WEATHER UPDATE SOUTHWEST Monsoon affecting Luzon and Visayas. Luzon and Visayas will have occasional rains becoming frequent over the Western section of Luzon which may trigger flashfloods and landslides. Mindanao will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms. Moderate to strong winds blowing from the Southwest will prevail over the entire archipelago with moderate to rough seas. SOURCE : PAGASA
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ENDS OF THE EARTH Corporations look to plunder Earth’s polar resources
Coop fires cashier
By REX WEYLER of Greenpeace.org
THE world’s multinational corporations face an unrelenting problem. Resource extraction has met Earth’s limits. The great fortunes of history were made by plundering resources, but we have taken the best of everything. With few virgin resources left, modern profitmaking schemes turn to stock manipulations, debt swaps, and bets on derivative markets. Such manipulations, however, with no real wealth behind them, lead to inflation, collapse, and bailouts. In the search for the remnants of nature’s real wealth, the captains of industry scramble for Earth’s remaining stores of minerals, forests, and biomass. This takes us to the ends of the Earth, to the poles, where receding ice opens land and seas for the final act of industrial pillage. Limits According to the World
By PAT SAMONTE, Region editor-Caraga
BUTUAN City––The Agusan del Norte Teachers, Retirees, Employees and Community Cooperative (ANTRECCO) has finally dismissed coop cashier Brian M. Mar. Mar’s dismissal came following the approval by Antrecco’s board of directors of the investigation committee’s recommendation to dismiss him for breach of trust, conformably to Section 6.3 of the cooperative’s Code of Discipline and
Rantings Resource Institute, some 6.2 billion hectares of forest once covered Earth’s landmass. Human expansion has reduced this by about half, to 3.2 billion hectares. Since we high-grade every resource, taking the biggest and best trees first, only about a quarter of the world’s frontier forests – measured in quality and quantity of standing timber – remains. Meanwhile, we have dammed some 30,000 rivers, drained aquifers, dried lakes, polluted our water tables, and heated our atmosphere. As a result, each year, deserts grow by 6-million hectares, as forests shrink by 16-million hectares. In agricultural regions, we’ve mined over half the carbon from our soils, and we wash 26-billion tons of top soil EARTH/PAGE 7
Disbursing officer gone, payroll money missing KIDAPAWAN City––Government auditors from the Commission on Audit (COA) started Friday their careful and comprehensive audit of the financial records left by the “missing” disbursing officer of the Kidapawan City government. Mayor Rodolfo Gantuangco requested for the immediate and thorough check of the records after he received reports that Darwin Loyola, disbursing officer from the Office
of the City Accountant, had left the city since Thursday, bringing with him considerable cash from the city’s coffers. Initially, auditors and staff from the City Treasurer’s Office discovered that more or less than a million pesos allotted for the honorarium of some 2,500 Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team members, more than 150 Special Education Fund teachers, and at least 2,000 Job Order employees for the
Taunang Waterlily Festival idinaos sa Las Pinas MULING idinaos ng Villar Foundation sa pangunguna ni Foundation Managing Director Cynthia Villar ang ika-pitong Waterlily Festival sa Lungsod ng Las Pinas na kung saan naging sentro din sa okasyon ang mga produktong nalikha mula sa waterlily katulad ng paggawa basket. Ayon kay Villar ang Waterlily Festival ay kanilang taunang isinasagawa upang maipakita sa lahat ang mga maaring pakinabang mula sa mga waterlily na dati ay salot at nagiging sanhi ng pagbara ng Las Piñas River. “Dahil sa naturang festival ay natulungan namin ang mga waterlily weavers na maipakita sa publiko at mailako ang kanilang mga likhang produkto mula sa waterlily katulad ng naggagandahang gown na sinuot ng mga kandidata sa festival at gayundin ang dekorasyon sa mga Bangka sa naganap na fluvial parade at iba pang aktibidades sa maghapong okasyon,” ani Villar na nakilala sa pagsusulong ng kapakinabangan sa waterlily at green social enterprises. Ang Waterlily Festival ay naglalayong maipakita ang water hyacinth-based livelihood enterprise. Nilalayon din nito ang paghihikayat sa mga mamamayan na linisin ang Las Piñas River na kung saan tanggalin ang mga waterlily at patuyuin ang mga WATERLILY/PAGE 7
Article 282 (Par C), Labor Code of the Philippines. Antrecco Chief Executive Officer Francis Loque said Mar’s inability to liquidate some P2.6 million in coop funds after management’s failed attempts for him to submit a report with supporting documents had forced the cooperative to “act decisively” in fairness to its members. According to Loque, the fund shortage was COOP/PAGE 7
MISS LAS PIÑAS WATER LILY 2012
Pinangunahan nina Villar Foundation’s Managing Director Cynthia Villar at Las Piñas Representative Mark Villar ang paggawad ng korona sa bagong tanghal na Miss Las Piñas Water Lily para sa taong ito,na si Ms. Lyra Velchez ng Barangay Manuyo 1. kabilang din sa larawan mula kaliwa ay sina Rep. Villar, Tricia Monica Lubiano ng Brgy. Pamplona 1 na tinanghala bilang Miss Runcav Choice, Miss Las Piñas Water Lily 2011 Daphne Cortez; Velchez , Second Runner-up Lady Ann Erlano ng Brgy. BF International/CAA, First Runner-up Angelica Prieto ng Barangay Talon 2, Miss World University Kimberly Hankenson; at Ginang Villar. Ang naturang festival ay naglalayong ipakita sa publiko ang mga produkto at pakinabangan mulsa mga water lily na salot at nagbabaras a mga Ilog.
salary period June 16-30, this year, were missing. Loyola, according to Gantuangco, had already withdrawn the money from the Land Bank of the Philippines since last week. Yet, many of the contractual employees have not yet received their pay. What was disturbing, according to Gantuangco, was the fact that Loyola engaged in a lending business MISSING/PAGE 7