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TOP BET. Maria Karis del Corro, Mass Communications graduate of Ateneo de Davao University and a former intern of EDGE Davao, is fast emerging as one of the favorites in the search for Mutya ng Davao 2016. Del Corro regaled the crowd during the pre-pageant night at Abreeza mall activity center on Wednesday night. Del Corro advanced to the final round after chosen as one of the 15 finalists. Lean Daval Jr.

AROUND 400 pri-vate-practicing members of the

medical community in Davao City came out yesterday to publicly declare their support for presidential candi-date Rodrigo Duterte.

Also supporting the doctors are pharma-cists, nurses, medical technologists, and med-ical representatives.

The group, which calls itself Duterte got Doctors Support (DDS), held a motorcade around the city’s main streets.

The group said it believes Duterte’s pro-grams on public welfare and public health show his vision and capability as a leader and public servant.

“Beyond the tough stance, his cussings and

indignant rhetorics, we see a man who only has the welfare of his con-stituents in mind and whose only interest is to serve the interest of the public,” DDS said in statement.

In a press confer-ence, former Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said she was thankful that the doctors and medical professionals voluntarily threw their full support for her fa-ther.

“First, thank you for joining the movement for real change and for your support for the presidential bid of May-or Rody,” she said.

Offers of support, she said, have made it easier for her father’s campaign.

“Thank you for coming out on your

own to publicly de-clare your support for the presidential bid of Mayor Rody,” Sara said. “We need this, especial-ly that the campaign of Digong has limited re-sources.”

Dr. Bernard Chiew, a cardiologist, said they will volunteer their re-sources to campaign for Duterte.

The group said its support was latched on Duterte’s programs that promote good public health.

They cited the An-ti-Smoking Ordinance, the Firecracker Ban, Ban on Aerial Spraying of ba-nana farms, Liquor Ban, the establishment of the Emergency Central 911, the Davao City Treat-ment and Rehabilitation Center For Drug Depen-

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THE spirit of the 1986 People Power Revolu-tion is about a revolu-

tionary, real change.That, in a nutshell, is what

defines the EDSA Revolution according to a joint statement by PDP-Laban standard bear-er Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and runningmate Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano as the country cele-brated the 30th anniversary of People Power yesterday.

“It has been 30 years since the 1986 People Power Revo-lution, and today, as we com-memorate the momentous restoration of Philippine de-mocracy, we are also reminded of what it was that the Filipino people had fought and died for,” the joint statement said.

The two leaders said that the EDSA Revolution “was not a battle between two political

families.”Instead, they believe that

it was “the battle between a dictatorship mired in corrup-tion and abuse and the Filipi-no people’s aching desire to restore democracy, order, and the rule of law. The spirit of EDSA lives on, embodied not just by one person, nor a hand-ful of political families. The spirit of EDSA lives on today in each of us, and it binds us to-gether as the Filipino nation.”

Duterte, who had vowed to end criminalities and cor-ruption in government as the major thrusts of his candidacy, said while the spirit of EDSA is still alive in every Filipino, the evils that EDSA sought to end also remains.

“Certainly, the spirit of EDSA lives on in each of us, but so do the problems that

EDSA had sought to end. Crime, illegal drug trafficking and corruption are some of the social ills that contribute to the people’s daily woes,” he said. “This is precisely why we wage a war against disorder and suffering. In this war, we must remember the lessons of EDSA. It is not enough to elect a competent government. We must ensure the government we elect doesn’t become cor-rupt and abusive. The leaders we choose to govern us must be leaders who are truly dem-ocratic and would stand up against any and all forms of op-pression, abuse, and neglect. As a people, we must exercise vigilance to protect the free-dom that we have won many years ago.”

Duterte and Cayetano re-minded the people not to for-

get the main message of the People Power which is revo-lution and real change. The tandem said the battle that cul-minated in EDSA in 1986 was “only the beginning of our fight for a better nation.”

Duterte and Cayeta-no were in Cebu yesterday to make an audience with factory workers of the Mac-tan Export Processing Zone Authority (MEPZA) in their “Ronda-Serye” listening tour in Lapu-Lapu, Cebu, where they also explained their goal of promoting inclusive growth through regional development and federalism.

The tandem promised that ordinary Filipino workers, es-pecially those living outside Metro Manila, can expect bet-ter working conditions under their leadership.

PRESIDENTIAL candidate and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte said

there will be no repeat of mar-tial law under his administra-tion if he is elected.

“There’s no need for me to do that,” Duterte was said when asked by journalists Wednesday, the eve of the 30th anniversary of People Power. “All I need is for everybody to follow the law.”

According to Duterte’s camp, the mayor met with 3,000 people who attended the Philippine Association of Local Treasurers and Asses-

sors Inc. (Phaltra) assembly Wednesday afternoon at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City. Duterte said that although he will be very hard against criminals, citizens who abide the law have nothing to worry.

“I just want everybody to follow the law,” Duterte was quoted as saying. “But I will be strict and harsh.”

Duterte has vowed to use the powers of the presidency and that he will utilize the po-lice and the military in fighting illegal drugs and criminals.

He, however, assured the

people he will not allow law enforcement agencies to abuse their power.

Speaking at the Phaltra assembly, Duterte reiterated his iron-hand policy against criminality.

“I will not hesitate to order the police to shoot you dead,” came Duterte’s warning to criminals who will refuse ar-rest or attempt a violent resis-tance.

Meantime, Duterte and his runningmate Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano said ordinary Filipino workers, especially those living outside

Metro Manila, can expect bet-ter working conditions under their leadership.

They made this assurance before factory workers of the Mactan Export Processing Zone Authority (MEPZA) in their “Ronda-Serye” listen-ing tour in Lapu-Lapu, Cebu, where they also explained their goal of promoting inclu-sive growth through regional development and federalism.

The duo cited workers’ concern over the lack of better employment opportunities for the poor. They then vowed to

CALLS hold a debate among candidates in Ma-guindanao have received

favorable responses from leading politicians in the prov-ince and in this city.

The Alliance of Lumad Iranun and Maguindanaons (ALIM), which broached the idea of a debate, said it would lead to a mature political cam-paign.

Maguindanao Gov. Esma-el Mangudadatu said he wel-comes the idea, as it will give young voters an opportunity to know the candidates better.

He said that while many young people are into social media, debate is a good ave-nue to showcase the views of those vying for public office.

Cotabato City and First District Rep. Bai Sandra Sema

said she too favors the idea since Maguindanao politics has been marred with vio-lence and controversies of cheating.

She, however, said the de-bate must not become a venue for mudslinging.

ALIM, chaired by Vice Gov. Datu Lester Sinsuat met this week in Cotabato City to renew vows of commitment to the goal of the league and introduce new members.

Maguindanao deputy gov-ernor Datu Ramil Bayam Dil-angalen said the alliance want-ed to push a peaceful election by adhering to election laws.

He said the group has sworn to the Qur’an to remain loyal to the union’s vision and mission. (Ferdinandh Cabre-ra/MindaNews)

IN the wake of the political and economic crisis in the Middle East, the Technical

Education and Skills Develop-ment Authority (TESDA) said it is prepared to assist return-ing or displaced overseas Fili-pino workers (OFWs).

“We can provide free competency assessment and certification for repatriated workers who wish to confirm whether they possess the competencies required in a preferred workplace,” TESDA Director General Irene Isaac said.

She said that TESDA can also provide the necessary

technical vocational (tech-voc) training for those who need it, referring to these services as skills retooling.

“We have to see to it that our countrymen end up be-ing more confident with their capabilities than they were be-fore, and are even more quali-fied to find work,” she said.

These services are pro-vided through one of TESDA’s flagship programs, the Com-petency Assessment and Cer-tification for Workers (CACW) which, aside from OFWs, is also open to other workers, trainers and Department of

DOCS FOR DUTERTE. Former Davao City Mayor Sara Z. Duterte-Carpio joins doctors and other health care professionals who are members of Doctors si Duterte ang Sandigan (DDS) in their public declaration of support for the candidacy of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

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JOSE Maria College embarks on another milestone as it opens the College of Law.

Approved to operate by the Legal Education Board (ELB) in January 2016, the JMC-Col-lege Of Law is the third law school established in Davao City and is now accepting stu-dents for the AY 2016-2017.

With the establishment of the law school, JMC envisions producing the best practi-tioners in the legal profession who will become advocates of peace and equal opportuni-ties for all.

The Bachelor of Laws of-fers courses that will equip students in the various facets of the law profession. The program also offers Language Enhancement Courses to equip students with excellent communication skills which are essential to the legal prac-tice.

The JMC College of Law is well-equipped with world class facilities and highly qual-

ified faculty, has established linkages and the best learning ambience that a law student needs. Its curriculum was de-signed to usher in a new in-tellectual environment in the country. And just like JMC’s undergraduate programs, the JMC-College Of Law offers the most affordable tuition rates to give law students the best opportunities to complete the program and succeed.

To cater to the needs of working and non-working stu-

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POST-GRADUATE students are not covered by the 20-percent student fare

discount, the Land Transpor-tation Franchising and Regula-tory Board (LTFRB) reminded Thursday as it urged commut-ers to follow public transport fare rules.

LTFRB board member Atty. Ariel Inton made the statement after a squabble be-tween a student and conduc-tor over student fare discount came out in the news earlier this week.

The bus conduct identified as Edel Barcoso argued that he could not give the 28-year-old student (the LTFRB refused to disclose her name) a fare discount since she was not in uniform and did not have her identification card with her.

Though the current Mem-orandum Circular (MC)on student fare discount does not

require the presentation of identification, Inton said that a student passenger should still have proof of enrolment such as a registration form. With this, out-of-school youths are not entitled to the discount.

LTFRB said that its guide-lines for student fare discount does not cover post-graduate students namely those taking up medicine, law, Master’s or Doctorate degrees.

Inton, however, admitted that there is a need for the Board to review its MC on stu-dent fare discount.

“Student fare discount is not a law. It is only a Memoran-dum Circular under the LTFRB not mandated by the law like discounts for senior citizens and PWDs (persons with dis-abilities),” Inton said.

To recall, Sen. Juan Edgar-do “Sonny” Angara earlier filed

MALACAÑANG chal-lenged today’s youth to build on the democ-

racy and freedom Filipinos a generation ago secured from staging the historic 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution against then President Ferdi-nand Marcos and his one-man rule.

Executive Secretary Paqui-to Ochoa Jr. aired such chal-lenge, recalling the road Filipi-nos during Marcos’ regime and martial law trekked to regain that year the democracy and freedom they longed for.

“The challenge to that gen-eration was to secure democ-racy and freedom -- the chal-lenge to today’s generation is to nurture and build on these gains,” Ochoa said at the peo-ple power revolution’s 30th anniversary celebration on Thursday along Epifanio delos

Santos Avenue or EDSA, Metro Manila’s major artery where the uprising occurred on Feb. 22-25, 1986.

EDSA People Power revolt gained international recogni-tion for being the world’s first bloodless uprising.

Malacanang’s message to the youth echoed the theme ‘Pagbabago: Ipinaglaban N’yo, Itutuloy Ko’ which the govern-ment chose for the revolution’s 30th anniversary.

According to EDSA Peo-ple Power Commission Com-missioner Emily Abrera, such theme reflects the need for the youth’s involvement in change.

The celebration aims to help further propel the spirit of social transformation, she said.

“We’d like to pass on the torch of social change to the millennial generation -- the

TRADE between the Phil-ippines and Malaysia last year reached $5B in

2015, records of the Malaysian Trade (MATRADE) in Manila showed.

Speaking in Wednesday’s Habi at Kape at the Abree-za Mall, Nyaee Ayup, MA-TRADE-Manila commissioner said exports from Malaysia to the Philippines remained higher at $3.4 billion, or 68 percent, while the imports were valued at $1.6 billion.

This was slightly lower compared to 2014’s 5.3 bil-lion worth of traded goods, of which $3.7 billion were exports and $1.6 billion were imports.

She added that most of the traded goods are electronic products, construction and

building materials, palm oil, mechanical equipment, appli-ance, metal, processed food and chemical products.

Ayup said that she wanted to strengthen the trade rela-tionship to benefit the busi-ness players of both countries, as she emphasized the need to strengthen the bilateral trade by realizing the strengths of their counterparts.

“We want a two-way trade. For instance, we buy cacao from the Philippines and then we manufacture final prod-ucts. Some of your industries are also into manufacturing,” she said.

She explained that Malay-sia is mostly a manufactur-ing-driven economy but they need to import raw materials from neighboring countries

such as Philippines to manu-facture products.

“For example, Mindan-ao has agricultural produce. Malaysia also has agricultural produce but we need agri-cultural products from other countries,” she said.

Ayup highlighted their Halal industry, this being their strength in the Asean Economic Community (AEC) that opens the playing field for all exporters among the 10-Asean member countries by bringing down to zero the tariff rates.

She encouraged Min-danawon investors to do busi-ness in Malaysia as she point-ed out that Malaysia is “an in-vestor-friendly” country.

She acknowledged that the problem of connectivity

needs to be addressed as there is no direct air or shipping route between Malaysia and Mindanao at present.

Ayup named oil giant Petron Corp. and Universal Robina Corporation (URC) as two Filipino companies al-ready operating in Malaysia.

The MATRADE official said that they are encouraging investors from their country to invest in Mindanao, particular-ly on agriculture, information and communication technol-ogy (ICT), and manufacturing.

What Malaysian investors look for in an investment des-tination are good government policies, right partners, facil-ities, cost of production, and the ease of securing licenses, she said.

PEOPLE POWER. Members of progressive groups stage a march rally to air their grievances against the government in time for the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of EDSA People Power yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

Trade between PHL, Malaysia now $5B

FIRE DAMAGE. One of the students living at the dormitory inside the UCCP Haran compound which was hit by fire the other day checks her damaged mobile phones and laptop. Lean Daval Jr.

JMC opens College of Law

LTFRB: No fare discountfor post grad students

Palace urges youth to nurture 1986 EDSA Revolution’s gains

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ECONOMYHalal to be integrated in tourism courses

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SIMPLE JOY. Three boys have fun riding their carabao-drawn sled in Songco, Lantapan, Bukidnon. MindaNews photo by H. Marcos C. Mordeno

STAKEHOLDERS of the Mindanao tourism in-dustry are eyeing to

integrate halal practices in the curriculum of tourism-re-lated courses offered by uni-versities and colleges in the island.

Marilou W. Ampuan, chair of the Halal committee of the Philippine Tourism Congress and founder of Mindanao Is-lamic Chamber of Commerce, Inc. (MICC), said members of the academe will meet at The Apo View Hotel on March 1 to 3 for the Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philip-pines (BIMP) International halal Congress.

“The academe has a huge role in the develop-ment of the halal industry in Mindanao,” Ampuan said during this week’s edition of Wednesdays at Habi at Kape sa Abreeza.

Ampuan said it is im-portant for the academe to step up its intervention for the development of the halal industry because it produces the necessary labor force that will serve in the business es-tablishments.

The University of South-ern Mindanao (USM) along with the Department of Tour-

ism, Department of Agricul-ture, and Mindanao Devel-opment Authority organized the three-day congress which will provide a platform to discuss the feasibility of inte-grating the halal program in school curricula.

“There is a misconception that halal is just about food. It is about daily life practices. It is a culture,” Ampuan said.

Ampuan said Mindan-ao has a huge potential for drawing more Muslim tour-ists from Islamic countries, but the low number halal-ac-credited establishments here limits the industry from growing.

“We need more ha-lal-friendly establishments which Muslim tourists can avail themselves of during their stay here,” she added.

To start with, about 10 establishments in Davao City are targeted to be accredited by Crescent Rating in a bid to put the Philippines as one of the destinations of Muslim tourists and have a sizeable slice in the US$ 3.2 trillion ha-lal global industry.

The establishments agreed to apply halal prac-tices in their production and services.

THE Department of De-partment of Trade and Industry (DTI) reminds

the general public, partic-ularly those who are using butane stoves, on the danger of using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)-refilled butane canisters for household con-sumption.

The agency pointed out

that butane canisters are used only once and must never be refilled since use of refilled butane canister may cause accidents such as ex-plosion and fire.

DTI-Davao Regional Di-rector Maria Belenda Q. Ambi emphasized that “only weld-ed steel cylinders are covered with Philippine National

Standard for gas containers designed for storage, trans-port and distribution of LPG for domestic consumption.”

It can be noted that the Department of Energy (DOE)’s Department Circu-lar DC2014-01-0001 covers the rules and regulations of LPG industry including re-finers, importers, re-fillers,

marketers, and even haulers. The said mandate states that illegal or “backyard refilling” of butane canisters is strictly prohibited under the depart-ment’s rules and regulations.

Considering such, Ambi encouraged everyone to re-port any information relative to “backyard refilling” to the

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MALAYSIAN trade commissioner Nyaee Ayup encouraged the

development of a direct air link between Mindanao and Kuala Lumpur to strength-en trade and commerce be-tween the two areas.

Ayup said trade and commerce between the two is limited because of the ab-sence of direct flights She said the route could be be-tween Davao-Kuala Lumpur.

“This could be possible under the BIMP-EAGA ini-

tiatives which include im-provement of connectivity between key cities,” Ayup told reporters in this week’s edition of Wednesdays sa Habi at Kape in Abreeza Mall.

BIMP-EAGA stands for Brunei Darussalam-Indo-nesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area. The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) said in a statement that the economic grouping was formed with the goals of promoting trade, investment, and tourism in

less-developed states and provinces in the ASEAN sub-group.

Ayup said a direct link could also increase Mindan-ao’s exportation of its agri-culture products like cacao and coffee, which could be exported as raw product to Malaysia which is heavily into manufacturing and pro-cessing food products.

Ayup said Malaysia and the Philippines may have a lot of fruits in common, but the Philippines has the ca-

pacity to produce commod-ities that will serve as raw material for the processing of chocolates as well as cof-fee and cacao powders.

She said being the major source of cacao and coffee for export, Mindanao might already be making its way in the Malaysia market for years now. However, she said there is no existing agree-ment between local produc-ers and Malaysian importers at present.

“We are open to sealing

a Memorandum of Under-standing or contract with any local producer or busi-ness chamber here,” she said.

Ayup said the Malaysia market is not particular on whether or not an agricul-tural commodity like cacao is halal-certified as long as it passes the requirement of the manufacturers.

She also said Mindanao is one of the areas consid-ered by Malaysian investors for their expansion of oper-ation.

However, she said there is still no solid interest among Malaysian investors who have expressed interest in locating in Mindanao.

“There’s a lot of consid-eration before businessmen can locate here, like enabling policies concerning invest-ment as well as the presence of infrastructure like roads, ports,” she said.

The high cost of produc-tion here as well as the unre-liable power also drives away Malaysian investors, she said.

THE Resiliency of the Phil-ippine economy is seen to be extended again to

its banking industry this year.Citing its report entitled

“The Philippines’ Supportive Economy Underpins a Stable Outlook for its Banking Sector in 2016”, released on Feb. 23, 2016, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) said domestic financial institu-tions were seen to greatly ben-efit from the robust economic expansion.

S&P analyst Ivan Tan, in a statement, said the country’s economy “will likely continue to drive expansion in domes-tic credit at about 2x-3x GDP

(gross domestic product) growth.”

“We forecast eight to 12 percent loan growth for the Philippines for 2015 and 2016, which is slower than in 2014 but remains high by regional standards,” he said.

Bank lending in the Philip-pines reached over 20 percent in recent years due to rising demand of the rising economy.

However, it has since nor-malized with the December 2015 level rising by 13.1 per-cent, net of placements in the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) reverse repurchase

POTENTIAL risks to se-curity can be a major concern as the Philip-

pines takes part in a global automatic exchange of de-tailed financial information with the implementation of the Common Report-ing Standards (CRS) in the country by 2018.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has called for the global imple-mentation of its Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Informa-tion (the Standard).

The Standard addresses automatic disclosure of fi-nancial account information between countries and is comprised of detailed rules contained in CSR.

The Standard was devel-oped by the OECD as a pro-active measure against tax evasion and tax fraud.

It outlines how finan-cial account information of foreign tax residents can be automatically disclosed by financial institutions and governments to relevant au-thorities to locate untaxed wealth.

“The CRS is a big step to-wards a globally coordinat-ed approach to the disclo-

sure of financial information from both individuals and organization. As a measure to counter tax evasion, it builds upon other informa-tion-sharing legislation,” said Dr. Juerg Steffen, Man-aging Partner of Henley & Partners Singapore office, in a media briefing held in Makati City on Wednesday.

Henley & Partners is a global leader in residence and citizenship planning.

Steffen noted that if governments begin to ex-change information of in-come earned by individuals, then this could threaten the security of wealthy individ-uals and families, especially those in developing coun-tries since there is a risk of this information becom-ing available to the wrong sources.

For his part, Zac Lucas, Partner at Wragge Law-rence Graham & Co., has al-layed fears of personal risks involved with this global au-tomatic exchange.

Lucas noted that there is a regional perception within the ASEAN, particu-larly in the Philippines and Indonesia, that if financial account data comes back to the country, it becomes

widely disseminated. Worse is, valuable data is being sold to third parties and becomes available to the wrong sources.

However, he refuted this claim by citing an OECD peer review in the Philip-pines in 2014.

The review specifically looked at whether or not there have been any inci-dences of the Philippine tax authority releasing data that they have received from third party sources. Based on the results, Lucas said that “they have found not one instance of that in the Philippines.”

“There is a public per-ception that there is a great deal of personal risk and there is actual reality of it never really happening be-fore,” Lucas added.

However, if investors, mobile entrepreneurs, and wealthy families still have security concerns regarding a possible exchange of in-formation with their home country, Steffen suggested an option to consider mov-ing to a country where the overall situation is more favorable with regard to se-curity, tax, lifestyle, and edu-cation. (PNA)

THE Davao City Water District (DCWD) will pursue the case against

Cebu-based water conces-sionaire Helpmate, Inc. before the National Water Regulatory Board (NWRB) for the latter’s failure to secure the necessary permits for its operation.

“We have already attend-ed preliminary conference in Manila where evidence were presented,” DCWD spokes-person lawyer Bernardo De-lima told reporters during the weekly edition of Wednesdays sa Habi at Kape at Abreeza Mall.

He said the DCWD expects the board to issue the decision on the case next year.

Delima said the DCWD filed a complaint against the Helpmate before the NWRB on October 15 last year for violation of the Water Code of the Philippines which states “no person shall divert or appropriate water from any public water source such as rivers, creeks, spring, lakes or groundwater or seawater without first securing a water permit from NWRB.”

He said the complaint was for premature exploration, de-velopment, and operations as a water utility.

He said Helpmate started the installation an infiltration gallery in the river bank in August last year without an

NWRB permit and an envi-ronment compliance certifi-cate.

“They (Helpmate) are do-ing the business without nec-essary permits like certificate of public convenience and wa-ter permit,” he said.

Delima said Helpmate only applied for a water per-mit in NWRB in December last year.

He said the DCWD will be using this as evidence for the case against the private water concessionaire, which he said planned to tap Davao River as source of potable water.

Based on earlier reports, the private water company laid pipelines in areas where

there are existing DCWD lines, adding most of these were in-stalled on top of DCWD’s pipe-lines without coordination.

“This will be a major con-cern later on during mainte-nance and repair of DCWD pipelines. If there is a leak, it will be hard to determine which pipe is leaking,” Delima said.

He said in one instance in October last year, a cement mixer truck got stuck in an excavated area in Tigatto and people blamed DCWD for reckless excavation. “People mistakenly thought the pipes were ours,” he added. CHE-NEEN R. CAPON with reports from Armando Fenequito Jr.

Direct Davao-KL flights pushed

PHL banks to benefit anewfrom strong economy: S&P

DCWD to pursue case vs Helpmate, Inc.

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EDITORIALGive meaning to People Power

FOR those who lived through the four days of EDSA People Power in 1986, the events of that fateful period in the coun-try’s history are as fresh as if they happened yesterday. Some-

thing of that magnitude is not easy to forget, and the EDSA heroes, as they should properly be called, are forgiven for waxing nostalgic each time February comes around. Facing down soldiers, tanks, and even helicopters, not knowing if they will shoot or join the rebellion — these are the kinds of memories that live on in their hears. And they will keep telling their stories so that the younger generations will know what kind of struggle they went through just to win back democracy for the country.

Which is why for many EDSA heroes, it is hard to accept that the country in general seems to have forgotten the dark days under martial rule and the heroism of countless people who dared stand up to the dictator. Indeed, just a few years after EDSA 1986, many of the same people who had taken part in robbing the country were back in power. While that may be a necessary consequence of hav-ing a democracy in which the rights of each one — even those ac-cused of various offenses — are respected, government should have

at least made sure that the cases against these people prospered so that they would be made to pay for their sins to the people.

As it was, the institutions that were supposed to protect the people were not strengthened, so much so that they became easy prey to the manipulation and machinations of corrupt officials. One prime example is the anti-dynasty law, which the framers of the 1987 Constitution had included in order to prevent families from wielding too much power — as the Marcoses had done. But three decades hence, Congress still has not crafted an enabling law, ren-dering the constitutional provision useless. And because that is so, we still see families lording it over the rest of us, building their power and wealth in an undending cycle.

The thousands of EDSA heroes thus ask: What did we struggle for 30 years ago? Things are more or less the same as they were. We failed to harness People Power so that it would actually benefit the people. Thirty years have passed and we have not pushed our country beyond the traditional politics that have imprisoned us. It is time for the new generation to rise and give meaning to People Power.

TO aspire for an elective post in this country is to plunge into a very expen-sive enterprise. The higher the position

sought the greater is the expense to incur. So much money is needed to run and, much more, to win a campaign.

In its study of the 2004 and 2007 elec-tions, Pera’t Pulitika (PAP) came out with the following estimates of the campaign expenses for the major electoral posts in the land, name-ly: Presidential campaign, 2.5B to 5B pesos; senatorial campaign, P150M to P500M pesos; congressional campaign, P3M to P100M pe-sos; gubernatorial campaign, P5M to P150M; and mayoralty campaign, P1M to P100M.

Take note that these ground estimates transcend the campaign spending caps set by law which is P10/registered voter for pres-idential positions (president and vice presi-dent) and P3/registered voter for all the rest of the positions, the total amount of which may differ on the size of each constituency. In other words, with a voting population of 54M, a presidential aspirant is allowed by law to spend only P540M plus P250M from party contribution (P5/registered voter) or a total of P790M. At P3/registered voter, a senatorial aspirant is only permitted to spend P162M. When on top of the expenses for the regular

campaign sorties and campaign materials is added the budget to buy votes directly and in-directly!, the investment could be staggering.

Now consider, for instance, the actu-al spending of the presidential aspirants of the 2010 elections as monitored by Pera’t Pulitika: Aquino P12,582,491.90; Estrada, 4,992,168.70; Teodoro, 4,424,562.80; Vil-lar,14,284, 205.33. These figures covered only the expenses for the so-called ground wars, e.g. public meetings, campaign sorties and propaganda materials, When the expense for the air wars – TV and radio promotion is added the total spending would truly be mind-blowing.

Thus it is expected that this year’s (2016) spending will set a new gargantuan record.

Although the regulations on campaign spending are unrealistic and never strictly monitored and controlled by the COMELEC, they have been imposed supposedly to level the playing field for candidates. The fact re-mains, however, that the cost of running for a political position is very prohibitive. And from

the look of it, only the economic elite have ac-tually the opportunity to participate and have the biggest chance to win elective positions in government.

The political race naturally spawns fund raising activities from various sources and in different forms the dire consequences of which may subvert and frustrate the national will.

Politicians dip their fingers into sources of funds other than from their own pockets. For incumbents, funds may come from the coffers of the government through the like of the notorious fertilizer anomaly in the past and through pork barrels and over-priced and sub-standard public infra projects that materialize few months before the elections season.

Contributions to the campaign kitty may also be solicited from big business, lobbyists, gambling and drug lords, miners, and from big-time smugglers. It is also no accident that a year or so before and during elections, bank robberies, carnappings, kidnappings and oth-er criminal fundraising activities become very pronounced in different parts of the country.

Our kind of political election evidently does not serve the purpose for which it is un-dertaken, that is, to produce democratic and

socially responsive leaders and lawmakers to steer the sustainable development of the country. Instead, it has become the mother of all corruptions that prostitutes our morals and values. It has become a nasty business where people trade their souls for some eco-nomic incentives. Decision makings are thus compromised and governance is sacrificed in the altar of payback development.

Sadly, the citizens have lost the moral ascendancy to criticize or demand anything from the government because they are, in the first place, greatly responsible in putting the wrong people there.

So long as corruption is embedded in our electoral process, our government will remain inefficient and ineffective in the delivery of public services. Consequently, the people will remain marginalized and dehumanized. And the cycle of poverty and corruption goes on and on to eternity.

Indeed, we badly need a new system and processes in the choice of our leaders to make our democracy more rational and functional, effective and meaningful.

(MindaViews is the opinion section of Min-daNews. William R. Adan is retired professor and former chancellor of Mindanao State Uni-versity at Naawan, Misamis Oiental.?

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BY WILLIAM R. ADANTURNING POINT

“Walkout kapag alam mong sinasaktan ka na at wala nang patutunguhan ang relasyon niyo. Walkout kapag ikaw na lang ang laban ng laban. Walkout kapag mukha ka nang tanga.” — Marcelo Santos III in Para sa Broken Hearted

***

RECENTLY, I was alone at home and there was nothing to do. So I decided to read an essay titled “Closing the Cycle,”

penned by Paulo Coelho. The piece was mov-ing and very apt. And so I tried to do a research on its author.

This was what I found out. A Brazilian lyri-cist and novelist, Coelho is the recipient of nu-merous international awards, amongst them the Crystal Award by the World Economic Fo-rum. The Alchemist, his most famous novel, has been translated into 80 languages.

Now, going back to the essay, which was long. There were some paragraphs that caught my attention. Here are some:

“You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won’t take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that. But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your chil-dren, your sister, everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill.

“Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. That is why it is so im-

portant (however painful it may be!) to destroy souve-nirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home. Everything in this visible world is a man-ifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts – and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.

“Let things go. Release them. Detach your-self from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appre-ciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emo-tional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.”

We always hear someone telling us: “Nev-er give up.” But there are instances that you also have to give up — in order to move on to the next chapter of your life. Deborah Reber, writing for Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, explained: “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”

American author Shannon L. Alder point-ed out that there is a difference between say-ing goodbye and letting go. “Goodbye is not permanent,” she wrote. “You can meet years later as old friends and share what happened in your life. You can smile and laugh about all the nonsense that you both went through.”

Letting go is different; it is totally releas-ing a person out from your life. “Letting go is being okay with never seeing this person ever again…being okay with never knowing how their life turned out…being okay with fifty or more years of silence… being okay with run-ning into that person at a grocery store and having them not acknowledge your presence. This is the part of life that doesn’t sit well with me and never will. It tears my heart in pieces, robs me of gratitude, drains me of anything positive and eats at the faith that holds on. It goes against kindness.”

“Please release me, let me go,” goes a line a popular song. In A Voice in the Distance, Tabitha Suzuma wrote: “They say when you really love someone, you should be willing to set them free. So that is what I am doing. I will step back and you will move on. I will let you go. … Your happiness means everything to me. I will listen for your voice in the distance. I will look at the moon. I will keep you in my pocket. I will carry your smile with me everywhere, like a warm and comforting glow.”

Multi-awarded author Stephen King, in Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons, pointed this out, too: “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their

songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

Now, remember that Hollywood movie, In-diana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Set largely in 1938, Indiana (Harrison Ford repris-ing his role which made him famous) search-es for his father (played superbly by amiable Sean Connery), a Holy Grail scholar, who has been kidnapped by Nazis.

Laurie Beth Jones, a bestselling author, wrote this very interesting thought: “After many adventures and heartaches, Indiana is finally at the precipice — about to grasp the very item he and his father have been search-ing for. And yet, so precarious is his position on the cliff that his father realizes if Indiana retrieves the grail, he will lose his balance and fall into the pit below.

“As Indiana is about to lift up the prize, his father whispers, ‘Let it go.’ There is a long pause, and you can see the anguish in Indiana’s face. Have they come all this way for nothing? Can’t he finally grasp the treasure they’ve been searching for? Can’t he finally make his father proud of him? Another second passes, and his father takes his arm and says more firmly, ‘In-diana, let it go.’”

Terry Pratchett said it right: “There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”

Letting go

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dents, and the Lingap para sa Mahirap, a program benefiting not only indigent families of Davao City but also neighbour-ing provinces and towns.

The health professionals also cited the Speed Limit law

that reduced road accidents, the institutionalization of pro-grams for welfare of women and children and the protec-tion of their rights, and the support to children with can-cer and the elderly.

end the disorder in people’s lives by providing ordinary workers a living wage so they’ll have enough income for their basic needs.

To promote Cebu’s local economy, Cayetano said they also plan to allot more funds for micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) devel-opment, and to create more tourism growth centers in the province. This is apart from transferring some agencies to other regions, like the De-partment of Tourism and the Department of Fisheries to the province of Cebu.

“Cebu is an example of how regions can move. Through our call for federalism and re-gional growth, we aim to give more authority to the province to allow it to chart its own des-tiny and to change Cebuanos’ lives,” Cayetano stressed.

Duterte, for his part, said that if elected, he will put up economic zones in each re-gion to create more jobs in the countryside. Though econom-ic zones are already present

in some parts of the country, he said not all ventures were beneficial to the workers, as some companies often violate the Labor Code by resorting to ‘labor only contracting.’

“Establishing economic zones and attracting investors are part of our platform. But unlike in the past, we will not allow big institutions to de-prive our workers of their right to more secure working condi-tions,” Cayetano said.

The duo said they will en-sure regular jobs for Filipinos by phasing out contractualiza-tion, which robs workers of ad-ditional benefits and prevents them from developing their skill set.

“Bolder solutions and swifter actions are needed to create real change. Magagawa lang ito ng mga lider na may tapang at tibay ng loob para tapusin ang gulo sa buhay ng tao at isulong ang tunay na pagbabago. Ito ang dadalhin namin ni Mayor Duterte sa eleksyong ito,” Cayetano end-ed.

Education teachers.Free training is given

through the scholarship pro-grams of the agency, such as the Training for Work Schol-arship Program (TWSP), the Private Education Student Financial Assistance (PESFA) and the Special Training for Employment Program (STEP).

TESDA recorded more than 890 returning or dis-placed OFWs nationwide who were assisted in 2015, mostly through free training.

This year, with an ap-proved budget of more than PHP6.6 billion, TESDA is tar-geting more than two million graduates and aims to assess about 1.3 million out of these graduates.

Access of OFWs to these TESDA services has now been made even easier through the newly launched Assist WELL (Welfare, Employment, Legal and Livelihood) Centers and e-Assist WELL database sys-tem.

Presently, there are 18 centers located nationwide. The database system are the result of the Department of Labor and Employment’s As-sist WELL Program that aims to provide returning OFWs services as free food or accom-modation, job placement or referral, competency assess-ment and certification, busi-ness loan assistance, and legal counseling.

TESDA together with the Philippine Overseas Employ-ment Administration (POEA), Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), Na-tional Reintegration Center for OFWs (NRCO), Bureau of Local Employment (BLE), Bureau of

Workers with Special Con-cerns (BWSC), International Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB), and Financial Management Service (FMS) will be fielding their respective personnel to the Assist WELL Centers.

The e-Assist WELL is a sin-gle data base system for regis-tering returning/repatriated OFWs to facilitate the efficient servicing and monitoring of Assist WELL services provid-ed to them.

At the inauguration of the Assist WELL Center at the PST Hall of the POEA Building in Mandaluyong City last Febru-ary 5, Labor Secretary Rosa-linda Baldoz explained that the program is an initiative of the Office of the President to institutionalize the services provided to returning OFWs.

“The Assist WELL centers offer a one-stop shop of wel-fare, employment, legal and livelihood assistance for OFW repatriates,” she said.

Assistance to returning OFWs can start before they enter the country, as the con-cerned Philippine Overseas Labor Office or Philippine Embassy, through the OWWA, processes their profiles and determines their needs.

Upon their arrival, they will be provided assistance at the airport. OFWs may also approach the nearest Assist WELL Center to avail of the services.

DOLE estimates that around 1.7 million document-ed OFWs may be displaced in the Middle East. However, it also stated that there are enough positions available lo-cally and in other internation-al markets. (PNA)

ACCUSATION. PASAKA secretary general Jong Monzon tells reporters yesterday he believes the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) was behind the fire that razed two dormitory buildings and several shanties inside the UCCP Haran compound. Lean Daval Jr.

Ayup was in Davao City for the Brunei, Darussalam-In-donesia-Malaysia-Philippines East Asean Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) Strategic Plan-ning Meeting from Tuesday to Friday.

The four-day meeting was attended by more than 200

technical officials and private sector representatives from BIMP-EAGA member coun-tries to determine and facili-tate programs, projects, and partnerships that will further the growth within the sub-re-gion. (Antonio L. Colina IV / MindaNews)

dents, the Bachelor of Laws offers two (2) curricula: the five- year program for those who cannot attend classes every day and the four- year curriculum for the non- work-ing students. The five-year curriculum requires students to attend classes from Friday to Sunday.

The JMC College Of Law was conceived from the long held dream of School Found-ing President Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy to become a law-

yer. However, he was direct-ed to another vocation and became a great international evangelist. For Pastor Qui-boloy, he might not be what he dreamed to be, but the es-tablishment of the College of Law is already a fulfillment of his desire to contribute to the legal profession. He believes that producing best lawyers who stand for principle, are ethical and socially responsi-ble is a great contribution to the Philippine society.

a bill seeking to institutionalize the 20 percent student fare discount in PUVs during Satur-days, Sundays, Christmas vaca-tions and other holidays.

The Board is currently re-viewing and revising its MC and expects the revised copy to be finalized by next month. (PNA)

breed of young innovators, informed netizens, proactive volunteers, social entrepre-neurs who today enjoy the gift of freedom and thrive in the democratic space we won back through peoplepower,” she added.

Martial law survivor and former Senator Aquilino Pi-mentel Jr. noted today’s Fil-ipino youth must treasure such gifts as these were hard-earned.

“During martial law, many people suffered torture, death and curtailment of freedom,” he recalled.

Marcos assumed the presidency in 1965 and was reelected in 1969 to the coun-try’s highest post. He declared martial law on Sept. 21, 1972.

“It was government’s con-stitutional action to defend our democracy from the threat of communist rebellion then,”

said former Senator Francisco Tatad Jr., Marcos’ information chief at the time.

Among the highlights of the people power revolution’s 30th anniversary is the open-ing of the People Power Expe-riential Museum which aims helping educate the youth about martial law and the EDSA uprising.

Abrera noted the museum combines elements of theater, cinema, photography and oth-er allied arts to recreate the experience of martial law and Filipinos’ struggle to end this.

Aside from the museum, she said activities government planned for Thursday include EDSA-themed games, contests and other festivities for young people and their elders to en-joy.

“It’s nice to recall what happened 30 years ago,” she added. (PNA)

(RRP) facility, from year-ago’s 16.8 percent.

The debt rater noted that with the expected strong rise of Philippine banks’ consum-er lending, the financials in-stitutions’ asset quality could weaken and credit cost could rise.

The situation is, on the other hand, seen to also strengthen banks’ net interest margins vis-a-vis the increase of the share of higher-yielding consumer loans.

“However, the increase is from a low base, and the im-pact on margins will likely be

gradual. Moreover, increasing competition and the high cost-to-income ratio of these banks are likely to limit profitability gains,” the statement said.

S&P also expects domestic interest rates to go up this year, which may prompt banks to book marked-to-market loss-es on fixed-rate government securities.

“We believe the combi-nation of sound capital and funding profiles is an endur-ing strength of the Philippine banking system and will con-tinue to underpin bank ratings in 2016,” Tan added. (PNA)

THE government must put premium on jump-starting the country’s agriculture

sector, which has been neglected for the past 50 years, according to Liberal Party (LP) vice presiden-tial candidate Leni Robredo.

“Hindi lang tatlumpung taon kundi limampung taon nang nag-durusa ang sektor ng agrikultura, lalo na ang ating magniniyog na hanggang ngayon ay hindi pa rin natitikman ang bunga ng kanilang paghihirap,” said Robredo.

Robredo said Presidential Decree 27 or the “Tenants’ Eman-cipation Act” issued by then Pres-ident Marcos in 1971 failed to im-prove the agriculture sector and

the lives of farmers in the country. In addition, Robredo also

mentioned the P73-billion coco levy fund, which was supposed to uplift the lives of coconut farmers in the country but benefited only some of Marcos’ cronies.

According to the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS), Ro-bredo said coconut farmers are earning just between P16,842 to P23,000 per year, a far cry from the P61,000 average annual net income of an agricultural house-hold.

The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC), for its part, said 41 percent of coconut farm-ers live below the poverty line

while the average income of ordi-nary farmers is just P240 per day, she added.

“Mas maganda siguro kung balik tayo sa basics. Dapat nat-ing i-analyze kung saan tayo nagkulang dahil marami nang ginastos ang pamahalaan para maiangat ang sektor,” said Robre-do.

“Kung mas tutok at mas pin-aigting pa natin ang pagbuhos ng productivity-implementing proj-ects sa agrikultura, kung saan nabibilang ang pinakamahirap nating sektor, mas magkakaroon ng opportunities ang mga mag-sasaka at mangingisda natin ng mas maasahang kabuhayan,” she

added.In the latest GDP report for

2015, the country’s agriculture sector grew by just 1.9 percent, despite a 5.8-percent growth in the economy last year.

“Kung titingnan natin ang da-tos, 1.9% lamang ang growth ng agri sector natin. Kulang pa rin sa pagiging inclusive ang pag-angat ng ekomiya natin dahil walang pagkakataon upang makapag-am-bag ang mga magsasaka at mang-ingisda natin dito,” said Robredo.

However, Robredo said the current administration has been able to accomplish so much to im-prove the agricultural situation in the country. █

nearest fire station in the lo-cality or DOE Mindanao Field Office through telephone number (082) 221-0778.

“With everyone’s concern and vigilance, we can surely help save lives,” she said.

Meanwhile, inquiries can be addressed to DTI-Davao

Region at 4F Mintrade Re-alty Building, corner Mon-teverde and Sales Streets, Davao City. They can also be reached through landline number (082) 224-0511, lo-cal 417 and 420 (Consumer Protection Services Division). DTI11/WDG/jmm

Leni: Neglect in agriculture started in Martial Law


HISTORY

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Davao City:Martial Law rebel hotbedand ‘killing fields’AT the height of the com-

munist struggle, which later metamorphosed

into an insurgent struggle, Davao City was known by many names, some copycats of rebellious themes from cin-ema, and the fusion of place-names of unstable regions in order to highlight an actual situation.

Agdao, the heart of in-surgency in the city, was chris-tened ‘Nicaragdao’, after Nica-ragua which, at the time, was embroiled in a political conflict between the leftist Sandinistas and that country’s ruling elite. Mandug , a barangay in Bu-hangin District just 14 kilome-ters from City Hall, was called “Mandugua.”

As a whole, the city was likened to a ‘killing fields’, tak-en from a title of a movie about millions of civilians killed by the murderous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia soon after the communists defeated the cor-rupt regime.

True enough, areas like Buhangin, Talomo, Calinan, Tibungco, and Diversion Road became preferred dumping grounds of “salvaged” indi-viduals suspected as military assets, rebel sympathizers, communist organizers, or mistakenly identified persons. “Salvage” was another word for summary killing.

This spate of killings would give rise to the ‘Alsa Masa’ (Rise, masses!), an an-ti-communist movement in Davao City, and the Nagkahiu-sang Katawhan Alang sa Kali-naw (United People for Peace), in Davao del Sur.

Campus activistsThere was no shortage of

activists in Davao region when martial law was proclaimed.

Names like Zafiro L. Re-spicio, later OIC-mayor of Davao City; student leader Melqui Perez; and Danilo C. Dayanghirang, now Davao City councilor, were few of the re-vered names of activism inside the protest-wracked Univer-sity of Mindanao (UM), all of them figuring in history-mak-ing struggles against a dicta-

torship.But the strongest but si-

lent protests did not happen in the streets; they occurred in sectarian campuses, theologi-cal institutions, parishes, coun-tryside chapels, safe houses, congregational domiciles, and religious facilities, and the dis-senters came from all walks of life.

This was at time when different ideas fused, from Karl Marx’s ‘The Communist Man-ifesto’, Fr. Paulo Freire’s ‘Ped-agogy of the Oppressed’, and the influence of theological revolution started to permeate the consciousness of students who, in no time, were drawn to the anti-Marcos sentiment that overnight spread like wild fire, transforming agrarian commu-nities into hotbeds.

The abuses committed under a tyrannical rule pro-duced student leaders who, in later years, would become martyrs of democracy and icons of the underground movement.

Rich family’s scionDavao-born Eduardo

“Taking” E. Lanzona, who came from a famous family, was the major wick that transformed the Ateneo de Davao campus, his alma mater, into a center of student protests among Catho-lic-run educational institutions.

Armed with a graduate di-ploma from the Ateneo de Ma-nila University, he took delight in discussing philosophical and political issues, a penchant that encouraged him to join stu-

dent activism and the Samah-ang Demokratiko ng Kabataan (SDK) in Manila.

His influence, though, was beyond debating. As soon as he returned to Davao City, he linked with Ateneo friends and urged them to take the cause of oppressed farmers and pursue the ‘land to the tiller’ struggle.

As a result, as early as 1969, Lanzona became one of the active figures in the fight for real land reform. Later, he helped organize a union of col-lege professors at Ateneo de Davao and a bank employees’ union at the Bank of the Philip-pine Islands (BPI) in Davao.

When martial law was declared, he resigned from his faculty position at Ateneo de Davao and joined the un-derground movement while surreptitiously moving in and out of the city to link with his family and evading the military sleuths.

As a key leader in the unit-ed front organization, his influ-ence further expanded. But this was cut short, on Jan. 17, 1975, when he was arrested with four others by suspected mili-tary elements at Nabunturan, Compostela Valley Province. They were tortured and later executed.

DisappearedReared in the confines

of Davao Penal Colony where his father was a former pris-on official, Modesto C. Sison was a teacher at Maryknoll High School, in Sigaboy, Davao Oriental, when he joined the Khi-Rho, a UP Los Baños move-ment of young people con-cerned with peasant causes that was then new in Mindan-ao. Khi-Rho was said to be the youth branch of the Federation of Free Farmers, which like the Federation of Free Workers, was supported by the Catholic Church at the time.

Later, as his advocacies flourished, he became the orga-nization’s Mindanao coordina-

tor, organizing farmers to join protests in the years leading to the proclamation of martial law.

Four years later, he and his family moved to Silang, Cavite, where he again taught. On the side, he continued his political work by organizing chapters of Khi Rho in South-ern Luzon with an aim to bring down the dictatorship. He later left his job to become fulltime organizer.

Sison’s disappearance in late July 1977 alarmed his wife when he failed to attend his son’s birthday, prompting a frantic search in military camps and places he frequent-ed. Later, reports came in to confirm that Sison was arrest-ed in Makati, along with several activists.

Weeks after his disap-pearance, a newspaper re-ported an encounter between government troops and guer-rillas of the New People’s Army (NPA), in Quezon province. One of those killed was Modesto. His remains were later ex-humed from a mass graveyard at Mauban, Quezon on Sept. 28, 1977 and were buried at the Loyola Memorial Park in Sucat, Parañaque.

Feisty labor leaderA staunch anti-Marcos

labor unionist, Cebu-born Rudolfo A. Fernandez, Sr. (1927–1979), who dreamed of becoming a boxer, was founder of Davao Port General & Transport Workers’ Union (DPGTWU) in Davao City and co-founder of Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) and Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU).

After leaving his studies in Cebu, he migrated to Davao City where he worked in a stevedoring business with his brother, and pursued law at the International Harvardian University (IHU). He worked as stenographer, labor organizer, Philippine Labor Express col-umnist, radio reporter, and pri-vate secretary before quitting college due to a growing family.

While immersed deep-er in the labor movement, his name also started to gain cur-rency among unions. At DP-GTWU, he pursued the mission of “stamping out all forms of oppression against local work-ers and educate them of their basic legal rights and on orga-nized labor.”

Due to his hardhitting criticisms against the Marcos

dictatorship, the military raid-ed his residence at Talomo in 1973, and the following day was searched for supposed hidden arsenal of guns in his house, which the authorities failed to find.

He joined politics in 1978 as sectoral representative of the Industrial Sector in the Interim Batasan Pambansa, but his bid failed. He became active in the international labor movement but this cost him his health. On June 9, 1979, while on a vis-it to his daughter in Cebu, he suffered a severe stroke at the tarmac. His remains are at the Davao Memorial Park.

Farmer’s sonDavao-born Alfredo L.

Malicay conducted his an-ti-Marcos activities mainly outside his hometown, but his assassination by military op-eratives would fuel the enlist-ment of his three brothers in the insurgency movement in Southern Mindanao.

A scholar, poet, and edi-tor-in-chief while enrolled at the UP College of Agriculture in Los Baños, Laguna, his first involvement as an activist was with the Kabataang Maka-bayan (KM), where he became one of its organizers. Later, he became a member and officer of the Upsilon Sigma Phi, a fra-ternity with nationalistic and progressive leanings.

Malibay’s area of recruit-ment covered key schools in Southern Tagalog and in com-munities around the campus; he also worked with SDK fig-ures in launching campus cam-paigns urging students to get involved in issues of academic freedom, high tuition fees, and lack of student participation in campus decision-making.

Instead of finding work after graduation, Malicay be-came a full-time organizer. He returned to school in 1972 but this was cut short by military rule, which made him the bea-con of small anti-dictatorship groups determined to launch fight and topple the dictator-ship.

In mid-1973, as the series of arrests poised against the activists intensified, the intel-ligence teams cornered him in a safe house where he met colleagues in Malabon, Rizal. Three were arrested during the raid, including beauty queen Nelia Sancho. He was later shot and killed.

Fearless defenderLaurente C. Ilagan is best

remembered as one of the pro-

gressive lawyers from Davao City to courageously confront the Marcos dictatorship at its height.

At the top of his Ateneo de Davao law class, Larry was an excellent corporate lawyer married to Rep. Luz Ilagan of Gabriela party-list, when he was drawn to the realities of activism.

When President Ferdi-nand E. Marcos declared mar-tial law, he was barely a few months in his law practice. But the crackdown against ac-tivists, which led to him being asked as pro bono legal coun-sel, changed his life. At the risk of his family, life and career, he became the only lawyer in Davao City to bravely face the dictatorship in courts.

In 1975, he became the legal counsel of Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) in Davao City and was associated with the Free Le-gal Assistance Group (FLAG),

giving him the exposure that would expand his growing body of human rights work.

Ilagan handled cases of bombing victims and put on trial military men. On the side, he showed young lawyers that it was still possible to give good and intelligent counsel to peo-ple working for justice and oth-er political issues. His reputa-tion as a fearless lawyer soared.

At the tail-end of martial rule, he was arrested in a cof-fee shop on May 5, 1985 and brought to Camp Catitipan for his involvement in the Welgang Bayan, which was held four days earlier. The protest action paralyzed economic activities in the city and other parts of Mindanao.

That same day, two oth-er lawyers, Antonio Arellano and Marcos Risonar, both col-leagues, were arrested and the three were flown to Camp Bicutan, in Manila, where they were incarcerated for months. They were returned to Camp Catitipan in January 1986 with an escape plan in mind. But the People Power revolt, which led to Marcos’ downfall, negated the plan.

Ilagan briefly served a Davao City legal officer in 2001 but was diagnosed of lung can-cer. One of his undying legacy is the Ilagan Doctrine, a legal principle named after him. (A separate story about the “Davao 3” lawyers is found in another page of this supple-ment. - The editors) (To be continued)

By Antonio V. Figueroa

Atty. Laurente Ilagan

Atty. Zafiro L. Respicio

Eduardo ‘Taking’ E. Lanzona

Teacher Modesto C. Sison

Labor leader Rudolfo A. Fernandez, Sr.

Atty. Antonio Arellano today

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ART FAIRPHILIPPINESTHE PHILIPPINES’ LARGEST CON-TEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL was held last February 18 to 21 at the Link carpark in Makati City and as luck may have it, I was in the area so I decided to visit and breathe in some much needed culture and inspiration.

One of the highlights of Arts Month, Art Fair Philippines is a must see in the February arts calen-dar. Composed of 40 gal-leries in over 6,000 square meters of space, the fourth iteration of Art Fair Phil-ippines is bigger than ever and puts the spotlight on the country’s contempo-rary art scene with some old favourites, new faces as well as surprises in ev-ery bend. Aside from Manila’s established art galler-ies such as Altro Mondo, Arte Contemporanea, West Gallery, MO_Space, Crucible Gallery, Pinto

Art Gallery, Finale Art File, Silverlens, Vinyl on Vinyl, and more, art gal-leries from Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan also joined the exhibition giv-ing art buffs a wider range

Nona Garcia’s giant photorealistic Sea of Clouds.

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SM’s ‘Art for Everyone’ opens in SM Lanang Premier

Time to stock up and save! Dash off to the SM Babies’ BABY SALE and grab those comfy layettes and trendy outfits for your tiny ones at a very affordable prices. Great finds and freebies await you at the Infants’ Wear Department of The SM Store nationwide from March 1 to April 3.

SM SUPERMALLS CELE-BRATES UP-AND-COM-ING AND ESTABLISHED FILIPINO ARTISTS in a two-day art fair entitled “Art for Everyone” on February 27 to 28, 2016 at SM Lanang Premier and at 5 other se-lected malls – SM City North EDSA, SM Megamall, SM Aura, SM Southmall, and SM City Cebu. The event is held in support of National Arts Month on its 25th year since it was first declared via Presidential Proclamation No. 683 in 1991 While SM has been consistently supporting cultural and art events for years now, “Art for Everyone” is being held simultaneously in these six malls for the first time. It fea-tures artworks created by artists of various backgrounds, featuring dif-ferent styles and media. “Our local artists deserve to be seen more because of the kind of

contribution their masterpieces make to our national culture and history. At the same time, the pub-lic can learn from these artists and appreciate good art in malls around the country,” says SM Supermalls Senior Vice President Joaquin San Agustin. “We want to be the con-duit that connects our artists to a bigger audience, starting with our regular mall goers.” The “Art for Everyone” exhibits are in collaboration and consulta-tion with Dr. Patrick Flores and Ms. Louise Marcelino of the University of the Philippines Vargas Museum and Mr. Peter Natividad of the Lo-pez Museum. The shows are open to the public, with featured art pieces available for purchase during the two-day exhibit. “The exhibit at SM is another op-portunity to broaden the public’s access to contemporary art… It opens another platform for artists to present their recent works in a venue that attracts a large number

of audiences,” notes Dr. Flores. In SM Lanang Premier, it’s going to be a 3-day “Art for Everyone” at The Atrium as it extends until Feb-ruary 29 in celebration of SM Super-malls’ 30th Anniversary. Philippine Arts Awardee Mr. Rodney Yap will curate a variety of uniquely beauti-ful art pieces from homegrown tal-ents, namely: Guhit Pinas Davao, Tabula Rasa, Romeo Dumuk, Banjo Satorre, Jeff Bangot, Anoy Catague, Julius Lu, Reneboy Chona, Arnel Navarro, Michael Bauzon, Dave Ibao, Bryan Cabrera, Eloisa San-son, Lauren Velez, Ava Pajaron, and Kevin Becira. The public is invited to visit the exhibit and catch the 30-minute live art session of ten participating art-ists on February 29 as a tribute to 30 amazing years of shopping and lifestyle in SM. For more details, contact 285-0943 or check out SM Lanang Pre-mier on Facebook, Twitter and Ins-tagram.

LOVE IS IN THE AIR all month long at Abree-za Mall, as heart-inspired works by Davao’s young artistic talents keep the spirit of Valentine’s flow-ing throughout February. On February 20, Fine Arts students from the University of Mindanao gathered at the mall entrance near Starbucks to bring to life a plain, gigan-tic heart installation with their own interpretation of love: a man and a woman with a child nestled between them, both holding waling-waling blooms. To describe their concept, the students stated: “Love is an ab-stract emotion that comes in many forms. Love for your fam-ily, your friends, your soulmate, your children. Love for our country, our natural resources, our cultural heritage, our city… Davao City: Love Is Here.” Making the live art session an even bigger painting party was a group of young Davao artists who also came up with their own heartworks on canvas; namely, Kevin Marie Becira, Clyde Jason Laudato, Patricia Lauren Velez, Troy Bascon, Ramcez Arvic Vil-legas, Kim Vale, Jan Francis Ra-niel Jimenez, Juliana Hellmuth, and Paul Labang. Their works are also on showcase near the giant heart installation. Abreeza Mall’s live heart painting spectacle is part of Ayala Malls’ heART Series proj-ect launched on February 12, which sees similar heart instal-lations in Ayala Malls nation-wide painted over by various

artists with different artistic styles: Mercedes Olondriz and Alessandra Lanot for Glorietta; Camy Francisco-Cabral for Market! Market!; The Googly-Gooeys for Serendra; Francis Libiran for Greenbelt; Dee Jae Pa’este for Bonifacio High Street; Bambi Manosa and Kids4Kids, Sam Galvez-Lorenzo of Village Art Gallery, and Patrick Cabral of Bucketfeet for Alabang Town Center; Kris Abrigo, Egg Fiasco, and Seikon for TriNoma; Drone for UP Town Center; EXL D for Fairview Terraces; Electrolychee for Marquee Mall; Farley Del Rosario for Harbor Point Mall; and Tripp 63, Chill, BLIC, and

Fine Arts students of the Adven-tist University of the Philippines for Solenad, Serin and The Dis-trict Imus. Abreeza Mall encourages shoppers to take a selfie at the heart installation near Star-bucks for a chance to win Seda Abreeza Hotel prizes. Just post your selfie on Instagram, share what you love about Abreeza Mall in the caption, tag @il-oveabreezamall, and use the hashtags #AbreezaMall, #IL-oveAyalaMalls, #LovEmExpres-sions, and #LovEmHearts. The users with the three best entries win an overnight stay, a dinner for two, or a breakfast for two at Seda Abreeza Hotel. The contest runs until March 6. For inquiries and updates on Abreeza Mall news and events, please visit the Main Concierge at the ground floor or call (082) 321-9332. Stay updated by liking www.facebook.com/Abreeza-Mall and following @abreeza-tweets on Twitter and @ilove-abreezamall on Instagram.

Local artists showcase their heARTworks at Abreeza Mall


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C O M E D I E N N E S P O K W A N G AND MELAI C A N T I V E R O S will team up for the first time to show viewers the beauty of life and friendship in ABS-CBN’s newest primetime teleserye “We Will Survive,” which starts airing on Monday. Pokwang and Melai will portray two childhood friends who grew up in Bicol who, despite having different personalities, are brought together by life’s unfair certainties and painful experiences. It will be produced by the team behind feel-good dramas “Be Careful With My Heart,” “Dream Dad,” and “Ningning” – all helmed by veteran director Jeffrey Jeturian. “That’s how life is, right? No matter what we go through, whatever tragedy we

face, we Filipinos will survive,” said Pokwang. “Viewers need to watch this because it’s a unique offering on primetime. They will get inspiration and good vibes from the program,” pahayag ni Melai. Get to know Wilma (Pokwang), a reserved beauty salon worker and the breadwinner of her family. She faces one of the biggest challenges in her life when her boyfriend leaves her

because she is not yet ready to commit to marriage because of her family. Meanwhile, Maricel (Melai) is a bubbly and charming manager at a hotel who lost her parents at an early age and was raised by her grandmother. She experiences her first heartbreak when she finds out that her first boyfriend is gay. But together, they will support each other and recover from their

personal disasters. What other challenges will test Wilma and Maricel’s friendship? Amidst all of these, will they still be able to firmly tell each other “we will survive”? Also joining Pokwang and Melai in “We Will Survive” are Josh De Guzman, Carlo Aquino, Jeric Raval, Bea Saw, Regine Angeles, Viveika Ravanes, Bing Davao, Alcris Galura, Maris Racal, Joshua Zamora, McCoy De Leon, and Vangie Labalan. Don’t miss the premiere of “We Will Survive,” the teleserye that however ugly the world gets, there is beauty in life as long as we are together, this Monday (Feb 29) before “TV Patrol” on ABS-CBN Primetime Bida. For updates, like w w w.facebook .com/WeWillSurviveTV or follow @wewillsurviveTV on Twitter and Instagram.

VALENTINES DAY may be over but love continues to linger in the air this February. Discover more reasons to fall in love all over again with SKY’s romantic offerings exclusively on SKYcable Pay-Per-View. Experience a romantic moment with two blockbuster hits right in the comforts of home. A Second Chance features the continuing love story of Popoy and Basha which takes off from the original movie, One More Chance. This time, the couple gets married and vows to love each other forever. However, the realities of married life doesn’t come in a bed of roses for both Popoy and Basha as they struggle to keep their marriage from falling apart. A Second Chance is directed by Cathy Garcia Molina and stars John Lloyd Cruz as Popoy and Bea Alonzo as Basha. The film became a box office success and was released in various countries worldwide. Find out why love deserves A Second Chance by subscribing within February 15 to March 12 to enjoy 3-day unlimited viewing in for only

P199 on Channel 704 in high definition and on Channel 21 in standard definition. In Everyday I Love You, catch the story of three individuals caught in a love triangle as they strive to find

true love. Audrey Locsin (Liza Soberano), a hopeless romantic, believes that it is possible to find forever. She is in a relationship with Tristan Montelibano (Gerald Anderson), who is a laid-back

haciendero from Bacolod. While the latter was in a coma, she falls in love with Ethan Joseph Alfaro (Enrique Gil), an ambition-driven TV executive from Manila. Audrey finds herself in the midst of making a tough decision: to love the man of her dreams or choosing the man who makes her dreams come true. Experience forever in Everyday I Love You and subscribe within February 15 to 27 to enjoy 3-day unlimited viewing in High Definition right in the comforts of home for only P199. Watch it in high definition on Channel 702 and standard definition on Channel 22. SKY continues to offer

viewers with diverse options to enjoy TV entertainment with its value and premium service offerings. Only SKYcable provides quality home entertainment with the widest range of standard and high definition channels and other top-of-the-line services such as flexible subscription options via SELECT, iRECORD that records, pauses, and rewinds live TV, as well as real-time coverage of live concerts and sporting events via FREE VIEW and PAY-PER-VIEW. To subscribe and to know more about SKYcable, log on to www.mysky.com.ph, text SMS hotline 23662, or call the 24-hour customer service hotline 305-5456.

Fall in love with SKY’s romantic offerings

Pokwang, Melai team up to show beauty of friendship in ‘We Will Survive’


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of works to appreciate and enjoy. Aside from the usual art fair visitors who are there to look for the next big thing, the event also allows various people such as art-ists, curators, academics, dealers, socialites, tourists, families, and students to come together in an inter-esting mix of people that is reflective of the country’s “general public.” Although one can see the occasional master such as modernist Arturo Luz,

impressionist Betsy Wes-tendorp, and sculptor Ra-mon Orlina, the fair is all about exposing as well as finding new talents to the art hungry public. Artsist such as Mark Justiniani with his installations of never-ending tunnels and Nona Garcia’s giant pho-torealistic Sea of Clouds are huge crowd drawers. Some interactive installa-tions are less obvious but are also interesting none-theless such as Pam Yam Santos piece which invites you to kick off your shoes

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Admiring an installation made entirely of pencils by Ling Quisumbing Ramilo.

Young visitors check out a wall of artworks at the Art Fair Philippines.

E.J Cabangon’s Betty Boop.

Felix Bacolor teases the viewer with images and sculptures of pigs.

Pam Yam Santos‘ installation invites you to kick off your shoes and step into the artwork itself.

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and step into the installa-tion itself. Aside from the galler-ies, there are also ArtTalks with topics as diverse as Art Insurance, Under-

standing Installation Art Materials, Curating Cor-porate Collections, and Photography Today. There are also tours that went beyond the Link which

takes participants to the National Museum of the Philippines, UP Vargas Museum, Ateneo Art Gal-lery, Lopez Museum and Library, and the Ayala

Museum. Art Fair Philippines did live up to its hype and I would suggest that you plan ahead for next year’s iteration.

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ALMOST UNSTOPPABLE. Alyssa Valdez (2) of Ateneo de Manila University delivers another point for the Lady Spikers over the outstretched arms of Adamson’s defensive line in this bit of action in the ongoing UAAP Volleyball tournament. Valdez led Ateneo to a league-leading 5-0 start this season.

THE starters had a good workout and the re-serves got some much

needed exposure as Ateneo made short work of Univer-sity of the East, 25-12, 25-10, 25-10, on Wednesday for its sixth win in as many matches in the UAAP Season 78 wom-en’s volleyball tournament at The Arena in San Juan.

Jhoana Maraguinot scored 12 and skipper Alyssa Valdez had 10 points as the Lady Eagles needed only 58 minutes to extend their win

run to 24 matches. Ateneo is unbeaten since the Season 76 finals.

The quick win was also a big boost for Ateneo ahead of the much anticipated show-down with top rival La Salle on Saturday.

“Everyone played well today, everyone contributed not only ‘yung nasa first six but coach Tai (Bundit) used ‘yung nasa second stringers,” said Valdez, noting that 10 players were able to score.

Bea de Leon scored eight,

Maddie Madayag had seven points, Jia Morado chipped in with six, Kim Gequillana had four points, while Amy Ahomiro, Jenelle Lo, Pauline and Therese Gaston also scored.

“Every game sino ba namang coach ang sasabihin sayo na to take your opponent lightly, wala naman coach o player ang papasok sa isang game not thinking of the goal of the team,” she added.

Ateneo limited the entire UE squad to just eight attacks.

The Lady Warriors absorbed their sixth loss of the season and 51st overall.

“I hope masaya siya (coach) kasi napaglaro niya ‘yung mga bata to build up confidence also for the team and it’s really a learning expe-rience for everyone,” she said.

“Kasi hindi lang din naman kami ang naglaro, pati ang mga bata, so it’s a learning experience for us kasi kailan-gan namin ng experience pa sa upcoming games pa, which is sa Saturday,” she added.

THE second Regional Selec-tion Camp of the Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA Philippines 2015

moves to Davao City this weekend after it took off in Baguio on Feb-ruary 20 and 21.

The Jr. NBA /Jr. WNBA pro-gram, now on its ninth consec-utive staging in the Philippines, will reach more than 700 schools and communities nationwide this year.

During the 2015-16 season, the Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA program will reach more than 6.5 million youth in 32 countries. More than 26,000 players and 2,000 coaches have participated in the program since its launch in 2007.

The program has four stag-es: skills clinics in schools and communities, Regional Selection Camps, a National Training Camp and an NBA experience trip.

The skills clinics are held nationwide from January to April in Bukidnon, Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, Dagupan, Davao, Iloilo, Met-

ro Manila and Puerto Princesa, and for the first time in Batangas, Catanduanes and Cavite. Select players from the clinics have the opportunity to showcase their skills and try out for the Regional Selection Camps in Baguio (Feb. 20-21), Davao (Feb. 27-28), Cebu (March 5-6) and Metro Manila (April 9-10).

The top 50 boys and 24 girls from the Regional Selection Camps will advance to the Nation-al Training Camp in Manila April 22-24.

An NBA and WNBA player or legend will be in Manila at the National Training Camp to help train and inspire the finalists. The program will select 10 Jr. NBA and five Jr. WNBA All-Stars who will travel on an overseas NBA expe-rience trip together with fellow Jr. NBA All-Stars from Southeast Asia. Past Jr. NBA All-Stars trav-eled to San Francisco, New York, Beijing, Hongkong, Shanghai, Los Angeles and Shenzhen. █

DEFENDING champion Can-lubang and arch rival Luisita renew their storied rivalry at

the start of the Philippine Airlines Seniors Interclub golf team cham-pionships Thursday at the Mimosa Golf and Country Club.

The two rivals have divided the titles evenly since 2000, each winning eight. This year won’t be an exception.

Tommy Manotoc and Eddie Bagtas, who figured in a tie for the individual title last year in Cebu City, will sit out the first round to be played at the tougher Mountain-view layout.

Canlubang is fielding national seniors champion Abraham Avena, Rene Unson, Mari Hechanova and Dave Hernandez.

Philippine Sports Commis-sion chairman Richie Garcia and Pepot Inigo will team up with fresh recruits Jingy Tuason and Chito Laureta for Luisita.

The 19-time champion Luisita made a minor revamp of its lineup by recruiting three new players, an addition not lost on Manotoc.

“They’re young,” exclaimed Manotoc. “Luisita is definitely stronger. If you take a look at our team, we’re older.”

Avena, the national seniors champion, is returning for Can-lubang following a car accident last year that prevented him from play-ing in Cebu.

If Avena plays according to form, Canlubang can match up with Luisita’s first round lineup.

Aside from the championship division, the Founders and Aviator will be played at the Mountainview. Action in the Sportswriters and Friendship classes gets going at the Acacia and Lakeview.

A total of 94 teams are entered in the 30th staging of the seniors’ event, prelude to the 69th PAL Reg-ular Men’s Interclub next week. █

REIGNING league MVP Ste-phen Curry and guard Klay Thompson combined for 75

points as the Golden State Warriors rallied to beat Miami 118-112 for their 14th win in the last 15 games.

Curry finished with 42 points, seven assists and seven rebounds to lead Golden State’s offensive jug-gernaut which recently became the quickest team in NBA history to 50 wins.

“That’s Steph and Klay and that’s what they do,” said Warriors coach Steve Kerr. “When they both do it on the same night that is when we are tough to beat.”

The Warriors lead the league in three point accuracy and nobody does it better than Curry. He tied an NBA record Wednesday with his 127th straight game with a three-pointer.

The milestone basket came on his first points of the contest in front of a crowd of 19,900 at Mi-ami’s AmericanAirlines Arena. Cur-ry can pass Atlanta Hawks forward Kyle Korver for the record with an-other three pointer when the War-riors visit Orlando on Thursday.

Thompson had a streak of 15 straight Warriors points in the fourth quarter.

“We are moving the ball and TANGLED UP. Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade and Golden State Warriors' Leandro Barbosa get tangled up during their game at the American Airlines Arena yesterday.


Lady Eagles make short work of UE

Splash Brothers cool off Heatplaying unselfish,” said Thompson. “It is contagious. It is beautiful bas-ketball and fun to watch.”

The Warriors also got 10 points and 11 rebounds from for-ward Draymond Green.

The Heat were led by guard Dwyane Wade’s 32 points -- his second 30-plus game this season.

The Heat also got 21 points and 13 rebounds from centre Hassan Wh-iteside and a career-high 15 points from guard Josh Richardson.

The Warriors have now won four straight over the Heat who suffered just their fourth loss in their last 13 and their first since the all-star break.

- Frye sizzles as Cavs burn Hornets -

Elsewhere, LeBron James rebounded from one of his worst games of the season to score 23 points and Channing Frye came off the bench to score 15 points as the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Char-lotte Hornets 114-103.

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ALL the three teams from Davao City except for La-nang are seeing action

in the newest division of the on-going Philippine Airlines Senior Interclub golf tourna-ment at the Mimosa Golf and Country Club in Clark, Pam-panga.

Rancho Palos Verdes, Apo and Davao City golf clubs are bunched in the Aviator Divi-sion while Lanang is at the Founders division.

As of press time, Rancho Palos made its presence felt by scoring 116 in the opening day. Team captain Jose Marfori and Modesto “Ting” Castillo both fired 42 points while rookie Martin Sara added 32.

Abe Dizon’s 29 did not count in the four-to play three-to count format.

“We will play again tomor-row with the same players. Sana tuloy-tuloy na ito,” said the 66-year old Marfori, who birdied the par 3 hole no. 3.

Castillo, who shot 21 in the front nine also had a lone bird-ie at the par 5 hole no. 5.

Marfori made a good start by scoring 26 points after the first nine holes but slowed down in the back nine.

“Mahirap yung back nine. Very tricky ang greens,” said Marfori.

Rancho Palos’s other four players are Faisal Samanodi, Archie Moralison, Kang Ho-bong and Hermie Martin, who

replaced lawyer Manny Ni-torreda.

Davao City led by Second District City Councilor Jimmy Dureza tallied 111 points. Du-reza shot 41 points while Boy Napoleon and comebacking Anthony Sasin sizzled with 36 and 34 points, respectively.

Leonilo Dalut’s 31 did not count.

The other half of the Mati-na-based golfers are Jose Daig-digan, Ederlino Aceron, Isagani Gascal and Benhur Villarosa.

Apo, on the other hand, tallied 110 from Soc Cadayona (41), Celso Villegas (36) and Candelario Miculob (33). Lucio Horfilla’s 32 did not count.

The other Apo play-ers are Alrey Ceniza, Carlito Dublan, Eugenio Serado and Joe Tesado.

Lanang headed by Bobby Dakudao was still playing as of press time. The other Senior divisions for 55 years old and above are the Championship, Sports-writer, Friendship and International.

A total of 94 teams are entered in the 30th staging of the seniors’ event, prelude to the 69th PAL Regular Men’s Interclub next week.

The 69th PAL In-terclub is sponsored by

People Asia, Travelife, Mareco Broadcasting Network (Cross-over), Manila Broadcasting Corporation, Airbus, Business Mirror and Philippine National Bank.

Other supporters are Phil-ippine Daily Inquirer, Inquirer.net, Plantation Bay Resort and Spa, Tanduay Distillers, Asia Brewery, Splash Corporation, RFM Corporation, Goldilocks, Eastgate Publishing Corpo-ration, Robinsons Land and Rolls-Royce.

LINE OF PUTT. Modesto "Ting" Castillo of Rancho Palos Verdes studies his putt at hole no. 15 in Day 1 of the PAL Interclub Seniors

golf tournament at the Mimosa Golf and Country Club in Clark, Pampanga. Castillo carded 42 points as RPV tallied 116 in the

Aviator Division. (Photo by BOY LIM)

COMEBACK. Anthony Sasin of Davao City Golf Club is making his comeback in the on-going Philippine Airlines Interclub Seniors golf tournament at the Mimosa Golf and Country Club in Clark, Pampanga. (POOL PHOTO)

3 Davao teams clash in new groupPAL INTERCLUB

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