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Gun ban THE Police Regional Office in Northern Mindanao (PRO10) on Friday announced its implementation of a gun ban as well as the identification of "hotspots" ahead of the national elections in May. In an interview Friday, PRO-10 spokesperson, PLt. Col. Michelle Olaivar, said the gun ban will be implemented on January 9 based on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Resolution Numbers 10741 and 10728. "(Also included in the) violation of gun ban are bearing of (other) deadly weapons, which can be considered an election offense," she said.

Civic groups aids SURIGAO City – Alongside the continuing efforts of government instrumentalities to answer the immediate needs of Caraga Region residents badly hit by Typhoon Odette last month are civic organizations, private groups, and individuals who pooled their resources and went to affected communities.

Among these civic organizations is the Lions Club International (LCI) that conducted a two-day distribution activity In Surigao City, Surigao del Norte during the weekend.

The group distributed 600 food packs contained in pails, 600 water containers, and 365 gallons of potable water to affected residents in the villages of Barangays Sabang, Mabua, San Juan, and Mapawa.

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'Kuyamis' Fest one of outgoing guv's legacies: MisOr exec

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HE celebration of the an nu a l " Ku y am i s " Festival is one of the legacies of outgoing Misamis Oriental Governor Yevgeny Vincente Emano who started it when he assumed office in 2013.

During the official opening rites of the celebration Monday, lawyer Jeffrey Saclot, provincial tourism chief, said it was Emano who ordered the creation of the festival in line with the celebration of the founding anniversary of the province, which is now on its 92nd year.

"Since then, it has become a source of pride and inspiration; the festival established the cultural identity of Misamis Oriental," he said.

The "kuyamis," is a variety of coconut trees that bear golden-colored fruits.

Saclot said there was a historical study that the name "Misamis" meant "land of golden coconuts," hence, the celebration.

Saclot said the festival, now on its 9th year, promoted the tourism sector of the province as well as its cultural significance.

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KUYAMIS. Misamis Oriental Gov. Yevgeny Vincente Emano leads the opening of the weeklong 9th Kuyamis Festival Monday, January 10 at the provincial capitol Park. In the photo are Provincial Board Members Dexter Yasay, Boboy Sabal, and Wayne Militante, gubernatorial candidate Peter Unabia, DOT-10 RD May Unchuan, Mis. Or. SK Federation and Board Member Kerwir Jess Soldevilla. photo by gerry lee gorit

Butuan doc patients stood COMELEC-10 reactivates MisOr joint pat: We are real, not bogus security control centers for 2022 elections

By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN, Contributing Editor

BUTUAN City -- More regular patients of Butuan Doctors Hospital and College (BDHC) stood openly that they were treated well at the hospital’s Advance Wound Care Center (AWCC) since they were covered by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) benefits contrary to the allegations of fraud against

BDHC by the state-run health insurer.

Edwin Elacion, a retired police officer, who was treated at the AWCC for his broken legs due to motorcycle accident in June 2018, said he was an outpatient who frequented BDHC for over a month for continuous dressing of his wound and PATIENTS/PAGE 7

MISAMIS ORIENTAL--The Commission of Elections (COMELEC)-10 held its Provincial Command Conference for the May 2022 Local and National Elections to reactivate the municipal, city, and provincial joint security control centers for the conduct of safe and peaceful elections, January 6.

At t e n d e d b y l o c a l government unit (LGU) representatives, Municipal Pol i c e St at i on C h i e f s , LGU election officers, and

provincial government line agencies, the conference realigned issues and concerns amid the COVID-19 p andemic such as t he implementation of the gun ban, adherence to health safety protocols during the campaign and election season, and public security, among others. “ We c a n p r o p e r l y implement the gun ban and all other activities that are needed to be implemented to the public by having

close coordination with all stakeholders, so they will know that we are one and have the same purpose, which is for them to fully exercise their right to suffrage without hampering our public health protocols and all other activities,” said COMELEC-10 Regional Election Lawyer Gina Luna Zayas-Sabio.

Expressing support to the initiative, 58th Infantry “Dimalulupig” Battalion ELECTIONS/PAGE 6

Augmentation AT least P122 million were spent in the coronavirus diseases 2019 (Covid-19) response in 2021 in the province of Camiguin.

During the State of the Province Address on Friday evening, Gov. Jurdin Jesus Romualdo said the amount was pooled through the combined efforts of the provincial government and the Office of Camiguin Rep. Xavier Jesus Romualdo.

"Our pandemic response in the island is heavily focused on responsive public health, unhampered infrastructure development, and accessible financial and material aid to each and every Camiguingnon," he said.

BUS BOMBING. This Mindanao Star passenger bus plying the Davao City-Cotabato City route is cordoned off after a bomb exploded at the rear portion inside the vehicle as it was cruising the highway at Purok Narra, San Mateo, Aleosan, North Cotabato around 8:15 a.m. yesterday, January 11. Police said three of the 20 passengers were injured, but they have no idea yet as to the motive as investigations are ongoing. photo from the cotabato provincial police command

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CDO administers 1M Covid-19 vax doses

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HE CAGAYAN de Oro City government here started the new year with more than a million doses of various vaccine brands already

administered to combat the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).

Data from the City Health Insurance Office released on Monday showed 1,001,384 doses

have been injected as of January 2.

Of the total, 440,339 were for second doses and 15,275 for booster or additional shots.

The city has surpassed

the minimum 70-percent population protection requirement with 82.01 percent or 425,259 inoculations.

Data provided by the Department of Health

Region 10 showed at least 518,518 must be vaccinated here to achieve population protection.

Mayor Oscar Moreno has asked the national

government to allow them to service nonresidents, according to a message from Oliver Egypto, Office for Community Affairs chief.

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PH Eagle released back into Zambo Norte's wild GODOD, Zamboanga del Norte – Onlookers were in a festive mood as officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), assisted by Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) personnel, released a female Philippine Eagle back into the wild here.

The eagle, named “Godod,” was released around 10:30 a.m.

Monday in an upland barangay here, Almario Caabay Jr. of the Provincial Environment and Resources Office (PENRO) said, is located 5,500 meters above sea level.

“Usually, we don’t reveal the location where we release a wildlife back to the natural habitat so as not to give an idea to the hunters,” Rosevirico Tan, DENR regional information officer, told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) in an interview.

Dr. Ernest Duldulao, DENR’s Regional Wildlife Rescue Center resident veterinarian, physically examined Godod before she was freed.

“She is healthy and ready to return to the wild,” he said.

Godod, before flying back to the wild, stood for several

minutes on the wooden release platform and looked back, giving spectators an opportunity to have their last look at the eagle and take photographs and video.

The spectators included officials of the DENR headed by Ronald Gadot, assistant regional director for technical services, PEF personnel, and Godod Mayor Abel Matildo, among others.

Dionisio Rago, head of the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO)-Liloy, said the eagle was named after the town since

the bird was accidentally trapped and captured by a Subanen farmer on Dec. 5, 2021 in Sitio Makinaryas, Barangay Bunawan.

Rago said the wildlife was confirmed as a Philippine Eagle based on the photographs given to them by the Godod Municipal Tourism Office.

He said they immediately sent a team and retrieved the wildlife in coordination with the 44th Infantry Battalion on December 16 at the height of Typhoon Odette.

“Our retrieval team was able to bring down the eagle from the

mountains at 5 a.m. of December 17 since they were stranded due to typhoon Odette,” Rago said.

“The eagle was weak, though physically fit,” Rago said, adding that the bird was properly examined by a veterinarian upon arrival at his office.

The eagle, which sustained a superficial injury on her left wing, was placed in a cage for rehabilitation at Rago’s office guided by their veterinarian and the PEF. Godod, while under rehabilitation, was fed daily by EAGLE/PAGE 6

Employee’s Stress, and Emotional Turmoil MA. ROMILA D.UY, HTIII ALUBIJID NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL

People are stressed; With emotional turmoil and with uncertainty about the future. People are coping and struggling themselves on the uncertainties of life, emotional, mental and financial status. Many are bound to competition and fallacious to to themselves just to attain the response of the bearing culture and society to live well and be powerful.

Every people in different institution counts on to be brave enough to innovate, lead and inspire others to innovate and to become powerful … considering , they are stressed.

They are certainly leading people who are stressed same situation as he is . They are asked to perpetuate the standards that are stressing them out but the cycle continues because it’s a

trend of life.

Perhaps the Institution is at a breaking point. Every industry/ institution faces a laundry list of potential existential crises – new technologies or business models can and do emerge seemingly out of nowhere to challenge each position as leaders in the marketplace and in the workplace.

Most organizations and leaders say they want to empower people to contribute at their fullest capacity. But they don’t know how. It’s because biases are blocking our success.

Let’s start by examining what holds us back from fullest capacity. Studies/ researches found many of the obstacles, especially those that arise from the tension we’re all feeling during this shift from standardization

to personalization: A viselike grip on the status quo among leadership, perpetuating standards that are no longer relevant; Leaders who say they want diversity of thought even as they hire for conformity of thought; Using “the right fit” as code for exclusion; and Prioritizing company mission over individual contribution.

Those are just a few of the obstacles mention on studies that can originate from the workplace itself, contributing to the stress that people carry around.

The stressors mentioned above – turmoil, emotional uncertainty – may or may not originate in the workplace, but they certainly affect one’s ability to contribute. When we’re stressed for any reason, our capacity is affected.

Many new competitors on the edge of the horizon, can’t afford to have organizations/ institution be filled with people whose individual capacities are stifled in any way.

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Local firm eyes manufacture Tight supply of paracetamol of Covid-19 drug Molnupiravir brands due to delivery issue: DTI A LOCAL pharmaceutical company is eyeing the manufacture of Molnupiravir, an oral medicine said to reduce severe symptoms of Covid-19, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez said.

During President Rodrigo Duterte’s Talk to the People Thursday night, Lopez said if it pushes through, the drug will

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EPARTMENT of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez said there is no shortage of paracetamol in the local market, and its tight supply is due to delivery issues.

“There might be a temporary tight supply for some brands. But it is due to timing of deliveries to replenish the stocks in the branches of these drugstores,” Lopez told reporters in a text message Tuesday.

He cited that brands such as Biogesic and Decolgen, which are under pharmaceutical firm Unilab, “may be having temporary out of stock situations” in drugstores as the manufacturer cut off deliveries last December.

Delivery of supplies of these paracetamol and analgesic brands will start this week, Lopez said.

He added that other brands of paracetamol have ample supply and

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there are also generic products in the market.

“There are other brands of paracetamol in the market so there is no shortage,” the DTI chief said.

Avoid panic buying To avoid panic buying, Lopez said the DTI will direct drugstores to limit the purchase of paracetamol.

The agency is still finalizing the cap for paracetamol purchase per customer.

Safe Online Learning in Times of Pandemic

By: MARITES O. LAGAMON Teacher-III Bongbongon Elementary School

Online Learning – One of the distance learning modality being used today through the access of digital devices.

It is the process of studying without having to physically attend classes.

Further, using Educational Technology is becoming an important part of our everyday life. Hence, it has transitioned from the traditional classroom which is face-to-face style to online learning with the use of electronic devices. This was made possible when the threat of Covid-19 has spread through people across all countries.

To keep everyone safe from the effects of Covid-19, staying at home and avoiding crowded places are one of the stringent measures to prevent from spreading and contracting the said virus.

Thus, it is comprehensible why parents choose online learning modality for their children’s health and safety.

Through online learning, children are given the opportunity to continue learning without having to leave their homes. Also, online learning has now become an interactive learning curated with practical challenges and hands-on experience

be more accessible and affordable to Filipinos.

“If this will be locally produced, it will be affordable because it will be like generics. So that these antivirus drugs, those that will kill the virus, will be accessible to our countrymen at a lower price compared to imported ones,” he said in mixed English and Filipino.

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to develop the students’ creativity by engaging them with a learning activity.

With this challenge, it is imperative that the parents take necessary precautions and reminders for the safety of their children such as establishing do’s and dont’s while using gadgets between online classes and leisure time. Hence, school children may be spending all their time at home and will most likely be spending a lot of that time, online.

Howe ve r, it is t he opp or tunit y to sp end quality time with the family and also to keep learning through online classes which makes all the difference in contrast with the face-to-face learning.

Parents on the other hand, must ensure to guide their kids on using gadgets responsibly. Thus as educators, we need to reiterate the important roles our learners and parents play on this new practice.

Especially on how important it is to set healthy boundaries while children are engaged in online classes and social media usage.

Aside from the tight supply for some brands, Lopez said there should be no problem in prices of paracetamol.

Lopez also enjoined consumers to report to DTI those that profiteering amid the temporary supply issue of some paracetamol brands. “(We urged)

consumers to file complaint as soon as possible and give details (of ) those profiteers and we will charge them,” he said. “And our advice to consumers, they buy from reputable drugstores to ensure fair price according to SRP (suggested retail price).” (PNA)

LISTED firm Aboitiz Power Corp. (AP) is seeking regulatory approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its third tranche bond issuance worth P10 billion.

The targeted bond issue is part of the P30 billion fixed rate retail bonds that had been set for shelf registration with the SEC on March 1 last year. AP’s application for the third tranche issuance was lodged with the regulatory agency on Tuesday, Jan. 11.

“The third tranche bonds, with an aggregate

principal amount of up to P10 billion, including oversubscription, is expected to be issued in one or two series in the first quarter of 2022,” the Aboitiz firm noted.

As emphasized, the proceeds of the bond will be used “to raise capital to refinance the company’s previously issued bonds, fund the construction of future renewable projects, and other general corporate purposes.”

Tapped as joint issue managers for this bond offering were BDO Capital POWER/PAGE 6

Teaching must need to be flexible

By MARY ROCHA E. GOLOSINO Teacher III

Compared to workers in of f ices or remote jobs, teachers have always had a harder time keeping up with the varying needs of adult life: car repairs, doctors’ appointments, meeting a plumber. Just making a personal phone call while at work is something that m o s t c o l l e g e - e d u c at e d professionals take for granted, but it’s incredibly difficult for teachers. Recent

needs for COVID-19 testing, helping family members and emergency child care have emphasized this disparity.

D u r i n g l a s t y e a r ’s widespread remote schooling, teachers found g r e at e r f l e x i b i l i t y — n o commute, no hallway duty— and liked it, even if they didn’t like teaching virtually.

After that experience, the relentlessness of the inperson school week is a

Finding hope in the midst of a pandemic LESLEY G. GAMUTIN Teacher 1, Bugo Central School

COVID-19 poses an existential threat to the human race especially that Delta and Omicron variant had entered already in our country. Unsure of what will happen next, we often take a deep breath to calm our racing pulses. None of us were prepared for this outbreak. Some are led to ask why a good and loving God allows pandemic such as this in our world.

This is however a time to wait patiently for hope to spring from our life of “social distancing” and “self-isolation”. We need not retreat from our faith, even in the face of suffering in the manner of Job. Even if we turn away from God momentarily, we can return to God and re-establish our relationship with Him. We come to terms with our difficulties in the belief that

God cares for us despite the pandemic and its effects. In fact, we can take time in prayer to derive strength from God to bear the trials and tribulations of life. God is our solace and succour.

A life with faith in God is a journey undertaken with the hope of reaching the destination: “God who is our home”, to quote William Wordswor th. Ups and downs are normal in this arduous journey and it is through ups and downs that we grow in faith.

The Bible invites us to trust that if God allows pain, He will give us the strength to go through and He will show us the way out of it. I pray that God will help us to know his peace, comfort and healing in the midst of the pandemic, or any suffering that we may go through in life.

big reason teachers are finding this year even more stressful. Principals, too, are feeling the strain: twice as many expect to leave the principalship then before the pandemic. Lower-paid employees like bus drivers have already departed.

If teachers need more flexibility, why not make school partly remote? Well, s i mp l y, r e m o t e s c h o o l doesn’t work for kids. So what else can schools do to make teachers’ jobs more flexible?

Before we get there, a warning: these ideas are going to seem unlikely or imp ossible. The s cho ol schedule is a core part of the grammar of schooling: the ways that, just like we unconsciously speak grammatically, we conceive of how schools operate. For instance, we just know that students spend their days in groups of about 25: not 5, not 50. Fundamentally changing that grammar is hard to do; it’s even hard to think about.

Omicron's effect to education

By CECILIA T. ABAYON Teacher III Gracia Elementary School

WHAT are you doing—or trying to do—to sustain your morale and the morale of your students in the face of Omicron? What are you doing—or trying to do—to sustain any kind of learning momentum you had built up before the winter break?

Ommicron is tr uly bringing education to its knees. It is a season of “lack.” There is a lack of proactivity at times, a lack of consideration, a lack of consistency, and a lack of accountability.

Students are tired. They are exhausted. They are in need, and rightfully so, they are not totally focused on education.

In an attempt to provide what students, no matter the circumstances, need in order to learn, I have

tried to show structure, stability, and allow a safe space for processing and navigating the world we find ourselves in. Curriculum, yes, it’s necessary and must be followed, but if we need to shift midclass, shut down the novel we are reading, and do some deep breathing because the energy in the room is heavy, we do it.

I could get into the neuroscience, the needs of the nervous system, and the impact that stress has on learning, but let’s keep it simple: We can just pay attention to our students.

That’s been my guiding light through this. Pay attention to the energy and space, and it will tell you all that you need to know about what your students need and how best to proceed.

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No parking T h i n k a m i nut e … O n this journey of life do you sometimes feel like pulling over and parking? You feel like you have done enough, worked enough, and learned enough. It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy the ride to the end. But “The problem with doing nothing is you never know when you’re finished.”

When we pull over and park we get nowhere, and stop short of experiencing all that life has for us.

One parking place we might stop at is what we think are our handicaps and weaknesses, because we compare ourselves to others who have certain abilities we do not have. But we must realize that we have our own special abilities. You and I must learn to accept ourselves with our own physical appearance, personality and talents. No one is completely handicapped! We each have something very important that we can be and do in this world which no one else can.

This is why others actually need you to make the most of your assets and abilities, so you add your contribution and influence in their lives.

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ORLAN R. RAVANERA Before being manifested as forms be a human being, a star, a tree, a bird or a lion, all of God’s creations came as awareness/consciousness, well-rooted with the eternal and formless Being. That truism alone will tell us the oneness and sacredness of all creation, now appearing in different forms but coming from one life. All forms are transient, impermanent but t h e aw a re n e s s / t h e consciousness known also as spirit is eternal. All forms are expressions of the Divinity of the Source of all life and such divine purpose should be allowed to bloom, unfettered from egoic mindset. In fact, oneness and inter-connected with all God’s creation is the number law of nature.

But the divine purpose of the Universe has been violated without let up all these years by the homo sapiens that are governed by an insane collective mindset who were responsible in killing its own kind at the tune of more than 100 million human beings in 20th century alone. Not only that! By intensively pursuing consumerist and materialistic lifestyle, the homo sapiens have already sacrificed GAIA (Mother Earth) and billions of floras and faunas to the altar of greed and profit. Yes, we are now in the 22nd year of the 21st century, but we are not certain anymore if we can reach the 22nd century which is only 88 years from now. Every day, 1,000 hectares of the 386-meter-high iceberg

are melting in the Arctic and the Antarctic that are contributing to the increasing level of the Oceans, our seas are acidifying vanishing our fishery and marine life. As described by Jeff Nesbit in his book, “This is the Way the World Ends,” “Longer droughts in the Middle East are causing extreme water shortages, growing desertification in China and Africa is creating a severe food security challenge; the monsoon season is shrinking in India, perhaps upending a century-old water cycle; amped heat waves in Australia are making part of the continent unlivable.

More intense hurricanes could devastate entire cities in America; water wars in the Horn of Africa are now the root of armed conflict; rebellions, refugees, and starving children across the globe are becoming common place.”

The world itself will not end, of course. Only ours will as we are now in the state of planetary emergency with the doomsday clock now set by thousands of scientists to just “one minute before midnight.” But despite this truism, humanity is still in deep slumber. Worse, an unprecedented crime is now being committed against life and against humanity by the homo sapiens through climate change denials. Remember what happened during the recently-held Conference of Parties (COP 26) at Glasglow, Scotland during the G22 Conference attended by some 200 world leaders. COP26 was just all BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, as world leaders gave more priority to the economy rather than saving life on earth. They could not even phase out the usage of coal and fossil fuel, the main contributor to climate change. Climate change denial is also being claimed

by religious fundamentalists, based on their firm belief that everything that’s happening on earth can be attributed to God’s will including climate change and no way shall we contradict that. Such is wellsupported by the Americans, especially the Republicans who are outrightly denying climate change. Why? Well very glaringly, as categorically stated “it’s the economy, stupid!” Am not surprised! No way will they stop profiteering through the use of coal and fossil fuel. The US 19 fossil companies are earning some 17 trillion dollars annually or some 10 million dollars every minute! Such gargantuan amount not only goes to these global corporations but to the mainstream media and religious groups. No way will they stop sacrificing Mother Earth and the people and all life forms to the altar of greed and profit! Indeed, every day, thousands of species, be flora and fauna, are becoming extinct. All of these species, were created millions if not billions or years prior to creation of the homo sapiens, meaning, they have more right to exist than us. But the homo sapiens is the most flawed of all of God’s creation.

It is quite a paradox that it is stated biblically that “God created man in the image and likeness of God.” Well, the opposite is true – man has created God in his own image, even one brandishing as being “the appointed son of God!” and now accused of rape and other heinous crimes.

But t he c ol l e c t ively egoic insane mindset of the Anthropocene is going-on horribly without let-up amidst morale collapse and religious apathy! Now, please tell me, will such insane collective mindset be allowed to create more havoc, more massacre, more unprecedented crime against life, against God?

No less than Pope Francis in his Encyclical Letter had said that “Climate change is a sin against God!” Who are really passionately countering climate change? Who are opposing the-called corporate globalization known also as aggressive casino capitalism that is in control of the one percent regime of the world’s economy?

Such contemp orane ous d e vel opme nt p ar a d i g m known also as neo-liberal capitalism has benefited so much from manufacturing armaments, i.e., nuclear bombs, high powered guns, missiles, etc., that can kill the 7 billion earthlings 33 times over. Based on the above analysis, if you were the Creator, will you not awaken the homo sapiens now in deep slumber, deeply buried in so much consumerism and materialism whose mindset is captured by so much illusion by the mainstream media brandishing body languages and rhetorical style. You want to be happy? Buy this, buy that! That’s wrong! You can only be happy by being one with life, with God! The pandemic that has put humanity is so much disarray is indeed the best wake-up call. The species called homo sapiens is so self-centered, so egoic, so engrossed in psychological attachments, so selfish brandishing – my life, my wealth, my ego, my identify, my popularity, my position and what have you.

COVID-19 threatens those aspects of self-gratification.

Instead of my, my my, it should be ours, ours, ours!

So, the homo sapiens must pause and reflect for a while.

Unless the homo sapiens trail braze transformation and feel the oneness and sacredness of life, no way can we stop the pandemic! Are you not wondering why there is the pandemic? Just like the LIFE/PAGE 7

Bracing for Omicron JHAN TIAFAU HURST A second parking place that many of us stop at is our failures. Yet we all have failed, so join the club! Simply learn from it and try smarter next time. “We’ve only truly failed when we stop trying.”

It’s so simple, yet so true: “A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits.”

The final place many of us park is by our successes.

In 1899, after the U.S. Patent Office had given over 600,000 patents, it made this statement: “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” They could not have been more wrong!

Think of all the inventions since 1899: airplanes, radio, television, the computer, the PARKING/PAGE 7

THE surge of COVID -19 all over the country is something of grave concern. At a rapid rate, people are infected health authorities are presently on red alert. Our economic managers are again jittery, the gains that had slightly increased following the dramatic decline of Covid cases prompted by the massive vaccination drive may again be anemic.

For a while, we idly attributed the rise of Covid cases to the Christmas holiday rush when people, following the lifting restrictions, went out of their homes to go shopping, visiting, and partying. We have practically thrown cautions out of the window. Maybe we can attribute this to the fact that those who were infected but had been fully vaccinated recovered under home medication.

But elsewhere in the world, hundreds of thousands are infected with such swiftness.

The Omicron variant has

spread like wildfire all over Europe, the US, and Canada after taking its toll in Africa where it started.

Most of these countries are presently on lockdown.

The transmissibility of this variant is unprecedented although health authorities are telling us that its impact is mild for those who had completed their vaccination or better still had gotten their booster dose. Nevertheless, Omicron is worrisome since not a few people who were not vaccinated succumbed to the variant.

Here is how Dr. Anthony Stephen Fauci, the American physician-scientist and immunologist who serves as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Chief Medical Advisor to US Pres. Joe Biden explains: “While the Omicron variant seems to replicate faster in the bronchial tubes, this occurs

much more slowly in the lungs which could account for the milder disease”. He also stressed that those with vaccine protection are far less likely to become infected with Omicron and are less likely to be hospitalized and die should they be infected. He warned moreover that “the risk of severe disease from any circulating variant, including Omicron, is much, much higher for the unvaccinated”.

That is quite comforting.

We Pinoys would rather look at the brighter side than whatever risks Omicron variants may bring. “Parang flu lang daw”, the optimists in us would say. Maybe for some but for those who are unvaccinated, especially those with comorbidity among them, it can be a quick trip to kingdom come. But there is a silver lining beyond Omicron.

Researchers are saying that while this variant accelerates quickly it also decelerates

LETTERS FROM DAVAO

JUN LEDESMA as fast and the chances of whatever variant coronavirus breeds later will be dealt with by the stronger and effective herd immunity triggered by Omicron.

Still, there are too many imponderables as to be confident as saying “parang flu lang”. Maybe, but in the meantime let’s observe the basic health protocols: wear that mask properly, wash or disinfect hands as often as necessary, and follow the rules on social distancing.

Happy New Year!

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Enlist private sector, LGU support to conduct frequent and free mass testing—Lacson Partido Reporma chairman and standard-bearer Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson urges the national government to engage private sector organizations and local government units (LGU) in the possible rollout of a free and wider COVID-19 testing program, considering the spate of new viral infections in the country.

Lacson issued this statement amid concerns from the general public over the price of getting an RT-PCR test and the increased demand for some reputable do-ityourself COVID-19 rapid antigen testing kits owing to the threat of the highly contagious Omicron variant.

“Mahal ang testing e.

Ang pag-swab test nasa mga P3,700 e, kung private setting ha. Kung pila, siyempre, mas mura-mura.

Pero hindi naman lahat ng kababayan natin may panggastos na ganoon,” Lacson said in interview with DWIZ radio over the weekend.

(The price range for testing is quite expensive.

The swab test costs around P3,700 when conducted in a private setting. If you fall in line, of course, you get a much cheaper rate.

But we know not all of our

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES Regional Trial Court 12TH JUDICIAL REGION BRANCH 07 Tubod, Lanao del Norte

IN RE: PETITION FOR CANCELLATION OF LEGITIMATION OF MINOR HEZEL ANN NARVASA BACO WITH REGISTRY NO. 2018-85 SPECIAL PROC. NO. 343-07-2019 DULY REGISTERED AT THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF TUBOD, LANAO DEL NORTE, REPRESENTED BY HER MOTHER AZINATE NARVASA BACO. For: AZINATE NARVASA BACO, Cancellation of Legitimation and Cancellation Petitioner, of the Second Birth Certificate -versusARTHEZEL ARCILLA BACO, Private Respondent.

THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF TUBOD, LANAO DEL NORTE; AND THE ADMINISTRATOR AND CIVIL REGISTRAR GENERAL, PHILIPPINE STATISTICS AUTHORITY (PSA), East Avenue, Quezon City, Metro Manila,

Public Respondents X----------------------------------------------------------X AMENDED PETITION

COMES NOW the Petitioner, through the PUBLIC ATTORNEY’S OFFICE and by the undersigned counsel, unto this Honorable Court, most respectfully states, that: NATURE OF THE CASE

countrymen have extra money to pay for it.)

“Ako suggestion ko, involve uli natin ‘yung mga local government unit at saka ‘yung pribadong sektor. Kasi willing naman ang private sector na tumulong dito e.

Hindi ko lang alam kung bakit parang sa halip na i-encourage natin minsan, ‘di ba, pinapahirapan pa natin?” he added.

(My suggestion is let’s involve our local government units again and even the private sector. Because the private sector is willing to help in this program. I’m just not sure about the reason

why sometimes, instead of encouraging it, we are making it hard for them.)

Lacson has been pushing for a free COVID-19 testing program, especially while the nation is still grappling with the ongoing pandemic and its recurring and emerging variants, saying this should be part of the public services offered by the government.

“Dapat libre talaga ‘yung testing, of course, lalo na doon sa mga pangkaraniwang empleyado. Kung may wherewithal naman at kaya naman magbayad, TESTING/PAGE 7

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL 10th Judicial Region BRANCH 25 Cagayan de Oro City DARYL JAMES L. BALANGIGUE, Applicant/Assignee, -versus- MARILOU E. PAGLINAWAN & ELMER E. PAGLINAWAN, Mortgagors. x-------------------------------------------------/

EJF FILE NO. 2021-979 For: EXTRA JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE UNDER ACT NO. 3135 as amended by Act 4118

SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended, filed by DARYL JAMES E. BALANGIGUE, MORTGAGEE-ASSIGNEE and a resident of Block 35, Lot 7, Youngsville, Igpit, Opol, Misamis Oriental, against MARILOU E. PAGLINAWAN & ELMER E. PAGLINAWAN, MORGAGORS, with postal address at 12th Street Nazareth, Cagayan de Oro City, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of October 11, 2021, amounted to FIVE HUNDRED FOUR THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR PESOS (P 504,134.00) Philippine Currency, embracing the principal, interest and other charges, excluding foreclosure expenses, the undersigned Sheriff will sell at public auction on February 17, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Regional Trial Court, Branch 25, Hall of Justice, Goldridge Building, Masterson Avenue, cor. P.N Roa Sr. Ave., Upper Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, to the highest bidder for CASH and in Philippine Currency, the following property described below including all existing improvements found thereon, to wit: Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-17064 A PARCEL OF LAND (Lot 1 Block 33, of the Cons. Subd. Plan, PCS-10-001039, being a portion of Lots 3507-B, 3507-C, 3507-D, & 3507-E (LRC) PSD-211999 situated in the Barangay of Igpit, Municipality of Opol, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao.) Bounded on the SW., along line 1-2 by Lot 59 of Block 33 of the Cons. Subd. Plan; on the NW., along lines 2-3-45 by Road Lot 7 of the Cons. Subd. Plan;, thence XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX containing an area of TWO HUNDRED SIX (206) SQUARE METERS more or less. Registered in the name of MARILOU ESCARDA PAGLINAWAN married to ELMER ENDRIGA PAGLINAWAN. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated time and date.

In the event auction sale cannot take place for whatever legal reason, the same will proceed on February 18, 2022, without further notice, posting and publication.

Prospective buyers may investigate for themselves the title herein above described property and encumbrance thereon, if any there be.

Cagayan de Oro City, December 27, 2021.

FOR THE EX-OFFICIO PROVINCIAL SHERIFF (SGD) LOVE M. VERDADERO Sheriff IV

1. This petition seeks to cancel the Legitimation with Registry No. 2018-85 and the Second Birth Certificate of the minor HEZEL ANN NARVASA BACO (hereinafter referred as “minor Hezel Ann” for brevity) with Registry No. 2008-1061 duly registered at the Local Civil Registrar of Tubod, Lanao del Norte pursuant to Rule 108 of the Rules of Court. The fact of legitimation is shown in the LCR Form No. 1A and in the Certificate of Live Birth of minor Hezel Ann being annotated thereat. Copies of which are enclosed herein as EXHIBITS “A” and “B”, respectively; PARTIES 2. The petitioner is the mother of the minor HEZEL ANN NARVASA BACO. She is a Filipino Citizen, married to the private respondent ARTHEZEL A. BACO, and a resident of Purok 1, Barangay Tibanga, Iligan City, where summons and other processes of the Honorable Court may be served; 3. The private respondent ARTHEZEL A. BACO is the father of the minor HEZEL ANN NARVASA BACO. He is a Filipino citizen, married to the petitioner AZINATE NARVASA BACO and a resident of Purok 1, Barangay Tibanga, Iligan City, where summons and other processes of this Honorable Court; 4. The public respondents are public officials tasked to make and keep records of (1) Births; (2) marriages; (3) deaths; (4) legal separations; (5) annulments of marriage; (6) judgments declaring marriages void from the beginning; (7) Legitimations; and others (See Art. 408, Civil Code of the Philippines) for the Municipality of Tubod, Lanao del Norte, and for the country, as for the Respondent Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA); 5. The said public respondents may be served with summons and other processes of the Honorable Court in the following addresses: Local Civil Registrar of Tubod at the Municipal Hall, Poblacion, Tubod, Lanao del Norte, while the Administrator and Civil Registrar General at the Philippine Statistics Authority, East Avenue, Quezon City, Manila; STATEMENT OF FACTS 6. The petitioner’s daughter named HEZEL ANN NARVASA BACO was born on March 23, 2007 at Cangomantong, Lazi, Siquijor. Her birth was duly reported and recorded in the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Lazi, Siquijor on April 18, 2007 with Registry No. 2007-110 without the knowledge of petitioner. At the time when minor Hezel Ann was born, the latter’s parents were not yet married. Attached and made as an integral part of this Petition are copies of the Certificate of Birth issued by the Local Civil Registrar of Lazi, Siquijor as EXHIBIT “C” and the copy issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority as EXHIBIT “D”; 7. On February 13, 2008, the petitioner and the private respondent got married before the Office of the Municipal Mayor of Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte. Attached and made as an integral part of this Petition is their Marriage Certificate as EXHIBIT “E”; 8. Thereafter, on August 15, 2008, the petitioner, without any knowledge of the prior registration of the certificate of live birth of her daughter in Siquijor, decided to have the facts of birth of her daughter Hezel Ann recorded as “Late Registration” before the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Tubod, Lanao del Norte. Accordingly, the same was record thereat. A copy of the PSA Certificate of Live Birth of minor Hezel Ann under Registry No. 2008-1061 is hereto attached and marked as EXHIBIT “F”; 9. On July 18, 2018, the petitioner submitted before the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Tubod, Lanao del Norte a Joint Affidavit of Legitimation to elevate the status of the child from illegitimate to legitimated child pursuant to their subsequent marriage with Arthezel Baco which was celebrated after the birth of the minor Hezel Ann. The said fact of legitimation was then duly registered with the LCR of Tubod, Lanao del Norte with Registry No. 2018-85. A copy of the Joint Affidavit of Legitimation is hereto attached and marked as EXHIBIT “G”; 10. Sometime in August 2018, the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Tubod, Lanao del Norte called the attention of the herein petitioner informing her to report to the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Tubod and when she was already in the Office, she was furnished with a Feed Back Form (attached and marked as EXHIBIT “H”) issued by the PSA (Philippine Statistics Authority). In the said Feedback Form, the petitioner was advised to file a Petition for cancellation of the registration of legitimation in the second registered Certificate of Live Birth (See EXHIBIT “F”) of minor Hezel Ann, and once the document has been cancelled, the parents will submit a new Joint Affidavit of Legitimation for annotation using the timely registered Certificate of Live Birth of the minor HEZEL ANN NARVASA BACO at Lazi, Siquijor; 11. However, there is a need to not only cancel the registration of the legitimation of the minor Hezel Ann in her Second Certificate of Live Birth but also to cancel altogether the Second Certificate of Live Birth registered before the LCR of Tubod, Lanao del Norte as there are currently two existing birth certificates of the minor Hezel Ann (the first is registered before the LCR of Lazi, Siquijor, and the second is registered before the LCR of Tubod, Lanao del Norte). Therafter, in order for the minor Hezel Ann’s status to be elevated from Illegitimate Child to Legitimated Child, an Affidavit of Legitimation shall be filed at the LCR of Lazi, Siquijor, after the cancellation of her second birth certificate duly registered with the LCR of Tubod, Lanao del Norte; 12. Hence, this petition filed by the herein petitioner praying that the legitimation of the minor Hezel Ann and her second birth certificate duly registered with the LCR of Tubod, Lanao del Norte be altogether cancelled; 13. That this petition is made in absolute good faith and without any intention of defrauding any person or entity but solely for the purpose of correcting the record of birth of the minor Hezel Ann to conform to the true and correct status of birth of the minor as well as the marital status of her parents.

PRAYER

WHEREFORE, premises considered, it is most respectfully prayed of this Honorable Court, that after due notice, publication and hearing, judgment shall issue, by ordering the LCR of Tubod, Lanao del Norte and the PSA, to: 1. CANCEL the Legitimation of the minor HEZEL ANN NARVASA BACO which is duly registered at the Local Civil Registrar of Tubod, Lanao del Norte with Registry No. 2018-85; 2. CANCEL the Second Certificate of Live Birth of the minor HEZEL ANN NARVASA BACO which is duly registered at the Local Civil Registrar of Tubod, Lanao del Norte with Registry No. 2008-1061; 3. FURNISH a copy of the Order of Cancellation of Legitimation with Registry No. 2018-85 and cancellation of the Second Certificate of Live Birth of the minor HEZEL ANN NARVASA BACO which is duly registered at the Local Civil Registrar of Tubod, Lanao del Norte with Registry No. 2008-1061 to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), East Avenue, Quezon City, Metro Manila;

Other reliefs and remedies, which are deemed just and equitable under the foregoing premises are likewise prayed for.

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,

Tubod, Lanao del Norte, Philippines,

24 May 2021.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC ATTORNEY’S OFFICE TUBOD DISTRICT OFFICE 1st Floor, Farmer’s Training Center Tubod, Lanao del Norte by: LARIZA AIDIE R. UGSOD Public Attorney I Roll No. 70787 IBP O.R. No. 062659; January 4, 2019 PTR No. 4073658, December 27, 2018 (for 2019) MCLE VI-0016388 dated January 11, 2019 Issued at Pasig City Countersigned by: ATTY. JOHN DALE A. CANTALEJO OIC-District Public Attorney

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In a speech, Department of Tourism- Region 10 Director Marie Elaine Unchuan said for the past five years, the agency noted significant tourism potentials in various places of the province.

"Exploring the province, we have made new and amazing discoveries, creating possibilities which have made the province rise to its full potential as the tourism hub that is worthy of international renown," she said.

Unchuan said the province is now a key component in both our inter- and intra-regional tourism circuit developments.

She also said the agency recently launched two Misamis Oriental Tour Circuits.

Kuyamis events The Kuyamis Festival runs from January 10 to 14, but other events were already held since December with the Miss Kuyamis sideshows and booth competition of participating municipalities, which were judged last week.

Displayed at a strategic location, the Kuyamis-inspired booths not only showcased their structural design, but also served as an economic enterprise featuring their products made available for consumers, locals, and tourists alike.

Other events include the culture and art exhibit with the unveiling of another show featuring the creations

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of stylists Odelon Simpao, Jiejie Aisa, and Bea Bianca.

National costumes and photographs of several artists from Misamis Oriental are highlights of the display from Jan. 10 to 15, 2022 at the activity center of Centrio Ayala Mall.

These are all made with coconut products as the main design on each artwork.

Meanwhile, the Misamis Oriental Esports Organization has arranged a competition that will be participated in by 25 teams for the Call of Duty: Mobile tournament.

The tournament will run from January 11 to 12 at the Misamis Oriental provincial capitol grounds for the Kuyamis Esports Tournament.

A total of P178,000 in pool prizes awaits the winning participants.

(PNA)

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from page 2 only forest ranger one Gersel Rafols to limit her interaction with humans. Daily she consumed one-fourth kilo of meat.

“Her interaction with only one person was part of the preparation in sending her back to the wild,” Rago said.

Ronald Gadot, assistant regional director for technical services, said the area where the eagle was caught indicated that the place was rich in biodiversity as the forest was vast and intact.

Gadot said the Philippine

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Eagle is territorial and the span of their territory is at least 10,000 hectares of forest.

“They have a territorial area,” Gadot added.

He said there are only an estimated 400 pairs of Philippine Eagle in the country and the Zamboanga Peninsula (Region 9) has four eagle monitoring stations.

The four areas where Philippine Eagles are monitored in the region include the towns of Baliguian and Godod, Midsalip in Zamboanga del Sur, and, the Pasonanca Natural Park in Zamboanga City. “ We a r e p r o u d o f Zamboanga Peninsula that we have monitored four pairs of (Philippine) eagle that are soaring high in our forest showing the region has a rich biodiversity,” Gadot said.

He urged the upland community, especially the indigenous peoples, to help the government protect the Philippine Eagle.

The DENR officials said Philippine Eagle can only be found in the Sierra Madre in Luzon, Samar, and Mindanao.

(PNA)

Drug... from page 3

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Molnupiravir and injectable antiviral drug Ronapreve.

FDA Director General Oscar Gutierrez said Lloyd Laboratories applied

for a certificate product registration for lo cally manufactured Molnupiravir on Dec. 22, 2021.

The said drug is given only to patients who have tested positive for Covid-19 and with mild and moderate symptoms.

It should not be taken for prophylactic reasons, Gutierrez added.

“It shou ld not b e a substitute for vaccination,” he said.

Aside from Ronapreve an d Mol nupi r av i r, t h e government eyes to bring in another antiviral medicine, Paxlovid.

On January 4, Gutierrez said the Philippine government and Pf izer s i g n e d a C o n f i d e nt i a l Declaration Agreement as the pharmaceutical firm will discuss its plan to apply for EUA for Paxlovid. (PNA)

Power... from page 3

& Investment Corporation, China Bank Capital C or p or at i on a n d F i r s t Metro Securities Brokerage Corporation. The joint lead under w r iters and j oint bookrunners are BD O Capital, China Bank Capital, FMIC and Security Bank Corporation.

The p ower comp any said its third tranche bond issue will be listed at the Philippine Dealing and E x c h a n g e C o r p o r at i o n (PDEx), similar to what it

Pandemic education crisis

By GLORIA B. SAYSON Secondary School Teacher III Ozamiz City National High School

The global disruption to education caused by the C OV I D - 1 9 p a n d e m i c c onst itute s t he worst education crisis on record. Most countries in the world closed schools, vocational training, and hig her e ducat ion institutions as part of their strategies to combat the pandemic, and nearly all of the world’s students have been affected. The costs have been immense. The magnitude of the shock is still not fully understood, but emerging evidence is deeply concerning.

C h i l d r e n i n m a ny countries have missed out on most or all of the academic learning they would ordinarily have acquired in school, with younger and more

marginalized children often missing out the most.

T h e p an d e m i c h a s exacerbated the global learning crisis even more than previously feared.

Because of learning and skills lost during the school closures, this generation of students now risks losing $17 trillion in lifetime earnings in present value, or the equivalent of 14 percent of today’s global GDP, which is far more than the $10 trillion estimated in 2020.

Po v e r t y – a l r e a d y over 50 percent before the pandemic – will rise sharply, potentially up to 70 percent, as a result of the school closures and the inconsistent quality and effectiveness of remote learning. Bold action is needed now.

had done with the initial tranches.

AP has b een aiming for capacity addition of 3,900 megawatts within a decade stretch and the technolog y leaning of greenfield developments will be on renewable energy (RE) installations.

The initial development plans are currently focused on solar and wind farms in the Luzon grid and one venture that is already advancing is the 94-megawatt Cayanga solar farm project sited in Bugallon, Pangasinan.

The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for that solar farm installation was already awarded last December to JGC Philippines, a subsidiary of Japanese firm JGC Holdings Corp. That P4.5 billion solar plant is targeted for commercial

operations by the fourth quarter of 2022.

As i nd i c ate d by A P, next to take off from its project blueprint would be another solar plant in Aguilar, Pangasinan and that will yield a capacity of 167-megawatt peak.

For wind, the Aboitiz firm said it already erected met masts in Aguilar and Buga l lon tow ns to accumulate resource data on prospective installations for that RE technology in the province.

The company explained that met mast is a measuring equipment that will aid project developer in data gathering on wind project prospect in terms of temperature, wind speed as well as wind direction being the key metrics needed in assessing energy production as well as in understanding the suitability of the facility’s siting.

Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province: Lanao del Norte Municipality: Sultan Naga Dimaporo -oOoNOTICE OF PUBLICATION In compliance with Section 7 of R.A. No. 10172, a notice is hereby served to the public that NABEL SANCHES MANAGUERE has filed with this office a petition for Correction of Clerical Error – SEX/ GENDER from “FEMALE” TO "MALE" in the certificate of Live Birth of NABEL SANCHES MANAGUERE who was born on 22 AUGUST 1991 at DANGOLAAN, Sultan Naga Dimaporo, Lanao del Norte and whose parents are MAGUID MAMPAO MANAGUERE and EVELYN SANCHEZ. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this office not later than 15 Days.

BWM: January 5 & 12, 2022

(SGD) JOCELYN R. COLORADA Municipal Civil Registrar

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Internet, cell phones—just to name a few! And inventions continue to be made every single day! Just because you have achieved a little success in life, does not mean that is all you can do. “Some people think they’re in the groove when they’re really in a rut.”

You will never know all you could have done in life unless you keep going and growing.

For whatever reason, if you have given up and stopped reaching for more in your life, you can change all that today. Right now, you can ask Jesus to forgive you for your failure to live the way you know you should. Then ask Him to help you with His power so you can start living His way every day. It is only then that you can move on to fully living His great plan for your life. Just think a minute.

Life...

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killing and eating monkeys (Chimpanzees) by Africans that caused the transmission of Auto-Immune Disease Syndrome and HIVs, to the Africans, the same happened in China when the Chinese began killing and eating bats or “paniki” in 2019. Yes, man’s self-centeredness is the culprit! Feeling the oneness and sacredness of life is the counter-measure!

The Unseen Being, the Source of all life, the Eternal, the Creator, is telling us to wake up. This time, feel that ONENESS and Sacredness of Life. Indeed, there is only ONE TRUE LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE shared by all of us, the AWARENESS now manifested as forms. That CONSCIOUSNESS is what we are all waiting for – the oneness and sacredness of LIFE! Can you not feel that oneness? Look at the trees, the flowering plants and feel the stillness that they emit, expressing the truism that nature is well-rooted with EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE AMONG HEIRS OF THE LATE DIONICIO D. SALAMANCA K N O W A LL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the late DIONICIO D. SALAMANCA who died on April 07, 2021 at Capisnon Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City who died without will and no debts; that the deceased died intestate, without will or testament and without any outstanding debts in favor of any person or entity; that the deceased left three (3) parcels of land with Parcel I TCT No. 1332019000023 situated at Danilag, Manolo Fortich containing an area of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY THREE (123) Square Meters, Parcel II TCT No. T-51801 situated in the Barrio of Kauswagan, City of Cagayan de Oro, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY TWO (172) Square Meters, Parcel III TCT No. 137-2020005554 situated at Lumbia, Cagayan de Oro City, containing an area of SIXTY THREE (63) Square Meters, more or less, and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE AMONG HEIRS OF THE LATE DIONICIO D. SALAMANCA, filed by the heirs of DIONICIO D. SALAMANCA, per DOC #497; PAGE #100; BOOK #51;Series of 2021 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. PERSEVERANDO L. ARAÑA, JR. BWM: January 12, 19 & 26, 2022

the Unseen, Formless, Eternal Being called God! Feel the essence of that Stillness and you will be rooted with the Formless Being yourself !

And no pandemic can hit you as you have entered another dimension of inner and much greater power by being one with life and all of God’s creation! That is in fact the number one law of nature: Oneness and interconnectedness with all of God’s creation!

This means anything done to nature affects all of us, well explained in the saying that what destruction done in the uplands, i.e., forest denudation, is felt by the people in the lowlands or coastal areas, i.e., flooding, siltation and destruction of watersheds and fishery and marine life. The second law of nature says, “there is no free meal in nature,” meaning, what we’ve done to nature will go back to us.

This means, the demise of nature will mean our own demise and that’s what is happening now. We must heal the blighted land back to life or we will all perish!

It is in this context that we can say that COVID-19 is nature’s vengeance against the homo sapiens. Our only countermeasure is to heal the pains of GAIA that is now facing its 6th extinction after the 5th extinction which happened 63 million years ago when asteroids hit the earth. But before the 6th extinction, GAIA is telling us to rectify the wrongs we have committed against Her. Such is the raizon d’ etre of feeling the oneness and sacredness of life and all creation! Feel that now~

samples.

This is to prevent other people from going through t he u n ne ce ss ar y st re ss of waiting for their test results like what happened to him and his wife. They were promised a 12-hour processing time when they first ordered a home service RT-PCR test, but they were made to wait for two days instead.

“Kasi obligasyon ‘yon e. Para kang pumirma ng contract e, nagbayad ka e.

Sa akin naman, okay lang na ma-delay, na-ano ko rin ‘yon e, naintindihan ko rin na pwedeng na-overwhelm sila, ‘yung backlog nila masyadong malaki,” Lacson explained.

[Because it’s an obligation (on the part of the lab). It’s like you signed a contract and paid for (the service).

On my part, the delay is okay because I understand that maybe they got overwhelmed, they incurred a huge backlog (of samples to process).]

“Sa akin naman ‘yon bang halimbawang tumawag man lang. Nandoon naman ‘y u ng a k i ng te l e ph on e number, mobile number.

Tawagan man lang na ‘ay pasensya na ho kayo kasi medyo overwhelmed kami ngayon pero asahan ninyo na mamadaliin namin ito’ o ilalabas ‘yung resulta,” he added.

[I just hoped they extended the courtesy of giving us an update, for example. They had my telephone number, my mobile number. They could have called and said ‘sorry, we were a bit overwhelmed (by the orders we received) today, but rest assured we are working on it to release your results.’]

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e ‘di pagbayarin. Pero ‘yung alam natin na pangkaraniwan, mga pang-araw-araw na sumusuweldo, offer-an na lang natin ng libre,” he said.

(The testing should really be made free, of course, especially to the ordinary employees. If some people have the wherewithal to pay for it, by all means, let them pay. But to those who we know would rather spend money on other things, the daily wage earners, let’s offer it for free.)

L a c s on , m e a nw h i l e , reiterated his appeal to all diagnostic testing centers and laboratories conducting and processing these COVID-19 tests to keep their clients informed and updated about the status and results of their

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Commander Ricky Canatoy, said the militar y can provide manpower support, transportation, and security in the conduct of peaceful elections in the hinterland villages under their areas of responsibility.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) echoed the same sentiments disclosing that they have already allocated a sufficient number of their personnel to man all polling precincts, clustered precincts, and the implementation o f c h e c k p o i nt s o n a l l municipalities of the province.

“The Misamis OrientalPolice Provincial Office is committed to ensuring peaceful, safe, and orderly elections for 2022, we are ready to implement the

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putting stainless steel for bone surgery.

Elacion, 62, a former police inspector, recalled it was the first time he availed of Philhealth in his 35 years of service as a police officer.

He admitted Philhealth workers came to him not to confirm if he was really treated at the hospital but rather asked him if Dr. Jerome Asuncion, head of BDH’s AWCC, charged his treatment with an overpriced billing.

“Dr. Asuncion treated me well and even given me with imported medicines to make sure I will be totally cured,” he said.

Another Philhealth patient Fernando Pala,55, a former city hall worker whose joints on his legs were broken by an accident in 2018 said Dr. Asuncion even prescribed that he would just be an outpatient if only to save huge amount of billing even as he went through two surgical operations including the putting up a stainless steel on his fractured bone.

Mariaden Ligotan, whose son Nissan was admitted at the BDHC for four months and two weeks after both of the bones of his legs were crushed by a fallen tree said they availed of his son’s Philhealth membership that helped a lot of their bills which reached more than P500,000.

D r. A s u n c i o n a l s o pres cr ib e d t hat Niss an would just be an outpatient to defray a lower medication cost after he underwent a major surgical operation of which his left leg was cut and the right leg placed with stainless steel.

“He is a good man and understands the situation of poor patients,” the mother said of Asuncion.

Other patients who asked not to be named, contested the allegations of PhilHealth since they were actually treated and admitted, given proper medical attention and care.

Philhealth Arbitration Office in Pasig City has

charged BDHC with consolidated case of 29 counts of claims for non-admitted or non-treated patients and breach of warranties and accreditation.

Philhealth also mentioned performance commitment under sections 151 and 160 of the 2013 Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations of Republic Act (RA) 7875, which enacted the Philhealth program as amended by RA 9241 and RA 10606.

The amended RA 9241 already provides universal health insurance coverage and ensure affordable, acceptable, available and accessible health care services for all citizens of the country while RA 10606 has mandated Philhealth to provide health insurance coverage to all Filipinos.

Even while the cases are still pending at the Prosecutor’s Office, BDHC physicians are in a dilemma to continue treating patients who have Philhealth membership or beneficiaries as they expressed the cases were just as good as suspension.

“My hands are t i e d because of this unwarranted situation,” said one of BDHC doctors who asked not to be named.

BDHC is one of the biggest and the most equipped hospitals in the region. It offers various services to the community and has credentialed and privileged physicians from various fields of expertise and specializations.

Founded in 1945, BDHC has been constantly and continuously upgrading its facilities to provide a better and wider array of fields in health care.

From expanding their size and capacity, providing a College course for Nursing, being one of the best schools in the region. BDH also provides jobs for practitioners, medical professionals, healthcare service workers, and plans a brighter future for students to be the next healthcare providers in our country.

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NCIP turned over Project Epanaw's three (3) coffee table books (CTBs) to the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco, California THE National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), through Ethnographic Commissioner for Central Mindanao Bo-i Jennifer Pia Sibug-Las, turned over its Project Epanaw’s Three (3) Coffee Table Books (CTBs) to Consul General Neil Frank Ferrer at 447 Sutter Street, 6th Floor, Philippine Center Building, San Francisco, California last 09 December 2021. This is the second Philippine Consulate in the United States of America (USA) to have had officially received the set of CTBs which aim to promote awareness on the Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs), their cultures and traditions, and their Ancestral Domains (ADs) in the Philippines.

Commissioner Las stated clearly that the purposes of her visit to the PH Consulate were to have a courtesy call for the official turnover of the CTBs and to discuss possible areas of cooperation whereby both agencies of government can work together to deliver their mandates to promote Philippine culture specifically on the Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines within Consul General Ferrer's

consular jurisdiction in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Northern Nevada, Colorado, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, and Northern California.

She further mentioned that the project was the brainchild of NCIP Chairperson, Secretary Allen Capuyan, who is very grateful for the opportunity given to the agency by the Philippine Consulates/ Embassy in the US, with the assistance from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) as the lead facilitator for coordination.

NCIP is reiterating in every opportunity that through the Project Epanaw, it seeks to pay tribute and memorialize the identities and rituals of the Indigenous Peoples as well as to highlight the importance of protecting their ADs. The first CTB, “Pagkilala” (Recognize), showcases the profiles of ICCs/IPs. It contains information about their history, location, and overview of their social and daily lives. The second CTB, “Paggalang” (Respect), features festivals and rituals that the ICCs/ IPs practice in relation to important events such as birth and death, agricultural cycle, and the sacred and

From L-R - Vice Consul Adrian Audrey Baccay, Deputy Consul General Raquel Solano, Consul General Neil Frank Ferrer, NCIP Commissioner Jennifer Pia S. Las and Consul Vanessa Bago-Llona

profane. While the third CTB, “Pagtaguyod” (Promote), contains tourist destinations, protected areas, critical infrastructures, and natural resources in Ancestral Domains.

The NCIP, in fact, partnered with the Tourism Promotions Board (TPB) of the Department of Tourism (DOT) for the publication of Project Epanaw which had already been distributed widely all over the Philippines particularly to all NCIP employees, all Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representatives

(IPMRs), National Government Agencies (NGAs), and Indigenous Political Structure (IPS) leaders, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Officials of Local Government Units (LGUs), educational institutions, and other stakeholders in the country.

Consul General Ferrer along with Consul Vanessa Bago-Llona shared the information that San Francisco Bay Area is highly populated of Filipino Americans whose active participation is apparent during events that showcase the respective cultures and

Discussing the possible areas of collaboration in promoting the culture and traditions of the Philippine IPs within the jurisdiction of Consul General Neil Frank Ferrer

traditions of the Filipino people especially during the FilipinoAmerican History Month in October to commemorate the arrival of the first known Filipinos, then known as Indios Luzones, in the Americas. During this celebration, Fil-Am community organizations hold different activities to remind and reconnect Filipinos in the state regarding their original heritage in the country from which their roots were originated.

They further stated that: “There is also a trend amongst young Fil-Ams to put into their respective lens the need to patronize and advocate in the market the commerce of products that are made in the Philippines especially those that have been produced by ICCs/IPs.” This way, they are able to connect to their roots not as part of the Asian community as a whole but most importantly that of their Philippine ancestry and kinship so much so that this may be an avenue where both agencies can work together to provide platform for the Indigenous Peoples artisans to actually showcase and sell their creations.

They also discussed possible requests that

may come from Museums and schools within the state to further the advocacy of introducing the Philippine Indigenous Peoples to the world, their beauty and contribution to sustainable peace and development by providing them sets of CTBs that may be displayed in each institution for public consumption.

Commissioner Las responded in the affirmative that if there are requests coming from the abovementioned entities, the NCIP will not hesitate to provide copies of the CTBs simply because the TPB has allocated additional budget for the mass reproduction and distribution.

Additional platform was also offered that would address, on top of it all, if NCIP has not yet exhausted all means in traditional media like television, the Philippine Consulate will facilitate the showing of all NCIP Audio-Visual Presentation (AVP) materials in their LED screen at their lobby or other places where they are connected with to further the promotion of the culture and traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines.