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When Spain issued a law that eases up on abortion

in 2010, the world was shocked. Abortion, the law said, can be done on indi-viduals as young as 16 or 17 years old “without restric-tion” – for up to 14 weeks of pregnancy.

In the Philippines, the news stirred a ruckus. Af-ter all, it was Spain who brought Christianity into the country. Many Catho-lics in the country were sur-prised why Spain legalized abortion.

Since 1930, abortion has been a crime under Philippine law. The 1987 Philippine Constitution fur-ther underlines this when it stated that the State “shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the unborn from concep-tion.”

“The Philippine law on abortion is among the most restrictive in the world, as it contains no express provi-sion for any kind of exemp-tion from criminal liability,” one lawyer commented. This silence of the law on any exception has a chill-ing effect to medical prac-titioners and thus imperils women’s lives.

But despite the restric-tive legal regime, abortion is widely resorted to by wom-en faced with unplanned pregnancies. every year, more than 60,000 Filipinas are reported to have been injured from illegal abor-

tion, with 1,000 dying from complications. The Gene-va-based World health Organization (WhO) puts annual abortions at nearly 800,000, one of the highest rates of unsafe abortions in Asia.

Actually, there are two types of abortion: therapeu-tic and selective. In medical parlance, therapeutic abor-tion means terminating the pregnancy of a woman if it threatens her life, and the fetus is not viable ex utero.

Therapeutic abortion is done is any of these situ-ations: when there is a risk of maternal survival caused by the embryo and when the pregnancy impairs ma-ternal life.

“One situation that I can think of wherein the life of the mother is in danger is ectopic pregnancy,” says Dr. nelly Quintin-Dela Cruz, a consultant in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Manila Doctors hospital. “This may endanger the life of the mother especially if it ruptures inside and cause profuse internal bleeding.”

Selective abortion, on the other hand, is termi-nating a pregnancy due to the fetus having undesir-able characteristics. The reasons for the abortion are due to: fetus being de-fective, fetus is product of a rape, the parent is not ready to have a child, and cultural reasons (like in so-cieties where having a girl is frowned upon, compared to

having a boy).The United nations

considered therapeutic abortion as acceptable, but the Philippines stands firm in its anti-abortion stand. Articles 256, 258 and 259 of the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines man-date imprisonment for the woman who undergoes the abortion, as well as for any person who assists in the procedure, even if they be the woman’s parents, a physician or midwife. Ar-ticle 258 further imposes a higher prison term on the woman or her parents if the abortion is undertaken “in order to conceal (the wom-an’s) dishonor.”

There is no law in the Philippines that expressly authorizes abortions in or-der to save the woman’s life; and the general provisions which do penalize abortion make no qualifications if the woman’s life is endan-gered. It may be argued that an abortion to save the mother’s life could be clas-sified as a justifying circum-stance (duress as opposed to self-defense) that would bar criminal prosecution under the Revised Penal Code. however, this has yet to be adjudicated by the Philippine Supreme Court.

Because abortion is criminalized, a culture of stigma and impunity pre-vails. “I refused to be taken to the hospital,” explains Josie, an abortion survivor. “I was afraid that I would

get imprisoned. I bled for more than a week.”

Two-thirds of Filipino women who have abortions attempt to self-induce or seek solutions from those who practice folk medicine or hilot. Women who abort their fetuses risk a prison sentence of up to six years, while anyone providing help or assisting faces a similar sentence.

Undergoing abortion is sort of a hell. “When she squeezed, it was so painful I wanted to kick her,” said one mother who had an abortion done by a hilot. “I bit the blanket. I wanted to cry but I felt I had to contain myself. The pain was worse than childbirth.”

Dr. Michael L. Tan, au-thor of Abortion: Realities and Responsibilities, says there are many different abortion methods used in the Philippines, to wit:

• Plants and plant preparations. Many of these plants probably do induce contractions of smooth muscles, such as those in the uterus. Some-times, people think the plants work because their menstruation “returns.” In reality, the menstruation was probably only delayed.

• Physical methods. Massage and abdominal pressure are applied by the hilot, or sometimes by the pregnant woman herself. This is a terrible painful method and is dangerous, especially in more advance

pregnancies. The physical pressure is used to induce uterine contractions but these may not be enough to expel the fetus.

• Insertion of cath-eters. Women have been known to insert hangers, brooms, walis tingting. These often lead to infec-tions.

• Dilation and cur-rettage. Usually, this is done with women who had al-ready started the abortion, in which case it is called completion currettage. There are, however, clan-destine clinics that use ras-pa (as it is called locally) to induce an abortion.

• Menstrual regula-tion. This involves the use of suction or vacuum aspi-ration to terminate a very early pregnancy (usually the first few weeks).

• Drugs. There are many Western drugs that people use to attempt to induce an abortion. These include medicines such as quinine, an anti-malarial; methylergometrin, a uter-ine stimulant and metho-trexate, an anti-cancer drug. With some of these drugs, an abortion is actually a side effect. In other cases, the western medicine used may even have the opposite effect on a pregnancy. Bri-canyl (generic name: ter-butaline) is perceived as an abortifacient in large doses but in reality, the drug actu-ally delays labor rather than inducing an abortion.

One widely used drug, misoprostol (Cytotec) is actually a drug used to prevent ulcers but has abortion as a side effect. Because its use as an abor-tifacient is illegal, the drug is used on a trial and error basis, which then creates problems.

According to some studies, 70% of women who use massage or inser-tion of a catheter and 44% of those who use miso-prostol suffer severe com-plications, compared with only 13% who undergo dilation and curettage or manual vacuum aspiration. An estimated 800 women per year die from compli-cations of unsafe abortion.

“Unsafe abortion is a very serious public health issue, a silent scourge,” commented a health office, who oversees the moni-toring of abortion cases and maternal deaths for the health department. he explained that there were attempts to address unsafe abortion through initiatives like more vigor-ous family planning but is almost always opposed by the church and anti-abor-tion groups.

Abortion opponents believe that a reproduc-tive-health bill pending in Congress practically legal-izes abortion. The bill’s in-tention, according to its au-thors, is to empower wom-en to make more informed choices about their body.

DEATH BEFORE BIRTHBy Gerry T. esTrera

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COnTRARy to claims that the Aquino gov-ernment’s Grassroots

Participatory Budgeting Process (GPBP) is a mech-anism designed under the P2.606 Trillion 2015 national budget to repli-cate the controversial Dis-bursement Acceleration Program (DAP), Samar Congressman and Liberal Party Secretary General Mel Senen Sarmiento to-day said that this is actually a cure to some of the key is-sues raised by the Supreme Court in relation to the use of savings in funding un-programmed government projects.

“This claim that the GPBP clone is baseless and

a manifestation of sheer ignorance on this concept called bottom-up budget-ing which now reverses the process in crafting our national budget so that the input of citizenry becomes the basis of our appropria-tions,” Sarmiento noted.

Whereas before, the government designs the budget on the basis of its own perceived budgetary requirement and allows it to trickle down to grass-roots level, the bottom-up budgeting allows grassroot communities to participate in the budget process and make the necessary inputs on what their community really needs.

“Under GPBP, various

sectors in the grassroots level were able to take part in budgetary consultations made by the various local government units so that each city and municipality can identify the needs of their constituents. On this basis, the national govern-ment designs the budget based on inputs from the grassroots,” he said.

“Gone are the days when the government sim-ply puts up something even if this is not what the peo-ple want. This is definitely not a DAP clone. The GPBP, which also known as bot-tom-up budgeting, enables Congress and citizens to better scrutinize the gov-ernment’s spending plan

and can hold departments and agencies accountable for their performance,” he said.

Apart from adopting the bottom-up system of crafting the national bud-get, Sarmiento said that the proposed 2015 Gener-al Appropriations Act has also adopted Performance Informed Budgeting (PIB) which allows proper mon-itoring on the progress of all the listed projects.

It has also adopted Per-formance-Based Incentive System (PBIS) to enhance the government compen-sation and position classi-fication system in order to incentivize performance in

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ATTenTIOn to de-tail is what differ-entiates Damosa

Land, Inc. from other real estate developers. For Damosa Land, it is important to build and maintain strong relation-ships with its residents, as well as amongst its residents. Thus, a series of events will be held at the Damosa Fairlane Continental Club which looks to create strong neighbourhood ties and promote a sense of fami-ly amongst residents.

“All our activities are anchored upon four core values: family, communi-ty relationships, spiritu-ality and social concern. We want to make our homeowners feel that they belong to a nurtur-

ing community. Thus, we make our events com-fortable and welcoming to make them feel that they have found their sanctuary, that they’ve come home,” said Cary F. Lagdameo, VP for Damo-sa Land, Inc.

One of the fastest growing residential de-velopments in Davao, Damosa Land has already turned over 12 hous-es since the launch two years ago, and will be turning over more in the coming months.

“We’re quite pleased to see that a number of our buyers have al-ready moved into their homes. We normally see them walking around the neighbourhood, enjoying the amenities, or simply

sprucing up their home,” mentioned Alex Gocota-no. “now that we have a good number of residents actually living in Fairlane, with more to come, our job now is to ensure that they feel at home.”

Damosa Fairlane gives importance to the littlest things that others often miss out.

Afternoon picnics by the pool side, wellness activities, and chill-out evenings, are just some of the events that Damo-sa Land will organize. Surely, homeowners will have something to look forward to every other weekend.

“In line with the four core values, the events will promote closer ties among family members

and neighbours through a series of community building activities. The Saturday activities will be preceded by an anticipat-ed mass for homeowners and their invited friends. The mass will be followed by a series of “weekend activities” highlighting all possible leisure and so-cial activities a homeown-er may benefit from being a resident of the commu-nity,” added Gocotano.

Damosa Fairlane is committed to delivering not only distinct, innova-tive and modern homes. It also aims to establish a close-knit and nurturing community where home-owners can consider it as their secure and comfort-able haven. The develop-ment team takes pride in

giving utmost importance to the littlest things that the most discerning of homeowners will appre-ciate.

“We want our resi-dents to feel that Fairlane is “one big home”, a place where they will build last-ing memories and friend-ships for generations to come. At Damosa Land, we do not only build res-idential and business spaces. We build lasting communities where ev-eryone will love to be a part of,” said Cary Lag-dameo, VP for Damosa Land, Inc.

Damosa Land is set to turnover more houses in the months to come, meticulously working on every house to ensure that the highest quality

product is delivered. The company makes sure that every detail is impeccable for that optimal home-owner satisfaction.

The on-going con-struction of other ame-nities like the basketball court and the kid’s play-ground makes it even more exciting for home-owners to start moving in to Damosa Fairlane as these amenities are scheduled to be inaugu-rated in the last two quar-ters of the year.

Damosa Land is the real estate and property development company of the Anflocor Group – the company that is respon-sible for developing busi-ness and lifestyle orient-ed commercial center, Damosa District.

Meaningful weekends at Damosa Fairlane

KADAYAWAN DURIANFEST. Larry Miculob Durian Council of Davao City (second from left) and Councilor Marissa Abella, City Council of agriculture committee chair along with Chief Tourism Operations Officer Eden Lara-no-David of the Department of Tourism Region 11, and representatives of

the Bureau of Plant and Industry, Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Agriculture, cut the ceremonial ribbon during the formal launch of the 2014 Kadayawan Durianfest at the Fountain Court grounds at the SM Lanang Friday Premiere.

FORMeR Police Re-gional Intelligence Unit (RIU) - 11 head

Supt. Leonardo A. Felonia, accused of masterminding the murder of Cebu-based hotel magnate Richard L. King last June, has asked the court for the dismissal of the charges filed against him.

Felonia submitted his counter-affidavit last Fri-day asking the City Prose-cution Office to dismiss the murder case filed against saying the charge was baseless.

In his 67-page affidavit, Felonia claimed that he is a victim of a demolition job which was perpetuated by his fellow police officers in the Davao City Police Office (DCPO). he stated that the DCPO make efforts present fabricated evidences to pin him down and be persecut-ed in the case which he did not know.

“I categorically and emphatically deny, under my solemn oath, having ordered the killing of Mr. Richard King, whom I do not even know from Adam.

neither did I hire, nor or-der, expressly or impliedly, Paul Labang, Rodel Dela Cerna and Rommel Dela Cerna or any other person to end his life,” Felonia stat-ed.

Felonia said that in this case, what the investigat-ing prosecutor must note is the indecent haste con-ducted by DCPO in their gathering of facts relative to the case.

“It will be shown that the DCPO was hard-pressed to come up with a recommendation, and in

their haste, showed their bias against me. Given the standard set by Supreme Court as to the amount of evidence necessary to cause an indictment, the complainant’s evidence fails to stand to said test, and hence, the immediate dismissal of the present case against me is in order,” Felonia stated.

Felonia said that the statements of Labang and Dela Cerna Brothers are in-admissible for having been secured in violation of their

The head of the Davao City Investment Promotions Center

(DCIPC) decried the recent low national marks re-ceived by the city in terms of economic growth and peace and order.

Ivan Chin Cortez, offi-cer-in-charge DCIPC said that despite being the con-sistent top five contributor to the national treasury in terms of taxes from busi-nesses, the city placed poorly at 67th spot in the economic growth scale.

“economic growth should not be measured by mere percentages alone,” he said.

he said that for a city as big as Davao, a one per-cent economic growth in terms of monetary value can even be twice or thrice bigger compared to say a 10 percent economic growth of a smaller city.

Cortez also complained that the city’s security ranked 39th even with the huge local government in-vestments in Peace and

Order programs and proj-ects of the city such as the operation of 911 and the real time 24/7 monitoring of every street and inter-section by the Public Safe-ty and Security Command Center (PSSCC) using top of the line equipment.

“The evaluators in the security index should try to go down here in Davao City and see for themselves how peace and order condition is being taken care of,” Cor-tez said.

he said that this par-ticular undertaking of the national Competitive-ness Council (nCC) is still in the infancy stage.

“I expect them to in-troduce refinements and accommodate some adjust-ments to gain more credi-bility and higher acceptabil-ity of their results. Surveys and rankings somehow provide a wake-up call to our leaders to do even bet-ter,” he said.

Cortez said that last year, we were ranked in

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) 11 is plan-

ning to utilize around P1,425,000 for the con-struction of three shared service facilities (SSFs) in Davao Oriental by October.

According to Ma. Belen-da Q. Ambi, DTI 11 region-al officer-in-charge, these new SSFs will be composed of chili pepper product processors that will cost around P475,000 each.

“each processor will have a grinder, solar dry-

er, a packaging machine, stainless steel equipment, and a storage facility,” she said.

Ambi said that they chose to utilize this kind of facility because most chili processors in Davao Oriental just have a home-based production plant that is not efficient enough to meet quality production standards.

In hope for an opportu-nity to compete in national and international markets,

DCIPC chief decries low marks for city

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The security sector of the Davao region is not only short of

police officers but also of short and long firearms.

Chief. Insp. Jed Clam-or, spokesperson of Police Regional Office (PRO) 11 told edge Davao last Sat-urday that not all cops in the region is equipped with short firearms which could be either 45 caliber or 9mm.

“We have an estimat-ed of 6,500 policemen throughout the region but not all have guns be-cause of shortage which is also common to other regions,” Clamor said.

Clamor said that only 95 percent of the total number of police officers in the Davao region has

short firearms.“Karamihan ng mga

wala pang baril ay yung mga bagong pasok pero sinisiguro naman ng PRO 11 na sila ang unang nabibigyan kapag may bagong augmentation ang region from the national,” he said.

Aside from short fire-arms, policemen in the re-gion also have problem on the shortage of long and high powered firearms which may include either M16 or M14.

“Long firearms are re-ally needed in the region especially in places where there is internal security problem like the province of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental,” he said.

An estimated of P100 million worth of po-tential coal deposits in

the Davao- Agusan- Surigao coal basin shall be soon bid-ded out to coal mining con-tractors in the country, an official said.

nenito C. Jariel Jr., offi-cer-in-charge of coal and nuclear minerals division of the Department of energy, said the Davao- Surigao area is just one of the 15 areas in the country nominated by different coal mining com-panies for the 5th Philippine energy Contracting Round (PeCR 5).

In a press statement,

energy secretary Carlos Jer-icho Petilla said that PeCR 5 creates “equal playing field for all interested parties, in which the government ensures that all service con-tracts and offered areas are in accordance with existing Philippine laws and poli-cies”.

Most exploration areas for coal are found in Mind-anao. Of the 15 areas nomi-nated where there are pos-sible coal deposit, four are in Davao and nearby provinces like Surigao and Agusan. These include areas’ 4 (Bu-tuan City, Agusan del norte and Sibagat, Agusan del Sur;

5 (Butuan City, Agusan del norte & Sibagat, Agusan del Sur); 6 (Bunawan, Agusan del Sur); and 7 (Bunawan & Trento, Agusan del Sur and Bislig City, Surigao del Sur).

“Kapag na-confirm na may coal deposits sa mga coal mga areas na ito, it will be developed for produc-tion,” Jariel said.

Jariel said that on Sep-tember 26, each interested coal- mining company will submit their proposal to DOe for bidding. The award-ed company will now then have an authorization to start the coal exploration for two years and is renewable

for another two years.“This is very risky to

companies because this is just for exploration. each company has to put in in-vestment for labor, equip-ment, operation, among others,” he said during the Information, education and Communication Campaign on PeCR 5 at The Marco Polo Davao last Thursday.

however, he said that the areas were nominated based on result of studies in the past. he also added that the 15 areas identified for exploration are near to sites where there is already

The number of deaths among residents dis-placed by the 20-day

standoff in September last year had reached 155 prompting humanitarian groups and health officials to intensify efforts for the evacuees.

The standoff started Sept. 9 when hundreds of Moro national Liberation Front members loyal to founding chair nur Misuari infiltrated several coastal barangays in this city.

Dr. Rodelin Agbulos, City Health Officer, said Friday that pneumonia remained the primary cause of deaths with 31 or 20 percent of the total mortalities recorded from Sept. 9 to August 3 this year.

Agbulos said 56 percent of those who died were males and 49 percent were children below five years old.

he said multipurpose halls that would serve as sub-health centers have been built through the aus-pices of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

he said construction of the multipurpose hall at the transitory site in Barangay Taluksangay was almost complete and another one was being built at the transi-tory site in Barangay Tulun-gatung.

City government re-cords showed the transitory site in Taluksangay houses 396 families or 1,946 per-sons while the one in Tulun-gatung hosts 433 families or 2,536 individuals

Agbulos added the con-struction of the multipur-pose hall at the Masepla transitory site in Barangay Mampang will start as soon as the facility in Tulunga-tung is completed. (Min-danews)

GUN-LESS COPS5% of Davao Region’s cops do not have guns

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PRIDE OF DAVAO CITY. Teacher Randy Halasan this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award recipient for Emergent Leadership, answers questions from the media during FAST Fridays at Archipelago 7107

by Barrio Fiesta at SM Lanang Pre-mier as it was his first ever press conference appearance after he was named one of the six awardees of the prestigious award. Lean Daval Jr.

IKEBANA. Consul of Japan to the Philippines Koichi Ibarra takes some pictures of his wife with the flowers during the Nature: A blessing for Ikebana at the atrium of SM Lanang Premier Friday afternoon. Lean Daval Jr.

Deaths among Zamboanga City ‘bakwits’ climb to 155Bidding on for P100-M coal deposit sites

ART EXHIBIT OPENING. Lawyer Leoncio Villa-Abrille (center), YMCA Davao President and a leading real estate entrepreneur, cuts the ribbon with Mr. Paul Go of the GH Office Depot and businesswoman Elvira Pang assisting at the opening of the watercolor exhibit at the Museo Dabawenyo. The exhibit,

which will run until August 28, 2014, is held under the auspices of the Davao Watercolour Society whose charter president is Artist Wehelito Pepito. (Photo by Chiaw Yap)

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RURAL banking leader One network Bank, Inc. continues to de-

liver on its growth objec-tive as its capital reached P4 billion in the first six months of the year. OnB also exhibited financial strength with total re-sources that escalated by 19% to P26.5 billion and a capital adequacy ratio stands strong at 17%, well above the statutory bank-ing standard of 10%. The bank’s solid performance in these gauges continues to reinforce One network Bank, Inc.’s regional TV commercial campaign ta-gline “Tuloy ang Paglaki, Tuloy ang Pag-unlad”.

Further, as of end June 2014, the bankbeefedup its loan portfolio by 18% to P20 billion and has ca-tered to 113,700 borrow-ers. Loan expansion was supported by the bank’s deposit base which in-creased by 6% to P17 bil-lion. nonperforming loans ratio stood at 3%.

The bank’s first semes-ter bottom line of P282 million is a decrease of 24% from the P373 million year-ago level. If annual-ized, this net income level translates to a 24% return on average private equity and a 2% return on aver-age assets. Interest earn-ings on loans increased by 2% to P783 million from last year’s figure of P770 million. Fee based income driven by service fees on loans posted a 14% growth to P437 million.

The second quarter of the year saw OnB breach its 100th mark with the opening of Mati Central, the bank’s second branch in the city of Mati, Davao Oriental. OnB’s PeraAgad ATM also breached its 150th mark shortly after its migration to the Bancnet consortium. As of end June 2014, the bank now has 156 ATMs, recent deploy-ments of which reinforce the bank’s expansion in Panay. OnB also launched

its 101st branch last June 17, 2014 in estancia, a mu-nicipality in the province of Iloilo with a thriving economy. estancia Branch is OnB’s 8th addition to its Panay branches. The bank has already expanded its brand of banking in Iloilo City, Dingle, Passi, San en-rique, La Paz, Pototan and Jordan in Guimaras Island.

Along with fortifying its business objective to provide modern and con-venient banking prod-ucts and servicesin the countryside, OnB recent-ly launched itsexpanded and renovated branches in Tagum and Quirino in Davao del norte and San Pedro in Davao City. These edifices are deemed to ren-der clients with more com-fortable and spacious inte-riors as well asadditional parking space.

Outlook for the third quarter of the year is geared towards expanding the OnB footprint, with the up-coming launch of branch-

es in the municipalities of Barotac nuevo in Iloilo and San Jose de Buenavista in Antique. Asatellitebranch will also be opened in the new building of holy Cross

of Davao College, Inc. in Sta. Ana, Davao City in August. Like any other OnB branch, OnB hCDC will be able to deliver full banking services such as deposits, withdraw-

als, fund transfers, loans, bills payment, remittances, PhIC and SSS contributions and OnB’s Internet Bank-ing facility called Business Online Banking.

ONB grows capital to P4B as of first semester

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‘Miracle rice’ EDITORIAL

MIRACLeS do happen. One has just occurred in the Philippines. The miracle is that the country has just shipped 400 metric tons of premium rice to

hong Kong and Singapore.The good news was announced by Secretary Proceso

Alcala of the Department of Agriculture, one of whose major failures is not being able to fulfill its much bally-hooed promise to achieve self-sufficiency in rice.

For the first time in 30 years, Alcala said the country has already exceeded earlier projections on the volume of premium rice that it can export.

“We originally projected to export at least 100 metric tons (MT) of premium rice for this year, but we already exported 400 MT of premium rice –red rice, black rice and organic rice – and the year is not year over,” Alcala boasted.

hong Kong and Singapore, he added, have large re-quirements for premium rice, but they are not producing any at all.

earlier this year, north Cotabato premium rice produc-ers, led by no less than Governor Lala Mendoza, joined

a producers and buyers exhibit in Germany, where their black rice was a bestseller. The lady governor, whose ad-ministration shouldered the delegation’s expenses as the national government did not have money for it, is hopeful that the business matching they had with european buy-ers would result in actual exportation soon.

Alcala should look into this and provide assistance to the delegation next February.

This should not be difficult for the DA to do this as there is so much promise this endeavor.

Per record, in February, the country had its maiden ex-port of 19.33 MT of Dona Maria rice to Muscat, Oman, a major treading center of the Middle east, according to news report of the BusinessMirror. Last year, the country also exported 19.45 MT of the same brand of commercial rice to California, USA.

Alcala likewise reported that the country saved about P147 billion on rice imports from 2010 to 2013, as in-stead of buying rice from Vietnam and Thailand, local farmers had a good harvest and were able to meet part of the demand. See, we are making progress here!

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SOMeThInG uncommon and un-expected happened when Pres-ident noynoy Aquino was de-

livering the Sona last July 26 . A tear fell.

never in the history of our country has a President gotten overwhelmed by emotion while baring the state of the nation. Towards the later part of his 90-minute, applaud-laden speech, he nearly choked as memories of his parents led him back in time to when they fought the Marcos dictatorship.

P-noy’s passing reference to his parents elicited the loudest and longest round of applause from the crowd of predominantly Cory wor-shippers and noynoy blind support-ers.

Senate President Franklin Drilon (Gloria Arroyo’s counterpart of Judas escariot) and house Speaker Felicia-no Belmonte (a political pharisee) were caught by television cameras clapping like crazy as if there was no tomorrow.

So were P-noy’s four female sib-lings who were also caught by the cameras wiping trickles of tears cas-cading down their powdered cheeks.

Teddy Boy Locsin, former master speech crafter for Presidents Cory and Gloria and several times con-gressman, described P-noy’s latest Sona as the best ever (probably be-cause of the 80 rounds of applause).

Anti-Aquino protesters and ral-lyists massed outside the Batasan complex to flatly dismiss the Sona as

a big joke, a concoction of lies and half-truths and false hopes.

A friend, who thinks that noynoy is a political curse, (think of super ty-phoons, su-per earth-quakes, super brownouts, super mas-sacres, super scandals) suspects that the emotional angle of the Sona is the product of a script authored by Boy Abunda, Kristeta’s best friend and one-man cheering squad.

oooOooo

WhaT Is saVINGs?Our common understanding of

savings is that it is unspent at the end of a fiscal year.

But Mr. Aquino wants to declare savings in the middle of the year.

Opposition solons, however, stick to the traditional concept of savings which are declared at the end of the fiscal year, and these can only be spent through an appropriate act of Congress.

Aquino allies, however, would rather leave it to the Supreme Court to come up with a final definition of savings.

This is interesting. The battle of the brainless is shaping up. Let’s see

who has no brains --- Malacañang or Congress.

oooOoooAfter more than three frustrating

decades, the Philippines once again qualifies to compete in the 2014 Bas-ketball World Cup (formerly known as World Basketball championship) this coming August in Barcelona, Spain.

What are our chances of winning even the bronze medal? Practically nil. It’s going to be “mission impos-sible.” The competition is too strong, too tall, too talented and too techni-cally advanced.

It is impossible to duplicate our performance in the 1954 world tour-nament in Brazil where the Philip-pines finished third place behind USA and Brazil. That was our shining moment. After that, we simply faded and fell terribly behind even in Asia.

If prayers can truly help, we need the heavely assistance of our favorite saints --- San Lorenzo Ruiz and San Pedro Calungsod, St. John Paul II and St. John XIII.

In the 1954 tournament, the Phil-ippines beat Japan, Australia, France, Uruguay, Chile, Panama, Venezuela. This coming August, we are lucky if we beat Senegal, said to be the weak-est in the group which include Croa-tia, Puerto Rico, Chile, Venezuela and the Philippines.

Play hard, Team Gilas. Pray had, Pinoy fans.

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GROWInG CynICISM - every year Congress had to review the na-tional budget thoroughly before

they will agree either to increase or realign public expenditures. The enor-mous 2015 annual budget amounting to P2.206 trillion is currently under delib-eration.

Leaders of both Senate and the house of Representatives do not think they have accomplished enough. Pub-lic money still is far from being used as efficiently and effectively as it should be. Today, as in the yesteryears, close to half of the government’s usable budget – that portion of the country’s annual appropriations left over after providing for debt services – goes to personnel services alone.

Government simply does not have enough capital resources to keep up even its basic services – and what it does spend has gone disproportionate to the non-poor sector instead. What is more lamentable is that there have been sev-eral urgent bills in Congress aimed at easing out mass poverty and stirring up countryside development that are cry-ing out for attention. These include pro-posals for rural infrastructure like farm-to-market roads, post-harvest facilities

and irrigation system, for ex-panding ener-gy source, wa-ter supply and c o u n t r ys i d e investment.

e x p e r t s say that the bulk of public money actual-ly went to the country’s richer regions like Tarlac, the home province of the President. This situation was exacerbated by the scan-dals wherein Priority Development As-sistance Funds (PDAF) amounting to billions ended up in the coffers of bogus non-government organizations (nGOs) due to the manipulation of some greedy lawmakers. Another government spend-ing scandal was the Disbursement Accel-eration Program (DAP) whose release without the imprimatur of Congress was declared unconstitutional by the Su-preme Court. On the other hand, tax eva-sion involving mostly big capitalists and influential entrepreneurs cost the gov-ernment about P40 billion to P50 billion a year. Government’s so-called intensive tax collection campaign is shrouded

with controversies even as government is accused of being selective in its effort to improve tax collection. Detractors charge there is actually no effective cap-ital-gains tax and taxes of real property and other profitable ventures are both extremely low and lightly enforced. An-other serious problem is too much pol-itics. Like our socio-economic policies, politics still has a kind of duality. Side by side with the politics of patronage in traditional society, what we have is a modern political community largely based in Metro Manila. Public policies are mainly crafted by lawmakers who likewise live in Manila and neigboring big cities.

These drawbacks will become more and more severe in the remaining two years of the Aquino leadership unless it can muster the needed political will to correct the situation and succeed in doing so. The people’s impatience is increasing added to the growing pes-simism about their prospects and the future of the country.

The executive and the legislative branches of the ruling administration must not take the problem casually. The time is reckoning-- May 2016—is draw-ing near.

Lamentable situation

The fall of industrial giant, the story

A tear fellVANTAGE POINTS 9EDGEDAVAO

By Cha Monforte

HASHTAGS BREW

TheRe was a fall of industrial giant, the competitive description of Iligan City before. There was that fall as when

the national Steel Corporation went bank-rupt and shutdown operations in novem-ber 1999. So other industries supplying nSC and its downstream industries closed shop, too, like dominoes falling, on the first wave of disadvantageous trade liberaliza-tion in the early 2000s sending the city’s economy into turmoil.

The nSC, we recall, was once known as the largest steelmaking plant in Southeast Asia and the pride of Philippine industry. The nSC was resuscitated in 2004 with the entry of Malaysian investors but they shortly sold their controlling interests. A rich Indian family won the bid but they ag-gressively trampled the rights of our work-ers, who then staged wildcat strike against them. By 2010, nSC’s plant halted opera-tions until these days. end of the story.

Why nSC collapsed? A former nSC em-ployee has his simple view: nSC went bank-rupt after the bar slab steels were eliminat-ed in the production chain. he said it was caused by a national policy. nSC then was the receiver of Mindanao’s all steel scraps which it recycled to be good, non-substan-dard steels for domestic consumption. One product out of one policy. That was all he could recollect long years after he was laid out from work. he didn’t know about the nitty-gritty of steel markets and tariffs af-fecting nSC steel products- hot-rolled coils, hot-rolled plates, cold-rolled coils, and tin-plates, etc.

It was in the late 1990s that the Asian financial crisis came and so the peso depre-ciated to unprecedented levels. “With many of nSC’s loans and supply of raw materials paid in dollars, the steel company just could not cope with servicing its debts,” said one memo explainer. “Trade liberalization and the cheap steel imports was also among the major factors that contributed to nSC’s demise. Competition was so stiff because of the dumping of cheap steel products from such countries as Russia and Korea,” labor unions said.

“In fact, nSC was not the only victim in the dumping of cheap imports to the coun-try. The cement industry also raised a howl when imported cement from Taiwan, Indo-nesia and other countries flooded the mar-ket supposedly through illegal means, eat-ing up a large percentage of the local man-ufacturers’ sales. The two cement plants in Iligan- the Iligan Cement Corp. and the Mindanao Portland Cement Corp., as well as the Alsons Cement Corp. in neighboring Lugait, Misamis Oriental, felt the blow,” la-bor unions recollected. A few other compa-nies servicing the nSC, as well as smaller business firms in the downstream industry, were forced to close shop, too.

When nSC closed shop, the scrap iron business lost P1.4-billion and the Refracto-ries Corp. of the Philippines lost 30% of its market. Mabuhay Vinyl Corp., supplier of nSC’s chemicals, was severely hit, and the national Power Corp. lost P720M in sales yearly, Philippine Star reported in May 2002.

But who were the actors then before the curtains fall in the great nSC show? nSC’s woes started with privatization. It was el President el Tabako who pushed for the nSC’s privatization for thinking out loud that the government “ain’t supposed to run a steel company, and that it’s better handled by the private sector – despite the fact that at that time, 1994, nSC belonged to the top ten corporations in the Philippines,” said a heckler in the net. That belonged to the Philippines 2000, tiger economy bat-tlecries of el Tabako.

For wanting to limit the government’s financial exposure on State-owned corpo-rations, so Malaysia’s Wing Tiek acquired controlling interests of nSC in novem-ber 1994 and shortly it retrenched more than 500 workers for the first time since nSC’s establishment in 1974. But being not steel maker, Wing Tiek sold its sold its entire 69.2% stake to hottick in December 1996 while the government through the national Development Corp. optioned its own 12.5% stake to the latter on February 1997.




BIGGER PICTURE

“PAQUIBATO On My Mind” could well be the favorite

tune of Davao City’s hard-nosed and feisty mayor these days.

Flying over the wide area of Davao City’s Paqui-bato District last Wednes-day, long known as the lair of communist rebels under Commander Parago comprised of 13 poorest barangays of the otherwise progressive city, I realized why Mayor Rody Duterte is pushing for the introduc-tion of anti-poverty initia-tives in the area.

except for a few patch-es of land planted to coco-nut and what looked like mango trees from the air, I saw a wide swath of bare land and bald mountains which obviously were where logging concession-aires sourced their riches many years ago.

The strong presence of the new People’s Army (nPA) which has waged an internecine warfare against government forc-es for over 40 years now could be the reason behind the underdevelopment of the Paquibato area.

Or it could be that the underdevelopment of the area resulted in people em-bracing the nPA as a way of seeking redress from the neglect by government.

Whichever is the rea-son behind Paquibato’s dire situation now, one thing is certain - there is a need for a development

initiative for Davao City’s poorest district and the time is now.

Duterte’s friendly re-lations with Commander Parago, who he calls “Ago” and with whom he had many dealings in the past for the release of soldiers and policemen captured and held hostage by the nPA, make the develop-ment intervention easier.

My involvement in Duterte’s Paquibato ini-tiative started about two months ago after I read in the local papers his pro-posal to introduce Oil Palm farming in the area and the possible involvement of Malaysian investors.

It was a proposal which was immediately criticized by the outspoken mem-bers of the Left and I fully understood where the re-sistance came from.

The phrase “Foreign Investor” is a bitter poison that the Left would have nothing of.

This was when I sought a meeting with Mayor Duterte, who is the Godfa-ther of two of my children, and proposed to him a peo-ple-based development initiative which we both agreed would be formally titled “Paquibato People’s economic empowerment Initiative” or the “Paquiba-to Initiative.”

As I flew over Paquiba-to District last Wednesday in a helicopter owned by our common friend, Benny Gopez, I was able to con-

jure and compose a more complete picture of what could be done in Paquiba-to.

The “Paquibato Ini-tiative” will not just be Oil Palm farming because there are many areas too steep for Oil Palm to be planted.

The planting of rubber and mahogany seedlings could also be introduced.

Backyard poultry and hog raising could be adopt-ed by the estimated 6,000 to 8,000 households in the area.

The barangay govern-ments could avail of fi-nancing from Land Bank of the Philippines and buy farm tractors which could be used in a “Plow-now-Pay-Later” scheme for corn farming.

The economic impact of these project would be tremendous.

Consider these:- With an estimated

10,000 hectares planted to Oil Palm over the next 5 years with each hect-are earning an estimated P120,000 gross every year thereafter, people in the Paquibato Area would ex-perience an inflow of about P1.2-B.

- With an estimated 5,000 hectares of rubber farms earning an estimat-ed P300,000 per hectare every year, there will be an estimated earnings by the people of Paquibato of P1.5-B yearly.

- With an estimated

2,000 hectares planted to corn under the “Plow-now-Pay-Later” and “Plant-now-Pay-Later” programs with an estimated earn-ings of only P20,000 per hectare twice a year, local people will generate about P80-M a year.

- With 2,000 house-holds raising and selling 5 heads of hogs every six months, there is an esti-mated income of P140-M every year. With the same number of households raising backyard chicken and selling three times every year 100 heads of free-range chicken fed

with the corn the people themselves planted there would be added earnings of P96-M every year.

- With an estimated 10,000 hectares of the bare and bald mountains of Paquibato planted to 400 Mahogany trees per hect-are which would be valued at a minimum of P1,000 per tree, there is a pro-jected income of P4-M 10 years later, not to mention the benefits to be gained by the area and the city from the reforestation of the de-nuded mountains.

The future scenario painted over the vast area

of bare and unproduc-tive land could eventual-ly transform Paquibato District from an area of conflict and poverty into a garden of peace and pros-perity.

This could be Mayor Duterte’s greatest legacy to the people of Paquibato and a model in a compre-hensive rural development approach which could be replicated in other parts of the country in the future.

I am happy and excited to be part of this revolu-tionary approach in com-bating poverty in the coun-tryside.

Duterte’s Paquibato Vision

TURNINGMOUNTAINS OFNOTHINGNESSINTO GARDENS OFPEACE AND PROSPERITY

By MaNNy pIÑOlContributor

Photos show the bald hills and moun-tains of Paquibato. Fourth photo shows Manobo Ata tribal leader Datu Dario Balinan whose tribe owns about 12,000 hectares with Malabog barangay chair-

man Gerry Areja after their helicopter ride to point out to oil palm technician Ben Sotito the prospective Oil Palm ar-eas.

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EDGEDAVAOFEATURE

It’s the time of the year once again where ev-eryone feasts on the bountiful harvest of fruits in the city—Ka-dayawan Festival.

This year looks like something big is cooking up as SM Lanang Premier has prepared lots of fun activities not just for Da-bawenyos but also for the tourists who are coming just to experience the Ka-dayawan vibe this year.

SM Lanang Premier has rolled out its best Ka-dayawan treat by far with eight major events. There are 8 ways for an individ-ual to feel and enjoy the festival inside the vicinity of SM Lanang Premier that would surely satisfy every-one.

1. KADAYAWAN DU-RIAN FESTIVAL

Experience a month-long enjoyment tasting the exotic and delicious taste of durian at the Fountain Court of the mall start-ing August 8 to Septem-ber 5, 2014. The event is

organized by the Durian Industry Council of Davao City in partnership with the Department of Tourism Region XI, Department of Agriculture, the City Gov-ernment and SM Lanang Premier.

2. NATURE: A BLESS-ING FOR IKEBANA

Witness an exhibit of stunning flower arrange-ments by some of Davao’s finest Ikebana artists or-ganized by Ikebana Inter-national Davao Chapter 133. These works of art are open for everyone from August 8 to 10, 2014.

3. PHILIPPINE EAGLE EXHIBIT

Marvel at stuffed toys of the Philippine Eagle dolled up by one of the country’s high regarded couturier, Renee Salud, at the Atrium on Aug 11 to 17, 2014. These are just one of the greatest things Davao can really be proud of.

4. KADAYAWAN SALENow let’s not forget the

biggest sale that surely no one will miss this Kaday-awan Festival. SM Lanang

Premier treats everyone up to 70% off on selected items at participating stores mallwide on Au-gust 11- 17. Mall is open on the midnight of Au-gust 15 and the hours will be extended up until 10 pm on August 16 to 17.

5. DAVAO GOURMET COLLECTIVE: KADAY-AWAN WORLD EATS

Troop to The Fountain Court as the metro’s yum-miest food festival, the DGC, returns for a full weekend of eats from Hog’s Breath Café, Cellar de Boca, Back-yard Burgers, Bangkok Wok, Crocodile Ice Cream, La Bodeguita, JR Pastry, Kushiya Japanese Food, Cucina Ilocana, Latin Spoon and El Gato on August 15 to 17 at 4 in the afternoon.

6. WORLD VIBE MUSIC FEST

Now to keep that ka-dayawan vibe on its mood, listen for good music from Davao’s finest local bands at the Fountain Court grounds starting August 15 to 17. The event would start off with the appearance of So-

lenn Heusaff at 5pm and Save Me Hollywood at 8 pm. Sitti is also coming to town with her bossa nova songs on Aug 16 at 7pm and Gruppo Tribale on August 17.

7. METRO RIDES: YEAR 4

Check out Metro Rides as it features the city’s hot-test automobiles at the

Atrium and brings together the whole family in ap-preciation of various car genres onAugust 15 to 17, 2014. This is the car show’s second year at SM Lanang Premier.

8. MINDANAO CRAFTS AND CULTURAL VILLAGE

Discover the arts and crafts of Mindanaoan tribes and products of local craft-

makers at this event spear-headed by the Department of Trade and Industry on August 20 to 24.

With all the happenings at SM Lanang Premier, it looks like this year’s Kaday-awan Festival is bound to shake the earth underneath us. At the end of the day, it’s about fun, excitement and family boding.

Kadayawan Vibe at SM Lanang PremierBy ATHENA JILLIAN BRAVO

REcognizing the need for fast and reliable response sys-tem to address subscriber inquiries, Sun cellular has rolled out its new SMS-based customer response portal, Sun-Sagot. Through this, subscribers will get up-to-date infor-mation on Sun cellular’s products and services 24/7, free of charge. “We understand that the quality of our service goes beyond our connectivity of-fers,” says Sun cellular chief executive officer charles Lim. “given this, we always strive to ensure that com-munication is open to our subscribers to address their questions and concerns.” Lim added that Sun-Sagot service will guarantee faster turnaround in servicing subscriber queries, with a response time of as fast as 5 to 30 seconds. To seek for feedback from Sun cellular through Sun-Sagot, subscribers will only have to text SunSagot to 1200. From there, they will receive a menu of categories that will give subscribers access to the most relevant and up-to-date information on Sun products and services. SunSagot ser-vice is free of charge. “our thrust is to make the Sun cellular experience enjoy-able and hassle-free for our subscribers. From the network upgrades, best value services, and now to the strengthened customer service support, we will ensure that we live up to our promise of being the good choice to our subscribers,” concludes Lim. For more information, log on to www.suncellular.com.ph. You can also check for updates by logging on to the Sun cellular’s official social media sites: www.facebook.com/suncellularph or www.twitter.com/suncelldeals Sun cellular is the mobile brand of Digitel Mobile Philip-pines inc., a member of the PLDT group.

Guiuan, Eastern Sa-mar – Mariwasa, the country’s leading tile maker, once again joins GMA Founda-tion Kapuso in the inauguration of sev-eral high school and elementary school classrooms in Brgy. Sulangan of the said typhoon-hit town. A total of five reha-bilitated classrooms and two new classrooms were turned over in Sulangan National High School and six (6) restored class-room plus (2) new class-rooms were also turned over in Sulangan Central Elementary School, all of which have a toilet in-side the classroom where Mariwasa tiles were in-stalled. The ceremony was attended by GMA Ka-puso Foundation, INC. (GMAKF) executive vice president and chief oper-ating officer Ms. Carmela “Mel” Tiangco, together with several school and municipality officials and

representatives of Mari-wasa Siam Ceramics, Inc. (MSC). In November last year, supertyphoon Yolanda (international name Hai-yan) devastated vast parts of the Visayas area which left tens of thousands of people severely affected. Guiuan, a coastal town situated at the south-ern tip of Samar island, bore the brunt of the ty-phoon as it was the place where Yolanda first made landfall. The storm com-pletely levelled the whole town damaging houses and buildings and leav-ing more than a hundred

people dead or missing. At the same month, MSC partnered with GMAKF and donated P1,000,000.00 worth of relief goods and in-kind products for rehabilitation use to help fellow Filipinos alleviate their suffering caused by the disaster.

MSC and GMAKF are long time partners in uplifting the lives of our countrymen in need as part of the former’s cor-porate social responsibil-ity and the latter’s mission and long-standing initia-tive as a socio-civic foun-dation.

Sun Cellular steps up customer support with SunSagot service

A2 INdulge! VOL. 7 ISSUE 105 • SUNDAY - MONDAY, AUGUST 10-11, 2014EDGEDAVAOUP AnD ABoUT

Mariwasa, GMA Kapuso turnover newly-built classrooms

in Yolanda-hit Guiuan town

The highly-antic-ipated Samsung galaxy Tab S is now available exclusively to subscribers of Smart infinity, the premium postpaid brand of wireless leader Smart com-munications, inc. (Smart). The Samsung galaxy Tab S, a powerful tablet which packs smarts, so-phistication and style into one premium device, is now available for free, to all who will subscribe to any Smart infinity plan. For the unmatched ad-vantage, the Smart infin-ity Premium Plan 8000 offers for free, both the galaxy Tab S 8.4 and the galaxy S5 – the latest and most powerful Samsung smartphone. “We are very excited to offer this unbeatable pair, exclusive to Smart

infinity members -- driv-en, successful individu-als used only to the best experiences with the best devices. This offer will al-low them to experience what we like to call the premium lifestyle, using premium gadgets on the premium network,” said Julie carceller, Depart-ment Head of the Smart infinity Business group at Smart. Premium devices made better with perks Starting with the Aspire Plan 3500, Smart infin-ity will offer the Samsung galaxy Tab S 8.4 for free. Those who want to get more with their device can choose to subscribe to the Prestige Plan 5000, which includes the Sam-sung galaxy Tab S 8.4, and a choice of free P5,000 gift certificate or one month free monthly service fee.

They can also get a free 32-inch Samsung Smart LED TV bundled with the galaxy Tab S, for a

30-month contract. “innovation is integrat-ing style and power to technology. The function-

ality and sleek aesthetics of the Samsung galaxy Tab S, coupled with Smart infinity’s ViP network and services, empower sub-scribers to achieve more and make a statement,” said James chi, marketing manager at Smart infinity. Smart Infinity plans come with an array of VIP privileges. ViP customer Service. Smart infinity subscribers have a dedicated infin-ity Management officer*, access to a 24/7 interna-tional concierge service, priority in dedicated Smart Stores as well as the option to have their preferred mobile number and a spare SiM. ViP network Access. Smart infinity subscrib-ers can rely on the Smart network to always be able to make crystal-clear calls and have always-on,

super-fast mobile data connection. Users of LTE-compatible devices such as the Samsung galaxy Tab S and the galaxy S5, can maximize this benefit and enjoy watching mov-ies or videos, upload or download photos and more on their mobile de-vice with no lag, no buff-ering, and no delays, on the country’s most wide-ly-available LTE service. ViP Rewards and Privi-leges. Smart infinity sub-scribers have a whole array of year-round privi-leges, which can be sim-ply accessed through the Smart infinity Lifestyle App. individuals interested in enjoying the premium Smart infinity experience may contact 8488806 or [email protected]. They can also visit www.smart.com.ph/infinity.

Enjoy the best of two ‘galaxies’ only with the Smart Infinity advantage

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Alden Richards joins Bet ng Bayan Auditions in CDO and Davao

cinEMALAYA has been the venue for mainstream stars to show their calibre in act-ing as they step on to the indie scene. gMA network talents earned positive reviews from moviegoers, film enthusiasts, and aficiona-dos, proving that they can also showcase their acting prowess on a different plat-form, as they delivered stel-lar performances in their respective cinemalaya X entries. Kapuso leading man and one of today’s award-winning actors Dennis Trillo displayed his strong sense of masculinity in The Jani-tor. His performance as cri-santo, a former cop tasked to hunt the suspects of a ruthless robbery, was any-thing but contrived. “i have never seen Dennis Trillo so moving and so effective in a role before; probably his best work yet. ... Dennis Trillo never plays for sym-pathy. He is unapologetic in his portrayal and it makes his crisanto so believable,” commented writer Wanggo gallaga. StarStruck alum LJ Reyes’ depth as an actress was also showcased in The Janitor. “What’s wonderful about LJ Reyes is that she is never corny or one-dimensional,” also wrote the son of criti-cally-acclaimed filmmaker Peque gallaga. Young star Elmo Magalo-na proved to be a revelation in the coming-of-age film

#Y, his first ever cinemalaya stint. The 20-year-old took up the challenge of por-traying a daring character and didn’t disappoint. “it’s as if Elmo waited for this film to give all his best emo-tionally,” shared a blogger named Jay (misterplummy.blogspot.com). Kapuso actress chynna ortaleza’s on-screen effort was also lauded. “i’ve never seen her that gooD in any film or TV show she’s in,” he added. Talent manager and di-rector Manny Valera also had nothing but praises for

the two Kapuso stars. “#Y is the best movie so far of Elmo in his career.” The di-rector also recalled a scene that particularly moved him. “His acting is a rev-elation to all, with a moving performance in a phone call to counselor chynna ortale-za (she is good, too).” child actor Miggs cuad-erno turned out to be one of the bright spots in chil-dren’s Show. He didn’t go unnoticed after his convinc-ing portrayal of a young street fighter. Brun Philip-pines online Magazine

was quick to give kudos to Miggs. “His acting resumé should be the envy of any young teen actor. is Miggs cuaderno our youngest method actor, or is he just such an instinctive actor?” Miggs also impressed the viewers of Asintado. “Miggs cuaderno is also a good catch in the film. no lines, but with his mentally chal-lenged role, he is very effec-tive,” shared a blogger (my-movieworld-coolman0304.blogspot.com). “Hanep ang breakdown scene ni Miggs sa bandang dulo ng peli-

Kapuso prime leading man Alden Richards is all set to scour cDo and Davao this weekend to help search and highlight homegrown tal-ents via gMA network’s up-coming reality talent search Bet ng Bayan (BnB). Bet ng Bayan is holding two-day auditions each in SM city cDo and SM city Davao this weekend (Au-gust 9 & 10) with Alden making an appearance in both areas. First on his list is cDo on August 9, followed by Davao on August 10. “Sobrang blessed ako to be part of this show lalo na at makakasama ko pa si Ms. Regine. i am very much looking forward to witness

kung gaano kahusay ang mga Pinoy. This show will definite-ly be inspir-ing knowing that thou-sands of as-pirants are ready to take a chance on fulfilling a lifetime dream,” said Alden, who is to co-host the show together with Asia’s Songbird Regine Velasquez-Alcasid. conceptualized by gMA Entertainment TV group, in partnership with gMA

Regional TV, BnB is open to all Fili-pino singers, dancers, and other novel-ty perform-ers who are to show off the best of what they’ve got in either one of the three cat-egories: Bet

na Singer/s, Bet na Dancer/s, and Bet na Kakaibang Tal-ento (novelty Act). interested applicants are expected to prepare a one-minute act, and bring with them a copy of their birth

certificate, picture, and an iD with address. Regional audi-tions are also scheduled in SM city naga (August 8 & 9); SM city Batangas (August 22 & 23); Lcc Mall Legazpi (August 23 & 24); and Rob-insons Place Dumaguete (August 25 & 26). To know more about the latest updates, visit Bet ng Bayan’s official facebook account at www.facebook.com/BetngBayan. Also fol-low gMA Regional TV on Twitter via www.twitter.com/gMARegionalTV and on instagram via www.ins-tagram.com/gMARegion-alTV for the latest updates on the network’s regional events.

GMA Network talents create strong presence in Cinemalaya X

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kula, na kahit nagwawala ito ay hindi bumitaw sa kara-kter niya na special child. Maraming pala lamunin ng alikabok ang 9-anyos na Kapuso child actor sa husay niya sa kahit na anong role na ibigay sa kanya,” wrote a veteran entertainment col-umnist.

Martin del Rosario’s act-ing prowess shone brightly in Dagitab—along with nonie Buencamino and Eula Valdez. According to a blog-ger (backtothefryingpan.wordpress.com), the trio “perfected the combination of confidence and craziness required of their characters.”

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LUCY

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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman

Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista,

Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper

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ONCE A PRINCESS

Erich Gonzales, Enchong Dee

12:40 | 3:00 | 5:20 LFS / * 7:40 | 10:00 LFS

TROPHY WIFE / *HERCULES

Cristine Reyes, Derek Ramsay,

Heart Evangelista, John Estrada / *Dwayne Johnson

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THE world holds many fascinations but none seem to be more compelling than people themselves. Real lives, histories and backstories are often overlooked in favor of the fantastical. Sometimes all it takes is a certain point of view to make what may seem like normal everyday encounters into the special narratives they are.

There are two books compiling the photo-graphs of Brandon Stan-ton and Scott Schuman that literally capture the unique humanity of their subjects, bringing forth glimpses of personal sto-ries of people who live in bustling metropolises. Both were Internet sen-sations before they were literary sensations and have ascended in the same trajectory of recognition and fame trying to find ar-resting images amidst the fast pace of city life. The ground they have and con-tinue to cover are amazing and their bodies of work remain ever-changing, much like the individuals

in their portraits. Frame your minds and settle into the wonder behind the lens of these brilliant lens men.

Humans of New YorkI came across a post in Facebook that was liked by a friend and the user’s name read “Humans of

New York.” There was a beautiful photograph along with a caption that told something of the per-son in it. That was all it

took to capture my interest and I proudly joined le-gions of people around the globe who were quickly enamored with Brandon Stanton’s HONY. I consid-ered it such a good sign a week after I started follow-ing HONY on Facebook that a trip to the bookstore saw me coming across the hardbound compilation of his work. Connections such as these couldn’t be ignored, much more when the project concerned is as valuable and moving as this. Stanton set out in the summer of 2010 to cre-ate a photographic census of New York City. This led him to make his way around the city and shoot dozens of photographs daily. He later realized that he would shoot more people than places and he took to taking more of these portraits. He soon started uploading them online and included sto-ries or pieces of informa-tion about his subjects. Each post was thought-fully put out, unveiling his curiosity for people in ways that were unexpected and touching. Such is the magic of Stanton’s work. His frames of everyday lives capture people at their flawed best – at their most natural, being who they are, on the way to who they want to be. HONY is a unique value proposition, another way to get to know an already beloved place. Stanton has given taking to the streets

a new meaning and a new way to build connections.

The SartorialistWhen you come across dozens of people daily, it seems hard to find some-one who will hold your at-tention. Not everyone can create a strong visual. It is really about projecting a sense of style and attitude that becomes clear as day no matter who is looking. But to know where to look and what to look for are entirely different things. Scott Schuman, otherwise known as The Sartorialist, has a masterful eye when it comes to spotting real-life stylesetters. This has been the running theme of his much-loved blog, thesar-torialist.com, and the two books that have spawned

from his style hunting. Every one of Schuman’s posts makes you think that he must have stopped his subjects on their tracks on a good outfit day. However, you will sooner harbor the notion that the clothing choices reveal influences rooted in something deep-er and more cerebral. Sure of themselves and with de-liberately done hemlines and color choices, explor-ing sartorial choices with Schuman becomes a study in style through powerful images. His subjects seem to possess a sense simplic-ity, like they are just being who they are instead of trying too hard. Treating his audience with images from across the globe, he makes dressing up the ul-timate spectator sport.

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MOTORING

The rainy season is definitely back once again. While rainy

days can be a refreshing respite from the heat, these can mean heavy traffic, flooded roads, poor visibility, and diffi-cult driving conditions.

Driving in rainy weather can indeed be difficult, but making it all the more challenging are the numerous choic-es that motorists have to make while driving on a wet and slippery road. Do you take the main road or the side streets? Do you brave that flooded road or wait for the water to sub-side? Is it better to leave work during rush hour or

wait a little later to avoid traffic?

In times like this, mak-ing good choices is key to getting to your destina-tion safely and with the least delays.

here are some tips you should remember while on the road during rainy days:

Plan your route. Know which roads are prone to floods. Take alternate routes during a down-pour. Check online bulle-tins on road conditions before leaving for your destination and listen to the radio to monitor for real-time updates. Mobile applications, such as the Shell Motorist app, can

help in planning alterna-tive routes and locating Shell stations.

Keep your distance. Remember it can take up to 13 meters to stop a regular car running at 48 km/h, and even more if the road is slippery. Maintain a reasonable driving distance and in-crease that space when going at higher speeds. At all times, maintain a three-second gap from the vehicle ahead, no matter what speed. In-crease the gap accord-ingly based on weather conditions.

Use your emergency hazard light only when necessary. Contrary to

common practice, turn on your hazard light only when your vehicle has stopped. hazard lights signal to other drivers that there is a stalled car. Using your hazard light while on the move will confuse other motorists and may cause accidents.

Signal early. Where practical, use signal lights for at least 30 me-ters before commencing to turn or change lanes to tell other road users what you will do. This is particularly necessary during rainy days.

Slow down when vis-ibility is poor. Slow down if visibility if poor be-cause of rain. Try shifting

your gaze slightly away from oncoming head-lights and adjust your rear vision mirror to re-duce glare from behind.

Don’t overspeed. Vis-ibility and vehicle per-formance change during rainy weather. your vehi-cle may also take longer to slow down, so always adhere to speed limits.

Keep your vehicle in good shape. The impor-tance of car maintenance cannot be overempha-sized, especially during the rainy season. ensure that your windscreen wipers are working as these can help main-tain visibility. Do regular tune-ups, engine checks,

and tire checks. These not only help you prevent a vehicle breakdown, but can also help you im-prove fuel economy.

Choose the right fuel. During rainy days, it is possible that you con-sume more fuel since roads have less grip, re-quiring more energy just to get your wheels mov-ing. To improve your fuel economy, make a good choice and gas up with Shell FuelSave, Shell’s regular priced fuel de-signed to last longer.

For more ideas on how to be a fuel-efficient driver, log on to www.shell.com.ph/targetone-million.

RAINY DAY DRIVING

FORD Motor Compa-ny today announced Ford Ranger sales in

Asia Pacific rose 16 percent in the first half of 2014 to over 40,600 units.

The Asia Pacific mar-kets (e.g:Australia, new Zealand the ASeAn mar-kets) have been among Ford’s biggest selling mar-kets for the popular Rang-er one-ton pick-up truck since 2010.

“More and more con-sumers across the region and across the worldare choosing Ford Ranger,” said Dave Schoch, pres-ident, Ford Asia Pacific. “The award-winning truck is a global vehicle designed and engineered by our tal-ented team in Asia Pacific to serve the demand of cus-tomers in 185 countries globally.”

“Ford Ranger has prov-en itself as the toughest and smartest truck that the customers can count on,”

said Schoch. “This is espe-cially true in Asia Pacific where Ranger is durable enough for customers who use it for construction and agriculture, while still be-ing comfortable and safe enough to take the family on a road trip.”

Ford Ranger saw out-standing half-year perfor-mances throughout Asia Pacific.

Australia and new Zealand reported strong growth for Ranger, num-ber two pickup truck in its segment through the first six months up 27 percent from a year ago to more than 16,200 units. This in-cluded a record June per-formance with sales that jumped 39 percent to near-ly 3,800 units.

“The strong demand for Ranger, specifically XLT and WildTrak models, has been driving Ranger’s suc-cess. Australian and new Zealand customers, both

individual customers and small businesses love its robustness, design and en-gine lineup,” said Bob Gra-ziano, President and CeO, Ford Australia.

Strong demand across the ASeAn region has helped Ranger firmly se-cure its position as Ford’s best-selling vehicle there, with overall sales rising nearly nine percent in the first half of the year to over 22,000 units.

The Ranger’s soaring popularity across ASeAn has helped it become the best-selling pickup truck overall in Vietnam, and among the segment lead-ers in Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.

“Our customers throughout ASeAn appre-ciate the Ranger’s versatil-ity, durability and all-pur-pose practicality,” said Matt Bradley, president, Ford ASeAn. “Its distinctive styl-

ing, car-like comfort, and powerful yet fuel efficient engine are also helping drive the Ranger’s widen-ing appeal to so many cus-tomers.”

Continued strong de-mand for the Ranger is helping Ford gain overall market share in Thailand amid a protracted domes-tic industry slowdown. As Ford’s best-selling name-plate in this pickup-friend-ly market, Ranger sales of

12,425 units through the first six months of the year have significantly outpaced its segment.

In the Philippines, the Ranger helped the com-pany deliver its best-ever half-year sales result with its own record first-half performance and sales that jumped 64 percent to over 3,280 units. Ford recently launched three new variants of the Rang-er in the Philippines, giv-

ing customers even more choice with this class-de-fining pickup truck.

Through the first half of the year, Ranger is leading the overall pickup segment in Vietnam with sales that have increased 143 percent to almost 1,650 units.

In Malaysia, Ranger is enjoying a record year with sales rising 43 percent to its best-ever first-half per-formance of 3,667 units.

Strong demand for Ford Ranger

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the civil service.In 2015, the adminis-

tration will shift the P5,000 across-the-board Perfor-mance enhancement In-centive to a one-month bonus for agencies that meet their 2014 targets, Sarmiento noted.

Through these fiscal reforms, Sarmiento said the government is expect-ed to be more efficient in delivering its services the people while removing nearly all opportunities for corruption.

“Unde the new bud-geting system, agencies are required to complete their pre-procurement and detailed engineering

activities before the Bud-get is passed to enable the awarding of contracts at the beginning of the fiscal year,” Sarmiento said.

Sarmiento also ex-pressed support for the Aquino administration’s position for

Congress to impose a One-year Validity of Ap-propriations which in ef-fect, will no longer allow the use of budgets intend-ed for the year to carry over to the succeeding year.

The proposed gener-al provisions of the 2015 Budget seek to allow the declaration of savings by the end of the first semes-

ter, giving enough time for the implementation of augmented programs and projects, could also provide the cure as to the “unconstitutionality” on the use of “savings” for government projects.

Sarmiento said this proposal would encourage departments and agencies to utilize their allocated funds as early as possible, rather than postpone the implementation of pro-grams and projects to the following year and at the same time, it would make the accounting of the use of funds and the imple-mentation of programs more transparent.

Republic of the PhilippinesDepartment of Transportation

and CommunicationslaND TraNspOrTaTION

FraNChIsING aND reGUlaTOry BOarDRegional Office no. XI

Davao City

petition for renewal of a Cer-tificate of public Convenience to operate a Th FreIGhT TrUCK service

JOsephINe C. FrONDOZO,Petitioner

Case No.2009-XI-00059

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NOTICe OF hearING

Petitioner is a grantee of a Cer-tificate of Public Convenience issued in this case authorizing the operation of a Th FReIGhT TRUCK service on the route: WIThIn DAVAO CITy and from said place to any point in the Island of MInDAnAO accessible to motor vehicle traffic and vice versa with the use of One (1) unit, which Certificate will ex-pire on October 14, 2014. In the petition filed on july 22, 2014, petitioner requests authority to extend the validity of said certif-icate to operate along the same route with the use of the same unit previously authorized. nOTICe, is hereby given that this petition will be heard by this Board on aUGUsT 26, 2014 at 9:20 a.m. at this office at the above address.

At least, Ten (10) days prior to the above date petitioner shall publish this notice once in a one (1) daily newspaper of general circulation in Mindanao

Parties opposed to the granting of the petition must file their written opposition supported by documentary evidence on or before the above date furnishing a copy of the same to the peti-tioner, and may if they so, desire appear on said date and time.

This petition will be acted upon by this Board on the basis of its records and the documentary evidence submitted by the par-ties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary and/or oral evi-dence.

WITneSS the honorable Ben-JAMIn A. GO, CeSO V, Regional Director, this 22nd day of July 2014 at Davao City.

TeresITa Dela peÑa-yÑIGUeZChief TransportationDevelopment Officer

the 80s because of some miscommunication with the provision of Data. Other government agencies were not able to meet the dead-line for the submission of data.

“Once datum is not available, a city will get a score of 0 in that particular index. So this will explain why we were ranked 81st

last year,” he said. Cortez commended the

government agencies oper-ating in Davao, more par-ticularly the Department of Trade and Industry- Davao City field Office for pains-takingly gathering all the needed information and seeing to it that data are submitted before the dead-line this year.

“For this year, I am glad that some of Davao City’s strengths and accomplish-ments were recognized. We were ranked no. 1 in Trans-parency, in Compliance to national Directives, in infra-structure investments and in Investment Promotion. I do not agree with some of our rankings in other fronts,” Cortez said. ABF

Constitutional Rights and they were illegally arrested for murder and illegal pos-session of firearms.

he said that the po-lice who arrested Labang for illegal possession of firearms presented a very unbelievable story of how he was arrested. he cited the affidavit of arrest of the arresting officers on June 23, stated that it was based on an anonymous call relayed to DCPO direc-tor Sr. Supt. Vicente Danao Jr., who ordered them to proceed to Team Davao Shooting Range along Di-version Road, Maa with the Technical Support Pla-toon which refers to Spe-cial Weapons and Tactics (SWAT).

“After being dispatched heading to the reported place on board mobile patrol, upon our arrival we spotted the person (Labang) beside the road whose description fitted on the given information and such, we disembarked from our vehicle to ap-proach the latter however, same manifested aggres-siveness by pulling out un-determined caliber of fire-arm from his color brown sling bag thus, we quickly disarmed him for safety, « Felonia cited the affidavit of arrest.

Felonia said that the allegations would have the investigating prosecutor believe that Labang, after seeing police officers, in-cluding an entire SWAT team, alight from mobile patrol unit going towards him, pulled out a gun in an aggressive manner, and then, ironically, meekly allowed himself to be dis-armed immediately.

“This utterly unbeliev-able,” Felonia said adding that the allegations are

untrue and were just de-signed to justify a “plain view search” and the ‘’fla-grante delicto” arrest of Labang that what truly happened, the latter was forcibly taken from the fir-ing range as described by lawyer Alexis Lumbatan who at first, would extend legal assistance to Labang.

“In the news video of Atty. Lumbatan’s inter-view after speaking with Paul Labang, the said law-yer clearly described the manner of Labang’s arrest by taking him without any warrant from the ‘quarry,’ is illegal,” Felonia said.

Felonia also not-ed, Labang plead not guilty for the illegal pos-session charge in his arraignment last July 25. he said that even the so-called voluntary surrender of Dela Cerna brothers is questionable.

“The excerpt from the daily records of DCPO dated June 23 states that they allegedly voluntarily surrendered respective-ly at 9:30 a.m. of June 23 but news reports given on that day describe them as having been arrested on the day or before June 22, and it is undeniable that they could not have been arrested for illegal posses-sion of firearms simply be-cause they had nothing to do with it,” he said.

The former RIU - 11 head said when the DCPO submitted extrajudicial confession of Rommel Dela Cerna dated June 23, he supposedly states in his answer that he allegedly surrendered to the police at 8:30 a.m. of June 22.

“In other words, the very evidence submitted by the police are self-con-tradicting,” he said.

he said that the DCPO

officers made a clear con-coction of the allegations and records to cover up the fact that the Dela Cer-na brothers were actually illegally taken through in-timidation and coercion to induce false accusations against him.

“I cannot be denied that, therefore that the ar-rest or detention of Labang and Dela Cerna Brothers for the crime of murder as well as the DCPO’s act of subjecting them to an in-quest investigation for the said crime was in viola-tion of their constitutional rights against warrantless searches and seizures, as well as their right to due process,” Felonia said.

Felonia said that law-yer Caesar S. europa, his legal counsel told him, that the confessions of the three were inadmissible since these were the con-sequence of their illegal arrest and detention.

“The extra-judicial confessions were taken in violation of the rights of Paul Labang and the Dela Cerna brothers as person arrested, detained or un-der custodial investigation under the Constitution and Republic Act 7438 (An Act Defining Certain Rights Of Person Arrest-ed, Detained or Under Custodial Investigation as well as the Duties of the Arresting, Detaining and Investigating Officers, and Providing Penalties for Vi-olations),” Felonia said.

Felonia said that the there is a glaring incon-sistencies in the conduct of interviews of the three suspects as it appears in their sworn statements that they were illegally subjected for custodial in-vestigation which violated their constitutional rights.

this is also expected to strengthen the processed chili product industry in the region.

“In view of the Asian economic Community in 2015, we will be competing with other similar prod-ucts. This will help estab-lish a standard among the chili products,” she said.

Ambi said that the SSFs will be established in Ca-teel, Baganga, and Boston where their co-operators in the respective areas have committed to provide

potential locations for the facility establishments.

She also cited an in-stance when the munici-pal government of Boston and the local government unit (LGU) of Baganga have been cooperating with DTI 11 to identify key areas for the construction of the SSFs.

The facility construc-tion and layout design will follow the conditions of the Food and Drugs Adminis-tration (FDA) where each establishment will cover at

least 100 square meters of floor area and have a single access point that will serve both as an entrance and an exit for workers.

Ambi hopes that their applications for a license to operate (LTO) from FDA will be transacted easily as they have already set the SSFs in place.

She also said that their documents for the bidding of the SSFs have already been released. They plan to hold a meeting with the bidders soon.

According to Clamor, each police station and pre-cinct has at least 10 long firearms. The region has four provincial police offic-es, four city police offices located in the cities of Mati, Digos, Panabo and Tagum and a total of 43 police sta-tions while Davao City has 12 police precincts.

“Usually rotational ang gamit ng mga long firearms natin. Kung sino na lang ang nakaduty sya na.lang rin ang gagamit,” Clamor said.

however, he clarified that it is unnecessary that all cops will have M16 and M14.

“It is more ideal that all

our policemen will have short firearms, including the new one,” he said.

Despite the shortage in combatting equipment, Clamor said that cops in the region are maximiz-ing the assets they have at hand.

Though happy at the pronouncement of Presi-dent Aquino regarding on the deployment of new firearms in his latest State of the nation Address (Sona), Clamor said that he has no information as to the number of guns that will be augmented for the region and when will it ar-rived. CRC

a coal-mining activity.DOe allows coal-mining

each company to explore a maximum of 15,000 hect-ares per identified area.

Doe undersecretary Ze-naida Monsada, meanwhile, said that the PeCR 5 is a mechanism for the country to attain self- sufficiency in the supply of local coal.

Jariel said that most of the coal used by coal- fired power plants are imported from Indonesia and Thai-land.

he said that there are already 31 coal-mining

companies operating in the country that are already in production. The largest is the Semirara Mining Cor-poration which provides 96 percent of the local coal supply.

Monsada also added that that the identification of areas with possible huge coal deposit would lessen the number of illegal and small coal miners.

Other areas for explo-ration in Mindanao include areas’ 1 (Carmen, Lanuza and Tandag, Surigao del Sur); 2 (Tandag and Tago,

Surigao del Sur); 3 (Tandag, Tago and San Miguel, Su-rigao del Sur ); 9 (Lingig and Bislig City, Surigao del Sur); 10 (Godod, Zamboanga del norte and Kabasalan, Zam-boanga Sibugay); 11 (Go-dod, Zamboanga del norte and Kabasalan, Zamboan-ga Sibugay); 12 (Baliguian and Siocon, Zamboanga del norte); 13 (Alicia, Imelda and Payao, Zamboanga Sibugay); 14 (Imelda, Ma-langas, Alicia and Payao, Zamboanga Sibugay) and 15 (Maitum, Sarangani in Cota-bato- Saranggani ). CRC

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The first Davao Tribal Games for Peace slated

on August 14 at the Peo-ple’s Park in Davao City.

City Councilor Berino Mambo-o Sr. along with Deputy Mayor for Klata Tribe herminia Ortiz, city sports office deputy head Goldie Delvo, Tribal Games coordinator Rudy Mande, CMO-SDD coordi-nators Tommy Iñigo and Lito delos Reyes and the coordinators of the dif-ferent tribes and events formally launched the staging of the event yes-terday during the FAST FRIDAyS media forum at Archipelago 7107 at SM Lanang Premier.

The five tribes coming from Ata, Klata, Matig-salog, Ovu-Manubo and Tagbawa will parade their delegations during the opening. After a rit-ual and opening prayer, six games will then be played in the morning.

They are Pana (bow and arrow), Sisibow (spear throw), Kakas-ing (topspin), Bubuntug (bamboo spear), Solopot (blow gun) and Bibinayo (rice pounding). After a lunch break, the final six events will be the Siklot (wood sticks), Aakow (wooden stilts), Totar-ingki (fire making), So-

sakoro (water fetching), Dagan (running) and Tug-of-War.

each tribe will be represented by 50 play-ers aged 18 years old and above, in the one-day historic event held in celebration of the an-nual 29th Kadayawan sa Dabaw Festival.

The over-all team champion will pocket P50,000 while the first and second runners-up will get P40,000 and P30,000, respectively. The third and fourth runners-up will each bring home P15,000. Trophies will also be given away to the teams

while medals will be awarded to the individ-ual winners.

Mayor Rody Duterte has been invited as the guest of honor in the awarding and closing ceremony.

The Tribal Games was also organized to commemorate the In-

ternational Day of the World’s Indigenous Peo-ples held every August 9 by the United nations.

Ramirez said the Tribal Games is also part of the administra-tion’s comprehensive sports program under the Duterte Game Plan which will bring togeth-

er all the tribes and play their games.

The over-all cham-pion will win P50,000 while the first and sec-ond runners-up will get P40,000 and P30,000, respectively. The third and fourth runners-up will each bring home P15,000.

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UNITY. Indigenous Peoples representative to the City Council Councilor Berino Mambo-o (cen-ter), Rudy Mande (leftmost) of Matigsalog tribe, Datu Jonathan Awing (2nd from left) of Tagaba-wa tribe, Marvin Domingo (2nd from right) of Klata tribe and Linda Palmero of Ovu-Manubo tribe

joined hands during FAST Fridays at Archipelago by Barrio Fiesta at SM Lanang Premier last Friday to show their unity for the first Davao Tribal Games for Peace slated on August 14 at the People’s Park in Davao City. Lean Daval Jr.

First ever Davao Tribal Games kick off Aug. 14


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The first Abreeza Kadayawan Open Volleyball Tourna-

ment formally opened on Saturday at the Abreeza Mall open parking area.

The tournament fea-tures the varsity squads of Ateneo de Davao Uni-versity, Cor Jesu College of Digos City, holy Cross of Davao College, Univer-sity of Mindanao, DMMA College of Southern Phil-ippines, Jose Maria Col-lege, Philippine Women’s College of Davao, RCUBe Construction, Philippine

national Police, Davao Optima and Mega Testing Center-DGL.

Organizer Abet Ber-nan formally announced the event at FAST FRI-DAyS media forum yes-terday at the SM Lanang Premier.

Bernan said the teams are divided into two pools in a single round-robin per pool. Only the top two teams per pool shall qual-ify to the cross-over semi-finals. It will be knockout match in the semifinals. The games will be held

from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. ev-ery Saturday and Sundays of August and during hol-idays (10 a.m. to 9 p.m.).

The champion will pocket P10,000 while the second P8,000, third P6,000 and fourth P3,000. A consolation prize of P4,000 will each be given to the other four teams.

The league will be handled by the Balibolis-ta de Dabaw composed of officials from the Phil-ippine Volleyball Feder-ation Licensed national Referees and members.

The Philippine Un-der-17 Team gave its best but still fell

prey to a taller Angolan side on Friday night, ab-sorbing a 72-82 setback as the FIBA Under-17 World Championship got going at the Al Ahli Are-na in Dubai, United Arab emirates.

Collectively known as “Batang Gilas,” the Ph side proved to be a tough nut to crack in the ear-ly goings but eventually succumbed to the height of the Angolans, the Af-rican champions whose average height of 6’4” surpasses the height of Batang Gilas’ tallest play-er, the 6’3” Richard esco-to. The Africans started to assert their will and dom-inance inside the lane in the second period, led by the all-around play of ver-satile power forward Joao Jungo.

Utilizing his 6-foot-6 frame to the hilt, Jungo turned out to be the big-gest problem for the Phil-

ippines as he pumped in 26 points on an efficient 12-of-17 shooting from the field on top of 11 re-bounds and three blocks, enabling the Angolans to open their title bid on a high note in Group A.

Guard eric Amandio backstopped Jungo with 17 points and 12 re-bounds while two other teammates, edmilson Mi-randa and Valdir Manuel, added at least 10 markers for Angola, which out-rebounded the smaller Filipinos 70-46 and also swatted seven blocks.

Ateneo’s Jolo Mendoza tallied a team-high with 16 points, 11 of them coming in a sizzling offen-sive display in the second canto, while hope Chris-tian high School’s Jollo Go and University of the Phil-ippines’ Diego Dario add-ed 13 and 12, respectively, for the Filipinos, who kept in step with the Angolans up to the early moments of the second canto, forg-

ing a 21-all count.Back-to-back triples

by Amandio, howev-er, provided the needed spark for the Angolans, who took a nine-point lead at the break and went on to keep the Filipi-nos at bay.

The Batang Gilas showed some signs of life early in the third canto as they pulled within 39-46 off Mendoza’s floater but the Angolans found enough ways and coun-tered back with a 13-6 run, capped by Do’s big triple.

Refusing to give up, the Ph side continued to entertain hopes and even threatened at 70-77 off a Paul Desiderio jump-er with 44 seconds left to play, but the Angolans wouldn’t be denied.

The Filipinos plunge back to action on Sat-urday against Greece and will take a one-day breather before taking on defending champion USA on Monday.

FOUR squads have con-firmed to see action in the much-awaited

2014 Kadayawan Invita-tional Basketball League slated on August 18-21 at the Almendras Gym. 2012 champion The Roy-al Mandaya hotel-CMO will be back to defend its title against visiting MP hotel of General Santos City, Goldstar hardware and Montaña Pawnshop. The champion of the four-day hoopfest will receive P100,000, while the first run-ner-up will get P60,000, sec-ond runner-up P40,000 and third runner-up P30,000. The Most Valuable Player will pocket P5,000 and a trophy. The TRMh-CMO squad is

reportedly bringing back veteran PBA center John Ferriols of Talk ‘n Text to-gether with Cebu’s eman Calo, ex-pros Jojo Tang-kay and Darwin Cordero, brothers Dennis and Dino Daa and hafer Mondragon. TRMh-CMO will start its practice on Aug. 11 according to head coach Ronel Leuterio. Preliminary games for the Collegiate Division will be played from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. featuring topnotch men and women’s varsity teams of Davao City.MP ho-tel, owned by boxing champ Manny Pacquiao, will parade five dispersal draft picks from the PBA expansion team Kia although MP coach

Arvin Bonleon refused to name the pro cagers. The men’s division will be played from Aug. 18-24 followed by the women’s division from Aug. 25 to September 2. The champi-on will pocket P8,000, first runner-up P6,000, second runner-up P4,000 and third runner-up P2,000. The tournament is orga-nized by the City Govern-ment of Davao in celebration of the 29th Kadayawan sa Dabaw Festival. It is also part of the comprehensive sports program dubbed as Duterte Game Plan and sanctioned by the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) XI under regional director Regino “Boy” Cua.

Kadayawan Open Volleyball underway at Abreeza

4 squads vie for Kadayawan hoops

Batang Gilas bow to Angola

Jinggo Camomot (left), Fritz Tan (center) and Neil Laure promote during FAST Fridays at Archipelago by Barrio Fiesta at SM Lanang Premier the 2014 Hot August Races

set on August 9 to 10 at Speed City race track in Ma-a, Diversion Road, Davao City. Lean Daval Jr.

Ali Bernan, Shakey’s Girls Volleyball League (SGVL) Southern Mindanao leg coordinator, gives the details of the 12th edition of the leading volleyball tournament in the country during FAST Fridays at Archipelago by Barrio

Fiesta at SM Lanang Premier. The 12th SGVL Southern Mindanao leg is slated on August 11 to 14 at the Davao Doctors College gym. Lean Daval Jr.

The Royal Mandaya Hotel general manager Benjie Ban-zon (right) and race committee chair Brandon Borras announces the staging of “Hunat Dabaw 2” Fun Run

set on August 31 in celebration of the hotel’s 16th year anniversary during FAST Fridays at Archipelago by Barrio Fiesta at SM Lanang Premier. Lean Daval Jr.

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SAn Mig Coffee Mixers star guard Peter June Simon is not playing

for any team in the forth-coming Kadayawan Invi-tational Basketball Tour-nament which begins on August 18 at the Davao City Recreation Center.

According to a source close to Simon, the Univer-sity of Mindanao alumni is not suiting up for either Montana Pawnshop or The Royal Mandaya hotel-CMO after rumors circulated he is working out with a squad in Davao.

Simon was in town last week and practiced with

the Montana Pawnshop at the M o n -t a n a Gym.

how-ever, a source c l o s e to Si-

mon said he only took some workouts with the Pawnbrokers to keep in shape. Simon has a house in Davao City where he spends some time of his offseason break.

When sought for an interview, Simon, in

a text message to edge Davao, said

he will be back in Davao next

week during the Kaday-

awan fes-tivities.

S i -m o n w a s

also rumored to be play-ing for TRMh-CMO and reunite with his former coach with the Davao ea-gles, Ronel Leuterio. It was during his Davao eagles days that Simon shot to the basketball limelight as a high-flying rookie out of the University of Mindanao before he found his way to the defunct Philippine Bas-ketball League (PBL).

he was picked by Pure-foods in the PBA draft and has since played with the SMC-owned franchise where he blossomed into a reliable scorer.

Meantime, Calvin

Abueva’s possible return to Davao City was aborted when he was injured in the recent FIBA 3x3 in recently in Manila.

Abueva, the star guard of Alaska in the PBA, was on the initial list of The Royal Mandaya hotel-CMO. After learning that Abue-va went through the knife, TRMh-CMO Leuterio said he is looking beyond Abue-va who created ripples in 2012 while playing for the San Sebastian-Phoenix Pe-troleum in the 2012 Araw ng Dabaw tournament.

“he is injured so it’s moot and academic that he

is no longer a possibility,” said Leuterio.

Over at the MP ho-tel-GenSan camp, Manny Pacquiao’s team is re-portedly bringing in five dispersal picks from their PBA-bound squad. Kia’s dispersal picks are hans Thiele, Mike Burtscher, Jai Reyes, Alvin Padilla, LA Re-villa, Paul Sanga, Angelus Raymundo, eder Saldua, nic Belasco, Joshua Webb and Richard Alonzo.

MP hotel coach Arvin Bonleon did not confirm who among the dispersal picks will suit up for the MP hotel squad in Davao.

WHO’S IN, WHO’S OUT?The stars are coming for Kadayawan hoops minus Abueva and PJ

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By NeIlWIN JOseph l. BraVO

SORRY, NO PJ AND CALVIN. PJ Simon of SanMig Coffee (lower photo, right) is not suiting up for any team in the Kadayawan Invitationals. Calvin Abueva (inset) of Alaska is also ruled out after he got injured recently. PBA photos by Nuki Sabio

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