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Y-A ustr alia is extr emely worr ied AVAO CIT extremely worried CITY Austr ustralia over the spr ead of influence of the IIslamic slamic spread State in Asia, par ticularly in souther nP hilparticularly southern Philippines wher e the A bu S ayyaf and other where Abu Sayyaf jihadist oups pledged allegiance to the notor ious groups notorious jihadist gr gr oup group oup.. Foreign Minister Julie ern Philippines and could Bishop has warned that a threaten Australia – right new Islamic caliphate at its doorstep. Continue on page 2 could be declared in south-
Hindi namin isusuko ang aming mga armas, ibigay sa amin ang Bangsamoro homeland: MILF An ISIS propaganda photo shows some of its fighters in Iraq.
Duterte tops Time poll as EU critics told ‘stick to child porn’ THE FILIPINO people’s “love affair” with their leader “is like a jet plane that's just taken off ” and EU critics of President Rodrigo Duterte should ‘stick to child porn’. That’s according to
Philippines Social Welfare Assistant Secretary Lorraine Badoy who defended Duterte’s standing in Time magazine’s Top 100 Men and Women for 2017 survey, where he leads Vladimir Putin, Mark
Zuckerberg, Justin Trudeau and Bill Gates. The final 'Time 100' list will be published on April 20. “Plus 9 out of 10 Filipinos right now approve of him.” She added “Wrap your dim minds around
that, you clowns. Nine out of ten.” Anyone with a “teaspoon of IQ on them” would wait for Duterte to make a “huge error” before trying to topple him, she claimed. Continue on page 2
COTABATO CITY – Nanindigan ang Moro Islamic Liberation Front na hindi nito isusuko ang kanilang mga armas hanggang hindi nareresolba ang isyu ng Bangsamoro homeland na iginigiit nito sa pamahalaan. Ito ang sinabi ni Ghazali Jaafar, ang vice chairman ng rebeldeng grupo, na lumagda sa isang interim peace agreement sa nakaraang pamahalaan noon Marso 2014. Nanatili pa umanong “Islamic revolutionary government” ang MILF sa
Mindanao hanggang hindi nagkakaroon ng formal peace accord ito sa pamahalaang Duterte. Dapat umanong ibigay ng pamahalaan ang nararapat sa MILF at sa mga Muslim at ito ang Bangsamoro region na siyang ipapalit sa Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), ayon kay Jaafar, ngunit sinabi nito na hanggang ngayon ay bigo pa rin ang Kongreso na maipasa ang batas upang umusad na ito. Continue on page 5
Scrutinize Canadian mining activities in Philippines A FILIPINO DELEGATION has asked Canada to appoint an ombudsperson to monitor Canadian mining operations in the Philippines following reports of alleged human rights violations, according to the diocesan newspaper Anglican Journal. It said the five-member delegation that included an Anglican Bishop Antonio Ablon, Rep. Carlos Zarate,
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chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources; Dr Anie Bautista, national coordinator for the Ecumenical Voice for Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines; and Nenita Condez and Eufemia Cullamat, both indigenous tribe leaders, travelled to Ottawa and met with different members of parliament and staff from the Global Affairs Canada and Canadian and Filipino com-
munities. Bishop Ablon confirmed the trip – from March 20 to April 5 – and told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner that it was sponsored by KAIROS and supported by over a dozen civil society and grassroots organizations in Canada and the delegation raised various concerns about the mining operations back home. Continue on page 2
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Scrutinize Canadian mining activities in Philippines Continued fr om page 1 from He said during their meetings, delegation members shared firsthand account of human rights violations in the Philippines particularly in the context of mining projects and people claiming harm from mining activities face displacement, violence, i n t i m i d a t i o n , criminalization and military incursions in their communities. Among the mining firms operating in the Philippines, especially on Mindanao region, is the TVI Resources Development, the Philippine subsidiary of Calgarybased TVI Pacific, Inc. “We want that foreign corporations operating in our country, particularly Canadian, to be held accountable for their complicities in the commission of human rights violations against our people,” said Bishop Ablon, of the Philippine Independent Church, which has a concordat relation with the Anglican Church. “We want that Philippine laws and armed forces to promote and protect the Filipino people’s civil, socio-economic- and political rights, not international trade and investments at the expense of those rights. People’s rights in resource rich communities in Mindanao are being violated and some who choose to stand their ground are being killed,” he added. In July 2013, Bishop Ablon, who is a strong environmental advocate and one of the conveners of the Advocates for Peace, said he fears for his safety following a break-in inside his house in Pagadian City in Zamboanga del Sur province on Mindanao. He said his housekeeper discovered the break-in after his bedroom’s window was forcibly broke into by a still unidentified assailant. He said there were no valuable items in his “modest” bedroom. “There was nothing robbed and lost as there was none to be robbed off. However, I feared for my safety right now as it happened while we are preparing for the solidarity
mission to the mining area in Bayog town of Zamboanga del Sur where TVI is set to operate,” he said. Bishop Ablon was one of the conveners of the Advocates for Peace which, together with Rural Missionaries of the Philippines and Karapatan human rights group that held a three-day solidarity mission in Bayog. The purpose of the mission, he said, was “to share compassion and concrete love for the very least, exploited and disadvantaged sector particularly those suffering from the impact of largescale mining operations.” The bishop said he and other organizers conducted a feeding program among the children and the poor in Bayog and followed by a tree planting. For her part, Condez Deputy Secretary General of the indigenous group Salabukan nok G’taw Subanen -appealed to the Canadian government to help indigenous tribes in the Philippines “achieve justice or will just sit idle and do nothing while corporate greed continue to cause havoc on our already destroyed lives?” The Anglican Journal reported that Ed Bianchi, program manager for KAIROS, said that during the learning tour, they gathered information from community groups, government members and people who work for TVIRD. “From that, we called on the Philippine government to stop all mining in the area until they could ensure the safety of the people and also to investigate those human rights violations,” Bianchi was quoted as saying. TVIRD has maintained that it “operates under the highest standards of health and safety practices for its workers and its host community and is uncompromising in its best-practices approach to environmental protection as well as community development,” according to its website. KAIROS is also working with other organizations in Canada in urging the Canadian government to appoint an
extractive-sector ombudsperson with the power to investigate and address the claims, said Bianchi. “We also call on the government to legislate and facilitate access to Canadian courts for those people overseas who are claiming that their rights have been violated by a Canadian company,” he said. Nenita Condez, deputy secretary general of the Salabukan nok G’taw Subanen (SGS), a federation of Subanen groups, said TVIRD occupied “thousands and thousands” of hectares of land for its mining operations in Mindanao, displacing thousands of people. Emily Dwyer, coordinator of the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability, said what is happening in the Philippines is not isolated to that country and “We’re hearing continuously, and have been for over a decade, accounts of widespread, credible allegations of serious human rights abuses associated with Canadian mining companies around the world.” She said the Canadian government has been hearing calls from around the world for over 12 years to develop accountability mechanisms and has yet to implement any credible mechanisms. TVIRD has over the past repeatedly denied all allegations and accusations against the company. Or der ed Closed Order dered In the Philippines, Secretary Gina Lopez, of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, ordered the closure of 23 metallic mines in the country, while suspending five more, for serious environmental violations discovered during the industry-wide audit conducted by the agency since July 2016. “My issue here is not about mining. My issue here is social justice. If there are businesses and foreigners that go and utilize the resources of that area for their benefit and the people of the island suffer, that’s social injustice,” Lopez said. She said the closure orders were based on the final results and recom-
Duterte tops Time poll as EU critics told ‘stick to child porn’ Continued fr om page 1 from “Then and only then would it be the time to let your cash flow to pay the EU idiots with galls as huge as Goodyear blimps to call for the president's resignation,” she said, adding in Filipino that “those in the EU, just engage in online child pornography. Since that's what you are good at.” The warning comes as the EU condemns Duterte's plan to revive the death penalty for drug convictions. The European Parliament has called for an international investigation into "unlaw-
ful killings and other violations" in the Philippines linked to Duterte's war on drugs, while Duterte has told the EU MPs to mind their own business. Social Welfare Secretary Judy Taguiwalo said that the assistant secretary’s comment was "obviously sarcastic" and she was not advocating child pornography, reported Rappler. "Asec Badoy loves children and cares about their welfare, so to even imply that she trivializes the issue is unfair and misleading. She is an outspoken critique of so-
cial injustice, and we have no doubt as to her stand against child pornography,” Taguiwalo said in a statement, according to InterAksyon. Badoy, a former human rights advocate and NGO worker, was appointed to implement medical assistance to drug addicts in rehab after her online activism caught the president’s eye. The Philippines banned a number of xrated websites at the beginning of 2017 as part of a wider child-porn crackdown. (RT.com)
mendations of the multisectoral audit teams formed to look into the compliance of mining operators with the existing environmental laws and regulations. The mining firms ordered closed were the following: • Benguet Corp. Nickel Mines Inc., Eramen Minerals Inc., Zambales Diversified Metals Corp., and LNL Archipelago Minerals Inc., all in Zambales province, due mainly to siltation of rivers, destruction of a functional watershed and illegal treecutting. • Mt. Sinai Mining Exploration and Development Corp., Emir Minerals Corp., and TechIron Mineral Resources Inc. in Homonhon mainly for siltation of coastal waters and destruction of functional watershed. • AAMPHIL Natural Resources Exploration, Kromico Inc., SinoSteel Philippines H.Y. Mining Corp., Oriental Synergy Mining Corp., Wellex Mining Corp., Libjo Mining Corp., Oriental Vision Mining Phils. Corp., in Dinagat Islands mainly for siltation of coastal waters. • ADNAMA Mining Resources Corp., Claver
Mineral Development Corp., Platinum Group Metals Corp., CTP Construction and Mining Corp., Carrascal Nickel Corp., Marcventures Mining and Development Corp., and Hinatuan Mining Corp. in Surigao del Norte mainly for siltation of coastal waters and mining in functional watersheds. • Benguet Corporation in Itogon, Benguet and Ore Asia Mining and Development Corp. in Bulacan were likewise issued suspension orders by Lopez. She also deferred to give a decision on the fate of Filminera Resources Corp. pending further investigation. The five mining companies that were issued suspension orders are Berong Nickel Corp., OceanaGold Phils., Lepanto Consolidated Mining Corp., Citinickel Mines and Development Corp. and Strong Built Mining Development Corp. According to DENR Undersecretary for Legal Affairs Maria Paz Luna, the companies can file for a Motion for Reconsideration to the DENR within 15 days from receipt of the order. Luna said the DENR decision can still be appealed to
the Office of the President. The DENR had earlier assured the mining sector and the general public that due process was “meticulously observed” in the audit of all existing metallic mines nationwide. It also assured that the audit results “really promote the common good and social justice” espoused by Lopez and President Rodrigo Duterte. A staunch advocate of responsible mining, Lopez has made it clear that the common good and the protection of the environment would be her paramount concern, not money. She emphasized that no mining company can operate in a functional watershed which protects water sources. “Water is life. We will not allow the water of our people to be at risk for any business interest,” Lopez said. Environmentalists also urged Lopez to review again the mining operations of TVI in Zamboanga del Sur’s Bayog town where Subanen natives opposed the entry of the company in Balabag for various reasons. TVIRD also operated in Zamboanga del Norte’s Siocon town where natives also opposed the mining operations. (Mindanao Examiner)
Australia worried over spread of IS influence in Mindanao Continued fr om page 1 from And The Australian newspaper in an editorial article published just recently, said the signs, as Bishop has indicated, are ominous: Isnilon Hapilon, leader of the Abu Sayyaf group has pledged loyalty to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Like Baghdadi, he has been declared an “emir”, which Bishop says suggests Islamic State may be about to formally declare a caliphate in the southern Philippines. “This move is said to have boosted support for Abu Sayyaf among Islamic extremists on Mindanao. Reports indicate hundreds of trained Islamic State fighters recruited from Southeast Asia to go to Syria and Iraq will return not to their home
countries but to link up with Abu Sayyaf on Mindanao.” “In recent months, there have been Philippines police accounts of a specialist Islamic State bomb maker from Morocco and Uighur Islamic militants from China arriving clandestinely. Malaysian, Indonesian, Bangladeshi and even Rohingya militants from the oppressed Muslim minority in Myanmar also are said to be among those recruited,” it said. Bishop, according to The Australian, was said to have discussed the growing threat with President Rodrigo Duterte in his home city of Davao in March and the Filipino leader has made no bones about his belief that the biggest threat facing his country is “terrorism…
it’s sure to come.” It said at a recent Washington meeting of the coalition fighting Islamic State, Bishop again sounded the alarm among fellow foreign ministers, warning that, as the caliphate in Iraq and Syria faces defeat, “we don’t want to see it re-emerge elsewhere in the world, otherwise we’ll be back in a few years talking about how to defeat a caliphate in the southern Philippines. A caliphate in our region would be a disaster for the fight against Islamic extremism.” After Bishop’s warning, Manila’s regional partners, particularly Australia and the United States, must do all that is possible to ensure that it does not become a reality, it added. (Mindanao Examiner)
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ARMM brings ‘People’s Day’ to Basilan BASILAN – Since February 2015, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) brought free services closer to the public through People’s Day, a monthly activity. And recently, the regional government went to Basilan province’s Al-Barka town, the Abu Sayyaf group’s former stronghold, to mount such event. People’s Day brings different line agencies of the ARMM in convergence to offer free basic social services to the region’s constituents for free, and to reach the people at the grassroots level. “We want to ensure that residents in Al-Barka have access to all the vital services and assistance from the government,” said ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman,
who led the activity supported by Basilan Governor Jim Saliman, Al-Barka Mayor Darussalam Lajid, heads of regional line agencies, and local officials. ‘An unfav or able rreputaeputaunfavor orable tion tion’’ The town may have earned an unfavorable reputation, but the ARMM government is leading the way to make it become a more welcoming and better place. Gov. Hataman said the aim is to free Al-Barka from banditry and poverty by guaranteeing the delivery of government projects in the town. For 40 years, the town served as the bastion of the terror group Abu Sayyaf, which Gov. Hataman said hampered the government in bringing in support to the
town. “The people here deserve quality government service and we are bringing it in,” he said. Free ser vices rrender ender ed services endered Thousands of residents of Barangay Macalang and those from nearby areas benefited from various forms of assistance during the event. Among the services rendered were: medical and dental consultation and medication; supplemental feeding; distribution of textbooks and children’s books; distribution of agricultural inputs and seedlings; domestic and international jobs fair; social pension payout; and distribution of devices to persons with disabilities, among others. The Basilan provincial government also distributed relief goods to the residents. Takasan Adirul, 65, was
thankful that his family received assistance. He added that seeing many people for the first time made the distribution more meaningful. “Ngayon lang kami nakakita ng ganito karaming tao,” Adirul said. “Kahit maraming kaguluhan, alam naming maraming tutulong sa amin.” Various front line services during the activity were as follows: Office of the Regional Governor-ARMM; ARMM Regional Library;Department of Health-ARMM; Department of Labor and EmploymentARMM; Department of Social Welfare and Development-ARMM; ARMM Humanitarian and Emergency Action Response Team (HEART); Technical Education and Skills Development Authority-ARMM; Department of Agriculture and Fisheries-ARMM; Department of Environment and Natural Resources-
ARMM; Regional Sports Coordinating Office-ARMM; Regional Darul Ifta-ARMM; and Department of Education-ARMM. Millions of pesos wor th of worth pr ojects projects Gov. Hataman said the people should lead in winning the peace in their place, with the assistance from the local government unit and the ARMM government as well. The governor also inked a memorandum of agreement and groundbreaking ceremony of the P10-million project under the ARMMHealth, Education, Livelihood, Peace and Governance and Synergy (HELPS) that would directly benefit Barangay Macalang. Barangay government center and other high-impact projects would be among the projects under the ARMMHELPS in the barangay. Since 2012, including the P132.5 million infrastructure budget for 2017, the
Al-Barka town would receive P877 million worth of projects from the DPWHARMM. Almost 90% of this amount funded 45 kilometers of roads in the town. ARMM P ay People eople’’s D Day eople Gov. Hataman added that People’s Day will also be held in the region’s five provinces – Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi – in the coming months. The primary target areas of People’s Day will be conflict-affected barangays in the five provinces. The ARMM People’s Day is a monthly activity that serves as an opportunity for regional line agencies and offices to offer and render their front-line services to the people of ARMM. Agencies are using this platform as an exposure to actualize their objectives and goals in pursuit of an improved and effective service to people. (Bureau of Public Information)
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Hindi namin isusuko ang aming mga armas, ibigay sa amin ang Bangsamoro homeland: MILF Continued fr om page 1 from Pinipigilan ng mga mambatatas na may malalaking negosyo sa Mindanao at ARMM ang naturang batas dahil na rin sa kani-kanilang interest. Tanging pag-asa na lamang ng MILF ay ang pangako ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na ibigay ang Bangsamoro homeland sa mga Muslim, ngunit federalism naman ang isinusulong ngayon ng pamahalaan. “Everything has been said to the government, and we do not know what to say except give us our
government,� ani pa ni Jaafar, na siyang chairman ng Bangsamaoro Commission, na siyang gagawa ng mga batas para sa Bangsamoro political entity. Naunang ibinasura ng Kongreso ang Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain at maging ang Bangsamoro Basic Law dahil labag umano ito sa Konstitusyon. Unang nagbabala ang MILF na maraming mga miyembro nito ang nawawalan na ng pasensya at pag-asa sa kabiguan ng pamahalaan
na ibigay ang nararapat sa mga Muslim. Tutol naman ang Moro National Liberation Front sa ilalim ni Nur Misuari sa peace talks sa pagitan ng pamahalaan at MILF, at sinabing dapat unahin ng gobyerno ang peace agreement nito na nilagdaan noong Septyembre 1996. Ang Mindanao ay nasa ilalim noon ng mga sultanato, ngunit sinakop ito ng mga Kristiyano hanggang sa maging menorya na lamang ang mga Muslim sa naturang rehiyon. (Mindanao Examiner)
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Financial literacy still needed among Filipinos CEBU CITY - The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has stressed the need to strengthen financial advocacy among Filipinos following release of the results of latest Consumer Finance Survey (CFS). Rosabel Guerrero, Director of the Department of Economic Statistics, said strengthening financial inclusions and advocacy should be done by both government and private sectors. This was one of the policy implications and recommendations resulting from the 2014 CFS, she said. According to the study, only two in 10 households surveyed have bank accounts. Region 7 has the least number of households with bank accounts compared with those in the National Capital Region and areas outside the NCR. In the Philippines, from the sample size of 18,000, majority of the households surveyed or 86
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CEBU - Bawal nang magmaneho og pampublikong sakyanan ang mga dr ivers nga walay identification card gikan sa Land Transportation Franchising and Regulator y Board (LTFRB) sugod sa Mayo. Matud pa ni LTFRB Board Member Aileen Lizada, sugod sa Mayo kinahanglan nang moagi sa usa ka adlaw nga klase ug pasulit ang
Western Mindanao
tanang drivers sa pampublikong sakyanan sa Drivers Academy nga pagabuksan sa LTFRB. Matud pa nga may expiration date ang ihatag nga ID sa LTFRB sa mga drivers mao nga kinahanglan nilang mopaubos og balik sa training sa dili pa makakuha sa bag-ong ID. Dugang pa ni Lizada, magmugna usab sila og database sa mga drivers
Cebu
diin mahimong i-rate ang katakos sa mga driver sama sa ginahimo sa mga drivers sa Uber ug Grab taxi. Giingong obligado ang tanang drivers nga mopaubos sa training ug pasulit kun gusto pa nilang maka-maneho og balik og pampasaherong sakyanan. (Elvira C. Bongosia)
Manila