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KIDAPAWAN City––The City Veterinarian Office (CVO) here has expressed alarm over the recent death of a villager due to rabies. Reports reaching the office said another villager in Barangay Balindog here also died of the virus. Samson Dayanan, 49, died last week of rabies, data from the City Health Office said. Dayanan, according to his wife Malou, was beaten by one of their puppies sometime in March this year. The puppy died the next ALARM/PAGE 7 day, the wife said. But her husband just shrugged his shoulders when told the dog might be rabid and that it might kill him. Last week, Malou said, her husband experienced fever, numbness, discomfort, and paralysis. Later, her husband had hallucinations and became hydrophobic. BUSY WITH THE ARREST When reports about This member of the Roads and Traffic Administration (RTA) is busy arresting motorcycle riders wearing Dayanan’s death reached no helmet along Claro M. Recto fly-over but motorists are asking who are in-charge of the monstrous ALARM/PAGE 7 traffic jam from Barangay Lapasan down to Licoan junction. Photo by Shaun Alejandre Uy
1 killed, 16 hurt in car accident BUTUAN City––A septuagenarian passenger of a 10-wheel truck was killed and 16 others were injured when the vehicle fell from an elevated road in Purok 1, Barangay Dulag here Friday. Killed was Apolinario Palingkod, a widower and
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resident of Purok 26, San Roque, Barangay Tungao here. Truck driver Tiburcio Esyum Patac, 59, told police he lost control of the vehicle when its brakes malfunctioned. The 10-wheeler fell from the elevated concrete road, he said.
The victims were rushed to the Butuan City Medical Center in Barangay Tiniwisan, police said. The fatality’s remains were brought to Raniel Funeral Parlor. Patac and his truck are now in the custody of the local police.
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BUTUAN City–– Police this week launched a manhunt on owners of the ill-fated Novo Jeans and Shirts Enterprise razed by a fire last May 9 killing 17 stay-in sales person trapped inside the building. Most of the victims came from the provinces of Zamboanga del Sur, Bukidnon, Misamis Occidental, Agusan and Surigao, and the cities of Dipolog, Ozamis and Zamboanga. Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo on Saturday gave the local police until Wednesday to submit official report on result of the investigation and whereabouts of the real STORE/PAGE 7
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CAGAYAN de Oro City - Newly-appointed City Administrator Leon Du M. Gan Jr. (left) presides over the Local Inter-Agency Council (LIAC) meeting on Sendong-affected households in the city. MOA SIGNING – Dr. Rosalito Quirino (right), president of the Misamis Oriental School of Agriculture and Technology (MOSCAT) hands over to DAR-10 Regional Director Felix Aguhob the signed Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) at the conclusion of the ceremony held at the school campus in Claveria, Misamis Oriental recently. The agreement covers the DARMOSCAT joint economic program in the area. Party-list Rep. Maximo Rodriguez (left) of Abante Mindanao witnesses the event. (Photo by ERS)
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By ROBERT E. ROPEROS Police Regional Office (PRO)-13 information ofBUTUAN City - Aside from ficer said, “police officers ensuring public safety, po- must not only serve as lice officers in Caraga Re- protectors of the public to gion is advocating for a uphold peace and security healthy lifestyle. in the community. They P/Supt Martin Gamba, should also serve as promoters of healthy lifestyle in the community.” P/Supt. Gamba said
the general public, as well, should know the importance of living a healthy lifestyle by getting involved in exercises, sports, and even “fun run” for which the Philippine National Police (PNP) is regularly conducting. He added if the community is healthy, then people are also active and
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will always be alert for any circumstances that threaten peace and security. “In this way, the public will also have the capacity to defend themselves from any criminals because they are active and alert,” he said. For the part of the police, Gamba said if they are in good shape, they will be more productive as they can really implement security measures against criminals, “thus, ensuring public safety.” Early this year, PRO13 conducted the “Takbong Maharlika, Tungo sa Pagkakaisa,” aimed to encourage and urge PNP personnel and citizens in the region to take on the fitness project and exercise a national culture of fitness, leading to the vision of a healthier Philippines.(RER/ PIA-Caraga/asf )
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Life After Lung Cancer Diagnosis Being diagnosed with lung cancer can be a shock, and if it’s linked to smoking, you may suffer from guilt as well. But now is not the time to blame yourself. Instead, experts recommend looking forward. It’s not too late to make healthy changes to your lifestyle. There’s evidence that patients who quit smoking after learning they have lung cancer do better than those who keep smoking. (WebMD)
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Jhan Tiafau Hurst own character, so we never reach our potential and live our life to the fullest. We handle our marriage and other relationships, raise our children, and go through life never seeing ourselves as we really are. So we develop wrong thinking and bad attitudes that hurt our family members and others. Sometimes we might even believe the lie that we cannot change because that’s just the kind of person we’ll always be. But our blindness, and sometimes pride, doesn’t
really want to see and admit our faults. We might we even blame others for our problems and personality. You see, until we honestly admit that we don’t have a healthy character, we’ll never know we need a doctor to get healed. We need someone else with perfect, clear vision to show us what we don’t see in ourselves. Jesus Christ came to do that for us. He will start changing your heart and help you to humbly admit when you’re wrong. He’ll
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show you how to better treat your wife or husband and children. He’ll give you an attitude and heart that easily forgives those people who wrong and hurt you. He’ll give you the strength to always be honest, no matter how much you can get away with. Jesus will also help you not be quick to see faults in others or gossip about them. So today, if you’ll ask Jesus to forgive you of your pride and blindness to your own faults; and ask Him to start healing and changing your heart, He will. Then, as you start living His way every day, you will start to see yourself becoming a new person who can reach your full potential. That’s the only way you can have the successful, satisfying life Jesus created you to enjoy. Just Think a Minute…
IN many regions of the world, airports are being renovated with a growing number of air travelers demanding more pleasant environment including green comfort rooms, a variety of restaurants, gift shops, currency exchange counters, automated bank teller machines and a hotel located within a walking distance from the terminal. Airports should not have any dysfunction. These are show windows of a destination aside from an economic indicator of the prospect of attracting tourists and investors. Much more, airports have to be friendly and peaceful. Of course, brawls and fracas should never be allowed to happen as it is disgusting to the sensibilities of the other foreign nationals and traumatic for travelling children. Airport hotels are part of the convenience of travel. It may have varying policies
Traversing the Tourism Hi-way Ped T. Quiamjot on whom to serve, either exclusive to guests staying overnight or those availing day rates? Many airport hotels in Metro Manila during the early 90’s were serving airline lay-over passengers who were either bumped off from their flights due to reservations snafu or cancellation of flights as a result of unfavorable weather. Sometimes travelers under force majeure are left at their own looking for a nearby hotel for accommodation. There are airport stresses caused by technical problems arising from flight delays when airplanes suddenly developed
mechanical trouble and there is no immediate aircraft replacement. Airport hotels are necessities but could also become diminishing returns ventures unless revenues are enhanced by selling services to travelers regardless of whether they book a room for a night or develop other leisure products like Spa, health clubs and gambling casinos for business synergies. In places where gambling license are issued, airport hotels branch out into gambling casinos as a come on for travelers relaxation while waiting for their flights. Theme restaurants
also become fashionable when someone seeking a break from airport food could walk over for a meal and enjoy a more tranquil atmosphere. Waterfront Hotel along the Mactan International Airport in Cebu located just across the terminal is the only surviving airport hotel outside of Metro Manila. It is afloat because of a Casino. The first 5-star airport hotel in the late 70’s built in Manila at the former Manila International Airport, the Philippine Village Airport Hotel has long closed shop in the year 2000 and the building has been mothballed for the last 12 years for lack of investors to undertake its renovations. The hotel has made its mark as an airport hotel and casino and has seen the best during the Marcos era. At the NAIA 3, along Pasay City, a new airport QUIAMJOT/PAGE 7
Forced tipping in Pagsanjan I had the opportunity to join a group tour to the famous Pagsanjan falls of Laguna over the weekend. To be honest, this is not my first choice as a tourist for three reasons. One, I don’t know how to swim. Two, I’m afraid of the water. And
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three, it was a long trip by van. (I’m one of those who think it’s more glamourous to fly.) The group I was traveling with were business partners who came over to the Philippines for an event. The 2.5-hour drive left us with knees bent stiff in a van. (The falls were worth it.) When we arrived at the resort, we were served lunch amidst the fishy scent of the A boatman paddles with river. If you have a sensitive his feet.
nose, you would feel sick. Then we changed clothes at a nearby locker, rustic with its unfinished yet cemented walls. We were then fitted with a life vest and a helmet, and then supplied with plastic bags for our cameras and another small transparent ziplock bag with a P50.00 bill neatly folded inside. Our travel agent told us it was mandatory to tip the boatmen after the
two-hour trip to the falls. The arrangement was there will be two boatmen per boat, one in the front and the other in the rear. Two guests are seated in the middle like in a kayak, the first will hold on to a steel bar in front and the second will hold on to the arms or waist of the first. It was very dangerous to hold on to the side of the boat, as the sides will make contact with the huge boulders and rocks in the river, and may result in deep wounds or fingers sliced off. As we charged down the steps leading to the boats, I, being the only Filipino in the group, was addressed by the boatmen to add one more person to SUGUITAN/PAGE 7
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Pag-IBIG Fund Released 6.48 M Pag-IBIG Membership Task Force Invades Tandag City to SURPOCO’s GLAD project It’s a dream that comes true for the beneficiaries of Surigao del Sur Police Cooperative (SURPOCO) who now receives the initial release of funds from PagIBIG amounting to 6.48 M for the payment of the land the association intends to develop for their housing needs. The cooperative has a total approved GLAD loan of 12.248 M with Pag-IBIG Fund. In a simple gathering at the Jin’s Restaurant in Tandag City, a symbolic turn-over of fund was held
In the grueling summer heat, Butuan Branch Membership Task Force brave the piercing heat of the sun on their active campaign regarding the mandatory membership coverage of RA 9679 or known as the Pag-IBIG law of 2010. The Task Force was spearheaded by the Chief of Division of Marketing & Housing Loan in the person of Engr. Noly Quimbo. The focus of the campaign is to register unregistered employers with Pag-IBIG especially those covered by RA 9679. Likewise, those private employers who did
not remit the membership contributions of their workers and those who failed to deduct contributions from their workers are enforced by Pag-IBIG to follow the mandates of the new law. In line with the enforcement campaign, Pag-IBIG Fund is also offering a Penalty Condonation to the employers who would manifest intention to register with the Fund and remit the contributions in arrears that are due to their workers. This Penalty Condonation Program of Pag-IBIG took effect last
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in order to formally witness the start of the GLAD obligations by the association. The take-off ceremony was officially graced by Mr. Generoso H. Balacuit, Department Manager III of Butuan Branch, who personally brief the beneficiaries and the association officials regarding their role and obligations to Pag-IBIG relative to the grant of the loan. Likewise, present in the occasion is the contracted Davao-based developer by the cooperative who promised to effectively
start the development of the area on the third week of May 2012. On the part of SURPOCO, General Manager Jiji Irong had assured PagIBIG and its beneficiaries to double-time its effort in complying all the needed requirements in order to fast track the early accomplishment of their project. Manager Irong stressed that there are still wait-listed members of the association that are most willing to avail of the same program of Pag-IBIG.
January 2012 and will soon expire on June 30, 2012. Engr. Quimbo iterates that delinquent employers should avail of this Penalty Condonation Program in order not to be compromised with cases in court that will be filed against them by Pag-IBIG. In similar development, Pag-IBIG is also offering a Loan Restructuring Program to delinquent Pag-IBIG housing loan borrowers. This program is another avenue offered by the Fund to its delinquent borrowers to update their housing account. Notices are being served personally to the borrowers. They are encourage to avail of the program least, they will be facing foreclosure proceedings in court if they will not give due importance on the enforcement campaign of the Fund.
Congratulations and More Power to: IPONAN Elementary School (IES) may have suffered from much devastation due to the flooding brought by Typhoon Sendong, but the support and blessings from various institutions and individuals have been enormously pouring-in. Such a collective gesture of generosity has tremendously strengthened – among others – the school’s feeding program, as it became one of the lucky recipients of the “Emergency School Feeding Program ” of the United Nations – World Food Programme, CFSLI and the UNICEF. Weeks after the typhoon struck Cagayan de Oro, sacks of rice and mongo, and gallons of palm oil were delivered to the school. The General Parents Teachers and Community Association (GPTCA) has been mobilized in the distribution and monitoring of supplies, with the Home Room PTAs taking charge of the daily preparation of food, like ginataang monggo with dilis, vegetables, meat, mongo pattie, mongo lumpia, champorado, arozcaldo and benignit, among others. On the other hand, the UNICEF provided the cooking facilities, such as stoves and LPG tanks; utensils, like cups, saucers, spoons and fork. The teachers provide the list of daily recipients and volunteer parents, as well as the menu. The feeding activity is closely monitored by CFSLI personnel, who regularly visit the school. The rice supply is enough to last until the end of the school year. It can be noted that the IES feeding program has created a big impact on the school, parents and pupils. Right after the flooding only a few pupils reported to school. However, at the outset of the program, those gravely affected by the calamity – particularly those who lost their houses – are encouraged to come to school regularly. The effort of the GPTCA is also commendable. Its officers themselves played a vital role in sustaining and in making sure that the program will succeed. Teachers readily fill-in what has been lacking, utilizing their very own pockets, so as the children can eat well on time. The program has kept the spirit of cooperation and volunteerism alive in Iponan Elementary School.
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CAGAYAN de Oro City - It was another day for the relocates, as they went through their day-to-day lives in their temporary bunkhouses. Relief has prevailed their eyes, as they are now settled in the Xavier Ecoville at Barangay Lumbia, Cagayan de Oro. It was not so long ago when they were living in, now, their displaced homes. Fathers worked to earn a living; mothers tended their family's needs; children went to school. They were living a life they were accustomed to. Little did they know that overnight, they would witness the flood taking everything away from them. Upon the height of the tragedy, most of the families watched over their properties drowning in the muddy waters – on their roofs counting every piece of furniture, appliances, books and every investment they made with their livelihood drifting away. Some were lucky to rush to safety during the advent of the flood. But, all of them stayed in different evacuation centers for weeks with no sense of their lives' direction. It was during the end of February 2012 that a total of 249 households were already transferred to the Ecoville. DSWD's comprehensive list helped the Xavier Ecoville identify the families who lived in no-build zones and had their homes washed out. Families as such were drafted to live in the Ecoville. As the construction of more temporar y bunk-
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houses continues, “We are expecting 251 more households to be settled in the following weeks,” said Iris Montellano, Ecoville Camp Manager. The transfer of families will finish by June. And, in 8 months, a chapel, community center and about 500 permanent houses for the relocatees are expected to stand on the 5.3 hectare Ecoville. While waiting for the Ecoville's completion, relocatees are undergoing livelihood training. Outside bunkhouses, some households are already planting vegetables for selling and consumption. As of March, a cooperative is already taking its advent as the relocatees and livelihood facilitators are raising membership and funds to meet the requirements for the coop's legislation. A small stall containing food and other products serves as the consumer cooperative's store and base. “Those who are skilled in cooking and crafts are encouraged to display their products in the stall,” said Christine Torvillo, Xavier Ecoville Livelihood Facilitator. This endeavor, as soon as it fulfills the legal requirements, will soon become the Xavier Ecoville Beneficiary Multipurpose Cooperative, a cooperative for the Ecoville inhabitants. Elle Lour, a former baker and cooperative member, wishes to raise capital for starting a bakery. “Kung naanakoygamitngainsakto, magsugodnakougbaliksapanginabuhiparamakapondarkosaakongpamilya,” (If
only I have enough materials, I could start again having a livelihood to have an income for my family), says Elle. He is one of the many who wish to continue to strive despite the flood due to typhoon Sendong disrupting their lives. Also one of such is Vicente Ruiz, a security guard at Xavier University. A week after the flood, having ensured his family's condition and replacing his uniform that got lost in the flood, Vicente went back to work – guarding the school gate as the relief operations were going on. Charita, his wife, directly tended to the family. During the course of their transfers from Xavier University covered court to Manresa then to Ecoville, his children, Rose Cherry, a development communication student in the university and her brothers continued going to school. Vicente, Elle and all relo-
catees living in the Ecoville are moving on and having a new start in their new found community. This takes them a leap further from the tragic past and a step closer to a better future. “We call it community building in the real sense of the words because these families coming from different places and different walks of life are being brought together,” says Montellano. “Physically, we are bringing them together to their new homes but in thought they are also brought to new lives,” she added. Xavier Ecoville, carrying the principles of environmentalism, with the cumulative efforts of Xavier University, Habitat for Humanity Philippines, LGUs and other stakeholders are building this new community of renewed people. Definitely, the effort is not only building homes but also rebuilding lives. (XU)
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NBI rescues 16 illegally recruited minors for ME TACURONG City––The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Central Mindanao Friday busted an illegal recruitment syndicate that prey on young girls in Koronadal City and nearby municipalities. NBI-12 agent Timotheo Rijano identified the suspected illegal recruiter as Mary Linao, 38 years old and resident of Tacurong City. Agents processing the release of NBI clearance became suspicious of Linao, who facilitated the acquisition of NBI clearance for 16 minor women she recruited from Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao. Rijano told reporters that entries to the birth certificates of 16 minors have errors and deficiencies that led them to believed they were fake. Linao admitted that indeed the certificates were manufactured. An applicant for NBI clearance needs to submit copies of his or her birth certificate from the National Statistics Office and in security paper (secpa) form. The agent said the birth certificates of 16 applicants were not certified by the NSO, thus, making them
fake and manufactured. Linao later admitted that the girls were for deployment to the Middle East, particularly in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and nearby countries through a recruitment agency based in Manila. She could not say whether her agency in Manila was legitimate or not since she was only dealing with another woman working in the said agency. The “rescued” minors are now under the custody of the Department of Social Welfare and Development and DSWD-12 is now coordinating with the DSWD in Maguindanao. The NBI turned over Linao to the local police for filing of appropriate charges. NBI-12 has issued advisories to parents in far flung areas to be extra careful with recruiters who promised decent job opportunities overseas to avoid having their children landing as slaves in foreign lands. NBI also asked parents to check with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) the legitimacy of any recruitment agencies that hire minors for domestic works overseas. WITH WIRE REPORT
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hotel owned by Alliance Global operated by Marriot of the US international chain of hotel is given a run of their money against a sister company competitor Maxim’s which has a Resorts World casino and a huge theater for the performing arts. Maxim’s is a full service hotel suite with butler’s service. A new concept in luxury hotel accommodations. In the near future, luxury hotels will be defined with full butler’s service. With uniform staff doubling as personal assistant to take care of meal arrangements, laundry and even setting up appointments for business meetings. Among the new properties coming up in the Makati Central Business District, Raffles Suites a joint venture of the Ayala Land and Kingdom Hotels of Saudi Arabia will be a dream come true when every hotel guests are treated in a spacious suites like royalties. Hotel accommodations are going over from the necessity among travelers into a standard of measurement among the rich and famous. It has become a status symbol when one stays at a hotel carrying the international brand of Radisson Blue, Shangri-La or Sofitel. Many among these brands are now in Mindanao, debuting in Davao City in the next 36 months. The possibility of Cagayan de Oro as a magnet for international hotel management companies to operate locally owned properties will be a new dawn in the hospitality industry in Northern Mindanao. It could be a good direction to uplift the competitive standard of services that we lack against the other big Asian cities and improve our share of visitors’ arrivals with a marketing penetration in the international tourist market. Government through the Department of Tourism recently gives us an update during the ADB Board of Governors meeting of the 1st quarter foreign visitor’s arrivals to have hit 1.148 million or on-tract with the 4.6 million full year forecast for 2012. It was higher by 16.03% more than the 989,501 arrivals recorded in the same period last year. Internationally rated airports are attractions for hotel investments. Returns of investments for tourism infrastructure projects are easily projected to recoup basing on the airline capacities and flight frequencies FOR SALE 2 STOREY HOUSE & LOT Xavier Estate, C.D.O. 150 sqm lot area 200 sqm floor area 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, fully furnished. P5.7M For details, contact: JONA
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and make it three. Apparently this will result in more income for them. However, our agent firmly said no and so I was off with my boat partner with no additional third person. We were first tugged down the river in a convoy by a motor boat. The river was very wide and reminded me of the Mekong. There were no fish and the water was brown because it rained the previous night. (Sometimes the water is blue, said the boatmen.) Coconut trees and lush greenery covered the banks and stretched up to the mountains on either side of the river. Every now and then we would come across boats parked upside down at the banks, or women washing clothes. Since it was summer, there were also children playing in the river. They all waved at us as our convoy of 5 boats passed through them. We all waved back and smiled. The motor boat dropped us off the mouth of the Pagsanjan falls were the boatmen’s hard manual labor were to begin. The boatmen assigned to me incessantly told me of their hard work and asked for “dagdag” or additional money. Not that I’m belittling it, but it irritated me a little bit. I told them early we were gonna
tip them but they kept telling me that of the P1,000 fee per person, only P200 go to them. They also told me that since there are over 2000 boatmen, they only get to work once a week due to rotation. As the boatmen paddled with their feet against the rocks and carried our boats up and down the stream, numerous beautiful sights met us. There were black dragonflies who, when they start flitting about, revealed sparkling bluegreen wings. They looked like jewels against the black rocks and brown water, and yes, they were sparkling. Water spewed every now and then from the rocky mountain walls up above. The temperature was very cool since the rapids were bordered on both sides by mountains. In the middle of the trip, there was a store selling grilled chicken and Coke in cans. At the end, there was the famed (but to me very scary) Pagsanjan falls. Tourists sat on a bamboo raft and held on to ropes as a guide pulled the raft into and out of the falls. As we approached the falls, my breath started to come in rapid short rasps and I had to close my eyes as the very strong current drenched us from head to toe. (That’s what the helmet was for!) Behind the falls was a small dark cave and from there you can see where you came from amidst a curtain of water. (Quite frankly I was so afraid I was gonna have a heart attack! But I conquered my fear and also, now I got a runny nose from the cold water.) But going back to the forced tipping, this is probably a complaint of not one
but many tourists who have been there before. During the river cruise, there were huge signs by the mayor or another public servant posting hotlines for those who were being forced to tip. So we have the factor of boatmen who feel that they deserve to get more than just P100 per trip and more than just one work day per week. And we have the other factor of irritated tourists from whom the boatmen beg for additional tips. So why don’t the public and private sectors just join hands and agree on an across the board increase of say P300 cut per boatman per trip for all that manual labor that they have to do? I think tourists will pay for the increase for that kind of adventure (why be a tourist when you aren’t willing to pay for it?) and I think the boatmen will stop whining about their small wages. They do deserve it. Email sara.suguitan@ gmail.com
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