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2012 Year-end Review(Pagbalik-lantaw sa dagkong panghitabo sa Year of the Dragon 2012)

maRso 3, 2012 – Pilot Christian Cesar Pebrekos and Rachel Estrande died after the four-seater pri-vate plane crashed in Barangay Baylao, Mambajao, Camiguin Province. Critically injured were Lance Estrande and son Hersola along with the student pilot Diwi Normala. Witnesses told Mambajao police chief Guillermo Semasio that the private plane caught on coconut leaves before it went down.

SAN Juan City Rep. JV Ejercito Estrada urged the Philippine National Police (PNP) to intensify its cam-paign against loose firearms to curb gun violence.

Politicians are ‘high valued’ targets - PDEaSome politicians in North Mindanao believed en-gaged in drug trafficking are among ‘high valued’ targets in the region, the Philippine Drug Enforce-ment Agency (PDEA) said today. The PDEA’s regional of-ficials made the disclosure following arrest of an

By JANUS LOUISE PANGANIBAN

SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur—Classes in all levels were suspended yesterday as flashfloods swept many areas in the province yester-day as a result of continuous heavy rains. School principals were prompted to send home school children and stu-dents when creeks and rivers continued to swell near the school grounds while some other far flung villages be-came isolated by the rising flood waters. Residents in the province experienced heavy rains since 7 pm on Wednesday and is expected to continue for 15 hours based on a weather advisory by the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astro-nomical Services Admin-istration. Two potential cyclones were spotted by the Pagasa yesterday that was seen

490 kilometers southeast of General Santos City and another east of Mindanao which brought moderate to heavy rains. The principal of Prosperi-dad National High School was prompted to suspend the classes at around 9:30 am after learning that the nearby creek that was al-ready overflowing is heavily infested with Schistosomia-sis parasites. Barangay Poblacion and Dona Flavia in San Luis town was reported to be isolated after floodwaters from the Agusan River has already swept the houses near the river bank. Some other villages in the remote areas experienced similar fate when farm-to-market roads ere no longer passable because of rising flood waters. In San Francisco, residents living near Minabang Creek in Barangay 1 already

Flash floods hit Agusan Sur l Classes in all levels suspended

FLASHFLOODSMany parts of Barangay 1 in San Francisco, Agusan del Sur were swept by floods giving local residents hard time to traverse the highways and roads (as shown in above photo) (Inset) A boy has to wade through a waist-deep floodwater near their house in Barangay 1.

photo by janus louise panganiban

statement amid renewed calls for tougher gun control laws following the death of 23 people in separate incidents barely a few days into 2013.

A seven-year-old girl from Caloocan died after she was hit by a stray bullet in the head while watching fireworks on New Year's Eve. A shooting rampage in Kawit, Cavite left nine people dead on Jan. 4.

Crackdown on loose firearms - JV

BUTUAN CITY -- Resi-dents of this city were placed on flood alert with the rising water level of the Agusan River due to rains brought by a low pressure area (LPA), the National Disaster Risk

Butuan City under flood alert –- NDRRMC

Reduction and Manage-ment Council (NDRRMC) reported on Thursday. The NDRRMC said that a rise of two meters above sea level was recorded at the river on Wednesday

prompting the agency to raise flood alert level 1 in Butuan City. Residents were advised to be vigilant for possible flash flood, landslide and prepare for possible pre-emptive evacuation. At present, the NDRRMC said no untoward incident

BLACK NAZARENE. On Jan. 9, 2013, the parish church of Barangay Lapasan holds an an-nual procession in honor of the Black Nazarene at the same time with that of Quiapo, Manila. Devotees throw towels to touch the religious icon during the procession. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo

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PRAYER TO HOLY SPIRIT

Oh Holy Spirit Thou who make me see everything and show me the way to reach my ideal. You who gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me and who are in all instances of my life with me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank You for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from You, no matter how great the material desires may be, I want to be with You and my loved ones in Your Perpetual Glory, Amen.

(A person must pray this for 3 consecutive days without stating one’s wish. After 3rd day your wish will be granted, no matter how dif-ficult it may be. Promise to publish this as soon as your favor has been granted.

MDN: JAN. 11, 2013

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Gipanawagan ang mga ginikanan nga sila si Ritchel Maasin Cocos ug Vanza Bagatan Reymatias nga taga Tambakan, Iligan City ug mga Kaparyentihan sa usa ka batang lalaki nga si Jehiel Anthony Cocos Reymatias nga gipangabak niadtong Mayo 3, 2000 sa North-ern Mindanao Medical Center, Cagayan de Oro City ug gebilin sa maong hospital sugod niadtong nahimugso ang maong bata. Palihug sa pagbisita sa buhatan sa City Social Welfare

and Development, Cagayan de Oro City pakigkita kang Ms. Anecia Tongson o tawag sa Cellular num 09228090038 aron sa paghisgot sa maong bata. Ang dili ninyo paghatag ug panahon ug bili ning maong pahibalo, nag-pasabot sa inyong wala pagpakabana sa kahimtang sa maong bata.

Nagpasibya, ANECIA C. TONGSON SWO I (Original signed)MDN: JAN. 11, 2013

oro Council allocates P3.2m for summer jobsTHE City Council has allo-cated P3.2 million budget for the city government’s Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) in the summer of 2013.

City Vice Mayor Ian Ace-nas said the budget increased by P500,000 compared to last year’s allocation of P2.7 million. Councilor Simeon Li-

cayan, chair of the city’s committee on finance, ways and means, that the city government expects some 1,400 poor students would avail of the city’s summer

job program this year. Last year, some 1,000 poor students and out-of-school youths availed of the yearly summer job program of the city government, Acenas

said. He said students and out-of-school-youths who are employed under SPES received a P200.00 daily wage, excluding Saturdays

and Sundays, aside from the P1,500 monthly allow-ance separately added by the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole), Acenas added. (PNA)

THE ADVOCATE FOR PAIN LESS LIFE

A Person who suffered a painful life with diabetes, eye problem, skin prob-

lem, muscles spasm, constipa-tion, memory retention problem and ulcer since elementary, high school, college and even after graduation is now com-mitted to share his new found health solution. He will tell it to us why he was able to overcome from all those painful life to pain less life and

but we can only strengthen our controlled defense over the cause of pain. I strongly believed that we must have the knowledge of the cause of pain. That is why I pursue my study on how food destroys us and on the other hand how it strengthens our body and that the body can be able to build its own defenses. We need to understand what the body needs to protect and maintain its function. I have developed a theory maybe this is new to you but this theory is already forgotten and maybe no one will accept, I knew it because this is new to them. I call this the new methodology.

THAT IS WHY I AM HERE AND WITH THIS NEW METH-ODOLOGY. I DON’T WANT YOU TO EXPERIENCE THE

PAIN WITHOUT A SOLU-TION.

I know you have already a solution. But maybe you are still suffering a pain deep inside you. You have a solution that is artificial because you don’t know what else and what is available solution out there. Is there a proven, scientific, and reliable way to healthy and pain less life? THE NEW METHODOLOGY: There are so many theory coming out and we sometimes believe them but this is what he believes, “We are the Soil” (Gen 2:27) and we need to maintain our elements of the soil (body). The soil mostly composed of 45% of minerals, 25% of water, 25% of air and 5% of other materials (Wikipedia). If you removed or reduce each of those compositions, you will surely end up in soil erosion.

Now if the body is the soil, I know you understand what I mean about soil erosion. Soil erosion is the body erosion. Picture a soil that is eroded as your body. The soil can’t hold on to the vegetation, no tress or plant can grow, no water for the creature, or if there is, these creatures will die later. Again if the soil is the body, and if there is a soil erosion, then the body will also erode therefore, the cells that move within will also experience hunger, thirst, and body will not be able to hold the cells or the tissues, the body will experience clotting like erosion, damage cells or cancer and death on environment. But thanks be to God, the body can heal itself as its nature. If we allow then support the body correctly to do its action to func-tion in a proper time, provide what the body correctly needs, it can do marvelous things as it supposed to be.

SOLUTION Here is what I believe we can do to stop the fast erosion or fast aging and diseases, we help the body remove the damage tissues, clogging in the system and help repair the malfunction organs. The body will do the reconstruction, like skin will be renewed, the liver can regenerate, the heart can pump exact blood to the system needed, and we can think clear. 1. Since we need to repair the damage or the malfunction, we need to remove the damage tissues or clogging by stop put-ting pollutants elements like high processes food that provides no nutrients to the needed system and make the system malnourish. And eliminate in your plate the food that is high in preservatives, artificial, and additives because these will not help the body’s goal in removing the clogging and the damage tissues. It will just add and prevent or hinder the cleansing system. 2. We need fresh vegetables that have active ingredients for removing damage tissues and the clogging system. Fresh vegetables have more nutrients and micronutrients that will help the organs function. A fresh veg-etable has enzymes needed for changing the food or the clogging food, the longtime stored food

in our system to useful energy. Sometimes people rely only in supplements more than fresh vegetables because they don’t want the taste. If you are having problem with this, just let me know maybe I have a solution for you. But fresh vegetables are all we need. We can have them through fresh vegetable juicing and salad. If there is organic vegetables that must be your first priority in every meal, but if we can’t find them in our area, we just need to clean with baking soda plus salt combined with kalamansi or lemon. We really need to eat fresh vegetables as our main course in every meal. Dried food can’t enter into the blood steam except the dried herbs that can be absorbed through its active ingredients mixed in the water. Dried food contain no nutrients that is needed for proper function and dried food contain more bulk that can stop the nutrients from entering into the blood stream for distribution and energy to the needed organs or cells. It will only give you fullness in the stomach but not in the cells. This makes the cells malnourish, damage or possible death due to famine. 3. The system needs to be moved and the cells continue to circulate because if it does, this is the start of clogging and dying of cells. According to some study, the body transport the digested and absorbed food to the cells then to the rest of the body but because of clogging or damage cells, this transport sometimes stops and stocked in one area of our system. That is why we need to jump, briskly walk, or exercise for this but do not overdo it. It will give you more acid according to the study of Dr. Robert Young. 4. To help more on repair-ing and keeping the body from moving and do its function, we need to remember that all the food that is rich in nutrients, water, air that enters into the body is being used every time the body moves, the body thinks, and even if the body are resting. That is why we also need to maintain the healthy lifestyle or the correct healthy practices and most of all the correct food, the correct volume of water, correct amount of air and the other thing like exercise.RISK REDUCTION PROGRAM Every people need guid-ance of this program and I am willing to help them. They can meet me in my office or center at DAILY LIFESTYLE PLUS EIGHT THERAPY CENTER, #996 Luminarias st, Camaman-an, Cagayan de Oro City with a telephone number of 880-0208. My office hours are from 10am to 5pm from Monday to Friday only. For appointment please call at the above telephone number. You can also visit my website at www.meetdrdlajot.com

why he spent his life on research, study and developed a health program for those who are willing to control their health power back. This year was his Breakthrough. He has just earned two Doc-torate Degree (Doctor of Ministry in Nutritional Medicine at Acasia Hotel Manila October 18, 2012 and Doctor of Ministry in Herbal Medicine Development at Con-chita Hotel Cagayan de Oro City last November 15,2012 from The

Open Seminary, International Evangelical Foundation. THE REASON: I want to live a pain-free life. But we can’t do this because we are in this world full of pain. There are pain that we can control and the ones we can’t control. When I think about those two options, I choose to control the controllable pain over the pain that I can’t control. I don’t’ want to spend most of my energy controlling the pain that is beyond my control. I took a strong decision to control it. Why just to control it? Because I believe that we can’t stop it,

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LINGIG, Surigao del Sur - The municipal government here thanked the Depart-ment of Agriculture in Caraga after receiving relief goods and other assistance for the victims of Typhoon “Pablo”. Lingig Sangguniang Bayan Member Isagani Onsing conveyed the local govern-ment’s appreciation and thanks to the DA-Caraga leadership and staff. Aside from Lingig town, typhoon victims in Veruela and San Luis towns in Agusan del Sur also were received from DA-Caraga assistance consisting of 55 sacks of corn, 52 sacks of rice and groceries. DA-Caraga Regional Director Edna Mabeza said her office decided to forego with the traditional “exchange gifts” during the Christmas celebration to help the typhoon victims. Regional Technical Director for Research and Regulatory, who personally made the delivery of the relief goods, said DA-Caraga also provided for the rehabilitation and replacement of crops destroyed by the typhoon. According to the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics, Typhoon “Pablo” damaged or destroyed some P316 million worth of agricultural crops and infrastructure. WITH REPORT FROM AURELL ARAIS.

DA Caraga RTD for Research and Regulatory Teodora P. Fiel, DVM turned-over the relief goods to SB Isagani Onsing of Lingig, Surigao del Sur for typhoon Pablo victims.

DA-Caraga distributes aidto Typhoon ‘Pablo’ victims

Some 20,000 devotees join the Black Nazarene procession around the streets of Cagayan de Oro City on Wednesday. The replica of the famous Quiapo statue was taken from the Nazareno Church along the national highway at 3 in the afternoon and returned at 8 in the evening. The massive procession caused traffic delays in some sections of the city.

Photo by Gerry L. Gorit

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By ANNE MARXZE D. UMILof Bulatlat.com

LACK of training is also one of the concerns of teachers. Last year, teachers underwent training for one month, some even only for a week before the school year began.

Miss Jane said she teaches 10 subjects namely, Filipino, Mother Tongue language, MAPEH (Music, Arts, PE and Health), Math, Values, Araling Panlipunan (His-tory) and English. She said that since the curriculum has changed, they had to teach the entire subjects in Filipino, except for the English subject.

COST OF PNOY’S K+12 PROGRAM

Difficult for teachers“It is bewi ldering to

change the way we used to teach. For how many years, we have been teaching Math using the English language, now, without prior prepara-tion we have to teach it in Filipino?” Miss Jane said adding that they have dif-ficulties translating terms such as fractions.

She has been teaching for 11 years. She observed that children are more confused. She said that it is confusing for children to learn Math in Filipino because in Kinder, Math is being taught in Eng-lish. “They are used to count in English, one, two, three. And then when they get to grade one, it’s in Filipino. They are only getting con-

fused and learning is made more complicated.”

In K to 12, Mother Tongue is another subject that is different from the Filipino subject. But according to Miss Jane, it is almost alike. She said there are topics in the Mother Tongue subject that she already teaches in Fili-pino. “The students are only getting bored. They would tell me, ‘teacher, we already know that.’ It is better if in the Mother Tongue subject we will be teaching reading, and in Filipino we will teach about the language.” Mother Tongue is a separate subject for grades one, two and three.

While there are on-going trainings for teachers,

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Dapitan impresses Chinese touristsBy Franklin P. Gumapon

misoc receive books, medical supplies

By Rutchie C. Aguhob

FOOD FOR WORK - The Food for Work program is now on the go in Barangays Tamia and San Miguel, Compostela Valley Province. This, after its launching following the landfall of typhoon Pablo on December 4, 2012. (A.dayao-ids comval/asf)

Army scores anew against illegal logging

By Lt. Col. Eugenio Julio C. Osias IV

Two iligan businesses get incentives

By Melvin T. Anggot, Virgilio C. Garcia

PaNaBo CITY, Davao del Norte, - The City Govern-ment of Panabo has finally put in place a system to serve investors who want to renew and open a business in Panabo City.

The Permit and Licens-ing Section (PLS) under the City Government has spearheaded the Business One-Stop-Shop (Panabo BOSS) which started last January 2 until January 20 at the ground floor of the Panabo New City Hall.

PLS will accommodate clients even on Saturdays and Sundays, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and with extended office hours until 7 p.m. during weekdays.

“The establishment of Panabo BOSS fast lane in in-vestment transactions, aside from the separate fast lane for senior citizen, pregnant women and differently-abled persons, will help boost the influx of investors and makes it easier for them to start

LGU Panabo simplifies process for investors

their business in the City,” business and licensing officer Dulce E.Relopez said.

She added that 2013 BOSS shortens now the flow of transaction. The usual eight steps to process a busi-ness permit is trimmed down to five steps.

Another major inno-vation is to release busi-ness permits right after the approval of the approving officer.

It can be recalled that the complex process of comply-ing with business require-ments discourages investors and these changes offer the solution as it would simplify everything.

BOSS intends to make business registration pro-cedures simpler and easier as it will house the partner agencies involved in busi-ness registration applica-tion under one roof. (JDA/PIA/Mark Anthony Gellor / Panabo City Information Office)

ILIGaN City - Two big businesses in Iligan have each received a certificate of recognition enabling them to avail of investment incentives from the local government.

They are Pilmico Foods Corporation and Madeli-cious Foods Corporation that both are exempted from payment of real property tax and business tax on gross sales/receipts for three years, starting this year.

This is mandated in City Ordinance No. 4924-2006, also known as The Revised Investment Code of the City of Iligan.

The ordinance gives in-centives to businesses in the city, with a capital of P3 million.

According to Engr. Ro-lando Cuizon, executive

director of the Iligan Invest-ment Promotions Center (IIPC), recipient business should, however, pay the Special Educational Fund (SEF) and if they fail to do

so, the incentives will be taken back.

At the end of the year on the period mentioned, the business entity must also transfer to the Special

Development Fund (SDF) of IIPC Board an amount equivalent to one-tenth of one percent of the availed incentives.(net/arjaysfeli-cilda)

DIPoLoG City - Chinese tourists, who had visited Dapitan City were impressed with the pristine beaches and beautiful sceneries that abound in the area.

They related their ob-servation through Tour-ism Attache for Eastern and Western China Ger-ry Panga, who informed Counci lor Agolong by email that the entire del-egation was happy and deeply impressed with the experience they had dur-ing the visit. A 12-mem-ber delegation, headed by Consul General Charles C. Jose of PTO, arrived in Dapitan City, with media personalities from East China Tourism News and Shanghai Daily to experi-

ence the river cruising, firefly watching and tour to the famous Aliguay Island.

The group also have exp er ienced t he aqua sports activities, horse-back riding, rappelling, rides and shows at Gloria’s Fantasyland, historical tour highlighting Rizal’s legacies during his exile in Dapitan and many others.

A tour was also orga-nized by the Philippine Tourism Office (PTO), based in Shanghai, China and the Department of

Tourism (DOT) China team to Dakak Park and Beach Resort.

With the positive feed-back from the Chinese tourists, DOT Team China Head Arlene Itik expressed

full support in making Dapitan City as one of the top tourist destinations in the Philippines for the Chinese market. (ALT/FPG/PIA-Zamboanga del Norte/arjaysfelicilda)

oRoQUIETa City - as-sorted books and medical equipment in 35 units of 20-footer container vans have been donated by the Children International Phil-ippines, Inc. (CIPI) to the provincial government of misamis occidental.

The medical equipment included wheel chairs, medi-cines and personal hygiene items were turned-over by CIPI Program Coordina-tor Gertrudes Gauiran, who assured the provincial gov-ernment of their continued support.

“This is our way of thank-ing the provincial government that has also helped us in our

advocacies,” Ms. Gauiran said. She said CIPI has been do-

nating books to the province since 2005, and will pursue the gesture in the coming years.

It was learned that for two occasions already, the municipality Aloran has re-ceived two container vans of books through Ms. Gauiran, with Provincial Librarian Luz Boaquina.

It can be recalled that CIPI has also helped promote the advocacies of Governor Herminia M. Ramiro, one of which is the campaign for education for all Misamis-mons, Ms. Gauiran added. (JDN/RCA/PIA10-Misamis Occidental/arjaysfelicilda)

C a m P E v a n g e l i s t a , Cagayan de oro City - Troops of the 3rd special Forces Battalion (3sFB), Philippine army, with other law enforcement agencies, have intercept-ed 212 illegally-cut logs at Barangay mahogany, Butuan City, morning of January 8, this year.

Joining the operation were the Butuan City Police Off ice (BCPO), headed by Police Sr. Supt. Nerio Bermudo; Nasipit Community Environment and Natural Resources Off ice, headed by Mr. William Sol and Mr. Ga-briel Arlan; and the local government unit of Butuan

City, represented by Mr. Ruel Hamili.

The confiscated Lauan logs est imated to cost P160,000, were turned-over to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Bu-tuan City.

Col. Ronald N. Al-bano, commander of the 402nd Brigade thanked the concerned citizens, who reported the abandoned logs in their locality.

“I appeal to the people to continue helping the government in protect-ing our environment,” said Col. Albano even as he warned the illegal loggers that “we will not

tolerate any destruction of our natural resources, we will hunt you down. So, you better stop before it is too late."

On the other hand, Lt. Col. Potenciano C. Camba, 3SFB commanding officer, vowed to double their ef-forts in the fight against illegal logging.

“We may not be able to prevent the cutting of these trees, but this will serve as warning to oth-ers to stop their illegal activities," he stated.

The 3SFB is under the operational control of the 4th Infantry “Diamond” Division. (EJCOIV/ar-jaysfelicilda)

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ZAMBOANGA CITY, - The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is set to demolish obstructions and structures illegally constructed in the city’s highways and roads right of way.

DPWH set to “clear” highways and roadsof obstructions,

illegal structuresBy Jocelyn P. Alvarez

In consonance with the demolition, DPWH has been coordinating with the city government for its implementation.

“The DPWH thru a circular has sought the city government’s assistance pertaining to the immedi-ate clearing of highways and roads right of way of all illegal structures,” revealed City Information Officer (IO) Sheila Covarrubias.

Covarrubias informed, “Lobregat has had series of meetings with barangay chairmen with represen-tatives from the DPWH, City Engineer’s Office, City Police Off ice and other concerned agen-cies to discus about the impending demolition.”

To oversee the enforce-ment of the DPWH cir-cular, a task group was created for the purpose.

“ The task group is composed of the District

We grow minds!

“On October 15, 2012 – I had my training on radio broadcasting at BWM Media Center, under Mr. Joe del Puerto Felicilda. It greatly enhanced my skills , as a campus broadcaster. There, I learned the art of interviewing (being the most effective way of news data gathering) and the proper way of news scriptwriting for broadcast. Me and my fellow campus broadcasters were also taught that a journalist should have the ‘nose for news’, resourceful, creative, reliable, neutral and must always keep the stream of information flowing. I also knew the different kinds of news events, such as accidents, conflicts, gatherings, sports, government projects, people, government actions, amusements, among others.”

- Lendy Hazelle Ruth Lugatiman,Regional Science High School, Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City

Photo shows Lendy Hazelle Ruth Lugatiman of the Regional Science High School, Cagayan de Oro City delivering one of her workshop out-puts during the training on radio broadcasting at BWM Media Center on October 15, 2012. (Arjay S. Felicilda)

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Engineer as the head and personnel from the CEO, City Administrator’s Of-fice, City Mayor’s Office specifically City Licensing Division and the Zamboan-ga City Police Office,” this according to Covarrubias.

Covarrubias said the task group has started Monday its rounds on the various barangays to check on all illegal structures constructed along high-

ways.“The task group has

started Monday its rounds of the different barangays starting from Tetuan to Licomo in the east coast and from Baliwasan to Labuan in the west coast,” the lady IO said.

Covarrubias clarified, “owners of said structures will be properly notified thru notices to voluntarily clear the highway within

one week to ten days after which the task group will be back to undertake the demolition.”

“The City Legal office has opined that such il-legal structures are per se considered nuisance and that no Court or legal procedure is necessary to enable the task group to conduct the demolition,” Covarrubias stressed. (JPA/PIA9)

REBUILDING THE PROVINCE - The provincial government of Comval sponsors a holy Mass at the start of year 2013. Attended by provincial officials and employees, the activity was a way of asking for more strength and perseverance in rebuilding the province. (A.dayao-ids covmal/asf)

BUTUaN CITY, - The Butuan City manpower Training Center (BCmTC) on Tuesday opened a massage clinic at the departure area of the Bancasi airport here.

In her welcome message during the grand opening cer-emony, Ruth Jugao, (BCMTC) training director, said while passengers are still awaiting for their flight out, they can avail of massage for 15 to 30 minutes.

Jugao also said the massage clinic gives opportunity to the blind masseurs who are graduates of BCMTC for a livelihood. To date, there are five blind masseur graduates reporting to the clinic.

The official further said graduates of BCMTC are also holders of the Technical Edu-cation and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) National Certificate (NC) II “which means that they are more than qualified to perform massage therapy.”

Meanwhile, Caraga Tour-ism Council Chairman Atty. Rema Erigbuagas-Burdeos said that this project is another milestone of the mayor, Fer-dinand Amante, in an effort to provide job opportunities to his constituents, especially

Butuan training center opens massage clinic at

Bancasi airportBy Robert E. Roperos

to persons with disabilities (PWDs).

Burdeos likewise enjoined the local government to pro-vide massage therapy training not only to blind masseurs but also to PWDs who are deaf-mute.

Prior to the opening cer-emony, Fr. Alfredo Sanchez officiated the blessing, attended by city hall employees, as well as officials in the region’s tour-ism industry, representatives of regional line agencies headed by the Civil Aviation Author-ity of the Philippines (CAA) through Airport Manager Emmanuel Costelo.

After the program, Costelo and Richard Atillo of Philip-pine Information Agency (PIA)-Caraga were among those who were treated for a free sample massage. The massage service costs P200, it was learned.

Jugas also enjoins the public especially the airport passengers to come and ex-perience the rejuvenating acupressure massage offered by blind massage therapists.

The massage clinic, dubbed as “Magic Touch Chair Mas-sage Services,” is open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (RER-PIA 13, Caraga)

MAYOR Vicente Y. Ema-no this week welcomed new City Police Director PSSupt Raul A. Benitez to Cagayan de Oro.

“Bisan pa nga wala ako taga-i sa higayon nga makapili sa mahimong hepe sa pulis sa atong dakbayan, gidawat ko pa gihapon ang pagka-tudlo ni Senior Superintendent Raul A. Benitez isip Di-rektor sa atong pulis ,” the mayor said in a press

Emano assures support to new OIC pol director

statement.Benitez took his oath

last Tuesday during a fit-ting program held at the Maharlika Headquarters in Barangay Carmen.

He replaces OIC Police Director PSupt Antonio Montalba, who is due for retirement.

Emano assured that he will be supporting the new police chief as he expresses hopes that under his lead-ership, COCPO will be able

to continue to effectively maintain the city’s peace and order drive.

“Ang ako lamang gi-panghina-ut nga unta ang atong kapulisan tinu-oray nga magpadayon sa pag-pangalagad sa atong ka-tawhan, labi na sa pag-patunhay sa kahusay ug kalinaw, ug usab makala-um si Senior Superinten-dent Raul Benitez sa akong kooperasyon ug tabang,” he added.

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THINK a minute.Former Prime Minis-

ter of England, Winston Churchill, became so famous for his speeches that he’s been called the greatest speaker of the century.

He was also famous for his quick wit.

Yet amazingly, he was not a naturally talented speaker.

In f a c t , e ar l i e r i n Churchill’s life he had such a bad speech problem that people made fun of the way he talked.

Do you know how Churchill changed to be-come the greatest speaker of the 20th century?

He studied and wrote his speeches word-for-word on paper, and then he practiced them countless hours in front of a mirror.

‘The sweat of success’

He worked at saying each word just the right way with just the right facial expressions.

He also practiced paus-ing and pretending to strug-gle to find the right word, even though he knew exactly what he was going to say!

So although Winston Churchill was not a naturally good speaker, he disciplined himself and worked hard to become a great one!

You and I can never suc-

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It takes sweat to succeed in our job and career, in school, in sports, in our marriage and family.

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It’s not natural or easy for us to quickly forgive someone who hurts us or our family.

It’s not natural or easy to always be honest no matter how much we can get away with or how much it costs us.

But you can start by ask-ing Jesus Christ to forgive you for living your own way; and then ask Him to take full charge of your heart and character.

It’s only with Jesus’ char-acter and power in you that you can start changing to become the best person you can be.

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Opinion

Cris Diaz

Elements of surpriseIT is just proper for supporters to mass at City Hall in anticipation of a ‘suspension order’ against City Mayor Vicente ‘Dongkoy’ Emano. The warm bodies are not even enough. If I were Mayor Emano, I would call on all supporters to occupy all corners of the City Hall building to guard against anyone who would serve the suspension order.

Anyway, the suspension order started to float Monday as the dead-line set by the Commissions on Elec-tions (Comelec) for serving suspension orders nears. The Comelec has set Jan. 13 as the last day for serving suspension orders against elected officials, it is also the deadline set for transferring or reassigning government personnel.

However, banning in the hiring of government workers starts 45-day prior to the May elections. In other words, the government could still hire workers even after Jan. 13. Transferring or reassigning of government workers is illegal after Jan. 13.

I have been observing the on-going mass action at City Hall since Monday. I thought of calling the regional office of the Department of Interior and Local Govern-ment (DILG) to ask for confirmation about the order.

However, based on experiences in the past, the local DILG office could not be relied on cases like this.

I recalled that the DILG Manila ordered ‘Dongkoy’ to explain the administrative complaint against him sometime last year. Political opponents had filed raps against ‘Dongkoy’ for ‘dereliction of duty’ which re-sulted in deaths and massive destruction of properties in Cagayan De Oro as a result of typhoon Sendong in December last year.

By the way, this is the same case ridiculous case that political opponents are pushing the DILG to issue suspension orders against ‘Dongkoy.’

At that time, DILG Director Rene Burdeos told me that it was the prerogative of the DILG Manila to serve orders directly to local officials. Based on that experi-ence, I already have in mind that the DILG could not make categorical answer about the impending suspen-sion order against ‘Dongkoy.’

Of course, whether a suspension order exists or not, it is incumbent upon ‘Dongkoy’ and his political leaders to be on their toes. We know how the government operates. Today, their (government) underlings would say there is no suspension order at all – it is a bluff. Actually, the government is always akin in employing the element of surprise. In other words, the government would deliver the suspension order against ‘Dongkoy’ once City Hall slackens its guard. React: crisguardian@yahoo.com

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LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “…`Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven’…” (Jesus Christ, our God and Savior, in Matthew 5:10, the Holy Bible).

-ooo-JPE’S POWER OVER

SENATE FUNDS: So, it is clear now that Senate Presi-dent Juan Ponce Enrile had the legal authority to give millions to his fellow sena-tors, not as a bribe but as “MOOE”, or “maintenance or other operating expenses”, to enable them to perform better in their legislative work. It is also clear now that Enrile can choose the senators who will receive the MOOE, and who will not.

In fact, under Senate rules, he can choose not to give MOOE to any one Senator at all. Consequently, those who did not receive the P1.6 million MOOE---Senators Miriam San-tiago, Alan Peter Cayetano,

Pagadian City airport to be barricaded?

Pia Cayetano and Antonio Trillanes---cannot really complain of any abuse on the part of Enrile, could they? There is a phrase for this situation in Spanish, and it goes something like this: “amor con amor se paga”.

-ooo-PAGADIAN AIRPORT

TO BE BARRICADED? For the last two days or so, this column’s correspondent in Zamboanga del Sur and in the whole Zamboanga Pen-insula, Michael Navarro, had been reporting in our radio programs that a woman claiming ownership of the runway of the Pagadian City Airpot in Zamboanga del Sur will barricade the run-

way starting Friday, January 11, 2013.

Navarro had been say-ing in his reports that the woman, Seminal Taug, will prevent the operation of the airport which services Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga Sibugay, to call attention to the inability of the airport management and the Department of Trans-portation and Communica-tion (DOTC) as a whole to comply with court decisions directing the government to pay her for the runway.

Navarro has also been reporting that Taug is the owner of the runway which the DOTC took over, even without paying her. Taug,

through lawyer Ganie G. Abubacar, sued the DOTC all the way up to the Su-preme Court, which recog-nized her claims, directing, in the process the payment of whatever is legally due her, which is estimated to be in the vicinity now of P35 million.

It would also appear from Navarro’s reports that the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) had already allocated money to pay Taug’s claims. The money however seems to have been diverted to some other purposes.

-ooo-FACTS ABOUT PAGA-

DIAN AIRPORT: For the information of our readers, here is an entry in Wiki-pedia about the Pagadian City Airport: It “… is the airport serving the City of Pagadian, the rest of the Province of Zamboanga del Sur, and the Province of Zamboanga Sibugay

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THE International Associa-tion for Multidisciplinary Research, or IAMURE for short, has been globally acknowledged since it was born in 2011. It was two years ago, not so old enough for the birth of an organi-zation. It is really a baby; therefore, it is really amaz-ing. This intellectual orga-nization was created by the international consortium headed by Dr. Genaro V. Japos, the man behind the great influential IAMURE.

Though, it was born in Philippines, exactly in Cagayan de Oro city, this researchers’ community has been owned by the world community. This means that, it has been globally making the world united. Different researchers, from various countries with dif-ferent backgrounds of edu-cation and experiences are blended together in the same organization with the same vision and mission. IAMURE can be said the place for making the world not only united but also enlightened.

With hundreds of its members from about 40 countries so far, IAMURE is really gaining its ground. The different fields of sci-ence and various experi-

RATHER than liberate women from a problem-atic marriage that involves violence on the part of the husband, a divorce law will help such men enter into marriage repeatedly, thereby turning more women into victims of violent behavior, said a life advocate.

“Divorce is not a solution to problematic marriages. If we let an abusive man divorce his wife, we will just allow the man to go from one woman to another to oppress them,” said Jose Descallar, Buhay Party-list’s

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Divorce enables unstable men to victimize more women

ences from different per-spectives are poured into the same “bowel”. The mixtures of ingredients are blended into one, making the world flat and borderless. Every thing is discussed, every idea is digested, and every experience is learned by anyone at the same time for formulating the generaliza-tion for all.

Nobody feels strange among the members in this IAMURE organiza-tion. Once a new member gets involved, he or she gets easily at home. The blended psychological atmosphere is always created by doing the presence of each member to stand up on the stage.

pro-life advocacy staff.He pointed out that

existing laws address the concerns of women in dire situations, such as those who are constantly in danger due to a husband’s violent behavior.

Existing law that addresses domestic

violence“There are laws already

that protect abused women from their abusive husbands, l ike the Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act (AVAWC). Cases can be filed against

the men under the AVAWC, then file a petition for legal separation,” Descallar said.

Republic Act (RA) 9262 or the AVAWC is titled “An act defining violence against women and their children, providing for protective measures for victims, pre-scribing penalties therefore, and for other purposes” and was signed into law in 2004.

“If we want to address problematic marriages then it would be better to take a more mature approach, like proper and better prepara-tion before the marriage

rite,” Descallar suggested.The life advocate also

pointed out that there are several kinds of divorce law, one of which is a no-fault divorce, “which I think Ga-briela is pushing for. In this kind of divorce, anybody can just divorce his/her spouse without proving any fault to justify the petition. Mas delikado ito.”

House Bill (HB) 1799, which seeks to amend the Family Code to include a provision on divorce, was filed by Gabriela Party-list

HUMAN rights is a very important issue for us in Bulatlat. We have written about the life of each and every victim of human rights violations.

We tried to provide the context by which these viola-tions are being committed by describing the life and struggles of the victims, the organizations they belonged to, and the advocacies they were involved in.

Democracy? Why is the Aquino govt ignoring human rights issues?

By BENJIE OLIVEROS of Bulatlat.com

Why?We believe that one kill-

ing or one abduction or one torture is one violation too many. We believe that hu-man rights defenders should be honored and their rights respected and not be targets of attacks by those who seek to silence the truth and to impose their will on the Filipino people. And we believe in the inextricable link between human rights

and democracy.A progressive writer

Naomi Klein in her book Disaster Capitalism said that the commission of torture, or any human rights viola-tion for that matter, is a manifestation that the state is implementing an anti-democratic project. Let us bring this further: wherever impunity in human rights violations prevails, there is no genuine democracy.

It is unfortunate that in the official discourse about democracy, especially after the blatantly undemocratic, anti-people Arroyo admin-istration, the Aquino gov-ernment has been talking about its anti-corruption drive and transparency in governance, even as it re-fuses to urgently pass the Freedom of Information bill but has pushed for

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MANILA, (PNA) –- Visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday announced that Japan will be accepting more Filipino nurses and caregivers as part of Manila and Tokyo’s efforts to expand bilateral economic cooperation. “On the economic front, we agreed to advance coop-eration in…accepting Fili-pino nurses and caregivers in Japan,” Fishida said in his remarks at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) fol-lowing his bilateral meeting with Philippine counterpart Albert del Rosario. Fishida did not give fur-ther details but Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez, in a separate interview, said the new ini-tiative is expected to “hasten the employment of nurses and caregivers in Japan.” “Details on this are still being discussed,” Hernandez told reporters. Since the Philippines started deploying health

workers to Japan in 2009 under the Japan-Philip-pine Economic Partner-ship Agreement, only 15 nurses and one caregiver have passed the stringent Japanese licensure exams out of 237 Filipino nurses and 396 caregivers who have undergone training in Japan. Japan has vowed to take steps to improve the employ-ment scheme for foreign health workers to attract more Filipinos in seeking employment opportunities in Japan. The Japanese govern-ment said it has introduced “improvements” in the li-censure exams by incor-porating English medical terms and using simpler Japanese words to make it “more passable” for foreign applicants. Japan modified the content of its exam last 2010. Those who will fail the licensure tests in Japan can only re-take the exam within

Japan eyes more Filipino nurses, caregiverstheir prescribed period of stay in Japan. If after several tries they still fail the examination, they would have to return to the Philippines and re-apply again for training until they become qualified and licensed health workers in Japan. Apart from a six-month paid language training, Filipino nurses and care-givers subsequently work in Japanese hospitals and caregiving facilities, for three years and four years, respectively, to familiarize themselves with the Japanese healthcare system. During that time, nurses undergoing work-training receive an average monthly salary of 130,000 yen to 220,000 yen or roughly P66,000 and P113,000 in local currency. For care-givers, the monthly wage ranges from 125,000 yen to 185,000 yen or P64,000 and P95,000. (PNA)FFC/MDC/ABB

CDO on alert status as heavy rains continueCAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, –- City Mayor Vicente Ema-no directed Thursday the City’s Risk Reduction Man-agement Council (CRRMC) to be on alert as rains con-tinue to pour for more than 12 hours here since early Wednesday night. The Philippines Atmo-spheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Ad-ministration (Pag-asa) is closely monitoring a low-pressure area (LPA) off the Pacific Ocean. Emano issued the order to mobilize the CRRMC’s anti-disaster units to be able to respond quickly in case of emergency. He said the CRRMC is composed of various gov-ernment line agencies, pri-vate companies, and indi-vidual volunteers who are experts in their assigned fields in time of disasters. Emano said an alert order means that the risk man-agement council should set up standby generators, rubber boats, ambulances, fire trucks, and ready relief distribution centers. A monitoring body is also set up at the city’s tourism council where all stakehold-ers including the military and police are on standby for any emergency, Emano added. (PNA)LAM/CD/

Devotees join the Black Nazarene pro-cession around the streets of Cagayan de Oro City on Wednesday. Even lady cops joined too offering flowers. The huge procession caused traffice i delays n some sections of the city.PHOTO By:GERRy LEE GORiT

RELiGiOUS FRENZy. Devotees express their emotions as the Black Nazarene was brought in a procession in Barangay Lapasan in Cagayan de Oro on Jan.9, 2012. The parish church of Barangay Lapasan holds an annual procession in honor of the Black Nazarene at the same time with that of Quiapo, Manila. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo

CAGAYAN DE ORO, Jan 10 --- West Highlands, a 64-hectare mountain top land development in Butuan City is the newest residential estates project of A Brown Group of Companies in Caraga region. A Brown is the owner and developer of Xavier Estates, Xavierville Homes, Ventura Residences and Teakwood

A BROWN opens newest residential project in ButuanHills in Cagayan de Oro City; Mountain Pines Farm in Dahilayan, Manolo For-tich, Bukidnon and Valencia Estates in Valencia City, Bukidnon. Nestled 289 feet above sea level in Barangay Bonbon, Butuan City, West Highlands Residential Estates is envi-sioned as Caraga’s exclusive residential address which

boosts of top of the line amenities like 9-hole golf course, clubhouse, parks and playground, swimming pool and secured gates. West Highlands is con-veniently located three ki-lometers from JC Aquino Avenue, Butuan City’s main thoroughfare and about five kilometer drive to major business establishments and

service facilities of the city. A Brown President Roberti-no Pizarro has assured clients of an environment-friendly community anchored on a golf course development. “Your family can sleep soundly in this gated prop-erty and exclusive neigh-borhood accorded with a 24-hour security”, Pizarro said.

West Highlands has clus-tered lots from 180 sq. m. and up that revolve around landscaped pocket parks.The opening of the multi-million peso golf and resi-dential project of A Brown ushers a new era of land development in Butuan City, the regional hub of Caraga region, Pizarro added. (Ruffy Magbanua)

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“In 2006, the airport was subjected to a P379.46 million-worth (8.72 million USD) rehabilitation and expansion project, pursu-ant of facility upgrade. The project was completed in December 2009. On October 9, 2009, Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo inaugurated the renovated airport.

“The first aircraft to land on the rehabilitated runway was a Fokker 70 of the Phil-ippine Air Force carrying the Presidential Security Group (PSG) followed by a chartered Dornier 328 of the Royal Star Aviation with tail number RP-C8328 carrying the presidential entourage. The chartered jet from San Miguel Cor-poration with tail number RP-C8576 which served as the presidential jet was last to land…”

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suffered waist deep flood waters that already entered in their homes. Among the private colleges however, only San Francisco Colleges has declared to suspend all its classes in high school and college levels.

At press time, the lo-cal disaster risk reduction and management councils in the province has yet to set up evacuation areas for the affected residents even as rescue and relief teams have been dispatched to areas considered to be heavily affected by rising floodwaters.

had been reported in the area.

The NDRRMC said the floods triggered by the LPA off Mindanao affected 651 families or 3,195 people in the regions of Davao and Soccsksargen (South Cotabato, Cotabato City, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, General Santos City). Heav-ily affected are General Santos City, Sarangani, and Compostela Valley but no casualties were reported.

The NDRRMC said it remains on red alert and continuously monitoring and disseminating weather advisories.

Earlier, PAGASA warned of possible flash floods and landslides in parts of Mind-anao due to the LPA. (PNA)

A few days after, 13 peo-ple were killed in a shootout in Quezon province.

The young lawmaker expressed apprehension that incidents of gun violence may increase if the PNP will not be able to immediately track down and apprehend the owners of some 500,000 illegal firearms.

“The PNP must be able to account for these loose firearms especially since the Philippines is already in the thick of preparations for the May elections," he said.

Violent incidents tend to go up as election day nears. Ejercito Estrada said the

incumbent member of the provincial board in Misamis Oriental during a ‘buy bust’ last night in the province’s capital city of Cagayan de Oro.

PDEA agents posing as buyers of ‘shabu,’ (Meth-amphetamine) collared in-cumbent provincial board member Joedeguil G. Ursal, 32, of Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental along with two others in barangay Agusan, Cagayan de Oro City about 8 p.m. last night.

Officials at PDEA said that some politicians in Mis-amis Oriental, Camiguin, Misamis Occidental, Lanao Del Norte, and Cagayan De Oro have been objects of

intensive surveillance for illegal drug trade.

PDEA agents refused to divulge names of the politician-suspects although they admitted that there are ongoing operations against them.

‘We are confident that the long arms of the law will finally reach them,’ a PDEA agent said. CRIS DIAZ, EDITOR,MDN

government particularly the PNP must be able to assure Filipinos that it is capable of safeguarding their lives as well as the sanctity of the ballot.

He challenged PNP Di-rector General Alan Puri-sima to prove that President Benigno Aquino III made the right decision in ap-pointing him as national police chief and in entrust-ing him with the task of maintaining peace and order in the country.

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Representatives Luzvim-inda Ilagan and Emerenci-ana de Jesus and was brought into the spotlight again in late December days after news of the reproductive health (RH) bill’s signing into law came out.Divorce bill will protect

women?The RH bill had been

touted by its proponents and supporters as essential in ad-dressing maternal mortality and other women’s health

the Data Privacy Act and the Cybercrime Prevention Act.

But glaringly absent in its discourse is the question of impunity in human rights violations.

In fact, President Be-nigno Aquino III has been ignoring cases of human rights violations even if it is already staring it in the face. And when pressured to respond, the Aquino gov-ernment simply skirts the issue. It created its so-called “superbody” only after it has been pressured by the international community to address the impunity in human rights violations.

So does democracy exist in the country under the Aquino government? For as long as impunity reigns, it does not. In this situation, democracy could only be given flesh in the struggle of the people for national sovereignty, genuine de-mocracy and human rights, and social emancipation. (http://bulatlat.com)

That’s the pictorial ses-sion, which is always done in the interval of panel dis-cussions. The new members or comers are introduced to one another, making them feels as if they were in their own countries. That’s the very natural identity of psy-chological characteristics.

IAMURE is really for the world. It is not anymore the entity owned by the nation from where this organiza-tion was firstly born. This intellectual community has traveled lots throughout the globe. That is the posi-tive symptom that makes IAMURE gaining its ground. It is increasingly getting its existence with different participants and bringing its collected ideas for making the members’ knowledge updated every second.

The most prestigious identity is that IAMURE has been certified by ISO, for doing all the things related to academic endeavors. All papers submitted for presen-tation are reviewed blindly and made accountably aca-demic works. As such, the creativity the members have pursued yields precious out-come with the best quality for all. Beside, such an effort is also intended to make the intellectuals accountable to their professions.

The academic journals are published with high grade levels for they are also managed through process. The process is conducted through hard efforts by the management of the journal publication. All articles have been presented in the conference sessions. Yet, these academic works are still scrutinized through academic measurements. Blind reviews and plagia-rism detection are also done for assurance of the articles’ quality.

All in all, IAMURE is the place for intellectual similar to a coin with two sides. In one side, it is for oral presentation of the papers concerning the au-

thors’ ideas. In other side, it is for paper or article publication that is the dis-semination of the members’ academic works. By joining or participating in IAMURE activities, all members from different countries become united, blended themselves pursuing the best quality of their intellectuality.

---Dr. Djuwari is the direc-

tor of Language laboratory at STIE Perbanas Surabaya, Indonesia. He is one of IAMURE members.

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Miss Jane said, the trainings are being held all at the same time and all trainings are important. There are also trainings where they have to pay like the training in the grading system, where the fee is P300 ($7.31). However, Miss Jane was not able to attend that train-ing because she could no longer be accommodated. “The venue for the training was too small to accommodate the teachers. They eventually returned our money.”

Teaching guidelines were also not distributed on time. Teach-ing guidelines for the second semester were not even given. Teachers had to take the initiative of printing out and photocopying the guidelines so that they would have their own copy. “Our principal gave a CD containing the teaching guidelines coming from the DepEd. We used our own money to have it photocopied,” Miss Jane said. She said the guideline has 600 plus pages.

PPP, for whom?The only solution of the gov-

ernment to fill in the shortages in the country’s education sys-tem is through Public-Private Partnership projects. According to the PPP website, the PPP for school infrastructure project (PSIP) seeks to supplement the current initiatives and program of the DepEd on classroom construc-tion nationwide. “The objective of the government is to expand the supply of classrooms in all public school systems as fast as it could reasonably be done and cut the current shortage of around 66,800 classroom units nationwide.”

First phase of the PSIP was implemented last year

The project was awarded to consortiums of Citicore Hold-ings Investment, Inc.-Megawide Construction Corp., Inc. and BF Corp.-Riverbanks Development

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issues. In the same manner, some sectors are calling for the legalization of divorce as a measure for the protection of women and the assertion of women’s rights.

Descallar negated the notion of divorce benefit-ing the cause of women and recently chided in an online discussion those who asserted that legalizing it in the Philippines would mean a step forward for women.

“In fact, in one of the comments I wrote in reply to a feminist friend’s post about divorce, I said, ‘Divorce is great for men who want to change wives as often as they want.’” (CBCP for Life)

Corporation last Dec. 12, 2012. The project would involve the design, financing and construction of about 9,300 one-storey and two-storey classrooms, including furniture and fixtures, in various sites in Region I, III and IV-A.

The PSIP is now on its second phase where 10,680 classrooms are targeted to be constructed, including school furniture and comfort rooms – in 14 regions na-tionwide. The government targets to close the gap in classrooms nationwide by 2013.

But at what cost?Tinio warned against the high-

er cost of constructing classrooms through PPPs.

Tinio cited a study produced by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which revealed that “for every two schools financed through P3s in Alberta (Canada), an additional school could be built for the same cost, if all were built using traditional public sector contracting models.”

According France Castro, secretary general of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) and second nominee of ACT Teachers’ Party, more PPP projects are to be implemented by the government especially that public high schools are ill-equipped to accommodate grades 11 and 12 or senior high school. In senior high school, students will choose from the special courses: business and entrepreneurship, humanities and social science, science, technol-ogy and engineering, sports, and technical and vocational.

Castro said there will be an estimated 2.3 million senior high school students when the K to 12 program will be fully implemented by school year 2016-2017. The public school system has no capacity to accommodate the students and thus, a lot of stu-dents will have to enroll in private schools.

In this situation, Castro said, the government itself has resolved the possible bankruptcy of private colleges and universities.

Already the Philippine Associa-tion of Colleges and Universities (PACU) is warning about the losses being incurred by private schools due to declining enrollment rates. “ The financial losses from the enrolment drop could be in the bil-lions of pesos if countermeasures are not put in place before 2016.” The Council of Private Educational Associations (Cocopea), estimates that financial losses of private schools would cost around P128 billion ($3.128 billion).

It could thus be concluded, Castro said, that under the K to 12 program, education is for sale and not for free. “This contradicts the Constitution, which provides that basic education, including high school, should be free,” Castro said. (http://bulatlat.com)

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“Art must be alive, it should entertain and elevate the spirit.

At this point in my life, every masterpiece I share to a viewer is a gift. It is a God-given talent that I impart that is returned to me a thousand fold and slowly molds me to perfection as an artist and a human being.

My intention is to Continue making a definite mark on the global scene and to show the world how proud I am to be a Filipino Painter.”

Aside from focuing on his art, Anthony continues to share his talent and time by volunteering to teach and provide art supplies to less-fortunate children in the Philippines.

the ANtHONY FERMIN ARt EXHIBIt is a tribute to the Cebu Sinulog Festival 2013.

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- This is the 2nd Mindanao Business Leaders Awards, in a different category from the first one. The 1st Mindanao Busi-ness 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.

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- 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.

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Duration of the Search : January 15, 2013 to May 15, 2013Awards Night : June 1, 2013

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