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BUTUAN City––Vice Mayor Lawrence Lemuel Fortun has asserted his political strength and popularity among the Butuanons with the release yesterday by an independent, non-partisan research and education or-ganization of its latest survey of voters’ preferences in this city days before the May 13, 2013 elections.

Based on Father Saturni-no Urios University (FSUU) Policy Center’s April 24-30, 2013 survey, Fortun was the “most preferred candidate” for Agusan del Norte’s first congressional seat by 48.61 percent of the voters or al-most 50 percent more than the 25.51 percent garnered by lawyer Roan Libarios.

The survey was the last of a four-series study which covered respondents from all the city’s 86 barangay chosen using a proportional random sampling method. It involved 1,831

Fortun takes leadin latest survey

rED AlErt. An army soldier manned a 50 caliber machinegun on top an armored vehicle as police and army units rush to the town of Munai, lanao del Norte friday, May 3 to defuse growing tension between local candidates. MindaNews photo

tAsK force panguil commander and Deputy regional Director for operations sr. supt. David y. ombao (below right) briefs reporters regarding the arrival of policemen from camp Alagar in cagayan de oro to augment the police forces of the philippine National police (pNp) in Misamis occidental. upper left, Acting provincial Director sr. supt. raul Araza Benitez skims Mindanao Daily as members of the 10th regional public safety Battalion listen to the briefing conducted by Deputy provincial Director for Administration supt. paciano Deloso (below left) while the tf commander (aboe right). photo by pJ tremedal

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OROQUIETA City––A company of the Philip-pine National Police (PNP) scouts, newly trained by the 10th Regional Public Safety Battalion, arrived here on

More cops deployed in MisocSaturday to augment the local police as the May 13, 2013 midterm elections draw near.

Police authorities beefed up its security after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) identified Misa-mis Occidental as among the

15 provinces considered as election hot spots.

Sr. Supt. David Y. Om-bao, task force head and deputy regional director for operations of the regional police in Northern Min-danao, told reporters the

MATALAM, North Cotabato––A mem-ber of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was killed during a clash with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) fighters on Sunday night in a remote vil-lage here, police said.

About 3,000 individuals from three ad-joining villages have fled to safer grounds when both sides, each with 200 fighters, traded bullets until Monday morning.

Chief Inspector Elias Dandan of Mata-lam police said the firefight was between the forces of Datu Dima Ambel, MNLF chair for North Cotabato, and a certain

Commander Manzur of the MILF 108th base command.

Dandan said the MILF was to host a Bangsamoro Framework Agreement information forum in Barangay Marbol, Matalam, North Cotabato, an area also known as the bailiwick of Commander Ambel.

Commander Manzur claimed the MNLF fired the first shot after they took hostage a member of the MILF and disarmed him.

Dandan could not say who fired the first shot between MNLF and MILF

3,000 residents flee homes as Mnlf, Milf fight in N. Cotabato

Calls to pursue peace talks, gaining ground

GOVERNMENT-NDFP

DAVAO City––Various groups have raised the alarm after the Aquino govern-ment announced the “col-lapse” of peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).

Saying the government should not be the first to lose hope, Bishop Felixberto Calang, main convenor of the peace advocacy group Sowing the Seeds of Peace

By MArIlou AGuIrrE-tuBurAN of DavaoToday.com

in Mindanao, called on the GPH peace panel, par-ticularly its chief negotia-tor Alexander Padilla, to “persevere” in either the regular of special tracks of the negotiations.

Padilla, in a statement posted at the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process website, said the Aquino government has considered a “new approach”

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A CONSUMER group in General Santos is decrying the recent events where foreign companies are al-legedly taking advantage of the Mindanao power crisis to the detriment of the Filipino people.

Roy Sande of the Con-sumers Against Exploitation (CAE) decried the signing of the Power Sales Contract between SOCOTECO 2 and Peak Power, a subsidiary of an American company, A Brown.

“This US company did not only sign a very expen-sive contract. The signing itself was anomalous as the essential provisions of the contract were left blank,” Roy said. “Clearly,” he said, “this is a firm trying to take advantage of us here in General Santos City.”

The group also pointed out that this company has been singled out by human rights groups in Mindanao for its participation in the harmful expansion of palm oil plants.

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iary Peak Power, signed a contract with blank pages, the same group claimed. Pointing out the essential provisions that were left blank, Roy likened it to SOCOTECO 2’s “signing a blank check.”

“Murag nakamenos sila (SOCOTECO 2 officials) sa amo mga consumers, porke wala me suga, bisag unsa na lang puede nila ilabay sa amo-a. Abi nila dili me makakita.” They (SOCOTECO 2 officials) think we are stupid. Just because we have no lights, they think they can throw anything at us because we won’t see anyway), Sande lamented.

“Diha sila nasayop!” (That’s where they are mis-taken), Sande warned. He said that they will not stop until SOCOTECO 2 scraps the Peak Power contract.

He also pointed out that last week, Energy Interna-

tional (EI) participated in and won the bid by SO-COTECO II for a two-year diesel power supply for the EC. EI is not too well known in the local power indus-try. Their website (http://www.linkedin.com/com-pany/energy-international-corporation) states the EI, based in Michigan, USA, was established in 1979 as a company serving the HVAC Industry. EI is supplying contractors, consultants, municipalities, government agencies, airport & seaport authorities, as well as end-users and OEM manufac-turers.

“Unsa ang pagtan-aw nila sa amo, bo-ang?” Roy asked. He said SOCOTECO 2 is not buying mere air-conditioners but power plants.

The consumer group pointed out that while EI submitted the lowest bid, it reportedly did not comply

with the bid’s terms of ref-erence (TOR).

The TOR required the bidders to post a cash per-formance guarantee in the form a check or remittance to be deposited to the ac-count of SOCOTECO 2. EI, however, only submitted a Letter of Credit.

“Ngano man ipa-lusot nila ning bidder kung wala siya ka-comply? Ing-ana na ba gyud ka babaw ang pag-tan-aw nila sa amo-a? Ngano pa ipa-agi sa bid-ding? Ginaliba lang mi!” (Why did they allow the bidder to submit a non-complying bid? Is that how low they (SOCOTECO 2 officials) think of us? So why go through a bidding? Just to hoodwink us?),” Sande and his group lamented.

If the TOR were to be followed strictly, since an LC is not eligible as a perfor-mance guarantee, EI would have been disqualified from the bid. Only cash bonds were supposedly acceptable to ensure that only qualified bidders would participate. Nonetheless, SOCOTECO 2 allowed EI to participate, he said.

Sande pointed out that if it were a Filipino company, it would have been disquali-fied right away.

The group also claimed that this same consortium did not deliver power plants they were supposed to de-liver in the past. Cesar Her-nandez of the consortium is the President of 3i that failed to deliver in 2007, 30 MW in Marinduque, Tablas, and Romblon. This failure to deliver, according to the group, was in spite of the approval of the Energy regulatory Commission (ERC).

“In spite of this infor-mation, SOCOTECO 2 accepted their bid,” ac-cording to Sande. “We, the consumers, will stand to lose because if the bidder cannot deliver, they have nothing to lose because they did not deposit any CASH bond,” said Sande.

The group vowed not to stop going against what they believe is a system-atic exploitation by foreign companies of the Filipi-nos. “They might have the money and power now, but we are not going to stop until people, like EI’s and A Brown’s, are stopped by the Filipino people.

The group has called on SOCOTECO 2 to stop entering into contracts with these firms.

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THE city government of Cagayan de Oro will continue to settle its obligations with lot owners whose properties are affected by city projects.

The City Council during its regular ses-sion this afternoon to be presided over by Vice Mayor Caesar Ian E. Acenas is slated to appropriate the amount of P667,730 from the 2013 land acquisition appropriation

as full payment for just compensation of the improvements of the claimants on properties

affected by the city’s resettlement project in Barangay Pagatpat. The legislation passed through the review of the committee on laws and rules chaired by Councilor Ramon G. Tabor and was favorably endorsed by Mayor Vicente Emano and the Local Finance Committee.

Just payments to lot owners up for approval

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CAGAYAN de Oro City––With the primary source of its power mix compro-mised by climate change, two industries in one of the regions in Mindanao hardest hit by the perennial energy shortage are turning to solar energy.

Cargill Oil Mills Phil-ippines Inc., one of the top 20 companies oper-ating in General Santos City, recently visited the only grid-connected solar energy plant in the country in this city for a first-hand look at what it hopes would someday soon be its main source of energy.

By MIKE BAños, Editor-at-large

THE National Grid Corporation of the Philippines maintains it has not been remiss in its obligations with regards to the mandated refund of P392 million ordered refunded by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC).

The NGCP submitted on April 17, 2013 its recalcula-tion of the overcharges for ancillary services, in compli-ance with an order from the ERC received July 9, 2012.

“[NGCP) was tasked to track down the consumption of each of its load customers, then figure out how much of the overcharges per billing period corresponds to each of its Mindanao load customers,” said Atty. Cynthia P. Alabanza, NGCP Spokesperson and Adviser for External Affairs in an email reply to Business World. “It is a not neither a simple nor a minor matter. And NGCP was very careful in making its calculations.”

Ms. Alabanza clarified the refunds calculated do not include interest but only the amounts specified in the ERC order.

Ms. Alabanza said NGCP also had to stress in its official statement how it did not earn any money in the transaction due to consumer’s confusion over the man-ner with which ancillary services (AS) is lumped with “transmission charges” in power bills issued by many distribution utilities.

“NGCP really does not make any money on the pro-vision of AS. Unlike other transmission services where we have to opportunity to make a return on our

NGCP clarifiesissue on Aspa refund

THE Energy Regulatory Com-mission (ERC), in its Decision dated April 1, 2013, granted the Philippine Electricity Market Cor-poration (PEMC) final authority to use the unutilized portion of Market Transaction Fees collected in 2012 amounting to P34.25 million for the establishment of the Interim Mindanao Electricity Market (IMEM).

The ERC issued earlier an Order dated February 25, 2013 provisionally authorizing the PEMC the initial amount of P24.26 million to finance the IMEM proj-ect pending the ERC’s final evalu-ation of its application docketed as ERC Case No. 2013-011 RC.

ERC’s Decision affirms IMEM’s

budget requirement of P5.98 mil-lion for pre-operating expenses and P8.28 million for capital expenditures (CAPEX) granted in the PA.

PEMC asked for a P20,000 million consultancy budget and was initially granted half of this amount in the PA pending sub-mission of the supporting docu-ments. Based on the supporting documents submitted by PEMC, the ERC found it prudent to grant only a budget of P19.992 million for technical services consultancy.

The IMEM is an innovative government measure to address the power shortage situation in Mindanao embodied in the De-partment of Energy’s Department

Circular No. 2013-0001.Power generators and other

entities are given the opportunity to sell their excess generation capacities based on the resulting market prices to optimize the use of available generated power in Mindanao.

The IMEM features day-ahead pricing market wherein the gen-erators or market participants are supposed to submit their bids or offers a day before the actual delivery or curtailment of energy.

The IMEM also mandates generators, directly-connect-ed customers, and distribution customers to offer their excess generation capacities in order to augment and address the supply

deficiency in the Mindanao grid. The generators’ nominations will help correct energy imbalances through the use of the merit or-der system, a system that gives dispatch priority to the lowest bidders.

The PEMC is authorized to charge Market Transaction Fees (MTF) from WESM members or participants pursuant to Section 30 of Republic Act No. 9136 other-wise known as the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) of 2001.

MTFs are the costs pertinent to the administering and operat-ing the WESM, and which have passed the ERC’s approval.

The approved amount to estab-

lish the IMEM from the unused 2012 Market Transaction Fees is subject to refund to Luzon and Visayas WESM participants once the IMEM has started commercial operations.

The PEMC will have to even-tually file an application with the ERC for the approval of a refund mechanism to the Luzon and Visayas WESM members.

“The ERC is united with the Department of Energy (DOE) in its aim towards solving the Mindanao crisis and, at the same time, putting a balance on fi-nancial and price impacts with consumer welfare paramount in mind,” ERC Chairperson Zenaida G. Cruz-Ducut said.

CAGAYAN de Oro City––In its bid to create new ca-pacities to meet Mindanao’s surging power needs, the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) chal-lenged the region’s coopera-tives to explore potential investments in renewable energy to help address the island-region’s lingering power deficit.

ERC grants P34.25 million final budget for ‘Imem’

Mindanao industries turn to solar energy

1MW photovoltaic power plant, Barangay Indahag, cagayan de oro city. source: www.cepalco.com.ph/solar.php

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“We are putting up a 2.3 megawatt (MW) solar power plant for our copra crushing plant in Bgy. Tambler as our first option given the lengthy brownouts we’ve been experiencing through the years as a result of the power shortage,” said Ruther S. Baroy, senior plant man-ager. “At present, we are sourcing our power from the South Cotabato II Electric Cooperative (Socoteco II) with our back-up diesel gen-erator as a second option.”

However, Mr. Baroy said the extended brownouts in Gensan have forced them to increasingly operate their back-up genset which is prohibitively expensive and greatly degrades the price

competitiveness of their crude coconut oil product. This, despite the plant’s con-sistent operations at one of the highest utilization rates in the industry using the mechanical, full press oil extraction technology. Pro-vided its copra raw material is available, Mr. Baroy said Cargill runs the 700,000MT capacity plant 24/7.

Another industrial plant which is considering solar energy as a viable main option for its power needs is the Japanese-owned Na-kayama Technology Cor-poration in nearby Davao del Sur. The plant employs 1,010 workers at its seven hectare plant site in Bgy. Cogon, Digos City,

Its siding board factory and has a capacity of 1,500 granite wall panels daily. It also manufactures brick tiles made from indigenous materials.

“We are in talks to construct a 1.6MW solar plant for their factory,” said Amado V. Santos, vice pres-ident-marketing, Scintillant Corporation, distributor of Enfinity Philippines Renew-able Resources Inc. (EPRRI).

EPRRI, the local arm of Belgian renewable en-ergy developer Enfinity, has committed to push through with its planned solar power portfolio in the Philippines despite the low feed-in-tariff (FiT) rate granted for solar

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CAMP RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – Two mem-bers of the Bantay-Kabu-hayan Philippines were wounded in a 15-minute encounter with troops from the Bayabas police, Public Safety Company of Surigao Sur PPO and 29th IB, Philippine Army in Sitio Cabigte, Brgy Cabugo, Bayabas, Surigao del Sur, early morning of May 2, this year.

Wounded were Pablo Garido, 39 years old; and Jovito O. Tubat, 44 years old of Purok 3, Brgy Cas-tillo, San Miguel.

Two of their compan-ions, Rodel M. Saavedra, 31years old of Brgy Patong, San Miguel; and Homer Sausal, 66 years old of Brgy Verdu, Bayugan City, were apprehended.

Taken from their pos-session were three im-provised shotguns, two shotgun magazines loaded with eleven 12 gauge car-tridges, one fired shot-gun cartridge, one hand grenade, one bolo and personal belongings.

Authorities recovered an Ingram MMI caliber 9mm and a magazine with 13 live bullets at the house used as hideout by the suspects, owned by Simeon “Sammy” Llano.

Garido and Tubat were brought to the Adela Serra Ty Memorial Medical Cen-ter for medical treatment, while Saavedra and Sausal, with the confiscated items are now under the custody of the Bayabas police.

Two other members of the group, Martiniano D. Hampas Jr. and Wenmark P. Nabiong, able to escape during the incident. (ZMP/MMG/asf)

BUTUAN CITY – City Election Officer Ernie F. Palanan has urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to prepare the classrooms to be used as polling precincts in the May 13 midterm elections.

School officials urged to prepare classrooms for May polls

By Robert E. Roperos

This, after the official received reports that there are still some schools in the city that have not made preparations for the con-duct of the election.

He said that to avoid disruption of the voting process and tension among

members of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs) during the election day, school administrators whose schools are desig-nated as voting precincts, should do necessary prepa-rations, as early as now.

The Comelec official also enjoined the school of-ficials to designate, within the school premises, an action center where the me-dia, volunteers, members of the National Movement for Free Elections (NAM-FREL), Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) will have to stay while monitoring the election process.

Palanan also said the action center must have

personnel, who will en-tertain queries from the public to ensure smooth conduct of the election.

With this development, the official advised the BEIs to be in the voting precincts at least one day before the election to prepare everything and to watch over the PCOS machines.

Barangay people are also enjoined to watch over the machines.

He also encouraged the public to visit the Comelec Office to know their clus-ter precinct and number sequence. “In this case, they can immediately go to their precincts and cast their votes,” Palanan added.

He likewise informed

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By PO3 Zena Menioria Panaligan

those who do not know their sequence and were not able to visit the Come-lec Office to inquire at the action center of the respec-tive schools where voting precincts are located.

Further, persons with physical disabilities, lac-tating mothers and senior citizens are advised to bring pertinent documents to

show that they have infants and are feeding them or identification card that they are senior citizens so that they may be given priority in casting their votes.

Palanan also reminded barangay officials, candi-dates and supporters to stay away from the voting precincts after they have

casted their votes in order not to disrupt the election proceedings.

Political watchers are also warned not to cam-paign or distribute bro-chures of their supported candidates because that they will be held liable to any legal measures against them. (RER, PIA-Caraga/asf )

TANDAG CITY - The Pro-vincial Social Welfare and Development (PSWD) of Surigao del Sur has con-ducted a two-day train-ing on handling cases of Violence Against Women and Children (VAWC), recently.

PSWD Off icer May Navidad Salinas said the training was participated

in by health personnel from different community hospi-tals and rural health units in the first and second districts of the province.

Speaker from the Re-gional Inter-Agency Coun-cil for Anti-Trafficking-VAWC discussed the de-tailed system on recording, reporting and referral of VAWC victims.

Salinas added the ac-tivity was the first in the province, with support from the United Nations Population Fund.

Before the end of this year, members of the Pro-vincial-IACAT will also undergo an orientation on the VAWC referral system. (RER/NGBT, PIA-Surigao del Sur/asf )

Surigao Sur hosts VAWC training By Nida Grace B. Tranquilan

HIDDEN WORLD - Local tourists enter the hidden world of Buenavista Cave in Hiklop Island in Surigao City on April 28, 2013. MindaNews photo by Roel Catoto

CARMEN, Agusan del Norte, - A total of 54 f a r m e r s f r o m B r g y. M a n o l i g a o, C a r m e n , Agusan del Nor te re-ceived their individual certificates of land own-ership award (CLOA) following the handing-over ceremony in the barangay multi-purpose building on Thursday.

Department of Agrar-ian Reform (DAR) Re-gional Director Faisar Mambuay led the distri-bution with Carmen Vice Mayor Wil ly Taglocop and DAR Asst. Regional Director Andre Atega, covering 95 hectares of agricultural land.

Mambuay congratu-lated the recipients em-phasizing the confidence it will bring if the name is printed in the title. “I hope this is just the start, as I intend to come back

with more support ser-vices for the area,” said Mambuay in his message.

He also encouraged the beneficiaries to stay united in their coopera-tive as government proj-ects are coursed through organizations.

Atega also emphasized the responsibilities a cloa-holder must always bear in mind.

Among the recipients was 88-year old Berna-dita Regner, who became teary-eyed looking at her land title, with her daugh-ter Judith who is now 62. The mother-daughter recipient, who have been farmers all their life, ex-pressed thanks to DAR with hope that the land will improve their fam-ily’s and children’s lives. (NCLM/Joie L. Ceballos, DAR-13/PIA-Agusan del Norte)

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This is what Cat@lyst, a Tattoo-branded corpo-rate social responsibility initiative in partnership with the Global Shapers Manila Hub, envisions today’s youth to do – cause a chain reaction of positive action to make a difference in society using modern technology.

Tattoo, the most reli-able mobile broadband powered by Globe, takes the advocacy of Global Shapers to bring the Cat@lyst vision to life.

The Global Shapers Manila Hub is composed of young extraordinary individuals with great po-tential for future leadership roles in society.

It is part of the Glob-al Shapers community, a global program of the World Economic Forum.

For its f irst project, Cat@lyst seeks to harness creativity, energy and so-cial media through a youth challenge with the Global Shapers acting as men-

BANK of the Philippine Islands continued to deliver sustainable growth as it reported a net income of P8.4 billion for the first quarter of 2013. This was 43% higher than last year’s P5.8 billion.

At the end of first quarter, BPI’s total resources were P940 billion, 16% higher year-on-year as deposits grew by the same rate to P748 billion. In addition, the Bank was able to increase its assets under management to P758 billion or 6% more than same period last year.

Net loans hit P514 billion, 19% better year-on-year. Lending to top corporates was up by 25%, while the middle market and SME segments went up by 17% and 14% respectively. Consumer loans also grew by 15%. Gross 30 days NPL ratio was down to 2.1% from last year’s 2.5%. Reserve cover was 129%.

The improvement in net income for the period was driven by the 21% growth in total revenues as the Bank took advantage of the favorable market condition to register securities trading gains. Net interest income was slightly up, as average asset base expanded by 15%. Net yields though, contracted as interest rates continued to decline.

Other non-interest income lines likewise improved, particularly service charges and commissions, trust fees, and corporate finance fees.

Operating costs reached P6.6 billion or 7% more year-on-year due to higher regulatory, technology, man-power, and variable costs. Impairment losses, however was down from last year.

BPI’s market capitalization as of end of March 2013 stood at P391 billion. Its Basel 2 Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) was 15.1%.

In its recently held Stockholders’ Meeting, leadership of BPI was turned over to its new President and CEO Mr. Cezar Consing.

Outgoing President and CEO Mr. Aurelio R. Monti-nola III commented: “With a strong Team BPI, we are confident that BPI will continue to move forward with quality sustainable growth.”

Montinola added: “I firmly believe that my successor, a competent and experienced professional with many years in the international banking arena, will further take the Bank to a new level and position BPI as one of the best Asean banks in the near future.”

FOR the seventh run of Gabii sa Kabilin of Ramon Aboitiz Founda-tion Inc. (RAFI) on May 31, the public can now reserve their tickets through online.

With a single pass for only Php 150, the holder can have access to all destinations, as well as rides in

designated buses and one tartanilla (horse-drawn carriage).

Participating museums and heri-tage sites will simultaneously open from 6 p.m. to midnight for public viewing. Admission is free for children aged seven and below.

Tickets can already be purchased

and reserved in advance starting May 3 at any of the 34 participating destinations in the cities of Cebu, Lapu-Lapu, Mandaue, and Talisay.

For ticket reservation, interested individuals can fill out the form through this link: www.rafi.org.ph/event/2013-gsk-reserve.

Online reservation of Gabii sa Kabilin tickets

BPI net income up by 43% in first quarter

Cat@lyst launched for social change

tors. Some of the Global Shapers are Tattoo ambas-sador Bianca Gonzalez; Save Philippine Seas co-founder Anna Oposa; San Vicente, Palawan Mayor Pie Alvarez; doctor and researcher on neglected tropical diseases, Harvy Liwanag; and Mano Amiga Academy co-founder Lynn Pinugu.

Both Tattoo and the Global Shapers are working hand-in-hand to encourage the youth to make concrete and feasible solutions to the problems of their com-munities such as air pollu-tion, traffic enforcement, crime prevention, among others.

“We are looking for a realistic solution that has an ICT component and has the potential to be replicated in other com-munities. We need young people who have a genuine desire to help,” said Dong Ronquillo, Head of Tat-too Nomadic Broadband Business.

Bianca Gonzalez, one of the most active members of Global Shapers Manila Hub and a Tattoo ambas-sador, said: “We have a lot of exceptional young people who can act as a catalyst toward social and economic change. So to-gether with Globe, we want to harness their capabilities

with the help of ICT and social media to come up with realistic solutions to real community problems.”

Filipino citizens, aged 18-30, can submit a pro-posal via a one-minute video entry from May 2 to 31 which meets the following criteria:

1. Innovation – dem-onstrates creativity and originality

2. Implementation Fea-sibility – proposal should be executable in the given timeline and proponents should demonstrate capa-bility to mobilize stake-holders involved

3. Impact – provides a long-lasting solution to an existing social problem

Application forms may be downloaded from the Globe Cat@lyst website www.catalyst.com.ph and from the entries, 15 will be shortlisted. Five winners will then be chosen in June and will be awarded a P200,000 cash grant for program development, mentorship, and ICT sup-port.

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A deeper view

Jesse E.L. Bacon II

THE personal denial made by Sen. Loren Legarda that she does not know the PR man who she accused of being behind the propa-ganda to discredit her days before the midterm elec-tions on Monday came as a big surprise to me since I personally know that both know each other pretty well.

In fact, I knew for a fact that for a long time Legarda and the PR man who she identified as Willie F. were professionally related with each other for a long time in the past. Twice I was invited to two celebrations of Legarda that at this point I could not remember any-more if they were her elec-tion victory parties held at Manila Polo Club clubhouse and at the Century Park Sheraton Seafood restaurant. The invite was sent me by the office of Willie F.

SEVEN days remaining. The adrena-line is pumping high as judgment day nears. Everyone talks about the May 13, 2013 elections as, probably, one of the worst that may take place in history. However, everyone is con-fident that the elections would turn out peaceful and orderly.

The military tagged Gingoog City, a component city of Misamis Orien-tal, as one of the areas of concern in Northern Mindanao. The situation was precipitated with the ambuscade of Gingoog City Mayor Ruthie Guingona’s convoy last month. Guingona survived the ambush.

A few days after the ambuscade, some 500 battle-clad marines swooped down Gingoog City’s hinterlands in search of the New People’s Army (NPA) rebels responsible for Guingona’s ambushed. The North Central Mindanao Revolutionary Committee owned the shooting of Guin-gona’s convoy but denied their group fired first.

Anyway, the incident took place sending an alarm to Gingoog residents and voters of a possible trouble come May 13 elections. The government believes that sending the marines would appease the residents of their anxieties.

Something has to be clarified ‘though since war is nowhere in Gingoog or elsewhere in Misamis Oriental. Nothing is abnormal in Gingoog to this day. Nowhere are the suspicious looking Marines that patrol the nook

LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “… The Nephilim were on the earth in those days---and also afterward---when the children of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown…” (Genesis 6:4, the Holy Bible).

-ooo-ARE BRILLANTES AND

COMELEC AFRAID OF SOMETHING? Why is Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. of the Commission on Elections and his fellow commissioners at the poll body refusing to satisfac-torily answer, while there is still ample time before the May 13, 2013 elections, accusations that the use of Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines will not yield honest, credible and valid results? Are they

What areas of concern?and cranny of Gingoog. There are no Marine checkpoints on the highways of Misamis Oriental and in the vicinity of Gingoog City.

What makes a thing disgusting is the painstaking in-convenience as one hurdles the more than 50-kilometer one lane road from Barangay Consuelo to the Artadi, Magsaysay. A major road repair is undergoing that slows down economic activity, especially the transport of cross border goods and commodities.

One wonders why the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) always let the public suffer during repairs and maintenance of national roads. For instance, the Cagayan de Oro – Iligan road repair re-mains unfinished to this day. It was almost two years ago that the Cagayan de Oro-Iligan road repair started. Until now, the riding public suffers since the contrac-tor that the DPWH contracted to do the repair has not completed the job. The taxpayers do not deserve the DPWH maltreatment.

Well, one should not be afraid of the Marines in Misamis Oriental. On the contrary, one should be wor-ried the way the DPWH is handling the projects in the province. There are fears that the sorry state of Misamis Oriental’s national roads and highways would become an acceptable alibi in delaying the transport of election results next week.

People know that a delay in the transmittal of election results would cast a thousand suspicion with unpredict-able outcomes. If that happens, especially in Misamis Oriental, ask the Marines. React: crisguardian@yahoo.com

Legarda’s inexplicable behavior

Everyone in the media in Manila knows that the Wil-lie F. referred to by Legarda who is behind this smear campaign against her is the same Willie F. who served as her PR man for quite a time. Why would she lie about her having known and having engaged Willie F’s professional services in the past is a real puzzle to so many. In this regard, Legarda should cut herself clean from this lie.

Perhaps Legarda just

wanted to establish that the expose’ she said Willie F. was circulating should not be believed because the guy does not know her. And here lies the problem. Willie F. used to be her PR man thus knows her from the tip of her hair to the tip of her toes. Anything about Legarda, in all likelihood, Willie F. knows. Could this be the reason Legarda had to lie because their past professional relationship established the fact that

Willie F. knows her pretty well?

Why would Legarda tremble that the smear cam-paign against her is being orchestrated by Willie F. if these are mere fabrications without any basis in truth and in fact?

Legarda, by the way, had already denied any sinister intentions in her alleged failure to include in her Statement of Assets, Li-abilities and Net Worth a luxurious apartment unit in New York. She brandished before media practitioners during a press conference she called a certification issued by a private law and auditing firm purporting that she had included such property in all her SALNs.

Whether she had in fact included such property which she said was

Why did Brillantes chicken out?

hiding something? Or, are they afraid of something?

By and large, the accu-sations are no longer just coming from political oppo-nents or critics of President Aquino and the Comelec, but from well-meaning and long-standing political allies as well, in the likes of Sen. T.G. Guingona III’s father, former Vice President Teo-fisto Guingona Jr.

As it is, these accusations have now reached the level of being incapable of being ignored, or simply brushed

under the rug, or swept away by the popularity of President Aquino, as they have become both a national and international concern, what with the cases pending before the Supreme Court, the United Nations, and the Comelec itself. The Comelec must clarify the air now, before the people themselves will feel compelled to do something to let the truth come out.

-ooo-WHY DID BRILLAN-

TES CHICKEN OUT? What

many cannot understand likewise is the refusal of Brillantes and his cohorts at the Commission to allow computer experts it earlier challenged to prove that PCOS machines can indeed be hacked and be made to manufacture pre-designed election results. Brillantes made the challenge, and so it was incumbent upon him to take on the experts who were willing to prove the unreliability of the PCOS machines.

But why did Brillantes chicken out? Was he afraid that the experts whom he had challenged would be able to show that PCOS ma-chines can really be hacked, and its results manipulated and cheated, and are thus unreliable and totally unac-ceptable? Was he afraid that

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By ArchIE fErNANDEz of Davao City

HERE WE GO AGAIN on our observations with these “senatoriabales” who are plain and simple nobodies who want to be catapulted to the senate.

Presenting, Nancy Binay , the 39-year-old daughter of VP Jejomar Binay who has all guts to run as sena-tor but no experience at all or whatsoever in public service.

Poor Nancy. All she can ever boast of as far as her credentials for being a sena-tor is her job as “personal assistant” to her father Jojo Binay. Why does she have to rely on Papa Jojo to have a good job considering that she is already 39 years old and has a good educational background.

This is a reflection of how Nancy cannot do things on her own. And who knows, maybe Papa Jojo would even intercede once she makes it to the senate (hopefully not!).

If Nancy cannot get a

Nancy Binay, a nobody who wants to be senator

think A Minute

Jhan tiafau hurst

THINK a minute.Not long ago there was an intelligent, highly educated

young man who was given a very good position in his country’s government.

Many people admired and respected this young man because he had done well for himself.

In fact, everybody was saying he was going to be extremely successful and rise to the highest levels of government.

Sadly, after this man had been working for a few years, in just one moment of weakness, he stole several thousand dollars from the government.

He was caught and immediately fired from his job. Naturally, the whole island heard about his stealing.

You see, it takes years to build a good name and reputation, but in just a minute, we can destroy it by doing one wrong thing.

Now that man will always be remembered for being a dishonest thief, and not the successful, promising young man he had been.

We may think that just a minute of doing something wrong won’t hurt us. But then those minutes become hours, and then days, and soon we can’t stop doing it.

We become almost addicted to it, until it ruins our life. It might be telling lies, cheating in business or school, having sex with someone who’s not your wife or husband, doing drugs or getting drunk.

It could also be gossiping, being lazy, over-eating, or beating your wife and kids. These and other wrong things that we first started doing for just a minute.

Just a minute

good job, she should have started her own business especially that it is an open secret that the Binay family is extermely well-off and has the right connects ! But Nancy still opted to be her father’s “alalay” all those years. Tsktsktsk...

One more thing about this Nancy Binay is that she has the temerity to seek a seat in the senate because it was the political party’s decision to run.

One does not need to

be a political analyst or a graduate of a reputable unversity or college to understand that being a senator requires having a good public service re-cord and not just being a personal assistant to the second highest official of the land.

Nancy, sad to say, did not even have the experi-ence of being a barangay chairman, or a barangay kagawad, or even a baran-gay tanod and yet she is

seeking a seat in the senate. Nancy must be remind-

ed that being senator is not a simple job and please do not deceive the Filipino voters, who are getting wiser, to help you win a seat in the senate.

All Nancy can ever pres-ent to us Filipino people is her being a Binay, jut like Grace Poe and Bam Aquino who rely solely on their clan’s popularity.

Please Filipino voters...be wise!

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EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF THE INTESTATE ESTATE OF

BENNIE G. CARATING WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE

Notice is hereby given that the intestate estate of the Late BENNIE G. CARATING, who died intestate on August 9, 2012, in Davao City, Philippines, leaving real property, more particularly described as follows; REG-ISTERED PARCEL OF LAND Lot No. 6030-B-4-A-1, PSD-10-047941 TCT NO. 137-2010000742 Located at Caballero Street, Bulua Lot : 6030-B-4-A-1, PSD-10-04794, Portion of Lot : 6030-B-4-A, PSD-10-022467, Surveyed for; RAFAEL CABANEROS, Land Use: RESIDEN-TIAL, Location: Bulua, Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental, Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY ONE (121) Square Meters more or less, is the subject of EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF THE INTESTATE ESTATE OF BENNIE G. CARATING WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE, made and entered into by and between the sole and Compulsory Legal Heirs of BENNIE G. CARATING, namely; RITA P. CARATING, of legal age, widow, Filipino, a resident of Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City; BEATRIZ DANICA P. CARAT-ING, of legal age, minor, Filipino, and a resident of Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City; RIBEN P. CARATING, of legal age, minor, Filipino, and a resident of Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City; IZA-BEL DANICA P. CARATING, of legal age, minor, Filipino, and a resident of Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City; that the above named parties, are the wife and legitimate children, and the sole and compulsory legal Heirs. The above-described property is hereby sold in favor to Roel L. Jumao-as, married to Geraldine N. Jumao-as, all of legal age, all Filipinos, and all are residents of Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City, for an amount of TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND PESOS (PHP 200,00); as per Doc. No. 332; Page No. 67; Book No. XII; Series of 2013; under Notary Public of Atty. CERILIO NEIL E. PACANA.

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RA10172 Form No. 10.1 (LCRO)

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In compliance with Rule 7 of Republic Act No. 10172, a notice is hereby served to the public that QUEVHEN ESPAÑOL APAO has filed in this office a Petition for Correction of Clerical Error in the Child’s Gender under the entry of “SEX” from “FEMALE” to “MALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of QUEVHEN DAGATAN APAO bearing LCR No. 92-935 who was born on 19 September 1992 at Dalsan, Municipality ofTubod, Province of Lanao del Norte and whose parents are Teresita Espanol and Concordio Apao. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written op-position with this office not later than May 10, 2013.

(Sgd.) JULIET BALURAN GALAMBAO, CE Municipal Civil Registrar

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RA10172 Form No. 10.1(LCRO)

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Municipality of Tubod OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR

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In compliance with Rule 7 of Republic Act No. 10172, a notice is hereby served to the public that ALEN TIMO BASALIO has filed in this office a Peti-tion for Correction of Clerical Error in the Child’s Gender under the entry of “SEX” from “FEMALE” to “MALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of ALEN TIMO BASALIO bearing LCR No. 93-1219 who was born on 09 December 1993 at Barangay Malingao, Municipality of Tubod, Province of Lanao del Norte and whose parents are Fe Timo and Alexander Basalio. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written op-position with this office not later than May 11, 2013.

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By pAt sAMoNtECaraga News Bureau

BUTUAN City––Vice Mayor Lawrence Lemuel Fortun has asserted his political strength and popularity among the Butuanons with the release yesterday by an independent, non-partisan research and education organization of its latest survey of voters’ preferences in this city days before the May 13, 2013 elections.

Based on Father Saturni-no Urios University (FSUU) Policy Center’s April 24-30, 2013 survey, Fortun was the “most preferred candidate” for Agusan del Norte’s first congressional seat by 48.61 percent of the voters or al-most 50 percent more than the 25.51 percent garnered by lawyer Roan Libarios.

The survey was the last of a four-series study which covered respondents from all the city’s 86 barangay chosen using a proportional random sampling method. It involved 1,831

voter-respondents using face-to-face interviews.

In an executive summary,

Fortun takes leadin latest surveyFortun was the ‘most preferred candidate’ for Agusan Norte’s first congressio-nal seat

fAcE-off. fortun (right) and Amante in a huddle before their face-off with their rivals at the fsuu Gymnasium in Butuan city recently. photo by obet samonte

the FSUU Policy Center headed by its director, Atty. Josefe Sorrera-Ty, said “the youth express (ed) voting preference for Fortun” while “the adult and the seniors also gave him a close ap-proval.”

Political observers said the result of the FSUU Policy Center’s latest study indicat-ed “the people’s overwhelm-ing support will catapult the young Fortun to the House of Representatives. His late father’s dreams will soon be realized.”

In the mayoral contest, 38.94 percent of voter-re-spondents preferred re-elec-tionist Ferdinand Amante Jr. or 1.53 percent higher than rival Rep. Jose Aquino II’s 37.41 percent. The survey takers said the ratings of the Amante and Aquino are “statistically tied”.

Councilor Josephine Marticion-Salise was ahead with 29.27 percent over sec-ond placer Councilor Angelo Calo’s 23.87 percent in the vice-mayoralty post. Coun-cilor Randolph Plaza was

third with 17.09 percent.For the position of city

councilor, the survey showed the following top 11 candi-dates according to voters preferences: Erwin Dano (38.77 percent); Ramon Car-ampatana (31.38%); Sammy Amante (28.15%); Ryan An-thony Culima (27.54%); Der-rick Plaza (23.92%); Jaime Cembrano, Jr. (22.92%); Virgilio Nery, Jr. (21.23%); Odie Bernabe (21.08%); Salvador Calo (20.15%); Ferdinand Nalcot (20.15%) Rema Burdeos (19.69%).

Election Watch

Energy...from page 3

power generation, said Santiago S. Navarro, man-aging consultant/deputy general manager, enfin-ity Philippines Technology Services Inc.

Enfinity is the world’s 6th largest solar developer with annual revenues of 500-million euro and proj-ects with a combined capac-ity of 500MW as of 2012. It plans to roll out a 500MW solar power portfolio in the Philippines over the next 3-5 years. It has 11 sites under

Invest...from page 3

“We are challenging MASS-SPECC to look at the viability of invest-ments in power genera-

development mainly in the National Power Corpora-tion’s Small Power Utilities Group (SPUG) in various islands in Mindanao.

Data from the Depart-ment of Energy show the 11 projects total 53MW with four small (1-2MW) projects in Luzon, 21MW in Cebu City and the nearby Mactan Export Processing Zone, and five small projects in Zamboanga City, Sultan Kudarat, Tawi-Tawi and Surigao del Norte.

“The other Mindanao projects are for SPUG areas. We are awaiting DOE/NPC

circular as to how we are going to be paid, and then we can begin the projects,” Mr. Navarro said. “We are going to all areas approved for us by DOE including far-away regardless of perceived security concerns.”

Enfinity has two service contracts, 50-MW Clark Freeport Zone solar power project in Mabalacat, Pam-panga; and the 30-MW Cavite Export Zone solar power project in Rosario, Cavite.

“A third DOE service contract has been awarded to us: 20 MW in Digos,

Davao del Sur,” he said. “It’s in same category as Clark (50MW) and Cavite Peza (30MW). These were predevelopment contracts awarded to us by DOE in pursuit of the FiT projects. As you know, DOE has now “converted” these to first come- first serve, but we are still continuing with our efforts.”

tion, specif ically small hydro and biomass genera-tion,” said Romeo Monte-negro, MinDA’s Director for Investment Promotion and Public Affairs Office (IPPAO).

“Mindanao is facing power issues, but if you look at it in a different perspect ive, there are also opportunities. You can take advantage of the increasing demand for power by exploring in-vestments in renewable energy,” Montenegro told the 500-strong delegation of the 44th Mindanao Coop Leaders Forum.

The forum dovetailed with the 39th General As-sembly of the Mindanao Alliance Self-Help Society – Southern Philippines Educational Cooperative Center (MASS-SPECC) held recently in Cagayan de Oro City.

MASS-SPECC is a sec-ondary cooperative federa-tion with a membership of 300 primary cooperatives across Mindanao, some of which are considered billionaire coops that have the capacity to invest in power generation projects.

Behavior...from page 6

bought while her marriage to the former Batangas Gov. Antonio Leviste was still subsisting is of no moment to me. It is up to her political foes and the proper gov-ernment agency, the Ombudsman particularly, to look into the veracity of the alleged smear campaign that projected her as having violated the law.

My concern is focused on her lying about Willie F. If she lied to her teeth that she did not know Willie F., could she not be lying also when she linked Willie F. to be working for Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano now thus her allegations that this smear campaign against her is the handiwork of Cayetano? Because she lied about Willie F., people are now inclined to believe Legarda must be lying also about Cayetano’s hand in the accusations hurled against her. And this is not farfetched.

Apparently, Legarda’s thoughts were derailed when her integrity was put to question. Remember that Legarda’s ability to stir away from any controversies lies solely on her success in projecting an image of having an impeccable character as far as integrity is concerned. She is apparently rattled because her integrity whether real or imagined is now being subjected to scrutiny and she is appearing in reality to be lacking in it.

It is for the above reason that all her claims or defense, implied or not, about the issue that the purchase was above board since she was still married to a man whose financial capacity to pur-chase such property in New York is beyond doubt thus no reason for her not to include the same in her SALN have been shattered no less by her. It was shattered because of a simple lie.

If she could prevaricate to her teeth her professional relationship with Willie F. in the past, lying about anything is not farfetched. It was Legarda herself who proved to all and sundry that lying is something that she could easily and readily do if only to maintain such image of having an impeccable integrity. But can a person of impeccable integrity lie to her teeth?

I do not know if at this stage of the campaign her lying will have a perceptible impact on her being number one in the senatorial race, but as for me, my family and close

Chicken...from page 6

proving the “cheatability” and unreliability of the PCOS machines could backfire and even reach back to the results of the 2010 elections?

As it is, Brillantes’ refusal to allow the group of Vice President Guingona, and even of senatorial candidates Dick Gordon and his nephew JC Delos Reyes, to access the source code for the PCOS machines has already rendered those machines unreliable and untrustworthy, and incapable of being believed and accepted by the electorate, both for 2010 and 2013, and even for 2016.

-ooo-UP COMPUTER EXPERT ACCEPTS

COMELEC CHALLENGE: Along this line, here is a repost from a previous column: “One computer expert from the University of the Philippines who has chalked up quite a record as a government official who dealt with computer and information technology for a long time said he has actually sent a registered mail to top Comelec officials about their challenge for IT experts to show that the existing PCOS machines, especially those which were used in 2010, could be easily tampered with.

“Then, the same expert said, he also emailed the Comelec about his willingness to show that the machines can really be hacked and manipulated, and could not therefore be expected to reflect the true will of the Filipino electorate in the coming elections.

“`I accepted the challenge of the Comelec to hack the PCOS machines. However, this should be in the context of authorized hacking, meaning that it should not be under hostile conditions… My purpose in accepting this challenge is to help the Comelec, and not to put them down. I would like to help the government in solving this problem that could affect all of us,’ the expert said. Any reply from the Comelec?”

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friends especially those from the church have already made up our mind to reject Legarda for having lied. A liar publicly caught with her lies doesn’t deserve the people’s trust much more their mandate.

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Thunder, Grizzlies set to square off again

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- The Oklahoma City Thunder and Memphis Grizzlies are ready to rumble again.

T w o y e a r s a f t e r slugging it out in a Western Conference semifinal series that went the full seven games, the two rough-and-tumble rivals will square off again starting in Game 1 in Oklahoma City on Sunday.

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combined for nine technical fouls in three meetings this season. Grizzlies star Zach Randolph and Oklahoma City enforcer Kendrick Perkins were ejected in one of the games, with a c o n f r o n t a t i o n t h a t

continued off the court and in to the ha l lway outside both teams’ locker rooms.

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Natuwa ang marami ng makita na magkasama sa isang larawan si Kim Chiu at ang kanyang ama na ipinost ng aktres sa kanyang Instagram account.

“Finally a photo with my Papa after 5 years. So happy for today. Thank you Lord,” ang caption na nilagay ni Kim sa picture nilang mag-ama. Kasama nito ang mga hashtags na “#bloodisthickerthanwater” and “#timeheals.”

Ilang taon din nabuhay si Kim na malayo sa piling nito. Matatandaang noon pa mang panahon ng

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daddy at nagkaharap. April 29 nagkita ang

d a l a w a s a M i n d o r o kung saan may show si Kim at doon nakabase at nakat i ra ang ama. Kasama sa birthday wish list ni Kim na magkaayos s i la ng kanyang ama kaya’t pinuntahan agad ni Kim ang kanyang tatay matapos ang kanyang commitment. Pagbaba pa lang ng sasakyan agad daw nagyakap ang dalawa, nagkamustahan at nagusap.

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forces.Armed MILF and MNLF

forces could see each other but did not fire when police-men, led by Inspector Dan-dan and backed by police provincial safety company, entered the conflict area to separate the warring groups.

“We serve as peacekeep-ers here,” Dandan told re-porters. “Both the MNLF and MILF have agreed to a temporary cessation of hostilities,” he added.

Commander Manzur said the MILF, office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, GPH-MILF peace panels were to con-duct Bangsamoro Frame-work Agreement informa-tion drive on Sunday in Barangay Marbol, a known area of Commander Dima Ambel, chair of the MNLF in North Cotabato.

Ambel agreed to the holding of the forum pro-vided the MILF would not bring in firearms.

“However, the MILF brought firearms and many of them are not from the area, that is a violation to our earlier agreement,” he said.

But according to Com-mander Mansur, the armed MILF are native residents of Barangay Marbol and they did not violate any agreement.

At about 6:00 p.m. Sun-day, Commander Mansur said the MNLF fired two M-79 grenades, one of which hit the rooftop of his home while the other in the newly paved Marbol highway. Sporadic firefights ensured between MNLF and MILF forces as evidence by dozens of empty shells found at the approach of Marbol Bridge.

No casualty was reported on the MNLF side.

As a result of the fire-f ight, the Bangsamoro Framework Agreement information drive did not push through.

Dandan said the Mata-lam policemen and provin-cial police safety company have remained in the middle of MNLF and MILF forces.

B ot h Moro g roups agreed to an informal cease-fire until the International Monitoring Team arrived and arranged a permanent ceasefire.

A source said the MILF wanted to put up a satellite camp in Barangay Marbol which is a known bailiwick of the MNLF. Ambel alleg-edly did not like the idea of MILF putting up a camp in his territory. philippine news agency

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to resolve the armed conflict with the Communist Party of the Philippines-NDFP-New People’s Army (NPA) after a 22-month impasse and “the mounting violence” allegedly inflicted by the NPA “on soft civilian targets.”

The GPH peace panel chair was mainly referring to the armed confrontation between the NPA

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au g m e nt a t i o n w a s planned since the start of the election period on Janu-ary 13 this year.

Ombao said the addi-tional elite forces will serve as “reactionary forces” dur-ing the holding of the elec-tions in 14 towns and three cities in Misamis Occidental.

He, however, reminded the local police who will

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We build our life and character minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. We may think it’s “only just a minute, but our eternity is in it.”

Your life can completely change in just a minute—for good or for bad. So each minute you and I must choose either to live Jesus Christ’s way and enjoy His peace, success and satisfac-tion; or we can choose to live our own way and suffer for it both now and forever after we die.

So this minute you can choose to change your life for the best—once and for all. You can finally start enjoying real happiness and peace of mind.

Why not ask Jesus Christ to forgive you for living your own, wrong way? Then ask Him to take full charge of your life.

Only He can give you the inner strength and will-power you need to start living His right, successful way—minute by minute, for the rest of your life.

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investment, there is no such opportunity with AS. We can only bill what we pay,” she added.

During the time of the 2010 power crisis in Min-

provide the security during the conduct of elections to properly wear uniforms.

He said an area is con-sidered hot spots if it falls in any of the seven criteria such as intense political rivalry, presence of private armed groups, presence of Red group, loose firearms, among others.

But Ombao said that with the region’s best in the implementation of a Peace Covenant Signing, the PNP assured that the upcoming election will be safer and freer in conducting the election compared to those previous years.

He said the Comelec identified the cities of Oza-miz and Tangub as election hot spots that include the towns of Sincaban, Plaridel, Don Victoriano, Baliangao, and now Lopez Jaena.

“We will be implement-ing the rules and regulations of the Commission on Elec-tions especially its gun ban and we will also secure all voting places during the ‘D-Day’ and assured Mis-amisnons that the police are non-partisan,” said Ombao.

For his part, Benitez urged all candidates to support the local police in its campaign for honest and peaceful by imposing discipline among their sup-porters who are often the sources of troubles.

“Yes, we will ask those candidates to help us in maintaining peace and order with the assurance that they will also discipline their supports,” he said.

and the armed bodyguards of Gingoog City mayor last April 20. The incident led to the death of Guingona’s driver and bodyguard and the wounding of Ruthie, wife of former Senator Teofisto Guingona.

The NPA claimed responsibil-ity on the attack as it issued an apology to the Guingonas. While the Guingonas condemned the incident, they have called for the resumption of peace talks to prevent similar incidents in the future.

Padilla, however, said they can’t “wait forever” for the other party that’s why they are em-barking on a new approach for the peace talks. He claimed the NDFP continually refuse to go back to the negotiating table without preconditions, referring mainly to the release of the NDFP consultants detained by the GPH.

But the GPH Panel has agreed to “work for the expeditious release of detained NDFP consul-tants and other Jasig-protected persons,” as noted by a joint communiqué dated 18 January 2011, by the end of the explor-atory talks of the two parties.

The Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees, signed by both parties in 1998, aims to provide guarantees to the negotiators and consultants of both parties against persecution by either side, thereby creating necessary conditions for peace negotiations.

In a previous interview with lawyer Edre Olalia, NDFP’s legal consultant, without compliance with Jasig, he said, the panelists and consultants cannot function.

Padilla also said the discus-sion on the Special Track, which has been proposed by NDFP consultant Jose Maria Sison, was closed because the NDFP came up with new demands.

The Special Track or the Proposal for Alliance and Truce as proposed by the NDFP was meant to “speed up and comple-ment the regular track.” It does not, however, aim to replace or supplant the latter.

The said track has six ele-ments, namely: Declaration of Unity and Peace; Strengthen na-tional independence and promote industrial development; Creation of new political instruments to realize and promote the alliance; Identification of at least 20 key Philippine-controlled industrial projects in cooperation with other countries to complement other peace-building projects with assistance from various countries; and Carry out land reform program allowing big landowners to sell their land and invest in the industrial projects and truce leading to a just and lasting peace.

Padilla said the Special Track “imposed no preconditions” and would “skirt the protracted process of the regular track.” He added it would lead to an im-mediate ceasefire and creation of a Committee for National Unity, Peace and Development.

But he alleged that in Febru-ary 25-26 this year, the NDFP, instead of discussing the Special Track, has proposed three new documents which “backtracked from their original position on a Draft Declaration, particularly on ceasefire.” He also said the NDFP wants to go back to the Regular Track.

The GPH, he said, doesn’t want to return to the regular track or formal talks “because it has been going nowhere for the last 27 years.”

But Calang said the GPH should not be disheartened that the talks had persisted for this long since 1986. He said add-ing up the actual time spent on the talks, it only transpired for less than a year. “For the rest of the time, there was a hiatus,”

he said.He also said the government

should not expect “more peace” since there was clearly “less talk” in the peace negotiations through the years.

“We should work for ‘more talk towards more peace,’” he urged, adding that amid the ongoing civil war, the more important thing to do is to “not lose hope, especially from the part of the government.”

Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) also said that Malacanang’s an-nouncement of the supposed collapse of the talks “despite the absence of active efforts to actually initiate dialogue” only displayed GPH’s “antagonistic stance” in the negotiations.

GWP Representative Luz Ilagan said the GPH should be forthcoming in pursuing peace negotiations and “should not be the first to drop the gauntlet.”

“If the Philippine govern-ment’s intent is to genuinely seek avenues for peace then it must pursue further negotiations so that it can find ways to address the roots of the armed conflict. Unfortunately the Philippine gov-ernment’s attitude has been the exact opposite,” she lamented.

Padilla said the GPH remains open to renewed talks but with under a new framework.

While Calang was hopeful with his announcement, he also cautioned that such should “be within the bounds” of The Hague Joint Declaration which was signed by both parties in 1992.

“If the ‘new approach’ is unacceptable to either party and dissolves ‘The Hague,’ then it becomes counterproductive,” Calang pointed out.

Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, Teresita Deles, said they have undertaken dis-cussions and consultations with civil society groups and various sectors initially in Bacolod, Davao, Naga and Manila to develop the new approach.

“This (approach) will seek to address concerns both on the peace table and on the ground, especially among the communities most affected by the conflict. We are not ready to give details at this time,” she said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Calang said his group remains hopeful as the peace talks already produced agreements “beneficial” to the people whom, he said, are the real stakeholders in resolving the roots of the armed conflict. He noted the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Hu-man Rights and International Humanitarian Law signed in 1998 by both parties.

He said solving the roots of the armed conflict should not be limited by a 2016 deadline, as it is impractical. Since the peace talks is a strategic engagement for all stakeholders, Calang said, both parties to the conflict should look far ahead.

NDFP’s Negotiating Panel Chair Luis Jalandoni has already announced they are willing to move towards the resumption of formal peace talks, based on the previously signed binding agreements.

“The peace negotiations should address the roots of the armed conflict through funda-mental economic, social and political reforms which will pave the way to a just and lasting peace,” he said. (Marilou Aguirre-Tuburan/davaotoday.com)

danao, Ms. Alabanza said Therma Marine Inc. (TMI) was the only private power producer which was offer-ing AS.

“It is NGCP’s mandate to procure AS. So we con-tracted with TMI. It is the ERC’s job to review the contract and ensure that it is “just.” Which is why there is a refund in the first place. The refund is proof positive that the system works.”

The ERC granted the provisional authority for the ASPA with TMI so that the contract could imme-diately take effect, and NGCP would be able to immediately procure the AS the Mindanao grid badly needed. At the same time, the nature of the authority to collect AS charges was provisional in nature, so that after thoroughly reviewing the application, the ERC could decide to uphold the provisional authority, or make the necessary adjust-ments (which, in this case, it did), she noted further.

Engr. David A. Tauli, engineering consultant at the Office of Rep. Floren-cio Flores, Jr. (2nd District Bukidnon) initiated the filing of the intervention with the ERC in behalf of the Cagayan Electric Power and Light Co. (CEPALCO) questioning the computa-tion of rates for AS during his tenure as Senior Vice President for Engineering.

“The determination of rates for ancillary services is not rocket science, and it would have taken just a modicum of intelligence on the part of the NGCP to detect the error in the proposed rates of TMI,” Mr. Tauli noted. “The error in the ASPA was the attempt by TMI to collect Capital Recovery Fees for money that they did not infuse into the power barges, in the amount of 60 million US dollars. Such large amount could not just be overlooked by NGCP in its review of the proposed Ancillary Services Procurement Agreement (ASPA) with TMI?

“NGCP does not have oversight powers over any energy industry player. It needed only ensure that the technical requirements for the AS were met, and that the proposed supplier was tested and accredited by it,” Ms. Alabanza said. “Whether the capital re-covery fee alleged by TMI was correct or not is none of our business. We haggled best we could in a market

where supply was low, and demand was high.”

Despite its contract with TMI, Ms. Alabanza said NGCP launched a campaign as early as 2011 to procure cheaper AS especially in areas where other suppli-ers were present and still continues to do so all over its franchise area.

“Even if we don’t make money off AS, [NGCP CEO] Mr. Henry Sy, Jr. personally directed the management to exert effort to negotiate for better AS contracts and to broaden the base of ac-credited suppliers.”

However, Mr. Tauli insists NGCP could have undertaken due diligence with its AS contract with TMI if it chose.

“At any time during the lengthy hearings at the ERC on the ASPA, the NGCP could have stepped in and testified that they made a mistake in entering into the contract with TMI. If they did, the error could have been corrected sooner than the two years that it took the ERC to finally decide that, yes, the ASPA will result in overcharging for ancil-lary services from the TMI power barges. The NGCP did not intervene, but sup-ported TMI all throughout the hearings at the ERC,” he added.

Although it is part of NGCP’s mandate to procure AS, Ms. Alabanza said it does not have the authority to “detect the error in the proposed rates of TMI. That would mean investigating the books of TMI for this purpose,” she said.

“NGCP is a private com-pany. We do not have the authority to look into the books of another company even if we have cause to do so. Our power is limited to contracting for goods and services, and deciding whether to accept goods or services at the price it was offered. At that time, in a situation where the grid is in dire need of AS, we pro-cured what we could. If we had not procured the AS as we did, the grid would have been vulnerable to collapse, and we would have failed in our mandate,” she added.

She further clarified that the process for provisional/final approvals and refunds was created by the ERC, not NGCP. “We just follow the rules. Mr. Tauli should take this up with the ERC, and we will gladly comply with any revision the ERC may make on it rules.” she said.

Republic of the PhilippinesLocal Civil Registry Office

Province: Agusan del NorteCity/Municipality: Butuan City

Publication NoticeR.A. 10172

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

May 06, 2013OCE-0069-2013(R.A. 10172)

In compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1, Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), a notice is hereby served to the public that JOCELYN VISTA PANIAMOGAN has filed with this office a petition for correction of entry in sex from “MALE” to “FEMALE” in the certificate of live birth of JOREN VISTA PANIAMOGAN at EROM-MGH, Butuan City, and whose parents are JOCELYN PALOMA VISTA and RENIE DUMPAS PANIAMOGAN. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposi-tion with this Office not later than 27 May 2013.

(SGD.) JUDITH ALVIZO-CALO, LLB, MPA City Civil RegistrarMDN: May 7 & 14, 2013

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