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An impromptu dance Air Asia to start flights to Kalibo, Davao via Clark on March 28 VOL. 1, No. 245 Cagayan de Oro City Monday March 5, 2012 P10.00 YOUR MINDANAO-WIDE NEWSPAPER http://www.mindanaodailybalita.com NONOY NONOY LECHON SERVICES OFFERED OUT OF TOWN ORDER For more details, contact Tel. No.: 309-5276 HERMILINO VILLALON Manager News In Focus Business Paying the Correct Taxes... Paying the Correct Taxes... “A Noble Act of Concern and Love, for Oneself, “A Noble Act of Concern and Love, for Oneself, our Children and our Country” our Children and our Country” By AL JACINTO, Regional Editor-Zamboanga By GERRY L. GORIT Photo-journalist TRAINING/PAGE 11 PLANE/PAGE 4 BROWNOUTS/PAGE 11 Trader alarmed over brownouts source: pagasa WEATHER UPDATE EASTERLIES prevailing over Eastern Visayas and Mindanao. Ridge of High Pressure Area (HPA) extending across Northern Luzon. Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming cloudy with widespread rains over Eastern Visayas and Mindanao which may trigger flashfloods and landslides. The rest of the country will have partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening. Moderate to strong winds blowing from the East to Southeast will prevail over Eastern Luzon and coming from the East to Northeast over the eastern section of Visayas and Mindanao. The coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough. Editorial: 74-53-80, e-mail: [email protected] • Advertising: 0917-7121424, e-mail: [email protected] BUSINESSMAN Raul T. Concepcion, chairman of Government Watch, has ex- pressed alarm over the two to four hour daily power outages in some parts of Visayas and Mindanao. Concepcion, who is also the Chair- man of leading appliance manufacturer Concepcion Industries Inc., received reports from their provincial offices in Cebu, Cagayan de Oro and Davao that these areas had been suffering daily brownouts. “I realize that the local government units and other government agencies are still conducting relief and search operations in these areas. However, summer is fast approaching and the brownouts situation might worsen if government does not move fast in this regard”, Concepcion said. He said business establishments and residents have expressed concern that the brownouts might extend to eight hours daily, especially because DOZENS of barangay infor- mation officers in Cagayan de Oro City on Saturday underwent training on basic newswriting courtesy of the staff members of the Bulawan magazine. Seminar Director Ronnie Waniwan said the one-day basic newswriting and jour- nalism seminar-workshop was conducted to uplift the basic newswriting skills of barangay information officers of the city’s 80 ba- rangays. Eventually, Waniwan said barangay information officers will become part of the monthly Bulawan magazine, a joint venture of the city government of Cagayan de Oro and Oro Sharprint Publishing. In his welcome remarks, Eldie E. Rotoras, the cir- culation manager of Bula- wan magazine, said local residents are unaware of the plans and programs in every barangay simply because it seldom sees print on local newspapers. “Isip tigsabwag ug tig- dumala sa Bulawan maga- sin, nakita ko nga adunay daghan nga proyekto nga gipatuman ug napatuman sa mga kabaranggayan apan wala gyud mahatagig luna diha sa mga pahina sa lokal Barangay information officers undergo training on journalism BULAWAN magazine Editor in chief Raul Moldez shares his expertise on Cebuano grammar and spelling during last Saturday’s seminar on journalism for barangay information officers. Photo by Gerry L. Gorit ILIGAN City––A small Philippine tourist plane crashed Sunday in the southern island of Camiguin in northern Mindanao, killing its Filipino pilot and a Norwegian woman who was with her family, authorities said. It said the woman’s husband and their three-year old child who survived the crash on Camiguin Island were rushed to hospital. The plane plowed through coconut trees in the town of Mambajao before hitting the ground nearly crashing on a house nearby. The plane, a Cessna aircraft with markings RP-C290, flew all the way to Mindanao from Cebu province in central Philippines, bringing the Norwegian family for a tour of Camiguin. Authorities are now investigating the tragedy to de- termine the cause of the crash and whether pilot error or mechanical failure is to blame for the deadly accident. Plane crashes in Camiguin; 2 killed p3 p5
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An impromptudance
Air Asia to start flights to Kalibo, Davao via Clark
on March 28
VOL. 1, No. 245 Cagayan de Oro City Monday March 5, 2012 P10.00
YOUR MINDANAO-WIDE NEWSPAPERhttp://www.mindanaodailybalita.com
NONOYNONOY LECHON SERVICES
OFFERED OUT OF
TOWN ORDER
For more details, contact Tel. No.: 309-5276
HERMILINO VILLALONManager
News In Focus Business
Paying the Correct Taxes...Paying the Correct Taxes...“A Noble Act of Concern and Love, for Oneself,“A Noble Act of Concern and Love, for Oneself,
our Children and our Country”our Children and our Country”
By AL JACINTO, Regional Editor-Zamboanga
By GERRY L. GORITPhoto-journalist
TRAINING/PAGE 11
PLANE/PAGE 4 BROWNOUTS/PAGE 11
Trader alarmedover brownouts
source: pagasa
WEATHER UPDATEEASTERLIES prevailing over Eastern Visayas and Mindanao. Ridge of High Pressure Area (HPA) extending across Northern Luzon.
Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming cloudy with widespread rains over Eastern Visayas and Mindanao which may trigger flashfloods and landslides.
The rest of the country will have partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening.
Moderate to strong winds blowing from the East to Southeast will prevail over Eastern Luzon and coming from the East to Northeast over the eastern section of Visayas and Mindanao.
The coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough.
Editorial: 74-53-80, e-mail: [email protected] • Advertising: 0917-7121424, e-mail: [email protected]
BUSINESSMAN Raul T. Concepcion, chairman of Government Watch, has ex-pressed alarm over the two to four hour daily power outages in some parts of Visayas and Mindanao.
Concepcion, who is also the Chair-man of leading appliance manufacturer Concepcion Industries Inc., received reports from their provincial offices in Cebu, Cagayan de Oro and Davao that these areas had been suffering daily brownouts.
“I realize that the local government units and other government agencies are still conducting relief and search
operations in these areas. However, summer is fast approaching and the brownouts situation might worsen if government does not move fast in this regard”, Concepcion said.
He said business establishments and residents have expressed concern that the brownouts might extend to eight hours daily, especially because
DOZENS of barangay infor-mation officers in Cagayan de Oro City on Saturday underwent training on basic newswriting courtesy of the staff members of the Bulawan magazine.
Seminar Director Ronnie Waniwan said the one-day basic newswriting and jour-nalism seminar-workshop was conducted to uplift the basic newswriting skills of barangay information officers of the city’s 80 ba-rangays.
Eventually, Waniwan said barangay information officers will become part of the monthly Bulawan magazine, a joint venture of the city government of Cagayan de Oro and Oro Sharprint Publishing.
In his welcome remarks, Eldie E. Rotoras, the cir-culation manager of Bula-wan magazine, said local residents are unaware of the plans and programs in every barangay simply because it seldom sees print on local newspapers.
“Isip tigsabwag ug tig-dumala sa Bulawan maga-sin, nakita ko nga adunay daghan nga proyekto nga gipatuman ug napatuman sa mga kabaranggayan apan wala gyud mahatagig luna diha sa mga pahina sa lokal
Barangay information officersundergo training on journalism
BULAWAN magazine Editor in chief Raul Moldez shares his expertise on Cebuano grammar and spelling during last Saturday’s seminar on journalism for barangay information officers. Photo by Gerry L. Gorit
ILIGAN City––A small Philippine tourist plane crashed Sunday in the southern island of Camiguin in northern Mindanao, killing its Filipino pilot and a Norwegian woman who was with her family, authorities said.
It said the woman’s husband and their three-year old child who survived the crash on Camiguin Island were rushed to hospital. The plane plowed through coconut trees in the town of Mambajao before hitting the ground nearly crashing on a house nearby.
The plane, a Cessna aircraft with markings RP-C290, flew all the way to Mindanao from Cebu province in central Philippines, bringing the Norwegian family for a tour of Camiguin.
Authorities are now investigating the tragedy to de-termine the cause of the crash and whether pilot error or mechanical failure is to blame for the deadly accident.
Plane crashes inCamiguin; 2 killed
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Regional NewsEditor: CRIS DIAZ
KILLERS/PAGE 11
By MANUEL M. EGAY JR. of Caraga News Bureau
SURIGAO del Norte Gover-nor Sol Matugas expressed alarm over the rising drug craze in her province after reports reached her office that drug mules are seen operating and taking the opportunity of the under-manned anti-drug agency of the region.
MUST BOARD MEETING. Rep. Rufus B. Rodriguez moves for the waiver and con-donation of all tuition and other fees of 241 students of Mindanao University of Science and Technology who were victims of typhoon Sendong for the second semester amounting to P1.7 million. His motion was approved by the MUST Board of Trustees chaired by CHED Commissioner William Medrano with MUST President Ric Rotoras.
Guv alarmed over rising drug problem in Surigao del Norte In an exclusive inter-
view, Matugas said that she was troubled on the reports after the apprehension of two alleged “big fishes” on a raid conducted by the elements of PDEA and PNP in the municipality of Dapa in Siargao Island recently.
Siargao Island is consid-ered a tourist haven of the province where national surfing and fishing are held yearly. This prompted Gov. Matugas to act instantly as it will stain a negative impact on the tourists and visitors who are coming to see the beautiful island.
“I have made full at-tention on this matter as
it will destroy the image of the island and the future of those who are engaged in such addiction,” added Matugas.
She also pointed the finger to the undermanned PDEA and its l imited resources during a con-sultation with Secretary Jesse Robredo of DILG and called on the national
and local government to act on it and even look on the budgetary outlay of the agency to furnish a full force of apprehending drugs in the country.
She is also considering on working hand in hand of the mayors, PNP and PDEA to give priority to the problem and proposed for the augmentation of
intelligence.But Robredo countered
that criminality in the re-gion generally decreased and cannot answer for PDEA as it is directly under the Office of the President. He assured Gov. Matugas and other officials that the PNP is there to assist PDEA on apprehension of criminals.
THE ARMED FORCES of the Philippines (AFP) on Friday vehemently de-nied reports of plots to oust President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III.
The AFP through its spokesperson Col. Arnulfo Burgos Jr., said that the military was solid behind Aquino.
“As far as the AFP is concerned, we have not monitored any report of an ouster plot. The AFP is solid behind the President and Commander-in Chief. As a professional organization, we are focused on fulfill-ing the mandate to protect people and sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the country,” he said.
On Thursday, President Aquino bared plots to oust him from office as a ‘stum-bling block’ to the return of the old system of graft and corruption in government.
Aquino made the dis-closure in a speech during the 26th anniversary of the Presidential Security Group in Malacañang Park where he received a ‘Beret Memento’ from PSG com-mander Col. Ramon Mateo Dizon.
Dizon said they have not monitored any planned coup or other threats to the life of Aquino. ’It is business as usual for us,’ Dizon said.
Burgos also said that the AFP would continue
AFP belies plot to oust Aquino
The military denies the plot but it said it will monitor the information
to monitor and validate information regarding the ouster plots versus Aquino.
“We will continue to intensify collecting informa-tion (regarding the matter),” the AFP spokesperson said.
He also assured the pub-lic that the AFP was not behind this rumor.
“As far as the AFP is concerned the ouster plot is not brewing in the orga-nization. Our chain of com-mand remains strong and everyone adheres to chain of command,” Burgos said.
The AFP spokesperson also said that the state of morale and discipline of the troops remained high.
Aquino’s mother, the late Corazon Aquino, who was president after the ouster of the Marcos dictatorship, faced at least eight coup attempts by military rebels.
During one of those attempts, the incumbent president himself was shot and seriously wounded. CD With wire reports
AQUINO
COTABATO City––The North Cotabato police office have launched a province wide manhunt against gun-men who ambush and killed three villagers in a remote village in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato Thursday, two days after the gangland style execution of three adolescents in a nearby Maguindanao town.
Senior Inspector Donald Cabigas, Pigcawayan mu-nicipal police chief, said the fatalities, Rolando Suarez, Leo John Collados, and Miguel Eramis, all died on the spot from gunshot
Manhunt against killers of three villagers launched
wounds in different parts of their bodies.
The victims were all resi-dents of Barangay Simsiman in Pigcawayan, North Cota-bato. Simsiman is a village near the borders of North Cotabato and Maguindanao.
Cabigas said Suarez, Collados and Eramis, all of Ilonggo descent, were onboard a motorcycle and heading toward the town proper of Pigcawayan when gunmen ambushed them using assault rifles.
“We have information that could lead to the iden-tity of the suspects but our
focus is their where about so we can bring them before the bar of justice,” Cabigas said.
Initial police investiga-tion showed that a long-standing grudge between the ambushers and the attackers could have led the attacks.
The suspects did not take the victims’ wallets, mobile phones and wristwatches, an indication robbery was not the motive, Cabigas said.
On Tuesday, three chil-dren Jubert Sumilhig dela Cerna, 13, Rico Divinagra-cia, 15 and Jomar Tamar,
MAJOR OIL PLAYER Pilipi-nas Shell on Friday imposed a price hike in the prices of all its petroleum products.
In a text advisory, Shell added P0.50 per liter on its prices of unleaded gasoline, premium gasoline, V-Power, diesel, V-Power diesel; P0.60 per liter on regular gasoline and P1 per liter on kerosene effective 6 a.m. on Friday.
The company said the price increase was made “to reflect increase in in-ternational product prices.”
Meanwhile, indepen-dent oil company Phoenix Petroleum moved diesel and gasoline prices also by P0.50 per liter.
The Department of En-ergy (DoE) said over the weekend that an increase of P0.50 per liter on diesel and gasoline is to be expected this week.
The agency’s latest oil monitoring report dated February 13 to 17, bared that oil prices “generally increased during the week in view of the ongoing tension between Iran with the West, and the threat of disruption of supplies.”
Oil firms have now hiked prices for four consecu-tive weeks. Eight fuel price increases have been imple-mented so far this year as opposed to only two price rollbacks.
Last Wednesday, inde-pendent oil companies Total Philippines and Eastern Petroleum Philippines im-posed a 50 centavos hike in the prices of all their petroleum products.
Last week’s adjustment saw an increase of P1.15 per liter on premium gasoline, P1:30 per liter on regular gasoline and P0.50 per liter on both diesel and kerosene.
In a related develop-ment, major liquified pe-troleum gas (LPG) Liquigaz on Thursday implemented also a price hike P6 per kilo increase on their product prices.
The hike translated to a P66 mark-up per cooking gas cylinder.
Liquigaz raised its prices by a still-hefty P5 per kilo last February 1. The com-pany cited rising world contract prices of LPG as reason for its price hikes. Prices of cooking gas were pegged between P750 to P810 per tank at major gasoline stations prior to Thursday. (PNA)
New fuel price hike,says Shell
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RESIDENTS/PAGE 11
BASILAN/PAGE 11COURT/PAGE 11
Dancers from the various troupes joining the Kaamulan 2012 Ethnic Street Dancing do an impromptu dance atop the speakers at the Kaamulan Grounds Saturday, 03 March 2012 while waiting for the arrival of the Keynote Spearker Vice President Jejomar Binay. Photo by Mike Banos, NPN
BUTUAN City––Landless residents of Barangay Ban-casi here can now proudly say they own the lot whereon their homes stand.
In ceremonies held at the newly-built Barangay Bancasi Multi-Purpose Hall ( Phase 1), village chairman
Octogenarian dies in blazeBUTUAN City––An 80-year old woman died and injured her husband in a 30-minute fire that razed her house in Purok 1, Barangay Nabago, Surigao City Wednesday. Local fire station authori-ties identified the victim as Lilia Zerda Baltar, who was in the bedroom when the fire broke out.
Bureau of Fire Protec-tion investigation showed that Baltar’s husband, Jose, 68, was lighting a gas stove at around 1:15 pm when it suddenly exploded and started the blaze. The fire immediately spread and enveloped the house as the stunned Jose, managed to run outside. He tried to re-
turn to the house to save his sleeping wife but it was too late, responding firefighters said. 0The injured Jose, a former barangay chairman, was rushed to the Caraga Regional Hospital. The fire was put under control at around 1:45 am. The blaze was caused by the leaking liquefied petroleum gas tank, inves-tigators said.
425 bgy residents get lot certificates
By PAT SAMONTE, Regional Editor-Caragawith JOEL PORTUGAL, Caraga News Bureau
Fidel Ceniza turned over 425 Certificate of Lot Awards to the landless residents.
He said, “Niabot ra gayud and panahon nga nasulbad ang problema sa luna nga katukoran sa panimalay sa mga lumulupyo sa atong barangay luyo sa mga pro-
grama ni Mayor Ferdinand Amante, Jr. padulong sa kausaban ug kalambuan sa atong dakbayan (The time has come that the problem of homelots for our ba-rangay landless residents has been solved behind Mayor Amante’s programs for change and development of our city)”.
ZAMBOANGA City––The town of Simunul, a 4th class municipality in Tawi-Tawi province, has a new mayor.
This, as the Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 5 in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, has annulled the proclamation of Nazif Ahmad Abdurah-man and declared Benzar Tambut as the duly elected mayor of Simunul town.
In a 45-page decision, the Court has annulled Abdurahman’s proclama-tion after Tambut filed an election protest praying among others, that an order be issued annulling and setting aside the proclama-
Court proclaims new Mayor in Tawi-tawi
tion of Abdurahman as the winner in the May 10, 2010 automated elections.
In his protest, Tambut assisted by election law-yer Quirino Esguerra Jr., enumerated various irregu-larities allegedly conducted and/or perpetrated by Abdu-rahman and/or his followers and cohorts.
Tambut has contested and impugned the results of six of the total 20 clustered precincts for the mayoralty position.
Tambut and Abdurah-man were among six can-didates who ran for mayor.
Newly elected officers of the Association of Local Social Welfare and Development Officers of the Philippines Inc. (ALSWDOPI) Caraga chapter and Philippine Associa-tion of Social Welfares Incorporated (PASWI) poses with Rep. Angelica Rosedell Amante-Matba of the 2nd District of Agusan del Norte (center in black) during the installation and oath taking ceremony in one of the convention center in Butuan City. Rep. Matba pledges financial support on both organizations particularly for the coming conventions to be held in Dacao City and Palawan.
PRESIDENT BENIGNO S. Aquino III has declared March 7, which fall on a Wednesday as a special non-working day in Basi-lan in celebration of the 38th Foundation Day of the province.
In Proclamation No. 335 signed by Execu-tive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa Jr. on February 13, President Aquino issued the declaration to give the people of Basilan the opportunity to celebrate and participate in the oc-casion with appropriate ceremonies.
It’s Holiday in Basilan
44 MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012TOP STORIESEditor: CRIS DIAZ
More Power to
KAAMULAN 2012
GREETINGS FROM:
Hon. Armand G. TeroChairman of Peace and Order
Sangguniang BayanDamulog, Bukidnon
more power tokaamulan 2012
Greetings From:
Barangay OfficialsBarangay OfficialsBarangay Camp 1
Maramag, Bukidnon
Hon. Regulo G. PahallaPunong Barangay
Barangay KagawadHon. Faustino M. Lumacang
Hon. Romeo A. EdejeranHon. Jonathan D. Llacuna
Hon. Giny AbreganaHon. Ronald D. Dalajota
Hon. Mario M. CahuloganHon. David J. Banez
Hon. Jhunry M. NomioSK Chairman
Mr. Severino Dumalagan, Jr.Barangay Secretary
Mr. Dennis M. TuquibBarangay Treasurer
More Power toKAAMULAN 2012
Greetings From:
Hon. Alfeo U. BaguioHon. Gordon M. Torres
Hon. Marivic R. MontesclarosSangguniang Panlalawigan Members
3rd District Bukidnon
By GERRY L. GORIT, Photo-journalist
CAGAYAN de Oro 2nd District Rep. Rufus Rodri-guez on yesterday broke ground for various infra-structure projects worth millions of pesos to be undertaken this year in the city.
Rodriguez also turned over completed projects to the local government officials.
The projects to be built are the following: Farm-to-market concreting of Phase 3B (segment 1) San Vicente to Sitio ihapon (segment
Rodriguez groundbreaks, turns over infra projects
2); Rehabilitation/recon-struction/upgrading of damaged paved national
roads along Sayre Highway at Barangay Puerto worth P4,526,000; Construction/repair of roads at Barangay Cugman worth P2-million; Construction/concret-ing of roads at Barangay Gusa worth P2,000,000; Construction/repair of water system at Baran-gay Camaman-an worth P1,500,000; Construction/concreting of multi-pur-pose pavement at Barangay Camaman-an worth P2-million; Construction/concreting of roads at B arangay Macas andig worth P7-million; Reha-
bilitation/reconstruction/upgrading of damaged paved national roads along Corrales Extension-Port Road at Barangay 25 worth P29,307,000; Assets pres-ervation of national roads, preventive maintenance of intermittent sections along Corrales Extension-Port Road at Barangay 25 worth P3,374,000; Preventive maintenance of intermit-tent sections along the Port Road at Barangay Puntod worth P5,847,000; Con-struction/improvement of drainage system along Port Road at Barangay Puntod
worth P4,655,526.88; and Rehabilitation/reconstruc-tion/upgrading of damaged paved national roads along the Port Road at Barangay 23 worth P9,700,000.
On the other hand, the completed projects turned over by the congressman are as follows: Construc-tion of slope protection and concrete ramp at Suntin-gon Elementary School in Barangay Bugo worth P1-million; Construction of farm-to-market road from Agusan to Kabalalahan to Kilibay worth P5-million; Concreting/repair of roads
at Barangay Lapasan worth P2-million; Concreting/repair of roads at Baran-gay Nazareth worth P3-million; Rehabilitation of school buildings at South City Central School worth P1-million; Concreting/repair of roads at Baran-gay Macasandig worth P2-million; Concreting/repair of roads at Barangay Indahag worth P1-million; and Rehabilitation/recon-struction/upgrading of damaged paved national roads along the Port Road at Barangay Puntod worth P9,800,000.
RODRIGUEZ
FLOODS/PAGE 11
ZUBIRI
FORMER Senator Migz Zubiri favors a new flood mitigation master plan, which he said has become “absolutely imperative to enable communities to deal with disastrous rainfall in the years ahead.”
“While the strategy should focus on Metro Ma-nila, it should also cover other flood-prone areas,” said Zubiri, former chair-man of the Senate committee on environment and natural resources.
“We also have to address recurring floods in Central and Northern Luzon as a result of the dumping of
New plan to fight floods needed: Migz
water from our dams during excessive rainfall, and the swamping of Central Min-danao,” the former senator
Acting Regional Director Alfredo Relampagos (left) of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of DENR 10 gives the overview of the Philippine Mining Act and Small Scale Mining Law during the Stakeholders Forum and Orientation Seminar of Task Force Iponan spearheaded by the MGB held at DENR 10 conference room recently.
“I WILL go for responsible and regulated mining, I’m totally not in favor for a total mining ban in the country because it badly af-fects our drooping economy and thousands of families lost their jobs.”
Thus said Zambales Rep. Mitos Magsaysay in an interview conducted by Mindanao Daily when she cited the statistics that mining is one of the biggest contributors to the coun-try’s economy especially in the Mindanao.
Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Vicente Emano in an earlier interview favored
Initial reports identi-fied the dead as Captain Christopher Cebreckos and Racquel Estrande, 37. The woman’s husband, Lane Es-trande, 36, and their child, Jane, 3, were both injured as well as the second Filipino pilot Davie Normal.
The aircraft, operated by a local tour company, plowed through coconut trees, decapitating some of them before hitting the ground and nearly crashing on a house nearby. The im-pact of the crash was strong that it broke the plane into three parts and its left wing was totally wrecked.
The site of the accident was several kilometers away from the runway. (Mind-anao Examiner)
Plane...from page 1
Magsaysay opposes total mining banBy RIC Y. OCIONES
Correspondent
for regulated, responsible mining but denounced illegal use of hydraulic machine––and against the call for a total mining ban.
Earlier, Emano in a bari-tone voice said that he will not stop the mining opera-tion in the city provided that they are operating legally. However, the mayor will not be indecisive to cancel all the permits he issued if found out destroy-ing the environment.
Emano clarified that
mining operators are bound to protect our environment as stipulated under the terms and conditions set by the DENR- MGB.
But mayor Emano in his recent press release, made it clear that he has nothing against the MGB-initiated mining ban should it be implemented in the city as long as they specify which form of mining is to be halted.
Clearing up any ambi-guities in the order will help
in laying out a clear-cut plan for its implementation, the mayor said, “aron ma-giyahan ang mga opisyales sa siyudad sa tukmang lakang diha sa pagpatu-man.”
Earlier, several envi-ronmental groups joined the call of Cagayan de Oro second district Rep. Ru-fus Rodriguez for a total mining ban in the city, because accordingly min-ing activities have been unfavorably distressing the fishing communities as it pollutes the rivers.
But Magsaysay ex-plained that in order to protect the balance of our ecology, government must focus on responsible a regulated mining and put behind bars the illegal that violated the law.
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VALENZUELA City Rep. Magi Gunigundo said more studies are needed to ensure that House Bill 5727, which proposes increased taxes on sin products tobacco and alcohol, would not be counter-productive.
Gunigundo said that changing the existing tax structure into a unitary one and raising taxes levied on tobacco and alcohol would promote smuggling and bootlegging as well as compromise survival of the industry that produces these products. “Let’s not kill the goose that lays the golden egg,” he said.
Bootlegging will also contribute to proliferation of unsafe products since it’s difficult to regulate backyard producers of these, he said.
Gunigundo said he was open to raising taxes if needed but said authorities concerned must look into consequences of the move before implementing it.
“Imposing taxes is always an incentive for smuggling - Bureau of Customs must be able to monitor this illegal activity,” he said.
He said smuggling would
AIRASIA Philippines on Tuesday announced it will begin to offer flights here on March 28, giving low fares for its 20,000 pas-sengers to Kalibo, Aklan and Davao.
Tan said they had ferried at least 2 million passen-gers with AirAsia Berhad, which began its operations at Clark in 2005 offering flights to Kuala Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia.
Kathleen Tan, regional head of the AirAsia com-mercial plane fleet based in Malaysia, said they will utilize their two brand-new Airbus 320 for twice-a-day flights to Bangoy Interna-tional Airport in Davao and Kalibo International Airport via the Clark In-ternational Airport.
“Now Everyone Can Fly,” said AirAsia in a statement after offering an all-in fare of P275 for flights to Davao and Kalibo, which is about 15 kilometers away from the Boracay Island.
“[The low-fare offer] is the first in the Philippines,” the carrier said.
The no-frills budget airline said the fare of P275 is for a one-way ticket and
AirAsia to start flights to Kalibo, Davao via Clark on March 28
already includes taxes. The seat sale is actually a zero-fare promo with the seat totally free and the guest is actually paying only P275 to cover the fuel surcharge, processing fee and govern-ment mandated fees such as aviation security fee and VAT, said AirAsia Philip-pines in a statement.
“We will have inter-national flights soon. But we will study it well,” said AirAsia Philippines CEO Marianne Hontiveros, citing Singapore and other cities in China. She said they could also offer flights to Kota Kinabalu and Kuala Lumpur.
Tan said the AirAsia Group had served at least 140 million passengers, adding that they will open this year AirAsia service in Japan.
“It is serving with pas-sion,” said Tan after being asked about AirAsia’s secret of success.
Clark International Air-port Corp. President and CEO Victor Jose Luciano and Cecile Sanchez-Flores of AirAsia attended the launching on board the Airbus 320 which was
parked near the airport corporate office.
A total of 767,109 pas-sengers used the Clark airport in 2011. Luciano expressed confidence that passengers this year will reach 1.7 million with
the entry of AirAsia and Airphil Express owned by Lucio Tan.
Airphil will begin its operations in Clark on March 29, offering flights to Davao, Kalibo, Cebu and Puerto Princesa.
Unitary tax on sin products needs more studies, says solon
proliferate if sin taxes in-crease since people naturally look for sources selling to-bacco and alcohol at lower prices.
Department of Finance is reportedly backing on Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya’s House Bill 5727.
Gunigundo is asking from authorities concerned further explanation about the bill’s impact.
“It isn’t enough that we consider potential revenues from a proposed tax mea-sure,” he said.
He noted such measures have social impacts that must be studied as well.
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THREE COOPERATIVE banks in Mindanao have formed into Consolidated Cooperative Bank (CCB) with the approval of its merger on Feb. 16, 2012 by the Monetary Board of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
These cooperative banks are the First Community Cooperative Bank of Misa-mis Occidental, the Coop-erative Bank of Davao del Sur and Cooperative Bank of Surigao.
The First Community Cooperative (FICCO), a pri-mary cooperative based in Cagayan de Oro City, which is the majority shareholder of FBMO, CBDS, CBSS, spearheaded the consoli-dation of the three banks.
CCB, as the new consoli-
Merger of M’danao coop banks gets nod
dated entity, will assume all the assets and liabilities of the three constituent CBs.
The plan of consolida-tion was a collective agree-ment of the common share-holders of FBMO, CBDS and CBSS.
With the consolidation, the CCB is optimistic of to strengthening its financial position and operating ef-ficiency of their respective cooperative banks with the intent to become a relevant player in the socio-economic development of Mindanao. CD with wire report
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Think a minute.Imagine we are on a
large ship out on the ocean.The captain knows that
there is a hole in the boat and we’re sinking, but he does not tell us passengers.
Instead, he invites us all to go up to first class.
All the beer and liquor is free. We’re allowed to party and do basically anything we want on the ship.
Naturally, we passengers are loving our freedom. But all the time we’re partying and getting drunk, the ship continues to sink.
Each minute brings us closer to our death. So what? Let’s eat, drink and be merry for we’re all going to die anyway, right?
We might as well go out in style and have fun while
A sinking shipHe changed me
it lasts.This is actually the way
many people live. They think they’re free—through alcohol, drugs, sex with anyone they want, cheat-ing for more money or status, and anything else that makes them feel good for awhile. But their life is a sinking ship!
Instead of being truly free, they’re actually slaves to their own appetites and
uncontrolled physical de-sires for pleasure.
Their life is empty and they’re desperately trying to fill it with all kinds of pleasures, prosperity, or power.
Yet, even though they know in their conscience that none of these things satisfy them for long, they keep doing it.
Jesus Christ did not come to bring us a lot of
strict, boring rules that take all the fun out of life.
He actually came to save us from hurting and de-stroying ourselves, so we can finally be free from our own greed and uncontrolled physical urges.
As the Maker of life, Jesus’ commands are sim-ply life’s principles for real satisfaction and success.
His ways are like wings to a bird or sails to a ship. So why not finally get yourself free from your uncontrolled physical pleasures or greed?
Just ask Jesus to forgive you and start changing you daily.
Then you can begin to get the real satisfaction that lasts, not to mention be saved from sinking. Just
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RIGHT from the start, Save CDO Now Movement was bound to fail. The way it handle its affairs were replete with dismal mistakes.
Its signature campaign aimed at initiating a recall proceeding against City Mayor Vicente Emano was a ploy. Organizers knew that getting the required number of 45,000 signatures was impossible.
Thus, the collected signatures were themselves dubious. No doubt, there were dozens of lawyers cum politicians behind the signature campaign. All of them knew that the signature campaign was useless. Yet, they went ahead!
For instance, organizers knew that all signatures for submission to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) must bear verifiable addresses of duly registered voters.
That on verification, these signatures should match with the optical signatures and corresponding ad-dresses of voters’ registered with the Comelec. Save CDO movement simply failed to consider this technical requirement. Instead, they simply gathered signatures without the Comelec required information. Result: All the 38,000 signatures submitted to Comelec were spuri-
All recall ‘signatures’ are invalidous and invalid.
Yet, why the Save CDO Now Movement went ahead despite the projected failure? The answer depends on how one interprets the movement’s motive. It has one too many answers.
One, the signature campaign was a media hyped. The group wants to get the sympathy of Cagayan de Oro voters through media mileage.
Launched at times when people were nursing wounds out of the wreckage of Typhoon Sendong, the signature campaign was bound to fail. It failed to fire up hatred in the hearts of Sendong victims. Instead, the movement’s hate campaign drew flaks. The campaign boomeranged!
However, the movement succeeded in sending a strong message to Emano’s administration. It exposed the weaknesses of Emano’s administration.
The movement raised valid issues and concerns. Traffic mismanagement during peak hours, unabated traffic violation, street kids and rugby boys at Divi-soria Plaza, illegal street vendors and petty crimes are among issues that Emano must seriously address.
Failure to arrest these issues will certainly drive a blow on Emano’s administration.
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The past presidents
I HAD a high school friend whom I met somewhere. We had a little chat about our individual lives.
He confessed boldly that he went through a rehabili-tation for abuse of prohibited drugs. I was amazed that during his solitary times in that Center, people sent by God had made him changed his life from drug addiction to God’s salvation.
This scripture he shared to me, now that he has passed that dark side of his past life. “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
What does this mean to him and to everyone whom Jesus has set free? Therefore if any man be in Christ. The phrase, to “be in Christ,” evidently means to be united to Christ by faith; or to be in him as the true life giver.
To be “in Christ” denotes a more tender and close union; and implies that all our support is from Him. All our strength is derived from him; and denotes further that we shall partake of His fullness, and share in his glory.
The affirmation here is universal, “if any man be in Christ;” that is, all who become true Christians-- undergo such a change in their views and feelings as to make it proper to say of them that they are new creatures.
No matter what they have been before, whether moral or immoral; sensual, and polluted, yet if they become Christians they all experience such a change as to make it proper to say they are a new creation.
“The new man, which after God is created in righ-teousness and true holiness.” It means, evidently, that there is a change produced in the renewed heart of man that is equivalent to the act of creation, and that bears a strong resemblance to it--a change, as if the man was made over again, and had become new. But the phrase implies evidently in this way.
That a change is produced so great as to make it
I WAS still a little boy when Presidents Sergio Osmena, Manuel Roxas and Elpidio Quirino were president of the Philippines.
I did not have so much information about them, the way they managed the affairs of the government and other things such as their personal behavior and achievements.
Of course, I defended so much on what were written about them in our history books and periodicals.
During those time, there was very few national newspapers circulating in the country and about two or three reached Mindanao circulation.
There was no television stations then and very few radio stations were existing with little power. Mass media were almost unheard of. People were not given so much chances about the three great people and their presidency.
For one thing, they were badly criticized by their political opponents and the media. But the way I under-stand it, they were honest and qualified presidents and hardworking during their
time. I heard that from my relatives who were updated fully of Philippine politics.
President Ramon Mag-saysay, has not spent so much time in the presidency because he died in a plane tragedy but he impressed the general citizenry by his style and innovation in politics. Prior to becoming Presi-dent, he was the secretary of national defense and it was during this time that the dreadful Hukbalahaps (HUKS) were put to stop.
I did not know what he actually did but surely the notorious Huks threw out their war weapons and joined society in peace. Some of them entered poli-tics and turned out to be good public servants.
Presidents came after another in noisy elections and the same shouts of fraud, robbing of ballots,
vote-buying, assassination and all election crimes and gimmicks were exercised. President Carlos P. Garcia came after Magsaysay and he was good and honest too.
He handled the country with care and professional-ism and everything went through until he disap-peared from office. Garcia had introduced some im-provements during his time.
And then there was Fer-dinand Marcos who sky-rocketed in Philippine poli-tics. He rose fast from his humble self and ruled the country longer than anyone who ever lived in Mala-canang. He was overthrown in a coup that put President Cory Aquino into power. After the lady president, came Joseph Estrada, Fidel Ramos, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo -------- and now President Noynoy Aquino.
Of all the presidents this country ever had, Marcos was the most criticized as-saulted, driven, thrown out and anything you want to describe him.
He was mercilessly and without limit, accused of all sorts of crimes from political disgrace to, theft, murderer, cheater and what have you. In my humble way, how-ever, I judged Marcos as the better president of all past presidents.
He was brilliant, and acted himself the way one should do for such position. He spent a lot of his time on the drawing board and designed the better way the country can improve.
It was during the time of Marcos that Mindanao experienced real develop-ments. Pavements of roads and highways, constructions of modern and big bridg-es, piers, airports, public buildings and even towns and cities parks and water systems.
Massive establishments of farm-to-market roads were established, agricul-ture was given so much emphasis that for the first
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The figures were down by by 14 percent year-on-year and translated to earn-ings per share of P2.94.
On a full-year basis, the generation business recorded an income share of P20.4 billion for the year, down by 16 percent year over year (YoY).
Netting out one-off items, the company’s gen-eration business shored in P19.8 billion, 16 percent lower than the previous year due to the lower aver-age selling price and lower recorded net generation.
“Aside from organic growth coming from in-creased contracts, we will continue to expand our generating capacity through brownfield and greenfield projects. We expect to add approximately 700 MW of additional attributable ca-pacity between 2012 – 2015,” said AboitizPower President and CEO Erramon Aboitiz.
In Mindanao, Aboitiz-Power has holdings in Davao Light and Power Co., Cotabato Light, hydro power generator Hedcor, Therma Marine Inc. and the soon-to-be constructed coal power plant Therma South
AboitizPower earns P21.6 billion in 2011THE AboitizPower (PSE ticker symbol: AP) closed 2011 with a consolidated net income of P21.6 billion, dominated by its power generation business which account to more than 90 percent of the group’s income.
Inc. It also has holdings in Steag State Power, among others.
The power distribution group registered a 25 per-cent YoY earnings expan-sion, from P1.9 billion to P2.4 billion. This was on the back of increased electricity sales and improved average gross margin.
For the year ending De-cember 31, 2011, total at-tributable electricity sales increased by three percent YoY, from 3,606 GWh to 3,727 GWh. The industrial segment again led the pack, recording a six-percent YoY growth, while residential and commercial accounts posted marginal declines during the year.
The group’s average gross margin for 2011 im-proved by 15 percent YoY to P1.44/kWh, as a result of the implementation of the approved distribution tariffs (under the Perfor-mance Based Regulation) of some of AboitizPower’s distribution utilities and the reduction in operating expenses of Davao Light and Power Company.
The Davao utility re-corded a significant decline
in operating expenses in 2011 as the operation of its back-up power plant was not required during the year.
“In spite of slower kwhr sales growth, our Distribu-tion Group experienced fa-vorable profit growth com-ing from improved margin and controlled operating costs. We are confident that electricity consumption will kick up in 2012 with the expected growth in the economy,” Aboitiz said.
The decline in consoli-dated revenue was caused by the revaluation of consoli-dated dollar-denominated loans and placements re-sulted to a non-recurring loss of P160 million. In ad-dition, the company booked a P663-million one-off gain during the year because of the following:
1) a wholly owned sub-
sidiary booked revenue adjustments in the first quarter of 2011 resulting from a favorable ruling by the industry regulator re-garding its tariff structure for its ancillary services contract;
2) an associate company recovered costs relating to its fuel importation in the second and fourth quarters;
3) a subsidiary reversed a 2010 accrued expense relating to its Independent Power Producer Adminis-trator (IPPA) contract in the third quarter of 2011; and
4), the company incurred fees relating to the prepay-ment of an outstanding loan in the fourth quarter. Adjusting for these one-offs, AboitizPower’s core net income for 2011 amounted to P21.1 billion, down by 14 percent YoY.
AboitizPower also re-
corded a consolidated net income of P5.4 billion for the quarter ending Decem-ber 31, 2011, down by 17 percent versus the same period in 2010.
Movements in the pe-so-dollar exchange rate resulted to a P124-mn non-recurring loss due to the revaluation of consolidated dollar-denominated loans and placements.
A P93-mn one-off loss was also incurred when AboitizPower prepaid one of its outstanding fixed rate notes in December 2011. This was partially offset by a non-recurring gain of P35 mn booked by an associate company, as it received cost reimbursements from the National Power Corpora-tion (NPC) relating to its fuel importation.
A l l t h e s e b r o u g ht AboitizPower’s core net
income for the fourth quar-ter of 2011 to P5.6 billion, lower by 14mn YoY.
As of December 31, 2011, AboitizPower’s total consolidated assets amount-ed to P154.2 billion, 15mn higher than the yearend 2010 level of P134.6 billion.
“The strength of our power business lies in our diversified, complementary and competitive portfo-lio of generating assets. We have also been able to mitigate earnings volatility through our contracting strategy. We are confident that this, couple with our experienced management team, provides us with the ingredients necessary to thrive in a more challeng-ing environment with the onset of more competition, open access, and the full implementation of WESM nationwide,” said Aboitiz.
Heated exchange between MVP, Gina Lopez punctuates mining debatesTHE chairman of the coun-try’s biggest mining compa-ny, Manny V. Pangilinan, on Friday engaged ABS-CBN Foundation head Gina Lo-pez in a heated face-to-face debate over the industry’s social and environmental responsibility, rejecting a sweeping statement that portrayed Pangilinan as blind to the environmental and community issues in mining areas.
Pangilinan, chairman of Philex Mining Corp, was particularly irked by Lopez’s assertion that Pangilinan had called “all” mining sites “ugly anyway.”
“I never said that. Now you’re lying,” Pangilinan said.
The debate punctuated the Conference on Philip-pine Mining’s Impact on Economy and Ecology, and the industry’s and the environmental advocates’ advocacies on either side of the discussion.
“You said that the areas that are gonna be mined are ugly anyway. That’s so not true. It’s not true that the areas to be mined are ugly, you can’t do anything there
anyway,” Lopez said at the conference.
She noted Sibuyan Island in Romblon with its dense forest and clean water.
“And yet the mining ten-ement was approved there on top of agricultural land,” she said.
Lopez also cited Brooke’s Point, where she said she has drunk water from a stream. “And yet the government has approved $1 billion worth of mining in that place,” she said.
“So when you say that...all these people that come to us...When you say that all these mining areas are ugly anyway, you need to go and visit them,” she said.
Pangilinan then cited Padcal in Silangan in Su-rigao del Norte.
“Who would want to go there and develop a tourism site? There’s nothing there,” he said.
Before mining entered the place, it was deforested, denuded, Pangilinan said.
“Since that time we’ve planted 7 million trees...and you know we have a self-contained community, we provide free housing, free
hospitals, free education up to high school. What else can you do?
“We have a post-rehab plan. We set aside each year an amount of money because one day that mine will close. There’s a post-rehab plan. Whether by law or not, we do. We care about the people. At some point these guys have to fend for themselves.”
Lopez again stood up and said, “...maybe that place is nice and I submit it may be nice...But maybe when you make a statement that
all the areas where there’s gonna be mining are ugly anyway, that’s the point.”
Pangilinan, seated a table away from Lopez, rose to his feet: “I did not say that. Now you’re lying.”
The master of ceremo-nies at the conference quickly stepped in, officially moving on from the heated exchange.
(Editor’s note: Pang-ilinan is also chairman of ABC Development Corp., which operates TV5, for which InterAksyon.com is the online news portal.)
Mr. Manny V. Pangilinan, chairman of Philex Mining Corp, in a debate with ABS-CBN Foundation head Gina Lopez over the industry’s social and environmental responsiblity.
HYUNDAI Motor Group, led by South Korea’s largest automaker Hyundai Motor Company, announced today that it would invest a total of 14.1 trillion won* in 2012 as part of the Group’s largest investment and employment plan ever, mainly to boost its R&D competitiveness. (*Equivalent to about US$12.2 billion, based on Dec. 28 foreign exchange rates in Seoul)
Hyundai Motor Group will invest 5.1 trillion won in R&D (compared to 4.6 trillion won in 2011) and 9 trillion won in facilities (compared to 7.6 trillion won in 2011). The total investment amount will be a 15.6 percent increase from this year’s 12.2 trillion won.
Of the amount to be invested in R&D, 4.6 trillion won, or 90 percent, will be spent on the automobiles sector, to accelerate the development of eco-friendly and fuel-efficient vehicles.
Of the investments in facilities, about 3 trillion won will be spent upgrading and building domestic and overseas manufacturing plants for Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors Corp., as well as strengthening their sales and aftersales service networks. Some 2.2 trillion won will be spent by the Group’s steel-related affiliates.
Hyundai motor group’sinvestment plans for 2012
I’m going to step on itA SIX-YEAR-OLD boy told his father he wanted to marry the little girl across the street. The father, being modern and well-schooled in handling children, hid his smile behind his hand.
“That’s a serious step,” he said. “Have you thought it out completely?”
“Yes,” his young son answered. “We can spend one week in my room and the next in hers. It’s right across the street, so I can run home if I get scared of the dark.”
“How about transportation?” the father asked.“I have my wagon, and we both have our tricycles,”
the little boy answered. The boy had an answer to every question the father raised.
Finally, in exasperation, his dad asked, “What about babies? When you’re married, you’re liable to have babies, you know.”
“We’ve thought about that, too,” the little boy replied.
“We’re not going to have babies. Every time she lays an egg, I’m going to step on it!”
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PPP reaches TaganitoSURIGAO Norte - Another showcase of a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) unfolds among the LGUs of Taganito, Claver town and Surigao Norte province, the DOH, the Taganito HPAL Nickel Corporation and the Taganito Mining Corporation. This, on health services within the mining communities, said DOH-Director Leonita Gorgolon after the recent MOA signing at the newest birthing facility in Brgy. Taganito.
NFA opens 20,000-bag capacity warehouse in CamiguinCAMIGUIN – The new 20,000-cavan capacity NFA warehouse now serves this island province, boosting its storage capacity from 10,000 to 30,000 bags. Camiguin is among the provinces classified as critical, in terms of rice supply. NFA Provin-cial Manager Raymundo Contiangco expects the warehouse to help ensure the province’s 30-day requirement of 18,900 bags.
PDEA intensifies anti-drug campaign in AguSurREGION 13 - PDEA Caraga bared that strengthen-ing the partnership with other stakeholders & local organizations has made a difference in reducing drug abuse cases in Agusan Sur. The anti-illegal drug campaign in the province is being intensified following reports on illegal drug traders penetrating even the remote barangays of the province.
Mayor Amante approves transfer of garbage to landfillBUTUAN City - Reaffirming the city government’s campaign for a cleaner Butuan, Mayor Jun Amante approved recently the motion to transfer segregated residuals from the current dumpsite in Brgy. Doon-gan to the sanitary landfill in Brgy. Dumalagan on or before March 31. The City ENRO reported that since the launch of the Clean Ground, Zero Waste Program, September last year, the city’s collected garbage has significantly decreased from 90 tons to 40 tons daily.
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WHEN you are di-agnosed with cancer, it is easy to become over-whelmed with all of the de cisions you have to make.
It’s likely that friends and family are weighing in with their opinions
and this could greatly influence the decisions you make.
When making decisions about treatment, however, it is important to remain objective. (extracted from Lisa Fayed’s article in About.com Guide)
Making objective cancertreatment decisions
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CAGAYAN de Oro City - The city government is lining-up several ac-tivities to highlight the Women’s Month celebra-tion that anchors on the theme “Women Education-Women Empowerment.”
An early morning mass at the St. Augustine’s Ca-thedral and a simple open-ing program at Calaanan Tent City on March 8 will kick off the celebration.
Other activities, include medical/dental missions, children feeding program, and free haircut at Ca-laanan Tent City and the covered courts of baran-gays Kauswagan, 24 and
Women’s month kicks off March 8 in OroMacasandig, March 8;
Mangrove and golden bamboo planting at Baran-gay 13 riverbank and fin-gerlings sowing at Cagayan de Oro River, March 14;
Seminar on disaster risk reduction manage-ment at the City Tourism Hall, March 16; seminar on Magna Carta of Women and livelihood skills train-ing needs assessment at relocation centers, March 21;
Culmination program at Calaanan Tent City and formal launching of livelihood skills training program for the evacuees, March 30. (CIO/jdelpf )
DEPARTMENT of Trade and Industry (DTI-10) Chief Linda O. Boniao (center) discuss the automated Philip-pine Business Registry System (PRBS) and the One-Town-One-Product National Industry Cluster Capacity Enhancement Program (NICCEP), as well as the ISO 9001:2008 Certification. This, during the ‘Ang Rehiyon Karon’ program over DXIM-Radyo ng Bayan, hosted by Ms. Elaine O. Ratunil (right) of PIA Regions 10 and 13 Cluster. With Ms. Boniao is Engr. Elvira Cajigas, chief Consumer Welfare Division, DTI-10. (Rodolfo D. Mendoza/PIA-10/jdelpf)
CAGAYAN de Oro City––Save CDO, led by a certain Mr. Tito Mora, has appar-ently lost grounds in its move to oust Mayor Vicente Emano from office by recall.
In his most recent post in Facebook, Mr. Mora claimed his group has failed to gather the required 45,000 signa-tures in the recall signature campaign launched imme-diately following typhoon Sendong.
“Our movement can only vouch for a little over 38,000 signatures, based on the re-
Save CDO gives-upquirement of Comelec that all signatures must have the complete names, addresses, barangay, voting precinct and signed by those who are registered voters during the 2010 elections,” he said.
Majority of the forms do not conform to the require-ments and have spurious entries, he added.
Mr. Mora dubbed the recall signature sheet as an open, democratic and legal defiance to a revolting regime.
Save CDO grounded the
action to recall on observa-tion that the city mayor “did not imple- ment the provi-sions of the law to pro-tect our city and people and in fact by direct part icipa-tion placed t h ou s a n d s
in harm’s way.”Mr. Mora’s group further
accused Mayor Emano of not acting, “even with a minimum amount of care and supervision, to warn
our people of an impending disaster, despite warnings
f rom nat ional government a g e n c i e s , n o r t o o k direct hand
in the rescue, relief and re-
habili- t at ion of our people
b r o u g h t a b o u t b y t h e
effects of Sen-
dong.” Mayor Emano has yet
to come up with his official statement on the matter. (with reports from Save CDO post in Facebook)
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Ingredients: 1/2 kilo fresh labahita, filleted and cut into chunks 1/4 cup cornstarch 100 g baguio beans, sliced 1 each red and green bell pepper, cut into strips 1 pouch (200 g) DEL MONTE Classic Menudo, Estofado and Afritada Recipe Sauce 2 ripe saba bananas, peeled, sliced and fried 1 medium kamote, cut into chunks
Procedure:1. Marinate fish in 1 Tbsp calamansi juice and 2 tsp soy
sauce for 15 minutes. Roll each piece in cornstarch, then fry until golden brown. Set aside.
2. Cook DEL MONTE Classic Recipe Sauce, baguio beans and bell peppers with 1 cup water and 1/3 tsp iodized salt (or 1 tsp rock salt) for 5 minutes. Add fried fish, saba and kamote just before serving.
MAKES 5 SERVINGS Fish replaces meat.Lusog Note: Excellent source of Vit. B6 - essential for red blood cell formation
HEALTHY living has a lot to do with healthy eating! Apart from regular exer-cise and getting the proper amount of rest, eating the right kind of foods plays the most vital role in warding off disease and ensuring a sturdy state of well-being. We’re just going to fol-low religiously the food pyramids, it is our guide-lines for healthy eating, or make it a habit to eat variety of foods to get the different nutrients that our body requires. We have to control our consumption of calories and unhealthy
Fish-ful ideas for deliciously smarter mealsFish-ful ideas for deliciously smarter mealssubstances, such as, sugars, fats and sodium should be taken in moderation. We have to choose foods that are low in fat and choles-terol. And choose plenty of vegetables, grains, and lots of fruits! But before summer comes, there’s a Lenten season to observe first, right? I remember when I was still in my teens my grandma used to tell me, to eat a lot of fruits since we are abundant of it during summer. Then Lenten seasons came, where Christians mostly are not allowed to
eat meat during the whole Holy Week. We, in the family really abstain from eating meat, especially during holy Friday. Until today, we still observe it as our parents have em-braced it as well. So let me share with you the meat-less menu for this time….. Do you know, that you can still make classic Po-chero using fish tuna, tan-guigue, lapu-lapu or any lean fish, and here’s the other thing, you can try to cook Fish Estofado for a change from your usual menu. It won’t take long to prepare
and less hassle on your part, since you are using ready-mix Estofado and Apritada or Menudo sauce in pouch of Del Monte. So make your cooking experience easy by using ready mix sauces.
Pocherong IsdaPocherong Isda
Fish EstofadoFish Estofado
Ingredients: 4 cloves garlic, crushed 1 medium onion, sliced 4 medium slices (400 g) fish (tuna, tanguigue, lapu-lapu or any lean fish) 3 medium saba bananas, cut into 4 (with peel) 1 medium kamote, cut into chunks 10 pes sitaw, cut 2” long 1 can (227 g) DEL MONTE Tomato Sauce 2 medium heads (200 g) pechay, stalks separated from leaves
Procedure:Saute garlic and onion. Add 2-1/2 cups water, 1 tsp iodized salt (or 1 Tbsp rock salt), 1/2 tsp pepper and 1 tsp white sugar. Add saba and kamote when water boils. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add sitaw and DEL MONTE Tomato Sauce. Simmer for another 15 minutes. Add fish and pechay. Simmer for 5 minutes.
MAKES 8 SERVINGS Fish replaces beef.Lusog Note: Has no cholesterol; low in fat - good for the heart
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CAMP Evangelista, Cagayan de Oro City––The Youth Leadership Seminar conducted by the 4th Infantry (Diamond) Division, Phil-ippine Army through the 4th Civil-Military Operation “Kasaligan” Battalion ended.
This endeavor is in line with the implementation of the Internal Peace and Security Plan “Bayanihan” to help our youth become responsible, productive and well-informed members of our society.
A total of 82 youth coming from the different provinces under the 4ID Area of Responsibility specifically, Misamis Oriental and Bukidnon in Region 10 and Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Surigao del Norte and Surigao del Sur all in Caraga region par-ticipated in this leadership seminar.
A series of lectures, workshop and sharing of experiences designed to address the issues, challenges and aspirations of the youth of today were conducted to meet the set goals of this YLS.
These lectures, workshop and sharing of experiences were carefully selected to achieve the specific objectives set for the day which will gradually lead to the attainment of the purpose of helping our youth become responsible, productive and well-informed members of our society, thus, preparing them to become good leaders in the future.
This also provided an avenue for the youth to become the government’s active partner in nation-building to achieve a just and lasting peace that is conducive to a sustainable development.
Archbishop Antonio J. Ledesma, SJ, Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro City graced the closing ceremony as the guest of honor who commissioned all the participants who successfully completed the seminar as pioneer youth facilitators that shall replicate the same activity in their respective provinces.
MGen Victor A Felix, Commander, 4ID said, “With the suc-cessful completion of this YLS, we hope that all the participants were able to internalize the importance of their role as the future leaders of our country.
“May the lectures, presentations and workshop given to you help you become more discerning in all of your decisions and actions because our country and our society depend so much on you.”
“As the participants of this pioneer Youth Leadership Seminar go back to their respective provinces, we hope that they were able to gain valuable knowledge that shall be their potent tool to distinguish the good from the bad, the wrong from the right and the truth from the lie. We are happy that this three-day seminar was successfully conducted and completed, but we would be much happier if these pioneer participants would become very pro-active and re-echo what they learned here to their peers, classmates and friends as we replicate this YLS to the provincial level with them as the facilitators,” said Major Eugenio Julio C Osias IV, Commanding Officer of the 4th Civil-Military Operations “Kasaligan” Battalion.
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proper to say that he is a new man. He has new views, new motives, new principles, and plans of life. He seeks new purposes, and he lives for new ends. If a drunkard becomes reformed, we af-firm in saying that he is a new man.
There is such a change as to make the language proper. And so in the con-version of a sinner. There is a change so deep, so clear, that it is proper to say, here is a new creation of God--a work of the Divine power as decided and as glorious as when God created all things out of nothing. There is no other moral change that takes place on earth so deep, and radical, and thorough, as the change at conversion.
Old things are passed away. Paul gives this as a form of expression, and says that old things have passed away--referring to everything. It was true of all who were converted that old things had passed away. And it may include this: In regard to all, it is also true that old things pass away. Their former practices, opinions, hab-its, attachments pass away. Their supreme love of self passes away. Their love of sin passes away. Their love of the world passes away. Their attachment to their earthly friends rather than God passes away. Their love of sin--their sensuality, pride, vanity, ambition--passes away. There is a deep and radical change on all these --a change which results at the new birth.
Behold, all things are become new. The purposes of life, the feelings of the heart, all become new. All is new. There are new views of God and of Jesus Christ. The Bible seems to be a new book.
The heavens and the earth are filled with new wonders, and all things seem now to speak the praise of God. Even the very treat-ments of friends seem to be new; and there are new feelings towards all men; a new kind of love to friends; a love before unfelt for en-emies; and a new love for all mankind.
PresidentsFrom page 6
time in history the country exported rice to other countries. We were self-sufficient and hunger was unknown.
Until now the monu-ments of Marcos splendid achievements are existing and being enjoyed by the people.
Politics and his enemies put him down but for one thing he had established more programs in the gov-ernment than anyone else who became president.
History will judge Mar-cos as a great president.
Time will come when people will believe in this fact. (BEN EMATA – [email protected])
FloodsFrom page 4
from Bukidnon said.Due to harsh climate
change, the Department of Science and Technology has warned that “severe rainfall is expected to increase in Luzon and Visayas in the years ahead, while a de-creasing trend is projected in Mindanao.”
Zubir i , meanwhi le , stressed the need for cit-ies and municipalities to quickly complete their gar-bage control plans.
“We produce 30,000 tons on garbage every day. Metro Manila alone gener-ates 8,000 tons daily, of which only 70 percent is collected,” he said.
“No amount of drainage engineering will be enough to fight floods, if we can-not reduce in a big way the volume of trash congesting our waterways,” he added.
More than a decade after the passage of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, Zubiri said only 338, or one-fifth, of 1,610 cities and municipalities have completed their garbage control plans.
“In Metro Manila, only eight of 17 cities and mu-nicipalities have complete waste handling plans,” he pointed out.
The World Bank is pre-paring a new flood manage-ment master plan, which will be endorsed to the Philippine government for approval by next month.
The plan is being final-ized more than two years after typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng unleashed unprec-edented flooding in Luzon that distressed 9.3 million people and killed almost a thousand.
The national govern-ment is spending some P12.3 billion this year to fight floods in Metro Ma-nila and nearby areas via the construction of 8,000 lineal meters of barriers, mostly along rivers and basins.
Some one-third, or 33.2 percent of Metro Manila’s land area, is “susceptible to flooding,” according to a Department of Environ-ment and Natural Resources report.
The report also listed the following flood-prone prov-inces and the percentages of their land areas deemed threatened as: Pampanga (79.5 percent); Nueva Ecija (51.2 percent); Pangasinan (48.1 percent); Tarlac (47.1 percent); Maguindanao (42.5 percent); Bulacan (39.9 percent); North Co-tabato (30.1 percent);
Mindoro Oriental (28.7 percent); I locos Norte (27.9 percent); Iloilo (26.7 percent); La Union (26.3 percent); Cagayan (25.5 percent); Sultan Kudarat (24.4 percent); Ilocos Sur (23.4 percent); Bataan (23.1 percent); Leyte (20.8 per-cent); Davao del Norte (20.2 percent); Compostela Valley (also 20.2 percent); and Camarines Sur (19.2 percent).
BrownoutsFrom page 1
t h e y e x p e r i e n c e d drought during the sum-mer months.
Concepcion urged gov-ernment to open the dams in the affected areas so that water can be utilized to generate power.
He said that during the rainy season, the water in the dams would be replaced and could build up reserves.
“I am optimistic that if
we work together, we can find a quick solution to the situation and help our countrymen in these areas to cushion the impact of these brownouts and also the ever increasing cost of oil”, Concepcion said.
Former senator Juan Miguel Zubiri also warned of “catastrophic brown-outs” in Mindanao unless the government moves fast enough to address the power shortage.
Zubiri, in a letter to En-ergy Secretary Jose Almen-dras, said the brownouts “could worsen into power outages of up to eight hours by April, on account of in-creased demand associated with the summer season.”
“The people of Mind-anao find it increasingly burdensome to carry out our daily household and busi-ness activities, let alone grow our employment-generating industries, in light of the highly disruptive power outages,” he said.
“Government may have to willfully encourage en-tities seeking to avail of Renewable Energy Law in-centives to go to Mindanao, where there is a clear and urgent lack of reliable gen-erating capacity, instead of installing their facilities in Luzon or the Visayas, which both have ample power sup-plies,” Zubiri said. (PNA)
TrainingFrom page 1
kal nga mga pamanta-laan,” said Rotoras in ver-nacular.
He said the Bulawan magazine was conceived primarily to give every ba-rangay the opportunity to let the people know what they are doing in their respective barangays.
The journalisn seminar-
workshop started with the lecture of Bulawan magazine Editor in chief Raul Moldez.
Moldez wowed the par-ticipants with his nearly three-hour lecture on Ce-buano grammar and spell-ing.
Bingo Alcordo of Mind-anao Gold Star Daily shared his expertise on feature writing while Mindanao Daily Associate Editor Cris Diaz does lecture on basic newswriting.
Killers...from page 2
were massacred by still unidentified gunmen in Pa-rang town in Maguindanao, an adjacent municipality of Pigcawayan.
The victims, all students of Molina National High School, were fishing when shot from behind by auto-matic rifles.
Initial police investiga-tion showed the killing was a case of mistaken identity.
Police said the gunmen were locked in a long-stand-ing family feud in Bgy. Mo-lina and that the children were mistaken as relatives of one of the warring clans.
Members of the Parang police and elements 37th In-fantry Battalion are still hot on the trail of the suspects, last seen fleeing towards a hinterland at the border Parang and Barita town, also in Maguindanao. Wire report
Basilan...from page 3
Court...from page 3
When the town of Zam-boanga became a chartered city in 1936, it included Basilan.
On July 1, 1948, Basilan itself became a separate city through Republic Act. No. 288.
The city was converted
Earlier, Abdurahman was proclaimed as the win-ner in the mayoralty race having garnered the highest votes cast and canvassed during the May 10, 2010 election with a total of 2,955 votes as compared to Tambut who obtained 2,386 votes, the second highest ranking in the race of six aspirants for mayor.
However, the Court, after the revision and judicial appreciation of ballots, has annulled Aburahman’s proc-lamation since it found out that Tambut garnered 2,329 votes while Abdurahman garnered a total of only 1,933 votes.
into a province on Decem-ber 27, 1973 after incessant fighting prompted former President Ferdinand E. Mar-cos to issue the Presidential Decree No.356.
The province commemo-rates the anniversary of the Province of Basilan on the 7th of March every year.
Residents...from page 3
Vice-Mayor Lawrence Lemuel Fortun said the dis-tribution of the Certificates of Lot Awards to the landless beneficiaries is one of the local leadership’s priority programs to address the problems of the poor. “It has always been the policy of the city administration to give priority to help the poor and ease the hardships that poverty brings”, he said.
Ceniza revealed that his barangay had already taken steps to acquire a nine-hectare land owned by the city government which he hoped to be distributed to remaining residents needing relocation.
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