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March 12, 2012

3 men cut Kaimito tree; they all died

TV networks cover the grand launching of Villanueva’s 100-days countdown to its 50th anniversary celebration. Mayor Juliette T. Uy answered queries from the media who attended the press conference held before the commencement of launching program.

Photo by Gerry L. Gorit

BUENAVISTA, Agusan del Norte––The sudden deaths of three construction workers who had no history of illness before their untimely deaths stirred controversy while close members of their respective families here were puzzled in their mysterious deaths.

Relatives of the victims claimed the three construction workers cut a Kaimito tree at the construction site of a Church in Barangay Uno of this town last Monday, thus the mystery begins.

The three workers were identified as Sentrecio Ramin, 42, back hoe operator, married and resident of this town, Ernesto Coronel, the construction foreman and construction helper Melger Camanso 22, married and resident of Barangay Don

Pedro Naawan Misamis Oriental.

According to the companions of the victims, also construction workers of an on-going church construction of the religious sect Church of the Latter Day Saints in said barangay, the three started to suffer high fever after cutting the Kaimito Tree.

“They all suddenly fallen ill then died and my cousin Melger Camanso who TREE/PAGE 7

Villanueva to mark 50th anniversary

By GERRY L. GORIT, Photo-journalist

Forty-nine symbolic lanterns were released during the grand launching of the 100-days countdown to the 50th anniversary celebration of the town of Villanueva in Misamis Oriental. The affair was held at the public plaza attended by the townspeople.

Photo by Gerry L. Gorit

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THE Municipality of Villanueva in Misamis Oriental held on Friday evening its grand launching of the 100days countdown to its 50th anniversary celebration.

Villanueva will be marking its 50th charter day celebration on June 16.

Mayor Juliette T. Uy led dignitaries and guests in the program staged at the public plaza of the town.

Among the municipal officials who also graced the occasion were Vice Mayor Wendelinio J. Nalagon, MARK/PAGE 7

Amante opens balangay festival silver year

By PAT SAMONTE, Regional Editor-Caraga with JOEL PORTUGAL, Correspondent

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BUTUAN City––Mayor Ferdinand Amante, Jr. announced the Balangay Festival Silver Year 2012-2013 celebration open on Friday, March 9, The date of Amante’s official opening of the yearlong festivities coincided with the March 9, 1987 declaration of Butuan’s Bal-

angay boats as national cultural treasures by the late President Corazon C. Aquino in Proclamation No. 86.

To run from March 9, 2012 to March 8, 2013, the festival will revolve around the Balangay boats and other artifacts discovered in Sitio Ambangan here which

experts dated from 4th century A.D. and stated that the site “has no parallel in South East Asia prehistoric archaeology and may well be a unique phenomenon in the whole world”.

Amante and city tourism council members unveiled the winning entry in the logo contest which the city chief executive said will be the festival’s official logo.

City Tourism Council

chairperson Atty. Rema Erigbuagas-Burdeos said her group has been mandated to organize and manage the Balangay Festival Silver Year 2012-2013 and that activities have been lined up for the celebration to include among others the Search for the Mutya Hong Butuan, First Mass celebration commemoration, Inter-Purok, Barangay FESTIVAL/PAGE 7

Pinoy workers get maltreatment instead of help from embassy

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL of Bulatlat.com

First of two parts ANALIZA Muaña, 32, was a domestic helper over-burdened with work yet underpaid by her employer in Syria.

Her duties included cleaning her employer’s house, taking care of their children, doing the laundry and other household chores. She also had

In war-torn Syria, the Philippine embassy is sending distressed OFWs to jail when they escaped the dangers of war and maltreatment of employers Special Report to clean the house of her employer’s relatives. Her employer did not allow her three meals a day and they paid her $175 instead of $400 as stated in her contract.

On June 5, 2011, she left her employer and sought refuge from the Philippine embassy. But instead of refuge, the Philippine embassy brought her to jail because her employer had reported her to the authorities.

Analiza was imprisoned at the cramped jail for a week.

Upon release she went back to the Philippine embassy but her nightmare still did not end there.

According to reports, Muaña’s experience is not isolated. Other overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Syria have also gotten the same treatment from the

Philippine embassy. After escaping abusive employers, it is like they end up going to another hell.

Inhumane situation Muaña met several other OFWs at a ‘temporary house’ called the Filipino Workers Resource Centers (FWRCs) of the Philippine embassy.

There were no decent meals there. “They measure everything. We eat one cup of rice, chicken bones or a slice of eggplant for viand, while they (the embassy

official) eat good food,” Muaña said.

Anot her domestic helper, Arlene Castillo, 37, had also stayed at the temporary shelter. She corroborated Muaña’s testimony. “They barred us from buying groceries when the food they were giving us was not enough.

We were also not allowed to go outside the embassy.

Mornings we eat only half of Arabic bread and EMBASSY/PAGE 2

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Urban poverty’s hidden dimensions threaten devt: research RESIDENTS of low-income and informal urban settlements suffer hugely from inadequate living conditions and limited access to services, which puts a disproportionate burden on women’s unpaid time and results in far-reaching consequences for their well-being, according to a new research.

The study, which was conducted by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) with support from UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, shows that although ur-

banization presents women with more job opportunities, greater independence and fewer economic and cultural constraints, it does not always result in a fairer distribution of wealth and other advantages, including rights, political representation and their ability to secure assets.

UNFPA Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, said this research synthesizes a new and emerging area of work that is of critical importance to reduce poverty and promote gender

equality.

“Responding effectively to rapid urbanization—which is occurring in many countries— requires empowering women and young people and improving their access to education, health and employment,” said Dr. Osotimehin. “Addressing the issues of changing family relationships and sharing of domestic work are closely linked to promoting gender equality and ending violence against women. These efforts are indispensable for making progress

2 Abu Sayyaf fall in Basilan

By AL JACINTO, Regional Editor-Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA City––Security forces arrested two Abu Sayyaf militants linked to the spate of terrorism and kidnappings in the southern Philippine province of Basilan, officials said Thursday.

Officials said Anni Edris and Serhad Akalon were arrested in separate operations in Sumisip and Isabela City this week.

Akalon was among over two dozen prisoners who escaped from the provincial jail in 2009, according to Army Colonel Ricardo Visaya, commander of military forces in Basilan, one of five provinces under the Muslim autonomous region.

He said troops also

seized an M16 automatic rifle and a grenade from Akalon. “He was one of those who escaped from prison in 2009 and is facing various criminal charges from kidnappings to multiple murder cases,” he said.

Indris was among those who kidnapped and killed farm workers in the town of Lantawan in 2001 during an Abu Sayyaf raid on a rubber plantation.

Visaya said they have

heightened security in Basilan due to increased attacks by Abu Sayyaf on construction firms working on various government projects in the province.

He said most of the attacks were connected to extortion activities.

Just this week, militants also attacked a cell site of telecom giant Smart Communications in Lamitan City, but caused little damage to the facility located in the village of Parang Basak.

“We have deployed additional troops to guard government infrastructure projects and vital facilities in Basilan because of these attacks,” he said. (Ely Dumaboc/Mindanao Examiner)

Police kills ‘riding-in-tandem’ gunmen

By MARTIN M. GAMBA

CAMP Rodriguez, Butuan City––True heroism is remarkably sober. It isn’t the urge to surpass the conviction of others, but a spirit to serve others at whatever

cost.

This was humbly proven

by PO1 Ruel B. Ortega of the 2nd Company RPSC, who, with all his valor responded to a shooting incident at the

Embassy...

At the hospital, Martinez and six other OFWs were guarded by the Syrian police. “They said we have no papers so they were guarding us. By Sept. 26, we were brought to the immigration and there we were detained,” she recalled.

Martinez and another OFW got released on the same day. But four other OFWs remained in jail at the immigration because they had no exit visa yet.

At the time they were at the embassy, it was winter. Yet, Castillo said they had to take cold baths, no heater. And two people had to share a mattress.

OFWs were also barred from using their cellphones.

Martinez hid her cell-

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tea,” Castillo told Bulatlat.com.

Rut h Mar t i n e z , 3 7 , another domestic helper, fared worse. She got sick while staying at the embassy. She sought refuge at the temporary shelter on Sept. 23 last year after escaping from her abusive employer.

Two days later, she and six others were rushed to the hospital due to food poisoning. “We were all vomiting; we had diarrhea.

I was very dizzy and my blood pressure also shot up,” Martinez told Bulatlat. com in an interview. All they ate was food served at the embassy.

towards sustainable development.”

“When people talk of poverty they focus on income, but poverty has other aspects that affect men and women, old and young people in different ways,” said researcher Cecilia Tacoli, of IIED. For Dr. Tacoli, gender inequalities in free time, working and living conditions, as well as exposure to violence, are some of the hidden aspects of poverty that affect women more disproportionately and that policymakers should recognize and address.

Overall, urbanization leads to lower fertility rates, but women living in poor areas may have as many children as rural women because their access to reproductive health services can be just as bad, if not worse, the new research points out.

In addition, among the urban poor, women often have the lowest-paid, least-secure jobs, while men retain much of the decision making power within households and take on only a RESEARCH/p.6

Former Maguindanao Governor Andal Ampatuan, Sr. - accompanied by visiting relatives – relaxes in a thatched hut during his military detention in 2010 in Davao City’s Eastern Mindanao Command. The Ampatuan patriarch - who is among some 200 people accused in the 2009 massacre of 57 people, mostly journalists, in Maguindanao province - was rushed to hospital from Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City where he is detained, after vomiting blood. (Al Jacinto/Mindanao Examiner Photo)

Maguindanao massacre suspect rushed to hospital

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AUTHORITIES tightened security at a government hospital where a former Muslim governor accused in the brutal murders of 57 people in the restive southern region of Mindanao was rushed after vomiting blood.

It said Andal Ampatuan, Sr. is suffering from hyper-

tension, diabetes, pneumonia among other diseases, including a heart complication.

The Ampatuan patriarch was among 200 people charged for the killings of mostly journalists covering a political caravan in Maguindanao province in 2009.

His sons and other rela-

tives were also implicated by the police in the mass murders that occurred in his home province where the political clan ruled for decades.

The Ampatuans are currently detained at a facility in Taguig City. (Mindanao Examiner)

phone so she could communicate with her children in the Philippines. She shared it also with other OFWs who wanted to communicate with their relatives.

“I hid my cellphone so that we were also updated about what was happening in Syria and so we could update our relatives on our situation here,” she said.

She also managed to disseminate information about their plight and about the situation of OFWs in Syria through Facebook.

When caught sing their cellphones, these were confiscated. Migrante International chairman Garry Martinez asked the government why the OFWs’ cellphones are being confiscated at the temporary

shelter. “ The DFA (Department of Foreign Affairs) said it is a POLO-OWWA policy,” Martinez quoted them as saying. He added that Migrante can’t see the rationale for confiscating mobile phones and isolating the OFWs from their families and the rest of the world. “How else would we know their real situation in Syria?” he asked.

The Migrante leader added that the confiscation of mobile phones in FWRCs is a direct violation of the fourth Geneva Convention.

“Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War”, it states that individuals “who do not belong to the armed forces or take no part in

the hostilities” should be protected and “enabled to exchange family news of a personal kind” and/or “helped to secure news of family members dispersed by the conflict.”

Slow repatriation The three women OFWs decried the slow repatriation of OFWs from wartorn Syria.

Muaña had been at the embassy in June 2010 but she was repatriated almost two years later, on Jan. 17 this year.

“I don’t know why and what took them so long to allow me to go back home,” she said.

Due to depression and frustration, Muaña admitted she almost lost her mind. “I became hysteri-

cal. I was screaming at the embassy. I wanted so badly to go home,” she said.

Martinez and Castillo waited two months before they were sent home.

Martinez arrived back last December while Castillo arrived this January.

Migrante International said there are 17,000 OFWs still in Syria. The group said the government has repatriated only six percent of this 17,000. They are asking the DFA to “increase its efforts tenfold” to be able to repatriate the abused domestic helpers in the Middle East.

Reports said the death toll in Syria has reached 5,500. Some of the casualties were members of the international media.

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Pagantayan, Cantilan, Surigao Sur in early afternoon of March 8, this year.

Police investigation showed, the suspects identified as Mr. Taming Nuñez

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Pictorial Highlights on the 50th Anniversary of Villanueva, MisOr PHOTOS BY GERRY L. GORIT, Photojournalist

The government officials of Villanueva, led by Mayor Juliette T. Uy and Vice Mayor Wendelino J. Nalagon, unveil the logo for the town’s 50th Charter Day Celebration.

Various activities have been lined up leading to the June 16 celebration.

Villanueva Mayor Juliette T. Uy, Vice Mayor Wendelino J. Nalagon, municipal councilors and the SK chairman pose for photographers covering the grand launching of the 100-days countdown to the 50th anniversary celebration of the town held on Friday. The affair was also graced by the barangay officials of the municipality.

Villanueva Mayor Juliette T. Uy and Vice Mayor Wendelino J. Nalagon announce during a press conference held on Friday the grand launching of the 100-days countdown to the municipality’s 50th anniversary celebration. The municipal councilors were also present during the activity held at the Senior Citizen’s Building.

School teachers and administrators join the grand launching of Villanueva’s 100days countdown to the 50th anniversary celebration. During the program, pupils of the VNCMCS and Looc Elementary led the singing of the national anthem and Villanueva March.

Municipal employees of Villanueva pose with Mayor Juliette T. Uy for a souvenir photo of the grand launching of the 100-days countdown to the 50th anniversary celebration held on Friday.

Villanueva Mayor Juliette Uy poses before the logo of the town’s 50th Charter Day celebration. The logo was unveiled to the public during Friday’s program to launch the 100-days countdown to the 50th anniversary celebration scheduled in June this year.

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Going through hot water

The Striker

Ben Emata Jr.

We always survive IT is only stupidity in the mind if we think the Filipinos will go hungry because of worldwide slow down in the economy. That cannot happen because Filipinos have different culture and style of living. If we compare ourselves to the Western people, I mean the white people.

We may be far behind in modernization, wealth, style of living and having luxuries in life but always we stand straight and proud of our own way. We survive crisis of all sorts and always come out smiling and strong.

Many times there were global collapse of the economy or whatever you call it.. There was famine worldwide, lack of everything and people were in total hardship.

Many had no money and hardly could buy the things they need to survive. The Filipinos just went to the mountains, into the hills, along the river, in the seashores and there grabbed so many things to eat. We are truly rich in natural resources and certainly it can give us life. I have yet to see or just hear that a Filipino was brought to a hospital or died elsewhere because of hunger. It never occurred ever.

Do we ever know how strong and determined we are?

Do we know ourselves so well? Do we know that many of us have some plantings in his backyard or in his little farm? And these silent farmlands are more than enough to hold life for them. And to think that Filipinos eat five times a day, is another thing to reckon with. Certainly,

THINK a minute.

“A tea bag isn’t worth m u c h u n t i l i t’s b e e n through some hot water.”

There’s a saying in boxing: “Everybody’s got a plan—until they’ve been hit!”

Sooner or later, life is going to hit and knock you down. Whether you get back up or not is your choice.

Almost all people’s successes are built on their former failures.

A very successful man was asked if he had ever failed. He answered: “Only in life.”

The fact is, even after we’ve been knocked down we can still use our past mistakes and failures to build a bridge to our suc-

Think A Minute Jhan Tiafau Hurst cess.

You know that you’re the only one who can kill your dream by quitting.

Remember that just falling in the water is not what drowns you; it’s staying down there that does.

Just like kites fly high because the wind pushes against them, so problems that oppose you can actually help you succeed, if you choose to believe and

use them that way.

There was a man who was the only survivor from a shipwreck.

He drifted to an uninhabited island where he built a hut for his shelter.

One evening after he returned from searching for food, he found his little hut on fire.

Early the next morning he awoke to find a ship that had come in during

the night.

When the captain came on shore he told the man: “We saw your smoke signal so we came to rescue you.”

Everything this man owned and valued in his hut had to be destroyed before he could be saved.

Sometimes our Maker even uses our pain to get our attention, so we can learn our most important lessons for living well and wisely. So why not ask Jesus Christ to take charge and lead you through the hot water you’re in now?

He’s the only one who can help you change your pain and problems into peace and prosperity for you and your family.

The choice is yours.

Just Think a Minute.

A legacy of a bleak future

THE GOVERNMENT knows the basic problems of the country and its people. Yet, it (government) never acted on it. Nothing is unusual in these problems. What makes it unusual is the government failure in SURVIVE/p.7 resolving them.

The spiraling oil prices is one of the problems that pestered this government ever since. Everyone knows that any oil price hike in the Cris Diaz world market will have a debilitating effect on countries relying on oil importation. The The MINDANAO DAILY is published by Mindanao Daily Balita at Door 3, Geleng Bldg., Lapasan Highway, Cagayan de Philippines is not immune.

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DANTE M. SUDARIA PUBLISHER Marcos, who declared Martial Law in an effort to perpetuate himself in power, could be the worst presiRUEL V. PELONE ROSE MARY D. SUDARIA MANAGER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF dent the Philippines ever have had. However, Marcos ALLAN M. MEDIANTE MELANIE RIVERA was the only president who tried to fight the oil cartel IRENE DOMINGO EXECUTIVE EDITOR of giant oil manufacturers in the country.

PINKY CADAVEDO JOE DEL PEURTO FELICILDA Marcos declared the ‘oil regulation law’ where the A ò Ùã®Ý®Ä¦ MANAGING EDITOR government could check oil players in the country.

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CRIS DIAZ PÙÊ ç ã®ÊÄ Sensing that prices of oil in the world market is liquid, ASSOCIATE EDITOR ALBERT MOLIT Marcos established the Oil Price Stabilization Fund PAT SAMONTE MARLON DOMINGO (OPSF). OPSF subsidizes oil companies every time oil R ¦®ÊÄ ½ E ®ãÊÙ-C Ù ¦

prices in the world market shoot up.

When this occurs, OBSF provides fund to oil players to maintain monthly oil requirements to make sure that oil prices in the local market remains at status quo. To make sure that the local market remains stable despite erratic oil prices in the world market, Marcos created the Price Control Law. Where does the OBSF come from? Its fund came from portion of taxes collected from oil players in the country.

This fund infuses additional capital to stakeholders in order to offset additional fund needed to acquire oil at a much higher price.

The incessant oil price increase in the world market did not spare the Marcos government from the socio-political and economic problem associated with it. Knowing the effects of price movement, the Price Control Law oversees prices of basic commodities in the local market. The principle of the Price Control Law was to protect the purchasing power of an impoverished nation.

No doubt, Marcos was one of the most intelligent Presidents the Philippines ever have had. Instead of protecting the gains of the Martial Law regime, the succeeding Philippine presidents obliterated it albeit heading the call of corporate election financiers.

Thus, the oil regulation law was repelled and the OPSF dissolved. Although policy makers know the relevance of those laws, they are overwhelmed with self-adulating delusion. Perhaps, the incumbent leadership wants to impress a legacy on the Filipino people. Unfortunately, that legacy is nothing but a bleak future.

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The truth re: PNoy-Corona meet LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “…`For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again’…” (Jesus Christ, in Matthew 24:21, the Holy Bible).

-oooSOLAR STORM PROVES “DAY OF FIRE”: The solar storm that hit the earth Thursday proved beyond doubt that fire can really burn the sun, the moon, the heavens and everything on earth, exactly as the Bible, in 2 Peter 3:10-11 and Malachi 4:1-2 (or, for other versions, 3:19-20), warns. Just so we are clear on this, let me reprint, once again, these two Biblical verses here, as a reminder

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2 Peter 3:10-11: “… But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare…”

Malachi 4:1-2 (3:19-20): “…`Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace.

All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble,

and the day that is coming will set them on fire,’ says the Lord Almighty. `Not a root or a branch will be left to them…’ ” -ooo“L I V E HOLY A N D GODLY LIVES”: With this kind of an ending, what are we supposed to do right now? 2 Peter 3:11 asks the same question, and, fortunately, gives an answer: “…

Since everything will be

destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives…”

Malachi 4:2 (or 3:20), on the other hand, gives hope for salvation for believers, or those who revere the name of God, when the fire of destruction finally comes: “But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves…”

How is this salvation to be effected when the whole of the earth is being burned on the day of the Lord, the day of fire? 1 Thessalonians 4 says that those who died in Jesus, our God and SavMEET/p.7

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PRO-13 holds search and rescue training

CARAGA Region (R13) – The Police Regional Office (PRO) 13 has initiated a Disaster Search and Rescue Training at Camp Rodriguez, Butuan City, recently. Attended by rescue teams from different mobile units in the region, the activity was graced by P/Director Rey L. Lanada, chief of DHRDD in Camp Crame. During the closing ceremonies at the PRO-13 grandstand, various rescue tactics were demonstrated by the participating teams.

CdO allocates P6.7M for Sendong survivors

CAGAYAN de Oro City - Another batch of 1,480 typhoon Sendong survivors have trooped to the City Social Services Office, Thursday, for financial assistance from the city government. According to Mayor Vicente Emano, the allocation amounted to P6,707,000 for Zone 9, Macanhan, Carmen; Mambuaya; Tomas Saco-1st Nazareth; Pagalungan; Pagatpat; Pigsag-an; Puntod; San Simon; Tablon; Tignapoloan; Tuburan and Tumpagon.

Canadian Embassy holds environment forum

CARAGA Region (R13) - The Embassy of Canada, together with the Chamber of Mines Caraga, facilitated yesterday the “Valuing the Environment : A Forum on Responsible Minerals Development” at Hotel Tavern in Surigao City. The one-day activity was attended mostly by tri-media practitioners from various parts of the region.

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What are the differences between a good recycler and a bad recycler?

Good Recycler: You carefully separate your recyclables, cans, paper, and glass, before filling your recycle bins.

Bad Recycler: You give the recycle bins to the kids to use as toboggans.

Cancer and the environment CANCER is a renegade system of growth inside the human body.

The changes that must occur inside for cancer to flourish are genetic changes, but factors outside the body also play a role.

Humans do not exist in contaminant-free surroundings.

Over a lifetime, a person’s internal genetic makeup persistently interacts with external factors.

Factors outside the body, such as diet, smoking, alcohol use, hormone levels, or exposures to certain viruses and cancer-linked chemicals (carcinogens) over time may collectively conspire with internal genetic mutations to destabilize normal checks and balances on growth and maturation. (National Cancer Institute)

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Cuello wins via TKO in 4th round vs Suryana ILOILO City––Ilonggo boxer Denver “The Excitement” Cuello, who is concurrently the reigning World Boxing Council (WBC) Silver Minimumweight champion, did not frustrate his provincemates who witnessed his non-title bout with Kid “El Chivato” Suryana

of Indonesia held at the covered court in Jaro district in this city Saturday afternoon.

The Ilonggo pug from Cabatuan, Iloilo prevailed over the Indonesian challenger via technical knockout (TKO) in the 4th round of the 10-round fight.

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resulting in his instantaneous death.

To determine the motive of the perpetrators, personnel of Cantilan MPS are still conducting further investigation.

It has always been said that the legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

This was manifested not only by PO1 Ortega, but by many police officers whose great deeds remained unseen.

Meanwhile, the Police Regional Office 13 (PRO13) assures the public of its seriousness in uprooting the lawless elements, if only to make Caraga a more secured and peaceful region. (mmg/asf )

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Carrascal town and Brgy.

Kagawad Camelo Estal of San Jose, Tandag City were riding-in-tandem and shotdead Mr. Jovi Ganora of Purok-4, Brgy Magosilum, Cantilan.

PO1 Ortega, who was at the crime scene, immediately responded and shot the fleeing suspects, hitting Mr. Nuñez in the head resulting in his death, while Kagawad Estal tried to escape and hid under the nearby bridge.

Instead of giving up himself, he fired his fired his gun towards the responding elements of the Cantilan and Carrascal Municipal Police Stations, prompting PO1 Ortega to shoot him,

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small share of domestic tasks. This leaves women both cash and time-poor, and means that their workload—both paid and unpaid—is generally much heavier than men’s.

The research also notes the potential for urbanization to deliver sustainable development and better quality of life for all individuals, highlighting that society as a whole should recognize the important role of unpaid female care

work in ensuring that children, older people and those who are sick or disabled are looked after, especially where communities lack adequate services and infrastructure.

“Urban growth is inevitable but urban poverty is not. Policymakers should look beyond income and material wealth in their planning so they can tackle all forms of gender inequality and seize the potential of urbanisation to improve people’s lives,” according to IIED’s Director, Dr. Camilla Toulmin.

During the 1st and 2nd rounds, Cuello bombarded the Indonesian with a barrage of punches, giving Suryana a grim chance to retaliate.

The Ilonggo boxer further went on to dominate the fight in the 3rd round until the beleaguered challenger succumbed to

Cuello’s powerful punches in the 4th round.

The non-title fight served as a tune-up fight for the scheduled elimination match between Cuello and Mexican Ganingan “El Zurdo” Lopez to be held this coming May, where the winner will face off Kazuto Ioka of Japan

either in July or August, also this year.

Prior to the CuelloSuryana main fight, boxing aficionados here were delighted to witness at the Jaro covered gym nine undercard bouts that included two other Ilonggo boxers -- Leonil Legada of Lambunao and Jomar

Fajardo of San Miguel, Iloilo.

Legada won but it was unfortunate for his compatriot Fajardo who failed to make it in the ring.

The duo were fitted against fellow Filipino boxers from southern Philippines in the undercards. (PNA)

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with. Certainly, we eat full meals three times a day. Then in-between such meals are things we call snacks or merrienda.

That is how we live and not known by other nationalities.

Many of us have small farmlands at the foot of the mountains. Some have them in the hillside. And those who do not know how to go farming, at least know how to survive by fishing along rivers and in the deep sea. We have division of labor. Those who cannot go fishing or farming, do other money-making occupation like working as laborers, professionals, carpenters and many kinds of jobs.

All these activities just support lives and keep Filipinos alive and proud.

As time goes on, Filipinos who do not want to work in farming, fishing and other occupations, discovered that working abroad or in foreign lands is an option that is not only beautiful and easy but truly a kind of work that can improve family living and lifestyles. So an exodus of Filipino workers established themselves in Americ a, Japan, European countries, the MiddleEast, Asian countries and practically all places in the map.

In deed such scheme of money-makings has improved the faces of many people. These workers in foreign lands were able to build houses in the country, send their kids to higher education, purchased farmlands, motor vehicles and other things within their reach.

The workers abroad were able to improve the whole country since the dollar earning which amount to billions have improved the position of the Philippine economy. God was just so kind to our country and people that He gave the way for us to work on.

We have improved our image. Right now we still have no idea where we are going to from here. I am sure with our ingenuity and endeavor, we shall go farther beyond the globe or whenever possible and profitable. Filipinos shall be there whenever and wherever they are needed.

It is just a beautiful thing that we have such kind of culture in our blood and we survive independently and proud of ourselves.

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and those are living for Him and not yet dead when He comes back, will all be taken up to the clouds to meet Him, to

escape the fire of God’s wrath.

-oooGUINGONA’S NEUTRALITY IN DOUBT: Who between Chief Justice Renato Corona and Sen. Teofisto Guingona III is telling the truth? And why did Guingona have to meet the Chief Justice one year ago? Why the need for a lunch date?

Whatever the answers are, I believe that the meeting, admitted by Guingona to have occurred, puts in grave doubt his capacity to be a neutral judge in the impeachment trial.

-oooT H E T RU T H R E : PNOY & CORONA MEET: And then, there is something wrong somewhere in the meeting between Corona and President Aquino. I mean, why was the meeting not disclosed to the public earlier? Was there something to hide?

And, could we believe claims that the President met with Corona to “strengthen cooperation” between the executive and judicial branches of government, as Edwin Lacierda said?

We should all remember that, right on day one of Aquino’s presidency, he was already snubbing the Chief Justice and was calling him a “midnight appointee” of Gloria Arroyo. So, it could not be true that the meeting was intended to “strengthen cooperation”---it was more likely a meeting to ask Corona to step down.

The rest of the story is now history, as many of us are fond of saying.

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accompanied the two in cutting the Kaimito was third to have died in a matter of only 24 hours” narrated Juniel Cabaltero to the Buenavista Police investigators.

Cabaltero told cops here that they decided to report the incidents to the authorities due to its unusual occurrences.

Cabaltero claimed that after his cousin and two of his companions, a back hoe operator and a construction foreman decided to cut the Kaimito Tree, because it is obstruction of the on-going church construction, the three had fallen ill with an unknown illness and a matter of few hours, they all died.

Cabaltero said he tried to save his cousin by giving him medicines for fever and cold after his cousin suffered sudden high fever and colds.

“Suddenly my cousin was trembling as if trembling for fear or because of the cold and high fever with his eyes staring weird, I can’t understand when he was just okay that day. Eventually he passed away, it is so sad he is not only my cousin but companion in this work” Cabaltero said.

Cabaltero and the three victims were all staying at a bunk house for construction workers at the construction site.

Cabaltero told police the first to die due also of high fever, trembling was Ramin, the backhoe operator who died early dawn Tuesday, then foreman Coronel and the last was his cousin.

Buenavista said they are still conducting investigation of the incident. (PNA)

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Burdeos said focus will be on the historical and tourism aspects of the year-long celebration and looked forward to visitors and tourists booking Butuan City and Caraga Region as important destinations to witness “the magic they wield, the natural wealth they possess, the rich historical knowledge they convey and the thrill for adventure they provide”.

Councilor Jaime Cembrano, Jr. said the celebration has for its theme “One Boat, One People, One Butuan” stressing that the Balangay boat has become a “unifying factor” for Butuanons

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The barangay officials were also present.

A special composition for the big event on June, called the Golden Celebration Theme Song, was rendered by the Bongloy Quartet before the town folks who filled the plaza.

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At the end of the program, which is anchored on the theme “Unity the Road to Progress”, the government officials released its 49th symbolic lantern.

A fireworks display also thrilled the audience.

Mayor Uy said Villanueva will soon complete the construction of a modern, spacious municipal hall which will include a large gymnasium.

She cited the activities lined up in June. These include a Karomata Parade, Agro Livelihood Fair, Art & Photo Exhibit, Boxing at the Park, musical programs, Job Fair, Miss Villanueva 2012 pageant, Medical Mission, Motocross, Cheerleading Competition, Mardi Gras Festival, Airsoft & Airgun Competition, Fun Run, Float Parade and Thanksgiving Mass.

The venues for the various events will be around different locations in the municipality.

To be highlighted also during the affair is the municipality’s Firebricks product used in construction.

Mayor Uy said the local government has budgeted P800,000 for the celebration.

Hosting the evening affair was Ms. Angel Carbajal, the Miss Cagayan de Oro 2011 reigning beauty queen.

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Meanwhile, Leo Gerona of the Caraga office of the Department of Tourism announced that tourism-oriented infrastructure projects worth P194.8 million have been forwarded to the Department of Public Works and Highways for implementation, to include the Improvement of the National Road Junction-Butuan City-Cagayan de Oro-Iligan Road to Bood Promontory Eco-Park in Barangay Pinamanculan here (P26.8 million), Consstruction and Improvement of Road to Support Riverine Cruise at Banza River, Buuan City (P60 million), and the Upgrading of National Road Junction-Butuan City By-Pass Road to Mt. Mayapay, Sitio Matinaw, Barangay Bonbon, Butuan Cty (P108 million).

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