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Despite storm of accusations, Duterte holds on to surveys lead

NOT even the storm of accusations hurled at Davao City Mayor Ro-

drigo R. Duterte could shake his ratings as the presidential frontrunner kept his lead in two presidential surveys.

This was the analysis of Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU) Political Science pro-fessor Ramon Beleno III.

Beleno told EDGE Davao that despite the accusations of undeclared bank accounts and properties made by vice pres-idential tailender Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV against Duterte and his family, the feisty mayor is still on top in the latest Pulse Asia and Laylo Surveys.

In their April 26 to 29 survey commissioned by ABS-CBN, Duterte is still in the driver’s seat with 33 percent, a

huge margin over second plac-ers former Interior and Local Government Sec. Mar Roxas with 22 percent and Sen. Grace Poe 21 percent. Vice-President Jejomar C. Binay dropped to third spot with 17 percent and Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago with 2 percent.

The Pulse Asia Survey was conducted with 4,000 respon-dents and plus-minus 1.5 per-cent margin of error.

In the final Laylo 2016 pre-election survey conduct-ed for The Manila Standard between April 27 and May 1, Duterte still enjoys lead with 32.43 percent from 3,000 re-spondents.

Poe and Roxas were also in a statistical tie in second place with 24.5 percent and 21.67 percent, respectively. Binay is

in the third spot with 15.44 percent and Santiago with 2.37 percent. The margin of error for the survey is 1.8 percent.

Beleno said the attacks against Duterte became his advantage boosting his lead to double digit.

He said the allegations against Duterte can be consid-ered as “great publicity” that the mayor did not spend mon-ey just to be publicized.

However, Beleno said that even if there are only a few days left before the election on May 9, his lead is not yet safe.

He said surveys do not de-termine winners unless, there is a study that can directly con-nect popularity with votes.

“Mar was leading the sur-veys in 2010 but he was de-

feated by Binay. Erap Estrada was also not rating well but ended second in that election,” he said.

Beleno suggested to the camp of Duterte in the remain-ing days of the campaign to continue reaching more peo-ple and solidify support by get-ting more politicians to trans-fer to their side even if they are not traditional politicians.

“Answer the issues. No more controversial state-ments. Be vigilant against cheating,” he said.

Meanwhile, Duterte’s national campaign manager LeoncioEvasco Jr. said they are elated that Duterte maintained his big lead four days into next week’s presidential elections.

“While this is a confi-

FAST-SELLING. A street vendor sells miniature Philippine flag for P30 per piece along Tionko Avenue in Davao City yesterday. Miniature Philippine flags are selling like hotcakes in the city as Dabawenyos prepare for the upcoming simultaneous singing of the Philippine national anthem,  an attempt to break the Guinness world record currently held by Bangladesh, and to show support for the presidential bid of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte who will have his miting de avance during that time in Luneta. Lean Daval Jr.

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ARRIVAL HONORS. Police Regional Office (PRO) 11 Chief Superintendent Manuel R. Gaerlan along with Davao City Police Office (DCPO) salute during arrival honors ahead of a turn over ceremony of a patrol jeep at the Camp Domingo Leonor in Davao City yesterday.  Lean Daval Jr.

THE Police Regional Of-fice (PRO) 11 asked the public to help the police

in ensuring the peaceful and orderly conduct of local and na-tional election on May 9.

PRO 11 regional director Chief Supt. Manuel E. Gaerlan yesterday appealed to every-one in communities within the polling places to guard the election paraphernalia includ-ing the vote-counting machines (VCMs) which have been deliv-

ered to different public schools in the region.

“We encourage the people in the communities to help our police officers secure the para-phernalia so that no one will at-tempt to sabotage the election by stealing all of it, so that the credibility of our election will not be ruined,” he said.

Gaerlan said police officers in the region are “thinly spread” in different areas but if the peo-ple will help them, everyone

can exercise their right to vote without any threat and intimi-dation.

“Magandang kakampi nam-ing ang mamayan para map-anatili natin ang katahimikan (It’s good that the people are our partners for this because we can assure the conduct of a peaceful election),” he said.

He said police personnel in the region have started to secure the VCMs and other par-aphernalia.

Gaerlan said 90 percent of 7,743 police personnel of PRO 11 are deployed during the election period.

Gaerlan ordered police per-sonnel to observe personal se-curity and protect themselves at all time for them to secure the election activities on Mon-day.

He said police personnel should be 50 meters away from the precincts during the elec-tion day.

People asked to helpensure peaceful polls

THE camp of presidential candidate Rodrigo Dute-rte has warned the pub-

lic of yet another fake survey that will show administration bet Mar Roxas ahead of the other presidential candidates.

The spurious survey is de-signed to condition the minds of the Filipino people that Mar Roxas is the real frontrunner and will most likely win the presidential race, according to Leoncio Evasco Jr, the national

campaign manager of Duterte.The fake survey will be re-

potedly released on May 7 or two days before election day, said Evasco.

“The survey is both gross-ly questionable and downright illegal,” Evasco said in a state-ment Thursday. “The Com-mission on Elections prohibits the release of survey results three days before the election. Obviously, this survey is de-signed to condition the minds

of the Filipino people that Mar Roxas is the real frontrunner.”

Over the weekend, an ob-viously manipulated survey conducted by an unknown agency called D’Strafford placed Roxas on top of the presidential race.

Evasco warned that the fake surveys will be used as anchors for the cheating mech-anism of the administration.

“These are prelude to cheating and are all part of a

system of election fraud laid down by the administration,” said Evasco. “We have warned the public already, and we are again warning the Filipino people of possible massive cheating in the elections on Monday. The administration will be relentless in its at-tempts to subvert the will of the Filipino people.”

“The people must foil the evil plan of the administra-

Roxas on top? Duterte camp claimsbogus surveys prelude to cheating

THE Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) has announced on Thursday that they are

supporting the Duterte-Marcos tandem in the May 9 elections.

According to the Eagle Broadcasting Corp. (EBC), INC’s official media arm, the religious group confirmed the reports supporting the can-didacies of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.

“The Iglesia Ni Cristo is supporting Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte for president and Senator Ferdinand ‘Bong-bong’ Marcos Jr., for vice-presi-dent in the May 9 elections,” in an article posted at the http://www.eaglenews.ph/iglesia-to-vote-for-duterte-marcos-on-may-9/.

It revealed that the names of the presidential and vice

presidential bets were con-tained in the sample ballots dis-tributed by INC to its members.

Likewise, included in the ballots are the names of several senatorial candidates namely: Joel Villanueva, Richard Gor-don, Franklin Drilon, Risa Hon-tiveros, Francis Tolentino, Mar-tin Romualdez, Ralph Recto, Manny Pacquiao, Vicente Sotto, Win Gatchalian, Panfilo Lacson and Migz Zubiri.

The articles also noted that top INC officials reminded their members to remain united in participating in the upcoming polls.

“In a circular letter read by INC ministers, INC executive minister Brother Eduardo V. Manalo reminded all the breth-ren to follow God’s teachings on unity when they go to the polls on May 9,” it added. (PNA)

INC officially endorsesRody Duterte, Marcos

THE Davao City-based Eastern Mindanao Command (EMC) an-

nounced that all its units are now ready to ensure the safe conduct of the coming May 9 elections.

Major Ezra Balagtey, EMC spokesperson, said they will be doing this in coordination with the Commission on Elec-tions (COMELEC) and the Phil-ippine National Police (PNP).

The EMC is tasked to se-cure Region 10, 11, and 13 and parts of Region 10 and 12.

“On several occasions, inter-agency meetings were conducted between the Armed Forces of the Philip-pines, PNP and the COMELEC to fine tune election security plans and preparations that will create an environment al-lowing the people in the men-tioned regions to cast their votes,” Balagtey added.

Aside from the synchro-nized troop deployment be-tween the EMC forces and PNP, the readiness require-

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THE Department of Health (DOH) said on Wednesday it is high

time that the national and lo-cal government units (LGUs) work together closely in coun-teracting the ill-effects of the El Nino phenomenon.

DOH Secretary Janette L. Garin said that working to-gether is important in order to fight the health complications that can result due to lack of enough and clean water be-cause of the El Nino-caused drought in many areas.

According to her, among such ill-effects is the diarrhea problem being experienced by some residents in Zamboanga City.

She said that to address the problem, they have started dealing with the hospitals and adjusted the strict measures on PhilHealth (Philippine Health Insurance Corporation) requirement in terms of pro-viding reimbursement or pay-ing the health benefit.

“In Zamboanga City, espe-cially in the areas involved in the diarrheal outbreak, they will be exempted from the

PhilHealth requirement of three days’ admission (con-finement)... This means that in just one day of admission, patients who were dehydrat-ed and discharged could also be covered by PhilHealth,” she added.

To strengthen conver-gence with other agencies, she said the DOH and its health groups also participated in the creation of an inter-agency task force involving the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA), Department of In-terior and Local Government (DILG) and LGU for the plan-ning.

She added that sources of water that are posing health problems have been ordered closed.

The Health chief said they are going back again in reed-ucating the community on basic awareness on practicing cleanliness/hygiene such as hand-washing by using soap and water.

Aside from that, rotavirus vaccination will also be done in Zamboanga City, she said. (PNA)

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL UPDATES. Department of Education (Dep.Ed.) Division of Davao City School Governance and Operations Division chief Tessie F. Del Valle gives update on the implementation of the Senior High

School this school year in yesterday’s I-Speak Media Forum. With her is Dep.Ed Davao City Curriculum Implementation Division chief Alma C. Cifra and focal person Faye Pasamonte. Armando B. Fenequito Jr.

UK INTERVIEW. Police Regional Office (PRO) 11 regional director Chief Supt. Manuel E. Gaerlan is interviewed by Philip Sherwell, Asia Editor of United Kingdom’s  The Telegraph , asking about the crime statistics in Davao City. Armando B. Fenequito Jr.

THE Department of Edu-cation (DepEd) Division of Davao City is ready

to implement the Senior High School (SHS) program in 63 public schools even if con-struction of additional class-rooms is not yet completed.

This was bared by DepEd Davao City SHS curriculum division focal person Faye Pas-amonte in yesterday’s I-Speak Media Forum.

Pasamonte said as of April 2016, the construction of 63 buildings with 369 classrooms is still 60 percent accom-plished.

She said some 11, 000 SHS students are expected to enroll in Grade 11 this school year.

“One of the alternative plans of the school heads is to increase the class size in the Junior High School (JHS),” she said.

She explained the JHS will resort to have 60 students in every section just to have avail-able rooms for SHS. She said supposedly every classroom should only have 45 students.

Pasamonte said the school heads can also implement shifting schedule as suggested by DepEd undersecretary for

Finance and Administration Reynaldo Antonio D. Laguda.

She said all JHS can have a schedule which will start at 6 a.m. and end at 12 noon for morning session while 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. for the afternoon ses-sion.

“According to undersecre-tary Laguda, since senior high school students will have a heavier load of subjects they only need a single shift,” she said.

Pasamonte, however, clari-fied the shifting for JHS is only for worst case scenario be-cause Laguda does not encour-

age class shifting.She assured that the un-

availability of classrooms will not happen for whole school year since the construction of the building is progressing.

“In July, some 10 school buildings will be finished and maybe by October there are 70 percent buildings will be done,” she said.

However, Pasamonte said the completion of the buildings will depend on the progress of the construction since there aspects that need to be consid-ered such as the proximity of the site.

THE Department of Social Welfare and Develop-ment (DSWD) in Davao

Region recorded a total of 503 Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) grantees who graduated from college this year.

This is the biggest group of the all the regions nationwide, DSWD 11 information officer Carmela Duron said yesterday.

Duron said a total of 3,139 4Ps grantees who graduat-ed from college in the whole country

The grantee grantee grad-uates will be recognized in to-day’s Social Investiture for Na-tional Achievers of Grants-In-Aid (SINAG), a regional gradu-

ation ceremony for grantees, at Davao del Norte State College in Panabo City.

The 4Ps or conditional cash transfer program is mas-sive poverty alleviation project of the government which start-ed during the Arroyo adminis-tration which aims to eradicate “extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary ed-ucation, pote gender equality, reduce child mortality, and im-prove maternal health.”

The program, which be-gan in 2008, is funded by the World Bank and the Asian De-velopment Bank. This year, the program has a budget of P62.7 billion.

Deped DC ready for SHS program

503 4Ps beneficiariesin Davao finish college

crc@edgedavao.netBy CHENEEN R. CAPON

THE camp of PDP-LABAN standard bearer Rodri-go Duterte dismissed

as petty criticism notions that presidential candidate has no agenda on foreign relations.

Peter Laviña, head of the media group and spokesman of Duterte, said it is unfor-tunate that some people are ignoring and selectively omit-ting the published platform of the Davao City mayor.

He said as early as Decem-ber, Duterte had already made public his “Focus Five” agenda and has on many occasions discussed issues related to for-eign affairs.

Laviña said No. 4 in Dute-rte’s “Focus Five” is a call for an end to internal conflict in our country so the country can all unite to confront exter-nal threats such as violent ex-tremism or terrorism and the

island grabbing by China.He explained that the for-

eign policy of Duterte gives primacy to our large overseas Filipino worker population abroad, addressing their prob-lems, and promoting their in-terests.

“We need to review our foreign policy which gives priority only to military and trade relations rather than on cultural, social, and peo-ple-to-people diplomacy,” he said.

Laviña said unlike the oth-er candidates, only Duterte has experience and achieve-ments in forging friendly rela-tions with other nations.

He cited the pioneering efforts of Duterte to open sis-ter-city links with Manado and Bitung as well as the airport and seaport cities of North Su-

Duterte has foreign policy agenda -- spokesperson

Nat’l and LGUs should strengthen ties to counter ill-effects of El Nino --DOH

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THE controversial Tower 25 of the National Grid Corporation of the Phil-

ippines (NGCP) in Ramain, Lanao del Sur was bombed for the second time Tuesday eve-ning, almost two months after it was restored.

This was confirmed by Milfrance Capulong, NGCP spokesperson for Mindanao, in a text message to the media on Thursday.

This is the sixth tower bombing incident this year.

Capulong said that the power supply situation was maintained since only the Agus 2 – Kibawe 138kV line was af-fected unlike in the last Christ-mas eve bombing on Tower 25 that isolated Agus 1 and Agus 2 hydropower plants.

(The Agus 1 and Agus 2’s combined capacity is 260 MW but due to low water inflow caused by the reduction of water levels in Lake Lanao, the two hydropower plants cur-rently supply only 80 MW.)

The entire Agus-Pulangui Hydro Power Complex, com-prised of seven plants – Agus 1, Agus 2, Agus 4, Agus 5, Agus 6, Agus 7, and Pulangui 4 – has a total installed capacity of 982 MW, the major source of pow-er in Mindanao as of yet.

The series of attacks on NGCP towers paved the way for the creation of the Inter-agency Task Force on Securing Energy Facilities (ITFSEF) in February 2016 that facilitated the repair works on Tower 25 last March 5. Repair was com-pleted on March 14.

This was after the Region-al Trial Court of Lanao del Sur ordered owners Johny Sambi-tory, Intan Sambitory, and Na-guib Sambitory to allow NGCP personnel access to the dam-aged tower.

“In its bid to ensure unin-terrupted delivery of power transmission services, particu-larly during the May 9 nation-al and local elections, NGCP

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SUBURBIAMT. HAMIGUITAN,

Davao Oriental -- President Benigno

Aquino III officially opened the Mt. Hamiguitan Eco Park and Interpretation Site which also houses the Natural Science Museum on Wednesday after-noon.

Mr. Aquino, who togeth-er with Governor Corazon Malanyaon unveiled the park’s marker, lauded the opening as it would serve as a critical hab-itat to protect biodiversity.

He said the site will spike tourist arrivals in the province and open more opportunities for jobs and livelihood.

As he is bowing out of of-fice in June, President Aquino said he is leaving as legacy to the province the improved roads to the heritage site.

The national government has complemented building of roads and bridges in the province at the cost of Php236 million.

Governor Malanyaon thanked the President for his administration’s support to the province.

She said the museum is the centerpiece and symbol of the collective efforts of the nation-al and local government.

The museum is located at Hamiguitan’s buffer zone which was developed with support of the Tourism Infra-structure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) and the De-partment of Tourism.

The Eco Park features a Visitor’s Information Center, museum, research and tour-ists cabins, mountain trails and camping grounds, among others.

Recently, Mt. Hamiguitan bagged another international recognition as ASEAN Heritage Park after being inscribed in UNESCO’s World Heritage list last year.

The Mt. Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary now joins

other Southeast Asia’s ASE-AN heritage areas which are recognized for biodiversity importance and exceptional uniqueness throughout the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) member states.

Mt. Hamiguitan is the 8th declared ASEAN Heritage Park in the Philippines and the 34th in Southeast Asia. The other ASEAN heritage parks in the country are Mt. Apo; Mt. Ig-lit-Baco Natural Resources; Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park; Mt. Malindang; Mt. Makiling Forest Reserve; Mt. Timpoog Hibok Hibok Natural Park and Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park.

Mt. Hamiguitan was nom-inated along with Tubbataha Reef. It was during the 15th informal ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the environment when the nomination was ap-proved.

This is the second recog-nition for the mountain range. Last year, Mt. Hamiguitan was inscribed to the World Heri-tage list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNE-SCO). It is also identified and declared as one of the sites in the Philippines under a site-based Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) by the Phil-ippines LTER, which is one of the country-based networks of International LTER. ILTER consists of networks of scien-tists with the aim to improve understanding of global eco-system.

Mt. Hamiguitan has an elevation range of 170-1,637 meters above sea level and total area of 16,923 hectares. It is home to 1,403 species of flora and fauna, of which 963 are flora 440 and are fauna. It also has highly rare and global-ly threatened species of plants and animals such as the Phil-ippine Eagle, Tarsier, Nanno-

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DAVAO del Norte will get P397 million worth of connectivity projects

to beef up its capacity to build and improve more roads and keep its good governance ini-tiatives.

The province will receive the allocation as one of the pi-lot provinces of the scaled-up Konkreto at Ayos na Lansan-gan ang Daan Tungo sa Pang-kalahatang Kaunlaran (KAL-SADA) program under the De-partment of Interior and Local Government.

The amount is included in the proposed budget for the program next year amounting to P39 billion.

In their joint letter to Gov-

ernor Rodolfo del Rosario, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad and Interior and local Government Secretary Mel Senen Sarmiento assured the funds will be released directly to the province.

The two secretaries praised Governor Rodolfo del Rosario’s no-nonsense lead-ership, noting his committed involvement in advancing the principles of good governance and inclusive growth.

“Your accomplishments are proof that transparent, accountable and empowering leadership can bring the coun-try to a confident future, where no Filipino is left behind,” they said.

Del Rosario welcomed this development, saying the fund is a big boost to rev up the de-velopment momentum of the province.

“Our pursuit of good gov-ernance has given us the key to access this huge amount from the national government,” he said.

Davao del Norte is among the pilot provinces of the Kal-sada program, receiving an al-location of P42 million for this year’s initial implementation.

The program is an offshoot of the Provincial Road Man-agement Facility funded by the Australian government under the Department of Interior and Local Government, which end-

ed last year.Del Rosario is among the

lead governors who lobbied for the expansion of the PRMF to push for good governance initiatives that enable local governments to perform better in the delivery of basic services.

Davao del Norte was among the ten PRMF recipi-ent provinces in the country, where the project significantly improved its road network to drive economic growth.

The province also ben-efitted from the crucial local reforms brought about by the project valuing the principles of performance, transparency, accountability, and inclusivity. Noel Baguio

File photo shows DavNor 1st District Congressman Anthony del Rosario, left, and Governor Rodolfo del Rosario, right, leading the groundbreaking earlier this year of the concreting of a 3.6-kilometer farm-to-market road worth P37-million in Datu Balong, San Isidro, Davao del Norte. PIO

Davao Norte gets P397-M projectsas reward for good governance

Mt. Hamiguitan Eco Park opened

MORE AID. Distribution of family food packs to 650 families in Barangay Cadalian, Baguio District, Davao City. A total of P 142,211,479.75-worth of assistance has been extended by DSWD to date, to over 46,000 families

affected by El Niňo in Region XI. The assistance covers 83,320 food packs as well as the implementation of Cash-For-Work for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in 15 towns of Davao Del Sur and Davao Occidental. (DSWD)

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SUN LIFE. Sun Life of Canada (Philippines), Inc.  Integrated Public Relations and Corporate Communications head Mariquit Lintag delivers her welcome remarks during a thanksgiving lunch for media and brighter life Praxis

board game held at Seda Abreeza Hotel yesterday. Lintag also announced during the event the upcoming 2016 SINAG (Sun Life’s Financial Literacy Journalism Awards). Lean Daval Jr.   

FINANCIAL literacy is nev-er fun with all the techni-cal terms and numbers in-

volved, but, perhaps, it could be the other way around through the use of a board game.

Sun Life Financial Philip-pines, the country’s leading pension and education plan provider, launched yesterday the board game called “Bright-er Life Praxis,” as part of its fi-nancial literacy advocacy, at the Seda Hotel in Davao City.

The board game is de-signed to make financial educa-tion fun and engaging, Sun Life said in a press statement.

Said to be the first in the Philippines, “Brighter Life Prax-is “ will enable people to open conversation about the topic of finances, including insurance and investments, which can be intimidating or overwhelming to many Filipinos.

The board game simulates real life events such as getting promoted, catching illness, and losing a job to force players to make financial decisions amid different economic cycles.

“Basic financial processes like budgeting and saving, as well as the more complex ones like investing in stocks and protection planning are tack-led,” a Sun Life press statement read. “All the lessons gathered are processed at the end of the game with the help of Prax-is-accredited Game Masters from Sun Life”

The Sun Life is regularly holding board game sessions nationwide for its clients, em-ployees and financial advisors of Sun Life of Canada (Phils) Inc., Sun Life Grepa Financial (SLGFI), and Sun Life Asset As-sets ManagementCompany, Inc. (SLAMCI).

In the October 2015 sur-vey of Social Weather Stations (SWS), the Davao market was found to be the most financially

literate in terms of savings for long term usage and money management.

Alfonso D. Quitangon, sales territory head of Sun Life for Mindanao, said the study proved that Davao has indeed a good grasp of money manage-ment, financial planning and investing

On the national scale, a Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Rat-ings Services survey in 2015 bared that only 25 percent of Filipino adults are financially literate.

Globally, the Philippines ranked 68th in terms of finan-cial literacy index, trailing be-hind other Asean countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong, a study by the Asian Development Bank re-vealed.

The low financial literacy rate among Filipinos continues to be a challenge in attaining fi-nancial freedom.

The S&P noted that most of the Filipinos were not ready for any change in the financial landscape because of low level of understanding.

For years, the Sun Life has been conducting financial literacy seminars in a bid to increase Filipinos’ understand-ing on financial management, investment, and savings.

Sun Life Financial Philip-pines is a member of Sun Life Financial group of companies that provides diverse range of protection and wealth prod-ucts. It has operations in key markets worldwide, including Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, Philippines, Japan, Indone-sia, India, Japan, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Bermuda. As of December 31 last year, it has a total of US$ 891-billion to-tal assets under management (AUM).

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By CHENEEN R. CAPON

INFRASTRUCTURE con-glomerate Metro Pacific In-vestments Corp. (MPIC) is

foraying into logistics business with an initial investments of Php2 billion to acquire the as-sets of a local mid-sized logis-tics provider, Basic Logistics.

“We still have to close the transaction next week,” MPIC Chairman Manuel Pangilinan bared to reporters.

Pangilinan believes that the country needs good logis-tics infrastructure, “so I think that’s the reason why we would like to take a serious look at the logistics business and we are looking at Basic as core invest-ment.”

MPIC President and Chief Executive Officer Jose Ma. Lim said the conglomerate would initially hold 76 percent in the logistics provider, while its existing owners, who will con-tinue to manage its operations, retained the remaining 24 per-cent.

Lim said MPIC was also in talks with a foreign blue chip company about setting up a

new joint venture company which would be called Metro Pacific Movers.

“It’s (foreign partner) more for the transport side of it, for being able to integrate the var-ious logistics requirements of customers so that we can be a one-top-shop for their logistics requirements from warehous-ing, trucking, shipping and inventory management,” he explained.

Lim said that once the joint venture is established, MPIC’s controlling stake in logistics provider will be reduced to 51 percent, while its foreign part-ner takes a minority stake.

“We believe that the state of the industry, almost all in-frastructure segments are insufficient to meet the rising demand… There is a lack of ca-pacity in the sector, we want to fill up the gap,” he added.

Meanwhile, MPIC reported a 7-percent increase in consol-idated core net income to Php 2.7 billion in the first quarter of 2016, from Php2.6 billion

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Bian to operate int’l schoolfor top managers, entrepsTHE Development Bank

of the Philippines (DBP) has granted the first eel

grow-out loan to Cacayan Aqua Ventures Inc. (CAVI), a start-up corporation currently in the process of expanding its eel farming and grow-out opera-tions in Laguna.

The loan agreement signed by DBP with CAVI is a milestone development in the pioneering local eel industry which started in the 1960s, fiz-zled out in the 1970s, but has enjoyed a recent resurgence in an industry estimated to reach more than P290.24-million an-nually.

This potential growth has been stimulated by increas-ing foreign demand from such countries as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China, a vibrant local MSME sector, and the country’s competitive advantages as a natural eel highway and tropical spot that allows for year-round growing.

DBP’s loan grant paves the way for wider financial access for the aquaculture business, specifically the emerging local eel industry.

CAVI was established by long-time businessman and aquaculturist Jimmy D. Ca-cayan.

Typical operations in-clude the consolidation of eel fry, for grow-out for four to five months until they reach a minimum marketable size of six inches, after which they are

shipped abroad.As eels grow at different

rates, there is need to continu-ally stock on, and grow eel fry, in separate ponds. CAVI thus sought assistance from DBP to finance working capital for the expansion of its business, including the hiring of 30 addi-tional regular employees.

As a member of the Inte-grated Growers and Traders (IGAT), the country’s sole registered professional asso-ciation of local eel growers, Ca-cayan also advocates sustain-able eel farming, combats eel fry smuggling, and supports IGAT’s vision to locally estab-lish the whole value chain for the eel industry including eel grow-out, processing, and marketing.

The eel industry contin-ues to benefit both local and foreign stakeholders including fry consolidators, eel business employees, entrepreneurs, foreign eel consortia, the De-partment of Agriculture, Board of Incentives, Department of Trade and Industry, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resourc-es, the foreign market, and the finance sector. DBP’s support to the industry will promote widespread local employment, increase taxes paid to the Na-tional Government, contribute to a more productive agricul-tural sector, enhance global competitiveness, develop the countryside, and encourage inclusive growth. (PNA)

A LAWYER of casino junket operator Kim Wong on Wednesday

delivered to the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) over Php 250 million in cold cash, the last tranche the latter promised to return from what his company received from the stolen USD 81 million.

In a statement, Wong, also known as Kam Sin Wong, said the money was delivered a

day before the self-imposed May 5 deadline he told Sena-tors during a Senate hearing on April 5, 2016.

He said the remaining fund was the last that his company, Eastern Hawaii Lei-sure, Ltd. received from the laundered money that passed through the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation’s RCBC) Jupiter Branch in Makati last February.

The cash is comprised of Php 230 million in Php 1,000 bills and Php 20 million in Php 500 bills. These were placed in nine plastic bags and were delivered by lawyer Kristoffer James Purisima.

To date, Wong has re-turned to the AMLC cash amounting to about USD 4.63 million and Php 488 million.

Wong is among the re-spondents in the money

laundering cases filed by the AMLC before the Department of Justice.Initial investiga-tions showed that Wong was among the recipients of the USD 81 million stolen from the dollar account of Bangla-desh Bank (BB) with the Fed-eral Reserve of New York last February.

AMLC received the money from Wong for safe-keeping. (PNA)

COOLING THE HEAT. A trader traverses along San Pedro Street in Davao City where he will deliver ice blocks to his regular customers who are into juice and other beverages business yesterday. More and more ice block dealers

in the city ignore possible risk of bacterial contamination to their product due to the absence of proper handling and the use of appropriate container. Lean Daval Jr. 

AN international school offering world-recog-nized certificate cours-

es on entrepreneurship and business management will open next month in Davao City.

Business-leader and edu-cator Joji Ilagan-Bian will op-erate the school said to be the first of its kind in Mindanao.

Bian told reporters last Wednesday her management school has partnered with for-eign international schools in Australia, London and United

States, initially.Through utilization of

technological platform in teaching students, she said, students enrolled in the two programs can have access to foreign instructors who will be teaching remotely.

“We’re targeting Grade 10 students, college students who wanted to shift to another courses, and those individuals who wanted to be on a exec-utive or managerial position,” Bian said during this week’s edition of Wednesdays at Habi

at Kape at Abreeza Mall.She said the school will be

catering to students who have the objective of becoming managers or entrepreneurs.

Bian, who has been in the tourism and hospitality indus-try for decades, said she can transfer to students her expe-rience in holding managerial and executive positions.

She said it is timely for the hospitality and tourism educa-tion to be upgraded.

Schools have to start teaching students on how to

handle executive and mana-gerial positions might as well how to start their own busi-ness, she added.

By the end of each pro-gram, students will be able to earn certification from the counterpart international school.

The new school will be located in a seven-story building just beside another Bian-owned school --the Insti-tute of International Culinary and Hospitality Entrepreneur-ship in Davao City.

THE Philippine peso is seen to recover after the May 9 national

polls, an economist of ING Bank said.

In a research note, ING Bank Asia chief economist Tim Condon said politics is the main factor for the local unit’s recent weakness.

“We think a re-pricing for a Duterte victory ex-plains the PHP’s underper-formance since mid-April,” he said.

Condon said the peso

has depreciated by 2.16 per-cent against the greenback since mid-April, the second highest after the Malaysian ringgit’s 2.19 percent.

Citing the projection of ING Bank Manila senior economist Joey Cuyegkeng, Condon said the peso posted weakness ahead of the past three national polls but re-covered half of what it lost afterwards.

“Based on this USD-PHP should recover to 46.50-46.60,” he added. (PNA)

DBP spearheads lending to sunshine eel industry

Wong returns last batch of money received from stolen USD81-M

ING economist eyes recovery of peso after May 9 polls

LOCAL share prices re-bounded on Wednes-day as investors hunt-

ed for bargains after eight straight days of losses.

The benchmark Philip-pine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) rose 35.29 points, or 0.50 percent to 7,081.86 from previous day’s 7,046.57 close.

Value turnover reached Php6.55 billion with 2.72 bil-lion shares changing hands.

Analysts said many inves-

tors looked at recent market correction as a buying oppor-tunity.

Counters were mixed with holding firms, industrial and property sectors finish-ing in the positive territory.

The mining and oil, fi-nancials and services sectors closed in the red.

Market breadth turned negative with decliners out-pacing advancers, 116 to 61, while 53 issues unchanged. (PNA)

PHL stocks snap 8-day decline on profit-taking THE camp of Mayor Rodri-

go R. Duterte blamed the jitters in the Philippine

stock market on the “rotten” political system of the present administration and not the lack of clear economic plans of the presidential candidate.

Duterte admitted in a gath-ering of business leaders at the Makati Business Club (MBC) last April 27 that he is not into economy.

In a press statement issued by the Duterte-Cayetano me-dia team on Thursday, Peter T. Laviña, spokesperson of Duter-te, said that “the unprecedented mud-slinging unleashed by the administration party on Duter-

te has the market stunned.”“Instead of presenting its

platform, the ruling party has engaged attack dogs such as Senator Antonio Trillanes to throw piecemeal accusations against Duterte meant to pull his high ratings down in the pre-election surveys,” he said.

Laviña lamented that the media is lapping at the circus with glee without regard to its negative effect on the financial market.

“The baseless accusation that Duterte has hidden wealth in a leading bank and not re-ported in his SALN proved to be a dud. No less than the bank issued the denial statement,”

Laviña added.Duterte, who was guest

during Pastor Apollo C. Qui-boloy’s “Give Us This Day!” pro-gram dawn on Tuesday, said that he will hire economists as consultants if he becomes pres-ident.

Some of the members of the Makati Business Club were reportedly left wanting of Dute-rte’s economic plans when he delivered his speech during the gathering.

“They wanted me to ex-plain economy. I’m a lawyer… My grade [in economics] was terribly low. If they are not im-pressed with me, I’m sorry,” he said.

The Philippine Stock Ex-change index (PSEi) closed at 6,999.75 on Thursday, down by about 1.16 percent as compared to Wednesday’s 7,081.86.

Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. (DCCCII) president Bonifacio Tan said that Duterte, if elected into the presidency, can always hire economics consultants who can guide him on the coun-try’s direction on the economy.

He stressed that Duterte’s focus is peace and order, educa-tion and anti-drugs.

“As of now, the press [of selecting economic advisers] is still in the process of selection,”

Duterte camp: Market jitters caused by ‘rotten’ political system

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By HENRYLITO D. TACIO

A less,ordinarypencilWE use them to do sums, prepare

marketing lists, leave phone messages, jot down notes when

interviewing someone, record errant golf scores – or just to doodle with. We casually swipe them off other people’s desks, stir drinks with them, prop up plants with them, and print advertising and political slogans on them. We lose, discard, or simply sharpen them away at a profligate rate.

But you get the idea, right?

Soon, pupils and stu-dents will be trooping back to school. Although ballpen is the most popular instru-ment in writing these days, there are still people using pencil -- especially teachers who are computing grades or correcting some errors.

In “The Point of it All – History of the Pencil,” Mi-chael Franco reported that Thomas Alva Edison had his pencils specially made by Eagle Pencil. Each pencil was three inches long, was thicker than standard pen-cils and had softer graphite than was normally avail-able.

Vladimir Nabokov re-wrote everything he had ever published, usually sev-eral times, in pencil. John Steinbeck, on the other hand, was an obsessive pen-cil user and is said to have

used as many as 60 a day.

His novel E a s t

of Eden took more than 300 pencils to write.

Vincent van Gogh used only Faber pencils as they were “superior to Carpen-ters pencils, a capital black and most agreeable.”

There has just never been anything as down-right useful as the plain old pencil. If you doubt it, think what the world was like without the modern pencil, which has been with us less than two centuries.

The ancients – those few who mastered their cul-tures’ writing forms – used exquisitely tiny brushes or reeds dipped in crude inks.

The word “pencil” comes from Old French “pincel,” a small paintbrush, from Latin “penicillus” (a “little tail”). Actually, it is an artist’s fine brush of camel hair, also used for writing before modern lead or chalk pencils.

It was in 1564 when a violent storm blew down a

large tree near B o r -

rowdale in Cumberland, England. A mass of black, mineral-like substance was exposed where the tree’s huge roots had been: a mother lode of plumba-go (Latin word for “acting like lead”). It was, simply, the purest graphite (from the Greek graphein, mean-ing “to write”) ever uncov-ered in Britain.

The English were cred-ited for making the first graphite pencils. However, it was the Germans who first enclosed the graphite in a wood case sometimes in 1650. Then in 1795, Nicolas Jacques Conte of France dis-covered that he could bind powdered graphite together by mixing it with fine clay and that the mixture could be hardened by heating it to high temperature.

In 1812, William Mon-roe, an American cab-inet-maker, invented a process still used today by which the graphite-clay mixture could be encased between two pieces of cedar wood.

The Wikipedia reports that on March 30, 1858, Hymen Lipman received the first patent for attach-ing an eraser to the end of a pencil. In 1862, Lipman sold his patent to Joseph Reckendorfer for $100,000, who went on to sue pencil manufacturer Faber-Castell for infringement. In 1875, the Supreme Court of the US ruled against Reckendorfer declaring the patent invalid.

The modern pencil, if you care to know, is made of some 40 different ma-terials. The best graph-ite comes from Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and Mexico, the best clay from Germa-ny. Rubber for the eraser tips comes from Malaysia, was from Brazil. Egg-size flint feebles, used in the tumbling machines which mix the graphite and clay, come from Belgian and Dan-ish beaches.

At first, pencils were employed only in com-

merce – to create price tags – but soon people dis-covered other important uses. In the United States, the legal profession was able to quadruple its busi-ness when somebody in-vented the written contract.

Not long after that came the introduction of pencils into higher education, and universities found them-selves facing the demand for the new equipment. There was a considerable debate about the pencil’s impor-tance. “Just because they have a pencil doesn’t mean a lot of education is going on,” was a common sentiment.

The University of Wit-tenberg conducted a famous three-year study of the ef-fects of pencil ownership on study habits, social interac-tion and general academic achievement. The results surprised even the most ardent pencil advocates: Students who owned pen-cils were able to compute numbers and process words far more

quickly t h a n

their pencilless peers. Sev-eral students were able to multiply two three-digit numbers in less than 30 sec-onds.

The greatest impact came in memory tests. Stu-dents who were told a story answered fewer questions correctly than those who were able to use pencils to write the story down and look up the answers.

In the end, the world has come to accept the pencil, even to assume that civi-lized life could not be lived without it. As someone once said, “Everything begins with a pencil, whether it’s a design of a couturier’s gown, a battleship, a baseball glove, or a nuclear theory.”

Indeed, the common, ordinary pencil just may be the most underrated, over-looked intellectual tool in the history of mankind. It is right up there next to the hu-man brain. (All photos were taken from the net)

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EDITORIALAnd now, for the real change

IT all boils down to this. The five candidates have come to the homestretch of a hotly-contested race to win the votes of the country’s 54 million electorate who will be picking

the nation’s leader in the next six years.Aside from the president and vice president, the nation will

also pick 12 senators, House and Party-list representatives, provincial governors and vice governors, provincial board members, city and municipal mayors and vice mayors, and city and municipal councilors.

Throughout the campaign period, sparks were thrown from all corners typical of Philippine elections. One thing perhaps that emerged as a new experience in the history of Philippine politics is the awareness level of the electorate and the expression of disgust of the national government that has

resulted to the loud clamor for change.This election has seen an outspoken nation express them-

selves in support of change in many ways they can—from so-cial media to the household word-of-mouth.

This electoral exercise has also seen people identify with messages of change rather than promises of heavenly prog-ress.

Whether this awakening will translate to the realization of genuine change will be known in the next few days leading up to Monday’s polls.

The old evils will be there—vote-buying, intimidation, cheat-ing—out to challenge this newfound force of the Filipino elec-torate. We will know if this new force can withstand the test.

Bring it on. This is our fight.

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PHILOSOPHER and naturalist Henry Da-vid Thoreau once said, “Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.” In one of

his writings, he explained: “I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imag-ined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

American president Thomas Jefferson ad-mitted that he like “the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” To which Denson Franklin pointed out: “When you let your dreams die, something dies within you.”

The New American Desk Encyclopedia con-siders dreams as “fantasies,” which are usually visual and “experienced during sleep and in certain other situations.” Until the 19th cen-tury, dreams were regarded as supernatural, often prophetic; their possible prophetic na-ture has been examined by, among others, J.W. Dunne.

According to Dr. Sigmund Freud, dreams have a latent content (the fulfillment of an in-dividual’s particular unconsciousness wish), which is converted by dreamwork into man-ifest content (the dream as experienced). In these terms, interpretation reverses the dreamwork process.

Of course, we often hear someone saying that his or her dreams were coming true. Who are we to contradict them? But then, some-body once commented: “No dreams come true until you wake up and go to work.”

Fortunately, The Book of Lists scanned the yellow pages of history and came up with a list of people who put their dreams to work. One of them was British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. History’s most celebrated episode of dream inspiration occurred on an English

summer day in 1797, when the young poet dozed off while reading a histo-ry book about Kublai Khan. An opium addict, Coleridge was probably in a pleasantly drugged state when the im-mortal verses came to him.

Waking up, Coleridge began to write fe-verishly. He had reached the fifty-fourth line – one-sixth of the poem as he envisioned it – when the infamous “person on business from Porlock” interrupted him. An hour later, when his visitor had left, he had forgotten the rest of the poem.

Another case was that of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. He read entire imagi-nary books in his sleep and traveled to distant places, but most important, he received visits from what he called his “little people.” They dictated stories to him, “piece by piece, like a serial,” especially when he needed money.

Sometimes, Stevenson dreamed stories without their help. According to his wife, Fanny, “In the small hours of one morning, I was awak-ened by cries of horror from Louis. Thinking he had a nightmare, I awakened him. He said an-grily, ‘Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale.’” The bogey tale turned out to be the classic, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Here are more cases, as culled from the lists book. Although his beloved brother Rob-

ert died in 1787, English poet and artist Wil-liam Blake believed that Robert continued to advise him from beyond the grave – in dreams and waking visions. While William was seek-ing a less expensive method of engraving his illustrated songs, his brother “appeared to him in a dream and explained the process of copper engraving, an alternative to the ordinary meth-od of intaglio painting.” The following morning, Mrs. Blake went out with all their money (half a crown) and spent it on the materials need-ed to conduct the experiment. The technique was successful, and Blake produced numerous magnificent illustrations using this method.

In 1921, the night before Easter Sunday, German-American physiologist Otto Loewi awoke from a dream and “jotted down a few notes on a tiny slip of paper.” In the morning, he couldn’t read his handwriting. The next night, at 3:00 a.m., the idea returned. “It was of the design of an experiment to determine whether or not the hypothesis of chemical transmission that I had uttered 17 years ago was correct. I got up immediately, went to the laboratory, and performed a simple experiment on a frog heart according to nocturnal design,” he recalled.

Dr. Loewi’s experiment proved that it is not nerves but the chemicals they release that directly affect the heart. This discovery was a breakthrough, which led to his winning the No-bel Prize in 1936.

Speaking of breakthroughs, Professor Her-mann V. Hilprecht had one of the most extraor-dinary dream breakthroughs ever recorded. In 1893, the German archaeologist was trying to decipher the cuneiform writing on two small fragments of agate, which he thought were Babylonian finger rings found in temple ru-ins. The fragments were housed in separate cases in an Istanbul museum, and he was work-

ing with facsimiles.One night, Prof. Hilprecht went to bed

around midnight, and dreamed that “a tall, think priest of the old pre-Christian Nippur… led me to a treasure chamber of the temple,” he recalled. The priest told him that the two stones were not rings but rather a votive cylin-der that had been cut into three pieces, two of them serving as earrings for the statue of the god Ninib. The priest then told Hilprecht to put the pieces together and explained what the inscription would read. When Hilprecht woke up, he told his wife the dream, examined the fragments, and found it all to be true, including the reference to Ninib.

When he visited the original pieces in Con-stantinople, they fit together perfectly. The 3,000-year-old cuneiform tablet the Hilprecht deciphered, if you care to know, came to be known today as the Stone of Nebuchadnezzar.

Finally, here’s the concluding case. For years, German chemist Fredrich A. Kekule had tried unsuccessfully to find the molecular structure of benzene. One night, in 1865, he fell asleep in front of the fireplace and dreamed of atoms swirling in long chains. In his dream “ev-erything was moving in a snake-like and twist-ing manner,” he recalled. “Suddenly, what was this? One of the snakes got hold of its own tail and the whole structure was mockingly twist-ing in front of my eyes. As if struck by lightning, I awoke…”

As a result of this “vision,” Kekule realized that the structure of benzene is a closed carbon ring, a discovery that revolutionized modern chemistry. Announcing his breakthrough at a scientific convention in 1890, Kekule told his colleagues, “Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then we may perhaps find the truth.”

What a fitting line to end today’s column.

THE stability of the country’s political, economic and social foundations is once again under threat. Sen. Antonio

Trillanes publicly proclaimed to all who cared to listen that he intends to stage a coup should PDP-Laban’s presidential bet Rodrigo Duterte snatch the May 9, 2016 elections.

Whether this was uttered in the heat of childish tantrums and agitation he suffered when he failed to prove his BPI accounts ex-pose on Duterte or not, Trillanes’s statements are at the very least irresponsible and way-ward. Perhaps, we can say he is not a good stu-dent of Philippine history.

But he is abetted and encouraged by the mainstream Metro-Manila based media un-friendly to the tough talking Davao City mayor who, from all indications, is going to be the run-away victor in the presidential derby.

Notwithstanding the bias and prejudice of imperial Manila towards the Mindanao pride, Duterte has been able to unite the voice of Min-dinaoans as he clearly leads the survey with a whopping 61 percentage points across all eco-nomic classes in the country’s second biggest island.

Trillanes should get a brotherly lecture from Sen. Gringo Honasan, a much more expe-

rienced se-nior mistah from the Philipine Mil-itary Acad-emy. The latter, who led several u p r i s i n g s against the Cory Aqui-no regime in the late 80s, has admitted in so many words that his actions pushed back the country’s journey forward af-ter the globally-lauded People Power Revolt in 1986.

But Honasan, now a respected senator seeking the vice-presidential post, has become a transformed statesman and legislator, in lan-guage, in ethical behaviour and decorum.

In contrast, though already a re-elected member of the Senate and now on his ninth year as such, Trillanes is still very much rough around the edges.

Allegations in the Facebook social media portal say that he is not as clean as he seems to present himself as a fellow coup plotter, a cer-

tain Capt. Faeldon, recently revealed.Trillanes’ very fertile mind has earned him

the tag “Outstanding Inventor” by fellow sena-tor and vice presidential rival Allan Peter Cay-etano for his whimsical propensity to come up with outlandish ideas as well as for his bound-less braggadocio.

If logic were to be our basis for his “attack dog” mentality, why is Trillanes so ferocious in his singular aggression against Duterte? Is he expecting something – a gift – in return in case Grace Poe whom he rabidly supports as his presidential candidate, triumphs in the polls?

He admitted so during the VP debates that he is salivating to become the DILG secretary. Did I hear him right?

In 2003, when Trillanes staged two abort-ed coup attempts against the GMA govern-ment, I thought he was waging a lonely war, not against corruption as he then professed, but simply against the Filipino people who were hoping that change will come sooner or later.

However, as the ensuing dramatic develop-ments unfolded, Trillanes’ military adventur-ism was aimed at propelling himself to a politi-cal career. Thus, using the unpopularity of GMA as his principal weapon, he launched his senate bid despite being behind bars at that time. Get

my drift?But as things develop now, I sense a collec-

tive feeling of sanity in the AFP and PNP that another coup will never happen. Our country is better off struggling under a democratic set up than battling the ghosts of uncertainty. We can-not follow the footsteps of our neighbour Thai-land which is until now under military rule.

That is why the idea of federalism as ped-dled by Duterte is slowly catching fire because this system grants empowerment to the people first and to the LGU second. Federalism exists on the maxim that the people make up the state and the state is existing because of the people.

Trillanes’ threat to stage a coup is treason-ous as well as un-patriotic and selfish. This guy seems to possess a polluted messianic vision just like Poe who has been chanting a so-called legacy inherited from his late father, movie king FPJ.

Maybe, the coup threat, like I earlier said, was just an utterance at that particular mo-ment of an explosive mood swing.

Trillanes has plenty of bright years ahead in his political career. He needs wise counsel from a highly experienced political strategist and mentor. (Email your feedback to fredlum-ba@yahoo.com.) God bless the Philippines!

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dence-building development, we still believe we have to se-cure victory for Mayor Duterte by translating the survey num-bers into concrete and over-whelming votes of triumph,” he said.

Evasco said the Filipino people have shown maturity and found courage as well as strength in their unity.

“Over the last three months, the nation discerned carefully, weighed their choic-es profoundly, and manifested their preference collectively,” he said.

He said the Filipinos proved that they can no longer be swayed by disinformation and deceit, that they can sep-arate what is right and what is wrong.

“They are capable of mak-ing an informed and wise de-cision with the confidence that their choice will be rightfully

counted and protected,” he said.

Evasco said Duterte em-bodies the kind of leadership that the people have been looking for, one who is willing to put himself on the line in the service of the Filipino people and the nation.

“Mayor Duterte also proved that being on the side of the people is full of challeng-es and risks. It can also be a thankless job,” he said.

“But the task of winning the presidency and effecting real change is not yet over,” he said.

Evasco said until the last ballot is cast and counted then the winner rightly proclaimed, the Filipino people who want change will not yet be victori-ous.

“And we hope to settle that soon. On Monday, May 9,” he said.

last year on the back of strong growth from operations.

In terms of contribution to its net operating income: Manila Electric Company (Mer-alco) accounted for Php1.6 billion, or 47 percent of the ag-gregate contribution; Maynilad contributed Php843 million, or 24 percent of the total; the Tollroads businesses delivered Php833 million, or 24 percent; the Hospital Group contributed Php134 million, or 4 percent of the total; and the Rail and Sys-tems contributed Php50 mil-

lion, or 1 percent of the total.Lim attributed strong earn-

ings growth mainly to signifi-cant volume increases for all its businesses, as the conglomer-ate ramps up its capital expen-ditures.

“More positively, I expect continued strong volume growth for the rest of the year and our initial move into the logistics sector, an obvious ad-junct to our infrastructure busi-nesses, offers strong growth potential but minimal regulato-ry engagement,” he said. (PNA)

DSWD-11 regional direc-tor Mercedita P. Jabagat said of the 4.4 million enrolled in the program nationwide, 1.5 million have been lifted out of poverty.

In Davao region, the agen-cy registered 234,213 house-hold beneficiaries under the 4Ps, as of January 27.

Jabagat said most of ben-eficiaries come from Davao del Sur with 63,890, followed by Compostela Valley with 57,404, Davao del Norte with 49,390, Davao Oriental with 41,294, and Davao City with

49,390.The Modified Conditional

Cash Transfer for indigenous people (IPs) registered a total of 10,828 household benefi-ciaries in Davao City, 10,088 in Davao del Norte, 6,336 in Com-postela Valley, 2,461 in Davao del Sur, and 253 in Davao Ori-ental.

She said beneficiaries are receiving P1,400 financial aid per month, of which P500 is spent for the daily expenses and P900 for the education of three children with ages up to 18 years old.

lawesi in Indonesia during the 1990s.

Laviña said this paved the way for the creation of the BIMP-EAGA sub-regional bloc composed of Brunei and prov-inces in eastern Indonesia, Malaysia, and southern Phil-ippines.

He said Duterte favors strengthening our participa-tion in the ASEAN integration and for building international friendship, understanding, and cooperation to help con-front the common problems faced by all nations such as climate change, violent ex-tremism, human trafficking, ignorance, and poverty.

On China, he said, Duterte

is very clear that he will nor surrender even an inch of our sovereign territory in the West Philippine Sea.

“But since this dispute would not be resolved with a country more ancient and more powerful than us soon, Duterte is ready for a prag-matic approach for joint eco-nomic programs like Chinese investments in the country or joint explorations for natural resources in the disputed ar-eas in the West Philippine Sea.” Laviña said.

He said the mayor has also emphasized that he will wait for the Hague decision on the case before exploring joint ex-ploration with China. (PNA)

DELCAFIA.An average sales of P

60,000 to P 80,000 is recorded per harvest during the early years of its operation from 2011 to 2013 with the usual harvest of twice a year de-pending on the demand of the consumers.

Considering the need for expansion, the association searched for opportunities which they can access fund for additional cages, staff house, boat and capital for the pur-chase of juvenile lobsters and its food.

Through the effort of the association and the support of MAO, DELCAFIA has accessed fund amounting to P 250,000 through the DA–Mindanao Rural Development Program–Community Fund for Agricul-tural Development (MRDP-CFAD) in 2013.

The support from MRDP has allowed the association an additional staff house, eight cages, motorized boat and ad-ditional working capital. These translated to a better business such as an additional 200 juve-niles and a boat for the trans-portation of their lobsters to the buyers or the market.

“This year’s Chinese New Year has allowed us to earn P 150,000 for one harvest,

equivalent to lobsters weigh-ing to a total of 60 kilos with a selling price of P 2,500/kg. We got better harvest and earning through the intervention from the government,” said Cortes.

Better profit from every harvest has inspired the mem-bers of DELCAFIA. “Since the business has expanded and been making better sales, the members of the association have been contributing wast-ed fish for the lobster’s food in order to hasten its growth,” said Arlon Donoso, Vice Chair-man of the association.

MRDP is a program im-plemented under the Depart-ment of Agriculture jointly funded by the World Bank and the Local Government Units. The successful implementa-tion of the projects in Mindan-ao inspired the government to level up its scope through the Philippine Rural Development Program (PRDP) today.

PRDP as the upscale ver-sion of MRDP introduces in-novations to address current and emerging challenges and make rural development more effective. It is a six-year nation-al government platform for an inclusive, value chain-orient-ed and climate resilient agri-culture and fisheries sector. (Fretcher D. Magatao, DA-13)

ment includes the activation of election monitoring action centers and quick reaction teams at all levels.

EMC facilities and equip-ment were also readied for utilization if the COMELEC so requires. (PNA)

tion,” he added.“We should not belittle the

desperation of Roxas, Aqui-no, and the yellow ilk because they are in power and in con-trol of the resources, including funds,” Evasco said.

It is only the people who can stop this, Evasco said.

“They may have the mon-ey and the machinery, but we have each other and the col-lective desire for real change,” he said.

phya pygmea (world’s small-est dragonflies, and Philippine Cockatoo, among others.

So far, there are 38 ASEAN Heritage Parks that have been designated since the last in-scription in November 2015. Four sites are designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites - Kinabalu National Park of Ma-laysia, Lorentz National Park of Indonesia, Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park of the Philippines, and Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary of the Phil-ippines.

“Southeast Asia is a trea-sure trove of biodiversity con-taining about 20 percent of global plant, animal and ma-rine species,” Jenelyn Soriano of the ASEAN Centre for Biodi-versity (ACB), earlier said.

ACB serves as the secre-tariat of the ASEAN Heritage Parks Programme. It was es-tablished in 2005 by 10 ASEAN Member states: Brunei Darus-salam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and the Philippines. (PNA)

energized the crucial Agus 2-Baloi 138kV line after clear-ing right-of-way obstructions,” Capulong said.

“NGCP is pleased to report that at 7 p.m. of May 3, we have successfully energized the Agus 2-Baloi line after invok-ing the COMELEC Resolution and with the assistance of gov-

ernment and law enforcement agencies during the clearing operations,” confirmed NGCP.

Capulong said that it was only one of eight lines identi-fied “as critical in Mindanao that continue to be plagued by uncooperative land claim-ants demanding exorbitant amounts.” Antonio L. Colina IV

GOOD NEWS. Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) Davao City station Meteorological Officer Gerry S. Pedrico bares yesterday the dry spell is about to end and the

climate will be back to normal by June up to July. However, the rainy season will come by August. With him is PAGASA weather specialist Bema Tajones. Armando B. Fenequito Jr.

Tan said, adding that Duterte will be hiring people who are experts in the field. “There’s no president who’s perfect right at the start,” he said.

He clarified that the DCCCII is apolitical but it is up to the members who they will vote during May 9 national and local

elections.Tan said he is expecting

that the next president “should copy the good things that have been done and correct some of the deficiencies in the im-plementation [of policies] and budgeting of projects.” Antonio L. Colina IV

of malicious issue for allegedly supporting local candidates. The allegation is contrary to the Cooperative’s policy of nonpar-tisanship.

Tagum Coop has a per-sonality separate and distinct from its members. While the individual officer, employee or member has all the right and freedom to select, endorse, or campaign for a candidate she/he likes, the same does not re-flect those of Tagum Coopera-tive by any means.

Thus, Tagum Cooperative has nothing to do with the en-dorsement of candidates of any of its officers, employees, or members.

Like any other coopera-

tives in the Philippines, it has been the historical practice of Tagum Cooperative to be im-partial when it comes to poli-tics to preserve the autonomy and integrity of the financial institution and not to protect the interest of local political personalities.

Hence, Tagum Cooperative does not support, endorse or campaign for politicians run-ning for office. Although the Cooperative supports and part-ners with several government agencies and organizations in terms of programs that benefit the needy and marginalized, it remains neutral in terms of electoral matters. (Tagum Co-operative)

sources (CENRO) and the City Planning and Development Of-fice (CPDO).

Some 35,357 hectares of forest land will be covered by the survey. This is the second phase of the WMC’s watershed delineation initiative, having al-

ready delineated 18 kilometers in 2012 before funding prob-lems stalled the project. The ba-rangays covered during the first survey are Barangays Tambobo-ng, Tamugan, Gumalang, Wines and parts of Tawan-tawan in Baguio District.

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PANTAWID SCHOLAR. Students’ Grant-in-Aid Program for Poverty Alleviation (SGP-PA) grantee of Davao del Norte State College in Panabo City Christy Marie Edaño bags the Second Highest Honors during their recent graduation ceremony. Finishing Bachelor of Science in Fisheries majoring in Aquaculture, Edaño was also one of the top five SGP-PA National Academic Awardees with the Highest General Point Average in 2014. She is among the 503 Pantawid Pamilya SGP-PA graduates in Region XI in April 2016. A student-grantee receives a maximum of P 60,000.00 scholarship grant per school year or P 30,000.00 per semester. This is broken down to P 20, 000/year Tuition Fee Cost, P 5,000/year Textbook Fees and other learning materials, and P 35,000 (that is, P 3,500/month x 10 months) stipend (for board and lodging, transportation, clothing, health/medical needs, basic school supplies and other related costs. (DSWD)

MALITA, Davao Occi-dental (DSWD XI) - “When I entered

our newly-built classroom, I thought it was too good to be true,” said Kimberly T. Waloc, a Grade 9 student, recalling the day she first stepped into her brand new classroom while gazing at the sparkly ceiling above her.

Made with highly durable concrete materials, the con-struction of a two-classroom High School building worth P 1,488,158.00 through Ka-lahi-CIDSS, is a dream-come-true for students living in the outskirts of Barangay Lagumit here.

Kalahi-CIDSS or Ka-pit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan – Comprehensive and Integrat-ed Delivery of Social Services, one of the core programs of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), aims to empower communi-ties through enhanced partici-pation in local governance and poverty alleviation projects.

StrugglesFor many students who

lived in urban areas, going to school is as easy as riding a school bus or other forms of public transportation. Howev-er, for Kimberly and some of her classmates, going to school entails crossing a river and a lot of long exhausting hikes.

Their arduous way to ed-ucation is aggravated when they arrive in the school vi-cinity where most classes are done under a makeshift class-room made of a large tarpaulin braced with bamboo poles or beneath a mango tree which fortunately, provides reprieve from the sweltering heat.

Despite this crude condi-tion, students remain attentive in class, Kimberly said, adding, ‘soggy and heavy with rainwa-ter, the tarp would fall on the whole class whenever it rains hard.’

“Due to lack of learning fa-cilities and equipment, the stu-dents’ performance is subop-timal even if they are eager to learn in school,” admits Dhan-

nery A. Alquizar, one of the school teachers in the school.

Support to young learners

Kalahi-CIDSS was met by several detractors when it came to the community. There were funding doubts, priori-ty issues, and the community took a while to be united. How-ever, all these problems were resolved eventually.

Comprising of 95% B’laan, the community was not keen to engage in Kalahi-CIDSS.

“Tong una nag duha-duha ang mga tao tungod kay nagtuo sila nga lisud ang proseso sa program (People were ambiv-alent thinking that the process is complicated),” said Leono-ra T. Arizabal, a Kalahi-CIDSS community volunteer.

Kalahi-CIDSS volunteers, together with school officials, decided how the funds will be spent to improve the school and then helped ensure that funds are properly used.

Expenses were report-ed regularly and posted for transparency. Also, it opened

doors for unity and massive volunteerism in the commu-nity. They took turns in con-tributing manual labor into the project.

“We missed the chance of education ourselves and now our children have this oppor-tunity. We will do our best to help improve the school en-vironment and really make it better,” Arizabal committed.

“Pinaka nagustuhan namo sa Kalahi-CIDSS, gina edukar kami (What we appreciate most of Kalahi-CIDSS is that it opens up our minds),” Ariza-bal beamed.

To date, Malita, Davao Occidental has received a Ka-lahi-CIDSS total cash grant allocation of P 60,000,000.00 covering 20 barangays on its first and second cycle of imple-mentation.

InspiredThe completion of the

classroom sub-project is bound to increase both the school attendance and edu-cational performance of stu-

dents.Kimberly T. Waloc remains

to be one of the top perform-ers in her class. She aspires to maintain her good grades especially now with the new classroom sub-project inspir-ing her. More important still, she and her classmates can now focus more on their stud-ies with the great chance of performing much better.

“My dream is to become a teacher and I hope to ed-ucate more children in my

tribe. I dream to inspire more students and help them fulfill their dreams too, just like how Kalahi-CIDSS is fulfilling mine with this classroom sub-proj-ect here.”

The classroom sub-proj-ect of Kalahi-CIDSS is more than the concrete materials it is made of. Infrastructures can help empower poor com-munities and Kalahi-CIDSS continues to build infrastruc-tures that are truly needed and owned by the people. (DSWD)

TAGUM Cooperative, a primary large scale multi-purpose cooper-

ative, has been of service to its members and the community for almost 50 years.

As a duly registered coop-erative, Tagum Coop adheres to good governance, ethical stan-dards, and cooperative princi-

ples, as provided in the Repub-lic Act (RA) 9520 also known as the Philippine Cooperative Code and its implementing rules and regulations (IRR).

The Cooperative is mem-ber-owned and is democrati-cally controlled by its members through the election of the Board of Directors and officers

during the general assembly. As a non-government in-

stitution, Tagum Coop remains autonomous and has no inter-est in politics especially with any candidate running for government post, be it local or national, except for Party-list voting. Tagum Coop supports Coop-NATCCO Party-list be-

cause of its affiliation to the latter. The Coop-NATCCO par-ty-list - “Tinig at Kakampi ng Kooperatiba,”is representing the entire cooperative sector of the country to Congress.

Now, in the heat of nation-al and local elections, Tagum Cooperative has been a subject

Kalahi-CIDSS classroom inspires young learners

Classmates Kimberly Teo Waloc [left] and Jalie Joy Mariano more than happy with their new classrooms.

At the culmination ceremony at Gaisano Grand Toril, Davao City, Director Mercedita P. Jabagat of DSWD interacts with Pantawid Pamilya program participants who recently completed Beauty Care NC II, a TESDA-accredited skills training on Hair Dressing, Nail Care and Foot Spa. To date, 60 beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilya and Sustainable

Livelihood Program from barangays Bato, Bayabas, Binugao, Lubogan and Marapangi have finished the course and now earning from their newly-acquired craft. (DSWD)

Tagum cooperative: A nonpartisan institution

THE Watershed Manage-ment Council (WMC) has finally scheduled the

long-overdue delineation of the Panigan-Tamugan watershed to June this year.

The watershed advocacy group Interface Development Interventions welcomed the news but vowed to keep track of WMC’s preparations for the delineation project, noting that the delineation activity had been constantly rescheduled in the past.

“During the WMC meet-

ing last February 24, 2016, we were told that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources technical survey team will only be available after the elections, so this is why the council has immediately sched-uled it for June.”, said IDIS Advo-cacy Coordinator and CSO rep-resentative to the WMC, Chinkie Pelino.

“The delineation is very important and must be finished as soon as possible so that we will be able to completely iden-tify the areas that need to be

conserved and protected from development as well as those areas set aside for non-tillage agricultural and agro-forestry activities.”, she said.

She also said that the com-munities in the watershed are also hoping that this will be the final schedule for the delinea-tion as they are also eager for the survey to be finished.

“They don’t want another postponement. They also want this delineation survey to be finished as soon as possible be-cause they know that the results

will help them settle or avoid conflicts arising from boundary issues on the ground.”, she said.

The Panigan-Tamugan Watershed is a critical environ-mental area because its surface waters will be tapped as Davao’s future source of drinking water.

Pelino said that a Survey Work Team Plan has already been drafted and members of the surveying team will also in-clude surveyors from the City Engineer’s Office (CEO), City Environment and Natural Re-

Watershed Management Council sets schedulefor delineation of Panigan-Tamugan watershed

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Resort report. An embroidered caftan worn with a floppy beach hat, an orange ombré bag, and banig flip fops from Kultura.

Ocean inspired canvas pouches from Kultura.

Pink stripe cover-ups and a seashell beach bag from Kultura.

Kultura’s uniquely Filipino

Tropical Summer A TOUCH OF THE TROPICS . . . a fresh spray from the ocean . . . and a palette of vibrant colors. Kultura celebrates tropical summer in a uniquely Filipino way. There are ombré maxi dresses and caftans for the beach and beyond, as well as wooden fashion accesso-

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ries. Bags take inspiration from nature with seashell, coral, turtle, and starfish prints; while woven banig hats are great head turn-ers. Kultura, for all things Filipino, features local artistry and craftsman-ship through high-quality apparel, accessories, and gift items. All that’s left for the savvy shopper to do is book a destination, and the sunny season is guar-anteed to be stylish. The Tropical Sum-mer collection and other summer essentials are available in all Kultura stores located at SM Aura Premier, SM Makati, SM Megamall, the SM Mall of Asia, SM Lanang Premier, SM City Cebu, and at the newly opened SM Seaside City Cebu. Kultura bou-tiques are also located in Pico de Loro, Taal Vista, and the Molo Mansion, Il-oilo. Also visit its website at www.kulturafilipino.com.

Coral printed bag and fedora hat for fun in the sun.

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SM turns over housing for Yolanda survivors

THE CONTINUED EFFORTS OF THE GROUND VERIFICATION TEAM IN THE MT. APO INCIDENT HAS SEEN THE FIRE CONTROL AT 99% SAFE LEVEL although there is still a lot of work to be done from assessment to fire line maintenance to rehabilitation.

FOR 64-YEAR OLD PEDICAB DRIVER RO-GELIO PALMA CON-SALIDA, NOVEMBER 8, 2013 IS ONE DATE HE WILL NEVER FOR-GET FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. It was when super typhoon Yolanda made land fall in his hometown of Ta-cloban City in Leyte, and in just an hour he had lost all his possessions which took him several decades to build. “Nawala sa amin ang lahat,” (“We lost everything,”) he de-clared and for over two years, he and his wife, Lolita, also 64, had to live in a cramped government housing site. But life seems to smile on them once more as the couple are among the 400 family-ben-eficiaries of SM Supermalls’ big-gest SM Cares Village for survi-vors of super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). SM and its donors awarded 400 new houses in Tacloban City, Leyte to families who were hardest hit by the super typhoon in 2013. The village will be called “Pope Francis-CFC AN-COP Canada Community – SM Cares Village.” It is the biggest of all the four SM Cares housing project as the other villages only have 200 houses each. The first village in Bogo, Cebu has been turned over to benefi-ciaries in November 2014 while the second village in Iloilo City was inaugurated in October 2015. The fourth and last village in Ormoc City is undergoing construction and will be turned over in July this year. The SM Cares Village in Brgy. New Kawayan in Tacloban is the third batch in the 1,000-house SM Cares Village housing proj-

ect which was launched in the aftermath of Haiyan in 2013. SM Prime officials headed by its President Hans T. Sy led the turnover ceremony accompa-nied by Tacloban City officials led by Mayor Alfred Romualdez. Guests who attended the event included Leyte Archbish-op John Du, Canadian Ambas-sador to the Philippines Neil Reeder, Mrs. Yedda Romualdez (representing Leyte 1st District Representative Martin Romual-dez), Ricky Cuenca and Jimmy Ilagan of Couples For Christ-ANCOP, Mikee Romero of Global Port and Julian Payne of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. 400 houses were awarded to chosen beneficiaries for free. Aside from the houses, the SM Cares Village also has amenities such a basketball court, street

lamps, sewage treatment plant, materials recovery facility, rain-catchment system and provi-sions for water and electricity. SM Cares, a division of SM Foundation and the corporate social responsibility arm of SM Prime Holdings, Inc., launched the housing project shortly after the onslaught of super typhoon Yolanda in November 2013 to give permanent and disaster-re-silient houses to survivors of the typhoon in the Visayas region. Through its tenants, busi-ness partners, service provid-ers, employees and local com-munities, SM was able to raise the money needed to build the 1,000 houses, a moving proof of the people’s accord in times of emergency.  Some of the do-nors for the SM Cares Village in Tacloban include Zonta Club, Duty Free Philippines, Forever

21, ANCOP, New Golden City Builders & Development and Philippine Daily Inquirer. Glob-al Port and Sultan 900 donated the basketball court. All the houses in the SM Cares Housing Village are di-saster-resilient and have roofs made of concrete slab.  Vetiver grass, with leaves that can be used for handicrafts, were used in the village to control soil ero-sion and for better slope protec-tion. Its roots reach up to 3 me-ters long. To ensure sustainability of the project, community develop-ment programs have been put in place to make the change work for all beneficiaries. For the Ta-cloban housing project, the Ro-man Catholic Archdiocese of Palo (RCAP) and Couples For Christ-ANCOP (CFC-ANCOP) were the  partners in charge

of selecting the beneficiaries, training, livelihood and values formation to enable the new residents start a new life in their community. SM said the SM Cares Hous-ing Village is a testament to the solidarity that Filipinos and people all over the world have shown to help the survivors of super typhoon Yolanda. It is also personifies SM’s commitment to nation-building. “SM has always been sup-porting communities and as a responsible member of the com-munity, this project exemplifies our commitment to nation-building,” SM Supermalls, in a statement, said. To know more about SM Cares and its advocacies, please visit  www.smcares.com.ph  or w w w.facebook .com /Of f i-cialSMCares. 

Vikings Davao shares help to Mt. Apo fire team

Along the govern-ment efforts on this in-cident, DENR-PENRO Davao del Sur, mean-while, expressed its deep appreciation to Vikings Luxury Buffet Davao for undertaking the com-pany’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) mis-sion in donating relief goods and other com-modities to the ongoing rehabilitation activities of

the government. The country’s natural attraction, Mt. Apo, ex-perienced massive for-est fire during the Holy Week this year and thou-sands of volunteers and government workers were deployed to the area to protect the forests. The Vikings Lanang Davao CSR Team, togeth-er with DENR Davao, visited the DENR office

in Digos, Davao del Sur where the Vikings Team handed over the joint contribution of the com-pany and its employees to the DENR officials and Communications Officer as the company share of support to the workers who have sacrificed to join the forest fire opera-tions. Vikings Luxury Buf-fet’s commitment is to extend its helping hand through all its stores as it shares to the communi-ties its corporate social responsibility muscles in providing what it sees best.

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Louise delos Reyes, a spontaneous wanderlust

Nora Aunor in inspiring Mother’s Day special

Aljur Abrenica credits his family for his career

GOOGLE DESCRIBES A “WANDERLUST” AS A PERSON WITH A STRONG DESIRE TO TRAVEL and that perfectly describes Kapuso star Louise delos Reyes. If she’s not at the beach or on the road, she is usually spotted somewhere out-of-town trip or abroad. The 23-year-old actress has explored countless places, immersed in different cultures and have tried various activities she enjoys. She recounted, “Since [I did] Kambal [Sirena], parang nagkaroon ako ng hasang, parang naging beach person ako

so medyo nade-deprive lang ako ngayon kasi I have work pero [it’s] all good. Nakakasundot naman ng mga road trips.” Louise originally planned to spend her summer soaking under the sun in Boracay, but she had to cancel it for her upcoming GMA Afternoon Prime soap Magkaibang Mundo with her first time leading man Juancho Trivino. “I have so many plans for my summer kaso priority talaga ‘yung work and mas gusto ko naman magtrabaho para mas marami akong maipang-travel (laughs),” she said. She told GMANetwork.

com that updating her newly-launched blog is also on her to-do list, “I do shoots with my friends around the city and siguro ang pinakamalayo ko nang napupuntahan for now is Batangas.” The newbie lifestyle-travel blogger is on her toes to go on a trip wherever and whenever, “Okay ‘yung mga planned na lakad pero sobrang sarap sa pakiramdam at sobrang saya kapag spontaneous ka lang so just go with the roll of life.” “Kapag may dumating na long vacation, why not grab it, ‘di ba? So, alis ka na!” she exclaimed with a big grin on her face.

HUNK ACTOR ALJUR ABRENICA IS BACK ON TRACK! He has his hands full not only this summer, but the whole year of 2016. He is busy taping for the upcoming Primetime show Once Again , filming two movies “Expressway” and “Bar Boys” as well as promoting his newest single, “Mahal Pa Rin Kita.” Even though the actor-singer has a packed schedule, he always makes time for his loved ones. His birthday celebration last March 24 with his family was quite special. “[Pumunta] kami sa Crystal Beach [Resort sa Zambales]. Nag-fasting kami sa social media at saka sa lahat ng gadgets. Lahat kami nagluto, nag-gitara, nag-catch up [at dinamdam ang] spirit ng dagat. It was an acoustic night so fasting talaga sa lahat ng nakasanayan natin sa city and [basically just connected with] the family.” Aljur owes his career to the people who have been with him all throughout his journey in show

business, “Family kasi is the core of everything. Once nawala ‘yung koneksyon mo sa family mo, mawawalan ka ng reason kung bakit ka nasa

industry.” “That’s why you’re in the industry dahil sa kwento ng buhay mo na to inspire people [and] bring message to them. ‘Pag nawala ‘yan, para ka lang singaw na nagli-linger sa industry,” he added. He and his brother Vin, who is also an actor, don’t want to lose touch with their parents and siblings. “Nawawalan kami ng time together, ‘yung nakasanayan ng

pamilya na everyday magkasama [kaya] we see to it every week [na] buo.” The Kapuso star understands how his parents feel every time they are away, “Recently kasi pumunta ako ng Hong Kong at na-meet ko naman ang mga OFW’s. Naramdaman ko kasi

‘yung longing nila sa bansa natin [at] sa [kanilang] family.” He advised people like him to, “Be connected with your family kahit tawag lang ‘yan, malaking bagay na ‘yan and ‘di naman kailangan mag-spend ng malaking pera, [ang] imporante [ay] buo kayo [at] magkakasama kayo.”

THE ONE AND ONLY SUPERSTAR NORA AUNOR IS MAKING A COMEBACK to “MMK” this Saturday (May 7) to pay tribute to mothers in an inspiring story of hope and sacrifice. Nora will play Yolly, a mother who will do anything and everything for her children, four of whom have disorders. Yolly and husband Nicky (Joel Torre) dream of having children of their own and build a family. Unfortunately, their genes turn out to be incompatible. Their first child is diagnosed with down syndrome, while their second and third children have cerebral palsy. Despite this, the couple will love their kids with all their hearts. Their fourth child is normal and their fifth has cerebral palsy as well. Yolly is then left with the responsibility of solely taking

care of their children when Nick works abroad to provide for the family financially. Just when Yolly has fully accepted her fate as a mother of children with disabilities, her first, second, and third children, die one by one. How will Yolly find the will to continue living despite losing her kids? The Superstar’s Mother’s Day special is her fourth “MMK” episode. She previously starred in

“Lot 8 Blk 13” in 1991, in “Retaso” where she first teamed up with Joel Torre in 1997, and “Lubid” in 2002. Joining this “MMK” episode are Angeli Bayani, Junjun Quintana, Gloria Sevilla, John Vincent Sevilla, Dentrix Ponce, Amy Nobleza, Chunza Lili, Patrick Sugui, John Michael Gacayan, Celine Lim, Faye Alhambra, Tony Manalo, Suzette Ranillo, Kristel Fulgar, Marithez Samson, Eliza Pineda, Ana Deo, Mike Austria, and Gem Ramos. The episode is directed by Raz De La Torre and written by Akeem Del Rosario. “MMK” is led by business unit head Malou Santos. Don’t miss the longest-running drama anthology in Asia, “MMK,” every Saturday ON ABS-CBN or ABS-CBN HD (SkyCable ch 167). Catch its latest episodes on iwantv.com.ph or skyondemand.com.ph for Sky subscribers.

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Chris Evans , Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson

May 4 – 10, 2016

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MOTHER'S DAY

Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Kate Hudson

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THIS TIME

James Reid, Nadine Lustre

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EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY CAN REJOICE as a string of hit Pinoy movies plus a world-class boxing event invades homes

this May on SKY. Quenching sports fans thirst for action is the much-awaited match of Mexico’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Britain’s Amir Khan live, commercial-free, and in high definition on Sunday (May 8), a day before the highly anticipated elections, at 9AM. To be part of the blow-by-blow action of the world’s top boxers, visit mysky.com.ph/canelo or text SUBSCRIBE <space> ACCOUNT NUMBER to 23662. The Canelo-Khan pay-per-view is priced at P199 for both high definition (SD) and standard definition (SD) viewing. M e a n w h i l e , SKYcable and Destiny Cable subscribers who are huge fans of local movies are in for a big surprise as the critically acclaimed Star Cinema rom-com “Always Be My Maybe” top billed by Gerald Anderson and Arci Munoz becomes available for pay-per-view until May 28. Get access to the three-day and HD viewing of “Always Be My Maybe” by texting SUBSCRIBE followed by the 9-digit account number to 23662. The pay-per-view is priced at P199 for SD and HD viewing. Also set to make you laugh and giddy are

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Sky showcases hit Pinoy blockbusters and world-class match this May

successful MMFF 2015 entries airing back-to-back on pay-per-view are the well-loved rom-com “Walang Forever” starring Jennylyn Mercado and Jericho Rosales and

the thriller “Buy Now Die Later” starring Vhong Navarro, Alex Gonzaga, Rayver Cruz, and John Lapus. Catch the unlimited three-day and HD viewing offer until May 28 by texting S U B S C R I B E followed by the 9-digit a c c o u n t number to 23662. It is priced at P199 for SD and HD viewing. Free movies await SKYcable p r e p a i d subscribers a n d S K Yd i r e c t subscribers

this month as horror flick fans can get their fix via a free marathon of “Shake, Rattle, and Roll,” as parts 12 to 15 of the widely successful hit Filipino horror franchise airs

back-to-back until May 31. Available load balance until May 31 is needed to successfully watch the free movie marathon. For more information on this thrilling offer and more, text APPLY<space>NAME to 23662 for SKYcable Prepaid, or text 23668 for SKYdirect. Don’t miss all these premium and world-class TV offerings this summer with the

family only on SKY.

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We are now hiring for the ff. job vacancies:

1. CUSTOMER SERVICE OFFICER (C.S.O.)Scope of Work:• Handlingofcustomerservices(e.g.inquiries,complaints,scheduling

of services)• Preparationofquotationforclients• STARTINGSALARY:P12,000(BASEDONPRIOREXPERIENCE)

2. TECHNICAL ENGINEER (T.E.)Scope of Work:• Installation/Programming/Configurationfortheff.products*CCTV, PABX, PABGM, INTERCOM, BIOMETRICS, ACCESS CONTROL,

FIRE ALARM • STARTINGSALARY:P13,000(BASEDONPRIOREXPERIENCE)

3.ACCOUNTS MANAGER (A.M.)Scope of Work:• Sales&MarketingforNewClients• STARTINGSALARY:P15,000UP(BASEDONPRIOREXPERIENCE)

4. STORE SUPERVISORScope of Work:• Responsiblefordailystoreoperation• Handlingofmanpower

Please email your resume to: sales@vmtech.com.ph or marcxtian@yahoo.com

For walk in applicants, you may call the ff. branches:Cebu Office: (032) 2380912

Globe: 09173293471 • Sun: 09255014723

Davao Office: (082) 2212789 Globe: 09177952469 • Sun: 09322448030

WANTED 3 REPORTERS

EDGE DAVAO is in need of 3 reporters for immediate hiring.

* College degree holder (Communication Arts graduate preferred, but not required)

* Capable of writing English news and feature stories on business and governance

* Has potentials of becoming editor* Single* Not more than 35 years old

Entry pay negotiable.

Submit application letter and curriculum vitae to:

Antonio M. AjeroEditor-in-Chief

Edge Davaoajero_antonio@yahoo.com

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COMPETITIVE EDGE

DAVAO City Water District advises of a water service inter-

ruption on May 12 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM affect-ing some areas in Malag-amot particularly portion of Malagamot Road (from junction of Communal Road to Upper Malagamot) and MALUPIHA Homeowners Association.

DCWD’s Engineering and Construction Depart-ment crew will tap the new-ly installed 4-inch diameter Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) pipeline to the existing 4-inch diameter PVC pipe-line for the mainline im-provement at Earlrickson Uy Road in Purok 24 Malag-amot, Brgy. Panacan. Once completed, the project will allow for accommodation of additional service connec-tions.

DCWD general man-ager Edwin V. Regalado

asks for the understanding and cooperation of would-be affected customers. He also advises them to store enough water prior to the scheduled water interrup-tion. Water supply may be restored earlier if work goes smoothly or later if unfore-seen problems arise.

The general public may visit DCWD website (www.davao-water.gov.ph) and of-ficialFacebookpage(www.facebook.com/davaowater) or call the Central Infor-mation Unit / Call Center through the 24-hour hotline 297-DCWD (3293) and press “1” on their phone dial to listen to latest daily wa-ter updates. They may also call / text 0927-7988966, 0925-5113293 and 0908-4410653 for other up-dates, complaints, queries and matters pertaining to DCWD services. (Katrina Belen M. Roble)

HOME of sinuglaw, du-rian, mangosteen, and the largest Chinatown

in the world at 44 hectares, the Philippine Franchise As-sociation (PFA) brings its regional franchise show to Davao City to help emerg-ing concepts in this city and neighboring provinces grow through franchising.

Slated on May 20 to 22 at the Abreeza Mall Activity Center, Davao City, at least 20 participating brands and thousands of visitors will be joining “Franchise Mindanao 2016: Franchising Negosyo para sa Davao”. The three-day event will feature three sets of activities that will enable its visitors to explore franchising deeply: a franchise expo from

May 20 to 22, a seminar on “How to Franchise Your Busi-ness” on May 20, and semi-nars on “How to Invest in the Right Franchise” during the exhibit days starting 1:30 PM.

The official opening ofthe event, meanwhile, will be on May 20, 1:30 PM, and will be graced by Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Re-gion XI Director Ma. Belenda Q. Ambi, who will also give the keynote speech.

“As part of PFA’s mission to promote franchising as a pow-erful tool for economic devel-opment by creating thousands of enterprises and millions of jobs, we are increasing our regional franchise shows with the intention of helping region-based businesses, par-

ticularly MSMEs, expand their business via franchising,” said Dr. Alan Escalona, PFA pres-ident. “Franchising is a tried and tested strategy that has helped countless of home-grown brands expand within and beyond our borders.”

Some of the known home-grown brands that expand up to the global scale through franchising are Jollibee, Max’s Restaurant, Pancake House, Yellow Cab, and Gold-ilocks among others, who will also be participating in the expo.

The list of exhibitors in-clude 7-Eleven, Canadian Tourism & Hospitality Insti-tute, Crystal Clear, Dencio’s Bar & Grill, Famous Belgian Waffles, Farmacia ni Dok,

Francorp Philippines, Gener-ika, Goto king, Jamba juice, Krispy Kreme, La-Z-Boy, McDonald’s, Minute Burger, Macho Mucho, Motech, Paras Alter Station, Seaoil, Sitsirya Sari-Sari, Sizzlin Steak, Teri-yaki Boy, The Generics Phar-macy, U-Franchise Sales & Management, Xcess Salon and many others.

With its good mix of ex-hibitors – both food and non-food – at all investment levels, the said exhibit provides an excellent venue for those who are thinking of taking the path of entrepreneurship through franchising.

“We invite existing and as-piring business owners to join us in the ‘Franchising Negosyo para sa Davao’ and explore the

opportunities being offered by franchising,” Escalona added. OFWs, professionals, retirees, veterans and parents who want to buy a business for their children are also in-vited to visit the said franchise show.

“Franchising Negosyo para sa Davao” is organized by PFA in partnership with DTI Region 11, Negosyo Cen-ter, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, BPI Family Ka-Negosyo, PLDT SMART SME Nation, Abreeza Mall, Ayala Malls, Davao City Cham-ber of Commerce and Indus-try, Inc., and Go Negosyo.

PFA is the premier and only internationally-recog-nized franchise association in the country. As the voice of

Philippine franchising, PFA’s members come from micro to large, both homegrown and foreign, in the food, retail and service sectors. It organizes the biggest 4-in-1 franchise event in Asia, Franchise Asia Philippines 2016, which has been known as a launching pad for many national brands. The Association’s internation-al affiliations, on the otherhand, has been a boost to its members looking for overseas expansion opportunities.

To know more about “Franchising Negosyo para sa Davao” contact PFA Davao at 0925-3214282 and look for Ms. Kat Jereza or call the Ma-nila office at +632 6870365to 67 and look for Ms. Joane Tomagan.

THE island of Siargao in the Province of Surigao del Norte has been

known as attractive place for tourists. Its gorgeous white beaches, enchanting lagoons, caves, sand bars, coral reefs, bizarre rock formations, exot-ic wildlife, different crops and rice fields, waterfalls and a large mangrove forest reserve create a longing to every ad-venturist.

Not known to many, Siar-gao is also a home of great farmers and fishers. Aside from earning through the visits of the local and foreign tourists, residents also rely heavily on agriculture and fisheries as their source of in-come.

One of the towns frequent-ly visited by tourists is the Mu-nicipality of Del Carmen. Hid-den in its area is the longest

contiguous mangrove stand in the Philippines, spreading to over 4,000 hectares.The local government headed byMayor Alfredo Coro II, in partner-ship with government agen-cies and private sectors, have gradually converted the small municipality to an “eco-town” to help the residents cope with financial challenges and the ef-fects of climate change.

“Del Carmen is greatly challenged among other mu-nicipalities. The only way to move up is through partner-ship-driven programs. We may be a fifth-class municipal-ity but we act like first-class citizens,” Coro said during an environmental and climate change workshop.

Faced with trials, the local government endeavored to coordinate with government and non-government organi-

zations to educate and equip its residents on livelihood ac-tivities to suffice their needs.

Earning support from the government

The municipality is rich with natural resources that are ready to be utilized. Such is its much supply of spiny lob-sters which can be found any-where in its tropical waters.

Since there are available juvenile lobsters and most of the fishers can make a catch when they cast their nets for fishing, the Municipal Agri-culture Office (MAO) of the locality thought of teaching them about lobster fattening using nets for cage culture. “We thought of starting a lob-ster fattening project after seeing its benefit as additional source of income for the fish-ers,” said Vicente Comandante,

Municipal Agriculturist of Del Carmen.

The knowledge gained by the fishers made them decide to start an association named Del Carmen Fisherfolk Asso-ciation (DELCAFIA) in 2011 with 54 members. Its main line of business is lobster fat-tening and selling its produce onspecial occasions or when the demand is high.

Starting from six cages, the business grew and its produce has been sold and known in the island and Surigao City. Then on, the association add-ed more juvenile lobsters for fattening to meet the demand of the market. “Since there is a great demand during Christ-mas and New Year, especially Chinese New Year, all of our harvest will be sold out,” said Domingo Cortes, Chairman of

Reg’l franchise show comes to Davao

Lobster culture for better future

DAVAO-BASED inde-pendent oil company Phoenix Petroleum

gathered over 1,000 nomina-tions during the Pinoy Tsuper Hero 2016 caravan at Phoe-nix Matina Crossing, Davao City on April 28-29, 2016. Davao City is the third stop in Mindanao of the nationwide search for inspiring Filipino drivers.

One lucky Dabawenyo will get the chance to repre-sent Region XI and compete for the Pinoy Tsuper Hero title and win exciting prizes. The winner will also serve as Phoenix Petroleum’s brand ambassador.

The Mindanao leg of Pi-noy Tsuper Hero 2016 was also held in Cagayan de Oro City and Cabadbaran City in April. The last stop in Mind-anao will be held at Phoenix Bulaong, Dadiangas North, General Santos City on May 19 to 20.

The Pinoy Tsuper Hero program is presented by Phoenix Petroleum, in part-nership with ABS-CBN Ling-kod Kapamilya Foundation Inc. and Bayan Academy for

Water service interruptionin some Malagamot areas

on May 12 announced

DAVAO City Water Dis-trict announces that its offices in Bajada,

Matina, Toril and Ma-a and collection centers in SM La-nang Premier, Victoria Plaza and Felcris Centrale will be closed on May 9, a special public non-working holiday for the national elections. Regular operations will re-sume on May 10.

As such, the due date for water bill payments in Zone 12 falling on May 9 will be moved to May 10.

General manager Edwin V. Regalado assures the gen-eral public that DCWD will still be able to attend to cus-tomer concerns despite of-fices and collection centersbeing closed on said date.

The emergency crews of

DCWD’s Pipelines and Ap-purtenances Maintenance Department will be available 24 / 7 to attend to emergen-cy pipeline leak repairs.

The Central Informa-tion Unit (CIU) / DCWD Call Center will also be available to accommodate inquiries, complaints, reports and concerns relating to DCWD services and can be contact-ed thru the 24-hour hotlines 297-DCWD (3293), 0927-7988966, 0925-5113293 and 0908-4410653. Cus-tomers may also visit DCWD’s website (www.davao-water.gov.ph) and of-ficialFacebookpage(www.facebook.com/davaowater) for updates and announce-ments on DCWD services. (Katrina Belen M. Roble)

DCWD says offices, collection centers closed on May 9, 2016

Pinoy Tsuper Hero 2016 to fete inspiring drivers in Davao

ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Marketing Head Paul Mercado, Phoenix Petroleum Corporate Affairs Manager Ben Sur, BAYAN Academy Exceutive Director Philip Felipe, and Davao City Pinoy Tsuper Hero 2015 Felix Viovicente during the nomination caravan at Phoenix Matina Crossing

Social Entrepreneurship and Human Resource Develop-ment. The program aims to recognize deserving Filipino

drivers who are champions of the road, both in terms of discipline and reducing air pollution in the country.

For more information, please call (02) 426-3140; (02) 920-3025, or e-mail pi-noytsuperhero@gmail.com.

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RAINING THREES15

CLEVELAND (AP) J.R. Smith made seven 3-pointers and the

Cleveland Cavaliers drained an NBA-record 25 3s in a 123-98 runaway win over the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night in Game 2 of their second-round series.

The Cavs made 18 3-point-ers in the first half and added seven more after halftime to embarrass the Hawks, who have lost 10 straight postsea-son games to Cleveland.

Cleveland’s 25 3s are the most in any game – regular or postseason.

LeBron James made four 3s and scored 27 points for the defending Eastern Conference champions, who put on a dis-play of outside marksmanship unlike any in league history. The Cavs hardly missed.

Even their furry mascot, Moondog, got in on the act by making an over-the-head, backward fling from half court on his first try in the final min-utes.

Reserve Dahntay Jones made the record-breaking 24th 3 with 2:24 left, better-ing the mark of 23 previously held by Orlando (2009) and Houston (2013). Mo Williams added another 3 for good measure.

Cleveland finished 25 of 45 behind the arc and had 10 players make at least one 3.

Smith made six 3-point-ers in the first half – the Cavs knocked down seven straight during one dizzying stretch – as Cleveland built a 38-point lead over the stunned Hawks, who will head home for Fri-day’s Game 3 down 2-0 in the series and utterly demoral-ized.

There was little Atlanta defenders could do against the Cavs, who stood behind the line, took aim and dropped shot after shot after shot.

After making Cleveland’s 16th 3-pointer in the first half, the easygoing Smith skipped back on defense like a little kid on a schoolyard playground as Cleveland’s towel-waving fans danced with delight and smelled blood.

By halftime, the Cavs were up by 36 and within three 3-pointers of the postseason record of 21 set by Golden State on April 24.

At that point even the Hawks were done. The team posted on its official Twitter account, “If you take away their 3s, we’re right in this.”

Cleveland went past Gold-en State’s record when Irving nailed a 3-pointer with 5:06 left in the third quarter. But that wasn’t even enough to satisfy the ravenous sellout crowd which was still chant-ing “Let’s Go Cavs!” with Cleve-land leading by 40 points.

ROB Dozier is aware Pierre Henderson-Niles is waiting for him in the finals of the

PBA Commissioner’s Cup.Now that he’s done his end

of the bargain, Dozier can’t wait to get back on the court and play his forner University of Memphis teammate in a championship se-ries.

Alaska and Rain or Shine be-gin their best-of-seven title series on Friday which the former Best

Import expects to be fun, for the mere fact that he’ll be matched up against a guy he played with during college almost a decade ago.

“We go out to compete. That’s what we came for,” Dozier said after the Aces sealed their finals showdown with the Elasto Paint-ers by beating the Meralco Bolts in their knockout game on Wednes-day night, 76-70.

“We go out there and fight. So

may the best team wins.”Facing Niles and the Elasto

Painters is going to be a tough match-up for the Aces, according to Dozier, who led Alaska to its last PBA championship during the 2013 edition of this same im-port-laden tournament.

“All the imports here are tal-ented in some kind of ways. So it’s gonna be a new challenge for us. We just got to be ready for it,” said the veterab import who was able

to survive burly Meralco counter-part Arinze Onuaku in the semis.

Although he said he’s not root-ing for Alaska, Niles showed up at the Araneta Coliseum on Monday night to watch Game 4 of the semis between the Aces and the Bolts.

Dozier and Niles played along-side Derrick Rose in the Tigers side during the 2008 U.S. NCAA finals where they lost to Mario Chalmers and the Kansas Jayhawks in over-time.

Former TRMH-CMO import apply for 2016 NBA Draft

njb@edgedavao.net

By NEILWIN JOSEPH L. BRAVO

SLAMMER. Cedric Happi Noube, who donned the Royal

Mandaya Hotel-VMO colors in 2013

in Davao City, is applying for the 2016 NBA Draft.

EDGEDAVAOSports

REMEMBER Cedric Happi?

This 6-foot-7 Cameroonian high-flyer led The Royal Mandaya Hotel-Vice Mayor’s Office squad to its second bas-ketball title durin the 2013 Araw ng Davao Invitational basketball tournament.

The banger Happi, whose full name is Cedric Happi Noube, is one of two African players who once suited up in the Philippine collegiate leagues who are now knocking at the 2016 NBA Rookie Draft.

Happi was instrumental in bringing the 2013 Araw ng Davao title to the TRMH-VMO squad that also had 6-5 Mark Jeffries as import and Meralco Bolt John Fer-riols, ex-PBA players Mark Andaya, Jojo Tangkay, and Cris Calaguio as players.

“He was a banger, a monster inside the paint,” recalls Miggy Solitaria, one of the coaching staff of TRMH-VMO.

“Ced-ric Happi is a bigman w h o loves to p l a y p o i n t f o r -w a r d . He has t h i s unique b a l l - h a n -dling s k i l l s that is rare for a big-

m a n . T h i s

s o f t spoken Camer-oonian also have a nice soft touch from within 15 to 18 ft but his most important asset is his willingness to play according to the role that his coach wants him to play and his dedication to play defense. He aver-aged almost 3 blocks per game during his 7 game (4 in Araw ng Dabaw and 3 in Pacman Cup) stint with TRMH-VMO Team,” also re-called former TRMH-VMO basketball coordinator Jek Melendres.

Happi was once a mem-ber of the Emilio Aguinaldo

College Gen-erals in the NCAA.

A n o t h e r former varsi-ty player in the

UAAP, Ingrid Sewa, formerly from the Adamson Falcons in the UAAP, is also applying for the NBA Draft.

Happi and Sewa are among the initial 162 pros-pects who have declared for the draft in June.

The 6’7″ Happi Noubeand the 6’10″ Sewa arelisted as players of Virginia Union and Arizona Western College, respectively.

Happi joined EAC in 2012 and was named to the NCAA Mythical Team the year after.

Sewa only played for Adamson in one season in 2014 before parting ways with the Falcons due to vi-olations of certain school rules.

While they were domi-nant forces inside the paint during their time in the

Philippines, the two were only able to post limited numbers when they trans-ferred to the US.

In 18 games, Happi Noube only averaged 1.7 points on 24 percent shoot-ing and 1.7 rebounds in NCAA Division Two.

Sewa meanwhile tallied 7.4 points on 62.7 percent shooting and six rebounds during his 30-game stint in the National Junior College Athletic Association.

It will be a longshot tto hear the names of Happi and Sewa called in the draft with the talents available expected to be deep.

Both players are cur-rently not included in mock drafts in the US.

The 2016 NBA Rookie Draft is scheduled on June 23. Last year, Ray Ray Parks of National University ap-pled for the NBA Draft but was not picked by any team. He landed a spot in the Dal-las D-League team Texas Legends.

DOZIER VS. HENDERSON-NILES:From college teammates to Finals foes

ALYSSA Valdez is not hanging up her Ateneo jersey just yet.

The three-time UAAP MVP bid an emotional good-bye after the Lady Eagles were dethroned by arch rival La Salle in deciding Game 3 of the title series on Saturday, but the 22-year old pride of San Juan, Batangas hopes to wear her cel- ebrated No. 2 jersey o n e last time.

A t e -neo is set to compete in the 18th Asean University Games from July 9-19 in Singapore and the volleyball darling is keeping her fingers crossed that she can still play for the Lady Eagles.

“This July hopefully (maka-paglaro) ako sa Asean Uni-versity

Games,” Valdez said in a s i t -down in- ter-view on Wednesday afternoon.

The Queen Eagle, who steered the Kati-punan-based squad to back-to-back champi-onships in Seasons 76

and 77, said a decent finish in the Asean University Games could be a consolation after the Lady Eagles relinguished the UAAP title to their arch-ri-vals from Taft.

Ateneo bagged a bronze medal in 2014 when the Asean University Games was held in Palembang, Indonesia, although Valdez pointed out the school has yet to confirm its participation in the tour-nament.

“Hopefully if possible pwede (pa ako makalaro), Ateneo ang dadalhin ko,” she

said. “Pero I’m not yet sure kasi hindi pa kami naka-

ka-commit. So hopeful-ly talaga kasi it’s for the

country din naman.”Aside from the

Asean Universi-ty Games, Valdez will play in the 13th Season of the Shakey’s V-League but she has yet to com-mit to a particu-lar team.

Alyssa to play for Ateneo in ASEAN Unigames

Cavs drain 25 triples in runaway Game 2 win

TWO African players who once suited up in the Phil-ippine collegiate leagues

have applied for the 2016 NBA Rookie Draft.

Cameroonian big men Ced-ric Happi Noube, once a member of the Emilio Aguinaldo College Generals in the NCAA, and Ingrid Sewa, formerly from the Adam-son Falcons in the UAAP, are among the initial 162 prospects

who have declared for the draft in June.

The 6’7″ Happi Noube andthe6’10″Sewaarelistedasplay-ers of Virginia Union and Arizona Western College, respectively.

Happi Noube joined EAC in 2012 and was named to the NCAA Mythical Team the year after.

Sewa only played for Adam-son in one season in 2014 before

parting ways with the Falcons due to violations of certain school rules.

While they were dominant forces inside the paint during their time in the Philippines, the two were only able to post limited numbers when they transferred to the US.

In 18 games, Happi Noube only averaged 1.7 points on 24 percent shooting and 1.7 re-

bounds in NCAA Division Two.Sewa meanwhile tallied 7.4

points on 62.7 percent shooting and six rebounds during his 30-game stint in the National Junior College Athletic Association.

Hearing their names called in the draft might be a long shot. Their names are currently not included in mock drafts in the US.

The 2016 NBA Rookie Draft is scheduled on June 23.

ONE MORE TIME. Ateneo volleyball star Alyssa Valdez

will suit up for Ateneo in the Asean University Games in

July.

2 Cameroonian players in UAAP, NCAA apply for 2016 NBA Draft

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