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P 15.00 • 20 PAGESwww.edgedavao.netVOL. 6 ISSUE 201 SUNDAY-MONDAY, DECEMBER 22-23, 2013
EDGE Serving a seamless society
DAVAO
Showcasing DavNor’s bounty, ingenuity
NEW ‘PASALUBONG’ SHOP
Photos by Lean Daval Jr.
VOL. 6 ISSUE 201 SUNDAY-MONDAY, DECEMBER 22-23, 20132 EDGEDAVAO
ON THE COVER
By NOEL BAGUIO
Showcasing DavNor’s bounty, ingenuity
NEW ‘PASALUBONG’ SHOP
THE RICHNESS of its fer-tile land, the ingenuity of its people and the vi-
brancy of culture of Davao del Norte are proudly on display at the new DavNor Pasalubong Shop.
Committed to provide maximum market exposure to its local producers, the Pro-vincial Government of Davao del Norte put up a spanking permanent home for its offi-cial souvenir and gift buying station.
Strategically-located at the northeast corner of the Davao del Norte Sports and Tourism Complex in Mankilam, Tagum City, the new provincial one-stop gift shop all the same of-
fers indigenous handicrafts, souvenir items, fashion acces-sories, processed foods, home decorations and the likes.
The shop also offers or-ganic food products, a proper and fitting advocacy for a prov-ince which for many years has bannered agriculture as the top engine of its economy
Governor Rodolfo del Ro-sario spearheaded the inau-guration of the new ‘Pasalu-bong’ shop last December 16 amid pomp and impressive fire dance and choral presen-tations.
The governor said the facility stands as a citadel of hope and abundance, not only among the entrepreneurs of
LAUNCHING. DTI-XI Regional Director Belinda Ambi and Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario launch the new DavNor Pasalubong Shop in Mankilam, Tagum City. [Noel Baguio/DavNor PIO]
BLESSING. Bishop Wilfredo Manlapaz blesses the new DavNor Pasalubong Shop. [Noel Baguio/DavNor PIO]
SHOPPER. Davao del Norte First Lady Madame Milagros “Inday” del Rosario shops at the new DavNor Pasalubong Shop in Mankilam, Tagum City. [Noel Baguio/DavNor PIO]
SHOWCASE. Some of the products, handicrafts and souvenir items on dis-play at the new DavNor Pasalubong Shop in Mankilam, Tagum City. [Noel Baguio/DavNor PIO]
TESTING. Provincial officials and personnel, and guests try the products, handicrafts and souvenir items at the new DavNor Pasalubong Shop in Mankilam, Tagum City. [Noel Baguio/DavNor PIO]
SHOPPERS. Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario welcome guests and shoppers at the new DavNor Pasalubong Shop in Mankilam, Tagum City. noel [Noel Baguio/DavNor PIO]
the province, but to all the Da-baonons, as well.
Del Rosario also asked his constituents to beat the hol-iday rush by patronizing the store for their Christmas gifts.
The launching event was
part of the opening salvo of the weeklong institutional Christ-mas celebration of the prov-ince, dubbed as “Pasko Fiyesta sa Kapitolyo.”
Del Rosario also led the lighting of the traditional
Christmas Tree of the Capitol, which, according to him, sym-bolizes the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the true reason for the Yuletide season.
Assisting the governor were Department of Trade
and Industry (DTI) 11 Re-gional Director Belinda Ambi, Bishop Wilfredo Manlapaz, Vice Gov. Victorio Suaybaguio and members of the Sanggu-niang Panlalawigan, among other guests.
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THE BIG NEWS
INSPIRATION. Camella Davao general manager Marlon Niño Escalicas imparts inspiring message to the company’s loyal sales and marketing force during the Christmas party thrown for the brokers at Sound Box along Camus St., Davao City last Friday night. Lean Daval Jr.
ALMOST 90 percent of employees with expiring contracts
by the end of the year have been recommend-ed for renewal by their respective department
heads, the Human Re-source Management Of-fice (HRMO) of Davao City government bared.
Erwin Alparaque, HRMO head, told Edge Davao in an interview on
Friday that most of the department heads sub-mitted already their rec-ommendation to renew their employees.
“As early as today, the department heads had to
work on their renewal of employees,” Alparaque said.
Alparaque said that there are about 8,000 job order and contrac-
90% of City Hall contractual employees to be retainedBy ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
A LAWMAKER has filed a bill in the House of Represen-
tatives seeking to give the officials of the Department of Health (DOH) and the Philippine Red Cross im-portant roles in the Na-tional Disaster Risk Re-duction and Management Council (NDRRMC).
Under House Bill No. 2414 authored by Rep. Teodorico Haresco Jr. (Lone District-Aklan), the representatives of the DOH and the Red Cross to the NDRRMC will be des-ignated as vice-chairman of the Disaster Risk Man-agement for Health and vice-chairman of Emer-gency Aid Management, respectively.
At present, Haresco said the officials of DOH and the Red Cross are in-volved in the NDRRMC, but only as ordinary members.
The bill seeks to amend Republic Act No. 1012, otherwise known as an Act Strengthening the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Man-agement Act or the Philip-pine Disaster Act of 2010.
R.A. 10121 seeks to
strengthen the capacity of the national government and the local government units (LGUs), together with partner stakehold-ers, to build the disaster resilience of communi-ties, and to institution-alize arrangements and measures for reducing disaster risks, including projected climate risks and enhancing disaster preparedness and re-sponse capabilities at all levels.
However, Haresco said heath concerns were not given priority under R.A. 10121.
“In the Philippines, risks of communicable disease outbreaks arise in disaster-affected pop-ulations during and after natural disasters,” Hares-co said.
Haresco said evacua-tion centers usually lack nutritious food and even safe drinking water during calamities.
“There are also cases when the victims need not only food and shelter, but first aid, medication, and sometimes even blood transfusions,” he said. [PNA]
Bill seeks to expand NDRRMC membership
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ACCOMPLISHMENT REPORT. Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Governor Majiv S. Hataman discusses with members of local media at Insu-lar Waterfront Davao yesterday the 2013 accomplishments in the region and transition activities for the formation of Bangsamoro government. Also in photo is ARMM executive secretary Atty. Laisa M. Alamia Lean Daval Jr.
BFF? Happiness is painted all over the face of this Matigsalog lady from Paquibato District when she coincidentally met her friend along E. Quirino Avenue in Davao City yesterday while soliciting Christmas gifts from the different establishments in the area. Lean Daval Jr.
THE CITY Health Office (CHO) will accommodate the
processing of renewal of health certificates at SM City Davao annex starting January 2.
Dr. Josephine Villa-fuerte, CHO head, told Edge Davao in an in-terview that they will accommodate the em-ployees who are going to renew their health cards on the second floor of the mall.
“The treasurers will be there – payment will
be there. All they have to do is to bring the lab (lab-oratory) results so that they won’t travel from one area to another, ” Vil-lafuerte said.
Villafuerte said that they target to cater 1000 applicants a day which will handled their 25 CHO personnel which they are going to deploy.
She said that they will include Saturdays and Sundays for the renewal so that they will hit their 7,000 target applicants in a period of one week.
SENATE President Franklin Drilon raised the possibility
of amending the law regu-lating the power industry, the Electric Power Indus-try Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA) after calling for its review.
He raised the issue in a press conference on Thursday following “the highest-ever increase of power rates” in the his-tory of the Philippines which was suspected to be due to a collusion of power generators.
“I will call for a re-view of the EPIRA law as a result of our hearing in the Senate (last Dec 18) and examine how we can prevent the repetition of what we saw in the last 30 days about the very stiff increase in our charges,” he said.
The senate leader
also mentioned that even without the review, the country had laws which punished monopolies and combinations in restraint of trade.
“This is punishable under our revised penal code, specifically monop-olies and combinations which tend to restrict free commerce is punishable,” he added.
Meanwhile, he also called the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Na-tional Bureau of Investi-gation (NBI) to conduct an in-depth investigation on the possibility of col-lusion among the power generators.
Drilon explained that the EPIRA, which was supposed to “promote free competition” actually promoted “the opposite”.
“I underscore there
THE CITY Prose-cution Office has charged three sib-
lings and two others with alarm and scandal after they were apprehended by the police during a riot at Sta. Cruz Chapel, Talisay Times Beach last Decem-ber 11.
Prosecutor Serafica Weis charged brothers Candido Amoguis Jr. Je-sus Amoguis, and Miguel Amoguis, and Jeremie E.
Casupot and Jonathan Ol-ivar with alarm and scan-dal after allegedly causing public disturbance in a public place.
Serafica also charged Candido with illegal pos-session of firearms after failed to present docu-ment to possess a local-ly-made .38 caliber pistol with ammunition. Police recovered from Candido’s possession the pistol with nine ammunitions. Ca-
supot, on the other hand, was also charged with concealment of bladed weapon after caught a 20 inches knife.
Police said that they received police assistance from a concerned citizen of an ongoing riot at ear-ly dawn. Thereafter, PO3 Milo Mise and PO2 Ferdi-nand Villarante respond-ed quickly to the area.
Mise and Villarante said in the complaint that
they saw some 20 males along the road and some of them armed with blad-ed weapons while others were throwing bottles and stones.
Police arrested the identified six males while others managed to escape.
Respondents revealed that they wanted exact revenge from the other group because one of the Amoguis relatives was hacked by their opponent.
PRESIDENT Benig-no S. Aquino III has appointed Sieg-
fred B. Mison as the new commissioner of the Bu-reau of Immigration (BI), Malacanang announced on Saturday.
Mison’s appointment was signed by the Presi-dent on Dec. 18, Deputy presidential spokesper-son Abigail Valte said in a radio interview over dzRB Radyo ng Bayan on Saturday.
The President also appointed lawyer Non-natus Cesar R. Rojas as Regional Prosecutor for the Office of the Regional Prosecutor in Ilocos Re-gion.
The Office of the Re-
gional Prosecutor is un-der the National Prose-cution Service of the De-partment of Justice. Rojas became the chief of the National Bureau of Inves-tigation but he eventually resigned.
The President also designated Vicente B. Malano as acting admin-istrator of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophys-ical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), and Florita R. Villar as undersecretary of the Department of So-cial Welfare and Develop-ment (DSWD).
Other appointees in-clude Gregorio Ramon A. Tingson as commission-
Pres. Aquino appoints newimmigration commissioner
Brothers, 2 more charged for riotingBy EMILORD P. CASTROMAYOR
Drilon wants review on EPIRA law for possible amendments
HEALTH CERTIFICATES
Renewal processing begins January 2By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
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EXACTLY a year ago, a health and revenue law was
signed by Pres. Benig-no Aquino III which has now greatly enhanced tax collections and in-creased funding for health programs.
The Sin Tax Law (RA 10351), signed by Presi-dent Aquino on Dec. 20, 2012, curbs cigarette smoking and liquor con-sumption while at the same time, generates funding for the Univer-sal Health Care (UHC) agenda.
In its first year of implementation, the law decreased smoking prevalence from 28.7 pct to 27.06 pct, encour-aged up to 2.09 million Filipinos to quit smok-ing and saved up to 63, 000 lives.
It has also generat-ed additional revenues of P33.96 billion (P23.4 billion from tobacco and P10.56 from alcohol).
So far, data from the Dept. of Health (DOH) and the Bureau of In-ternal Revenue (BIR) showed that actual ex-cise tax collections have exceeded its estimates.
“From January to September 2013, the BIR collected P63.6 billion
excise taxes on cigarette and alcohol products—a 64 pct increase from the P38.8 billion collected in the same period in 2012.
The DOH noted that a quick survey of the law’s impact on cigarette con-sumption in Cotabato City in November this year, showed that smok-ers who lessened tobac-
co consumption reduced weekly smoking by 24.4 sticks on average.
Health Undersecre-tary, Dr. Teodoro Her-bosa, said in a press conference on Friday that the Sin Tax Law has been a “game-changer” because it has sealed the financial gap that people aspired for.
He said that tobac-co use is a risk factor for the Philippines’ top four killer diseases—heart attack, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer.
“It is also alarming that the Philippines is now the number one smoking country in
Southeast Asia with a high prevalence of smoking among young Filipino girls and boys aged 13 to 15,” he said.
However, he also said that he is optimis-tic that the Sin Tax Law will continue to encour-age more people to quit smoking and save their lives. [PNA]
THE ECONOMYStat Watch
MONTHLY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE (January 2011-September 2013)
Month 2013 2012 2011
Average 42.23 43.31December 41.01 43.64November 41.12 43.27October 41.45 43.45
September 43.83 41.75 43.02August 43.86 42.04 42.42
July 43.35 41.91 42.81June 42.91 42.78 43.37May 41.30 42.85 43.13April 41.14 42.70 43.24
March 40.71 42.86 43.52February 40.67 42.66 43.70January 40.73 43.62 44.17
7.1 1st Qtr 2013
7.8 1st Qtr 2013
USD 3,741 million
Feb 2013USD 4,708
million Feb 2013USD -967
million Feb 2013USD -640
millionDec 2012
P 4,964,560 million
Feb 2013
2.4 % Mar 2013P113,609
million Mar 2013
P 5,281 billion
Mar 2013
P 41.14 Apr 2013
6,847.5 Mar 2013
132.8 Apr 2013
2.6 Apr 2013
3.1 Apr 2013
418,108 Feb 2013
20.9% Jan 2013
7.1% Jan 2013
1. Gross National IncomeGrowth Rate(At Constant 2000 Prices)
2. Gross Domestic ProductGrowth Rate(At Constant 2000 Prices)
3. Exports 1/
4. Imports 1/
5. Trade Balance
6. Balance of Payments 2/
7. Broad Money Liabilities
8. Interest Rates 4/
9. National Government Revenues
10. National government outstanding debt
11. Peso per US $ 5/
12. Stocks Composite Index 6/
13. Consumer Price Index 2006=100
14. Headline Inflation Rate 2006=100
15. Core Inflation Rate 2006=100
16. Visitor Arrivals
17. Underemployment Rate 7/
18. Unemployment Rate 7/
Cebu Pacific Daily 5J961 / 5J962 5:45 Manila-Davao-Manila 6:15Zest Air Daily Z2390 / Z2390 5:45 Manila-Davao-Manila 6:25Cebu Pacific Daily 5J593 / 5J348 6:00 Cebu-Davao-Iloilo 6:30Philippine Airlines Daily PR809 / PR810 6:10 Manila-Davao-Manila 7:00Philippine Airlines Daily PR819 / PR820 7:50 Manila-Davao-Manila 8:50Cebu Pacific Daily 5J394 / 5J393 7:50 Zamboanga-Davao-Zamboanga 8:10Cebu Pacific Daily 5J599 / 5J594 8:00 Cebu-Davao-Cebu 8:30Cebu Pacific Daily 5J347 / 5J596 9:10 Iloilo-Davao-Cebu 9:40Cebu Pacific Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri/Sun 5J963 / 5J964 9:40 Manila-Davao-Manila 10:10Philippine Airlines Daily PR811 / PR812 11:30 Manila-Davao-Manila 12:20Cebu Pacific Daily 5J595 / 5J966 12:00 Cebu-Davao-Manila 12:30Cebu Pacific Thu 5J965 / 5J968 12:55 Manila-Davao-Manila 13:25
Cebu Pacific Tue/Wed//Sat 5J965 / 5J968 13:35 Manila-Davao-Manila 14:05Silk Air Mon/Sat MI588 / MI588 13:35 Davao-Singapore 18:55 Silk Air Wed/Sun MI566 / MI566 15:20 Davao-Singapore 18:55Silk Air Thurs MI551 / MI551 12:05 Davao-Singapore 15:45Cebu Pacific Mon/Tue/Wed/Fri 5J507 / 5J598 15:00 Cebu-Davao-Cebu 15:30Philippine Airlines August 15:55 Mani2Mani 16:50Zest Air Daily Z2524 / Z2525 16:05 Cebu-Davao-Cebu 16:45
as of May 2013
Indicator Latest
1. Gross National Income Growth Rate (At Constant 2000 Prices)
6.8 2nd Qtr 2013
2. Gross Domestic Product Growth Rate (At Constant 2000 Prices)
7.5 2nd Qtr 2013
3. Exports USD 5,045 million
Sep 2013
4. Imports USD 5,711 million
Sep 2013
5. Trade BalanceUSD -665
million Sep 2013
6. Balance of Payments USD 692
million Jun 2013
7. Broad Money LiabilitiesP 5,980,938 million
Aug 2013
8. Interest Rate 2.0 % Sep 2013
9. National Government Revenues
P 127,336 million
Sep 2013
10. National government outstanding debt
P 5,609 billion
Sep 2013
11. Peso per US $
P 43.83 Sep 2013
12. Stocks Composite Index
6,191.8 Sep 2013
13. Consumer Price Index 2006=100
135.2 Oct 2013
14. Headline Inflation Rate 2006=100
2.9 Oct 2013
15. Core Inflation Rate 2006=100
2.5 Oct 2013
16. Visitor Arrivals 382,022 Aug 2013
17. Underemploymen Rate
19.2% Jul 2013
18. Unemployment Rate 7.3% Jul 2013
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NEW OFFICE. Department of Tourism (DOT) assistant secretary Arturo Boncato (2nd from left) and City Tourism Office (CTO) head Lisette Marques (2nd from right) together with Globe Telecommunications executive vice president for human resources Jiao Yap (ext. right) and chief finance officer Albert de Larrazabal (ext. left) lead the ceremonial cutting of ribbon to mark the opening of the company’s new Davao City office at the Abreeza Corporate Center along J.P. Laurel Avenue last Saturday. Lean Daval Jr.
Sin Tax Law enhances excise tax collections
THE FOOD and Drug Adminis-tration (FDA)
recalled the product, Cefazolin powder for Injection (Cefazin) due to its iconsistency in branding.
Cefazolin is man-ufactured by Ningbo Tisun Medic Biochem-ical Co. Ltd-China and imported and distribut-
ed by 2 World Traders Subic, Inc.
“(It) is being recalled from the market due to the inconsistency in the brand name print-ed on the primary label (Cefain) and the brand name printed on the secondary label (Cefaz-in),” the FDA noted.
FDA stated that al-though Cefazolin (Cefaz-
in), presents no safety risk and adverse health consequences, the mis-spelled brand name (Cefain) on the primary label may cause confu-sion to the public.
“The importer and distributor are hereby ordered to immediately cease and desist from further distributing, selling, or offering for
sale the above-men-tioned affected prod-uct,” the FDA said.
“All drug retail out-lets carrying the affect-ed batch of Cefazolin (Cefazin) 1g Powder for Injection are ordered to discontinue from sell-ing or offer for sale to the consumers,” it add-ed.
The FDA then
warned all prescribers prescribing the product and advised consumers not to purchase and use the antibiotic product.
E s t a b l i s h m e n t s dealing illegally with sale or offer for sale of unregistered health products, the FDA said, should be reported im-mediately to FDA at [email protected]. [PNA]
FDA recalls Cefazolin injection due to inconsistency in branding
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PEOPLE of Central Min-danao seemed fixated the whole year round
on the continuing talks be-tween the government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), asking a par-ticular question: Will they or will they not sign a final peace accord soon?
Amid all the eagerness, however, a dramatic turn-around on the peace and or-der situation was observed in the region, with armed clashes between military and MILF rebels recorded to a virtual “zero” the past two years.
“This only shows that peace and an arranged local ceasefire is holding,” Maj. Gen. Romeo Gapuz, Army’s 6th Infantry Division (6ID) commander, said.
The 6ID covers the provinces of Maguindanao, North Cotabato, parts of Sultan Kudarat and Lanao del Sur in its area of super-vision.
Peace and Order Central Mindanao has
been generally peaceful in general for the past two years.
Data obtained from the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Pro-cess here indicated that from eight armed skirmish-es in 2011, there was zero atrocity in 2012.
This year, the third year of administration of Pres-ident Benigno Aquino III, there still was no recorded clash.
With this, peace brokers between government and MILF are optimistic to forge a final agreement by the first semester of 2014.
Last December 8, the negotiating parties inked in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the power-sharing annex of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB).
The FAB, signed in Mala-cañang on Oct. 15, 2012 by government and MILF rep-resentatives as witnessed by President Aquino and MILF chieftain Al Haj Mu-rad, paved the way for the creation of a Bangsamoro government that would re-place the old Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindan-ao set up in 2016.
The power-sharing an-nex shall embody the par-ties’ agreement on the de-lineation of power between the national government and territorial jurisdiction of the proposed Bangsam-
oro political entity.Also, the annex will
guide the Bangsamoro Transition Commission in the drafting of the Bang-samoro Basic Law, pro-viding principles of inter-governmental relations between and among the different levels of the prop-ositioned entity.
The FAB has four annex-es dwelling on the issues of transition, wealth sharing, power sharing, and normal-ization.
Currently, the parties are poised to work on the remaining issue of Annex on Normalization, which refers to the process of de-commissioning the MILF’s armed wing, the Bangsam-oro Islamic Armed Forces.
Peace SaboteursThe Aug. 5, 2013 car
bomb explosion in this city had been linked to “big, influential people” behind a drug syndicate and not connected whatsoever with groups intending to sabo-tage the GPH-MILF peace overture.
The bombing killed eight people and wounded some 40 others in the at-tack targeting City Adminis-trator Cynthia Guiani-Saya-di, the sister of City Mayor Japal Guiani Jr.
The mayor’s sister was using his vehicle at the time of the incident, prompting the bombers to activate the bomb, thinking it was the local chief executive inside the targeted car.
Guiani has launched a no-nonsense drive against illegal drugs here since his first term as mayor in 2010.
Business and invest-ment climate
Despite the bombing incident, the local govern-ment remained steadfast in running the affairs of the city to its fullest, earn-ing the nod of the National Competitive Council (NCC) for it to land at the 31st spot of the country’s top 50 com-petitive cities for 2013.
Kidapawan City in North Cotabato province also landed in the same NCC list.
The mushrooming of gasoline outlets had been observed as the biggest in-vestment in Cotabato City this year. From barely sev-en gas stations last year, the number increased to over a dozen and these are currently located in stra-tegic business spots in the
locality. Apart from food chain
outlets such as KFC, Jol-libee, Chow King, Green-wich, among others, the city also boasts of its South Seas Mall; the Cotabato City Mega Square, a com-mercial shopping center with more than 40 retail stalls; barter trade; Alnor Complex and the ongoing construction of Diamond City Complex.
“You see, this city has its best kept secrets,” Pete Marquez, president of the Metro Cotabato Chamber of Commerce and Indus-try, said.
In the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mind-anao (ARMM), meanwhile, Regional Governor Mujiv Hataman took pride of the P569-million investment
of Delinanas, a subsidiary of Del Monte Phil., for the development of the 550 hectares of banana planta-tion in Maguindanao prov-ince alone.
Hataman said Del Monte plans to increase its investment to P750 million in the region with a goal of developing up to 3,000 hectares of banana plantations and providing direct employment oppor-tunities for thousands of locals.
More so, he said a Malaysian investor is also planning to put up P500-million palm oil business in the region while the La Fruitera in-tends to expand its busi-ness in Maguindanao amounting to P300 mil-lion.
Plans are also un-derway for the Malay-sian-based Iron Blaze Corp. to operate a gasoline depot in Parang, Maguind-anao, which is seen to low-er the cost of fuel prices in South-Central Mindanao during the next few years.
Though not part of ARMM, Cotabato City plays host as the provisional seat of the autonomous region. Though geograph-ically located within the ARMM province-compo-nent of Maguindanao, the city is politically indepen-dent from the province as it belongs to the Region 12 or SOCCSKSARGEN area.
TourismUnknown to many,
the Grand Sultan Bolki-ah Mosque in Tamontaka district of Cotabato City
has drawn nearly 2,000 visitors this year with the number continuously ris-ing, said Aniceto Rasalan, secretary to Mayor Guiani.
Aptly called the Grand Mosque, the religious structure can accommo-date 1,200 worshippers in an event.
The mosque is named after the Sultan of Brunei – Sultan Hadji Hassanal Bolkiah Masjid who partly funded the largest mosque in the Philippines to date and is considered an Is-lamic architectural mas-terpiece.
“Its just a sight to re-gard when you see it,” Rasalan said in a manner of luring visitors to visit Cotabato City with its im-proved peace and order situation. [PNA]
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EDITORIAL
IT is sad, even terrifying, to think that thou-sands of Filipinos were not lucky enough to experience Christmas this year. The un-
lucky ones included those who perished in the numerous disasters which befell the country, including the seige of Zamboanga City in Sep-tember. This manmade calamity killed more than 200 Zamboanguenos.
One of the natural disasters was the magni-tude 7.2 earthquake which left a wide swath of death and destruction to the gentle people of Bohol and Cebu in October. More than 200 Bol-anons and Cebuanos died in the quake which terrorize locals and visitors some more with 2,000 aftershocks.
The most terrifying holocaust, of course, came on November 8, in the aftermath of Yolan-da (international name, Haiyan), the strongest
typhoon ever recorded in the world. In that un-exceptionally powerful tropical cyclone, a to-tal of 6,138 Filipinos died, while 1,818 are still missing, most if not all, given up for dead. a
Remembering Ondoy in 2009, Sendong in 2011, Pablo in 2012 and Yolanda in 2013, we shudder at the thought of typhoons that visit the country becoming deadlier each passing year.
We are told by the authorities - and we must believe them now- that we, who are all poten-tial victims, have to heighten our preparedness for such fortuitous events.
Yes, these are terrible times. And we can only worsen the effects of disasters by not being prepared or by being nonchalant to the well-laid preemptive plans designed to mitigate the impacts, if not remove people from harm’s way.
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EARLY morning of 20 December, I woke up very early at 3:25 at dawn. I wanted to go back to sleep, but
couldn’t. There have been so much raw emotions to process that one’s mind and heart couldn’t be still.
It was very quiet in our part of Ta-cloban City; very few roosters sounded their morning call for people to rise for the dawn Mass – Misa de Gallo. Very few dogs barked and as I rose for a minute I wondered why. Just as suddenly I knew why – very few were left after the storm surge swallowed so many lives of people and animals along its kilometric path.
I went out to our convent’s verandah and was struck by the morning’s utter loveliness. Despite the still-almost full moon that hovered over the battered city, the brightest of stars twinkled in the sky. The moon’s glow – gently reflected on the leaves of mahogany trees that are start-ing to recover their foliage – hauntingly blanketed all that can be seen.
Electricity is back in the city, although there are lights only along the main street; few of the remaining houses are lit as connections to the wires still need to be undertaken. In a little while, those who came for the dawn Mass began to enter our compound and sat at the pavement as the church gates remained closed.
One is struck that many of them are
children and the youth and I surmised they must be evacuees staying for more than four days already at the nearby San Fernando Elementary School. I dressed up and joined the people in our church that survived the deluge. Except for its main door that got hit by the strong winds and the windows shattered on one side of the building, this church miracu-lously survived and is surrounded by so much destruction.
The big stain-glass window of Our Mother of Perpetual Help at the very top-center of the main facade was hardly touched by the strong winds; Our Lady’s iconic eyes now gaze across the desola-tion of the wiped-out coastal villages fac-ing San Jose; perhaps the most badly hit in the city where hundreds of lives were lost.
Fr. Gary Alvarado, a young confrere from Tagbilaran, Bohol was the Mass’ offi-ciant. In his homily, he shared about how his family survived the October 15 earth-quake and then spoke how he felt about this calamity not knowing that a worse
disaster would take place two weeks later. He did his best to communicate to the people that he shared their grief and pain; the captive crowd seemed comfort-ed at the thought that this young priest shared the depths of their desperation.
For all the psycho-social integration processes that have reached the victims after Yolanda’s scary visit, the words spo-ken at this homily and the liturgy perhaps tied up the loose ends of those debrief-ings. This was the third Misa de Gallo I at-tended here and the crowds got bigger as the days are moving towards Christmas. At the Our Father when the people sang in Waray, one could hear them sing from the depths of their lamentation; even as some of them may have thought that God was made “absent” by the deluge, none-theless, they remain holding on to their faith.
It is five days to Christmas in Taclo-ban and except for the recycled lanterns in the church and Christmas trees sal-vaged from the debris there are very few manifestations of this merry season. Like the years during the second World War – as remembered by my parents when I was a child – there seem to be no toys for Christmas here. Although this is not exactly true as Christmas parties for chil-dren are being organized; and one intuits there will be toys given to them.
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BY KARL M. GASPAR CSSR
A SOJOURNER’S VIEW
AQUILES Z. ZONIOCorrespondent
Words of false comfort
No toys for Christmas
VANTAGE POINTS 9EDGEDAVAO
(Conclusion)
BY DAVID ROHDE
COMMENTARY
Will a billion ‘selfies’ cause us to miss history?
“BY no stretch of the imagination are these images journalism,” Santiago Lyon, director of pho-
tography at the Associated Press, wrote in a scathing op-ed piece in the New York Times last week. “Rather, they propagate an ideal-ized portrayal of events on Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Others argue that technological change has irreversibly changed photojournalism. Professional photographers, they insist, will inevitably join the ranks of toll collec-tors, telephone switchboard operators and other jobs rendered obsolete.
Yet photographers are embracing the new realities and — through their images — proving their relevance.
Despite the billions of cell phone imag-es posted on Facebook and Flickr, the vast majority of iconic photographs capturing major events are still taken by professional photographers. The most widely circulated image from protests in Istanbul’s Taksim square – a woman in a red dress being doused with pepper spray – was taken by my Reuters colleague Osman Orsal. And a team of Reuters photographers that includ-ed veteran photojournalist Goran Toma-sevic produced some of the most striking images from Syria.
Nine of the 10 images in Time magazine’s “Top 10 Photos of 2013” were taken by pro-fessional photographers.
“Yes, there are a million images out there,” Time’s director of photography, Kira Pollack, told me in an interview. “But these journal-ists’ images are the ones that are the most compelling.”
Judge for yourself. Here are Time’s top 10.Blogs featuring the work of professional
photographers at Reuters, The Atlantic, Time magazine, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and Denver Post contin-ue to draw high online traffic.
James Estrin, a New York Times photog-rapher who co-edits the paper’s photography blog “Lens” with columnist David Gonzalez, said that the explosion in social media imag-ery is impacting photography in two ways. First, it is creating a vast new audience that appreciates great photography. Second, it is changing the nature of photographs. The vast majority of the imagery we share online is about ourselves, our families and our friends — not others.
“The photograph is almost always — 98 percent — a piece of currency in a social in-teraction,” he said. “The function of a photo-graph is different.”
Estrin said he does not yet know if the changes, on balance, are positive. He worries that today’s torrent of images makes it im-possible for an iconic photo to emerge – for example, Nick Ut’s harrowing photograph of a young Vietnamese girl, who had stripped off her burning clothes, screaming after a napalm attack. He is concerned that photos today may not have the same impact.
“Are there so many photographs that it’s difficult to for one to stick out?” Estrin asked. “Even when a photo goes viral, it’s only for 24 hours.”
Stephen Mayes, the former chief exec-utive officer of VII and a longtime executive at other photo agencies, says photographers must reinvent themselves.
“It’s up to the professionals to prove that we have value,” he said. “The world doesn’t owe us a living because we make great pic-tures.”
Haviv and others are doing just that. They are developing large social media followings, shooting documentary films and accepting grants from foundations, non-profits and the United Nations to support their work. Photo editors say that images taken by amateurs can be powerful, but professional photogra-phers are still needed to compose the deep-ly-layered images that haunt viewers.
Professional photographers are vital. Without them, the world’s conscience will wither. They bear witness for all of us.
INTERMINABLE SENSELESS AND OF-FENSIVE PROTESTS – As expected pervasive criticism against the Aquino
administration reached a level comparable to the time of his predecessors. These days, demonstrators of all colors and stripes – opposition diehards, militants and progres-sive groups, and student activists including exploited innocent children collide with police dispersal units during mass protests action resulting to injuries on both sides and damages to government and private properties.
Many activists masquerading as le-gitimate groups who wanted change – power-obsessed political has-been and have-nots, self-proclaimed reformists, and red flag-waving and placard-bearing pro-testers, as their wont, strongly denounced President Benigno Aquino III’s alleged re-pressive policies and even compared him to his predecessors. They conclude that in-stituting reforms under the present system is highly improbable because of the entwin-ing glitches faced by the leadership.
The interlocking problems –basic social services, massive unemployment, grinding poverty, criminality, human rights viola-tions, social injustice and widespread cor-ruption enmeshing lawmakers have taken center stage during protest rallies. Hard-ened critics reiterated that the country’s social ills had become the millstone tightly tied around the people’s neck, slowly pull-ing it down underneath.
Those are hotly contested questions as experts on both sides of the debate agree that the most serious divisions within so-ciety spring not from the alleged police brutality and apparent protesters’ reckless-ness during protest rallies, but from alleged economic and social inequality. For now, political watchers considered the occur-rence as signs of fracture but government reform strategists say the Aquino adminis-
tration actually is thumping the root caus-es of the prob-lems. That’s why a grow-ing number of economists are declaring it’s time for a com-mitted reform measures that would main-tain a sustained socio-economic activity and peace and security.
Another critical factor holding back so-cio-economic and political reforms is the archaic, deteriorating and busted condem-nation of the main opposition, left-leaning movement, militants and activists that it would almost certainly bring about lots of long-term discomfort by busily trying to create a wedge in the social breadth. After all this time, these adversarial groups still have the impertinence and resources to muddle through no matter whoever is in power.
With this kind of people who obviously have hidden agendas and personal inter-ests, and keep on working out to destroy the government, progress may stagnate. Tell anyone who doesn’t live here that these people have credibility problem and you’re likely to be met with disbelief, if not laughter and ridicule. Therefore moves to stimulate the economy, the institutions and the systems have become more and more urgent to prove the critics wrong.
The Aquino leadership must be serious about tackling the massive problems rath-er than spending more time entertaining all the impracticable demands of the noisy and annoying red-flag and placard-bearing protesters, and their boisterous and snap-pish leaders who always have provocative
remarks against the leadership. To be frank enough, everyone is fed up of the anarchy on the streets. The words of false comfort remained and majority of our people were unhappy about it. They’re angry, tired and exhausted and came to realize that there is absolutely no end in all the senseless and inflammatory protests.
Now, after the series of man-made and natural calamities that devastated many parts of the country and the incomparable corruption that rocked the representative institution, government should get back to work, take necessary actions and get things done. The Aquino leadership may be in for some real, desirable work because it is the common belief that government should be responsible to the people and President PNoy is committed to achieving these aims while he is in power.
To succeed on a national scale, Presi-dent Aquino had to reverse decades of ne-glect and indifference, which led many frus-trated people to join protest actions and embrace the culture of hate and disgust. However, reforms should not be abrupt because the mounting and pressing prob-lems could not be solved overnight, but the goal is to ensure that Filipinos don’t lag far behind in terms of socio-economic and po-litical development. The good thing is that President PNoy is, at least, acknowledging that socio-economic progress and peace and quiet are achievable – that the destitu-tion of millions of Filipinos is not an ever-lasting unalterable fact but something that should be the priority of any government.
Nevertheless, the elements for reforms – government’s willingness to listen, to work and institute reforms are as strong as ever. Of course, despite all the efforts there are still complaints here and there, but no-body would care about them if the govern-ment continued addressing the people’s mounting pressing problems.
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FAITHFUL. A catholic faithful lights up a candle for “oratio imperata” or the prayer for deliverance from calamities during the 5th day of “Misa de Callo” at St. Francis of Assisi Parish Church along Ma-a in Davao City on Saturday. Lean Daval Jr.
er of the National Youth Commission in Luzon, and Dominador Santos Jr. as new member of the Board of Dentistry under the Professional Regula-tions Commission.
Mison consider his appointment as an early Christmas gift.
“Yes, of course, be-cause somehow I am happy that President Be-nigno S. Aquino III has given his trust on me to head the bureau,” Mison said in a telephone inter-view.
He revealed that he received a letter on Dec. 18, regarding his ap-pointment to head the BI.
Mison said that his tenure as BI commission-er is co- terminus with the term of President
Aquino, which will end in 2016.
The newly-appoint-ed government official noted that nothing will change that he is now the head of the BI.
“It’s just the same, it will be the same responsibility. Again, I am grateful that the President has given me his trust,” Mison explained.
On the other hand, he said that since he is now the head of the bureau, among his duties is the authority to implement changes, in-cluding the moving of per-sonnel.
Mison said he has not yet spoken with the Presi-dent, but he has promised to him, when he earlier accepted the position, that “he will work through his heart.” [PNA]
are charges of collusion and therefore instead of a free competition, there is a monopoly,” he said. “So, there was a collusion to increase artificially the prices in spot market.
That must be looked into.” He added that there
was no need for a case to be filed since the NBI can initiate an investigation without a complainant. [PNA]
UNITED Nations Sec-retary General Ban Ki-moon on Satur-
day called for unity of the international community in the bid to reconstruct the areas battered by su-per typhoon Yolanda.
Saddened by the mag-nitude of destruction wrought by the super ty-phoon, the highest UN of-ficial said the international community will not leave the Philippines behind in its recovery efforts.
“As a UN secretary general, I’m here to con-vey the strongest soli-darity of the internation-al community. This trag-edy can be overcomed when we are united,” said Ban addressing the media, officials and ty-
phoon survivors near a mountain of debris and ship that ran aground at Fatima village here.
The UN executive said international agen-cies will mobilize US$ 800 million funding support to storm-hit areas in one year. As of December 19, about 32 percent of the fund have been used.
“We will try to pro-vide life saving support and a long term devel-opment strategy, which will focus on reconstruc-tion and resettlement of your community... Let us build safer and bet-ter communities,” the official said in his sev-en-minute press brief-ing. [PNA]
Ban Ki-moon calls for unity in rebuilding storm-hit areas
TO PREVENT a brain drain of well-trained military
pilots in the country, a House of Representatives leader is seeking a 30 percent increase in the basic salary of pilot-offi-cers in the Philippine Air Force following a con-tract of service adjust-ed to a minimum of 10 years.
Rep. Winston Castelo (2nd Dist.-Quezon City), chairman of the House Committee on Metro Ma-nila Development, said it is of highest national interest to keep the coun-try’s military air force, the PAF, at par with any military organization in
the country and with the thriving airline industry.
“The country cannot afford to lose its pilot-of-ficers from PAF to private or commercial airlines since the government has spent considerably for their training. Besides, the acquisition of more aircraft for the PAF must come along with the re-tention of highly-quali-fied pilot-officers and the training of other pilots in the military service,” said Castelo.
He said his propos-al under House Bill No. 2704 will put a stop to the brain drain phenom-enon.
“It seeks to put a stop
to this disturbing pattern or behavior of more and more pilot-officers leav-ing the military service in search of greener pas-tures or better opportu-nities which private or commercial airlines are in a better position to of-fer than the government,” said Castelo.
House Bill 2704, which has been referred to the House Commit-tee on Appropriations chaired by Rep. Isidro Ungab (3rd Dist.-Davao City), provides that it is the declared policy of the State “to secure the sov-ereignty and the integri-ty of the national territo-ry as these are essential
to the enjoyment of the people of the blessings of democracy.”
The bill provides there shall be granted to pilot-officers of the PAF, following a contract of service adjusted to a min-imum of 10 years, a 30 percent increase in their basic salary.
The amount to carry out the provisions of the proposed Act shall be provided for in the an-nual General Appropri-ations Act, while the De-partment of National De-fense (DND) shall issue the rules and regulations to carry out the purpose of the proposed Act, the bill provides. [PNA]
House leader seeks 30% hike in PAF officers basic salary
tual employees whose contracts expire on Dec. 31. Alparaque said the city government needs the services of the said employees prompting de-partment heads to recom-mend their retention.
He said the heads who submitted recommenda-tion to him were from the Public Safety and Security Command Center, Cen-tral 911, City Treasurer’s Office, City Environment and Natural Resources Office, City Tourism Of-fice. City Social Service and Development Office, City Veterinarian’s Office, Business Bureau, Traf-fic Management Center, Davao City and Invest-ment Promotion Center,
City Health Office, and City Engineer’s Office.
Contractual employ-ees could be renewed for a maximum of one year while the job orders will have a maximum of six months.
On Dec.17, city ad-ministrator J. Melchor V. Quitain issued a memo-randum ordering the de-partment heads to advise the workers whose con-tract will expire on Dec. 31 to stop reporting to work by January 1, 2014.
“You are strictly ad-vised to formally inform these personnel not to report for work starting January 1, 2014,” said Quitain in his memoran-dum.
PRESIDENT Benig-no Aquino III ap-proved on Friday a
holiday truce with com-munist rebels.
In a text message, Presidential Communi-cations Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Her-minio Coloma Jr. said: “The President has ap-proved the recommen-dation of the Secretary of National Defense and the chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Secretary of OPAPP on the suspen-sion of offensive military operations effective mid-night December 20 until January 15, 2014.”
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) earlier declared a six-day
ceasefire, from 12 a.m. on December 24 to 11:59 p.m. on December 26 and from 12 a.m. on Decem-ber 31 to 11:59 p.m. on January 2, 2014.
For her part, Presi-dential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Quintos-Deles said the government continues its traditional call for a Christmas ceasefire to allow those in conflict areas, whether soldier, rebel or civilian, safe pas-sage to celebrate Advent with their families, far from all harm.
“This year, a Christ-mas ceasefire gains add-ed urgency with the call for healing and rebuild-ing that resonate in this Season and its promise of
a new life to all,” she said. In the past three
months, the country faced major tragedies that have left our na-tion deeply traumatized. Among these, the on-slaught of super typhoon “Yolanda” in Eastern Visayas has caused the most extraordinary chal-lenge for the Filipino people with the unparal-leled and incomprehensi-ble destruction it has left in its aftermath.
“Our nation needs to bind our wounds and focus our energies and resources on the tasks at hand. It presents to our country and people the chance to start afresh, to build on new and just foundations -- the com-
mon wealth for the com-mon good, innovative ap-proaches to governance and development based on justice and fairness, an understanding of na-ture’s gifts and perils, and the healing of Moth-er Earth,” said Deles.
“In this season of faith, hope and solidar-ity, we bind ourselves together as a people for the long-term effort to rebuild in our disaster areas and reconstruct the lives, livelihoods and property of the sur-vivors. May the peace and goodwill that must dwell in our hearts be-come building blocks for a healing and enduring peace in our land,” she said. [PNA]
Aquino approves holiday truce with communist rebels
VOL. 6 ISSUE 201 SUNDAY-MONDAY, DECEMBER 22-23, 2013
THE US Advanced Research Proj-ects Agency-En-
ergy (ARPA-e) agency
is shooting for some sort of electric-vehicle battery nirvana with a plan/wish/dream to
develop safer, cheap-er batteries that not only offer a longer sin-gle-charge range but
that can also double as crumple zones. What’s next, peace in the Mid-dle East?
In all seriousness, the Illinois Institute of Technology and Ar-gonne National Lab-oratory are working on a $37-million pro-gram dubbed RANGE (Robust, Affordable, Next-Generation Energy Storage systems) that, among other things, would have batteries serving double duty by being packed into door panels, load-bearing components and, yes, crumple zones. The pro-gram is laid out in a re-cent journal published by SAE International. You can find the article here.
And before anyone gets all negative and mentions a Tesla Car-B-Cue, there is a plan to move away from the
lithium-ion batteries that are de rigueur for today’s electric vehicles towards something po-tentially safer. General Electric and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories are working on wa-ter-based polymer elec-trolytes that would es-sentially make batteries non-flammable. There’s also work being done on solid electrolytes pro-duced from ceramics, all in the name of safe-ty. If it works, the pro-gram could eventually develop a battery that provides a 240-mile sin-gle-charge range while costing about 30 per-cent less than EV bat-teries do today. We can’t wait to drive an EV with that pack through the unoccupied territories.
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Honda Cars Philip-pines, Inc. (HCPI) will in-troduce in limited quantity the Honda City equipped with original and genuine MUGEN accessories.
The Honda City has enjoyed high market ac-
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The City MUGEN Lim-ited Edition enhances the ownership experience by being equipped with original genuine MUGEN accessories. Unique front sports grille, front under spoiler, side spoiler, rear under spoiler and rear wing spoiler enhance the already sporty design of the standard City model and make it stand out on the road. The City MUGEN Limited Edition under the concept “SUPERLA-TIVE ACTIVE SPORTS” produced to emphasize the specific characteris-tics of the City, “Stream line design” and “Nimble handling” with the aero dynamic parts seek to satisfy the sporty taste and excellently designed to meet the customer’s desire for ultimate style and performance.
Only twenty (20) units of the City MUGEN Limited Edition Model will be made available in
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STUDENTS in two of Davao City’s public high schools are expected to
improve substantially their performance in science-relat-ed subjects this school year. This after the schools received new and complete sets of sci-ence and chemistry instru-ment and apparatus from Davao Light and Power Co. and its social development arm,
the Aboitiz Foundation, Inc., last Tuesday and Wednesday (December 17 and 18, 2013,).respectively.
Recipients of the instru-ment are the Crossing Baya-bas National High School in Barangay Crossing Bayabas, Toril District, and Calinan Na-tional High School in Baran-gay Calinan, Calinan District, all in Davao City. The donation
costs about P370 thousand, or roughly P185 thousand pesos for each of the two schools.
The science lab instru-ment also include some chemicals for laboratory use. These were turned over by Vic N. Sumalinog, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Manager of Davao Light, and Fermin Edillon, CSR Super-visor of the Aboitiz-owned electric distribution compa-ny.. The donations were re-ceived by Mrs. Evelyn E.
Magno, principal (for Crossing Bayabas National High School); and Dr. Wene-fredo E. Cagape, Principal (for Calinan National High
School). Both turnover ceremo-
nies were held in the schools’ covered court and witnessed by barangay officials, hun-dred of parents, teaching staff, principals from other high schools, and students. Speaking for Davao Light Exec. Vice President Art Mi-lan who did not make it to the turnover, CSR Manager Sumalinog admonished the teachers and students not to put the importance of the new instrument to naught. He said the apparatus should be used to enhance the sci-ence teaching and learning process.
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THE OFFICE OF THE CIVIL REGISTRAR OF DAVAO Respondent
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ORDERThis is a verified petition for correction of entries
from multiple child birth to single and with respect to the maiden of petitioner’s mother from Luzviminda Sa-hot Sabumpa to Luzviminda Sahot Sebumpan.
Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and sub-stance let the petition be heard on January 29, 2014 at 8:30 a.m. at the session hall of this Court, on which date, hour and place , all interested persons are hereby cited to appear and show cause if they have any, why this pe-tition should not be granted.
Let copy of this Order and Petition be published be-fore the hearing date at the expense of the petitioner in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Davao once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks. Give the Davao City Civil registrar and the Solicitor General cop-ies of this Order.
SO ORDERED.
Davao City, Philippines, November 14, 2013.
( SGD) RIDGWAY M. TANJILI Judge
12/9,16,23
SP.PROC.NO. 12-839-13
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EDGEDAVAO
COMMUNITY SENSEVOL. 6 ISSUE 201 SUNDAY-MONDAY, DECEMBER 22-23, 2013
2 Davao City public high schools get science instrument from Davao Light
Davao Light Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Manager Vic Sumalinog and Calinan National High School Principal Dr. Wenefredo E. Cagape join hands in holding a human torso model, one of the many science laboratory appara-tus donated by the electric utility to populate the school’s science room and to enhance the teaching and learning processes of the science subjects. The donation turnover was done last Wednesday, December 18, 2013 with the ceremony serving as highlight to the school’s Parents Day celebration.
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CLASSIFIEDS
JING Jing Gavino used his mastery of the short but tricky
Davao City Golf Club lay-out carding 35 points to win via countback over rival Den-Den De Castro in the premier Class A di-vision of the 16th Matina Classic Golf Tournament.
Gavino’s output on the Modified Stableford scoring was matched by De Castro but Gavi-no was declared winner after emerging with a superior card on count-back. Roderick Lo won the Class A (0-9 handi-cap) net title with a 41
besting youthful Jona-than Cabreros who had a 40.
Paul Dakudao won Class B gross title with a 32 besting the 29 of Ivan Enriquez while Fred Ba-loran pocketed the net title with a 42. Alejandro So finished second with a net 40.
In Class C, Wenceslao Bayquen won the crown with a gross 31 besting the net 30 card of Rey Masing. The Class C net plum went to Roger Lim with a 49 besting the 42 effort of lawyer Rob-ert de Leon. In Class D,
Ricardo Decendario’s gross 27 bested the 26 of Nilo Caliao. Leo Catipay had a 51 to won the net title over Alex Lineses who had a 46.
In the Seniors divi-sion, Kim Yong Pok (31) won the 55-65 years old gross title over Lar-ry Pasquil (29), while Art Casas (43) won the net title over Junie Con-stantinopla (42). In the 66-above category, Nick Olarte took the gross ti-tle over Julius Bajo while Art Gamolo (52) won over Manuel Albarracin (49) in the net category.
Gavino leads Matina Classic Golf winners
By NEILWIN JOSEPH L. BRAVO
Gavino
CHRISTMAS is about children and giving, that is why Ayala Malls together with the Steps Dance Project presented Pepe’s Se-cret Christmas last December 7 at the Activity Center of the Abreeza Mall. A n o r i g i n a l c h i l d re n’s ballet the-atre show, Pepe’s Secret Christmas is literally a stor ybook brought to life by the dancers of Sofia Zobel Elizalde’s Steps Dance Project directed and choreographed by James Laforteza, and written by Floy Quintos. The fantas-tic and out-of-this-world costumes were designed and produced by Gino Gonza-les with lighting by Katsch Catoy. In Pepe’s Secret Christmas, young Pepe falls asleep in church on the last night of the Misa de Gallo. What fol-lows is a dream where he meets talking animals who celebrate the birth of Je-sus Christ through song and dance. In this magical dimension, Kulas Kabaw,
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EDGEDAVAOARTS AND CULTURE
A storybook come to life in dance and music
The Tikling.
Little Pepe falls asleep at Mass on the last night of the Misa de Gallo.
EDGEDavao Davao Partners
FA STORYBOOK, A4
An icon in lights
THE coldest season of the year just got much hotter with Chalk’s latest cover boy Enrique Gil and his warmest thoughts in an exclusive story on how he’s been “Heating up the Holidays”. Read up on how Enrique’s been both naughty and nice, sharing his thoughts on Julia Montes and Liza Soberano. He also recounts some of his favorite mem-ories from those celebrations that he can’t seem to for-get—leading up to how he’s been cozy-ing up to where to he is today. Another huge present is also in store for readers with Chalk’s 50 Hottest Guys list. From this year’s over boys Xian Lim, Daniel Padilla, and Joseph Marco; television eye candies Robi Domingo, Ejay Falcon, Jerome Ponce, Derrick Monasterio, and Kristoffer Martin—to the hottest guys in sports like Jeron and Jeric Teng, Andre and Kobe Paras, Arnold Van Opstal, and the Philippine Volca-noes’ Ned Stephenson and Dennis Gordon, Chalk covers the country’s most attractive personalities that make the season that much more enticing. Of course, Chalk won’t skip out on offering the latest trends in fashion and beauty to sport all holiday long with the magazine’s take on party dressing in the feature ‘Cheers to the New Year” and the scoop on trendy metallic makeup in “Magically Metallic,” where it’s all about adding that extra sparkle. This year’s December to January issue also helps its read-ers out with lists of great gift ideas for the Chalk reader’s special someone. What’s more is that resident celebrity columnist Jasmine Curtis-Smith helps lay out plans for a worthwhile holiday break with her “7 Days of Holiday Fun”. Read up on all this and more by grabbing a copy of Chalk’s December 2013-January 2014 issue out on news-stands and magazine stores now.
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Enrique Gil gets cozy with Chalk for the
hottest holiday ever
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VOL. 6 ISSUE 201 SUNDAY-MONDAY, DECEMBER 22-23, 2013EDGEDAVAO
WHENEVER one asks a visitor to name an iconic building in the Davao re-gion, chances are they will mention Pearl Farm Beach Resort’s parola as the build-ing they associate with the region. And every year around Christ-mas, the resort holds a Christmas lighting ceremony capped off with the lighting of the Pearl Farm Beach Resort’s triangular-shaped parola, or lighthouse, turning it into one giant Christmas tree. Designed by renowned Filipino architect Francisco “Bobby” Ma-ñosa using Filipino and Mindanao inspired designs and patterns, the Pearl Farm Beach Resort was Don Antonio Floirendo’s dream created from what was once called the Agui-naldo Pearl Farm. This year’s lighting ceremony was attended by tourism partners in the Davao region as well as partners from Anflocorp as well as Vincent Floirendo. “The Parola as well as the arrival deck of the Pearl Farm has been renovated and redesigned to reflect current Filipino design trends.” says Vincent “All the furniture has been updated as well as the bar area on the upper level of the parola.” Vincent adds that aside from ren-ovations on the Parola, the resort is also renovating its Maranao Restau-rant as well as adding a new building for the front office. “This lighting is just the start of better things to come, it is the re-alisation of the (Floirendo) family’s vision and commitment to keep the Pearl Farm Beach Resort relevant today and in many more years to come” beams Vincent.
By Kenneth Irving Ong
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Himig celebrates 25th at SM City Davao on Dec 22
Get naughty this Christmas with DJ Chacha’s self-help book on
love, sex and relationships
ENTERTAINMENT
ALL the witty, naughty and handy-dandy tips from MOR 101.9 DJ Chacha’s trending love counseling program “Heartbeats with Chacha Babes” is now rolled into easy-to-read book for those who are in love, fell out of love, and wanting to fall in love again. Titled “Napakasakit Ate Chacha: Mga Usapang Ma-likot, Maharot at Makirot,” Chacha’s first book features the best advice on love, sex and relationships shared over the hit late-night swears a pleasure-filled Christmas to everyone who will read her first book “All issues about love en-countered by all genders are tackled in my book and I’m sure each reader—whether or not a loyal listener of my radio show—can relate and even agree with some of my thoughts there,” said DJ Chacha. Chacha shared that her first venture into publishing made her realize how her stint as a radio DJ—her first job—had become too close to her heart. “The experience of com-pleting the compilation of my favorite love advice
made me appreciate the everyday love calls I receive from my listeners and made me discover that aside from talking, I could actually write,” shared Chacha, who conceptualized the book to-gether with “MOR 101.9 For Life!” head Roxy Liquigan, editor Grace Libero and her friend writer who recently passed away, Butch Guerero. “This book is very per-sonal because I put a lot of effort to really make it such a worthwhile and pleasur-able text that readers would want to read it over and over again. Just like my radio show, it covers no-holds-barred sharings of real-life funny, naughty, yet sensible matters about love, sex, and relationships.”
Also dubbed as “Ang Nag-iisang Diyosa sa Balat ng Radyo,” Chacha began her radio career in 2008 in ABS-CBN’s FM station, right after college. Released by ABS-CBN Publishing Inc., “Napaka-sakit Ate Chacha: Mga Usa-pang Malikot, Maharot at Makirot” is now available on bookstores nationwide for only P175. Don’t miss “Heartbeats with Chacha Babes,” Mon-day to Friday, from 9pm to 12mn, on ABS-CBN’s of-ficial FM radio station in Mega Manila “MOR 101.9 For Life!” For more updates about “M.O.R. 101.9 For Life!” visit www.facebook.com/mor1019 and follow @MOR1019 on Twitter.
CELEBRATE Christmas with Davao’s pride Himig Sing-ers Alumni in an evening of great music on December 22 at SM City Davao Annex Event Center. Himig was organized in 1988 by founder and direc-tor Mrs. Evangeline Lapore. They have participated in in-ternational competitions in Europe, winning top prizes in Spain, Austria and Italy, and toured the U.S. and Can-ada extensively. In 1990, Alvin “Bong” Aviola became the group’s musical director. The Himig Singers, won the National Music Competitions for Young Artists in 1990 and 1993; the “award of the audi-ence” at the Vivache 2004 In-
ternational Choral Festival in Veszprem, Hungary; the first prize in the mixed category, as well as the grand prize, in the 26th International Youth and Music Festival in Vienna, Austria in 1997; and first prize in the polyphonic category at the XV Interna-tional Music Festival in Can-tonigros, Spain, also in 1997. At the Vienna festival, the group garnered a 99.93-per-cent rating, the highest rating in the history of the competition as of 1997. In 2007, the group won the top prize in the mixed vocal ensembles category at the First Asian Choir Games, held in Jakarta, Indonesia. In the same year, the city of Davao has also appointed
the Singers official cultural ambassadors of goodwill in an ordinance. An enchanting Christmas awaits everyone at SM City Davao with the Himig Sing-ers’ 25th Anniversary Mall Show, 7PM at the Annex Event Center. This Holiday season, SM City Davao extends its mall hours to 10 PM until De-cember 30. Mall-goers may enjoy Christmas shopping until 12 MN on December 21. On December 24 and 31, the mall will be open at 9AM up to 7PM. For inquiries, call 297.6998. Like SM City Davao on Face-book or follow @smcitydavao on Twitter for event and pro-mo updates.
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A4 INdulge! VOL. 6 ISSUE 201 SUNDAY-MONDAY, DECEMBER 22-23, 2013EDGEDAVAOARTS AND CULTURE
Totong Tandang, Inday Inahin, Kardong Kambing, Bertang Baboy, and other farm and forest animals open Pepe’s eyes to the beauty of nature and the value of keeping harmony with it. Although primarily written with kids as the main audience, I was sure even the adults in the au-dience was literally drawn in to the tale of selfless love and giving during the Christmas season. The use of music that was com-posed and performed by Filipino talent made the show stand out yet in-stantly recognisable. The crowd cheered especially when, Davao artist, Joey Ayala’s songs were played. Present to witness the Davao debut of Pepe’s Se-cret Christmas were dis-tinguished guests Sofia Zobel Elizalde, who heads Steps Dance Project, Doña Bea Zobel de Ayala, Beatriz Susana Zobel de Ayala, Cristina Zobel de Ayala, Francisco Elizalde, and Ayala Land, Inc.’s Javi Hernandez. Pepe’s Secret Christmas is one of Abreeza Mall’s ef-forts to make holiday sea-son in Davao truly shine. And for me, it truly did by adding a mall show that was entertaining and rel-evant to the times. Follow me on Instagram or on Twitter @kenneth-kingong for more travel and foodie finds as well as happenings in, around and beyond Durianburg.
Totong Tandang and Inday Inahin.
Pepe dancing together with the farm animals.
The entire cast and production crew of Pepe’s Secret Christmas.
From left to right: Doña Beatriz M. Zobel, Cristina Zobel de Ayala, Sofia Zobel Elizalde and Francisco R. Elizalde.
The Dahong Palay
A storybook...FFROM A1
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TEAM Philippines continues to breathe heavily
down Singapore’s neck for a modest finish in the 27th Southeast Asian Games.
Rubilen Amit finally gained sweet payback against a familiar foe in the women’s 9-ball while the judoka pair of veteran Gilbert Ramirez and Kiyomi Watanabe delivered scintillating performances as the PH team racked up three gold medals in Day 10 of the biennial event at the newly-established cap-ital city Nay Pyi Taw in Myanmar.
Eager to make up for her previous loss and
also the sorry setback suffered by compatriot Iris Ranola, Amit dom-inated Indonesian rival Angeline Magdalena 7-2 in a surprisingly one-sid-ed finals showdown.
“Talagang gusto kong manalo this time be-cause of what happened the first time we met. Parang gigil ako noon,” said Amit. “After that, nag-pray ako and naging more calm naman.”
Not be outshone were Ramirez, a two-time Games gold medal-ist, and Watanabe.
Ramirez employed a vise-like arm bar that forced Thai counterpart Banpot Lertthaisong to tap out to claim the gold
in the 73 kgs-and-under category.
For his part, Wata-nabe, a 16-year-old won-der, defeated Vietnam-ese Thi Hoa Bui for the 63 kgs-and-under gold medal.
Those exploits nearly helped Philippines over-take the Singaporeans and gain the sixth spot. Unfortunately, Singapore enjoyed a five-gold med-al rush in sailing that enabled them to hang on at the sixth spot with 31, just five ahead of the PH team.
Powerhouse Thai-land kept its firm grip at the top spot with 86 golds followed by host Myanmar (69), Vietnam
(66), Indonesia (61) and Malaysia (36).
The PH team also has 30 silver and 32 bronze medals. The latest three silver medals came from Jenielou Mosqueda (ju-doka, 57 kgs-and-un-der), Geylord Coveta (windsurfing) and the duo of Richly Balladares and Ridgely Magsanay (sailing, International 470 class).
All is not lost for the Philippines, though.
On Saturday, the PH team will still be vying for five golds in tae-kwondo, three in muay and two each in chess and judoka, events where Singapore doesn’t come in as favorites.
LOS ANGELES (Reu-ters) - Just 11 days after Kobe Bryant
made his long-awaited re-turn for the Los Angeles Lakers, the shooting guard is expected to be out for “approximately six weeks” because of a knee injury, the team announced on Thursday.
The 35-year-old, who spent almost eight months on the sidelines with a torn left Achilles’ tendon before making his come-back on December 8, hy-per-extended his left knee during Tuesday’s 96-92 win against the Grizzlies in Memphis.
Bryant, a 15-time All-Star and five-time NBA champion, had a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam on Thursday and was also examined by a team physician.
“Results of the MRI show that Bryant has a
fracture of the lateral tibi-al plateau of his knee,” the Lakers said in a statement. “He is expected to be out approximately six weeks.”
Bryant’s latest injury comes as a major blow for the Lakers, who only last month signed the league veteran to a two-year, $48.5 million contract ex-tension.
“That’s too bad, you hate it for Kobe,” Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni told reporters after the team practiced at their El Segun-do training facility.
“He’s worked so hard to get back. But he’ll be back. He’ll be back in six weeks. He’s got to weather the storm to get back. We’re going to play hard. We have enough guys and enough talent. We’ll be fine.”
Xavier Henry will take over as starting point guard in Bryant’s absence, the Lakers said.
Kobe injured again
Philippine athlete Rubilen Amit focus on the ball during her match with Singapore’s Hoe Shu Wah in the Womens 8 ball pool-singles during the 23rd South East Asian Game held inside the Makati Coliseum in Manila, Thursday 01 December 2005. The Philippine won gold with the score of 9-5. (EPA/MIKE ALQUINTO)
Amit leads another golden harvestNAYPYIDAW — Fili-
pino riders Daniel Caluag and Chris-
topher Caluag outran the others to take home gold and silver in the men’s BMX race, leaving the bronze to Indonesia’s Saputra at the 27th Southeast Asian Games on Thursday.
Daniel Caluag, whoe at-tended the London Olym-pics 2012, had made a remarkable record of No. 1 ranking in the AA Pro in 2007 and the Pro Cruiser three consecutive years.
As for the women’s BMX race, Indonesia’s Elga Kharisma finished first, fol-lowed by Thailand’s Duang-kamon, and host Myan-
mar’s Khin Myo Htet.The one-day BMX cy-
cling took place at Bicycle Moto Cross (BMX) field in Nay Pyi Taw’s Mount Pleasant on Thursday af-ter Cycling’s other events, Cross Country, Down Hill, and Road Race ended a few days ago.
BMX race is a bicycle race like motocross racing that runs on an off-road designed with a series of ramps that enable cyclics to launch themselves into the air and some sharp turns.
Seven women and 10 men cyclists from six ASE-AN countries participate in the BMX event.
AFTER a spate of is-sues regarding his taxes, Manny Pac-
quiao got a much-needed break as a lawsuit filed against him in the United States was thrown out.
Pacquiao received a belated birthday gift as the United States Court of Appeal for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the dis-missal of a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the boxer.
Imperial ED Promo-tions, a startup Texas promotional company, filed the lawsuit which was dismissed last De-cember 18. The com-pany argued that Pac-quiao failed to show up for a promotional event in 2010. However, Pac-quiao’s team of lawyers
led by David Marroso of law firm O’Melveny and Myers LLP countered that Pacquiao was not paid the agreed upon fee prior to the event.
The case was ulti-mately dismissed be-cause Imperial ED Pro-motions committed a se-rious blunder when they submitted a tampered document. Pacquiao’s counsel made the argu-ment that Imperial ED Promotions should not be the party filling the lawsuit since the earlier contract was signed with someone else. The tam-pered documented was apparently backdated to make it seem that Pac-quiao signed the contract with Imperial RD Promo-tions. SOL’S FLOATER. Sol Mercado of Globalport puts up a finger roll in this bit of action between Globalport and San Mig Coffee in the PBA Philippine Cup. KC Cruz
Caluags finish 1-2 in BMX
Pacquiao cleared of US charges
VOL. 6 ISSUE 201 SUNDAY-MONDAY, DECEMBER 22-23, 2013
The long wait is over for the Bureau of Fire Protection as the grit-
ty Firefighters finally sa-vored their breakthrough championship following numerous letdowns in the past.
The Firefighters carved out a thrilling 81 – 79 victo-ry in Game 2 to sweep the Police Regional Office-XI and pull off an improbable feat, capturing the Mayor Rody Duterte and Vice May-or Pulong Duterte – 11th AFP-PNP Basketball Tour-nament title at the Davao City Recreation Center on Wednesday night.
Former MVP Warlito Castillo saved his best for last, paving the way for the Firefighters to join the short list of the league’s title hold-ers including the four-peat seeking City Mayor’s Office squad which got ambushed in the semis by BFP.
With the count at 79-all, BFP employed a tough team defense that allowed Castil-lo to steal the ball en route to convert the winning bas-ket with a second left in the game to help the Firefight-ers escape with title clinch-ing win.
PRO had the chance to steal the game but the Po-licemen’s final heave went to naught.
“All our collective effort, the all out team effort, since
day 1 brought us to this won-derful and precious cham-pionship,” said BFP coach FINSP Michael Navarro, who credited their remarkable season to their defense.
Castillo, who just got his
rhythm back in the few re-maining games of the elim-ination, finished the game with 16 points.
Rookie John Lumogda came out big once again for the Firemen, churning out
with game-high 20 points. BFP’s revelation this season Donald Concepcion contrib-uted 18 baskets.
Blanco scored 18 for PRO while Edwin Awintin had 14.
The game was close up to the final seconds as BFP and PRO battled hard in ev-ery play, showing no signs of laying their arms in the gru-eling encounter.
The Firemen came out
strong early, taking a double digit lead late in the opening period.
But the Policemen an-swered back in the second canto to get back on track. [RJB]
16 EDGEDAVAOSports
CHAMPS. Front row (l-r) S Insp Randolf Arbutante, S Insp Alex Pamaybay, Insp Donald Concepcion, FO1 Reynald Earl Angsingco, FO1 Primo Jabilles III, and FO1 Robert Paul Namuagg III. Secpnd row (l-r) FO1 Jose Labor Jr., FO1 Anthony Laurence Agustin, FO1 Warlito Castillo, FO1 Fubon Maligro, FO1 Russel Bayon-on, FO1 Ryan Sanchez, FO1 Ian Rhey Lumogda, FO1 Vincenzo Isidore, Rey Weill, Kristian Lord Coquilla and Head Coach S Insp Michael Dexter Navarro. Photo by Boy Lim
HOW SWEEP IT IS!BFP sweeps PRO 11, clinches first AFP-PNP basketball title
VOL. 6 ISSUE 201 SUNDAY-MONDAY, DECEMBER 22-23, 2013
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