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By NEILWIN JOSEPH L. BRAVO

READING THE MINDS OF CEOsIT’S not everyday that

you get the chance to gather the top minds

behind successful busi-nesses in Asia. And when you do, there is nothing to waste from the well of wisdom they share.

One of the most well-attended business events in the country returned to Marco Polo Davao, for yet another round of forum with the city’s key business and corporate leaders.

The forum came very timely as Davao is gearing up as one of the emerging cities in the region.

For the second edition of the forum which is re-garded as one of the coun-try’s most highly regarded business gatherings, the focus were on topics such as “Driving High Perfor-mance Across Functions” and “Unleashing Incred-ible Performance in Your Team” with international key speakers and coach-es including Lars Wittig, Country Manager of Re-gus Philippines; Carmie de Leon, VP for Sales and Marketing of Healthway Medical; Bjorn Martinoff, President and Founder of The Fortune 100 Coach-es Network; and Rebecca Bustamante of Asia CEO Awards.

Richard Mills of Chalre Associates set the mood by welcoming the attend-ees from different sec-tors of business in Davao City, including members

of Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Indus-tries, Canadian Chamber of Commerce and govern-ment and private agen-cies.

The battery of speak-ers carry with them a portfolio of successful track record in their re-spective industry.

Starting off with Lars Wittig, Country Manager, Regus Philippines.

Wittig is most recent Winner of the Expatriate Executive of the Year at Asia CEO Awards and re-sponsible for making Re-gus Philippines one of the fastest growing providers of service office space in the company’s global op-erations.

Another presenter was Carmie de Leon, Vice President for Sales and Marketing of Healthway Medical.

De Leon shared how she rose from the ranks and how she overcome barriers and nurtured her career and family at the same time, while maintaining her charm and high spirits. She will share how she retail-ized healthcare and molded Healthway Medical to be the country’s most trust-ed and preferred brand in the mall-based outpatient business category.

Another presenter in the forum was Bjorn Martinoff, President and Founder of the The For-tune100 Coaches Net-

work. Sought after by the

world’s most sophisticat-ed CEO’s and Executives, Martinoff is an award winning Global Coach and the Author of the best-selling book ‘Develop Ex-ponential Power.” He has contributed to amazing client successes and his clients are the world’s largest and most sophis-ticated companies.

Finally, there was Re-becca Bustamante, Pres-ident of the Asia CEO Awards.

Called “My Yaya Boss-ing” by Jessica Soho and “Maid to Made” by GMA News, Bustamante start-ed as a nanny and moved up in

her career. Her sto-ry has been featured on Bloomberg, CNN

Philippines, GMA,

ABS-CBN, TV5 and a host of others.On the part of the host Marco Polo Davao the forum was a

huge success being one of the biggest and most sig-nificant events hosted by the hotel this year.

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ETHNIC DANCES. Members of Koronadal Hinugyaw Cultural Dance Troupe perform various ethnic dances rooted in South Cotabato culture during the opening of the Department of Tourism (DOT) 12’s Flavors of Sox at SM City General Santos on Thursday night. Lean Daval Jr.

BPI ACCOUNT HOLDER REACTS. A depositor of Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) holds his automated teller machine (ATM) cards from his three BPI accounts which he plans to close in support of presidential frontrunner

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte after the alleged leak of the mayor’s account number which was made public by Senator Antonio Trillanes. Lean Daval Jr.

Will Trillanes show up today?Duterte to open BPI account, dares Trillanes to file affidavit

TWO things are set to hap-pen Monday--Mayor Ro-drigo Duterte will open

a bank account supposedly containing P211 million, and accuser Sen. Antonio Trillanes showing up at the bank.

These two events happen-ing will most likely have two effects--end the allegations thrown at the presidential frontrunner, or Trillanes not showing up and continuing his demolition job.

These much-anticipat-ed happenings are bound

to shape up after Partido ng Demokratikong Pilipino – Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) standard bearer Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on Friday vowed he will open his bank account that allegedly contained the P211 million of undeclared wealth on Monday.

Duterte, however, gave his condition saying that Sen.Trillanes, who accused him of undeclared bank account, must sign an affidavit and file a case against him.

In a statement, Duterte

dared Trillanes to present him-self before officials of the BPI Julia Vargas branch on Monday.

But, he said his bank ac-counts will be presented by his legal counsel, lawyer Salvador Panelo since he is scheduled to visit Zamboanga City that day.

“Pumunta man kaya si Trillanes (If Trillanes comes), at least, I can tell him what’s in-side my account. Bahala na sila ni Sal(vador) Panelo mag-ar-gue dyan (I will let Panelo ar-gue with it).” Duterte said.

On Monday, he said he ex-

pects Trillanes to go to the Julia Vargas Pasay branch.

If Trillanes signs an affida-vit, Duterte vowed to open his account.

“You execute an affidavit, you accuse the person, then the person, if he so desires, open (his bank account),” he said.

The mayor admitted that the Julia Vargas BPI account is indeed existing — with a ‘little lesser than’ P211 million con-tent.

He told reporters in press

briefing in Pasay City that the deposits are real, but was quick to say that “ang sinabi ko ay wala akong deposito na ganoon kalaki (I said I do not have that much amount of cash deposits).”

“I might have said it in a different way, but I didn’t say that I have deposits that big,” he said.

Trillanes said the money was transferred to Duterte’s bank account in 2014, in time for his birthday.

“Marami pala akong kai-

bigan (I have many friends),” Duterte said when pressed for comments.

He said the source of the money was the gift of his friends who have businesses in the city.

For her part, PDP-Laban spokesperson lawyer Paola Alvarez said Trillanes should reveal where and when he got his information and why he re-leased it.

“If the senator is confident of his information, he wouldn’t

By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO [email protected]

VICE presidential can-didate Senator Ferdi-nand Marcos, Jr. said he

would be thankful to the Igle-sia Ni Cristo (INC) if it decides to support his candidacy in the May elections.

“Magpapasalamat ako kung iyan nga ang pasya ng ating mga kapatid sa Iglesia Ni Cristo. Matagal na panahon na rin na nagkakaisa kami para sa isang buo at progresibong bansa na siya ring inihahain natin sa buong sambayanan,” he said in a press briefing in Daet, Camarines Norte, during his visit at the Bicol province on Friday.

Marcos also revealed the ties between their family and influential religious group.

“Alam natin na matagal na

ang pagtutulungan ng pamily-ang Marcos at INC, buong ca-reer ng aking ama sila ay very supportive, sila ay sinusupor-tahan ng Marcos family dahil ginagampanan nila ang pagga-bay sa ating mga kababayan,” he added.

The INC is known to be practicing block voting.

With this, the lawmak-er noted that he would also thank other religious groups that would embrace him and backed his vice presidential bid.

“Magpapasalamat ako kung sakaling yayakapin din ito ng mga iba nating kaba-bayan, Kristiyano man o Mus-lim o may iba pang pananam-palataya. Ang tawag at hamon

Marcos eyesINC support

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JUMPING SHIP. Cavite Gov. Juanito Victor ‘Junvic’ Remulla, former spokesperson of Vice President Jejomar Binay, expresses his support to presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte of PDP Laban along with his mayors

of his vote-rich province during a courtesy call on Duterte at Golden Bay Restaurant in Pasay City last Friday. Rody Duterte: The Real Change photo

GOVERNMENT securi-ty forces pursuing Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) ban-

dits have recovered an arms cache and a speedboat belong-ing to the brigands during op-erations at Siluag and Mama-nuk Islands, Tawi-Tawi, Friday early morning.

This was disclosed by Western Mindanao Command spokesman Major Filemon Tan in a message to the PNA.

Tan said troops from Joint Task Force Tawi-Tawi carried out the operations which took place 5:50 a.m.

Recovered were four

M-16AI automatic rifles, one M-79 grenade launcher, a US carbine, one .38 caliber revolv-er, one .357 Magnum revolv-er, an M-16AI with an M-203 grenade launcher, a caliber 60 machine gun, and a .50 caliber Browning machine gun.

Also seized were assorted ammunition and a “jungkong” speedboat believed to be used by the ASG in their illegal ac-tivities.

“This operation was con-ducted as part of the focused military operations to prevent lawless activities in the area,” Tan said. (PNA)

ASG arms cache, speedboat recovered in AFP operations

4 suspects die in joint operationBy ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.

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FOUR drug suspects were killed in a shootout with operatives of the Davao

City Police Office (DCPO) and the Philippine Drug Enforce-ment Agency (PDEA) 11 as part of the implementation of “one-time, big-time” simulta-neous anti-illegal drugs oper-ation on Friday.

The suspects were identi-fied as Jojit Obatonon, Edward Magno, Renato Alamara and Bobby Daquigan.

Obatonon was killed in a buy-bust operation conducted by San Pedro Police at Kalye Putol in Bonifacio Street, Ba-rangay 33-D.

Police said the suspect who hails from Baganga,-Davao Oriental, sold a sachet of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) worth P500 to a police agent.

When Obatanon sensed that he was dealing with an operative, he immediately pulled out his caliber .38 re-volver from the waist and fired at the officer.

Responding police officers returned fire resulting in the suspect’s death.

Magno was killed around 3 a.m. by operatives of Sasa Police Station after he attempted to fire at the enforc-ers.

The police officers were about to serve the search war-rant issued by Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 11 Judge Emmanuel Carpio for his al-leged involvement in illegal drugs.

About 4 a.m., Daquigan was neutralized by operatives of Sta. Ana Police Station in

ONLY the Duterte-Cayeta-no tandem has the po-litical will and the plan

to put an end to the rampant practice of labor contractual-ization in the country, Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano assured on Saturday, a day before the country ob-serves the International Labor Day.

“While the other candi-dates in the upcoming polls continue to make empty promises, Mayor Duterte and I will just do it, we will get things done to create real changes for the Filipino workers,” Cayeta-no said.

3-point plan to phase out contractual jobs

The senator said that if elected, he and his running mate, Davao City Mayor Ro-drigo Duterte, will push for a 3-point solution to phase out contractualization, where companies hire workers on a six-month basis and then re-fuse to renew their contracts to evade regularization of jobs and giving additional bene-fits to workers, including the state-mandated 13th month pay.

Executive order vs. contrac-tualization

First, immediately after assuming office, the tandem plans to issue an Executive Order to strictly prohibit the practice of labor-only con-tracting, which they said robs many employees of their right to regular jobs and prevents them from developing proper skill sets.

Security of tenure

Second, Duterte and Cay-etano will certify as urgent a bill ensuring Filipino workers’ security of tenure as well as strengthening the prohibition on contractualization.

Stricter penalties for viola-tors

Third, Cayetano said strict-er penalties will also be im-posed against principal com-panies and contractors that will practice labor-only con-tracting policy, which is pro-hibited under the Labor Code but is routinely being violated by many businesses.

“Under a Duterte-Cayeta-no leadership, ordinary Filipi-no workers will be provided with better working condi-

Duterte-Cayetano tandemto end labor contractualization

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CEASE-DESIST ORDER. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement and investment protection department director Jose P. Aquino bares on Friday the cease and desist order on Davao City-based Jacama

Sales and Marketing for violation of some provisions of Republic Act (RA) No. 8799 otherwise known as The Securities Regulation Code. Armando B. Fenequito Jr.

THE Securities and Ex-change Commission (SEC) has issued a cease

and desist order against Davao City-based networking firm Ja-cama Sales and Marketing for violation of Republic Act (RA) No. 8799 otherwise called as the Securities Regulation Code.

SEC enforcement and in-vestment protection depart-ment director Jose P. Aquino said in a press briefing on Friday at Grand Men Seng Ho-tel, that the company owned by Janus Carlo D. Manalang should stop their operation for violating sections 8 and 28 of the law.

Aquino said Jacama is en-gaged in the offering and sell-ing of securities in the form of investment contracts which need registration from SEC.

“Manalang and all the per-sons acting for and on their be-half are acting as either broker or a dealer without a license from SEC,” he said.

Section 8 of the law states that: “securities shall not be sold or offered for sale or dis-tribution within the Philip-pines, without a registration statement duly filed with and approved by the Commission. Prior to such sale, information on the securities, in such form and with such substance as the

Commission may prescribe, shall be made available to each prospective purchaser.”

Section 28 also states “no person shall engage in the business of buying or selling securities in the Philippine as a broker or dealer, or act as a salesman, or associate of any broker or dealer unless reg-istered as such with the Com-mission.”

Aquino said that based on their investigation, there is sufficient evidence showing Jacama is soliciting investment from the public employing the Ponzi scheme in the sale and marketing of its products.

Ponzi scheme, according to www.sec.gov, it is an invest-ment fraud that involves the payment of purported returns to existing investors from funds contributed by new in-vestors.

He said under its cash back guarantee sales program, Jacama offers to pay back 25 percent of the money invested every 15 days up to a period of 90 days.

“After a period of 90 days, Jacama offers to give back to the investor his investment of P1,800 and a profit of P9,000 or 50 percent return of his investment in addition to the products investors invested

SEC issues gag order on JacamaBy ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.

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IN connection with the forthcoming May 9 na-tional and local elections,

the Department of Education (DepEd) will be establishing its own task force to assist public school teachers who will render election services as members of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs).

In a memorandum, Edu-cation Secretary Armin Lu-istro said the 2016 DepEd

Election Task Force (ETF) will ensure that teachers will be provided with adequate in-formation, technical, and legal assistance in the course of the performance of their duties as members of the BEIs.

The ETF Operation Cen-ter will be established in the Bulwagan ng Karunungan, DepEd Central Office, Meral-co Avenue, Pasig City starting at 1 p.m. of May 8, 2016 and

ending at 6 p.m. of May 10, 2016.

The ETF Operation Cen-ter will also serve as DepEd’s institutional link to volunteer organizations, individuals, as well as partner agencies in-volved in the 2016 automated national and local polls.

Some 300,000 school teachers will man the 92,509 clustered precincts nation-wide on May 9.

According to Comelec Resolution No. 10031, the chairperson and members of the BEIs shall receive a total per diem of Php4,500.

The amount covers three days work, including the ver-ification and sealing of the Book of Voters, for the final testing and sealing of the vote counting machines, and for transportation allowance. (PNA)

DepEd to create election TF for public school teachers

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ECONOMY

FLAVORS OF SOX. Department of Tourism (DOT) 12 director Nelly Dillera welcomes guests, partners and stakeholders during the opening of DOT 12’s Flavors of Sox at SM City General Santos on Thursday night. Lean Daval Jr.

TWO provinces, two cities and 15 munic-ipalities in the Davao

region have declared a state of calamaty due to the adverse effects of the El Niño phenom-enon.

These include the prov-inces of Davao del Sur and Davao Oriental, the cities of Digos and Mati, and the mu-nicipalities of Hagonoy, Santa Cruz, Matanao, Magsaysay, Bansalan, Kiblawan, Malalag and Santa Maria in Davao del Sur, the municipality of Kapalong in Davao del Norte, the municipalities of Tarra-gona, San Isidro, Lupon and Banaybanay in Davao Oriental, and the municipalities of Maco and Montevista in Compostela

Valley, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) 11 said in a statement.

“The number is expected to increase as other LGUs in the region are reportedly in the process of issuing a similar declaration with the impact of El Nino expected to last up to June,” the NEDA 11 said.

A report from the Region-al Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) 11 revealed that over 16,000 farmers are affect-ed by the dry spell in Davao.

“More than 60 percent of these farmers are located in the provinces of Davao del Sur and Davao Oriental which have already reported a loss of about P150 million in terms

rice, corn, cacao, coffee and ba-nana production,” the report read.

LGUs under a state of calamity reported food and emergency employment as the immediate needs of the affected communities and identified unserved or under-served areas for assistance by the concerned National Gov-ernment Agencies (NGAs).

The national government had formulated a task force last year that prepared the Roadmap to Address the Im-pact of El Niño (RAIN) which include drought-related inter-ventions that was approved December last year.

RAIN is the comprehen-sive national roadmap to ad-

dress the impact of El Niño, particularly on food security, energy security, health and public safety (from fire) to in-clude a package of assistance to farmers and other affected communities. Cash-for-work program is also implemented to provide additional sources of income in rural areas.

To ensure that RAIN im-plementation in Davao Region is periodically assessed to determine the impact of the interventions, an Inter-agency El Niño Monitoring Commit-tee was created comprised of national government agencies like the Department of Agricul-ture (DA) 11, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) 11,

PURATOS Philippines Inc., the local arm of the Belgian-based produc-

er of bakery, patisserie and chocolate ingredients, will be manufacturing single-or-igin chocolates from the ca-cao beans grown in Calinan, Davao City.

“It will be branded sin-gle-origin Philippines, all sourced-out in Davao ,” Pura-tos Philippines country man-ager Luisito Medina-Cue Jr. told reporters at the sidelines of the Taste Tomorrow event at the SMX Davao Convention Center last Friday.

Medina-Cue said he is now in talk with the opera-tors of the factory in Vietnam owned by Puratos whose chocolate products are mar-keted internationally.

“We will be manufactur-ing single–origin chocolates

from the Philippines in the next two months,” he said. Single –origin chocolates are used to identify the geograph-ic origin and traceability of the cacao beans used to make the product.

Medina-Cue said the plant in Vietnam will tasked to manufacture of the sin-gle-origin chocolate since the firm has still no facilities in the Philippines.

This will be the first time that the world’s biggest man-ufacturer of Belgian chocolate will make single-origin choc-olate product from the Phil-ippines.

Medina-Cue bared the firm will help farmers in the fermentation process, say-ing some farmers forget that fermentation is an important process that gives the choco-late one-third of its flavor.

Through its program of bean to bar, Puratos can assist cacao farmers through trans-fer of technology.

Davao-based Tri-Foods Bakery Supplies Inc., sole dis-tributor of Puratos in Mind-anao, has been in talk with the Cacao Industry Development Association of Mindanao (CI-DAMI) for the consolidation of cacao beans produced in areas planted to cacao in Cali-nan.

Juan Miguel M. Avanceña, CEO of Tri-Foods, said the researchers and analysts from Puratos Vietnam had conducted experimentation on Davao’s cacao beans for chocolate production. The batches of trial chocolates were brought to Davao City for tasting last March 14.

“They were satisfied with the result. The fruity notes

in the chocolate produced from Davao’s cacao beans are what they are looking for,” Avanceña added.

The increasing demand for quality chocolates in the future, he said, inspires farm-ers to plant more of Criollo variety of cacao because of its capacity to produce better tasting chocolate products.

Meanwhile, Malagos Chocolate is also producing single-origin chocolates from Davao which has been ex-ported to different countries for years. Known for its tastes, Malagos chocolates was re-cently awarded as the world’s best chocolate.

Davao City ranked second in terms of cacao plantation with more than 6,000 hect-ares of areas planted to ca-cao, only second to Davao del Norte. CHENEEN R. CAPON

THE Department of Ener-gy (DOE) assured Davao businessmen that there

will be no power interrup-tion seven days before and after the May 9 national and local election.“The reservoir for the hydroelectric power plants will be releasing more water during the election to ensure stable power supply in the Mindanao grid,” Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. (DCCCII) president Bonifacio Tan told reporters last Friday.

Currently, Mindanao’s major hydroelectric powers plants are producing lesser power due to low water eleva-tion in its reservoirs due to the long drought which is expect-ed to end by June.

Tan said the seven day prior and after the election is the most crucial period which needs stable power supply.

To ensure a stable situa-tion throughout the election period, the DOE released de-partment circular no. 2016-01-001 mandating the cre-ation of Power Task Force Election 2016 which headed by the energy department.

Darwin Galang, section chief for the electric power industry management sec-tion from the Mindanao field office of the DOE, said among the task force’s core group members are the National Grid Corporation of the Philip-pines, National Electrification Authority, National Power Corporation, Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Manage-ment Corporation (PSALM),

distribution utilities and MER-ALCO.

The task force will imple-ment action plans and contin-gency measures in prepara-tion for the 2016 election. The team also went around the country to gather the pledges of different stakeholders in the power sector to ensure their participation in the goal of the national government of having the election blackout-free

Meanwhile, based on the April 26 daily operation report of the National Grid Corpora-tion of the Philippines (NGCP), the peak demand for Mindan-ao reached 1,505 megawatts (MW), while the grid had only 1,525MW system capacity.

Galang presented during this month’s general member-ship meeting of the DCCCII at the Royal Mandaya Hotel last Friday that power supplied from hydro electric power plants is decreasing due to the El Niño. At present, the Agus-Pulangi complexes is only producing 224.9 mega-watt (MW) out of its more than 900MW installed capacity.

Galang reported that 47 .61 percent of Mindanao’s ca-pacity mix is coming from hy-dropower plants, while 19.44 percent comes from coal-fired power plants.

However, Mindanao’s gen-eration mix will be dominated by power supply from coal-fired plants by the end of 2016 due to the entry of more pow-er plants like of the San Miguel Corporation in Malita and of the Saranggani Energy Corpo-ration. CHENEEN R. CAPON

2 Davao provinces, 17 LGUs placed under state of calamity

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DOE, 6 power firms assureblackout-free May 9 polls

World-bound Calinan cacaoto be manufactured in Vietnam

PHILIPPINE products, in-cluding industrial goods as well as fish and other

marine products, can access European Free Trade Associ-ation (EFTA) States duty-free after the two parties signed a free trade agreement (FTA).

“With the entry into force of the Agreement, the EFTA States abolish all customs du-ties on imports of industrial products, including fish and other marine products, orig-inating in the Philippines,” EFTA stated.

On Thursday, the EFTA-Philippines FTA was signed in Bern, Switzerland by Trade Secretary Adrian S. Cristobal Jr., President of Swiss Confederation Johann N. Schneider-Amman, Iceland Ambassador Martin Eyjólfs-son, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liechtenstein Aurelia Frick, and State Secretary of Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisher-ies of Norway Dilek Ayhan.

In return, the Philippines will gradually eliminate cus-toms duties on industrial prod-ucts, including fish and other marine products from EFTA.

The EFTA-Philippines FTA will also boost trade in services including sectors of finance, telecommunication, move-ment of natural persons, and maritime transport.

Under the FTA, the two

parties agreed to cooperate in trade facilitation to comply with international standards and high quality of public ser-vice.

The FTA text also noted simplification of internation-al trade procedures under its agreement on trade facilita-tion.

“The Parties shall apply trade and border procedures that are simple, reasonable and impartial,” the FTA text stated.

“The Parties shall limit controls, formalities and the number of documents re-quired in the context of trade in goods between the Parties to those necessary and appro-priate to ensure compliance with legal requirements and thereby simplify to the great-est extent possible the respec-tive procedure,” it added.

Trade of goods between EFTA and the Philippines grew at an average annual rate of 11 percent between 2005 and 2015.

Total bilateral merchan-dise trade reached USD863 million, with Philippine ex-ports to EFTA at USD456 mil-lion and imports from EFTA countries at USD407 million.

Top exports of the coun-try to EFTA include precious metals such as gold, electronic

EFTA abolishes all customs dutiesfor PHL products due to free trade

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EDITORIALIs sports agenda neglected among presidentiables?

THE remaining days of the campaign period will be nothing but mud-slinging and character assassinations. It is already happening with frontrunner Mayor Rodrigo Duterte now

the target of all the controversies and allegations.While we gasp at the programs and promises of all candidates,

there are some aspects of governance left untouched or where no candidate even spoke of in any of their sorties and in the debates.

One such aspect is the sports development agenda. Why do we think this is important? It simply goes with the equation a healthy mind in a healthy body or mens sana in corpore sano. The phrase is widely used in sporting and educational contexts to express the theory that physical exercise is an important or essential part of mental and psychological well-being.

It’s actually the very foundation of a healthy nation.If you have a healthy citizenry, you address the problems on

health, then you won’t spend much for hospitals and medicines. A holistic sports and wellness program that keeps people active

will promote a healthy nation. A healthy population results to pro-ductivity. Productivity results to good economy.

It only takes putting the horse ahead of the cart. There is a lot to change in the sports development sector. For

one, the government sports agency Philippine Sports Commission exists sans the money that it should have from two sources—PAG-COR and PCSO. The problem is that the two cash cows did not de-liver. Should it take mandamus proceedings to get the funds into the sports programs of the country? No surprise that we are lag-ging behind our neighbours in the Southeast Asian region, in Asia and yes, the world. We are still dreaming of a first Olympic gold when even the small countries have already bagged theirs.

So why isn’t anyone among the presidentiables talking about sports agenda? Do they find it an inconsequential dot in the ocean of problems plaguing the country?

That should speak for itself. Sports development will remain not among the priorities in the next administration.

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Sweat of your brow

Gina

“THERE is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work,” wrote Thomas Carlyle. Blessed is he who

has found his work; let him ask no other bless-edness; he has a life purpose. Labor is life.”

Whether you like it or not, you have to work. For God said so: “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground” (Genesis 3:19). Adam, the first man, was given the job to take care of the Gar-den of Eden. All throughout the Bible, God has commanded man to work. In the Ten Com-mandments, He said, “Six days you shall labor and do all your work.”

Voltaire said that work keeps us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty. With that concept in mind, we can look at the benefits and understand that “you don’t ‘pay the price’ – you enjoy the benefits.”

If you don’t work, you get nothing. I was reminded of a story told by Aesop. It goes this way: An old gardener was dying and sent for his two sons. He told the, “For years, our orchard has given the best of fruit – golden delicious fruit. Look at my calloused hands, worn by the spade. But you two have never done a day’s work in your lives. I’ll tell you what I had been doing: I have hidden a treasure in my orchard for you to find. It is not near the tree trunks; it is midway between the trees. It is yours for the trouble of digging, that’s all.”

So, the father sent his two sons away and not longer afterwards he died. The orchard

became the prop-erty of the sons. So without delay, they set to work to dig the treasure that had been prom-ised them.

They dug and dug, day after day, week after week. They dug up all the stones and picked out all the weeds. Rainy sea-son passed and summer came and the trees were loaded with blossoms and perfume. After months came harvest time, but the brothers had not yet found the hidden treasure.

A business man came to buy the fruit crop and he was astounded, “This is the finest crop I have ever seen,” he told them. “I’ll give you twenty bags of money for this crop.”

That was more money than the two boys had ever seen in their life. They struck a bar-gain with the business man, took the bags of money, while the latter began to gather the fruit. He told them, “I’ll be glad to buy your crop next year again. You must have worked with your spades to produce such a crop.”

When the business man went, the two boys sat looking at each other over the bags of mon-ey. Then they look down at their rough hands and smiled as one said, “You know, I think this

is the treasure we’ve been digging for all year.”Henry Ward Beecher expounds it this way:

“When God wanted sponges and oysters, He made them and put one on a rock and the oth-er in the mud. When He made man, He did not make him to be a sponge or an oyster; He made him with feet and hands, and head and heart, and vital blood, and a place to use them, and He said to him, ‘Go work.’”

But do some people are happy with the work they have while others are not. The an-swer is: they are in the wrong job.

For twenty years, he worked in the “trench-es” in hospital emergency rooms, only to find himself overwhelmed with a bad case of “burn-out.” He describes his work this way: “It was years of screaming, dying, drunks, drug over-dose, terminal cancer, and exhaustion.” It was at that time that Dr. Lance Gentile enrolled in the University of Southern California’s film school.

While continuing to save lives on hospital late shifts, he tried his hand at writing a screen-play. State of Emergency was turned into an HBO movie. Then, the offer to be part of the suc-cessful popular television show, ER, came. He did not act in the series but part of his job was to monitor story lines to ensure no harm was done to make-believe patients or the show’s credibil-ity. He made sure actors use correct terminol-ogy, hold instruments correctly, and have their X-rays right side up.

Here’s a reminder from H.L. Neri on how you should treat your work: “If you don’t love

your work, you’ll need three times the energy: to force yourself to work, to resist the force, and finally to work.”

On the contrary, if you love your work, you don’t need that kind of energy. Neri puts it this way: “If you love your work, your desire to do it will be like a wind to propel your ship with much less fuel.”

Not only that. “If you like your work, you work no more – for work, when you like it, is work no longer, but sheer enjoyment. If you enjoy your work, you’ll work and work without counting the hours. And you’ll reap and enjoy more earnings as well.” It’s like basketball play-er who is being paid while playing.

By the way, a lot of people became rich and millionaire because they work – hard. They don’t believe in luck. The Laggard’s Excuse con-firms the principle that the man who is born the luckiest is the man who doesn’t believe in luck – but in work! “He worked by day and toiled by night,” the poem states. “He gave up play and some delight. Dry books he read, new things to learn and forged ahead, success to earn. He plodded on with faith and pluck. And when he won, men called it luck.”

Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Work, on the other hand, with keen eyes and strong will, turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman would bring him news of an unexpected inheritance. Work springs out of bed in the morning and lays the foundation for success with competence.

I AM sitting on a stool here at the Cebu Inter-national Airport having the first of a series of beers while waiting for a delayed flight for

Manila. I arrived this morning from Davao for a quick meeting with representatives from over-seas Filipinos in Qatar who are planning to put up a Medical Mission Group Health Cooperative in Qatar and possibly in the Emirates also. It went quicker than I expected because of the hor-rid Cebu traffic situation that worsened with the closure of one of the Mandaue–Mactan bridges. I decided to forego the de rigueur post conference beer and was transported to the airport earlier than planned to avoid the afternoon rush traffic.

And as I sit here bantering with the count-er girls, my thoughts pull me back again and again to Gina. I had tried unsuccessfully to push her away from my mind since yesterday when I heard the news. In vain. There is no getting away from it. Now I must deal with it. But I really do not know how. So as I often do when I hurt: I write.

Gina is coming home. As she promised me when she left for America – oh, about a lifetime ago. I remember, she did not really want to leave for USA. But it was an unspoken promise she made her parents when she took up nursing at the San Juan de Dios College in Manila. So she did. But she vowed to come back as soon as pos-sible. For good.

And she is.Our Gina, with the light brown hair.I was a medical student in UP when I first

met her in Talibon in one of our family’s then infrequent trips to Bohol. She was a 14-year-old high school student who wore shorts and t-shirts like a boy and moved and behaved like one too. I was fascinated with her. Because I thought she looked like me when I was fourteen. That was, of course, not too farfetched. After all

we were first cousins and our fathers, Papá Etok and Papá Diong, bore an uncanny resemblance to each other, like two peas in a pod.

I met her again when I was already a resi-dent doctor in surgery in PGH and she was a very competent staff nurse in San Juan de Dios Hospital. She just walked into my life one day. And never walked out.

We became inseparable. Weekends when she was off duty I would fetch her from her San Juan de Dios dorm. She would come out of the dorm, dressed like I was: sneakers, blue jeans and white t-shirt. We never planned to dress the same way. We just did. I wore my hair long and she wore her hair short. That meant we wore our hair the same way. Then I would make my rounds in the surgical wards of PGH with her tagging along. We were often mistaken for twins – fraternal twins, since we were not of the same sex. But the resemblance was too uncanny for some of the doctors. Even our moves mirrored each other, not to mention our reactions and facial expressions and eventually, our choice of words. Our closeness was too uncomfortable for some of the nurses and most of my girlfriends, that some were insanely jealous of her. But she gloried in their jealousy, teasing them by staking her claim on me as I made my rounds with her affectionately clinging to my arm; even if it was clear that she could not have been my sweet-heart since she resembled me much more than any one of my sisters. But she was more than a sister to me. She was me. In the female form.

Weekends were something to look forward to if we had the time, meaning neither one of us

was on duty. We would go for dinner and take in a movie and she would sleep over at the apart-ment with my sister who was going to college at Maryknoll at that time. Alex was taking Law at UP. We all had fun together and in the morning, we would all pile into the car to drive her back to San Juan de Dios hospital, all the time planning for the next weekend together again.

But sooner or later, she had to leave for States. And as she went through all the neces-sary paper work, it was clear that she did all that with a heavy heart. She really wanted to stay. She enjoyed her job here as much as I did mine. Of course she knew how I felt about doctors and nurses who left the country to serve the health needs of the rich Americans, but I was not very vocal about it when she was around; even if I knew she shared the same opinion I had. It was not really her personal choice to leave.

When we took her to the airport, she was in tears. She promised that her stay in America would be very short and that she would be com-ing back soon for good. But I knew in my heart that the promise was hard to keep; and knowing that each way taken leads to other ways, I doubt-ed she would ever come back. Soon enough she adjusted to the typical life of a Filipino nurse in the States, got married and settled down to raise a family of beautiful talented children in New Jersey. I would get a scholarship to Europe to train further in surgery then go back to Davao to help fight a war against Marcos and as a result develop the concept of health cooperatives; then eventually go around the country to help estab-lish more of the same.

But now and then, I would dream about Gina with the light brown hair and she always appeared to me in the same outfit: sneakers, blue jeans and white round neck t-shirt, cling-ing affectionately to my arm as we made rounds

on my patients in the PGH wards, to the intense jealousy of some of the nurses.

I met Gina again more than 20 years later in America. I was able to visit their place in New Jersey and spend a night with them. How we had both changed! She was a typical housewife keeping a neat home for her doctor husband and raising very intelligent American kids. I was no longer doing surgery, after having given up my private practice in the Philippines to help set up cooperative hospitals all over the country. As a matter of fact, the reason I was in America was because I was invited by the Filipino Expat com-munities there to talk to them about the concept of Health Cooperatives as it developed in the Philippines.

Much later back home, when I learned that she was discovered to have late stage II breast cancer, I was devastated. I went into panic. Then later, denial. Although I learned of her remission, then later of her unfortunate recurrence and metastases, I tried to have little to do with the present Gina because I resolutely kept the pic-ture of the Gina I knew with the light brown hair in sneakers, blue jeans and white t-shirt, in my mind and in my heart.

A few days from now, Gina will be coming home. For good.

She is keeping her promise.But I will be missing her even more than

ever –Our Gina, with the light brown hair.[Dr. Jose “Ting” M. Tiongco, chief executive

officer of the Medical Mission Group Hospitals and Health Services Cooperative-Philippines Fed-eration occasionally writes a column, “Child of the Sun” for MindaViews, the opinion section of MindaNews. Dr. Tiongco is author of two books, “Child of the Sun Returning” (1996) and “Sur-geons Do Not Cry” (2008)]

Henrylito D. [email protected]

THINK ON THESE!

BY TING TIONGCOCHILD OF THE SUN

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4 suspects... FROM 5

Duterte... FROM 5

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Will Trillanes... FROM 4

Marcos... FROM 4

2 Davao... FROM 7

EFTA... FROM 7

Coca-Cola... FROM 11

ANTI-DRUG DRIVE. One of the drug suspects arrested in last Friday’s one-time big time anti-illegal drugs operation fills up a police information sheet. The joint operation of Davao City Police Office (DCPO) and Philippines Drug

Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 11 has resulted in the arrest of 27 drug suspects in different areas the city. Four suspects were killed when they fired at the operatives. Armando B. Fenequito Jr.

their operation along Mer-cedes Street in Barangay Wil-fredo Aquino.

Daquigan pulled out his caliber .38 revolver when he sensed that he was about to be arrested prompting the au-thorities to fire back.

The suspect was brought to Southern Philippines Medi-cal Center (SPMC) but was de-clared dead by the attending physician an hour after.

The suspect is one of the top 4 drug personalities in the area of Sta.Ana Police Station.

Earlier, former Sta. Ana Police Station commander Supt. Royina M. Garma identi-fied Daquigan as the leader of a drug syndicate in Agdao.

At 4:20 a.m., Alamara was killed in Barangay Dumoy when he allegedly refused to be arrested and fired at the operatives who were armed

with a search warrant issued by RTC Branch 10 Judge Retri-na E. Fuentes.

In an interview, DCPO spokesperson Chief Insp. Mil-grace C. Driz said the joint operation with PDEA 11 re-sulted in the arrest of 27 drug suspects in different areas of the city.

Driz said seven female suspects arrested during the operation which started at 12 midnight of April 29.

She said the operatives confiscated shabu with a total worth of P30, 600 and around P122.50 worth of processed marijuana.

Driz said the authorities also confiscated a caliber .45 pistol, three caliber.38 revolv-ers, an air rifle, a .22 caliber magnum, a caliber.22 mini revolver, and a homemade air gun.

tions. They will be treated with respect and dignity. We will put an end to the cycle of disorder caused by the govern-ment’s continuous neglect on

their plight,” Cayetano said. “We will get the job done.

We will just do it for the Fili-pino working class,” Cayetano added.

mind signing his name to a le-gal document to back up his claim,” Alvarez said.

Alvarez also slammed the rivals of Mayor Duterte, whom she said have found it fashion-able nowadays to sign bank waivers.

“When Mayor Duterte and Senator Alan Peter Cayeta-no signed a bank waiver and challenged their rivals to do the same, no single candidate heeded their call. Now that Mayor Duterte is leading the presidential election and is on the brink of victory, they not only joined Sen. Trillanes’ ri-diculous accusations, they are now signing bank waivers left and right. It is downright hyp-ocritical,” she said.

She said it is getting ridic-ulous by the day that two days ago Trillanes accused Duterte of having an undeclared P211 Million bank account and he said the mayor’s accounts had P2.4 Billion worth of transac-tions.

“What’s next, Mayor Dute-rte is behind the $81 Million Bangladeshi bank heist? This

is already the height of absur-dity,” Alvarez said.

Alvarez said “Trillanes should be voted as ‘inventor of the week’ because is becom-ing more of an inventor than a senator.”

She said the enemies of change become more desper-ate and their camp expects more attacks to come.

Alvarez asked Duterte’s supporters not to be distracted from making the Duterte-Cay-etano win in the election and achieving real change. She said that in the coming days lead-ing to the elections, her group expects more accusations will be thrown against their stan-dard-bearer.

“We are also afraid that this will be a prelude to a possi-ble massive election cheating. Thus, we call on the support-ers of the Duterte-Cayetano tandem and the general public to exercise extreme vigilance amid the confusion and lies be-ing peddled by groups with the intention to deprive the peo-ple of their rightful choice this coming election,” Alvarez said.

ng panahon sa ating lahat ay magkaisa,” he said.

Meanwhile, Marcos has met with several mayors of Camarines Norte during a di-alogue with Bagasbas Light-house Hotel in Daet City.

The incumbent local gov-ernment officials were: San Vicente Mayor Francis Ong, Basud Mayor Dominador Dav-ocol Jr., Paracale Mayor Edgar Alcala, Talisay Mayor Ronnie Magana, Mercedes Mayor Alex Pajarillo, Vinzons Mayor Jose Segundo and Santa Elena May-or Dina Borja

Also present during the meeting were Capalonga may-oral candidate Vice Mayor

Mariano Arguelles, Daet City mayoral candidate Benito Ochoa and Vice Gov. Jonah Pe-dro Pimentel.

After the dialogue, Mar-cos had a closed door meeting with Gov. Edgardo Tallado.

The senator also attended a rally at the city center ar-ranged by gubernatorial can-didate Jesus Typoco.

Marcos’ four rivals in the vice presidential post are from Bicol namely: Senators Gringo Honasan and Chiz Escudero who are both from Sorsogon; Senator Antonio Trillanes IV is from Albay and Rep Leni Robredo hails from Camarines Sur. (PNA)

in,” he said.The Davao City govern-

ment last January closed down Jacama for alleged misdeclara-tion in its business permit.

City administrator Jesus Melchor V. Qutiain said in its application for business per-mit, the company indicated it was a “retail” company that

would do “a little wholesale.”But, Quitain said it turned

out that their operations or the transactions involved in-vestments.

He said the capital amount the company declared was only P250,000 even though it had millions of pesos worth of transactions.

Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)11, De-partment of Health (DOH) 11, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) 11.

Among the programs, ac-tivities and projects attributed to the implementation of the RAIN are the 45-hours Cloud Seeding Operations of DA11, emergency employment pro-vided to 9,443 farmers/work-ers in Compostela Valley and

Davao Oriental of DOLE 11, distribution of 103,691 bags of rice to 406,736 families of NFA XI, and the distribution of 105,424 Family Food Packs (FFPs) of DSWD11.

The committee will con-duct actual validation of the provision of assistance and convene periodic inter-agency meetings until the third quar-ter of this year and recom-mend the formulation of an El Niño recovery plan for affect-ed areas to the RDRRMC 11.

parts and dental prosthesis, electrical machinery and med-ical instruments. Philippine imports include pharmaceuti-cals, clocks and watches, and machinery.

EFTA considers the Phil-

ippines as a significant market and one of the fastest and most resilient countries in Asia.

Combined GDP of EFTA States reached USD 1.2 trillion despite having only 13 million population. (PNA)

cro-enterprises within their own localities and eliminate the need for them to go abroad again.

While there is economic benefit from women OFWs, it comes with a very high social cost – the separation of fami-ly as a unit, which often led to estrangement, alienation or worse, disintegration. Accord-ing to the Institute of Labor Studies of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the continuing femi-nization of migration has the most detrimental impact to the family and children, especially when the mother is the one who goes to abroad for work because along with her also

goes the caregiving and nur-turing responsibilities.

This public-private part-nership is a combination of several program components, the Coca-Cola Philippines STAR (Sari-Sari Store Training and Access to Resources) and DOLE’s Assist WELL (Wel-fare, Employment, Legal and Livelihood) programs that can readily accommodate wom-en OFWs as they return to the country.

On its first run, 34 women have been enrolled, including 29 OFWs and five others who are immediate family of OFWs. They are expected to graduate from the training program by the middle of June this year.

THE Chamber of Mines of the Philippines has called on the govern-

ment to bring perpetrators of the slain a Canadian to justice that is “swift” and “heavy”.

“The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines strongly condemns the murder of John Ridsdel in the hands of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). We call on the Philippine government to bring the perpetrators to jus-tice; justice that is swift and heavy,” it said in a statement.

“We are devastated by his senseless and grisly death at the hands of the Abu Sayyaf. John did not deserve such fate,” it added.

Ridsdel was one of four

hostages taken by the Abu Sayyaf in Samal Island since last September. The kidnap-pers had issued a ransom deadline that lapsed Monday. His severed head was found on the same day in a plastic bag along a street in Jolo town.

The three remaining hostages -- fellow Canadian Robert Hall, Norwegian Kjar-tan Sikkengstad, and Filipina Maritess Flor -- are still being held by the ASG, along with other foreigners, including 14 crewmen of an Indonesian tugboat. Four Malaysian sea-men are also being held.

President Benigno Aquino III has vowed to devote all his energy to eliminating the ASGs

who beheaded the Canadian hostage.

“To the ASG, and whoev-er may aid or abet them, you have chosen only the language of force, and we will speak to you only in that language,” the President said in a statement.

“Casualties are to be ex-pected. But what has to be of utmost importance is neutral-izing the criminal activities of the ASG,” he noted.

The Chamber of Mines said that Ridsdel’s murder “must serve as a wake-up call for everyone and reawakens in us the commitment to help ensure peace and prosperity in Mindanao and the country as a whole.”

“John was well-aware of the dangers he faced in the Philippines having led a min-ing operation in Zamboanga del Norte for many years as a consultant for a local mining company. Despite the many risks to his safety, John loved the Philippines, choosing to retire in the country, appre-ciating its innate beauty and believing in its people. We condole with John’s family in this time of indescribable grief. And we are one with all countries in condemning ter-rorism and will continue to raise our voices against acts that impede on our freedom and our divine right to life,” it said. (PNA)

Mining group calls on gov’t to bring Ridsdel killers to justice


COMPETITIVE EDGE

THE 2013 Labor Force Survey of the Philippine Commission on Wom-

en estimates that 14.8 million Filipino women are part of the country’s labor force. This does not count women who are working abroad as over-seas Filipino workers (OFWs).

For a lot of working Fili-pino women, the need to pro-vide for the family is their top priority. To earn an extra keep, these women often resort to having a second career, doing “sidelines”, and for some, put-ting up a sari-sari store in their homes.

However, having business-es on the side oftentimes turn into monetary drains instead of supplementing the family budget. The many challenges women face can often lead to business failures.

Such is the story of Dubai OFW Maria Jazmin Felicio. Dabbling in various jobs since her return to the country, Feli-cio continued to face challeng-es in providing for the family. During her stint as a home-based researcher, she decided to open her own sari-sari store.

Despite her background selling homemade yema during her youth and invento-ry management training in her career, there were still a hand-ful of obstacles in running her store.

“We are now on the fourth session of the training, and I am learning a lot of concepts and skills on how to better im-prove the way we are running the sari-sari store,” said Felicio.

In 2011, Coca-Cola Philip-pines rolled out the STAR Pro-gram in partnership with the

AS the country cele-brates the 114th La-bor Day or “Araw ng

Paggawa,” on May 1, 2016 the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has initiated several job fairs all over the country.

In line with this, here are some essential tips for job seekers who want to partic-ipate during the upcoming Labor Day Job Fair 2016.

1Bring multiple copies or photocopies of your

documents like: bio-data, resume, school credentials, training certificates and em-ployment records to show your employer.

Prepare these ahead of time and organize them by sets in an expanding folder to avoid the hassle of search-ing for a lot of papers during the job fair. For the Labor Day Job Fair each job seeker can apply to about 5 job posi-tions during the job fair.

2 Pre-register. If you can, pre-register in advance

for the May 1 job fair. On the day of the job fair, pre-regis-tered applicants are assigned on a different lane which will make the application pro-cess faster.

For Davao, pre-registra-tion schedule started last Tuesday April 26, 2016 and will run until April 30 at

SM City Davao and GMall of Davao.

3 Know your skills, talents, abilities. This will enable

you to have an ideao on what positions to choose at the Job Shopping Area during the job fair.

4 Choose your employers ahead. List of employers

and job vacancies are avail-able at http://philjobnet.ph/.

5 Wear comfortable busi-ness attire and bring

your essentials with you. For girls, falling in line may take some time so wearing short heeled shoes is the best op-tion. Also, bring your own handkerchief, personal es-sentials so you can freshen up prior to you interview, water and some crackers in case you’re still in line during lunch at 12 nn.

The DOLE XI initiated Labor Day job fairs this year here in Davao Region will be held in four malls name-ly: SM City Davao, GMall of Davao, GMall of Digos and GMall of Tagum.

May 1 Labor Day Cel-ebration 2016 bears the theme: “KinabukasanSigu-radosaDisentengTrabaho.” (Kriztja Marae G. Labra-dor/LCO-DOLE11)

LEARNING NEW SKILLS. Women overseas Filipino workers and the relatives of other women OFWs spend Fridays at the STAR Center for Excellence facility at the TESDA Women’s Center to learn about entrepreneurship and the various skills needed to help them successfully manage their micro-enterprises like sari-sari stores and carinderias.

Coca-Cola enrolls women OFWsin entrepreneurship program

A GROUP of physics stu-dents from the Univer-sity of the Philippines

Diliman bagged the gold prize in the #thinkOPENhealth: Hackathon for Health held re-cently at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati City.

Twenty-one teams com-posed of IT professionals and students, doctors, and nurs-es competed in the 24-hour hackathon organized by PLDT wireless unit--Smart Commu-nications (Smart), the Depart-ment of Health (DOH) and the Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Coun-cil for Research and Develop-ment (DOST-PCHRD) in coor-dination with SmartDevNet, Smart’s developer community.

The hackathon encour-ages developers to create plug-ins for the Shine OS+, an open-sourced electronic medical record (EMR) system developed by the Ateneo Java Wireless Competency Center in partnership with Smart.

Used mainly by local gov-ernment-operated healthcare facilities as an EMR, SHINE OS+ has now opened its API to provide access to other systems enabling data shar-

ing and interoperability that can improve the provision of healthcare services by lo-cal government and national health agencies, adhering to the goal on Universal Health-care program. To know more about SHINE OS+, click on www.shine.ph.

“At Smart, we have opti-mized mobile- and web-based technologies to create solu-tions to real-world problems. In the case of SHINE OS+, we want to help make healthcare services accessible to more Filipinos,” said Ramon R. Is-berto, head of Public Affairs at Smart.

“The hackathon helps our department think out of the box. If we want to have better outcomes, we should not be doing things again and again and expect different outcomes. We intend to adopt the innovative solutions that have been brought up by these young people,” said Health Un-derscretary Dr. Kenneth Harti-gan Go.

Paul Pajo, senior develop-er evangelist of Smart, said: “Shine has a lot of features and they have interoperabil-ity with other systems. The

developers are now tasked to see how to exploit these in-teroperabilities by creating a plug-in.”

UP Diliman’s Team Quan-tum Hackers won the gold award for their mobile wire-less sensor-based water qual-ity testing device and app called Shine Herald. It tests the salinity (saltiness) and turbidity (cloudiness) of water samples to help prevent and monitor water-borne diseases. Team members Norman Mas-carinas, a graduate student, and undergrads Kit Guial and Junelle Bacong, won P100,000.

Team Chunky Monkeys bagged the silver award and P50,000 for their entry Omni Health System. Elise Milo, Craige Milo, Bernadette Milo and Lloyd Ocampo proposed to incentivize the hosting of EMRs in the rural health units using the Ethereum block-chain technology and its built-in “smart contracts” capability making these records accessi-ble even from a different sys-tem.

The bronze award and P30,000 went to Team Jeepers Creepers. PJ Sales, Jon Tabac, and Paolo Balleza created the

Hx Fact Finder app to connect primary health institutions like community maternity clinics with larger health insti-tutions like city hospitals for consultations and referrals.

All winning teams also received assorted gadgets from Smart, plus a chance to be incubated by DOH, DOST-PCHRD, and IdeaSpace, the in-cubator arm of the MVP Group of Companies.

For the minor awards, Team Kembot won the SHINE OS+ Award for developing Pen-shin, a module developed for SHINE OS+ focused on pedia-tricians and data analytics for growth progress; Team Kapit Bisig bagged the DOST-PCHRD Award for its Kapit Bisig App, a facility inventory and supply planning module that allows different facilities to manage drugs, supplies, equipment and processes through da-ta-driven planning; Team Clutch won the DOH Award for Ready Steth Go, an app that runs on Android devices; and Blastoise Brigade won the Student Award for Pesky, an app that utilizes SHINE OS+ to collect and visualize the data of prescribed drugs.

UP students’ invention wins in Smart health hackathon

Tips for job seekers

Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TES-DA). Designed for women mi-cro-entrepreneurs who own and manage sari-sari stores or carinderias, the Program hopes to address the barriers these women face by helping them achieve business suc-cess. The STAR Program has three components: access to training, access to resources, and access to peer mentoring.

“Coca-Cola is very much part of communities. So if we grow, our growth must be inclusive. This is the reason why we continue to pursue initiatives that have both so-cial and business impact. The STAR Program is shared value in action. Through our core business of selling Coca-Cola products, we can address one of the key social issues of our time which is women eco-nomic empowerment,” said Diego Granizo, President and

General Manager of Coca-Cola Philippines.

Coca-Cola Philippines also established the STAR Center for Excellence facility at the TESDA Women’s Center as the center for innovation to continuously find ways on how to enhance and scale the STAR Program. The center also serves as a venue for the train-ing and accreditation of facili-tators to be deployed through-out the country. To date, the STAR Program has 340 accred-ited facilitators teaching and training women retailers to become better entrepreneurs. The STAR Program is being im-plemented in over 47 locations nationwide and has reached more than 52,000 women.

Marking the fifth year of the 5by20 STAR Program, the program is being expanded to include women OFWs like Felicio. The Department of La-bor and Employment (DOLE)

and Coca-Cola Philippines have agreed to provide en-abling mechanisms that can potentially help women OFWs explore possible econom-ic opportunities when they come home. The Women En-trepreneurs Reintegrated and Economically Active at Home (WOMEN REACH!) program aims to economically empow-er women OFWs by providing them access to business skills and life training, and access to business enhancement or start-up capital assets.

The program aims to mit-igate the social cost of women migration for work. It is tar-geted towards our returning women OFWs, especially our domestic workers and caregiv-ers. The program shall equip them with the right support to build their entrepreneurial confidence so they can estab-lish or enhance their own mi-

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IN THE 1990S, THE PHILIPPINES PRO-DUCED ALMOST ALL THE COFFEE SUPPLIED IN THE LOCAL MARKET. However, the price of coffee plummeted causing farmers to shift to other crops, par-ticularly to high value crops like banana and pineapple. As a result, the country has to import from Vietnam, Indonesia and other Asian countries.

But the popularity of coffee continues unabat-ed. In fact, the Philip-pines now comes second to Japan in the amount of coffee consumed in Asia. As surging demand for coffee among Filipinos continues to grow, the Department of Agricul-ture groomed Mindanao as the country’s coffee production center. It is envisioned the island could supply 80% of the country’s coffee require-ments. Curiously enough, cof-fee shops are sprouting like mushrooms all over

the country. Figaro Cof-fee Company is one of the largest domestic coffee shops. Starbucks is the first international coffee chain to penetrate the Philippine market. Following suit are nu-merous local and interna-tional players. In Davao City, there’s the Bean Leaf Coffee, Tea and Sausages, which started its opera-tion last year, during the Kadayawan sa Davao. Aside from Davao, Bean Leaf has also several branches -- 42 and count-ing! -- in Metro Manila, Tagaytay, Baguio, Cebu

and Roxas City. In Davao City, the first branch of Bean Leaf is lo-cated at The Peak of Gai-sano Mall of Davao. It is owned and managed by JAP. Bear Foods Corpo-ration. Armando A. Mortejo, the operations consultant said, that the corporation is planning of branching out in other parts of Min-danao. Among those that they are planning are the cities of Cagayan de Oro, General Santos, Zambo-anga and Butuan. “Those who are in-terested to franchise a branch in their area can contact us anytime,”

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Waterfront Insular Hotel hosts dinner for Singaporean lifestyle bloggers

SPC adopts Philippine Eagle

CHINA TEAM WINS BIG IN SOUTHEAST ASIA’S BIGGEST DOTA 2 TOURNAMENT. Team Wings from China bags the championship of the first ESL One Manila 2016, the biggest premier DOTA 2 event in Southeast Asia. Presented by the country’s leading digital services provider PLDT Home Fibr and Smart Communications in partnership with Mineski and world-leading eSports company ESL, the two-day event at SM Mall of Asia Arena gathered thousands of online gaming fans to root for eight of the best DOTA 2 teams from Asia, Europe, and the United States. Team Wings edged out Team Liquid with a 3-0 victory to take home USD100,000. Aside from the competition, ESL One Manila featured raffles, meet-and-greets, a cosplay contest, and dished out perks and prizes exclusive to PLDT Home Fibr and Smart subscribers.

SAN PEDRO COLLEGE (SPC) MAKES HISTORY by being the first school to adopt a Philippine eagle. They are the next adoptor of Eagle WXORO87F030. The partnership between SPC and the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) was made official through the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on Sunday, March 6 at the Philippine Eagle Center. For the next five years, SPC will provide a yearly cash donation of

Php 125,000 beginning on September 15 this year to be used for the food and veterinary care of the eagle. Through the initiatives of the National Service Reserve Corps (NSRC) program, SPC will also further their education campaigns and indigenous community support by conducting health check-ups and other activities.They have also committed to deploy student volunteers to the PEF to support its education and awareness campaigns.

THE PHILIPPINE DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM – DAVAO REGION BRINGS ANOTHER ASIAN DELEGATION TO DAVAO CITY, this time with the help of Cebu Pacific Air. In line with the Visit Davao Fun Sale and CPA’s latest direct internation-al route to Davao, selected Singapore-based bloggers were engaged to experience the city and promote the region through their vari-ous social media accounts and official blog sites.

Coordinated with Bloggerati by Nuffnang, a blog advertising agency of Nuffnang Singapore, a delegation of eight blog-gers and six others hop on a 5-day familiariza-

tion tour from April 17 to 21, 2016 to Davao’s popular tourist attrac-tions and premier hotel destinations including Waterfront Insular Hotel. The hotel’s unique, ethnic

features illustrated part of the cultural heritage of the city. Held al fresco at the beachfront gardens front-ing the Samal Island, the ambience gave the guests a feel of being in touch with nature, which was just perfect for the inti-mate affair. Upon arrival on April 19, Tuesday, each one was given a complimentary signature cocktail drink

called Davao Punch, a combination of vodka, blended pomelo and guava juice garnished with Calachuchi flower. DOT XI Regional Direc-tor Roberto Alabado III, for his welcome speech, discussed on Davao City being the country’s Eco Adventure Capital. Dur-ing dinner, Kalumon Performing Ensemble showcased a cultural pre-sentation while the buffet featured distinct local cuisine like Balbacua and a variety of locally pro-duced fresh fruits includ-ing Durian and Pomelo. The said familiariza-tion tour aims at pro-moting Davao and other public and private sectors to the Singaporean mar-ket. Through the 10-week VDFS campaign, PDOT continues to widen its reach and expand its part-nerships, one market after another.


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Andrea Brillantes MYX celebrity VJ for MayMarian Rivera-Dantes hosts

GMA’s newest variety show

ABS-CBN TVplus and ABS-CBNmobile continue to roll out free movies for 2 more weekends

GMA NETWORK NEVER FAILS TO OFFER ALL-OUT ENTERTAINMENT as it brightens up TV viewers’ mornings with the launch of the newest talk-variety show, Yan Ang Morning!, hosted by no less than Primetime Queen Marian Rivera-Dantes. It premieres on May 2 at 10:45AM after Hi School Love On. Marian revealed that her latest project is the perfect venue to share her personal experiences on being a new mom and homemaker, and at the same time become an inspiration to achieve a healthy work-life balance. “Ngayong nanay na ako, mas napatunayan ko na kaya palang matutunan ang lahat basta gusto at mahal mo ang iyong ginagawa. Na-realize ko rin na ang pagkakaron ng talk show ay magandang paraan para maibahagi ko ang pananaw ng

isang baguhang ina na nagsisikap magkaron ng work-life balance sa panahong ito. Kaya naman sabay-sabay natin matutunan ang lahat ng bagay, lalo sa mga katulad kong first time maging isang ina.” Yan Ang Morning! allows viewers as well as the studio audience to participate and be involved in everything that Marian does in the program. In the show, she will have a cooking segment dubbed as “Luto Ni ‘Yan” where she d e m o n s t r a t e s how to create simple a n d af fordable

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and easy DIY projects and activities and try the latest workouts and fitness trends. Joining Marian as her co-host is Kapuso comedian and one of her real-life BFFs Boobay. With his natural flair for comedy, every episode promises to be more fun and entertaining as he engages in banter with the audience and guests. Under the helm of Director Louie Ignacio, catch Yan Ang Morning! beginning May 2, Mondays to Fridays, on GMA. Get the latest updates about Yan Ang Morning! from its official facebook page www.facebook.com/7YanAngMorning, Twitter and Instagram accounts @7YanAngMorning and from the GMA Network website www.

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ONE OF THE INDUSTRY’S MOST TALENTED YOUNG ACTRESSES will be appearing on the country’s number one music channel this May as the beautiful Andrea Brillantes takes on the role of this month’s MYX Celebrity VJ. The teen actress clearly loves music just as much as she loves acting as evident in her amusing Musical.ly videos that have been trending and making rounds on the internet. Musical.ly is a mobile app where you can create music videos using your favorite songs and Andrea seems to be enjoying this app as she loves performing rap songs. That is why for the month of May, the former “Annaliza” star will be trying her hand as MYX Celebrity VJ adding nonstop fun in dishing out the top hits and best music videos for the month. Join MYX Celebrity VJ Andrea as she hosts Pop MYX from May 1-7, Mellow MYX from May 8-14, Pinoy MYX from May 15-21, and My MYX from May 22-28. MYX, the number one music channel in the country, is on Skycable channel 23. For updates, log on to www.myxph.com, follow MYX on Instagram (@myxph) and Twitter (@myxphilippines).

FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKENDS, families are in for a major summer treat as ABS-CBN TVplus and ABS-CBNmobile continue to shower users with a second round of free movie screenings at home until May 8. Through the Kapamilya Box Office (KBO) of ABS-CBN TVplus, families can enjoy their TV bonding with four hit movies airing every weekend. (April 30-May 1) as John Lloyd Cruz, Bea Alonzo, Kim Chiu, and Xian Lim spread ‘kilig’ in “Miss You Like Crazy” and “Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo.” Families will also have their dose of comic relief with Toni Gonzaga and Eugene Domingo’s rom-com movie “Wedding Tayo, Wedding Hindi” and a dose of fear with Erich Gonzales and Derek Ramsay thriller “Corazon: Ang Unang Aswang.” Meanwhile, some of the country’s biggest stars will be gracing every Filipino home during the weekend before elections (May 7-8). Fans of the love team of Piolo Pascual and Judy Ann Santos and Anne Curtis and Sam Milby will get to relive their favorite sweet scenes in “Till There Was You” and “Babe, I

Love You.” A perfect mix of fear and fun will be showcased by Kris Aquino, Claudine Barretto, Maricel Soriano, and Eugene Domingo in their hit movies “Sukob” and Momzillas.” Aside from free movie screenings at home, ABS-CBN TVplus is also treating families to a free catch-up marathon of “Dolce Amore.” All ABS-CBN TVplus users who

already own an ABS-CBN mobile SIM may avail of the second round of Kapamilya Box Office free trial by texting KBO <TVplus box ID> to 2131 using an ABS-CBNmobile SIM for free. Once registered, users simply need to press SCAN on the TVplus remote control to activate KBO on the ABS-CBN TVplus’ 7th channel. For users who don’t have an ABS-CBN mobile SIM, it is available in any SM store, 7-Eleven store, and ABS-CBNmobile store. Users may also text 23661 to order a prepaid SIM for delivery. All ABS-CBN TVplus boxes priced at P1,999 are bundled with an ABS-CBNmobile prepaid SIM and are available in any accredited retail outlets, sales agents, and dealers. The Kapamilya Box Office service is available in Metro Manila, Rizal, Cavite, Laguna, Bulacan, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Pangasinan, Benguet, Metro Cebu, and Metro Davao. Make the most of summer and have fun to the fullest with the Kapamilya Box Office free trial until May 8. For more information on the promo, text KBO INFO to 23661 and visit tvplus.abs-cbn.com.

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Mortejo said. Among the coffee you can enjoy are as follows: beanleaf coffee latte, caramel macchi-ato, vanilla macchiato, mocha hazelnut, rasp-berry coffee dream, café Americano, cappuc-cino, and macchiato. As for teas, you can order either milk or fruit. The milk teas in-clude beanleaf milk tea, wintermelon, toffee butterscotch, cookies ‘n cream, hokkaido, oki-nawa, honeydew, ha-zelnut, vanilla, caramel and taro. Choices for fruit teas include lychee, lemon, peach, blueberry, pas-sion fruit, green apple, raspberry, citrus and mixed berries. Bean Leaf is serving not only coffee or teas but meals as well. “The idea of having the 3-in-one in a store makes Bean Leaf a one stop shop for those who just want to relax and/or eat,” Mortejo said. “We

offer a wide array of drinks and rice meals.” Among sausages, you can have any of the fol-lowing: Frankfurter, Hungarian, veal brat-wurst, schublig, pork bratwurst, chorizo, Ital-ian garlic and chicken cajun. For pasta, you

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can have either carbon-ara or Italian seafood. There are three choic-es for snacks: squid fries, fish ‘n chips and French

fries. The sandwiches include smoked salmon, tuna kani and chicken ciabatta. Prices range from as low as P60 to as high as P135. “We believe our products are very competitive, especially among the young gen-

erations who love to spend their time in coffee shops,” Mortejo said. The success of Bean Leaf started in 2014, when

Leslie and R a n d y S a l a m a t fou nded the busi-ness. The store has also got-ten a good s u p p o r t from its celebrity endorser, a w a r d -w inning a c t r e s s Jennelyn Mercado, who hap-

pens to have her own Bean Leaf franchise in Metro Manila. “We invite everyone to come and visit us,” Mortejo urges. “Once you have tried our vari-ous drinks and meals, you will definitely come again.”

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SPORTS officials in Davao del Norte have to make adjustments to cater the

unexpected turn out of partic-ipants to the Summer Sports Camp 2016.

More than 1000 partici-pants flocked to the RDR Gym and Cultural Center of the Davao del Norte Sports and Tourism Complex (DNSTC) during the camp opening Monday morning.

Even the unexpected number of children joining

the free sports training, Assis-tant Provincial Administrator Giovanni Gulanes, who also serve as the Provincial Sports Coordinator, assured that all participants will be properly catered.

“We are still finalizing the count. Muabot nig usa ka libo but rest assured we can man-age this. Lu-ag atong facilities, daghan ta ug trainers. It’s a matter of time management”, he expounded.

Governor Rodolfo del Ro-

sario said the training camp is part of the grassroots sports development program of the province, which aim to open up doors for the kids to pur-sue their athletic dreams.

“We want our youth to dream and dream big. And sports can give them a wider perspective on life and suc-cess beyond the challenges that they face everyday,” he said.

Students will be trained inside the sprawling sports

complex for 10 working days from April 25 to May 6, 2016. A second batch for the swim-ming class is scheduled after May 6 to accommodate more participants who wished to avail the training.

“Dili man sila mo hawud dayon. But, we are certain nga makat-on sila sa basics ug fundamentals sa lain-lain nga sports”, Gulanes stressed.

Gulanes also bared that the province have

hired competitive local coach-es who were once medalists in various sporting events in the country, even internationally.

“Ang opisina ni Gov. del Rosario nag hire gyud ug mga expert nga trainors ug nag-provide ug mga ekipo, and our sports facilities para effective ang ilang pagtuon sa summer sports program”, Gulanes added.

Participants have ex-pressed happiness over the free training offered by the

province facilitated by highly- competitive coaches.

“Gipa-apil man ko [ni Sir], ganahan man ko”, said Ben Deocades, Jr., who registered in football with his friends from New Corella.

The summer sports camp is open to children ages five to 16 years old who will undergo trainings on swimming, ath-letics, karatido, arnis, football, sepak takraw, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, volleyball and chess.

LUKE Walton is coming home to rebuild the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Lakers reached an agreement on Friday night (Saturday, Manila time) with the Golden State assistant to become their head coach, dra-matically choosing a young leader for their new era after Kobe Bryant.

The Lakers reached an agreement on Friday night (Saturday, Manila time) with the Golden State assistant to become their head coach, dra-matically choosing a young leader for their new era after Kobe Bryant.

The Lakers grabbed Wal-ton just five days after they fired Byron Scott, who led the 16-time NBA champions to the two worst seasons in franchise history.

Walton spent nine seasons as a forward for the Lakers, winning two championship rings as a smart, steady con-tributor. Three years after his retirement as a player, the 36-year-old Southern Califor-nia native is back to become the 26th head coach in franchise history.

“We’re excited to bring Luke back to Los An-geles, where we feel he’s going to start an outstanding coaching career,” said Lakers gen-eral manager Mitch Kupchak, who draft-ed Walton 13 years ago. “He’s one of the brightest young coach-

PAUL George scored 21 points, Myles Turner added 15 and the Indi-

ana Pacers beat the Toronto Raptors, 101-83, on Friday night (Saturday, Manila time) to force a Game Seven of their series.

That will be played Sun-day in Toronto, and the win-ner will advance to the East-ern Conference semifinals.

Indiana scored 18 straight points in the second half to pull away from the sec-ond-seeded Raptors, who ha-ven’t won a postseason series since the first round in 2001.

DeMarre Carroll and Cory Joseph each had 15 points for the Raptors.

Kyle Lowry (4 for 14)

and DeMar DeRozan (3 for 13) struggled again, and now the Raptors will head home and hear again about their troubled playoff problems: a Game Seven loss at home to Brooklyn in 2014, Washing-ton’s four-game sweep last season and no series wins in a seven-game series. And there 15-year victory drought is the longest active streak in the league.

Indiana trailed by as much as 12 early, never led until ear-ly in the third quarter and had to fend off a late third-quar-ter charge from the Raptors before blowing it open in the fourth.

After Toronto cut the deficit to 65-64, Indiana re-

sponded by scoring the last six points of the third and the first 12 of the fourth to take an 83-64 lead.

The Raptors never recov-ered.

For Indiana, it was a dra-matic turnabout.

Three days after blowing a 13-point, fourth-quarter lead, they came out flat. The Pacers struggled to make baskets, struggled to de-fend and played catch-up the entire first half after Toronto took an 18-6 lead just 6½ minutes into the game.

But once the Pacers got righted, they took control and pulled away.

Indiana rebounded from a

44-40 half-time deficit with a 10-2

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ALL SQUAREDPacers shrug off slow start, ties Hornets

DWYANE Wade proved he still has some magic in his 34-year-old body.

Wade scored 10 of his 23 points in the fourth quarter, making his first 3-pointer of 2016, and the Miami Heat forced their first-round series to a seventh game with a 97-90 victory over the Charlotte Hornets on Friday night.

Luol Deng was 9 of 14 from the field and finished with 21 points, while Goran Dragic added 14 points and seven rebounds for the Heat, who will host Game 7 on Sun-day.

The Heat overcame a play-off career-high 37 points from Kemba Walker to hand the Hornets only their 11th loss of the season at home. Al Jef-

ferson had 18 points and nine rebounds, and Cody Zeller had 12 points off the bench for Charlotte.

With Miami leading by two, Wade hit his first 3-point-er since December with 46 seconds left and added an 18-foot turnaround jump shot over Courtney Lee to help seal the win.

The Hornets missed a golden opportunity to ad-vance to the second round of the playoffs for the first time in 14 years.

They trailed the entire second half, never quite able to get over the hump and the Heat made timely shots and grabbed crucial rebounds.

Miami outrebounded Charlotte 46-31.

HOT DWYANE. Wade scored 10 of his 23 points in the fourth quarter, making his first 3-pointer of 2016.

NOW OR NEVER. Paul George of the Indiana Pacers made his promise true of extending the

series with Toronto.

Lakers tab Walton as new coach

run to take its first lead, 49-48 on Ian Mahinmi’s tip-in with 9:33

left. They extended the lead to 63-55 before Toronto charged back to get within 65-64 in the final two min-

utes of the quarter.Indiana scored

the next 18 points to seal

it.

Wade catches fireas Heat levels series The 6-foot-8 Walton, the

son of Hall of Fame center Bill Walton, became a top candi-date for coaching jobs earlier this season when he led Golden State to a 39-4 record as the in-terim head coach while Steve Kerr was sidelined by a back injury.

“I’m incredibly happy for Luke,” Kerr said. “As we wit-nessed earlier this season, he has all of the intangibles neces-sary to be an outstanding head coach in this league, including a ter- rific under-

stand-i n g

o f

ing minds in the game and we feel fortunate that he’ll be lead-ing the on-court future of our team.”

Walton seemed to be the ideal candidate for the Lakers from the start, given his equal fluency in the Lakers’ history and the Warriors’ cutting-edge brand of beautiful basketball. He’ll have the chance to mold the Lakers’ on-court approach in any way he chooses, with the franchise ripe for reinven-tion after the 20-year career of Bryant.

“We are thrilled for Luke,” Warriors general manager Bob Myers said. “This is a tre-mendous opportunity for him to return home and serve as head coach for one of the most storied franchises in sports. Luke has done an incredible job during his two-year stint with our team and has played a significant role in our success.”

Walton, who got a multi-year contract, will join the Lak-ers after the Warriors’ playoff run. That could take several weeks, because Golden State is headed for the second round with designs on a second straight champion-ship.

the game the ability to com-municate with a wide range of people. He’s certainly ready for this opportunity and I’m con-fident he’ll do a great job with the Lakers once our season is complete.”

Walton even finished eighth in the voting for NBA’s Coach of the Year award, which went to Kerr.

“It is impressive for an as-sistant coach. I think he should have been higher,” Golden State power forward Draymond Green said.

Walton stepped in and coached the Warriors to an NBA-record 24-0 start before eventually ceding the job back to Kerr, earning universal ac-colades for his cool and matu-

rity in a potentially uncom-fortable situation. He

was expected to be a candidate for head

coaching jobs in Sacramento

and New York, where he could have been reunit-ed with for-mer Lak-ers coach Phil Jack-son.

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