LTFRB-Davao launches modern PUVs in Malita

VMO equips Bantay Bukid with new outdoor gear

The Vice Mayor’s Office (VMO), Public Safety and Security Office (PSSO) and private partner real estate firm Anchor Land turned over essential outdoor gear to 71 Bantay Bukid volunteers in Barangay Tawantawan, Baguio District on Friday.

The gear kits included a light trail bag, trekking boots, first aid kits, emergency lights, and non-perishable food, among other things, which will help the volunteers of the Panigan-Tamugan Watershed in their mission of protecting and preserving the environment.

“It is imperative that we equip and secure the welfare of the environment defenders. The donated items will help them fulfill their duty as forest rangers in protecting the Panigan-Tamugan, Davao City’s source of water,” Vice Mayor J. Melchor Quitain Jr. told Edge Davao.

He also said that the gears provided will help them enforce environmental laws, consistent reforestation, and monitoring of rivers.

The Bantay Bukid vol- unteers in Baguio District protect the southern moun-

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By MAYA M. PADILLO

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board 11 (LTFRB 11) launched on Friday modernized Public Utility Vehicles (PUVs) in Malita, Davao Occidental.

Seven units of modernized PUVs were presented during the launching, which are operated by ABBES People’s Transport Inc. and will take the existing route of Davao City to Jose

Abad Santos in Davao Occidental and vice versa. Director Nonito Llanos of LTFRB 11 clarified that the units can only traverse up to the municipality of

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In reminding parents to ensure that their children are healthy and away from illnesses:

According to the French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre, the desire to love and be loved in return is an illusion. It appears that we only love because we also want to be loved. This is not supposed to be the case, Sartre thinks. You cannot love a person because you desire to be happy. Rather, it is enough to say that to love is to make the other free.

The desire to be with the other eventually is nothing more than a facade because what a person really wants is to be free. There is no assurance of happiness when you are in love because both of you will desire your endless freedom. For Sartre, you are what the other person sees in you. This alienates you from your true self.

So, what happens is that you must give up your own freedom for the sake of the other’s happiness. Love, hence, is nothing but a paradox. However, this can be a form of self-deception. You are only hurting yourself the more you believe that you are loved by that person who actually cannot love you in return. For Sartre, you cannot love unless you deny yourself your own freedom and the other of hers, which makes that love almost impossible.

The only escape route, Sartre writes, is to be your authentic self. You must give up all that illusion in order to accept what love truly is. When you are no longer under that spell, then you can begin to act in good faith. In this way, you can be that authentic human being for someone and not just pretend to be somebody who only wants to be happy.

The existentialist philosopher Albert Camus writes that there is only one true duty and that is to love. Two people often find that mending a broken relationship is not worth all the time and effort, but it is the beauty of love to refuse to give in to a world that is never short of suffering. A man can choose to throw himself into the ocean, but he would not do so knowing that it would hurt the woman he loves. You cannot simply resign to a world that demands the repetition of your pain.

Camus tells us that the world is absurd. The world has no meaning without man, but to easily surrender is not what real courage is. Sisyphus will find no comfort in taking a day’s rest for to live is to embrace the re-