P 15.00 • 12 PAGES@EdgeDavao edgedavao@gmail.comwww.edgedavao.netf EDGE Serving a seamless society DAVAO AGRITRENDS P 9 VOL.15 ISSUE 113 • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2022 BEEKEEPING IS A PROFITABLEVENTURE BACK IN BUSINESS Davao Coca-Cola plant resumes operations A man rushes to print school monogram on shirts to keep up with the large volume of orders during the second day of classes along C. Bangoy Street in Davao City on Tuesday. Edge Davao STORY ON PAGE 2
It also stated that along with many other compa nies in the Philippine food and beverage industry beset by the difficulties brought on by the sugar shortage, CCBPI is imple menting various efforts aimed at cushioning the business impact of the lack of premium refined sugar supply.“As always, we are keeping our consumers, customers, and our people front and center,” it said. Meanwhile, the com pany thanked President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., con currently the head of the
On Monday, a tarpau lin outside the said plant announced that the plant temporarily suspending its operations due to the ongo ing sugar crisis. Sugar is a key ingredi ent in the products of soda companies.Recently, Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines, Pepsi-Cola Products Phil ippines, and ARC Refresh ments Corporation were reported announcing that the industry is facing a shortage of premium re fined sugar or bottlers’ grade sugar. In a statement shared to Edge Davao, CCBPI ad mitted that it is one of the many companies in the food and beverage industry that is also currently expe riencing difficulties as the country faces a shortage in sugar supply.
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Rocafort said many parents enrolled their kids on the first day of school, something which he at tributed to finances and overcoming their fear of the continuing threat of COVID-19.
After reports of the suspension of its operations circulated online on Mon day, the Coca-Cola Beverages Philip pines, Inc. (CCBPI) plant in Ulas, Davao City resumed operations on Tuesday. By MAYA M. PADILLO
The company stated that currently, there is ap proximately a 400,000 metric ton gap on top of a starting gap of 200,000 metric tons of the local sug ar supply for 2022 and this is based on a projected de mand of 2.3 million metric tons for 2022 for the entire country.CCBPI emphasized, however, that not all sugar is the same. It said food and beverage manufacturers need premium refined sug ar to maintain high-quality products and this type of sugar is not the same sugar that is commonly used in households.
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The City Social Welfare and Development Of fice (CSWDO) is now preparing day care centers in Davao City’s 182 ba rangays for the opening of classes on September 12. CSWDO Focal Person for Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Welfare Program Ellena Gabaton, in an interview over the Davao City Di saster Radio on Monday, August 22, 2022, said that the day care centers all over the city are gear ing for blended learning mechanism for the classes of the toddlers (3-4 years old), with two days a week classes.“Karong face to face dili sabay- sabay, gi-groupings nato na kay dili gyud dapat sabay-sabay sa classroom (Now that it’s face-to-face we will not hold simulta neous classes, they will be grouped and they will not attend classes together),” Gabaton said. She added that those in Group 1 will attend faceto-face classes on Mondays and Wednesdays while those in Group 2 will have their face-to-face classes on Tuesdays and Thurs days. There will be no classes on Fridays so that parents can devote their time to creating activity guides for the remaining days that the children are taught at home. A maximum of 20 stu dents per classroom will be accommodated if the classroom is big enough. Gabaton said that cur rently, workers, along with the parents and the com munity, are preparing the classrooms and will make them developmentally ap propriate and conducive for learning.“Saparents pud naga-
Coca-Cola products are served at a restaurant in Davao City on Tuesday. The beverage company’s plant in Ulas, Davao City has announced that it is suspending its operation due to the current sugar crisis in the country. Edge Davao
CHO records showed that only 2,040 children in such age group received COVID-19 vaccine shots. Flores said there are at least 89,676 enrollees that still need to be vaccinated. He said they are work ing with the CHO on a plan to have a school-based vaccination drive to ad dress the problem of the low number of vaccinated schoolchildren.About50school heads already agreed to the plan, but Flores raised concern in getting the consent of parents.The low vaccination turnout among children can be traced to parents who fear possible side ef fects of the COVID-19 vac cine to their children, he said.
Of the enrollees this year, 798,876 are in gov ernment-run pre-schools to senior high schools and 83,298 enrolled in private schools, he Rocafortadded.attributed the low enrollment turnout to the reluctance of many parents to send their chil dren to school due to the ongoing onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic. He said they hope to see the figures go up by 300,000 to hit their target of 1.2 million enrollees.
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With the lower en rollment recorded in Soccsksargen for school year 2022 to 2023, Department of Edu cation (DepEd) officials an nounced during Monday’s opening of classes that public schools in the area will still continue to accept enrollees.Carlito Rocafort, DepEd Soccsksargen director, said private and public schools in the region listed total enrollees of 882,174, down by around 26% from last year’s 1,190,017.
The DepEd Gensan head said 23 public ele mentary schools and eight secondary schools will hold full face-to-face class es beginning August 22. The city has 68 elemen tary and 26 secondary and senior high schools spread in 26Hebarangays.explained that these schools are in far-flung vil lages “where there are few enrollees and the neces sary social distancing can be observed.”Floresdisclosed they are in close coordination with the City Health Office (CHO) in trying to get stu dents vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine, con sidering that only about two percent of children in this city under the five to 11-year-old age group have so far been vaccinated.
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Romelito Flores, Gener al Santos City schools divi sion superintendent, said they listed 134,536 enroll ees as of August 15, short of the 151,047 enrolled students last year. Flores said they are still hopeful the enrollment figure will surpass that of 2021.
Former Mayor Sara Duterte, in her last State of the City Address (SOCA) in April this year, said the lo cal government is partner ing with the Department of Environment and Nat ural Resources (DENR) to secure P740 million out of the P3.5 billion needed to implement the project. The city government of Davao started exploring WTE as a waste manage ment option about five years ago. In 2015, the city government of Davao partnered with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to conduct a feasibility study to confirm the viability of the estab lishment and operation of a WTE facility in Davao City. The copy of the reso lution will be furnished to the Office of the President, Office of the Vice President (OVP), DENR, Department of Energy (DOE), City May or’s Office (CMO), City Ad ministrator’s office, City Le gal Office, and other offices.
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The city government of Davao’s Kusina ng Bayan serve hot meals to the residents affected by a fire incident that happened at St. John, Bucana Barangay 76-A on Monday evening. CIO
Environmental group Interfacing De velopment Interventions for Sus tainability (IDIS) stood firm on its stand that Davao City does not need a Waste-to-Energy (WTE) facility and sug gested Davao City officials should look for sustainable solutions for waste problems. requesting President Fer dinand “Bongbong” Mar cos Jr, to fund the proposed Waste-to-Energy (WTE) project to address waste problem in Davao City filed by Councilor Tek Ocampo on Tuesday.“IDISstands to its posi tion that the City does not need a WTE incinerator facility as it will only add to the already increasing problem of the city when it comes to dioxins and fu rans, highly toxic pollutants in the city’s air, water, and land resources in this time of climate crisis. Most espe cially, IDIS cannot stand to imagine the health impact of this facility to the people. Dabawenyos may not feel its effect now, but the dan ger is lurking to haunt the future of Davao,” the group said.IDIS, which is among the environmental groups in Davao City that ex pressed opposition to the project due to it’s harmful effects, proposes that a sus tainable solution for the city is to create a Centralized
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“If they only look for sustainable solutions and environmentally sound technologies within our City, they will discover that the answer has long been provided and practiced by our fellow Dabawenyos. What these initiatives need is government support for them to be practiced and materialized throughout the city,” the group said.
2.7K Davao students receive educational aid from DSWD
Meanwhile, Council or Bernie Al-ag expressed
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Resolution requesting PBBM to fund WTE project filed
“I have a son who is a solo parent, he is a tricycle driver. This is a big help for us, we will be able to buy school supplies for the chil dren,” she Anothersaid. recipient, 40-year-old Emilyn Jovi ta of Barangay Maa here, received PHP8,000 edu cational assistance for her children.“This is a big help for me to buy school supplies for my three children,” she said, noting that her family has been having difficulties providing for the school needs of her children. “He is just on-call and Councilor Tek Ocam po has filed a reso lution on Tuesday requesting President Fer dinand “Bongbong” Mar cos Jr. to fund the proposed Waste-to-Energy (WTE) project to address waste problem in Davao City. Ocampo, chair of the Committee on Environ ment, requested the na tional government to al locate a counterpart fund of P3.486 billion for the construction of the WTE facility as the city’s current sanitary landfill is nearing its full“Onecapacity. technology utilized worldwide is waste-to-energy or WTE which does not only signifi cantly reduce the volume of waste being dumped in the sanitary landfill but also contribute and provide one of the most important re sources, which is energy,” the resolution said. The proposed WTE will be located 2.2 kilometers from the Biao Elementary School and Biao National High School, and 550 me ters away from the reloca tion site of displaced fami lies in Catalunan Grande.
At least 2,760 students received cash aid via an Educational As sistance Payout on Aug. 20, the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Davao Region (DSWD11) said Monday. In a statement, DSWD11 said the total amount disbursed for the payout in the region reached PHP6.3 million.The assistance is under DSWD’s Assistance to Indi viduals in Crisis Situations (AICS), which has been ex tended to cover students in crisis or Elinitaemergencies.Albano,a se nior citizen from Barangay Aplaya, Digos City, Davao del Sur, received PHP7,000 for her college student and two grandchildren at the elementary and high school levels.
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The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said the country can count on the manufacturing and agricultural industries to generate jobs and halt the in creasing trade deficit.
“Amid the latest figures, the BSP will continue to broaden its efforts to foster the wider adoption of dig ital technology, which has effectively enabled the on boarding of more Filipinos into the formal financial system,” BSP Governor Fe lipe Medalla said in a state mentTheMonday.rise of account ownership was attributed to the uptake of e-money accounts, which climbed to 36 percent in 2021 from 8 percent in 2019. This be came the most common type of account among adults in the middle class and low-income popula tion, as well as with those aged 15 to 49 years old. Meanwhile, the share of adults with a bank account also rose, almost doubling to 23 percent in 2021 from 12 percent in 2019. Banks remained the preferred formal institution for saving money by a third of those with savings, fol lowed by cooperatives and microfinance institutions. According to the FIS, six out of 10 Filipinos altered their financial behavior during the Filipinospandemic.started sav ing more for emergencies (37 percent), began or increased their usage of online banking and digital payments (17 percent), and borrowed more (15 percent).TheFIS also showed that of those with mobile phones and internet access in 2021, 60 percent per formed financial transac tions online, such as fund transfers and payments, which is a considerable jump from 17 percent in 2019.
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A mall goer walks by a stall that is offering a string art portraying service at Abreeza mall in Davao City on Tuesday. Edge Davao Industrialization generates more jobs, reduces importation: DTI
He said the DTI is trying to encourage local enterpris es to introduce consumer goods, like processed food products which the country still“Thatimports.was the answer I was hoping for, actually. So, I think we’re on the right track when we say that we want to have higher value paying jobs,” Senator Sonny Angara told Pascual, who discussed the agency’s pri ority agenda and plans to address trade deficit.
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More than half of the country’s adult pop ulation now owns a financial account, accord ing to the results of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) 2021 Financial Inclu sion Survey (FIS). The survey results showed that account own ership surged to 56 percent in 2021, up from 29 percent in 2019. This increase is the highest two-year growth since the survey began in 2015. The expansion was spurred by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic accelerating the use of digital payments.
President Fer dinand “Bong bong” Marcos Jr. on Monday expressed confidence that the three new appointees at the Sugar Regulatory Adminis tration (SRA) will help the country overcome prob lems in the sugar industry. This, after he adminis tered the oath of office of David John Thaddeus Alba as SRA acting administra tor, and Pablo Luis Azcona and Ma. Mitzi Mangwag as board members of the sug ar regulatory body. “Tayo’y nagpapas alamat sa mga bagong opisyal ng Sugar Regula tory Administration na nangakong gagawin ng tapat ang kanilang mga tungkulin para sa ikabubu ti ng bayan (We are grateful to the new officials of the Sugar Regulatory Admin istration who promised to do their duties faithfully for the good of the people),” he said in a post in his official Facebook“Tiwalapage.tayong mapag tatagumpayan natin ang anumang hamon na ating kahaharapin sa industriya ng asukal kasama ang mga bagong kawani ng SRA (We are confident that we can overcome any challenges we may face in the sugar industry with the new SRA staff),” he added. On Saturday, Executive Secretary Victor Rodriguez confirmed the appoint ments of Alba, Azcona, and Mangwag.Alba replaced Her menegildo Serafica who resigned as SRA adminis trator in the wake of the
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A trade deficit occurs when a country spends more on imports than it earns in Pascualexports.said the Philip pines produces agricultural products that can undergo further processing, like cacao, coffee, bamboo, and fiber. “One of the strategies we’re adapting is to create industry clusters,” he said. Pascual said the Philip pines is supplying 20 per cent of coffee requirement while importing the other 80 percent.Healso cited banana plantations where workers Over 50% of Filipinos now own financial transaction account
Secretary Alfredo Pas cual told the Senate Com mittee on Trade, Commerce and Entrepreneurship virtu al meeting on Monday that the only way for the country to have a sustainable and in clusive economy is through industrialization.Heparticularly cited manufacturing where Fili pinos can have stable and high-paying jobs. “Unless we do that, we should forever be holding to the inflows from OFWs [overseas Filipino workers]. We’ll be sending more peo ple abroad to earn the dollar so we can do the importa tion here. That’s not sustain able,” Pascual said.
Marcos confident new SRA execs will help PH overcome sugar woes
BOC operatives learned that the warehouse contain ing the contraband agricul tural products is owned by Melissa Chua and Benito Chua. It was not immediate ly known how the two Ch uas are Accordingrelated.to the OP, this latest raid is among the ef forts of the Marcos admin istration to step up its cam paign against hoarders and profiteers to bring down the price of sugar. Last week, BOC agents also inspected several ware houses in Luzon following intelligence reports that smuggled sugar and other agricultural products were beingFourkept. warehouses in Guiguinto, Bulacan that were inspected by author ities on Sunday yielded at least 60,000 bags of suspect ed hoarded sugar. BOC operatives also vis ited four warehouses of T12 Polo Land located at Ilang-Il ang St. in Barangay Tabang, Guiguinto, Bulacan on Sat urday.They found imported sugar from Thailand in the seeks nearly P20-B budget for 2023
A vendor sun-dry shirts newly printed with school monogram while customers wait along C. Bangoy Street in Davao City on Tuesday. Edge Davao
This after simultaneous operations were conducted by the Bureau of Customs (BOC), the Sugar Regulato ry Administration, and the Department of Agriculture to inspect sugar warehous es in Deparo, Caloocan City; Balut in Tondo and San Nicolas in Manila; Rosales, Pangasinan; San Fernando, Pampanga; Ibaan, Batangas, and“TheDavao.huge volume of sugar discovered by Cus toms agents in the various warehouses in Luzon has led Malacañang to conclude that the sugar shortage is ar tificial, brought about by the hoarding of sugar traders who wanted to rake-in huge profits from the sudden spike in sugar prices,” the Office of the President (OP) said in a press statement. On Monday, BOC oper atives conducted a raid at a warehouse located at No. 306 Kabatuhan St. along Deparo Road in Caloocan City.They also seized the repacking machines which were being used to repack imported rice and sugar to Malacañang on Monday confirmed that the supposed sugar shortage in the country is “artificial” and mere ly caused by hoarding done by unscrupu lous traders.
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Hawkish statements from Philippine monetary authori ties made Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research hike its policy rate increase projections for the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) by end-2022 to 4.5 percent.Citing the 50 basis points increase in the BSP’s key rates last Aug. 18, Fitch Solutions, in a commentary released on Monday, said it revised upwards its earlier projection that the central bank’s key rates will end this year at 4.25 percent. “Inflation is likely to re main elevated relative to the BSP’s targeted range of 2.0 percent - 4.0 percent and we expect the central bank to tighten policy rate further to rein in inflation,” it said.The rate of price in creases accelerated last July when it rose to 6.4 percent, the highest since October 2018. The average inflation in the first seven months this year stood at 4.7 percent. “We believe that the Philippines’ economic resil ience will also provide more room for the central bank to normalize its monetary pol icy,” the report said. This, as the domestic economy continues to post expansion, albeit a slower pace for the second quarter of 2022 at 7.4 percent from 8.2 percent in the previous threeEconomicmonths. growth, as measured by gross domes tic product (GDP), averaged at 7.8 percent in the first half of this year, higher than the government’s 6.5-7.5 percent target. This made Fitch Solu tions revised upwards its growth forecast for the country this year to 6.6 per cent from 6.1 percent previ ously.“While we expect growth will likely slow in H222 (second half 2022) as a result of rising economic headwinds stemming from a softening global economic outlook, tightening mone tary conditions, and elevat ed energy prices, the 2022 economic performance would still be stronger than the 5.6 percent recorded in 2021,” it Asidesaid.from hiking its key policy rates, the BSP also increased its average inflation forecast for 2022 from 5 to 5.2 percent, as Fitch Solutions increases BSP rate hike forecast
The Department of Trade and Indus try (DTI) is eyeing PHP19.998 billion budget during the initial year of the Marcos administration, based on the National Ex penditure Program (NEP) for 2023.This, as the PHP5.268-trillion nation al budget for next year has been submitted to Congress on Monday.Thebudget proposal of DTI is lower by 9 percent from the PHP21.94-billion allocation for the agency under the 2022 General Ap propriations Act (GAA). Except for the Design Center of the Philippines (DCP), agencies under the DTI and the Office of the Sec retary (OSEC) cut their bud get for next year. The office of Secretary Alfredo Pascual is asking for a budget lower by PHP1.47 billion, amounting to PHP5.22 billion. This year’s OSEC budget is at PHP6.68 billion. Biggest chunk of DTI’s budget will go to Technical Education and Skills Devel opment Authority (TESDA) with allocation of PHP13.47 billion. This, however, is low er than the PHP13.81-bil lion budget allocated under the 2022 BudgetGAA.for the invest ment promotion agency of DTI, the Board of Invest ments, also declined to PHP344.47 million for 2023 from PHP399.72 million thisSomeyear. PHP124.2 mil lion will be allotted to the Construction Industry As sociation of the Philippines; PHP653.1 million for the Cooperative Development Authority; and PHP67.2 mil lion for the Philippine Trade Training Center. On the other hand, DCP budget increased to PHP123 million for next year from PHP116.2 million in the budget approved for this year. (PNA)
make it appear that these were locally procured by the warehouse owners.
The OP said BOC agents served a letter of authority (LOA) that prompted the raid.They exercised their visitorial power by forci bly opening the warehouse after the owners and care takers refused to cooperate with their team.
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APARISYON is the story about the nuns in the period immedi ately preceding the declaration of martial law. One of the extern nuns leaves the monastery from time to time to help in the search of her missing activist brother.
PISAY won awards in 2007 for Best Director (Auraeus Soli to), Best Production Design, and Audience Choice. SIGWA’s Tirso Cruz III bagged the Best Supporting Ac tor in APARISYON2010. won Best Sound in 2012.RESPETO won in 2017 sev en awards: Best Film, Best Sup porting Actor (Dido de la Paz), Best Sound, Best Editing, (Net work for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (NETPAC ) Award and the Audience Choice. LIWAY received in 2018 a special jury commendation and the audience choice. Kenken Nuyda earned Special Jury Ci tation for outstanding perfor mance. ML won Best Editing in 2018 along with Eddie Garcia as Best Actor.PISAY revolves around teen age students of the Philippine Science High School ( known as Pisay) during the politically vol atile years of the Philippines in the 1980s. Directed by Auraeus Solito and written by Henry Grajeda, the young students learn that they are neither isolated from the real world, nor are they ex empted from living real lives. They discover the world outside the four corners of the school and the chaos of the Marcos dictator ship. erupting into the People Power revolution in 1986, being replicated within the school as they struggle to graduate. It chronicles their journey of self discovery as they go through the joys and pains of adoles cence.SIGWA, meaning “storm,” spans 40 years of Philippine so cial unrest. It centers on Dolly who returned to the Philippines after more than 30 years to know more about the daughter she left in the care of one of her friends. She reconnects to her friends in the most turbulent of circum stances: the first few years of Martial Law. including the infa mous First Quarter Storm.
LIWAY tells the story of film’s director Dakip “Kip” Oebanda as a little boy growing up in a makeshift prison inside a mil itary camp for both rebels and criminals during the waning years of the Martial Law era.
Glaiza de Castro plays the role of a young mother, Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, better known as Commander Liway, who uses storytelling, sings songs and plays with his imagination to protect her young son from the painful realities of prison life. It received the Special Jury Commendation “for its timely subject matter and for its writ er-director who courageously opened himself up to share with others his very revealing past.”
ML starred Eddie Garcia as a retired military general suf fering from Alzheimer’s disease, leading him to believe that he is still living in the days of the Mar cos’ dictatorship. He mistakes a visiting student (Tony Labrusca) and his friends as activists re sisting the Martial Law, and cap tures and tortures the students, just as he did to activists back in the 1970s.
Cinemalaya festival direc tor Chris B. Millado referred to filmmakers as culture-bearers “cutting through noise” of social media, revised histories, misin formation and disinformation, personal anxieties, and interna tional(Peyupsgoings-on.isthe moniker of University of the Philippines. Atty. Dennis R. Gorecho heads the seafarers’ division of the Sapalo Velez Bundang Bulil an law offices. For comments, e-mail info@sapalovelez.com, or call 0917-5025808 or 09088665786.)
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RESPETO is an exploration of the Pinoy hiphop underground world where Hendrix (Abra), an aspiring young rapper from the slums, strikes an unlikely friend ship with Doc (Dido dela Paz), a Martial Law poet who has long abandoned his art. As they cross paths, they turn to each other trying not to be swallowed by theirRESPETOcircumstances.was cited “ for its expert application of the re sources of cinema to depict a teenager’s drive to rise above poverty and violence, its cogent melding of contemporary rap and traditional oral literature, and its sheer humanity and cor uscating poetry” and “for tack ling the complex issue of human rights violation across two gen erations, musically connected by the vibrant and socially-con scious use of language.”
The group got more than what they bargained for when they decide to learn about the dark days of Martial Law straight from an old retired soldier who may be one of its worst abusers. He turned out to be a sadistic tor turer who teaches them all about the horrors of the Martial Law era in the most gruesome way. The movies, often called “in die films”, embody Cinemalaya’s vision : “the creation of new cin ematic works by Filipino film makers“ works that boldly ar ticulate and freely interpret the Filipino experience with fresh insight and artistic integrity.”
It was not until I visited the Yellowstone National Park – a nearly 3,500-square-mile wilder ness recreation atop a volcanic hot spot – that I was able to see up close Yellowstonegeysers.National Park is the world’s first national park. Mostly in Wyoming, the park spreads into parts of Montana and Idaho, too. Aside from gey sers, it also features dramatic can yons, alpine rivers, breathtaking lakes and waterfalls, lush forests, and hot springs. But let’s talk about geysers here. “A geyser is a rare kind of hot spring that is under pressure and erupts, sending jets of water and steam into the air,” the Na tional Geographic defines. “Gey sers are made from a tube-like hole in the Earth’s surface that runs deep into the crust. The tube is filled with hot water.” Like most thermal features, geysers are fragile rarities of na ture. The Yellowstone National Park – which you need three full days to see its top sights – pre serves the largest hydrothermal area on the planet. Molten rock, or magma, may be as close as 5 to 13 kilome ters underground. The magma provides the first ingredient for thermal features: heat. Ample rain and snowfall supply the sec ond ingredient: water. The water seeps down several thousand feet (more than a kilometer) be low the surface where it is heated. Underground cracks and fissures form the third ingredient: plumb ing. Hot water rises through the plumbing to produce geysers and hot Insprings.geysers, constrictions in the plumbing prevent the wa ter from circulating freely to the surface where the heat would es cape. The deepest water can ex ceed the surface boiling point of 93 degrees Centigrade. The sur rounding pressure also increases withIncreaseddepth. pressure exerted by the enormous weight of the overlying water and rock pre vents the water from vaporizing. Small bubbles of steam form as a result. As they rise, they expand until they are too large and nu merous to pass freely through the tightAtspots.acritical point, the con fined bubbles actually lift the water above, causing the geyser to overflow. This decreases pres sure on the system, and violent boiling ensues. A tremendous volume of steam is instantly pro duced and forces water out of the vent in a super-heated mass, and the eruption starts. In an eruption, water is ex pelled faster than it can enter the geyser’s plumbing system. The heat and pressure gradually de crease. The eruption stops when the water reservoir is exhausted or when the gas bubbles diminish enough to be able to rise without ejecting the water. The Yellowstone National Park is best known for its Old Faithful geyser, which shoots water every few hours. About 3,700 to 8,400 gallons of water are reportedly ex pelled per eruption, depending on the length of eruption. It is thought by many scien tists that geysers are predictors of earthquakes. For instance, only sixty hours before the October 1989, 7.1 - magnitude quake in the San Francisco Bay Area, Old Faithful’s usually dependable period suddenly lengthened to more than 100 minutes. Scientists believe that small earth movements preceding the quake could have altered the size of the reservoir beneath the gey ser, affecting its pressure and wa ter flow rate. Could geysers save the lives of people by predicting earthquakes? Geysers also affect us in our use of power. Steam from gey sers is purified, transported in pipes, pressurized, and turned into electrical power. This electri cal power is produced in various geothermal power plants in some parts of the world, including the Philippines. Geyser fields are ide al for this type of energyUnfortunately,energy.geothermalproductionbyhumans steals the geyser’s water, and fur ther destroys the geyser activity. There are only about a total of seven hundred geysers on earth. The majority of the world’s active geysers are located in the Yellow stone National Park. Only three other locations – Iceland, New Zealand, and Kamchatka (in Sibe ria) – have large concentrations of thermal features. In the Yellowstone National Park, five geysers – Old Faithful, Castle, Grand, Daisy, and River side – are predicted by the inter pretive staff. Old Faithful’s aver age interval between eruptions is about 88 minutes, varying from 45-120 minutes. An eruption lasts 1-1/2 to five minutes and reaches a height of 106 to 184 feet.When we arrived at the scene, thousands of people – who were waiting for several minutes al ready – were getting ready with their cameras to shoot the fa mousOlderuption.Faithful is located in the Upper Geyser Basin, where most of the geysers in the world are concentrated. Another favorite performer is the Beehive geyser, which erupts twice daily and its display lasts 4-5 minutes. The Lion Group consists of four geysers: Little Cub, Lioness, Big Cub, and Lion. Lion has the largest cone and erupts up to 50 feet for 1-7 minutes. If you wit ness its eruption, you might hear how this geyser got its name: the eruption is often preceded by sudden gushes of steam and a deep roaring sound. I loved Doublet Pool for its series of ledges, elaborate bor der ornamentation, and deep blue waters. Doublet produces vibrations, surface wave motion, and audible thumps – most like ly caused by collapsing gas and steam bubbles. I want to thank my sister, Ele na, and her husband, Engineer Daniel Chase, for bringing me to Yellowstone National Park. The trip was worth it, although it took us five hours from Livingston, Montana, to get there. Cinamalaya Film Festival has always been a significant avenue for works that are “social and political commentaries” includ ing Martial Law- themed movies that bagged major awards: Pi say (2007), Sigwa (2010), Apari syon (2012) Respeto ( 2017), Liway (2018), and ML (2018).
Best supporting actor de La Paz was lauded “for his powerful portrayal of an old man haunted by the demons of his past and compelled to adjust to the pres ent.”
“LANDBANK is once again proud to be the Joint Lead Issue Manager of this latest offering, which re flects the National Govern ment’s continuous thrust in fostering financial inclu sivity. It offers Filipinos a safe and secure opportu nity to invest hard-earned money, while taking part in nation-building,” said Pres ident and CEO Borromeo. The RTB-28 is a fiveand-a-half-year bond de signed for retail investors as a low-risk and high er-yielding savings instru ment. Proceeds of the issu ance will help strengthen the country’s agriculture sector, infrastructure, and education and healthcare systems, among others. Interested investors may conveniently pur chase RTB-28 for a mini mum investment of P5,000 and integral multiples of P5,000 thereafter using the LANDBANK Mobile Banking App, in as fast as five minutes or less. This feature is also available in the Mobile Banking App of the Overseas Filipino Bank (OFBank), the official digi tal bank of the Philippine government and a subsid iary of LANDBANK. Investors of RTB-28 can also make online placements through the BTr Online Ordering Facil ity and settle the payments via the LANDBANK Link. BizPortal online payment platform. Over-the-count er placements are likewise accepted in all LANDBANK branchesHoldersnationwide.ofprevious ly issued bonds, namely FXTN 10-57, RTB 5-11, FXTN 10-58, and RTB 3-10, may also exchange and re invest their bond holdings for the latest bond offer.
On August 19, 2022, the orientation, election, and sashing of the first ever ju nior youth officials of the province was successfully conducted through the sup port of the Office of the Gov ernor, Department of Inte rior and Local Government (DILG), Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office – Youth Development Division.Inher message, Gov ernor Gonzaga thanked the SK Federation and the DILG, headed by Provincial Director Noel C. Duarte, for the unending support to the youth sector in honing their skills and abilities in serving the Shepublic.also emphasized the importance of “genu ine public service” as these young individuals aspire to become the image of resil ience and inspiration, the bearers of change and hope through dedicating their time and abilities to build ing a better Davao de Oro for all ages. (R. Hortizano PAO-IPRD DdO, photos by J. Cadiz)
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He also encourages the officials and different heads of offices to warmly wel come and guide the equiva lent junior youth officials as they engage in quality pub lic service and bureaucratic leadership.BMBautista added that the program is part of the celebration of the Linggo ng Kabataan (LNK) and 2022 International Youth Day with the theme: “Intergen erational Solidarity: Creat ing a World for All Ages.”
LANDBANK is the Joint Lead issue Manager of RTB-28, with settlement scheduled on 07 Septem ber 2022. Interest pay ments will be paid quar terly during the term of the bond.The National Govern ment through the BTr has been issuing RTBs since 2001 as part of its efforts to support financial inclusion and literacy among Filipi nos by making government securities more accessible to small investors. Last February 2022, LANDBANK generated a total of P87.8 billion in sales for the previous Retail Treasury Bonds Tranche 27 or RTB-27 is suance.Through the years, LANDBANK has grown into one of the leading uni versal banks in the country, while remaining faithful to its social mandate to pro mote inclusive and sustain ableOndevelopment.8August2022, the state-run Bank celebrated its 59th anniversary, repre senting almost six decades of service to the nation.
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DdO’s Junior Youth Of ficials take oath before Gov Gonzaga A total of thirty-five (35) Junior Youth Offi cials of Davao de Oro took their oath of office before Governor Dorothy Monte jo-Gonzaga on August 22, 2022 right after the regular convocation at the Capitol Ground. Dianne Louise C. Largo sa, a resident of Composte la, was elected as the Junior Provincial Governor, while Kyle Harvey C. Renigado of Monkayo was the Junior Provincial Vice-Governor. Board Member Charle magne B. Bautista, Sanggu niang Kabataan Provincial Federation President, said that the junior officials are tasked to handle week-long immersion in their desig nated offices and counter part provincial officials as part of their training, duties, and responsibilities.
8 million worth of coffee processing facilities unlock opportunities in Maco DdO
The Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) is offering to the invest ing public the Bureau of the Treasury’s (BTr) 28 th Tranche of the Retail Trea sury Bonds or RTB-28 with Exchange Offer, starting to day (23 August 2022) until 02 September 2022. This forms part of the state-run Bank’s support to the National Govern ment’s thrust of promot ing financial inclusion and literacy, while boosting the state’s coffers for various recovery and development projects.Finance Secretary Ben jamin E. Diokno, Treasurer of the Philippines Rosalia V. De Leon, and LAND BANK President and CEO Cecilia C. Borromeo led the launch of the latest re tail bond offer at the BTr’s Ayuntamiento Building in Manila, with the theme, “Tulong-Sulong sa Pagban gon.”
As one of the producers of coffee products in the province of Davao de Oro, the New Leyte Agriculture Cooperative (NLAC) can now easily manufacture their green coffee beans into top-tier coffee prod ucts after the Department of Agriculture (DA) XI, in co ordination with the Provin cial Agriculture Office (PA GRO), formally handed over the Php 8 million worth of coffee enterprisecommunity-basedorprocessing facility to the people’s or ganization, which will aid in the production, processing, marketing, and distribution of their produce. The said project was made possible under the High-Value Crops Develop ment Program (HVCDP) of DA XI, through the insertion funds from the office of Sen. Cynthia Villar. The project components include the construction of a one-unit coffee processing facility; a one-unit coffee dryer; and a set of coffee processing equipment such as a coffee roasting machine, grinder, depulper, dehuller, weigh ing scale, and moisture me ter. The project also comes with the provision of 760 bags of fertilizer and a capa bility building for the coop erative. NLAC Chairman Jorge Omictin, in his message, extends his appreciation to the government as the enterprise will help in the consolidation of all coffee beans in Masara line areas, which will later stimulate and increase coffee produc tion in the province. The aforementioned facilities and equipment will mini mize the overall production time and cost and remove roadblocks to their pro duction completion; thus helping farmers, especially the small coffee farmers, increase the value of their green coffee beans while providing a high profit in return.During the program, Delio Cezar, a coffee MSME, received recognition for his significant contributions to the province’s coffee in dustry as he was one of the entrants in the Philippine Coffee Quality Competition (PCQC) held at Waterfront Insular Hotel, Davao City last March 18, 2022. As a result, he represented the Philippines during the Spe cialty Coffee Expo in Bos ton, Massachusetts, USA last April 8–10, 2022. Indeed, supporting farmers, MSMEs, and the agricultural sector, in gen eral, brought significant im pact in terms of recognizing the products that are “Tatak Davao de Oro” throughout the whole world. Thus, it is one of the goals of the cur rent administration headed by Governor Dorothy Mon tejo Gonzaga to support them more to see to it that they are not left behind as they are important key driv ers for the inclusive growth of the economy not only in the province but also in the entireFurther,country.the ceremony were attended by farmer organizations, MSMEs, DA XI-HVCDP Representative Audie Sanchez, Provincial Coffee Farmers Association of Davao Oro (PCOFADDO) President Arcardio Sabella, PAGRO Provincial Agricul turist Dr. Jaime Anter, DTI DdO Provincial Director Atty. Lucky Siegfred M. Bal leque, New Leyte Brgy. Cap tain Hon. Isidro M. Relator and Maco Vice Mayor Hon. Alvera Veronica Rimando who signified their support and pledge of commitment to the project. (J. Fernandez, PAO-IPRD DdO, Photos by J. Cadiz)
BEEKEEPING IS A PROFITABLE VENTURE
From time to time, the bee colony has to be inspected if there are no pests bothering the bees.
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Some crops depend on insects for pollination to be fruitful and to produce seeds. In many countries, honeybees, which can mul tiply easily, are moved from one place to another, as they are needed in pollina tion. Beekeeping attracts all classes of people who keep these insects as a hobby and as an occupation or parttimeHoneybeeswork. from Eu rope, North America, and Australia have been brought to the Philippines repeated ly in the present century. But it was more likely the Span iards introduced beekeep ing in the country. When Americans came, they intro duced it as a hobby. Years later, Filipino-Chi nese ventured into bee keeping using foreign hon eybees (Apis millefera) but still with little success. So, they decided to raise the indigenous species Apis Raising honeybees is a profitable business in urban and rural areas. Bees, after all, are important for the honey and wax that they produce and for the fertilization of flowers. The late beekeeping.ofMagsaysay,Joelonethepioneersin eybees are raised in the backyards of those living in Metro Manila and in the farms in Cavite, Batangas, Laguna, Quezon, and in the Visayas and as far as Davao in Mindanao.According to the Bureau of Agricultural Research, the annual honey produc tion in the country ranges from 50 to 110 metric tons amounting to P21.8 million. The average annual yield per colony is about 0.022 metric tons. There’s money in bee keeping. That was what Alexis Dela Cuesta found out. He started urban bee keeping in 2019 when he bought two colonies for P8,500 each (around 20,000 bees in total). In a Smart Parenting feature, Dela Cuesta dis closed: If you invest P15,000 for a bee colony, including the tools and basic equip ment, you can earn around P36,000 per honey flow season. This is on the as sumption of harvesting 30 kilograms of pure honey per colony and the selling price is P1,200 per kilogram. For two bee colonies, a beekeeper can earn be FBEEKEEPING, P10
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Aside from honey, bee pollen is another products from beekeeping. cerena, locally known as “laywan” in Tagalog and “ligwan” in Bisaya. The local beekeepers used the techniques in rais ing the Apis mellifera due to limited literature available for the indigenous species. The hitch was: the foreign honeybees are bigger than the indigenous species. “Native honeybees are very aggressive, prolific swarmers, and abscond easily,” wrote Antonio D. Ba conawa, author of A guide to beekeeping in the Phil ippines. “They store little surplus honey (about one to ten kilograms of honey per colony), and have few worker bees (maximum of 10,000).”Incontrast, “Apis mel lifera is less aggressive, swarms slowly, stores up surplus honey (20-100 ki lograms) and keeps up to 60,000 worker bees in one colony.” It wasn’t until in the 1970s that beekeeping be came a fad and more people became interested in it. Right now, beekeeping is described as a “thriving industry” as it perfectly matches the natural land scape of the country. Hon
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FROM 3 Composting and Biomass Facility and Systematic Ma terials Recovery Facilities in every izedbeingdiverteddisposallectionwastemanagementcommunity-basedbarangayscomparedasegregation,gradablethethisTheBarangay.groupemphasizedwillnotonlyaddressmainproblemofbiodewastesandwastebutitrequireslesserbudgetallocationtoanincinerator.Anotherwayifforthetointensifywastesystemsfromsegregationandcoltoproperwastethatwillincreasewastesinsteadofdumpedatcentralfacilities,suchasthe sanitary landfill.
FROM 5 warehouses at 50 kilograms per sack. At least two of the warehouses were half-full while one warehouse have sacks of sugar neatly stacked up to the Previously,roof.
FROM 5 monetary authorities fore cast the continued increase of domestic inflation rate until the fourth quarter of thisFitchyear. Solutions fore casts domestic inflation rate to average at 5.6 per cent this year “implying our expectations for inflation to remain well above the 4 percent ceiling of the BSP’s target throughout the rest of the year.”
“In a City wherein the highest waste being gener ated is biodegradable, IDIS believes that the WTE-In cinerator facility is a waste of money and, more impor tantly, addresses the wrong issue which is the lack or absence of the strict imple mentation of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 (RA 9003), es pecially on proper waste segregation,” it said.
DAVAO... FROM 3 MARCOS... FROM 4 are not earning as much as the ones who are working in banana processing and manufacturing enterprises.
Subic Port customs personnel seized 140,000 bags of imported sugar from Thailand equiva lent to 7,000 metric tons. The Customs Intelli gence and Investigation Service has suspected that a “recycled permit” was used in the Subic Port. (PNA) FITCH...
Department of Agriculture (DA) and chair of the Sugar Regulatory Administration, for his immediate action in addressing the current shortage of premium re fined sugar in the Philip pines.Marcos was reported looking at getting conces sions from traders to bring down prices of sugar as well as allowing food man ufacturers to do direct im portation with the approv al of the Sugar Regulatory Administration.“Wehaveshared with the President that the in dustry needs at least 450k MT of premium refined bottler grade sugar to uti lize 100% of its manufac turing capacity for the bal ance of the year and serve the orders of customers who are depending on our products for their sales and income. We and the broad er industry look forward to continuing to work with the President and all rele vant government offices to address the situation and deliver a sustainable solu tion as we get back to de livering our full line-up of beverages and supporting the country’s economic re covery,” it said.
So, you want to go into beekeeping?Abook published by the Department of Environ ment and Natural Resourc es (DENR) – Sustainable Livelihood Options for the Philippines – suggests that you have to consider the fol lowing requirements before doing so: near an access road to facilitate transporta tion of the products; be free from polluted water and high use of pesticides; must have enough windbreaks as protection during typhoon season because bees tend to swarm in high wind; must have an abundant number of pollen and nectar-pro ducing plants within 3-8 kilometer radius. Trees that are good in producing nectar and pol len include the following: coconut, coffee, kakawate, banaba, rain tree, narra, yemane, fire tree, molave, ilang-ilang and mulberry. As for fruit trees, the following are good sources: mango, kamias, guava, tamarind, balimbing, and bignay. These agricultural crops are identified as good sourc es of nectar and pollen: ka dios, mungbean, squash, chayote, tomato, sweet po tato, patani, corn, radish, malunggay, watermelon, peanut, pechay, and upo. The DENR publication advises that you must buy bee colonies only from ex isting beekeepers. “Ensure that the nucleus colony is composed of the laying queen, several adult work ers, and worker brood in all stages of development,” it suggests.Inaddition, do not start a beekeeping project with incomplete beekeeping equipment and with less than two colonies. The tools and materials needed are hive with frames, hive tool, bee veil and hat, bee brush, smoker, honey extractor, and thick leather gloves. Magsaysay said a neo phyte in beekeeping can produce 20-25 kilograms of honey per colony. “The more experienced beekeep ers can regularly harvest 30 to 40 kilograms of honey per colony,” he said. On harvesting, Magsay say recommended that it should coincide with the pollen and honey flow sea sons. “The foundation of successful beekeeping in the country is the construc tion of a floral calendar par ticular to the area in which you will keep bees,” he said. Elaborating, he added, “There are periods in the year when plants and trees bloom profusely, providing an overabundance of nec tar and pollen as bee forage. In Western Luzon, for in stance, there is a surplus of pollen flow from September to December. This is called the brooding-rearing sea son. The surplus of nectar sources is called the honey flow season.” By the way, among the challenges that beekeeping faces are bee colony decline, absconding and swarming, honeybee pests, and lack of training and extension. If beekeeping has to be sus tained and move to the next level, these challenges have to beApiculture,resolved. the science of beekeeping, is an ancient art. It is believed to have originated in the Middle East. Eva Crane’s The Ar chaeology of Beekeeping states that humans began hunting for honey at least 10,000 years ago. Pliny the Elder devotes considerable space in his book Naturalis Historia to the bee and hon ey, and its many uses. The early Egyptians kept bees and traded for honey and beeswax along the East African coast several thou sand years ago. When Julius Caesar conquered Britain, he found the aborigines keeping bees, even mak ing their fermented liquors from a mixture of honey and crushed wheat.
“Beekeeping is a profitable venture in the Philippines, because of the country’s mild climate and lush vege tation,” he told us. According to Magsay say, beekeeping technology is fairly simple once you get to know the basic bee behavior and the flowering seasons in your area. “After only six to 12 months, you can start harvesting honey,” said Magsaysay, whose Ilog Maria Bee Farm is located a few kilometers away from the town of Silang, Cavite. “When you start harvesting, the maintenance cost would already be minimal.” He said that a novice in beekeeping could re coup his initial investment through sales of honey. Honey – sweet, thick, super saturated sugar solution – is a good alternative for cane sugar.Produced by honeybees from the nectar of flowers, honey is highly nutritive. It is also very good for sweet ening cakes, confections, and beverages such as cof fee, tea, and lemonade. Hon ey is highly digestible. Aside from honey, bee keepers can also collect pol len from honeybees. Pollen is the vegetable equivalent of the semen of animals. As such, it contains a wealth of nutrients of every kind which are needed in order to provide the “building blocks of life” to the ovum that will it will fertilize. Bee pollen is special because instinctively and carefully select only the best, purest, and freshest flowers from which to gather it. Collecting bee pollen could be quite a profitable venture, too. In fact, Mag saysay believed the Philip pines has the potential of be coming the “pollen capital” of the world. The Scandinavian countries, which are one of the main sources of pollen, have snow, and therefore no pollen could be collected during winter times.
FROM 3 does not have a regu lar job,” she said of her husband, a construction worker.Based on the DSWD data, around 48,033 bene ficiaries were given educa tional assistance in the en tire country as of Aug. 21. The payouts will con tinue every Saturday until Sept. 24. (PNA)
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“Aside from our favor able weather, another big advantage we have is that we have one of the richest and most varied flora in the world – an inexhaustible, natural pollen gathering ground for bees,” Magsay say Othersaid. products from honeybees are propolis, royal jelly, beeswax, and bee venom. Propolis, a sticky material which plugs the holes of the beehive, con tains a chemical that can be used as anesthetic. Roy al jelly is a creamy liquid produced by the glands of the honeybees. Beeswax, a product of young honey bee workers, can be used as a waterproofing agent in leather and cotton strings, in making candles, and in hair and skin ointments. Bee venom has some therapeutic values. It con tains elements that have been proven effective in relieving inflammation, re sisting rheumatism, treat ing radiation illness, and in reducing cholesterol. Like any other venture, beekeeping has its draw backs. Bad weather, for in stance, can affect the nectar flow and the bee colony’s growth. The bees have their enemies, just like most ani mals. And, yes, people fear beeBecausestings. of these per ceived disadvantages, not too many Filipinos have gone into beekeeping. “I started literally from scratch,” Magsaysay said. He found that the best honeybees to culture in the country are the Apis mellif era. “I developed a technolo gy that allowed me to build and develop a major bee keeping operation,” he says.
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Minutes after the oath-taking, Marcos also briefed the new SRA ap pointees about the admin istration’s thrust on secur ing the sugar supply in the country. Last week, Marcos an nounced that he will be “reorganizing” the SRA to address the current issues plaguing the sugar industry. A number of SRA board members also resigned fol lowing the unauthorized signing of the resolution to import more sugar.
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FROM 4 his support for the measure and asked the proponent for a short-term solution while waiting for the funding. “This is very alarming. We’ve been hearing the news since 2018 that the sanitary landfill is filled up. The solution, which is a WTE facility, we are asking for a fund from the government. My question is while we are waiting for this fund, what will happen to us? Kung mapuno ni, mag-overflow, what will happen to the city? What are our shortterm solutions while wait ing for this project? This is very big money and we are not sure if the government will give this to us,” he said. Al-ag requested Ocam po to update the City Coun cil on the situation of the city’s sanitary landfill. “What are the shortterm solutions for us to determine where we will put our garbage in the next years while waiting for this long-term solution? In case the national government will not give us the P3 bil lion ano ang ating options. We want to know because these are very important issues we are facing right now,” he said. The city has purchased an area near the current sanitary landfill. This area is expected to last for five years. This is also eyed as the short-term solution if ever the requested fund will be delayed. By Maya M. Padillo
The group also cited the current state of the city’s Sanitary Landfill (SLF) in Brgy. New Carmen as evi dent, where it has reached beyond its capacity due to unsegregated biodegrad able waste being dumped therein; when in fact it was mandated by the law that biodegradable wastes should not be included in the SLF. Further, the group said biodegradable wastes amount to almost 80% of the city’s wastes as per the data of the City Environ ment and Natural Resourc es’ Waste Characterization (WACS)“Accordingassessment.tothe recent assessment, biodegradable wastes are mostly gener ated from residences and commercial cesses,”burningtreatedBiodegradableestablishments.wastescanbeandreducedwithoutorincinerationproitsaid.
FROM 2 conduct na ug Bayanihan Bulilit, kung sa DepEd pa Brigada Eskwela. Nagata bang sila sa day care work ers sa pagpa-gwapo ug pag improve sa day care cen ter (The parents are con ducting Bayanihan Bulilit, which is the counterpart of the DepEd’s Brigada Eskwela. They are helping the workers to improve the day care centers),” Gabaton said.She added that the ac tivities before the opening of classes include enrol ment of children and meet ings with parents so that by September 9, 2022, the children will already have fixed class schedules.
FROM 2 In Koronadal City, Crispin Soliven, Jr., city schools division superin tendent, said “there is over whelming enrolment in many schools,” some even surpassing their enroll ment figures last year. Soliven said Koronadal schools have listed 52,308 enrollees this year, almost repeating last year’s figure of 53,597 enrollees from pre-school to senior high school in both public and private thetheyteacherstheheadTheinstitutions.DepEdKoronadalsaidwhiletheyseeneedtohireadditionalinsomeschools,cannotyetascertainexactnumbersasthey still do not have the final number of enrollees. (Rom mel Rebollido / MindaN ews)
tween P70,000 to P80,000. This author came to know about beekeeping through the late Joel F. Magsaysay, an engineering executive of SGV who quit his job and decided to be come a full-fledged farmer.
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To create industry clus ters and improve the man ufacturing industry, Pascual suggested that DTI should be left alone handling the products that are being pro cessed without the inter vention of the Department of Agriculture.
“These are agricultural products but they can go further for processing to meet domestic demand and also be able to tap the export market. Either we get full operation from the Depart ment of Agriculture or we just take care of the farmers in producing these crops or improving the quality of these agriculture products,” Pascual explained. (PNA)
unauthorized signing of Sugar Order (SO) 4, a reso lution allowing the impor tation of 300,000 metric tons (MT) of sugar. Alba is former general manager of the planters’ groups based in Negros Oc cidental, the Asociacion de Agricultores de La Carlota y Pontevedra and the La Car lota Mill District Multi-Pur poseAzconaCooperative.andMangwag, on the other hand, will rep resent sugar planters and sugar millers, respectively.
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LaSalle clinches Filoil semis berth
Francis Escandor of the De La Salle Green Archers at the free throw line. The Archers advanced to the sem ifinals of the famed preseason tilt after holding off St. Benilde. Photo courtesy of FilOil EcoOil Sports
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The scores: LA SALLE 83 -- Quiam bao 18, M. Phillips 10, No noy 9, Cortez 9, Austria 8, Manuel 8, Buensalida 6, Winston 5, Nelle 4, Ma calalag 4, B. Phillips 2, Es candor 0. CSB 74 -- Gozum 26, Corteza 14, Pasturan 9, Carlos 9, Nayve 8, Oczon 6, Sangco 2, Cullar 0, Mar cos 0, Davis 0, Flores 0. Quarters: 17-13, 4228, 66-61, 83-74.
De La Salle University survived a gallant stand by De La Salle-Col lege of St. Benilde (CSB) to fash ion out an 83-74 victory in the 2022 FilOil EcoOil Preseason Cup on Tues day QuiambaoIncomingafternoon.rookieKevinhad18points, seven assists and five rebounds as the Green Archers advanced to the semifinals of the presea son tilt at the FilOil EcoOil Centre in San Juan. It was a hard-earned win for La Salle, who clung to a 74-70 lead with five minutes left and forced the Blazers into long-range attempts in the Bucketsclutch. by Evan Nelle and Quiambao in the fi nal three minutes pushed La Salle’s lead to eight points, 78-70, but Will Gozum kept CSB alive off two free throws for a 7872 count with still 43 sec onds to go. It was Deschon Win ston who drilled the dag ger three-pointer with 20 seconds left, after Quiam bao found him on the right corner with a cross court pass for his seventh assist of the game. “I think I can say that we were not ready to play right away,” said La Salle coach Derick Pumaren of his team. “But Kevin here gave us a big lift, he kept us in the “Tuladgame.”ng sinabi ni coach, nag-step up lang ako dahil medyo off ang game namin from the start,” said Quiambao. Off a CSB timeout, Go zum nailed a hook shot but it was too late for the Blazers as two free throws by Nelle sealed the win for La Salle. Michael Phillips was the only other player in double digits for La Salle, with 10 points on top of eight boards. Nelle was 1-of-6 from the field for four points, along with eight boards and seven assists. Gozum torched La Salle for 26 points on 9-of-17 shooting and also grabbed 10 rebounds. But the Blazers were un done by their three-point shooting, as they made just nine of 35 attempts.
Basketball fanatics and neti zens have raised valid - if not diz zying - questions about the Jayson Castro buzzer beating jumper that gave TNT victory in Game 1 of the best of seven PBA Philippine Cup series last Sunday. They compared the situation with a video clip showing a sim ilar buzzer beating shot of Dray mond Green that was ruled not counted by NBA refs which - not incidentally - is a judgment call. The JC video was reviewed frame by frame by PBA techni cal officials led by Deputy Com. Eric Castro. According to Castro, the technical panel agreed that the ball left the shooting hand of JC before the red light atop the board went on. That should be a split second, a twinkling of an eye, huh?Regardless of which team you are rooting for, the explanation seems plausible and acceptable if you consider that those who ap preciated the video review frame by frame were technically capa ble. Six-time MVP JunMar Fajardo (JMF) himself accepted the ver dict calmly. “Let’s move on, Yun na yun, if the shot is counted,” he said in a gentlemanly manner. Of course, there are hypo thetical issues that have to be answered by PBA officials but hy pothetical as they are, no satisfac tory response can be offered that will erase doubts in the minds of sports fans who think something wentThewrong.lossis a hard pill to swal low for the San Miguel Beermen who led most of the way only to lose (84-86) at the final bell. Let me tell you. JC did not toss a ‘Hail Mary’ shot. The guy’s a streak shooter and a sniper from in and outside the perimeter. He was determined to make it. That’s the term, yeah. With just 1.6 secs left, either he made the shot and be the game’s hero or missed it and be the Anygoat.coach is fortunate to have someone like JC in his team. Imagine, if that were the last game of the best of seven series?These are the quirks of the sport. Unlike in other events where the athletes and partici pants are not covered by time, basketball has metamorphosed into a competition where it is largely dependent on time. Meaning, in 48 minutes any of the opposing teams must make use of the allotted time to produce as many points as they can. At the same time, they prevent the oppo nent from producing outputs that would overcome theirs. Whether one team produces just 20 points in 48 minutes for as long as it prevents its opponent from producing more, is what matters.This race against time is what makes basketball more exciting and thrilling than other spectator sports.Truth is that buzzer beating shots have become ordinary oc currences.
JMF’s comment for everybody to move on should reassure PBA fans that the refs made a correct judgmentBelievecall.me, from hereon, the physicality of the TNT vs SMB will heighten more and more. To be a gentleman for a day is more than enough. (Email your feedback to fredlumba@yahoo. com.)
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The PSC proposed a total budget of over Php 546 million to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) for 5 of these 9 sporting events to provide for the needs of the na tional athletes and send them to the upcoming international multisport tournaments next year.The PSC proposed the high est budget portion of Php 250 million for the country’s partic ipation in the 32nd Southeast Asian Games in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from May 2-16, 2023. The sports agency hopes that our national athletes will surpass the previous fourth place finish in the biggest bi ennial multisport event in the region.“We are hoping that the pro posed budget will be approved by our country’s leaders. As a former athlete, the unwaver ing support of the government along with the full backing of the Filipino people are vital for our success,” said PSC Commis sioner and Officer-in-Charge BongBudgetCoo. for participation in the ASEAN Para Games and Asian Para Games and two world-level competitions of FIBA and FIFA are still being fi nalized as of this writing. The 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China slated Sep tember 23 to October 8, gets a Php 100 million budget. During the 18th edition in Ja karta-Palembang, Indonesia in 2018, Team Philippines won 4 gold, 2 silver, and 15 bronze medals.The country is also eyeing to send the national athletes to the 4th World Combat Games in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from October 5-14, 2023, with Php 72 million proposed budget, followed by the 6th Asian In door and Martial Arts Games in Bangkok-Chonburi, Thai land slated November 17-26 with Php 67 million and in the 2nd World Beach Games in Bali, Indonesia from August 5-17, with a proposed fund of P56Themillion.PSC also believes that our para-athletes will contin ue their success and even up their game as they see action at the 12th ASEAN Para Games from June 3-9 in Cambodia and Hangzhou Asian Para Games from October 22-28, next year. Coo, the PSC’s present Of ficer in charge remarked that they are “happy and proud that our Filipino athletes have reached this level and are up against the best teams in the world and we support them in any way we can.”
PSC gets ready for heavy schedule in 2023
Year 2023 is a busy year for the sports com munity as the world catches up after the lockdowns. Philippine Sports Commission backs our national team in nine (9) major com petitions across the globe next year.
Team Davao finished first runner up in the recent 37th Kadayawan Invitational Basketball Tournament at the USEP Gym. Mayor Baste Duterte and SBP director Glen Escandor handed out the prize to the team.
