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The request,made by Manuel M. Orig, first vice president of Therma South Inc.,received 20 votes from the councilors in favor of giving recommendation for their expansion project.
Councilors Leah A. Librado–Yap and Antoinette G. Principe-Castrodes voted against.
Yap told reporters in an interview after the session that from the start of the discussion she strongly opposed its passage. She said that the operation of the power plant would affect the environment.
Principe-Castrodes voted “no” on the ground of ‘intergenerational responsibility’. She said that the stories of environmental rights are not only stipulated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution but even before that there were already laws protecting the environment.
Based on the resolu-tion for approval, TSI they should follow terms and conditions such as:
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PROTEST. Davao-based progressive groups led by TRANSMISION-PISTON Southern Mindanao stage a protest rally in front of Sangguniang Panlungsod along San Pedro Street yesterday to show their opposition to the proposed urban sustainable transport project. Lean Daval Jr.
REQUEST. Aboitiz Power Corp. first vice president Manuel M. Orig listens to the city councilors’ discussion of a committee report on a Therma South, Inc. request to increase its generating capacity from 300 MW to 645 MW during yesterday’s regular session at Sangguniang Panlungsod. Lean Daval Jr.
AFTERseveral hours of debate,the Davao City Council yesterday approved onsecond read-ing the resolution “endorsing the request of Therma South Inc.(TSI)”to expand its gener-ating capacity in Binugao, Toril from 300-MW to 645-MW.
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DAVAO City is still not totally malaria-free after three cases
were reported last year.The three cases were in
Barangay Colasa, Paquibato district.
Despite the three re-ported cases, the num-ber shows a significant decrease in the past four years. From 540 malaria cases reported in 2010, it went down to 27 in 2011; 10 in 2012; and the three cases last year.
On the regional level, cases of malaria also de-
creased remarkably from 2010’s reported
1,159 cases, there were only 94 in 2011; 37 in 2012, and 6 cases in 2013.
“We have strengthened surveillance at the baran-gay level through micro-pists and rapid diagnostic test vounteers, “DOH 11 regional director Abdullah B. Dumama, Jr., told Edge Davao in a text message.
The private sector also helped in reducing the number of cases through-out the region through their
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THE BIG NEWS
DUSTY ROAD. A fish peddler walks several kilometers on a dusty road before reaching a residential area where he will sell his merchandise, a usual scene in the far-flung areas in Davao City. Lean Daval Jr.
DAVAO City has pro-duced 34 new law-yers-to-be after they
passed the October 2013 bar examinations.
Of the 117 examinees from the city, only 34 or 29 percent hurdled the exam, according to the list released by the Supreme Court yesterday. This is higher compared than the 24.8 percent or 32 passers out of 129 takers the previ-ous year.
Its passing rate of 29 percent surpassed the na-tional passing rate of 22.18 percent.
Ateneo de Davao Uni-versity College of Law has 30 passers out of 49 takers (34 were first takers and 15 were retakers),
AdDU registered a passing percentage of 82.35 percent for its fresh graduates and 61.22 per-cent in the 2013 bar exams.
Successful Ateneo ex-
aminees were Randolf F. Alonzo, Leo F. Asong, Jr, Genevieve D. Belen, Kris-tofer Alexis N. Borres, Charnem B. Cañete, Har-vey L. Carcedo, Dionicio C. Diniay, Jr., Menchie V. Dum-agan, Jenika H. Elman, Jose Paolo M. Evangelista, Faith P. Go, Krisza Joy P. Kintanar, Roel John M. Ladeza, Ralph James G. Laman, Ilda Ma-rie E. Lamboso, Roniel V. Leaño, Hanna M. Leyes, Hanna Khiarra C. Linog,
Jamail Lunar G. Macla, Dar-lene Marie S. Magabilen, Claire Marie B. Mauro, Joshua D. Paguican, Mary Kristine Joy S. Paras, Datu Nasser A. Pendatun, Jr., Lo-revill S. Pinoon, Ronajoy G. Rubinos, Earl Tristan Ian A. Tinapay, Edgar Y. Torres, Jr., Charrel Joy S. Travilla, and Cherry Lynn M. Trinidad.
In a statement released, “notable among the pass-ers are Jenika H. Elman,
EXPECT light rains due to the moderate to strong northeaster-
ly surface windflow which continues to affect the east-ern sections of the country, the state weather bureau said on Tuesday.
In an interview, PA-GASA weather forecaster Chris Perez said that the cold winds of the northeast monsoon coming from Si-beria continue to weaken and the strong northeaster-ly surface windflow coming from the North Pacific Sea or Philippine Sea is causing the warm wind.
He added that due to the wind convergence and low pressure area outside the Philippine Area of Re-sponsibility (PAR), the re-gions of Caraga, Davao and Northern Mindanao will
experience cloudy skies with light rains and isolated thunderstorms.
Perez said Luzon in-cluding Metro Manila will still have generally good weather condition.
He said partly cloudy to cloudy skies with possible passing light rains will be experienced in these ar-eas due to the effect of the “weak” northeast monsoon or “hanging amihan.”
He added the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms.
Perez said PAGASA has yet to declare the start of summerin the country as the northeast monsoon still prevails over Luzon.
He noted that termina-
34 of 117 Davao City takers pass bar exams
By CHENEEN R. CAPON
THE number of tour-ists from Saudi Ara-bia has been on an
upward trend since 2009, with the number of visitors doubling in 2013, the De-partment of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.
From 19,101 Saudi visitors in 2009, the Phil-ippines attracted a record 38,969 last year, reflecting a growth of 104 percent.
Last year’s total was an increase of nearly 29.7 per-cent from the previous year, while the average growth of visitor arrivals since 2009 has been at 19.8 percent, the DFA said in a statement.
The DFA credited the upsurge of Saudi tourists
to the Philippine embassy in Riyadh’s dynamic tour-ism promotion activities, in partnership with Saudi travel agencies accredited with the Philippine Depart-ment of Tourism.
At the travel fair in Riyadh last April 2013, which drew nearly a thou-sand visitors, many Saudi nationals inquired about holiday packages to prime Philippine destinations like Boracay, Palawan, Bohol’s Chocolate Hills and Panglao Island, and Davao’s Pearl Farm.
Then in December 2013, representatives from the Department of Tourism
Number of Saudi tourists to PHL doubling in 2013
Light rains expected over eastern section of PHL
Only 3 malaria cases in Davao City in 2013
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BANKING on the fact that Davao City is bird flu-free, Davao-based
export company Maharlika Agro-Marine Ventures Corp. (Maharlika) will be export-ing prime cuts of Peking duck to Japan by March.
Maharlika chair and chief executive officer (CEO) Vicente T. Lao said that this will be the first time that the country will be exporting Peking ducks.
Lao said in the weekly Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City Annex last Monday that 25 to 50 tons of Peking ducks will be exported to Japan in 12 months starting this month of March.
It will include premium duck breast and leg cuts.
Last March 7, the firm signed a 12-month Sales Agreement Contract with Aono Fresh Meats Ltd., and Daigo Tsucho Co., Ltd to be the buyer and sole distrib-utor of Majarlika Peking duck products in Japan, at the Philippine Embassy in
Tokyo, Japan.The firm initially
shipped Peking ducks to Ja-pan last January 12.
At present, Japan is importing its duck supply from Germany and the Unit-ed States. It imports 150 tons of duck cuts monthly.
The Japanese market is looking for supply in Asia because of cheaper trans-port and shiping cost.
“The Philippines is be-ing looked up to as a good potential,”he said, adding that it is a good opportuni-ty for Filipinos to venture in this business.
“Based on our trial shipment, our Peking duck products were well re-ceived by the Japanese mar-ket,”Lao said, adding that Japan has strict standard on quality and packaging.
Majarlika is also sup-plying 15 to 20 tons of duck meats to restaurants in Ma-nila every month.
The company is the first
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POST ARAW NG DAVAO. Personnel of the City Engineers Office (CEO) load to a dumb truck parts of the dismantled bleachers two days after the culmination of the 77th Araw ng Davao. Lean Daval Jr.
WELCOME MNLF. Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Z. Duterte welcomes Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) delegation, led by Davao chapter chairman Rolan-do Olamit, during “Parada Dabawenyo” which the group joined last Sunday. Lean Daval Jr.
THE Davao City Coun-cil yesterday ap-proved on first read-
ing a resolution amending some provisions of the CCTV (closed-circuit tele-vision) ordinance of Davao City.
Councilor Tomas J. Monteverde IV, author of the resolution to amend, said the penalty prescribed by the existing ordinance for failure to save records
of the surveillance, or voluntary submission of the tapes (P5,000) is too light hence susceptible to non-observance by cov-ered establishments.
The amendment pe-nalizes violating establish-ments with revocation of business permits.
The provision in the ex-isting ordinance only pro-vides a P5,000 fine for fail-ure to save records of the
surveillance, or voluntary submission of the tapes and discs to authorities when required.
On Dec. 4, 2012, the ordinance was approved by the 16th city council, re-quiring all establishments, ‘whether commercial, in-dustrial or financial’ insti-tutions with a minimum capitalization of P3 million.
The approval of the or-dinance was in line with
the city government’s campaign to minimize crime.
It requires all estab-lishments such as banks, pawnshops, restaurants, shopping malls, hotels and inns, educational institu-tions, hospitals, cockpits, private transport termi-nals (land, air, sea) oper-ating in the city to install CCTV cameras in public and common area.
A 48-year-old wom-an was beaten to death by her own
son inside their house in Barangay Aplaya in Hago-noy, Davao del Sur Satur-day morning.
According to the fam-ily’s neighbors, the vic-tim, Merlyn Tomas, rep-rimanded her son, John Francis, after the latter hit his younger sibling on the face with a stone.
Irked, John Francis
allegedly punched his mother and even used a bamboo pole to beat her. He, however, denied killing his mother, claim-ing that both his parents were drunk.
According to his father, John Francis is suffering from mental illness.
The suspect was de-tained by the police, but was released after his father refused to file charges against him.
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Two persons were killed while at least
17 others were hurt in a highway mishap in North Cotabato Tuesday noon, au-thorities said.
Involved in the incident were a passenger jeepney loaded with people who were to attend a wedding in Midsayap, North Cota-bato and a dump truck in Barangay Malamote, Mata-lam, North Cotabato.
Two were declared dead on arrival at the North Cotabato provincial hospital.
Tarima Tantawan, one of the passengers and sur-vivor, said they were about 50 persons on board two separate vehicles head-ing to Midsayap to attend a Muslim wedding event when the accident hap-
pened.“We were surprised,
the travel was smooth and the jeepney we were riding was at normal speed until a very loud bang was heard,” she said in the vernacular.
Matalam police traffic investigator said the Law-in Jeepney hit the rear side of the dump truck who slowed down as it was ap-proaching a school zone.
The truck driver said he saw the jeepney from his side mirror that it was speeding and might have lost its brake thus it hit the rear of his truck.
Among the passengers, according to Tantawan, was the groom who she did not identify and who was unhurt.
The victims were all from Buluan, Maguindan-ao. [PNA]
Woman beaten to death by own son
NorCot highway mishap claims 2 lives, hurts 17
HEAVIER PENALTY
Council amends CCTV ordinanceBy ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
Local company embarks on Peking duck export
By CHENEEN R. CAPON
VOL. 7 ISSUE 3 • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2014
IN a bid to properly hon-or the city’s “champi-ons,” the General Santos
City council is pushing for the establishment of a fa-cility that would showcase their achievements and contributions to the area.
In a resolution, the council asked City Mayor Ronnel Rivera to establish a technical working group that will spearhead a study regarding the creation of a proposed “Hall of Cham-pions” and lay down the necessary initiatives and policies on the matter.
City Councilor Ramon Milleza, who authored the resolution, said Mon-day the proposed facility will mainly serve as a re-pository of the accomplish-ments and mementos of the city’s “champions” like world boxing icon and Sa-rangani Rep. Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao and sev-eral other personalities.
He said the establish-ment of the “Hall of Cham-pion” will make sure that the achievements of the lo-cal “champions” will be re-membered and preserved by the next generations.
“We produced a lot of champions these past years and it would be a big waste if they will just be forgotten later on by our next generations,” he said.
Aside from Pacquiao, who is already assured of a spot in the world boxing’s
Hall of Fame with his re-cord eight world champi-onships in eight divisions, the city has produced a number of “champions” these past decades in box-ing and other fields.
They include former world super featherweight titlist Rolando Navarrette, ex-World Boxing Organiza-tion super flyweight world champion Marvin Sonsona and four-division world champion Nonito Donaire Jr.
Three years ago, the city government also de-clared as among the city’s “champions” 2011 Bb. Pil-ipinas-Miss Universe titlist and 2011 Miss Universe third runner-up Shamcey Supsup.
Milleza asked the city government’s sports divi-sion to start gathering me-mentos, footages, artifacts, souvenirs, tokens and oth-er important documents that highlight the achieve-ments of the city’s “cham-pions.”
He urged the sports division personnel to uti-lize various means, includ-ing modern technology, in gathering the neces-sary materials that will be showcased later on in the “Hall of Champions.”
“These materials or mementos will help im-mortalize the achieve-ments of our champions and ensure that their
memories will linger upon the minds of our children and future generations,” he said.
Through the facility, Milleza said they are hop-ing to offer another attrac-tion for tourists or visitors to the area.
He noted that in the past several years, a signif-icant number of tourists have visited the city be-cause of its “champions” like Pacquiao.
Pacquiao’s mansions in Barangays Lagao and La-bangal here already have
become top attractions for foreign and domestic tourists that were visiting the city, he said.
Mayor Rivera has ini-tially expressed support to the proposed establish-ment of a “Hall of Champi-ons” in the city.
Last year, the city gov-ernment unveiled a collec-tion of historical memen-tos of the city and other related materials at a sec-tion of the city’s improved library, which is located at the Sangguniang Panlun-sod building. [MindaNews]
4GENERAL SANTOS CITY
DAVAO DEL NORTE GENERAL SANTOS CITY
EDGEDAVAO
SUBURBIA
INVESTMENT GROWTH IN MAASIM. Labor force works on the boiler structure as construction of the first 105 - Megawatt (MW) phase of the 210-MW coal-fired power plant here progresses. Its project owner, developer and potential operator, Sarangani Energy Corporation (SEC) is committed to prioritize skilled and non-skilled workers from Maasim in the construction phase of the project. In the recent Investment Forum, the local government of Maasim has recognized SEC for its “valuable recognition to the local investment growth of the community.”
LGU to put up ‘Hall of Champions’
WOMEN should change their tra-ditional mind-
set and learn about their
rights in order to attain equality of men and wom-en in society and further women empowerment.
Governor Rodolfo del Rosario said upholding women’s rights is central to achieving the goals of equality and sustainable development.
However, he stressed women should first make themselves aware about their rights and then as-sert them in order to fully enjoy their privi-leges in the traditionally male-dominated society.
“Women will be bet-ter off if they know their rights,” the governor said, during the Women’s Day 2014 celebration of the municipality of New Corella, this province.
The Universal Decla-ration of Human Rights provides the guarantee for women to enjoy or ex-ercise “human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field.”
Such civil liberties
include, but are not lim-ited to, the right to bodily integrity and autonomy; to vote; to hold public of-fice; to work; to fair wages or equal pay; to own prop-erty; to education; and, to enter into legal contracts, among other rights.
Del Rosario noted the province strongly ad-vocates Republic Act No. 9710 or the Magna Carta for Women, which cov-ers their social protection against discrimination in the socio-cultural context.
The governor assured the province continues to look into the welfare of women, in pursuit of his P.E.O.P.L.E. development strategy.
The province is also fortifying interventions to ensure maternal well-being and protection, in keeping with its commit-ment to the Millennium Development Goals. [by Noel Baguio]
Know your rights, women told
Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario urges women to know their rights to achieve the goals of equality and sustainable development. [by Noel Baguio/DavNor PIO]
SMART Communica-tions, Inc. (Smart) and the Corporate
Network for Disaster Response (CNDR) are working with the City Government of General Santos to beef up its ca-pabilities to prepare for and respond to disasters.
The Noah’s Ark Proj-ect, a capacity-building initiative to be imple-mented by CNDR and supported by Smart will be rolled out city-wide to help the city deal with di-sasters that have become commonplace due to changing global climate patterns.
Smart’s web-based communications tool, InfoBoard, will also be integrated into Noah’s Ark to enable the LGU to effectively communicate and coordinate with city and barangay officials in
high-risk areas during di-sasters when official and timely information and an early warning system play a crucial role in sav-ing lives.
“This capaci-ty-building initiative will strengthen Rescue 727, the LGU’s disaster and emergency response program. As disasters have become more fre-quent and their impact more widespread, the need to institute mea-sures has become ab-solute,” said City Mayor Ronnel Rivera.
Rescue 727 was cre-ated to ensure readiness of the city amid chang-ing weather conditions and the subsequent haz-ards; business continu-ity during disasters or emergencies; and secu-rity and safety of tourists and residents of the city.
CNDR, Smart launch Noah’s Ark project
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THE ECONOMY
THE Department of Agriculture funded the Rice Process-
ing Center (RPC) II worth P12.4 Million in Barangay Maparat, Municipality of Compostela, Compostela Valley Province.
Together with its at-tached agencies and the key officials of Composte-la Valley, DA spearheaded the groundbreaking cere-mony of the construction recently.
Agriculture Undersec-retary Dante Delima who led the groundbreaking said this project will help the farmers increase their income by lowering the production losses.
“The construction of the center is expected to run for six months and will be operational during the next wet planting sea-son”, Delima said.
DA’s Regional Direc-tor, Remelyn R. R ecoter emphasized that the town of Composte-lais considered as the rice granary of the Compos-tela Valley Province that contributes more than 30 percent inthe provincial production and three per-cent in the whole Davao
region.“We are committed to
continuously help you but we would also like to ask for your effort to take care of this center because not all farmers’ association is given an opportunity to own such facility. Let us help each other to make this processing complex beneficial”, she said.
The RPC is comprised with a multi-pass rice mill with a minimum output capacity of 1.2 tons per hour, two sets of batch re-circulating dryers with individual capacity of 18 tons per batch pa-lay output equipped with biomass fed-furnace, a weighing scale (Bascu-la), one unit of portable moisture meter and one unit warehouse with a total area of 550 square meters.
This project of DA equipped with post har-vest facilities and tech-nologies will improve the efficiency of rice produc-tion, milling, drying and storage thereby reducing postharvest losses and enhancing rice quality, among others. [Aggie Me-dia Service]
GROUNDBREAKING. Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Undersecretary for Operations and National Rice Program coordinator Dante Delima (left) leads the groundbreaking of the Rice Processing Center II in Compostela. With him are Davao Oriental Governor Arturo Uy and DA Regional Director Remelyn R. Recoter.
DA funds P 12.4 million rice processing center
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THE head of the city’s demolition unit has warned
ambulant vendors from taking over the sidewalks or be booted out.
Yusof Jimlani, chief of the City Demolition Unit, particularly cited ven-dors in Toril and Lasang who are violating the city’s policy that vendors occupy only one-third of the sidewalks and leave two-thirds to pedestri-ans.
Speaking during to-day’s Kapihan sa SM, Jimlani said that vendors in Toril have apparently gone back to their old ways even though the district has its own dem-olition unit. “When we visited the place, there were a lot of them who had stalls that were in-terrupting the flow of traffic, especially along the main market,” he pointed out.
He added that the barangay officials of Lasang also sought the help of the city’s demoli-tion team to monitor the stalls there.
Jimlani and his team were asked to spearhead the night market exper-iment after the city gov-ernment decided to try out a stretch of Roxas Avenue as an alternative location for vendors in-stead of them clogging
up the sidewalks.He said that the night
markets along Roxas Avenue have so far been successful.
“The vendors have become attuned to the place that they have to be,” he said.
Jimlani said the city could adopt something like the markets in Hong Kong. The setup, he said, would allow the govern-ment and the vendors to coordinate with one another regarding their products.
The demolition chief said the highest number of visitors to the night market was during the just concluded Araw ng Davao festivities.
He said there were around 500 stalls that availed of the small
3x5-meter space along Roxas Avenue.
Jimlani said they are also exploring extend-ing the night market location to that stretch of Roxas, near Quimpo Boulevard. [MindaN-ews]
P942 million Amount the Department of Budget and Management released for the hiring of 3,000 more police officers this year, in line with the Aquino administration’s bid to strengthen the Philippine National Police’s law enforce-ment capabilities.
It figures
9.3% Growth of merchandise exports in January 2014. Buoyed by the manufacturing sector, merchandise ex-ports sustained positive growth momentum for eight consecutive months.
P104.15 billion Amount the Bureau of Internal Revenue col-lected in tax revenues for January 2014—P9.43 billion or 9.96% more than the collec-tions made in January 2013.
Stat Watch
MONTHLY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE (January 2011-September 2013)
Month 2013 2012 2011
Average 42.23 43.31December 41.01 43.64November 41.12 43.27October 41.45 43.45
September 43.83 41.75 43.02August 43.86 42.04 42.42
July 43.35 41.91 42.81June 42.91 42.78 43.37May 41.30 42.85 43.13April 41.14 42.70 43.24
March 40.71 42.86 43.52February 40.67 42.66 43.70January 40.73 43.62 44.17
7.1 1st Qtr 2013
7.8 1st Qtr 2013
USD 3,741 million
Feb 2013USD 4,708
million Feb 2013USD -967
million Feb 2013USD -640
millionDec 2012
P 4,964,560 million
Feb 2013
2.4 % Mar 2013P113,609
million Mar 2013
P 5,281 billion
Mar 2013
P 41.14 Apr 2013
6,847.5 Mar 2013
132.8 Apr 2013
2.6 Apr 2013
3.1 Apr 2013
418,108 Feb 2013
20.9% Jan 2013
7.1% Jan 2013
1. Gross National IncomeGrowth Rate(At Constant 2000 Prices)
2. Gross Domestic ProductGrowth Rate(At Constant 2000 Prices)
3. Exports 1/
4. Imports 1/
5. Trade Balance
6. Balance of Payments 2/
7. Broad Money Liabilities
8. Interest Rates 4/
9. National Government Revenues
10. National government outstanding debt
11. Peso per US $ 5/
12. Stocks Composite Index 6/
13. Consumer Price Index 2006=100
14. Headline Inflation Rate 2006=100
15. Core Inflation Rate 2006=100
16. Visitor Arrivals
17. Underemployment Rate 7/
18. Unemployment Rate 7/
Indicator Latest
1. Gross National Income Growth Rate (At Constant 2000 Prices)
6.8 2nd Qtr 2013
2. Gross Domestic Product Growth Rate (At Constant 2000 Prices)
7.5 2nd Qtr 2013
3. Exports USD 5,045 million
Sep 2013
4. Imports USD 5,711 million
Sep 2013
5. Trade BalanceUSD -665
million Sep 2013
6. Balance of Payments USD 692
million Jun 2013
7. Broad Money LiabilitiesP 5,980,938 million
Aug 2013
8. Interest Rate 2.0 % Sep 2013
9. National Government Revenues
P 127,336 million
Sep 2013
10. National government outstanding debt
P 5,609 billion
Sep 2013
11. Peso per US $
P 43.83 Sep 2013
12. Stocks Composite Index
6,191.8 Sep 2013
13. Consumer Price Index 2006=100
135.2 Oct 2013
14. Headline Inflation Rate 2006=100
2.9 Oct 2013
15. Core Inflation Rate 2006=100
2.5 Oct 2013
16. Visitor Arrivals 382,022 Aug 2013
17. Underemploymen Rate
19.2% Jul 2013
18. Unemployment Rate 7.3% Jul 2013
6 THE ECONOMY
NIGHT MARKET. Davao City Drainage Maintenance and Demolition Unit head Yusop Jimlani believes that their experiment of putting up a night market along Roxas Avenue turned out successful three months after its establishment. Jimlani appeared in the weekly Kapehan sa Dabaw media forum at the Annex of SM City Davao. Lean Daval Jr
LIKE most cities in the country, the overhead cables
used by electric and tele-communications com-panies in Davao City are such a mess. Finally, the city government wants to do something about it.
Councilor Leonar-do Avila III, head of the Sangguniang Panlung-sod’s communications committee, said yester-day that Davao will soon begin to set up under-ground cables to replace the ugly overhead wires.
In an interview, Councilor Leonardo Avi-
la III said several utilities using overhead wires are interested in the project and have com-mitted to an experimen-tal setup of underground cables.
Avila said the dry run will take place at the City Hall and Sangguniang Panlungsod grounds within the year.
He added that the city government has partnered with the Davao Light and Power Corporation and Philip-pine Long Distance and Telephone Co. (PLDT), and a cable company for
the project.Avila said the com-
mittee will be drafting its report soon, with the agreement only being verbal as of the latest committee hearing held earlier this month. The city administrator’s of-fice will be drafting the budgetary requirements for the project, Avila said.
Last year, Avila pro-posed the measure after showing a presentation to the city council.
The presentation showed different areas in the city found to have
wires from different util-ity providers that use the overhead lines via the city’s existing elec-tric poles. Avila said he will be proposing that the city adopt an un-derground setup for the city’s wires.
Avila said in a privi-lege speech August last year that the utilities us-ing the city’s poles and eventually causing tan-gled cable and telephone wires have messed up the city’s skyline.
He said during the privilege speech that he has called the attention
of the Pole Users Asso-ciation regarding the matter.
“The city’s skyline deserves a better view,” he said during the speech.
The measure has so far passed first reading, with deliberations to come after the commit-tee report.
He said there will be no more committee hearings on the matter and that the dry run will be the benchmark for the rest of the city, if suc-cessfully implemented. [MindaNews]
Ambulant vendors warned against clogging sidewalks
LGU wants to get rid of messy overhead wires
VOL. 7 ISSUE 3 • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2014
ELEPHANTS are able to differentiate be-tween ethnicities
and genders, and can tell an adult from a child - all from the sound of a human
voice.This is according to a
study in which researchers played voice recordings to wild African elephants.
The animals showed
more fear when they heard the voices of adult Masai men.
Livestock-herding Ma-sai people do come into conflict with elephants,
and this suggests that ani-mals have adapted to spe-cifically listen for and avoid them.
The study is published in Proceedings of the Na-
tional Academy of Scienc-es.
Prof Karen McComb and Dr Graeme Shannon from the University of Sus-sex, who led the study, ex-plained that in previous re-search they had used sim-ilar playback experiments to reveal that elephants could tell - from the sound of a lion’s roar - whether the animal was a female or a more dangerous male.
Other studies have shown that elephants respond with fear to the scent and even to the red colour of the Masai cloth-ing.
“I’ve experienced that,” explained Prof McComb.
“If you give a Masai man a lift in your car, you can see the elephants be-have in a different way around you.
“They’re much more wary of the car and you see a lot of smelling and listening.”
Prof McComb wanted to find out if the animals
used their very acute sense of hearing to identi-fy a potential threat from humans.
The scientists record-ed Masai men, women and children saying, in their own language, “look, look over there, a group of ele-phants is coming”.
They also recorded Kamba men saying this phrase.
While cattle-herding Maasai people often en-counter free-ranging ele-phants, which can result in violent conflict, the Kamba people’s more agricultural lifestyle does not generally bring them into aggressive contact with the animals.
When the team played recordings of these differ-ent voices through a cam-ouflaged loudspeaker, they found that elephant family groups reacted more fear-fully in response to the voice of a Masai man, than to a Kamba man’s voice - retreating and bunching together defensively. [BBC]
Elephants recognize human voices
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ANIMALS around the world could be scared away from
power cables because these give off UV flashes invisible to humans, scien-tists have said.
Several species’ vision was studied by an interna-tional team to identify this ultra-violet (UV) sensitivity.
The findings, published in the journal Conservation Biology, claimed habitats and migration could be dis-rupted.
The flashes, or corona, occur when charge builds up in a cable and is released into the air.
The international team, including scientists from University College London and the Arctic University of Norway, measured the spectrum of light emitted by these bursts of charge.
They worked out that although the light was in-visible to us, it contained wavelengths seen by many other mammals.
“Most mammals will let some [UV light] into their eye,” explained UCL vision expert Prof Glen Jeffery, one of the lead researchers in this project.
“We’re weird - us and
monkeys - because we don’t see UV. Most animals do.”
‘Previously a mystery’The first animal to re-
veal its UV sensitivity was the reindeer. And, as the researchers explained, reindeers’ avoidance of the power lines running across the Arctic tundra was part of the inspiration for this project.
Dr Nicholas Tyler, the other lead author, said it had been assumed that rather than avoiding the power cables themselves, animals steered clear of passages cut in forested areas before pylons were installed.
“Forest animals will not cross clear-cuts,” he said.
“But for us in the Arctic, avoidance of power lines is difficult to explain - there are no trees, yet the rein-deer still avoid the power lines.”
The animals keep as much as 5km (3 miles) from either side of the cables.
“This has been a mys-tery,” Dr Tyler added. “We have now come up with a mechanism [to explain it].”
This research required a detailed understanding of animal vision, which was
where Prof Jeffery came in. Having discovered in
2011 that reindeer eyes were sensitive to UV light, Prof Jeffery went on to study the eyes of almost 40 mammal species, revealing all were UV-sensitive.
Since, as the research-ers added, coronas “happen on all power lines every-where”, the avoidance of the flashes could be having a global impact on wildlife.
“It has always been as-sumed that power lines - masts and the cables strung between them - were pas-sive structures standing immobile in the terrain, and therefore inoffensive for an-imals,” said Dr Tyler.
“As a result of this work, we now consider them as chains of flashing light stretching across the tun-dra in the winter darkness, and that’s why the animals find them so offensive.”
The random and un-predictable nature of these flashes was particularly problematic, he added, as the animals could not easily adapt to them.
Prof Jeffery said he hoped power companies would now consider ways to address the issue. [BBC]
Animals ‘scared’ by bursts of light from power cables
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THE National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is allegedly the culprit behind the current power crisis in Mindanao. The accusation came
from no less than Vicente T. Lao, the articulate chair-man of the Mindanao Business Council (MBC), who is one of the most active businessmen hereabouts.
Lao told mediamen attending the Kapehan sa Dabaw forum at SM City Ecoland last Monday that “the recur-ring brownouts that we are having are caused by NG-CP’s failure to do its job. I am categorically saying that the NGCP is not qualified to manage the Mindanao grid.”
Lao, who is also part of the Mindanao Power Monitor-ing Team (MPMT), said that under R.A. 9136, otherwise known as the Energy Power Industry Reform Act (EPI-RA), the NGCP is supposed to manage a buffer of more than 100 megawatts, but NGCP is not doing it.
“Para tayong niluluto sa sarili nating mantika (It’s like we are being fried in our own lard),” Lao said, charging that NGCP is compromising the welfare of the consum-ing public.
Indeed, as Lao said, it is impractical and disadvanta-geous to the consuming public for NGCP to be getting its
buffer from the grid which is already short of supply. He added that the contract between NGCP and gov-
ernment-owned and/or controlled corporation (GOCC) Agus-Pulangi Complex caused the failure of the unit to generate power for the base load of the Mindanao grid because it serves as back-up of NGCP during occurrence of power shortage.
What Lao wants to say really is for NGCP to have its own capacity to generate what is needed when the usu-al sources of power conk out. The Mindanao business leader plans to propose to Energy secretary Carlos Jer-icho Petilla to require NGCP to have its own buffer by March 21 at a meeting of MPMC in Manila.
In the meantime, we expect the NGCP which has been media-evasive lately, to explain its side, if it has not done so yet. Lao’s accusation is serious and must never be met with nonchalance. The power transmis-sion company, which is partly owned by a Chinese state corporation, should not abet a situation wherein the people of Mindanao will accuse NGCP of stunting the growth of their economy due to its role in the worsen-ing power crisis.
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(Conclusion)
BY YULIYA KOMSKA
COMMENTARY
AQUILES Z. ZONIOCorrespondent
VANTAGE POINTS 9EDGEDAVAO
Restore death penalty
Davao is worth dying for Malaysia: Crisis management on a
need-to-know basis
DESPITE these suspicions, the government’s bravura traveled across the Atlantic — although
not particularly well. On May 2, Vita-ly Churkin, then a rank-and-file Sovi-et diplomat in Washington, (and now, Russia’s U.N. envoy and spokesman for his country’s grab of Crimea), tes-tified in front of a skeptical U.S. Con-gress. The radiation, Churkin claimed, caused “no harm” to the Soviet Union’s northern and western neighbors. The Soviet government needed to assess the situation and continue the cleanup before making “any public announce-ments.”
And so it did. The official grip on the news loosened only later that year — after the calves, hedgehogs, and hu-mans born with missing or superflu-ous extremities made the extent of the disaster glaringly obvious. But until then, our main safety measures were few: We avoided the compromised Be-lorussian berries at farmers’ markets and avoided leaf piles in the fall.
For years to come, the officials knew much more than they were will-ing to share. Countless Soviet commis-sions and medical findings underre-ported, by two orders of magnitude, the number of patients hospitalized with acute radiation sickness and na-sopharynx cancer — especially the all-too-slowly evacuated residents of the 30-kilometer “exclusion zone” around Chernobyl.
Unlike the families of passengers on flight MH370, most of us did not push for information as a united front. True believers stuck to their guns, labeling news as western propaganda — much as they do now, regarding Ukraine.
In light of the Chernobyl analogy, it is tempting to see the handling of the Malaysia Airlines flight as yet another case of a closed (eastern) society run-ning up against the more democrat-ic (Western) standards. But in many ways, the comparison isn’t perfect.
It conflicts with the fact that the less-than-democratic China has been the loudest voice clamoring for more transparency over MH370. Pushing for more transparency is not unequiv-ocally democratic or free from ulteri-or motifs. Neither do closed societies hold a monopoly on obfuscation, as NSA surveillance, Guantanamo torture and other examples reveal.
Of course, withholding information can be dangerous. Yet the alternative — releasing every bit of information, in real time — has its own potential pitfalls, especially when terrorism suspicion is in the mix. In the case of MH370, new information keeps com-ing in. It turns out that Rolls-Royce, the British maker of the plane’s engine, also possesses data transmission records that suggest that the aircraft was in the air longer than originally assumed. Is the Malaysian government responsible for updating the world on this constant trickle of news? Only time will tell.
In the meantime, we need to recog-nize the fine line between not having enough information and having too much of it, between obscurantism and panic-mongering. Every society — free or open — needs to walk this line care-fully.
LIKE ANY ambitious young man freeing himself from the clutches of corporate world in 1980’s and
dreaming of climbing up the company ladder in the glass-and-concrete business world of Makati--- it was so easy for me to get creative jobs in ad agencies along Ayala or Buendia avenues in that glitzy city.
I would have loved living and working in Makati the rest of my life after leaving the Davao-based American export firm Dole Stanfilco in 1976 for “greener pastures”---- but I returned to Davao after just a few months of working in Manila.
This happened a number of times after being tempted by job offers I thought would finally nail me permanently in the country’s capital city. And yet, I keep returning to Davao and continued building the little pieces of my life here.
Why did I keep returning to Davao? What is in Davao that gave me “stronger reasons” to return here --- than to continue living in Manila?
I remember going to Manila to answer four calls for interviews after mailing out 11 job application letters from Davao. I still could recall being hired on the spot as a copy writer by McCann Erickson, one of the country’s biggest ad agencies.
But I didn’t show up the second day because another big ad agency, AMC or Advertising Marketing Communications also hired me as a PR man and ordered me to report to a 6 am breakfast meeting with our boss at Dasmarinas Village. From there, I started the long, daily routine of waking at four every morning for bath and breakfast, catch a jeepney
for the MRT terminal to catch the train for Makati---- e v e r y d a y , over and over and over, like it would never end. I asked myself : What for? Why am I here?
W h i l e working for this ad agency at the 8th floor of a high-rise building at Legaspi Village, I just kept thinking of Mt. Apo in Davao, its rain forests, jungles, rivers and pristine lakes and the exciting times I had with fellow climbers in the mountains who were a close family to me.
It isn’t easy to make friends in a very materialistic city like Manila where people look at you from top to toe and measure success or wealth by the size of your wallet. People don’t easily smile at you in Manila unless they know you’re well off, enough to spend the whole night partying with friends and painting the town red.
When a person smiles at you in Manila, he’s either planning to gyp you or stick a knife at your back in a street corner, asking for your wallet. That’s why I’ve never felt safe in Manila--- I don’t trust anyone there, I don’t trust the streets, I don’t trust cops, I don’t trust neighbors, I don’t trust taxi drivers, etc.
I could never feel at home living in Manila, but I feel more at home living in Davao, with neighbors here helping each other, with cops trusted and respected by the people, with criminals staying out
of the city, scared of ending up with their heads blown off and their blood spilling on the street.
My own personal reasons for preferring to live in Davao than anywhere else in the country or the US (where my sisters are living today) have nothing to do with durian, with panga, with waling-waling, with all the shopping malls, with Kadawayan festival, etc. because I can live without all these attractions. I don’t even care if “life is here” in Davao.
Davao has a special “culture” of its own, so much different from Manila and even from other cities like Cebu where materialism has taken roots and people treat you well only when you have a fat wallet and wear only branded shoes, branded watch, branded jeans and branded shirt.
I like this special “culture” of Davao which is my strongest reason of preferring to live here than anywhere else. To be honest about it, to me Davao is worth dying for.
In Davao, you would still have good friends even if you wear only ukay-ukay shirt, pants and shoes with a P100 watch--- or stroll around shopping malls wearing only slippers and ukay-ukay city shorts. You’ll still have close friends who join you for lunch at streetside stalls and carenderia offering Davao’s best delicacies at very cheap prices.
That’s why I wasn’t surprised when German friends here like Ulli Kronberg, Klaus Doring and Hans Tuchel decided to spend the rest of their lives residing in Davao. They told me Davao is their “home” now and they’re living here ---- for good.
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A MENACE THAT DESTROYS THE SOCIAL FABRIC – There is now a strong clamor for the restoration
of the death penalty which was abol-ished in 2009 due to mounting pressures from the religious sector and pro-life advocates. Some lawmakers previously attempted to revive the death sentence but failed, again, because church leaders and pro-life advocates rejected the idea of government meting this severest pen-alty on grave offenders.
Lately the proposal is revived in the House committee on justice due to the worsening drug problem, which now reportedly involves international drug syndicates. There are far too many laws that deal with criminal activities but not enough to deter drug syndicates. They conduct their deadly trade seemingly with impunity. International drug syn-dicates have allegedly established an “unholy alliance” with their local coun-terparts. With their combined financial strength and growing influence they can do almost anything they want these days in the country because of lenient laws. The surfeit of laws purportedly designed to ensure the welfare and pro-tection of the citizenry is not enough or mere “paper tigers.”
Members of the House recently en-dorsed the re-imposition of the death penalty measure to the Senate for fur-ther review. It is time for the present dispensation to consider creative mea-
sures to stop the aggra-vating drug problem in the country. Indeed, some-thing has to be done p o s t h a s t e to stamp out heinous crimes which include drug trafficking.
We need laws, but we need them to be sensible, and the strictest possible to meet society’s need. If Congress, which solely has the right to enact or modify laws, decides that the death penalty is a desirable approach, they must enact the measurer now before it’s too late. Drug abuse destroys the social fabric.
Drug traffickers are getting daring and bolder each passing day. Some of them operate under the noses of author-ities. A glaring example is the Mexican drug cartel and the infamous Chinese drug trade. These groups are gradually penetrating our drug-stricken country. Some of their stealth operations have been unearthed by drug enforcers and other law enforcement units resulting to the capture of some of its members and confiscation of finished products, raw materials and equipment for shabu making worth several millions.
I will say it for the umpteenth time: the most heinous crime like rape, mur-der, arson, home invasion and gun-for-hire among others are perpetrated by people who are under the influence of prohibited drugs. Drug lords, pushers and addicts don’t care a hoot about hu-man lives.
Without a stringent measure like death penalty, the government will be less capable of dealing with the drug problem effectively.
The government can show its de-termination to stop drug trafficking by executing a few high-profile drug lords proven guilty of his crime. This can only done if the death sentence is restored. Drug syndicates, even those with inter-national connection, would think twice before continuing with their deadly trade.
It is expected that before the pro-posed restoration of the death penalty touches first base the religious sector and pro-life movement will howl a pro-test and would insist for the status quo.
We submit that groups who are op-posing the death penalty must think first of what is best for society, and not wait for their homes and their relatives’ house to be invaded by drug-crazed robbers, killing all the occupants and raping girls in the process. These and other crimes perpetrated by people un-der the influence of drugs are happen-ing now.
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Republic of the PhilippinesDepartment of Transporta-tion and CommunicationsLAND TRANSPORTATION
FRANCHISING AND REGULA-TORY BOARD
Regional Office No. XIDavao city
Petition for Renewal of a Certif-icate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB Ordinary Regular Service
NENITA F. HAZEN,Petitioner Case No.2009-XI-00287
x- - - - - - - - -- - - -----x
NOTICE OF HEARING
Petitioner is a grantee of a Certificate of Public Con-venience issued in this case authorizing the operation of a FILCAB Ordinary Regular Service on the route: BAGO APLAYA ROUTE with the use of ONE (1) unit, which Certifi-cate will expire on September 29, 2014. In the petition filed on March 11, 2014, petitioner request authority to extend the validity of said certificate to operate along the same route with the use of the same unit previously authorized.
NOTICE, is hereby given
that this petition will be heard by this Board on MARCH 31, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. at this of-fice at the above address.
At least, TEN (10) days prior to the above date peti-tioner shall publish this No-tice once in a one (1) daily newspaper of general circula-tion in Mindanao
Parties opposed to the granting of the petition must file their written opposition supported by documentary evidence on or before the above date furnishing a copy of the same to the petitioner, and may if they so, desire ap-pear on said date and time.
This petition will be acted upon by this Board on the ba-sis of its records and the doc-umentary evidence submit-ted by the parties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documen-tary and/or oral evidence.
WITNESS the Honorable BENJAMIN A. GO, CESO V, Re-gional Director, this 11th day of March 2014 at Davao City.
TERESITA DELA PEÑA-YÑIGUEZ
Chief Transportation Development Officer
NOTICE OF LOSSNotice is hereby given by LOYOLA PLANS
CONSOLIDATED INC. that CERTIFICATE OF FULL PAYMENT No.(s) 52823/ 21040789 under LOYOLA PLAN Contract No.(s) 300152-0/190891-6 issued to ADRIANO A .DELA PEÑA / TEODORA S. DELA PEÑA was lost. Any transaction entered into shall be null and void.3/19/26/4/2
ROSE AND DELIBERATION. Councilor Mary Joselle Villafuerte, a physician, holds a rose given by members of the Voices of the South Children’s Choir while listening to the discussion on the floor during yesterday’s regular session at Sangguniang Panlungsod. Lean Daval Jr.
MW project, as outlined in Davao City Ordinance No. 200-11, Series of 2011
b) The City Environ-ment and Natural Resourc-es Office (Cenro) is mandat-ed to monitor closely the compliance by TSI with the provisions and mandates of all applicable national and local environmental laws.
c) The Multipartite Monitoring Team is also requested to submit to the local government, through the Office of the City Mayor and the SangguniangPan-lungsod, a semi-annual re-port of its findings on TSI’s compliance with conditions stipulated in its ECC on the 300 MW project and on the ECC that is yet to be issued on the project expansion.
d) TSI is also request-ed to double its Carbon Sink Management Program
(CSMP) commitment and plant an additional One Million (1,000,000) trees in its expansion project to be grown in close coordination with the CENRO. The com-pany is also encouraged to provide mechanisms so that the CSMP implemen-tation will not just serve as a means of people’s partic-ipation in environmental protection but also serve as a form of community liveli-hood project with the aim of generating income for project beneficiaries.
Some members of the council added additional terms to be included inthe amended resolution.
Councilor Marissa S.A-bella added that TSI should submit an ecological land-scape plan for the power plant from its approval up to December 2014.
On the other hand, coun-cilor Maria Belen S.Acosta wants TSI that, even if they already complied with the 2 million trees, should still conduct annual tree plant-ing projects. The number of trees would be determined by the Multipartite Moni-toring Team.
“The commitment should not be at the con-struction and expansion level only,” Acosta stressed.
Councilor Mary Joselle D. Villafuerte also added the provision that TSI should refrain from selling ‘fly-ash’ to any private or government cementplant pending examination ofits substance.
In a separate interview, Orig said that they would follow the specific conditions laid down by the city council.
(DOT) visited the Kingdom to formally launch the Phil-ippine tourism campaign in Riyadh. The event was at-tended by tourism officials from the Saudi Chambers of Commerce and tour opera-tors in Riyadh and nearby regions.
The DOT also held a fa-miliarization tour of Manila, as well as Tagaytay, Clark and Subic, for selected Sau-di travel agents.
According to the DFA, the DOT and the Philippine embassy will once again join the Riyadh Travel Fair 2014 from April 12 to 16, and simultaneously hold promotion activities in Saudi’s Eastern region to attract more tourists. [PNA]
tion of the northeast mon-soon and with the easter-lies replacing it as the dom-inant weather system in the country will signal the start of the dry or summer season.
Meanwhile, Perez said the weather agency con-tinues to monitor the low pressure area (LPA) spot-ted over the Pacific Ocean which is projected to enter the country within the next
24 hours.He said once the LPA en-
ters the Philippine Area of Responsibility, it will bring light to moderate rains over Eastern Visayas and North-ern Mindanao particularly Caraga region.
He added that it is too early to tell if the LPA will become a tropical depres-sion because it is too far from the country.
In case the LPA inten-
sifies into a tropical de-pression, it will be named “Caloy,” the third cyclone to affect the country this year.
In its advisory, PAGA-SA said that moderate to strong winds from the east to northeast will prevail over Luzon and coming from the northeast over the rest of the country.
The coastal waters throughout the archipelago will be moderate to rough.
The state weather bu-reau also issued gale warn-ing as strong to gale-force winds associated with the northeast monsoon will affect the eastern seaboard of Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
“Fishing boats and other small sea crafts are advised not to venture out into the sea while larger sea vessels are alerted against big waves,” it warned.[PNA]
involvement in microscopy training.
It can also be attribut-ed to the “combined inter-vention of indoor residual spraying in focal areas, uni-versal coverage of treated nets and border operations in remaining focal area,” the regional health director said.
Dumama said there 16
malaria-free municipalities in the region. Six in Davao del Sur, four in Davao del Norte, three in Davao Ori-ental; and three in the prov-ince of Compostela Valley.
Municipalities in the province of Davao del Norte include: Island Garden City of Samal, Kaputian, New Corella, and Asuncion.
Malaria disease free
municipalities in Davao Ori-ental are Baganga, Boston, and Lupon.
The municipalities of Malita, Sta. Maria, Sulop, Don Marcelino, and Sta Cruz are already free from the mosquito-borne dis-ease.
The province of Com-postela Valley has three municipalities malaria-free,
including Maragusan, Nab-unturan and New Bataan.
Malaria is an infectious disease that is rampant in tropical countries. It is caused by a parasite that is passed from one human to another by the bite of in-fected Anopheles mosqui-to. It is manifested by fever along with chills and rigors. [CRC]
daughter of Atty. Rodolfo M. Elman faculty member and Assistant Ombuds-man, Office of the Deputy Ombudsman of Mindanao, Jose Paolo M. Evangelis-ta, son of Kidapawan City Mayor Joseph Evangelista, Joshua D. Paguican, son of RTC-Judge Pelagio Pagui-can and Mary Kristine Joy S. Paras, daughter of Davao del Sur-Malalag Mayor, lawyer Roel O. Paras”.
The University of Min-danao (UM College of Law) has 4 passers out of 68 tak-ers (22 were first takers and 46 were retakers) with an overall ;passing rate of 5.88 percent. Of the four
passers, two were fresh graduates and the other two were retakers.
UM first taker passers are Gerwin Ryan L. Rabaya and Malene Jade G. San-chez; retakers who passed are Jenny Fe D. Dumalag and Fairy Saith B. Robago.
Meanwhile, there are five new lawyers-to-
be from Cor Jesu Col-lege of Digos City.
Lawyer Israelito Torreon, dean of Cor Jesu College in Digos City said the passers are Freddie Baynosa, Monica Calim-bas, Michael Robledo, Mi-chelle D. Roldan- Advincu-la, and Jose P. Zafra.
Only 1,174 or 22.18 percent of the 5,343 bar takers successfully passed one of the toughest licen-sure exams in the country.
The passing rate of 22.18 percent, however, is higher than the 17.76 per-cent 2012 result which is considered to be the low-est since 2002.
Lawyer Jose Edgar J. Ilagan, chapter president of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines-Davao City (IBP-DC) told Edge Davao yesterday that law schools here are still ca-pable of producing a good number of lawyers.
However, he said that
schools with low passing rate should do something about it. He added that schools should improve their standard in order to increase the number of their bar passers.
Illagan said that the bar exams should be done simultaneously. “Dapat may isa sa Luzon, isa sa Cebu at dito sa Davao City for Mindanao, adding that being away from the family contributes to the stress and pressure felt by bar exam takers.
Illagan extend his con-gratulations to successful October 2013 bar pass-ers.
in the country to export Pe-king ducks. Every month, it impors about 3,000 breeder ducks from Cher-ry Valley, United Kingdom. These imported ducks pro-ceed to the breeding farm and hatchery in Bukidnon. From the farms, day-old ducklings are transferred to growing farms in Mano-lo Fortich and Arakan Val-ley.
Forty-five days old ducks are harvested and transported to the dress-ing plant in Tamugan, Davao City. They are then processed, blast-frozen, and vacuum- packed.
Their products include whole ducks, premium breast meat, boneless leg meat, wing fillets and dressed Peking ducks.
Lao said that the lo-
cation of their growing farms is suited for growing ducklings because of the cold climate there. Breed-er Peking ducks have less stress in Bukinon because the ducks
Don’t have to suffer fromstressin the four sea-sonweatherintje UK/ Since the ducks are less stressed they keep laying eggs, Lao added.
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BIGGER PICTURE
“IT is with the clear-est knowledge and memory of our iden-
tity that we can forge uni-ty among us. That we will know where we will em-bark our efforts to build a stronger community.”
These were the words of General Santos City May-or Ronnel Rivera as he led the triumphant celebration of the multi-awarded Kalil-angan Festival as part of its diamond (75th) founding anniversary.
This year’s festival theme, GenSan@75: Living the Culture, focused around the tri-people’s cultural heritage. It also honored the pioneers’ triumphs to form what would become a shining example of a city by the bay.
The Grand Opening The grand opening was
headlined by a musical and dance extravaganza entitled “Kinang.”
The two hour non-stop cavalcade of songs and dances reflected the city’s journey from its humble be-ginnings towards its pres-ent standing as a highly ur-banized city.
Spectacular play of lights and a tastefully done mix of indigenous and mod-ern day music enticed res-idents and tourists. From shimmering rendition of di-amond and silver visual ef-fects, to nostalgic vignettes of historical video panora-ma and metaphoric dance drama, the production as a whole became a feast of sensory indulgence.
Directed by Edgar Ca-diente, City Economic Man-agement and Cooperative Development Office (CEM-CDO) assistant department head, five acts reliving the seven decades of the city’s journey were showcased.
Authentic Filipino practices of pagsalubong or “welcoming” was staged including the indigenous people’s highland dances “lupang sagana” and Chris-tian’s culture of piyesta and kundiman at harana.
The jovial cultural pre-sentation that depicts pag-salubong segued to a re-en-actment of the landing of General Paulino Santos to an upbeat marching transi-tion.
General Santos was or-dered by President Manu-el Quezon to lead the first group of 200 migrants from Luzon and the Visayas to the primeval Lagao area of Mindanao in February 27, 1939.
Nostalgia filled the at-mosphere after and further intensified by the reminisc-ing of people and the city’s history through a recorded video interview with the first settler’s kin shown on two panoramic screens, al-
ternately played with a live serenade of classical bal-lads.
Among those inter-viewed was Leonie Nativ-idad, 91 years old, who re-counted how his father Don Paco told General Paulino Santos to dock at Buayan (now one of the barangays of GenSan) rather than in the shores of Davao because Buayan was still widely un-inhabited then. The peace-ful Muslim and Christian relationship was also men-tioned by 91 year old Span-ish-B’laan Mariana Olarte Lozano.
The dance and musical extravaganza moved from the more traditional and standard set of music into segmental jingles of 1940’s hit swing fever, Jailhouse Rock of Elvis Presley in 50s, the Beatles’ Love Me do in 60s, Michael Jackson’s Bil-lie Jean in 70s and so on. This pace mirrored how the people of Dadiangas adapt-ed and evolved through the course of time as indomita-ble people now continually bringing honor to the city.
The Leader’s Plea Shortly after the pre-
sentation of city’s victories, 74 torches were lit and pa-raded on stage.
At this dramatic mo-ment, Mayor Rivera began his message: “Revisiting the past would tell us that life had already flourished even before the arrival of General Santos in February 27, 1939. And we continue to thrive even after the es-tablishment of the first set-tlement. Now, we become the product of a magnificent history that eventually gave us the name of General San-tos City.”
With the inspiration and motivation brought by the city’s forefathers and ancestors and with the les-sons learned from their his-tory Mayor Rivera encour-aged everyone through a challenge:
“To all resident of the city, be the eyes and ears of the government because you are the heart and soul of it.
To the local government unit and all public service, let us roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty as we work on the things that need to be fixed.
To the business sector, continue becoming our ally in accelerating economic growth in the city.
To the peace and order units operating in the city, give me peace and order solutions.”
The crowd was silent, attentive to the leader’s plea for a vibrant, peaceful and progressive General Santos. And with that, he declared the 25thKalilangan festiv-ities open and lit the 75th
torch signifying the 75th year of the city’s journey.
Living the Culture To achieve the con-
vergence amid cultural divergence, inclusive par-ticipation and synchroniza-tion were the strategies of Mindanao State University (MSU) in co-managing the Kalilangan for the fourth time.
It featured an assort-ment of sports tourna-ments, cultural shows and gatherings, historical photo exhibits, agricultural fairs and special interest events.
The three day series of tri-people day was a major highlight among others. Tri-people communities (Moro, Christians and indig-enous people) were given a day each to showcase their customs and traditions.
The Moro communities on February 24 organized an activity called Pakarad-jan, a Maguindanaon term which means Moro gather-ing. They showcased their cultural games, dances and practices such as the kadsi-pa sa manguis, Kambuyang (fan dance), Kanduli Kada-datuan, Kulintangan, Sagay-an Unta-Unta.
This whole day activi-ty was attended by various Moro communities espe-cially the Maguindanaons and other prominent Moro families. Moro delicacies were also shared to the Christians and Lumads bringing in a spirit of con-vergence.
Meanwhile, on Feb-ruary 25 everyone joined the cheerful Piyestahan ar-ranged by Christians. Vari-ous barangays and schools competed in lutong piyesta, laro ng lahi, gabi ng ronda-lya, katutubong sayawan, haranahan and baylehan.
Watching the harana-han with its folk strums Matud Nila (an old Visayan song) would indeed bring one back to the old days where villagers would gath-
er at night and pamper their self in a splendid acoustic, sentimental evening.
On the next day, the indigenous people (IP) communities especially the Blaan tribe also exhibited their customs and tradi-tions through an IP gather-ing called Kastifun which aimed to depict the signif-icant contribution of the Blaan people, as one of the original and native settlers of the city.
Catching chicken or the damluanok, traditional eating (memu k’naan) and IP traditional attire parade (kalyak dad libonnalage) were the highlights of their activity.
Along with these, an ag-ricultural fair was also held where it exhibited various bahay kubo or nipa huts.
It housed prime prod-ucts of GenSan such as (bu-lad) dried fish, (bagoong) shrimp paste, and wide va-rieties of farm harvests.
Hopping around bahay kubo with the indigenous songs on the background would definitely give one a good Kalilangan experi-ence. The carabao-drawn cart (karitela) was also an attraction as it was dis-played and available for use.
The revival of karitela, bahay kubo, piyestahan, kastifun and pakaradjan brought colorful and cheer-ful precision of identity among Henerals.
Splendid Culmination However, Kalilangan
celebration would not be complete without the com-memoration of the arrival of General Paulino Santos in 1939 along with the 67 set-tlers and his administrative staff via S.S. Basilan ship.
This historical event which happened 75 years ago was remembered through the traditional Parada ng lahi: Kadena de amor on an early Thursday morning of February 27. Sons and daughters of city
pioneers led by City Mayor Ronnel Rivera and his wife Jane Rivera paraded from General Paulino Santo’s landing site down to the city’s oldest streets, Achar-on Boulevard and Pioneer Avenue.
Dressed in cultural and ethnic attires, employees from department of edu-cation and General Santos local government unit por-trayed the hospitality of the tri-people. A 21 gun salute was then executed to give honor to General Santos and his wife Elisa Angeles Santos.
“I really put high val-ue on this event because it helps me cherish my origin and past,” says Zenaida Cab-iguin Naguio, president of the Senior Citizens Associ-ation of General Santos City.
The tribute to Genen-eral Paulino Santos’ arriv-al intensified before sun-down as meaningful colors and beats dashed off the city’s urban roads with the (Kasadyagan sa Buyang) street-dancing competi-tion. Participating contin-gents showcased a depic-tion of tri-people’s warm salubong or welcome to General Santos and a cre-ative integration of Kam-buyang or the iconic fan of Kalilangan that represents friendship and camarade-rie.
The sun rested with the loud ethnic beat in the air and people’s eyes con-sistently struck in awe of the majestic street dancing performances, all the ur-ban bustles suddenly froze attending on this grandiose revelry.
Many realized that witnessing the 75th anni-versary of their hometown was a privilege. Hence, numbers of people con-tinuously troop down the Oval Grounds to join in the town’s merriment.
At the count of ten, a spectacular 20 minute
dazzling fireworks punc-tuated the February 17 to 27 diamond founding anni-versary festivities, leaving everyone a sense of com-pletion of their identity as Henerals.
Seventy Five Years and On
Looking at seventy-five years of journey, General Santos City has truly come far. One could not help but simply be amazed at how this southern city evolved as indomitable, competi-tive home of the champi-ons.
Behind the success of many famous personali-ties, rapid rise of buildings, influx of people is perhaps the city’s modest, simplis-tic and flamboyant vibe.
In the challenges it overcame, resiliency and solidarity shined as innate strengths of Henerals.
Mayor Rivera said he wants to embark togeth-er with all the residents of the city towards creating a livable environment for all towards nation building.
Rivera saw that Gen-eral Paulino Santos’ vision successfully passed on from generation to genera-tion, leaders to leaders. As it gears forward to another year, the mayor believes that the city must contin-uously press towards a di-rection that is clear to all.
A direction where ev-eryone has a part in creat-ing a prosperous city that will endure.
A direction where all those behind them would find and see that this de-cade made remarkable breakthroughs
Breakthroughs that are meaningful, fruitful, a shining and shimmering reminder to the future gen-eration as to who we are, where we came from and how far we have gone to-gether as a city. [GENSAN INFO OFFICE/Michelle Ann Gonzales]
General Santos on its diamond journeySHINING, SHIMMERING:
By MICHELLE ANN GONZALESPHOTO By RUSSEL DELVO
General Santos City Mayor Ronnel Rivera leads the triumphant celebration of the multi-awarded Kalilangan Festival as part of its diamond (75th) founding anniversary. (Russel Delvo)
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The vivid hues of Havaianas’ Summer 2014 collection
SUMMER is a time when we all feel free to enjoy and indulge in life’s pleasures. We deck ourselves in the comfiest of clothes and footwear as we bask in the summer heat. This season’s wardrobe staples / must-haves normally shorts, tank top, sunnies, swimwear, and flip-flops. Looking at aesthetics, nothing says summer more than bright colors and a kaleidoscope of patterns.
A footwear brand trusted by families for over 50 years, Havaianas continues to reinvent itself by introducing new styles each year. This summer, Havaianas splashes into the season with a new flip-flops collection featuring bold prints and vibrant “popsickle” shades. This collection was launched in Davao just last week in a fashion show hosted by Martish Marketing Co. (MMC), the exclusive sub-distributor of Havaianas in South East Mindanao,
Portuguese, the language used in Brazil – is MMC’s annual thanksgiving event for their loyal clients and media partners. The fashion event showcased women of all ages decked in the latest Havaianas styles. It was refreshing to see not only young moms and pretty bachelorettes but also little girls on the runway. Each model wore their own style interpretation of summer, which consist-ed mostly of knee-length dresses, sleeveless tops, shorts, light fabric and flo-ral prints. Havaianas flip-flops have been an essential ingredient for every sum-mer escapade at the beach or in the city. Every sum-mer, flip-flops lovers sport their favorite Havaianas as they journey to new destinations, stroll with loved ones in shopping malls, or lounge in the summer sun. The brand lives on the summer tra-dition by inspiring people to indulge in happiness, go out, make a splash, and simply have fun.
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LAST March 12, GMA Artist Center talent Sef Cadayo-na hosted a mini-dance contest and ice cream party for the ‘tambays’ at the Executive Lounge of GMA Network Cen-ter. From a list of talented aspirants, three groups namely, Simple Guys from Quezon City; I’am Crew District from Montalban, Rizal; and Technical Force from San Mateo, Rizal, were given the chance to showcase their best dance moves and choreography which amazed the Kapu-so artist and other guests who witnessed the presen-tation. In an interview with Sef, he said that he’s glad that despite the fact that they don’t have the proper
training and rehearsal venues, the aspiring danc-ers still managed to join the dance contest and showed their undeniable dancing prowess. “Nakakatuwa na makita ang kanilang talent kahit sa simpleng mini-dance contest na ito. I was so amazed dahil wala man silang proper rehearsal bi-lang sa kalsada sila suma-sayaw. They are just oozing with talent at hindi biro
ang competing piece nila. Nag-enjoy ako na mapa-nood sila at makasama sa araw na ito.” After the show-stopping performances from the three groups, Technical Force took home the grand prize while Simple Guys and I’am Crew District placed second and third. They were all given cash prizes and trophies from Sef. Being someone who has a passion for dancing, he reminded the aspir-ing dancers to never stop dreaming and doing what they love. “Sinabihan ko sila to never stop dreaming and do the things na naka-kapagpasaya sa kanila. Build a goal and stick to it because I can see the tal-ent they have at kapag na-hone pa ito malayo pa ang kanilang mararating.” And when he was asked about his birthday wish this year, “I always treasure the work that has been given to me and I’m very thankful. There’s only one ultimate wish that I have though na sana matupad with what I wanna do as an artist. Mapasaya at mapa-tawa ang mga manonood at mapawi ang kalungku-tan nila habang pinapa-nood nila ako,” he shared.
“BET On Your Baby” host Judy Ann Santos-Agoncillo recent-ly mentioned how happy she is being in the company of her fellow Kapamilyas in ABS-CBN and being part of her current projects. In an Instagram post, Judy Ann expressed how thankful she is for the blessings she has received in her career. “Thank you Lord for giving me the sweetest staff on both units of Bet [On Your Baby] and I Do,” she said. Within just five months since it started, “Bet On Your Baby” has become a con-
sistent top-rater among w e e k e n d p r o g r a m s on televi-sion. Another thing about the show that makes Judy Ann happy is that families also continue to be blessed through the show’s prizes of 1 million pesos and a house and lot package. This Saturday (March 15),
three babies of modern day heroes or overseas F i l i p i n o workers will be playing on the show with a shot at becom-ing the next millionaires on the coun-try’s cutest
game show. Meet baby Therese Bacani, the daughter of a Cook in Canada; baby Kidd Villavicen-
cio, whose parent works as a grocery supervisor in Saudio Arabia; and babies Noah and Asher Dacuno, the children of a coal mining manager in Indonesia. Catch “Bet On Your Baby,” airing on Saturdays on ABS-CBN. For updates, visit and like “Bet On Your Baby” on Facebook (www.facebook.com/betonyourbabyph) and follow @betonyourbabyph on Twitter or betonyourb-abyphilippines on Insta-gram. For comments on the show, don’t forget to use the hashtag #BetOnYourBabyPH.
WHEN learning grows exceedingly complex, productiv-ity gets more demanding, and personal connections get more challenging, it’s high time to have a faster and stron-ger broadband to keep the family up to date. Tattoo Home Broadband unleashes the fastest broadband connection as it upgrades its speeds within the same and more affordable plan. Starting at Plan 1599, the formerly 3 Mbps Tattoo Home Broadband bundle has now been upgraded to a faster and more reliable 5 Mbps speed. This gives families the power to quickly and easily get the business of life out of the way so they can focus more on actually living it. “Tattoo continues to design and upgrade home broad-band bundles with the family in mind. We prioritize what would give the family the best online experience so that each member can enjoy staying connected. Much like this upgraded broadband bundle. We are giving each household more speed to meet their growing online needs so that they can have more time for everything they want to accomplish” shares Globe Vice President for Tattoo Home Broadband Business Jurist Gamban. Students can get their research done in the blink of an eye, while letting them enjoy plenty of time to download their favorite TV series, music, or mobile apps. Working parents can update their emails, and manage their productivity with broadband that is at par with the corporate network, while leaving plenty of space for other leisurely pursuits. Tattoo Home Broadband opens up your home to the the power of possibilities in making your home a more productive, more conducive, and more proactive place to make experiences even better, while making your mark in the worldwide web. So, as the world opens up to more work, more information, and more exciting experiences, you can very well keep up to turn every challenge into opportunities, turn every minute into well-spent moments, where you’re most comfortable and at your best—your own space. Tattoo Home Broadband gives everyone the access to better, faster, stronger connec-tion where it is most important - at home. To know more about Tattoo Home Broadband’s plans and its coverage in your area, log on to tattoo.globe.com.ph, call (02) 730-1010, visit the nearest Globe store or get in touch with authorized Globe Sales Agents.
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UP AND ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT
‘Bet On Your Baby’ host Judy Ann Santos remains a happy Kapamilya
Sef Cadayona hosts a mini-dance contest
for the ‘tambays’
Mountain Dew yesterday announced an official internation-al-wide partnership with 20th Century Fox’s X-MEN: Days of Future Past, this summer’s most eagerly awaited block-buster, signaling the start of a robust campaign that will see Mountain Dew bring fans around the world closer to the film.With a star-studded international cast including Hugh Jack-man, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Law-rence, Halle Berry, Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart led by Director Bryan Singer, the seventh film in the X-MEN fran-chise unites stars from across the X-MEN generations for an epic cinematic journey of good versus evil.Building on more than a decade of successful entertainment partnerships, Mountain Dew is launching its largest-ever in-ternational entertainment promotion. A powerful team, the Mountain Dew and X-MEN: Days of Future Past partnership sparks an immersive, fan-focused campaign by Mountain Dew, reaching the “Dew Nation” in nearly 30 countries.Kurt Frenier, Vice President, Global Brand Development, Beverages, PepsiCo comments: “Mountain Dew is a global brand fueled by self-expression, confidence and authentic-ity, qualities that are also anchored in the iconic X-MEN film franchise. To celebrate these shared passions, we’re excited to bring our fans and customers around the world an im-mersive program of engaging content, money-can’t-buy experiences and exclusive promotions, all designed to bring them closer to what is expected to be this summer’s biggest blockbuster.”The promotional campaign engages consumers across vir-tually every imaginable touchpoint -- from in-store and spe-cial commemorative packaging featuring X-MEN: Days of Future Past characters and exciting prizes, to custom cinema programs, a global television commercial and digital and so-cial platforms sharing exclusive behind the scenes content.Anna Roca, SVP of International Promotions at 20th Century Fox adds: “We are thrilled to welcome Mountain Dew into the X-MEN: Days of Future Past world. The adventurous, en-ergetic attitude of their fan base mirrors the franchise’s own -- and their international reach helps bring our beloved mu-tants to more corners of the world than ever before.”
Mountain Dew brings fans closer to the action of the blockbuster franchise
THE SEARCH for the next singing superstar is back as the top-rating and Twitter-trending ultimate singing-reality search “The Voice of the Philippines” returns to ABS-CBN this summer. This year, it will launch the highly anticipated “The Voice Kids,” featuring kids aged eight to 14 years old with the most unique and supreme singing voices. Sitting again as coaches in “The Voice Kids” are Pop-star Royalty Sarah Geron-imo, Rock Superstar Bam-boo, and Broadway Diva Lea Salonga. It will be hosted by Luis Manzano and season one V Reporter Alex Gonzaga. “The Voice of the Phil-ippines” raised the bar of singing competitions by fo-cusing on vocal supremacy, not the looks or the back stories of the artists. Its first season also elicited excite-ment among audiences with its world-class produc-tion and riveting storytell-
ing of the journey of both the artists and coaches. Season one produced the first ever “Voice of the Philippines” Mitoy of Team Lea, who proved to be a first-class vocal talent that can compete in the global arena. The Philippine adapta-tion of the popular interna-tional TV franchise turned out to be highly successful, engaging audiences on-air, online, and on mobile as it
constantly won the ratings game, dominated social media, and rallied viewers to vote for their voice of choice week after week. The show’s unique for-mat extremely appealed to Filipino viewers, espe-cially its “blind auditions” where hopefuls auditioned by singing on stage with the coaches facing against them. It not only saw the art-ists competing, but also
the coaches who battled each other in picking artists, and when their respected teams delivered the best performances during the live shows leading to the finale. Watch out for “The Voice Kids” airing soon on ABS-CBN. For updates on the program, like www.face-book.com/thevoiceabscbn, or follow @thevoiceabscbn on Twitter and @abscbn-thevoice on Instagram.
KATE WINSLET is the latest celeb to receive one of Hol-lywood’s top honors. The 38-year-old actress was presented with the 2,520th star on the Hol-lywood Walk of Fame to-day—her first post-baby appearance—and radiated in a black, form-fitting dress that showed off her envi-able bod (the woman just gave birth to son Bear three months ago!). Winslet poked fun at
the 4.4 earthquake that hit Southern California early this morning, telling the crowd that it occurred just as she was getting ready with a breast pump for little Bear. “I had no idea that this was going to be such a well attended event,” she said, referring to the earthquake as she accepted the honor, and admitted the shake “frightened me quite a lot actually”.
Kate’s Divergent co-star Shailene Woodley shared kind words about her “idol,” while the British actress’ Titanic co-star Kathy Bates made jokes about what may happen to Winslet’s star on Hollywood Boulevard. “You deserve to have stars strewn at your feet,” she said. “Even though stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame sometimes get a little dirty with a little poo or whatever, what will last
is your wonderful beautiful films, characters that you’ve played that have stolen our hearts. Nobody can ever poo on those.” Winslet has been nomi-nated for an Oscar six times, including for her role as Rose alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in 1998`s Titanic. She finally took a golden statue home in 2009 for playing a Nazi concentra-tion camp guard in The Reader.
ASIA’S SONGBIRD land-ed her wings and opted to bring happiness to the many celebratory people of Davao for the 77th Araw ng Dabaw festival. Everyone fell in love as she serenaded and belted out our all time favorite songs dur-ing her mall show at the Activity Area of Abree-za Mall and to some fortunate café goers of Java Jive. Aside from serenading and awakening emotions from her fans and follow-
ers, she is also here to pro-mote and shoot for her cooking/lifestyle show on GMA Network, Sarap Diva, which will feature the best
of Davao has to offer. From the places to go to the foods to try and dishes to cook at home, watch Regine as she tours and enjoys Davao and
get down with the locals. Watch Sarap Diva on GMA Network and experience Davao through the eyes of our Songbird.
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Brewing fun on Araw ng DabawTHERE was not a sober person in sight as The Brewery at Damosa Gateway formally opened its doors last March 14 in a no-holds barred event which served also as a prelude to the Araw ng Dabaw celebrations.
Already one of Davao City’s definitive watering holes, The Brewery’s open-ing party was an event to remember with DJ Jack the Ripper spinning out house music that kept the young and beautiful party people of Durianburg up on their feet and moving to the groove and basking in the light coming from the bar’s stunning bar. With flowing premium drinks as well as various brands of premium beer on tap, I was certain that there were no sober guests in the house. Although I had to take my leave early no thanks to work com-mitments, the party was a definite success that ce-ments The Brewery as one stop to go to when one needs to chill out, make freinds, let go, and have a bit of fun. Follow me on Instagram or on Twitter at @kenneth-kingong for more travel tales, foodie finds, as well as happenings in, around and beyond Durianburg.
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“PARENT leaders are vital instruments in the efficient imple-
mentation of the Pantawid Pamilya program in the area.
One of the primary ob-jectives of the program is the investment in human capital, empowering and capacitat-ing parent leaders to become actively involved in commu-nity endeavors,” emphasized Evangeline Grandeza, Family Development Session (FDS) Focal Person of Pantawid Pamilya during the recently held Parent Leaders General Assembly at the Gulf View Beach Resort.
Some 150 Parent Lead-ers from all 12 barangays of the first district of Davao City - Magtuod, Maa, Dumoy, Bago Gallera, Bago Aplaya, Bucana, 21-C, 20-B, 19-B, Matina Crossing, Matina Pangi, Mati-na Aplaya gathered for a day of fun-filled activities.
“Pantawid Pamilya Par-ent Leaders volunteer their time to assist the Pantawid City Links and ensure smooth program implementation in the barangays. They do not receive any remuneration for their work.
“This [assembly] is our simple way of thanking them,” shared John Edward Magbanua, DSWD Social Welfare Officer 3 for Davao City.
46-year old Salome Fuertes of Barangay 19-B has been a true blue advo-cate ever since the program started.
“Sa una ako gyud ang padre de pamilya, akong bana gasalig lang sa akoa apan dako kaayo akoang pasalamat nga atungod niini nga programa dili lang ako, apil akong bana naka-amgo sa iyang responsabilidad sa pamilya (Before, I consider myself as the head of the family. I am very grateful to the program because it not only helped me but it also helped my husband to learn and understand how to be the head of the family. The program has taught him his responsibilities to our family),” recalled Salome.
“Bisan sa pagkamatay sa akoang bana niadtong Agos-to 29, 2013, wala gihapon ko gibiyaan sa programa. Tun-god kay awtomatiko man ko nga miyembro sa Philhealth,
gamay na lang amoang na-bayaran sa SPMC (Southern Philippines Medical Cen-ter) imbis nga P26,000.00 total bill, P4,000 na lang ang amoang nabayaran kay gi-shoulder sa PhilHealth ang P 22,000.00 (Even when my husband died last August 29, 2013, the program never abandoned me. As I became
automatic member of Phil-Health, we only payed P 4,000.00 out of the total bill of P26,000.00. PhilHealth covered the remaining P 22,000.00), she added.
Salome’s husband died of diabetes and left her to care for their six children.
“Luyo sa kalisod anaa ang programa nga nag-amu-
ma kanamo mao wala ko maguol. Daghan kaayo ko og natun-an ug matun-an pa sa programa nga akoang mag-amit sa akoang pagdumala sa akong pamilya (Despite the challenges, the program is there to take care of us, that is why I do not worry too much. I have learned and will continue to learn from
the program. I will use these learning in guiding my family and my children).”
At present, Pantaw-id Pamilya covers 194,789 registered beneficiaries in 4 provinces, 6 cities, and 43 municipalities covering 1,022 barangays in Davao Region. [DSWD/Sheryll Jane B. Sanico]
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MIAMI (Reuters) - After missing last year’s Sony Open,
both world number one Rafa Nadal and 17-times grand slam winner Roger Federer return to South Beach this week along with their box office punch.
There will be no short-age of tennis glitterati around Miami for the next fortnight with 19 of the top 20 men’s and wom-en’s players in action at Crandon Park but perhaps none more welcome than Federer and Nadal as their absence last year left a hole that could not be filled.
Nadal and Federer are box office gold for any tournament and with the Spaniard missing due to a knee injury and the Swiss maestro on an extended break last year’s atten-dance dropped 5.5 percent to 308,000.
“Anytime you have two stars the size of Roger and Rafa, guys who are bigger
than the sport, bigger than tennis, missing it hurts,” tournament director Adam Barrett told Reuters on Monday.
“These guys are super-stars, they draw crowds whether they are at the airport, a hotel or walking through a mall.
“Anywhere they go they are going to bring addition-al crowds both tennis and non-tennis folks.”
With a promising weather forecast and line-up that includes world number one Serena Wil-liams, Maria Sharapova, defending men’s cham-pion Andy Murray and three-time winner Novak Djokovic the Sony Open could set record ticket sales this year.
“A lot of it has to do with how the draw unfolds,” Barrett said about a possi-ble attendance record. “A lot of years when you set record attendance you get intriguing matches.
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A HYPOTHETICAL su-per-fight between superstars Manny
“Pacman” Pacquiao and un-beaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. is still a toss-up, even if most pundits now consider the American the superior fighter.
This, according to Pac-quiao’s sparring partner and unbeaten prospect, Lydell Rhodes.
“I’d say that it’s a toss-up. I give it a 50-50 chance,” Rhodes said in an interview with On the Ropes Boxing Radio when asked about a Pacquiao-Mayweather showdown.
The 27-year-old boxer admitted that it was a “hard question to answer.” “I’m gonna do like everyone else, I’m gonna answer to the best of my abilities while taking the easy way out,” he
said.Pacquiao and May-
weather were once consid-ered as 1A and 1B in box-ing pound-for-pound lists, but the Filipino dynamo has since slipped in most
rankings after losing two fights in 2012. Mayweather, meanwhile, is considered the undisputed best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.
But Rhodes believes that the fight remains a toss-up no matter how Pac-quiao and Mayweather are ranked.
“I think Manny match-es up with Floyd well,” said Rhodes. “He has a lot of speed, and he’s a south-paw.”
“But Floyd is Floyd. He has excellent technique and movement, which would give everyone problems,” he added. “So I’d say it’s a 50/50 chance. Maybe, if they fought 10 times, it would go each person’s way five times.”
Mayweather and Pac-quiao have yet to fight each other once, let alone ten times. Negotiations be-tween the two camps have repeatedly fallen apart over the years, and they remain far apart on many issues.
Pacman vs Floyd a toss-up
MANNY “PACMAN” PACQUIAO
Roger Federer hits to Novak Djokovic in the final match of the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament on Sunday in Indian Wells, Calif. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
Nadal, Federer bring box-office boost to Miami
Ronaldo, Brazil’s former soccer player and a member of the local organizing committee for the 2014 World Cup, attends a news conference during the Team Workshop for the 2014 World Cup at the Costao do Santinho hotel in Florianopolis, Brazil.
SAO PAULO (AP) — In the latest chapter of a spat between past
Brazil football greats, Ron-aldo is publicly criticizing former teammate Romario for making another attack on him, this time over an alleged broken promise to provide free tickets for people with disabilities during the World Cup.
Romario, now an out-spoken lawmaker, is blam-ing Ronaldo for making the promise and not coming through with it. Ronaldo, a member of the local World Cup organizing committee, says it was the Brazilian football federation that failed to fulfill their pledge.
Ronaldo on Monday lamented another attack by his former teammate, saying it’s not clear why Romario continues to take shots at him.
“It’s lamentable to see Romario once again coming out to publicly say that I’m responsible for things that are out of my hands,” Ronaldo said in a statement published on his social media accounts. “Opportunism or igno-rance, I don’t know. What I do know is that instead of
wasting time and energy trying to disparage me, the congressman should dedi-cate himself to challenging the right people/institu-tions. We would all benefit from that.”
Ronaldo said the prom-ise to donate 32,000 World Cup tickets to people with disabilities was made by
the Brazilian football feder-ation, not by him.
“I’m not a politician, I don’t represent (the fed-eration), I don’t promise what I can’t fulfill,” Ronaldo said, adding that he is sure that Romario knows the promise was made by the entity and not by him.
On Friday, Romario
posted a photo where he is standing by Ronaldo after a press conference held to announce the free tickets at the federation’s head-quarters three years ago. He wrote: “This photo was taken in 2011, when Ron-aldo publicly promised the tickets for people with dis-abilities. So far, nothing!!!”
Ronaldo and Romario go at it again in Brazil
LOS ANGELES – As Manny Pacquiao took a day off on Monday,
Top Rank Promotions put the finishing touches on the fight of another Filipino star – Nonito Donaire.
Donaire will take on South Africa’s Simpiwe Vetyeka, who holds both the
World Boxing Association and International Boxing Organization featherweight titles.
The two will face off in Macau in May, and a victory for Donaire will give him his fourth title in a fourth differ-ent weight division.
“May 31st,
Donaire-Simpiwe is the main event in Macau,” said Top Rank chief executive Bob Arum. “We’ll be adver-tising everything very short-ly.”
Another Filipino boxer is also hoping to get on the same fight card.
Brian Viloria, “The Ha-
waiian Punch,” is hoping to fight in Macau as well, but he still needs to win a fight later this month in Las Vegas.
“Viloria is fighting on March 29th, and hopefully he comes through with the fight, and then he’s ready to fight on May 31st,” said Arum.
Arum confirms Donaire to fight Vetyeka in May
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DALLAS (AP) -- Dirk Nowitzki doesn’t want the Dallas
Mavericks feeling too comfortable during a fran-chise-record eight-game homestand.
Nowitzki led another balanced scoring effort with 19 points, and the Mavericks held off several Boston runs in a 94-89 vic-tory against the Celtics on Monday night.
The Celtics wiped out most of two double-digit deficits in the second half and were within one in the final minute but couldn’t avoid an 0-15 finish on the road against the Western Conference.
‘’They just kept coming back at us,’’ Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. ‘’They’ve got some young, aggressive guys that are hungry and they were hitting shots.’’
The Mavericks fol-lowed their first win in more than two years over possible first-round playoff foe Oklahoma City by tak-ing their third straight to get a season-high 14 games over .500.
Dallas didn’t have a 20-point scorer for the third time in four games, the exception being Nowitzki’s 31-point night in a win at Utah. Monta Ellis had 17 points, and Devin Harris added 12.
Jerryd Bayless had 19 points, including 12 in the fourth quarter, and Kris Humphries matched a sea-son high with 14 rebounds for the Celtics, who lost their fifth straight game and 12th in the past 15.
It was the second time in as many nights the Celt-ics made it interesting after trailing by 10 with 6 min-utes to go.
The first was an over-time loss at New Orleans, and this one was without Rajon Rondo, who sat on the second night of a back-to-back for the sixth time. He is skipping such games as he works his way back from right knee surgery.
‘’Playing without Ron-do, I thought Jerryd played fantastic, especially in that fourth quarter,’’ Boston coach Brad Stevens said. ‘’He gave us a chance to win.’’
The Mavericks went up 90-85 when Brandan Wright had the last of his 10 points on a putback af-ter three other misses, but the Celtics did the same thing at the other end, capped by a bucket from Kelly Olynyk, who had 16 points and nine rebounds.
Avery Bradley stole the ball from Ellis and went in for a dunk to make it 90-89 with 21 seconds left, but Ellis hit two free throws and Bayless missed a driv-ing shot, got the ball back and had a second attempt blocked by Vince Carter.
‘’I think we were fight-ing and battling well,’’ Bay-less said. ‘’I think everyone played well, but we weren’t able to pull it off tonight.’’
Ellis, playing through an illness for the second straight night, had seven points in the fourth quar-ter, including a 3-pointer for an 85-80 lead with 2:16 remaining. He took three charges and stayed down for a minute or so after a hard one in the second half.
‘’It feels good with a win, but I’ve been having trouble breathing,’’ said Ellis, who matched Sam Dalembert for the team lead in rebounds with sev-en and had four assists to
go with five turnovers. ‘’I really try to block it out and do whatever I need to do.’’
Boston had four chanc-es to get closer down 64-61 to start the fourth but missed three shots and had a turnover before Har-ris made a couple of free throws and Wright dunked off a feed from Carter to push the lead back to sev-en.
The lead was back down to four when Har-ris and Wright hooked for their second alley-oop dunk and Harris poked the ball away from Phil Pressey, dove for the loose ball to grab it from Olynyk and threw a pass from the floor to Nowitzki running ahead of everyone for an-other dunk and a 74-66 lead.
‘’I almost tore both of my flexors trying to chase that ball, but I’m glad I got to it,’’ said Nowitzki, who was 6 of 17 from the field. ‘’That was a big play from Devin.’’
The Celtics looked like they would go down with-out much of a fight early, falling behind 33-24 in the second quarter when Brandan Wright had an alley-oop dunk from Devin Harris in a combination that’s getting more com-mon. But Boston had the first of several big runs at 13-0 with baskets from five different players.
Pressey hit one of his two first-half 3-pointers, Chris Johnson scored from long range and Bradley hit a layup. After stealing a pass for a dunk, Olynyk as-sisted on a three-point play by Jared Sullinger, who led all scorers with 11 in the first half and finished with 13.
Mavericks hold off Celtics
Dirk Nowitzki (41) of the Dallas Mavericks shoots against the Boston. Photo by Danny Bollinger/NBAE via Getty Im-ages
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- After Philadelphia’s lat-est loss gave the 76ers
their longest skid in fran-chise history, coach Brett Brown insisted he doesn’t dwell on the streak.
Lance Stephenson scored 25 points and the Indiana Pacers rallied from an early deficit to beat Philadelphia 99-90 on Monday night, hand-ing the 76ers their 21st straight loss.
‘’It’s hard because of a competitive thing, but in relation to worrying about a record, we don’t live in that world,’’ Brown said. ‘’I don’t bring that to that locker room once. I don’t mention it to them, I don’t think about it often - (but) you can’t help but be aware of it.’’
Philadelphia eclipsed its previous mark of 20 straight losses during the 1972-73 season, when it finished 9-73. The Sixers tied the Detroit Pistons
for the sixth-longest losing streak in NBA history. The Pistons lost 21 straight bridging the 1979-80 and 1980-81 seasons.
The Cleveland Cava-liers set the NBA record for consecutive losses with 26, in the 2010-11 season.
‘’We move on. We’re on a different path right now,’’ Brown said. ‘’We started this season with a plan, we took it to a whole other level to reconfirm our plan on trade deadline night.’’
Paul George had 24 points for the Pacers, who staked the Sixers to a 15-6 lead before taking the lead and pulling away. George Hill scored 11 points, Ian Mahinmi had 10 and Da-vid West grabbed 12 re-bounds.
Thaddeus Young had 23 points to lead the Six-ers, who haven’t won since Jan. 29 at Boston. Evan Turner, now with the Pac-ers, hit the game-winning
shot in that 95-94 win by Philadelphia. Turner, trad-ed to Indiana with Lavoy Allen on Feb. 20 for Danny Granger and a draft pick, had four points and seven rebounds against his for-mer team on Monday.
Hollis Thompson and Tony Wroten each scored 17, Michael Carter-Wil-liams had 15 points and 13 rebounds, and Henry Sims had nine points and 11 rebounds for the Six-ers, who next host Chicago on Wednesday night.
Philadelphia built its 15-6 first-quarter lead by shooting 6 for 9 from the field, including 3 for 4 on 3-pointers, while the Pacers were 3 for 9 in the same stretch.
‘’(These teams) are the ones that pose the biggest threat, because for us, we’ve got to get motivat-ed,’’ Indiana’s Paul George said. ‘’All these games are huge for us because every game counts.’’
HOUSTON (AP) -- Houston coach Kev-in McHale worried
that his team might come out flat Monday night against the struggling Utah Jazz after dropping a close game to the Heat in Miami a day before.
His fears were com-pletely unwarranted.
Terrence Jones scored 30 points and the Rockets ended a three-game skid with their most lopsided victory of the season, a 124-86 win over the Jazz.
‘’There’s got to be an emphasis on how we play and improving,’’ McHale said. ‘’It’s really important that we keep improving and getting better.’’
Dwight Howard was out with an ankle strain, leaving the Rockets with-out him for the first time this season. But they still had no problem handling the Jazz, who have lost five in a row and have one
of the worst records in the Western Conference.
Houston was up by 19 at halftime and 13 points by Jones in the third quar-ter helped push the lead to 92-69 entering the fourth.
‘’We just wanted to be aggressive,’’ Jones said. ‘’Coming off three tough ones we wanted to come out and have a lot of en-ergy and just get back to playing ... the way we had been playing.’’
The big lead allowed an overworked James Harden, who had played more than 43 minutes in three of the previous four games, to rest a bit as he watched the fourth quarter from the bench. Harden finished with 15 points.
Houston used a 15-0 run starting midway through the fourth quar-ter with all their start-ers on the bench except for Jones to push the al-
ready lopsided game to a 40-point advantage. Jor-dan Hamilton had seven points for Houston during the run.
Derrick Favors had 15 points for the Jazz a night after scoring a career-high 28.
‘’This is a lesson for the young guys,’’ Jazz coach Ty Corbin said. ‘’They have to learn to get ready ev-ery night. Tonight, we just couldn’t get it going. It was like we were running in mud and couldn’t get our-selves out of it.’’
It was unclear when Howard was injured, but the team announced the mild strain to his left an-kle about 40 minutes be-fore tipoff. He had been the only Rockets player to start every game this sea-son before missing Mon-day’s game. Omer Asik started in his place and finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds.
Rockets dominate Jazz, 124-86Pacers hand Sixers 21st straight loss
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Nino Gelig of The Royal Mandaya Hotel-CMO goes for a lay up against MP Pacman Warriors defenders. Lean Daval Jr.
THE Davao Volleyball Association is stag-ing the 77th Araw ng
Dabaw Primary School Vol-leyball Invitational Tourna-ment on March 22 and 23 at the Davao City National High School indoor courts.
This was announced by DVA Commissioner Henry Labio at the SCOOP Session
of The Royal Mandaya Hotel last Tuesday.
The two-day event is sponsored by the city gov-ernment of Davao thru the City Sports Development Division-City Mayor’s Office feauturing teams in the el-ementary and high school boys and girls.
A total of 17 teams are
seeing action with the award-ing set on March 23 at 5 p.m. Cash prizes worth more than P20,000 are up for grabs.
CSDD OIC Butch Ramirez and tournament director Daks Yambao, of the Phiilp-pine Volleyball Federation, will be awarding the prizes to the winners. – (CSDD-CMO/LDR)
Araw volleyfest set March 22-23
THE Rotary Club of Cen-tral Davao and GVOYZ Golf Club Inc. will be
holding the first ever Open Golf tournament on March 22 at the Apo Golf and Coun-try Club.
“Proceeds of this tour-nament will go to the civic oriented projects including our beneficiary schools,” said tournament chairman Engr. Art Escalante at the SCOOP Session of The Royal Man-daya Hotel last Tuesday.
Mode of play is an 18-hole Molave individual com-petition with a tournament fee of P1,800 inclusive of Mulligan, Nike T-shirt and bag.
“A brand new motorcy-cle and two LED TVs are the hole-in-one prizes courtesy of our major sponsor Emcor. The TVs will be raffled off in case nobody will make the hole-in-one,” said Escalante.
Prizes will be awarded to the over-all gross champion,
over-all net champion, Class A, (0-9), B (10-16), C (17-24) and D (25-32) gross champi-on and first runner-up.
The shot gun tee off times are 5:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. For inquiry, contact 09228922955 or 09183279460. – SCOOP DAVAO
Rotary Golf tournament at Apo March 22
THE Royal Mandaya Hotel-CMO unrav-elled its new spunk
and a retooled defense to notch its second convincing victory over co-leader MP Pacman Warriors 78-52 on Monday night in the Mayor Rodrigo Duterte-VM Pu-longDuterte Cup 77thAraw ng Davao Invitational bas-ketball tournament.
The win shoved the Ho-teliers to at least a tie for the finals berth and a win last night over chief rival Goldstar Hardware could clinch them the first ticket to the championship.
Goldstar rebound-ed with a 98-91 win over Montana Pawnshop in the first game to keep its finals hopes alive.
Coach RonelLeute-rio once more went to his backcourt to stifle the War-riors and trigger its vaunt-ed open court offense. Darwin Cordero scored 15 points mostly on fastbreaks and triples while Nino Gelig and Dino Daa punctured the lane with 13 and 10, respectively. JojoTangkay and the energetic EmanCa-lo fired 9 apiece in a solid back-up job. Import Devon Sullivan added 7 for the Hoteliers who are on top of the 4-team hoopfest with a neat 2-0 card.
The Warriors of Gen. Santos City, who got 12 points from Louie Medalla, dropped to 1-1 but could still snatch the second fi-nals berth if it wins over
Montana in their last out-ing.
“We will go all out for a win. We played well tonight but Goldstar will always be a tough nut to crack and we do not want to take any chances,” said Leuterio.
Team owner Glenn Es-candor said he wants his team to sweep the elimina-tions and avoid any com-plications.
Against Goldstar, the Hoteliers will have its hands full against high-scoring import Mike Harry.
“We will have to match him up in the paint and stop him from scoring,” said Leuterio who did not divulge who will be as-signed to guard Harry.
TRMH-CMO pummels Pacman 78-52SIMPLY DEVASTATING
By NEILWIN JOSEPH L. BRAVO
Eman Calo of The Royal Mandaya Hotel-CMO drives to the hoop over Louie Medalla of MP Pacman Warriors. Lean Daval Jr.
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