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Filinvest to build P30bcoal plant in Misor town
P30 BillioN iNVeSTmeNT. Ms. Miren Sanchez, corporate communications manager of the FDC Utilities, Inc., presenting the Misamis Oriental 3x135 MW CFB Coal-Fired Thermal Power Project during the "learning session" of the Balay Mindanao Group of NGOs recently. Photo by Bong D. Fabe
Cynthia Villar gets studes, parents, teachers’ supportSENATORIAL candidate Cynthia Villar (fourth from right) receives the resolution and state-ment of support from the faculty members, parents’ organization, and students from the Mindanao University of Science and Technology (MUST) during her short visit in Cagayan de Oro City on Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Villar, a three-termer member of the House of the Representatives, won the
support of the students, parents, and teach-ers of MUST for her effort in making the transforming the school in a university leavel.
In her speech, she encourages the students to give education their top-most priorities. She also shared to students how Las Piñas managed to make money out of waste materials.
Photo by Shaun Alejandrae Uy
The plant, which will be in operation for the next 25 years, will source 80 percent of its coal require-ment abroad and 20% from local coal mines, said Ana Margarita “Miren” Sanchez, FDCUI corporate commu-
CAGAYAN de Oro City––Citing safety concerns, a group of local traders op-posed to the opening of Laguindingan airport said its runway is shorter by 200 meters than that of Lumbia Airport in Cagayan de Oro City.
The Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Oro Cham-
Laguindingan runwayshorter by 200 meters
AIRPORT IN MISOR CONTINUE TO DRAW FLAK
By FROILAN GALLARDO
ber), in a unified resolution signed by more 25 business groups in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, also warned the public that the Laguind-ingan airport scheduled to open on April 30, 2013, will be operating with no radar system.
The Orochamber said it got hold of a copy of a
DAVAO City––Three per-sons were killed when the vehicle they were riding in was hit by a landslide along the national highway in Sitio Kulasisi, Barangay Tagabukid in Mati City, Davao Oriental at 12:50 p.m. Tuesday.
“There was no rain. But the soil may have loosened,” Davao Oriental Governor Corazon Malanyaon told MindaNews in a telephone interview.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Manage-ment Council (NDRRMC), quoting reports from the Provincial DRRMC, identi-fied the slain motorists as Arturo Sucnaan, 57 and Arnel Sucnaan, 35 of Tar-ragona, Davao Oriental and Leonara Mabandos, also
3 killedin Davaolandslide
CAGAYAN de Oro City––The Filinvest Development Corp. Utilities, Inc. (FD-CUI) will be investing P30 billion to the energy sector in Mindanao by putting up its own 405-MegaWatt circulating fluidized bed (CFB) coal-fired thermal power plant in an 84-hectare area within the Phividec Industrial Estate in Vil-lanueva, Misamis Oriental.
nications manager.Sanchez said that while
FDCUI strongly believes in renewable sources of energy, it chose to invest in a coal-fired power plant “despite the many challenges from many groups” because (1)
coal-fired power plant has short construction period; (2) it is the most feasible at present; and (3) coal is readily available.
“We cannot rely for a long time on fossil fuels. We should use renewable energy where there is avail-able. But we should take ad-vantage of what is available now, and that is coal. In the Philippines, technology to harness renewable sources of energy is still financially prohibitive and we cannot wait any longer to address the energy crisis in our country, especially here in Mindanao,” she said.
As of 2012, Mindanao
By BONG FABE of Mindanao Daily News
AFTER announcing its assignment as official importer and distributor late last year, Eurobrands Distributor Inc. (EDI) made a commitment to open at least 12 dealerships in 2013––with at least one dealership opening each month.
That commitment goes to the next level today as Peugeot formally opens
its first dealership in Mindanao-Peugeot Cagayan de Oro.
Located along Masterson Avenue in Cagayan de Oro City, Peugeot Cagayan de Oro aims to provide the full Peugeot ownership experience to their customers while ascribing fully to Peugeot
First Peugeot Dealership in Mindanao opens today in Oro
t Peugeot Cagayan de Oro formally opens its doors today. In photo is the Peugeot RCZ, the French car brand’s award winning sports car. Also available from Peugeot are the 3008 Crossover, the 5008 Compact MPV and the 508 Executive Sedan. Peugeot Cagayan de Oro is located along Mastersons Avenue, Pueblo de Oro Business Park.
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By URIEL C. QUILINGUINGContributing Editor
CAGAYAN de Oro City––Campus journalists from Northern Mindanao are now preparing for the an-nual National Schools Press Conference (NSPC) in Or-moc City on April 7-12, this year.
This, after the Depart-ment of Education regional office 10 confirmed the list of NSPC qualifiers in a Re-gional Memorandum dated Feb. 21, 2013 that DepEd 10 Regional Director Allan G. Farnazo issued.
To prepare for the re-gion’s participation in the NSPC, Farnazo called for a planning conference on March 1, 2013 to be attended by division superintendents and division journalism coordinators.
The newly-instal led DepEd 10 regional head graced the closing and opening ceremonies of the Regional Schools Press Conference (RSPC) at La Salle University Integrated School, Ozamiz City last Jan. 24-26, this year.
He personally awarded the trophies and medals to the top performing schools divisions and campus jour-nalists who competed in individual and group writing and non-writing journalistic competitions.
This year’s RSPC was participated in by 2,528 campus journalists from public and private elemen-tary and secondary schools who were among top four winners in their respec-
Region 10 campus journalists prepare for national contests
ANTI-CARNAPPING BILL APPROVEDCongressman Rufus B. Rodriguez raises his proposals for amendments to the substitute bill proposing amendments to the Anti-Carnapping Act. He proposes to increase the penalties for carnapping with the aim of deterring these carnappers. The House Bill was approved by the Committee on Revision of Laws. The picture also shows Congressman Pedro Romualdo of Camiguin.
n Camiguin, Ozamiz City School Divisions emerge as regional overall championstive journalistic fields in the schools division level competitions.
As stated in the DepEd 10 memorandum, the RSPC top three winners in indi-vidual contest categories and the first-place winners in group contest categories will represent region 10 in the NSPC.
Individual contests in-cluded editorial, feature, news and sports writing, copy-reading and headline writing, editorial cartooning and photojournalism while the group contests were on radio broadcasting and col-laborative publishing.
During the awarding program, the Schools Divi-sion of Camiguin and the Schools Division of Ozamiz City were both declared overall champions since they garnered identical total points, according regional journalism coordinator Mala Epra B. Magnaong.
TOP SCHOOLS DIVISIONS
The Schools Division of Camiguin, which was last year’s RSPC overall champion, produced 27 NSPC qualifiers since she topped the secondary level’s collaborative publishing in both English and Fili-pino, four first-placers, six second-placers and three third-placers in individual competitions. Also, she got additional points from
3 rebels killed, 3 wounded in Bukidnon armed clashesCAMP ALAGAR, Cagayan de Oro City––An arrested rebel suspect of the New People’s Army (NPA) on Tuesday confessed that three of his comrades were killed while three others wounded in an encounter with pursuing troopers in Bukidnon on February 23, 2013.
Police Supt. Ronnie Car-iaga, spokesperson of the regional police command here, said that police op-eratives collared Valeriano Anonsaon, Jr., a.k.a. ‘Junior’ the farming village of Sil-ipon, Libona, Bukidnon Tuesday evening.
Anonsaon was one among rebel suspects who stormed the main camp of Del Monte Philippines, Inc. at Camp Phillips in Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon on the night of Feb. 19, 2013, Car-
iaga said.He said that the suspect
has a pending warrant of arrest with attempted homi-cide issued by the Municipal Trial Court of Bukidnon.
Police traced Anonsaon’s whereabouts on a tip from an informant of his pres-ence in the area where he was reportedly hiding in a relative’s house.
During the initial in-vestigation, the suspect disclosed that their group figured in an encounter with pursuing government troopers on Feb. 23, 2013 killing three of his comrades and wounding three others, Cariaga said.
He said the management of Del Monte started to coordinate with the local police in Manolo Fortich for filing of an arson case against Anonsaon.
Some 150 NPA rebels stormed DMPI’s main pine-apple camp on the night of February 19, 2013 while an-other group simultaneously attacked a satellite camp in Sumilao and Impasug-ong where the Dole Phil. (Stanfilco) has a banana plantation.
The rebels burned DM-PI’s heavy equipment at the main camp, ransacked the administration building, killed a company guard and wounding three others, torched the warehouse in Sumilao and banana plan-
tations in Impasug-Ong, Bukidnon.
Cariaga said that Anon-saon was the third rebel suspect to fall as law en-forcers continue to pursue the NPA accused of various atrocities in Bukidnon.
He said police arrested two other fleeing suspects in barangay Kihare, Mano-lo Fortich, Bukidnon the night the rebels stormed the pineapple and banana companies in the province.
Cargo said charges were already filed against the two suspects arrested earlier.CD
Local LP candidates snub unity covenant CAGAYAN de Oro City––Local candidates of the administration’s Liberal Party (LP) snubbed the walk in unity and the proposed signing of covenant on Tuesday to ensure the peaceful conduct of the May elections here this year.
The unity walk and proposed signing of the cov-enant were spearheaded by the local Commissions on Elections (Comelec) and the church-based Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) here.
Gubernatorial candidate Yevgeny ‘Bambi’ Emano, of the NP-UNA-Padayon Pilipino coalition in Misa-mis Oriental, slammed the administration candi-dates for hypocrisy and warned the electors that the local LP candidates might be cooking something come May elections.
‘The local LP bets asked us to sign a peace cov-enant that they (LP) did not sign. The arrogance of being aligned with the administration’s political party already manifests in the attitude of local LP candidates here,’ Emano said.
He warned the people of Misamis Oriental and Cagayan de Oro of the local LP candidates’ plan of railroading the May elections through fraud and instability and all forms of anarchy in the province and city.
The candidates from the province of Misamis Oriental, except Liberal Party candidates, joined together Tuesday in walk in unity toward the Bishop Palace here in a show of unity where they forged a covenant of peace come May elections this year.
Archbishop Antonio Ledesma spoke from the Palace’s portico urging the people ‘to vote for can-didates who would work for the betterment of the community’ and reiterated his ‘my vote is not for sale’ campaign slogan.
Provincial elections supervisor Cirilo Nala told candidates that the Comelec would tap teachers in the coming May elections for their competence and experience in the handling of local and national polls. CD
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Davao City l Davao Oriental l Davao del Sur l Davao del Norte l Compostela Valley
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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews) – Three persons were killed when the vehicle they were riding in was hit by a landslide along the national highway in Sitio Kulasisi, Barangay Tagabukid in Mati City, Davao Oriental at 12:50 p.m. Tuesday. “There was no rain. But the soil may have loosened,” Davao Oriental Governor Corazon Malanyaon told MindaNews in a telephone interview. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), quoting reports from the Provincial DRRMC, identified the slain motorists as Arturo Sucnaan, 57 and Arnel Sucnaan, 35 of Tarragona, Davao Oriental and Leonara Mabandos, also of the same town. The report said “a private
vehicle was hit by a falling mass of land” while traversing the highway en route to Tarragona town. Malanyaon said the landslide affected a stretch of “about a hundred meters” along the highway and temporarily closed traffic anew between Mati City and the typhoon-devastated towns of Baganga, Boston and Cateel. As of 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, Malanyaon said the road had been cleared for motorcycles and travellers on foot. She said she expects the highway to be opened to regular traf-fic by Wednesday because various equipment had been deployed to the area to speed up the road clearing. Land travel between Mati City and Baganga resumed this month following the completion of the repair of the bridges destroyed by ca-lamities: the Teodoro Palma Gil bridge that links Caraga town with Baganga which was destroyed by floodwaters and
debris unleashed by typhoon Pablo on December 4, and the. Caraga bridge linking Manay town with Caraga, which was destroyed by strong river cur-rents on January 20. The fixing of the bridges also opened land travel between Davao Oriental and Surigao del Sur. From Mati, the last town of Davao Oriental is Boston which shares a boundary with Lingig, Surigao del Sur.According to the a February 22 posting on the website of the Department of Public Works and Highways, the restoration of the Caraga bridge cost P2 M and was completed with the provision of 67.06 lineal meter single compact 200 bridging materials while the Teodoro Palma Gil bridge reconstruc-tion costing P4.6M consists of 120 lineal meter-steel bridge to connect the breached center portion. The Palma Gil bridge was opened to traffic on February 15 while the Caraga bridge was opened on February.2. (MindaNews)
3 killed in Davao Oriental landslide
WaTer WorlD. residents use dug-out canoe to navigate around their houses in Purok 1, Barangay mahay in Butuan City on Feb. 23. agusan river’s water level rose to 3.28 meters at 1 a.m. Sunday nearly twice the normal level of 1.7 meters. mindaNews photo by erwin mascarinas
Davao Norte gub pushes for prov’l tourism codeTAGUM CITY, (PIA) -- Davao del Norte Governor Rodolfo del Rosario has directed the revitalized Provincial Tourism Council (PTC) to work out the immediate passage of the Provincial Tourism Code to spur invest-ments and sustainable growth in the province. “The first job I gave them is the crafting of the Provincial Tourism Code, which is our tool in addressing the gaps in the tourism sector,” del Rosario said, after administering the oath of office of the new PTC set of officers. Del Rosario said the measure is important in securing the province’s vantage point in sup-porting President Aquino’s goal of achieving 35 million domestic visitor arrivals and 10 million foreign tourist arrivals by 2016. He added the speedy passage of the code will enable the province to make the most out of the multi-billion tourism projects available from the national government. OIC-Provincial Administrator Norma Lu-main revealed the Local Finance Committee is now wrapping up its review on the draft of the code before endorsing it to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan for appropriate action. Lumain said the proposed ordinance seeks to ensure the promotion and development of the province’s rich tourism industry,while preserving the colorful culture, heritage, and identity of the Dabaonons. The measure shall also be a great come-on for potential investors, as it encourages par-ticipation of the private sector in agro-eco-cultural-tourism for countryside development. Del Rosario recently presided over the oath of office of the new PTC officers, with Ms. Araceli Ayuste as President, Dizon Namoag-Vice President, Carlo Domingo-Secretary and Edna Parcon-Treasurer. Each of the cities and municipalities also has its own representative in the tourism body. (Noel Baguio, DAVNOR PIO/RGA/PIA 11)
Davao del Norte has several potential tourist spots .
4 thuRSDAy | fEbRuARy 28, 2013Caraga Region Editor: JOE DEL PUERTO FELICILDAAsst editor: ARJAY S. FELICILDA
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BUTUAN CITY - Together with 12 implementing regional line agencies in Caraga, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is preparing to review and validate anti-poverty projects to be implemented in 2014 and to monitor projects being implemented this
Poverty reduction team reviews Caraga projects
By Florian Faith Jr. P. Bayawa
year. Undersecretary Marie
Labajo of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) attended the Re-gional Poverty Reduction Action Team (RPRAT) meeting on February 22 where she emphasized the need to promote evidence-based plans to let the com-munity themselves realize the impact of the projects.
The purpose of her visit was to cascade the relevant information framed by the national government for the implementation, as well as for the review and validation of the Bottom-up Budgeting (BuB) for the implementation of anti-poverty projects.
“The very aim of the BuB is to make the gov-ernment agencies more responsive to the needs of the community. This is to address the demands of the grassroots and to let the people decide what
they need to address their destitute situation,” USec Labajo said.
The BuB is an approach of formulating the bud-get proposal of agencies, taking into consideration the development needs of poor cities/municipali-ties as identified in their respective local poverty reduction action plans that will be formulated with strong participation of basic sector organiza-tions and other civil society organizations.
The programs and proj-ects identified by LGUs through the BuB process will be funded through the national budget.
DILG-13 Regional Di-rector Lilibeth A. Fama-cion and USec Labajo, tackled issues such as the manner of reviewing the project proposals for the 2014 implementation.
USec Labajon clarified that the implementing
agencies cannot outright reject a project once pro-posed by the Local Poverty Reduction Action Team (LPRAT), composed of local government unit (LGU) representatives and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the municipality.
She said that once the proposed project fa l ls within the regular pro-gram of the agency, then this can be funded.
For proposed projects that cannot be sufficiently funded because it has al-ready exceeded the budget cap, this can be substituted by another project that is within the budget limit.
The RPRAT is expected to meet again on February 27 to finalize the review of the proposed projects.
The implementing agen-cies of the BuB for 2014 are the department of Agrar-ian Reform,Agriculture, Education, Environment and Natural Resources,
Health, Labor and Employ-ment, Social Welfare and Development,Tourism, Trade and Industry, DILG and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority.
For coordination and oversight, the DILG, De-
partment of Budget and Ma n a g e m e nt ( D B M ) , National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), and the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) worked hand in hand in setting the policy direction for the RPRAT.
As the chair and sec-retariat of RPRAT, the DILG wil l consolidate the revised list of pri-ority poverty reduction projects reviewed by the implementing agencies for submission to NAPC. (PIA-Caraga/arjaysfeli-
CAMP Rodriguez, Bu-tuan City - An assailant in bonnet shot a store customer, store Monday midnight in Barangay 3, Buenavista town in Agusan del Norte.
The victim, Jay Deguro
of said barangay was drink-ing alone in a sari-sari store when attacked by yet to be identified male suspect using an unknown caliber of firearm.
Deguro was hit in his leg and rushed to Agusan
del Norte Provincial Hos-pital in Butuan City.
Police authorities on intensive operation to un-mask the identity of the suspect and bring him behind bars. (RCC/MMG/asf )
Gunman in bonnet hitsstore customer
By PO1 Ryan C. Cagula
SURIGAO del Sur - Ne-scafe Phi lippines has launched in Tagbina town, yesterday, the Coffee Technologies and Funds to Fuel Eco-nomic Emp owerment (CoFFEE) project, one of the company's latest programs thru Public-Private Partnership (PPP).
The program was aimed to address the challenges facing smallholder cof-fee farmer in Mindanao provinces and serve as a viable development model for other important stake-holders to replicate, adapt, and scale up, according to a statement by Nescafe Philippines.
The Philippines has been identified as one of the eight (8) coffee growing markets within Nestle, with an annual local demand of 64,000 metric tons of coffee beans with an estimated
CoFFEE Project to launch in Tagbina,
Surigao del SurBy Nida Grace B. Tranquilan
value of Php 6 billion. A Public-Private Part-
nership, CoFFEE project was made possible through the efforts of Deutsche Investigation-und Entwick-lungsgesellschaft (DEG), a finance group and Asia Society for Social Improve-ment and Sustainable Transformation (ASSIST), a non-stock, non-profit inter-
national capacity building organization.
The launching was graced by officials of Nestle, Governor Johnny Pimentel, Tagbina Mayor Donnel Po-lizon, DA Regional Director Edna Mabeza, 2nd District Rep. Florencio Garay and ASSIST Program Manager Michael Saycon. (NGBT/PIA Surigao del Sur/asf )
5thuRSDAy | fEbRuARy 28, 2013 SoccsksargenSO. COTABATO l N. COTABATO l SULTAN KUDARATl SARANGGANI l GEN. SANTOS CITY
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TACURONG City – The Tacurong City Responsive Assistance and Co-ordinated Emergency Search and Rescue or TRACER placed 2nd in the Search and Rescue (SAR) Net-work XII Proficiency Test conducted by the Regional Disaster Risk Re-duction and Management Council (RDRRMC) on February 19-22, 2013 helt at Camp Herminigildo Agaab, Malandag, Malongon, Sarangani.
TRACER places 2nd in proficiency testBy Jezereel Louise C. Billano
TRACER players who bagged the award were Asher Ian V. Moral II (team leader), Jonathan P. Zerrudo, Charlie Su-matra, Ritchie Molina, L ar r y L ondres , Ronie
Ponciano, and Nestor Lagulay.
Aside from TRACER, the newly-created search and rescue team of Brgy. New Isabela, Tacurong City ranked 6th among
t h e 2 0 p a r t i c i p a t i n g groups.
T h e N e w I s a b e l a
SAR team is a product of TRACER’s barangay SAR trainings.
New Isabela Rescue Te am i s comp os e d of Norman Zapanta (team
leader), Maureen Cora-zon Casador, Randy Pasa-p or te , A lv in C ol l ado, John Michael Apontar, Jonat han B ai t an , Jo e l Villamor, Janet Lastique, Gina E spuer t as , Rut h Lagrana, and Ricky Del-solar.
The City Government of Tacurong fully sup-ports TRACER by allocat-ing funds for necessary SAR equipment and for the conduct of barangay d i s as ter-prep are dness trainings.
TRACER was recog-nized as 3rd Best Volun-teer Organization in the Philippines by National DRRMC through the Ga-wad KALASAG Awards. (JLCB/arjaysfelicilda)
COTABATO City - The state-run People's Tele-vision (PTV) Network has expanded its Ma-nila newsroom to bring services of development communication closer to the people of the Autono-mous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and Central Mindanao.
Julmunir Jannaral, se-nior desk editor of the PTV Channel 4 in Manila, said the TV network has established a News Bureau for the ARMM and Central Mindanao.
The PTV News Bureau shares office and has been in close working collabo-ration with the Bureau of Public Information of the ARMM.
But Jannaral, who has been des ignated PT V bureau chief, was quick to clarify that the local PTV News Bureau is not intended to put up a trade competition with the giant network ABS-CBN, which has established local relay TV stations in some parts of Mindanao and in the Visayas.
"Initially, we only have but literally, a news-pro-cessing, video-processing bureau which sends pre-edited news materials to the central desk in Manila," said Jannaral.
Jannaral said he was glad that some of his col-leagues in the local media have expressed apprecia-tion on the coming of the
government TV network, ostensibly as a leap indi-cation of development in their sector.
Fairly, ARMM and Cen-tral Mindanao develop-ment stories frequently appear in al l of PTV's three daily major news programs on weekdays--effectively projecting local developments, as well, to the national scene, com-mented one viewer.
"Our thrust really in the government media is to report on positive dele-opments; to bring out to our people what is literally good news to everyone, including our children, " Jannaral said.
Last December 17, Jan-naral and BPI-ARMM Di-rector Nash B. Maulana met ARMM Governor Mujiv S. Hataman on the partnership which, sources said, would be formalized at the level of the governor and of Secretary Sonny Coloma of the Presidential Communications Opera-tions Office (PCOO).
Regional Director Ol-ivia Sudaria of the Philip-pine Information Agency (PIA) confirmed that the partnership has resulted from efforts to effectuate convergence among the PIA, BPI and PTV--which, she said, strengthens at regional level the PCOO organizational tie up in the national government.
"Basically, we focus on the two mainland provinc-
es of the ARMM plus the Central Mindanao prov-inces," Jannaral pointed out.
The PCOO which con-stitutes the Presidential Communications Group is made up, not of indi-viduals, but of established government media entities and communications or-ganizations--PIA, Radio-TV Malacanang, Bureau of Broadcast, Radyo Ng Bayan, Presidential News Desk (PND), Philippine News Agency (PNA)and the People's Television (PTV).
Jannaral said he was happy to report also to the governor, in behalf of the PTV general manager, that the law amending the network's old charter has been passed by Congress, and is now at the Presi-dential table for signature.
Some of the salient features of the network's amended charter include: allowing PTV to generate revenues through com-mercial advert isement production and place-ments; integration with other government-run television stations which have not been privatized or sold to private entities or corporate groups, and an increase of its national budget from P 1 Billion to P 6 Billion, progressively in three years. (DED-PIA 12/Nash Maulana-BPI-ARMM/arjaysfelicilda)
PTV expands to ARMM,
Central MindanaoBy Danilo E. Doguiles
KORONADAL City - The registered live births in the City of Koronadal has increased by 3.93% in the year 2012 with 7,179 new-born babies compared to 2011 statistics of 6, 897 as revealed by the City Civil Registry (CCR).
For 2012, out of the fig-ures presented, 3, 752 babies were born male and 3, 427 were female. Further, the CCR was able to register 22 babies last year through out-of-town transaction which is lower compared to 2011’s record-31 babies.
CCR record also reveals the age bracket of women considered as most produc-
tive age in terms of giving birth.
According to the same CCR reports, women aging between 24–29 years old are considered generative on producing 2, 029 babies. This is followed by the age bracket of 25-29 year old in which 1, 658 babies are born.
Also, women aging 30-34 years old are capable of pro-ducing 1,333 babies while those aging 50 years old above have only produced six (6) babies during the year and are considered infertile.
While more than 7,000 new born babies are regis-
tered at the CCR, the total number of death last year was recorded at 1, 618, ma-jority of which were males with 971 deaths.
This showed a decline by 7.48% from 2011’s 1,739.
Also the number of couples who tied knots dramatically increased by 55.35% from 645 in 2011 to 1,002 couples in 2012. As per last year’s record, there were 400 women aged 20-24 years old got married.
However, most of the men prefer to settle down at the age of 25-29 years old with a total num-ber of 382.( By Bic Manato/arjaysfelicilda)
live births in Koronadal increase
KORONA DA L C it y - Infrastructure projects worth P81.2 million will soon be implemented by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in a former war-torn vil-lage in Makilala town in North Cotabato.
This came about af-ter groups of Christians and Muslim farmers in Sitio Lacobe, Barangay Malabuan, at odds with each other because of land conflict, agreed to a peaceful co-existence through a memorandum of agreement as they vow to end their four-decade old differences and fighting, a report from the local government said.
T he i n f r as t r u c tu re projects, the report said is part of the Mindanao
Sustainable Agrarian and Agricultural Development Project which DAR imple-ments here in the region.
These projects include the DAR–OPAPP–PAMA-NA Pillar 2 projects worth P900,000.
Also in the project list are farm-to-market roads (FMR), specifically the 8–kilometer Malabuan–Bato–Lacobe stretch worth P14 mil l ion; the Mal-abuan–New Baguio FMR worth P2.8 million and the Malabuan–Paraiso FMR worth P17 million.
A potable water supply project worth P1.3 million will also be established to provide potable water to 103 households in the area.
Other support projects under the agricultural
development sector are the P34 mil l ion worth of agri-business projects on rubber product ion to cover 1,072 hectares, coffee production worth P5.1 million to cover 225 hectares, goat production worth P500,000, catt le breeding worth P500,000 as well as agro-forestry project worth P5.1 mil-liion covering about 20 hectares of agro-forest land.
DAR Secretary Virgilio delos Reyes, Cotabato governor Emmylou Men-doza and mayor Rudy Caoagdan witnessed the signing of the agreement in a ceremony dubbed “Kanduli for Peace and Development” held last January 31 at Sitio Lacobe. (ACAgad PIA12/asf )
DAR commits P81.2M projects for Sitio Lacobe
By Aida C. Agad
Statement
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Opinion
Cris Diaz
Would a blogger qualify membership in media?
THE Mindanao Development Au-thority (MinDa) welcomes the or-ganization of Mindanao Press for Sustainable Development in Cagayan de Oro City. Organizing the work-ing press in Mindanao was a dream in the past. Last month, I broached the idea of organizing the working press in the island hoping to get all working media people under one roof. Somebody took it.
A person also raises the idea of inviting bloggers as members of the proposed media organization, too. He argued that bloggers are already part of the media and, therefore, be entitled member-ship to press organization. Objection.
While it is true that bloggers write articles online, their passion is different from the men and women in the press. I am sorry, folk. Insisting on the idea that bloggers are now part of the press is a misconception of values of the press. I do not have to argue with people who believed only in their opinions. Sigh.
Yes, there is a heated online debate on whether a blogger is a journalist. Thus, a blogger being a jour-nalist deserves acceptance as a member of legitimate press organizations. The searing debate burned the net from India to the rest of the world. The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), where I am a member, tossed the subject on the net last year. It was a very exciting debate. Professional bloggers and journalists
around the world exchange banter on the propriety of acknowledging bloggers as journalists.
For the hard liners, considering bloggers as journal-ists were a pariah in a profession that follows stricter rules in handling stories and news. Bloggers are not journalists but they are part of the medium of com-munication with undefined rules. While bloggers might follow certain rules in writing a factual and credible story, still, it does not qualify them to be journalists. Yes, most bloggers, if not all, are creative writers exercising unlimited freedom in expressing their thoughts and ideas. We respect that.
On the contrary, the freedom of journalists is limited only to the facts and within the confines of accepted norms of writing. This is the primordial reason why journalists are vulnerable to libel. An excess in the exercise of freedom outlined in the rules of journalistic ethics is the weakest point that makes a journalist vulnerable. Bloggers are not subject to this rule. How would a blogger exercise the rule of fairness and ‘right to reply?’ Granting that a blogger strictly adheres to that rule, how and who would ap-preciate that rule? Well, we know that those who insist that bloggers should be part of the working press are those who just pretend to be journalists. The debate suddenly stops there.
Anyway, just like MinDa, let me extend my warm-est wishes to organizers and members of the newly formed Mindanao Press for Sustainable Development. React: [email protected]
CULPABILITY | page 10
DEL MONTE’S manage-ment makes a fool of itself by feigning innocence on their apparent culpability when the New People’s Army launched a punitive action against them.
All these years, they consider their decades-old ex-ploitation and oppression of workers, peasants and Lumads, environmental plunder and destruction as perfectly laudable. What a surprise indeed!
They are not a bit both-ered by guilty conscience of the weight of the re-sponsibility in permanently exposing to danger the lives and properties of the people living along the streams and rivers emptying into Macajalar Bay. Nothing
Coffee break
Crispin Dannug Jr.
THE idea of sustaining sustainable development is a wise one. Search me. I think the only time that development is broached about, regrettably, is when it is paired with growth. Like growth and development.
Can there be growth without development?
It’s happening, according to economists in the NEDA. It’s hard to understand the language used to explain this phenomenon. It means there’s a little more money in the pockets of wage earner; there’s plenty of dough in the hands of the bank and those doing business sell-ing goods and service, and there’s travelling around for sights and sounds, and other consumeristics ( the gym-nastics of spending). But, and there’s the big BUT--there’s no capital investment
Del Monte’s culpabilityconcerns them more than amassing super-profits by exploiting the labor of their low paid workers.
Del Monte flaunts re-peatedly that it has provided
20,000 jobs in the ten munici-
palities of Bukidnon, at the cost of the eviction and dispossession of hundreds of thousands of peasants and Lumads who once made their living in these lands.
In reality, this figure is wittingly bloated to create an impression that Del Monte contributes significantly in the local economy. Ac-cording to Chito Lorenzo, the US-Arroyo regime’s former presidential adviser on 1million jobs creation,
Del Monte only employs 7,000 workers.
They also vaunt their in-consequential aid that ben-efited several communities. Their scholarship programs, medical missions and other paltry services are carried out only because they are required to do so under the reactionary government’s laws on corporate social responsibility. It is not out of the company’s goodwill; rather, it is for availing tax deductions from cheated corporate tax due the reac-tionary government.
They also see nothing bad about hiring the services of Kadre Security Agency that blatantly violates the rights of the poor residents near the plantations, as well as that of the plantation
workers themselves.They did not give atten-
tion to the revolutionary movement’s warning regard-ing the cessation of their environmentally-destructive operations at the aftermath of Sendong, and they merely ignored the movement’s letter obliging them to ex-tend bigger donations to the Sendong victims as a gesture of acknowledging their role in environmental degradation.
They did not seriously heed the revolutionary movement’s prohibition of the expansion of their plantations when several equipments doing the land preparation in Kinoguitan, Misamis Oriental were ren-dered inoperative by the
Bloom
visible for miles, like new industries, no factories, no export of finished goods, no infrastructure support to agri-fisheries. In short, there’s no visible signs of change above ground on many economic activities.
Sounds like there’s dead investment, but many people are happy just the same. Looks like the place is nice and safe, but something’s wrong?
An example would be: there are more cell phones
roaring around like lions looking for comfort than actual business bytes and investment offers.
So, that’s the bloom that’s in the title of this column. There’s blooming--flowers all around--but no extrac-tion of scents and pleasant odors to place into bottles for selling. Value addition is down.
There’s no perfumery industry here like in France, so that’s not good by way of illustration. There is banana
though, but a lot of the fruit is not consumed or con-verted into new products. I could be wrong; prove me wrong.
In Davao. Once. I saw a lot of sub-sized green ba-nanas used as earth fill. And we eat Cavendish throw-aways at P.50.
Cassava into f lour? There’s your cake. There’s future here for everybody. But we import flour even as far away as Turkey!
Tourism requires a lot of infra, But are we building enough? By whose stan-dards? Are the beaches clean and free of ecoli or effluents? There’s a city I know in whose sidewalks the poor and needy sleep like they were born into it. I could cry laughing at this, but the garbage is also
BLOOM | page 10
AGENDA | page 11
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This is to inform the public that ROY ROBERTO BUSACO, whose picture appears above, and whose last known address is at Purok 5-B, Dagohoy Street, Trento, Agusan del Sur, had been terminated from Cecile Enterprises/Fredzon Furniture and Appliance Center effective February 21, 2013. Any transaction entered into by the above-named person shall no longer be recognized by the Company.
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Criminologist legislative agendaBy GERRY J. CAÑO
THE Bachelor of Science in Criminology program has been in this country for more than 50 years already. It has been a witness to the ups and downs of our De-mocracy, Law Enforcement, and the Peace and Order condition of this country, and it has unwittingly reg-istered its contributions to the annals of Philippine history.
The prog ram to ok around 18 years to be given legal mandate as a criminology profession. Republic Act 6506 “AN ACT CREATING THE BOARD OF EXAMINERS FOR CRIMINOLOGISTS IN THE PHILIPPINES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES” which was approved last July 1, 1972. However, the realization of this law was only on April 1988 when the first Criminologists Licensure Examination was conducted. From then on the Criminology profession has evolved and it has provided the paradigm for the pro-fessionalization of the law enforcement service of the country in particular, and the public safety in general.
With the advent of infor-mation technology, the land-scape of law enforcement has dramatically changed. Laws have to be passed in order to catch-up with the
fast pace of development both in criminality and law enforcement. After more than 35 years from the ap-proval of R.A. 6506, it was only on March 13, 2008 that the Hall of the House of Representatives take the initial action of amending R.A. 6506 through the re-lentless and gallant effort of the Congressman from the Second District of Cagayan de Oro City Congressman RUFUS B. RODRIGUEZ.
House Bill 3757 “The Philippine Criminology Profession Act of 2008” had laid the array of fields and interests for the Criminol-ogy profession notwith-standing the lift it made among Criminologists in the Philippines. Thereby shaping the bedrock, and the metes and bounds for the future of the Criminology profession in this country.
This act is not a battle for recognition, but rather an exercise of a right. A right that has been long past overdue, neglected and worst, invaded by people and organization with vested interest. Who in one way or another would like to fit-in their selves in the Criminology profession without first getting into the rigors of its academic discipline. The B.S. Crimi-nology program is the only formal educational program in this country that have
provided the fundamental principles of Public Safety, Law Enforcement, Criminal Investigation, Industrial Security, Correctional Ad-ministration, Fire and Arson Investigation, and Forensic
Sciences, etc. such fact is even a judicial notice to all and therefore all rights imbedded therewith should be afforded to all its prac-titioners.
The passage of R.A. 4864
“The Police Act of 1966” did not even recognized that there is such a formal education as B.S. Criminol-ogy in spite of the fact that the Philippine College of Criminology has offered
and produced graduates of the program more than 10 years before the passage of R.A. 4864.
The Integrated National Police empowered
8 thuRSDAy | fEbRuARy 28, 2013Developments
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Last year, we honored Mindanao’s homegrown businesses...
This year, let the Investors from outside the islandwho helped propel Mindanao’s economy for decades
be recognized...thus,
present
RATIONALE OF THE PROJECT
- This is the 2nd Mindanao Business Leaders Awards, in a different category from the first one. The 1st Mindanao Business Leaders Awards was undertaken last year to give due recognition to the achievements of various Mindanao business leaders and entrepreneurs in various categories of homegrown corporate and individual business leadership achievements.
- This year’s search is aimed at giving honor and recognition of excellent business leaders in the investors’s category.
- BusinessWeek Mindanao as a forerunner of information on economic leadership and entrepreneurial achievements of non-Mindanaoan corporations and businessmen, deems it a part of its social responsibility to trumpet the achievements of these pillars of Mindanao’s economy, for others to emulate and thus propel an awareness for the business potential that Mindanao offers in every economic and business investment plan, whether small or great.
-We are helping Mindanao achieve sustainable development of its economy through these humble efforts.
MISSION & VISION OF THE AWARDS
- The holding of BWM Awards annually serves as catalyst to the ongoing efforts of business leaders and entrepreneurs who seek greater heights and strive for success in the noble mission of propelling Mindanao and its people towards full economic growth and sustainable development.
MECHANICS OF THE SEARCH:Duration of the Search : January 15, 2013 to May 15, 2013Awards Night : June 1, 2013
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2. Nominees or candidates in various categories shall be nominated by BusinessWeek Mindanao and Mindanao Daily Bureaus; individuals, organization or groups not em-ployed by or connected to any of the nominated person or firm .
3. Nominations shall be accompanied by the ff documents which can be mailed, or emailed to the awards secretariat - MINDANAO BUSINESS LEADERS AWARDS 2013 Secretariat, Tanleh Bldg., Abellanosa St., Cagayan de Oro City,not later than May 15, 2013.
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MANILA—The money earned in a foreign land may probably push the overseas Filipino and the migrant family in some rural hometowns to invest and do business there. That was what a study, titled Remittance Investment Climate Analysis in Rural Hometowns (RICART), by the University of Santo Tomas found. Surveying overseas migrants from Magarao, Camarines Sur and Maribojoc, Bohol, the UST study done by professors Alvin Ang and Jeremaiah Opiniano found that the amount of re-mittances, the length of time sending money, and the percent of remittances to a household’s income may induce entre-preneurship and hometown investing. Meanwhile, after surveying also migrant families from the same low-income municipali-ties, researchers found that the larger the remittances that families receive, and the longer the length of time receiving these incomes “could possi-bly influence the likelihood of having a business in the hometown”. These factors to induce
OFW money a push for hometown investing
investing and doing business in the two rural hometowns were results of statistical tools that RICART employed to determine the relationship between remittances and in-vesting and doing business in rural hometowns. This is while some 40 percent of both the 69 remitters and 158 migrant families surveyed from the two hometowns were found to be investing and doing business already in Magarao and Maribojoc. Magarao is a fifth-class income municipality whose estimated remittances from abroad amount to P43.874 million coming from some 300 overseas Magaraoenos. Mari-bojoc, on the other hand, has an estimated P40.548 million of overseas remittances from nearly 900 migrant Maribo-jocanons. Overseas earnings are the leading income sources in both municipalities. If harnessed through hometown programs, policies and incentives that help overseas migrant entrepre-neurs and investors, these have a potential for local economic development, RICART wrote.
Previous studies, like that of economists from De La Salle University, found that remittances have a negative and significant impact on the probability of migrants to engage in entrepreneurship. “While there is no general link between owing a business and investing in hometowns with overseas remittances… the entrepreneurial potential of these incomes are fitting for poverty-stricken rural com-munities and the country as a whole,” Ang and Opiniano wrote. The Philippines has received over-US$200 billion in remit-tances coursed through banks in the last 38 years. This is even if the growth rates of annual remittance inflows have not reached double-digit figures since the 2008 global financial crisis. The country’s five-year de-velopment plan under the current administration had mandated the initiation of savings, investment and en-trepreneurship programs for overseas Filipinos and their families. As well, the 2011-2016 Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSMEs) De-velopment Plan has included overseas Filipinos as a target sector. The Japan government’s Ministry of Finance and the New Delhi-headquartered Global Development Net-work (GDN) supported RI-CART’s conduct when Ang and Opiniano, in 2011, won an international research contest that GDN organized.
a staff of the abante mindanao party-list office in Cagayan de oro prepares thousands of caps to be given to residents in Northern mindanao. The caps are part of the publicity campaign of abante mindanao rep. maximo rodriguez for the coming may elections. The caps also carry the “rr” initials of Cagayan de oro City 2nd District rep. rufus rodriguez who is also seeking re-election.PHoTo By:Gerry lee GoriT
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Kimberlite Pawnshop will be having an AUCTION SALE on all items that expired on January 2013
EXPIRY DATE
AUCTION MONTH
2012
TAGUM
BRANCH 1
BRANCH 2
MALAYBALAY
November 2011 JANUARY 19 12 26 17
December 2011 FEBRUARY 21 14 28 16
January 2012 MARCH 20 13 29 15
February 2012 APRIL 19 12 26 17
March 2012 MAY 22 15 29 17
April 2012 JUNE 21 14 26 19
May 2012 JULY 24 12 26 19
June 2012 AUGUST 21 14 28 16
July 2012 SEPTEMBER 20 13 27 18
August 2012 OCTOBER 18 12 25 16
September 2012 NOVEMBER 20 15 27 20
October 2012 DECEMBER 11 18 18 13
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thuRSDAy | fEbRuARy 28, 201310Peugeot...from page 1
international standards. No less than Peugeot’s
CEO for Asian Operations, Gregoire Olivier, will be on hand to formally open the dealership. The EDI management team tasked to launch the showroom, meanwhile, will be headed by EDI Chairman Johnny Hernandez.
With the opening cer-emony to be held today, EDI goes full blast with its dealership development program – a necessary step after the public’s warm re-ception of the French brand’s initial offerings.
In months to come, Peu-geot will open dealerships in Quirino Avenue in Ma-nila, Cebu, Pasay, Batangas, Marikina, Cabanatuan, C-5, Pasig, Bacolod, North EDSA and Davao City. EDI has also revealed that all of the said dealerships with be full service dealerships with complete sales, service and after-sales facilities.
When EDI announced its arrival into the Philip-pines last year, the company promised to bring in not just the best cars available from the Peugeot stable, but also the complete Peugeot ownership experience. This fast-tracked development is merely EDI’s way of living up to that commitment.
Interested parties may call Peugeot Cagayan de Oro at 088-856-3557 for test drive schedules and other queries regarding Peugeot offerings and services. You may also visit ww.peugeot.ph for full contact details and information on Peugeot in the Philippines.
Coal...from page 1
had an energy shortfall of 92 MegaWatts, which is projected to increase to a shortfall of 121 MW by 2016 “even with committed utilities on board.”
The Misamis Oriental 3x135 MW CFB Coal-Fired Thermal Power Project, to be set up by FDCUI and FDC Misamis Power Corp., will be using the Rankine Cycle Thermal Plant with CFB combustion technology boiler for a more efficient use of coal.
The advantages of us-ing CFB compared to the traditional coal-fired power plant like Steag’s is that CFB “doesn’t have to operate on very high temperature of 800 to 850 degrees to generate electricity.”
“High heat generates ele-ments that can contribute to acid rain,” Sanchez said.
Also, the plant’s boiler is designed to allow limestone to be injected to capture sulphur and convert this into calcium sulphate.
“The system also ef-fectively captures sulphur oxides (SOx) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) at 95% ef-ficiency rate, aside from eliminating fugitive coal dust,” she added.
Sanchez explained that the rankine cycle system was chosen because FDCUI is
committed to protecting the integrity of the environment.
In the Rankine cycle sys-tem, also known as Rankine thermodynamic cycle, the steam is produced by the boiler, where water pumped into the boiler (“feedwa-ter”) passes through a series of tubes to capture heat released by coal combus-tion and then boils under high pressure to become superheated steam. The superheated steam leav-ing the boiler then enters the steam turbine throttle, where it powers the turbine and connected generator to make electricity. After the steam expands through the turbine, it exits the back end of the turbine into the sur-face condenser, where it is cooled and condensed back to water. This condensate is then returned to the boiler through high-pressure feed pumps for reuse. Heat from the condensing steam is normally rejected to cooling water circulated through the condenser which then goes to a surface water body, such as a river, or to an on-site cooling tower.
“As a plant, it will cer-tainly generate CO2 and we don’t want to add to the CO2 in the atmosphere,” she stressed, adding that the system uses the “clean coal technology.”
“Clean coal technology is proven worldwide as safe and efficient,” she explained while showing pictures of CFB coal-fired power plant sitting right next to shop-ping malls in Taiwan and other places.
The first and second units of the plant are sched-uled to start operation in 2016 while the third unit is scheduled in 2018.
As of press time, FDC Misamis Power Corp./FD-CUI is in the process of finalizing electricity power purchase agreements (EP-PAs) with several Mindanao electric cooperatives. (Bong D. Fabe)
Shorter...from page 1
letter from Transporta-tion and Communication Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya to Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines Director General William Hotchkiss III dated January 4, 2013 that Laguindingan Airport will open “using Visual Flight Rule) unlike Lumbia Airport.
Former Orochamber president Elpidio Paras said Lumbia airport is using modern radar system or Instrument Landing System (ILS) to guide planes to land even at nights.
“I hope they will address this safety problem. Naviga-tional safety should not be compromised,” Paras said.
President Benigno Aqui-no III last Tuesday ordered the “soft opening” of the P7.8 billion Laguindigan Airport on April 30, 2013 after snubbing a delegation of local businessmen who came to oppose its opening.
President Aquino made the announcement twice—
the first at the Xavier Uni-versity Ecoville resettlement area in Barangay Lumbia; and when he spoke at the rally of the Liberal Party senatorial candidates at the Don Gregorio Pelaez Sports Center, both in Cagayan de Oro City.
“In two months time, you will have a new airport,” Aquino said adding that the new Laguindingan airport will encourage more tourists to visit Northern Mindanao.
The President said the government expects tour-ist arrivals to jump from some 480,000 in 2012 to 2.5 million tourists in 2016 with the operation of the Laguindingan airport.
“Mararanasan narin nila ang inyong white water rafting, river trekking at Kagayahaan Festival (Tour-ists will now experience white water rafting, river trekking and the Kagayhaan Festival),” Aquino said.
White water rafting, river trekking and Kagayhaan Festival are major tourist come-ons for Cagayan de Oro.
Aquino said to ensure an easier and quicker travel for tourists, the government will widen the highway link-ing Laguindingan Airport to Iligan and Cagayan de Oro cities from its present two-lane road into a modern four-lane highway.
But a consortium of busi-ness groups opposed its opening on April 30 saying flight safety is “fraught with danger” because the con-struction of Laguindingan Airport is still unfinish.
Elpidio Paras, former president of the Cagayan de Oro Chamber and In-dustries said a delegation of local traders went to Laguindingan Airport last Tuesday to meet President Aquino but was not even allowed to present their concerns.
“It seems that they have already made up their minds. The members of the Cabinet did not even introduce us to the Presi-dent. They do not want to listen to us,” Paras said.
Paras said they saw President Aquino being led around inspectingthe facilities of Laguindingan Airport by Transporta-tion and Communication Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya and Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines Director General William Hotchkiss III.
“Sila-sila ra nagstorya. We noticed they do not want to talk to us. We were not given a chance to present why we opposed the early opening of the airport,” Paras said.
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of the same town.The report said “a private
vehicle was hit by a falling mass of land” while travers-ing the highway en route to Tarragona town.
Malanyaon said the land-slide affected a stretch of “about a hundred meters” along the highway and tem-porarily closed traffic anew
between Mati City and the typhoon-devastated towns of Baganga, Boston and Cateel.
As of 9:15 p.m. Tues-day, Malanyaon said the road had been cleared for motorcycles and travellers on foot. She said she expects the highway to be opened to regular traffic by Wednesday because various equipment had been deployed to the area to speed up the road clearing.
Land travel between Mati City and Baganga resumed this month following the completion of the repair of the bridges destroyed by calamities: the Teodoro Palma Gil bridge that links Caraga town with Baganga which was destroyed by floodwaters and debris un-leashed by typhoon Pablo on December 4, and the. Caraga bridge linking Manay town with Caraga, which was destroyed by strong river currents on January 20.
The fixing of the bridges also opened land travel between Davao Oriental and Surigao del Sur. From Mati, the last town of Davao Oriental is Boston which shares a boundary with Lingig, Surigao del Sur.
According to the a Feb-ruary 22 posting on the website of the Department of Public Works and Highways, the restoration of the Caraga bridge cost P2 million and was completed with the provision of 67.06 lineal meter single compact 200 bridging materials while the Teodoro Palma Gil bridge reconstruction costing P4.6 million consists of 120 lineal meter-steel bridge to con-nect the breached center portion.
The Palma Gil bridge was opened to traffic on February 15 while the Cara-ga bridge was opened on February 2. (MindaNews)
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four others who made it to the top seven winners.
On other hand, Ozamiz City Schools Division racked up points enough to equalize Camiguin Schools Division for the top overall spot after her sterling performance in radio broadcasting in elementary level English and Filipino as well as in secondary level Filipino.
She also won first place in collaborative publish-ing in the elementary level Filipino while 17 others won in individual contest categories. Hence, this year’s RSPC host schools division will be sending a total of 36 delegates to the NSPC, eight of them among the top three winners in individual competitions.
Last year, Region 10 which was represented by Ozamiz City Schools Divi-sion was the NSPC 2012 (Puerto Princesa, Palawan) champion in radio broad-casting for secondary Fili-pino.
Camiguin amassed most of her points in secondary English, thus relegating Misamis Oriental and Oza-miz on second and third
spots, respectively, as well as in secondary Filipino since she was second to Misamis Oriental while Ozamiz was third. Ozamiz also collected additional points since she was second to Misamis Occidental in elementary English while Bukidnon was third. In elementary Filipino, it was Cagayan de Oro on the top spot while Valencia and Malaybalay was second and third, respectively.
Other overall top-per-forming school divisions were Misamis Oriental, third; Cagayan de Oro, fourth; and Misamis Oc-cidental, fifth.
TOP JOURNALISTS, ADVISERS
Meanwhile, Farnazo indicated in the Feb. 21, 2013 memorandum that two school paper advisers and two campus journalists from Northern Mindanao will be formally recognized during the 2013 NSPC awarding ceremonies.
Adjudged by DepEd 10 regional screening and evaluation committee as regional outstanding school paper advisers are Gina C. Barcenal of Jasaan National High School, Misamis Ori-ental and Rowell C. Villaru-bia of Ozamiz City Central School, Ozamiz City.
This year’s regional out-standing journalists are sports writer Eric L. Edulan of Yumbing National High School and news writer Lady Diamong Fiel Viernes of Narciso Ledesma Central School, Ozamiz City.
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NPA last August 26, 2012.
But the time has come when their longstanding malpractice can no longer go unrestrained like the old way. Revolutionary forces are now around their plan-tations reasonably available to keep them in check. The recent attack is but a pre-liminary step that sends a clear message: this is now pay back time.
As to the workers of DMPI, they must unite and establish their genuine union to assert their rights and welfare and link with the national democratic movement with a socialist perspective. To the work-ers and Lumads, they must further strengthen their unity and involvement in advancing the revolution-ary armed struggle which implements genuine land reform.
To all environmental advocates and those who care for mother earth and humanity, we must expose and oppose the environmen-tally-destructive operations of the agribusiness planta-tions of Del Monte and Dole. We must be ever-vigilant and assert our rights and of the future generations to make this planet a safe place for all of us.
(Sgd) Cesar RenerioSpokespersonNDFP-NCMR
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four days old.But development is more
than these, and ships and ports and airports and resorts. It is more than increasing reliability on information technology (IT), although it’s great help.
It’s also the quality of the skills that our people possess. It’s also the raw aspiration of the youth as they acquire skills in all dimensions. There’s no one-to-one correspondence of skills to job. But our young people can assume responsibility for working on their future. Are the schools attentive to this? If the answer is yes, then there’s an ounce of hope.
Then. we don’t need the NPA to shut out the road to Cam Phillips and to an-nounce anything of signifi-cance from Dahilayan.
Then we don’t need poli-ticians to reconnoiter the future for our children.
Then we don’t expect the planners to rebuke us when there’s no development, but only growth.
•••Re-quote for the week:
“Who knows if God will not change his mind and relent, if he will not renounce his burning wrath, so that we do not perish? God saw their efforts to renounce their evil behavior, and God relented: he did not inflict on them the disaster which he had threatened,” -Jonah 3:9-10
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through P.D. 765 which was approved on August 8, 1975, in like manner failed to give due recognition and value to the Criminol-ogy profession. Wherein the academic program of Criminology was even way ahead before the Philippine government was able to set –up its crime laboratory.
The academic curricu-lum of the B.S. Criminology program is a look alike if not a mimic of the curricu-lum of B.S. Public Safety a program offered in the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) which started in 1978. This would only manifest that in deed products of the PNPA and Criminologists have the same academic foundation. However, their disparity in opportunity and rights is unparalleled, for it has no basis of similar opportuni-ties, rights and benefits.
The EDSA I revolution pave the way for the pas-sage of R.A. 6975, we were glad since it mentioned and recognized the Crimi-nology field as a potent contributor to the human resource of the technical and leadership of the vari-ous units of the Philippine National Police, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, and Bureau of Fire Protection.
Seven years after the approval of R.A. 6975, on January of 1991, the Phil-ippine Congress amended it, in 1998 R.A. 8551 was passed into law and it has empowered and recognized the value of Criminology graduates and most impor-tantly the Criminologists. The efforts of the Crimi-nology predecessors is now reaped by the new breed of Criminologists benefiting not only from the aca-demic training inculcated but more so with legwork, networking, linkages, and voluntarism of the prede-cessors of the Criminology discipline curving the kind of Criminology education and the benefits attached thereto.
However, we the stake holders of the Criminology profession has a duty to pay it forward to the next gen-
eration of Criminologists. While we recognized the rights and benefits we enjoy today as Criminologists we feel its not yet enough and complete. We need to push more legal mandates that would empower us and protect this profession. Protect not only from the invaders, but protect the name that it would not be tarnished nor blem-ished with corruption in material, moral, ethical, academic incompetence, political, social and cultural degradation.
We have strongly sup-ported the action initi-ated by the Congressman from the Second District of Zamboanga Del Sur, Congressman ANTONIO H. CERELLES, who vig-orously filed House Bill 6497 and House Bill 6498 amending the provisions of R.A. 8551 and R.A. 9263 respectively. The amend-ment is anchored primar-ily on the qualification of the PNP, BJMP, and BFP that the minimum quali-fication for appointment to any of these agencies should be B.S. Criminol-ogy graduate, and must have passed the Licensure Examination. We need to embrace wholeheartedly the developments as this would cement the destiny for a better future of our criminologists.
I am calling all Crimi-nologists to all rally behind these House Bills and pull our resources together, as we push our respective con-gressman in our respective congressional district to support these initiatives. If our lobby efforts would not catapult to its realization under this administra-tion then we should not rest our laurels nor be disheartened, but rather we should make use of it as our conduit and stream of action, motivation, and inspiration, before our expiration.
We should be the change we want to see in the fu-ture. Let our action be the audacity of hope for the next generation. As we create this condition we are creating the tipping point of our profession and blink it to wherever we will be.
THE Philippines’ largest national flag carrier, Cebu Pacific (PSE:CEB) reminds passengers that the Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA) will integrate the PHP200 do-mestic terminal fee into the cost of all airline tickets starting March 1, 2013.
All passengers with do-mestic flights originating from or passing through the Cebu airport will soon pay their PHP200 MCIAA terminal fees upon purchase of airline tickets. Purchase may be done through inter-
Cebu airport terminal fee to be integrated into CEB tickets starting March 1 this year
net booking, airline ticket offices and ticketing or travel agents.
Those who book their Cebu tickets before March 1 will still pay the MCIAA terminal fee at designated terminal fee counters at the airport.
“Last August 2012, all airlines began collecting the domestic terminal fee for flights out of Manila. With one less queue, the arrangement has success-fully improved passenger flow at the airport,” said CEB VP for Marketing and
Distribution Candice Iyog.“We are working with
MCIAA to replicate this, to further improve guest experience at the airport. From Manila and now Cebu, our passengers will no longer have to line up and pay the terminal fee after checking in for their flight,” she added.
CEB offers the most flights out of Cebu, with 20 direct domestic and 6 international routes. This includes direct flights from Cebu to Manila, Coron, Clark, Caticlan (Boracay),
Davao, General Santos, Cagayan de Oro, Legazpi, Puerto Princesa, Surigao, Pagadian, Iloilo and Ozamiz.
CEB passengers passing through the airline’s Cebu hub grew 20% in 2012, as compared to 2011.
“We encourage everyone to continuously check our website and official Face-book or Twitter pages for the latest announcements, as well as seat sales and promos,” Iyog said.
CEB currently holds a 50% off seat sale on all
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