Trump’s calls with foreign leaders have long worried aides, leaving some ‘genuinely horrified’ IN ONE OF his first calls with a head of state, President Trump fawned over Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling the man who ordered interference in America’s 2016 election that he was a great leader and apologizing profusely for not calling him sooner. He pledged to Sau-
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Trump’s interactions with Ukraine’s president rocked Washington, Trump’s phone calls with foreign leaders were an anxiety-ridden set of events for his aides and members of the administration, according to former and current officials. They worried that Continue on page 3
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Mga empleyado ng BARMM sisibakin na!
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ISIBAKIN NA SA serbisyo ng Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) ang libo-libong mga empleyado ng nakaraang administrasyon ni Governor Mujiv Hataman. Hindi naman agad mga miyembro ng Moro buwan at tinatayang daanmabatid kung bakit kail- Islamic Liberation Front daang empleyado ang unangan tanggalin sa ser- (MILF) dahil ang Chief ang matatanggal sa trababisyo ang mga empleyado Minister ngayon ay si Mu- ho. Mahigit sa 6,000 ang gayun matagal na silang rad Ebrahim, ang lider ng sinasabing mawawalan ng nagta-trabaho ng maayos dating rebeldeng grupo. trabaho at ang tanging maisa nakaraang administra- Hawak rin ng mga lider wan lamang ay yun mga syon ng Autonomous Re- ng MILF ang ibat-ibang nasa sektor ng kalusugan, gion in Muslim Mindanao. matataas na posisyon ngay- edukasyon at social serMay hinala ang mara- on sa BARMM. vices. Kinumpirma rin ni mi na nais ipasok ng Nakatakdang magBARMM sa trabaho ang simula ito sa susunod na BARMM Attorney General
Sha Elijah Alba ang nasabing “phasing out” ng mga empleyado bago matapos ang taon. “Ang first batch, ang last day of service nila would be October 31st; the
second batch is November 30th, and the third and last batch is on December 31st,”ani Alba. Sinabi nito na babayaran ng Department of
Budget and Management ang separation pay ng mga empleyado basta kumpleto ang kanilang mga requirements. Continue on page 3
Body of decapitated woman found off Basilan province BASILAN – Filipino fishermen have recovered a decapitated body of a woman off the southern province of Basilan, a major stronghold of proISIS terror group Abu Sayyaf, blamed by authorities for the spate of ransom kidnappings in
the restive region. The body, whose head, arms and legs had been chopped off, was found recently floating near the island of Lawi-Lawi off Lantawan town. The identity of the cadaver remains unknown. Her head and limbs have not
been found. Authorities said it launched an investigation to determine the identity of the woman and who was behind the gruesome killing. Earlier this month, six gunmen abducted a Continue on page 2
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Tight security in Basilan after troops foil Sayyaf bombing attempt
A military photo released to The Zamboanga Post shows recovered Abu Sayyaf improvised explosives in Maluso town in Basilan province. BASILAN – Government forces tightened security in the southern Philippine province of Basilan after a clash with Abu Sayyaf militants planning to bomb
military targets along the stretch of the circumferential road. Brigadier General Fernando Reyeg, commander of the Joint Task Force Bas-
ilan, said the recent fighting occurred in the village called Calang Canas in Maluso town. He said the clash lasted for about 30 minutes and that troops had recovered 6 improvised explosives left behind by the gunmen, believed to be under militant leader Furji Indama, one of the most notorious terrorist in Basilan, which is a part of the Muslim autonomous region, and a major stronghold of the pro-ISIS group. Reyeg said the fighting broke out after soldiers from the 68th Infantry Battalion received intelli-
Body of decapitated woman found off Basilan province Continued from page 1 British man, Allan Arthur Hyrons, 70, and his Filipina wife Welma Paglinawan Hyrons at their resort in Alindahaw village in Zamboanga del Sur’s Tukuran town, about 287 kilometers from here. The abductors dragged away the victims to the sea where a motorized boat was waiting and then escaped under cover of darkness, according to the police. Police have released
four pictures of men tagged as “persons of interest” in the abduction of the couple. A caretaker at the resort said two of the suspects rented a cottage and waited for the couple to arrive home. Aside from the resort, the couple also owns the Hyrons College in the town. Provincial Governor Victor Yu pledged to give P1 million reward to anyone who could point the exact location of the ab-
ductors. No individual or group has claimed responsibility for the abductions, but this occurred during an extended martial law in the region where security forces are battling Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf and other militants fighting for the establishment of a caliphate in Mindanao. The Abu Sayyaf is notorious for beheading its Filipino and foreign hostages. (Zamboanga Post)
gence information about the planned bombings and tracked down the about 15 militants and caught up with them, sparking a running gun battle. “The troops were acting on a report received from a reliable source regarding the plan of Furuji Indama’s group to create havoc in our area of operation. Heavy firefight ensued that lasted for more or less 30 minutes after which the enemies withdrew bringing along their casualties with them,” he said, adding, there were no military casualties in the fighting. Lieutenant General Cirilito Sobejana, chief of the Western Mindanao Command, praised the army operation and the recovery of the crude bombs. “We are grateful for we incurred no casualty during the operation and we were able to secure the IEDs and foil the bomb plot of the enemies,” he said. “The successful recovery of the IEDs is attributed to the concerned citizen who provided the information, to the local government units of Basilan, and to our gallant soldiers who are always steadfast in accomplishing their mission,” Sobejana added.
Military and provincial officials have previously trumpeted that the numbers of Abu Sayyaf here have dwindled due to the mass surrender of its members in the past years, and even provided them with livelihood skills training to help them reintegrate to society. But despite all of these special privileges, the Abu Sayyaf remains a major concern to local authorities and the presence of foreign ISIS terrorists in Basilan aggravated the security situation here. ISIS also claimed a suicide attack on an army
checkpoint by a Moroccan militant, Abu Katheer al Maghribi, who drove a truck laden with explosives in Lamitan City in August 2018. The powerful explosion obliterated the vehicle and left a huge crater and among those killed were a woman and a child; and the militia commander whose unit is under the supervision of the Philippine Army. At least 11 soldiers and pro-government militias were killed in the attack. Five soldiers and several civilians were also wounded in the explosion. (Zamboanga Post)
Abu Katheer al Maghribi (From ISIS website)
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Mga empleyado ng BARMM sisibakin na! Continued from page 1 Ito ay nakasaad rin sa Article XVI, Section 10 ng Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) na kung saan ay sinasabing lahat ng “affected personnel who opt to retire or be separated shall be entitled to any of the following
applicable incentives: 100% of the monthly basic salary for every year of government service computed starting from the first year for those who have rendered 1 year to less than 5 years of service; 150% of the actual monthly salary for
every year of government service computed starting from the first year for those who have rendered 5 years of service, but less than 10 years; or two months of actual monthly salary for every year of government service computed starting from
the first year for those who have rendered 10 years or more of service.” “Affected personnel who are retired or are separated from the service shall not be re-employed in any agency of the Bangsamoro Government of the National
government, including government-owned or controlled corporations for a period of (5) five years. The retired or separated personnel who are re-employed during the prohibited period shall refund, on a pro-rated basis, the separation in-
centives they received under this Section.” Matapos ng lahat ay muling tatanggap ang BARMM ng mga bagong empleyado para sa mga ibat-ibang plantilla position. (Mindanao Examiner. May karagdagang ulat mula sa PIA at BARMM.)
Trump’s calls with foreign leaders have long worried aides, leaving some ‘genuinely horrified’ Continued from page 1 Trump would make promises he shouldn’t keep, endorse policies the United States long opposed, commit a diplomatic blunder that jeopardized a critical alliance, or simply pressure a counterpart for a personal favor. “There was a constant undercurrent in the Trump administration of [senior staff] who were genuinely horrified by the things they saw that were happening on these calls,” said one former White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private conversations. “Phone calls that were embarrassing, huge mistakes he made, months and months of work that were upended by one impulsive tweet.” But Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went beyond whether the leader of the free world had committed a faux pas, and into grave concerns he had engaged in a possible crime or impeachable offense. The release last week of a whistle-blower complaint alleging Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate his political rivals as well as the release of a rough transcript of the July call led to House Democrats launching an impeachment inquiry against Trump. The Ukraine controversy has put a renewed focus on Trump’s unorthodox way of interacting with fellow world leaders in diplomatic calls. Critics, including some former administration officials, contend that Trump’s behavior on calls with foreign leaders has at times created unneeded tensions with allies and sent troubling signals to adversaries or authoritarians that the United States supports or at least does not care about human rights or their aggressive behavior elsewhere in the world. Joel Willett, a former intelligence officer who worked at the National Security Council from 2014 to 2015, said he was concerned both by the descriptions of a president winging it, and the realization that the president’s behavior disturbs and frightens career civil servants. “What a burden it must
be to be stuck between your position of trust in the White House and another obligation you may feel to the American people to say something,” he said. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), a Trump ally, said the president speaks his mind and diverges from other presidents who follow protocol. Graham said he saw nothing distressing in the president’s July 25 call with Zelensky and said he expected it to be worse, partially given his own experience with Trump on the phone. “If you take half of my phone calls with him, it wouldn’t read as cleanly and nicely,” he said, adding that the president sounded like a “normal person.” This story is based on interviews with 12 former or current officials with knowledge of the president’s foreign calls. These officials had direct involvement in the calls, were briefed on them or read the transcripts afterward. All spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the president’s private conversations with world leaders. The first call Trump made that set off alarm bells came less than two weeks after his inauguration. On Jan. 28, Trump called Putin for what should have been a routine formality: accepting a foreign leader’s congratulations. Former White House officials described Trump as “obsequious” and “fawning,” but said he also rambled off into different topics without any clear point, while Putin appeared to stick to formal talking points for a first official exchange. “He was like, ‘Oh my gosh, my people didn’t tell me you wanted to talk to me,’ ” said one person with direct knowledge of the call. Trump has been consistently cozy with authoritarian leaders, sparking anxiety among aides about the solicitous tones he struck with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Putin. “We couldn’t figure out early on why he was being so nice to Russia,” one former senior administration official said. H.R. McMaster,
the president’s then-national security adviser, launched an internal campaign to get Trump to be more skeptical of the Russians. Officials expressed surprise in both of his early Putin calls at why he was so friendly. In another call, in April 2017, Trump told Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who had overseen a brutal campaign that has resulted in the extrajudicial killings of thousands of suspected drug dealers, that he was doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem.” Trump’s personal goals seeped into calls. He pestered Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for help in recommending him for a Nobel Prize, according to an official familiar with the call. “People who could do things for him — he was nice to,” said one former security official. “Leaders with trade deficits, strong female leaders, members of NATO — those tended to go badly.” Aides bristled at the dismissive way he sometimes addressed longtime U.S. allies, especially women. In a summer 2018 call with Prime Minister Theresa May, Trump harangued the British leader about her country’s contribution to NATO. He then disputed her intelligence community’s conclusion that Putin’s government had orchestrated the attempted murder and poisoning of a former Russian spy on British soil. “Trump was totally bought into the idea there was credible doubt about the poisoning,” said one person briefed on the call. “A solid 10 minutes of the conversation is spent with May saying it’s highly likely and him saying he’s not sure.” Trump would sometimes make commitments to foreign leaders that flew in the face of U.S. policy and international agreements, as when he told a Saudi royal that he would support their country’s entry into the G-7. “The G-7 is supposed to be the allies with whom we share the most common values and the deepest commitment to upholding the rules-based order,” the former official said. Russia was kicked out of the group in 2014 for violating international law when it invaded Ukraine
and annexed Crimea. Trump has publicly advocated for Russia to be allowed back in. Saudi Arabia, which oppresses women and has a record of human rights abuses, wasn’t a fit candidate for membership, the former official said. Saudi Arabia was not admitted to the group. Calls with foreign leaders have often been highly orchestrated events in past administrations. “When I was at the White House, there was a very deliberative process of the president absorbing information from people who had deep substantive knowledge of the countries and relationships with these leaders. Preparation for these calls was taken very seriously,” Willett said. “It appears to be freestyle and ad-libbed now.” Trump has rejected much of the protocol and preparation associated with foreign calls, even as his national security team tried to establish goals for each conversation. Instead, Trump often sought to use calls as a way to befriend whoever he was talking to, one current senior administration official said, defending the president. “So he might say something that sounds terrible to the outside, but in his mind, he’s trying to build a relationship with that person and sees flattery as the way to do it.” The president resisted long briefings before calls or reading in preparation, several former officials said. McMaster, who preferred providing the president with information he could use to make decisions, resigned himself to giving Trump small notecards with bulleted highlights and talking points. “You had two to three minutes max,” said one former senior administration official. “And then he was still usually going to say whatever he wanted to say.” As a result, staff fretted that Trump came across ill-informed in some calls, and even oafish. In a conversation with China’s Xi, Trump repeated numerous times how much he liked a kind of chocolate cake, one former official said. The president publicly described the dessert the two had in April 2017
when Trump and Xi met at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort as “the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake you have ever seen.” Trump preferred to make calls from the residence, which frustrated some NSC staff and West Wing aides who wanted to be on hand to give the president real-time advice. If he held the call in the Oval Office, aides would gather around the desk and pass him notes to try to keep the calls on point. On a few occasions, then-Chief of Staff John F. Kelly muted the call to try to get the president back on track, two officials said. Tim O’Brien, a Trump biographer and critic, said the calls fit Trump’s style as a business leader. “When he had to get on calls with investors on a publicly traded company, they had to worry that he would break securities laws and lie about the company’s profits,” O’Brien said. “When he would go and meet with regulators with the casino control commission, his lawyers were always worried under oath, in a public setting, that he would say something that would be legally damaging.” Though calls with foreign leaders are routinely planned in advance, Trump a few times called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron unannounced, as if they were friends, a former administration official said. After some early summaries of Trump calls with the leaders of Mexico and Australia leaked to the press in 2017, the White House tightened restrictions on who could access the transcripts and kept better track of who had custody of copies. For example, Vice President Pence still received a courtesy copy of any foreign-leader call, but his staff now had to sign off when they transported it to his office and also sign off when they returned or destroyed the document. Some former officials said that over time staff became used to the oddity of some calls even if they still found them troubling. “People had gotten really numb to him blurting out something he shouldn’t
have,” one former national security staffer remarked. But officials who had served in the White House through the end of 2018 were still shocked by the whistleblower complaint about the effort to “lock down” records of Trump’s July 25 call. The complaint said White House officials ordered the transcript moved into a highly secure computer system, known as NICE, which is normally reserved only for information about the most sensitive code-word-level intelligence programs. “Unheard of,” said one former official who handled foreign calls. “That just blew me away.” Manila’s Reaction But Duterte’s spokesman, Salvador Panelo said the article borders on rumour-mongering. “We understand that the reporters based their story on interviews with 12 former or current Trump officials who all spoke on the condition of anonymity. The fact that President Trump’s private conversations with world leaders are leaked freely to the press by unnamed sources is simply outlandish.” “To headline it as genuinely horrified shows strong negative bias against the American President, as well as those personalities involved in the article. It violates the objectivity principle we expect from high-caliber journalists of The Washington Post,” he said. Panelo said The Washington Post’s slogan is “Democracy Dies in Darkness” and it is “very apt in relation to the newspaper because it died in darkness when the prestigious publication engaged itself in political propaganda.” “The anonymous staff interviewed is simply in the dark exhibiting his zero inside knowledge on the Philippines’ campaign against illegal drugs. President Trump’s praise of our anti-drug policy and action underscores the American leader’s fair judgment coming from his unlimited and unimpeded access to information,” he added. (By Carol D. Leonnig, Shane Harris and Josh Dawsey - The Washington Post. With additional reporting from The Mindanao Examiner.)
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Photos from the Office of the Provincial Governor
Sulu Governor Abdusakur M. Tan extending Financial Support to Fatima Marwa Fadzlulkarim and Fatima Myra Kairan, students of Notre Dame College of Jolo who will represent Sulu and the Philippines in the AUAP English Speech Competition to be held in Zhengzhou, China on November 2, 2019. They will compete in Academic Competition and Impromptu Speech. Sulu Governor Abdusakur M. Tan delivers a welcome address to the participants of the Draft 1st Bangsamoro Regional Development Plan in the Province of Sulu.
Students of Notre Dame of Jolo High School - Kasulutan who will join the National Robotics Competiton receive financial support from Sulu Governor Abdusakur M. Tan. The competition will take place at Sacred Heart School, Talamban in Cebu City from October 21-24, 2019. The winner will represent the Philippines in an international competition in Guangzhu , China on November 28 to December 1, 2019. Tan is confident of their chances against other national competitors. “Do your best and make the Tausug proud .”
Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) - National and BARMM offices - have combined efforts to conduct 5 days of data gathering in Sulu in preparation for the National ID system. This was revealed during the PSA group’s courtesy call to Sulu Governor Abdusakur M. Tan recently. The PSA group are led by Imelda P. Ornos, Senior Statistical Specialist; Corazon B. Bagto, Statistical Specialist II - PSA Central Office; Mahmor Sarail, Statistics Operations and Coordination Division – BARMM; and PSA Provincial Director Medzhor Tan – Sulu, Naser Usman - Basilan, Tula Akan - Maguindanao, Masil Mohammad Sha – Tawi Tawi, Nuronnisah Macadaday – Lanao . Aside from their primary purpose, the group will also include the gathering of agricultural data in their agenda.
The Asia Foundation Program Manager Misuari Abdulla, Halima Sahim- Project Officer for Islands; and Elizabeth Laurico, Area Manager-North Cotabato, called on Sulu Governor Abdusakur M. Tan. Abdulla informed Tan that the municipalities of Jolo and Talipao were selected for their pilot program of updating the Barangay Development Plan and train local planners in data collection and gathering using a special cell phone application made for that purpose. Tan thanked the Asia Foundation for their engagement and for introducing new tools in the process.
Sulu Governor Abdusakur M. Tan and BARMM members of parliament exchanged ideas on how to uplift the plight and unite Islamic religious leaders, and achieve economic stability for the religious sector, improve the Madaris Curiculum, state of the NCMF and other pertinent matters.
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Serbisyo caravan sa North Cotabato, pinuri! KIDAPAWAN CITY – Daan-daang mga residente ng Barangay Balete sa bayan ng Magpet sa lalawigan ng North Cotabato ang nakinabang sa libreng serbisyo mula sa ibat-ibang mga national at provincial government agencies. Ang serbisyo caravan na inilunsad kamakailan lamang ay bahagi ng binansagang “Whole of Nation Approach to End Local Communist Armed Conflict” ng pamahalaang Duterte at suportado ng provincial government. Namahagi rin ng food packs ang Department of Social Welfare and Development at ang Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office, at may mga libreng gupit rin at skills training mula sa Technical Education and Skills Development Authority. Nagkaroon rin ng pag-
kakataon ang maraming residente na makahanap ng trabaho sa pamamagitan ng job fair na inilunsad ng Department of Labor and Employment. Namigay rin ng mga farm inputs sa mga magsasaka ang Department of Agriculture katuwang ang Office of the Provincial Agriculture. Nagkaroon rin ng proseso ng mga birth certificate ang Philippine Statistics Office, samantalang nagsagawa naman ng libreng medical at dental mission ang Integrated Provincial Health Office at namahagi pa ng mga libreng gamot sa mga residente. Bukod pa ito sa education campaign sa mga buntis at anti-polio vaccination sa mga sanggol. Maging ang lokal na pulisya ay nag-proseso rin ng mga clearance sa mga nangangailangan nito. Kabilang din sa mga
ahensyang nagbigay ng serbisyo ay ang National Housing Authority, Department of Agrarian Reform, Land Transportation Office, Department of Education at iba pang mga ahensya. Ayon naman kay Acting Gov. Emmylou Taliño Mendoza, bago pa man ang serbisyo caravan ay una na rin nagdala ng serbisyo ang provincial government sa nasabing lugar at kabilang dito ang pagpapatayo ng karagdagan 3 classroom at ang pagaayos ng mga kalsada doon. Sinabi pa ni Mendoza na nasa lugar na rin ang mga heavy equipment ng provincial government upang masimulan na ang konstruksyon ng farmto-market road sa isang sitio ng Barangay Balete na nagkakahalaga ng P10 milyon. Malaki naman ang
pasasalamat ni Barangay Chairman Edgar Hantoc kay Mendoza at sa serbisyo caravan at malaki umano ang naging impact nito sa publiko. Nabigyan naman ng pamahalaan ng cash assistance ang isang mataas
na lider ng New People’s Army na sumuko sa 72nd Infantry Battalion. Maging si Magpet Mayor Florenito Gonzaga ay nagbigay rin ng dagdag na P50,000. Ibat-ibang mga barangay rin sa North Cotabato ang makikinabang
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SINTOMAS BA NG KANSER ? Ayon sa Philippine Society of Oncologists, heto ang 9 na posibleng palatandaan ng kanser: 1. Pagbabago sa pagdumi o pag-ihi – Kailangan masuri ng doktor kung ang pasyente ay may problema sa bituka o sa bato at pantog. Kung may bahid ng dugo ang inyong dumi o ihi, magpatingin po sa isang siruhano (surgeon). 2. Sugat na hindi gumagaling – Kung ang sugat ay nasa paa, posibleng dahil ito
sa diabetes. Ngunit may mga sugat na iba ang dahilan. Kumonsulta sa dermatologist. 3. Hindi pangkaraniwang pagdudugo – Ang madalas na pagdugo ng ilong o mula sa puerta (vagina) ay kailangan ipatingin. Posibleng may bukol sa ilong o matris ang pasyente. 4. Bukol sa suso o ibang bahagi ng katawan – Ang pangunahing kanser sa kababaihan ay ang kanser sa suso. Matutong mag-examine ng suso bawat buwan
RECIPE
7-Up Fried Chicken
pansalangpinoy.com INGREDIENTS :
Marinade ingredients:
• 1 1/2 lbs. chicken cut into serving pieces • 2 pieces eggs • 1 cup all-purpose flour • 3 cups cooking oil
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1 teaspoon onion powder 1 teaspoon garlic powder 2 teaspoons salt 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper 1 cup lemon lime soda (such as 7-Up)
INSTRUCTIONS : 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Combine chicken with marinade ingredients in a bowl. Mix well. Marinate for at least 3 hours. Drain the remaining marinade afterwards. Heat oil in a deep fryer or deep pot. Beat egg in a bowl. Dredge chicken in flour and then dip in beaten egg. Double coat by dredging in flour again. Shake off excess flour. Perform this step to all chicken pieces. Deep fry for a total of 15 minutes. Note: you can go longer if needed. If using lesser oll, fry one side for 10 minutes. Flip and fry the opposite side for 5 to 8 minutes. Remove the chicken from the fryer and place over a wire rack to cool down. Transfer to a serving plate. Serve and enjoy!
(self breast examination), lalo na kung may kamag-anak na may breast cancer. Kung may bukol na nakapa, magpatingin sa isang surgeon. 5. Hirap lumunok – Posibleng may goiter o may nagbabara sa lalamunan. Kapag hirap nang lumunok ng pagkain, magpa-check up sa ENT o Ear Nose Throat specialist. 6. Pagbabago ng nunal – Ang melanoma ay isang kanser sa balat na maitim ang kulay. Kapag nagbago ang anyo ng
inyong nunal, lumalaki man o lumalapad ang hitsura, ipatingin sa isang dermatologist. 7. Laging inuubo – Maraming Pinoy ang inuubo dahil sa polusyon at paninigarilyo. Ngunit ang ubo ay puwedeng may iba pang dahilan. Magpagawa ng Chest X-ray. Malalaman dito kung may tuberculosis at bukol sa baga. 8. Maputla o kulang sa dugo – Ang mga anemic na pasyente ay kadalasan malakas mag-regla o kulang ng sustansya sa pagkain. Pero possible din na may kanser
sa dugo o leukemia. Magpagawa ng Complete Blood Count o CBC. 9. Pangangayayat nang walang dahilan – Kung ika’y pumayat ng 5 kilo o 10 pounds ng hindi naman nag-di-diyeta, magpatingin sa isang internist o family medicine doktor. Nililinaw ko lang po na ang mga senyales na ito ay hindi nangangahulugang may kanser na ang pasyente. Huwag munang mangamba. Kumonsulta sa doktor para malaman ang sakit. Good luck po!
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Cebu needs Duterte’s intervention on traffic crisis
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EBU CITY - With the declaration that Cebu is in a traffic crisis, the Cebu Provincial Board now wants President Rodrigo Duterte to exercise “extra-ordinary power” in solving road congestion in Metro Cebu. Glenn Anthony Soco, lege speech, pitched the idea tion efforts on metropolichairman of the committee of tapping Duterte’s emergency tan roads that could not get on commerce and indus- powers to beat the traffic con- maximum implementation try in the provincial board, gestion which, he claimed, has because of lack of presidensaid the proposed projects cost millions of pesos worth of tial intervention. “Take for meant to solve traffic con- man-hours. He also quoted a example the P50-billion, gestion have long been in Japan International Coopera- 74-kilometer Metro Cebu the pipeline, but it need tion Agency study which states Expressway from Naga to presidential intervention in that traffic caused the Cebua- Danao that could not get order to implement them. nos an estimated P1.1 billion of fully implemented because “We want to bring the losses in productivity in 2018, of budgetary constraints. President closer to Cebu. We which is more than double than Imagine that, for the P50-billion budget, we only get P600 need him to fast-track pro- the P500 million in 2017. posed solutions to traffic. We “We could already project million that will only answer have so many solutions that that if we do not do anything the segment from Naga to are in the pipeline that could it will only get worst. Perhaps, Talisay,” Soco said. only move through Duterte’s for us, the traffic problem is still He said that the Guadairon-fist,” Soco, who spon- acceptable right now. But what lupe-to-Lahug Bypass Road sored the resolution declaring about in 2030 and even in 2050 here was proposed 20 years traffic crisis in Cebu, told Phil- if we will do nothing?” he asked. ago in order to ease congestion ippine News Agency. He said Cebu has many along Escario Street and other Soco, in a recent privi- projects to boost deconges- peripheral roads in the city’s
Labella fires 5 MCWD executives CEBU CITY – Amid dissatisfaction from water utility consumers, Mayor Edgardo Labella has fired 5 officials of the Metro Cebu Water District (MCWD). Labella fired MCWD chairman Joel Mari Yu, board members Augustus Pe Jr., Ralph Sevilla, Procopio Fernandez, and lawyer Cecile Adlawan, the water district’s board secretary. He said the termination came after the city government learned that the “consumers of MCWD have been greatly dissatisfied with its present service”. “This has prompted local government units, such as Cities of Cebu, Mandaue, and Talisay and the Municipalities of Consolacion, Lilo-an, Compostela, and Cordova, and the Province of Cebu through their respec-
tive Sanggunians (Panglungsod), to issue resolutions expressing their dissatisfactions and calls for action on the matter. It is for this widespread dissatisfaction over the services of MCWD that I am constrained to terminate your services,” Labella said in a letter sent to the MCWD officials. In firing the officials, Labella invoked the provisions of Presidential Decree 198, which gives the local chief executive of Cebu City the power to remove or to discipline, aside from the power to appoint members of the MCWD, subject however to the review and approval of the Local Water Utilities Authority. There was no immediate statement from the 5 MWCD officials. Labella attached the letter of Jeci Lapus, the acting ad-
ministrator of LWUA, stating that his “office interposes no objection to your plan to remove the incumbent MCWD directors within the bounds of the law consistent with the last sentence of Section 11 of P.D. No. 198, as amended.” Lapus also mentioned in his letter addressed to Labella the 5 local governments that issued resolutions expressing dissatisfaction over MCWD’s services as the water utility in Metro Cebu. The acting administrator reminded Labella that appointment for the replacements of the 5 MCWD officials ordered terminated must comply with the provisions of the said law and the agency’s memorandum circular on revised guidelines on “proper representation” in the water district board of directors. (John Rey Saavedra)
Glenn Anthony Soco, chairman of the Committee on Commerce and Industry of the Cebu Provincial Board, delivers his privilege speech to pitch a resolution declaring traffic crisis in Cebu. (Photo by Odessa Leyson) uptown area. He claimed, however, that the project has never been funded by the national government until today. The Metro Cebu Development and Coordinating Board, Soco said, has pushed for the creation of the Metro Cebu Development Authority (MCDA) which is akin to Metro Manila Development Authority that will direct traffic and development in the metropolitan Cebu. The bill that seeks for the creation of MCDA has slept in Congress, he said, adding, the Cebuanos are also clamoring
for an efficient mass transport system like the Light Rail Transit (LRT) as a component of the Integrated Intermodal Mass Transport System of the Department of Transportation. “Our people commute using PUV (public utility vehicles). But for the long-term solution, what is really needed is the mass transport system like LRT that can ferry more passengers at any given time or the carrying capacity is even higher than the demand,” Soco said. He said that road opening
and road widening projects of the Department of Public Works and Highways are meant to add more capacity on existing thoroughfares are lagging in implementation because of right of way issues which can only be addressed through Duterte’s intervention. Soco urged mayors in Cebu to revisit existing traffic code and traffic laws and implement revisions and has also asked Governor Gwendolyn Garcia to hold a traffic summit. (John Rey Saavedra)
Cebu regional police force has new chief CEBU – The Philippine National Police (PNP) has named Brigadier General Valeriano de Leon as the new regional director Central Visayas. This was confirmed by PNP spokesperson Brigadier GeneraL Bernard Banac, who said that Valeriano replaced Brigadier General Debold Sinas, who was transferred to the National Capital Region. De Leon, one of the most
respected officers in the organization, was the chief of the PNP Firearms and Explosives Office (FEO) and a member of the Philippine Military Academy Class of 1989. “The hardest part of moving up to a new assignment is to say goodbye to people you’ve learned to love and treasure for almost twoand-a-half years,” De Leon said. “Finally, I’m relieved of
duty as chief, FEO. You know why I’m so relieved? I shiver every time I think of maybe retiring in FEO since I was assigned here in 2017. But at the end of the day, God is good because there is light at the end of the tunnel,” he added. Colonel Westrimundo Obinque, who is De Leon’s deputy, is now the acting FEO chief. (Christopher Lloyd Caliwan)
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