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DECEMBER is a season of giving, but not for government employees. Public school teachers marched to Chino Roces Bridge, former Mendiola Bridge, on December 14 in protest of the 50-percent reduction of their Productivity Enhancement Incentive (PEI). “It’s as if it’s not Christmas,” said Digna Balderama, 45, a single mother to three children. The Department of Budget and Management recently announced public school teachers would receive P5,000 ($121) as PEI, instead of the usual rate of P10,000 ($243). Balderama, a grade one teacher at the San Francisco Elementary School in Quezon City, lamented: “Our salary is not even increasing and then the government will reduce our benefits.” Carrying their black lantern with slogans “PEI P10,000, not P5,000. Junk Aquino’s PBB [Performance-

based Bonus],” Baldemara and other teachers from different public schools in Quezon City, Manila and other parts of the country joined the nationallycoordinated black lantern protest march. The PEI was reduced because of the new Executive Order 80 or the Performance Based Bonus which was issued by President Benigno Aquino III last July. The deducted amount will be added to the funds that for the Performance-Based Bonus (PBB). Under EO 80, a PEI will be given to all government employees but not all government employees are entitled to the PBB. Budget Secretary Florencio Abad said that the PBB system is a merit-based scheme and employees “who underperform or fail to meet of love. A shower bathing for the people displaced by typhoon Pablo at the evacuation centers in their targets won’t actually Shower Compostela Valley province. This activity is through the initiative of the youth volunteers of Comval in cooperation with teachers | page 10

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Agusan Norte river basin barangays trained on disaster risk reduction, contingency planning THE different barangays situated along the Agusan River Basin (ARB) of Agusan del Norte underwent trainings conducted by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (dilg) of the said province

on Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (CBDRRM) and Contingency Planning (CP) from December 17-19, 2012 simultaneously held in the Municipalities of Buenavista and Las Nieves.

The trainings served as an offshoot of the Training of Trainers on CBDRRM and CP Phase I conducted on October 12, 2012 at Goat2geder Hotel and Restaurant, Butuan City. The purpose of the train-

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ings is to install a system in responding to any emergency situation in the locality as the people in the barangays are considered the primary responders in case a calamity/disaster strikes. The BDRRM Officers were also taught on how to craft a contingency plan to serve as roadmap in managing hazards and potential risks. Provincial Director Romeo A. Solis said that the barangay DRRM Councils are considered to be at the forefront of ensuring the safety of its constituents and respond appropriately in times of calamities. DILG Agusan del Norte Outcome Manager, Ms. Annabella O. Cadigal, led

the assessment of the different barangays in assisting their preparedness for all the calamities they have experienced 5-10 years ago. She discussed to the participants that the barangays should always assess their capacities by using the 5 Ms formula which stands for: Manpower, Money, Methodolog y, Minutes and Machinery whenever a disaster or calamity hits their respective AOR. Program Manager, Ms. Ellen Vee P. Chua, discussed the essentials of Contingency Planning. According to her, the LGUs should always be proactive in planning actions should the worst scenario imagined becomes

a reality. At the end of the trainings, the participants were able to identify their respective roles and responsibilities as members of the Council. They were also able to list down their proposed actions in case of calamity/ disaster and these actions were all embodied in their newly-crafted contingency plans. The CBDRRM and CP training in Buenavista was graced by no less than the Provincial Governor of Agusan del Norte, Hon. Erlpe John M. Amante. (LGOO II Mary Christine Anthonette M. Salise- DILG ADN Provincial Information Officer)

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6 doctors sent to aid typhoon victims seriously injured in road accident in Davao Oriental

ZAMBOANGA CITY (Al Jacinto / Dec. 19, 2012) – Six Filipino doctors were critically injured following a road accident on their way to aid typhoon victims in Davao Oriental province in the southern Philippines, security officials said Wednesday. Officials said the physicians, who are members of the Maguindanao Provincial Health Office, were in a vehicle when their driver avoided a collision with a motorcycle and slammed into a tree in Baganga town late Tuesday. Lt. Col. Lyndon Paniza, a spokesman for the 10th Infantry Division, said those injured – Doctors Nic Cantiro, Almatin Dimaucom, Nor-ayin Salic, Junnah Mangacy, Grace Espinosa, Taher Salaik, and driver Tuy Pangilan – were rushed to the Cateel District Hospital and later transferred to Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City. “They are now being treated at SPMC for evaluation and further medication. Dr. Salik is now (in) stable (condition) while the rest are in critical condition,” he said. No other details were made available by the military about the victims, who were part of a volunteer medical team sent by Maguindanao

province to help victims of deadly typhoon Bopha which struck Compostela Valley and Davao region. More than 1,000 people

were killed and tens of thousands left homeless by the typhoon that hit the Philippines on December 4. (Mindanao Examiner)

Committee on Higher and Technical Education Hearing

Cong. Rufus B. Rodriguez raises a point with the Commission on Higher Education in connection with his House Bill 43 (AN ACT CREATING A COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL LOAN PROGRAM FOR COLLEGE EDUCATION AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR) which he authored. The proposed bill will give high school graduates an opportunity of enrolling in tertiary education thru a loan program funded by the government. With this, our students will be able to study in college and are only required to pay their loan after they graduate. Also in the photo Cong. Rachel Marguerite Del Mar and Cong. Eulogio ‘Amang’ Magsaysay.

705 people flee homes due to flood

AT least 705 people were evacuated from their homes in a town in Misamis Oriental Tuesday night after flash floods hit the area, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said Thursday. The NDRRMC said the flash flood incident occurred at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at Barangay Bauk-Bauk in Balingoan town in Misamis Oriental. No casualties were reported even as the water subsided at 11:30 p.m., the NDRRMC said However, the NDRRMC said 167 families or 705 people were evacuated to the Balingoan Municipal Gymnasium. They returned to their homes the next morning. Several residents in Mindanao are still reeling from the effects of Tropical Cyclone Pablo (Bopha), which devastated parts of Mindanao and Visayas.

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‘CdeO film wins in 8th Mindanao Film Fest

documentary film about the life of a “Sendong” survivor in Cagayan de Oro, bagged this year’s “Best Documentary,” a rare award to be given by the organizers of the 8thMindanao Film Festival in its awarding ceremony Monday night in Davao City.

A documentar y film about the life of a “Sendong” survivor in Cagayan de Oro, bagged this year’s “Best Documentary,” a rare award to be given by the organizers of the 8thMindanao Film Festival in its awarding ceremony Monday night in Davao City. “Ilalom sa Dinoradong Langit (Under the Purple Sky),” directed by freelance journalist and filmmaker Nef Luczon was one of the only few documentaries who made it to the Festival that started on December 4. This was co-produced by Davao-based Voiceworks Theater Co. Inc. (VTCI), and socio-political group B angon Kagay-an Inc. Luczon was also the chairperson of VTCI’s Film and TV Division. “Ne ver t heless it's a humbling experience, and I am thankful. Hopefully next year dadami pa kam-

ing mga Mindanaoan to do do cumentar y f ilms because if fiction films reflect and depict stories around us, how much more documentaries that are real enough for us to feel life around us,” he said in a recorded speech since he was not able to attend the actual awards night. The jurors of the Festival where Ma. Victoria Beltran, Cebu-based filmmaker and actress, member National Commission for Culture and the Arts’ Committee on Cinema, Arnel Mardoquio, Palanca-award winning playwright, filmmaker, a n d G aw a d n g Ur i a n winner, and Charliebebs Gohetia, Gawad Urian winning film editor, and filmmaker. This short documentary film centers the life of a 40-year-old single mother raising her two children. An ill fate hap-

pened in their lives when her hard-earned home lost to the treacherous flood brought about the tropical storm “Sendong”

on the night of December 16, 2011. This film was also presented before Southeast Asian filmmakers last Sep-

PRC conducts disaster management training to students

AGUSAN del Norte - The Disaster Management Service Committee of the Philippine Red Cross - Agusan del Norte and Butuan City Chapter has conducted two sessions on 143 Volunteers Mobilization and Basic Disaster Management Training Course. The training has produced 65 graduates from the Agusan del Norte National High School (ANHS), as part of the school's Disaster Risk Reduction Management. (PIA-13/jdelpf)

BUTUAN CITY - The waterlines in New Visayas, Manat and Sta. Maria, Trento town; and Poblacion, Sta. Josefa town in Agusan del Sur were partially-damaged by typhoon ‘Pablo’. The supply of potable water in Ezperanza, Bunawan and Loreto in said province; as well as in the municipality of Lingig, Surigao del Sur were also cut off. Communication lines in Trento are still affected, while in Poblacion, Sta. Josefa, the municipal government radio transceiver antenna was damaged and telephone lines are partially-damaged.

tember who attended the DocNet Southeast Asia by the German-based Goethe Institute. For the month of November, the film was

also screened at the Meta House Theatre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, together wit h ot her f i lms f rom DocNet participants. (nl)

SURIGAO del Norte - In connection with the 77th founding anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the 30th Infantry Battalion, Philippine Army has planted 100 fruit trees, Dec. 11, at the military reservation area in Sta Cruz, Placer, this province. The activity was led by Lt. Col. Vincent B. Iringan. This year’s anniversary theme is "Bayanihan at Kahandaan: Tuwid na daan Tungo sa Kapayapaan." (PIA-13/jdelpf)

CAGAYAN de Oro City – The Climate Change Commission, in partnership with United Nations Development Program and the Australian Aid for International Development has launched Project "Enabling the Cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan to Cope with Climate Change or Climate Twin Phoenix" in Cagayan de Oro City, recently. (PIA-10/jdelpf)

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99 police recruits undergo training in R-12 By Danilo E. Doguiles

KORONADAL City – The Philippine National Police (PNP) in Soccksargen Region is beefingup its strength with 99 recruits. Police Sr. Insp. Benjamin Mauricio Jr., public information chief of PNP-12 said these new Police Officers 1 (PO1s) are undergoing a mandator y six-month Public Safety Basic Recruit Course at the Regional

Training School-12. He a d d e d t h a t t h e l at e s t a d d it i on t o t h e police force in the region, were enlisted under the attrition quota for second semester PO1 R e c r u it m e nt P ro g r a m to replenish vacancies due to retirement, death, s e p ar at i on , d i s m i s s a l , and resignation. They took their oath of office as PO1s on December 3, this year, af-

ter surpassing rigorous screening process that include medical, dental and physical examinations, neuropsychiatric- oral a n d w r itt e n e x a m i n a t i on , b o ard i nter v i e w, and physical agility test. The recruitment process could be a good ne w s to c om mu n it i e s , as it means additional security for them,” Police Sr. Insp. Mauricio stated. At t h e o at h - t a k i n g

r i t e s , Po l i c e S r. Su p t . Robert Kuinisala, OIC deputy regional director for administration, reminded the new officers, “you should always be dedicated and should persevere in your mandated tasks because people dep e n d t h e i r s afe t y an d security on us.” He urged the recruits to love their work “for it will help and feed your re s p e c t i v e f a m i l i e s i n

the future. Enhance your capabilities, talents and skills for we put much of our hopes on each of you.” Meanwhile, PNP-12 Regional Director Police C h i e f Supt . A l e x Pau l Monteagudo told the neophytes, “you should count yourselves fortunate to be part of this proud organization – the PNP – for today, we will be sharing in such a rich histor y of bravery and sacrifice by

ou r fel l ow p ol i c e me n , w ho have gone b efore us. Ta ke pr ide in t hat heritage.” After completing the training at the Regional Training School, the new police officers will be deployed to police stations across Soccsksargen for another six months of field training before they will be accorded official badges. (DEDoguiles-PIA 12/asf )

FOOD FOR SURVIVORS - Employees and volunteers work together, preparing food packs for the survivors of typhoon Pablo at the capitol lobby of Comval province. The packing started a few hours after typhoon ‘Pablo’ hit the place on December 4 (A. Dayao/R. Manugas-IDS COMVAL/asf)

SPORTS BALLS - Barangay chairs of Sapad town in Lanao del Norte receive basketballs and volleyballs, under the province’s ‘Kabataan Sigurado’ program. (PIO-LDN/asf)

NCIP holds Tribal Leaders’ Forum By Bernadine Astillero Gabawan

BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur, – The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) Regional Office 9 conducted a Tribal Leaders’ Forum with the aim to iron out conflicts on Ancestral Domain issues last, December 17, 2013. Sangguniang Bayan Member Celso A. Matias who represented Mayor Leonardo L. Babasa, Jr. in his welcome message expressed his gratitude to the NCIP for holding the said forum. “Through this forum, peace and unity will be attained among the tribal leaders,” he said. It can be recalled that during a Peace Forum held last June 28, 2012, a map indicating the ancestral domain claims of the tribal group was presented by the four tribal leaders, namely: Timuays Casiano Edal, Ramon Lumige, Lucenio Manda, and Joel Lumpinas. During the forum, it was learned that there are two conflicting groups who applied for ancestral domain claims led by Timuay Casiano Edal and Timuay Luciano Manda.

NCIP Commissioner for Northern and Western Mindanao Cosme Lambayon and NCIP-9 Regional Director Salong Sunggod strongly recommended to end their divisibility and to have one common goal to attain peace and progress. They also suggested there should be one representative to stand for the group who will also serve as the liaison. Regrettably, one of the two conflicting leaders did not agree on the recommendation, but it was later resolved by assigning the two leaders

to represent their group. Also present during the forum were: Mercilyn Hatad, Officer In-Charge, NCIP Zamboanga del Sur Provincial Office, Dr. Robert Barcela, OIC-NCIP District Office based in Guipos, Vicky Cajandag, PDSI Executive Director, Atty. Fausto Lingating, NCIP Legal Consultant, Celso Matias, SM Member, LGU-Bayog, Lt.Col. Victor Tanggawohn, Commanding Officer, 53rd IB, Philippine Army, some barangay chairmen and NCIP employees. (ALT/BAG/CAL/ PIA9)

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“On October 15, 2012 – I had my training on radio broadcasting at BWM Media Center, under Mr. Joe del Puerto Felicilda. It greatly enhanced my skills , as a campus broadcaster. There, I learned the art of interviewing (being the most effective way of news data gathering) and the proper way of news scriptwriting for broadcast. Me and my fellow campus broadcasters were also taught that a journalist should have the ‘nose for news’, resourceful, creative, reliable, neutral and must always keep the stream of information flowing. I also knew the different kinds of news events, such as accidents, conflicts, gatherings, sports, government projects, people, government actions, amusements, among others.” - Lendy Hazelle Ruth Lugatiman, Regional Science High School, Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City

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THINK a minute. Do you usually agree with people when they criticize you? Probably not. But just for fun, try it sometime. Agree with the criticism that people might give you. At first, it won’t feel natural or fun because when people criticize us, our natural reaction is just the opposite. We feel hurt like we’re being attacked. So as our blood pressure shoots up, we fire back our own criticism of that person like a counter-attack. But think of all the time and energy we waste reacting with anger to criticism. A famous, successful person says: “I’ve learned to take criticism seriously, but not personally.”

Let it change you and make you a better person. Make it work for you to your advantage. As they say, “Spit out the bones and keep the meat.” It will make you stronger in your character. So we need just to chew on that criticism of us and think about it for awhile. God created us to have the character of Jesus Christ. One of the main reasons

He became a human being was to show us the kind of nature and person He designed us to be. And all it takes is one look at Jesus to know we’ve got a long way to go to become that kind of person! So let’s learn all we can and take all the help we can get—even from our critics. The truth may hurt, but it also can set us free from our wrong attitudes, motives, and behavior. That’s the only way we can start becoming all we were made to be. Why not ask Jesus Christ to forgive for your wrong way of living? Then ask Him to help you start making the changes you need to make in your character and life. Just Think a Minute.

God has come to the world in a most unlikely way. This is what Philippians 2:7 means when it says that he “made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.” Nothing about the baby Jesus appeared supernatural. There were no halos, no angels visible, and no choirs singing. If you had been there, and if you had no other information, you would have concluded that this was just a baby born to a poor young couple down on their luck. Nothing about the outward circumstances. Faith is a gift from God. Without faith it is impos-

sible to see God, to know God, or to understand the things of God. Without faith you can watch a thousand Christmas pageants and never be converted. The unsaved heart is blind and simply cannot “see” the gospel. Until God takes away that blindness, no amount of argument (or beautiful music, for that matter) will make any difference. So we come to the end of the story. God’s surprising sign is a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and resting in a feeding-trough in a cave behind a village inn. It’s not a very likely beginning for a movement that will change the world. What a rebuke to those who love pomp and outward glory, to those who despise the small things of the world. This is surely a strange way for a Savior to enter the world. Even the poorest child would not be found in a manger, but there he was, God’s appointed “sign” from heaven.

Think A Minute Jhan Tiafau Hurst You see, friend, it just might be true—at least part of it. I don’t know about you, but I’ve got lots of room for improvement. So let’s take all the help we can get, even if it hurts a little, because the truth hurts sometimes. And if part of that criticism of us is simply not true or fair, then just take the part that is true and do something about it.

The baby in the manger

Luke 2:12 is telling us that the particular circumstances of Jesus’ birth are important. They are part of the message from God. After all, Jesus could have been born in any circumstances God chose. What is the message of the manger? What is God saying to us? What do we learn about the way God works? About who Jesus is? We know about Mary and the angel Gabriel, about the dangerous journey to Bethlehem, about the inn with a “No Vacancy” sign, about the angels and the shepherds, and about the mysterious Wise Men from the east, and the last-second flight into Egypt. All of these stories are so well known that when we hear them again, we don’t really hear them at all because we’ve heard them all before. We hear but we don’t hear. “This will be the sign.” And I expect the next sentence to read, “The moon will turn to blood and the stars will spell out his name.”

The New Generation Alex A. Podador Or something like that. But it’s not like that. The “sign” from God is this: You will find a baby wrapped in “swaddling clothes” and lying in a manger. Looking at the baby this way, no one can say he came only for the rich and powerful. And no one can say that he used his heavenly prerogatives to make an easy entrance into the world. He came not for the faith of a few but to be the Savior of all. He was bound that we might be set free. This baby lying forgotten in an exposed stable, resting in a feeding-trough is God’s appointed “sign” to us all. This is a true Incarnation.

The end that did not come...yet!

LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “…`There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out’…” (Jesus Christ, our God and Savior, in Luke 13:28, the Holy Bible). -oooTHE END THAT DID NOT COME…YET: If this column gets published, it means the world did not end on December 21, 2012, as many people around the world predicted. But if the world did not end on December 21, 2012, it does not mean that the end of the world will not come. The end will come, whether we like it or not. Every thing

Kakampi mo ang batas Atty. Batas Mauricio that has a beginning will also have its end. It is not a matter of “if ”, but of “when”. Right now, there is no one who can predict when the end of the world will come. In fact, even Jesus Christ is emphatic that there is no one who knows when the end will come, except the Father in heaven. But it is interesting to note that, after saying it is only the Father in heaven who knows the

exact date of the end, Jesus nevertheless gives the signs that will signal the end. In Matthew 24 of the Holy Bible, Jesus enumerates these signs: many will come saying they are the Christ; there will be wars and rumors of wars; nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom; famines and earthquakes will happen in many places; and believers will be handed

over to be persecuted and then killed. -oooSIGNS OF THE WORLD’S END: Jesus also gave additional signs: believers will be hated by all the nations because of Him; many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other; many false prophets will appear and deceive many; wickedness will increase; the love of most people will grow cold; the gospel of the Kingdom of God will be preached to all the nations; and, finally, the “abomination of desolation” will occur. When all these signs become visible and seen, the end is near, “right at END | page 10

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Another batch of IDPs get free house and lot package SOME 200 families received their certificates of award from Mayor Vicente Y. Emano, Vice Mayor Caesar Ian E. Acenas and members of the 16th City Council during the turnover ceremony this morning held at the City Tourism Hall. Mayor Emano said this

is in fulfillment of his commitment to provide decent and permanent houses to all Sendong survivors whether they are owners, or sharers or renters of houses devastated by the typhoon. He stressed that this intention, however, would not have been possible without

the help of Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) through Secretary Dinky Soliman, Gawad Kalinga, Habitat for Humanity Philippines, Oro Habitat and other groups and organizations. He said their support PACKAGE | page 10

MUST forgoes Christmas party for Pablo victims, concludes the year with PBB A year ago, the Mindanao University of Science and Technology (MUST) had its Christmas party only to realize the next day that Typhoon Sendong had lambasted Cagayan de Oro and its nearby vicinities. This year, MUST decides to forgo its Christmas Party to lament with the victims of Typhoon Pablo, and focus its efforts to gathering donations for Pablo’s victims. To cap year 2012 instead in a General Assembly, MUST met the whole day on December 19 to design how to respond well to PNoy’s Performance-Based Bonus (PBB). With the University president, Dr. Ricardo E. Rotoras, spearheading down to the vice presidents, deans, directors and

other teaching and non-teaching personnel, the MUST community took time to qualify for PBB. PBB is PNoy’s innovation to harmonize and strengthen the national government performance monitoring system, to link organizational accomplishments to individual staff performance and award incentives to top performers. All receive P5,000 as Performance Enhancement Incentive, but more to that up to P35,000 depending on their performance category will be given to top performers. First to do to qualify with PBB is to achieve 90% of the targets for the year. With MUST’s strategic plan, it hopes to get the incentives as evaluated by an Inter-agency Task created for this purpose.

Crossroad to history as AFP marks 75th year By Ben Cal of the Philippine News Agency

THE Armed Forces of the Philippines will mark its 77th anniversary Friday with a historic past that withstood security threats both from within and without. President Benigno S. Aquino III, the AFP commander-in-chief, will be the guest of honor and speaker for the third time in a row since he assumed the presiRepublic of the Philippines FOURTH SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT Fourth Shari’a Judicial District Iligan City IIN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE AND REGISTER DIVORCE BETWEEN SPOUSES ERUEL LABUSTRO ABECIA AND CATHELYN LANTINGAN BALANSAG -versus-

Civil Case No. 2012-098 For: DIVORCE

ERUEL LABUSTRO ABECIA AND CATHELYN LANTINGAN BALANSAG

HON. OSOP M. ALI Presiding Judge MDN: Dec 15, 22 & 29, 2012

CIVIL CASE NO. 2012-097

JESSEL C. POMIDA AND MA. CARMEL G. MABANAG-POM IDA. Petitioners. X------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/

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IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE AND REGISTER THE DIVORCE BETWEEN SPOUSES GILBERT GAUPAN B ALANAY AND JETTY R. MENDOZA-BALANAY,

CIVIL CASE NO. 2012-099

GILBERT GAUPAN BALANAY AND JETTY R. MENDOZA-BALANAY. Petitioners. X--------------------------------------------------/

ORDER

Before this court is verified Joint Petition for the approval and Registration of the Divorce filed by their counsel and alleging among others: That July 16, 1999 at Ozamis City, Misamis Occidental, they converted to Islam faith, of which conversions to Islam were Registered with this court, both of them can be served with summons and notices at c/o Zaide Law Office, 2/f Pafs Mejia Bldg., Roxas Avenue, Iligan City; That said marriage did not last long, due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioners and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated for over seven (7) years now since early part of 2005, they decide to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Divorce Agreement in order to formalize their separation; since their separation, they had never been communicating or supporting either financially or emotionally to each other, neither minding each other’s affairs, petitioner’s seek judicial decree of divorce thereby surviving their marriage bond on July 16, 1999. So that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden; reconciliation between them had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this joint petition to be sufficient inform and substance, set the initial hearing of this case on December 28, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at which time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of General Circulation in the City of Iligan one week for three consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner; SO ORDERED. Iligan City, Philippines, this 10th day of December 2012.

Before (his court is verified Joint Petition for the approval and Registration of the Divorce filed by petitioners and alleging among others: That petitioners are husband and wife, respectively, in a marriage performed under Civil rites on December 3, 2004 at Iligan City, they converted to Islam faith, of which conversions to Islam were Registered with this court, both of them can be served with summons and notices at their residents at Baloi, Lanao Del Norte and Ditucalan, Iligan City respectively; That said marriage did not last long, due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioners and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated for more than one (3) year now since 2011. they decide to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Divorce Agreement in order to formalize their separation; since their separation, they had never been communicating or supporting either financially or emotionally to each other neither minding each other’s affairs: petitioner’s seek judicial decree of divorce thereby surviving their marriage bond on December 3, 2004, so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden; reconciliation between them had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this joint petition to be sufficient inform and substance, set the initial hearing of this case on January 4, 2013 at 9 00 a.m. at which time, date and . place, any interested party may appeal and show why die petition should not be granted. Let cony of this Order be published in a newspaper of General Circulation in the City of Iligan one week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner. SO ORDERED. Iligan City, Philippines, this 12th day of December 2012.

HON OSOP M. ALI Presiding Judge

HON. OSOP M. ALI Presiding Judge

ORDER Before this court is a verified petition for issuance of decree of divorce and alleging among others: That petitioners are husband and wife, respectively, in a marriage performed under Civil rite on April 20, 2006 at General Santos City. Petitioners, were converted to Islam faith of which conversions to Islam was registered with this Court, residents of General Santos and 0263 Phase 2, DMS, Bara-as, Iligan City, respectively; That said marriage did not last long due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between the herein petitioners and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated since July 2007, thereby decided to live physically in bed and board, that reconciliation between petitioners is no longer possible or remedy, thus, divorce is sought by them in order to free themselves from the marital burden. WHEREFORE, finding this petition to be sufficient in form and substance, set the initial hearing of this case on December 28, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at which time, date and place any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Iligan once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner. SO ORDERED. Iligan City, Philippines, this 10th day of December 2012.

the AFP had surmounted numerous challenges from inimical forces from within and without who tried to trample the Filipinos’ cherished freedom and democracy they inherited from their forefathers - many of whom had paid the supreme sacrifice. The AFP was a

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Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT 4th SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT 4lh Shari’a Judicial District Iligan City IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE AND REGISTER THE DIVORCE BETWEEN SPOUSES JESSEL C. POM IDA AND MA. CARMEL G. MABANAG-POMIDA,

dency in 2010. The AFP was organized by virtue of the National Defense Act of 1935, Commonwealth Act No. 1, passed by the Philippine National Assembly on 21 December 1935. It was initially composed of 10,000-strong fighting force. Looking back during the past 77 glorious years,

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the door,” as Jesus says. The end will then come, and it is described as a “great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world, and never to be equaled again.” After this distress, a heavenly spectacle shall occur---the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken. What kind of an end will the promised “great distress” be? Several Biblical verses give a glimpse of what it will be---a day of fire where everyone and everything, including the sky, the sun, the moon, the earth, and all other things in the heavens, will be burned. -oooTHE END OF THE WORLD BY FIRE: In Malachi 4:1, this event is described in this manner: “…`Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,’ says the Lord Almighty. `Not a root or a branch will be left to them’…” In 2 Peter 3:10, the same description of the end is written: “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare…” Jesus Christ Himself confirms this fiery end in John 15:6---“If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned”, and in Matthew 13:42 as well: “They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth…” -oooREACTIONS? Please call me at 0917 984 24 68, 0918 574 0193, 0922 833 43 96. Email: batasmauricio@ yahoo.com

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receive anything.” B enja m i n Va lbuena , chairman of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) said that the reduction of their PEI has angered teachers. For the past ten years, teachers had been receiving the PEI of P10,000. Valbuena said the reduction of the PEI will greatly affects teachers as many of them are buried in debt. France Castro, secretary general of ACT and second nominee of ACT Teachers Party, meanwhile, argued that the funds for PBB should not be deducted from their PEI since there is an allocated budget for the said bonuses for December 2013. “There is an allocation of P9 billion ($370 million) in the 2013 General Appropriations Act for the PBB. So why deduct half of our PEI for PBB? It is

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just so vague,” Castro said pointing out that PBB is yet to be implemented in 2013. Under the EO 80, government employees who belong to a government agency that will be ranked as “best” in performance will receive bonus. The PBB will range from P5,000 to P35,000 ($875). According to the EO, when a government office will be ranked as the “best bureau,” P35,000 will be given to the best performer, P20,00 for better performer, and P10,000 for good performer. A government of f ice ranked as “better bureau,” the best performer can receive P25,000; better performer, P13,500; and good performer, P7,000. While in a “good bureau,” the best performer will be rewarded P15,000; better performer, P10,000; and good performer, P5,000. Government offices and their employees who will be ranked as below satisfactory will not be entitled to the PBB. “For the Department of Education (DepEd) to be ranked as best agency is like a punch in the moon,” said Maximo Obaldo, also a teacher from San Francisco Elementary School. “Our performance will be based on the performance of our students. All the blame is on us when the students are not doing well in school; Especially now that Quezon City got low scores in National Achievement Tests, all the more that we are not going to be ranked as best,” Obaldo lamented. PBB deceiving Abad said the PBB hopes to “encourage better work performance in the bureaucracy.” But ACT begged to disagree, saying the PBB is deceptive and divisive. “Instead of encouraging cooperation and unity among coemployees, this will trigger competition and eventually divisiveness. It will also breed ‘palakasan’ and ‘sipsipan’ system.” “The evaluation of our performance rests on the hands of our superiors and there is a great possibility that their judgment of our work may be arbitrary or subjective. This will then affect the amount of ‘bonus’ which we will receive. There will no more be across-the-board salary increase. Even the salary standardization law will be removed,” Valbuena pointed out. Also among the criteria for an agency to have PBB is when it meets the target under the five Key Result Areas and the Philippine Development Plan, 2011-2016. “The PBB shall be given to personnel of bureaus or delivery units in accordance with their contribution to the accomplishment of their Department’s overall targets and commitments subject to the criteria and conditions,” the EO read. Castro lambasted the said criteria. She said that the said scheme further intensifies corporatization being implemented by Aquino ad-

ministration. In a position paper, ACT and All-UP Workers Alliance said that teachers, non-teaching personnel, health workers and other government employees are giving public service and not income. The groups said that among the “targets” that the government agency should meet is the internally generated income that will push for government agencies like schools, state universities and colleges, and public hospitals to increase fees to their services. “This is part of the corporatization implemented by the Aquino regime dictated by neoliberal globalization,” the position paper read. “Given all these aspects, ACT calls on all teaching and non-teaching personnel to join us in our continuous fight for higher salaries and wages. Let us ask that PBB be junked. Let us expose and oppose the privatization and corporatization of government agencies and services which are dictates of the neoliberal policy of globalization,” Valbuena said. (http://bulatlat.com)

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during a time of crisis and difficulty will never be forgotten by Kagay-anons. NO POLITICS The mayor stressed that beneficiaries of the house and lot program should not feel indebted to him for this, and not be compelled to change their political affiliation. He said if there should be any feeling of indebtedness, it should be towards God, DSWD and organizations that have helped in the city’s rehabilitation process. “Dili ninyo utang kabobot-on ... walay politika kini,” he stressed. GRIEF Mayor Emano, who just came from Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental, expressed grief over the plight of the calamity victims in those areas. He said seeing young children along the road, getting soaked in the rain and begging for help with outstretched hands crushed his heart. “Pait ang kahimtang didto,” he said, citing the number of lives lost as a result of the calamity. The Power learned that because of the Sendong experience and how the city has recovered from the calamity, governors of said provinces immediately contacted Mayor Emano for advice. The mayor had appealed to the DSWD, HFHP, GK and other humanitarian groups that have helped the city to also do the same in Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental. The mayor, together with Councilors Ian Mark Q. Nacaya, Alexander Dacer and Emmanuel Abejuela personally brought the city’s cash assistance of P1.2 million during their visit there.

GRATITUDE Vice Mayor Acenas this morning took the time to thank all those who have supported the city in its recovery process. He said this is an answer to the prayers of Mayor Emano and the city government to provide permanent and decent houses for calamity victims. The vice mayor encouraged the new homeowners to gather their families and take a moment to thank God for the blessings they have received. “Manghinaot ako nga ang inyong panimalay nga nadawat inyong ampingan,” the vice mayor added. (LCR)

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fledgling fighting unit when World War II broke out. When Japanese warplanes bombed Northern Luzon on that fateful day of 8th December 1941, the Philippines was practically caught flat-footed. World War II was a horrible experience in living memory in Philippine history, particularly the Filipino war veterans who fought and defended the country against an overwhelming military force. Outgunned and outnumbered, the Filipino soldiers, nevertheless, proved their worth when they held at bay the invading Japanese Imperial Army for three long months in the ferocious battles in Bataan and Corregidor, disrupting the timetable of the enemy to conquer the Philippines in a month or less in a blitzkrieg fashion which did not happen. During those tr ying times, Filipino soldiers, together with their American counterparts, experienced extreme hunger, thirst, and sickness in the battlefields of Bataan and Corregidor. But most of all they had run out of ammunition and fatigue had overcome their physical being. They had no option but to lay down their arms. But the fall of Bataan did not dampen the fighting spirit of the intrepid Filipino soldiers turned guerrillas. For those who evaded from being captured they hastily formed ragtag guerrilla forces, together with U.S. servicemen, and carried on the battle across the country, keeping the enemy always on their toes for almost four years until Gen. Douglas MacArthur liberated the Philippines, filling his promise of “I shall return” - a statement that resonated across the archipelago that gave great hope to the Filipino people to be free from the bondage of slavery. After the liberation in 1945, the AFP was reorganized into a brand new fighting machine with the U.S. supplying most of the weapons. After the war, the AFP was one of the best equipped military forces in Asia. But barely had the AFP

breathed a sigh, the Philippines found itself embroiled in the Korean War in 1950. As a signatory to the United Nations, the government sent five Battalion Combat Teams (BCTs) popularly known as the Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea (PEFTOK) to help South Korea repel an invasion by North Korean forces. The Philippine contingent proved as a superb fighting force during the Korean War. Of the total 7,420 AFP troops sent to Korea, 116 were killed in action, 299 wounded and 57 missing (41 repatriated during prisoners of war swaps). While the Korean War was ongoing, the AFP had its hands full containing the communist insurgency perpetrated by the Huks in Central Luzon even as the military was also busy fighting a band of Muslim brigands headed by Hadji Kamlon, a former guerrilla fighter turned bandit in Sulu. After the AFP crushed the Huk rebellion, and Kamlon surrendered, peace rein in the country until 1969 when the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, launched an armed rebellion against the government. The AFP was called in but in 1974, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) broke into the limelight and declared an all-out war against the government, opening a second insurgency front in Southern Philippines. But on 2nd September 1996, then former President Fidel V. Ramos forged a peace pact with the MNLF. The war had claimed the lives of over 120,000 and tens of thousands others wounded. Damage to infrastructure and agricultural crops was estimated at US$ 10 billion when the peace agreement was signed. But peace in Mindanao was only a euphoria when a faction of Muslim rebels called the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) opposed the peace agreement and continued to wage a war against the government in 1997. In the summer of 2000, an all-out war broke out in Central Mindanao between the AFP and the MILF. After three months of fighting the AFP overran all 46 MILF camps. A ceasefire was declared which until now is holding, broken only in August 2008 following the aborted signing of the controversial Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) which was declared as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Nevertheless, a ceasefire was forged and is holding to date. But during the intervening years, specifically on February 22-25, 1986, the whole world was electrified when a civilian-backed military revolt called “People Power” peacefully ended the 20-year rein of President Ferdinand E. Marcos, who was forced to step down when close to two million people trooped in front of two major military installations – Camp Aguinaldo and Camp Crame, the general headquarters of the AFP and the Philippine Constabulary/Integrated National Police, respectively, to protest the just-concluded snap election, and installed the opposition candidate Corazon C. Aquino, widow of assassinated Sen. Benigno C. Aquino Jr., as the new President. Democracy in the country was restored. But during Mrs. Aquino’s presidency, adventurous military personnel launched nine coup attempts, including seven in Metro Manila, the last of which was in December 1989, but all were crushed by loyal AFP troops. After the EDSA People Power, the communist insurgency and the Muslim rebellion in Mindanao continued as threats to national security which the AFP has to face to date, although it was highly successful in its counter-insurgency operation, drastically cutting down the strength of the New People’s Army (NPA) and a peace agreement was signed between the government and the MNLF on 02 September 1996 during the administration of President Fidel V. Ramos, who incidentally was a former AFP Chief of Staff. It was at EDSA People Power that the AFP had that golden opportunity in helping restore freedom and democracy in the country. For a long period of time to date, the AFP is still facing a threat from the communist New People’s Army (NPA) whose force has been drastically reduced from a high of 25,600 in the 80s to just less less than 4,000 to date, but still a threat to reckon with. The ongoing peace negotiations between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is gaining ground with the signing of the Framework Agreement as a road map to attain a lasting and genuine peace in Mindanao. The AFP currently headed by Gen. Jessie Dellosa has been and will always be a vanguard to democracy and freedom which the Filipino people cherish so much.

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Lawmaker wants sports complex in every province IN an effort to develop world-class talents, Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago has filed a bill seeking to establish a provincial sports complex in every province in far flung areas and to create a culture of love for sport.

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