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KORONADAL City -- Processed pork products from Socssksargen Region or Region 12 could soon be exported to United Arab Emirates where the same products can also be sold to other countries, an official of the Department of Agriculture said.

Evelyn Jaruda, feeds and veterinary drugs control officer of DA-12, said that initial shipment destination of “pork-ina-box” will be to Dubai City.

Dubai City, she said, offers a potential market for meat products because of the large population of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) there. Residents of the city also include other nationalities such as Indians who also include pork meat in their diet.

Environment

IN LIEU of the global issues on climate change, the Brunei Darussalam-IndonesiaMalaysia-the Philippines - East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMPEAGA) ministers have adopted environment management as one of its strategic pillars for the sub-regional cooperation.

“The Philippines successfully pushed for the inclusion of environment as a new strategic pillar in addition to the three (3) major pillars of the sub-region,” reported Mindanao Development Authority Chairperson Luwalhati Antonino.

The other three strategic pillars of BIMP-EAGA are food basket/food security, ecotourism and enhancing connectivity.

Nickel plant

SURIGAO City -- An eco-friendly $2.5-billion nickel processing plant will soon rise in Nonoc Island after rehabilitation works of the mothballed nickel refinery will be completed following the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between two giant corporations witnessed by local executives recently.

“The old nickel refinery owned by Philnico Mining Corporation will be rehabilitated

by San Miguel Corporation, this year, which committed to replace it with a modern nickel plant using the electromagnetic processing technology in extracting nickel ores.

It’s eco-friendly for it does not use chemicals unlike decades ago,” City Mayor Ernesto Matugas said.

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ESPITE the slump in the exchange of trade worldwide, the Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental has recorded robust growth as it posted an increased cargo volume last year.

Phividec Industrial Authority Seaport Manager Dante Clarito said cargo volume reached 210,507 twentyfoot equivalent units (TEU) for the entire year of 2011, slightly higher than its target of 210,000 TEUs. Clarito said that MCT, one of the emerging ports outside Metro Manila and operated by International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI), has become the major backbone of big industries in the region such as Nestle, Del Monte Philippines and Pilipinas Kao, while the regular callers are American President Lines, Maersk, Regional Container Lines and Mariana, he said.

He, however, noted that although some industries have slowed down a bit, export of wood products has emerged the top performer in 2011.

“Our volume could have been higher if not for the slowdown in wood export products during the second half of the year,” Clarito said.

Since ICTSI took over the operations of MCT some three years ago, the cargo volume of the facility in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental continues to improve.

In 2010, the MCT posted a 51-percent increase in containerized cargoes handled to 180,308 TEU from the previous year’s volume of 118,687 PORT/PAGE 8

Despite slowdown recorded by major industries in the region last year, the Mindanao Container Port Terminal in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental has managed to post considerable growth in terms of cargo volume due to the robust wood export industry.

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Business leaders hit Aquino on environment

By CARMELITO Q. FRANCISCO Correspondent

DAVAO City -- Leaders of the Mindanao business sector have criticized the Aquino administration for taking a reactive stance and for not taking a decisive step on policies affecting the environment and natural resources,

Cagayan de Oro BPOs cope with Sendong aftermath

By MIKE BAÑOS, Correspondent

CAGAYAN de Oro’s three major Business Process Outsourcing (BPOs) were fortunate enough to escape the wrath of Tropical Storm Sendong whose killer floods caused over a thousand fatalities and caused over a billion pesos worth of damage to public infrastructure and private BPO/PAGE 10

specifically logging and mining.

Vicente T. Lao, chairman of the Mindanao Business Council, said the administration of President Benigno S. C. Aquino III has failed to show political will in stopping illegal mining and logging especially in Mindanao.

“President Aquino should have shown LEADERS/PAGE 9

International confab to study impact of mining in M’nao set

By CARINA CAYON, Contributor

DAVAO City -- An international conference slated on January 26-27 in the city seeks to study on the implication of mining operations in Mindanao.

The Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP) and the Ateneo de Davao University have set the International Conference on Mining in Mindanao this week at the AdDU campus, this city.

AdDU President Fr. Joel E. Tabora, SJ said the conference intends to update the delegates on and to analyze the current mining operations in Mindanao, and how these impact on the environment, livelihood, rights and lives of people within and outside the mining communities.

Bearing the theme “Mina para Nasudnong Interest sa Katawhang Pilipino (Mining for the National Interest of CONFAB/PAGE 7

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AGUM City -- Various agencies of the national government intended to implement more than P3-billion worth of programs, projects and activities (PPAs) in the province of Davao del Norte next year.

The proposed funding was raised at the recent local consultation on the Calendar Year 2013 Annual Investment Program (AIP), where agency regional offices (AROs), state universities and colleges (SUCs) and other stakeholders presented their PPAs for the province for 2013.

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) topped the list of AROs as it plans to shell out P1.3 billion-worth of public infrastructures for the province.

The Department of Education (DepEd) follows with over P1.1 billion-worth of proposed investment for

the education sector next year.

Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario, who presided over the consultation meeting held at the Bulwagan ng Lalawigan in Mankilam, Tagum City, welcomed the budget, which he said will greatly contribute to the fulfillment of his human-centered development agenda, known as P.E.O.P.L.E. As Davao del Norte, along with other LGUs, is beginning to feel the impact of the 4.8 percent

reduction in the internal revenue allotment (IRA) this year, Gov. del Rosario is optimistic that the province will be able to pass the fiscal challenges over.

He said Capitol financial managers have devised measures to combat the IRA cut, ranging from austerity measures, to enforcing strict accountability, strengthening revenue generation, as well as, tapping national and overseas development assistance (ODA) funding opportunities.

According to him, the provincial leadership has since adopted the mantra of “maximum effectiveness at the least cost.�

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(NEDA)-XI Director Maria Lourdes Lim said the consultation of the AROs with the provincial government was done in order to reconcile and confirm program PROJECT/PAGE 8

P161.9M released for anti-poverty project in Caraga BUTUAN City -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Caraga is expected to disburse a total of P161,968,531.62 in the first two quarters of this year through its anti-poverty program called KALAHICIDSS. The total amount comes from the World Bank loan of the government given to the region amounting to P137,280,487.93 and an additional P24,688,043.69 from the local cash contribution (LCC) of the implementing local government units (LGUs).

According to Regional Project Manager and AssisCARAGA/PAGE 9

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Coca-Cola’s Mandaue plant.

Coke expands Cebu plant THE Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines Inc. (CCBPI) has invested in a third bottling line in their Mandaue City manufacturing plant.

“We remain confident with Cebu. That is why we have made our plant here our center for expansion in the region,” said Bill Schultz, CCBPI president and chief executive officer.

The bottling line is part of the expansion projects funded by a $1-billion budget for investments in the country.

“There’s tremendous opportunity here because we chose Cebu for our expansion. This is the heart of our business here in the country. We have about 370 associates here and roughly about 40,000 retailers that we do business with,” said Schultz.

The new investment is also seen to generate employment opportunities in the area according to Schultz.

The Philippines in general is expanding according to Schultz, and they want to remain to be at the forefront in all the developments that are coming.

“Economy is expanding here and we will be bullish in retaining our position as the major market share holder for beverages in the country.”

Schultz declined to give figures as to how much they have already spent out of the $1-billion investment fund for the country, saying only that they have already spent a significant amount and are still looking for more opportunities in the country.

Irial Finan, executive vice president of Coca-Cola and president of the Bottling Investments Group, said that as what they have announced in September last year, they will be going from island to island to see where they can put in more investments.

“We began in Mindanao with the completion of our newest and most technology-advanced Mega Plant in Misamis Oriental.

Then we moved to Luzon where we expanded our Canlubang Plant and transformed it into a Center of Operational Excellence and now we’ve reached Visayas,” said Finan.

The Coca-Cola Cebu plant is the second bottling facility opened by CocaCola in 1941 after arriving in Manila in 1912, and the Philippines is the first country they opened in Asia.

According to Schultz, Coca-Cola and the Cebuanos shared a history that spans 70 years and that they recognize the potential that the city had to offer back then.

The Coca-Cola Co. is one of the world’s largest beverage companies with more than 500 brands including Fanta, Sprite and Powerade.

Digitel to delist from local bourse DIGITAL Telecommunications Philippines, Inc. (DIGITEL) on Tuesday has f iled a petition to voluntarily delist from the Philippine Stock Exchange, a local bourse circular read.

Th i s , follow ing t he completion of Philippine Long Distance Telephone

Smartphone use seen to rise sharply SMARTPHONE usage within the network of Smart Communications Inc. is expected to rise sharply this year on the back of a growth momentum established late last year.

The cellular firm, said Chief Wireless Advisor Orlando B. Vea, continues to monitor a doubling of the number of subscribers using smartphones in the last four months of 2011 due to the growing demand of mobile Internet and increased availability of devices.

“Our subscribers have SMARTPHONE/PAGE 8

Co.’s (PLDT) tender offer to Digitel minority stockholders. “[Digitel] filed with the Exchange ... [a] petition for delisting dated Jan. 24,” according to the circular.

E arlier t his mont h, PLDT, which last year acquired a 51.55% stake in Digitel, completed a

tender offer for Digitel minority stockholders.

Such increased PLDT’s stake to 98%, as the dominant telco said it is readying to delist its newlyacquired unit from the exchange as the latter’s public f loat has fallen below the minimum 10% requirement.

JOLLIBEE FOODS Corp. has completed the $25-million acquisition of a 50% stake in SuperFoods Group, the operator of Vietnamese coffee shops and several Hard Rock Cafe franchises in Asia, a disclosure to local bourse showed.

“Jollibee Foods, through its wholly owned subsidiary Jollibee Worldwide Pte. Ltd., completed today its acquisition of 50% shares of the business of SuperFood Group,” a disclosure dated Jan. 20 reads.

“This consists of 49% of SF Vung Tau Joint Stock Co. and a 60% share in Blue Sky Holding Ltd. in HongKong,” the disclosure read.

The move implements the May 2011 agreement between the company and Viet Thai International Joint Stock Co. allowing Jollibee Foods to takeover half of Superfoods in exchange for $25 million and a $35-million loan to Viet Thai International.

Jollibee Foods had earlier advanced $5 million to the Super Foods Group, the disclosure said.

The SuperFoods Group, which has an annual sales of $30 million, owns and operates various brands

including Highlands Coffee Shops in Vietnam, Highland Coffee Packaged Products and Hard Rock Cafe franchised stores in Macau, Hong Kong and Vietnam.

According to the disclosure, Highlands Coffee serves Vietnamese coffee and light meals in coffee shops. It also sells packaged coffee through retail outlets.

“Jollibee Foods and its partner Viet Thai International, through their joint venture in the SuperFoods Group, aim to offer Asian mass consumers high quality coffee and cafe experience at affordable prices through the Highlands Coffee Shops and Highlands Packaged Products,”the disclosure read further.

“They also aim to serve

the Asian mass consumers high quality Vietnamese food at affordable prices through the Pho 24 brand and restaurants,” it added.

“Jollibee Foods also plans to serve Highlands Coffee in the restaurants of its various brands in order to upgrade the quality of its coffee at prices its consumers can afford,” the company said.

Meanwhile, SuperFoods Group recently acquired the Pho 24 brand of restaurants, which has operations in Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia and Japan.

Earlier, Jollibee Foods sold its franchise of Caffe Ti-Amo, a Korean coffee and gelato business to CafeFrance Corp. in a move to focus on its international businesses.

Tampakan miner told to file charges in court THE MINER behind the massive Tampakan copper-gold project faces dim prospects for its appeal for a crucial permit as the Environment Secretary yesterday insisted the open-pit mining ban in South Cotabato must be overturned first.

Saggitarius Mines, Inc. (SMI) would thus do well to have a court overturn the ban instead so the project can proceed, Ramon J.P. Paje, secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, told reporters at the sidelines of a water pollution conference yesterday.

“What was stated in our decision was clear. We said the application was hereby denied without prejudice for resubmission once the issue on open-pit mining ban with

South Cotabato has been resolved,” Mr. Paje said when asked whether the agency will reconsider granting SMI an environmental compliance certificate (ECC).

SMI had said it would appeal the rejection of its application an ECC, which is one of the requirements to secure a permit to operate the mine.

The ECC certifies that the project will not bring about unacceptable environmental impact.

Mr. Paje said SMI has yet to file an appeal. He maintained that the ECC still cannot be given since the project does not reportedly satisfy all the requirements.

In articular, he said that while the project complies with requirements of provid-

ing a specific site as well as specific activity, it runs into problems in terms of the mining method to be used.

“The ban is still there... so, in effect, it [project] has not met the requirement of the environmental impact process where in the mining method should be definitive,” Mr. Paje explained.

Mr. Paje SMI may have to go to court, as he noted that TVI Resource Development (Phils.) Inc., another firm whose mining operations at the Canatuan copper mine had been threatened by a similar measure in Zamboanga del Norte, was favored with a temporary restraining order against the mining ban.

Mr. Paje said his agency, meanwhile, will hold off from suing South Cotabato itself.

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Chat all you want with RLC to open budget hotel branch in Puerto Princesa DEVELOPER Robinsons Princesa City as an at- recently listed in the added.

Corp. is expanding tractive national tourist “New Seven Wonders of Meanwhile, Robinsons Globe BlackBerry Chat Land its budget hotel opera- destination both for local the World” by the inter- Land will also be openTHE BlackBerry has definitely evolved from being a handset for top executives and business honchos to being a device enjoyed by young professionals and students alike, thanks to its innovative features that take the smartphone experience to a whole new level.

Case in point: the BlackBerry Messenger.

BBM, as it is more popularly known, has been quite the talk of the town with the new experience it gives to instant messaging (IM): From chatting all you want with your friends on BlackBerry, wherever they may be in the world, creating BBM groups among friends, family, schoolmates or officemates to chat just about anything, non-stop, expressing yourself beyond words by sharing pictures, videos and even files, to personalizing your BBM profile by displaying your photo, status message, location, all the way to your favorite music.

This new year, BBM fanatics have one more reason to show their devices some love with the launch of Globe BlackBerry Chat, the newest data plan from Globe that gives Globe Postpaid subscribers unlimited access to BBM plus 200 free text messages to Globe/TM for P99 a month and Globe Prepaid

tions to the provinces by opening a GoHotels.ph branch in Puerto Princesa City next month, a press statement showed on Wednesday.

The 108-room GoHotels.ph Puerto Princesa--Robinsons Land’s first GoHotels.ph branch outside Metro Manila following the 223-room GoHotels.ph Cybergate Plaza in Mandaluyong City--will bank on the p opu l ar it y of P u e r to subscribers unlimited access to BBM plus 100 free text messages to Globe/ TM for P15 a day.

With Globe BlackBerry Chat, it’s now easier to organize get-togethers, reunions, and dates by sending as many BBMs as you can at a price that’s undeniably easy on the pocket.

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Cebu Pacific expects to post ‘healthy’ profits BUDGET CARRIER Cebu Pacific, operated by listed Cebu Air, Inc., expects to end the year in the black, although the extent of profitability will still depend on fuel prices, an official said.

“We expect... to show healthy profits this year,” Lance Y. Gokongwei, president and chief executive officer, said in a press briefing during Cebu Pacific’s groundbreaking on its new flight school in Clark, Pampanga.

Mr. Gokongwei noted, however, that earnings in 2012 will still depend primarily on fuel prices.

“Our financial outcome would depend on the price of oil primarily,” Mr. Gokongwei said, noting how fuel cost accounted for about 50% of expenses last year.

Mr. Gokongwei is also banking on improved economic prospects to drive in profits.

“The economy is quite buoyant in the Philippines.

We expect growth to be faster than last year,” Mr. Gokongwei.

But in the meantime, the carrier is likely seen to have ended 2011 with a profit drop, he said.

“2011 was a difficult year for the entire aviation industry. Cebu Pacific will have its

profits reduced because of fuel prices,” Mr. Gokongwei said.

Cebu Pacific, which aims to fly 14 million passengers this year from 11.9 million in 2011, will be taking in additional aircraft this year to further expand its capacity, Mr. Gokongwei said.

The carrier is expected to end 2012 with 33 Airbus and 8 ATR Aircraft.

Mr. Gokongwei added the firm is borrowing about $150- to $160 million to finance four new aircraft that will be delivered within the year.

This comes on top of plans to operate the Philippine Academy for Aviation Training, Inc. a $50-million joint venture with Canadabased CAE, Inc. The facility, expected to be operation in the third quarter of this year, will provide training for pilots from Cebu Pacific and other domestic and international airlines, Mr. Gokongwei said. He added the facility, in the future, will also provide training to cabin crew.

The aviation training center will be equipped with two Airbus A320 full flight simulators, while two more will be added within the next six years.

and foreign visitors.

“We are very excited with our newest venture, most specially that Puerto Princesa is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Philippines,” says Elizabeth Gregorio, GoHotels.ph general manager, in a press statement.

Puerto Princesa City, the capital of Palawan province, is home to the Puerto Princesa Underground River, which was

national New7Wonders movement.

T h e c it y w a s a l s o previously declared the country’s cleanest and greenest component city, Puerto Princesa’s Web site showed.

“We are expecting both local and foreign tourists to avail of our facilities, which has made G o Hotel s . ph a mu ch and sought-after hotel accommodation in its category,” Ms. Gregorio

ing Robinsons Palawan by the end of the first semester to ser ve the dining, shopping, and entertainment needs of hotel guests, For the remainder of the year, more GoHotels. ph branches are expected to open in Dumaguete, Tacloban, and Bacolod cities, bringing Robinsons Land’s GoHotels.ph portfolio to five hotels and 639 rooms, the press statement read.

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A little boy said: “I’ve learned that if I’m in trouble at school, I’m going to be in more trouble at home.”

A husband remarked: “I’ve learned I should never praise my mother’s cooking while I’m eating my wife’s cooking.”

An old woman observed: “I’ve learned that 6-year-old children are the only ones who think it’s neat when their teeth fall out.” One guy said: “I’ve learned that loaning money to family and friends causes them to lose their memory.” And a young adult painfully concluded: “I’ve learned you can do something in a moment that will give you heartache the rest of your life.”

You’ve heard the expres-

sion, “Live and learn.” The two should go together. But sometimes we just live. “We all make mistakes, but it’s the wise who learn not to repeat them.” In a way, our life’s like a ship: we can steer it by the rudder or by the rocks. We can learn to read the signs and avoid trouble by making the right choices, or we can learn the slow, hard way by continuing to run into problems from our wrong choices.

So if we want a good life, we need to be a good student of life. We need to realize we can learn something from everybody. Some people even teach us by their bad example how not to live. A smart man said: “We should learn from other people’s

mistakes, since there’s simply not enough time for us to make all the mistakes ourselves.” Another person said: “I’ve learned silence from the talkative and kindness from the unkind.” So our different teachers can include both old people and young kids, friends and enemies. We can learn from good books, our memories, as well as from winning and losing.

You see, it’s when we stop learning that we start getting bored. We humans are made with tremendous potential for always learning and doing new things.

In fact, it’s when we stop learning that we stop living.

A successful businessman said: “Anyone who stops learning is old, but whoever

only imagine rationalizing their existence.

To simplify procedures is the farthest thing on their minds. We even have security guards who slow the traffic down as you enter the grounds seemingly checking your car only to let you thru without scrutiny.

Carrying bags which is what people often do when they travel is left un-checked assuming you were carrying bombs and yet the visual ineffective screening is the practice. This incidentally is the same for malls.

Again as you enter the building proper you are screened again by security guards who probably don’t even read that request passports prior entry only to be

JHAN TIAFAU HURST keeps learning stays young.”

How about you? Are you just growing old? Why not ask Jesus to take charge of your life? He’ll keep you from getting bored and teach you His ways every day, so you’ll never stop learning and can stay young.

Just think a minute!

Machiavellian Tactics THERE are hidden persuasion in business and politics that are used to thwart competition or manipulate the thought. Niccolo Machiavelli founded this principle and become the adviser of the Florentine Republic in the 16th century. Today, some Machiavellian theories are applied in the subliminal simulation to discredit a cause exposed by a Prince of the Church to the extent of even linking other hierarchy of the Catholic Church as shareholders and investors in the mining business.

Wednesday’s headline of a local paper (not this Business paper) reads “Tabor links bishops to big mining firms”. Mired with public opinion on the inability of City Hall to stop hydraulic gold mining in the upper deltas of Iponan River, some aldermen in the majority party are moving mud to cover their years of neglect to the environmental degradation of the Iponan River. Sideswiping the issue and confusing the public between legal and illegal mining is diversionary.

Of course, anyone can invest in any mining company offering shares of stocks in the capital market and traded at the Philippine

Stock Exchange. The Iponan mining issue is the hydraulic open pit excavation that does not have the matrix of endorsement to the DENR for the issuance of the Environmental Clearance Certificate duly certified by the Barangay of Iponan which is at bar.

It is not Mr. Manny V. Pangilinan’s Philex Mining or the mines in Zamboanga or Surigao which has legitimate concessions.

Many of the City Councilors’ are lawyers or veteran legislators. They know that a local government unit through an approved resolution can stop any project deemed illegal or immoral.

They could use the local government code to protect their constituents rather than favor the few who can pay. This question should be ask to them, on what they can do for the thousands of Iponan residents who were hit by flooding and mud flow after Typhoon Sendong unleashed its fury in Cagayan de Oro? It is the prevention that peoples needs not the cure of relief goods after a disaster.

Machiavellian tactic is of course nothing new as politicians are trained on how to achieve personal and

public success. They keep peoples hope alive without entirely satisfying it to preserve their dependency from the bureaucracy. The same as they allow people to built houses along the geo-hazards zone to project their benevolence taking advantage of the poor people’s needs.

What do we expect for an affordable housing? The river banks, the land slide pruned ridges and all those located even on top of an estero or waterways. Tell me how many have not seen houses of illegal settlers built with extended kitchen and comfort rooms along the Betan-ag Creek?

How many settlers have illegally built houses on military reservations and public lands cutting the trees and endanger the land from erosions. The rational of creating safe and sustainable cities have long been abandoned over politicians love for the “poor”.

Anything which has something to do with the poor is a written guideline to acquire political power.

Joseph Estrada has mastered that with his “Erap para sa mahirap”. The former President was never a poor man. His parents

Filipino’s make bad managers SO it seems. Our airports are so messed up with uncoordinated and redundant systems causing chaos generating inconvenience not only to the travelers but the well wishers as well. Just to check travel advisories is close to impossible if not a kilometer walk away.

Why is that? The facility which may have aged is not the reason we have the worst airport in the world. The building is not what causes the dysfunction. Looking closer at the airport facility and its system makes you realize it is the people and the management that are chaotic and dysfunctional.

There are so many functions created for the employees to do something; I can

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accosted again for another passport check upon the first of many x-rays.

Now if only there were people actually checking thru the x-ray machines as your bags pass thru other than the endless conversations they maintain as one goes thru. Checking into the airline is another cause for frustration with computers always off-line.

Cause for frustration At this point the long queue that has forced you to be on your feet for the past 45 minutes has already worn you down.

From there you are again made to queue to again present your passport and boarding pass for an independent collection for

airport taxes for a facility that doesn’t even have water in its toilets.

After the tedious procedure you are now subjected to the tyrannical remarks and smirks of the immigration personnel who enjoy pouncing on fellow Filipino’s, worse our hero OFW’s who are ridiculed at immigration.

Questions like, “you’ve never traveled before, why?”

Is it any of their business to begin with?

Thinking you are free from the harassment to travel abroad, you are subjected yet to another dysfunction where you are made to wait in an area where you begin to feel like sheep herded into a pile as you are again

made to queue to enter the aircraft.

The discipline to queue is acceptable; it is the overtaking on these queues that are irritating. This is not the mention the waiting areas most of our airports are dirty with uncomfortable stools to boot.

While I can understand the need for added security measures for all our safety, useless procedures only add to the burden of travel. Why is it when in airports abroad with their building possibly older than our airport, travel whether leaving or flying inn makes the experience enjoyable rather than leaving one harassed.

Hire competence I say we hire competent

TRAVERSING THE TOURISM HI-WAY

PED T. QUIAMJOT were landed oligarch. He builds his wealth through acting and movie production earning millions in the box office and theatre royalties.

Newspaper press release and tarpaulin streamer s are advertising tools. We are still bombarded with portraits of astute politicians embracing their desolate constituents and the stills are even repeated and re-issued for other occasions. Covert psychological techniques are used to manipulate advertising and influence our decisions that we need them instead of them thanking us.

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SUPERBRANDING

HARRY TAMBUATCO managers and stop political appointees from ruining our travel experience and that for our hero OFW’s and needed tourist. Let us hire competent managers, foreigners if necessary since we can’t seem to find a local.

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A Corona of thorns

True or false THERE is a good amount of interesting news about the Philippines, more specifically in conjunction with the present administration and the economic plight of the Filipinos as a whole.

Malacañang and understandably its rah-rah boys are consistent and insistent in claiming that there is a fast and marked on-going economic development and consonant social progress in the country.

There are surely less hungry people and more self-sufficient families. There are more satisfied Filipinos in the way their government is running the affairs of the State and less individuals who see it otherwise.

That such very positive national phenomenon is an infallible constant as far as the Palace is concerned.

In fact, such a wonderful and endearing judgment is regularly affirmed by certain major tri-media firms.

In other words, it is definitely false to say that there is lack of competence and industry in the some two-year old government in the country.

In fact, it is a blatant desecration even but to think that the current national leadership has no comprehensive plan, programs and projects for the socio-economic growth of the Philippines.

In fact, so Malacañang

claims there is a great majority of Filipinos who are well pleased and much contended with the way the affairs of the State are being conducted and attended to – under the illustrious sound and solid national leadership.

That is say, it has never been better.

The reality is – so declares and affirms the present administration – practically everybody is very pleased with and appreciative of the way things are today in the country as a whole.

“The economy was no fun to many” – so recently says a nationwide publication by the way a punch to the recently coined tourism battle cry, “It’s more fun in the Philippines!”

The punch at the nose is based on the findings of a known survey firm. Among other things, its predictable findings say the following: That half of the population of the Philippines feels that there is no less than an actual stagnation in Philippine economy. That more than a third of them even say that the national economy has even worsened with the onset of year 2010. That the over-all survey conclusion is based on the responses given by the lower economic classes in the country.

Now: Which is what, what is which? Who are disseminating

lies or but affirming realities?

Who are benefiting from hypocrisy or but forwarding the truth?

And after all has been said and done, it is more interesting to wait and see what will Malacañang and its avid followers eventually do to the survey firm concerned?

Respect its findings or trample on the finders? Accept the truth or insists on lies?

This is the unusual liability of a leadership that sees truth in lies, that perceives lies in truth.

This is the standard posture of those in government who think that they can fool all people all the time.

And this is incarnate disaster for the country and its people.

Defense fears Drilon?

LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “… Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened…”

(Matthew 7:7-8, the Holy Bible).

-oooDEFENSE FEARS DRILON? If the lawyers of Chief Justice Renato Corona will really seek the inhibition of Sen. Franklin Drilon from the Senate impeachment trial, that will be an admission that they fear the lawmaker and his cunning ability to bring out derogatory information which the prosecution panel has been failing to elicit. This admission of fear is not going to be good for the defense lawyers’ client, the chief justice.

The fact is that, even in ordinar y courts, the presiding judge can ask any question to any witness, whether the question would appear to favor or condemn anyone of the litigants. In fairness to him, Drilon is just doing his job, although concededly, wonderfully for the prosecution, and disastrously for the defense.

But, this is no ground to inhibit him.

What can Corona’s lawyers do with someone who is trial-tested like Drilon as a judge in the impeachment court? Anticipate his questions, and jump the gun on him, so to speak, by asking the witness to answer the anticipated questions ahead of Drilon asking them.

Impossible? Well, many defense lawyers are experts in anticipating questions

KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS ATTY. BATAS MAURICIO from opponents, and Corona’s lawyers should be no exception.

-oooPALPARAN AND LACK OF JUSTICE: What’s this I hear that Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan is actually being “hidden” by friends and supporters in the military who share his belief that he is not going to get justice in the murder charges that have been filed against him before the Bulacan Regional Trial Court under the Aquino government, and that justice will be given to him only when the Aquino government is gone?

If there are people in the present military leadership who entertain the notion that justice is elusive now, should they be allowed to continue in office? And if they are refusing to “yield” Palparan to judicial authorities to undergo trial, are they not violating their oath of office as military officers? Indeed, what is happening to our country, general?

-oooN R MC H S ’ 7 3 R E UNION: The members of Class of 1973, high school department, of the defunct Dr. Nicanor Reyes Memorial Colleges in Paniqui, Tarlac, held their “grand reunion” last Saturday, January 21, 2012, and elected officers that will steer the group as it organizes itself into a foundation intended to serve the less fortunate members of the class and

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of the community as a whole with projects like “operation tuli (circumcision)” and medical-surgical missions.

D r. R owe n a Abu b o Bautista, a pediatrician in Paniqui, was elected president. She and her husband, Dr. Jesse, announced that the reunion of the class in 2013, which will actually be the 40th year of their graduation, will be held in their house in Paniqui on March 9, 2013. Classmates may call her number 09173380846, for details.

-oooSUSPENDING EMANO “DISASTROUS”: Sendong’s rains and floods proved disastrous for many residents of Cagayan de Oro City in December last year, but it will be more disastrous and tragic for the Aquino government to be suspending Mayor Vicente Emano and pinning the blame on him for the tragedy. If anyone is to be held accountable at all, we must also suspend national officials who did not heed warnings that the calamity was just waiting to happen.

-oooBEST WISHES: My best wishes go to Pasig Rep. Roman Romulo and spouse, Valenzuela City Councilor Shalani Soledad Romulo. Lani and I worked together as news anchors and TV hosts of a cable station at some point in time, and even then, I knew she would be ultimately tying the marital knot with another politician. Roman and Lani make a lovely couple, and here’s a prayer that God will be with them in their union.

“MAN’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.”

The much-publicized telenovela touted to add a new chapter in the colorful history of Philippine politics, has turned out to be a huge flop. The trial of the century, also called The Impeachment of the Chief Justice, is big on expectation but small in substantiation.

This greatest show on television is a spectacle of futility and stupidity. Not to mention a tremendous waste of people’s time and money. The verdict will ultimately be determined by the sentiments of the Filipino people, not by the senator judges, nor by the evidence of the prosecution or defense. The Filipinos have already delivered the verdict loud and clear: Guilty! The dismal SWS approval rating of -14% for the Chief Justice is a collective shout of: Get out!

The senator judges are not deaf or dumb that they cannot hear it. They are not about to commit hara-kiri or political suicide for the chief justice. These clever arbiters are quick to know who puts butter on their bread, plus chorizo and cheese.

So why are we forced for endure and bankroll this impeachment circus which can possibly run for months? With the information and communications explosion, the Filipinos have become highly alert, astute and aggressive. If the impeachment court will not deliver, there is always People’s Power!

By tenaciously clinging to a flawed position, the chief justice has woven for himself a painful corona of thorns. Whatever is acquired through evil means, will never bring good. There is a disease that attaches to it which will infect it. The same rotten disposition that inclines men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to sinful ways of using. The scepter of justice entrusted to Renato Corona will always be corrupted, because the hands that hold it are tainted.

The impeachment exercise is not without its abject lessons. Every sin carries its own punishment. What is ill-gotten, will also be illtaken. It is by attempting to reach the top through a shortcut, that so much misery is released into the world. When sin enters the scene, expect intense suffering.

Sometimes we crave a thing so much that we are willing to pay blood money for it. When we lust after something to the extent that we give up our principles and turn our back on God, we have entered the nightmare chamber, but fully awake! So obsessive is the passion for ambition that life is not worth living, unless we are getting the object of our desiring.

It is only a matter of time that Corona’s coveted, blindfolded lady muse will metamorphose into a hangman’s noose. If he continues to be obtuse, he might find himself in the calaboose, cleaning the headgear of his former boss!

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Fr. Tabora, a member of the University Community Engagement and Advocacy Council.

“We want to understand the appropriations of mining in Mindanao both large scale and small scale,” he said.

Fr. Tabora also called on the review of mining laws of the country including on small-scale mining policies.

“We are unhappy that so many people lost their lives,” he said referring to the disasters brought about by small-s cale mining activities in the northern part of the region.

Fr. Tabora said that the outputs of the conference will be published focusing on policy recommendations and as a resource for educators and legislators.

He said recommendations will also be endorsed for the consideration of the Executive and Legislative

bodies and other pertinent government agencies “in the re-assessment of the Mining Act of 1995 to regulate mining in the country according to the concept of sustainability.”

The two-day conference has invited MiningWatch Canada research coordinator Dr. Catherine Coumans to be the keynote speaker.

Fr. Tabora said that Coumans has done extensive works on mining in the country particularly in Marinduque, and on international framework on responsible mining.

Other speakers include economic analyst Andrew B au e r of t he R e venue Watch Institute; Atty. Marvic Leonen, co-founder of Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, Inc.; Steve Blodgett, consultant on Mining Environmental Issues; and former House of Congress Representative Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel.

He annihilated the political opposition through his divide and rule projecting himself as the savior of democracy but seating as a dictator.

In politics, it is even shocking to know that Machiavellian tactic do not allow subordinates surpassing superiors. A victorious

subordinate generate hate and to provoke such feelings to superiors is foolish and self destructive. It is paraphrased, that down the line, no move, no mistake. Iraq’s President Sadam Hussein executed his generals who knows too much and spoke before him.

can’t we train managers to turn professional to serve the people with respect and provide the necessary convenience?

Waiting areas for example at the transportation offices are out in the heat while screening employees scrutinizing our applications in their air conditioned offices and to make matters worse seemingly

harassed and burdened with the service they are supposed to offer in the first place.

Local government is no better off with all the red tape and dysfunctions they have generated – but wait there must be reason in this madness; to generate the opportunity for corruption? The dynamism must be created to allow for it.

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the Filipino People),” the conference aims to promote the need for new mining policies in the c ou nt r y t hat are pro Filipinos and pro-environment.

The gathering would want to share people’s initiatives and gains in addressing the negative effects of mining, and to strengthen the networking among people’s organizations and non-government organizations doing work on mining.

“Primarily, we thought of holding the conference to promote greater participation in dialogue and exchange among the peoples of Mindanao affected by mining, and by doing so, to strengthen the national and local call to study the implications of responsible mining,” stated

Quiamjot... from page 6

feel good. Our subconscious minds are misled to like what we do not need and others that we cannot afford. The late President Marcos succeeded in holding power through his communist scare.

Tambuatco... from page 6

constant with almost all government facilities be it for paying taxes, applying for permits, renewing passports, registering a business or trade name, or filing corporate documents.

We are forever subjected to inconvenience and the word “wait lang pls.” Why

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Phinma... from page 11

AYA-God the Almighty vis.a.vis the ground breaking and blessing performed by a Columban priest Rev. Fr. Paul Finlayson of the Parish of Our Lady of Holy Rosary-Agusan, Cagayan de Oro City.

The groundbreaking of the 3,000 square meter commercial lot is the beginning of

Smartphone... from page 4

responded very well to our attractive and innovative smartphone offers campaigns, particularly in the second half of the year. At the same time, our network modernization program which is far ahead of the competition, is already delivering a superior mobile internet experience to our subscribers today,“ Vea said.

From end-August to endDecember 2011, Smart noted

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sistant Regional Director, Mita G. Lim, the regional office will disburse the amount through tranches in the community accounts of the barangays.

Moreover, the total cash grant will be disbursed to a total of 136 sub-projects of the 15 partner LGUs throughout the region. Two LGUs are implementing KALAHI-CIDSS Additional Financing while 13 LGUs are currently implementing

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program thrusts and priorities of the national agencies in the Davao region with the thrusts and programs of the province.

Lim, who is also vicechair of the Regional Development Council (RDC)-XI, cited the importance of achieving stronger alignment in planning, invest-

the construction process of a three-storey state-of-the-art Education Facility, Laboratories of multifarious functions that would tend to Secondary Education (High School), Information Technology, Arts and Sciences, Criminology, Education, Management, Accountancy and HRM courses alongside a comprehensive library, and student lounges would highlight the campus.

The building plan, the a steep rise in the use of the top three mobile operating systems in its network.

Google’s Android tallied the highest increase with a 300-percent spike, followed by BlackBerry with 66 percent, and Apple iOS with 62 percent. The figures were culled from a series of one-day snapshots of Smart’s network taken every month. “The growth of iOS is significant given that Smart started offering iPhones only in December 2011,” Vea noted. the LGU-led Makamasang Tugon.

These areas are Veruela, Esperanza, La Paz, San Luis, and Sibagat in Agusan del Sur; Carmen and Jabonga in Agusan del Norte; Tagbina, Marihatag, Hinatuan, Bayabas, and San Miguel in Surigao del Sur; and Pilar and Socorro in Surigao del Norte.

After achieving a hundred percent fund disbursement last year, the regional project management office (RPMO) is hoping to do the same in the middle of the year.

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whole process would span to three years under three phases. The first phase is to accommodate more than 1,500 students and upon its completion, estimates indicate that this satellite campus can cater to more than 4,000.

“The first step to making life better through education is to make education accessible” says the Phinma Education Network President Dr. Chito Salazar “After achieving our goal of providing quality affordable education in Carmen, and surrounding communities, it’s time to extend this to more students, particularly in Barangay Puerto, its neighboring barangays, Misamis Oriental and Bukidnon. By brining the school to them, we lower their transportation costs and remove the need for boarding houses, So not only are our tuition and fees more affordable, the overall costs of sending kids to college are lower.”

“Our goal is to make the dreams of our students and their families come true,” Dr. Salazar shared. “With COCPhinma in Puerto, success is now physically within reach.”

Lovi to join rock legends in Red Horse Beer Muziklaban

RED Horse Beer fans will surely look forward to the upcoming Muziklaban grand finals, January 28, at the Aseana City in Macapagal Boulevard, Paranaque City, with the recent addition of sexy young actress Lovi Poe to San Miguel Beer’s roster of popular celebrity endorsers.

The fast rising Kapuso network star will join rock legends Pepe Smith, Ely Buendia, Slapshock, Razo-

krback, Greyhoundz, Kjwan, Wilabaliw, and past Muziklaban champions in spicing up the culmination of the 2011 Red Horse Beer Muziklaban , the biggest, loudest, and most prestigious amateur rock band competition in the Philippines.

Lovi, who confessed that she is a Red Horse Beer drinker and a rock music fan, looks forward to partying with like-minded Red Horse Beer rakistas during

the Muziklaban finals.

Apart from the presence of Red Horse Beer endorsers in the grand finals, Muziklaban followers will be treated to hard core performances from band finalists representing different regions.

The next top band following 2010 champion Light of Luna from Cabanatuan, will receive P500,000 taxfree cash prize, a recording contract with Red Horse Beer, plus other perks.

Scouts...

and well-rounded in many aspects of their daily lives.

A selection of senior and rover scouts of Liceo de Cagayan University and other schools retorted to a personal call for volunteerism and selfless service in response to Safer River Life Saver Foundation, Inc., some of them are flood victims themselves. It was a moment of putting to practice what one had learned in scouting through the

years. It was time to go clear of personal considerations to be of service to others.

It was a moment to be tallied and be lost from one’s own reality to soothe the pain and great loss of our fellowmen. To do otherwise would put our learning in scouting into autochthonous state.

We fasten together our strong resolve for an unqualified service with the local, regional, and national

leadership of the Boy Scout of the Philippines in their unending and undying passion for selfless service for all those who are affected by the disaster in our beloved City of Golden friendship – Cagayan de Oro City.

Selflessness after all is like an itch that needs to be scratch. May the Great Master of all good Scouts be with us, ‘til we meet again?

Long Live Scouting! Scouts, Love and Live!

improve the transit time of trucks bringing goods in and out of the port.

The 17-kilometer road will be constructed by the Department of Public Works and Highways with a total budget of P100 million.

In 2010, the MCT started a good trade of agricultural products with Brunei and

North Sulawesi as a result of the ongoing private-public sector initiatives in the area.

The products that the MCT handled include beauty soap and cosmetics, construction materials like cement and paints, banana, cacao, mango-planting materials and other fruits seeds, and alcoholic beverages for

consumption in hotels and restaurants.

Imported products include construction materials such as tiles and roofs and virgin coconut oil including essential oils, tuna, wood moldings, knock-down houses, yellow corn, copra, furniture, charcoals and handicrafts.

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Stevenson Smyth Baden Powell that “The real way to get Happiness is by giving out Happiness to other people”. This had captured so much interest to a rapidly growing society like we have today.

As a result Scouting had become an Institution of ment programming, and selfless men and women budgeting, and the active who are service-oriented involvement of the local government units in aligning the PPAs with their respective Provincial De- from page 1 velopment and Investment TEUs. Programs (PDIPs).

Clarito said that the She said the activity was agency, which oversees the necessary for the Davao operation of the port inside region to achieve its de- the 3,000-hectare industrial sired vision of becoming estate, is pushing for the the country’s Rising Global completion of the bypass Frontier. road that will significantly

Port...

With her extra strong appeal and no-fuss attitude, Lovi personifies Red Horse Beer, the country’s no. 1 extra strong beer.

Congress Watch

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A LAWMAKER from Mindanao is strongly pushing for the resetting of the October 2013 barangay election to the last Monday of October 2015 not only to reduce electoral expense but also to give barangay officials ample time to complete their projects.

Rep. Rufus Rodriguez (2nd District, Cagayan de Oro) said the postponement of the poll will also help unite the country.

Elections, whether national, local or barangay, prove to be conflict-ridden among the populace es- RODRIGUEZ pecially coming from the driguez said.

“During these trying heels of the very divisive May 10, 2010 polls, Ro- times for our country,

division is the last thing that we need,” Rodriguez added.

In seeking the postponement of the poll under House Bill 5654, Rodriguez noted that elections in the Philippines are always a costly exercise, both for the candidate and the government.

Rodriguez said in the May 2010 national elections, the Commission on Elections entered into a contract for the automation of the counting of the votes for the amount of P7.2-billion, just for the

PCOS machines alone.

For the 2013 elections, excluding the SK and barangay polls, the COMELEC is projecting a budget of P15-billion to P20-billion, Rodriguez said.

“It could be a safe bet to state that the upcoming 2013 barangay elections could top the 2010 spent for the barangay polls, which amount could be better spent for other government projects like construction of bridges, roads and other infrastructure projects, and

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even school buildings,” Rodriguez stressed.

“For a country whose budget deficit was estimated by the President to reach a record high of P349-billion by the end of the year, P3.6-billion (spent in 2010) is too high a price to spend on barangay elections,” Rodriguez added.

The bill, co-authored by Rep. Maximo Rodriguez, Jr. (Party-list, Abante Mindanao), also effectively extends the term of the barangay officials, a move that would ensure stability

in the barangay level so that the programs initiated by the current leaders would come to fruition.

Rodriguez said the three year term of barangay officials is too short a time for the developing unity and stability in barangay leadership and affairs.

“Three years is not enough to ensure that the programs of the barangay are carried out properly considering the fact that it cannot be denied that the last year of the term is basically used for campaigning,” Rodriguez said.

Scholarship program for indigents sought THE House is now fine tuning the framework of the proposed Indigenous Peoples Scholarship Program (IPSP) to promote the welfare of indigenous peoples through education.

If ugao Rep. Te ddy Brawner B aguilat, Jr. said the Committee on National Cultural Communities is now deliberating on House Bill 1347, which provides for the establishment of a nationwide scholarship program for indigenous peoples.

Iloilo Rep. Augusto Syjuco said the proposed measure will give meaning to the constitutional guarantee of an affordable, accessible and

quality education for our indigenous cultural community brothers and sisters.

“Education is one of the basic keys for sustainable economic development of the marginal sector of our society who are in need of government assistance and social services,” Syjuco said.

Baguilat supported the proposal of Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez to appropriate an amount of P200 million for the Indigenous Peoples Scholarship Program (IPSP).

The IPSP will be under the direct supervision of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP).

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On mining, Mr. Lao said the national government should have instituted policies that would effectively stop illegal mineral extraction.

Joji Ilagan-Bian, Mindanao representative to the Export Development Council and former Mindanao Business Council chairperson, accused the government for being reactionary, saying that “it would take another accident for it to take a serious look on how the laws are implemented.”

“It seems that the national government knows of the prevailing issue in the [mining] industry but had to set it aside to attend to other so-called priorities,” she added, pointing out that illegal mining activities have continued to exist because the miners are under the protection of influential personalities.

Mr. Lao earlier said the government should focus on institutionalizing its policies on responsible mining to protect those that have invested money in major projects, citing Sagittarius Mines, Inc.’s Tampakan copper-gold project in South Cotabato, among others.

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in addressing these illegal activities,” said Mr. Lao, noting that while the President issued an executive order to stop illegal logging, such operations continue in various parts of the island.

The Mindanao Business Council comprises over 30 chambers of commerce and industry on the island. As early as November, ranking officials of the administration noted a clearer policy on mining is forthcoming even as the Pantukan, Compostela Valley landslide due to illegal mining have claimed at least 40 lives.

Last year, President Aquino issued Executive Order 23, or a moratorium on logging, but local executives in the region such as Tagum City Mayor Rey T. Uy in Davao del Norte claimed that based on recent seizures of illegally cut logs, illegal logging activities are ongoing.

Jim O. Sampulna, Environment and Natural Resources regional chief, earlier vowed to rid his agency of scalawags working with loggers.

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Contributed by GLENN B. AÑORA, Cagayan de Oro Council Scouter

IT was a spine-chilling atmosphere a week before Christmas 2011 and everyone was on party and vacation mode already and tropical typhoon sendong (washi) was spotted on course towards the direction of region 10 (particularly CDO-Iligan cities). An early typhoon warning was just barely enough to make would be merry-goers cautious and a little vigilant. But as midnight struck and while many were sound asleep and perhaps anticipating for the second morning of the “Misa de Gallo” at dawn, tragedy embezzled the peaceful and rainy night for many of our fellowmen. Rain of unexpected proportion equivalent to a month’s rainfall kept falling eccentrically in unison with the unforgiving winds.

For a while it was just

rain and wind but to everyone’s surprise, Cagayan de Oro River overflowed like it never did before rampaging into unsuspecting families and individuals that inhabit Relief operation at Barangay Consolacion. Relief operation at Barangay Consola- It’s Christmas. Scouts shared their valuable the picturesque riverbanks Sharing a light moment with two kids that cion. Breaking the lines at times unruly, time to volunteer for the relief operations. of Cagayan de Oro under survived the onslaught of water and mud. survivors’ scamper for whatever help they can get from the scouts who distributed cover of total darkness. the relief goods.

C oncrete and wooden houses alike, poor settlers and exclusive subdivisions owners were not spared.

Escape from the surging water and mud for many who perished and those who are still missing to this day is out of the question.

At day break, a pathetic sight of desolation and wreckage of lives and posses- Relief operation at Barangay 17. Scouts Scouts rub elbows with other volunteers to Scouts joined the Safer River Life Saver sions had evidently brought distribute water and used clothing the be counted during the repacking of relief Foundation, Inc. staff of Liceo de Cagayan goods at the Liceo de Cagayan University University for remembrance pose before us to our knees and allowed flood survivors.

Civic Center. going to relief operations. us to meditate upon the value of human lives. Many families lost their loved ones new life that will forever a dreadful moment but it ever destroy the beauty and ness intensified as stated by and are they themselves change the way they and will never ever conquer the goodness of life. our founder Lord Robert coping to the reality of a we will live. Indeed, it was human spirit. It will never An invitation for selflessSCOUTS/PAGE 8

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Vigor D. Amador, Jr., associate vice president for Philippines Contact Center Operations of Concentrix, relates the company’s experience in the aftermath of Sendong; “When “Sendong” hit the region, we had a momentary downtime caused by the power outage and data and phone circuit breaks within our telco service providers’ network. As we have redundant power and multiple routes for our data and phone connectivity, we were back up in no time and

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didn’t mean they were exempted from the fallout from its aftereffects.

Concentrix, which operates the city’s biggest call center at Pueblo de Oro’s IT Park in Uptown Cagayan de Oro, is one of the company’s three locations in the Philippines besides Manila and Davao. Its parent company SYNNEX Corporation is listed in the New York Stock Exchange (SNX) with over 25 years of expertise in technology, consumer electronics, broadcast and social

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 12TH Judicial Region, Branch 21 Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF MINOR, GE-ARNIE ABA PISON,

SPL. PROC. NO. 21-462

CHILD OF SPS. ELENIE ACTUB ABA AND ROGER D. PISON (DECEASED), SPS. MANUEL R. CATUBAY and MELGIN P. CATUBAY, FOR: “ADOPTION” Petitioners, - versus -

our ability to process transactions for our clients was not adversely affected.”

To cover for staff affected by the disaster, the company tapped personnel from Davao and Libis.

At the same time it was taking care of business, the company immediately started accounting for its entire staff and was able to determine all their status within several hours after the killer floods rampaged through the city.

“We mobilized a text, phone and social media brigade to contact each employee and another separate task force to assessment areas where our employees were concentrated and account for those who had not checked in thru our command center,” Mr. Amador recalls. “We also went around the various evacuation centers looking for our employees while doling out relief goods.”

Fortunately there were no casualties although 240 of the firm’s approximately 1,000 agents were affected, of whom 30 had houses completely destroyed, and for whom the firm provided temporary

housing. Financial assistance was extended to all the victims from the firm’s internal calamity fund.

“Help poured in from everywhere -- our offices in Manila and Davao; from our mother company SYNNEX Corporation; other Concentrix geo’s in the US, UK, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and India; and from our clients and their employees.”

Cash and relief goods poured in and medications like tetanus vaccine and prophylaxis antibiotics to protect against the Leptospirosis outbreak were issued to employees at risk in cooperation with government health agencies.

Another of the city’s BPO companies wasn’t so lucky. Syntactics is a small but multi-awarded BPO firm which has been cited by DTI and MSMED in Sept.2010 as its Outstanding MSME (micro, small and medium enterprise) in the micro category and ranked No. 2 in the Philippines as outstanding web development company.

Seventeen of its staff of fifty was affected, with 10 losing everything and another six with damaged

THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF LALA, LANAO DEL NORTE, and THE ADMINISTRATOR AND CIVIL REGISTRAR GENERAL, NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE (NSO), EAST AVE., QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA, Respondents. x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Before this Court is a petition for adoption filed by the petitioners spouses Manuel R. Catubay and Melgin P. Catubay on January 3, 2012 essentially praying that after due notice, publication and hearing, a judgment be entered adjudging that the minor child, GE-ARNIE A. PISON: (1) be freed from all legal obligations of obedience and maintenance with respect to his natural parents, (2) that he be declared for all legal intents and purposes, the child of herein Petitioners; (3) that the middle name and last name of said minor be changed to PISON and CATUBAY, respectively, to conform to the last names of the Petitioners.

Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance, the same is hereby set for initial hearing to April 04, 2012 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning at the session hall of this Court, RTC, Branch 21, Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte. Let this order be published before the hearing at least once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the province of Lanao del Norte at the expense of the petitioner.

The Office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, Iligan City is hereby directed to conduct a case study on the petitioners and the minor to be adopted, as well as the natural parents, and submit a report relative thereto on or before the scheduled initial date of hearing. Any interested party is hereby directed to come to Court on the hearing of the petition and bring proof why the same should be denied.

Furnish copy of this Order to the office of the DSWD, Iligan City; the Office of the Solicitor General, Makati City; the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor of Lanao del Norte, the petitioners and the natural parent of the minor to be adopted.

SO ORDERED. Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte, Philippines.

January 11, 2012.

(Sgd.) ALAN L. FLORES Acting Presiding Judge BWM: Jan. 20, 27 & Feb. 3, 2012

properties. Stephanie P. Caragos, President and CEO, lost an uncle in the flash flood which hit nearby Barra, Opol, Misamis Oriental.

Employees reporting for work the day after found their office at Corrales Avenue without light and water. The company was slated to have its Christmas party that same evening.

“We cancelled the Christmas party to help our affected team members and everybody gave their kriss kringle to help their fellow team members,” Ms. Caragos said. “ We also provided a temporary place to stay for those who didn’t have family or relatives here. We had one apartment ready for them to stay till they found another place to stay or had returned to their places around 2nd week of January.”

The company proved its reputation was well-earned by showing grit and resiliency in getting the firm back online with a generator to provide electricity and manually hauling fresh water up six flights of stairs to their third floor office.

Another BPO firm, Arriba Telecontact Inc. has been in the global outsourcing industry since 2005 thanks to its CEO, Engr.

Elpidio M. Paras who has been a prime mover and ICT advocate in Southern Philippines.

Besides Arriba, Mr. Paras has also set up Parasat Cable TV, a pioneer multi-system cable TV operator in the Visayas and Mindanao; Cable 21 Technologies, a broadband over internet service provider; Paramedix, a medical transcription company; Versatel, an English language training center and has equity in Syntactics, Inc. His son Alexander G. Paras, who now oversees Arriba and Paramedix, relates their experience with Sendong: “There was a power outage that night although our operations weren’t interrupted

since Arriba is located within the same compound as Parasat (our mother company) head end was located. Their UPS (uninterruptible power supply) had enough capacity to accommodate our power requirements for hours.

We just had to buy extra cans of fuel to make sure our generator was topped up. Arriba’s broadband connectivity was not compromised even for a minute , since Parasat had multiple redundancy.”

It was only in the morning when the extent of Sendong’s devastation became evident and Arriba’s team leaders tried but were unable to account for all their staff who failed to report the previous night.

“Our sister company Paramedix had more affected people than us,” the younger Mr. Paras said. “It was sad to hear that one of their team members’ family was lost.”

With support from the group’s holding company UC-1, the firm distributed relief goods to its staff affected by the disaster.

“We were also thankful that our partners in the US made a generous donation to the families affected. Even our suppliers in Manila donated money for relief goods not only for our staff but also for everyone else that were affected. Our operations has resumed since the start of the year.”

Exactly a week after Sendong’s killer floods struck, Concentrix hosted Noche Buena for its affected employees and their families at their office and gave out gifts to the children.

“We knew then that preparing for the Christmas salo-salo may not be their priority at that time so we did it for them instead,” Mr. Amador said. “It’s through team effort that we were able to help our affected employees re-build what they lost to Sendong.”

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By JOE PALABAO, Reporter

THE Department of Tourism Regional Office 10 had joined hands in facilitating relief goods to the victims of typhoon Sendong in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities.

The distribution of donations coming from the national office of the Tourism department and from Unilever Philippines, was led by DOT-10 Director Catalino ‘Butch’ E. Chan 111 and assisted by his staff Department of Tourism Regional Director Catalino ‘Butch’ E. Chan and some volunteers. and staff looking at the stocks of relief goods being filed Victims temporarily 111 and ready for distribution to the different evacuation centers housed at various evacua- in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities. tion centers in Brgys. Kauswagan, Consolacion and and in the city of Iligan were have received from DOT Iponan in Cagayan de Oro elated by the goods that they officials.

According to Chan, Cebu and Davao Travel and Tours Operators, Hotels and Tourism Destination Operators have pooled their resources and sent to various DOT Offices for distribution to the victims of typhoon Sendong.

The humanitarian efforts by the tourism department were ledt by Secretary Ramon R. Jimenez, Jr. together with DOT Region V11, Regional Director Rowena Lu Y. Montecillo-Cebu City, Mr. Prudencio ‘Denden’ Regis, Supervising Tourism Operations Officer of DOT X1-Davao City, USEC Maria Victoria V. Jasmin-DOT Manila, and former DOT Secretary Narzalina Lim.

New COC-Phinma college unveiled

By JOE PALABAO, Reporter

CAGAYAN de Oro CollegePhinma marks another milestone in its vision to make COC a university in two years from now as it unveils and inaugurates the Groundbreaking Ceremony of COC-Phinma Puerto Campus, one of the institution’s newest installments in active pursuit to actualization of her mission in bringing “Success Within Reach” for its students last January 21, 2012.

The groundbreaking ceremony gathered the city’s public service officials, company leaders in Misamis Oriental, media partners as well as corporate HR managers and distinguished individuals.

Among the honored guests present were Dr. Zenaida G. Gersana, Regional Director of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Governor Oscar P. Moreno, Provincial Governor who is very supported in all the projects of COCPhinma in the city.

Puerto Barangay Capt.

Claro B. Derecho, and Barangay officials from Bugo, Agusan graced the occasion and contributed to the success of the event alongside other dignitaries

from nearby Barangays.

One interesting part of the groundbreaking ceremony was the presence of Datu Nilo Gabao of the Manobo-Tighuahanon Tribe of Bukidnon based at the Gardens of Malasag managed by TIEZA as his group performed the indigenous PANANGHID RITUAL and Thanksgiving Ceremony together with COC-Phinma President-Dr. Chito B. Salazar in constructing the structure to the MAGPHINMA/PAGE 8

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