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DAVAO CITY--Unknown to the organizers, the 2013 Philippine Development Forum (PDF) ended with a vote of confidence to Davao City’s Business Process Out-sourcing (BPO) industry through the conduct of a

live streaming press confer-ence between the Davao-based and the Manila-based media. Finance Secretary Cesar V. Purisima, Department of Social Welfare and Devel-opment (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Soliman, World Bank Country Director Mo-

too Konishi and Mindanao Development Authority Secretary Lualhati Antonino served as panelists of the press conference which was physically held at the Marco Polo Hotel in Davao City, but which was broadcasted live at the World Bank office

Dev’t forum ends with vote of confidence to Davao City’s BPO

DENR stops BFI’s extraction, transport of pine tree resins

Oil palm farmers debunk env’mntal group’s claim

(PPDCI). To put the blame on oil palm plantations for the re-cent flooding in Mindanao is just like killing the oil palm farming, considered as the country’s sunrise industry, the crop being dubbed as miracle palm tree of Asia, he said. M I S U N D E R S T O O D CROPDr Pamplona however ad-mitted though that due to its high potential yield, oil palm is not a well-understood crop in the Philippines. “This crop faces negative perception brought about by untrue and distorted information being spread out by some individuals in the guise of environmental concern,” he said. These so-called environ-mentalists are doing dis-service to the poor Filipino farmer whose livelihood can be greatly improved through oil palm farming, Pamplona said. The untrue and distorted facts being spread out must be corrected to place oil palm farming in the right perspective considering the current huge shortage of cooking oil in the coun-try, now being filled up by importation from Malaysia and Indonesia, he said.

Dr. Pamplona cited A Brown Company, Inc which had planted only 500 hect-ares of oil palm in Tingalan, Opol, Misamis Oriental, not 11,350 hectares as falsely reported by a certain Dr. Phares Parayno of Miriam College in the PDI issue of February 3, 2013. COMMUNITY PART-NERSHIP A Brown through its sub-sidiary A Brown Energy Resources Inc (ABERDI) has developed a community partnership with the people of Opol, Misamis Oriental including the tribal com-munity in the area. Those complaining are notorious people disguised as members of Higaonon tribe who managed to il-legally occupy and sell a portion of a former pasture land, now converted into oil palm plantation by AB-ERDI. For six years now, ABER-DI has been in the forefront of employment generation in Kalabugao, Impasug-ong, Bukidnon and lately, in Tingalan, Opol, Misa-mis Oriental, and soon in Tignapoloan, Cagayan de Oro. Employed as field mainte-nance workers of ABERDI’s

By Ruffy Magbanua

CAGAYAN DE ORO --- A respected leader in oil palm farming has debunked claim of environmental groups that oil palm plantations cause massive flooding in Mindanao. Areas planted with oil palm in Mindanao are logged-over areas, unlike in Indonesia and Malaysia where rainforests are de-stroyed to give way for oil palm plantations, said Dr. Pablito Pamplona, a retired professor of the University of Southern Mindanao and a planter of oil palm. “We do not destroy Min-danao’s rainforests, what we develop are those logged-over areas left by loggers in the 70s and 80s,” Dr. Pamplona said. Oil palm farming miti-gates rather than aggravates climate change. Extensive scientific studies show that oil palm plantations provide similar environmental miti-gating effect as the tropical virgin forests in terms of less fluctuation of daily relative humidity and temperature, he said. Dr. Pamplona also serves as secretary and director of the Philippine Palm Oil Development Council Inc.

An ABrown Palm Oil plantation in Bukidnon.

By Walter i. Balane

MALAYBALAY CITY (Min-daNews— The Department of Environment and Natu-ral Resources (DENR) has seized 500 sacks of Benguet pine tree resins weighing around 30,000 kilograms from a Chinese contractor of the government-owned Bukidnon Forest, Inc. (BFI). Vergilino Alima, DENR-Malaybalay chief, told Min-daNews the recent seizure came after warnings to BFI general manager Reynaldo Abordo to stop the extrac-tion of resins due to lack of permit. He identified the Davao

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Province of Misamis OrientalMunicipality of Lagonglong

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

In compliance with R.A. No. 10172, Notice is hereby served to the public that CARLYN SUMAYA DALO has filed with this Office a petition for a Change of GENDER from “FEMALE” TO “MALE” in the birth certificate of Carlyn Sumaya Dalo who was born on November 30, 1994 at Kabulawan, Lagonglong, Misamis Oriental and whose parents are Carmelito G. Dalo and Helen T. Sumaya. Any person adversely affected by the said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than fifteen (15) from the time the First Notice would have been published.

(SGD.) REX R. VALMORES Municipal Civil RegistrarmDn: FeB. 1 & 8, 2013

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CAGAYAN de Oro City––The City Council here ad-opted a resolution declaring every February 14 starting this year as ‘One Billion Rising’ in Cagayan de Oro.

The resolution was passed during the city coun-cil’s regular session Tuesday on the occasion of the 15th Anniversary of Gabriela Women’s Party.

Vice Mayor Caesar Ian E. Acenas authored the resolution in recognition of the Filipino women’s struggle against all forms of exploitation and oppression.

Rhodora Bulosan, re-gional coordinator of Ga-briela, informed the city council that on Feb. 14, 2013, a Valentines Day, one billion women would go out on the streets to walk, dance, rise up, and demand an end to poverty and violence. According to the women’s group, today a billion women – one of every three women on the planet was a victim of rape or beaten in her lifetime.

‘One Billion Rising’ was a promise that (we) would rise up with women and men worldwide to say, “Enough! The violence ends now,” the Gabriela letter reads in part.

The Cagayan de Oro Leg of the One Billion Rising would take place on Valen-tines Day, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm at the Magsaysay Park.

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THE city’s police force has activated anti-vandalism ‘Task Force’ to run after vandals in the city’s suburbs, a police officer here said Thursday.

Chief Inspector Lemuel Gunda, head of the city’s police operations, said that the ‘task force’ would arrest persons or individuals vandalizing private and public walls and buildings in the city.

He said the team would also run after ‘rugby boys,’ a group of street kids that snipped an industrial solvent as the adhesive used for wood, plastics, and metal products.

Gunda said that the task force would turn over the rugby boys to the city’s social welfare and development to undergo counseling.

He said that the rounding up of rugby boys and van-dals were part of the responsibilities of the ‘task force’ organized to run after petty criminals here. CD

Turnover of Day Care CenTer in Cugman. rep. rufus looks at the ceremonial ribbon cutting in this turn over ceremony of a Day Care Center in Purok 2 Sitio Talidhay, Barangay Cugman worth P170,000. in photo are Day Care Center teacher elizabeth alcorin, Barangay representative Kagawads miller Cagatin, maria elsie Jandayan and rolando alsa together with DPWH officials aDe Cesar Hipona, staff and day care students.

POOR residents at the relocation site in barangay Pagatpat here would be provided livelihood assis-tance, an executive from

Poor residents to get jobs on the Oro relocation site

the Habitat for Humanity said Thursday.

Leonilo Escalada, re-gional program director of the Habitat for Humanity,

said that 50 percent of the labor force needed in the construction of houses at the relocation site would come from poor residents of Pagatpat.

Escalada made the assur-ance during the ceremonial capsule laying and blessing that signaled the start of the construction of houses at a Pagatpat relocation site on Saturday.

Feb 14 is ‘One Billion Rising’ in Oro

Anti-vandalism Task Force in Oro formed

CAGAYAN de Oro MAYOR Vicente Y. Emano yesterday morning expressed hopes that the implementation of the 4th tranche of sal-ary increase at City Hall will help meet the needs of employees.

In a program over Mag-num Radio, the mayor said the increase takes effect starting today, but will be

Mayor expresses hopes salary increase will help

meet needs of city workersretroactive January 2013.

According to the mayor, the city intended the in-crease to take effect January but there were paperworks that had to be completed.

He said he is hoping that this will inspire city employees to work hard for the people of the city.

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Province: Agusan del NorteCity/Municipality: Butuan City

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that TEODY A. BANAGAN has filed with this office a petition for Change of First Name from “GEROME” to “TEODY” in the birth certificate of GEROME ARBONEDA BANAGAN who was born on Aug. 12, 81 at San Vicente, Butuan City, Agusan del Norte, Philippines and whose parents are GERONIMO ARANAS BANAGAN JR. and ANTONIA JANSOL ARBONEDA. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than 15 February 2013.

(SGD.) JUDITH ALVIZO-CALO, LLB, MPA City Civil Registrar

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BUTUAN City - The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Pro-gram (4Ps) was successfully implemented in Caraga Region, based on objective, as revealed by the study conducted by the Philippine Normal University (PNU)-Agusan Campus.

4Ps successfully implemented in CaragaBy Robert E. Roperos

This is what Dr. Fabian Pontiveros of PNU said during the first quarter meeting of the Regional De-velopment Council-Social Development Committee (RDC-SDC) held Tuesday in one of the convention centers here.

Dr. Pontiveros said the PNU was commissioned by the RDC-SDC to con-

duct a study to determine the effect of the program at the household level of the first and second set of beneficiaries in the region.

He further said the study also determined the level of achievement of the objec-tives of the program, as well as to provide policy recommendations related to the implementation of

the program. As of January 2013, the

regional analysis and result of the study had already been consolidated by PNU-Agusan Campus, and was presented during the exit conference with the De-partment of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and other stakeholders on February 1, 2013.

Furthermore, Dr. Ponti-veros said the study had also proposed recommendations for the improvement of the program.

It can be recalled that in 2011, RDC-Caraga Chair-person and Surigao del Norte Governor Sol F. Ma-tugas proposed the conduct of the study on the effects of the 4Ps on beneficiaries in Caraga Region.

During the third quar-ter RDC-SDC Meeting in 2011, the conduct of this study was discussed and was eventually endorsed to the RDC Full Council. The conduct of this study was approved by the RDC through a resolution.

The study team, as stip-ulated in the resolution, consisted of the state uni-versities and colleges (SUCs)

STA. Cruz Placer, Surigao del Norte – Troops of the Bravo Company, 30IB, PA have conducted a series of mass feeding activities in its area of responsibility, early this week.

Headed by 1st Lt. Ro-berto L. Florido, the activ-ity was made in coordina-tion with the Department of Education (DepEd) of San Francisco, Surigao del Norte, under Dr Alicia L Amalla, PhD, the schools district in-charge.

The beneficiaries in-cluded 40 pupils from Oslao Elementary School (Febru-ary 4), and 50 from San

Francisco Central Elemen-tary School (February 5).

The mass feeding pro-gram was in support of the government program giving school pupils the opportunity to avail of good nutrition.

It was also done in line with the Internal Peace and Security Plan (IPSP) “BAY-ANIHAN” of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

The troopers served the beneficiary-pupils with corn soap and malunggay salad.

“This is going to be a continuing activity of our unit,” said 1st Lt. Florido (SGB/arjaysfelicilda)

30iB, Depedconduct mass

feedingBy 1st Lt. Stephen G. Basco

CAMP Rodriguez, Bu-tuan City - A group of unidentified armed men burned a heavy equip-ment in the construction site of HSO Construction at Purok-1, Brgy Curva, S antiago, Agusan del Norte, before midnight of February 5, this year.

A transit mixer (KGA 274) and a green dump truck (RHW 925), owned by Atty. Henry S. Ormi-nal, were razed by the fire.

Investigation disclosed residents heard burst of gunfire, as the culprits withdrew to an unknown director after the inci-dent.

Santiago police prob-

Armed men burn another heavy equipment

By PO3 Darlin Cabalinan-Migullas

ers recovered at the crime scene four fired cartridges of undetermined caliber of firearm and two empty

gasoline containers. Cost of damage has

yet to be determined. (DCM/MMG/asf )

and selected regional line agencies in the region.

Dr. Pontiveros said a cost-sharing scheme was applied for this study where SUCs contributed P40,000 each and a total of P246,400 was sourced from the RDC funds. “A memorandum of agreement signed by con-cerned agencies and SUCs bind stakeholders to this initiative,” he added.

The 4Ps is a poverty reduction and social de-velopment strategy of the national government. It provides conditional cash grants to extremely poor households, identified us-ing the National Household Targeting System (NHTS), to improve their health, nutrition and education particularly of children aged 0-14.

The program has the following specific objec-tives: to improve preventive health care among pregnant women and young children;

to increase the enrollment in and attendance rate of children in school; to re-duce the incidence of child labor; to raise the average consumption rate in food expenditure of poor house-holds; and to encourage parents to invest in their children’s (and their own) human capital through in-vestments in their health and nutrition, education, and participation in com-munity activities.

Aimed at providing social assistance and fa-cilitating social develop-ment, it claims to fulfill the country’s commitment to meet the Millennium De-velopment Goals (MDGs), namely: eradication of ex-treme poverty and hunger, achievement of universal primary education, pro-motion of gender equality, reduction of child mortal-ity and improvement of maternal health. (RER-PIA 13 Caraga/asf)

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KORONADAL City - The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI-Sultan Kudarat), together with the local government unit of Sen. Ninoy Aquino (SNA) municipal-ity, will launch a Coffee Industrial Tour in the province in time for the Coffee Festival on February 12-15.

Sultan Kudarat launches Coffee Industrial Tour

By Oliver Ross V. Rivera

Provincia l Director Nel ly Di l lera said the industrial tour intends to showcase the coffee industry in the province.

Sultan Kudarat is con-sidered, as biggest pro-

ducer of cof fee in the country.

Almost 28,000 tons of coffee is produced yearly in Region 12, the bulk of w hich comes f rom the province of Sultan

Kudarat. The tour package, in-

cludes coffee drinking at a traditional coffee shop by the fa l ls ; a v is it to the Neo-Country Crafts, a producer of souvenir

items made of abaca; and a tour inside the coffee nursery, coffee plantation and coffee roasting and grinding processing firm at Sen. Ninoy Aquino town.

The technology adopt-ed especially by farmers, who produce as much as 1,000 kilogram of cof-fee per hectare shall be highlighted.

For those who want to spend the night in the area, the tour may also include an overnight stay at Elan’s Haven Resort, a mountain resort where visitors could go on swim-ming, horseback riding, camping and trekking along the Tinalon Cave which is also part of the resort.

The Coffee Industri-

al Tour hopes to draw more visitors to the area, compel coffee players to improve their farms and generate sales among the enterprises in the area.

The SNA Coffee Indus-try Development Coun-cil or SNA COINDECO will handle the said tour. (ORVRivera-PIA12/ DTI-Sultan Kudarat /ar jay-sfelicilda)

KORONADAL CITY – The Department of Labor and Employment’s Single Entry Approach (SENA) has recently saved a tuna company and one of its employees from a possible lengthy court battle.

On January 29, Ruel Ban-dojo, and employee of the Tuna Exporters Multi-Pur-pose Cooperative (Tempco), based in General Santos City for four years, filed a request for intervention from the re-gional office of the National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB-12).

Bandojo said that he was unduly suspended by Tempco management based on allegation by a co-worker that Bandojo stole a company product.

He claimed that the management action was so abrupt and then placed on a “floating status” since “no other client-company will take him for his re-assignment,” as contained in the memo given him by the management.

On the same day, officials of NCMB 12 facilitated a

meeting between Tempco management and Bandojo where they agreed to avail of the SENA process.

SENA is a reform mea-sure of DOLE, institutional-ized by Labor Secretary Bal-doz since last year, through D.O. 107-10 to effect faster, fairer, and inexpensive settle-ment of labor issues and to prevent these issues from maturing into actual labor cases, or in this instance, a criminal or civil case.

Under the SENA, sin-gle entry approach desks (SEADs) were installed in every DOLE office nation-wide to serve as entry points in speeding up the resolution of all cases affecting workers and employers.

Trained officers, called SEADOs, man the desks to facilitate conciliation-mediation meetings between opposing parties with objec-tive to settle an issue within 30 days.

After more than an hour from the start of concilia-tion-mediation meeting on Friday, the management, without admitting lapses

on their part, decided to settle everything with the employee to avoid a tedious court situation.

“In consideration of his more than four years in the company, we are providing Mr. Bandojo the amount of P23,440, representing his claim for separation pay, dividends and leave credit conversions,” said Tempco Manager Fely Isanan.

“The results stated in our findings does not necessarily follow our contention. The company appreciates and will take note of the lessons learned in the settlement of this issue,” she added.

Sharing his feelings, Ban-dojo said, “I have no quarrel with the Tempco manage-ment, and I am happy that it ended this way. What I only wanted was to clear my name and move on.”

“My concern was posi-tively and immediately ad-dressed by a proper govern-ment agency,” he said while thanking the NCMB 12 for the assistance. (DED-PIA 12/ Gerie D. Lampitco-NCMB-12/asf)

Single entry approach prevents

legal battleBy Danilo E. Doguiles

rUBBer Pilot traininG - makilala is set to lead in the professionalization of the rub-ber production industry. the technical education on Skills Development authority (teSDa), in partnership with makilala lGU’s Vocational-technical (Voc-tech) Skills training Center, has launched the culmination of the 322 hours pilot run on the newly-developed training regulation on rubber production. the training started in the third quarter of 2012. (makilala.gov.ph/asf)

Excellence in Education is the dream of every Filipino; indeed, this is the guiding light of the Department of Education to implement the new curriculum in order to realize such dream. As we soar high in our aspirations in this new adventure in education we are not far in reaching our vision that we long for many years. In line with this, DepEd Misamis Ori-ental-Initao District is called for to conduct Municipal Education Summit on K to 12 Program. Aimed to inform the stakehold-ers that K to 12 curriculum is now imple-mented. Likewise, provide orientation to the stakeholders of their roles as partners in the implementation of the new program. Moreover, it serves as the avenue for dis-cussion of their queries and doubts on K to 12 that hinder the plight in the operation of these new undertakings in education. Nevertheless, it will enlighten the commu-

nity that this new program is the answer of our clamor on poor public educational system. Furthermore, it removes vague and ambiguous perception of the new system, yet to establish rapport between the school and community. With this perspective, we will be on the same road as we take our journey for better education to the Filipino youth. Through collaboration, unity and team-work per se, nothing is unviable but to accomplish enormous things. Let us hold tight our hands jointly and support DepEd’s mission in quest for quality basic education in the country. As we navigate in these new educational enterprises let us sail together in one direction guided with this motto: “One Dream, One Destiny for Excellence in Education”.

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MUNICIPAL EDUCATION SUMMIT ON K TO 12 PROGRAMBy Pio r. BaGareS, ES Principal-II, Tubigan Elementary School

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LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “… Jesus answered, `The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent…” (John 6:29, the Holy Bible).

-ooo-GOV’T MUST COME

UP WITH MORE WORK FOR PINOYS: Now that the Philippine economy is greatly improving, at least according to the claims of the Aquino government, our officials must strive to create more meaningful and economically-fulfilling jobs for our people, to prevent them from suffering the fate of more and more overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are either being killed or injured in the course of their employment abroad.

In fact, the killing of a Filipino crewmember of a chemical tanker and the tak-ing as hostages of 23 other OFWs in the same vessel just last February 04, 2013 in Nigeria, and the violent death

of eight OFWs in another gory hostage-taking incident in Algeria days ago, are not going to be the last of such tragic incidents involving OFWs.

As long as there will be Filipinos who find it neces-sary to go abroad just to find gainful work that would gen-erate the revenues needed to support their families, there will be Filipinos who will be killed, hostaged, or abused while working. By going abroad, our countrymen continue opening themselves up to the possibility of being killed, maimed or injured in their work. This is something

that was predicted to happen by the Bible, in Deuteronomy 28:15, 32.

-ooo-OIL SPILL IN CALAPAN

CITY, AND NOBODY IS MOVING? It’s been over a week since M/V Balino 168 of the Besta Shipping Lines tilted over and capsized at the pier of Calapan City in Oriental Mindoro and yet the ill-fated inter-island ferry, traveling between Calapan City and Batangas City on a daily basis, remains half-submerged and literally un-touched and unattended to.

The sight is awesome, but it is equally horrendous and

is giving the creeps to a lot of Calapan City residents, as well as to thousands of travelers along the country’s nautical highway, principally because when M/V Balino capsized, it brought down with it a number of cars, jeeps and even trucks which, as of this moment, are still submerged and under water.

The problem with this, I was told while I was at the Calapan City pier last Thursday, February 07, 2013 waiting for a ferry-ride back to Manila, was that there is now an on-going oil and gas-oline spill which is inevitably polluting the waters around the pier, causing death to the fishes and other marine resources in the area. Resi-dents are wondering why the Philippine Ports Authority, the Philippine Coast Guard, the City Government and Besta Shipping Lines are not doing anything about this.

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WEDNESDAY night I dropped by at the Police Precinct 1 in the Divisoria Plaza in Cagayan De Oro. For over two decades, I have not gone to any of the city’s nine police precincts.

For my part, the unexpected visit at PP1 was a surprise. The ambience of PPI was in contrast to most police precincts known to most of us. After all, what does one expects of a male dominated police precinct but the usual chauvinistic character of disarray and stinking comfort rooms? Adding to the atmosphere of the horrible smell of makeshift detention cells are a common sight in police precincts.

However, the police precinct in Plaza Divisoria has demonstrated how a real professional police precinct should look like. A glass door fitted at the precinct’s main entrance allows one, both from the outside and inside, to observe things going around the precinct.

Things inside the precinct were neat and properly arranged. It has two air conditioning units, burnished chairs, and painted walls that speak of upbeat men in uniform.

The precinct has a water dispenser, a mini kitchen, internet ready computers, a flat-screened television, and a small office for the station commander’s war room. However, the police officers clad in official uniforms struck me most. I could not but admire the professional

gaiety seldom observed in most police precincts in the country where unkempt plainclothes men normally abound.

Of course, police officers assigned at the PPI did not know me. It was also unfortunate that I have not met the PPI station commander. I would like to find out whether the private office of the station commander would compensate its outside ambiance.

I used to cover the police beat before. Naturally, I have many friends in the local police rank-and-file then. For instance, I used to play chess with some police officers at the old police precinct at the Divisoria Plaza then known as the OKK (Operation Kahusay ug Kalinaw). OKK was where my reporters also hanged out. I am sure, most, if not, all of the current city editors and reporters who once worked with me must have covered the OKK in their budding days.

I frequent at the Maharlika headquarters and the PNP regional headquarters in Camp Alagar at Gusa before. Some of my close friends have already retired as PNP Generals ‘though some of them are still active – now as senior PNP officers. However, I have lost contact with them anymore.

Anyway, I would like to commend the men and women at PPI in Plaza Divisoria for maintaining a professional, clean, and well-kept police precinct. No doubt, the people of Cagayan de Oro would be proud of PPI at Plaza Di-visoria. To the unknown men and women at PPI, here is a double thumb up! React: [email protected]

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Province: Agusan del NorteCity/Municipality: Butuan City

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that NAPOLEON FORTUN ANDAGAN has filed with this office a petition for Change of First Name from AUGOSTO to NAPOLEON in the birth certificate of AUGOSTO LOQUETE AN-DAGAN who was born on August 28, 1956 at Agusan Pequeño, Butuan City and whose parents are HERMINIO CALO ANDAGAN and PABIOLA LOQUETE FORTUN. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than 15 February 2013.

(SGD.) JUDITH ALVIZO-CALO, LLB, MPA City Civil Registrar

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EDUCATION PROGRAM AT ITS BESTBy miraFlor BaqUeqUe-SalinaS

It is very important that all people are intelligent to make our nation progres-sive. It will help more in thinking of best interven-tion for maintaining the progress of the country. It is being fulfilled in a new and decentralized Education and Technology. This program is imple-mented in the Elemen-tary and Secondary by providing new gadgets in teaching especially in the field of computer, video, High Tech libraries and providing high technology gadgets in Science Labora-tory and Machine Shop for progressive Education and Technology. Adopt-A-School Program is implemented to add more instructional materials for public schools. There are many projects created by different schools to pro-mote to our pupils to be-come God-fearing, patriot, humane and nature-lover.

Education for all (EFA) and Dropout Intervention Pro-gram (DIP) are means of addressing the problem of dropout and to slow down dropout rate especially in the Elementary Education. Character Education/Good Manners and Right Con-duct (CE/GMRC) is again part of the subject areas to promote character building and values manifestation among young children. Manpower Training Cen-ters are built to teach out of school youth in terms of technical and life-long skills also in helping poor but deserving students in tertiary education in terms of scholarship and Educa-tion Service Contracting (ESC). The goal is to help students to enroll in private institutions. The Study Now Pay Later Plan (SNPLP) and Poverty Alleviation Fund Scholarship have the same goal with ESC.

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Man-made woes

problem.In yesterday’s column,

we talked about the evils brought about by the un-abated fel ling of trees causing the balding of our mountains with their forest cover. This wanton felling of trees that caused the massive flooding that Cagayan de Oro and Iligan experienced when typhoon Sendong visted the two places in 2011 is certainly man-made.

And it is for the same reason why typhoon Pablo brought so much destruc-tion when it had its land-fall in Surigao and Davao Or. December of last year. Sendong and Pablo were not man-made for they are natural calamities, but the massive and incalculable destruction they brought were abated by man’s greed thus man-induced.

Ne wsp ap er rep or ts shortly after Pablo un-leashed his wrath on the hapless people of Davao Or. even insinuated that local politicians had a hand in the cutting of the forest cover in the mountains of Cateel and Baganga. But no official investigation had been undertaken to look into these newspaper reports to verify its veracity.

But engaging in ille-gal logging is not the only charges we hear being lev-eled against local politicians in Mindanao and elsewhere. Politicians are likewise ac-

cused of a lot of shenanigans foremost of which is graft and corruption, charges that no politician ever ad-mitted even if they already convicted by the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan.

When politicians are accused of involvement in graft and corrupt practices, almost always, they cry po-litical harassment or simply brush aside these charges leveled against them claim-ing these are just politically motivated. But are the poli-ticians really immune from becoming corrupt making their denial of engaging in corrupt practices worth considering?

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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - To further strengthen the bond between Pag-IBIG Fund and El Salvador City’s Cogon Multi Purpose Coop-erative (CMPC), a signing of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), for the latter’s membership activa-tion, will take place today at the Cagayan de Oro Branch. However, even before the MOA signing could take place between both parties; CMPC’s President Mr. Ramon T. Jamis already remitted the members’ initial savings pay-ment, at the Pag-IBIG Fund Cagayan de Oro Branch, last January 31, 2013. During a recent interview, Mr. Jamis emphasized, “sam-tang aduna kami pangita karon, ang mga opisyales uban sa mga miyembro sa CMPC, mipili nga maka-tigum para sa among kaug-maon, pinaagi sa pagpa-miyembro sa Pag-IBIG Fund, (While we still have a source of income now, we the of-ficers and members of the CMPC, chose to save as members of Pag-IBIG Fund). “Naglantaw man gud kami alang sa among kaayuhan sa umaabot, busa nag de-sisyon kami ng mag-gahin ug dos porsyento (2%) sa among pangita matag bulan, isip tinigum sa Pag-IBIG Fund, ug sa maong pamaagi adunay seguridad para sa

among kaugmaon ug para sa among pamilya,” (While looking into our prospec-tive benefits and privileges, we decided to set aside 2% of our monthly income as savings in Pag-IBIG Fund, thereby giving us a sense of security for our future and also for our family.), Jamis asserted. Moreover, the Cogon MPC is a duly organized coop-erative whose main trade is lending. The cooperative is composed of currently employed members, as well as self employed individuals (i.e. farmers and vendors). Their main office is located at Cogon, El Salvador City, Misamis Oriental. In a related development, the Provident Savings Pro-gram in Pag-IBIG Fund provides higher dividend earnings to member savers’ accounts, as compared to other financial institutions, because of its tax free salient feature. Similarly, as of 2011, Pag-IBIG Fund declared and proportionately added P8.49 Billion as dividends among it 10.2 million members. As of March 2012, Pag-IBIG Fund has grown finan-cially firmer and robust with P307 Billion in total assets; which was enhanced with the increase in members’ equity amounting to P220 Billion, for the same period.

Saving in Pag-IBIG gives coop members a sense of security

CAGAYAN ELECTRIC POWER & LIGHT CO., INC

Important Notice to CEPALCO CustomersSubject: Scheduled Power Interruption on Sunday, February 10, 2013

The Cagayan Electric Power & Light Co., Inc. (CEPALCO) would like to inform all customers that power supply will be interrupted on February 10, 2013 as shown below: Reasons To continue line conductor stringing works involving 69kV Minergy-Natumulan structures from Puerto to Agu-san areas and line tappings of Tango Feeder 1 at Tagoloan Substation. Date :Sunday, February 10, 2013 A) Interruption Time : 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM [12 hours] Affected Areas: Portion of Barangay Bugo from Upper Bantiles, Bugo Elementary School to Puerto, including Upper Puerto up to Alae. Tinao up to Agusan, LV Corn, including Balubal. Firstgen, DMPI plantation, MENZI Agri, etc. B) Interruption Time : 6:00 AM to 8:30 AM [2 hours & 30 mins.] and AGAIN at 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM [1 hour & 30 mins.] Affected Areas : Portion of Natumulan from El Mundo down to Casinglot, Tagoloan. Portion of Barangay Bugo, Greymar, Reyes and Villa Trinitas Subdivisions.C) Interruption Time: 6:00 AM to 7:30 AM [1 hour & 30 mins.] and AGAIN at 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM [1 hour & 30 mins.] Affected Areas : Sambulawan, Agusan and all the Barangays of Tablon, Baloy, Cugman, Gusa, and greater portion of Lapasan. Portion of Lapasan-Camaman-an road from Recto Ave. towards Limketkai Commercial Center including Grand Caprice Restaurant. All of Osmeña St. and portion of Cogon Market Area in-cluding Roxas St. towards portion of JR Borja St.. Upper Gusa, Indahag, Malasag, FS Catanico. Power will however be restored immediately without fur-ther notice when the CEPALCO line works are completed earlier than scheduled. We hope the affected customers and the public in general will be guided by this announcement. Thank you.

Released by: Ms. Marilyn A. Chavez Senior Manager Customer & Community Relations Dept.

BY PAT SAMONTE

BUTUAN CITY – Mayor Fer-dinand Amante, Jr. signed a Memorandum of Agreement with a Belgian company for solid waste management with the city providing materials for development the end products of which will be marketed or sold to domestic and foreign buyers. In a brief media briefing, Amante said that once imple-mented, the project will open new jobs to local workers and boost the city’s economy while providing means to properly seggregate wastes. Signed at the mayor’s con-ference room on Wednesday, the MOU provides that apart

from wastes produced, the city will cultivate its “vast agricul-tural areas for agro-forestry development in order to attain optimum use of resources” to be used as materials for the project. On the other hand, AN-DINAX, represented by its chairman and chief executive officer, Axel De Buysscher, has agreed to find financial resources, search for buyers for all end products and make available its expertise to best assist the city of Butuan in the implementation of the project. Based in Brecht, Belgium, De Buyssscher said ANDINAX is engaged in power genera-tion with the use of desiccated biomass crops, Bana grass and solid wastes.

WaSTe maNaGemeNT aGreemeNT. Butuan City mayor Fer-dinand amante Jr. (2nd from right) signs a memorandum of understanding with aNDiNaX Chairman and Chief executive officer axel De Buysscher (2nd from left). City Councilor an-gelo Calo is at extreme left. PHoTo SUPPlieD By Cmo/Pio.

Butuan, Belgian firm ink deal for waste management


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CHARACTER, A PART OF PERSONALITYBy miraFlor BaqUeqUe-SalinaS

Personality, deeply ingrained and relatively enduring patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior. Personality usually refers to that, which is unique about a person, the characteristics that distinguish him or her from other people. Thought, emotion, and behavior as such do not constitute a personality, which is, rather, the dispositions that underlie these elements. Personality implies predictability about how a person will act or react under different circumstances. Having good character is also an important part of having good health, when you have a good character; you have good relationship with others. You can make decisions about your health and fitness. These are some important character traits: CARING Showing kindness to friends, family and others. CITIZENSHIP Having pride in your school and community and obeying rules and laws. FAIRNESS Treating others equally, playing by the rules, and being a good sport. RESPECT Being considerate of yourself and others. RESPONSIBILITY Doing what you are supposed to do. HONESTY Telling the truth so others can trust you.

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1,500 hectare-oil palm plantation are mostly indig-enous peoples (IPs) belong-ing to the Higaonon Tribe, one of seven active tribal communities in Northern Mindanao, said ABERDI President Robertino Pizarro who is also a PPDCI board of director.TRIBAL COMMUNITY

AS WORKERSOf the almost 400 planta-

tion-based personnel hired by ABERDI, 75 percent of whom belong to the Higa-onon Tribe paid on DOLE-approved minimum daily wage rate. In Kalabugao, Impasug-ong, ABERDI workers receive Php259 per day while Php247 daily wage is being implemented in Tingalan, Opol, MisOr.

On top of the daily mini-mum pay, workers enjoy other benefits like SSS, Phil-health, subsidized uniform allowance, rice and Christ-mas giveaways, reinforcing ABERDI’s commitment in making a meaningful im-pact on communities where the company operates.

A monthly payroll of Php3.3 million is being spent by ABERDI, creating significant positive con-tribution not only for the workers and their fami-lies but also to the local economy of Impasug-ong, Bukidnon and Opol, MisOr, Pizarro said.SOCIAL RESPONSIBIL-

ITYABERDI has likewise

enlisted a significant num-ber of local residents in both locations -- Kalabugao and Tingalan, Opol – as seasonal plantation workers (pakyaw). A cooperative store run by A Brown em-ployees was also established

in Kalabugao to cater to the needs of the plantation workers in the area.

In 2010, ABERDI put up a Php300,000-Tulogan Center for the Higaonon tribal community in Ka-labugao. It is now the center of all tribal activities in the area.

In Opol, MisOr, Mayor Dexter Yasay has recognized the initial inroads of devel-opments infused by ABERDI in his municipality.

“Aside from religiously paying the minimum wage for Opol oil palm workers, the establishment of oil palm plantation served as the driver of socio-economic activity in my municipal-ity”, Yasay said.

For over two years in its operation in Tingalan, Opol, ABERDI has under-taken several road repair and maintenance such as the Salawaga-Tingalan road in the amount of P600,000; Bagocboc-San Simon road, P1 million; Palot-ora road and spillway repair, P200,000; Limbasan road and spillway repair, P100,000; and Tingalan po-blacion, P100,000. Recently, a 4-kilometer farm-to-mar-ket road situated in sitio Binigwayan-nahulogan, Malanang, Opol, MisOr was constructed by ABERDI at a cost of Php100,000.

Mayor Yasay has also enlisted the assistance of ABERDI worth Php100,000 in the transfer and rehab work of Opol’s Rizal Monu-ment project. Last month, ABERDI donated plastic pipes worth Php18,000 for the communal water sys-tem of barangay Tingalan, Opol.

During its first year of operation in 2010, some 173 Opol and Kalabugao workers were able to send

their children to school, pay monthly school fees and eat three times a day.

“The project is giving good impact on the economy of Opol. In fact, before the establishment of the plantation, there was little economic activity except for the illegal mining along river banks and mountains of Opol. If you visit Opol right now, you will see en-couraging results,” Yasay said.

Before the entry of AB-ERDI in Opol, MisOr, some people can hardly get good meal, but since the planta-tion opened, we’re proud to hear positive feedback, Yasay said.NATIONAL GREENING

PROGRAMABERDI alongside with

the people’s organizations KASAMAKA in Kalabugao and KMBT in Opol has established nurseries for DENR’s National Green-ing Program. So far, more than 100,000 Falcata tree seedlings have been planted in more than 100 hectares classified by DENR as pro-tected areas.

Oil palm is highly rec-ognized as Asia’s sunrise industry because of its tre-mendous potential for high yield and farm income aside from being an excellent forest cover.

OIL PALM REFINERY PLANT

ABERDI is the first com-pany to open up oil palm plantation in Kalabugao, Impasug-ong, Bukidnon, Tingalan, Opol, MisOr and other neighboring areas in Northern Mindanao.

ABERDI operates a 10-tonner crude palm oil (CPO) mill plant in Pobla-cion, Impasug-ong, Bukid-non. Under construction on the same site is a Php

100-million oil palm re-finery plant, expected to go into full operations by second quarter of next year. Impasug-ong Mayor Ma-rio Okinlay acknowledged the tremendous economic contribution of ABERDI, his municipality being the host of the company’s oil palm plantation situated in Kalabugao and the crude palm oil and refinery plant in Poblacion, Impasug-ong, Bukidnon.

DISINFORMATION DRIVE

Dr. Pamplona said the disinformation campaign appears to block the expan-sion of oil palm farming in the country. The campaign funds come from countries whose market for soybeans, sun flower and canola oils are negatively affected by the production of cheap and highly nutritious palm oil from the ASEAN countries, the Philippines included.

Such erroneous informa-tion prevent the utilization of the potential of oil palm to provide poor farmers with stable income, overcome poverty and promote rural prosperity, he explained.

“One should be aware that there is a well-funded worldwide campaign to discredit the benefits of oil palm farming in the coun-try”, Pamplona added. CLIMATE CHANGE

To help mitigate climate change we have to plant oil palm trees to reforest mil-lions of hectares of grass-lands and brush lands in the country, he said.

Oil palm farming should be made as top priority in the greening program of the government consid-ering that oil palm is the easiest to plant in grass-lands compared to other

commercially-grown trees, Dr. Pamplona urged.

Dr. Pamplona challenged our lawmakers to include oil palm in the national greening program of the government.

NO MANDATEIn his paper presented

before the participants of the Oil Palm Regional Forum in Malaybalay City recently, Dr. Pamplona expressed dismay on the government’s failure to promote oil palm farming this being a “threat to coconut oil industry.”

This misconception may have resulted from failure to implement PD 232 which mandates the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) to develop both the coconut and palm oils, Dr. Pamplona said.

Section 3a of PD 232 indicates the power and function of PCA as “to for-mulate and adopt a general program of development for the coconut and other palm oils industry.”

PD 232 provides no unilateral attention to co-conut but mandates PCA the parallel development of both the coconut and other palm oils. PCA does not consider oil palm as second fiddle crop.

P-NOY URGEDPDDCI urged the present

administration to put pre-mium on the development of oil palm by putting PD 232 in the proper context that would translate to the development of the industry alongside with coconut as a major source of oil.

PCA should not be blamed for the current shortage of vegetable oil in the form of oil palm. PCA should be blamed though if the country will continue to import oil palm in the next 10 years considering the vast, vacant and unused land resources for oil palm farm-ing, Dr. Pamplona said.

OIL PALM NOT A THREAT

Oil palm is never a threat to the country’s coconut industry but rather serves as a complement to coco-nut oil.

Pamplona said the avail-ability of oil palm would improve the health con-dition of many malnour-ished Filipinos who now consume an average of 9.2 kg of vegetable oil per year as compared to the world per capita consumption of 25 kg.

No other crop can give our farmers today with easy to plant crop and yields high income for the family with so much fun except the much touted miracle palm tree of Asia – the oil palm, Dr. Pamplona added.

MAYOR Vicente Y. Emano this week expressed gratitude to Habitat for Humanity for its efforts and intention to help the city’s poor.

Aside from constructing decent and permanent shelters for Typhoon Sendong survivors, the HFH will be constructing a day care center at the Cagayan de Oro Resettlement and Socialized Housing Program in Barangay Pagatpat.

This was assured by HFH re-gional program director Leonilo Escalada during the groundbreaking and capsule laying activity held last Friday of the 16-hectare relocation project.

In addition to this, he said 50-percent of the labor force of the housing project will come from ben-eficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), who will also receive support for the livelihood project they will undertake.

Mayor Emano said HFH has contributed much in helping the city’s poor constituents.

“Dako na kining tabang sa atong mga igsoong kabus, ug mapasal-amaton kaayo kita sa gitanyag sa Habitat for Humanity,” he added.

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-ooo-CALAPAN CITY PIER,

PROOF OF SUCCESSFUL PPP: But that oil-spill prob-lem aside, I couldn’t help but be simply amazed at the improvements introduced in the pier by the Nautical Port Management and Services Incorporated, the private concessionaire that was given the contract to operate it and its counterpart pier in Roxas, Oriental, Mindoro, four years ago.

When I started going to Oriental Mindoro in the early 1990s as a lawyer han-dling a variety of cases for several clients in the island, I saw that the pier then was a typical port with its squalid surroundings, no defined waiting areas, quirky toilets, children swimming along-side docked ships asking for coins to be tossed to them, and hold-up men and thieves masquerading as porters or pier hands, among others.

Not only are these sights gone. Standing in the pier now is a spick and span and fully air-conditioned passenger lounge and wait-ing area, complete with f lat TV screens showing local and international programs provided by cable operators, wi-fi services, and uniformed personnel all attentive to the needs of their patrons. Indeed, if there is any proof of the success of a public-private partnership, the Calapan City pier is one of them. Congratulations.

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He said some of these livelihood assistance would be in the form of ‘seed capi-tal’ for hollow block making at the relocation site.

The city government assigned the construction of 2,000 houses at the Pa-gatpat Relocation Site with the Habitat for Humanity.

Mayor Vicente Emano said that the city govern-

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No. 12495-2013, the 16th City Council headed by Vice Mayor Caesar Ian E. Acenas authorized the implementation of the fourth tranche salary in-crease effective January 1. Funds for this have been incorporated in the city’s 2013 General Appropria-tions Ordinance.

AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS

Notice is hereby given that the intestate estate of the deceased depositor Juan Lacban Abcede, who died on August 25, 2010. At the time of his death, he left Savings Deposit Accounts with the Philippine Veterans Bank Cagayan de Oro Branch under Savings Account Number 23020118276 with a bal-ance of P 22,789.86 is the subject of AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS made and entered into by and among the heirs of the deceased depositor namely; Virginia A. Balitaan, Apolinario O. Abcede, Teodoro O. Abcede, Nena A. Paderna, Severino O. Abcede, all of legal age, Filipino, and residents of Alicomohan, Sugbongcogon, Misamis Oriental. We hereby request the Philippine Veterans Bank Cagayan de Oro Branch to release the balance of the said deposit account in favor of Apolinario O. Abcede to transfer the balance of said deposit account in his name, as per Doc. No. 292; Page No. 60; Book No. 110; Series of 2013; under Notary Public of ATTY. EMMANUEL A. AKUT.

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PAGTUTURO, ISANG MISYONBy miraFlor BaqUeqUe-SalinaS

Sinasabi ng aking mga ninuno na ang patuturo daw ang itinuturing na pinaka desenting trabaho sapagkat lahat ng mga empleyado at malalaking tao sa ating lipunan ay nagkamit ng kani-kanilang mga trabaho dahil sa pagtuturo ng isang guro. Minsan sa aking kamus-musan ay una kong naging ambisyon ang pagtuturo ngunit sa kalaunan biglang nagbago ang mura kong isi-pan lalo na pag nakikita ko ang aking tiyuhin na laging pagod galing sa pagtuturo at pagkarating sa bahay papel pa rin ang ina atupag. Sabi ko sa sarili ko nakatapos na nga ako ng pag aaral paara-lan pa rin ang pupuntahan ko sa araw-araw. Ngunit ng ako’y nagkaisip nakikita ko na ang mga guro pala ay hindi lamang

isang ordinaryong mama-mayan kung hindi sila ang tinatawag na mga buhay na bayani. Bakit? Dahil hindi isang simpleng trabahong ang pagtuturo kung hindi ito’y napakalaking respon-sibilidad at determinasyon. Ito’y mas lalo kong napatu-nayan ng ako’y nakatapos ng pagiging guro at nabigyan ako ng trabaho sa lugar na ni kailanman hindi ko pa napuntahan mula sa aking kabataan. Noong una, gusto ko sanang umatras kaya lang sinabi ko sa sarili ko baka wala ng trabahong darating pa kaya tinanggap ko nalang. Naranasan ko ng umiyak dahil sa gusto ko ng umuwi sa aking lugar na kinagisnan ngunit kung titingnan ko ang mga batang naghihintay sa akin bigla nawawala ang mga luhang dumadaloy sa

aking mga mata dahil alam ko ako lamang ang pag asa ng mga paslit na ito. Kung sila’y iiwan ko paano nalang sila kung lahat ng guro ay gusto rin silang iwan katulad ko. Nagising nalang ako isang umaga na napamahal na sa akin ang mga batang minsan kong inayawan dahil sila pala ay simbolo ng kamus-musan at kasayahan. Kahit pa man sila ay naghihirap at walang makain, nakukuha pa rin nilang tumawa at maging buhay ay masaya. Akala ko noon, ako lang ang dapat magturo sa kanila, nagkamali pala ako sapagkat sila rin pala ay nagbibigay ng mga aral sa buhay kung saan dapat akong maging masaya kung anong meron ako. Kaya ngayon, hindi lang ako isang guro, isa rin akong MISYONERO.

ment would provide free houses and lots to relocate city residents in areas identi-fied as hazardous areas here.

The Mines and Geosci-ences Bureau of the De-partment of Environment and Natural Resources has submitted a map identify-ing hazardous areas in the city’s urban and outskirt barangays considered as flood and landslide prone areas.

The city government has started to relocate residents in ‘hazardous areas’ to safer grounds to avoid a repeat of the tragedy spawned by typhoon Sendong in mid-December in 2012.

More than 600 people died and properties worth millions of pesos damaged in a deadly flash flood along the city’s river banks and low lying areas at the height of typhoon Sendong last year. CD

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in Manila. Through live streaming, the Manila-based media were asked to throw in the first two questions which were answered live by the panelists in Davao without any technology glitch at all. While many international conferences have been held in the city, this may well be the first time that a joint press conference between Metro Manila and Mindanao was held live. The availability of good internet connection in the city shows why Davao is one of the top BPO areas that have become a favorite among BPO providers next to Metro Manila and Cebu. Various BPO companies both voice and non-voice have offices in the city. This is the second time that the PDF has been held in the city, the first one in 2005. “Mindanao is one of the focused areas for the PDF which was held here in the city primarily to give the partners a chance to get a feel of Mindanao,” Purisima said. No less than Konishi commented that Davao City is a lot better than the other areas in the Philippines.(lovely a. carillo)

City-based contractor as Chinese firm Luda Chemi-cals Inc. (LCI)

Residents have registered their opposition to the ex-traction in discussions on air and on the social net-works. They feared that the extraction might slowly kill the pine trees, which help provide Malaybalay its cool weather.

Alima estimated the value of the seized resins to be around P600,000, at P20 per kilo. Harvesters in the village told this reporter they are paid P11 per kilo to harvest the resins, done like the harvesting of rub-ber saps.

He said the extraction is reportedly done within and outside BFI’s 38,000-hectare Industrial Forest Manage-ment Agreement (IFMA), which will expire in 2016.

Alima stressed that BFI had been warned as early as May 2012 that the extraction of resins, believed to be an ingredient to produce inks and paints, requires a permit because it is still considered an “ordinary minor forest product.”

“They told us they will process the permit. As of now, we were told they are still processing their inte-grated annual operation plan,” he added.

Alima said the BFI and LCI have been invited to a DENR administrative de-liberation on February 13 for them to “shed light” on the matter.

The seized sacks of pine tree resins have been piled at a dirt road in Barangay Can-ayan and covered with cogon grasses, apparently to protect its quality.

LCI reportedly employed watchmen to protect the stock from saboteurs.

Over radio station DXDB Tuesday, Danny Lucine, a BFI officer, admitted that BFI does not have a permit to extract pine tree resins.

He said, however, that they have a memorandum of agreement with the LCI.

Alima, who assumed the DENR-Malaybalay post recently, said his office has no copy of the MOA, hence they have no idea about the scope of the contract.

He doubted the initial statements by BFI and LCI that the extraction is only experimental.

“Unbelievable, this is a big stock we got here,” Alima said.

Huang Ming Xing, a resource person from LCI, said during a hearing at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan in May 2012 that the extrac-tion of resin “is not harmful to pine trees.”

Last year’s hearing was meant to shed light on the supply contract between BFI and LCI to tap resins from pine trees inside the 38,000-hectare IFMA of the former.

At the time, then DENR-Malaybalay chief Ferdinand Dagolo wrote BFI about the need to get an extraction permit.

Environment Secretary Ramon Paje also directed BFI then to stop its tree harvesting operations, re-portedly pursuant to the

instruction of President Aquino to implement a total log ban in the country.

Back then, BFI’s Abordo said the experimental deal with LCI on resin extrac-tion “was a transition to BFI’s alternative source of income.”

BFI, previously the Bukidnon Industrial Tree Plantation Project (BIPP), is a government-owned and controlled corporation un-der the National Resources Development Corporation. As BIPP, it was funded by the New Zealand government until it was terminated as a foreign-assisted project of the DENR in 1998.

Board member Nemesio Beltran Jr. has sponsored a resolution urging President Aquino to cancel BFI’s IFMA ahead of its expiration in 2016, and its contract with the Chinese firm.

He cited that BFI and LCI “misled” the provincial board during a hearing last year that their initial deal was only experimental, and will not be pursued without the go-signal from pro-vincial officials. (Walter I. Balane/MindaNews)

Budgets of 8 brgys OKdEIGHT BARANGAYS were given the go signal by the 16th City Council headed by Vice Mayor Caesar Ian E. Acenas to implement their respective ordinances covering their 2013 annual budgets.

At the regular session Tuesday presided over by Councilor Ian Mark Q. Nacaya, legislators adopted resolutions returning to Barangay No. 15, 25, 26, 30, 37, Dansolihon, Lumbia and Macabalan their ordinances noting that these are in order and may be given force and effect.

Legislators likewise adopted a resolution return-ing to the Barangay Council of Kauswagan its ordi-nance appropriating an amount from the 5-percent calamity fund of the barangay to be made available as financial assistance to victims whose residential houses were partially damaged by a fire incident at Zone 6. It may be recalled that this was earlier declared by the City Council as a calamity area.

The resolutions were endorsed by the committees on barangay affairs and on laws and rules chaired by Councilors Dometilo Acenas Jr. and Ramon Tabor, respectively.

Charity grp donates wheelchairsMAYOR Vicente Y. Emano and Dr. Maximo Saave-dra Jr. of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Charities on Monday turned over wheelchairs to physically-challenged children.

Kurt Joseph Adino of Bugo; John Kenneth Wabe of Calaanan, Canitoan, and Jane Engeva of Conso-lacion received their free wheelchairs during the flagraising ceremony at City Hall.

This was facilitated by Councilor Nadya Emano, chair of the City Council committee on social services.

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as a first step to avail the service. Successful registrants could download the UCPB Mobile Banking App from the Apple App Store for iPhone users, while Java Phone users could visit the link pro-vided in the text mes-sage that confirms the successful registration. For more information on the bank’s online and mobile banking services, customers may log on to www.ucpb.com or may also call (02) 811-9111.

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OTHER BENEFITSIt may be recalled that

upon the order of Mayor Emano, the P5,000 Cloth-ing Allowance of city em-ployees each was released last month.

City Hall employees likewise received Produc-tivity Bonus of P2,000 each recently.

“Hinaut nga kining mga benepisyo magamit unta alang sa maayong katuy-oan sama sa edukasyon sa ilang mga kabataan ug panginahanglanon sa ilang tagsa-tagsa ka pamilya, ug dili hinoon mopadulong ngadto sa mga dautang bisyo sama sa sugal, inom ug uban pa,” he said in a press statement.

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SI TATAY-NANAY, SI NANAY-TATAYBy miraFlor BaqUeqUe-SalinaS

Sa matag buntag, usa ka ordinaryo nga talan awon nga samtang nag andam ka arun maka tungha ka sa eskwelahan, aduna usab Iain-Iain nga gimbuhaton si tatay ug nanay. Si tatay nangandam na usab arun maka adto na siya sa opisina mao nga anaa usab siya gahulat arun mabakante ang banyo arun nga siya makaligo. Sa laing bahin, si nanay pud nagkapuliki ug pangan-dam sa mga uniporme, pag init ug tubig para ikaligo ug pagluto sa paborito nga sud-an pampamahaw sa dili pa maglakaw. Apan kini mao ang tipikal nga panghitabo sa pami-lyang Pilipino, apan ayaw katingala nga anaay mga pamilya nga dili ingun niini ang talan awun. Si Tatay-Nanay, si Nanay-Tatay Gitudlo kanato sa atong tulunghaan nga ang tatay mao ang haligi sa atong panimalay ug siya ang nanginabuhi alang sa pami-lya. Siya mao ang gahatag sa mga unang panginah-anglan sama sa pagkaon, edukasyon, bisti ug uban pang galastuhan sa pani-malay. Sa laing bahin, si nanay pud ang nagsilbing suga sa atong panimalay nga diin siya gayud ang nag-atiman sa iyang mga anak samtang toa nagtrabaho ang amahan sa iyang mga anak. Siya ang

gaandam kung unsa ang lutuon sa balay, badyet ug ang ang pagpahapsay sa panimalay ug siya ang giya sa pag eskwela sa iyang mga anak. Apan sa modernong pan-ginabuhe karon ug dikta sa kapit os sa kinabuhi sa pag-kakaron mao nga sila “Tatay mao Nanay” ug “Nanay mao Tatay” na pud. Ordinaryo na karon sa pamilyang Pilipino kung asa sila tatay ug nanay pareho nang nagtrabaho. May uban usab nga pami-lya karon nga si nanay ang nagtrabaho samtang si tatay ang nahabilin sa balay mao ang nag atiman sa mga anak. Sa laing bahin, may uban usab nga pamilya nga ang amahan ang ga badyet para sa pamilya ug siya ang nagsilbi nga agakay sa iyang mga anak sa pag eskwela ug uban pang mga aktibidadis sa eskwelahan. Apan wala kini nagpasabot sa pag ubos sa respeto sa imong amahan ug pag biay biay sa iyang kahibalo. Dili usab kini dapat magresulta nga ikaw magtanom ug ka-suko sa imong inahan nga ikaw wala naatiman niya ug si tatay mao ang nag atiman nimo. Ang pinaka labaw nga imong hunahunaon mao nga palaran ka nga naa kay inahan ug amahan nga nagmahal kanimo ug nagmatuto sa imo nga walay gidahom nga bisan unsang ganti.

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becoming putrid, which is what corruption is all about. So as salt of the earth, the believers of Christ ought to preserve society from corruption.

Corruption, therefore, should be understood to mean the decay, the de-composition, the rotting of man or the man-made social structures. Under present man-made social structures such as the electoral system, the dynasty system, to men-tion just two, how can a politician insulate himself from being corrupted? Or can he insulate himself from the vagaries of corruption?

Answering the above

question necessitates a look at our man-made electoral system. While every politi-cian during election time professes to want to serve the people, do they really mean what they profess? Is service not the last thing in their mind when they are already elected? And why would one spend P100 mil-lion or more just for him to become mayor of a city, for example, thus serve the people in that locality?

Politicians, we have to admit, seek public office for purposes other than service for no person in his right mind will ever spend millions of pesos to become a servant. This point alone already shows us how flawed this man-made electoral

system is. A person who wants to be the servant of all should never be made to spend a single centavo to be able to do so.

Jesus the servant of them all never spent an amount of money just so He can serve others, especially the least of His brethren? He just went about doing good by preaching, teaching and healing.

The current man-made electoral system thus en-sured that only the mon-eyed can get elected. The penniless will never have a crack at any elective post no matter how sincerely intentioned he is in serving others. It is for this reason that like typhoons Sendong and Pablo, our politicians

have also wrought havoc on our political and social life. And to ensure their perpetual hold to power, these very same politicians ordained another man-made system, the dynasty system that ensures their perpetual hold to power through suc-cession by their nearest of kin.

But like all other man-made problems, collectively the people can wage battle against any and all man-made problems or challenges by first recognizing the problem and thus address such man-made problems. In the case of the politicians it is through the ballot by voting wisely.

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MALAYBALAY City––True to its name, the Home Development Mutual Fund, widely known as PAG-IBIG Fund, is now gearing up for the grandest mass wedding rites this Valentines Day.

Elizabeth M. Amarille, officer-in charge, Pag-ibig Fund Malaybalay Branch, said under its “I Do. I Do. Araw ng Pag-ibig (Love Day)” proj-ect, the mass wedding is offered to those couples living together for more than five years who had no legal civil unions because they could not afford fees at the National Statistics Office (NSO), civil registry and for the judge who will conduct the wedding ceremony.

“But first, they must become a Pag-ibig member,” she said.

Amarille said a participant will have a chance to win a brand new

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house and lot during wedding rites.Those interested can apply at

Malaybalay City civil registry office at city hall. A P100 registration fee will be charged per applicant.

Amarille said this project not only helps live-in couples legalize their union, it also develops them towards establishing financial se-curity for their families.

Those who want to join the civil mass wedding can register at Malaybalay civil registration and bring an affidavit that they live to-gether, a community tax certificate, birth certificate, certificate of no marriage, barangay certificate and valid identification cards.

For more information they can call Malaybalay Local Civil Registrar at (088)221-3705.

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CAGAYAN de Oro––Princess Superal blitzed the backside of the Pueblo de Oro Golf and Country Club with an eagle and two birdies and came away with 58 Mo-lave points, moving closer to retaining the Southern Ladies golf crown with a whopping eight-point lead over Harmie Constantino in the second round here yesterday.

Just two points up on Daniella Uy despite an opening 57 Wednesday, Superal went on an attack mode coming home, birdy-ing Nos. 11 and 12 then hitting an eagle on the par-5 15th to pull away from the field and close in on the crown she won in sudden death over Sunshine Baraquiel in Cebu last year.

The top ICTSI-The Country Club bet also hit two birdies against two bogeys at the front but came out strong at the back to close out with a fiery 32 and a four-under 68 in medal play,

With 115-point aggregate, Superal, 16, opened an eight-point lead over Constan-tino of Camp Aguinaldo, who rallied with four birdies against a bogey at the back to salvage a one-under 71 worth 55 points and a 107 heading to the final 18 holes of the 50th staging of the annual event sponsored by Philippine Sports Commis-sion, WWWExpress, Security Bank, Hans Brumann Jeweler, DPC Yellow Pages, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Leisure and Resorts World Corp, and Mizuno. For the first time in the history of the tournament, a car is put up as Hole in One prize by Toyota Motor Phils.

Del Monte’s Apple Fudolin scored a 52 or a two-over 74 as she stayed at third at 106 while Sarah Ababa and ICTSI-TCC teammate Abby Arevalo made 54 and 52 points, respectively, for joint fourth at 105.

Erstwhile second placer Daniella Uy stumbled with a five-over 77 worth 49 points and tumbled to sixth at 104.

Sofia Chabon primed up for an ICTSI-TCC sweep as she carded a second straight 52 for a 104, snatching a one-point lead over first round leader Annika Cedo of Southwoods, who had 50 points and a 103, in the Class A side of the event sanctioned and organized by the National Golf As-sociation of the Phils.

Lois Kaye Go of Cebu Country Club remained in the title hunt with a 101 after a 51.

Forest Hills’ Violeta Pegels shot 48 points as she moved past Grace Montilla of Riviera and Pueblo de Oro’s Carolene Go Jeun to grab the Class B lead with an 85. Montilla made a second 41 for an 82 while Jeun slowed down with a 39 for an 80.

Superal sizzles with 58 pts,

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