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By CHARLES RAYMOND A. MAXEY

Rody’s guest list balloons to 627; SP members troop to Palace

INAUGURAL SPEECH‘ONE OF THE BEST’

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PATCHING JOB. Workers are engaged in a patching job on road holes left by a boring machine for the ongoing pipe laying project along E. Quirino

Avenue in Davao City yesterday. The frequent excavation on the city’s streets caused heavy traffic and inconvenience to the public. Lean Daval Jr.

AMID the simplicity of his inauguration, Pres-ident-elect Rodrigo R.

Duterte will deliver an inspir-ing speech to the people when he takes his oath as the 16th President of the Philippines of June 30 in Malacañang.

“It will be one of the best speeches ever delivered in the Palace, incoming communica-tions chief Martin Andanar said in a recent press briefing at The Royal Mandaya Hotel.

And, eager to see him take his oath of office as the coun-try’s new leader and to hear him spell out his programs, more and more people are trooping to Malacañang for the important occasion.

From a target of 500 guests, the guest list sud-denly ballooned to 627 as of

Wednesday afternoon.Among the attendees are

the members of the Sangguni-ang Panlungsod (SP) of Davao led by its Vice Mayor Paolo Z. Duterte, eldest son of the in-coming president.

The young Duterte and his younger sister, incom-ing Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, have earlier revealed to attend the inau-guration together with their mother Elizabeth Zimmer-mand, the president-elect’s former wife.

Duterte also had a stint with the SP. He was vice may-or of Davao from 2010 to 2013.

Andanar, however, the number would still be trimmed down to 500 by the organizing committee

“The committee will de-cide who will be the guests,” Andanar said.

With less than ten days to go to the June 30 inaugura-tion, Andanar said there will still be changes.

He further announced that organizing committee has decided to approve access for nine national broadcasting companies at the new execu-tive building in Malacañang.

Other media outfits can get accreditation from the Presidential; Communi-cations Operation’s Office (PCOO).

Andanar said they are still refining other details such as Duterte’s speech, which is currently managed by two persons.

Duterte, Andanar said,

is also very keen on using the teleprompter during his speech.

Andanar, however, noted that Duterte “has a tenden-cy of not following the script and goes extemporaneous on some issues.”

“The President still has full editorial control of the speech,” he said.

Andanar said the entire event would still be simple with no expensive foods on the table.

“The President is a simple man, do not expect any cham-pagne, caviar or blue cheese,” he said.

Duterte is expected to ar-rive in Malacañang at 10:30 a.m. The inauguration will start 12 noon. (With a report from PNA)

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PROJECT PRESENTATION. Incoming President Rodrigo R. Duterte listens to explanation of construction magnate Reghis M. Romero II during the presentation of perspective models of the P39 billion Davao coastline and port development project at SMX Convention Center recently. Duterte challenged developers to start the project within a year. Lean Daval Jr.

adlopez0920@gmail.comBy ALEXANDER D. LOPEZ

PRESIDENT-ELECT Ro-drigo R. Duterte called on government officials

and personnel who are into “corrupt” activities to “shape up now” as he reiterated his commitment to cleanse the bureaucracy of corruption in his upcoming administration.

Duterte, who graced the oath-taking here on Wednes-day afternoon of Senator-elect Emmanuel “Manny” Pacqiuao and the newly-elected officials of Sarangani and General San-tos City, said the crackdown against corruption will be among his top priorities as he promised during his cam-paign.

He rallied the area’s in-coming set of officials to join him and do their share in the campaign against corruption.

“Let give the Filipinos a respite from corruption. If you really want to help your coun-try, now is the time that I’m there,” he said in his speech at the jam-packed provincial gymnasium here.

The incoming President said his anti-corruption cam-paign will not mainly target certain personalities but on the cleansing of government institutions.

He said he will start with the Bureau of Customs and the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which he described as “an in-stitution known to be corrupt since time immemorial.”

Duterte said he is aware that some officials and em-ployees of the two offices are “earning on the side that

Duterte to corrupt officials,personnel: ‘Shape up now’

DAVAO del Norte 1st District Representative and Incoming House

Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Wednesday called on the Com-mission on Election (Comelec) to immediately release its resolution which purported-ly granted the Liberal Party (LP) a 14-day extension in the filing of its statement of con-tributions and expenditures (SOCE).

“It is of utmost importance in order to allow all interested parties to question the legality of the said resolution before the Supreme Court (SC),” Alva-rez said in a statement to the media here.

The said Comelec reso-

lution allowed LP to file its SOCEs one week after the June 8 deadline, a move that put the poll department in question to various quarters in the coun-try.

Section 14 of Republic Act 7166 states: “Every candidate and treasurer of the political party shall, within thirty (30) days after the day of the elec-tion, file in duplicate with the offices of the Commission the full, true and itemized state-ment of all contributions and expenditures in connection with the election.”

The provision of the law added that no person elected to any public office shall enter upon the duties of his office

until he has filed the state-ment of contributions and expenditures herein required. The same prohibition shall ap-ply if the political party which nominated the winning candi-date fails to file the statement required herein within the pe-riod prescribed by this Act.

“Right or wrong, there seems to be a public percep-tion that the release of the res-olution is being held in abey-ance until after the sought-for 14-day extension lapses so it may no longer be questioned before the SC,” Alvarez assert-ed.

If such notion will come out true, the Davao del Norte solon said Comelec “may end

up as a damaged institution as it will be a party to two very serious violations – extending the non-extendible deadline in the filing of SOCEs and depriv-ing the people of the right to question that extension before the SC.

“The Comelec should have been the first to uphold the SOCE provision of Republic Act No. 7166, which states that all candidates, winners or los-ers, must file their SOCEs with-in 30 days after the elections,” he said, adding that by acqui-escing to the LP SOCE filing ex-tension, the poll body became the first to violate RA 7166, as well as its own Comelec Res-

Alvarez tells Comelec: ‘Show SOCE resolution’

PHILEX Mining Corp. is open to whoever Presi-dent-elect Rodrigo Dute-

rte appoints to head the De-partment of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

“Philex has committed to support President Duterte and his drive against illegal and ir-responsible mining,” said Atty. Michael T. Toledo, MVP Group Media Bureau head and Senior Vice-President for Public and Regulatory Affairs at Philex.

“We are open to sitting down and working with the

new DENR Secretary to fur-ther the President’s call, to stamp out the illegal and ir-responsible miners who give the industry a bad name,” he added.

The incoming President has designated anti-mining advocate Gina Lopez as DENR Secretary.

Toledo said the Presi-dent-elect had “every right to appoint whoever he deems fit to become the next (DENR) Secretary, not just on a matter of competence, but also on a

matter of trust and confidence as a member of his official family.”

He added that in its 60 years of living the tradition of responsible mining, Philex has adhered to “doing what is right” according to interna-tional standards, in response to the President-elect’s state-ments made at the recent Su-long Pilipinas Davao confer-ence.

With regards to the impact of the acceptance of Gina Lo-pez as DENR Secretary, Toledo

said that perhaps “we should give her a chance as she is a known advocate for climate change and environmental protection.”

“I understand that she (Lopez) has made recommen-dations to President Duterte on how to move the industry forward; we are always open to working with whoever would want to improve the industry and move the nation forward towards economic development and inclusive growth,” he said. (PNA)

Philex backs Rody’s drive vs irresponsible miningONE of the six police offi-cers who were injured in a grenade explosion

on Monday in Maasim, Saran-gani Province has succumbed to “multiple blast injuries.” Late Wednesday night.

Supt. Romeo Galgo Jr., public information officer of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 12, said Thursday Po-lice Officer (PO) 1 Almasir Tingkasan died while under-going treatment in a hospital here.

He said Tingkasan had sustained serious injuries as

a result of the explosion near a waiting shed in front of the municipal health station of Maasim around 8:35 p.m. on Monday.

The late police officer and five other members of the Maasim police station were then securing the area for an activity in line with the town’s Kestebeng Festival.

Two other civilians, a nurse and a tricycle driver, were also injured in the inci-dent.

Chief Supt. Cedrick Train,

Injured policeman in Sarangani blast dies

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WITH only seven days left before the inau-guration of the first

president from Mindanao, lo-

cal haberdashery Chardin is taking everything seriously in its preparation of the kind of clothing he will wear for the

momentous occasion in spite of the fact that the outgoing mayor of Davao City is a long-time customer.

This is understandable. For local designers Bonie Ada-za and his partner Richard Pulachi, this will be the first time they will be designing for a president of the country. But, surely this won’t be their last for the 71-year-old Duterte either.

“We’ve been making bar-ong and plaid polo for the President for years even be-fore I entered here almost seven years ago,” Adaza said while showing a photo of Duterte in his blue polo during the thanksgiving party at the Crocodile Park last June 4.

The 35-year-old Adaza said choosing the right one out of the 12 Mindanaoan-in-sipred barong Tagalongs they have designed is definitely not a priority of the presi-dent-elect for his inaugura-tion noon of June 30 in Mala-cañang.

“We’ve designed 12 boxed-style embroideries for

the barong of the mayor,” Ada-za said, adding that a single design would usually take one day to finish.

Six of these barongs were also delivered to Duterte while the remaining six will be sent soon.

Adaza said he drew in-spiration from the 12 tribes in Davao City, focusing on the intricate designs on their clothing.

“For instance, I got one of the designs patterned from the skirt of the Manobo tribe,” he said, adding the President wanted everything to be as simple as possible.

“You wouldn’t notice the design of embroidery imme-diately because it is not color-ful just like how the culture 0f Mindanao is portrayed,” Adaza said.

Instead, the designer used three-dimensional (3D) col-ors like beige, ecru, and light brown for the 12 designs of embroideries.

The main material to be used for his barong isgusi, a

Rody Duterte’s local designersmaking a name for themselves

THE 10th Infantry (Agila) Division of the Philip-pine Army on Wednes-

day condemned the attack against the two members of Citizens Armed Forces Geo-graphical Unit on Tuesday, at around 6:00 in the evening in Purok 7, Sitio Cristory, Baran-gay Embac, Paquibato District, Davao City.

“The CAFGUs who were members of Guinubatan De-tachment were unarmed when waylaid by armed men”, Army Captain Rhyan Batchar, chief information officer of 10th ID said in a statement to the media on Wednesday.

Batchar reported that CAFGU members Mansarok Imbac and Ruel Salangoy were on board a single motorcy-cle to get their food supplies

when ambushed by unde-termined number of armed men believed to be members of communists New People’s Army (NPA).

Imbac died during the incident while Salangoy sus-tained gunshot wounds and now recuperating in a medical facility in Davao City.

In the same statement, 10th ID commander Major General Rafael Valencia con-demned the incident, dubbing the same as a treacherous act committed by the NPAs in the area.

“The victims were un-armed while on the way to secure their food but were brutally targeted by the NPAs,” Valencia pointed out.

The perpetrators immedi-

THE city government has raised anew the alert level for the possible oc-

currence of floods and other related disasters in the wake of the sporadic heavy rains in the area in the last several days.

Dr. Agripino Dacera, City Disaster Risk Reduction Man-agement Office head, said Thursday their latest assess-ment showed that at least 17 barangays in the city are high-ly-prone to flooding during the rainy season.

He said these are Baran-gays Dadiangas South, Buayan,

Bula, Dadiangas West, Balu-an, Ligaya, Dadiangas North, Calumpang, Lagao, Labangal, City Heights, Dadiangas East, Fatima, San Isidro, Apopong, Katangawan and Mabuhay.

“We’re not yet experienc-ing La Nina but we’re already having problems in these areas during heavy rains,” he said in an interview over radio station Brigada News FM here.

La Nina, which is the op-posite of the El Nino Phenom-enon or severe dry weather, is characterized by unusually cold ocean temperatures in the

Equatorial Pacific that results to longer than usual rainy ep-isodes.

Dacera said the identified flood-prone areas are inhabit-ed by about 26 percent of the city’s population or around 139,300 individuals.

The official said they are closely monitoring the situ-ation in these areas to pre-vent the occurrence of severe floods.

He said the local govern-ment has already made var-ious interventions, among them the clearing of clogged-

up waterways and rechannel-ing of rivers, to address the problem.

Aside from floods, Dacera said they are also monitoring some areas for the possible oc-currence of landslides.

He said these are Baran-gays Batomelong, Bawing, Conel, Olympog, San Jose, Si-nawal, Tambler, Tinagacan and Upper Labay.

“These areas have no problem in terms of flooding but they are considered as high risk zones for landslides,” he added. (PNA)

GenSan City raises alert vs floods

Army condemns attackvs. unarmed CAFGUs

adlopez0920@gmail.comBy ALEXANDER D. LOPEZ

crc@edgedavao.netBy CHENEEN R. CAPON

UNARMED. Major General Rafael Valencia, commander of the 10th Infantry (Agila) Division of the Philippine Army on Wedensday condemned the attack perpetrated by the New People’s Army against two unarmed CAFGU members on Tuesday in Paquibato District, Davao City. (Alexander D. Lopez)

THE country needs to invest more in higher education and skills

training that can contribute to inclusive growth, accord-ing to a study by state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).

PIDS consultant Dante Canlas said new jobs in new industries, such as those in information and communica-tions technology (ICT), have emerged.

He said the demand for highly productive jobs in-creases as other industries innovate and grow by adopt-ing ICT in their processes.

“It is thus important for public policy to ensure that access to higher education

and skills training required by these new jobs are ex-panded and equalized. Other-wise, income inequality gets perpetuated as the economy continues to grow,” he added.

However, Canlas noted that entering college depends on the ability of a family to pay and not on the ability to learn, “a situation that needs to be corrected to make growth that is driven by high-er education inclusive.”

“If public policy can ad-equately address the phe-nomenon of missing financial markets for college educa-tion, then the likelihood of achieving inclusive growth from investing in higher ed-

Phl told: Invest more in higher education

THE proposed National Identification system can be of great help in

curbing criminality under the Duterte administration.

Incoming House Speaker and Davao del Norte Repre-sentative Pantaleon ‘Bebot’ Alvarez said though there is no marching order yet from Pres-ident-elect Rodrigo Duterte to prioritize the measure, he sees the national ID system can fast track the solution of crimes.

Alvarez hinted that there will always be an evil genius who can come up with ways and means to game a gov-ernment program for selfish purposes. “but this fact of life should not paralyze the gov-ernment to inaction.”

“To address this issue, the proposed bill provides for sanctions for the misuse or abuse of the ID card system,” he said.

Although security and privacy concerns are valid, he said “we should not lose sight of the benefits or advantages

of having a uniform comput-erized system of identification of Filipino citizens wherever they may be.”

It’s been almost two de-cades since the government first initiated the establish-ment of a national ID system.

In 1996, then President Fi-del Ramos issued Administra-tive Order No. 308 adopting a National Computerized Identi-fication System.

Unfortunately, the order was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on the ground that legislative approv-al is required for the scheme.

Learning from this re-versal, then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued Ex-ecutive Order 420 requiring all government agencies and government-owned and -con-trolled corporations to harmo-nize their ID systems.

This time, the program passed muster. The tribunal upheld its validity because it applies only to government

Nat’l ID system a deterrent against crime, says Alvarez

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Bonie Adaza (right) and his partner Richard Pulachi (left)

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crc@edgedavao.netBy CHENEEN R. CAPON

Incoming trade chief to boost agri sectorINCOMING trade secretary

Ramon “Mon” Lopez is eyeing to bring back the

glory days of the country’s agriculture sector through value-adding and moderniza-tion.

Believing on the competi-tive edge of the sector, Ramon told reporters at the sidelines of the Mindanao Collective Trademark launch at the Park Inn by Radissons in Davao City that he will be focusing on programs that will boost agri-based industries through value-adding.

“We will be pushing for in-novative, value adding indus-tries that will generate more quality jobs, better income for the Filipinos,” Ramon said, adding all programs will be geared toward rural develop-ment.

Ramon underscored the importance of having a sus-tainable production of goods from the agriculture sector to sustain export, a path that will be taken during the Duterte administration.

“We have to make sure that the domestic base is there,” he added.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will further promote international trade facilitation to encourage more activities in the country as well as strengthen its ties with the Department of Agriculture (DA) which will be headed by North Cotabato former gover-nor Emmanuel “Manny” Piñol.

Lopez, who served as the executive director of Go Nego-syo, a non-stock, non-profit organization pushing for de-velopment of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) through provision of programs and mentorship, believed that famers and pro-

ducers have start to think as “entrepreneurs.”

Lopez said selling val-ue-added products from simple processing, instead at commodity price, can increase farmers’ income.

“Simple processing can level up the price point and then we have better margin,” he said.

The next secretary plans to adopt the provision of Shared Service Facility (SSF) to associations and cooper-ative to address the need for equipment that will improve their value-adding process.

“We will try to include that in the budget from any foreign assistance that can be obtained,” Lopez said.

Compared to past admin-istrations, the incoming gov-ernment will be zeroing in on the integration of micro, small and medium enterprises, ac-cording to Lopez.

“The big businesses can take care of themselves. We will give purposive assistance to SMEs which accounts 99.6 percent of the total businesses in the country,” Lopez said.

“We’ll try to link big indus-tries or exporting companies to MSMEs as a production base of subcontractor and make SMEs be part of that val-ue chain,” he added.

They will be linked to big guys who will sustain the eco-nomic activity.

Lopez also encouraged MSMEs to seize the opportu-nities by entering into e-com-merce.

Considered to be an equal-izer, he said selling and mar-keting through the internet offers small businesses a com-petitive chance to reach wider spectrum of domestic and in-ternational market.

CHRISTMAS lights that use light-emitting diode (LED) lamps are now

within the scope of Philip-pine National Standard (PNS) 189:2000 and are covered by the Product Certification Scheme.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), through its Bureau of Philippine Stan-dards (BPS), explained that the scope of PNS 189:2000 encapsulates the specified safety requirements for light-ing sets using miniature and sub-miniature lamps for dec-orative purposes.

The BPS further clarified that the standard also applies to fully-assembled lighting sets such as those for Christ-mas trees complete with lamps using supply voltage not exceeding 250V single phase.

DTI-Davao Regional Di-rector Maria Belenda Q. Ambi said with the inclusion of the LED Christmas light in the list of mandatory products, they are now subject to the agen-cy’s monitoring and enforce-

ment activities.“As part of the mandatory

products that DTI monitors, this means that we are going to intensify our efforts in en-suring that LED Christmas lights are safe for all consum-ers,” Ambi pointed out.

The DTI official further stated that manufacturers, importers and retailers found not complying with the BPS Product Certification Scheme will be filed with administra-tive charges for violation of the DTI Department Admin-istrative Order (DAO) 2:2007; Republic Act (RA) 7394, oth-erwise known as the Con-sumer Act of the Philippines; and RA 4109 or the Standards Law.

For those who have clar-ification about this latest an-nouncement, inquiries can be addressed to DTI-Davao Region at 4F Mintrade Realty Building, corner Monteverde and Sales Streets, Davao City, or through landline number (082) 224-0511, local 417 and 420 (Consumer Protection Services). (DTI/WDG/jmm)

LED Christmas lights included in certification

BEAUTIFICATION. The Quezon Park in front of the Davao City Hall is undergoing beautification and rehabilitation as preparation for the incoming administration led by Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio. Lean Daval Jr.

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EUROPEAN Union (EU) ambassador Franz Jessen urged the next

administration to relax the Constitution in terms of for-eign corporate ownership, a strategy to entice more West-ern investors.

While Jessen sees a posi-tive outlook on the Philippine economy under the Duterte administration, he said the incoming president and his legislators should look into the possibility of eliminating the 60-40 percent on foreign ownership in favor of Filipino citizens.

“The European market is open. One hundred percent ownership is accepted and it is not a problem,” he told busi-ness reporters at the sidelines

of the launch of the Mindan-ao Collective Trademark in Davao City last Tuesday

Jessen finds it surprising that the country is so protec-tive of itself when it comes to foreign businessmen, but a large portion of the Filipino population is taking advan-tage of the open market in US, Europe and Middle Eastern countries.

“They don’t get 60-40 share in those countries,” he said.

There has to be a balance, according to Jessen.

He said some foreign companies refrain from es-tablishing operation in the Philippines because of the re-straining economic policy.

“There are some com-

panies who would not want to share their technology to someone they barely know just for the sake of establish-ing of operation here,” Jessen said.

“The Philippines will ben-efit from the open market abroad they will also benefit from open market internally,” he added.

The next president, Jes-sen said, should focus on ad-dressing red tape which holds the economy from maximiz-ing its growth.

While land ownership is not a problem for foreign businesses, Jessen said effort to reduce share cap on foreign ownership will attract inves-tors in the Philippines, espe-cially now efforts to attain

lasting peace in Mindanao are explored by the incoming government and rebels.

“I think there’s a positive sign going on here. I’m opti-mistic about it not only with the economic development but also with the effort to cre-ate lasting peace,” he said.

Jessen said businessmen from the EU are eyeing to invest in the island’s logistic sector, but only if peace is as-sured.

Meanwhile, the econom-ic team of President Duterte bared the relaxation of the Constitution especially on the foreign ownership as one of its agenda which will be undertaken by the admin-istration to attain inclusive growth.

Rody admin told: Relax foreign ownership rule

REPAIR. An elderly man repairs a damaged radiator before reselling it in a much lower price along Villa Abrille Street in Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

crc@edgedavao.netBy CHENEEN R. CAPON

THREE outstanding farmers from South Cotabato province will

be representing Region 12 or Soccsksargen in this year’s Ga-wad Saka national search.

Justina Navarrete, chief of the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist, said Thursday the three national finalists were among the five earlier endorsed by the provincial government for the regional level of the annual search.

She said they are Fer-nando Montemayor of Polo-molom town in small animal raisers category; John Rollin Mondejar of Banga in the young farmer category; and Regina Roferos, also of Banga, in the inland fishery culture category.

The two other provin-cial nominees were Ma. Lucyl Perida of Sto. Nino in the large animal raiser category and Ba-rangay Katipunan of Sto Nino. in the barangay food terminal category.

“We’re very happy with the results and confident with the chances of our three na-tional finalists,” Navarrete said.

Gawad Saka is an annu-al search undertaken by the Department of Agriculture to

recognize farmers, fisher folks and people’s organizations or groups that have made “ex-emplary” contributions to the country’s agricultural devel-opment.

It is conducted in coordi-nation with the local govern-ment units, other government institutions, non-government organizations and private sec-tor.

The search, which also aimed to inspire farmers to perform better, covers three main categories: institution, individual and commodity. The winners receive presiden-tial citations and cash prizes.

In the last several years, South Cotabato has produced a number of Gawad Saka na-tional awardees.

In 2015, two of the Gawad Saka’s 14 national individu-al awardees and nine group or association winners were from Region 12.

The family of Antonio Lentija of Barangay M. Roxas in Sto. Nino, South Cotabato topped the outstanding farm family category while Girlie Adug of North Cotabato was as adjudged as the most out-standing sugarcane farmer. (PNA)

THE Department of Ag-riculture (DA) and the private sector will in-

tensify hybrid rice expansion in Mindanao, with DA pouring in P130.95 million for seeds, to help alleviate poverty, raise farmers’ income, and eliminate violence and conflict.

DA is also targeting to expand hybrid rice one million hectares beginning the dry sea-son crop year 2016-17 (start-ing November 2016).

“Our hybrid rice area now is just around 400,000 hect-ares. But (incoming) DA Sec. (Emmanuel) Pinol met with the Rice Board in Davao last week about expanding it to one million hectares,” said DA Senior Technical Adviser Dr. Santiago R. Obien.

DA will continue its Pro-duction Support for Technolo-gy Adoption or PSTA for hybrid rice particularly involving seed production.

“Our target is self-suffi-ciency that we’d like to achieve through hybrid rice. We want to have happy farmers who can have twice the production from what they harvest now,” Obien said eralier in a harvest festival in Nueva Ecija.

As the administration of incoming president Rodrigo Duterte is focusing on conflict elimination in Mindanao, DA is apparently supporting in-creased food production pro-grams in Mindanao.

Leading private seed pro-ducer SL Agritech Corp. (SLAC) said it is supporting the Dute-

rte government’s hybrid rice program through own funding of technology demonstration (techno-demo) in Mindanao.

“Bullets may have been raining down on Mindanao, but the technology that can bring increased yield to rice farmers is already here. We will pro-mote hybrid rice in Mindanao where yield now is just below four tons (per hectare),” said SLAC Chairman Henry Lim Bon Liong.

The drought phenome-non El Nino has brought fam-ine to farmers particularly in Kidapawan City, Cotabato. They sought aid but rather ex-perienced violence that led to the death in April this year of two farmers.

But despite El Nino or

even La Nina (heavier rain-fall) which is predicted in the near term, farmers can harvest with hybrid rice a higher yield of 9-10 metric tons (MT) per hectare. In Nueva Ecija where most farmers (on around 90,000 hectares) plant hybrid rice, average yield is nearly 6 MT per hectare.

For 2016, based on initial consultation results, DA’s Pro-duction Support for Technolo-gy Adoption for Region 9 totals to P45.4 million, for 162,000 kilos of hybrid rice seeds; Re-gion 10, P11.24 million, 39,600 kilos; Region 11, P19.105 mil-lion, 90,000 kilos; Region 13, 48,600 kilos, P13.606 million; and ARMM, P41.6 million, 124,785 kilos of seeds.

Hybrid rice in Mindanao to be pursued aggressively by DA with P131-M budget

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A HOSPITALITY con-sultancy expert on Wednesday urged

the Department of Tourism (DOT) to try ‘other mecha-nisms’ in rating accommoda-tions besides its current Star Rating system.

In an interview in Makati City, C9 Hotelworks founder and managing director Bill Barnett said that while it was good to have rating systems regulate safety, he suggested that there should be more participation from the private sector in this matter.

“People don’t want to usually book through a gov-ernment agency. This is why the public and private sec-tors need to work closer to promote tourism. The private sector drivers the brand,” Bar-nett said.

Barnett stressed that the rise travel websites that pro-vide reviews of travel-related content such as TripAdvisor, the rating system has become “self-governing”.

He further stressed that while government would traditionally handle the cer-tification and inspections, the private sector should assist as a manner of practicality.

“Philippines should create a good perception. You need to monitor social media to monitor the brand,” Barnett said, noting that social me-

dia is the quickest and least expensive way to reach more tourists.

The Star Rating system is a five-star grading system launched by the DOT in 2012. An establishment recognized in the DOT Star Rating system means that they comply with internationally-recognized standards.

Tourism establishments that have received accredita-tion from the Department of Tourism (DOT) are set to re-ceive their plaques this month as proof that it t has fully-com-plied with the agency’s re-quirements.

At present, more than 100 accredited establishments have fully complied with all requirements under the Star Rating system.

Establishments with defi-ciencies, meanwhile, continue to correct their deficiencies such as the lack of rooms and facilities for persons with dis-abilities (PWDs).

Effectivity of the Star Rat-ing given to establishments will last for two years. After accreditation expires, they are set to be re-audited.

An updated list of accred-ited establishments such as hotels, resorts and even tour operators, tourist transport, tour guides can be viewed on-line through its official website www.tourism.gov.ph. (PNA)

DOT urged: Try other meansin rating accommodations

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Available andaffordablefood for allText and Photos by HENRYLITO D. TACIO

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BIGGER PICTURE

“AVAILABLE and af-fordable food” -- that’s the mantra of

the administration of Rodrigo R. Duterte when it comes to food production. It means that food should be accessible to all Filipinos -- more than 100 mil-lion of them! -- and that every-one could afford to buy it.

“‘Available and affordable’ is a promise of a nation with a clearly marked path towards development and progress through a well-planned and prudent utilization of its re-sources, both human and nat-ural, and a governance focused on providing for the needs of its people,” explained Emman-uel F. Piñol, the incoming sec-retary of the Department of Agriculture (DA).

In an exclusive interview with Piñol, the former North Cotabato governor told this columnist: “I believe that feeding your people is a lead-er’s greatest obligation. Je-sus Christ did it with the loaf of bread and the fish to feed thousands.”

In his Facebook account, Piñol has already laid down a plan on what he will do during the first 100 days as head of DA. “This roadmap was craft-ed after the rigorous nation-wide journey called the Biya-heng Bukid which, except for a few remaining island prov-inces, brought me to almost all parts of the country,” he wrote.

Among the things he learned during the nationwide were as follows:

• Pervasive poverty in the

agriculture and fisheries sector: “In (the island of) Mindoro, I met fishermen who were renting ‘bancas’ (outriggers) just to be able to catch fish. In Tarlac, right in the front yard of the in-cumbent president, farmers are still using carabaos and crude farming methods.”

• So much potential in both

agriculture and fisheries

sector: “But the DA has lost focus spending huge gov-ernment resources on pro-grams which are not essen-tial to food production.”

• Idle lands and unused wa-

ter: “There are so much idle lands and so much water flowing through the rivers. In fact, we have 247 large rivers which could be used for water supply.”

• “The agricultural statistics

gathering vital to effective planning is flawed.”

• Poor in research and de-

velopment: “The country’s agriculture and fisheries sector is very poor in re-search and development. So much money is wasted on trainings with virtually no results.”

• Poor technology transfer

and information dissemina-tion: “(This is particularly true regarding) farmers’ ac-cess to vital data…”

Piñol believes the country

could achieve rice sufficiency in two to three years “but we have to implement massive interventions,” he wrote and cited the following: repair and rehabilitation of existing irrigation facilities; use of wa-ter pumps in areas with shal-low water level; support of high-yielding seeds, fertilizers and farm inputs for the next two cropping seasons; identi-fication of key rice production areas where water is readily available.

The livestock industry is also in good condition that “the country could be self-suf-ficient with beef, pork, and chicken.” The reason: “There has been to a massive devel-opment in the farming sector which produces feed mate-rials like corn, soya and even malunggay.

Regarding high value crops, he wrote: “There is

“It is my moral obligation to provide available and

affordable food for my people.” -- President Rodrigo R. Duterte

great potential for high value crops, especially in coconut production areas where cof-fee, cacao or abaca could be planted as intercrops.”

Piñol added that with sup-port from government, “the country’s high value crops sec-tor could bring in much-need-ed foreign exchange and cre-ate jobs in the countryside.”

After talking with some officials of the Philippine Co-conut Authority (PCA), he was told that “we could plant 600,000 hectares to coconut over the next six years based on their available seedlings.”

Piñol also observed that there is “a disconnect between agencies directly or indirectly involved in food security. He

cited the agriculture depart-ment and the Department of Environment and Natural Re-sources “in relation to identi-fication of watershed areas for protection to ensure sustain-able agriculture and mining permits in areas where agri-culture could be affected.”

Piñol said that during the first 100 days of the Duterte presidency, his department will undertake the following measures:

- Nation-wide orientation and mind setting for all offi-cials and employees of the DA to ensure that they are guided on the priorities of the Duterte Presidency in agriculture and fisheries and the road map

for the mission to provide available and affordable food for the Filipinos is clearly ex-plained;

- Cash for work program for farmers and fishermen affected by the El Niño. Work includes manual repair and re-habilitation of irrigation facili-ties for farmers and cleaning of coastal waters of garbage and planting of mangrove trees for fisherfolk;

- Start of the national mapping to determine which crop or agricultural activity would be best in a specific area based on geographic, cli-matic and soil type conditions. President Duterte calls this the Color-coded Agriculture Guide Map;

- Start of the National Food Consumption Quanti-fication Survey which would determine what kind of food and the volume of food com-modities consumed by the Fil-ipinos. This would also project the food consumption of the country in relation to popula-tion growth;

- Nationwide inspection of irrigation services, dredging of silted dams and provision of shallow tube wells to ensure sufficient supply of water for the next rice planting season;

- Support in the form seeds, fertilizers, farm inputs two planting seasons in the form of calamity assistance;

- For the fisherfolk, dis-tribution of fishing boats and nets;

- Nationwide face-face in-teraction between the DA sec-retary and the stakeholders in the agriculture and fishery sectors to address their con-cerns;

- Project Management Teams will also be organized in coordination with the local government units of the coun-try’s 10 poorest provinces to

ensure that the DA’s food pro-duction program would also result in poverty alleviation;

- A special project titled “Pagkain Para sa Masa” will be launched in Metro Manila establishing “arroz caldo” feeding stations to ensure that the street dwellers and the homeless will not go to sleep on an empty stomach. This project will be implemented jointly with the two other de-partment (health and social welfare and development) and the local government units in Metro Manila.

- Another special project, the “Bantay Dagat,” will en-gage the Badjaos in cleaning the waters of coastal commu-nities to make them produc-tive;

- In cooperation and coor-dination with the three depart-ment (health, social work and development and education), the DA will also spearhead the launching of a communi-ty-based milk feeding program in areas where farmers are in-volved in dairy production.

- In preparation for the La Niña which is expected to hit the country by November or December 2016, the DA sec-retary will direct the Philip-pine Crop Insurance Corp. to include in the crop insurance program farmers in the high risk areas.

- The National Food Au-thority will also be directed to pre-position sufficient rice and food supplies in areas expect-ed to be affected by La Niña.

- Inter-agency connectiv-ity between the DA and the Bureau of Customs will also be established during the first 100 days of President Duterte to ensure that the smuggling of rice, meat products and other agricultural products like on-ion, garlic and even ginger will stop.

Emmanuel Piñol

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EDITORIALFunction not form

SOME people must have mistaken the presidency for a fashion show. Two journalists from a prominent for-eign-based media organization have criticized Presi-

dent-in-waiting Rodrigo Duterte for wearing the same shirt many times over.

The writers were referring to a simple, casual brown shirt Duterte wore several times during the campaign period and shortly after the elections.

So what if Duterte is wearing the same shirt? Is that un-President-like?

Duterte has already made heads spin when he won the elections by plurality and with a campaign kitty that relied much on friend’s donations. He has put to shame the genius-es of election warfare by methodically winning an election

“on his own terms.”By saying on his own terms, Duterte and his team did not

join the same track as would the other candidates. He blazed a trail himself and forced his rivals to fight him on his own track.

That is now history. The next thing people notice is that he is not the usual. He is so simple and ordinary.

Like most of us, he wears his clothes not minding how of-ten it has been washed and worn. Is there any problem with that?

Let’s put it clearly, Duterte ran and was elected as Pres-ident. He did not join a reality TV show or a search for the next top model.

Duterte is function not form.

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OKAY, marriage is a sacred insti-tution. It was initiated by God Himself in the Garden of Eden.

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24).

The first marriage came into my mind when I heard a little girl who was asked during a Sunday school if she knew the story of Adam and Eve. “Of course, I do,” she replied. “First God made Adam and then looked at him and said, ‘I think I can do better,’ so He creat-ed a woman.”

Yes, children have funny views. But adults, too, can’t help poking fun on marriage, despite its sanctity. “Marriage is a great institution,” said Hollywood bombshell Mae West, “but I’m not ready for an institution yet.” To the great Ital-ian Leonardo Da Vinci, marriage “is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”

Views about marriage abound. “Mar-riage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose,” says British writ-er Beverley Nichols. In other words, “All marriages are happy,” to quote the words of Canadian playwright Ray-mond Hull. But he added, “It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.”

English writer G.K. Chesterton has a similar view: “Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.” After all, “marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.” That’s what Irish play-wright George Bernard Shaw once said.

When it comes to mar-riage, men and women have different ideas. Amer-ican author and play-wright Jean Kerr writes, “Marrying a man is like buying some-thing you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t al-ways go with everything in the house.”

As a reply to that statement, an un-known author penned, “Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, and then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that.”

Women have more to say about hus-bands. Hollywood star Zsa Zsa Gabor, who had been married several times, commented, “Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.” Sexpot Marilyn Monroe, who also married on several occasions, had the same view: “Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”

Love and marriage are two different things. “Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock,” some-one quipped. “If love means never having to say you’re sorry,” American actress Estelle Getty pointed out, “then marriage means always having to say everything twice.”

If in the past you want to make love with your partner, please be aware: marriage changes passion. After the wedding, you’re suddenly in bed with a relative. On second thought, marriage – according to American comedian Alan King – is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Of course, fights are not uncommon among married couples. “In the ear-ly years, you fight because you don’t understand each other,” commented American journalist Joan Didion. “In the later years, you fight because you do.” This statement may have impelled American comedienne Phyllis Diller to suggest: “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”

To avoid all those unnecessary trou-bles, American president Lyndon B. Johnson suggests, “I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.” Comedian Joey Adams was right: “Marriage is give and take. You’d better give it to her or she’ll take it anyway.”

How will you know that your mar-riage is in trouble? According to award-winning American comedian Mil-ton Berle, you will know it “if your wife says, ‘You’re only interested in one thing,’ and you can’t remember what it is.”

Of course, there are successful mar-riages. When British-born American comedian Henry Youngman was asked about the secret of their long marriage, he replied, “We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week: a little can-dlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.”

“The happiest marriage I can imag-ine to myself,” contends English poet S.T. Coleridge, “would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.” To either husband or wife, American statesman Benjamin Franklin suggests, “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.”

American poet Ogden Nash suggests, “To keep your marriage brimming with love in the loving cup: Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.” Take it from American come-dian Rodney Dangerfield: “I haven’t spo-ken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.”

The woman cries before the wedding and the man after, so goes a Polish prov-erb. This story proves: A man placed some flowers on the grave of his dearly parted mother and started back towards his car when his attention was diverted to another man kneeling at a grave. The man seemed to be praying with pro-found intensity and kept repeating, “Why did you have to die?”

The man approached the grieving fellow and asked, “Sir, I don’t wish to interfere with your private grief, but this demonstration of pain is more than I’ve ever seen before. For whom do you mourn so deeply? Is it your child or your mother or father?”

The mourner took a closer look at the person asking and then said, “My wife’s first husband.”

It’s good to be married though. Soc-rates declared, “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a phi-losopher.” Now, you know why he be-came a classical Greek philosopher.

INCOMING President Rodrigo Duter-te has warned mayors who are into drugs in his upteenth strong state-

ment against illegal drugs before his for-mal inauguration a week from now.

Speaking before businessmen in workshop called by the Duterte econom-ic team in Davao City, the President-elect warned that “seven years from now the country will have narco politics” at the rate the drug menace continues unabat-ed victimizing the youths.

“Ok lang sana kung matanda na ang nabiktima,” Duterte said, after recalling what he personally saw at a gasoline sta-tion in Pasay of a young boy “na parang tulog na gising (half awake).”

“You have crossed the red light, and I’m warning you,” he added, visibly di-recting this to the mayors who are into drugs, druglords and dealers and cor-rupt policemen “including NBI (National Bureau of Investigation).”

Duterte said that a number of mayors won because of drug money.

“I will not allow it to happen, wawarningan ko talaga kayo pati itong police na tinamaan at ang NBI,” he said, cutting his statement on what he would

do if he meets involved mayors in one corner.

Duterte expressed positive note that as soon as he commented on the Pas-ay rave party incident for the police to prepare for a “massive revamp”, on the next days many drug-involved had been arrested and even killed.

“Baka pinapatay ang bata nila para hindi na pumiyait,” he said,offering a scenario of the silencing of drug cohorts so they could not sing their syndicate’s secrets.

Duterte said that when he assumes office he would form one elite company of policemen with special assignment to crackdown on the drug menace, and “if

they kill upon my orders, they would be mine.”

He added he would not follow the orders of Commission of Human Rights chairman Chito Gascon.

The incoming president earlier raised a P5-million bounty for those who could kill a top drug dealer, even as incoming PNP Chief Ronald Dela Rosa warned for a scorched-earth war against drug in response to the report that top druglords operating inside Bilibid pris-on raised a P50 million kill price each for Duterte and Dela Rosa.

This is a fair warning from the in-coming President, who has a reputation of always doing what he says.

The lighter side of marriage

Warning from the PresidentBY CHA MONFORTE

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olution No. 9991, which ruled out late filings and affirmed that the June 8 deadline is final and non-extendible.

The late filing of SOCEs, he stressed, is tantamount to non-filing which carries the penalty of the winning candi-dates being barred from as-suming their posts.

“We are supposed to be a government of laws and not of men. Having said that, what’s the point of enacting laws if they will not be implemented or, worse, as in the case of the Comelec and RA 7166, the poll body becomes the primary vi-olator of the law it is supposed to uphold and enforce?”

Voting 4-3, the Comelec en banc on Thursday last week granted LP’s request to extend the deadline for the filing of SOCEs up to June 30.

The LP failed to beat the June 8 deadline which the poll body earlier declared as non-extendable.

Speaking to reporters af-ter the en banc ruling, Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said the decision will benefit other candidates who failed to submit their SOCEs on time.

There were 5 senators, 150 congressmen and 40 gov-ernors who failed to submit their respective SOCEs last June 8, Jimenez added.

Those in favoured the ex-tension of the filing of SOCEs were Commissioners Rowena Guanzon, Albert Lim, Al Par-reño and Sheriff Abas.

Comelec chair Andres Bautista, Commissioners Luie Guia and Christian Robert Lim voted against the extension.

Following the en banc de-cision, Commissioner Chris-tian Robert Lim who voted against the extension of the filing of SOCEs resigned as head of the Campaign Finance Office (CFO).

His resignation was ac-cepted by the commission on Tuesday.

Lim argued that the en banc decision was tantamount to the amendment of the law, particularly section 14 of RA 7166 that set the filing of SOCEs 30 days after the day of the election.

Comelec’s CFO is formerly called Campaign Finance Unit that was reorganized through the poll body’s Resolution No. 9854 and tasked to implement all existing campaign finance laws, rules and regulations.

The office is also respon-sible in the monitoring of fund raising and spending activities of candidates and parties and to receive and keep the sub-mitted SOCEs of candidates and parties.

“The incoming President Rodrigo Duterte won via land-slide in the last elections pre-cisely because Filipinos want to put a stop to government entities like the Comelec who is working not to serve the interest of the people but of the powerful like the party of the outgoing administration,” Congressman Alvarez contin-ued in his statement.

On Wednesday, June 22, two weeks after the June 8 deadline, defeated presiden-tial candidate and LP standard bearer Mar Roxas filed his SOCE at the Comelec office.

makes your (regular) salaries appear like mere allowances.”

“Kailangang huminto na kayo (You need to stop now). This time you have to change your lifestyles and try to be just an ordinary government worker,” he said.

“We’re just humans who make mistakes. But milking the people of the Republic of the Philippines -- that’s hard to accept. I’m not used to that,” Duterte said.

The President-elect said he will act on complaints against corrupt government officials and employees “even through whisper.”

“Whatever government agency (you are in). When you will be found involved in corruption, I will fire you or place you somewhere. You can choose -- in ComVal Valley (Compostela Valley) or Jolo (Sulu). I will not hesitate real-ly,” he added. (PNA)

Region 12 police director, expressed sympathy to PO1 Tingkasan’s family and vowed to make sure that justice will be served to all victims of the incident.

“We strongly condemn this act of violence, which was not only against our men but also against the people of Maa-sim,” he said in a statement.

The police official said he will “see to it that thorough investigation will be conduct-ed to identify the perpetrators behind the incident.”

Train assured that the PRO-12 will provide the nec-essary assistance to the family of Tingkasan and the five other police officers.

He also called on con-cerned residents of Maasim to coordinate with local author-ities should they have any in-formation that could assist in

the swift resolution of the case and in the delivery of justice to the victims.

A report from the Maasim police station earlier said an unidentified person aboard a motorcycle hurled an object at the waiting shed in front of the town’s health center prior to the explosion.

The other injured police-men were Insp. Danilo Abata-ya, the deputy police station chief of Maasim; PO1 Romel Badua, Rowell Sobretodo and Sukran Donisa Sugod; and PO2 Mark Victor Naya.

The injured civilians were identified as Jetphunie Nava-les and Leonardo dela Peña.

Galgo earlier said investi-gators are looking at a number of angles, including the disrup-tion of the town’s festivities, as possible motive of the inci-dent. (Mindanews)

ately fled from the area after shooting the victims.

Batchar said pursuit op-

eration was immediately con-ducted by the army against the fleeing NPAs.

synthetic fiber, while pure cot-ton will be used for the sewing of the slacks.

It is the President’s com-mon law wife, Honeylet Avanceña, who’s taking the lead in making sure that Dute-rte’s barongs will be all fin-ished in time for the ceremony.

Adaza said Avanceña left them with a note that the President’s barong should not make bulk on the shoulder area.

“We left that to the exper-tise of our master cutter who’s been servicing the mayor since 2003,” he said.

Adaza said the President has a very sensitive skin and is a fan of simple style.

After inaugurationChardin will also create

Duterte’s daily office barongs which he can use for meetings.

“As of now, I have already made some but it is not fin-ished,” Adaza said.

Getting attentionAdaza said it was really a

big thing for the local shop to design for the country’s chief executive.

Since the Duterte was pro-claimed winner in the May 9 elections, Chardin was already named to become the maker of his barongs.

This led Chardin to gain more attention.

Adaza said orders for “Duterte style shirts” in-creased by 50 to 60 percent. Chardin is also designing Duterte’s plaid polos

Chardin is also the dress-maker of other politicians in the Davao Region like May-or Benjamin Bautista Jr. and Davao City councilor Danilo Dayanghirang, who will at-tend the inauguration at the Malacañang along with other councilors.

With only a few days be-fore the ceremony, Chardin continue to get orders.

Adaza is hoping this would lead to the rise of the talented fashion designers from Mind-anao.

ucation rises profoundly,” he said.

In pursuing inclusive growth, Canlas underscored the need for the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to play a key role in various activities, including designing student loan and other finan-cial aid programs and deter-mining the budget allocations of state universities and col-leges (SUCs) by region.

“Amid missing markets for college education loans, the government can fill the gap. A loan program is ad-visable as the graduate can

capture the returns from his or her investments through enhanced lifetime earnings. It also improves allocation of resources,” he said.

Canlas further said a na-tional loan program will need to be legislated with the CHED taking the lead in drafting the bill. The program may also include the option of accred-iting private lending institu-tions like banks to participate.

“Loan guarantees and subsidy schemes will have to be extended to incentivize lending institutions to join the program,” he added. (PNA)

agencies that issue ID cards as part of their functions and its issuance is within the power of the president to promul-gate.

The order gave rise to the Unified Multi-Purpose ID Card (UMID) that is issued to the members of SSS, GSIS, Phil-health and Pag-ibig.

In the past Congress, the House of Representatives approved on third and final reading House Bill 5060 (or the proposed Filipino Iden-tification System Act) which requires all Filipinos, whether residing in the Philippines or abroad, to apply for registra-tion and issuance of a national identification card.

The ID card shall bear the cardholder’s photo, name, signature, birth date, gender, date of issue, serial number and such other data that may be deemed necessary by the Philippine Statistics Authority.

The card, which is re-quired to be made of tam-per-proof security material, shall be non-transferable and valid for life.

It may be replaced only (a) when a child becomes of legal age at 18 years old; (b) there is a change in name or fam-ily name by virtue of a court order or application of law, such as a woman who adopts her husband’s surname; (c) in case of loss or destruction; and (d) for other revisions deemed necessary by the cardholder, e.g., changes in facial features due to age or medical inter-vention.

Filipinos living abroad would have to apply for the card at the Philippine Embas-sy or consular office nearest to their place of residence.

The card shall be required for all government transac-tions, such as, application for driver’s license and passport; availment of benefits from the Social Security System (SSS), Government Service Insur-ance System (GSIS), Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (Phil-health), Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-ibig), and clearance application with the National Bureau of Investiga-tion, Philippine National Po-lice and the courts.

The opposition to the pro-posed national ID revolves principally on the perceived threat to security and violation of privacy by the government’s collection of personal informa-tion.

The bill addresses these issues by imposing penal sanctions on the unlawful disclosure of information and records obtained in relation to the application for the ID card.

Admittedly, the proposed ID card is susceptible to abuse or misuse by corrupt govern-ment officials or the cardhold-er himself. And so are many other government licenses, permits or similar documen-tary issuances.

Alvarez is optimistic that the measure may find ways in the 17th Congress to become a law to help deter crimes which is the priority of the Duterte administration. (PNA)

A physically challenged person walks away using his two feet and two hands from the spot where he beg for alms towards an eatery where he will relax and eat his lunch. Lean Daval Jr.

that do not have 3G or inter-net connection, the user can instead use a GSM phone. You just have to type in keywords in your text message,” says Balleza.

Team Jeeper Creepers won P30,000 from DOH and DOST; assorted gadgets from Smart; plus a chance to be incubated

by DOH, DOST-PCHRD and IdeaSpace, the incubator arm of the First Pacific Group of Companies in the Philippines.

They plan to join hack-athons on a regular basis as a means to earn income, or as Sales would put in the ver-nacular, “Mag-hackathon para may baon.”

Roxanne Pardillo, RN, commit-ted to fully prepare the schools in putting window screen and the teachers, students, parents, etc. thru information dissem-ination and massive advocacy utilizing 4S and other means.

“The four (4) o’clock habit of cleaning should be prac-ticed”, stressed by Dr. Emelda Tan Bendijo to improve our status, not number one in the dengue list on the province.

Mayor James Gamao through City Administrator Atty. Jamail Lunar G. Macla stressed on educating the peo-ple on how to avoid dengue than to give them mosquito net and window screen to become

sustainable in social protection and security which should start in the family, barangay and the city.

Also present were the barangay Captains, on repre-sentatives from the forty Ba-rangays headed by ABC Pres-ident Miguel Niez, SP Chair on Health recently elected as Board Member Janet Ta-nong-Maboloc, Capt. Dizon Namuag of New Visayas, Pana-bo City and Provincial Health Staff, Barangay Health Work-ers, representatives of Health Office from Tagum City, Munic-ipality of Carmen, Sto. Tomas, among others. CIO Panabo; Photo By: Jasz Paras

Despite him being a Fine Arts college drop-out, one of his first jobs was as a cartoonist for the local Butuan news-paper wherein he was

also an active member of the Agusan Media Group. It was during their first exhibit that he concentrated on making politically driven Lumad

IN THE JUNGLES OF MINDANAO DURING THE 80S, a young Mr. Anoy Catague, with a bulky camera on his shoulder, captures the struggle and dev-astation effected upon communities of Lumads for the objectives of illegal log-ging and mining of corporate and politi-cal vampires. “Forced out of their homes time and time again, this unique com-munity is culturally on the brink of ex-tinction—especially in the consciousness of our youth,” Sir Anoy explains, “that’s why I have taken it upon myself to center my art around these indigenous tribes to remind people that they are, in fact, still existing and very much demoralized.”

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art on tee shirts using textile paint. The evolu-tion of his work is quite noticeable, as the early ones reflect the young and revolutionary char-acter of the artist—using only black and white col-ors and strong but dis-traught Lumad subjects as his only focal points. Now 47 years old, Sir Anoy has more vitality and driving force than ever, showing the simple

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Dads get superstar treatment at the Abreeza Mall

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WITH TNT, the biggest beach party in the country, the Sarangani Bay Festival or Sar-Bay, just got bigger this year.

EVERY FATHER’S DAY, Abreeza Mall throws a weekend-long themed celebration to honor all the dads in our midst; last year it was a rock ‘n’ roll themed shindig, and the year before that, an Olympics-style festivity. This Father’s Day, Abreeza Mall gave dads the Hollywood movie star treatment with a red carpet, a walk of fame, a giant golden tro-phy, and more!

SarBay is an annual summer beach party held in the pristine waters and white shore strip of Gu-masa in Glan, Sarangani Province. A developing tourist spot in the region, SarBay and its annual party ac-commodated Ka-tropas from all over the country

for one memorable #Su-perFUNaloSummer. Proving this is the one-of-a-kind summer escapade is the smooth but hype-pumped per-formance of international DJs Luane de Lima and Natalia Moon, known as the Lunatic duo, during the TNT Foam Party.

The atmosphere un-leashed the inner party spirits of every SarBay citi-zen present at the event. The event also housed the SarBay Bay Bodies contest where eight males and eight females compet-ed for this year’s titles. Among the contend-ers, Michael Mendoza, 23, Sultan Kudarat and Mary Rose Nacional, 21, Sarangani won the TNT Choice Award. Each can-

didate received a pair of android phone and Smart 4G Pocket Wifi. But the pageant’s top ti-tles went to Ms. Bay Body 2016 Title while John Ra-mos, 20, Tacurong is the Mr. Bay Body 2016. TNT started the party early with lots of activi-ties set up during daytime. Among the hit activities are the the Zumba with the Legends that pro-moted fitness and health

awareness to all SarBay citizens and the TNT Kite Flying Competition where kites formed different air creatures that decorated the skies of Gumasa dur-ing the contest. Hermiheldo Sulpot, 31, Poblacion Glan, won the competition with his uniquely crafted kite that resembles a crow. Sulpot won P8,000 cash prize. Because the SarBay festivities signal a time

for friends and families, TNT arranged for a mini-Amazing Race called “Bida Fastest.” A TNT Booth was also installed in the events area of SarBay to give free ser-vices such as coolers and charging stations. Arnold Dellosa, Sales and Distribution for Mindanao, the #Super-FUNaloSummer is TNT’s way of giving back to sub-scribers. “Actually, summer here in the Philippines is all about fun. The people--friends, families--are looking for ways to cel-ebrate this season. That’s why we launched this #SuperFUNaloSummer to give more reasons to cel-ebrate and have fun this summer,” Dellosa said. TNT has been a part-ner of different festivities in the country, such as of Kadayawan in Davao and Kalilangan in Gensan, giving fun and surprises to the people.

From June 17 to 19, Abreeza Mall held its Fa-ther’s Day celebration at the Ground Floor Super-market Hallway, which was transformed into a section aptly dubbed “VIP Dads” filled with luxuri-ous freebies, sophisticated picks, and elegant furnish-ings. Greeting dads at the entrance of VIP Dads was the Golden Dad Award photowall, where a huge golden statue fashioned after an awards show tro-phy stood. Customers who uploaded their photos with their dads at the photow-all on Instagram got the chance to win a set of great prizes from Abreeza Mall. Further along Abreeza Mall’s VIP Dads section was the Grooming Quar-ters, where dads were treat-ed to a haircut, a massage, or a manicure-pedicure treatment for free by the

able staff of Hair Philoso-phie by Jing Monis. Next to it was the Gentleman’s Hall, a classy lounge where dads, together with their loved ones, were invited to relax, watch a movie, and feast on free pop-corn and drinks from The MovieSnackbar as well as bites and brews from Blugré Coffee. Also in the VIP Dads section was the Gentleman’s Shop, where families scoured racks and

displays by Robinsons De-partment Store, Penshop-pe, and Audio Refinery in search of the perfect gift for their dads. Another VIP Dads gimmick that saw cus-tomers gamely joining in was the Dad’s Walk of Fame, which took inspira-tion from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Here, wives and kids picked stars and lovingly wrote down the names of their husbands

and dads to “induct” them into the hallowed walk. Lastly, the Mati-based outdoor recreation group Mindanao Saga Flying Club brought one of their prized airplanes to the Ground Floor Fashion Hallway to give dads and their kids a unique photo opportunity—rounding out Abreeza Mall’s Fa-ther’s Day attractions with a sky-high surprise. For inquiries and up-dates on Abreeza Mall news and events, please vis-it the Main Concierge at the ground floor or call (082) 321-9332. Stay updated by liking www.facebook.com/AbreezaMall and following @abreezatweets on Twitter and @iloveabreezamall on Instagram.

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A straight guy forays into the ‘beki’ worldHOW FAR WILL YOU GO for your family and for the woman you love? For Conan, he would do anything—even pretend to be gay and work in a beauty salon. GMA Public Affairs proudly presents “Conan My Beautician”, the newest comedy series that promises to be part of the Filipino family’s Sunday viewing habit. Set to debut on June 26, “Conan My Beautician” sees the refreshing tandem of Kapuso actor Mark Herras and 2013 Ms. World Megan Young. Coming from a family of talented barbers, Conan is played by Mark, a straight guy who is forced to work in a beauty salon in Manila after his family is forced to escape from their hometown and his mother is hospitalized. While on the outside he projects the vivacious and most talented beautician at Salon Paz, Conan remains a straight guy on the inside. In fact, he soon finds himself falling in love with Ava, played by Megan, the bride he is supposed to work on in a makeup gig. “Conan My Beautician” is expected to reveal further the versatility of Mark, Starstruck’s first-ever Ultimate Male Survivor. This will be the first time Mark is playing a sensitive role and while he admits that he is still getting used to the idea, he is nonetheless grateful that he is given a very challenging show where he is the

lead actor. “Sobra po akong nagpapasalamat, especially sa GMA for trusting me once again na ipakita ‘yung kaya kong ipakita and after a very very long time, ngayong lang ulit ako nabigyan ng role na talagang iikot ‘yung story sa akin,” Mark shared. For Megan, who is also a Starstruck alumna, “Conan My Beautician” will be her first foray to doing a comedy show. “I don’t think I remember doing a comedy [show] ever in my whole career so that’s a big thing for me. It’s exciting, it’s fun, and I’m looking very much forward to

it,” Megan said. Completing the stellar cast of “Conan My Beautician” are today’s most talented comedians: Cacai Bautista, Jerald Napoles, Betong Sumaya, Boobsie, Tetay, Vangie Labalan, Lotlot De Leon, Jay Manalo, Chlaui Malayao, Antonette Garcia, and Balang. Directed by Adolf Alix, Jr. with Rember Gelera, and penned by award-winning writers headed by Rody Vera with Zig Dulay, Eljay Deldoc, Michael Cardoz, and Jerome Zamora, this riot of a comedy from GMA Public Affairs begins every Sunday on GMA starting June 26 at 5 p.m.

SM CINEMA, THE COUNTRY’S LARGEST CHAIN OF MOVIE HOUSES, has joined GMovies roster of theater partners, giving users of the mobile movie booking app a faster and easier way to buy tickets from any of over 300 SM theaters nationwide anytime at their convenience. For the SM Cinema partnership, Globe Telecom’s mobile money solution GCash will initially be the exclusive payment gateway for GMovies users. GCash will be used in tandem with ePLUS, SM’s integrated e-wallet and loyalty system to give SM Cinema patrons another way to enjoy the movies. At present, SM Cinema operates over 300 2D and 3D screens, 8 IMAX Theaters and 13 Director’s Club Cinemas for a total market share of over 50 percent. “We are always looking for ways to provide the best experience for our customers, thus, it is a big win for GMovies to have SM Cinema on board since it gives our users from all over the Philippines more options to choose from. With SM Cinema as a partner, GMovies now covers 77 percent of movie theaters nationwide,” said Glenn Estrella, Vice President of Globe Digital Ventures which offers GMovies.

“This is just the start of a more dynamic partnership with Globe and its services. Both our companies are committed to providing a more convenient and rewarding access to entertainment. ePLUS with SM Cinema and GMovies with GCash will work together towards building a cashless society,” said Sahara Jean Garnica, Assistant Vice President, SM Lifestyle Entertainment Inc. managing ePLUS. GMovies is an all-in-one solution

for movie tickets on the go. It is the only platform in the Philippines that aggregates movie ticket booking capabilities for multiple cinema chains. The mobile app allows users not only to purchase movie tickets and reserve seats at their favorite cinema whenever they want and wherever they may be but also keeps them updated with the latest and upcoming blockbusters to hit the theaters. It can be downloaded for free from App Store and Google Play. To purchase seats from SM Cinema, simply select movie schedule, branch, and preferred seat/s; select GCash as payment option; and log into GCash and confirm transaction. GCash load will automatically be converted to ePLUS movie credits. The user will receive an e-ticket via email which will also be saved in their phone gallery. For ease of access, patrons can just go straight to the cinema and tap their e-ticket at the ePLUS reader. SM Cinema will go live in GMovies website and Android app beginning June 22. The iOS app will follow after two weeks. For more information about GMovies, please visit www.gmovies.ph. Start enjoying blockbusters at SM Cinema via GMovies!

THE FUN AND LEARNING CONTINUES EVERY WEEKDAY MORNING in ABS-CBN’s talk show “Magandang Buhay,” which now airs on its new timeslot at 8 AM. Join momshies Karla Estrada, Melai Cantiveros, and Jolina Magdangal as they discuss family, love, and life in general with their special guests. This week, watch out for brothers Jeron and Jeric Teng and Marco and Paulo Gumabao, heartthrob dads Ian Veneracion and Richard Yap, at skillful mom Jodi Sta. Maria. Watch “Magandang Buhay” on its new timeslot at 8AM on ABS-CBN, ABS-CBN HD (SkyCable ch 167), and live online via iWant TV. Meanwhile, catch the episodes on ABS-CBN Regional channels the following day at the same time, 8AM. For updates, follow @_magandangbuhay on Twitter and Instagram or like the official Facebook page at www.facebook.com/OfficialMagandangBuhay

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BRUSH A1beauty of indigenous life without losing his goal of awareness and the emotional aspect of contemporary pain-ful truths. His pres-ent artworks feature bright colors and a lot of symbolisms, “the sun is an important element in Lumad his-tory, it is their source of life—no sun means no planting of rice, and I illustrate actual native hieroglyphs like the frog a lot, because when the native people hear their croaking, it means that rain is coming soon and that is when they prepare basins or bamboos for harvesting natural wa-

ter,” the artist passion-ately narrates. Truly, Sir Anoy’s creations are a feast for the senses, it is very well layered out that the audience will always tend to look deeper in his pieces—because by looking in, you find out more than meets the eye. Every corner has a story to tell and every stroke of the brush has meaning. Personally, I am dumbfounded by his contemporary sur-realism process (aside from his detailed technique), because every little aspect of the painting is already mapped out inside his imagination and all he has to do is copy it on

canvas as is, whereas other artists rely on inspirational sponta-neity and artistic im-pulsiveness when do-ing freehand artworks. Now an established artist with numer-ous group and solo exhibits under his belt, a Philippine Art Awards qualifier, and even with President Rodrigo Duterte as one of his early and loyal patrons, Sir Anoy Catague still remains as one of the kindest and humblest Davao artist I know, and a person who has dedi-cated his life’s work to helping the minor-ity have a voice in this noisy and corrupt world.

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MOST government health facilities in the provinces have

a shortage of doctors. Health workers who badly need the advice and expertise of medi-cal specialists have to fend for themselves in both routine and emergency situations.

Hx Factfinder, a mobile application developed at the recent #thinkOPENhealth: Hackathon for Health aims to solve this problem.

“Our app connects prima-ry health institutions, mostly maternal and child health fa-cilities, with the larger health institutions like city hospitals,” says Philip Sales.

Full-time app developers Sales, Jonathan Tabac, and Paulo Balleza of Team Jeepers Creepers bagged the bronze award for the app during the 24-hour coding marathon organized by PLDT wireless unit—Smart Communications (Smart), the Department of Health (DOH), and the Depart-ment of Science and Technol-ogy – Philippine Council for Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD) in coordi-nation with SmartDevNet, Smart’s developer community.

The hackathon was a ven-ue for developers to create

plug-ins for the SHINE OS+, an open-source electronic med-ical record (EMR) system de-veloped by the Ateneo Java Wireless Competency Center in partnership with Smart.

SHINE OS+ has opened its API to allow data sharing and exchange for interoperability. Over 20 teams comprised of IT students and professionals as well as health professionals participated in the event.

Linking rural health work-ers with doctors from big hos-pitals

Using the team’s app, health workers in remote ar-eas can ask for medical advice from doctors in big hospitals.

“When the patient goes to the nearest rural health facil-ity, there’s a high probability his or her medical needs will not be met because there is no doctor on duty. The patient

has to go to other health facil-ities in other towns or worse, in the city, to find expert advice or to have medical procedure done,” says Tabac.

The Hx Factfinder works two ways: Users can either use a smartphone or a GSM phone. “The app for the smart-phone is intuitive. The user doesn’t need to memorize SMS keywords. For locations

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Team Jeepers Creepers designed a mobile app that would link up rural health workers with city doctors.  The team is joined by Smart executives led by Public Affairs

Group head Ramon R. Isberto (3rd from left, 2nd row) and Jill Lava, manager for community partnerships (4th from left, 2nd row).

PANABO CITY, Davao del Norte hosted the Pro-

vincial World Dengue Day 2016 Awareness on June 17, 2016, 7:30 A.M. at Baran-gay (Brgy)Nanyo, this city bannering the theme: “Aksyon Baran-gay Kontra Dengue” (ABKD).

It was held in Panabo City because of its high dengue cases. Among the forty (40) Barangays, Brgy. Cap-tain Demetrio Maligro of Nanyo volunteered to host the affair for he wanted awareness and information drive for the prevention of the dreaded disease.

Ma. Corazon Mendez, RN, from the Provincial Health Office discussed about the 4S for prevention of dengue, to wit: 1) S - Safety protection by wearing pants and long sleeves clothes, putting mos-quito repellant on skin and screen window in the school rooms, 2) S – Seek early con-sultation if fever is persistent for more than three days, 3) S –Say no to indiscriminate fogging, and 4) S – Search and destroy those potential hid-ing places of dengue mosqui-toes. She ended her message by mentioning the theme: “Aksyon Barangay Kontra Den-

gue (ABKD)”. Challenging each and every barangay to actively carry on the fight against den-gue in their area of responsi-bility.

Furthermore, Madam Mendez informed the par-ticipants that the window screen for all Public Schools in Panabo were given by the Department of Health Manila courtesy of Congressman An-tonio Lagdameo, Jr. who im-mediately called DOH Manila to report high cases of dengue in Panabo City.

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WANTED SLAC is supporting DA’s program to expand hybrid rice area to 600,000-700,000 hect-ares by 2017 from the present area of around 400,000 hect-ares. Its vision is to plant hy-brid rice to as much as 800,000 to 1 million hectares by 2020, according to an earlier DA pro-gram.

There is huge opportunity to help rice farmers improve their livelihood in Mindanao through hybrid rice, Lim said, as their income increases and production costs decreases. Since production is low, price of unhusked rice (palay) in Mindanao is soaring high.

“Price of wet palay in Min-danao is P20 per kilo,” said Lim. Price in Luzon is P13-P14 per kilo for fresh palay.

But SLAC wants to support DA’s goal of achieving 10-5, or a yield of 10 MT per hectare in order to bring down produc-tion cost to P5 per kilo.

SLAC is conducting tech-no-demo all over Mindanao sice unless farmers see for themselves the rice stalks from hybrid rice, they may never be convinced to invest resourc-es in it. The company is also scouting for model farmers who could demonstrate top yields.

“We are awarding top hy-brid rice farmers in Zamboan-ga Peninsula (Region 9). That’s how we’re encouraging LGUs (local government units) to see the good yield of hybrid rice,” said Dr. Frisco M. Malabanan, SLAC technical consultant.

Pinol said earlier that for

the Duterte administration’s first 100 days, DA aims to start planning for rice sufficiency.

“The country could achieve rice sufficiency in two to three years but we have to imple-ment massive interventions i.e. repair and rehab of exist-ing irrigation facilities; use of water pumps in areas with shallow water level; support of high-yielding seeds, fertilizers and farm inputs for the next two cropping seasons; identi-fication of key rice production areas where water is readily available,” he said.

Pinol also promises to de-liver free irrigation to farmers even as irrigation is critical to rice planting.

“I think free irrigation will start by January 2017,” said Obien.

DA is training municipal and agricultural extension workers that will help farm-ers in growing it, said Obien. Around 500 extension workers are targeted to be trained for hybrid rice growing.

SLAC is holding techno-de-mo in Region 10 (Camiguin, Misamis Oriental, Lanao del Norte, Bukidnon, Misamis Occidental, Cagayan de Oro, Iligan). It is coordinating with municipal and provincial agri-culturists on training farmers how to plant hybrid rice.

The company has collabo-rated with other seed produc-ers on setting up a Rice Board in Region 11 (Compostela Val-ley, Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, Davao Oriental, and Davao Occidental).

However, in Region 12 (South Cotabato, Sultan Kuda-rat, Sarangani, General Santos), it still seeks to orient farmers on the yield advantage and in-creased income from hybrid rice. Region 12 accounts for 32 percent of rice production in Mindanao. Still, SLAC had al-ready conducted techno-demo in Mindanao.

“Our techno-demo fields in Region 12 gave a harvest of 9-10 tons per hectare,” said Malabanan.

Even in conflict-ridden Ma-guindanao, a province within the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), SLAC has conducted a harvest festival particularly in Mamasa-pano. ARMM is also composed of Basilan, Lanao, Sulu, TawiTa-wi, Lawitan, and Marawi.

The government has sep-arate financial assistance pro-gram for hybrid rice planted in adverse ecosystem. It also has a separate budget for the Sikat Saka program which is a cred-it window for farmers. As rice needs irrigation, it has separate budgets for small water im-pounding projects and diver-sion dams in Mindanao.

As much as Visayas has also been deprived of assis-tance in agriculture, SLAC plans a massive technical briefing among agriculturists in LGUs and farmers in Visayas.

The target is to plant 29,000 hectares in Region 6, mainly Iloilo. And it also has expansion programs all over Antique, Aklan, Capiz, and part of Negros.

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IN A precedent-setting record in the Philippine Horsemen’s Federa-

tion’s recent history, a young horsewoman from the Davao Horse Club became the first female back-to-back cham-pion in a multi-regional horse competition. Alyssa Batu Gonzales beat men and women riders in the Novice Division in both the Barrel and Obstacle Races in the 3rd Bunawan (Agusan Sur) Horse Show & Competition over the weekend. Hosted by the local government of the Municipality of Bunawan as part of its 57th Araw ng Bunawan celebration, the event also served as part of the annual competition cir-

cuit of the Philippine Horse-men’s Federation which goes around the cities of Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Malaybalay and Davao. Bunawan is the youngest member of the Fed-eration with an active core of horse enthusiasts led by rid-er Donald Elorde and family.

Other Davao Horse Club members triumphed in their respective divisions, with Bienvenido “Nonoy” Aznar clinching first place in the Barrel Race and second place in the Obstacle, Expert Divi-sion. Melody “Jingle” Gonza-les, mother of Alyssa, on the other hand, galloped to third place in the Royal (Executive) Division, after an exciting but safe fall from the horse in the

Barrel Race. Joining in the unique horse event were rid-ers from Cagayan de Oro and Malaybalay (Region X), Mali-ta, Davao del Sur and Davao City (Region XI) and the Agu-san del Sur Horsemen’s Asso-ciation (Caraga).

It was champion rider Al-yssa’s time to shine. Coming from a family of which ev-ery member is a horse rider, starting with her Lolo then Dad, Mom, a sister and two brothers, she was consistent-ly winning races in the Youth Division prior to her rise to Novice Division. Indeed, to her fellow riders in the Davao Horse Club, her being double champion, though a mean feat, was not a surprise.

Fearless on top of a horse, the 21 year-old graduating Dentistry student, can win even on a borrowed horse, just as she did in Bunawan (and which expert riders are not wont to do), riding on the hard galloper stallion Bruno. Alyssa is the elder daughter of Dr. Dean and Mrs. Melody Gonzales.

Leading the family-ori-ented Davao Horse Club contingent to Bunawan was President Kobi Tan who in-cidentally, announced that the Club is inviting horse lovers to join in and apply to be members or to simply learn how to ride. Those interested may call him at 09989930527. gwmisa

Davao horsewoman is back-to-back champ

CRISTIANO Ronaldo came through. Twice.

The Portugal wing-er erupted from his scoring slump on Wednesday (Thurs-day, Manila time), netting his first two goals at the European Championship and putting his team into the round of 16.

Ronaldo’s strikes, the first with a spectacular back heel and the second with a head-er, helped Portugal earn a 3-3 draw with Hungary, sending both teams through.

“Our priority was to win the match. We failed do to that,

but we hit the bottom line be-cause we wanted to qualify,” Ronaldo said. “I am happy because the team was in dire straits. Three times we were going home and we had to chase down the scoreboard.”

The goals came in the 50th and 62nd minutes, and they made Ronaldo the first player to score in four consecutive European Championships.

“This is what Cristiano is all about,” Portugal coach Fer-nando Santos said. “He needs to score because he is a winner and he is a scorer. He feeds on

goals.”Portugal ended up with

three points in Group F from three draws, advancing as one of the top four third-place teams. The Portuguese will face Croatia on Saturday for a spot in the quarterfinals.

Hungary won the group with five points and will play Belgium on Sunday. Iceland finished the group second with the same number of points, af-ter helping eliminate Austria 2-1 with a 2-1 victory.

After not scoring in his team’s opening two draws, the

31-year-old Ronaldo broke out at Stade de Lyon to increase his record haul with his 59th and 60th career goals for Por-tugal.

“We know he is a world-class player. He is a dangerous player, and you can’t always control him,” Hungary coach Bernd Storck said. “We didn’t give Portugal a lot of chances, but of course when Ronaldo has the ball he can score.”

Ronaldo wiped away a week of frustrations in France.

What started with a belit-tling of Iceland following their draw got worse after he missed a penalty in the stalemate with Austria. The Real Madrid star lost his composure hours be-fore Wednesday’s match when he responded to a TV report-er’s question by grabbing his microphone and apparently tossing it into a nearby lake.

Ronaldo’s on-pitch re-demption began after he had again failed to convert a se-ries of free kicks. Instead, he turned playmaker to set up Nani for an equalizer just be-fore halftime, 23 minutes after 37-year-old Zoltan Gera had given Hungary 1-0 lead.

Balazs Dzsudzsak’s first of two goals, a deflected free kick, put Hungary back in front in the 47th minute. But moments later it was Ronaldo’s turn to get his first goal of Euro 2016.

Knicks acquire RoseDERRICK Rose was once

writing a great NBA story, the hometown kid lead-

ing the Chicago Bulls to their greatest heights since Michael Jordan.

Then injuries set in, and Rose may never again play at that dazzling level.

The player he is now could still be an upgrade for the New York Knicks.

The Knicks acquired Rose from the Bulls on Wednesday (Thursday, Manila time), hop-ing the former NBA MVP can be their answer at point guard.

New coach Jeff Hornacek said recently the Knicks needed a point guard and Rose was one of the NBA’s best before multiple knee injuries slowed the former No. 1 pick’s career. He played in 66 games last season, his most in five years, and averaged 16.4 points.

“This is an exciting day for New York and our fans,” Hornacek said in a statement. “Derrick is one of the top point guards in the NBA who is playoff battle-tested. He adds a whole new dynamic to our roster and immediately elevates our back-court.”

New York sent center Rob-in Lopez and guards Jose Cal-deron and Jerian Grant to the Bulls in the deal. The Knicks also received guard Justin Holiday and a 2017 second-round pick, and waived point guard Tony Wroten.

Rose, 27, struggled just to get on the court over the last four years, and the Bulls dealt him on the eve of the NBA draft with a year left on his contract.

“Derrick has meant a lot to this organization and to this city and to this team and has had to overcome a lot over the years with all the injuries to get back to the point he was,” Bulls gen-eral manager Gar Forman said. “But in putting our plan togeth-er, we felt as a first step this really made sense for us.”

After missing the playoffs in a disappointing first season under Fred Hoiberg, the Bulls decided to move on without the player they selected with the top pick in the 2008 draft.

It seemed a perfect fit when Rose carried Chicago to the top of the Eastern Conference in the 2010-11 regular season, earn-ing MVP honors and leading the franchise to success it hadn’t en-joyed since Jordan took the Bulls to their last of six titles in 1998 — when they were coached by current Knicks President of Bas-ketball Operations Phil Jackson.

But Rose wrecked his knee for the first time in the play-offs the following year and no longer has the speed that once made him one of the league’s most dynamic young stars and a seemingly perennial All-Star, often now settling for unreliable jumpers when he once sped past whoever tried to stay in front of him.

Rose hasn’t been back to the All-Star Game since 2012 and has often had trouble just playing in the real games. He sat out all of the 2012-13 season,

made it back for 10 games in 2013-14 and appeared

in a little more than half the Bulls’ games in

2014-15.

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BRACE. Afterbeing scoreless in the last two matches, Christiano Ronaldo breaks through with a brace.

THE Pacers traded one Indi-anapolis native for another on Wednesday (Thursday,

Manila time), sending George Hill to Utah and acquiring Jeff Teague in a point guard swap that also in-cludes Atlanta.

While the deal cannot be an-nounced officially, Hill’s agent, Bill Neff, confirmed the details.

Atlanta receives the No. 12 overall pick in Thursday night’s draft.

In Teague, Indiana gets the true point guard it has long want-ed while Hill adds defense and depth to a spot that could be in flux for the Jazz if point guard Dan-te Exum comes back slower than expected from a torn ACL that cost him the entire 2015-16 season.

Hill and Teague both have one year left on their current deals and each is scheduled to make $8 mil-lion this season.

Hill was a fixture in the Pac-ers’ starting lineup after being acquired from San Antonio in a draft-night deal in 2011. After starting nine games in his first sea-son in Indiana, where he grew up and played college basketball, he started 270 games — including 73 or more in three of the past four seasons, and had a scoring aver-age in double figures during each of those four seasons.

He also was one of the team’s better defenders and played a key role in helping the Pacers reach back-to-back Eastern Conference finals in 2013 and 2014. And

when Paul George missed all but six games in 2014-15, Hill aver-aged 16.1 points, 5.1 assists and 4.2 rebounds, all career highs. The 30-year-old has career averages of 11.3 points, 3.3 assists and 3.2 rebounds in eight seasons.

All those traits should all help a Jazz team trying to make the playoffs for the first time since 2011-12.

“Nobody likes to be traded,” Neff said. “But now that we’ve had a chance to talk, he realizes he’s going to from a team that was willing to trade him to a team that wanted to trade for him.”

What the Pacers were looking for was a point guard who could play at a faster pace in their small-ball transition.

Teague certainly fits the bill. Teague started 78 of 79 games last season and averaged 15.7 points and 5.9 assists. In seven pro sea-sons, he’s averaged 12.1 points, 5.2 assists, 2.2 rebounds and 1.2 steals.

At 28, he’s younger and is just two years removed from his first All-Star selection.

“Clearly, the Pacers wanted to go faster and Jeff Teague is faster,” Neff said. “But we think Utah is very much a team on the rise.”

With the Hawks looking to move point guard Dennis Schro-der into a more visible role and Teague using Twitter after the sea-son to imply he wouldn’t be back in Atlanta next season, the Hawks finally made the deal.

Pacers send PG Hill to JazzNEW YORK-BOUND. Oft-injured Derrick Rose is headed to New York.

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OLD AND NEW16 EDGEDAVAOSports

Fernandez joins Butch at PSCBASKETBALL leg-

end Ramon Fer-nandez is going

to the Philippine Sports Commission after all.

Fernandez has ac-cepted the post as one of the commissioners of the government sports agency, which will be headed by William “Butch” Ramirez.

Fernandez was ini-tially offered the job as PSC chairman by incom-ing president Rodrigo Duterte but he declined.

Ramirez and Fer-nandez are expected to meet with outgoing chairman Richie Garcia on Tuesday, according to reports.

Three more com-missioners will be ap-pointed to fill the PSC board before July 1.

After much prod-ding, Ramirez finally accepted the offer of President-elect Rodrigo Duterte to once again head a government agency which he served in the same capacity from 2005-09.

It will be a histor-

ic homecoming for the Davao-based sport offi-cial as he becomes the first and only two-time chairman of the PSC since it wad first estab-lished in 1990 during the time of the late Pres-ident Corazon Aquino.

“I have accepted the offer. I will take the job seriously,” said Ramirez in a statement.

Several sports per-sonalities were earlier mentioned as possible replacement for out-going chairman Richie Garcia, among them four-time PBA MVP Mon Fernandez.

But in the end, Presi-dential Special Assistant Bong Go announced that it is Ramirez, 65, who the chief executive had long wanted for the po-sition.

Ramirez, who played a key role in Duterte’s campaign team, had previously said that he’s not interested in returning to the govern-ment sports agency, but stressed it’s hard to ig-nore the offer especially OLD AND NEW. William “Butch” Ramirez is back as chairman and former basketball star Ramon Fernandez will sit as one of the Commissioners.

if it came from the President.He will be the 10th chairman

to head the agency in 26 years after the late Cecil Hechanova,

Perry Mequi, Mel Lopez, Philip Ella Juico, the late Butch Tuason,

Eric Buhain, Harry Angping, and Garcia.