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Serving a seamless society

ALL ABOUT KITES. Popular kite maker and entrepreneur Carlito Perez puts some finishing touches on a bee-shaped kite at his roadside shop named Carlo’s Kite along V. Mapa Street in Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

Cebu Pacific airport accident

Victims compensated S-s-s-h-h-h-! Victims agree not to reveal amount By NEILWIN JOSEPH L. BRAVO and EJ DOMINIC FERNANDEZ

HERE the Gokongwei-owned Cebu Pacific failed in swiftly putting into action the required evacuation emergency procedures when its aircraft skidded off the Davao International Airport runway on the night of June 2, it made up with a quick resolution to compensate its passengers. The 42 passengers who called themselves Flight 5J971 Crash Victims Association reportedly got only one-tenth of the compensation they demanded from the airline company but nonetheless hailed the swift resolution of their demand—a first in Philippine aviation SETTLED. Andrew Baustista, president of Flight 5J-971 Crash Victims Association, Inc. (left), announces that a settlement between their group and Cebu Pacific has

history where a huge group of crash survivors received indemnification for their traumatic experience. But the victims have bound themselves not to reveal how much. Flight 5J971 Crash Victims Associ-

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been reached in a press briefing yesterday at the Royal Mandaya Hotel in Davao City. With him is lawyer Robert De Leon, the group’s counsel. Lean Daval Jr.

INSIDE: 130 more CCTV cameras to be installed in the city Cora looks into revival of Mati airport Lakers eye LeBron, Melo

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2 THE BIG NEWS Davao City’s literacy programs hailed EDGEDAVAO

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six-member validation team formed by the National Literacy Coordinating Council (NLCC) has lauded the literacy programs being implemented by various departments and offices of the Davao City government. The validation team, composed of a three-member board of judges and three from the NLCC, visited the city starting Thursday for a two-day validation process, including the pre-

sentation of award documents and on-site visitations. Davao City is vying for the Hall of Fame of the National Literacy Awards which it won in 2008, 2010 and 2012. It is also the official entry of the Philippines this year to the UNESCO Literacy Awards. “Over the years, Davao City’s literacy programs have been consistent in terms of sustainability, expansion, integration

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FESTIVAL TALKS. City Tourism Office head Lisette Marques (right) whispers something to Councilor Al-Ryan Alejandre, chair of the Sanggunian Committee on tourism, during yesterday’s I-Speak media forum where they

discussed details of the activities for this year’s Kadayawan Festival. Lean Daval Jr.

130 more CCTV cameras Chikungunya cases in region now 217 to be installed in the city By CHERRY MAE PALICTE

By EJ DOMINIC FERNANDEZ

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noted civil and traffic engineering firm will use Davao City as a model for the whole Philippines and Asia for their technology by installing 130 more cameras for protection and traffic management in coordination with the Public Safety Command Center (PSCC). PSCC head, retired police official Fransisco Villaroman, in Thursday’s iSpeak forum at the city hall,

said the city government has allocated P100 million for the installation of the 130 cameras by Abratique & Associates inc. “The project is ongoing, so far the city already has 40 cameras installed in strategic traffic areas while 130 more will be added, even as we are targeting a total of 200 cameras in all,” he said. Villaroman said, Abratique & Associates inc. chose Davao City

as a model, the first city with this many high-technology cameras in the Philippines. Abratique & Associates Inc. is a professional civil and traffic engineering firm of consultants specializing in the design, deployment and maintenance of advanced traffic for over ten years, based in Los Angeles County, Southern California, with their local branch in Makati City.

These cameras are more ‘intelligent’ than those in other cities,” Villaroman said. “We just push a button and we can be able to detect how many traffic violators there are and where criminal activities are happening,” he said. “It would be easier to determine at what time and where should authorities patrol and will keep the city a very safe and secure place.”

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HE Department of Health (DOH) 11 has noted 217 Chikungunya cases in region 11 from January to June 2013. In an interview, Mary Divene C. Hilario, officer-in-charge of the DOH-Human Advocacy Promotion said that chikungunya is caused by virus-carrying Aedes mosquitoes. “Though we have not received number of death cases caused by this disease, the public should still impose safety measures like those for protection against dengue,” she told Edge Davao. Hilario added that there is a big possibility

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that both chikungunya and dengue would be experienced by a person. “If that happens it would be life threatening, chikungunya causes joint pains while dengue can cause bleeding. The victim could possibly suffer,” she explained. She bared the following cases in the different areas of Davao region: 39 in Compostela Valley Province; 37 in Davao City; 89 in Davao Oriental; 20 in Davao del Norte; and 32 in Davao del Sur. Chikungunya causes an illness with symptoms similar to dengue

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Car description wrong, businessman is cleared

P JOB-SEEKER. A lady fills up an application form when applying for a job in one of the departments of the local government of Davao City yesterday at Osmeña Park along San Pedro Street. Lean Daval Jr.

UBLIC Safety Command Center (PSCC) head retired police chief superintendent Fransisco Villaroman admitted that the description by their witness of the other two vehicles that escaped during the July 11 kidnapping shootout was wrong. Villaroman in Thursday’s I-Speak media forum at the city hall said the witnesses were probably still dazed by the

shootout and were not able to give a correct description of the two vehicles that escaped. They found out that the Montero sports utility vehicle that is in their custody was bought in Baliuag, Bulacan by the owner who is from Angono, Rizal. This would definitely clear Nelson Doloiras, whose name was dragged into the kidnap-for-ran-

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High incidence of chikungunya disease noted in farming village A

farming village in Koronadal City has been placed under a state of calamity due to the increasing cases of suspected chikungunya disease. Cyrus Urbano, city administrator, said Thursday the barangay council of San Roque issued the calamity declaration as the number of residents

who have shown symptoms of the dengue-like chikungunya already reached “almost 200.” “Our health personnel are currently in full force in the area, treating the infected residents and implementing various measures to prevent the further spread of the disease,” he said in a radio interview.

Urbano said the city health office conducted fogging operations on Wednesday within the affected communities. Barangay San Roque is located at the boundary of Koronadal City and Tampakan town, where the initial cases of the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease were detected in early June.

The village hosts banana plantations of the Tampakan-based Global Fruits Corporation (GFC) and Lapanday Diversified Products. The South Cotabato Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) earlier pointed to the area’s banana plantations as the possible breeding places of mosquitoes that carry the

chikungunya virus. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Media Centre, chikungunya is a viral disease that is spread by mosquitoes and causes fever and severe joint pain. Other symptoms include muscle pain, headache, nausea, fatigue and rash. The disease, the WHO said, “shares some clinical signs with dengue, and can be misdiagnosed in areas where dengue is common.” It added that there is “no cure for the disease. Treatment is focused on relieving the symptoms.” “The proximity of mosquito breeding sites to human habitation is a significant risk factor for chikungunya,” it said. Urbano said the city government’s efforts are presently centered on the treatment of the infected patients and preventing the spread of the disease to other areas.

“Since this is a continuing concern, the release of the necessary assistance has been also ongoing,” he said. The initial cases of chikungunya in Barangay San Roque emerged late last month and gradually increased in the last three weeks. Early last week, the IPHO’s epidemiology and surveillance unit confirmed 36 cases of chikungunya within the village. The entire municipality of Tampakan was placed under a state of calamity last July 9 due to the rising chikugunya cases that then reached 306. The affected areas were barangays Poblacion, Maltana and Kipalbig, where the initial cases of chikungunya were detected in the first week of June. Aside from Tampakan, two cases of chikungunya were confirmed last July 8 by local health personnel in Barangay Crossing Rubber in Tupi town. [MindaNews]

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SouthCot pushes Lake Sebu to be top emerging tourism site

OURISM stakeholders in South Cotabato are aggressively campaigning for the selection of the famed resort town of Lake Sebu as one of the country’s next mainstream tourist destinations. Cesar Sulit Jr., South Cotabato tourism officer, said Thursday they are currently rallying residents of the province and the neighboring areas to cast their votes for Lake Sebu in the search for the country’s top 10 emerging tourism sites or Philippine Gems. He said they are targeting to gather enough votes to help Lake Sebu clinch the top spot in the ongoing public online voting for the search, which is mainly backed by consulting firm Isla Lipana & Co. and the Department of Tourism (DOT). Lake Sebu was among the 25 tourism sites earlier shortlisted for the Philippine Gems search, which mainly “aims to showcase the country’s good

side to the world, especially the many pristine natural sceneries of our picturesque country.” A screening committee coming from the DOT, University of the Philippines-Asian Institute of Tourism, travel bloggers and media personalities picked the 25 tourism sites out of the 50 that were initially considered for the search. As of Thursday morning, Lake Sebu is a ready in second place in the top 10 ranking, a significant improvement from 15th place two weeks ago. Voting will end on July 24. At the top spot is the Calaguas Group of I lands, which is located in the Pacific Ocean, off the coasts of Vinzons town in Camarines Norte. Sulit said they earlier launched a massive awareness and promotion campaign regarding the search and Lake Sebu’s potentials of making it in the top 10. [Allen V. Estabillo / MindaNews]

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Vietnam protests Chinese ship’s bullying in Paracel V

IETNAM has voiced protest about the acts of a Chinese ship which chased and bullied two Vietnamese fishing vessels in the waters at Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago on July 7. Responding to reporters’ question regarding the incident, the spokesman of Vietnam’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, Luong Thanh Nghi said yesterday that these acts have violated Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa archipelago, Vietnam’s sovereign rights and jurisdiction in the East Sea. It runs counter to the spirit of humane treatment of fishermen, the stipulations of international law and the spirit of the agreement on basic principles guiding the settlement of marine issues between Vietnam and China, as well as the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC), he said. Relevant agencies re-

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ported that the Chinese ship coded 306 chased after the two ships QNg 96787 TS and QNg 90153 TS which were fishing as usual in the area around Vietnam’s Hoang Sa archipelago. The Chinese crew even went on board the two Vietnamese ships, searched the ships, beat the fishermen, broke things and took away some property from the two fishing vessels. According to the spokesman, a representative of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has met representatives from the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi to hand over a note protesting the act. The Vietnamese side requested that the Chinese side launch serious investigation and strictly deal with the aforesaid wrongdoing, as well as compensate the Vietnamese fishermen, and prevent the recurrence of similar incidents in the future. [PNA/VNS]

CONFERENCE. Stuart Jamieson, managing director of Nielsen Philippines, discusses “The Changing Consumer-A Global and Local Insight” during the Franchise ASIA Philippines 2013 International Conference “Asia to the

World. The World to Asia: Driving Growth Towards a Philippine Tiger Economy” on July 17, 2013 at the SMX Convention Center Mall of Asia, Pasay City. [PNA/Jess M. Escaros]

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Palace to conduct periodic review of Cabinet officials

Why Aquino’s 4th SONA is crucial

ALACANANG will be conducting periodically a review of the performance of Cabinet officials to make sure the commitments made in a year are followed and set targets are achieved. “It’s more for tracking the work done by each

IDWAY through his term, President Benigno Aquino III is set to face a new Congress in his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA), with new leaders elected in the May 2013 national and local elections. While he has yet to hint at what his speech will include, Aquino has already began gathering public support, particularly during his talk at the 67th anniversary of the UP Beta Sigma Fraternity July 15. The SONA, the President said, will heighten public discourse and will encourage many Filipinos to “help row the boat in the right direction.” “Mahalaga pong imulat ang mamamayan ukol sa tunay na estado ng ating bayan (Opening people’s eyes to the country’s true state is important),” he added. Highlighting the good A look through Aquino’s past SONAs gives Filipinos reason to expect that he will highlight country’s achievements under his watch, especially as the country basks in good news. In 2011, for instance, Aquino highlighted improved poverty and hunger statistics as well as an influx of investments, among others. Stellar economic performance and the ben-

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and every Cabinet secretary,” said Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda. Each Cabinet secretary is directed to submit to the Office of the President its accomplishment report every quarter, which will be then reviewed against the pro-

gram targets for that period. Tasked to supervise the performance audit of the Cabinet are Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr., Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras and Budget and Management Secretary Florencio “Butch” Abad.

Abad earlier proposed for a performance contract scheme of Cabinet officials. He recognized that if the performance of government employees are periodically reviewed, so too must the performance of the Cabinet members. [PNA]

Over 90% of journalist killings go unpunished, says UN

ORE than 90 percent of journalist killings worldwide remain unpunished, the UN News Center said on Thursday Moscow time. UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson described the trend as “shocking and unacceptable” during a special meeting on the protection of journalists in armed conflicts.

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“The least we can do when a journalist is murdered, is to ensure that the death is investigated swiftly and justice is served,” the UN News Service quoted the official as saying. He said that about 600 journalists have been killed worldwide in the past 10 years. Although 41 journalists were killed last year in war-torn Syria alone, the majority of jour-

nalists and media staff are killed while reporting on corruption and other illegal activities. Every time a journalist is killed or intimidated into silence, “there is one less voice to speak on behalf of the victims of conflict, crime and human rights abuses…one less observer of efforts to uphold rights and ensure human dignity,” Eliasson

said. Kathleen Carroll, Associated Press executive editor and vice chair of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), said that according to CPJ figures, 5 in 6 murdered journalists are killed in their own hometowns covering local stories, often related to crime and corruption.[PNA/RIA Novosti]

DOJ urged to make sure Napoles won’t leave PHL T

HE Partido Lakas ng Masa Thursday urged Justice Secretary Leila M. De Lima to make sure Janet Lim Napoles cannot leave the country following the controversy surrounding the P10-billion pork barrel scam where Napoles was accused of being the

“brains”. During a protest rally at the Dept. of Justice, PLM chairperson Sonny Melencio said Napoles should be held liable for dipping her hands into the government coffers. They also called for an investigation on allegations Executive Secretary

Paquito “Jojo” N. Ochoa, Jr., whose law firm has allegedly represented Napoles and the Liberal Party, received P100 million from her. “Ochoa and the Liberal Party have to disclose the kind of connections they have with Napoles…A disclosure is relevant in order

to allay the public’s fear of possible whitewash in the investigation by Malacanang or the ruling party,” Melencio said. The PLM also reiterated their call for the abolition of the pork barrel which, they said has been a source of graft and corruption. [PNA]

efits of the conditional cash transfer programs have meanwhile been underlined in his speech in 2012. The President often attributed these gains to his administration’s “tuwid na daan (righteous path)” battle cry. In his last two speeches, Aquino also picked up from his campaign against “wang-wang,” a term he popularized in his inaugural address to refer to abuse of power. “Humarap po ako sa inyo noong aking inagurasyon at sinabing: Walang wang-wang sa ating administrasyon. At ngayon, patuloy nating itinitigil ito (I have faced you at my inauguration and said: There will be no wang-wang in this administration. We continue to stop it now),” Aquino said in 2011. In his SONA last year, he noted: “Ang wangwang sa lansangan, galing na lang sa pulis, ambulansya, o bumbero—hindi sa opisyal ng gobyerno (Now wang-wang on the streets is only heard from the police car, ambulance or firetruck).” Not-so-subtle attacks against Arroyo Aside from his “tuwid na daan” and wang-wang” rhetoric, Aquino has also punctuated his past speeches with jabs at the previous administration. [Yahoo!]

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extends loan ONB to go into trust funds BFS condonation program O

NE Network Bank (ONB) is looking into offering trust funds so that depositors can access better interests. ONB President Alex V. Buenaventura said the bank has applied with the BangkoSentralngPilipinas (BSP) for a license in setting up a trust funds department so it could offer unit investment trust funds to the public. ONB, one of the country’s largest rural banks,

wants to service clients who want to invest their money in trust fund rather than on time deposits because of the disparity in interests as trust fund could even earn as high as 12% while time deposits earn less than 3%, Buenaventura said. “The money (that used to be in time deposits) is going that way (trust funds) because of interests,” he said, adding that commercial banks have facilitated the transfer of time depos-

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its to trust funds. When the interest on deposits started to go down about two years ago, he said the bank decided to compete with commercial bank by raising interest rate. Buenaventura said the interest in investing on trust funds is buoyed by the better performance of the stock market, where parts of the funds are invested, and the good economic outlook of the country. Ratings agencies have been raising their economic forecasts for the country, some of them like the Standard and Poor’s even raised to investment grade. In its Circular 767 last year, the BSP said that these funds are “open-ended pooled trust funds denominated in pesos or any acceptable currency, which are operated and administered by a trust entity and made available by participation.” These funds are invested in financial instruments that can be traded and other so-called liquid investments, making it attractive to investors because there is lesser risk, Buenaventura added. If approved, the bank will again be “exempted from the rule” as rural banks are not allowed to offer services that can only be offered by commercial banks.

However, the bank, because of its sheer size which can be compared with compared with commercial banks, has offered several other products that only rural banks can offer like clearing of checks. The bank has a capital bigger than the P2.4 billion, a requirement so that a bank can become a commercial bank. Meanwhile, Buenaventura said ONB, which has 96 branches nationwide, will concentrate on providing credit windows in the countryside. “There is a very big demand for credit in unserved areas,” he said as the bank continues to expand in areas that are considered progressive but have no or few banks. The bank has continued to provide loans to agriculture as it concentrates on reformatting its loans for banana farms in Compostela Valley and Davao del Norte which were hit by typhoon in December. Buenaventura explained that what the bank has done is lengthen the payment period so that borrowers can pay their loans. Although he did not mention the amount the bank lent to the banana industry in the affected, Buenaventura said it has lent a sizable amount as the industry, particularly in the two provinces, lost about P8 billion.

AHAY Financial Services, Inc. (BFS) extended its loan condonation and restructuring program in continuing its effort to help Balikatan borrowers realize their homeownership aspirations. Called the Panalo Max Offer, the program was first launched in April 2012 and its primary objective was to offer highly-discounted terms for delinquent Balikatan borrowers as well as other term financing resolutions depending on the status of borrowers’ accounts. “It has been BFS’ policy that foreclosure is a last resort and least preferred option in resolution situations. We want borrowers to be able to save their homes and get closure rather than see them go through foreclosure and eviction because of one reason or another,” explained Juno Henares-Chuidian, head of corporate communication. “This is what the extended Panalo Max Offer represents – a ‘helping hand’ extended by BFS in realizing our borrowers’

DCWD scholars pass ALS test

WO scholars of Davao City Water District’s Karunungan ng Kabataan Project passed the Alternative Learning System Accreditation and Equivalency (ALS A&E) Test given last December 2012. These are Mary Jane P. Calo and Shiela Mae D. Sayson of Brgy. Carmen in Baguio District. The ALS A&E test is given to ALS students in order to assess if they have mastered all the competencies of the ALS curriculum for the secondary level. Students who passed this exam like Calo and Sayson are entitled to all the rights of a duly recognized secondary education graduate. This means that they are eligible to pursue higher education. Calo is already 28 years old and completed her second year in high school in 2002 but was not able to finish high school because she married early. Although she has already taken the ALS A&E test in 2011, she failed despite being prepared and confident. The trauma she experienced with the death of her five year-old son

dreams of homeownership,” he added. To date, the response for the Panalo Max Offer has been positive with thousands of borrowers resolving their accounts which included Balikatan borrowers who were based abroad as OFW’s. In spite of its past success, BFS urges the qualified Balikatan accountholders to resolve their accounts earlier since the foreclosure process does not stop until and unless they enter into a loan settlement agreement with Balikatan. The extended Panalo Max Offer runs up to September 23, 2013 In the past seven years, BFS has constantly tried to reach its borrowers in efforts to encourage them to avail of its affordable condonation programs. The company has created a number of channels its dedicated account specialists can use to communicate to clients. Past efforts have used letters, phone calls, SMS, B-Online (an online video counselling service), including door-to-door visits to key areas such as Metro Manila, Cavite, Bulacan, Laguna, Rizal, Batangas, Bataan, Pampanga, General Santos, Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Bacolod and Iloilo. Since BFS took over the highly-delinquent portfolio from the National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation (NHMFC) in 2006, thousands of Filipino families throughout the country were helped to fully resolve their long outstanding and overdue loan obligations.

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DCWD ALS SCHOLARS. (From L) Mary Jane P. Calo and Shiela Mae D. Sayson of Brgy. Carmen in Baguio District pass the Alternative

Learning System Accreditation and Equivalency test and are now eligible to pursue higher education.

overtook her concentration when she was asked to write a composition entitled “Ang Karanasan na Hindi Mo Malilimutan”. Sayson, on the other hand, is 18 years old and is still single. She was only able to finish until second year high school and was forced to stop because of her family’s financial difficulties. Like Calo, she also took the 2011 ALS A&E test and failed due to being mentally and emotionally unprepared because at that time, she still did not fully embrace the ALS program as her desire to pursue formal education was still strong.

The Karunungan ng Kabataan Project offers opportunities to individuals who are interested to enrol in ALS education by providing the budget needed to recompense an instructional manager to teach enrolled ALS students for six months. DCWD partners with the Department of Education ALS Division and various schools in order to realize this cause. The water utility hopes to encourage more individuals who have were not able to finish secondary education to avail of this opportunity. (Jovana T. Duhaylungsod)

Each Filipino owes P57,063 in May Each of the 94 million Filipinos theoretically owed P57,063 in May as the national government’s outstanding debt hit P5.364 trillion during the month, up 4.2% from the previous year. Of the amount, domestic debt – mainly government bills and bonds – reached P3.461 trillion, 13.9% higher than the year-ago level of P3.038 trillion, Bureau of Treasury data showed Thursday, July 18.

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MATI CITY

Cora looks into revival of Mati airport

Rabat

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AVAO Oriental Gov. Corazon N. Malanyaon has asked the Mati City government to study the possibility of reopening the three-decade old Mati National Airport in preparation for an influx of domestic and foreign tourists and investors when the Mt. Hamiguitan bonsai mountain is finally proclaimed as a heritage site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) in 2014. Newly-installed Mati City Mayor Carlos Luis P. Rabat confirmed that Governor Malanyaon has

directed him to find ways how the city government could utilize the airport as it is the only qualified to be an alternate international airport in the Davao region. “We need to be accessible (by people who want to visit us),” Rabat told BusinessWorld senior correspondent Carmelito Q. Francisco, adding that the airport can accommodate aircraft that ply local routes. He said that with the airport in operation, it would be easier for the city to invite tourists as the facility is even closer to its othercrown jewel in

UPGRADING. Linemen of a telecommunications company install new cables as part of the company’s massive upgrading project to improve its services. Lean Daval Jr. terms of tourist attraction, the Dahican beach. But Mr. Rabat pointed out that operating the airport, formerly named Imelda B. Marcos Airport and classified as secondary airport by the defunct Air Transportation Office (now Civil Aviation Au-

thority of the Philippines or CAAP), will still take time to start because of the dispute in the ownership of the land. He said that the Rabat and Rocamora families own the land but the biggest part of the airport is owned by the Rocamoras.

“The problem is that when it was built, there was no deed of donation from the families,” he said, pointing out that the same issue has become the stumbling block in commercializing its operations. “We are now doing the legwork (for the owner-

ship of the airport),” he added, pointing out that the Rabat family owns only the tarmac and terminal, while the rest of the airport, including the runway, is the property of the Rocamora family. The Rabat and Rocamoras are cousins.

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HE Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) reiterated that coconut is still a top priority for the government despite the growing popularity of palm oil. “The production of palm oil is only being encouraged and promoted in idle lands and in no way should palm compete with the existing coconut plantations,” MinDA director for investment promotion and public affairs Romeo Montenegro said at a press conference Wednesday at the Marco Polo Hotel here. He said coconut copra and palm kernel remain the top dollar earner of Mindanao with a 21.26 percent share in the total exports of Mindanao as of 2012. However, he said that coconut exports decreased by 19.48 percent, from 1.1055 billion dollars in 2011 to .89 billion dollars in 2012. The MinDA report shows that coconut or copra got the largest share

of Mindanao’s exports to the United States amounting to 359 million dollars or 43.2 percent of the total exports to the US. Coconut copra was also Mindanao’s largest export to the Netherlands amounting to 303.68 dollars or a share of 61 percent of the total exports to the same country, Montenegro explained. “Despite the challenges faced by the coconut industry demand continues to increase but there seems to be a reduction of supply,” he said. Montenegro said this is why the government is encouraging the planting and production of more coconut and its byproducts. He mentioned the increasing demand of Franklin Baker which enjoys robust demand for its coconut water in the export market. Farmers are also encouraged to intercrop coconuts with cocoa and coffee as these are also in demand top commodities, he added. [PNA]

DA to upgrade livestock markets T

HE Department of Agriculture will upgrade and modernize livestock trading in major animal production areas to provide farmers, raisers and traders more income, and create more jobs. Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala said the DA is pursuing the initiative in partnership with the Japanese government and host municipalities and cities, during the recent inauguration of a P40-million upgraded livestock ‘oksyon’ market (LOM) in Lemery, Batangas. The upgrading of the Lemery LOM was jointly funded by the Japanese government which provided P34 M under the 2KR grant, the DA through the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) sharing P3 M, and the host municipal government counterpart-

ing P3.5 M. Also present during inauguration were Japanese Embassy First Secretary of Agriculture Ryutaro Aoki, Lemery Mayor Charisma Alilio, DA Assistant Secretary Davinio Catbagan, Dr. Rubina Cresencio of the DA’s Bureau of Animal Industry, Manuel Jarmin of the Livestock Development Council and DA region 4A director Vilma Dimaculangan. Secretary Alcala commended the Japanese government, as well as Lemery local government officials, for upgrading the facilities and adopting an automated transaction system at the Lemery LOM, which is considered the biggest in the country. Thousands of cattle, carabaos, hogs, goats, chicken are sold twice a week (every Tuesday and Saturday) at Lemery LOM. When fully operation-

al, Secretary Alcala said livestock raisers are expected to earn more income by up to 25 percent with the transparent and automated livestock trading system. Also, more jobs will be generated. He said the Lemery LOM will also serve as a model of other livestock auction markets in the country. He enjoined other livestock raisers and local government officials to visit Lemery to appreciate the new and modern facilities like animal sheds, weighing scale house, and loading and unloading ramps, and observe the automated transaction and trading system. Japanese embassy first Secretary Aoki said the auction market will serve as “the public face of the livestock industry in Lemery, and will be the center for a healthy

and fair livestock trading. Aoki added that the project serves as a testimony of the strong RP-Japan friendship and the Japanese government’s recognition of the plight of livestock farmers. Secretary Alcala urged Mayor Alilio to further improve the trading system and provide efficient services, and to fully maximize its capacity. He also instructed DA region 4A director Dimaculangan to validate and assess the viability of constructing a farmto-market road that will connect the Lemery LOM to the main highway, and thus encourage more livestock raisers and traders from other parts of Batangas, and Luzon provinces to sell and trade their livestock and poultry animals. [Adora Rodriguez, DA Information Service]

during Club 888’s media forum held at the Marco Polo Davao Wednesday. The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) reported that banana is the number two dollar earner of Mindanao next to coconut, with a 14.94 percent share in the total Mindanao export. MinDA also reported that Mindanao’s banana exports increased by 33.85 percent, from 467.3 million dollars in 2011 to 625.5 million dollars in 2012. Ang said the problem

will definitely be discussed during the Mindanao Exporters Congress slated in the city on August 1 to 3, 2013. On the other hand, Ang said the Congress will focus on topics like Improving Exports to Increase Philippine Competitiveness as well as Strengthening the Enabling Environment for Mindanao’s Export Growth. The Philippine Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA) earlier expressed its concern

about the possible P4 billion losses that will be incurred by the region’s banana industry as shipping companies stopped all shipments to Iran this year, including the shipment of exported bananas from Region 11. PBGEA executive director Stephen Antig said Mercury Steamship Agencies, Inc., an agent of the Pacific International Lines which ships bananas to Iran, has advised them about the suspension of its operations. [PNA]

Philexport wants to close Iran banana market

HE Philippine Exporters Confederation (Philexport) is set to form a group that will look into the possible closure of the Iran banana market to Davao banana exporters due to the United States economic embargo on Iran. “We are not aware that our banana exports are no longer being sent to Iran but we will surely look into this, especially with the Mindanao Exporters Congress,” Philexport XI chairperson Domingo Ang said

‘Asuete’ exported to Vietnam Producers are Arakan, North Cotabato and Marilog, Davao City.

HE country’s farmers scored another breakthrough as they started exporting atsuete (annatto or bixa orellana), a food colorant and additive, to Vietnam, initially at 20 metric tons (MT). Agriculture assistant secretary Dante Delima, who represented Secretary Proceso J. Alcala, led an inaugural send-off on July 8, 2013, at the Manila North Harbor Center, where a 20-foot container van was loaded with 400 50-kilogram sacks of atsuete seeds, with a gross value of about P1.3 million (or $30,000). The atsuete export was consolidated by Lingkod Saka, Inc., an NGO, and exported through the Vegetable Importers, Exporters and Vendors Association of the Philippines (VIEVA), with assistance from the DA’s High Value Commercial Crops Program (HVCDP). Delima said the atsuete was bought from farmers at P45 to P50 per kilo. Of the total volume, 10MT

each was sourced from farmers in Barangay Datu Ladayon, in Arakan, North Cotabato and in Sitio Kibalang, in Barangay Marilog, Davao City. Actually, the country still imports raw and powder atsuete, at 10,000 MT annually, but Cruz said they took the opportunity to export because the Vietnamese buyers offered a good price, and preferred Philippine atsuete which is of better quality than those from Africa, where they regularly import. Cruz said VIEVA and Sikat Saka are currently consolidating another order of 40 MT that will be exported again to Vietnam. She said importers from Hawaii and the US mainland are also interested to buy Philippine atsuete. The inaugural sendoff was also attended by DA-HVCDP director Jennifer Remoquillo, DA-Bureau of Plant Industry director Clarito Barron, farmer-leaders from North Cotabato and Davao, and officials from Sikat Saka and VIEVA. [Marlo Asis/DA Information Service]

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LL is well that ends well. This proverb (not idiom), coined by John Heywood 50 years before William Shakespeare wrote a play using it, may well apply to the conclusion of the riveting story of Cebu Pacific Flight 5J971 which overshot the runway of the Davao International Airport while landing last June 2. Yesterday, the management of CebPac paid off each of the 42 passengers who earlier incorporated themselves as 5J971 Crash Victims Association, Inc. The amount was not made public as the passengers were made to swear they would not disclose it as part of the settlement agreement. The company is reportedly willing to pay the remaining 123 traumatized passengers if they come forward and claim their share. Early on, the victims who were indemnified yesterday demanded damage payment of P1 million each. A number of passengers insisted—although with a smile---they received much, much less.

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Whatever, the incident must have cost CebPac a modest fortune and some goodwill (public relations points, if you please). An example is the withdrawal of patronage from the airline by the Ateneo de Davao University as announced by its activist president, Fr. Joel Tabora, S.J. Fortunately for CebPac, the bad press was not enough to diminish the company’s important role in revolutionizing travel in the Philippines. The country’s history is marred by the monopolistic excesses of the now moribund shipping companies and their ‘floating coffins’. The advent of the so-called low-cost carriers (LCCs) is one of the great fortunes of Filipino passengers during the last two decades. They’ve brought down the fares to amazingly give-away levels. Indeed, because of this, “now everyone can fly,” to paraphrase the apt company slogan of AirAsia, one of the world’s great “no frills” airlines. Still, it is not a license to abuse passengers.

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Doing business in a hostile territory

ELATED RISE IN ANXIETY – We used to subscribe on the belief that there can be no economic progress in certain areas if there is no real and meaningful peace. Here’s one shuddering example: with its vast track of fertile lands and rich natural resources, the provinces in Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) promises to be perfect places for business. But for the prospective entrepreneurs, to establish business and make money in those places, first you have to stay alive. On the surface, life in several provinces in the ARMM region particularly Maguindanao seems to be normal, but there is actually a general sense of unease. The drumbeat of renewed attacks by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s (MILF) breakaway group, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) against the police and military, and government structures have resumed without remission. The dreaded BIFF group was founded years back by its notorious leader, Kumander Umbra Kato after differences in principles with the MILF leadership. Three weeks on, the reality is vastly complicated. Doing business in the troubled areas is a high risk and there are widespread concerns about security. The Maguindanao province and ARMM in general have indeed moved forward under the Aquino dispensation, but the progress has been matched by a corresponding rise in anxiety. People in ARMM territory routinely veer from optimism to apprehension due to security problems. A series of attacks targeting police and military detachments and government facilities in several Maguindanao towns and some municipalities of the province of North Cotabato adjacent to the troubled areas have stoked fears that the very

foundation of their socio-economic fabric is shaking. It is perhaps a hopeful sign that captains of trade and industry in those areas made an appeal to the government with the cooperation of the MILF leadership to put to a halt BIFF’s lawlessness. In situations where terrorist attacks are high risk, businesses likewise face old-fashioned robbery, highwaymen abound, travel to town markets is hampered and main roads connecting the different towns have been totally closed. The business groups tout the idea that government and the MILF will inevitably demand an end to the hostilities and ensure peaceful environments. Peace and security remain the No.1 concern in these areas prompting the different business groups and the private sector to ask the government and MILF leadership to sign a peace agreement as a mean to neutralize the threat posed by the ragtag BIFF armed band. In order to isolate lawless elements taking refuge in or near MILF-controlled communities, government has to employ an AdHoc Joint Action Group (AHJAG). It would likewise stop the armed skirmishes specifically in some towns of Maguindanao and North Cotabato that leave thousands of displaced poor farmer families. But for some daring people in those localities, shootings, ambuscades,

bombings and roadblocks have become part of daily life – a regimen in which new opportunities coexist with the most terrifying of dangers. Right now the business sector blames the breakaway rebel group for the aggressions that continue to plague the entire region. Security is tight in affected areas, owing largely to the military who are increasingly taking over at checkpoints and vital government facilities. Nevertheless, for the dauntless entrepreneurs life is tough, but still they believe there are rewards. They think the situation fits well into a pattern of confidence that many local traders feel toward doing business in a hostile territory. Amid the hostilities are hard-nosed business smarts, say those who were already there. They’re scoping out opportunities, anticipating that sometime the hostile situation is going to die down. As for attacks against traders in those areas, the exact number is unknown. The local entrepreneurs say the experience and know-how they obtained through the hair-raising years will give them a huge valuable edge over new prospective investors. By the way, who would be willing to invest in troubled areas, it might be asked? Well, you have to be a little bit crazy. No one can predict violence to happen, but if it does ensue, it could really slowdown business activities and the pouring in of investments. The unstable peace and security situation, however, has not dented some traders’ confidence. They remained optimistic that the region’s business potential is huge. All of which proves their point: for the daring and the fearless, it’s a great place to make money, but of course, they have to be sure to stay alive and remain at a safe distance.

We need partisan journalism

O politically contentious issue has ever escaped the eye and the pen of partisan and activists journalists. Labor journalist John Swinton used his press to campaign for working people in 1884; Helen Hunt Jackson confronted the treatment of American Indians in 1885; John Muir defended the Yosemite Valley from the timber industry in 1890; Jacob Riis recorded tenement poverty in How the Other Half Lives in 1890; and Ida B. Wells exposed the South’s causal lynching practices in 1892. The muckrakers of the new century revealed Standard Oil’s bullying ways, political corruption in cities, the states, and the U.S. Capitol; patent-medicine and insurance swindles; unhealthful food; the sale of convicts to contractors; and more. In later decades, the communist press — yes, the communist press — alerted readers to the perils of silicosis and campaigned against color-line in Major League Baseball. The photographs of Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration in the late 1930s and Margaret Bourke-White for Life magazine in the 1930s and 1940s provided a window on poverty. From the end of World War II until the civil rights movement began its ascension, the partisan and activist journalism faded but didn’t disappear, its practice crimped perhaps by the so-called “Great Consensus” that had evolved, as Daly wrote in Covering America. Part of its demise can be attributed to changing social attitudes. To write against segregation in the 1950s marked you in many corners as a disruptive partisan or activist, not a journalist; by

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(Conclusion) the time the civil rights protests became a TV miniseries, to write in support of segregation made you suspect; after the March on Washington in 1963, support of full citizenship for African-Americans was the default mode for the mainstream press. In other words, the once-radical became the norm, and after it did, those who criticized American apartheid in the approved language were no longer marginalized as activist or partisan journalists. In the 1960s, the best opinionated, fact-based journalism appeared in such books as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963), Jessica Mitford’s The American Way of Death (1963), Michael Harrington’s The Other America (1963), and Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed (1965). The lefties at Ramparts magazine broke stories on Michigan State University fronting for the CIA (1966), the use of napalm in Vietnam (1966), and the CIA funding of the National Student Association (1967). Later revelations in the early to mid-1970s by the New York Times and the Washington Post (and others) about the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and intelligence agency abuses were, at their root, as partisan as any of the NSA investigations Glenn Greenwald has contributed. Remember, as

Christopher B. Daly recently pointed out, Daniel Ellsberg chose to leak the Pentagon Papers to New York Timesreporter Neil Sheehan because he 1) trusted Sheehan from their years in Vietnam, and 2) had recently read a long essay-review Sheenan had written for the paper’s book section titled “Should We Have War Crime Trials?” As Daly writes, “Three months later, Sheehan wrote the first front-page article in the series that became known as the Pentagon Papers.” I could continue my honor roll of partisan journalism through the ages, Ms. magazine cultural critiques, muckraking by the Village Voice and other alt-weeklies, Mark Dowie’s piece in Mother Jones on the exploding Ford Pinto (1977), the Progressive magazine’s H-bomb expose (1979), the overtly techno-libertarianism of the Louis Rossetto-era Wired magazine, and skipping to very fast-forward, Jeremy Scahill’s book Blackwater (2008), David Corn’s Romney tape (2012), and Radley Balko’s new book about the SWATing of America, Rise of the Warrior Cop. But I think you get my drift. My paean to activist and partisan journalism does not include the output of the columnists and other hacks who arrange their copy to please their Democratic or Republican Party patrons. (You know who you are.) Nor do I favor the partisan journalists who insult reader intelligence by cherry-picking the evidence, debate-club style, to win the day for their comrades. Click and read a few of the articles I cite above and then ask yourself: Where would we be without our partisan journalists?

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In Britain, a summer of quiet revolution ANALYSIS BY JOHN LLOYD

(Conclusion)

ORE of interest popularly: Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Prince William, is preparing to give birth, and in doing so will break all kinds of precedents. Her husband will attend the birth; they will spend the first weeks of the baby’s life with her parents, who are commoners of middle and working class origin; and William will take only the standard two weeks of paternity leave from the Royal Air Force, in which he’s a helicopter pilot. He’ll then return to work. Unheard of — before now. Now, there’s an unannounced determination to put Britain’s monarch on something like the same level as the Dutch and Scandinavian royal families, though retaining the splendid and popular public ceremonies at which the theatrical, sentimental British excel. The newborn child will inherit wealth and status, but will be expected to be modest about it. Royals can’t swagger anymore in democracies. The Queen’s husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, believes the British royals survive on their thrones and in their palaces only because the public like them: once that ends, so do they. Also this past week, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Ed Miliband, announced he wanted to see unions that are affiliated to the party offer members an upfront choice about paying a political levy to the party (they are presently deemed to consent unless they explicitly “contract out” of payment). What appears a mere technicality is instead a casting away of one of the few ropes tying the unions to a Labour Party that, one hundred years ago, they founded. In Britain more than in most democracies, the labor movement was an organic whole, the unions and the party umbilically tied, with a democratic socialism as the natural position of the working class. Miliband’s suggestion attracted bitter rhetoric, including a call from Bob Crow, leader of the biggest rail union, to form a new party “that speaks for the working people and the working class communities that find themselves under the most brutal attack from cuts and austerity in a generation.” The links, once very strong and close, were weakened under Tony Blair’s leadership, but even Blair didn’t go so far as to propose a measure that must radically reduce the party’s income, and force it further away from the unions in finding alternative sources of income. Miliband expressed the core of the matter, when he said, “in the twenty-first century, it just doesn’t make sense for anyone to be affiliated to a political party unless they have chosen to do so.” Now, choice, not class, is king. Finally, and most shockingly: a Brit — a Scot, even! — won Wimbledon. Now that really is the end of the British way of doing things.

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ation lawyer Robert de Leon in a press forum yesterday at the Royal Mandaya Hotel said, “The victims received reasonable compensation, which we are not allowed to divulge out of respect for the agreement we made with Cebu Pacific.” It was also in the agreement that the victims should “keep quiet” after they receive the amount, hence the press forum right before they received the money, said Flight 5J971 Victims president Andrew Bautista However, unconfirmed reports reaching Edge Davao indicated that the amount was P100,000 for each passenger. “Psychological injuries are never that easy to demand for compensation and is potentially unprecedented in our jurisprudence, we are happy this is finally over. We commend the management of Cebu Pacific for its willingness to negotiate and settle this matter without going to court,” Atty. Robert de Leon told Edge Davao. Last June 20, de Leon told Edge Davao that the victims sent a letter to Cebu Pacific head Lance Gokongwei, demanding P1 million for each passenger. “We have basis for demanding the amount by comparing the flight 5J971 incident to other similar events in America and Canada where

passengers had not suffered injuries but were emotionally distressed,” he said. “The victims in those flights were compensated with amounts between P650,000 and P2.5 million each.” Bautista, understandably in a jolly tone said, “The airline’s representatives have listened to our concerns about passenger service and handling, and recognized specific points for improvement, and we have also agreed to accept their very reasonable offer of financial assistance to cover passengers’ expenses related to the incident.” “The respect that Cebu Pacific has given us is unquantifiable and is worth more than P1 million, enough to clear the trauma we experienced,” Bautista said. He said the financial amount that they received from Cebu Pacific is enough for them to fly again with the airline. Flight 5J971 Crash Victims Association public relations officer Niño Alinsub said the financial assistance given by Cebu Pac is for all the 165 passengers, which means, those that are not included in their association can approach de Leon to get their share of the compensation. The association has 42 members, including four minors, and the financial assistance will be given by batch depending on how many

people will be present in the Cebu Pacific forum at Mandaya Hotel for the turning over of the money, said Bautista. Bautista said, it was easier to reach a settlement because they gave the special power of sttorney (SPA) to de Leon, making it less complicated for Cebu Pacific to negotiate because they only had one person to talk to--De Leon. The settlement concluded the saga of the Flight 5J971 Crash Victims Association but not that of another faction of survivors who formed another group called “Survivors.” Text messages reportedly coming from the “Survivors” group circulated Wednesday asking other passengers not to accept the settlement and push for their own P500,000 demand. De Leon said he also learned of the text messages although he elected not to confirm nor confirm. “I really do not know about the other group. What I know from Mr. Lance Gokongwei himself is that they are settling with our group based on what we have negotiated and agreed. Anything beyond that is up to those who are demanding to pursue or go to court. But they (“Survivors”) may choose to settle through us and accept the compensation,” De Leon explained.

fever, with an acute febrile phase of the illness lasting only two to five days, followed by a prolonged arthralgic (same to arthritis) disease that affects the joints of the extremities. There currently is no licensed vaccine to protect against chikun-

gunya virus. The most effective means of prevention are protection against contact with the disease-carrying mosquitoes as well as mosquito control. Recovery from the disease varies by age, younger patients recover within five to 15 days; middle-aged pa-

tients recover in one to two months while recovery is longer for the elderly. The severity of the disease as well as its duration is less in younger patients and pregnant women which has no untoward effects are noticed after the infection.

som news by some media outlets. In the July 12-13 issue of Edge Davao entitled “Three Kidnappers killed in shootout, victim safe,” it was stated, “The SUV (Montero sport now under the custody of the authorities) was registered to a certain Nelson Doloiras.” Doloiras sent Edge Davao an email saying, “My name was erroneously dragged into the kidnap-for-ransom shootout in Davao last week because

of a photocopy of a vehicle registration found in one Mitsubishi Montero that was used by the suspects.” The copy of the registration, according to investigators, was one of about 10 other copies of vehicle registration found inside the Monterosports,” he said. “Unfortunately, only the registration that has my name was hastily picked up by reporters on the scene.” “On closer look at the

copy of the registration receipt, it was indeed in my name but it was for an Isuzu truck, not for the Monterosport,” he said. Villaroman said no criminals will use real plate numbers since authorities at checkpoints would easily spot a plate number which is hot, or coming from a stolen vehicle. “The Monterosport under our custody has its own real plate number under the fake plate number used,” Villaroman said. EJF

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and institutionalization,” said Sr. Rosanne B. Mallilin, president of St. Paul University in Surigao City and chair of the board of judges. “You are leading the way. You can be an inspiration to other cities and municipalities in the country,” she added during the presentation of the city’s literacy programs and projects attended by city department heads and chiefs of offices. Acting city administrator Jhopee Avancena-Agustin said the validation will help the city government “see the other side of our literacy framework from another perspective.” “As we pursue the gains of collective efforts in promoting literacy in the 21st century by infusing it as a component that cuts across all implemented programs, projects and activities, we touch lives in every sense of the word,” she said. “Taking off from a well-established governance, this administration continues the implementation of its best practices and conceptualized upgraded and innovative programs that are responsive to the growing needs of the population,” Avancena-Agustin added. Research and statis-

tics division chief Cresencia F. dela Victoria, who presented the city’s literacy programs and projects, said Davao City advocates the promotion of literacy in all ages and embedded various literacy interventions in programs and projects being pursued by different departments and offices of the local government. “Even before a person is born, the city government promotes literacy among mothers, particularly on maternal health and child care program to reduce, if not eliminate, incidence of maternal and infant deaths by ensuring that mothers receive pre-natal care and their deliveries are attended by skilled birth attendants,” she said. To ensure timely registration of births, Dela Victoria said the city government also intensified the implementation of our civil registration program, particularly targeting children in need of special protection, Muslim Filipinos and Indigenous People. She said that the city provides the children, upon reaching three years old, with day care services which introduce developmentally-appropriate practices and psychosocial activities. The city maintains 538 day

care centers and 106 day care services in homebased sites. Dela Victoria said the city’s early childhood care and development (ECCD) program provides mobile ECCD to reach out to farflung communities where there are no day care services available. “Recognizing that reading in informative years is critical in the child’s learning cycle, the city government is making sure that books are accessible to children by providing a library nook in identified pre-schools in far-flung barangays,” she said. In the elementary and secondary level, Dela Victoria said the city government utilized its Special Education Fund (SEF) in the construction of additional classrooms, desks and chairs and in the hiring of locally-funded teachers. “Aside from extending support to formal education, library services are strengthened through Magbasa Ta literacy program, which aims to go beyond the confines of the library to actively reach out to communities and look for creative ways to promote reading and make the library resources and services accessible to as many users as possible,” she said.

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Saving Lives: ‘Saling Dugo, Saling Buhay’

RCWWD leads blood-letting

Staff from the Davao Blood Center extracts blood from a donor

RCWWD with their partner-in-service, the Rotaract Club of University of Immaculate Conception

VERY year the Rotary Club of Waling Waling Davao spearheads the Rotary District 3860 blood letting activity to support the Voluntary Blood Donation Program that serves as a lifeline to many beneficiaries in need of blood and its components. RCWWD was joined by RC Central, RC West, RC East Davao, RC PagAsa, RC Sta Ana, RC Toril, RC Downtown, RC North Davao, RC Davao 2000and RC Davao last Saturday, July 6, 2013 at the Seamen’s Hospital AMOSUP Building. Ninety-six potential donors were screened by the Davao Blood Center and 52 bags of blood were collected. Every bag of blood provides plasma, packed red blood cells and platelets that will serve three recipients or about 156 beneficiaries. Apart from the Blood Letting Activity,

there was also a public forum with lectures on topics which include: overview of the blood service program by Dr Renie Maguinsay, RCWWD Past President and Association of Hematologists in Mindanao Fund, Inc (AHMF) President; the importance of blood letting by Dr Leoncio Ong, Director of the Davao Blood Center; importance of blood products by Dr Grace Pecson, Thalassemia Coordinator; and dengue hemorrhagic fever by Dr Jennifer Banluta, a pediatrician and Davao Medical Society Secretary. AMOSUP-JSU Medical Director John Richard Pecson welcomed the participants and donors while Gov. Ed Chiongbian was ably represented by SAG Vir Sojor of RC East Davao. RC PagAsa President Larry Ignacio kept the program dynamic as emcee and host.

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NBA Finals MVP LeBron James (right) and New York Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony are the prime free-agent target next year.

LAKERS EYE LEBRON, MELO

HE Los Angeles Lakers are looking to the future in an attempt to rebuild the team and may have their sights set on potential 2014 free-agents LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony, according to ESPN The Lakers have indicated that they want to be in position to make an offer to one or both after

next season, team sources told ESPN. They called the wing-ranging possibilities of landing either superstar both realistic and far-fetched. A number of other attractive players could become available after next season. The list includes Dwyane Wade, Amare Stoudemire, Chris Bosh, Luol Deng, Danny Grang-

er, Andrew Bogut and Dirk Nowitzki. ESPN sources said James has yet to entertain thoughts about his plans beyond next season in Miami. The Heat will be coming off their second straight NBA championship. “It’s all wishful thinking at this point,” a league source told ESPN. “Teams

are doing more wishing than LeBron is wanting right now. It’s not about where LeBron wants to go. He already has two rings. If LeBron moved to Reno, teams would come to him.” Anthony has an early terminiation option after next season in his contract with the Knicks. He could seek an extension

or opt to become a free agent. The Lakers were left with a void when center Dwight Howard decided not to return to the team and instead sign with the Houston Rockets. There also is uncertainty with Kobe Bryant’s recovery from an Achilles’ tendon rupture and the health of veteran point guard Steve

Nash. Bryant has said he wants to play two to three more seasons and would help recruit star players to L.A. He will be the highest-paid player in the NBA next season at $30.5 million but appears willing to rework his deal to allow the Lakers enough cap room to bring in top talent.

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Inflight calls, Internet now on PAL flights

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PASSENGERS of Philippine Airlines can now make phone calls and browse the internet while inflight with the installation of OnAir cutting-edge connectivity equipment on PAL’s long-range aircraft. GMA-7’s The novel service, called PAL iN AiR, is made possible with the installation of the first inflight connectivity hardware, called GSMConneX, on a PAL Boeing 777-300ER aircraft that flew from Manila to Vancouver last July 9, 2013, providing passengers with GSM and WiFi services during the flight. The special connectivity equipment will progressively be fitted in all B777 and Airbus A330-343 aircraft of PAL. PAL is the first commercial airline installed with the GSMConneX equipment supplied by TriaGnoSys, while OnAir is the supplier for the GSM and WiFi connection. PAL President Ramon S. Ang said, “Allowing our passengers to call and surf the web while flying is another first only a legacy carrier like PAL can offer. This new service is part of our strategy to provide only the best to our customers.” Dr Axel Jahn, Managing Director of TriaGnoSys, said, “PAL is the first GSMConneX commercial airline customer. We designed our hardware and software portfolio to be highly flexible, so we were able to move very quickly to meet the airline’s specific requirements, which in this case included the addition of WiFi capability.” Aside from connectivity, the GSMConneX platform was designed to host a wide range of software application modules, including entertainment and non-flight-critical cockpit applications. The GSMConneX hardware is manufactured at TriaGnoSys’ headquarters in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany.

Two months remain for the FDCP’s ‘Genre’ Film Scriptwriting Contest CALLING all Philippine scriptwriters! The Film Development Council of the Philippines has now laid the groundwork for Sineng Pambansa National Film Festival for June 2014. The festival will focus on ‘genre’ filmmaking with 12 entries exploring the possibilities of an entire spectrum of cinematic types with vast domestic and global appeal. The genres included are confined to: action, comedy, fantasy, horror, thriller, futuristic and a hybrid of any two or three.

For the purpose of the festival, the limelight centers on all writers as a nationwide scriptwriting contest is hereby launched. A call for entries is made effective immediately, with winners to be announced on December 2013. The FDCP shall invite prospective independent producers, film studios and film divisions of TV networks with which a co-production agreement shall be proposed. The sole prerogative to conscript directors to interpret the films out of the winning scripts lies with the FDCP film committee in concurrence with the prospective co-producers. The resulting films will be part of the official selection for the Sineng Pambansa National Film Festival of 2014, and shall be named, “The Masters ‘Genre’ Film Festival”. A ‘competition’ committee jury shall appropriately convene to select winners from all the submitted screenplays accordingly through meritorious process. The winning scripts will be awarded cash prizes: the first six best with Php200,000 and the next six with Php100,000. Entry forms and guidelines can be retrieved at www.fdcp. ph. The forms must be duly accomplished and submitted with the completed screenplay entry. The scriptwriters may also choose to submit the forms, without the completed entry, in order to accordingly signify an interest of participation. No more than one entry will be accepted from each scriptwriter. No entry shall be accepted beyond the deadline. Deadline for submissions is on 30 September 2013.

Kusina Master proves its international caliber once more after winning as Best Lifestyle Program at the prestigious 19th Annual NAMIC Vision Awards. Chef Boy Logro’s wellloved cooking show, which was submitted as an entry for GMA Life TV, the first Filipino lifestyle channel abroad, also makes history as the first ever winner from GMA as well as the Philippines in the said competition.

GMA Pinoy TV’s coproduction Pusong Pinoy Sa Amerika, on the other hand, bagged a nomination in the Foreign Language Category. GMA Vice President and Head of International Operations Joseph T. Francia considers their latest achievement as an important milestone for GMA Life TV, which recently marked its fifth anniversary. “This award is truly an honor for both GMA Life TV and the excellent team behind Kusina Master, confirming its world class standards for the second time this year,” he said. Kusina Master bested entries from Scripps, one of the biggest TV networks in the US. This award comes right on the heels of the program’s re-

Jush Andowitt, GMA International Marketing Consultant, and respected immigration lawyer Atty. Lou Tancinco, host and producer of Pusong Pinoy sa Amerika receiving the award on behalf of GMA International. cent victory at the 2013 US International Film and Video Festival, wherein it earned a Certificate for Creative Excellence. GMA OIC for Entertainment TV Lilybeth G. Rasonable expresses her thanks for all the recognition and praise that Kusina Master has been receiving not only in the Philippines, but also internationally. “We sincerely thank the NAMIC Vision Awards for this honor and we commit to continue delivering superior information and entertainment to our audience here and abroad,” she enthused. Nicol Turner-Lee, Ph.D, President and CEO of the National Association of Minorities in Communications (NAMIC), informed GMA International of the win and

extended her “congratulations on this esteemed honor.” Representing GMA International at the awarding ceremony held last July 11 at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles,

California were Jush Andowitt, GMA International Marketing Consultant, and respected immigration lawyer Atty. Lou Tancinco, host and producer of “Pusong Pinoy sa Amerika.” The NAMIC Vision Awards is dubbed as “a celebration of multicultural contributions in the media industry.” It is “one of the few national (US-wide) competitions that salute original television or digital content that reflects the depth and breadth of experience and contributions of people of color.” The likes of CNN, HBO, Disney, ESPN, Nickelodeon and other mainstream US networks usually dominate the Vision Awards. GMA Pinoy TV and GMA Life TV along with GMA News TV International can be seen in Canada and the US and in countries in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia Pacific. For more details, visit the GMA International website www.gmanetwork.com/international, Facebook pages www. facebook.com/ GMAPinoyT V, www.facebook. com/GMALifeTV, and, www.facebook. com/GMANewsInternational, or Twitter pages @GMAPinoyTV,@ GMA_LifeTV and @ GMANewsTVIntl.

Globe is official technology partner of Ironman 70.3 Philippines LEADING telecommunications company Globe Telecom will be the official technology partner of the 2013 Ironman 70.3 Philippines, the country’s premiere triathlon event scheduled on August 4 at Shangri-La Mactan Island Resort in Cebu City.

This is the fifth year that Globe will provide high-speed broadband internet service in support of Ironman 70.3 Philippines. By making fast and reliable internet connectivity available at the venue, Globe would enable participants, and even the public to go online anytime they want so that they can post status updates in popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. “We are all set to provide our cus-

tomers with a high quality mobile experience that would allow them to use their smartphones, tablets, and even laptops to chronicle the games from start to finish. Our support for this top triathlon event is also in line with the company’s advocacy to promote and encourage sports and other athletic activities,”

said Yoly C. Crisanto, Head of Globe Corporate Communications. Since its inception in 2009, Ironman 70.3 Philippines has become one of the most-anticipated sporting events in the country. The number of participants continues to rise with about 2,150 athletes from 35 countries worldwide already signed up for the individual or relay competitions. For this year, the race will feature a 1.9-km swim in the open sea, a 90-km bike and 21-km run. The five biggest foreign delegations are expected to come from Singapore, Japan, Australia, US, and Hong Kong. Being a World Triathlon Corporation sanctioned event, winners of Ironman 70.3 Philippines are entitled to slots in the World Championships on September 8, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Binoy Henyo brings love, inspiration on GMA AS GMA NETWORK CELEBRATES ITS 63RD ANNIVERSARY, ANOTHER HEARTWARMING TV FARE WILL TOUCH THE HEARTS OF FILIPINO VIEWERS VIA THE FAMILY DRAMA SERIES, BINOY HENYO.

Premiering July 22, Binoy Henyo features the ingenuity and craftsmanship of a genius boy who possesses a big and optimistic heart despite his struggles with poverty and his longing for a father figure in his life. The program takes us on a captivating and inspiring adventure that the whole family, most especially the moms and kids, can enjoy. Binoy Henyo’s storyline teaches parents to raise their kids to be the best they can be while highlighting the importance of maintaining a strong parental involvement in every child’s learning and development. Hence, the program believes that an encouraging parent is every child’s greatest asset. Sought-after Kapuso actress Sheena Halili takes up the challenge on playing her first mother role in the series. Sheena, who has showcased her versatility in portraying character roles in various GMA programs including Indio, Tweets for My Sweet, Alice Bungisngis and Her Wonder Walis, Amaya, among others, dabbles in her most challenging role yet as Agnes, David’s uneducated mother who loves him unconditionally and will do anything to protect her child. Sheena says she is grateful to GMA for continuously giving her good projects and for trusting her as she tackles a meaty role in Binoy Henyo, “Pinagkatiwala nila sa akin yung show na ito dahil naniniwala sila na kaya kong maging nanay, gusto kong talagang magampanan ito ng tama. Kaya ko tinanggap yung role na ito hindi lang para sa viewers, gusto kong may matutunan ang mga nanay na napaka-importante na habang lumalaki ang mga anak ay gabayan natin sila kung ano man ang pinagdaraanan nila. Kaya may puso talaga yung show.” Sheena also shares that she observes her own mother while preparing for her role. “Ino-obserbahan ko siya. Pag malungkot ako, doble ang lungkot niya. Pag masaya ka, makikita mo yung glow sa mukha nila. So, iyon yung tinatandaan ko. And inaaral ko rin si David. I want to develop a relationship with David on and off screen. Pag nasa set ako, alam kong nanay na ako. Si David dapat makikinig or makikipaglaro siya sa akin, yung hindi na siya maiilang. Iyon yung ina-apply ko every taping. During the auditions, kay David ko naramdaman na yung iyak niya, tumatama sa akin. Hindi lang iyak

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SPORTS 15 Roger Federer returns a ball during his match against Daniel Brands at the German Open tennis tournament in Hamburg on Wednesday. (AP Photo)

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AMBURG, Germany (AP) -- Roger Federer rallied to beat Daniel Brands 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 Wednesday at the German Tennis Championships in his first match since his second-round loss at Wimbledon last month. Using a bigger racket for the first time, Federer served three aces in the opening game but still lost his serve and ultimately the set to the German. The former No. 1 broke once in

the second set and twice in the decider to reach the third round. The 17-time major champion is a four-time winner in Hamburg, the city where he won his first title in 2002 to break into the top 10. After losing at Wimbledon to Sergiy Stakhovsky - who failed to qualify for the main draw in Hamburg - Federer dropped to No. 5 in the rankings, the first time in

a decade that he’s been that low. Brands, who celebrated his 26th birthday Wednesday and received a cake after the match, got few presents from the top-seeded Federer in the last two sets. However, the Swiss star needed four match points to close it out. He finished with nine aces on the claycourt surface. ‘’It was a tough match. Daniel is playing a very

be at PLDT Bangkal. Water Stations will be in between turning points. Runners may register at Bread Factory and Munchies branches in NCCC Mall Ramon Magsaysay, NCCC Mall Davao, NCCC Centerpoint, NCCC Panacan, and Calinan. Bread Factory branches in Bolton St., Cabantian, San Pedro, Toril, and Catalunana Pequeño. Munchies branches at Davao Doctors College, John Paul II College, and Brokenshire College. As of press time some 400 runners have registered for the race. Habitat will also be entertaining interested participants at the registration centers if they wish to pledge, volunteer, or sponsor for the organization. Today they will be presenting the organization’s programs and ways people can volunteer at NCCC Mall Davao Bread Factory. Aside from the fun run, there will also be a zumba class led by Metrolifestyle Gym, mascot shows, and a walk-in exhibit by Habitat on the day of the race.

Fun Run at NCCC

OME 2000 runners are expected to see action in Fun Run: Takbo Para sa Tahanan that is set to unfurl on August 11 at 5 a.m. in an out-andback course at NCCC Mall Davao. The footrace, presented by LTS City Foods Inc.’s Brad Factory and Munchies, aims to raise funds for the Habitat for Humanity Philippines. “Portion of the fun run will be for Habitat’s Rebuild program wherein it will assist disaster victims to build decent and affordable homes,” said Aileen Gojo, Public Relations of the NCCC Group, during the Davao Sports Writers Association Forum at Calle Cinco, yesterday. It features 3K, 5K, and 10K. Registration is pegged at P250 (3K), P300 (5K), P350 (10K) and are inclusive of singlet, race bib, finisher’s certificate, light snack, reusable water pouch, and raffle entry. The route of the race will be along Gen. Douglas MacArthur Highway. Turning point for the 3K will be at Venee’s Hotel, 5K will be at Land Bank-GSIS, and 10K will

good season,’’ Federer said. Federer will play qualifier Jan Hajek of the Czech Republic, who beat 15th-seeded Ernests Gulbis of Latvia 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. Tommy Haas outlasted qualifier Blaz Kavcic of Slovenia 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 to advance to the third round. The second-seeded Haas blew a 4-1 lead in the third set but held serve and broke to clinch

the match when Kavcic sent a forehand long. ‘’At the end, it’s the victory that counts,’’ Haas said. Haas was runner-up in the tournament last year and is the oldest player in the top 100 at 35. He is looking for his second title at home this season, after winning in Munich. Fourth-seeded Jerzy Janowicz of Poland, a Wimbledon semifinalist, prevailed 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (4)

over Robin Haase of the Netherlands. Defending champion Juan Monaco of Argentina, seeded fifth, beat Gael Monfils 6-4, 6-4. Four other seeded players lost - No. 6 Andreas Seppi, No. 10 Tommy Robredo, No. 13 Mikhail Youzhny and No. 16 Martin Klizan. No. 11 Feliciano Lopez, No. 12 Fabio Fognini and No. 14 Fernando Verdasco advanced.

number of athletes we will be sending to the games. However, the approval will also depend on the finance board. We hope to send a full delegation since the venue is near and this will also be a huge exposure for under 15 athletes,” said Sports Development Di-

vision of the City Mayor’s Office (SDD-CMO) officer-in-charge William “Butch” Ramirez during the Davao Sports Writers Association Forum at Calle Cinco, Bajada. The budget for the delegates is yet to be approved however; Ramirez mentioned that

whatever the budget outcome may be they will look for partnerships to shoulder other expenses. A total of 82 athletes were sent in the Batang Pinoy 2012 at Dapitan City wherein they bagged a total of 50 gold, 36 silver, and 19 bronze.

DC to go all out for BP elims

AVAO City will be sending a full delegation to the upcoming Batang Pinoy 2013 in Tagum City, Davao Del Norte from August 27 to 31. “We will be having a meeting with Jimmy Cerojales of DepEd on the finalization of the

Newly-appointed Sports Development Division of the City Mayor’s office (SDD-CMO) head William Ramirez discusses his plans and programs for Davao City sports during yesterday’s Davao Sportswriters Association (DSA)

at Calle Cinco along J.P. Laurel Avenue. Also in the photo is Goldie Delvo. Lean Daval Jr.

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