same day tourist ar-rival almost doubled through a 48.6% increase from 417,869 in 2015 to 621,172 in 2016,” Gumarin said.

Tourism data from Ac-commodation Establishments showed that foreign and do-mestic visitors increased by 13.67% from 94,315 in 2015 to 107,214 in 2016. This resulted to 13.2% growth in tourism receipts from P1.7 million in 2015 to P1.9 million in 2016.

As of July 2017, there are 82,462 tourists who visited the province or 67% of the pro-jected arrival for this year.

“We will continue to work with the public and private sector to make sure they are working together to reach the goal of making Guimaras the agri eco-tourism capital of WV,” he said.

4:46 p.m.“They were holding on to the outrigger of

the half-submerged boat when we arrived,” Palabrica said.

The victims were brought to Jesus Colme-nares District Hospital in Carles.

Gonzales, Vegare, and Barres were immedi-ately discharged.

berwolves. Minnesota’s Jeff Teague and Taj Gibson each scored 14.

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The injury-riddled Boston Celtics won their 10th straight game by cruising to a 107-96 win Wednesday over the Los Angeles Lakers in a matchup between two of the NBA’s most storied franchises.

Australia’s Aron Baynes scored a career high 21 points during the game which saw the Celtics compile a 21 point first-half lead before the Lakers closed the gap in the third.

But Los Angeles allowed the Celtics to pull away again in the fourth when it mattered most.

The 30-year-old Baynes, who was born in New Zealand but grew up in Cairns, Australia, also grabbed eight rebounds and had three assists in front of a crowd of 18,600 at the Boston Garden.

“We have such great creators on this team,” said Baynes, a member of the Australian national team. “I just found myself in the right position. I was just trying to make the right play, and I’m try-ing to finish as best I could.

“It’s a compliment to the other guys on the team getting me the ball in great position.”

Boston’s Kyrie Irving over-came a poor shooting night to finish with 19 points, six rebounds and five assists.

But the banged-up Celtics are the hottest team in the NBA

for a reason. They are getting contributions from everyone with different players stepping up each game. On Wednesday it was Baynes’ turn along with Marcus Morris, who had 18 points, and Terry Rozier who added 14 points and eight re-bounds.

“Until we have only four (players) left, I guess we’re just going to keep playing,” Boston coach Brad Stevens said. “And then I don’t know what you do at four, but keep playing.

“Most importantly, and I don’t want to make light, the most important (thing) is those guys get back healthy.”

Brandon Ingram scored 18 points for the Lakers, who were guilty of 21 turnovers.

Wednesday also marked the first pro meeting between Celtics rookie and third overall pick Jayson Tatum and Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball. But the matchup was shortened after Tatum had to leave the game because of an ankle problem.

The Celtics effectively passed over Ball at the draft by trading down from the number one pick to get Tatum at number three. The Celtics knew Tatum was go-ing to be available in that posi-tion because the Lakers planned to take Ball at number two.

Tatum finished with five points and had one rebound and one assist in nine minutes during the first half. He didn’t return for the second half.

The 19-year old Tatum had been given a more prominent role because of an opening

night injury to Gordon Hay-ward. He has responded by averaging 14.3 points and 6.5 rebounds in his first 11 games.

The Celtics, who are already without Hayward for the sea-son, were also missing Al Hor-ford on Wednesday. He is out with a possible concussion.

BAll BOOED Point guard Ball was loudly

booed during the pre-game introductions and jeered every time he touched the ball. Celtics fans are still upset at his father LaVar Ball who said publicly that the younger Ball wouldn’t play for the Celtics.

Ball’s shooting woes contin-ued on Wednesday as he finished with just nine points on four-of-15 shooting from the field in 39 minutes of playing time.

“It’s just in my head, to be honest,” said Ball. “I know I can shoot the ball.”

The Lakers other point guard is Jordan Clarkson who came off the bench to tie for a team high 18 points in just 27 minutes of action.

Elsewhere, Nikola Vucevic scored 24 points and Evan Fournier had 23 to help the Orlando Magic halt a two-game losing streak with a 112-99 win over the New York Knicks, who were without injured star Kristaps Porzingis.

Porzingis sat out with a left ankle sprain and a bruised right elbow. He is averaging 30 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.3 blocks while shooting 51 percent from the field. (Agence France-Presse)

Mamerto L. Pelopero III, Du-mangas under Mayor Ronaldo Golez and Barotac Nuevo.

Winning the seal requires te-dious documentary requirements aside from actual validation by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) which hands out the award.

LGUs that clinch the SGLG en-

title them to DILG’s programs such as the Conditional Matching Grant to Provinces for Road Repair, Rehabilitation and Improvement formerly known as KALSADA Program; and the Performance Challenge Fund (PCF).

Other SGLG awardees from Iloilo are Oton and Tubungan (1st district), New Lucena, Zarraga and Pavia (2nd district), Bingawan and Mina (3rd district), and Carles

and Estancia (5th district).Iloilo province will be in-

ducted in the Hall of Fame after winning the SGLG for three straight years since 2015.

Other awardees from West-ern Visayas are the provinces of Aklan and Negros Occidental.

The awarding of the 2017 SGLG will be on Nov 27 at the Philippine International Convention Center.

The accomplishments were made from Oct 10, 2017, the day President Rodrigo Du-terte tapped PDEA as the sole agency to wage the anti-illegal drugs war, to Nov 9.

David Garcia, PDEA-6 spokesman, acknowledged that the number of anti-drug operations is way below com-pared to the times when other law-enforcement agencies like the PNP were are still active in the anti-drug campaign.

But with only 32 agents run-ning after Western Visayas drug personalities, they can only do so much.

Garcia also admitted the possibility that some illegal drug personalities, who earlier laid low, may have returned or re-grouped with other drug personalities.

This is also the scenario that happened when Duterte ordered the PNP and other law-enforcement agencies to stop the anti-drug campaign in late January 2017.

But Garcia assured that they are not turning a blind eye to the problem.

“We are continuously moni-toring them,” he added.

Garcia said that they would soon get additional agents, as new recruits are soon to gradu-ate from the PDEA academy.

On Nov. 8, PDEA chief Aaron Aquino said that PDEA regional directors have been ordered to meet a monthly quota of “30 to 40” anti-drug operations.

Aquino said an oversight committee, which he head, are monitoring the performance of regional directors.

Meanwhile, Garcia said PDEA-6 chief Wardley Getalla has mapped out plans on how to implement Executive Or-der No. 15 (Creation of an Anti-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs and Anti-Illegal Drug Task Force to Suppress the Drug Problem in the Country).

As chairman of the task force, PDEA can tap other gov-ernment agencies in the fight against illegal drugs.

While the police and mili-tary could not operate on their own, the PDEA could request their support in anti-illegal drug operations.

Duterte signed a memoran-dum dated Oct. 10 ordering the PNP, the National Bureau of Investigation, the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the Bureau of Customs, the Phil-ippine Postal Office and other “ad hoc anti-drug task force” to leave the implementation of the drug war to the PDEA.

In the said memorandum, Duterte cited Republic Act No. 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 as basis for is directive.

Part of Duterte’s order was for all information obtained in the course of the enforcement of the anti-narcotics campaign must be “relayed, delivered, or brought to the attention of the PDEA for its appropriate action.”

On Jan. 30, 2017, the PNP also ordered all police units to stop its anti-illegal drug opera-tions, as they would shift their focus on cleansing their ranks.

But about a month later, the order was lifted.

Some observers said that several drug personalities re-grouped and strengthened their operations when the PNP slowed down on the war on drugs.

enacting Ordinance 2017-008, which extended the boundaries of Inampulugan to nearby Sitio Naoway.

“Naoway shall be the seat of government of Inampulugan, and this will enable the baran-gay to be truly operational,” Gumarin said.

Vice Governor John Edward Gando said elections have failed in the village for several years.

“Apparently, no one wants to run for local positions but they vote during national elec-tions,” Gando said.

He said the Commission on Elections-6 (Comelec)

sought the SP’s help in the problem as the Comelec en banc required the regional office to explain why there have been no elections in the area since it was recognized as barangay.

“We enacted the ordinance so when the elections come, the residents of Naoway will fill the vacancies and transfer the seat of government to Naoway,” Gando said.

For lack of SB for more than a decade, Inampulugan has accumulated more or less P13 million from its yearly share in the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA).

But Comelec seems not

satisfied with the ordinance as it required the provincial gov-ernment to conduct a plebiscite and meet the required income and population.

But Gando argued these are no longer needed as no new barangay is created.

“It was just a mere alteration of boundaries…in response to the observation of Comelec en banc why there has been no election in the village.”

When asked if there are reports of armed group in the island, Gando said there was none.

“But the influence of the family claiming the island is discernible,” he stressed.

not expecting you to win, so I always take it as motivation.”

“Yung memories, yung mga remembrance na nakuha ko doon, I take them as a part of this fight, para as much as pos-sible, I can hold this belt for a long time.” Folayang added.

(For me, I take it as motiva-tion. It’s those memories where in I came in as an underdog, al-most 90% of people who know their MMA, they weren’t ex-pecting me to win, so I always use that as motivation. The memories, the rememberance that I got from that, I take them as a part of this fight so that as much as possible, I can hold this belt for a long time.”)

Friday night, Folayang heads into his second title defense, in front of a hometown crowd, against the champion of a lighter weight division.

All things considered, it’ll be hard to see the Pinoy cham-pion as the underdog.

Still, you can expect that Folayang will be using that

same mentality to make sure that he gets to enjoy his one-year anniversary as the ONE

Championship lightweight world champion. (ABS-CBN Sports)

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STUDENT-athletes from Iloilo City are ready to com-pete in the 2017 Batang Pinoy-\Visayas in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental which kicks off today, Nov 10.

A total of 82 players from different public and private schools in Iloilo City joined the annual events which will run until Nov 16.

Led by Moises Salomon Jr. from the Iloilo City Sports and Youth Development Office, the team left Iloilo Wednesday afternoon

The athletes will join 18 disciplines. Meanwhile, athletes from Bacolod Tay Tung High

School (BTTHS) also left for Dumaguete City on Thursday with team manager Jose Montalbo.

The players are Alyssa Bertolano, Shane Carmona, Hannah Quanico, Kiesha Bedonia, Rhean Hebraica Almendralejo, Gwen Bañas, Charlene Tayapad, Katherine Shaine Cortez, Auria Alvero, Kathleen Tan, Annikha Cabasac, and Nicholie Galvan.

They were joined by coach Ian Macariola and as-sistant coach Biboy Calamba.

Batang Pinoy is a national competition program for children 17 years old and below. This year, the week-long games feature athletics, badminton, box-ing, basketball, swimming, tennis, and taekwondo as marquee events, among others.

The grassroots-based sport undertaking aims to scout potential athletes for future national and inter-national sports competition, primarily the quadrennial Youth Olympic Games.

The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) also

NOVEMBER 11th, 2017 will mark the one-year anniversary of Team Lakay superstar Eduard ‘Landslide’ Folayang shock-ing the world and dethroning long-time champion Shinya Aoki for the ONE Champion-ship lightweight world title in Singapore.

The question however is, will Folayang still be champion by the time November 11th rolls in?

That’s because on the eve of his one-year anniversary as lightweight champ, he puts the title on the line against reigning ONE Championship featherweight king Martin ‘The Situ-Asian’ Ngyuen in a champion-versus-champion superfight at ONE: Legends of the World in Manila.

And while it certainly adds pressure to Folayang’s second title defense, the Baguio City native also wants to use it as a reminder of why he has the belt in the first place.

“On November 11th [2016], yun yung time na nakuha ko yung lightweight belt,” Fo-layang said. “On November 10th [2017], yun yung time na ipapakita ko ulit kung bakit

ko nakuha yung lightweight belt.”

(“On November 11th, 2016, that was the time I won the lightweight belt. On November 10th, 2017, that will be the time that I show everyone why I won that belt in the first place.”)

Nearly a year into his title reign and already with one defense under his belt, there’s little doubt that right now, Fo-layang is ‘the guy’ in the ONE Championship lightweight division.

Still, it’s an underdog mind-set that motivates the cham-pion, an underdog mindset that he used to overcome the lightweight juggernaut that was Aoki back in Singapore.

When it was announced then, that Folayang would be getting the title shot, not a lot of people gave the Pinoy a chance against the Japanese submis-sion machine.

But of course, by now, we all know how that fight ended.

“Sa akin, motivation yun, kasi it’s those memories na kung saan I go there as an underdog, halos 90% ng mga sanay na dito sa MMA, they’re

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A UNIVERSITY of the Philip-pines Lady Maroon and Perlas-BanKo Lady Spiker will hold the Spike and Serve volleyball camp on Dec 16, 2017 in Iloilo City.

Nicole Tiamzon will lead the one-day camp which will teach the basics of volleyball to less-fortunate Ilonggo kids.

Ilonggo sportsman Ruding Villaruz said the activity will serve as a Christmas gift to indigent children of Iloilo in cooperation with Mayor Jose Espinosa III.

Tiamzon said she chose Iloi-lo to hold the Spike and Serve because she believes Ilonggo spikers have the great potential

OAKLAND – Klay Thompson tallied a game high 28 points as the Golden State Warriors cooled off the red-hot Minnesota Tim-berwolves 125-101 Wednesday for their fifth-straight victory.

The defending league champion Warriors continued their domi-nation over Minnesota in a battle between the two NBA division leaders. Golden State has now beaten the Timberwolves in 18 of their past 21 contests.

The Timberwolves were riding a winning streak of their own having won five straight and were sitting atop the Northwest Division heading into Wednesday’s matchup in front 19,500 fans at Oracle Arena.

Golden State relied on their depth and a third quarter 44-26 surge to beat Minnesota and improve to 9-3 on the season.

Stephen Curry delivered 22 points and eight assists for the Pa-cific Division-leading Warriors who were without all-star forward Kevin Durant because of a left thigh contusion.

The Timberwolves were shooting 48.6 percent from the field during their winning streak, but the Warriors’ defense forced a series of poorly timed shots that led to Minnesota hitting just 41.3 percent for the night.

To add to the misery, the Timberwolves were five of 24 (20.8 percent) from three-point range.

Forward Andrew Wiggins scored 17 points and center Karl-Anthony Towns had 16 points and 12 rebounds for the Tim-

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THE outsourcing industry in the Philip-pines, which has dethroned India as the country with the most call centers in the world, is worried that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will eat into the $23-bil-lion sector.

AI-powered translators could dilute the biggest advantage the Philippines has, the wide use of English, an industry meeting was told this week. Other AI applications could take over process-driven jobs.

The Philippines’ business process out-sourcing (BPO) industry is an economic lifeline for the Southeast Asian nation of 100 million people. It employs about 1.15 million people and, along with remittanc-es from overseas workers, remains one of the top 2 earners of foreign exchange.

“I don’t think our excellent command of spoken English is going to really be a protection five, 10 years from now. It real-ly will not matter,” said Rajneesh Tiwary, chief delivery officer at Sutherland Global Services.

The Philippines, which was an Ameri-can colony in the first half of the 20th cen-tury, overtook India in 2011 with the larg-est number of voice-based BPO services in the world.

“There’s definitely reasons to be con-cerned because technology may be able to replace some of what could happen in voice,” Eric Simonson, managing partner of research at Everest Group, a management consulting and research firm, told Reuters.

AI, which combs through large troves of raw data to predict outcomes and rec-ognize patterns, is expected to replace 40,000 to 50,000 “low-skilled” or pro-cess-driven BPO jobs in the next 5 years, said Rey Untal, president and chief execu-

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THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI-6) recently conducted a stakeholders’ forum to iden-tify the challenges faced by small businessmen in the utilization of its shared service facilities (SSF) in Western Visayas.

SSF is a program designed to improve the productivity of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through the provision of machinery and equipment such as those used in loom weaving, bamboo furniture, food processing, garments, packaging, and labeling, among others.

It is implemented through private sector part-ners such as cooperatives and non-government organizations.

Henry Tampani, DTI-6 regional account offi-cer for SSF said they want to assess the gaps to provide intervention.

“We want to know the successes and the gaps. We are looking forward that our SSF be fully ef-ficient,” he said.

Some of the initial complaints that the agency received is on the marketing aspect and availabil-ity of raw materials.

“While they want to produce more products, their sources of raw materials are not readily avail-able. They also struggle in marketing and promo-tiom,” he said.

There are currently 72 SSFs in the region amount-ing to P27 million.

Since it was implemented in 2013, Tampani said small businessmen noted an increase in pro-duction and improvement in the quality of their products.

ASIAn Banker awards BPI Direct BanKo as Microfinance Initia-tive of the Year. From left, neeti Aggarwal, Asian Banker Senior Research Manager,Richard Har-tung, Asian Banker International Resource Director, Rodolfo Ma-biasen Jr, Head of Loans of BPI Direct BanKo, Jerome Minglana, BPI Direct BanKo President, na-tividad Alejo, BPI Direct BanKo-Chairman and Foo Boon Ping, Asian Banker Managing Editor.

MAKATI CITY, Philippines – BPI Direct BanKo, Inc., the micro-finance subsidiary of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), was recent-ly named the Microfinance Initiative of the Year by The Asian Banker in its Philippines Country Awards 2017. BanKo was recognized for its mission to promote financial in-clusion by providing self-employed micro-entrepreneurs (SEMEs) with easy access to affordable loans.

The Asian Banker, a leading provider of strategic intelligence on the financial services industry, acknowledged BanKo for develop-ing a new credit-model that is more suitable for its target segment, giv-en the difficulties of SEMEs in se-curing loans from regular banks.

“We are grateful for the affirma-

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tive officer of the IT & Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP).

Contact centers make up four-fifths of the Philippines’ total BPO industry, which accounts for 12.6 percent of the global market for BPO, according to IB-PAP. BPO firms in the Philippines list Citibank, JPMorgan, Verizon, Convergys and Genpact among their clients. While the United States remain the biggest cus-tomers for the industry, demand for BPO services from Europe, Australia and new Zealand is also growing.

The Philippines’ share of the global outsourcing pie, estimated to reach about $250 billion by 2022, is forecast by the industry to reach 15 percent by that year.

To get there however, the Southeast Asian nation must prove to the world it has more to offer than just a pool of English-speaking talent. BPO executives said the country has to take on high-value outsourcing jobs in research and analyt-ics and turn the headwinds from Artificial Intelligence into an opportunity.

The key to stay relevant and ahead of

the competition, they said, is to ensure workers are trained in areas like data ana-lytics, machine learning and data mining.

“You will see in the next few years more automation coming in the way we do things in IT and BPO industry, robotic processing, the use of chat bots,” Luis Pined, president of IBM Philippines told Reuters.

“If we are ahead of the game, we will be at an advantage where people will give us more work, because we are cheaper and productive,” Pined said.

IBM Philippines divested its voice business in 2013.

IBPAP has projected a rise in the num-ber of mid- and high-skilled jobs or those that require abstract thinking and special-ised expertise which should bring overall headcount in the BPO sector to 1.8 mil-lion by 2022.

Augmenting the English language skills of the Philippines with technology will be a “game changer,” said Untal, the head of the association. “Who else can compete with us?” (Karen Lema/Reuters)

CALL center agents wait for calls from their US clients as they work overnight in Ma-nila’s Makati financial district February 6, 2012. (Erik De Castro/Reuters/File Photo)

BanKo recognized as country’s Microfinance Initiative of the Year

THE Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) on novem-ber 8, 2017 said the mobile number portability (MnP) service would empower consumers to have freedom of choice in the face of poor service from a telecommunications network.

“One of the benefits of competition is to have choices, and mobile number portability is a clear example of having a choice in telco service without having to give up one’s long held num-bers,” PCC chairman Arsenio Balisacan said in a statement on Wednesday.

“In this age when a person’s phone number is considered part of one’s identity, changing numbers can sometimes mean lost opportunities, access, or connections. If MnP is in place, a person can retain one’s number without having to worry about that,” he said.

The commission noted the service MnP has long been avail-able as an option in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, United States, and United Kingdom.

Local telcos Globe Telecom Inc. and Smart Communications Inc. do not offer the mobile number retention service.

In November last year, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian filed Senate Bill no. 1237, or the “Mobile number Portability Act,” requiring Public Telecommunications Entity (PTE) to provide subscribers nationwide with the MnP service.

The service would “spur competition and efficiency” among PTEs, according to the bill.

Balisacan said that MnP “can also deter scams, one version of which is where strangers who ‘inherit’ your old number prey on your contacts who were not informed of your switch to a new telecom provider.”

“Consumers should want to stay in a network because of good service and not just because they want to keep their long-standing numbers. When disgruntled consumers want to bolt to a new or another network provider, having MnP in place means people are not prisoners of the network simply because they want to keep their digits,” he said.

“MnP will remove a huge obstacle to switching from one service provider to another, perhaps even to a new one, which then opens the telco market to more competition,” he added.

During a hearing by the Senate committee on economic af-fairs, national Telecommunications Commission (nTC) Depu-ty Commissioner Edgardo Cabarios said the service may attract a new telecommunications company into the Philippine market. (GMA News)

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tion from The Asian Banker, as this strengthens our resolve to support the Philippines’ vision of financial inclu-sion. We will continue to empower self-employed micro-entrepreneurs by providing access to banking ser-vices fit for their needs,” said Jerome Minglana, BanKo President.

The publication noted how BanKo negosyoKo loan made the application process easier, and how the bank coupled this service with a personal and caring approach. BanKoMare and BanKoPare, BanKo’s financial advisers, belong to the communities they serve, and act as loan officers who help cli-ents with their financial decisions

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meet with their customers regu-larly, even after a loan has been released. The Asian Banker noted that this allows BanKo to be clos-er to its market, monitor its differ-ent needs, and, more importantly, promote financial literacy.

To date, BanKo has opened 52 offices in key areas around the country, including Bicol, negros Oriental, Davao, and Central Lu-zon. By the end of 2017, BanKo aims to have 108 branches and micro banking offices nationwide.

The Asian Banker’s Philippine Country Awards an impartial and

rigorous program that runs over a three- to four-month period. The unfunded program involves a team of researchers who assesses banks and non-bank financial in-stitutions in the Philippines as part of the International Awards Pro-gram which covers more than 160 institutions internationally.

A stringent evaluation process based on a balanced and transpar-ent scorecard, as well as a Council of Advisors that provides indepen-dent validation, determine the win-ners of The Asian Banker awards programs, and how the various financial institutions in the region stack up against each other.

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Mayor Jose Espinosa III welcomed ex-ecutives of SITC Container Lines Philip-pines, Inc. and Cebu Chinese consulate at City Hall november 7.

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Iloilo City’s business-enabling envi-ronment was presented to prospective investors during the meeting by Local Economic and Investment Promotion Of-fice (LEIPO) head Ritchel Gavan. (Iloilo City PIO)

A TOTAL of 55 Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Iloilo City were trained on meat processing and packaging in a series of trainings conducted by Lo-cal Economic and Investment Promotion Office (LEIPO).

Forty MSMEs graduated from food additives workshop and 15 from labeling at Dia-mond Jubilee Hall nov 6, 2017.

Standards for food process-ing were presented by Depart-

ment of Science and Technol-ogy (DOST)-6 to meat vendors who participated in the activity.

“The training was a success for we were able to enhance their skills. I’m sure that they learned a lot. We’ll also help them with labeling and packag-ing in the next trainings,” said LEIPO head Ritchel Gavan.

After the training, the ben-eficiary enterprises were also given packaging materials. (Iloilo City PIO)

ABOITIZ Power Corporation (Aboitiz-Power) reported a 4% increase in its net income to P 15.7 billion for the first nine months of the year due to fresh contribu-tion from the GNPower Mariveles ther-mal power plant and the strong perfor-mance of its various hydro power plants.

The company recognized non-recur-ring losses of P1.7 billion (versus last year’s loss of P102 million) from the re-valuation of dollar denominated liabili-ties and placements and from the debt prepayment costs associated with a debt refinancing of a subsidiary.

Without these one-off losses, core net income grew 15% from P15.2 billion to P17.5 billion. The company’s consoli-dated earnings before interest, taxes, de-preciation, and amortization (EBITDA) grew from P28.5 billion to P35.4 billion, a 24% increase year-on-year (YoY).

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Power Generation

At the core net income level, Aboitiz-Power’s generation business grew 25% YoY from P12.3 billion to P15.3 billion. Its total income contribution for the pe-riod amounted to P14.2 billion.

AboitizPower’s capacity sold in-creased by 39% YoY, from 2,244 MW to 3,112 MW, mainly driven by the addi-tional capacities from GNPower-Mariv-eles, higher generation of the hydro units, and more capacities contracted.

“The significant growth in our gen-eration business highlights our balanced strategy as both our renewable and thermal plants contributed to our nine-month performance. Internally, we will continue to improve how we do things and become a world-class organization so the plants run more efficiently and reliably to better serve our customers,” said Antonio R. Moraza AboitizPower President and Chief Operating Officer.

“We will continue to be on the lookout for opportunities as we

march toward our target of 4,000-MW net attributable capacity by 2020 while meeting the demands of sustainability, energy security, and affordability,” added Mr. Moraza.

Power Distribution Meanwhile, AboitizPower’s dis-

tribution business reported a P3 bil-lion or 4% increase YoY in its core net income contribution for the period.

AboitizPower’s attributable sales in the distribution group for the pe-riod was at 3,924 gigawatt-hours, registering a 3% increase from the same period last year.

“We see significant growth in the economies served by our distribution utilities, and these will require addi-tional power. We are ready to respond to this need by ensuring that we have enough supply contracts while im-proving our distribution network so it will be able to serve our customers

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About AboitizPowerAboitizPower is the holding company for the Aboitiz Group’s

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The company also owns distribution utilities that operate in high-growth areas in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, including the second and third largest private utilities in the country.

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One of the most important information to inquire with the insurance companies is their reinsurance support. Check if these are reputable and stable reinsurers. You need to make sure that your insurance com-pany will be able to pay when a fortuitous event arises.

4. When is the best time to get a non-life insurance?

Get insurance as soon as you become exposed to the risk. A property insurance should be secured and in place as soon as construction has been turned over to the proj-ect owner. Vehicles should be insured before they leave the dealership.

5. Why should clients spend money on non-life insurance? Isn’t life insurance enough?

Generally, life insurance provides benefit upon your death. non-life insurance, on the other hand, pays for losses and damages from everything else valuable other than life. For this reason, non-life insur-ance is actually not an expense

but a good investment. You only need to pay a relatively small annual premium to transfer the risk to the insur-ance companies, as opposed to absorbing significant financial losses during fortuitous events when uninsured.

6. How can consumers make sure they’re getting the best coverage?

Purchase your insurance from reputable insurance com-panies that have been tried and tested. This ensures that they have the claims paying abil-ity, as you will only realize the benefits once there is a loss. Malayan Insurance has been in the industry for 87 years and has been the number 1 non-life insurance company for 47 years.

In choosing the right in-surance, stability of the com-pany is a prime consideration. Ranked by the Insurance Com-mission as the leading non-life insurer in the country for 47 years, Malayan Insurance keeps its promise of offering the best protection for the in-suring public --- now, and in the years to come.

For your insurance require-ments, please visit www.ma-layan.com or call 242-8888.

uphold child’s rights over PIA news Service radio program aired at DYKA.

The PnP through the Wom-en and Children Desk has also scheduled its symposium on protecting the rights of women and children in different ba-rangays in the province.

The Search for the Most Child Friendly Barangay, an undertaking of the Provincial Council for the Protection of Children based on the ap-proved ordinance of the Sang-guniang Panlalawigan will also commence this november.

ON ‘EAT BuLAGA!’ Thursday, Vic Sotto proudly showed the first public photo of his

newborn daughter Tali, short for Talitha.Baby Tali is all bundled up and sitting

cozy on mommy Pauleen’s chest, who couldn’t stop smiling at her firstborn.

Meanwhile, Pauleen’s mother, Chat Luna, also shared a photo of her new granddaughter on Instagram, just a few minutes after Vic’s reveal:

Awake with her tongue sticking out, doesn’t Baby Tali remind you

of funnyman father Vic?Pauleen gave birth to Baby Tali on Mon-

day, november 6. Vic made the announcement in the most ‘Bossing’ manner possible on ‘Eat Bulaga!’ as well. (GMA News)

Vic proudly shows first public photo of baby Tali on ‘Eat Bulaga!’

The Congress of Day Care pupils will also be part of the celebration while the World Vision, a non-government or-ganization with thrust on child protection will also hold an Ec-umenical Prayer for Children.

The Provincial Child Friend-ly Movement Team likewise identified other activities for the celebration such as dental and medical mission for chil-dren, zumba dance in schools and the culminating activity will be on november 27.

The theme of this year’s celebration is “Bata iligtas sa droga.” (PIA-Antique)

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THE Department of Science and Tech-nology Undersecretary for Research and Development Dr. Rowena Cristina L. Guevara, visited the university of the Philippines Visayas (UPV), Iloilo Sci-ence and Technology University (ISAT U), and the Central Philippine Univer-sity (CPu) to look into ongoing R&D activities, and promote the Accelerated R&D Program for Capacity Building of Research and Development Institutions and Industrial Competitiveness’ of the Science for Change (S4C) Program of DOST.

Guevara’s visit aims to encourage these institutions to engage more on R&D and avail of the DOST grants.

The universities submitted propos-als to DOST under the niche Centers in the Regions for R&D (NICER) program which aims to capacitate Higher Educa-tion Institutions (HEIs) in the regions, through an institutional grant for R&D activities that will make significant im-provement in regional research and S&T infrastructure. Through nICER, HEls will be able to integrate regional devel-opment needs with R&D and local re-sources.

In uPV, Guevara visited the ongoing research projects funded by the DOST-Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD). Among these projects are the study on Biocon-

trol Techniques Against Early Mortal-ity Syndrome/Acute Hepatopancreatic necrosis Disease (EMS/AHPnD), and the Development of Remote Setting and Nursery Technologies for the Green Mussel, Perna viridis.

She also visited the new buildings for the School of Technology, Regional Re-search Center, and the new site for the Li-brary. The new Regional Research Cen-ter of the University of the Philippines Visayas will house the DOST-funded Marine Fisheries Research and Devel-opment Center in Western Visayas.

The uSec for R&D encouraged UPV’s Chancellor Dr. Ricardo Babaran to strengthen the partnership with the industry and start transferring the tech-nologies developed by the university.

Dr. Guevara also visited the uSAID-funded laboratory facility for natural products in ISAT U. Funding from the DOST-Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Re-search and Development (PCIEERD) enabled the university to develop food products from Bioactive Fucoidan ex-tracted from selected brown seaweeds from the Guimaras Strait.

She also encouraged ISAT U presi-dent, Dr. Raul F. Muyong to avail of R&D Leadership (R&DLead) program of DOST.

R&DLead program engages experts with strong leadership, management and

innovative policy-making proficiency to be in charge of strengthening the re-search capabilities of the HEls or RDIs.

RDLead experts will then lead in es-tablishing new and upgrading existing R&D Centers under the NICER Pro-gram, or upgrading of existing RDIs.

Dr. Guevara also met with CPu Pres-ident Dr. Teodoro C. Robles, Dr. Lejo Brana, and Dr. Dahlia Pescos at the CPU Packaging Engineering Laboratory to discuss the establishment of an R&D Center for Packaging Technology. CPU is the only university in Southeast Asia offering Bachelor of Science in Packag-ing Engineering.

Guevara emphasized the importance of packaging in the Food Industry.

“There is a need to improve the pack-aging of the Philippine food delicacies to meet international quality standards and to lengthen its shelf life”, the Usec said.

She also encouraged the Dr. Robles to engage more in research and develop-ment.

“Given the facilities, CPu can start conducting locally-funded researches on Packaging Technology.” the Usec added.

She also encouraged the president to invest in human resource development, allow the faculty to avail of scholarships and pursue Masters Degree in Packaging Engineering. (DOST-6/J.R. Gabiorta)

By Jemin B. GuiLLermo

ROXAS City, Capiz – An event which aims to help Capiz police during emer-gencies will unfold nov 18, 2017.

Capiz Provincial Advisory Council (PAC) for Police Transformation chairperson Ivan Chu said that the fun run dubbed as “Dalagan Suporta sa Kapulisan sang Capiz” aims to raise funds for Capiz police who need help.

Chu said the activity is in partnership with the Munici-pal and City Advisory Coun-cils and the Capiz Police Pro-vincial Office.

“The event is a fund-raising project which aims to provide financial assistance to mem-bers of the Capiz police who are into emergency situation in relation to the performance of their duties,” he said.

The run-for-a-cause kicks off 5 a.m. at Pueblo de Panay, Lawaan, Roxas City.

On the other hand, Police Provincial Director Samuel nacion said that with the funds to be generated in this project, financial assistance can be afforded to policemen during emergency situation while performing their duties.

“This aid could be for le-gal, medical emergencies,” nacion explained.

nacion also called on differ-ent stakeholders to support the project for the benefit of Capiz policemen. (PIA-Capiz)

EXHIBIT Councilor Em Ang (2nd from left), Councilor Cindy Rojas (3rd from right), City Tourism Officer Ma. Elma Gerasmo (2nd from right), Executive Assistant Benjie Torre (leftmost), Punjabi Khalsa Diwan president Malkit Singh with Punjabi Khalsa Diwan officers and members cut the rib-bon to open the exhibit of the 5th Diwali Festival at the SMX Convention Center on Nov 8, 2017. The exhibit marks the start of the five-day festival themed “Unity in Diversity.” (PIO)

By piLar s. maBaquiao

SAn JOSE, Antique – Republic Act 10661 Act declared the month of november every year as “national Children’s Month”.

This declaration commemorates the adoption of the Conven-tion on the Rights of the Child by the united Nations General Assembly on 20 November 1989, and seeks to instil its signifi-cance in the Filipino consciousness.

In Antique, the celebration kicked off nov 6, 2017 with a short program EBJ Freedom Park during the flag-raising ceremony.

The reading of the national Children’s Month Act launched the celebration. It also featured two talented Antiqueño Kids ABS-CBn Voice Kids Winner Joshua Oliveros and Louie Jay Tongcua who rendered song numbers during the launching program.

Other activities of the celebration include information cam-paign on the undertakings of various government agencies to

DOST Usec for R&D Dr. Rowena Cristina L. Guevara visits ongoing R&D projects in UPV and promote the Accelerated R&D Program for Capacity Building of Research and Development Institutions and Industrial Competitiveness’ of the Science for Change (S4C) Program of DOST.

USEC Guevara encourages CPU President Dr. Teodoro C. Robles to invest in human resource development, allow the faculty to avail of scholarships and pursue Masters Degree in Packaging Engineering.

DOST exec pushes academe to engage more in R&D

Antique celebrates Children’s Month

CHILDREN’S MONTH The kick-off activity of the Children’s Month Celebration features two talented Antiqueño kids – ABS-CBN Voice Kids Winner Joshua Oliveros (with ASEAN tarp) and Louie Jay Tongcua who rendered a song number during the launching program at the EBJ Freedom Park. The celebration also commemorated the adoption of the United Nations Conven-tion on the Rights Child in November 1989. This year’s celebra-tion is themed “Bata Iligtas sa Droga.” (PSM/PIA-Antique)

Fun Run to help Capiz cops set

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FOR the past couple of years, automakers have been harping on about electric vehicles. In some parts of the world, the idea of ‘recharging’ your car has gained widespread accep-tance. Perhaps it’s safe to say that the West, and some parts of Asia, have accepted the electric car with open arms.

This got me thinking, what is it like driving this kind of car? Will it feel different from driving a normal gas or diesel vehicle? With no sound, will it be a dull experience? My curiosity was satisfied when I had the chance to drive the all-new nissan Leaf in the brand’s home base in Yokohama, To-kyo.

According to nissan, the Leaf is the world’s best-selling EV with nearly 300,000 cars sold worldwide since 2011. needless to say, this is a very important car for the brand and it has to be a very good one if it wants to retain the crown of top-selling EV.

On first impressions, the Leaf looks like your standard family hatchback. It has a hood, just like a car with an engine and it even rides on low-profile tires, as if it were a sporting variant. If you don’t tell anyone that it’s a pure elec-tric vehicle, people will likely say that it’s a handsome look-ing hatch from nissan. Really, the only cues you have is the flush, ‘grill’ panel and the lack of an exhaust pipe. If anything,

it no longer looks like a lab experiment on the road, unlike its predecessor. It looks more normal; it looks like a car (in a good way, of course).

The outside looks pretty normal but will there be quirks on the inside? In a nutshell, no. Just like the exterior, the cabin of the second-generation Leaf is what one would call ‘famil-iar’. The ergonomics are logi-cal with switches and dials ex-actly where you expect them. Even the steering wheel is as conventional as they come; you have audio controls on the left and cruise control func-tions on the right. Of course, there’s the novel gear selector wherein you press ‘P’ for park, push up for reverse and down for drive. To sum up, the Leaf won’t scare the technophobe and bombard them with infor-mation that may prove to be too much.

So far, it looks like the elec-tric car impressions haven’t proved to be intimidating. In fact, it feels just like every other car I’ve looked at and sat in, that is until I turned it on.

The Leaf comes to life with a push of a button but you won’t hear or feel anything. The only way you’ll know the car is on is with a beep and the instrument cluster lights up. There’s also a green car icon to tell you that you’re ready to hit the road. True to nissan fashion, the air-conditioning is strong, in this case, the heater.

If there’s one piece of tech-nology (aside from the electric motors) that was of amusement in the Leaf, it would be the e-Pedal. In essence, one pedal handles both acceleration and braking. Stepping on the pedal at a consistent pressure main-tains your speed while step-ping on it deeper will increase speed, just like an accelerator. However, the moment you fully release the pedal, it then activates the brakes, bringing you to a gentle stop. Think of this then as something similar to a golf cart. That said, there’s still a good old brake pedal for emergencies and for when you turn off the e-Pedal mode.

And now, it’s time to an-swer this question: What is an electric car like to drive on the road?

To be honest, it feels like a conventional car, albeit much quieter and loads more re-fined. With the Leaf’s e-Pedal engaged, it was surprisingly easy to drive with the system’s integrated braking system up to the task of bringing the car to a halt. There’s no need to lunge for the brakes, all you need to do is to slowly release pressure on the pedal to con-trol your rate of slowing down or stopping. It worked like a charm in Tokyo traffic too as you don’t have to keep shuf-fling your right foot between the ‘accelerator’ and the brake pedal.(www.autoindustriya.com)

Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 photos and details leaked prior to official debut

Meet the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1

THE current generation C7 Corvette originally debuted 4 years ago, back in 2013. It was not until 2015 did Chev-rolet introduce the more powerful Z06 variant, along with some other optional peformance upgrades. However, the range topper ZR1 was nowhere to be found, with no annoucements having been made. now, its appears as though the ZR1 has been leaked ahead of its of-ficial debut on the supposed December 2017 issue of Car and Driver magazine.

Compared to the Z06, the Corvette ZR1 pictured in the magazine cover has received new aero upgrades all around. In front, there is a different front bum-per with larger vents coupled with an aggressive diffuser. There is also a

new hood with a larger power buldge, similarly designed like that of C6 ZR1. Though there is no photo of the side and rear, it’s said in the digital copy of the magazine posted online says that everything from the A-pillar back is the same as a Z06 apart from the large rear wing and different wheels.

Powering the ZR1 is said to be the new GM LT5 engine, which is es-sentially the LT4 engine found in the Z06 albeit with a larger supercharger. Power is now rated at 750 PS and 922 nm of torque thanks to a larger throt-tle body, revised fuel injection system and strengthened crankshaft. It comes available with either a 7-speed manual or an 8-speed automatic with supposed

top speed in excess of 338 km/h.As for its suspension set up, the Z06

and ZR1 use the same parts but have different tuning to handle the power in-crease and slight increase in weight of 63.5kg. Standard on the ZR1 are Z06’s optional carbon ceramic brake rotors and calipers. The front wheels are also wider by half an inch, but sport the same standard tires as the Z06.

Essentially, think of the ZR1 as an uprated version of the Z06 with more power and downforce. According to Corvette Blogger, the 2019 Corvette ZR1 is expected to debut in Dubai this Saturday followed by the Los Angeles Auto Show later this month. (www.au-toindustriya.com)

Driving the 2018 Nissan Leaf EV

Driving new generation of the world’s best selling EV