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Weather UpdateIntErtropIcAl convergence Zone (ItcZ) affecting Mindanao. northeast Monsoon affecting northern luzon. palawan, Visayas and Mindanao will be cloudy with occasional light to moderate rains or thunderstorms. Moderate to strong winds blowing from the northeast to east will prevail over luzon and Eastern Visayas and the coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough. Elsewhere, winds will be light to moderate coming from the northeast and east with slight to moderate seas.
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A GRENADE ex-ploded this morn-ing in this port capi-tal of some 800,000 people in Southern Philippines, few meters away from a major police camp, wounding eight people including three police offi-cers.
The wounded police of-ficers were Rodolfo Gabu-tan, Ronillo Mendiola, and retired police Sgt. Rudy Cabutad. The five other wounded victims were a security guard identified as J.R. Palma, Danny Ragrag, Barsilisa Salamanca, Pretsy Pios, Fernando Birnes, and Roderick Cadevin, all of
8 hurt in Orogrenade blastn The incident occurred as authorities are up in arms against illegal financial firms in Mindanao. n It took place a day after suspects in the Oct. 11, 2012 ex-plosion in a downtown hotel were formally charged in court.
By CRIS DIAZ of Mindanao Daily News
GRENADE BLAST. Operatives of the Cagayan de Oro Police Office inspect the premises where a bomb exploded. Authorities said eight (8) persons were injured when the grenade bomb exploded at Golden Sun Finance Corporation bldg at Brgy. Lapasan which is near the PNP Region 10 headquarters, around 8:00 a.m. Photo shows a motorcycle dirve by a cop who was among those injured in the explosion. Photo by Gerry L. GorithuRT | page 10
BUTUAN City––The Vice Mayors League of the Philip-pines (VMLP) 3rd Caraga Regional Assembly is all set to be staged on November 22-23, 2012 at the Goa2Geder Hotel and Restaurant in Barangay Imadejas, this City.
More than 70 Vice Mayors coming from all the cit-ies and municipalities in Caraga Region are expected to attend this assembly which is also seen as a farewell assembly for the participants with the holding of next year’s national and local elections.
During the first day for which a plenary session will be held, a workshop will be given to all the participants on various topics.
Among the resource persons who will conduct the workshop are Mr. Lambert A. Ramirez of the National Institute for Policy Studies (NIPS) and
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur––Several areas in at least six towns in this province were swamped by floods as a result of continuous rains for three straight days even as disas-ter response officials said most of the roads are still passable.
A report gathered from Roberto Natividad, coor-dinator of saProvincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, said the towns of Bunawan, Rosario, San Francisco, Prosperidad, Sibagat and Bayugan City are placed
Floods swept six towns in Agsur
By ChRIS V. PANGANIBANof Mindanao Daily News-Agusan del Sur
VMLP regional assembly all set for
November 22-23
on alert level number one.A report from the Na-
tional Disaster Risk Re-duction and Management Council said that Agusan del Sur is among the four provinces in Mindanao heavily affected by intermit-tent rains due to prevailing Inter Tropical Convergence Zone.
The same report from NDRRMC said floods that swept at least six towns in the provinces of Compostela Valley, Davao Oriental and Davao del Norte has affected some 537 families or about
ZAMBOANGA City––Over 100 students from various schools have attended a forum on the long-delayed Freedom of Information Bill which the Philippine media and civil society groups are advocating.
The forum, organized by the local chapter of the National Union of Jour-nalist of the Philippines, the Ateneo de Zamboanga University, and the Right to Know Right Now Coali- NUJP Secretary General Rowena Paraan. Lawyer Nepomuceno Malaluan. Father Albert
Alejo. And students from Ateneo de Zamboanga, Pilar College and Saint Joseph.
FOI forum held in ZamboangaBy AL JACINTO of Mindanao Daily News-Zamboanga
tion, was held Tuesday at the Campeon Hall of the Ateneo de Zambooanga University.
Father Albert Alejo, of the Ateneo de Zamboanga, welcomed the students who were from Pilar College, Saint Joseph and Ateneo and gave a brief speech.
NUJP Secretary-General Rowena Paraan and law-yer Nepomuceno Malaluan were also invited and flew to Zamboanga City from
Manila to speak about the FOI and the Rights of Reply Bill, among others.
“This is a collaborative effort of the National Union of Journalists of the Phil-ippines-Zamboanga City Chapter, as it strengthens its cry against media oppres-sion in the Philippines, and the Ateneo De Zamboanga University, as it celebrates 100 years of service in edu-cation to the Filipino
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THE COMMISSION on Elections en banc has allowed rival party-list groups Akbayan and Bayan Muna to run in the May 2013 polls.
Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said the com-missioners voted 4-2 in favor of the party-list groups.
Brillantes, together with Commissioner Lucenito Tagle, voted for the delistment of the two groups. Bril-lantes said he believed that the two are political parties and are multi-sectoral in nature.
Commissioners Christian Lim, Elias Yusoph, Rene Sarmiento and Armando Velasco all voted for the retention of the groups’ accreditation while Grace Padaca abstained because she had “no part” in previous deliberations.
Both party-list groups have been criticized by several groups for apparently failing to represent the marginal-ized and underrepresented sectors.
Militant group Anakbayan and election watchdog Kontra Daya called for the disqualification of Akbayan
By fRANk E. DOSDOS JR.
IN the light of the relative peace in Mindanao achieved through the recent signing of the GPH-MILF Frame-work Agreement, Civil So-ciety Organizations held a
This photo was taken after the “Forum on Police Work and Peace-building” held at the CED Auditorium of MSU-IIT last November 18,2012.. Seated L-R are: Army 2nd Mechanized Brigade Commander Col. Ricardo Jalad, NGO Head Donna Orquillas, Iligan City Councilor Moises Dalisay, Jr., Co-Operation Ireland’s OBE Peter Sheridan, VSO Bahaginan Volunteer Ret. Gen. Carlos Holganza and PNP R10 Deputy Director , RPCRD Police Supt. Reynaldo Asis Padulla.
NGOs hold forum on police work, peace-buildingForum on Police Work and Peace-building at the Col-lege of Education (CED) Auditorium of MSU-IIT in Iligan City.
PNP Region 10 Deputy Director Police Superinten-dent Reynaldo Asis Padulla
presented a Regional Crime Situation Report showing an 11 percent improvement in the crime solution rate as of the past quarter.
Responding to a ques-tion raised by Media, he assured the public that there
is nothing to worry about speculations that trouble may arise because victims of the recent BDR scam in Marawi City and Lanao del Sur might run after the culprits.
He added that the PNP
has encouraged the victims to bring their complaints to the proper authorities instead of putting the law into their own hands.
The forum was high-lighted by a sharing of ex-periences from OBE Peter
Sheridan of Co-Operation Ireland who is best known as the PSNI Assistant Chief Constable and the force’s highest ranking Catholic Officer heavily involved in police work in the midst of
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By AL JACINTOof Mindanao Daily News
ZAMBOANGA City––Zam-boanga City in the southern Philippines is studying a proposal to ban smoking in public places just as other key cities in the country which penalized cigarette smokers who violate local ordinances.
Council woman Myra Paz Abubakar, who authored an ordinance to ban smok-ing in public areas, is op-timistic that the bill would be approved following an overwhelming support from many residents and health advocates.
In Davao City, smoking in public places has long been banned and the penalty for violators could reach as high as P10,000 and dozens of cities and municipalities have also the same anti-smoking ordinances because of the dangers posed by exposure to second-hand smoke.
According to the World Health Organization, over 600, 000 people die each year
Proposal to ban smoking in public places gains ground
Students smoke cigarettes outside their school in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines. Many students in Zamboanga are now hooked in cigarette smoking despite its ill effects to human health. (Mindanao Examiner Photo)
COTABATO City––Austra-lia’s Agency for International Development (AusAID), is pouring in AUSD93.5 million or P3.927 billion pesos for its Basic Educa-tion Assistance for Muslim Mindanao-ARMM (BEAM-ARMM) program in Min-danao.
With the program, more than 500,000 children in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will have better access to education in the predominantly Moslem provinces in Central and Southwestern Mindanao.
On its launching at-tended by Australian AID officials and education Secretary ArminLuistro, ARMM officials said the BEAM-ARMM manifests
Education program in M’naogets help
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DOJ releases names of ‘Aman’execs on immigration watch listTHE Philippine government is on the look-out for top officials of Aman Futures Group Philippines, Inc. (Aman Futures) who may try to leave the country following their involve-ment in the P12-billion pyramiding scam that victimized 15,000 people from the Visayas and Mindanao.
Bureau of Immigration Commissioner Ri-cardo David, Jr. issued the lookout order upon instruction of Justice Secretary Leila De Lima.
With the order, all ports around the Phil-ippines will be on the lookout for executives and directors of Aman Futures.
Named as subjects of the BI’s lookout bulletin are Fernando “Nonoy” Luna, Lelian Lim Gan, Eduard L. Lim, William L. Fuentes,
Naezelle M. Rodriguez, Lurix Lopez, Prescilla Ann F. Co, Nimfa Luna, Rico Medina, Dhur-win Wenceslao, Reggie Luna, Araceli Pasco, Marilou Caballero, Shiela Luna Lasaca, Alfredo Aspira, P02 Ariel Real, Ernesto Luna, P03 Rey “Tata” Chang, Edward Amao, Maria Donna Coyme, Araceli Pasco Julian, Darwin Luna, Toto Caballero, Amay Caballero, Eric Lasaca, Judy Amarao, Edna Dalena, Dickens Dalena, Eva Dalena, Isojo K. Casil, Edna Caballero, Patrick V. Ceniza , Diosdado M. Mag-aso, Frederick M. Mag-aso, Leonita Duhaylungsod, Angelo Duhaylungsod and Roger Tenajeros.
However, the company’s founder 32-year-old Manuel Amalilio or Mohammad Suffian Saaid has left the Philippines for Sabah, Malaysia.
He is of Filipino-Malaysian descent.David echoed the statement of De Lima
that in the absence of an arrest warrant or hold departure order from the court, immigration officers cannot prevent those in the lookout bulletin from leaving the Philippines.
“If anyone of them is seen leaving the country, we can only report their departure to the Department of Justice for monitoring purposes but we cannot prevent them from leaving without a warrant or HDO from the court,” David said.
David said that only a judge can issue an arrest warrant or HDO against the suspects but prosecutors have yet to file the criminal information against them before the court.
SYSTEM operator and trans-mission service provider National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) clarified that there has been no increase in transmission charges amidst reports that there will be an NGCP rate hike this November.
“NGCP’s annual maxi-mum allowable revenue (MAR), which is billed in the form of transmission rates, is being fixed and approved by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) on a yearly basis,” Spokesperson and Adviser for External Affairs Atty. Cynthia P. Alabanza ex-plained.
No increase in transmission charges, says NGCP
Alabanza put in context reports that the higher cost of electricity is caused in part by higher transmission charges, particularly ancil-lary services costs incurred by NGCP from generators.
NGCP’s transmission charges are for Power Deliv-ery Service, System Opera-tions, and Metering Services which recover, respectively, the cost of conveying elec-
tricity to or from the grid, the cost of SO services like communications and SCA-DA, and the cost metering facilities including software and hardware.
Ancillary Service (AS) charges, on the other hand, are pass-through charges that are not part of NGCP’s revenues.
“Please note that the 39% increase in AS rates
in Luzon (the comparison being made between Sep-tember 2012 and October 2012 billing periods) is due to the increase in the mar-ket clearing prices for this type of service, which is a factor beyond our control,” Alabanza added.
AS, however, does not form part of NGCP’s ap-proved transmission rate as it forms part of the revenue of the generators that pro-vide the AS service.
She c l ar i f i e d t hat , “NGCP does not earn prof-its from the provision of ancillary services. While it is NGCP who bills and collects ancillary services
charges from end-users, as provisionally approved by the ERC, it remits the col-lection for ancillary services directly and entirely to the generators, from which these ancillary services are taken. NGCP earns nothing from this.”
NGCP, a privately owned company, continues to per-form its mandate as trans-mission service provider with the full awareness of its nature as a public utility with attendant responsibili-ties to the public, and in full compliance with the rules and regulations of the regulator, and existing laws governing its operations.
CAGAYAN de Oro City––The Commission on Popu-lation (POPCOM-10) is hosting two major events highlighting the Population and Development (POP-DEV) Week Celebration, November 23 to 29, this year.
POPCOM-10 Director Psyche P. Paler said, one of such events is the launch-ing of the Fifth State of the Philippine Population Report (SSPR 5), entitled “Seeking a Health Balance : Population, Health and Environment Integration, today at the Pryce Plaza Hotel, this city.
“This particular issue of the SPPR explores the population, health and en-vironment interrelationship and the country’s experience in integrating the three vari-ables in policies, programs and projects,” she said.
The other event is the 2012 National Population Congress that takes place tomorrow, November 23, at same venue.
Carrying the theme “Population, Health, En-vironment and Local Gov-ernance”, it is expected to draw a crowd of 250,
Popcom-10 hosts big events in C. de OroBy ARJAy S. fELICILDA of Mindanao Daily News
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SARANGANI PROV-INCE - ‘Barangay sa Sarangani’ (BSS) is an award/recognition program, which aims to improve the system of governance at the barangay level.
Specifically, the search covers the quality of perfor-mance of barangay officials in delivering social and economic services toward improving the quality of life of the populace, in line with the Millenium Devel-opment Goal Localization.
The search looks into governance, administra-tion, social services, eco-nomic services and envi-ronmental services.
The provincial evalua-tion team was composed of the Provincial DILG Director, Provincial Bud-get Off icer, Provincial
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COTABATO City - With the emerging need for a faster and more efficient means of communication, the Cotabato City govern-ment, in partnership with Sun Cellular, has officially launched its Emergency Hotline Number.
For emergency situations or reports of any crime or malicious acts, every Cotabateño is encouraged to text or call the number 09329600888.
A city government em-ployee will be assigned as controller of the hotline
City government launches hotline
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Accountant, Provincial Health Officer, represen-tatives from the Office of the Provincial Governor, Office of the Liga ng Mga Barangay sa Pilipinas and the chair of Sangguniang Panlalawigan- Committee on Rules, Procedure, Forms and Styles.
One hundred for ty barangays of the prov-ince were evaluated and the winning barangay per Municipality will be con-sidered nominee for the provincial level.
The barangays are cat-egorized into two, namely: (a) barangays with Internal
Revenue Allotment (IRA) of P1.5 million and above; and (b) barangays with IRA of P1.5 million and below.
Awardees will receive cash prizes, certificates and plaques at the opening of the Munato Festival 2012, November 28 this year. (DILG 12/asf )
24/7. Any text or call received
shall be instantly forwarded to concerned offices for immediate action.
The city mayor said through the hotline, every action made by local au-thorities and line agencies will be centralized for easy monitoring.
Sun Cellular will also be providing sim cards to the City Police Office, Philip-pine Marines, Bureau of Fire Protection, 37 baran-gays, city department heads and private partners, like
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Nov. 21 (PIA) -- The Min-istry of Health in Saudi Arabia is hiring 500 fe-male staff nurses and 20 respiratory technicians, the Philippine Overseas and Employment Admin-istration announced on Tuesday.
The POEA Regional Extension Unit-10 said this is a government-to-government hiring which offers a basic salary of SR 4,080 for both openings.
Applicants for the posi-tion of staff nurse should have at least four years hos-pital staff experience, pref-erably holder of masteral degree, or a graduate of BS Nursing and with board license or have passed the Prometric exam.
On the other hand, re-spiratory technician ap-plicants could either be
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nurses,therapistsBy Apipa P. Bagumbaran
male or female with at least two years hospital staff experience and preferably BS Respiratory Therapy graduate.
POEA advises qualified applicants to personally submit their detailed re-sume with job description, schools credentials, em-ployment certificates and other requirements at the manpower Registry Divi-sion, Window M, Ground Floor of Blas F. Ople Build-ing, Ortigas Avenue corner EDSA in Mandaluyong City or at the POEA-10 Of-fice located at the ground floor of Trinidad Building, in Yacapin Street corner Corrales Avenue, this city.
They may also register online at www.poea.gov.ph.
Deadline for submission of applications is yet to be announced, the POEA said. (APB/PIA 10)
the Metro Cotabato Water District and Cotabato Light and Power Company.
Their respective num-bers will be stored in the hotline number for faster texting, once a report is received. Reports will, how-ever, be verified first before acted upon.
With the creation of the hotline number, the city gov-ernment and all its partners are hoping for the support and active cooperation of the Cotabateños in the city safe and orderly. (cotabatocity.net.ph/asf)
COOP RuN - Member-agencies of the Caraga Regional Cooperative Development Council (RCDC) are shown here in preparation for the upcoming ‘Cooperative Advocacy Fun Run’ on December 12 this year. Spearheaded by the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA), the meeting is held at the CDA-Caraga Conference Room, Butuan City. (Danilo S. Makiling/PIA-Caraga/asf)
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TAGUM CITY, – Governor Rodolfo del Rosario con-gratulated the Davao del Norte delegation for bring-ing home 47 medals in the recently-concluded Batang Pinoy 2012 Mindanao quali-fying leg in Dapitan City, even as he said that winning medals is not as important as participating in sports competition.
He attributed the success of the Davao del Norte to the grassroots sports de-velopment program of the
Davao del Norte delegationbrings home 47 medals
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COTABATO City - Starting January next year, private establishments in the city must have to install closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras within their re-spective premises, in accor-dance with City Ordinance 3880 (Cotabato City CCTV Installation Ordinance of 2010).
This ordinance has been implemented since its pas-
CCTVs, a business permit requirement sage by the Sangguniang Panlungsod in 2010, but only a few private businessmen have complied.
This time, the city govern-ment will not be renewing the business permits of violator- establishments. Application and renewal of business per-mits is until January 20, 2013.
The city mayor said, own-ers or operators of private establishments will be given
60 days to comply with the requirement, otherwise their business permits will not be renewed or issued.
"We will be giving them temporary business licenses for the meantime and then the permanent will only be given after they have installed the CCTV cameras ", the mayor stated.Meanwhile, City Police Director Danny Reyes confirmed that the
CCTV cameras installed by the city government in strategic points in the city are functioning and have become a a big help in crime solution and prevention.
He said that with the CCTV cameras in place, the usual street crimes are not happening anymore and the police are able to easily track down the perpetrators. ( cotabatocity.net.ph/asf)
ECC Press Conference - Officials of the Employees' Compen-sation Commission (ECC), together with representatives from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE-Caraga), and members of the local tri-media are shown here during a press conference at the Dotties Place Hotel and Restaurant, Butuan City. (Danilo S. Makiling/PIA-Caraga/asf)
province. The delegation bagged 16 gold, 13 silver and 18 bronze medals in the qualifying games.
The medals harvest in-cluded five gold and three silver medals clinched by the boxing team of Panabo City. Another gold was won by the taekwondo team.
Carmen’s boxing team bagged one gold, two silvers and three bronze medals.
The boxers were under the stable of the Baran-gay Una Boxing Program
founded by former District II Congressman Antonio Floirendo, Jr. The program was sustained by Congress-man Antonio Lagdameo, Jr. and former Board Member Vicente Floirendo.
Gov. Del Rosario said the province pursues grassroots sports development program to encourage more public participation in sports.
He said increased par-ticipation in sports means more kids given proper discipline and more kids
turned away from drugs and other vices.
“Yan ang tunay na tagumpay ng ating grass-roots sports program,” he said.
The sports program of the province got a boost when the governor launched last February the Ugmad Komunidad program that brought together the special programs in tourism, sports and livelihood development.
The sports component, dubbed Dula Dabaonon, in-
tends to achieve an effective, efficient implementation of comprehensive provincial sports.
The Governor added that with the new Davao del Norte Sports and Cul-tural Center in Tagum City which is set to be launched on December 12, 2012 will eventually become a breed-
ing ground for future cham-pions in the country.
Provincial Sports Coor-dinator Giovanni Gulanes said the province has since started laying the founda-tion for a comprehensive and sustainable grassroots sports development pro-gram. (Noel Baguio-DavNor Info)
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Think A minute
Jhan Tiafau hurstI WAS watching a Television news program coming from the Philippines and was shocked to see the first five major stories were about killings, robbery with murder. rape with murder and other assault against person and property. When I opened via the internet, some newspapers from Manila and the provinces, they carried the same crime news stories.
Every page carries the story of bank robbery with murders, rape and all kinds of crimes ordinarily hap-pening in the country. My heart was trembling as I read more similar stories.
The worst thing is the police are far behind these crimes. Offenders are far away when they reach the scene of the crimes. It is rare that suspects are arrested in a short time. And such crimes are taking place in Metro Manila and nearby provinces. It is just terrible to think that crimes seem to rule in the country and criminals are enjoying scotch free in society.
I would not mind so much if these crimes are com-mitted once in a while. The trouble is they prevail in the pages of newspapers and all kinds of media outlets everyday. I cannot imagine how many are not pub-lished because they happened in remote areas. There are incidents also that are beyond the knowledge of media and remain silent forever. Some reports also do not reach the police station thus it would not come out in the press.
I figure out the reasons why so many people in various countries who wanted to visit the Philippines cancel their plan because of the terrible news stories they got. Many of the tourists are retired people, old, weak and just need enjoyment in sightseeing. Reading the stories about big crimes in the country necessarily stops their plan of visiting the Philippines.
Many of our public officials never mentioned about these problems. They discuss other matters that are less important without realizing the effects of criminali-ties in the tourism industry. We have a lot of leaders
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THINK a minute.Some time ago I read
in the newspaper about a father who had killed his 10-year-old son because his school report was not good enough. The father was so angry that he reached for the nearest thing, a steel rod, and hit his son on the back. His 10-year-old little boy was killed instantly. Can you imagine the pain and regret that father lives with!
We all have regrets, and the feeling that we want to make up for the wrong we’ve done. Yet we know that in most situations we can’t. Sometimes we can repair the damage. We can pay a debt that’s long overdue. We can return the money we cheated or stole from somebody.
Making up for the past
But most times it’s simply impossible to make up for what we’ve done wrong. Like beating and cursing your child in a moment of anger. No candy or toy can make up for how we hurt even destroyed their trust in us.
Think of the man ad-dicted to alcohol, drugs, or kava, or has adulterous affairs, putting his wife and children through years of
pain, lies, and violence. Yet even if he finally does stop drinking or having affairs, how can he ever erase or make up for all the hurt and damage he caused? How does the mother who had an abortion forgive herself and get free from her guilt?
So we can’t always repair the damage we’ve caused, no matter how much we try, not even through religion! That’s why Jesus Christ, Who was
not guilty of any wrong, gave His own innocent life to free you and me from all our wrongs and guilt. The only way we can make up for all the wrong we’ve done is by asking Jesus for His free gift of forgiveness and new life which He paid for with His own life.
It’s true that you cannot change your past, but Jesus can start changing your life now. If you ask Him to take control of your heart and character every day, He will give you a new life by helping you change with His love and power. Even with all your past failures and wrongs, your Maker will still give you another chance. So why not ask Him today?
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No prohibition on Erap running in Manila
A GRENADE exploded in a finan-cial firm in Lapasan here yesterday morning. Three police officers, one a retired master sergeant, a security guard, and four others - including passengers on board a public utility jitney that happened to pass by - were wounded.
Police were quick to say that the incident has nothing to do with ter-roristic activities. Pol. Supt. Gerry Rosales, the city’s chief of police, said that a grenade was planted be-side the accordion panel door of Golden Sun Finance Corp. ‘The grenade exploded when the door was lifted to open,’ Rosales said.
‘Perhaps, some disgruntled borrowers perpetrated the crime,’ Rosales said as he denied that terrorists are out to sow terror in the city as the Christmas Holiday nears.
Whether the city’s top officer was trying to appease anxious city residents of crimes occurring in a growing urban capital, the fact remains that local law enforcers are a step backward in the fight against lawlessness. We
Golden Sun Finance Corp.violates CCTV ordinance
are not saying ‘though that our law enforcers are helpless in the fight against criminality here.
One of the best remedies is for the local police to in-form the residents through the media of ther anti-crime campaign – that everybody’s cooperation is solicited. While the police will say that they are doing everything in crime prevention, the local citizenry are not aware of what the police are doing. In some areas in the city, illegal gambling continues to operate right in the very noses of police officers.
Anyway, the city government should imposed mea-sures that would prevent commission of crimes. The city council has approved an ordinance requiring major establishment to install Close Circuit Television (CTTV) cameras. Somehow, some establishments willfully violate this ordinance.
According to Rosales, only 62 per cent of the city’s total number of establishments required to install CCTV had complied the ordinance. The remaining 38 per cent has not complied with the ordinance. The Golden Sun Finance Corporation, where the explosion occurred yesterday morning, has not installed a CCTV camera, Rosales said. React [email protected]
LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “… whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all…” (Jesus Christ, our God and Savior, in Mark 10:43-44, the Holy Bible).
-ooo-PASIG RIVER FERRY
SERVICE: QUO VADIS? Whatever happened to the Pasig River ferry service? I noticed that its stations, strategically located along the banks of the river, re-main closed. I understand that each and every ferry operator that tried their luck before had to cease opera-tions as they were incurring heavy losses, mainly due to lack of passengers.
I hope the Aquino gov-ernment can do something to bring this back, not only because it is a good and fast way to travel, but also because of its historical significance that dates back to Jose Rizal’s time. One way of doing this is to make
it mandatory for the local government units along the Pasig River to help in sustaining it, mainly because it is their residents who will benefit from its service.
-ooo-AVOIDING CANNED
GOODS AS CHRISTMAS GIFT OR DONATION: I agree with the Roman Cath-olic Church that prospective Christmas donors should no longer donate noodles and sardines. Yes, noodles and sardines “are very poor in nutritional content”, as Fr. Edu Gariguez of the Catho-lic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is saying.
But I would go one
step further: no canned goods should ever be do-nated again, whether during Christmas or not, because of the chemicals that go with their processing, manu-facture, and preservation. People who receive these kinds of canned goods maybe assuaged in their hunger, but they get sick with cancer or with other debilitating ailments in the process because of the toxins that go with the processed food.
-ooo-NO PROHIBITION VS.
ERAP FROM RUNNING: With due respect, it was a wrong remedy for two lawyers to ask the Sandigan-
bayan to issue some kind of a clarificatory ruling over the presidential pardon granted by President Ar-royo to President Estrada in 2007, to determine whether he can still run for public office. First, courts like the Sandiganbayan do not issue opinions the intent of which is to advise people on what to do.
Courts will issue rul-ings only when there is an actual case before them. Right now, there is no case against Estrada before the Sandiganbayan. Second, the pardon did not come from the Sandiganbayan but from the executive branch of the government. The Sandiganbayan therefore does not have jurisdiction over the pardon.
Third, the pardon was already used by Estrada in the elections of 2010, where he was allowed by the Com-mission on Elections to run. As it were, the matter
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SMART Communications, Inc. (Smart) will seek a reconsideration of the decision of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) finding that mobile operators have failed to comply with the provisions of memorandum circular (MC) 11-24-2011 lowering interconnection rates and requiring mobile operators to refund subscribers for the alleged excess charge for text messages.
First, our position is there is no basis for finding that Smart has violated the NTC memorandum cir-cular and overcharged its subscribers.
The said circular, which was issued on October 24, 2011, required mobile phone operators to reduce interconnection charges from P0.35 to P0.15 per SMS.
These interconnection charges pertain to rates that mobile phone operators charge each other in order to deliver text messages from other networks to their own subscribers. Smart has already complied with this circular.
The said circular DID NOT order mobile phone operators to reduce retail rates that are charged to customers.
Second, under the law and existing NTC regula-tions, SMS is a deregulated service. The rate-fixing power of the NTC is residual in nature and may be exercised only under specific circumstances.
Republic Act No. 7925 states that such residual powers can be exercised only when ruinous com-petition results or when a monopoly or a cartel or combination in restraint of free competition exists and the rates or tariffs are distorted or unable to function freely and the public is adversely affected.
None of these conditions exists. In fact, the Public Telecommunications Policy Act (Republic Act No. 7925) clearly states that the NTC “shall exempt any specific telecommunications service from its rate or tariff regulations if the service has sufficient compe-tition to ensure fair and reasonable rates or tariffs.”
Competition in the Philippine telecommunica-tions industry remains very keen. Mobile operators are offering a wide range of competing service offers -- including bucket and unlimited packages -- in their drive to attract and retain subscribers. As a result, Filipino consumers are enjoying SMS services that are among the most affordable in the world.
Smart statement on NTC ruling
PARTY LIST Rep. Teddy Casiño wel-comed the decision of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) ordering the country’s tele-communications companies (telcos) to refund millions of subscribers from overcharged text messaging services since December last year.
The Makabayan senatorial bet, who is author of the proposed Mobile Phone Subscribers Act in Congress, said that the order was long overdue and should have been implemented a year ago.
“Ang tagal na dapat nitong inim-pliment at nakailang rally na din ang Bayan Muna sa NTC mula pa noong isang taon para sa refund na ito. Dapat naman na ipatupad na ito ng
mga telcos para man lang pamasko sa kanilang mga subscribers,” said the lawmaker
Estimates of the amount to be refunded by Smart Communica-tions, affiliate Sun Cellular and Globe Telecom to their subscribers range from P1.4 billion to as much as P7 billion.
“We are shocked to learn that the telcos reduced their interconnection charges as ordered by NTC last year but they kept the savings for them-selves instead of translating these to lower SMS rates. Ang kapal naman ng mukha nila. Irefund na nila agad ang mga subscribers at huwag ng humirit pa na i-aapela ang desisyon. Kung tutuusin nga ay sobra-sobra
na ang kanilang kinita mula sa text messages,” added the solon.
“The telcos can refund subscribers by extra prepaid loads and rebates for those with postpaid. The telcos should also stop threatening us that the unlimited promos would be scrapped due to this decision because as for their records the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), the parent firm of Smart and Sun, posted a net income of P28.7 billion in the January to September period. Globe’s net income for the period was at P8.7 billion. This I think is enough profit and it is time to give back to their subscribers,” said Casiño.
“Sana huwag sila mag flip flop ang NTC sa usaping ito,” he said.
Solon welcomes ‘overdue’ NTC decision on text refund, asks telcos to take heed
FORESTER Myrna Nery (left), in behalf of Community Environment and Natural Resources Officer Narzal Muñez of CENRO-Gingoog City welcomes the members of the Odiongan Integrated Watershed Management (IWM) during the 2nd Consultative Meeting cum Workshop for the IWM Plan held at Badiangon Training Center in Gingoog City. Forester Nery in her message thanked the Local Government Unit of Gingoog City along with barangay captains for the active participation in formulating and the sharing of ideas for the protection and conservation of the Odiongan Integrated Watershed Management.
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THE NATIONAL Telecom-munication Commission (NTC) issued on Tuesday three separate rulings, di-recting the Globe Telecom, Sun Cellular and Smart Communications to “im-mediately” reduce intercon-nection charge for short messaging services (SMS) from P1.00 to P0.80 or a P0.20 reduction.
P0.20 cut on Telcos’ charge ordered: NTC”The savings realized
from the reduced intercon-nection charge on SMS sent to other networks (off-net SMS) was formulated not to simply benefit the telcos but was intended for them to pass on the savings to their subscribers,” the NTC said in its order.
The NTC came out with the decision after tackling
the telcos’ non-compliance with the NTC memorandum circular in October last year on interconnection charge for SMS, which became effective on Dec. 1, 2011.
The commission reduced the SMS interconnection charge from P0.35 to P0.15 to make SMS more afford-able to the public pursuant to the directive of the Office
of the President, according to the NTC.
The NTC, in its decision, pointed out that SMS is in the nature of Value Added Service (VAS) and the com-mission is not prevented from lowering the cost of communication to better serve the interest of the public.
With the decision to low-
er interconnection charges cost, the NTC also directed the three telecommunica-tion companies to refund their subscribers the excess charge of P0.20 per off-net SMS from December 2011.
The telcos have also been ordered to pay P200 fine per day for not following the memorandum circular since Dec. 1, 2011.
The NTC also directed the telcos to submit within 15 days from receipt of the decision all the docu-ments, records and reports pertaining to off-net SMS of all its subscribers who were charged the regular rate of P1 per off-net SMS from Dec. 1 last year. A report from the Philippine News Agency
Republic of the Philippines DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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& Non-permanent Personnel in DepEd, Province of Agusan del Sur The Department of Education (DepED) – Agusan del Sur Division intends to apply the sum of Three Million Nine Hundred Ninety Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Sixty Five Pesos Only (Php 3,999,765.00) being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the contract for the goods described below, to wit:
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The Department of Education (DepED) – Agusan del Sur Division now invites bids for the above-mentioned goods. Bids received that exceed the total ABC shall be rejected at bid opening. Bidding shall be per item. Late bid shall be rejected.
Prospective bidders must have completed a similar contract within the last ten (10) years from date of submission and receipt of bids with an amount of at least 50% of the ABC to be bid.
Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens / sole proprietorships, organizations with at least sixty percent (60%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines, and to citizens or organizations of a country the laws or regulations of which grant similar rights or privileges to Filipino citizens, pursuant to RA 5183 and subject to Commonwealth Act 138.
Open competitive bidding will be conducted using the non-discretionary pass/fail criterion, evaluation and post-qualification procedures specified in the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of R.A. 9184. Information is also available at www.philgeps.net .
Activity Date and Time Venue Issuance of Bidding Documents Until date of submission of bids DepEd-BAC Office Pre-Bid Conference Nov. 29, 2012 at 10:00AM DepEd-Admin Office Submission and Opening of Bids (Including Eligibility Check) Dec. 11, 2012 at 10:00AM DepEd-Admin Office
A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders from the address indicated herein and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of Php5,000.00 and upon completion of filing of Letter of Intent using DepED Standard Form not later than November 28, 2012 at 12:00 Noon.
The Department of Education (DepED) – Agusan del Sur Division reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to annul the bidding process, or declare failure of bidding at any time prior to contract award without thereby incurring any liability to the affected parties. For further information, please refer to:
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IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE AND REGISTER THEDIVORCE BETWEEN SPOUSES ERL PJ F. DELA CRUZ CIVIL CASE NO. 2012-092AND ELVIE T. REMEDIOS-DELA CRUZ,
ERL PJ F. DELA CRUZ AND ELVIE T. REMEDIOS-DELA CRUZ, Petitioners.x-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
ORDER
Before this court is verified Joint Petition for the approval and Registration of the Divorce filed by their counsel and alleging among others: That petitioners are husband and wife respectively, in a marriage performed under Civil rites on January 26, 2010 at Pagadian City, they converted to Islam faith, of which conversion to Islam were Registered with this court, both of them can be served with summons and notices at the address of the undersigned counsel at Zaide Law Office, 2nd floor Pafs Mejia Bldg.. Roxas Avnue, Iligan City; That said marriage did not last long, due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioners and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated, they decide to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Divorce Agreement in order to formalize their separation, they had never been communicating or supporting either financially or emotionally to each other, neither minding each other’s affairs; petitioner’s seek judicial decree of divorce thereby severing their marriage bond on January 26, 2010 so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden: reconciliation between them had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this joint petition to be sufficient Inform and substance set the initial hearing of this case on December 11, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at which time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a news paper of General Circulation in the City of Iligan one week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioners. SO ORDERED Iligan City, Philippines, this 13th day of November, 2012.
HON. OSOP M. ALI Presiding JudgeMDN: Nov. 15, 22 & 29, 2012
Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT
4th SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT 4th Shari’a Judicial District
Iligan City
IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVEAND REGISTER THE DIVORCE CIVIL CASE NO. 2012-093OF SPOUSES ROBERT E. AGDA AND RONNA D. JAMANDRON-AGDA,
ROBERT E. AGDA AND RONNA D. JAMANDRON, Petitionersx-----------------------------------------------------------------/
ORDER
Before this court is verified Joint Petition for the approval and Registration of the Divorce filed by their counsel and alleging among others: That petitioners are husband and wife, respectively, in a marriage performed under Civil rites on December 29, 2006 at Tetuan, Zamboanga City, they converted to Islam faith, of which conversion to Islam were Registered with this court, both of them can be served with summons and notices at their residence at Zamboanga City and Iligan City respectively, but they can be reach with summons and other legal processes at c/o Zaide Law Office, 2nd Flr., Pafs Mejia Bldg., Roxas Avenue, Iligan City, That said marriage did not last long due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioners and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated since early part of 2009, they decide to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Memorandum of Agreement or Divorce by Talaq to make their separation permanent, that reconciliation between petitioners is no longer possible or a remedy, thus divorce is sought by them in order to free themselves from the marital burden; WHEREFORE, finding this joint petition to be sufficient Inform and substance set the initial hearing of this case on December 11, 2012 at 900 a.m. at which time, date and place, any inter-ested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a news paper of General Circulation in the City of Iligan one week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioners. SO ORDERED Iligan City, Philippines, this 13th day of November, 2012.
HON. OSOP M. ALI Presiding Judge
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Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT
4th SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT4th Shari’a Judicial District
lligan City
EDSIL T VALESCO, - Petitioner, CIVIL CASE No.2012-091
- Versus - For Judicial Decree of Divorce.
NOBEL YN Y. LOSENADA, Respondent.x-----------------------------------/
ORDER
This court received petitioner and respondent’s Memorandum of agreement and letter’s manifestation of No Objection to the petition. Herein parties requested the Court tor the hearing of the case as soon as possible. That petitioners are husband and wife, respectively, in a marriage performed under Civil riles on January 28, 1999 at lligan City, they converted to Islam faith, of which conversions to Islam were Registered with this court, both of them can be served with summons and notices at the address lligan City; That said marriage did not last long, due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioners and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated, they decide to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Divorce Agreement in order to formalize their separation, they had never been communicating or supporting either financially or emotionally to each other, neither minding each other’s affairs; petitioner’s seek judicial decree of divorce thereby severing their marriage bond on January 28, 1999 so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden: reconciliation between them had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this joint petition to be sufficient Inform and substance set the initial hearing of this case on December 11, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at winch time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a news paper of General Circulation in the City of lligan one week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioners. SO ORDERED. lligan City, Philippines, November 14, 2012.
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MALACANANG yesterday announced the appoint-ment of three presiding judges in the lower courts in Mindanao.
Judge Rosalie Digao
Palace bares appointment of new judges in MindanaoPlatil was appointed pre-siding judge of the Mainit, Surigao del Norte Munici-pal Trial Court, Judge Alona Tabanas Labtic was the new presiding judge of the Lupon-Banay-Banay, Davao Oriental 4th Municipal Circuit Trial Court, and Judge Ferdinand R. Vil-lanueva as presiding judge of the Compostela-New Bataan, Compostela Val-ley 1st Municipal Circuit Trial Court.
The three judges were among new judges appoint-ed to the lower courts in the country whose appointment papers were signed by Pres. Benigno Aquino, III.
The other newly ap-pointed judges are Judge Neljoe A. Cortes as presid-ing judge of the Aparri, Cagayan Regional Trial
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Judge Ma. Arabella G. Eusebio-Rodolfo as pre-siding judge of the Clark Field, Pampanga Municipal Trial Court; Judge Araceli R. Soñas-Crisostomo as presiding judge of the Apalit-San Simon, Pam-panga Municipal Circuit
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legal age. Cadevin was admitted
to a government hospital for possible surgery when doctors found shrapnel em-bedded in his head. The other victims were released after doctors treated them for minor injuries.
Pol. Supt. Gerry Rosales, the city’s chief of police, said the grenade was planted beside the accordion door panel of Golden Sun Finance Corporation, a lending firm located some 200 meters from Camp Alagar, a major regional police camp in North Mindanao.
The incident occurred a day after the city prosecu-tor’s office filed charges against suspects in the explosion that killed two civilians and wounded two
Crimes...from page 6
who are not concerned of the peace and order of the country. They are busy doing business that have no or little benefits for the people.
Our police officers seem helpless. They are outnum-bered by the incidents. Before they could reach the suspects, many crimes even bigger take place. It appears the criminals are having a fiesta everyday enjoying the benefits of being free while commit-ting crimes left and right. This is terrible and should be stopped by our public officials before the country falls into the hands of the robbers.
Pres. Aquino is busy with his quarrel with Mad-am Gloria Arroyo. He is the best person who can create a system that could run after the criminals. He has the power and author-ity to do things to protect the Filipino people. Of course, we can never an-nihilate criminality in the country. It is part of society anywhere in the world but at least we can reduce it to the minimum because the matter is affecting badly the reputation of the coun-try and the stability of the people.
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2,074 people.Mayor Albin Magdamit
of Prosperidad town in Agusan del Sur reported the villages of Azpetia, New Maug, Lucena, San Pedro, Napo, La Caridad, Aurora, La Union, Las Navas and San Vicente were affected by floods although roads leading to these areas are still passable. Classes at all levels were suspended the other day in Tago and Lianga towns in Surigao del Sur and in Butuan City because of heavy rains.
The NDRRMC also re-ported that a landslide oc-curred along the national highway in Barangay Nurcia in Lanuza, Surigao del Sur but roads are still passable to motorists while small creeks and waterways in San Francisco town in Agusan del Sur continue to swell.
The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Man-agement Operation Center continues to maintain a 24-hour monitoring and undertakes coordination with the local DRRMCs for situational updates.
Assembly...from page 1
Mr. Derrick C. Manas of the Green Party Philippines. Also expected to grace the assembly during the fel-lowship night are Butuan City Mayor Ferdinand M. Amante, Jr. and Agusan del Norte 2nd District Repre-sentative Angel Amante.
Butuan City Vice Mayor Lawrence “Law” Fortun, who is the VMLP Caraga Regional Chairman has expressed gratitude to all the vice mayors who have thrown their untiring support to his leadership which highlighted during the chapter’s hosting of the 3rd VMLP Mindanao Island Congress. The said congress was attended by not only vice mayors com-ing from Mindanao but the whole country as well. The successful hosting of the congress has brought praises for Fortun which caught the attention of the Caraga Region as one of the top tourist destination in the country. Fortun will be serving only one term and Chairman of the re-gional chapter as he seeks the Congressional seat of the 1st District of Butuan City and Las Nieves in next year’s elections. (Eldie N. David)
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youth,” said local NUJP president Frencie Carreon.
The House of Repre-sentatives failed to pass the FOI for various reasons, but Paraan and Malaluan said the FOI was “killed” by lawmakers who were opposing its passage.
“The FOI bill is dead in the 15th Congress,” Ma-laluan, who is advocating for the bill the past 14 years, told the the Mindanao Ex-aminer.
President Benigno Aqui-no has repeatedly said that he will support the passage of the FOI, but failed to act on it.
On February 3, Aquino announced that the pro-posed Freedom of Informa-tion bill was transmitted to administration coali-tion allies in the House of Representatives, saying it is an integral element of the Aquino Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Plan of 2012-2016.
The plan contains re-forms and initiatives that pursue greater transparency, accountability, and citizen participation in governance. And said the bill is a result of a consultative process after careful study of similar legislation by an administra-tion study group in order to ensure that it serves public interest without compromis-ing government’s legitimate rights.
The Manila Times, in an editorial published Nov. 20, said: “For the longest time, Filipino journalists have been asking, begging, cajol-ing, charming and pleading with Congress to pass a Freedom of Information Act. Too often have media men and women been frus-trated by the doors that are figuratively closed to them, sometimes in the name of “national security.” Such is
Erap...from page 6
of Estrada running again for public office, after his pardon, has already been resolved in his favor. That he was allowed to run in 2010 shows there is no prohibi-tion against his running again in 2013.
-ooo-PROPER REMEDY VS.
ERAP’S MANILA CANDI-DACY: The proper remedy should have been a petition for declaratory relief, filed with the proper Regional Trial Court---which, in this case, is the Manila Regional Trial Court because it is in Manila that Estrada wanted to run for mayor, against the incumbent Mayor Al-fredo Lim---under Rule 63 of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure.
Or, perhaps, the petition could be filed directly with the Supreme Court, since
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representing various na-tional line agencies, non-government organizations, civil society organizations and local government units from across the country, Director Paler added.
“The congress show-cases the best practices, as well as share and highlight milestones of the population program even as it dissemi-nates program directions among stakeholders,” she further stated. (with report from POPCOM-10).
the catch-all phrase that, in effect, tells media to back off.”
“The long pending FOI would have provided the entry point for media to do a better job. No longer would stories be written based on unsubstantiated claims of government officials. Those “he said, she said” stories have always lacked substance and depth. In a lot of cases, obvious lies are peddled to the public via media, and there is no way of verifying claims because access is denied.”
It said for reasons known only to Aquino and presum-ably the Cabinet secretaries closest to him, the Presi-dent opted not to give the FOI bill his full support. “What support he has given to the proposed law may be deemed lame, at best.” (Mindanao Examiner)
police officers in Oct. 11, 2012 here.
Rosales said one end of a chord was tied on the grenade’s release lever while the other was tied at the firm’s door panel. ‘Once the door is opened, the grenade’s release lever is also pulled that would definitely trigger an explosion,’ Rosales added.
‘Security guard J.R. Palma opened the door. His right leg was seriously wounded but is in stable condition,’ Rosales added.
Police are looking into the motive of the incident. ‘We are not discounting the possibility that disgruntled borrowers perpetrated it,’ Rosales said.
The incident may have nothing to do with illegal pyramiding schemes. In the past days, the govern-ment has been on the trail of suspected ‘pyramiding’ operators who have duped some P12 billion from more than15,000 clients who shelled hard-earned money after having been swayed to getting 80 to 100 per cent interest returns in a week.
Rosales said that in the absence of a Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras, investigators have invited witnesses particularly work-ers to establish the identities of the suspects.
He said the a neighbor-ing firm has CCTV’s but only the lower portion of the suspect’s body had been recorded. ‘We have no way of recognizing him,’ Rosales said. Dennis Allan Tingson, a senior police investigator, allayed fears that terrorists had perpetrated the grenade explosion.
Last month, two police officers on foot patrol were seriously wounded while two other civilians were killed when a powerful im-provised explosive device exploded beside a downtown hotel here.
The city’s prosecutor yesterday filed double mur-der and frustrated charges against the suspect identi-fied as Francisco De Guz-man of Tambo, Macasandig, this city and four other ‘John Does.”CD
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from exposure to sec-ond-hand smoke and the annual death toll could rise to more than eight million by 2030.
Second-hand smoke is the smoke that fills res-taurants, offices or other enclosed spaces when people burn tobacco products such as cigarettes. There is no safe level of exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke, it said.
WHO said less than 11% of the world’s population are protected by compre-hensive national smoke-free laws and that the number of people protected from second-hand smoke more than doubled to 739 million in 2010 from 354 million in 2008.
It said almost half of children regularly breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke and that over 40% of children have at least one smoking parent.
WHO said there are more than 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke, of which at least 250 are known to be harmful and more than 50 are known to cause can-cer. In adults, second-hand smoke causes serious car-diovascular and respiratory diseases, including coronary heart disease and lung can-cer. And it causes sudden death in infants and also causes low birth weight in pregnant women.
It said the tobacco epi-demic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced. It kills nearly 6 million people a year of whom more than 5 million are users and ex-users.
Nearly 80% of the more than 1 billion smokers worldwide live in low and middle-income countries, where the burden of to-bacco-related illness and death is heaviest, WHO said. (Mindanao Examiner)
Education...from page 2
ARMM’s commitment to education reform.
BEAM-ARMM, t he single biggest donor of Education investment in the country, covers the five provinces and two cities of the region and will be implemented for 72 months or six years with the na-tional government raising P363 million as counterpart funding.
‘This means so much not only to ARMM, but to the whole Philippines,’ Luistro said.
Hataman noted that in the 23 years existence of the education department in ARMM, it is only now through BEAM- ARMM, that the agency was directly involved in the program design, development and approval.
Early Childhood Edu-cation (ECE) was the first component and it will be implemented by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).
The second component, Essential Health Care Pro-gram, will be implemented by GIZ and Fit-for-School.
The third and fourth components; Vocational Technology Education and Alternative Delivery Model, will have Cardno and Ban-gladesh Rural Advance-ment Committee (Brac) as its implementing partners, respectively.
BEAM-ARMM targets the most disadvantaged children in the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao
del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi and will provide training to about 20,000 out-of-school-youths in the region.
“Through this, the Aus-tralian government hopes to contribute to the building of better education sys-tem that will contribute to peace,” said Rod Brazier, Aus-Aid’s first assistant director-general.
Brazier said that BEAM-ARMM is a ‘symbol of friendship between the people of Mindanao and the Australian government.’
Approves...from page 2
because its members occupy key positions in government.
Earlier, Kontra Daya said disqualifying Akbayan would douse all doubts on the independence of the poll body from Malacañang and the Liberal Party.
Meanwhile, Akbayan earlier urged the poll body to disqualify “communist party-list groups” from join-ing the elections because they claim that pork barrel funds were being channeled to the operations of the communist New People’s Army.
Crime...from page 11
and unhampered conduct of checkpoints and chokepoints operations that restricted move-ments of firearms, contrabands, and other items that can be used in criminal activities greatly contributed to the decrease in crime volume.
He said 12,723 checkpoints/chokepoints operations were conducted during the period which resulted to the arrest of 2,671 persons and confiscation of assorted firearms.
the deployment of pnp per-sonnel in the streets, organization and mobilization of Motorized Anti Street crimes operatives (Masco) in crime prone areas and organization and utilization of Barangay peacekeeping Action team (BpAt) also resulted in the decrease in crime incidence, he noted.
Ga further disclosed that the new police regional director has corrected the old scheme of one-day-duty and one-day-off which was previously implemented by every police stations.
pc/Supt. Gil Hitosis directed every commander to ensure the implementation of 12-hour duty per day by every personnel to maximize their time and resources, he added.
Moreover, the conduct of patrol and patrol-related activi-ties especially foot/beat patrol in crime-prone areas and organiza-tion work such as the BpAts and Barangay tanods were also cited as big help in maintaining peace and order in the region.
Accordingly, a total of 168,062 police Integrated patrol System (pIpS) operations were conducted during the period which resulted in the arrest of 5,684 persons and confiscation of 23 high-powered and 52 low-powered firearms.
While the police personnel were conducting patrol, they were also directed to conduct visitation and interaction with the community, Ga noted.
He further reported that 1,521 barangays have already orga-nized BpAts for the purpose of community-based activities and information campaign in support to pnp’s anti-criminality effort, crime prevention, and on-the-spot conflict resolution.
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Peace...from page 2
the peace process be-tween the Catholics and Protestants of the North and South in his country.
It was learned that “a lot of policing work behind the scenes in recent years has been keeping the peace to allow others to make the peace.”
“While the politicians were trying to get on with making the Belfast Agree-ment, police officers were out putting police tape around the streets to pre-vent people being mur-dered,” Sheridan explained.
Established in the midst of the troubles, Co-Op-eration Ireland has been encouraging better under-standing between North and South, and between communities in Northern Ireland, during difficult times in the country’s his-tory.
Ireland has a situation somewhat similar to that of Mindanao. A political agreement has been reached through the signing of the GPN-MILF Framework Agreement.
“You’re in a peace-build-ing context. People have this view that the peace is done and it’s all over. And to some extent that part of the conflict is over but it’s by no means stable yet. Yes a lot of engagement has been at the top political level but actually the grassroots has not been engaged in it,” he said.
“A table looks pretty steady at the surface but the political situation like the table’s legs is shaky at times.”
“All of the political agreement needs stabilized and needs underpinned at the grassroots level, which is peace-building is all about, in some ways, the peacemaking is a prag-matic enterprise whereas peace-building is much more vision-oriented, its not about single events, it’s about process and a process that will take years. And so the context becomes more difficult.”
A group of Police and Military Officers and men attended the forum.
It was noted that most of the questions came from the non-government orga-nizations and members of the Media.
MSU-IIT Chancellor Dr. Sukarno Tanggol welcomed the visitors and participants.
Councilor Moises Dali-say, Jr., who appeared for Iligan in the fight against the constitutionality of the aborted MOA-AD between the MILF and the GRP all the way to the Supreme Court, represented the City Government of Iligan in the Forum and in welcom-ing the guest OBE Peter Sheridan.
2nds Mechanized Bri-gade Commander Ricardo Jalad represented the Phil-ippine Army.
PNP-Iligan was repre-sented by Police Superin-tendent Carbonilla.
Abante Mindanao Congressman Maxie Rodriguez Jr. and Congressman Rufus Rodriguez lead the laying of cement in this ground breaking for a P5 million pesos overpass project at Barangay Tablon. With them in photo are public works and barangay officials. CD PHOTO
CAGAYAN de Oro City––The regional office of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Northern Mind-anao reported a decrease in crime volume and average monthly crime rate in the region.
A total of 4,037 crimes were recorded from July 1 to October 31 of this year, down by 20 percent from the 5,055 crimes re-corded in the same period last year, disclosed P/Supt.
PNP reports decrease in crime incidence in Northern Mindanao
By APIPA P. BAGumBARAN of the Philippine Information Agency, Region 10
Leony Roy Ga, chief of the Regional Operations and Plans Division (ROPD), during the Regional De-velopment Council (RDC) Macro and Development Administration Commit-tee (MacroCom) meeting yesterday, November 20.
He said 2,765 of these cases or about 68 percent were index crimes while 1,272 cases or 32 percent were classified as non-index crimes.
Ga said 1,212 of the crimes were cleared with clearance eff iciency of 30.02 percent while 914 were solved posting a crime solution efficiency of 22.64 percent.
The average monthly crime rate (AMCR) for the period was also posted at 24.04 compared to the 30.10 AMCR recorded in the same period last year.
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Cebu Pacific names Bali its 20th international destination
The Philippines’ larg-est national flag carrier, Cebu Pacific (PSE:CEB) announced it will soon fly to Bali (Denpasar), Indonesia, its 20th inter-national destination.
“CEB will launch its direct service from Manila to Bali on March 16, 2013, just in time for peak sum-mer travel in the Philip-pines,” said CEB VP for Marketing and Distribu-tion Candice Iyog.
CEB’s Mani la-Bal i (Denpasar) twice week-ly service will be every Tuesday and Saturday. It will depart Manila at 4:00am and arrive in Bali (Denpasar) at 7:50am. The return flight will depart Bali (Denpasar) at 8:35am, and arrive in Manila at 12:25pm.
The most popular tour-ism destination in Indone-sia, Bali has been ranked by BBC Travel, Lonely Planet and Travel&Leisure Magazine as among the world’s best islands. Visi-tors often go to Kuta for the shopping, night life, surfing and beach activi-ties, and then go to the arts and cultural center of Ubud in the center of the island.
Bali (Denpasar) is CEB’s 2nd destination in Indonesia, aside from Ja-karta where CEB operates a four times weekly service.
To introduce this route, CEB offers an P888 seat sale from Manila to Bali (Denpasar) from Novem-ber 20 to 23, 2012 or until
seats last. This is for travel from March 16 to June 30, 2013. After the sale period, lowest year-round fares for Bali (Denpasar) start at P3,499, which is up to 38% lower than other airlines. “Passengers now have more choices when trav-eling on CEB’s extensive Southeast Asian network, since we are also the only airline flying from Manila to Hanoi and Siem Reap, and the only low-cost car-rier f lying from Manila to Kota Kinabalu,” she added. Presently, CEB f lies to 19 international destina-tions: Bangkok, Beijing, Brunei, Busan, Guang-
zhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Hong Kong, Incheon, Jakarta, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Macau, Osaka, Shanghai, Siem Reap, Singapore, Taipei and Xiamen. CEB currently operates 10 Airbus A319, 22 Airbus A320 and 8 ATR-72 500 aircraft. Its f leet of 40 aircraft – with an average age of 3.6 years – is the largest aircraft f leet in the Philippines. Between 2012 and 2021, Cebu Pacific will take delivery of 19 more Airbus A320 and 30 Airbus A321neo aircraft orders. It is slated to begin long-haul services in the 3rd quarter of 2013.
By Jasper Marie Oblina-Rucat
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Misamis Oriental Provincial Office conducted on Thursday its annual inspection of 35 establishments in the city selling Christmas lights. DTI inspected com-pliance of establishments to the standards set for selling Christmas lights particularly on the cor-rect Import Commodity Clearance (ICC) stickers mark which should be on the displayed Christmas lights in various markets and stores in the area. DTI said it only allows and authorizes selling of
these lights with years 2010 to 2011 ICC marking. If no ICC sticker is seen and years indicated are prior to the abovementioned ICC, consumers should report this to DTI. These items will be confiscated and retailers will face penalties for the violation. Almer Masillones, Chief Trade and Industry De-velopment Specialist and head of inspection team in the city said the 2009 ICC stamped Christmas lights are subject to retesting. If retested products still qualify for the requirements of the Philippine National Standard on Christmas lights, then they will be issued new certificate and
new ICC stickers. Beyond the ICC stickers, buyers must check physical condition of the item includ-ing plugs and wires to make sure they are not lousy or too thin, she said. Prices must also be compared. If a store sells at a very low price than the other, then it may be they are not selling quality products. There were 20 boxes of Christmas lights confiscated because of violation of said rule by the department.Penalties for violators will range from the lowest and f irst offense of P25,000 while the highest and 3rd offense is P300,000. (Jasper Marie Oblina-Rucat/EOR/PIA10)
Stores selling Christmas lights asked to put up correct stickers
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