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By Che Palicte

“IF Manding can’t stop it, I will be the one to stop it! End

of the story!” A fuming Vice May-

or Rodrigo Duterte has vowed in his weekly tele-vision program to person-ally stop the continued illegal drugs trade in the city.

Duterte said he is not contented with the per-formance of Barangay 23-C barangay captain Amilbangsa Manding in stopping the rampant drug activities in his terri-tory. He has earlier given FVM RODY VOWS, 11 FCRISING, 11

PUBLIC storm warning Sig-nal Number One has been raised over the Davao re-

gion as the low pressure area east of Mindanao developed into a tropical depression named “Crising.”

In its Weather Bulletin Num-ber One issued at 5:30 p.m. Mon-day, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PA-GASA) said Crising is “expected to be at 350 km east of General Santos City” by Tuesday after-noon and at 40 km southeast of Cotabato City by Wednesday af-ternoon.

By Thursday afternoon, Cris-

ing is expected to be at 220 km southeast of Zamboanga City.

PAGASA has raised Typhoon Signal Number 1 over Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, Davao Ori-ental and Compostela Valley and the cities of Davao, Tagum, Pana-bo, Island Garden City of Samal, Digos and Mati.

According to PAGASA, under Signal 1, winds of 45 to 60 ki-lometers per hour are expect-ed within the next 36 hours. Among the impacts of the winds are: twigs and branches of trees may be broken; some banana plants may tilt or land flat on the ground; rice in flowering stage may suffer significant damage;

some nipa and cogon houses may be partially unroofed; and trav-el of small seacrafts and fishing boats is risky.

In its earlier advisory at 5 p.m., the weather bureau warned of heavy rains and thunder-storms in the Mindanao regions of Davao, Caraga and the South Cotabato region and Eastern Visayas “that may trigger flash-floods and landslides” as tropical depression “Crising” approaches Mindanao.

PAGASA noted that as of 4 p.m., Crising’s center was esti-mated at 750 kilometers east of General Santos City with maxi-

Signal 1 in Davao region

Bagyo na sad!

THE PLEASURES OF BIKING. A man pedals his unicycle on an uphill stretch with ease along Doña Pilar Avenue in Doña Pilar Village, Sasa, Davao City yesterday. There is a notable increase in biking enthusiasts in the city either for leisure, exer-cise, or as alternative transport with the rising cost of fuel. Lean Daval Jr.

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A bio-medical waste facility will be opened Thursday

near the sanitary landfill in New Carmen, Magtuod.

The 200-square meter pyroclave facility uses py-rolysis process, a technol-ogy that requires no burn-ing with a temperature of 1,500 degrees Celsius.

The technology, which disinfects and disinte-grates hospital wastes, was created by the Rad Green Solutions Inc., a re-search and development company in the city.

Bert Barriga, the com-pany’s consultant and executive vice president

of the Information and Communication Technol-ogy Davao said Monday the pyroclave facility can accommodate three tons a day.

An average of 2.5 tons medical wastes are col-lected in the city daily.

Barriga told report-ers that the pyroclave is designed for all kinds of waste except nuclear bio-hazard waste.

The cost of a pyroclave unit is worth “a little over three million (pesos)”, he said, citing that Rad Green Solutions has financed the facility and will charge hospitals here with P20

per kilo for the disinfec-tion of medical wastes, excluding collection fees.

Barriga said the py-roclave equipment was being done in the city, al-though he refused to di-vulge the exact location.

He said aside from the one in New Carmen, the city has pyroclave equip-ment in a hospital here, which he also would not want to identify, that has been operational since three months ago.

Cagayan de Oro City and Bulacan also have py-roclave equipment from the Rad Green Solutions, while General Santos City

and Manila will soon have one, he said.

He said the compa-ny acquired its intellec-tual property right for the equipment from the World International Pat-ent Organization in Gene-va, Switzerland last De-cember.

He added that Ricky Dayot, vice president of Rad Green Solutions will apply on April for the US certification so that the company can start to po-sition globally.

Dayot earlier said they will collect some 50,000

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THE experiment of the Federation of Cooperatives

in Mindanao (FedCo) is proceeding smoothly, ac-cording to FedCo chair Ireneo “Rene” Dalayon, during his appearance in the weekly Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM Annex Ecol-and yesterday.

The experiment, which is assisted by the Agricultural Cooperative Development Interna-tional and Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance (ACDI/VOCA), will help cushion the impact of the recent Ty-phoon Pablo which wiped out around 15,000 hect-

ares of Cavendish banan-as.

“Some big banana cor-porations are starting to rehabilitate their planta-tions despite the tremen-dous, however, many of small banana players are giving up because aside from the high cost of re-habilitating their farms, there is the problem of sigatoka and panama dis-eases” Dalayon said.

He said FedCo has es-tablished cacao-banana

extension centers in Sto. Tomas and Asuncion, Davao del Norte.

Some 40 farmer lead-ers who are being trained on cacao-banana inter-cropping. They will in turn train 2,000 farmer students.

Cacao intercropped with banana are expect-ed to be harvestable after two years, according to Dalayon.

The banana-cacao in-tercropping experiment actually started back in the 1st quarter of 2011, targeting 200 hectares of cacao that can be harvest-ed by June, this year, Da-layon said.

HOW can universi-ties as education-al/research bod-

ies contribute to such a highly practical issue as Peacebuilding?

With this question, the Hiroshima University started the first ‘Partner-ship Project for Peace-building and Social Ca-pacity (HiPeC-I) in Japan

in 2005. Six years later or spe-

cifically in March 2011, HiPeC forged partner-ship with South-South Network for Non-State Armed Group Engage-ment (SSN) and the Uni-versity of the Philippines Mindanao (UP Mindanao)forming now the HiPeC-SSN-UP Mindanao Tripar-

tite Partnership. The Tripartite Part-

nership, established through a Memorandum of Understanding be-tween the parties, aimed at setting up a research base of joint academic and related activities in the broader field of peace-building. This collabora-

Cacao harvestable in two years

Intercropping banana withcacao in full swing: DalayonBy EJ Dominic Fernandez

Members and Staff of the HiPeC-SSN-UP Mindanao Tripartite Partnership during the Wrap-Up Seminar. From left: Gabriel C. Palma, Dr. Antonio G. Moran, Dr. Humayun Kabir, Prof. Keshav Maharjan, Prof. Koki Seki, Prof. Anne Shangrila Y. Fuentes, UP

Mindanao Chancellor Gilda C. Rivero, Prof. Osamu Yoshida, UP Mindanao Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs Emma Ruth Bayogan, and Janis Louis H. Esparcia.

INTERCROPPING. Rene Dalayon, president and chief execu-tive officer of the Federation of Banana Cooperatives in Davao (Fedco), right, talks about the updates of the banana growers efforts’ to intercrop the banana with cacao and the rehabilita-tion that’s being made to the 15,000 hectares of banana plan-tation which were damaged by typhoon Pablo in the weekly

Kapehan sa Dabaw at the Annex of SM City Davao yesterday. Also seen at left is Davao Travel Agencies Association vice presi-dent Fraz Pasquil who promoted the 4th Mega Travel Sale slated on March 7-10, 2013 at the SMX Convention Center of SM La-nang Premier. Lean Daval Jr.

ADOPTION. Sheryl Anne Dumalogdog, social welfare officer 3 of the Depart-ment of Social Welfare and Develop-ment, explains the procedure of both domestic and inter-country adoption while promoting the nationwide Adop-tion Consciousness Week celebration set

on February 18-24, 2013 which aims to generate public awareness and support for the legal adoption program during the the weekly Kapehan sa Dabaw at the Annex of SM City Davao yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

THE Rotary Club of South Davao led by expat Scott Nimmo

will conduct cataract sur-gery on 100 people com-ing from different conflict areas in Mindanao.

Nimmo said that Armed Forces of the Phil-ippines (AFP) personnel are going to Cotabato and other conflict areas to bring 100 indigenous people to Davao this Fri-day so that cataract sur-gery can be performed on them.

The cataract surgery will be conducted in East-ern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom) Hospital in

barangay Panacan, Davao City.

Nimmo’s cataract project with EastMinCom is just one of the many humanitarian projects of various Rotary clubs in Davao which are observ-ing Rotary Week starting last Sunday.

“Virtually 100 blind people from conflict areas will come here on Friday with the help of the AFP, and we want a very high percentage of them to go home already able to see,” according to Nimmo , who is also chairman of the Council of Presidents

Davao Rotary leaders bare impact projectsBy EJ Dominic Fernandez

HIPEC-SSN-UP MIN

Tri -Partnership concludedTHE Task Force

Davao urged the public to cooperate

in the checkpoint oper-ations in the city’s en-trance since it is for their safety and security.

Lt. Colonel Gerry Be-sana, executive officer of the Task Force Davao stressed that in public buses, everybody in-cluding women must get down to ensure that thor-ough visual inspection is done.

He issued the state-ment following the obser-vation that only men are obliged to get off the bus during inspection while the women remain inside the vehicle.

Besana said that the checkpoints of Task Force Davao in Barangays Sir-awan, Lacson, Lasang require even women to come down, so that the bomb-sniffing dogs can effectively detect any con-

Bio-medical waste facility to be launched in Davao

TF CHECKPOINTS

Residents urged to cooperate


ALL is set for the grand kick-off of the 11th installment of

the Musikahan sa Tagum Festival, transforming Tagaum City which prides itself as the “Music Capital of the South” to a majestic musical venue with the participation of thousands of musical revelers from the different parts of the country and from the Asia Pacific.

Considered to be Davao

Region’s Opening Festival Salvo, the said festival runs from February 19-24, 2013 and will feature the re-gion’s best solo players and musical ensembles such as marching brass bands, choral groups, rondalla art-ists, drum-and-bugle-lyre corps players, young mu-sicians specializing wind, percussion and string in-struments, among others.

Mayor Rey T. Uy will lead Tagumeños in the

opening ceremony and is expected to be joined by Governors Arturo T. Uy of Compostela Valley and Rodolfo P. del Rosario who will join forces in the launching of a tourism por-tal anchored on the vision of promoting tourism sites and activities in their re-spective areas.

The City Government of Tagum under the lead-ership of Mayor Uy and the City of Tagum Tourism

Council with Mrs. Alma L. Uy sitting as its president assured that this year’s Musikahan will be grander and will banner the cause of helping communities in Compostela Valley devas-tated by Typhoon Pablo last December 4, 2012.

Aligned with the Musikahan’s Cultural Ac-tion Project, benefit con-certs will be staged during the whole duration in the event in Tagum, includ-ing a performance by the Sunrise String Orchestra from Bangkok, Thailand happening on February 24, 2013 at the SMX Con-vention Center in SM La-nang Premier, Davao City at exactly 4:00 PM.

The 12th year of the Musikahan Festival will also make history as the Himig Handog 1st Asia Pa-cific Choral Competition will take place during the five-day event.

Other events that will headline the festival are the Rondal-Awit, the Avenida Musika Brass Band Competition, Kasi-kas sa Dalan Drum, Bugle and Lyre Competition, the Barangay Musikah-an Grand Finals and the Musikahan at ICT. [Louie Lapat/CIO Tagum]

EDGEDAVAO 3SUBURBIA

THE scene was straight out from “The Impossible”

movie---except that it wasn’t.

As onrushing water held them captive, Roge-lio Saging held tight his 3 year-old special child with his son Rudyard, a 3rd Year High school student, close behind. The current was so strong, the water heavy with silt, gravel, boulders and clumps of fallen trees that they almost lost their hope of surviving. And then the unthinkable hap-pened, he and his wife Vi-oleta saw with their own eyes how a fallen coconut tree struck Rudyard in the head and carried him away from their grasp. All was chaotic then after they, too, were swept away by the strong flood.

Around 2 in the after-noon, it was a joyful and tearful reunion as they had found all their 4 chil-dren---except that Rudy-ard was in a very critical condition. Rescuers had found him barely clinging on to his life. His father only had a few precious moments to talk to his son before his torn and man-gled body finally gave up.

Recalling that fateful day, the couple Rogelio

and Violeta could only hope to start a new life with their 3 remaining children in New Bata-an. When interviewed, their eyes still mist upon the mention of their lost son but with it is the hope and the eagerness to start anew.

“We need to survive for our children’s sake. Our pain and struggle was made bearable because of the help and support we get from the government, international and private donors,” Violeta said in lo-cal dialect.

Aside from other in-terventions from relief goods and stress de-briefing that they re-ceived, the family is also one of the recipients to the temporary transi-tion shelter funded by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and from which the construction were facilitated by the provincial government of Comval.

On February 15, the 72 bunkhouses in New Bataan and 80 in Com-postela were turned-over to the families led by Sec. Dinky Soliman, Gov. Ar-turo Uy, Cong. Maricar Zamora, Mayor Lorenzo

Balbin, and Acting Mayor Rey Castillo. They were also joined by various hu-manitarian partners, na-tional agencies and other local officials.

The recipients were very much grateful that they will now be trans-ferred to the transition

shelters and thankful with the “”pabaon kits” (food items) as well as kitchen wares and sleep-ing sets that were also given to them on that day.

Rogelio and Violeta are now excited to trans-fer on their new shelter and rebuild their lives.

“While we are very much thankful with the tent provided for us but living in a house, as we used to, really makes a big differ-ence,” they said.

When Typhoon Pablo struck Compostela Val-ley on December 4, 2012, New Bataan was hardest

hit in terms of casualties. According to studies led by DOST, a “total volume of 25-30 million cubic me-ters is estimated for the debris flow deposit or an equivalent load of about 2.5-3 million 10-wheel dumptrucks full of rocks.” [Fe F. Maestre]

SHELTERS. On February 15, the 72 bunkhouses in New Bataan and 80 in Compostela were turnedover to the families by Sec. Dinky Soliman, Gov. Arturo Uy, Rep. Maricar Zamora and humanitarian partners. The recipients were very much grateful that they

will now be transferred to the transition shelters and thankful with the “”pabaon kits” (food items) as well as kitchen wares and sleeping sets that were also given to them on that day. (a. dayao/ids comval)

Couple finds hope in temporary shelter of DSWD, LGU Comval

READY TO ROCK. The New City Hall of Tagum as a Hub for International Event will serve as the main venue of this year’s festivities, the 12th Musikahan sa Tagum 2013. Aside from this

iconic building, other venues include churches, malls, and even academic institutions across the city. [Edwin B. Lasquite/CIO Tagum]

All set for 2013 Musikahan openingTHE Commission on

Elections (Comelec) In General Santos

City has ordered the re-moval of various illegal campaign posters and oth-er related materials that were posted outside the designated common post-ers areas within the city.

Anwar Paidumama, acting city election officer, said Monday a team led by personnel from the city election office is current-ly making the rounds of public areas to tear down or clear all illegally-posted campaign posters and ma-terials.

He said such move was in compliance with the provisions of Republic Act (RA) 9006 or the Fair Elections Act, the Omnibus Election Code and other regulations for the upcom-ing May 13 midterm local and national elections.

It was specifically cit-ed in Comelec Resolution 9615, which laid down the implementing rules and regulations for RA 9006, he said.

“We’ve already issued several warnings to the concerned parties last week regarding these ille-gal campaign posters but none of them heeded our call for their voluntarily

removal,” Paidumama said.The official said local

Comelec personnel are be-ing assisted by the city gov-ernment’s clearing team in removing the illegal cam-paign materials, some of which were posted in trees, electric posts, walls of gov-ernment offices and other public structures.

He said initial reports from the field cited that the illegally-posted mate-rials were those of parylist groups.

He said they have so far not found posters of senatorial candidates be-ing placed in prohibited areas.

The campaign period for the partylist and sen-atorial candidates started last Feb. 12 while those vying for local elective positions may start cam-paigning on March 29.

Section 7f of Comelec Resolution 9615 specifi-cally prohibits candidates and political parties “to post, display or exhibit any election campaign or propaganda materi-al outside of authorized common poster areas, in public places, or in pri-vate properties without the consent of the owner thereof.” [Allen V. Estabil-lo/MindaNews]

Comelec-Gen. Santos starts removing campaign posters in prohibited areas


ALL is set for the grand kick-off of the 11th installment of

the Musikahan sa Tagum Festival, transforming Tagaum City which prides itself as the “Music Capital of the South” to a majestic musical venue with the participation of thousands of musical revelers from the different parts of the country and from the Asia Pacific.

Considered to be Davao

Region’s Opening Festival Salvo, the said festival runs from February 19-24, 2013 and will feature the re-gion’s best solo players and musical ensembles such as marching brass bands, choral groups, rondalla art-ists, drum-and-bugle-lyre corps players, young mu-sicians specializing wind, percussion and string in-struments, among others.

Mayor Rey T. Uy will lead Tagumeños in the

opening ceremony and is expected to be joined by Governors Arturo T. Uy of Compostela Valley and Rodolfo P. del Rosario who will join forces in the launching of a tourism por-tal anchored on the vision of promoting tourism sites and activities in their re-spective areas.

The City Government of Tagum under the lead-ership of Mayor Uy and the City of Tagum Tourism

Council with Mrs. Alma L. Uy sitting as its president assured that this year’s Musikahan will be grander and will banner the cause of helping communities in Compostela Valley devas-tated by Typhoon Pablo last December 4, 2012.

Aligned with the Musikahan’s Cultural Ac-tion Project, benefit con-certs will be staged during the whole duration in the event in Tagum, includ-ing a performance by the Sunrise String Orchestra from Bangkok, Thailand happening on February 24, 2013 at the SMX Con-vention Center in SM La-nang Premier, Davao City at exactly 4:00 PM.

The 12th year of the Musikahan Festival will also make history as the Himig Handog 1st Asia Pa-cific Choral Competition will take place during the five-day event.

Other events that will headline the festival are the Rondal-Awit, the Avenida Musika Brass Band Competition, Kasi-kas sa Dalan Drum, Bugle and Lyre Competition, the Barangay Musikah-an Grand Finals and the Musikahan at ICT. [Louie Lapat/CIO Tagum]

EDGEDAVAO 3SUBURBIA

THE scene was straight out from “The Impossible”

movie---except that it wasn’t.

As onrushing water held them captive, Roge-lio Saging held tight his 3 year-old special child with his son Rudyard, a 3rd Year High school student, close behind. The current was so strong, the water heavy with silt, gravel, boulders and clumps of fallen trees that they almost lost their hope of surviving. And then the unthinkable hap-pened, he and his wife Vi-oleta saw with their own eyes how a fallen coconut tree struck Rudyard in the head and carried him away from their grasp. All was chaotic then after they, too, were swept away by the strong flood.

Around 2 in the after-noon, it was a joyful and tearful reunion as they had found all their 4 chil-dren---except that Rudy-ard was in a very critical condition. Rescuers had found him barely clinging on to his life. His father only had a few precious moments to talk to his son before his torn and man-gled body finally gave up.

Recalling that fateful day, the couple Rogelio

and Violeta could only hope to start a new life with their 3 remaining children in New Bata-an. When interviewed, their eyes still mist upon the mention of their lost son but with it is the hope and the eagerness to start anew.

“We need to survive for our children’s sake. Our pain and struggle was made bearable because of the help and support we get from the government, international and private donors,” Violeta said in lo-cal dialect.

Aside from other in-terventions from relief goods and stress de-briefing that they re-ceived, the family is also one of the recipients to the temporary transi-tion shelter funded by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and from which the construction were facilitated by the provincial government of Comval.

On February 15, the 72 bunkhouses in New Bataan and 80 in Com-postela were turned-over to the families led by Sec. Dinky Soliman, Gov. Ar-turo Uy, Cong. Maricar Zamora, Mayor Lorenzo

Balbin, and Acting Mayor Rey Castillo. They were also joined by various hu-manitarian partners, na-tional agencies and other local officials.

The recipients were very much grateful that they will now be trans-ferred to the transition

shelters and thankful with the “”pabaon kits” (food items) as well as kitchen wares and sleep-ing sets that were also given to them on that day.

Rogelio and Violeta are now excited to trans-fer on their new shelter and rebuild their lives.

“While we are very much thankful with the tent provided for us but living in a house, as we used to, really makes a big differ-ence,” they said.

When Typhoon Pablo struck Compostela Val-ley on December 4, 2012, New Bataan was hardest

hit in terms of casualties. According to studies led by DOST, a “total volume of 25-30 million cubic me-ters is estimated for the debris flow deposit or an equivalent load of about 2.5-3 million 10-wheel dumptrucks full of rocks.” [Fe F. Maestre]

SHELTERS. On February 15, the 72 bunkhouses in New Bataan and 80 in Compostela were turnedover to the families by Sec. Dinky Soliman, Gov. Arturo Uy, Rep. Maricar Zamora and humanitarian partners. The recipients were very much grateful that they

will now be transferred to the transition shelters and thankful with the “”pabaon kits” (food items) as well as kitchen wares and sleeping sets that were also given to them on that day. (a. dayao/ids comval)

Couple finds hope in temporary shelter of DSWD, LGU Comval

READY TO ROCK. The New City Hall of Tagum as a Hub for International Event will serve as the main venue of this year’s festivities, the 12th Musikahan sa Tagum 2013. Aside from this

iconic building, other venues include churches, malls, and even academic institutions across the city. [Edwin B. Lasquite/CIO Tagum]

All set for 2013 Musikahan openingTHE Commission on

Elections (Comelec) In General Santos

City has ordered the re-moval of various illegal campaign posters and oth-er related materials that were posted outside the designated common post-ers areas within the city.

Anwar Paidumama, acting city election officer, said Monday a team led by personnel from the city election office is current-ly making the rounds of public areas to tear down or clear all illegally-posted campaign posters and ma-terials.

He said such move was in compliance with the provisions of Republic Act (RA) 9006 or the Fair Elections Act, the Omnibus Election Code and other regulations for the upcom-ing May 13 midterm local and national elections.

It was specifically cit-ed in Comelec Resolution 9615, which laid down the implementing rules and regulations for RA 9006, he said.

“We’ve already issued several warnings to the concerned parties last week regarding these ille-gal campaign posters but none of them heeded our call for their voluntarily

removal,” Paidumama said.The official said local

Comelec personnel are be-ing assisted by the city gov-ernment’s clearing team in removing the illegal cam-paign materials, some of which were posted in trees, electric posts, walls of gov-ernment offices and other public structures.

He said initial reports from the field cited that the illegally-posted mate-rials were those of parylist groups.

He said they have so far not found posters of senatorial candidates be-ing placed in prohibited areas.

The campaign period for the partylist and sen-atorial candidates started last Feb. 12 while those vying for local elective positions may start cam-paigning on March 29.

Section 7f of Comelec Resolution 9615 specifi-cally prohibits candidates and political parties “to post, display or exhibit any election campaign or propaganda materi-al outside of authorized common poster areas, in public places, or in pri-vate properties without the consent of the owner thereof.” [Allen V. Estabil-lo/MindaNews]

Comelec-Gen. Santos starts removing campaign posters in prohibited areas


ONE DAY in July of 2010 over three hundred employ-

ees of Aboitiz-owned Davao Light & Power Co. and Aboitiz-controlled Union Bank of the Phil-ippines virtually lined up the entire length of the Magtuod-New Valencia section of the shortcut from Carlos P. Garcia Di-version Road to Calinan.

No, they were not do-ing simple hiking routine nor showing off brand new designer walk-ing shoes. They were there for a noble pur-pose - plant some four thousand trees for the en-vironment and for safety consideration. They were there as employees of so-cially responsible corpo-rate citizens.

Yes, the Aboitiz firms’ employees – and all those who have taken the said route – know only too well that more than half the distance of the road traverses on plateaus with both sides having deep embankments with very much little plain to spare. Thus, the area has been considered most prone to vehicular acci-

dents with potential seri-ous consequence.

With environment and protection of travellers’ lives in mind Davao Light decided to do its massive tree planting activities along the said route. It invited its sister company Union Bank to join.

Thus one day that July of 2010 4,000 seedlings of narra, molave, and In-dian tree were lined up along the route. People in the community were tapped to do the hole dig-ging and sticking to en-sure that proper spacing is observed.

The companies hope that with the trees able to grow over the years it can help in some way in the gargantuan efforts of preventing the fast pace of environmental degra-dation. The electric util-ity and its sister bank-ing company are also optimistic that once the narra and molave grow to become sturdy trunks these will not only hold off landslides on em-bankments but serve as natural protective bars that can prevent vehicles from falling down the

cliffs in instances of road accidents.

Today, less than three years since the planting, narra and molave trees have grown up to as tall

as 15 to 20 feet with trunks having average diameter of 4 to 5 inches.

The number of sur-viving trees though may not be the ideal expected.

What with some of them victims of creeping devel-opment in the area and of the neglect of some com-munity residents.

But trees are trees.

Once they grow they be-come trees for the envi-ronment; trees for life. And the life these trees represent maybe our own.

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NARRA TREES. Almost three years old narra trees line this portion of the Magtuod-New Valencia section of the shortcut road from Maa Crossing Magtuod to Calinan. The trees planted by Davao Light and Union Bank employees of the Aboitiz Group in 2010 are now averaging 15 to 20 feet in height and 4 to 5 inches in trunk diameters.

Davao Light-planted trees line Magtuod-Calinan short-cut road

THE Department of Environment and Natural Resourc-

es (DENR) Region 12 is set to hold consultations with local government units (LGUs) in a bid to establish measures that would help fast track the processing and issuance of titles for alienable and disposable lands within the region.

Morakie Domanday, DENR-12 regional tech-nical director for lands, said they are specifical-ly planning to sit down with the region’s provin-cial governors as well as city and municipal may-ors to draw their sup-port for the integration of land titling activities in the programs and op-erations of the LGUs.

He said they will present the provisions of Department Admin-istrative Order (DAO) 2011-06, which provides for the guidelines for the implementation of pub-lic land titling in part-nership with the LGUs.

“We will meet the local government offi-cials, even with the elec-tions fast approaching, to present various land titling issues and con-

cerns and find ways to fast track their process-ing and issuance, espe-cially those concerning alienable and disposable lands,” the official said in a statement.

Domanday said there is a need to define their partnership with the LGUs to improve the land administration and management systems at the local level.

“Titling activities should be integrated in their (LGUs) local pro-grams,” he said.

He stressed that LGUs play a significant role in the implementation of land titling activities and other programs and projects of the DENR as provided for under Sec-tion 3 of the Local Gov-ernment Code of 1991.

Under DENR DAO 2011-06, the LGUs and the DENR would jointly create composite land adjudication team that will work under the su-pervision of the DENR land management offi-cer.

The team will help the DENR in the titling of alienable and disposable lands at the city and mu-nicipal levels, it said.

The DAO authorizes all the regional execu-tive directors (REDs) of the DENR to designate permanent local officials or personnel involved in the titling program as deputy public land in-spectors.

The LGUs were also encouraged to create a land information office to facilitate the exchange of information, reconcili-ation and reconstruction of data from different lo-cal offices and national agencies involved in the titling program.

Elmer Mercado, DENR-12 Land Man-agement Division chief, said their collaboration with LGUs in land ti-tling activities is vital for the resolution of some land-related and bound-ary conflicts in the re-gion.

Region 12, which is also known as the Soc-csksargen Region, com-prises the provinces of South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, North Cotabato and the cities of General Santos, Koronadal, Tacurong, Kidapawan and Cotaba-to.

The provincial gov-ernment of South Co-tabato has a pending boundary dispute with Davao del Sur, specifi-cally over areas border-ing the mining towns of Tampakan and Kiblawan.

Koronadal City and Tupi town in South Co-tabato as well as Mai-tum and Kiamba towns in Sarangani also have longtime boundary is-sues.

Aside from the set-tlement of boundary disputes, Mercado said the resolution of land titling issues and con-cerns would help speed up the resolution of land conflicts in some parts of the region.

“The resolution of these land conflicts would eventually im-prove the peace and order situation in some affected communities,” he said.

Mercado added that it would help improve the income of LGUs through increased col-lections on realty prop-erty taxes as well as help enhance economic ac-tivities and investments in the area. [Allen V. Es-tabillo/MindaNews]

DENR plans to consult LGUs on quick processing of land titles AFTER the successful

first run of a project to help conserve the

Davao River watershed, Holcim Philippines has re-newed its partnership with an environment group to train an indigenous com-munity in the Marilog uplands on ideal farming techniques to discourage them from timber-poach-ing.

On Jan. 22, Holcim Davao signed a memoran-dum of agreement to ex-tend by another year the financial support to the Kinaiyahan Foundation, Inc. for the training of 40 more Matigsalug families on Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT). The said technique is de-signed to put less pressure on the remaining forest ecosystem in Marilog, lo-cated about 60 kilometers away from the city proper.

Under the MoA, the beneficiaries will be trained on SALT to culti-vate indigenous and fruit trees as well as cash crops such as rice, corn and sweet potatoes to improve their food security and in-come thus lessening their need to engage in destruc-tive activities such as tim-ber- poaching.

The planting activities are also seen to contribute

to water, soil and biodiver-sity conservation of the Davao River watershed, the largest among the city’s eight watersheds. Partici-pants will cultivate at least 50 hectares in the area that was formerly part of a log-ging concession.

The project also aims to build on the gains from its first year, which started in 2011 and involved 50 fam-ilies, by teaching the initial beneficiaries new skills such as agroforestry, or-ganic fertilizer production, crop house development and duck raising.

Holcim Davao Plant Manager Joe Bernal said the plant welcomes the op-portunity to support this project as it is consistent with the company’s thrust of empowering communi-ties and sustainable devel-opment advocacy.

“The Davao River Wa-tershed is an important resource of the city and we are honored to partner with the Kinaiyahan Foun-dation to contribute to the watershed’s conservation. What’s even better is that the project has the add-ed benefit of uplifting the Matigsalug community by improving their livelihood opportunities thus making them more self-reliant,” he said.

Through Matigsalug empowermentHolcim extends support for Davao River watershed conservation

VOL.5 ISSUE 249 • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2013 5EDGEDAVAO THE ECONOMY

THE United Coco-nut Planters Bank (UCPB) posted a net

income of P3.73 billion for 2012 up by 22% from last year’s P3.06 billion as the bank boosted its loan port-folio as well as its trading and securities earnings by triple digits.

Total loans went up by 24% to P87.72 billion from P70.52 billion in the same period last year of which the consumer portfolio grew at a very fast pace of 33%. Corporate accounts make up 45% of the loan portfolio.

Non-interest income soared by 47% or P3.1 billion from just P2.1 bil-lion from a year ago due to

higher trading gains on se-curities as well as better fee based income. ATM trans-actions are increasing as ev-idenced by a 20 % growth from the previous year. The growth in fees will continue to be robust because of the introduction of products such as UCPB Connect, an online facility meant to pro-vide banking flexibility and convenience to clients. This fairly-advanced banking system includes a mobile banking component which allows users to access their bank statement and pay bills through mobile devic-es.

The bank ended the year with total assets amounting to P218.72 bil-

lion up by 9% on the back of sound financial fundamen-tals and knowledge of the current market conditions while total capital stood at P20.27 billion increasing by 15%.

UCPB President and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Jeronimo U. Kilayko said: “In spite of 2012 being a de-manding year both strategi-cally and financially, we at UCPB are satisfied to have achieved the results amidst these trials and challenges. We are definitely looking forward to this year, being our 50th anniversary, and revisiting the basic funda-mentals that have made us a reliable banking partner for our target market.”

UCPB posts P3.73-B net income in 2012

SUN Business, the corporate solutions arm of Sun Cellular,

helps Internet café own-ers increase their income with its Xpressload Pro Onlinegosyo, an online service that allows busi-ness owners to sell Sun prepaid and broadband loads using any computer with Internet connection.

With no phone or SIM card needed, Onlinegosyo is ideal for Internet café owners because the ser-vice does not require any capital investment. Sun’s latest offer allows inter-net café owners to pro-vide an additional service to their customers, there-by giving them advantage over their competitors

and opportunity for extra profits.

With Onlinegosyo, business owners can earn from the discount they get from buying the Sun Re-tailer load. Furthermore, the service allows them to access reports, such as sales and load inventory, all through their easy-to-use web account.

Sun boosts revenues of Internet café owners

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FARM FRESH. Sacks of vegetables from the hinterland farms of Davao City are being unloaded by laborers at the bagsakan area of Bankerohan Public Market, Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

A stock trading sem-inar in Davao for beginners and new

investors had been set sometime in April this year.

Stock market ana-lyst Jamil Ahmed, blog administrator of the Davao-based website Pi-noy Stock Trader ( www.pinoystocktrader2012.wordpress.com) said no definite date or venue has been set yet and will be announced later.

PST had been giving seminars on the stock market and stock trad-ing in 2010-2011 cover-ing topics such as how to pick the right stocks, how to cut stock losses, how to preserve capital, how to read and understand charts and stock trading strategies.

Ahmed said they have been getting many inqui-ries and requests again asking when the schedule of stock market seminars would be set in this city and considered the pos-sibility this might be the right time to resume the seminars here. Some of the inquiries came from Manila, Cebu and Cagayan de Oro cities

“I think this would de-pend on the actual num-ber of confirmed partici-pants who would contact us about this,” the PST spokesman said.

Ahmed said they are very careful about en-couraging people to in-

vest in stocks for the first time because of the “very high risk” of losing the value of their stocks and losing their investments in the stock market.

The PST stock ana-lyst is worried that the index of the Philippine Stock Market is now hitting “historic highs” nearly topping 7000 due to good fundamentals of the country’s economy--- but might collapse and start declining anytime, spurred by an event in the country or world econo-my.

“People should not in-vest in stocks if they don’t understand the stock market and how it be-haves. Your investments can be wiped out if you don’t watch your stocks carefully,” Ahmed warned.

The PST spokesman said those interested to attend the seminar on stock trading may send their complete names and mailing addresses to contact number 0942-405-2044 or email to : [email protected] so that registra-tion forms can be mailed to them after a seminar fee is paid.

Some of the previ-ous participants of the PST stock trading forum include bank officials, office managers, employ-ees, government retir-ees, online traders, and new investors.[Philpress News]

Stock trading seminar slated in April

THE first two years of the Aquino ad-ministration saw

a healthier and stronger financial sector, and the government will be more aggressive in expand-ing access by Filipinos to these services in succeed-ing years, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).

Citing the Socioeco-nomic Report (SER): 2010-2012 recently re-leased by NEDA, Socio-economic Planning Secre-tary Arsenio M. Balisacan said that the financial sec-tor has done very well in terms of attaining its tar-gets as set out in the Phil-ippine Development Plan (PDP): 2011-2016.

“In fact, some of the major targets that were planned to be attained in 2016 had already been achieved before the end of 2012. For example, the number of bank of-fices per city or munic-ipality now averages at six, and we still see it ex-panding. The amount of microfinance services, already at PhP7.6 billion, is above the 2016 target,” said Balisacan.

The Cabinet official, who is also NEDA Direc-tor-General, said that the government will now focus on aggressively ex-

panding people’s access to financial services.

“According to the SER, only about 41 out of 100,000 Filipinos own a deposit account, and this is still far from the target of 750 by 2016. To fur-ther expand client reach in the countryside, mar-ket participants and regu-lators alike have to inno-vate and foster strategic partnerships,” he said.

Despite the global eco-nomic slowdown, Balisa-can noted that the Philip-pine banking system con-tinues to be on its growth trajectory because of sustained implementa-tion of financial sector re-forms and banks’ prudent risk-taking activities

“The SER details the situation of the country’s banking sector, with stron-ger bank balance sheets, higher core earnings, lean-er bank structure, and wider service network. Strong asset growth was also noted in our coopera-tives,” said Balisacan.

According to the SER, there were 7,565 more cooperatives established in 2011 alone. Overall, there were already 20,792 cooperatives by the end of 2011, with three out of four being micro cooper-atives, or those with an asset size of PhP3 million and below.

Gov’t to expand people’s accessto financial services--Neda


CONG. Antonio “An-ton” F. Lagdameo, Jr. of the 2nd District of

Davao del Norte, inaugu-rated yesterday two major projects in the Municipal-ity of Carmen namely the road concreting project connecting Carmen’s Na-tional High School, Public Market and Public Termi-nal, and the Association of Barangay Council’s (ABC) Building worth P5 million and P6 million, respective-ly.

Lagdameo personal-ly joined his constituents in the blessing of the two projects. With him were Carmen’s Mayor Marceli-no Perandos and Vice Mayor Alberto Sarin along with Sanguniang Bayan of-ficials, barangay captains, media and local towns-people.Lagdameo said that “these 2 projects are my advance valentine gift to the people of Carmen for your collaborative ded-ication to make this place progressive. The said proj-ects are part of the con-gressman’s centerpiece program, Barangayanihan.

The road concreting project proves to be a ma-jor catalyst for the munic-ipality’s rapidly growing economy as it traverses three major public struc-tures of the town. Many stalls are also sprouting beside the street which

adds to the town’s local revenue.

Mr Jovencio Mahumot, a trisikad driver and a ranking official of the lo-cality’s trisikad driver and operator’s association ex-pressed his elation of the project and said “because of Cong. Lagdameo’s road concreting project, our in-come has significantly in-creased since we deliver our passengers faster and with less stress. The num-ber of passengers is also increasing as the public market expands further into the road connecting the terminal.”

For the newly finished ABC Hall, Liga ng mga Ba-rangay President Resty Salaysay could notcontain his feelings of apprecia-tion to Cong. Lagdameo’s project for their associa-tion since this is a dream come true. The town’s barangay chairmen wereonce conducting their meetings anywhere within the municipal hall complex since they did not have an office to stay, much more, a room to house the officials from its 20 barangaysfor a meeting.

The local officer of the Department of Interior and Local Government was also mentioned as one of the occupants of the new building.

Mayor Mar Perandos articulated his deep ap-preciation for Cong. Lag-dameo’s efforts and con-tribution in transforming the town into a bustling and progressing munic-ipality. He mentioned all the projects that were realized under his admin-

istration were funded by the young legislator such as the construction of the Municipal Health Center, renovation of the munici-pal gym and complex, live-lihood center, mini-ambu-lance in all its barangays and now the ABC Hall and School-Market-Terminal

Road Concreting. The mayor also revealed that Cong. Lagdameo has also worked for the recent implementation of a 75 Million Desilting and Dike Protection project that is on-going under imple-mentation by the National Irrigation Administration

(NIA).Carmen’s new ABC

Hall is just one of Cong. Lagdameo’s pet project for the barangay leaders. Another ABC Hall is being completed in Peñaplata, Island Garden City of Sa-mal for the said city’s ba-rangay officials.

SENATOR Loren Legar-da sought the help of the local government

of Albay in creating a model for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) that all barangays in the country can use as guide in making their communities disas-ter-resilient.

During her recent visit to the Bicol Region, Legar-da, the United Nations Re-gional Champion for DRR and CCA for Asia-Pacific, said that she will seek the help of Albay Governor Joey Salceda in “instilling the DRR-CCA model of Albay in every barangay all over the country.”

“I will ask Governor Joey Salceda through his Climate Change Academy to help me since we are both UNISDR champions. He is an economist, an environ-mentalist and a DRR cham-pion. I will ask for his help in crafting plans, programs and policies in the barangay level to make sure each ba-

rangay is disaster-resilient,” the Senator said.

She explained that Al-bay is a model for disaster mitigation and prepared-ness, especially because while the Bicol Region is disaster-prone and vul-nerable to several natural hazards, Albay has become disaster-resilient.

In fact, Albay, along with Makati City and the Mu-nicipality of San Francisco in Camotes Island, Cebu, is among the United Nations’ 29 model communities that are exemplars in disas-ter risk reduction and man-agement.

The Province of Albay was recognized for its fo-cus on preparing compre-hensive land use plans that address climate and disas-ter risks, and for investing in disaster-resilient infra-structure.

“We have many best practices, like those in Al-bay, that other LGUs can use as guide in crafting their own programs. Communi-ties that have yet to estab-lish DRR and CCA practices should start now with both a short-term plan for the natural hazards expected to come within the next months, and a long-term program to ensure disas-ter-resilient communities in the future,” said Legarda.

7EDGEDAVAO E-SEASON

LAGDAMEO

Lagdameo inaugurates twin projects in Carmen

DIALOGUE. Senator Loren Legarda visits Commonwealth Market in Quezon City for a dialogue with market vendors. Legarda is the author of the Magna Carta for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, which supports small entrepreneurs in improving their businesses. [Allan Esguerra]

Legarda seeks Albay’s help in creating disaster-resilient barangays nationwide

FORMER Las Pinas Rep. Cynthia Vil-lar vows to help

in the replanting of coffee in Cavite’s Amadeo town which is known as the “Coffee Capital of the Country.”

Speaking in yester-day’s 11th Pahimis Coffee Festival, Villar disclosed that her husband, Sen. Manny Villar, left some funds with the Department of Agricul-ture to help coffee farm-ers of Amadeo and the industry, as a whole.

She noted that coffee planting in Amadeo has provided livelihood to its residents.

“The Pahimis festival which was first launched in 2002 has now become a culture and a tradi-tion of the people of

Amadeo,” said Villar, popularly known as “Mi-sis Hanep Buhay.”

In Amadeo, Pahi-mis means thanks-giving. Pahimis is a coffee festival of thanksgiving which also intends to promote the town’s coffee industry and gain support to lo-cal coffee growers.

The three-term con-gressman of the lone district of Las Pinas congratulated the town of Amadeo and its peo-ple since their coffee has become famous across the nation.

In fact, she re-called that during her stint in the House of Representatives, they always got Amadeo coffee as “gift” during Christmastime.

COFFEE TOAST. Misis Hanepbuhay Cynthia Villar, together with Cavite 6th District Rep. Antonio Ferrer, Mayor Jonjon Ferrer, Mayor Benjarde Villan-ueva and PCSO Dir. Aleta Tolentino,

leads the ceremonial coffee toast during the Pahimis Coffee Festival in Amadeo, Cavite. The festival is in thanks-giving for the bountiful coffee harvest of the Amadeans.

Villar attends Pahimis Festival


ALBER Husin is dead. Like Gene Boyd Lumawag, Mindanews’ photo editor, he was gunned

down. Both were very dear to me. Al-ber was shot in Pagadian City evening of February 10 and died at 4 a.m on Febru-ary 14, Valentine’s Day.

When Gene Boyd died in Jolo in November 2004, Alber took my storm calmly and compassionately when I raged like the Ilongot headhunters over his senseless killing. He did not even budge when I “pushed him against the wall” revealing my prejudice against the Muslims and reflecting it back to me.

I was shocked with my raw emotion and the biases that I did not even know were there. When I saw Alber at Gene Boyd’s wake, he was awkward and un-sure how to situate himself with me and in the funeral parlor. My heart went out to him. He was a Tausug from Jolo and right in the middle of a crowd crying out for blood. I walked up to him and I apologized with a contrite heart. Alber smiled at me and simply hugged me, assuring me of his understanding and support.

Alber, an anthropologist, was trained to take people seriously. He al-ways tried to understand how people interpret and act in the world, and put it into context. He also strived hard to be of help to others. A natural network-er, he would go out of his way to bridge people and relations. Was that why he was killed?

Who would kill a peace advocate, a development worker, an educator who cared passionately for the educa-tion of Moro and indigenous peoples? Who would pull the trigger against this gentle Tausug, who together with Leah Vidal, Jowel Canuday, and I hang on to one other when we crossed the flood-ed rivers of San Fernando, Bukidnon to reach a Matigsalug community; who cried unabashedly in front of me when-ever a girlfriend broke up with him; who often nudged me to drink my cof-fee or eat my lunch before it gets cold because I was so engrossed with what-ever I was doing; who always made sure that he smelled so good by spray-ing perfume all over his body and also carefully styled his hair with gel; who never failed to make fun of himself and his Tausug identity by asking, “mukha na ba akong moks (short for moklo, a derogatory term for Muslims) nito Pen?”, as he put on his glittery bracelet, red Nike high-cut shoes, matching red backpack, and signature shades.

Alber was happiest when he mar-ried Irene in May 2006 in Zamboanga City. I remember him telling me that he finally met his match and that she is one of a kind. Oh how he enthused about their wedding plans and how he worked hard to raise the necessary funds so Irene will be able to remem-ber it as the most memorable day of her life. When I showed up in my grub-by fieldwork clothes with my backpack at sunrise on their wedding day, Alber gave me clear and specific instructions right at his parents’ doorway: “Pen, hu-wag mo talagang iwanan si Irene ha” (Pen, don’t ever leave Irene).

SR. SUPT. RONALD DELA ROSA and his police force are on the right track in

tightening the noose on persons who are suspected to be in-volved in the illegal drugs trade.

Arguably, there’s nothing wrong with Police Sr. Supt. Dela Rosa talking directly to suspects, advising them to stop their illegal activities. It is no different from an overly con-cerned policeman giving a fa-therly advice to folks under his area of jurisdiction to avoid committing a crime so they would not be in trouble with the law.

People who are into the high-ly illegal activity should thank dela Rosa for warning them first rather than allowing his men to conduct the swoops right away which could be real messy and sometimes violent. Although

some of them may profusely deny involvement in drugs and feign being offended by the vir-tual defamation, there is rea-son to believe that the police has a strong dossier on them.

What is certain is that law-abiding neighbors of the suspects are elated about the “visits” of dela Rosa as they pro-vide hope that at last, the drug problem in their neighborhood would soon be solved.

Of course, the adverse reac-tion of the Commission on Hu-man Rights is expected. It is the commission’s job to deliv-er strongly-worded statements against what it thinks are viola-tions of human rights.

To settle the argument, the CHR should go to court. Deter-mined to do its job, the police should consider the case worth fighting it out in court.

EDGEDAVAOWho would pull the trigger against this

gentle Tausug?

OLIVIA D. VELASCOGeneral Manager

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BUSINESS COMPETITIVENESS AND CITIZENS’ CONTENT-MENT - Business and infra-

structure development in Davao City is a familiar scene and the most accu-rate picture of the flourishing econo-my remains a diagram of an acceler-ating growth. Business activities in the city are marked by steady stream of infrastructure projects – big and small. For proof, modern shopping malls, world-class hotels and restau-rants, IT centers, retail chains and en-tertainment facilities dotted the city’s strategic locations – commercial dis-tricts and thickly populated areas.

Since two years ago, huge and glitzy shopping malls have opened their doors to price and quality-con-scious Dabawenyos. These establish-ments are cramped with a variety of stores dealing in signature appar-els, collection of expensive jewelry, watches and bags and an assortment of other products such as shoes, cam-eras, cellular phones, electronic gad-gets, accessories, appliances, and of course, grocery store, renowned café joints serving various coffee and tea brands and beverages and restau-rants offering different sumptuous cuisine. Adding to these conveniences are the imposing convention facilities that would cater to local, national and foreign conferences.

Right now, it seems there is no sign of slowing down leading to this question: “Is Davao City rapidly de-veloping into an infrastructure cen-ter and mall-rat haven?” It’s precisely because a number of big and modern commercial and office structures sit-uated in various locations are near-ing completion while many more are

still in the working stag-es. We really have no idea if this sign of economic growth has been God-send for the Dabawenyos. From any-one else, this might seem delusional self-aggrandizement, but major corporate players probably believe that the locals already belong to the high-spending crowd that they were enticed to invest in the city.

Has there been a fundamental economic change in the city that the “artificial” consumer boom is on full display or is there a new breed of high-spending consumer groups in the city? Actually, in the not-so-dis-tant past such huge shopping desti-nations which cater mostly expensive signature brands were off limits to all but a fortunate middle-class consum-er audience in the locality. Same is true with the new and state-of-the-art office spaces that caters to call center operations and other similar line of endeavor whose principals decided to establish permanent business sta-tions in the city. Some private ana-lysts noted that a lot of investors are optimistic a rapidly changing econo-my is making the medium to higher life available to more and more of the city’s million-strong population.

Meanwhile, other economists say that when you look at the processes, it seemed a little bit risky, but in the end it’s a success. By temperament,

investors should only be cautious and hard-bargainer. It is no wonder big investors are pushing their way in the city than in any other bustling metropolis in Mindanao. So how did Davao City become host to numerous foreign and nation-leading investors, it might be asked? The plain and sim-ple truth: A sign of growing interest among prospective investors are strategic business locations, cheap labor; lower tax scheme, abundant supply of water and power and vast natural resources. These all point to healthy elements of a vibrant and ro-bust economy, environment-friend-ly surroundings, livable community and most importantly the adherence to the rule of law.

What we have in the city right now is a burgeoning economic de-velopment. We could not talk about progress and development without thinking of big and established busi-nesses. Business projections, as a matter of fact, provided the city with new investment space to speed up development and also include a plan to encourage investments from near-by regions aside from Manila-based and foreign capitalists. We always have to bear in mind and remem-ber what the experts say “that doing business is not only making mon-ey for the company, but likewise to create something that contributes to society.” Infrastructure develop-ment therefore is not just business ventures or structures where people live and work, but also opportuni-ties for social betterment. At stake is nothing less than the city’s business competitiveness and its citizens’ contentment.

( Conclusion )

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Prospects for social betterment

Requiem to a Gun-less Warrior

JESS G. DUREZA ADVOCACY MINDANOW

JOWEL CANUDAY/MINDANEWSPERSONAL ESSAY: HE answered the ques-

tions he raised by pre-senting the overarching

social and political malaise that bred the violence in their midst. But writing Kalis also compelled Al-ber to come to terms with who he was and what happened to him, his murdered family, and their community on March 16. Kalis marked his dif-ficult break from a painful and horrific past. His heart bled while writing it but in the process set himself free from the burden of evil that he had witnessed long ago, in his young life.

Breaking from the dark spell of March 16, he went on answering his questions way beyond his the-sis, through the trajectory of his life and the career path he had taken.

Instead of arming himself and serv-ing as a warrior to his family as he

was taught to do, he aligned him-self with peace advocacy groups, joined researches that helped unrav-el the many unknown dimensions of armed conflict events that a string of communities in Mindanao faced. He actively pursued programs that bridged young Muslims, Christians and indigenous people. He lectured on peace, culture, and Moro history before the Philippine military. He, a Muslim, discussed the future of Jesuit social engagement with Islam-ic communities around the world, in a conference in Rome. The final job he held was serving as area head of a development project that works toward the elevation of indigenous

people education in Muslim commu-nities. His passion was inspiring. He worked on these involvements tirelessly and energetically as an aggressive warrior would.

In the practice of everyday life, he broke free from the parochialism of gun violence in Sulu and came to engage with many so he, they, and we may value our common humanity.

Alber may have fallen from a gun that once took away his childhood and killed his innocence. But he stood larger than life by fighting the condition that bred the violence in our midst through the way of a gun-less warrior.

(Jowel Canuday of Min-daNews is a close friend of Alber. He is currently completing his doctorate in social and cultural anthropology at Oxford University in En-gland).

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 Feb-ruary) -- I was shaken a bit when I learned that a group loyal to the

Kiram family of Sulu publicly announced their intentions of pushing for the sul-tanate’s Sabah claim by a “mass action or a show of force” in Lahad Datu, a coast-al town of Sabah. The reports are not so clear yet so we don’t have details of the so-called “standoff” between Malaysian authorities and the 200 or so Muslim Fil-ipinos (some of them armed).

A bit of a backgrounder:It is said that before governments

came, the King of Brunei once sought help from the Sultanate of Sulu to quell a rebellion in the former’s kingdom. In return for winning the day for the Bru-nei king, a piece of land now known as Sabah was given to the Sultanate as a re-ward. Since that time up to now, the Ki-ram family of Sulu maintains it has pro-prietary rights over Sabah as evidenced by the lease entered into between the Sultanate and the British North Borneo Co. in 1878. In 1963, the British turned over to Malaysia control over Sabah and a 50-year lease was reportedly entered into with Malaysia still paying annu-al “rentals” to the Sultanate. There are reports that the contract of lease is ex-piring next month (50 years from 1963). The Kirams evidently want to re-estab-lish or re-confirm their rights by actual “occupancy”. Hence, the current contro-versy.

The Marcos years saw the infamous “Jabidah Massacre” where Muslims who were allegedly secretly trained in Cor-regidor to invade Sabah were murdered to prevent the “oplan” from being di-vulged, except for a lone survivor, Abidin Arula, who succeeded on telling the world about the alleged invasion plan. The “Jabidah Massacre” so angered the Muslim world that a group of Muslims, led by a Tausug professor at the Univer-sity of the Philippines named NUR MISU-ARI rose up in arms and started a rebel-lion to seek justice. The rest is history.

Fast forward to present time.I called my frat brod, ATTY RAN-

DOPLH “BONG” PARCASIO, one of the closest to Chairman Nur (called Ma’as” by those close to him) to find out if the MNLF had some hand in this latest caper in Sabah. I got this initial feeling because I was the one who fetched Chairman Nur from Malaysia when he was arrested by Malaysian authorities in the early years of the Arroyo administration after a failed “rebellion” in Sulu. Of course he was a prime suspect but he was subse-quently cleared by a Philippine court. I recall Ma’as telling me on board the C-130 PAF cargo plane that ferried us back to Luzon that he would not stop fighting for the return of Sabah “come what may”. He must be nursing not only the Bangsamoro aspiration of recover-ing their homeland (including Sabah) but also was hurting due to the way he was treated by the Malaysians during his detention.

But Atty. Bong immediately denied the involvement of MNLF and Ma’as in this latest incident in Sabah, although they both have the compelling motives to do so. “We are busy with our cam-paigns (Bong is running for congress-man in the 2nd district of Davao del Sur) and Chairman Nur is busy dealing with the Abu Sayyaf menace in Sulu and also his candidacy for governor,” Bong imme-diately said. I’ll take it on its face value for the meantime.

There is a lot of ramification in this present Sabah incident that needs to be untangled. For example, the MILF is fighting for the Bangsamoro homeland but it has excluded (conveniently or oth-erwise) mention of Sabah in its demand for specific areas. Of course, Malaysia being a facilitator in the peace talks gives some inkling to observers why Sabah is not in the radar screen of the parties to the negotiations.

There is more than meets the eye, as the saying goes.

In the meantime, let’s just all sit by and watch. Interesting developments are still in the offing.

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LAST Saturday , Feb-ruary 17, the Inter-national Committee

of the Red Cross (ICRC) turned 150 years old, commemorating the be-ginning of its efforts to bring relief to millions and improve the lives of countless people ad-versely affected by armed conflict. At a time when people are suffering the agonies of war in Syria, Mali, the Democratic Re-public of the Congo and elsewhere, the ICRC is more determined than ever to carry on with its humanitarian mission.

“This anniversary provides us with an op-portunity to look criti-cally at our past, and also to develop awareness of the strengths that have helped us in our activi-ties carried out for mil-lions of victims of armed conflict and other vio-lence,” said Peter Maur-er, president of the ICRC. “Now more than ever, we must not only remain true to our principles but also search for new ways to better serve the people who need help. We must redouble our efforts to make sure that the neu-tral, impartial and inde-pendent nature of our

humanitarian activities is understood by all.”

The ICRC continues to adapt to new forms of armed conflict and to a number of challenges confronting humanitari-an activities. “We are car-rying on with our work in an environment that is being shaped by the use of new weapons and technologies, the prolif-eration of armed groups, the difficulty of obtaining access to people requir-ing aid, and a plethora of NGOs and other hu-manitarian organizations endeavouring to serve communities with com-peting approaches,” said the ICRC president.

“Together with our partners within the In-ternational Red Cross and Red Crescent Move-ment and the broader humanitarian communi-ty, we must seek ways of meeting these challeng-es,” said the ICRC presi-dent. “We have to better coordinate humanitari-an efforts, and pay very careful attention to the opinions of those we are seeking to help – and give them the opportunity to play an active role in these efforts, the ultimate aim of which is to enable

people in need to achieve a lasting recovery.’’ The biggest challenge facing the ICRC and other humanitarian organiza-tions is a lack of respect for international human-itarian law, which pro-hibits violence directed against people who are not involved in armed conflict, like children, the wounded or sick, or detainees. “The need for a strong political will to spare civilians and oth-erwise comply with in-ternational humanitarian law, whether on the part of States or of non-State armed groups, has nev-er been greater,” said Mr Maurer.

Many of the ICRC’s everyday activities now have far-reaching effects. “When ICRC delegates visit detainees in Guan-tanamo, or facilitate the release of hostages in Colombia, or help peo-ple in Afghanistan obtain health care in safe con-ditions, or provide the maintenance and techni-cal know-how that keep the water and electricity networks up and running in Goma, a city of half a million people, or push for a binding internation-

al treaty on cluster muni-tions, they have a direct and lasting impact on the lives of many people,” said Mr Maurer.

“The vision of Henry Dunant – the Red Cross idea – has not only sur-vived but flourished through all these long years,” said Mr Maurer. “Over the past century and a half, the ICRC has overcome political ad-versity, financial difficul-ty, cultural barriers and countless other obsta-cles, even attacks on its own staff to bring vital-ly needed humanitarian assistance and protec-tion to people in need.” Once quite small with an entirely Swiss staff, the ICRC now performs its humanitarian tasks in over 90 countries all over the world, and has a workforce of almost 13,000 men and women of over 100 different na-tionalities.

In the Philippines, the ICRC has been pres-ent for more than 60 years and carries out a broad range of humani-tarian activities for the vulnerable populations adversely affected by armed conflicts or other situations.

“WH A T E V E R the cost of our librar-

ies, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation,” this is a powerful, awakening line from an iconic American broadcast journalist, Wal-ter Cronkite.

The statement is true indeed and this is the very reason why the Cecilia Stock Farms, Inc. (CSFI) of Barangay Mahayag, Bu-nawan, Davao City is very keen to help build a com-

munity of educated peo-ple through its adopt-a-school program and Ma-hayag Elementary School in Bunawan, Davao City is the fortunate recipient of the program.

July 26, 1996 since CSFI adopted the school as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The company has build class rooms and a library conducive to the learning process of the elementary pupils. It even provided 100% schol-

arships for qualified, ex-emplary pupils who are entering high school with supplementary allowanc-es every month. Bridging programs during summer to enhance the pupil’s reading comprehension and mathematical skills.

Last February 15, 2013, a blessing and a turn over ceremony of the newly donated Home Economics building was held at the school. The event highlighted the offi-cial turn-over of key of the

home economics room to the school principal.

In a message from Ter-esita Pascual, CSFI Gener-al Manager and Farm Ad-ministrator, “the objective of donating the H.E. build-ing to the school is for the students to have an area to enhance their skills on good housekeeping and be oriented on the prop-er food preparation as well as the nutrition they can get from it. We expect that these objectives will be attained as soon as the

facility will be used by the students,” she stressed.

In return, the Mahayag Elementary School Prin-cipal I Riza Joy Sarile ex-tended her deepest grat-itude to the company for its undying support and especially to the General Manager whose thrust is to help educate people in Barangay Mahayag. She also assured that the building will be utilized according to its purpose and will be maintained properly.

Many have attested and witnessed the fasci-nating developments that the company has brought to this chosen communi-ty. But for Cecilia Stock Farms, Inc., this is more than just a corporate so-cial responsibility; this is about reaching out the community through the years and most especial-ly, building a communi-ty with educated people who will soon after help each other be successful. [Kathy Klye Tupas/CSFI]

Reaching out to the community through the years

The ribbon cutting ceremony was led by Riza Joy Sarile (right), school Principal I of Mahayag Elem. School, and Tess Pascual, general manager/farm administrator of Cecilia Stock Farms, Inc. represented by Kathy Tupas (left), followed by the official turn-over of the key to the school official.

150 yrs. of humanitarian action in the midst of armed conflict A Memorandum of

Agreement (MOA) was signed be-

tween the Tagum Coop-erative and the Province of Davao del Norte for the grant of a half a million financial assistance that the former will provide to the Luntiang Paraiso Re-gional Rehabilitation Cen-ter in New Corella, Davao del Norte.

“The MOA binds the two signatories to work together in making a dif-ference in the lives of alcoholics and drug de-pendents undergoing re-habilitation in Luntiang Paraiso,” Tagum Cooper-ative Chairperson Norma Pereyras said during the MOA signing held at the Bulwagan of the Provin-cial Capitol in Mankilam this city.

Pereyras said Tagum Cooperative Board Res-olution 087-2013, which was signed during a spe-cial meeting on February 2, 2013, allowed for the provision of a P500,000 financial assistance to the Rehabilitation Center, specifically for the con-struction of a chapel with-in the center’s compound.

“The Tagum Coopera-tive believes that regard-less of our religious de-nomination, we are one in the eyes of God,” she

said. Thus, she added, the construction of a chapel in the rehabilitation cen-ter will contribute to the spiritual nourishment of the Luntiang Paraiso community.

She said the MOA only shows that the Tagum Co-operative has remained a committed partner of Davao del Norte in de-velopment and in mak-ing the lives of its people better.

The Rehabilitation Center, which started its operation in 2001, is one of the three rehabilita-tion centers in Mindanao. The other two are located in Mintal, Davao City and in Abong-Abong, Zambo-anga City.

The Center has pro-duced at least 17 grad-uates, 17 dependents in 2010 and ten dependents in 2012, most of who have either gone back to their families while some are already working abroad.

The Center’s building was financed by the Dan-gerous Drugs Board but the component local gov-ernment units contribute to the rehabilitation fees of the Center as it contin-ues to provide free ser-vices for indigent drug and alcohol dependents.[RGA/LAC/PIA 11]

Tagum Coop provides P.5 million fund for drug rehabilitation chapel

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Manding a 48-hour ulti-matum to arrest suspect-ed drug pushers in the said barangay.

Duterte’s warning to take the cudgels in his own hands came at the heels of a series of mas-sive police visits in sev-eral barangays in the city starting with Barangay 23-C last week and Ba-rangay Ilang yesterday. The police operatives led by DCPO Police Chief Ron-ald Dela Rosa were ac-companied by barangay captain Romy Cabling and members of the barangay council.

Dela Rosa and the ba-rangay officials person-ally appealed to some suspected drug pushers and couriers present yes-terday in Barangay Ilang to stop their illegal drug trade enterprise. Some of the suspects promised to

stop their activities.Some of the suspected

drug dealers were not in their homes when Dela Rosa’s team came to visit the barangay.

The series of visits left homes of suspected drug dealers and couriers de-serted and the police are left with no one to go after in the usual ‘hot spots.’

Not for longBut while the suspect-

ed individuals involved in illegal drugs have sought refuged elsewhere, Dute-rte said the city govern-ment has ensured there are eyes watching them even when the police are not visiting their area.

Duterte hinted that there are surveillance cameras are now work-ing in the suspected areas where illegal drugs are rampant.

He said the recent-

ly-passed Davao City Ordinance on installing closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras to busi-ness establishments and some of the public areas of the city will greatly help in capturing crimi-nal activities.

“Gamay rana siya ug dili kayo mapansin (it is quiet tiny and it can’t eas-ily be seen) Duterte said.

“Pwede gud unta namo atakehon pero sig-urado musukol man gyud na, lisod kaayo kay basig mulusot-lusot ang bala sa mga balay ug daghan civilian ang madamay (We can afford to attack those suspected drug pushers and users but for sure they will fight back and its difficult because bullets will hit the hous-es and we might hit the civilians too” Duterte ex-plained.

mum sustained winds of 45 kilometers per hour.

Caraga comprises the provinces of Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Surigao del Norte, Surigao del Sur and Di-nagat Islands and the

cities of Butuan, Cabad-baran, Bayugan, Su-rigao, Bislig and Tandag while the South Cotaba-to region – Region 12 or Soutwestern Mindanao (also referred to as Soc-cskargen) comprises

the provinces of South Cotabato, Sarangani, North Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat and the cities of General Santos, Koronadal, Tacurong, Kidapawan and Cotaba-to. (MindaNews)

sharps waste from health centers here and turn them into char using its pyroclave facility, free of charge.

Sharps wastes include syringes and injection de-vices, blades, contaminat-ed glass and plastics that

are used to puncture or lacerate.

The Rad Green Solu-tions is one of the three Filipino companies that were chosen for a three-month immersion and funding mission at Plug and Play Tech Center in

Silicon Valley, San Fran-cisco, California.

Barriga said after the Silicon Valley immersion, their company had re-ceived several inquiries already from other coun-tries. (Lorie Ann Cascaro/MindaNews)

(COP), the organization of incumbent presidents of close to 20 Rotary clubs in the Davao area.

He said that the funds to be used for the cata-ract project are donations from his friends in dif-ferent countries like Ger-many and “surprisingly” India, where his club was able to collect a whopping P2 million.

Nimmo headed a dele-gation composed of Rota-ry club presidents to pay

a courtesy call on Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio who is expected to sign an ex-ecutive order proclaiming this week Rotary Week like what she did in previ-ous celebrations.

The group was re-ceived by Lemuel Ortonio, chief of staff, as Mayor Sara is on leave.

Later, the group were guests at Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City Davao at Ecoland yesterday.

In that forum, RC

Downtown president Mi-lagros “Lagring” Acero, president Cheryl Gomez of RC Waling-waling, president Aimee Bautis-ta of RC Pag-asa Davao and RC East Davao Ron-ald Go rattled off some of their community projects aimed at addressing the worldwide problems of poverty, unpeace, health, environment, climate change, hunger and edu-cation.

traband.“Everybody is really

obliged to come down so that we can do thorough inspection. You have to subject yourself for in-spection once you are flagged down on a check-point,” he said.

Besana said just like the police, the TF Davao follows the basic plain-view doctrine in con-ducting inspection in checkpoints with the strict implementation of the election gun ban and on routine checks against terrorism .

He said occupants of private vehicles are obliged to roll down their windows and to switch on the interior light at night once they are stopped for inspection.

Besana said that apart from buses, passengers of private vehicles are no longer required to get down during visual in-spection.

He also said that TF Davao operatives have

strict instructions to con-duct checkpoint opera-tion with courtesy.

“It is against our reg-ulations for TF Davao operatives to frown in the checkpoints,” Besana said.

Superintendent Film-ore Escobal, chief of the Community Relations Division of the Police Re-gional Office XI said that police and soldiers fol-low strict regulations in checkpoint operation.

He said that first sol-diers and police on the checkpoint must be in proper uniform and on a well-lighted place when-ever the inspection is done at night.

Escobal said the checkpoint must have a marked police or military vehicle that identifies the contingent.

“You can report to us checkpoints that are set up in the dark since it is a violation of standard operating procedures,” he said.

Lt. Colonel Lyndon Paniza, spokesperson of the 10th Infantry Divi-sion said that in areas outside Davao City, at least four soldiers wear Kevlar helmets and the corresponding bul-let-proof vests whenever they man a checkpoint.

He said that it is the procedure being ob-served by soldiers in the absence of a marked mil-itary vehicle. “It is an in-dication that it is a legit-imate government check-point,” Paniza said.

Inspector Rowena Jacosalem, spokesper-son of the PRO XI said that residents must know how to differenti-ate the checkpoints set up by authorities from the ones set up by the rebels.

She said government checkpoints are manned by either police or sol-diers in full uniform with bold stop signs and marked vehicle. [RGA/JSD/PIA 11]

tion will be concluded in March 2013.

To cap the two-year partnership, a wrap-up seminar was held last Feb-ruary 5, 2013. Dubbed, “Pains and Gains through the Years : A Review of the Two-Year Collabora-tion of the HiPeC-SSN-UP Mindanao Tripartite Part-nership in Peacebuilding,” the seminar became an avenue to gauge how the Tripartite Partnership fared with all its achieve-ments and setbacks.

The two-year Tripar-tite Partnership produced a total of seven (7) re-searches. The topics of these researches range from the peace process, problems of integration (by the MNLF Integrees in the Philippine Army and Philippine National Po-lice), gender in the peace process, land conflict, justice and resolution

processes, and notions of peace. The scope includes indigenous peoples and the Bangsamoro. Most of these researches are under review to be pub-lished in UP Mindanao’s refereed journal, Banwa.

Apart from the re-searches, the Tripartite Partnership has orga-nized various forums, lectures, seminars, and roundtable discussions. These were participated by members of the aca-deme, non-government agencies, government agencies, and the media.

One of these activi-ties was the forum on the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro held last December 7, 2012 at Grand Men Seng Hotel that successfully brought groups such as the Moro National Liberation Front and the Moro Islamic Lib-

eration Front in one place. The forum was co-orga-nized by the Alternate Fo-rum for Research in Mind-anao and the Department of Education – Region XI.

During that forum, the historical context of the Bangsamoro struggle was tackled followed by a discussion on the salient points of the Framework Agreement on the Bang-samoro by a representa-tive of the MILF. Updates on the GRP-NDFP nego-tiations were also dis-cussed since the issue on the conflict between the government and the CPP/NDF is more felt in the Davao Region where the forum was held.

With all its achieve-ments in two years, Prof. Osamu Yoshida of HiPeC said, “We hope that this partnership will last a long time.”

MORE HEADS ARE BETTER. Department heads of the differ-ent agencies of the City Government of Davao attend the week-ly departmental meeting presided by acting City Administrator Lawyer Zulieka Lopez and assistant City Administrator Erwin

Alfaraque to tackle priority concerns of the city government at the Davao City Hall on City Hall drive, Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

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Medvil fires first salvoBy Neil Bravo

TITLE favourite Medvil FC drew first blood in the

ongoing Medvil Cup foot-ball tournament at the Deca Homes and Resorts field in Mintal.

Aleis Dayonon scored the lone goal for Medvil in the 73rd minute to his team past Impeesa 1-0 in their debut match last Saturday. Dayonon broke away from his defenders to blast home the win-ning marker as Medvil got 3 points for the win. Impeesa, which won its first outing, dropped to a 1-0-1 win-draw-loss record in the standings.

Calinan Blue Eagles and Mintal Inter Rage stayed on top of the standings with their sec-ond win in as many out-

ings. The Blue Eagles

whipped Oi Rogers 5-0 behind the heroics of Junrill Bayanan who scored a brace (10th ad 40th). Edison Dimson opened up the scoring in the 5th minute before Bayanan sandwiched a goal by Bryle Larobis (38th).

Mintal Inter Rage kept abreast with the Blue Eagles after es-saying a masterful 8-1 demolition of Holy Child. Jeremy Basan scored a hat trick as he strung up three straight markers in the 43rd, 46th and 53rd minutes while teammate Julius Ponpon scored a brace with goals in the 28th and 65th. The oth-er scorers are Jericho

Basan (20th), Raymond Casona 24th) and Ace Joaquin (64th). Jao So-brapena scored for Holy Child in the 50th minute.

Real Davao improved to 1-0-1 win-draw-loss slate after notching its first win over PWC Pa-triots 4-2. Real Davao struck through Yves Di-son who found the net twice in a span of 2 min-utes (43rd and 44th) while Jefferson Lumio (75th and Aldrin Rebuta (79th) added the mar-ginal goals. Floyd Yap scored for PWC in the 7st and 74th.

The tournament is backed up by Baran-gay Mintal, Congress-man Isidro T. Ungab, UP Mindanao, and Medvil Farms. (NJB)

Games on 24 February 2013 at Deca Homes Resort and Residences, Mintal: 8:00 AM MIntal Inter Rage vs. Oi Rogers 10:00 AM Impeesa vs Holy Child 12:00 NN Calinan FC vs Real Davao 2:00 PM Calinan Blue Eagles vs Real davao

Games on 25 February 2013: 8:00 AM Impeesa vs PWC Patriots 10:00 AM Calinan FC vs Mintal Inter Rage 12:00 NN Medvil vs Holy Child 2:00 PM Calinan Blue Eagles vs Real Davao


SAO PAULO – Rafa-el Nadal showed he is back in business

by clinching his first ti-tle since ending a sev-en-month knee injury layoff, winning the Brazil Open on Sunday.

The Spanish former world number one, who has yet to fully shrug off the lingering effects of

his knee problems, beat Argentina’s David Nal-bandian 6-2, 6-3 in 78 minutes.

Currently the world number five, Nadal went on the attack from the start, breaking his oppo-nent’s service before rac-ing to take the first set.

The 31-year-old Nal-bandian, a former world

number three who now languishes at 93 in the ATP rankings, fought back early in the second set but Nadal came from behind to win, spark-ing wild cheers from the crowd.

The Spaniard pock-eted a check for $82,300 for his win and thanked the public for “the great

support” he received throughout the tourna-ment.

Nadal was the top seed in this $455,775 tournament, his second comeback event follow-ing his long absence.

He competed in the Vina del Mar Open in Chile earlier this month, losing the singles and doubles finals last Sun-day.

“It’s a great title and important for me,” said the 26-year-old.

“Yesterday (during the semi-final) the knee hurt. Today it’s better, rather bearable. I am happy to win in Brazil for the sec-ond time.”

The world number five, who has 11 Grand Slam titles under his belt, first won the event in 2005, when it was held in Costa do Sauipe in east-ern Bahia state.

Asked about his future plans, Nadal, who now has 37 claycourt titles in a 51-trophy career haul, re-plied: “I am going to think about Acapulco (later this month) and nothing else.”

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ANTHONY Nerza and Celie Rose Jaro were the fastest

among close to 6,000 run-ners in last Sunday’s 2013 Philhealth Run Davao Leg, but the happiest smiles belong to those who could not even take a single step in the footrace.

The huge turnout meant more funds for children cancer patients who are in the hospital beds of Southern Philip-pines Medical Center in Davao as beneficiaries for the third year of this annual fund-raiser orga-nized by the Philippine Health Insurance Corpo-ration (Philhealth) and supported by the City Government of Davao as co-presentor for the Davao leg.

“With approximately 6,000 registered run en-thusiasts for Region XI amassed to participate in the unprecedented simul-taneous run as one na-tion, in 20 sites across the country, and by 86,000 nationwide runners, this is now carved as a mon-umental event in the an-nals of Philippine history,” the Philhealth Region XI office said in a statement.

Philhealth reported some 3,160 runners were entered in the 3-K divi-sion, 2,157 runners for 5-K, 285 runners in 3-K, and 267 in the 18-K cate-gories.

Fresh from his dou-ble gold medal feat in the 2013 National PRI-

SAA Games in Lingayen, Pangasinan, Nerza came home just in time to cool his heels and put on his running shoes again on his way to dominating the premier 18-kilome-ter men’s division in one hour 6 minutes and 26 seconds.

Arnie Macaneras was a distant second checking in at one hour 7 minutes and 56 seconds while Nerza’s chief rival Bri-an Lupio who came in at a disappointing third in 1:09:36.

Nerza, a 23-year old Senior at Brokenshire College, won last week’s gold medals in the men’s 3,000 meter steeple-chase and 10,000 meter events in Pangasinan. It meant a return to the top of Davao’s running scene after he was dislodged by Lupio in a disappointing stretch last year.

In the women’s 18-K race, Celie Rose Jaro fol-lowed up her twin wins a week ago with another smashing performance clocking 1:22:42 for the title. Emily Avergonza-do took second place in 1:25:47 ahead of favor-ite Cynthia Jaro who was third in a slow 1:31:00.

Crisline Jaro and Ce-cilie Jaro completed the domination of the Jaro Sisters after winning the women’s 10-K and 5-K titles, respectively. Elmer Bartolo won the 10-K for men while Jesmar Lopez took the 5-K men’s title.

Sonny Wagdos, anoth-er gold medalist in the PRISAA National Games, won the 3-K men’s title while Jolly May Gabaisen took the women’s 3-K plum. Adrian Bentulan and Resinalyn Depillo won the 3-K kiddies titles.

The awarding cere-mony was graced by Dr. Mae Concepcion Dolendo, Program Director for SP-MC-CCBDU, who thanked all runners whose partic-ipation, she said, greatly contributed to the surviv-al of cancer patients.

Dolendo also thanked PhilHealth for choosing their organization as a beneficiary of the fun run. In the previous year’s PhilHealth Mindanao fun run, the proceeds were also turned over to the Kids of Hope as funding assistance in treating can-cer patients and in sup-porting its projects.

COMPLETE RESULTS:3K Kiddie (Boys):1st place – Adrian Bentulan – 12:432nd place - Michael Ednas – 12:533rd place – Jay Rico – 13:243K Kiddie (Girls):1st place – Rosinelyn Depillo – 16:302nd place – Jyla Argamido – 18:153rd place – Karl Mae Dard – 21: 203K Adult (Male):1st place – Sonny Wagdos – 10:192nd place – Daryl Mark Daban – 10:213rd place – Azlan Paglay – 10:283K Adult (Female):1st place – Jolly Mae Gabaisen – 12:222nd place – Junalyn Dorado – 12:513rd place – Genevieve Berato – 14:105K Adult (Male):1st place – Jesmar Lopez – 17:092nd place – Michael Ian Consantino – 17:413rd place – Erwin Gobal – 17:575K (Female):1st place – Cecilie Jaro – 23:442nd place – Princess Mae Dayon – 24:273rd place – Angelei Rodriguez – 26:0910K (Male):1st place – Elmer Bartolo – 37:482nd place – Michael Baron – 37:493rd place – Romeo Mascardo – 42:3110K (Female):1st place – Crisline Jaro – 45:332nd place – Marlene Ledesma – 46:013rd place – Vivian Avegonzado – 46:4918K (Male):1st place – Anthony Nerza – 1:06:262nd place – Arnie Macaneras – 1:07:563rd place – Brian Lupio – 1:09:3618K (Female):1st place – Celie Rose Jaro – 1:22:422nd place – Emily Avegonzado - 1:25:473rd place – Cynthia Jaro – 1:31:00

TEAM Gan Soo Do’s Steve “The Red Knight” Grandeza’s

second attempt to bounce back in mixed martial arts failed when he lost to Mi-guel Mosquera in the feath-erweight class of the Pacif-ic Extreme Combat 35 held over the weekend at the Ynares Coliseum in Pasig.

Grandeza bowed to Mosquera who finished him off with a rear-naked choke in the second round.

The Red Knight slammed his opponent twice, established a strong position for a ground and pound but received a point deduction for kick-ing a grounded opponent’s head.

It was Mosquera’s de-but victory and Grandeza’s second setback after losing to Kyle Aguon last Novem-ber 2012.

“On behalf of Team Gan Soo Do, we would like to thank everyone for the prayers and support. We lost the fight and we thank God for keeping us safe. Lessons are learned

and we are thankful to all for appreciating my skills. Cheering for me meant a lot,” said Grandeza.

Grandeza also extend-ed again his appreciation to supporters Phoenix Petroleum Phils., MIX FM, I-flex Fitness, NIS Mo-tors Corp., Rockspec Gear, Davao Bayan Construc-tion and Hardware Supply, TBR Concepts, REDROCK Dezigns, Mayor Sara Zim-merman Duterte, Vice Mayor Rody R. Duterte, comebacking city sports chief Bong Go, the Sports Development Division-City Mayor’s Office, 3rd District Councilor Atty. Bong Ad-vincula, Valiant Strikers by Mario Palazuelo, Johnny Commercial, Engr. Floro Virtucio Jr., Engr. Manny Gornez, Hedojar Soo Bahk Do, Atty. Arnel Zapatos, University of Mindanao Judo Club, Dr. Benedict Edward Valdez, sports-men-businessmen Dennis Uy and Ben Sur and Blue Warrior Fitness Gym for all the help extended to the Team Gan Soo Do.[MPB]

RUNNING JAROS. The Jaro sisters Celie Rose, Cecilie, Crisline and Cynthia Jaro once more topped their respective divisions in the recently concluded Davao leg of the 2013 Philhealth Run.

Rafael Nadal is back from injury and another title. Davao’s Steve Grandeza lost again in his second PXC fight.

Nerza rules Philhealth RunBy Neil Bravo

Nadal is back!

Grandeza gives it all but fails againBy Moses P. Billacura

Thailand dreaming


EDGEDAVAO

I often wonder, what is it about Thailand that makes my friends like Jinggoy and Emil want to go back to it time and time again. I mean, I see their ads all the time

on tv and have friends like Carmina telling me how awesome Thai street food is, I am curious having bot yet been able to visit the country before.

TRAVEL

So when the Tourism Authority of Thailand invited me to join their Amazing Thailand last February 4 at the Garden Tent of the Waterfront In-sular Hotel Davao, I look the chance to get to have a sneak peek at what Thai-land has to offer and what makes it amazing. It was immediately fas-cinated by the exhibit they had set up featuring Thai umbrella painting and Thai cuisine. The dextrous hands of both the painter and the ones making the intricate flower-shaped dumplings show just how different Thai culture is

from our Pinoy culture, yet also have a similar thread as we also have textile hand-painting and cook-ing using rice-flour, albeit with different techniques. The roadshow’s din-ner was opened by H.E

Mr Prasas Prasasvinitchai - Ambasador of Thailand to the Philippines and was immediately followed by a presentation of the newest travel trends and destina-tions in Thailand by Mrs Kanokkittika Kritwutikon - Director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand Sin-gapore & the Philippines.

The presentation was short but opened my eyes on the different things to do an experience in Thailand. From bustling Bangkok, the temples of Ayuthaya and the beaches of Phuket there are many adventures that can be done and with these in mind and in my dreams,

I look forward to realise my dreams of Thailand soon to finally experience why 290,000 Filipinos visit Thailand every year. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram @kenneth-kingong for more travel stories, foodie finds and happenings in and around Davao.

Making Thai dumpligs Thai dumplingH.E Mr Prasas Prasasvinitchai - Ambasador of Thailand to the Philippines and his welcome address at the Amazing Thailand Road Show.

H.E Mr Prasas Prasasvinitchai - Ambasador of Thailand to the Philippines . Photo by Rhonson Ng.

Silk umbrella painting.

Mrs Kanokkittika Kritwutikon - Director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand Singapore & the Philippines, me, Mr Phanom Kaributra - Executive Director of Tourism Authority of Thailand, ASEAN, South Asia & South Pacific Region and Jojie Alcantara. Photo by Rhonson Ng.

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GLOBE TELECOM redefines prepaid as it brings another new and game-changing experience to its subscribers by allow-ing them to make their own promo the way they want to. Introducing Globe Prepaid GoSakto, the first and only ser-vice in the country that allows prepaid subscribers to create and customize a prepaid promo that fits their needs, bud-get, and lifestyle. Another industry-shaking innovation from Globe, Go-Sakto empowers prepaid subscribers to design their own promo according to what they need, recognizing the fact that customers have different call, text and surfing needs. With GoSakto, customers have the flexibility to tailor-fit their prepaid promo based on what they need for the day, week, or month. To enjoy their GoSakto promo, subscribers first choose what type of promo to avail: call/text/surf, call and text, call and surf, text and surf, or a combination of all. Once subscribers have chosen their promo, GoSakto further personalizes the experience by letting them select the type and number of calls and texts they need. Type of call/text can be within the Globe/TM network or across all networks, while number can be bulk or unlimited. For sub-scribers who need surfing services, they can also choose be-tween bulk (in megabytes or MBs of data) or unlimited. Finally, prepaid subscribers get to pick the validity of the calls, texts, and surfing services they availed, from 1 day, 3 days, 7 days, or 30 days. With the many levels of selection, prepaid subscribers can explore and find the best value GoSakto promo combo in over 2,000 possible combinations, another Globe-first. There are three easy ways to GoSakto: via mobile phone via*143#, via the Globe website at www.globe.com.ph/go-sakto, or via Facebook where they can share their promo to their friends via the GoSakto page on the social networking site. GoSakto even allows subscribers to name their created promo, as well as let their Facebook friends register to the same promo, creating a community of GoSakto users online. With GoSakto, subscribers are spared from promo avail-ment barriers such as maintaining balance, capping, and limited price points. A GoSakto promo is available for as low as P7, and can co-exist with another promo, giving subscrib-ers more value for their money. “We are thrilled to disrupt the prepaid market with yet another innovation that will change the behavior of today’s subscribers when it comes to availing promos,” said KD Di-zon, Head of Globe Prepaid. “With GoSakto, subscribers will bid pre-made and canned prepaid promos goodbye. No customer is the same as the other. One would want more voice calls, another is a heavy texter, and the other enjoys browsing. One prefers 1-day promos, the other chooses those with longer validity. At the end of the day, you are the only one who truly understand and know your needs when it comes to connecting with your friends and loved ones.” Added Dizon, “Taking this consumer insight, we at Globe developed a new service that will give the subscribers the power to make their own promo from scratch. Through Go-Sakto, Globe will be the brand that makes prepaid promos more flexible, personal, and yes customizable. Apart from their own prepaid promo, subscribers can even select how to GoSakto through mobile, website or Facebook, making the registration process more convenient and hassle-free.” Innovation is what drives the company’s prepaid segment to flourish and grow despite a challenging market. In 2010, Globe Prepaid launched SuperAllTxt20, a breakthrough all-network offer that allowed subscribers to break barriers and connect with their circle regardless of mobile networks. It strengthened its All-Network and Unlimited services, bun-dling all hero offers with all-network texts and data. It also responded to the growing demand for mobile browsing services by giving subscribers free access to Facebook and Google. In the area of pioneering experiences, Globe Prepaid took front and center with Load Watch, an innovative service that provides subscribers with real-time information on their load status, permanently avoiding instances of Nakaw Load. Last year, it unveiled its self-service menu *143#, paving the way for subscribers to easily register to their favorite prepaid promos without having to memorize keywords and access codes. For 2013, Dizon looks at GoSakto to increase the number of promo subscriptions among existing customers, as well as to acquire new ones who are looking for the right prepaid promo that will fit their needs.

DIE hard, indeed. Bruce Willis’ A Good Day to Die Hard battled to a win atop the Presidents’ Day weekend box office, grossing an estimated $25 million from Friday to Sunday. Among other new re-leases, Safe Haven came up bigger than most of its Nicholas Sparks-spawned predecessors, while Beau-tiful Creatures was no Warm Bodies, much less Twilight. A Good Day to Die Hard is the third movie in the nearly 25-year-old fran-chise to debut at No. 1. Since opening Thurs-day, the film, the fifth installment in the action series, has grossed $33.2 million. The debut is on the smaller side for a Die Hard once some of the older movies’ prehistoric ticket prices are adjusted for in-flation. (Kudos to BoxOf-ficeMojo.com for doing the math.) At the same time, the debut is far bigger than recent ones suffered by

Willis’ Expendables com-rades, Arnold Schwarz-engger and Sylvester Stal-lone, who struck out with The Last Stand and Bullet to the Head, respectively. Safe Haven, mean-while, which topped A Good Day to Die Hard at Thursday’s Valentine’s Day box office, settled for third place in the weekend standings. The Josh Duhamel-Julianne Hough romantic drama grossed a project-ed $21.5 million from Fri-day-Sunday. The take puts the film on par with The Vow, the Sparks-channel-ing tearjerker that opened on the same weekend last year. Among films actu-ally based Sparks novels, Safe Haven came up big-ger than all but Dear John and The Lucky One. The witch-graced Beau-tiful Creatures lacked for vampires (Twilight) and zombies (Warm Bodies), and got left behind in sixth place with a weak $7.5 million Friday-Sun-day. Elsewhere, last week-

end’s No. 1 film, Iden-tity Thief ($23.4 million), held very, while the new animated family film, Es-cape From Planet Earth, opened OK ($16.1 mil-lion). Outside of the Top 10, Quentin Tarantino’s Djan-go Unchained topped $200 million internation-ally; The Hobbit: An Unex-pected Journey hit $300 million domestically. Here’s a complete look at the weekend’s top movies, per Friday-Sun-day studio estimates and stats as compiled per Ex-hibitor Relations:

1. A Good Day to Die Hard, $25 million2. Identity Thief, $23.4 million3. Safe Haven, $21.5 mil-lion4. Escape From Planet Earth, $16.1 million5. Warm Bodies, $9 mil-lion6. Beautiful Creatures, $7.5 million7. Side Effects, $6.3 mil-lion8. Silver Linings Playbook, $6.1 million9. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, $3.5 million10. Zero Dark Thirty, $3.1 million

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Globe revolutionizes prepaid with ‘create your own promo’ concept

Box office: Bruce Willis’ A Good Day to Die Hard powers way to no. 1

ZERO Dark Thirty screen-writer Mark Boal is still defending his story about capturing and killing Osa-ma Bin Laden. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Boal said: “I think it’s my right, by the way, if I firm-ly believe that [Osama] Bin Laden was killed by aliens, to depict that. And I should be able to put on there, ‘This is 100 percent true and anyone who doubts it is themselves

abducted by aliens’...with-out a Senate investigation into where I got that no-tion. Right? In this coun-try, isn’t that legit?” He believes those politicians opposing the film are solely using it as a “publicity tool.” He elaborates, adding, “Now does that mean they can use the movie as a political platform to talk about what they’ve been wanting to talk about for years and years and

years? Do I think that Fein-stein used the movie as a publicity tool to get a con-versation going about her report? I believe it.” However, despite how some politicians may feel about the film, it’s clear the Academy appreciates it. The Kathryn Bigelow directed film is nominated for Best Screenplay, Best Picture, as well as Best Ac-tress for Jessica Chastain among its 5 nominations.

HUGH GRANT is on dia-per duty once again. The 52-year-old Cloud Atlas star and his on-again, off-again girlfriend Tinglan Hong welcomed their second child recent-ly…and Grant couldn’t wait to share the news via Twitter. “In answer to some journos. Am thrilled my daughter now has a brother. Adore them both to an uncool degree. They have a fab mum,” Grant tweeted Saturday morn-ing. “And to be crystal clear. I am the Daddy.” Hong and Grant wel-comed their first child together, Tabitha, in Sep-tember 2011.

The actor, who referred to fatherhood as “life-chang-ing” in an inter-view with Ellen DeGeneres last year, said he would highly r e c o m m e n d becoming a parent to any-one. “Ever yone was right all these years, saying, “Hugh, why don’t you have some children? It changes your life,” Grant said in the sit-down. “Now that I have a child, it is life

changing. I recommend it. Get some!’ Congrats!

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KNOX JOLIE-PITT is start-ing to look more and more like Brad Pitt’s Mini-Me. Brad and Angelina Jo-lie’s adorable four-year-old son had some swag in his step as he headed out with his family to the Nat-ural History Museum on Valentine’s Day, dressed just like his 49-year-old dad. Sporting all black from head to toe, Knox mim-icked his dad’s outfit, rock-ing sunglasses, a blazer, T-shirt and matching pants. Brad, also was wearing all black for the family day, donning a coat, T-shirt and jeans as well. Brangelina took Knox

and his twin sister Vivi-enne to the Natural His-tory Museum in Los An-geles, where the young duo were smitten with the dinosaur exhibits. A source told E! News the tiny tykes had a blast

playing with fossils, put-ting together a Tyran-nosaurus Rex puzzle and looking at specimens through a microscope while they were there. They grow up so fast. And so cute!

Brad Pitt and mini-me son Knox share family day out at the museum

Zero Dark Thirty scribe says he should be free to write “Bin Laden was killed by aliens”

Hugh Grant announces son’s birth on Twitter

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By Kenneth Irving Ong

DINING OUT is all about the unique ex-periences and the food that we taste. This is a short list of some of some unique dishes that you should travel around Davao to taste.

Lotus Court’s Yin Yang Garoupa One does not have to travel far to taste the Lo-tus Court’s specialty, their Yin-Yang Garupa. Nor-maly when you order fish at a Chinese restaurant, you get the whole fish but done only one way but Lotus Court’s Yin-Yang Garupa on the other hand serves the fish filleted and then cooked two ways: fried with a sweet and sour sauce, and stir-fried with blackbeans. Having the fish served this way allows diners to experience the different ways to experi-ence the flavour profiles of the fish all in one dish. The Lotus Court is located at the third level of the Marco Polo Hotel.

Cafe Uno’s Pata de Paella Everyone loves crispy pork knuckles but The Waterfront Insular Davao Hotel’s Pata de Paella liter-ally takes home the bacon. Deboned and crispy, this pork knuckle that is stuffed with a special seafood pa-ella with shrimp, squid, and mussels is a sinfully delicious treat. Even better,

Destination eats in Durianburg

Yin-Yang Garupa

Pata de Paella

Patotim

the Pata de Paella is avail-able every Friday at Cafe Uno’s Filipino themed buffet. I also helps that the Waterfront Insular Hotel Davao is a destination in itself with its wide gardens and Samal Island vistas.

Mesa Filipino Moderne’s Patotim From one knuckle to another, this time the pork knuckle of everyone’s fa-vourite patatim has been substituted with a nice and fatty duck that is ten-der and literally falls off the bone. Mesa Filipino Moderne’s Patotim is a fresh twist and adds layers of new flavours to the tra-ditional Chinese-Filipino dish. Of course those who don’t like duck can have a go at the many different modern renditions of Pi-noy favourites also. Mesa Grill is located at the ground floor of the Fountain Court of SM La-nang Premier where you can find the country’s lon-gest dancing fountain.

Belito’s Paella Negra Davao is known for some of its small “hidden” restaurants that serve great food. One of these is Be-lito’s located along Palm Drive in Bajada. The res-taurant serves a delicious Paella Negra that is sure to delight any seafood lover’s palate. Although there are other restaurant that serve

paella negra in the city, Be-lito’s paella is served on a cast-iron bowl instead of a flat paellera, ensuring that there is a lot of crispy, pa-ella crust for everyone.

Spirale’s Lemon Cream Pie Most Pinoy’s often ex-pect their fruit pie to be saccharinely sweet that

oftentimes kills the tongue with nothing but sweet-ness, but Spirale’s Lemon Cream Pie takes it the other way and pairs a fruity sour with a modest amount of sugar that totally refreshes the palate and makes you want to have another slice. Spirale is located at the ground floor of Abreeza Mall.

VOL.5 ISSUE 249 • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2013 SPORTS 15EDGEDAVAO

HOUSTON — Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and Kobe Bryant

turned this West victory into an L.A. story.

Paul had 20 points, 15 assists and won MVP hon-ors, Bryant blocked LeBron James’ comeback attempt, and the Western Confer-ence beat the East 143-138 on Sunday night (Monday, Manila time).

Kevin Durant scored 30 points and Griffin fin-ished with 19, joining his Clippers teammate, Paul, in creating Lob City deep in the heart of Texas.

James scored 19 points but shot only 7 of 18 after having no shooting trou-bles during the latter part

of the season’s first half. Carmelo Anthony led the East with 26 points and 12 rebounds.

The first dunk of the game came 16 seconds in, Paul throwing a pass to Griffin as part of the West’s 7-0 start. The West led after each of the first three quarters, though was never ahead by more than eight points through three periods.

They finally pushed it into double figures early in the fourth fueled by former Oklahoma City teammates Russell Westbrook and James Harden, but couldn’t put it away until a late run behind the guys from the city of Los Angeles — who

along with Lakers center Dwight Howard gave Los Angeles all but one of the West’s starting spots.

Paul hit two 3-point-ers, Bryant made a layup, and his block of James led to Durant’s dunk that made it 136-126. Griffin had one last forceful dunk to help close it out, throw-ing a pass to himself off the backboard and climb-ing high in his neon green sneakers to slam it home and make it 142-134.

Harden had 15 points in his home arena, where the sights of the game were on the floor and the sounds were at the rim — which shook repeatedly after thunderous dunks for

most of the game before, as usual, players tried to make some stops down the stretch.

Players’ sneakers were a variety of pastels and flu-orescent colors that looked like they came right from Easter Sunday church, many clashing so badly with their multi-colored socks that they may as well have been created by spilling out random paint buckets.

James and Dwyane Wade wore purple, and Griffin’s neon look was also sported by the usually-not-so-loud Tim Duncan and Brook Lopez.

But the NBA’s high-fly-ers sure could leap in them.

HOUSTON (AP) -- Chris Paul knew exactly what to

do with the unlimited talent around him in Sunday’s NBA All-Star game: find the open man and enjoy the show.

Paul became the first Los Angeles Clippers player to be game’s MVP, scoring 20 points and handing out 15 assists in the West’s 143-138 win over the East.

He made 7-of-10 shots, including four 3-pointers, and became the third player to have at least 20 points and 15 assists in the league’s annual showcase, join-ing a couple Hall of Fame point guards, Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas.

‘’In games like this, it’s so up-tempo and fast-paced,’’ Paul said. ‘’A guy like me, that’s a fa-cilitator, I enjoy (it).’’

Paul already had the best per-game assists average in All-Star histo-

ry, 12.4 in four appear-ances. He had nine as-sists and plenty of fancy dribbling in the first half and one of his niftiest moves came right before one of his only mistakes.

When 6-foot-11 Chris Bosh came out to the wing to guard him, Paul slid the ball be-tween Bosh’s legs and darted past him. He then threw an errant pass into the lane and Dwy-ane Wade intercepted, one of Paul’s three turn-overs in the game.

Paul didn’t have a miscue in the second half, and had nine points in the final quarter to help the West win for the fourth time in five sea-sons.

He tried to hook up with the high-flying Grif-fin for one of their trade-mark alley-oops early in the third quarter. They mis-timed it, though, and Griffin had to come down before going up for a more conventional dunk.

SLAM. Blake Griffin of the West All Stars slams during the NBA All Star game.

MVP. Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers was named MVP of this year’s All-Star game. The West team captain finished with 20 points and 15 assists. AP

ONE ON ONE. Superstars Kobe Bryant and Lebron James go up against each other in the NBA All-Star game in Houston. Bryant and his West team beat the East.

CP3: First time Clipper MVP

West shines

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ATENEO De Davao University’s Tri-ple Crown dreams

turned into a nightmare as archnemesis Holy Child of Davao snatched two ti-tles on a day of reversals capping the 1st Emilio D. Escandor Memorial Cup basketball tournament.

The day started on a bright note for the pre-dominantly pro-Ateneo weekend crowd that filled the stands of the Davao City Recreation Center as they got one step ahead to a Triple Crown when the Blue Knights won the Mini Division crown at the expense of Assump-tion College of Davao, 99-68.

The celebration later turned into a frown in the next two championship matches.

Holy Child won a c o n t r o v e r s y - m a r r e d Passerelle finals against Ateneo, 79-74, despite squandering a 20-point halftime lead.

With 25 seconds remaining, Holy Child took to the of-ficial’s table to ques-tion the line-up of the Blue Knights who had no Freshman on the floor. Rules require at least one player born in 1999 to be on the floor for a team’s rotation.

At that point, Ateneo was riding on a momen-tum in the closely-fought match. The Blue Knights surged back to life in the second half af-ter falling be-

hind by 20 at the turn and came tantalizingly close, 7 1 - 7 2 , at the peak o f t h a t r a l l y

going into the endgame.Then came the blun-

der. Coach Miggy Solitaria shuffled his boys for a fi-nal push but inadvertent-ly missed the rule.

“It was a monumen-tal lapse. I committed a

blunder,” Sol-itaria admit-ted after the match.

Ateneo had the c h a n c e

to re-deem

wounded pride in the third and last champi-onship but their Juniors squad faded in the home-stretch to bow to a more fluid Holy Child Reds, 99-85.

Silent but effective Rowel Dignos, scoring mostly on second chanc-es, fired a game-high 27 points while Burly Kervin Villagracia added 17 points aside from making the shaded area a dan-gerous place for the Blue Knights.

T o u r n a m e n t sponsor Glen

E s c a n d o r Royal Man-daya Hotel, assisted by LTO assistant

regional direc-tor Bong Gon-zaga, awarded the trophies to the winning teams.

REBOUND. An Ateneo de Davao University player grabs a rebound against a player from the Assumption College of Davao during their finals match of the 1st Emilio D. Escandor Memorial Cup at the Almendras Gym along Quimpo Blvd., Davao City on Sunday. AdDU took home the title after routing ACD, 99-68. Lean Daval Jr.

FLOATER. Edward Blanco of Ateneo de Davao Uni-versity Blue Knights tries to score against two Holy Child School of Davao Reds during the Passerelle division championship match of the 1st Emilio D. Escandor Memorial Cup at the Almendras Gym along Quimpo Blvd., Davao City on Sunday. The Reds survived Blue Knights’ fourth quarter rally to capture the crown, 79-74. Lean Daval Jr.

TRIPLE CROWN FOILED

Reds bag twin titlesBy Neil Bravo

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