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Briefly Railway project THE DEPARTMENT of Transportation (DoTr) has denied a request to relocate a Mindanao Railway facility from landowners and businesses in Toril, Davao City affected by the China-funded project, citing the delays such a relocation would entail.

“The DoTr is closely coordinating with the stakeholders to ensure that the timeline of the project will be followed. The Right of Way and Site Acquisition activities as well as other pre-construction activities shall continue as scheduled and in accordance with the legal processes,” Clipton J. Solamo, project manager of the Mindanao Railway Project (MRP), told BusinessWorld in a Viber message last week.

He said the department received a letter from the affected landowners and business owners requesting that the railway project’s Toril Car Park be moved to another area.

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OTABATO City – Officials and parliamentarians of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) have welcomed the Senate's move to pass on third and final reading the bill resetting the region's elections from 2022 to 2025 and extending the life of its transition period.

BARMM Chief Minister Ahod Ebrahim said extending the term of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) gave the region a “better chance” in setting the future of the Bangsamoro people.

“By extending the transition period -- the BTA gets ample time to finish the job and make sure that the next regional officials will

work under a system that befits the realities of the Bangsamoro and responds to the changing times,” Ebrahim said in a statement Tuesday.

The S enate voted to pass Monday on third and final reading Senate Bill 2214 resetting the BARMM elections and thereby extending the BTA and the RESETTING/PAGE 11

MAKING A LIVING AMID PANDEMIC. Eagerly hoping for buyers, this vendor cranes her neck towards an arriving bus at the Digos City Satellite Bus Terminal in Davao del Sur. mindanews photo by yas d. ocampo

MinDA to aid LGUs in acquiring solar-powered water systems THE MINDANAO Development Authority (MinDA) said it will help local government units (LGUs) adopt solar-powered water systems for drinking and irrigation.

MinDA C hair man Emmanuel F. Piñol said each solar-powered water generation system unit can provide irrigation water for up to 100 hectares of farm

Corn roadmap THE CORN industry deve l opme n t ro a d m a p i s expected to be completed this month, with the industry’s critical role in providing feed for farm animals to be the focus, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said.

Agriculture Assistant Secretary Liza G. Battad said the plan is still subject to further consultations.

“We hope it will be completed and approved on or before the end of September 2021,” she said, adding that the consultations are being carried out by the corn industry roadmap development team, which is composed of technical experts from academic institutions as well as members of the industry, including the Philippine Maize Federation, Inc. (PhilMaize), which represents corn farmers’ groups,” Ms. Battad said in a statement over the weekend.

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FISH SALES DOWN. A vendor prepares fish at her stall inside Agdao Market in Davao City. Vendors have lamented the drop of sales due to closure or limited operations of local restaurants during the pandemic. mindanews photo

Mujahideen gripe over unfulfilled promises in the Bangsamoro gov’t

By FROILAN GALLARDO, MindaNews

MARAWI City – As many in the Bangsamoro region hailed the Senate’s passage of the bill to move elections in the area to 2025 and thus extend

the term of the Bangsamoro Tr a n s i t i o n A u t h o r i t y (BTA), some disgruntled mujahideen are expressing their frustrations on the peace

process and the leadership of the autonomous region.

At a small gathering here in Marawi City on September 1, mujahideen or fighters of the Bangsamoro Islamic PROMISES/PAGE 11

area, depending on the water source, and also for drinking.

“It saves farmers from the high cost of diesel fuel which they need for their water pumps. Using solar panels to power water drawing engines, the solar-powered irrigation system could source water from deep rivers, creeks, water impounding areas and even wells,” Mr. Piñol said in AID/PAGE 11

Alsons’ thermal, hydro projects near completion ALCANTARA-LED Alsons Consolidated Resources, Inc. (ACR) is on track with the construction of its 105-megawatt (MW) baseload thermal plant in Zamboanga and 14.6-MW run-of-river Siguil hydro facility in Sarangani province.

“We have already selected an EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contractor

and are looking to formalize the contract within the year. We are still targeting to begin commercial operations in 2024,” ACR told BusinessWorld on e-mail over the weekend through its corporate communications department, referring to the thermal plant of San Ramon Power, Inc. (SRPI).

Meanwhile, its Siguil PROJECTS/PAGE 11

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Mushroom, cacao production in NorMin gets boost THE Department of Agriculture in Region 10 (DA-10) has initiated an estimated P3.4 million worth of projects for the production of mushrooms and cacao in Northern Mindanao.

In a report by DA10 released Monday, the mushroom production project costs P3.2 million, while the cacao farming project is worth PHP175,000.

Cacao farming is intended for the indigenous peoples (IP) community in Iligan City as part of the barangay development program under Executive Order (EO) No. 70.

Kersten Pagalan, focal person of the High-Value Crops Development Program, said the

mushroom cultivation project involves 32 units (growing houses) amounting to P100,000 each, which were provided to eight recipient local government units.

She said the 2,000 pieces of mushroom fruiting bags were provided to each beneficiary as part of their start-up kit, aside from polypropylene bags, vacuum sealer and bag filling machine.

Pagalan said cultivating mushrooms can provide sustainable income, and may offer opportunities for income and livelihood.

"Mushroom culture also gain popularity in the Philippines, part of Urban Agriculture Program where we can PRODUCTION/PAGE 10

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ARAWI City -- After degenerating due to the change of weather in the city, 50 bamboo houses in Bahay Pagasa I, a transitory site in Brgy. Bito Buadi Itowa, are now repaired through the initiated cash-forwork project of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)Philippines.

Josephine Ruaya, ICRC-Philippines Economic Security Field Officer, said the project was realized through the partnership of ICRC's Economic Security (EcoSec) Department which went through the labor cost and the carpentry tools for the repair, and the Water and Habitat (WatHab) Department which provided the materials for

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the house repair.

She said that a thorough process was taken by the ICRC, specifically, the EcoSec Department, taking into consideration the WatHab Department’s endorsement of the complaints from the residing internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the area. At that time, the WatHab was in the process of continuing the water system project of the organization in the same transitory shelter.

“Nagkaroon kami sa Iligan office ng multidisciplinary assessments, meetings and recommendations from WatHab and from our end sa EcoSec, gumawa rin kami ng assessments.

Naging baseline namin ang report from WatHab na mayroon talagang needs na irerepair,” she said

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during the actual payout Monday, September 6.

[We had in the Iligan office multidisciplinary assessments, meetings and recommendations from WatHab, and from our end in EcoSec, we also made assessments. The report from WatHab became our baseline which showed that there is really a need to repair.]

Accordingly, the repair for the bamboo houses ran for ten days from August 11 to 22 wherein two workers composed of a skilled and an unskilled or the helper coming from each household owner worked on the units as they would be compensated with P400 per day and P300 per day, REPAIR/PAGE 10

To Teach or Not To Teach GENOVEVA C. CARERAS, MT 1 East City Central School Lapasan, Cagayan de Oro

IT has been two challenging years since this pandemic started and we can’t for sure say when it will come to an end. But despite all the worldly commotions of this unseen force that we are battling against, different sectors are doing their best to bring back our norms.

Norms that were given a twist that would ensure everyone’s safety and comfort.

With that being said, the Department of Education or DepEd will be launching its first Online Development Learning or ODL method of teaching in our school.

The ODL would opt to cater students who chose this mode of learning. Those who are capable of attending online classes with access to gadgets and internet connectivity for ease of learning. To my surprise, I was chosen to be one of the teachers who will be handling online classes.

As exciting as it sounds, I am having a lot of doubts for I know that this would be a very challenging task. I was even extremely hesitant because for one of many reasons, I am not very knowledgeable in operating most gadgets and softwares. At the back of my head, I am having a lot of “what ifs” such as “What if I couldn’t deliver my lessons well…”, “What if I humiliate myself for pressing the wrong buttons…”, or “What if my students get distracted of my unorganized presentation…”.

I am overwhelmed with the new ways of teaching since I was used to putting up manila papers and letting my pupils write on the board.

Although, we have series of trainings for computer literacy, I’m already getting older and it’s hard for me to understand or adapt it easily.

This is especially in using different tools and apps in creating a good output.

R e g ard l e s s of t h e s e troubles, I realized that I have to embrace the new system in bringing new knowledge and learnings to my students.

I have to give out my best even though I am having these fears because learning with my students would probably just overcome them.

I must give it a try as their educator because if I am struggling, then so are they.

Therefore, I must be an example to them, no matter how things get tough and the world may stop. Education mu s t s t i l l c ont i nu e a s what our Secretary of the Department of Education, Leonor Briones imparted to us.

I know it’s only going to be hard in the beginning, but I will muster the strength to teach the hungry minds of my students, yearning for enlightenment in this Covid-spread world. With faith and confidence and the guidance of our God, I may still be able to live with the profession I chose, whether it may be inside the classroom or in our respective homes, in front of hardbound books or a flashy screen, I will continue doing my job as an educator.

To teach or not to teach; even a pandemic couldn’t stop me…I will teach!

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DONATE-A-BOOK, SHARE THE JOY OF LEARNING AT THE SM STORE SM shoppers can continue to share the joys of learning with children who need them most through The SM Store’s Donate a Book campaign, which is now ongoing at select branches nationwide until September 30, 2021.

While face to face classes still have to resume, schooling certainly extends beyond the campus. And

your donations will go a long way as these will be very helpful to distributed topartner public schools and libraries around the country. Here’s how you can share your gift of knowledge: · Visit the Donate a Book booths at participating branches of the SM Store at Metro Manila, North Luzon,

South Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. · Donate new or pre-loved books. All books are very much welcome, especially storybooks, educational, and hobby books that can help spark a child’s curiosity, imagination, and knowledge. · Donate and match with Learning Is Fun (LIF)

books that are available at The SM Store. LIF offers a wide range of books from toddlers to adult categories such as activity books, early learning educational books, cookbooks, reference books, storybooks, Inspirational books, and game and toy books. Being the participating partner BOOK/PAGE 10

Shoppers can share the gift of knowledge with less fortunate children through the Donate- a-Book campaign now ongoing at selected SM Stores nationwide until September 30.

New and gently used pre-loved books in all kinds are all welcome. Shoppers can also donate and match with Learning is Fun (LIF) books, as well as SM Stationery section’s learning materials, and in exchange, shoppers will receive 100 pesos discount coupon for every donation made.

Since 2015, The SM Store has collected and distributed over 800,000 books to public schools and libraries through the Donate-A-Book campaign. Pre-pandemic photo shows the turnover of the books and school supplies to the students of Balanga Elementary School in Balanga, Bataan. Here, Elena Almario and Marlyn Gerio of Dep Ed EPS 1, and Balanga Elementary School Principal IV Amelia Inieto receive the books from (from left) SM Foundation Head of School Building Team Juris Soliman, The SM Store North Luzon Zone Head Joseph Rosal, SM Retail SAVP Gilda Maquilan, and The SM Store Olongapo Branch Manager Rosemarie Chua-Labrador

How teachers cope with the challenges of the pandemic CELSA Q. JAGUALING Teacher III East City Central School Lapasan, Cagayan de Oro City

"A child uneducated is a child lost"

--George Santayana

THE seemingly invincible Corona virus is bent to exterminate humanity on the face of the earth like a scourge of biblical proportion. And despite science and advanced technology, there's yet no medical panacea in sight.

As it continued to spread all throughout, variious societies, big and small, are forced to institute drastic changes in the way governments deal with the daily challenges that goes with it.

Hardly hit is in the manner educational system adjusts itself to new health protocols that prohibit close contact to one another. That in effect bludgeoned the education systems anywhere in the world.

DISTANCE LEARNING In the Philippines, with the adaption of distance learning method, schools and teachers face a whole new set of challenges as they aim to make learning equitable in this new environment. As a classroom teacher, you might be wondering what you can do to meet the needs of students with learning and thinking differences.

Since this is a new learning environment, teachers have to rethink how to meet students' needs. You might notice some students who had been doing well are now falling behind. They might be struggling with social and emotional issues related to the coronavirus pandemic. Or they might be struggling to adjust to distance learning.

Here are tips to help you support the diverse needs of students during distance learning: 1. Help students develop new routines and strategies.

Many students who learn and think differently struggle with changes in routine and loss of structure. Help them use this time as an opportunity to develop new strategies to help with focus and learning.

Depending on the grade you teach, you might also help your students create new routines and schedules that match their strengths. You could even design a lesson around this as a research project or an essay.

2. Keep the easy part easy.

Think about the last time you forgot your password

to an account and got locked out -- yet again. Or the last time you read complicated directions and couldn't figure out what you were supposed to do.

What might seem like a minor stressor to you can be the difference between whether a student finishes a lesson or not.

What this means is that teacher should organize strategies with better simplification to reduce these barriers to learning by using best practices for designing online assignments.

3. Find new ways to meet students' needs.

Students with individualized education programs (IEPs) should still get the accommodations they need during distance learning. Their needs and accommodations might look different in this new learning environment, though.

For example, accommodations that help with focus in the classroom -- like being seated in the front of the class -- may need to be adjusted for distance learning. Work with students and their families to find creative solutions.

Does the student need a daily check-in? Can the student learn how to use self-management strategies like a timer or a goal tracker?

For online classes, teachers also need to ensure their lessons are accessible. Make sure that materials can be read by a screen reader and that students who use text-to-speech technology know how to use it. Some video-streaming apps like Google Hangouts offer live captioning. Using best practices for online learning like these can help you make sure your lessons are accessible.

4. Keep up positive relationships with students and families.

Maintaining positive relationships with students and families is essential, especially during distance learning.

Students who learn and think differently and their families will likely need more frequent check-ins. Use these checkins to: Make sure students understand lessons.

Find out whether students have what they need to do their classwork.

Help students develop learning strategies.

Talk about student accommodations and support.

Better understand students' social-emotional well-being.

Effective Teacher Professional Development By: LOURDES C. LAURETE SST III CDONHS-JH

Te a c h e r s’ p ro f e s s i o n a l development is a powerful means to improve student outcome and it’s important to know the sort of professional development that makes the biggest difference. Effective professional development engages teachers in l e ar n i ng opp or tu n it i e s that are supportive, jobembedded, instructionallyfocused, collaborative, and ongoing. When guide d by these characteristics, school leaders can design meaningful learning experience for all teachers.

Effective characteristic of professional development challenges, requires deep thinking and gets everyone discussing, designing and practicing new ideas.

Professionals have valuable insights to share and there is a responsibility on everyone to contribute, work together and ref ine approaches.

Effective professional development is intensive enough to allow people to develop new knowledge and skills. Educators must, h o w e v e r, c o n s i s t e n t l y evaluate the effectiveness of professional development on job performance and student achievement.

Teacher professional learning is of increasing interest as one way to support the increasingly complex skills students need to succeed in the 21st century. Professional development that focuses on t e a c h i n g s t r at e g i e s associated with specific curriculum content supports teacher learning within their classroom contexts.

Curricular models and modeling of instructions provide teachers with a clear vision of what best practices look like. Teachers may view models that include lesson plans, sample student work, observations of peer teachers. Implementing professional development well also requires responsiveness to the specific needs of teachers and learners, and to the school and district context in which teaching and learning w i l l t a k e p l a c e . We l l designed and implemented professional development should be considered as essential components of a comprehensive system of teaching and learning that supports students to develop the knowledge, skills, and competencies they need to thrive in the 21st century.

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Money mentality (Pt. 2) Think a minute . . . Just the sound of the word “money” rings in our ears like the bell on a cash register. But in a marriage, it can be like the bell in a boxing match starting the next round of fighting. Today let’s finish our discussion of how we can better manage money in our marriage, so our family can enjoy a more prosperous and peaceful life together.

Another money mentality is when the husband or wife uses money to control their spouse. Like the husband who does not let his wife know how much money they have.

He checks every little thing she buys, so he makes his wife feel like a child whom he does not trust and respect, instead of his partner in life.

Then there is the “big spender” mentality. Like the “shopaholic” wife who continually buys new things.

She’s almost addicted to shopping. She does not put her family’s needs first because she lacks the self-control in her spending. She needs to grow up and put the needs of her husband and children before her compulsive, selfish spending. Someone said: “Just

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Life is Sacred

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ORLAN R. RAVANERA Whatever be the form, all life is sacred as creation is a reflection of the Creator, each one carrying a sense of divinity. Thus, every time you eat meat – be it red or white – please reflect for a while that that meat came from a life form that once did breathe, having experienced in its own right pleasures and pains, exposed to the wonders of life, having felt the warmth of the sun, the coolness of the wind, the brightness of the moon and the stars at night, tasting

food from the loving touch of the raisers and finally, had to succumb to the pains of shedding blood as its throat had to be cut – all because you must eat and live.

When one has to cease breathing, be if flora or fauna, so that Homo Sapiens have to live, i.e., giving-up one’s life so that another creation can live, that unescapable drama of life must be reflected upon by all of us that somehow contributes to the sacredness of life that only our Creator knows its reason for being.

That truism alone shows why one must pray before meals.

Perhaps, that too should be in the mind of a hungry lion before eating a cornered prey especially if that victim is a human being.

One has to die so that another creation has to live.

That alone may justify the killing of an animal. Life for life. But when the flora and fauna are massacred to

prove one’s dominion over nature, to be sacrificed to the altar of greed and profit, or worse, for sports, that is a categorical manifestation of a human being, having been made in the likeness and image of God, to be reduced to a mere beast!

Yes, the Homo Sapiens is a failed species. This latest species that came about some 700 million years ago while plants and animals came about some 3 to 4 billion years earlier (thus, by seniority they have more right to live) has done so much harm to Mother Earth. Yes, we are now in the 21st year of the 21st century but we do not know any more if we can reach the 22nd century which is only 79 years from now.

To quote a known Canadian environmentalist, “. . . at the rate we are destroying the ozone layer and the world’s resource base and subjecting to extinction some 100 species

of flora and fauna every day, what seems unimaginable may become possible, which is, the end of life on earth.”

In the Philippines, the fourth hardest hit by climate change, the reality painfully bites: we have massacred the billions of life forms in the last one hundred years, turning the country from paradise, being before the richest in terms of megadiversity, now to a land of ecological disasters. A more precise declaration from a Lumad leader foretelling of an impending disaster if we continue on sacrificing nature in the name of socalled progress: “Only when you have cut the last tree, only when you have caught the last fish, only when you have dried the last river, only then will you realize that you cannot eat your money.”

A colony for more than three hundred years, having UNFOLDING/PAGE 9

Oh, those fault-finders, negative thinkers, etc.

Let's not fool ourselves: The pandemic has completely turned our entire lives upside down. Private, social and in business. Inner struggles for many of us are the bitter result. An inner struggle re f l e c t s an u n re s olve d emotional conflict, an inner knot that has been cystic and that must be clarified in order to have peace and well-being. What is the result of an internal struggle?

Frustration, frequent changes in mood and psychological fatigue (it is tiring to load with a frequent question) and anger. But it is also a stimulus to deepen the knowledge of oneself.

In essence, an internal fight shows an internal opposition, an opposition of contrary forces that steal the inner tranquility, serenity

and peace. Therefore, in a situation like this it is very important to hear those sentiments to put ideas in order.

A p e r s o n m ay a l s o experience an inner struggle when there is an internal debate between duty and the crave order. How many times, you want to give up?

Ask yourself? Similarly, it is also possible to experience this internal struggle into an existential crisis.

There are personal disagreements in the daily routine, as shown by the difficulties of coexistence: partner discussions, differences in criteria with friends, anger of family... . However, it is important t o p o i nt o u t t h at t h e relationship that a person has with others, part of the bond

that has with itself beyond individuality. Every human being establishes a constant relat ionship wit h t heir own identity. In this way, a process of self-knowledge is established. The inner world of a human being is very complex, marked by duality and constant struggles. In other words, a person can feel an inner struggle between reason and heart.

Inner conflicts typically begin with statements such as "I am sick of, I always or I am so tired of " and it is not unusual for them to be accompanied by some jaw clenching, an occasional rant or stomp of the foot.

Ever yone has a unique problem of their own, an issue that follows them throughout life and never goes away. You discover it

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ROY CIMAGALA early and go on to struggle with it for the rest of your life, almost until it eventually becomes an old enemy that you lose the will to fight or hate anymore.

There are environments that are especially suitable to reflect calmly on oneself. For example, take a stroll through a green area and walk. Or, I talk with family members.

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The wheels of political fortune in Davao del Norte

JHAN TIAFAU HURST when you think you can make ends meet, someone moves the ends.” Sadly, big-spending wives and husbands keep moving the ends by their uncontrolled spending.

So first and foremost, we must live within the limits of our income. Spending more than you make will only land you and your family into serious, painful problems.

Remember: “You’re only poor when you want more than you have.” Learn to be content with what you truly need.

Secondly, the important decisions you and your spouse make should be based on how fair and good it will be for your children. We need to teach our children by our MONEY/PAGE 10

FOR several decades, elections in Davao del Norte had always been bland as the results could always be predicted months ahead of the actual polls. While they were not commanded or persuaded whom to vote electorates have their ears close to the ground and watched the body language of their employers to know who they will support comes every election.

Those were the days when Don Antonio O. Floirendo and Jesus V. Ayala were still in the helms of the biggest banana conglomerates in the country. The industry employs the most number of workers not only in Davao but in Mindanao. These two venerable and admirable business leaders in the Davao region have all gone to that great beyond and thereafter radical changes happened in the Davao del Norte’s political arena.

In 2016 Pantaleon “Bebot” Alvarez who ran for congressman under PDP-

Laban won in the 1st District along with his intimate friend Tonyboy Floirendo in the 2nd District. Their teammate, Anthony del Rosario won as Governor and they swept nearly all local government positions in the province.

In the Presidential race, Davao del Norte delivered the highest national percentage of votes cast by a province for Rodrigo Duterte.

Alvarez went on to become the Speaker of the House of Representatives. In 2018 there emerged a new strain of political virus that was, to say the least, divisive. It was the start of an era that best described in demonstrative terms what the phrase “In politics, there is no such thing as permanent friends, only permanent interests” m e a n s . Imp on d e r a b l e s happened. The celebration appeared to be endless until something earthshaking happened. Alvarez filed adverse information against his BFF Tonyboy before the

Ombudsman over an issue of an undeclared share that was too small and inconsequential. Then by a sheer act of madness, the quarantine stations in Tadeco banana plantations were ordered dismantled exposing thousands of hectares of Cavendish bananas to the dreaded Fusarium wilt. The soil-borne fungal disease had already wiped out 15,000 hectares of plantations mostly grown by small growers in Davao and Cotabato.

The banana industr y of Panama was totally wiped out following the highly transmissible banana disease.

T h e 2 0 1 9 m i d - te r m elections saw the reversals of political fortunes in Davao del Norte. Alvarez was jettisoned as Speaker of the House following a word war with Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte when he branded the Mayor’s Hugpong ng Pagbabago an opposition party.

The ex-Speaker later

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JUN LEDESMA mounted a campaign against his former colleagues Floirendo and t he D el Rosarios - presenting himself and his new recruits as the candidates of the poor. The truth was Alvarez outspent his opponents in every turn.

The other truth was neither Floirendo nor Del Rosario was keen on coughing out their hard-earned money against Bebot’s. Besides, Alvarez still has friends who were suspected to have bankrolled his candidacy for a possible come back as the 4th most powerful man in FORTUNE/PAGE 9

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ENTURY Pacific Food Inc. (CNPF), one of the leading food companies in the Philippines, through its nonprofit affiliate RSPo Foundation, Inc., signed an agreement with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to participate in its livelihood program, Project Hope adopta-farm.

Project Hope aims to address the lack of sustainable sources

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of livelihood among workers in the marine industry during the closed fishing season in Zamboanga, a manufacturing epicenter of marine products in Mindanao.

Through the adopt-a-farm program, DOLE, together with participating companies, builds agricultural farming villages, creating employment opportunities for seasonally displaced workers and their families.

Manufacturing companies can “adopt” a farm and transform it into productive agricultural land.

In turn, harvested produce will be bought and used as raw materials by these companies to manufacture their own products, creating a sustainable ecosystem.

CNPF is the first company to enroll in DOLE’s program, adopting three greenhouse farms that make use of

indigenous materials for construction.

Through these greenhouses, CNPF is able to generate jobs during the off-fishing season for displaced workers and for their families who can continue farming for the rest of the year.

“We see this as a win-win-win situation. These workers have a sustainable source of income through the farm, their families sell their produce to a ready buyer -- us, and we have convenient and

Office sector performs 'better than expected’ amid pandemic CEBU City – Overturning the anticipated effects of the coronavirus pandemic, Megaworld Corp. reported it has booked around 415,000 square meters of office leases since the start of the pandemic early last year.

Around 60 percent of these lease contracts booked since last year were renewals while the remaining 40 percent were new leases, mostly from the information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) sectors.

During the first half of this year alone, new leases

and renewals were booked at its Mactan Newtown township here in Cebu, Eastwood City, McKinley Hill, Uptown Bonifacio, Southwoods City in Biñan, Laguna, and Davao Park District in Davao City.

“Around 80 percent of these leases in the first half of the year were renewals. This means, BPO companies opted to stay and held on to their spaces. This also clearly indicates the strength and resilience of the office market within our pioneering townships,” Kevin Tan, chief strategy officer of Megaworld,

said in a statement on Thursday.

Earlier this year, Megaworld fully leased its Southwoods Office Towers inside the 561-hectare Southwoods City after an American renewable energy company and a BPO company specializing in customer care solutions took the remaining spaces.

In Davao City, four levels of the Davao Finance Center inside the 11-hectare Davao Park District have also been leased to one of the largest BPO companies in the country during the first

half of this year.

“The township model is (to) our advantage.

These consistent take-ups of office spaces even in the middle of community lockdowns are not just in Metro Manila but also in key growth centers in the provinces. We are very happy and optimistic about how the office sector has so far been performing better than expected,” Tan said.

Occupancy rates of Megaworld premier offices remain at 90 percent, with some of its townships reaching 100 percent such as Iloilo Business Park. (PNA)

reliable access to much needed raw materials for our sardines business,” said Kamille Corpuz, program manager of RSPo Foundation, Inc. Corpuz said the company stands firm in its commitment to alleviate poverty.

“And we believe that it is only when we teach these men and women how to fish -- in this case to farm — can we make this happen sustainably,” she added.

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Transport projects to drive construction growth in PH

TRANSPORT infrastructure is expected as the key driver for the Philippine construction sector growth, Fitch Solutions said Thursday.

In a commentary, the research unit of the Fitch Group said the Philippine construction industry is expected to grow by 24.2 percent year-on-year this year, and by 16.1 percent in 2022.

“We expect transport infrastructure, particularly rail and road development, to be the key driver of infrastructure and construction growth in the Philippines over the coming years,” it said.

Fitch Solutions added transport projects dominate pipeline construction projects.

Of the total value of ongoing projects, 33 percent are rail projects and 22 percent are airport development, while roads and bridges share 18 percent. “(President Rodrigo) Duterte’s ‘Build, Build, Build’ program will remain a key policy driving investments in the construction sector, while the progress on the execution of projects will have a heavy influence on growth of the sector TRANSPORT/PAGE 10

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Tuklas Lunas anti-dengue herbal capsule may soon be available as clinical trials conclude Text by Allyster A. Endozo, DOST-STII, Photos from DOST-PCHRD

An anti-dengue capsule combining the best qualities of traditional herbal remedies may soon be available to the general public at an affordable price.

Department of Science and Technology (DoST) Secretary Fortunato dela Peña recently disclosed Filipino researchers have hurdled Phase 1 of the three-phase clinical trials on a plant-based treatment against dengue with a drug estimated to be commercially available by the end of 2022.

“The DOST-Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD)’s Tuklas Lunas Program (Research for Cure) is proud to announce the latest

developments in creating the world’s first antidengue medicine, made possible by our continuous support and collaboration with Filipino researchers,” De la Peña said.

The randomized, double-blind, placebocontrolled study aims to determine the efficacy and safety of the herbal capsule when taken orally by adults with dengue fever showing no warning signs.

Each fixed-dose capsule combines the qualities of tawa-tawa (Euphorbia hirta) and banaba (Lagerstroemia speciosa) to increase platelet count with the immune-boosting and anti-inflammatory properties of luya (Zingiber officinale).

Pharmalytics Corp.’s

Dr. Rita Grace Y. Alvero, dengue herbal clinical trial program leader, said the Phase 1 of the clinical trials covered tests on the drug on animals. “We are now in the human testing.

Based on our findings, there was no dose-limiting toxicity,” she disclosed.

The study on Philippines' first dengue drug, which is also a cheaper cure against the disease, was suspended due to the covid-19 pandemic, but received a go signal to proceed with Phases 2 and 3 clinical trials for the dengue medicine this year.

Phase 2 would test safety in use in subjects infected with dengue, while Phase 3 will compare its efficacy versus existing treatments.

“Since there is no current treatment for dengue, we combined phases 2 and 3 by comparing two dose levels versus placebo," Alvero noted. The study is expected to be completed by the second quarter of 2022, she added.

More Cost-Effective "It will be cheaper than the combined cost of hospitalization, ICU [intensive care unit] stay,

Brigada Eskwela 2021

By EMMA CONCEPCION T. SOGO-AN Teacher I Dr. Gerardo Sabal Memorial National High School Claveria, Misamis Oriental

FOR the Brigada Eskwela this year, the theme is Bayanihan Para sa Paaralan.

It has been ongoing since August 3 until the end of this month on September 30, 2021 under the supervision of our beloved school head Mr. Joemar R. Sinatao and designated Brigada Eskwela coordinator Ms. Cherry Meh V. Cabeltes of Dr. Gerardo Sabal Memorial National High School, Claveria Central District.

The Brigada Eskwela this year comes in the form of adopt a learner project by accepting donations of learners' kits which may contain school supplies, masks, alcohol and study table with chair.

Among the top donors in our school is our beloved Mayor Meraluna Abrogar

and of course partnered with the rest of the stakeholders such as non-government organizations, business sector and parents.

Even though classes are still held remotely, we were still able to beautify our school grounds together such as repairing, landscaping and painting so that we will have a sound workplace as teachers and non-faculty staff.

After all, a neat workplace will inspire us teachers more to imbue the lessons to the students.

Brigada Eskwela is an annual activity led by DepEd where everyone in the school community teaching and non-teaching personnel– including the private sector – work together to prepare schools for the opening of the classes.

REMOTE/VIRTUAL LEARNING: A THING TO PLOD ON JOHN MICHAEL A. CUYAG Teacher I Cugman National High School

The global pandemic has reached people to make a rapid shift from what they are currently used to. The term “new normal” may sound awkward for us, but this has been the way of living for everyone in all parts of the country. A lot of plans have been made by the Department of Education just to make sure that education still continues amidst all odds, however, since this global threat welcomed everyone unprepared, there are sort of challenges and things to improve and work out still.

Many of us have not yet inclined to virtual or remote learning. This is something not really new but seldom practice since majority of the teachers and what has been practiced, are more on the traditional way of

teaching which focuses on the face to face interaction.

As a school leader, this is something to work-out aside from the fact that we are facing globalization; the country is not yet ready given the fact that poor internet connection is always the problem. I believe that quality education will be jeopardized at some point since not all teachers are adept to this kind of teaching/ process. Even the used of various online platforms are at stake. Nevertheless, there should be more trainings and workshops in terms of technical know-how to be provided since we are heading to a more complex era and a more improved educational system. With this in mind, quality will not be deficit and change will not be an issue.

Anti-dengue capsules developed by Pharmalytics Corporation containing ingredients from locally available plants—tawa-tawa, banaba, and luya.

Tawa-Tawa Herbal Supplement

blood transfusions and the lost income of caretakers during the illness. For those with financial challenges, this will offer hope and relief," said Alvero.

If their studies showed that the capsules' efficacy against dengue is optimized, Alvero said they can start with the scaled up production of the drug.

“It is the very first in its class. No country, even the US, has an anti-dengue drug produced. We are looking forward to this,” said Dr Jaime Montoya

of the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) of the ground breaking research.

The nearly P12 million Phase 2 clinical trial to be conducted by the De La Salle University in Dasmariñas, Cavite together with health science startup Pharmalytics Corp. on 600 volunteer participants, will be funded by the DOST through the PCHRD. Dengue is a mosquitoborne infection whose incidence has been steadily LUNAS/PAGE 7

Social Emotional Learning Among our Senior High School Students By : MARICEL V. BAUTISTA

In these trying times, there is a paradigm shift in the way educators deliver quality education through various online platforms. The online learning, distance and continuing education have become a panacea for this unprecedented global health crisis, despite the challenges posed to both educators and the learners.

While adapting to the new changes, teachers and students readiness needs to be gauged and supported accordingly especially learners social emotional side should be examine regularly.

The Social Emotional Learning ( SEL ) is the process of developing using social and emotional skills. Students with this skills are better equipped to manage daily challenges, build positive emotional relationship , make informed decisions and help students thrive in

school and in life.

Why social and emotional learning is important to our students in this challenging times? Todays education approach shifted drastically due to pandemic. Social Emotional Learning ( SEL ) is the foundation, the heartbeat of a particular classroom. It is about connecting everybody making them feel safe and secure before getting into the academics. How our students learn to understand and manage emotions, set goals and show empathy for others.

We have to take into considerations that our students are experiencing trauma at this moment. Lets create a safe space for students to talk through their fears and apprehensions. If we neglect to include SEL as significant part of the conversations then we will

not be equipping them to meet the needs of our students in the future.

Using online platforms can be a great help in extending connection, fostering strong relationship, inspiring students to love learning, helping them develop into future leaders and professionals without being in the same physical space during this COVID-19 pandemic.

Teachers need to take a broader look at how we can help develop relationships in person and on social media. We need to define learning as the ability to work collaboratively in teams using real-world skills, or the ability to self-regulate and get along with others with help of online platforms and digital classrooms as our new normal in teaching.

Education in the New Normal as Viewed by Parents from the Highlands LEOMAR C. ABATAYO

RESEARCH shows that parental involvement can free teachers to focus more on the task of teaching children. Also, by having more contact with parents, teachers learn more about students' needs and home environment, which is information they can apply toward better meeting those needs.

Parents influence the implementation of the curriculum by playing a vital role in monitoring the lessons taught at schools, filling the gap between their children and the school administration by providing various resources which

are not available in school.

Teachers often take help of parents for monitoring the social and behavioral development of a child, especially or special educational needs.

Parents must understand their influence and role as their child’s primary teacher to support learning inside and outside the classroom.

They will gain ideas on how to become more involved in their child’s school as well as talk more easily with teachers and principals. It will also help parents understand the importance of helping to build their child’s literacy skills as a key oundation to

school success.

Effective communication is essential for building school-family partnerships.

It constitutes the foundation for all other forms of family involvement in education.

Positive parent-school communications benefit parents. The manner in which schools communicate and interact with parents affects the extent and quality of parents' home involvement with their children's learning. For example, schools that communicate bad news about student performance more often than recognizing students' excellence will discourage

parent involvement by making parents feel they cannot effectively help their children.

Parents also benefit from being involved in their children's education by gett ing ide as f rom school on how to help and support their children, and by learning more about the school's academic program and how it works. Perhaps most important, parents benefit by becoming more confident about the value of their school involvement.

Parents develop a greater appreciation for the important role they play in their children's education.

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increasing in tropical countries, particularly in the Philippines where it is considered as one of the top health problems.

From Januar y to November 2020, 79,218 dengue cases were recorded nationwide. Although 81 percent lower than the same period in 2019 – a phenomenon partly attributed by epidemiologists to the COVID quarantines – dengue still claimed 306 lives. With no direct cure for dengue, treatment for the viral disease usually calls for hospital confinement, which can be costly except in state-run health facilities.

Once proven safe and effective, the herbal capsule will be the first definitive treatment for dengue. It could pave the way for use in cases showing warning

signs and even in severe types.

On the economic side, farmers can benefit from c u lt i v at i ng any of t h e three medicinal plants, the increased demand for which may come from local pharmaceutical companies that could manufacture the treatment for domestic and even overseas markets.

T h e Tu k l a s L u n a s program trial on herbal antidengue capsule is one of the technologies and innovations that will be presented in the Big 21 in 2021 launch on 7 September 2021, 10:00AM, to be broadcast live at the DOST-Philippines Facebook page.

Interested parties may contact Dr. Josefino Alvero, president of Pharmalytics Corporation, through email at jralvero@yahoo.com.

Tu k l a s L u n a s M a r i n e Component Meantime, the marine

component of the Tuklas Lunas program is being implemented by the University of the Philippines Diliman - Marine Science Inst itute w it h f u n d i ng from the DOST- PCHRD Discovery and Development of Health Products (DDHP) program T he ongoi ng DDH P Marine Component program is composed of two projects.

Project 1 studies anti-pain and anti-neurodegeneration d r u g c an d i d ate s to b e spearheaded by Dr. Arturo O. Lluisma, while the second project is working on the discovery and development of anti-infective and/or anti-cancer compounds from Philippine marine sp onge s , ot h e r m ar i n e macro-organisms and their associated microorganisms to be led by Dr. Lilibeth Salvador-Reyes.

Now on its 2nd year of implementation, the program

has accomplished the following major activities: (1) Optimization of largescale synthesis and folding of priority peptides and Intraplantar Hypertonic Saline Assay, (2) Sequencing of four (4) priority Conoidean s p e c i e s , ( 3 ) Mol e c u l ar docking and molecular dynamics simulations, (4) Identification of priority bio ac t ive p ept ides and conopeptides for synthetic and recombinant production, ( 5 ) P u r i f i e d t h re e ( 3 ) priority compounds, (6) Determined the structure for two (2) lufariellolide analogues and IC50 values for anti-proliferative, antiinflammator y, and Nrf2 activation of lufareillolide and 3 analogues, (7) Additional seven (7) priority isolates ready for batch 2 sequencing, and (8) Optimization of electro transformation of 2 DDHP Phase 1 priority bacterial isolates.

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DEED OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL PARTITION OF DECEASED SPOUSE’S CONJUGAL SHARE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

That the late ALEJO “ BUTCH” OLANO, JR. who died on July 21, 2018 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, without a will; the deceased Alejo Olano, Jr. left his ½ Conjugal Share of parcels of land including all its improvements, if any, as follows: Parcel 1- Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-38376 (Tax Declaration No. G-040369) situated in the Barrio of Gusa, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of THREE HUNDRED THIRTEEN (313) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Parcel 2- Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-93617 (G046307) situated in the Barrio of Gusa, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of EIGHT THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED EIGHT (8,408) square meters, more or less, Parcel 3- Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-93614(TD NO. 141839) situated in the Barrio of Canitoan, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of NINE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED NINETY EIGHT (9,998) SQUARE METERS more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-80476 (TD NO. 141842) situated in the Barrio of Canitoan, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of NINETEEN THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED NINETY SEVEN (19,997), Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-64566(TD NO. 141845) situated in the Barrio of Canitoan, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of NINETEEN THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED NINETY SEVEN (19,997), Original Certificate of Title No. O-954 (TD No. G-141846) containing an area of THIRTY FOUR THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED ONE (34,801) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Parcel 4- Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-186896 (G-178724) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY (170) square meters, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-186897 (G-178725) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED FORTY SEVEN (1,947) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-186917 (G178745) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED FOUR (104) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-186918 (G-178746) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWENTY (20) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-186964 (G-178792) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of EIGHTY THREE (83) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-186965 (G-178793) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED EIGHTEEN (118) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-186966 (G-178794) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWENTY (20) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-186972 (G-178800) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED SIXTEEN (216) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-186973 (G-178801) Situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED TWENTY EIGHT (228) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-186974 (G-178802) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY FOUR (284) Square meters, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-186990 (G-178818) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED TWENTY TWO (222) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-186991 (G-178819) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FOUR (204) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-186992 (G-178820) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FIFTEEN (215) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-186993 (G-178827) Situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FIFTY ONE (251), Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-186999 (G-178827) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT (268) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187000 (G-178828) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY FOUR (274) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187001 (G-178829) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, containing an area TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY SEVEN (277) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187006 (G-178834) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWENTY (20) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187009 (G-178837) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED THREE (203) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187017 (G-178845) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR (264) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187018 (G-178846) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FORTY THREE (243) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187019 (G-178847), containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FIFTY FOUR (254) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187020 (G-178848) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FIFTY (250) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187021 (G-178849) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY EIGHT (288) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187023 (G-178851) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY TWO (272) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187025 (G-178853) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED SIXTY SEVEN (267) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187027 (G178855) Situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FORTY FIVE (245) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187034 (G-178862) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Containing an area of THREE HUNDRED ONE (301) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187036 (G-178864) situated Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY SEVEN (577) SQUARE METERS more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187039 (G-178867) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWENTY ONE (21) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187041 (G-178869) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of THREE HUNDRED SIXTY (360) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187043 (G-178871) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area TWO HUNDRED TWENTY SIX (226) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187045 (G-178873) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED TWENTY SIX (226) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187053 (G-178881) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED THIRTY EIGHT (238) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187055 (G-178883) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED THIRTY SIX (236) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187061 (G-178889) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing TWO HUNDRED TWENTY EIGHT (228) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187063 (G-178891) situated Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED TWENTY NINE (229) SQUARE METERS more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187064 (G-178892) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY ONE (421), Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187065 (G-178893) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWENTY (20) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187112 (G-178940) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED TWENTY FOUR (224) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187114 (G-178942) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THREE (253) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187116 (G-178944) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE (285) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No.

T-187117 (G-178945) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area TWO HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE (235) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187118 (G-178946) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED THIRTY TWO (232) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187127 (G-178955) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SIXTEEN (116) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187135 (G-178963) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FORTY ONE (241) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187136 (G-178964) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FORTY ONE (241) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187137 (G-178965) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FIFTY ONE (251) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187142 (G-178970) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FORTY EIGHT (248) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187143 (G-178971) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FORTY (240) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187144 (G-178972) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FORTY (240) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187145 (G-178973) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FORTY (240) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187146 (G-178974) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FORTY (240) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187154 (G-178982) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of THREE HUNDRED TWENTY THREE (323) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187155 (G-178983) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of THREE HUNDRED FOUR (304) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-187158 (G-178986) situated at Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, containing an area of SIXTY ONE (61) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Parcel 5- Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2011000536 situated at Lot: 2534-J, PSD-10-064224 Portion of Lot: 2534, Cad-354, Medina Cadastre, containing an area of FIVE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED NINETY FOUR (5,494) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2014001818 situated at Barrio of Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, Philippines, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2014001819 situated at Barrio of Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, Philippines, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2014001817 situated at Barrio of Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, Philippines, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2014001816 situated at Barrio of Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, Philippines, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2015000210 situated at Barrio of Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, Philippines, containing an area of ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (1200), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2015000207 situated at Barrio of Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, Philippines, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2015000206 situated at Barrio of Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, Philippines, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2015000204 situated at Barrio of Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, Philippines, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2015000205 situated at Barrio of Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, Philippines, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2015000203 situated at Barrio of Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, Philippines, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SQUARE METERS (120), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2015000202 situated at Barrio of Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, Philippines, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SQUARE METERS (120), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2011000532 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of TWO THOUSAND SEVENTY EIGHT (2,078) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000186 situated at Lot: 2534-G-5 Plan No: PSD-10-069152, containing an area ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000187 situated at Lot: 2534-G-6 Plan No: PSD-10-069152, containing an area ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362016000184 situated at Lot: 2534-G-3 Plan No: PSD-10-069152, containing an area ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100), more or less, Cancelled Title Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000190 situated at Lot: 2534-G-9 Plan No: PSD-10-069152, containing an area EIGHT HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (800), more or less, SUBDIVIDED TO THE FOLLOWING LOTS: Transfer Certificate of the Title No. 136-2018000494 situated at Barangay Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2018000495 situated at situated at Barangay Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2018000496 situated at Barangay Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362018000497 situated at Barangay Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362018000498 situated at Barangay Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362018000499 situated at Barangay Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362018000500 situated at Barangay Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362018000501 situated at Barangay Duka, Municipality of Medina, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362016000182 situated at Lot: 2534-G-1 Plan No. PSD-10-069152, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000183 situated at Lot: 2534-G-2 Plan No. PSD-10-069152, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000143 situated at Lot: 2534-D-7 Plan No. PSD-10-068970, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN SQUARE METERS (119) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000142 situated at Lot: 2534-D-6 Plan No. PSD-10-068970, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000141 situated at Lot: 2534-D-5 Plan No. PSD-10-068970, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000145 situated at Lot: 2534-D-9 Plan No. PSD10-068970, containing an area of ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (1200) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000139 situated at Lot: 2534-D-3 Plan No. PSD-10-068970, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000140 situated at Lot: 2534-D-4 Plan No. PSD-10-068970, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000138 situated at Lot: 2534-D-2 Plan No. PSD-

10-068970, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SQUARE METERS (120) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000137 situated at Lot: 2534-D-1 Plan No. PSD-10-068970, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SQUARE METERS (120) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000661 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of EIGHT HUNDRED ONE SQUARE METERS (801) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000659 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362016000660 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000658 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000657 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2016000112 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED THRITY SQUARE METERS (130) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2017000113 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2017000114 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2017000115 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362017000117 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2017000558 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of SEVENTY FIVE SQUARE METERS (75) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2017000559 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2017000560 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2017000561 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362017000562 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (1100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2012000815 situated in Barrio of Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (1100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2019000452 situated at Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of NINE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (900) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2012000822 situated in Barrio of Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED EIGHTEEN SQUARE METERS (2,218) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2012000819 situated in Barrio of Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of SEVEN HUNDRED SIXTEEN SQUARE METERS (716) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2012000817 situated in Barrio of Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of NINE HUNDRED FOURTEEN SQUARE METERS (914) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362011000535 situated in Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of EIGHT THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED THIRTY NINE SQUARE METERS (8,339) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362012000820 situated in Barrio of Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED ELEVEN SQUARE METERS (2511) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362012000821 situated in Barrio of Duka, Medina, Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of SIX HUNDRED SIX SQUARE METERS (606) more or less, Parcel 6- Original Certificate of Title No. P-22365 situated in the Barrio of Mambayaan, Municipality of Balingasag, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of NINETEEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY TWO (19,382) square meters, more or less, Cancelled Mother Title Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2018000199 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of EIGHT THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED FORTY FOUR SQUARE METERS (8644), more or less, Cancelled Mother Title has been segregated as Follows: Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2019000750 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362019000751 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2019000752 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2019000753 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2019000754 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of NINETY SEVEN SQUARE METERS (97) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2019000755 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of EIGHTY TWO SQUARE METERS (82) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2019000756 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2019000757 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362019000758 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2019000759 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2019000760 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of SEVEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE SQUARE METERS (7,665) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362018000198 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of FIVE HUNDRED FORTY SIX SQUARE METERS, (546) more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2018000190 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED FOURTEEN SQUARE METERS (114), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2018000191 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED FOURTEEN SQUARE METERS (114), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362018000192 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN SQUARE METERS (115), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2018000193 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2018000194 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2018000195 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 136-2018000196 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100), more or less, Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1362018000197 situated at Mambayaan, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS (100), more or less, Parcel 7 Tax Declaration No. 0810001404023 situated at Cogon, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of 4.1922 Hectares, Parcel 8 Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-13018 situated in the Poblacion, Municipality of Balingasag, Province of Misamis Oriental, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHT (208) SQUARE METERS, more or less, Parcel 9 Tax Declaration No. 0810000213984 situated at Brgy. 2, Balingasag, Mis. Or. Containing an area of 638 SQ.M., and has been the subject of an DEED OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL PARTITION OF DECEASED SPOUSE’S CONJUGAL SHARE, filed by the heirs of ALEJO “ BUTCH” OLANO, JR., per DOC #470; PAGE #94; BOOK #17; Series of 2021 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. ISIDRO Q. LICO. BWM: Sept. 1, 8 &15, 2021

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the country.

Alvarez and his team routed practically all h is opp onents but t he Speakership was nowhere within his reach.

Towards the end of 2020, Bebot decided to call it quits with the Ruling Party. He staged a voter’s education program but with an overt agenda of discrediting the administration of Pres.

Rodrigo Duterte and taking a jab at Mayor Inday Sara who was emerging as the talk of the town who would replace her father.

Alvarez “In Search of a Leader - 2022 roadshow”, however, suffered a debacle when the dreaded coronavirus infected him. No medical bulletin was ever issued thus when he disappeared from the scene speculations had it that he had a serious bout with Covid 19. A couple of months after, his daughter Paula who works at the Finance Department, issued a statement to Manila-based media that the Congressman had been released from hospital confinement and was recuperating in their Tagum residence.

Hardly had the news reached the remote barangays in the province when Alvarez was again rumored to have been rushed anew to the hospital. This time the curious have lost interest. Even politicians ceased keeping an eye on him until he emerged, talking to representatives of Sen. Ping Lacson and Senate Pres, Tito Sotto, somewhere in Quezon City.

For the first time it was heard that Bebot revived the moribund Partido Para sa Demokratikong Reporma.

In his next appearance he was in conference with the two senators and with former VP Jojo Binay and finally a photo of him and Lacson with the latter being sworn in as Chairman of Partido Reporma with the founder, Rene de Villa witnessing.

Moreover, the photoops did not deliver the desired impact in Davao del Norte if these were meant to impress that his Partido Reporma now has Lacson and Sotto as its candidates for President and Vice President, respectively. The largely Cebuano and B oholano populace of the province instead coined derogatory and funny acronyms for the team: “PiSot” which means uncircumcised and “LacSot” meaning worthless or ugly.

Bebot also came out with video clips shown on local cable TV in the province where he announced his intention to seek reelection as he still has one more term remaining. Over two weeks had elapsed after his appearance but people are still talking about his very frail condition and the absence of bravado which, in the past characterized his public statements.

So what’s the real score in the ground? As we all knew Senator Sotto, in a statement issued to media after joining

Reporma, boasted that the PPDR is the “ruling party” in Davao. Coming from a former comedian, that claim was a rib-tickler. District 2 Representative Allan Dujali has openly declared he will stay foot with PDP-Laban and will support the candidacy of Davao City Mayor Inday Sara for President. Likewise, he has announced that his faction will put up a complete slate of candidates in vote-rich Panabo City. The incumbent officials of the Island Garden City of Samal led by Mayor Al David Uy, just announced they will go full force for Mayor Inday Sara.

In Tagum City, 20 of the 23 barangay captains who rallied behind Alvarez have joined the bandwagon pushing for Sara’s Presidential bid. Vice Gov. Rey Uy, who was with Bebot in the 2019 polls, and son Oyo Uy led the Tagum delegation in Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HnP) launch of “Ituloy ang Pagbabago Movement”. The air in the provincial capital is rife with rumors the incumbent Mayor Allan Rellon, whose term expires next year, is also supporting Inday Sara. The HnP leadership has hinted it is willing to adopt him and even offered the plum post as its candidate in 1st District versus Bebot Alvarez.

By the looks of it, only Gov. Edwin Jubahib, Panabo Mayor Jose Relampagos, and a mayor in a small mountain town of San Isidro had remained steadfastly loyal to Alvarez.

The trio had joined Reporma with Jubahib sworn in as Secretary-General. Some wags are saying Reporma is a celebrated party for winning only one post since its inception decades ago.

I don’t know whether the “PiSot” or “LacSot” team with the lackluster mien of Bebot can break that chain of bad luck.

The wheels of fortune, in the political career of Davao del Norte politicians, keep rolling. What goes up goes down.

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supplied the timber needs of the world in the past one hundred years and now glaringly a neo-colony of imperial powers, we have committed the biggest massacre of all times, erasing all endemic life in the 17 million hectares of dipterocarp forest. The center of the center of marine life on earth, the Philippine Archipelago, became before the dumping ground of toxic industrial waste from Canada and subjected to Muro-Ami

by Japanese trawlers during the Martial Law years.

These life forms that constitute our ecological wealth have sustained the life of the Indigenous Peoples for thousands of years in the spirit of sharing and loving, are nowhere to be found. Oh, pity our ecological people!

They are now the poorest of the poor. According to them, “. . gikan gayod kay Magbabaya ang kinaiyahan kay kini dili lamang tinubdan sa kinabuhi kung dili, mao ang kinabuhi mismo. Angay lamang gamiton

sa malungtaron ng pamaagi para sa padayon sa kinabuhi kay ang tanang kinabuhi nga makit-an sa kalibutan, balaan gayod.”

All the dear animals, plants, fish and what have you, have lived and giving their lives so that human beings may live to fulfill God’s mandate as God’s stewards, such truism has made life so meaningful, dramatic and worth-living—all, for God’s glory.

Oh my God, that wasn’t the case. All of them have been sacrificed to the altar of greed and profit for self-aggrandizement of a few powerful oligarchs to dominate the world making human beings just brutes and beasts in a world that has been characterized with so much unbridled materialism and consumerism! Life has ceased to be sacred but diabolical!

What is very glaring is

the truism that humanity has been captured by egoic mind and is now suffering collective insanity, imposing dominion over of God’s creation and of other races or nations. Look at the United States, gaining so much wealth out of corporate globalization, even funding both warning factions just to earn money. Powerful nations even control mainstream media that b ombarded humanity with gospel of lies and misinformation, feeding chattering minds of people to satisfy ego.

Human beings must now connect with the formless Being that is within all of us, as we are not just forms but whose essence is that of consciousness, an awareness presence that will unfold the divine purpose of the universe!. Indeed, life is sacred and we are that life! Indeed, as Jesus said, “the Kingdom of God is within us.”

Education and the internet accessibility among learners

By ANA FE L. ROBITSHEK, Tingalan Integrated School

Education is at the heart of capacity-building. It is through education that people gain skills that equip them to find jobs, start businesses, lead fulfilling lives and provide for themselves and their families. Education builds the capabilities that societies also require to improve productivity and achieve economic growth, to manage health and social services, and to play a full part in the global community of nations.

The Internet has immense potential to improve the quality of education, which is one of the pillars of sustainable development.

Access to the Internet is fundamental to achieving this vision for the future. It can improve the quality of education in many ways. It opens doorways to a wealth of information, knowledge and educational resources,

increasing opportunities for learning in and beyond the classroom. Teachers use online materials to prepare lessons, and learners to extend their range of learning. Interactive teaching methods, supported by the Internet, enable teachers to give more attention to individual learners’ needs and support shared learning.

And yes, educationalists are enthusiastically exploring opportunities and discovering new ways in which they can use the Internet to improve education outcomes. Lack of access is first and foremost among these. Access to the Internet, with sufficient b andw idt h, is ess ent i a l for the development of an information society. Lack of broadband connectivity is preventing widespread use of Internet in education and other areas of life.

Moreover, this is not just a matter of connectivity. For

access to be meaningful, it must also be affordable for schools and individuals, and teachers and learners must acquire digital literacy and other skills required to make best use of it. Those teachers and learners also need to find and use locally relevant content.

Teachers need to learn new skills to make effective use of Internet resources.

Global experience has shown the importance of professional development in building teacher’s capabilities in using the Internet and introducing new types of learning in the classroom and with individual learners. Educational administrators also need to learn how best to use the data which online learning makes available to improve education standards and target resources.

Building these capabilities will be crucial to maximizing the value of the Internet for

education.

However, low-income learners often don't have access to devices at home. With the wealth of information and educational resources available on the internet, students that come from working-class families can improve their social standing and can even help their families get out of poverty. But without internet access, they're prevented from any opportunities which could greatly improve their quality of life.

With this, having access to the internet allows learners to keep up with information that might not make it into textbooks, or that might become outdated by the time it is published in a traditional format.

Having access to this i n f o r m at i o n e mp o w e r s learners to take charge of their education, and the research backs that up.

Boosting media literacy in the new normal

By HAROLD L. ABRIO

COVID-19 barged into our lives without any warning, such as an uninvited guest rudely gatecrashing into our turf. This deadly pestilence has pulled the plug on all industries, and all economic activities all over the globe have come to a vir tual standstill. Governments have taken stringent blockade isolation measures to enforce movement control orders, home quarantines, social and physical distancing and have declared curfews in some countries. Civil authorities and military personnel have been deployed to assist in the containment efforts to ensure that the general public adheres to the “stay-at-home” order.

As the world remains hopeful that this deadly outbreak is temporal and will eventually be history, the magnitude of this pandemic has unleashed a revolution in the education realm, setting off the novel COVID-19 as the trend-setter that has ironically laid the bedrock foundation for “literacy in the new normal”.

Media literacy is uniquely suited to serve as a unifying, interdisciplinary framework

for this new way of teaching and learning. Today, content is plentiful – but schools are still organized as if content is scarce. When information is available at the touch of a button, and the best teachers can be available through Zoom, it is essential to teach children the process skills of media literacy from an early age, so that youth learn to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with media in all its forms. It is these skills and instruction on process that are scarce, when they should be plentiful. There is now global demand for media literacy, but not enough trained people to teach media literacy, since media literacy has seldom been taught in teacher education programs or in classrooms.

The word "literacy" usually describes the ability to read and write. Reading literacy and media literacy have a lot in common. Reading starts with recognizing letters. Pretty soon, readers can identify words- and, most importantly, understand what those words mean. Readers then become writers. With more experience, readers and writers develop

strong literacy skills.

O n t h e ot h e r h an d , media literacy is the ability to identify different types of media and understand the messages they're sending.

Kids take in a huge amount of information from a wide array of sources, far beyond the traditional media (TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines) of most parents' youth. There are text messages, memes, viral videos, social media, video games, advertising, and more.

Instead of a factor ymodel of education where seat time is the measure of success, media literacy provides critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and communication – all essential in a globally-connected world.

Learners learn to acquire, contextualize and apply content knowledge through a process of inquiry, learning through meaningful and explorator y ways, rather than through directives and rote learning. Learners learn to navigate media as a global symbolic system, and they learn how to operate in the virtual world as well as the “real” world. From a

youth’s perspective, there is no difference between these worlds; they are merged and seamless. It is through the small screen of a smartphone that young people experience the world, and yet that small screen contains the world. No one knows this more than parents, who realize more than anyone else how important the media is to their children.

The need for anywhere, any time learning confronts us every day, and again, a solid, evidence-based media literacy framework is a pathway to helping children make sense of the myriad of messages they receive and produce.

But all media shares one thing: Someone created it. And it was created for a reason.

Understanding that reason is the basis of media literacy.

As children evaluate media, they decide whether the messages make sense, why certain information was included, what wasn't included, and what the key ideas are. They learn to use examples to support their opinions. Then they can make up their own minds about the information based on knowledge they already have.

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Ruaya said that a one-week preparation was allotted for the payment request that would be submitted to their office in Manila while the office there transacted with Palawan Express Pera Padala, their partner finance service provider.

Tr a n s a c t i o n c o d e s were directly sent to the individual’s given mobile number while the ICRC verified the identification cards to be presented to ensure that the proof of identification would be acceptable and appropriate.

From the one-stop money shop’s outlets all over the region, IDPs can now claim their due payments which also serve as their short period income during their temporary employment.

“Itong cash for work is a temporary employment for the IDPs in Bito Transitory Shelter. At least mayroon si l ang map ag kunan ng income,” she said.

With the ICRC’s effort of revamping their temporary u n it s d am a ge d by t h e weather in the city, IDPs extended their thanks for the big help the project will be contributing.

“Hindi ko mababayaran [ang ginawa nila].

Maraming salamat talaga sa ICRC. Iyan talaga ang pi na k api nap as a l amat an kong NGO,” said Ismael Ali, the camp manager of the transitory site.

[I cannot pay [what they have done]. Thank you so much to the ICRC. That is really the NGO that I am most thankful for.] (CRG/ PIA-ICIC)

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produce in a limited space, can be grown whole year round with minimum maintenance and supervision," she said.

Meantime, the department turned over 5,000 pieces of cacao seedlings to six IP farmer associations in Barangay Rogongon in Iligan City, in support of EO 70 or institutionalizing the wholeof-nation approach to end local communist armed conflict.

The project will benefit the 710 members of the Barangay Rogongon's IP communities who are beneficiaries of DA's Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran ng Kababayang Katutubong (4Ks) program.

The Rogongon IPs have around 6,700 hectares of farmland suitable for cacao pro duc t ion aside f rom

Republic of the Philippines) City of Cagayan de Oro…) S.S. AFFIDAVIT OF LOSS I, ROLAND G. CISCAR, of legal age, Filipino, single and a resident of 1297 Punta, Macabalan, Cagayan de Oro City, after having been duly sworn to in accordance with law do hereby depose and say; 1.

2.

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That I am a designated bill collector DENR CENRO Talakag, Bukidnon.

That sometime February 10, 2021, I found out that the Official Receipt with number 5826365 dated January 25, 2021 (Cancelled Official Receipt) was lost in my possession.

That despite diligent effort to locate the said Cancelled Official Receipt but all efforts were in vain and I considered it lost for all intent and purposes.

That this affidavit of loss is executed to attest to the truth of the foregoing facts and for whatever legal purpose this may serve.

In witness hereof, I have hereunto set my hand this May 18, 2021 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT AMONG HEIRS KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

This EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT AMONG HEIRS, made and entered into by and among:

That we are the surviving legal heirs and sole heir of the late LIEZEL CATALUÑA LANGAMON, namely:

BONIFACIO ESTOQUE LANGAMON- surviving spouse, of legal age, Filipino citizen, widower, residing at #087 Legaspi St., Zone 2, Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City;

BON EZEKIEL CATALUÑA LANGAMON- son, of legal age, Filipino citizen, single, residing at #087 Legaspi St., Zone 2, Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City;

BLESSEL MARY CATALUÑA LANGAMON- daughter, of legal age, Filipino citizen, single, residing at #087 Legaspi St., Zone 2, Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City;

BON MICHAEL CATALUÑA LANGAMON- son minor- 13 years old, represented by his father, BONIFACIO ESTOQUE LANGAMON, Filipino citizen, single, residing at #087 Legaspi St., Zone 2, Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City, hereinafter referred to as the Heirs.

WITNESSETH

That the above-named parties, all of legal age, are the surviving legal heirs and sole heir of the deceased, LIEZEL CATALUÑA LANGAMON, who died last AUGUST 11, 2021 in J.R BORJA GENERAL HOSPITAL, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental, left without any will and testament;

That the said deceased, at the time of her death, left personal properties consisting of BANK DEPOSIT under Account No. 9333077687 with the BANK OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS (BPI)-DIVISORIA BRANCH CDOC;

That to the best knowledge and information of the parties hereto, the said deceased left no debts;

That the parties hereto being all of legal age and with full civil capacity to contract, hereby by these presents agree to adjudicate, as they hereby adjudicate, the above-mentioned BANK DEPOSIT to BONIFACIO ESTOQUE LANGAMON;

That a true copy of this Extra-Judicial Settlement had been published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation as certified by the said newspaper, hereto attached as ANNEX “A” to form as an integral parts hereof;

That we hereby hold the Bank free and harmless from any and all claims that may arise from other heir(s) not included in this Extra-judicial Settlement.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have hereunto affixed their signatures this 02nd day of October 2018 in the City of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines.

growing abaca as their primary source of income and living.

Early in May this year, the community also received banana cardava planting materials. (PNA)

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over the short term,” Fitch Solutions said.

It added that strong fiscal support is also evident in the government’s national budget.

Proposed budget for t he D ep ar t ment of Transportation (DOTr) next year rose to P151.3 billion from PHP87.9 billion this year.

Of the said budget, P110.9 billion will go to rail projects, P13.9 billion for land public transportation, P1.7 billion for aviation infrastructure, and P720 million for maritime infrastructure.

“The Philippines construction sector grew by 25.7 percent year-onyear in real terms in (the) second quarter of 2021, marking one of the highest construction growth rates in its history. This is despite localised lockdowns across the market in recent months.

We do stress that this is in large part due to low base effects from (the) second quarter of 2020 when the pandemic first hit, but signals a very strong recovery in the market in line with our initial expectations,” Fitch

Solutions said.

However, the rising Delta variant cases in the country pose downside risk to the sector.

Fitch Solutions forecasted that the construction sector’s growth will weaken during the second half of the year.

(PNA)

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good example how to use money well.

A wis e p ers on s aid: “Money talks and never listens—unless you make it listen.” It is up to us to take control and start changing our way of using money. If you realize that your wife

or husband is better at managing the money and bills, then you should let them do more of it. But most of all, you need to ask Jesus to take full charge of your heart, marriage, and way of using money. That is how you can lead your family into His way of enjoying a truly prosperous and peaceful life together. Just think a minute.

of the said campaign, the company will donate the same number of books sold during the program period. · School supplies are welcome. you can also donate notebook packs of 6 and school sets that include a backpack, noteb o oks, rulers, and pens that are4 available at The SM Stationery section.

In exchange, shoppers w i l l re c e i v e 1 0 0 p e s o s discount coupon for every donation made.

T h e D o n at e - a - B o o k campaign began in 1998 as one of SM Foundation’s groundbreaking mallb as e d prog rams. It has s i n c e b e e n p ar t of t h e SM St ore’s c om mu n it y programs since 2015, collecting and distributing almost 800,000 books and learning materials through the generosity of The SM Store customers.

Share the Joy of Learning and visit the Donate-a-Book kiosks at the participating branches of The SM Store nationwide.

Intensifying mental health awareness among teachers in time of pandemic

By NELSON G. ABELO Principal I/PSDS Designate Mambajao District Division of Camiguin

The COVID-19 pandemic has led teachers to an unpredictable scenario where the lockdown situation has accelerated the shift from traditional to online educational methods, and relationships have been altered by the avoidance of direct contact with the others, with implications for their mental health. Physical activity seemed to be a factor that could prevent mental disorders such as anxiety or depression in this peculiar situation.

Between the unpredictability, the isolation and the newfound challenges in reaching their learners – not only the mental health experts worry but everyone is also struggling – what little mental health support is extended to teachers feels like nowhere near enough.

As this pandemic encompasses a big challenge to the education system around the world, our teachers, our learning facilitators, and the prime movers of education are also suffering and struggling. Thus, it is very vital that we should intensify awareness

on the mental health of our teachers, as their state of mind and body will greatly affect their work performance.

One signifcant strategy is to boost our physical activity. As we spend hours in a day and even in the wee hours of the night just to finish all the reports and deliverables on our assigned tasks, it is very important that we as teachers and education prime movers should do various physical exercises and activities in order to keep our minds and bodies healthy and active.

With this, studies show that it can be concluded from previous experiences that physical activity and exercise could help to mitigate the effects caused by the current pandemic on the mental and physical health of citizens worldwide.

According to Amatriain-Fernández (2020), being physically active should be highly recommended considering that physical activity could help in preventing psychological or mood disorders and improving the quality

of life by decreasing the negative psychosocial effects of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Moreover, the pandemic has not only affected the mental state of students since teachers have also accumulated a high level of stress since the beginning of the crisis. Recent studies have pointed out that during lockdown, teachers have suffered stress from having to adapt (in record time) in order to provide online classes (Besser et al., 2020). This stress has often been accompanied by symptoms of anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbance as a consecuence of the increased workload resulting from home teaching.

Thus, as the Public Schools District Supervisor Designate, it is of optimum thrust that I should always look on the holistic aspects of the teachers, not only on the curriculum and instruction facets but also on the health, most significantly, the mental health among the teachers as it will greatly affect their line works and their whole being.

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transition period to 2025.

Lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, the BARMM regional spokesperson, said comprehensive peace and development is within reach now with the passage of the bill.

“This bill will ensure that we s et the cours e for the newly established Bangsamoro region towards an irreversible course of peace and development,” Sinarimbo, also BARMM interior minister, said in a separate statement.

He thanked the leadership of the Senate and specifically lauded S enator Francis Tolentino, author of Senate Bill 2214 and Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri “for this historic move.”

Members of the BTA parliament expressed their gratitude to the Senate for "shepherding the process" of the bill's passage, saying senators who participated and raised concerns during the deliberation of the proposal EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the late SIMPLECIA L. CABACTULAN who died DECEMBER 14, 2019 at Cagayan de Oro City.

Misamis Oriental and intestate which has residence at the time of his demise, leaving certain portion of property with Tax Declaration No. 02-005707 situated at Quibonbon, El Salvador City, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, Philippines, containing an area of NINE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY TWO (9,462) square meters, more or less, the Vendor desire to sell and the Vendee agrees to buy a portion of the aforementioned parcel of land with an area of ONE THOUSAND (1000) square meters, more or less, under Lot No. 11712-B-2 evidenced by individual sketch plan surveyed by Engr. Jeffrey Aganan and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE, filed by the heirs of SIMPLECIA L. CABACTULAN, in favor of EVA S. BLACKLIDGE and WAYMON BLACKLIDGE, per DOC #454; PAGE #91; BOOK #116; Series of 2019 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. TIBURCIO M. BABARIN, JR. BWM: Sept. 1, 8 & 15, 2021

AFFIDAVIT OF ADJUDICATION

BY THE SOLE HEIR OF THE DECEASED SPOUSES HILARIO AND TOMASA CARBONIL WITH DEED OF DONATION KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the late HILARIO AND TOMASA CARBONIL who died intestate on May 25, 1985 in Omingan Pangasinan and March 25, 2002 in Paitan, Quezon, Bukidnon, that my deceased parents at the time of their death left a certain parcel of land with Transfer Certificate of Title No. 7639 situated at Valencia, Mun. of Malaybalay, Province of Bukidnon, containing an area of TWO HUNDRED TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY TWO (228,582) SQUARE METERS, more or less, and has been the subject of an AFFIDAVIT OF ADJUDICATION BY THE SOLE HEIR OF THE DECEASED SPOUSES HILARIO AND TOMASA CARBONIL WITH DEED OF DONATION, filed by the heirs of HILARIO AND TOMASA CARBONIL, in favor of CATHALYN ALMUETE-OPERIO, JESIELYN ALMUETE-TAMBIADO, LAILYN ALMUETE-OBLIOSCA, RICHARD M. ALMUETE, GEMMALYN ALMUETEGENIAL, and REGIELYN ALMUETEROMAGOS (DONEE), per DOC #43; PAGE #7; BOOK #219; Series of 2021 under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. MARIO T. JUNI. BWM: Sept. 1, 8 & 15, 2021

had made a substantial impact on the bill's enactment.

“We are grateful to the senators who have chosen to provide ample time and space for the transition authority to fulfill its mandate and in effect secure the hardearned gains of the peace process rather than to subject our people yet again to a routinary political exercise which often creates disunity in our region,” BTA Deputy Speaker Zia Adiong said.

Maguindanao Rep. Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu, who authored a similar bill in the House of Representatives, also lauded the senators for taking into consideration the welfare of the Mindanao peace process than their personal political interest.

The 15 senators who voted "yes" on the third reading include Senators S o n ny A n g a r a , Na n c y B i n a y, P i a C a y e t a n o , Ronald “Bato” de la Rosa, Sherwin Gatchalian, Richard Gordon, Risa Hontiveros, Francis Pangilinan, Grace Poe, Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr., Cynthia Villar, Francis Tolentino, Minority Floor Leader Franklin Drilon, Majority Floor Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri, and Senate President Vicente Sotto III. Senators Ralph Recto, Emmanuel Pacquiao and Panfilo Lacson voted against the bill, while Senator Imee Marcos abstained.

If enacted into law, the country's next president will be given authority to appoint the 80 members of the BTA.

The term of the current BTA members will end on June 30, 2022.

In the past months, several caravans and calls were held by civilians both in Mindanao and in Manila to persuade both the House of Representatives and the Senate to pass the bill.

S e ve r a l l e a d e rs an d personalities have also shared similar calls, saying the bill will help save the gains of the peace process. (PNA)

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This application/petition shall be considered by the Board on September 21, 2021 at 2:00 P.M. at this Board on whice date Applicant(s)/ Petitioner(s) shall formally submit his/her/their evidence.

The Applicant(s)/Petitioner(s) shall publish said notice at least TEN (10) DAYS prior to the date of hearing once in a newspaper of local circulation.

Party(s) opposed to the approval/granting of the application/petition must file his/her/their written opposition with supporting documents, unless this Board deems it necessary to require additional documentary evidence and/or his/her/ their oral testimony(s).

WITNESS, AMINODEN D. GURO, Regional Director, LTFRB-Region X, this 6th day of September 2021 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

(Sgd.) ATTY. MOHAMAD FAHDEL S. PIMPING HEARING OFFICER BWM: September 8, 2021

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a social media post over the weekend.

According to Mr. Piñol, MinDA will help Mindanao LGUs develop schemes to recover the initial investment in solar-powered irrigation and solar-powered water systems.

He added that MinDA will seek the help of the Development Bank of the Philippines to offer lowinterest loans to LGUs. “Since it relies on solar power, the solar-powered irrigation system is ideal for dry-season planting, including periods of drought when even the regular irrigation systems of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) cannot provide water,” Mr. Piñol said.

“The Mindanao Water Supply Program… aims to provide every community in Mindanao with safe potable water and irrigation water to improve agricultural production,” he added.

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APPLICANT(s)/PETITIONER(s) request/s authority to Extend the Validity of a Certificate of Public Convenience to operate PUJ SERVICE on the line: COGON MARKET TO MACANHANBALONGIS and vice versa with the use of ONE (1) unit/s.

This ap pli c ation /petition shall be considered by the Board on September 15, 2021 at 10:00 A.M. at this Board on whice date Applicant(s)/Petitioner(s) shall formally submit his/her/their evidence.

The Applicant(s)/Petitioner(s) shall publish said notice at least FIVE (5) DAYS prior to the date of hearing once in a newspaper of local circulation.

Party(s) opposed to the approval/granting of the application/petition must file his/her/their written opposition with supporting documents, unless this Board deems it necessary to require additional documentary evidence and/or his/ her/their oral testimony(s).

WITNESS, AMINODEN D. GURO, Regional Director, LTFRB-Region X, this 6th day of September 2021 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

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Mr. Piñol said solarpowered irrigation system will cost about P120,000 per hectare against P450,000 in NIA systems. Solar-powered systems can be built in less than six months and the coverage area can be expanded by constructing a bigger reservoir and laying additional pipe.

He added that LGUs should fund their own solarpowered irrigation and water systems with their higher share of internal revenue allotment starting next year due to the Supreme Court Mandanas ruling.

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from page 1 Armed Forces (BIAF), the armed wing of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), openly aired how they thought the issues they fought for are not being carried by the MILF leadership. “ Those who have benefited now are not genuine fighters of the MILF. They are technocrats who have not dirtied their hands for the revolution,” said “Tano,” a 55-year-old BIAF fighter who asked not to be named for security reasons.

Another mujahid, “Aisha,” a 42-year-old veteran, said: “I patiently brewed coffee for the fighters so they have warm stomachs during the fighting but now I was told I have no job under the BARMM.” These are common c ompl ai nt s am ong t h e 40,000-strong BIAF of the MILF, which officials of the government and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ( BA R M M ) a d m it h av e become a problem.

Ariel Hernandez, cochair of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Joint Normalization Division, said they are looking at the problem with growing concern.

“This is a problem that should be addressed by the MILF leadership. We cannot intrude on this problem otherwise the MILF would accuse us of interfering with their problem,” he said.

Aside from that, Hernandez noted that the MILF leadership had to contend with the issue of extension of the BTA. The Bangsamoro

parliament had requested Congress to extend BTA until 2025 to allow further time to transition, and so far got the Senate’s nod.

Hernandez said the issue of decommissioning the MILF fighters and their firearms are among those not yet resolved.

He said under phase 2 of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro signed between the MILF and government in 2014, 12,000 fighters or 30 percent of the rebel forces and their firearms were decommissioned.

Hernandez said Phase three, involving 14,000 fighters, would see the final stage of decommissioning of MILF fighters and their firearms.

Bangsamoro Minister of the Interior and Local Government Naguib Si nar i mb o d e cl i ne d to reply on the issue on the demobilization, preferring that the MILF should answer it.

Sinarimb o, howe ver, said MILF fighters should understand that the BARMM is not only for them but to all residents in the Bangsamoro region.

He said administering BARMM requires different skill sets and expertise for it to succeed. “ T h e s k i l l s e t s an d expertise needed are different from those of the fighters carrying rifles,” Sinarimbo pointed out.

He said MILF fighters should understand there are two sides of the peace process – the normalization process and establishment of BARMM. Sinarimbo said the complaints of the MILF fighters can be addressed by the normalization process, which provided economic package for their return to normal lives.

“The MILF leaders have continuous meetings with the fighters to explain these but these issues continue to crop up,” he said.

Abel Moya, director of Pakigdait, a non-government organization advocating p e a c e , s a i d t h e y h av e conducted meetings with the MILF fighters in Lanao del Sur and have heard these complaints.

He said they have also tried to explain to the fighters that “not all of them with be entitled to the spoils of the

peace dividend.”

“There is another skill set needed for running a government. They maybe were good fighters but they cannot become good auditors and technicians,” Moya said. (Froilan Gallardo / MindaNews)

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hydro facility is on track for commercial operations within the first half of next year, it added.

Earlier this year, the company said it is targeting to switch on SRPI and Siguil hydro facilities in 2024 and 2022, respectively.

ACR previously said it plans to focus on scaling up its hydro facilities in the coming years, adding that it had seven more run-of-river hydroelectric projects in its pipeline.

Over the weekend, the company said that it is considering other renewable technologies “but there is nothing definitive yet.”

In 2017, it said it was mulling over setting up a separate retail electricity supply business. At present, the firm is “in the process of acquiring the approvals” for its entry into the retail electricity business.

It previously reported a second-quarter attributable net income to its owners of P174.19 million, down by 37.1% amid lower revenues.

ACR and the Alcantaras’ subsidiaries and affiliates in the power business are grouped under the Alsons Power umbrella brand.

On its website, Alsons Power describes itself as Mindanao’s first private sector power generator. It has a portfolio of four power facilities with an aggregate capacity of 468 MW. These power plants serve key urban centers in the south, including Cagayan de Oro, General Santos, Iligan and Zamboanga City.

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Real estate investment hotspots in CDO uncovered during exclusive webinar “Cagayan de Oro is a very promising real estate investment hotspot”. This was the ultimate conclusion during the overall exciting and well attended webinar that was held on Friday the 3rd of September with the name of “SOAR 2021 Conference” where SOAR stands for Sustainable Opportunities and Advocacies in Region X and CdO. It was a conference with the aim to discover the region's growth and investment hotspots and especially where to invest in real estate. To answer these questions there were the main government agency and the major industry stakeholders. A must watch for every businessman and real estate investor in the region. The event was organised by Olacon with exclusive speakers from the National Economic Development Authority, the banking sector and the private sector with Italpinas Development Corporation (IDC) partnering this special event.

NEDA Regional Director Ms Mylah Faye Aurora Carino, businessman and local tycoon Elpidio Paras, the tech-savvy licensed real estate broker Alex Zeta, Italpinas Development Corporation's Chairman and CEO Architect Romolo Nati and BPI's Vice President

and Retail Mortgage Head of BPI Family Savings Bank, Herbert Tuason gathered in a round of presentations and talks moderated by Lorens Ziller, the host and at the same time the Vice President of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines.

The general focus was definitely on real estate but NEDA's regional director Ms. Carino underlined all contributing factors to the economic growth of the region. With the infrastructure developments playing a major role in the economic development of the whole region much progress has been achieved over the past 10 years in alleviating poverty and increasing livelihoods with an increase in growth in most sectors. Director Carino also mentioned the many investment opportunities there presently are like in agriculture, food processing, logistics, services and of course real estate development.

NEDA gave a brilliant picture of the situation in Northern Mindanao, analysing its strategic position and growth drivers while underlining the various future development prospects. Elpidio Paras took the opportunity to discuss the severely hit tourism and leisure sector for which he is a major

regional stakeholder as he is the president of renowned attractions such as the Seven Seas Waterpark and the Dahilayan Adventure Park. He lamented how the pandemic forced these attractions to temporarily close to the public and how on the other side, farmtourism and rural land speculations have increased dramatically.

With people and children being forced to stay home, his other business, Parasat Cable TV, has had a major boost with this new situation where home entertainment services have had great increase in demand. Alex Zeta, a well known real estate broker from Cagayan de Oro, explained the various investment trends of the region with the many subdivisions rising all over the city but with Uptown CdO being the real investment hotspot.

Uptown earns the top place also because of the road infrastructure, the malls, the dining areas, the golf course, the upcoming hospital and the overall

quality of life of the area.

The ideal place to live and work. This was further underlined by Architect Romolo Nati, Chairman and CEO of Italpinas Development Corporation, who have their two landmark projects in Pueblo de Oro Business Park, just besides SM City Mall.

Primavera Residences and Primavera City, whose first phase is soon for turnover, are the real jewels of the city when we talk about condo-living. These mixed-use buildings have a very distinct Italian design and also progressive passive green design features to enhance shading, natural light and ventilation as well as energy savings thanks to solar panels on the rooftops. The modern condoliving lifestyle, especially with the newly gained postpandemic awareness where personal spaces have gained more importance primarily for those who really value a safe and healthy environment and sustainable lifestyle. As a special event partner, IDC also launched

a special zero-reservation payment promotion for their condo-units of Primavera City. BPI's Herbert Tuason explained how customers can avail of privileged home loans and mortgages with a lower interest rate if they buy a unit with IDC. He also explained the several banking services that are available for clients wishing to request a loan with BPI. The following Q&A session was able to give an answer. to some questions of the many attendees with Lorens Ziller underlining how migration from Metro Manila and the returning OFWs are contributing to an enhanced growth of the city with influx of new workforce and also new ideas for business.

All factors indicate that Metro Cagayan de Oro has everything to attract investments in all areas and especially in real estate development as the city grows at a fast pace. What better place to live with the sea, beach, tropical forests and the mountains just within short reach?