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AN official of Davao City’s Business Bu-reau yesterday said

the Davao Medical Educa-tion Management Services (DMEMS), which provides lodging and accommoda-tion services to about 1,200 Indian medical students of the Davao Medical School Foundation (DMSF) in three dormitories, will be fined

P516,703 due to failure to pay tax and lack of permit.

A source who request-ed anonymity said DMEMS filed to pay tax from the pe-riod July 2013 to December 2014.

The source said the fine was based on the “presump-tive income level” and can still go up.

DMEMS is the local

partner of India-based firm Transworld Education Acad-emy Pvt. Ltd headed by Dr. David Pillai which is in part-nership with DMSF to bring Indian medical students to Davao City to study at the school.

The Business Bureau source also said DMEMS does not have a permit to op-erate the dormitories locat-

ed in Bajada, Jacinto Street, and near Bankerohan.

Meanwhile, Commis-sion on Higher Education (CHED) 11 regional director Raul C. Alvarez, Jr. confirmed that DMSF has exceeded the prescribed number of en-rolled foreign students for this school year.

In an interview with

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POPE MANIA. A vendor inside San Pedro Cathedral compound in Davao City holds a miniature replica of Pope Francis, which has been a hot item since the announcement of his Philippine visit last year. Pope Francis is scheduled to arrive in Manila today. Lean Daval Jr.

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SEVERAL incidents in the past triggered the stricter implementation of rules

for Indian medical students housed in three dormitories run by the Davao Medical Ed-ucation Management Services (DMEMS).

In an exclusive interview yesterday, DMEMS chief oper-ating officer Dr. Ashin Mohan said the worst incident was the death of Vijay Baskar Paneer Selvam, an incoming medical student of the Davao Medical School Foundation (DMSF) in 2011.

Based on the police blotter report at the Sta. Ana Police Station, Vijay died of drowning at Isla Reta Resort in Talikud Island at around 5:45 a.m. on

May 30, 2011.The police report said Vi-

jay was last seen partying with three Indian friends and one Filipina on the night of May 29, 2011.

He was next seen already dead, his body floating on the danger zone of the beach re-sort around 5:45 a.m. the next day.

Transworld Education Academy Pvt.Ltd. chair and chief executive officer Dr. Da-vid K. Pillai told reporters in yesterday’s Club 888 Forum that the Indian government is putting the blame on him and on the school even though Vi-jay was not recruited by his firm.

Another incident trans-

pired just last year when three Indian students who said they would be traveling to Cebu went to Cotabato instead.

Pillai said the management of the dormitories just want to make sure the Indian students are safe during the duration of their stay in Davao as medical students in DMSF.

“Most of these students are from middle class families in India who are just probably borrowing money from any-one just to be able to send their children here,” he added.

Pillai also clarified that the rules and regulations imposed in the dormitories were for-mulated not by Transworld but by the school itself.

He said DMSF signed an af-

fidavit to comply with the pol-icy of Commission on Higher Education (CHED).

In the signed affidavit, DMSF took all the responsibil-ity on the general welfare of the Indian and other foreign students who are studying in the school.

Pillai said the DMSF is now looking into the possibility of revising the amount of pen-alties to be imposed, which the students have said are too hefty.

At the same time, Pillai said not a single student has been made to pay the penalty since the implementation of rules and regulations on Sep-tember 1, 2014.

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THE BIG NEWS

THE Davao City Coun-cil will prioritize the proposed mandatory

installation of closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras in buses plying in the city.

In an interview, commit-tee on transportation and communication chair coun-cilor Tomas J. Monteverde IV told Edge Davao that he will expedite the discussion as soon as his committee re-ceives the request of Public Safety and Security Com-mand Center (PSSCC) head

Francisco Villaroman.Monteverde said the

matter needs to be priori-tized because it is a matter of public security.

Villaroman had earli-er said he will ask the City Council for an ordinance on his proposal to oblige all bus companies to put up CCTV cameras in every bus.

He came up with the pro-posal in light of the deadly bus bombing in Maramag, Bukidnon last month that killed 10 people and injured

20 others.Monteverde said he will

study that matter in a proper committee hearing.

“The intention of General Villaroman is to secure the passengers inside the bus but the hindrance of this is the cost,” he said.

He said he will call all the operators to discuss the proposal once it reaches the committee level.

“We will explain to them that the purpose of this plan is to enhance the security of

the passengers,” he said.Monteverde said if the

companies agree with the proposal, he will immediate-ly introduce it in the plenary for approval.

Last December, Villaro-man called a meeting to all the operators in the city for the mandatory installation of CCTV in their bus units.

He said if this is approved, all bus companies will be re-quired to install CCTV camer-as in their units before their permits are renewed. [ABF]

THE Davao City Gov-ernment issued an order for the creation

of a body that will handle the implementation of the Philippine Rural Develop-ment Program (PRDP) of the Department of Agriculture (DA).

Mayor Rodrigo R. Dute-rte signed Executive Order No. 49 series of 2014 imple-menting the creation of the PRDP-City Program Man-agement and Implementing Unit (CPMIU) of the DA.

The executive order was released on January 9.

The CPMIU is the re-quirement to conform to the program design of PRDP-DA which covers all provinces and cities in the Philippines.

The local government units identified to partici-

pate in the implementation of the project are required to create or strengthen their program management units.

The PRDP is on its pre-implementation stage.

The CPMIU will be head-ed by City Planning and Development Coordinator Marcelino P. Escalada.

The unit will assist in the social assessment of the city and manages the overall program implementation. It will also provide assistance to the program implement-ers, implementation sup-port, and capacity building to the barangay units.

CPMIU will serve as pro-gram facilitator and coor-dinator in the city level and conduct assessment of im-plementation, meetings, and

AROUND 80,000 dele-gates are expected to attend the mass to be

celebrated by Pope Francis at the Daniel Z. Romualdo Air-port in Tacloban City on Jan-uary 17.

In an interview, mass event coordinator Father Is-agani Betilos said the apron where Pope Francis will hold his first mass in Tacloban can

accommodate around 58,000 people.

They have, however, al-located space for late regis-trants that can accommodate around 30,000 individuals.

“Since we can only accom-modate around 58,000 we divided them by quadrants or per cubicle. Our measurement is two people per square me-

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80K faithful to attendPope’s Tacloban massBy FUNNY PEARL A. GAJUNERA

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DEFENSE. Transworld International Academy president Dr. David Pillai answers the allegations and grievances on dormitory policies made by some Indian medical students against him and Davao Medical Education Management Ser-vices (DMEMS) chief operating officer Dr. Ashin Mohan. Pillai was a guest in yesterday’s Club 888 media forum at The Marco Polo, Davao. Lean Daval Jr.

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A STEEL tower of the National Grid Corpora-tion of the Philippines

(NGCP) in a remote village here was toppled allegedly by the Bangsamoro Islamic Free-dom Fighters (BIFF) Tuesday night, causing an almost three-hour blackout in most parts of the province and neighboring North Cotabato, the military said.

A press statement from the Army’s 6th Infantry Divi-sion said elements of the 7th Infantry Battalion and Paga-lungan police, together with NGCP personnel, went to the blast site to investigate.

Three improvised ex-plosive devices (IED) using 81mm and 60mm mortar rounds were reportedly taped on three of the four posts of Tower 26 in Barangay Galakit here.

The IEDs were detonated simultaneously at 9:10 p.m. using a cellphone, according to Capt. Jo-Ann Penglay, 6ID spokesperson.

“The attack, although did not cause loss of lives, is ob-viously intended to sabotage the normalcy and the peaceful situation in the area,” the 6ID press statement said. “It’s ef-fect to the economic activity in affected areas could not be tak-en for granted even if power came back after almost three hours of blackout,” it added.

Maj. Gen. Edmundo R. Pan-gilinan, 6ID commander, gave orders to provide security to NGCP personnel who will be fixing the toppled tower.

Penglay said that there have been threats to topple NGCP’s power lines and a few have been prevented, but not this one.

According to Army sol-diers and members of the Cit-izens Armed Forces Geograph-ical Unit (CAFGU) belonging to the 7th Infantry Battalion stationed not far from the tow-er, the explosion was so loud. Then light disappeared imme-diately with the blackout that followed.

CRIME incidence in Re-gion 12 has dropped by about 23 percent last

year as the peace and order situation in most parts of the region continued to improve.

Chief Supt. Lester Camba, Region 12 police director, said the intensified law enforce-ment and security operations of local police units helped de-ter the occurrence of crime-re-lated incidents, which reached a total of 31,668 in 2014.

He said such figure was 9,660 lower than the record-ed crime volume of 41,328 in 2013 in the entire region.

“We made a significant mark in terms of lowering our

crime volume in 2014 and we will intensify further our fight against criminalities this year,” Camba said during the tradi-tional New Year’s Call of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 12 on Monday.

The New Year’s Call is an annual activity wherein mem-bers of the Philippine Nation-al Police (PNP) pay a courtesy call on their commanders or key officials in their respective areas of responsibility.

Aside from the reduced crime volume, the official said the ability of local police units to investigate and resolve crimes also improved last year.

He said such situation could be seen with the in-crease in the overall crime solution efficiency of the re-gion to 38.33 percent last year from the previous 36.12 percent.

In terms of the operations against illegal drugs, Camba said they were able to launch a total of 517 raids and buy-busts from January to Decem-ber 2014.

He said these operations led to the arrest of 700 sus-pected illegal drug pushers and couriers, majority of whom were already charged in local courts and prosecu-tion offices.

The anti-illegal drug op-erations resulted to the recov-ery of 1.8 kilograms of meth-amphetamine hydrochloride or shabu and 8.8 kilograms of dried marijuana that were valued at P24 million, he said.

For this year, Camba said they have set various strat-egies to further improve the peace and order and security situation in the entire region.

He said they are specifical-ly looking into various securi-ty setbacks, among them the deadly bomb attacks in North Cotabato and other parts of Region 12 last year.

CLASSES here have been suspended because of torrential rains since

Tuesday, a government offi-cial announced.

This despite the weather bureau’s advisory that the tropical depression spot-ted 1,560 kilometers east of Northern Mindanao has “low possibility of making land-fall.”

The Philippine Atmo-spheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Ad-ministration (PAGASA) said in its weather advisory dis-patched 10:30 a.m. today that the tropical depression, to be named “Amang” once it enters the Philippine area of respon-sibility, is expected to intensi-

fy into a storm but “predicted to weaken as it approaches the eastern seaboard.”

Surigao City acting Vice Mayor Danilo Menor has de-clared no classes in the pre-school and elementary level.

“The continuous moder-ate to heavy rains could pos-sibly trigger flashfloods and landslides to some vulnerable areas,” he said.

PAGASA-Surigao, through forecaster Frances Semorlan, has raised an “alert level 1” as rains reached 23.6mm as of 5 a.m. today.

“All are alerted to take precautionary measures,” said Annette Villaces, of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.

AT least 200 residents here left for Manila on Wednesday to partici-

pate in the activities lined up for the visit of Pope Francis this week.

Monsignor Elmer Ab-acahin of the Cagayan de Oro Archdiocese said the delega-tion, headed by Archbishop Antonio Ledesma is composed of priests and nuns, families and the youth.

Abacahin said the family members—already pre-se-lected by different dioceses — including the Sendong sur-vivors, will attend the activity with Pope Francis at the Mall of Asia on Friday.

He said the youth delega-

tion including students from Xavier University will be with thousands of youngsters from all parts of the country who will be meeting Pope Francis at the Sports field in the Uni-versity of Santo Tomas Sunday morning.

“Everyone is very happy. When they start leaving on Wednesday everyone will be in a festive mood,” Abacahin said.

Pope Francis , spiritual leader of the 76 million Cath-olics in the country will also visit Tacloban, Leyte to meet with the people who survived the devastation caused by ty-phoon Haiyan or Yolanda last

BIFF topples power tower

Region 12 crimes drop 23% in 2014 Surigao suspendsclasses due to rains

200 CDO folks flyto Manila for Pope

TOPPLED TOWER. Soldiers check out Tower 26 of the National Grid Corpora-tion of the Philippines (NGCP) transmission line located in Barangay Galakit, Pagalungan, Maguindanao, which was toppled allegedly by the Bangsamoro

Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) Tuesday night, causing blackouts in Maguin-danao and North Cotabato. An improvised explosive device (IED) was planted on its steel foundation. MindaNews photo by Ferdinandh Cabrera

PEOPLE’S POPE. Passersby stop and look at the huge streamer of Pope Francis placed at the main entrance gate of San Pedro Cathedral in Davao City yester-day. Lean Daval Jr.

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Constabulary and ARMM … which “we did not ask for.”

“It is a simple statement but one that has far-reaching implications on public policy – the people of the Cordilleras and of Muslim Mindanao do not want war. They want hu-man development and they want to be heard. And the government needs to listen. This is mandated by a new provision in the 1987 Consti-tution on the right of the peo-

ple and their organizations to effective and reasonable participation at all levels of social, political, and economic decision- making,” the fram-ers’ Executive Summary said.

The framers said the “larger context” of the CAB and BBL “is our failure to ef-fectively address the longest running insurgency and the development of our peoples, especially those of Muslim

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BIGGER PICTURE

Bangsamoro is about people, notabout constitutionality of words

Yuchengco Museum shows wealth of Filipino art weaving and fabrics

FRAMERS OF 1987 CONSTITUTION:

“BANGSAMORO is about the development of peo-ple, not about the con-

stitutionality of words,” sur-viving members of the 1986 Constitutional Commission (ConCom) that drafted the 1987 Constitution said in a statement.

The seven-page state-ment and two-page Executive Summary dated January 9 but released on January 12 was signed by 14 of 18 surviv-ing members of the ConCom, who also expressed they “ful-ly support the creation of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region” as its importance to the future of the country is “unprecedented both as an unfulfilled promise and as a model of equitable autono-my.”

“The core principle of the 1987 Constitution in mandat-ing a special status for the au-tonomous regions is the hu-man development of the peo-ple of Muslim Mindanao and the Cordilleras. Hence, the public conversation should not be about semantics but about people – their needs, their aspirations, their choic-

es – and about empowering them with the environment and institutional framework for social justice,” the fram-ers, among them a former Supreme Court justice, an As-sociate Justice, two Commis-sion on Election chairs and a commissioner, legal luminar-ies and a bishop, said.

“Reason tells us that a Bangsamoro Autonomous Region can close the centu-ries- old gap between law and justice and that we are on the cusp of a historic opportu-nity to make it happen,” the framers said as they noted that the central theme of the 1987 Constitution was “so-cial justice that calls for gen-uine social change,” that this is broader in scope and in-tent than the 1935 and 1973 Constitutions, and that “an interpretation of any relevant provision of the Constitution that results in war and abject poverty would be contrary to its intention,” they said.

The framers believe that a new organic law – in this case the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) — “is necessary to fulfill the vision and spirit

that guided the constitutional provisions on autonomous regions since RA 6734 and RA 9054 (the Organic Acts creating and amending the Autonomous Region in Mus-lim Mindanao) have clearly not gone far enough to give life to the concept of autono-my for Muslim Mindanao as envisioned by the Constitu-tion.”

“We were aware in 1986 that we were imperfect in-struments of the sovereign will of our people But howev-er imperfect our perceptions then or our fading memories today, recurring questions on the ‘constitutionality’ of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) and of the proposed Bang-samoro Basic Law (BBL) lead us to offer our insights,” the statement said.

The statement comes barely a week before Con-gress, which is deliberating the BBL, resumes sessions. The House of Representa-tives’ Ad Hoc Committee on the Bangsamoro Basic Law is about to complete its pub-lic hearings, expecting to fin-

ish the Committee report by February 11 for the plenary debates that would start on February 16.

Two Senate Committees under Senators Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. and Miriam De-fensor-Santiago, are still com-pleting their hearings.

The issue on alleged un-constitutionality of some pro-visions in the BBL has been repeatedly cited during the public hearings and will be the subject of Senator Santia-go’s hearings.

Real issue But the framers of the

1987 Constitution said the Bangsamoro “is about the development of people, not about the constitutionality of words.”

The framers quoted a tes-timony of an old man from the Cordilleras, which they said is “instructive on the real issue that should be consid-ered” as he said they asked for a teacher, a person to re-pair their road, a doctor but government sent none, and that government men came with a project to build a dam and sent in the Philippine

PHILIPPINE indigenous textiles are getting rar-er than ever as the tra-

ditional weavers and their hand-woven style by provid-ing meaning, magic, math, and method have faded in the

background.Many have died and only

a smattering of families have passed their art from genera-tion to generation as the age of digital technology has overtak-en the world.

However, a few of these precious remaining relics have been preserved and they are now displayed for public view-ing in some museums like the Yuchengco Museum Ayala Ave. in Makati City and sometimes

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at the UP Museum in Diliman, Quezon City.

Fantastic hand-woven textile collections of writer, fashion and theater artist Floy Quintos are available for view-ing from January until the end of February 2015 at the 3/F Bridgeway Gallery at Yucheng-co Museum.

Philippine indigenous textiles are not just objects of beauty and inspiration.

Their threads, colors, mo-tifs, and patterns reveal stories about the weaver’s culture and the surprisingly methodical work that goes into these fab-rics.

They showcase intricate ornamentation, meticulous patterns, and mythical stories linked to the world of magic and spirits.

With careful study and analysis, textiles unveil a com-plex, mythic, and minute uni-verse.

Quintos’ collection of Wo-ven Universes: Math, Method,

Meaning, and Magic in Philip-pine Indigenous Textiles, an exhibit of close to 40 fabrics and clothing is a thrilling ex-ample

Woven Universes high-lights the traits inherent to the creation and usage of the tex-tiles woven by various indige-nous peoples from all over the Philippines.

Philippine indigenous textiles are not just objects of beauty and inspiration. Their threads, colors, motifs, and patterns reveal stories about the weaver’s culture and the surprisingly methodical work.

Another lovely thing at the Yuchengco Museum is the Interact at the Samsung Digi-tal Gallery wherein Samsung Electronics Philippines (SEP-CO)has tied up with Yuchengco Museum in a long-term part-nership to launch a permanent digital gallery on the third floor of the museum.

Named the Samsung Dig-ital Gallery, the space allows

visitors to interact with dig-itized artworks by Filipinos masters and contemporary artists through the use of Sam-sung tablets and augmented reality technology.

The Samsung Digital Gal-lery provides the new genera-tion of museum visitors a new way of further engaging and interacting with Filipino art.

This also enables Yucheng-co Museum to further its mis-sion to promote the apprecia-tion of art, culture, and history amongst its various audiences.

The Samsung Digital Gal-lery uses technology to bring back the passion for visiting museums and appreciating the joy of viewing art.

The Samsung Digital Gal-lery hopes to evolve with the audiences’ rapid adoption of new technologies.

The gallery is dedicated to the digital generation, to whom our cultural heritage will hopefully and faithfully be passed on to. (PNA)

FOR THE PEOPLE. MILF peace panel chair Mohagher Iqbal meets with May-or Rodrigo Duterte in a courtesy call in Davao City last week. Lean Daval Jr.

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ECONOMY

EXPORTERS in Min-danao have been to tap the 50-million

market population of Eu-rope as the tariff for more than a hundred of food and agricultural products and commodities from the Phil-ippines went to as low as zero.

Speaking in yesterday’s Club 888 media forum at Marco Polo Davao, Philip-pine Exporters Confedera-tion Inc. (Philexport)-Davao chapter president Ferdi-nand Marañon said export-ers in Mindanao, specifi-cally in the Davao Region, should take advantage of this opportunity that will only be available in the next 10 years.

Marañon said it’s high time for exporters and even small and medium enter-prises(SMEs) to improve and upgrade their food products in order to pass the standard of the Europe-an market.

Exporters and SMEs should tap various assis-

tance given by the Depart-ment of Trade and Industry for product improvement for value adding, according to him..

“The ball is now within the hands of exporters. It’s really up to us if we want to take this opportunity or not,” Marañon said.

Last December 24, the Philippines was able to secure general scheme of preference plus (GSP+) status from the European Union (EU).

The Philippines is the 14th country and the only member state in the Asso-ciation of Southeast Asian Nation (Asean) that was granted GSP+ status.

Under the EU GSP+ scheme, exporters from the Philippines will be able to enjoy zero duty for all 6,274 covered products aside from the 2,442 prod-ucts and 3,767 subject to reduced tariffs covered un-der the general GSP that the country first applied.

Philexport prexy urges exportersin Mindanao to tap Europe market

Philippine Exporters Confederation Inc. (Philexport)-Davao chapter president Ferdinand Marañon (right) stresses a point in yesterday’s Club 888 media forum at Marco Polo Davao. At left is Raf Vlummens Raf Vlummens, founder and president of Philexport Davao partner Exportdesk.eu. Lean Daval Jr.

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THE survival rate of businesses operating in Davao City went up

to 86 percent in 2014 from 84.68 percent recorded in 2013.

Davao City Investment and Promotions Center offi-cer-in-charge Ivan C. Cortez on Monday said the surviv-al rate for 2014 may go as high as 90 percent once the pending applications are

processed by this month.Cortez said that the

businesses’ survival rate in Davao City has been in-creasing for the past eight years, with the highest ever recorded by the Business Bureau at 90.41 percent back in 2008.

In 2009, the survival rate was 82.48 percen while in 2010 it was 82.73 per-cent. In 2011 the rate was at

84.22 percent and in 2012 it was set at 85.09 percent.

Cortez said Davao City’s survival rate is far much more better compared to other cities in the country which have about a survival rate of only 60 to 70 per-cent.

The improvement in the survival of businesses here was contributed to low in-flation rate, low cost of pro-

duction and labor, accord-ing to Cortez.

He added that a high survival rate means that the business climate in Davao City is doing well and stable and that businesses are en-joying their profits.

Most business establish-ments that closed in 2014. Cortez said, were from the retailing sector like sari-sari stores and mostly from the

micro,small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

Another sector that has also recorded most closure was those that were selling guns and ammos.

According to a reliable source who also owns a guns and ammuniion shop, there were about five shops that closed last year. The source added that the strict administration of suspend-

ed Philippine National Po-lice (PNP) chief Allan Purisi-ma was among the reasons many gun shops closed last year.

Cortez said DCIPC is now in close coordination with Davao City SMEs De-velopment Council for for-mulation of programs that will help small businesses to survive the growing busi-ness sector of Davao City.

THE World Bank (WB) continues to see above-trend growth

for the Philippines even as it cut its growth forecast for the country anew.

The WB now projects a six percent expansion for the domestic economy this year and 6.5 percent for 2015. These are lower than the 6.6 percent and 6.7 per-cent downwardly revised forecast it issued the sec-ond half of 2014.

These are lower than the government’s 6.5-7.5 percent growth target for 2014 and seven to eight percent target next year.

For 2016, the WB eyes a 6.5 percent expansion for the domestic economy,

also lower than the govern-ment’s seven to eight per-cent target.

In a briefing for the re-lease of WB’s Philippine Economic Update (PEU) Wednesday, WB Senior Country Economist Karl Kendrick Chua said last year was “a very special year” for the country de-spite slower output up to the third quarter.

He said the impact of Typhoon Yolanda on the economy and on govern-ment spending along with the result of the Supreme Court (SC) decision against the continued implemen-tation of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) and the Priority De-

velopment Assistance Fund (PDAF) disadvantaged the government’s spending program.

As of the third quarter of 2014, the economy’s out-put, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), stood at 5.8 percent while the third quarter level alone stood at 5.3 percent, lower than quarter-ago’s 6.4 per-cent and year-ago’s seven percent.

Despite the slower growth as of end-Septem-ber 2014, the domestic economy posted its 11th over five-percent quarterly growth, among the highest in Asia to date.

Chua said higher invest-

AFTER much anticipation and preparation for the visit of the Head of the

Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis finally arrives in the Philippines. The Pope, known as “The People’s Pope,” will be having his five-day apostolic visit, including the areas dev-astated by Typhoon Yolanda, particularly Tacloban, in his itinerary.

Damosa Land celebrates this historic event with an ex-hibit that relives the memories of times past when Davao City was once host to a Papal visit as well.

The vintage Ford Bronco unit, which once served as a

Popemobile, from Davao Mo-tor Sales (DAMOSA) is now the main attraction of the exhibit at the Damosa Market Basket in Lanang. DAMOSA, the pre-mier dealer of Ford vehicles in the 80’s, has now become Da-mosa Land, Inc., the real estate company of ANFLOCOR.

Along with the Popem-obile are memorabilia of the second Papal visit and other items about the current Papal visit of Pope Francis.

Three decades ago, former Pope and now Saint John Paul II visited the Philippines, to mark the second Papal visitin the country.This became more significant to Davaoeños when

he visited the City on February 20, 1981.

He celebrated Mass amidst a sea of people and metwith the representatives of the Muslim community at the old airport in Sasa. On board the Ford Bronco unit, St. John Paul IIgreeted the crowd who ea-gerly awaited his arrival.

To know more about the historical visit of Saint John Paul II in Davao City and to enjoin the rest of the country in celebrating the Papal visit of Pope Francis, everyone is invit-ed to visit the exhibit for free, which will be open from Janu-ary 15-18, 2015 at 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.

THE rubber industry is an emerging industry in Bukidnon but small

rubber farmers need to im-prove quality of production to be able to command a good price, an official from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) here said.

Junar Merla, senior trade and industry development specialist at DTI-Bukidnon, said local producers need to improve their practices to increase quality of latex, the natural extract from the rub-ber tree that is highly in de-mand in the Philippines and other countries.

Bukidnon rubber pro-ducers, Merla added, are looking at the big market in China as they increase pro-duction. But he said in one of DTI’s assessments that poor quality is one issue confront-ing the industry.

He cited that there is a need to train and improve the skills of rubber tappers and handlers to ensure good quality of latex.

Merla said traders ex-pressed dismay that they found rubber cup lumps sold to them by local suppli-ers mixed with “foreign ob-

jects.” He cited that traders complained of some stocks mixed with soil or even bat-tery solution to increase weight.

He said small local pro-ducers do not know that the scheme is doing a boomer-ang as traders become hes-itant in buying locally pro-duced rubber, or want to buy it at a cheaper price.

Buying stations in Bukid-non and North Cotabato, Merla noted, are willing to pay P36 to P48 per kilo of good quality cup lumps but some would pay only P26 to P30 due to the problem.

One more problem in the local rubber industry, he added, is the lack of an industry consolidator – one that can process rubber cup lumps to rubber crepe, which is the form in demand by tire producers like Yokohama in Pampanga.

He said at the moment a mix of locally-based and mo-bile traders buy cup lumps. But Merla said small rubber farmers can command a big-ger price if they have the op-tion to sell the stocks or have these processed for a fee and be the one to sell rubber

crepe.He added that the Central

Mindanao University, which runs a processing facility, can be the consolidator.

But Merla stressed this is just a secondary concern compared to the need to im-prove quality.

He said CMU and Moun-tain View College have the biggest rubber plantations in the province, which as of 2013 has a total of 6,000 hectares planted to rubber.

Merla said DTI’s inter-vention to address the prob-lem of quality is to organize the small rubber farmers and help them to improve their skills. He added that DTI or-ganized a rubber production (budding and tapping) semi-nar in 2013 where about 50 farmers were trained.

On January 26, the DTI is also holding a follow up train-ing with safety measures as new input in preparation for a competency assessment with the Technical Skills and Development Authori-ty (TESDA). The training, in cooperation with CMU, will be held free of charge at the university’s Farmers’ Train-ing Center.

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WB sees sustained growthfor Phl from 2014 to 2016

Bukidnon rubber industryneeds to improve quality

Damosa Land exhibitcelebrates Papal visit

The prices of fish products and other sea produce at Agdao Public Market in Davao City, which went up at least P20 to P40 per kilo during the Christmas season, are starting to normalize. Lean Daval Jr.

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AGRITRENDS

“THE animals are generally held in low esteem,” Dr. Jose Rizal once wrote about the

sheep. It may have been writ-ten more than a hundred years ago, but his observation holds true even today.

Statistics from the De-partment of Agriculture have shown that the Philippine sheep population in 1903 to-taled 30,428. In 1935, it grew to 140,041 head, but it went down drastically to 26,000 head years later.

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), sheep population in the country stagnated from 30,000 in 1992 to the same population in 2002. In com-parison, Myanmar’s 284,200 heads in 2002 went up to 431,500 heads in 2002.

What’s the reason for the underdevelopment of the sheep industry in the Phil-ippines despite the animal’s enormous economic poten-tial?

“Sheep as a commodity had very low priority as far as research and development were concerned,” explained Dr. Patricio Faylon, when he was still the director of the Livestock Research Division of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Nat-ural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD), a line agency of the Department of Science and Technology.

One of the earliest animals to be domesticated for agricul-tural purposes, sheep – which are most likely descended from the wild mouflon of Eu-rope and Asia – are raised for fleece, meat (lamb, hogget, or mutton) and milk. A sheep’s wool is the most widely used animal fiber, and is usually harvested by shearing. Ovine meat is called lamb when from younger animals and mutton when from older ones.

Sheep and goats are closely related as both are in the subfamily Caprinae. But they are separate species, so hybrids rarely occur, and are always infertile. A hybrid of a ewe and a buck (a male goat) is called a sheep-goat hybrid (only a single such animal has been confirmed).

Visual differences between sheep and goats include the beard and divided upper lip of goats. Sheep tails also hang down, even when short or docked, while the short tails of goats are held upwards. Sheep

breeds are also often natural-ly polled (either in both sexes or just in the female), while naturally polled goats are rare (though many are polled arti-ficially). Males of the two spe-cies differ in that buck goats acquire a unique and strong odor during the rut, whereas rams do not.

In the Philippines, sheep has a long history. It was in-troduced here during the Spanish era. In fact, the sheep we call “native” today is really the Spanish Merino brought to the country by the Spaniards during the Galleon Trade be-tween Mexico and the Philip-pines.

Sheep raising became quite popular by the mid-1930s. But due to the breed-ers’ lack of knowledge on the scientific rearing of the sheep, the health of the country’s stock deteriorated and popula-tion dwindled steadily. Animal experts are urging Filipinos to raise more sheep. It’s a better animal to raise than goat, they claim.

Aside from the “native sheep,” other breeds of sheep raised in the country include the crosses of Shropsire, Southdowners, Poll Dorset, Rambouillet and Suffolk. In recent years, Barbados Black Belly sheep were introduced into the country by religious missions and international civ-ic organizations. The latter has been observed to be adaptable to the Philippine conditions.

“Barbados Black Belly is to sheep what Anglo-Nubian is to goats,” said Harold Watson, when he was still the director of the Davao-based Mindan-ao Baptist Rural Life Center (MBRLC). In 1985, he received a Ramon Magsaysay award for encouraging international uti-lization of sustainable farming systems in the region.

What are the advantages of raising sheep over other animals, particularly goats? “Sheep is one of the most pro-ductive and economical ani-mals that Filipinos can raise,” admits Oscar Barzaga, an air-line pilot who raises sheep in his farm in Dasmariñas, Cavite.

Singling out goats in com-parison, Barzaga enumerates several advantages: “The goats were unruly, ate the bark of my trees, and did not multiply enough. On the other hand, the sheep are quiet, docile, and multiply rapidly.”

Unlike goats, which are

browsing animals, sheep are grazers that like to feed on short grass. Sheep are ex-tremely hard animals that can survive with little or no care. Newborn lambs, for instance, do not need any human inter-vention to survive. The only care practiced by some sheep farmers on the newborn is to apply tincture of iodine on their navel to prevent infection of the umbilical cord.

Sheep has been found to be more resistant to parasites, both internal and external, and respiratory diseases than goats. They can, in addition, better stand inclement weath-er, including typhoons. Sheep, even those with a low dressing percentage, can produce more meat than goats.

“Since mutton (the sheep of the meat) can replace beef, carabeef, or pork in the Filipi-no diet, sheep production on a granted scale at the back-yard level by millions of small farmers could help meet the people’s increasing need for quality meat and meat prod-ucts,” said Roy C. Alimoane, the current director of MBRLC.

Sheep raising is a sound alternative source of income, employment, and nutrition for small farmers, according to Al-imoane, especially when farm size in the country is shrinking.

Aside from meat, sheep can also provide skins and hides for the country’s leath-er industry, which currently imports a substantial portion of its raw material require-ments. “Raising sheep has excellent potential in the Phil-ippines,” Alimoane said and cited a study of sheep raising conducted by the University of the Philippines at Los Baños. The study, he said, shows that the indifference of Filipinos to sheep raising is due mainly to lack of a marketing system and appropriate technology.

Sheep can be raised under plantation crops like coconut, coffee, and orchard among others. The plantation crops must be at least three years old before sheep are brought into the farm. Experts are not recommending using sheep as weeders in black pepper farms since the animals have been found to relish the crop.

Sheep can also be raised together with cattle. There’s one problem though: both livestock will compete for the same forage. Raising goats and sheep together is not advisable

Sheep raising industryremains underdevelopedText and Photos by HENRYLITO D. TACIO

since both animals can pass on to each other parasite, which are common to both animals. Among the common parasites are coccidian, stomach fluke, tapeworms, nematodes, and lice and ticks.

Sheep are ruminants, that is, they have a multiple-com-partment stomach containing microbes that are able to di-gest forages (grasses, legumes, or shrubs). Sheep can survive solely on forage without grain supplementation, provided there is forage of sufficient quality and quantity.

Generally, sheep get most of their nutritional needs from the following: silage, grains, and pasture.

Silage is a succulent variety of fodder for sheep. It is com-posed mainly of plant material from corn, oats and others and kept in a silo covered by plas-tic. Its moisture content is high and a good source nutrient for your sheep. The lactic acid that builds up during its production serves as a preservative for your stock supply.

Grains are used for supple-mental nutrition in the whole diet plan of your sheep herd. Corn, soybean as well as oat, sorghum and wheat are used extensively for grain feeding. As a meal replacement each type of grain has its nutrition-al value at the top of the chain are corns and soybean. To help you choose which grain is best for you try to figure in the costs of each grain choice and from there you can make an assess-ment.

Pasture is the main and staple source of food for your sheep. Having a good supply of pasture in fact is enough to meet the needs of your sheep with respect to their nutri-tional requirements. The ideal

pasture would be composed of leafy vegetation no more than six inches tall.

All these available food sources should be supple-mented with minerals and salts so that your sheep flock will have better performance in late pregnancy.

Fencing may be one of the most important components of a successful sheep opera-tion. A properly designed and constructed fence will keep the sheep in and predators out. Traditionally, woven wire has been used as sheep fence. However, the expense of wo-ven wire is quite high and it is difficult to justify fencing large areas in woven wire fence. The perimeter fence around the entire area where the sheep are going to be contained must be of high quality material. If woven wire is used, posts must be put close enough together so that animals (the sheep and predators) cannot get through.

Building internal cross fences – which divide the pas-ture within the perimeter – do not need to be as secure or permanent as the perimeter fence. There are several types of portable, temporary fencing material available that are eas-ily moved and can be utilized to cross fence pastures as for-age growth changes or as num-ber of animals changes. These types of fences can be easily moved by one person and are very useful in keeping sheep where you want to keep them.

Marketing these products is probably where most sheep owners fail in their total oper-ation. Much time and effort is required to develop your own market, but the payoffs can be very high.

Nilo Casas is an avid goat raiser who is very much con-vinced that there is money in raising sheep. He maintains

two sheep and goat farms. One is an 18 hectare farm in Mas-bate and the other, a smaller 5-hectare farm in Kawit, Cavite where all his ruminants roam freely to pasture in verdant grasslands.

According to him, the demand peaks for sheep is during Christmas and Muslim holidays and when the Arab communities in the Philip-pines have their own celebra-tions. For Arabs, Casas said they buy only live sheep from him and they want it complete with ears and tail.

Another market is the growing number of over-seas-based Filipino engineers who have already acquired the habit of cooking and eat-ing mutton which they have acquired during the years they have stayed in various Arab countries.

In an article circulated by Philippine News Agency, Casas admitted he was able to earn more than a million pesos for selling 275 heads of sheep alone.

“Imagine this,” Casas was quoted as saying, “just say you have 50 heads of sheep. If you could sell that at P4,000 each—that’s already P200,000. How much does a Filipino domes-tic helper in other countries earn – P35,000 a month? They could just come back here and raise sheep!”

Through the years, he has raised imported breeds, whose prices range between P25,000 and P35,000 per head. They are raised primarily for their meat, unlike in other coun-tries, where some sheep are also raised for their good qual-ity wool. In just a span of three to five months after birth, the sheep are sold live at prices ranging between P3,000 and P4,000. He sells his ewes for P5,000.Barbados black belly sheep Flock of sheep

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POPE FRANCIS’ visit to the Philippines is an occasion for celebration and much rejoicing. After all, even though the Philippines is the only Catholic country in Asia,

our lands have seen the papal shadow only three times: Pope Paul VI in 1970 and Pope John Paul II in 1981 and then again in 1995. Each of these visits was greeted with frenzy by the Filipino faithful, eager as we have been to welcome the head of the dominant church and receive his blessings upon the people. This visit is no different, and perhaps the jubilation and revelry will be at a much more elevated level since Pope Francis’ presence has been on social media for months before his actual arrival.

More than that, Pope Francis is seen as one of the most pop-ular and accessible pontiffs in recent history. His pronounce-ments for the poor have given much hope to the population, and his missives against corruption have touched a nerve in all of us as we fight our own battle against government mis-

management and downright thievery. Even his radical view on alternative lifestyles is a welcome breath of fresh air in a society like ours that has long lived with these realities but have not found any relief from among the men of the cloth – many of whom condemn people for simply living out who they are and how they perceive themselves.

Pope Francis has also endeared himself to the Filipino peo-ple by his simplicity and his propensity to shy away from at-tention. He has even gone to the point of telling Manila Arch-bishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle that he wished for the people to look at him less and focus on Jesus more. Coming from the head of the Church himself, this is quite a statement – one that reflects a deep humility that we can only wish our country’s leaders would emulate.

Today we celebrate with the nation as we welcome the one dubbed the People’s Pope, and hope that his visit will result in a change in all of us as we seek to push our country forward.

LAST December, during the holi-day season, I received several gifts -- from friends, acquaintances, and

family members. Just five days after the New Year’s celebration, I accepted nu-merous gifts again; the reason, it was my birthday.

I think people who have given gifts expect those who receive them to be ac-knowledged. A text message may be the best way and fastest way. Or, a post in the person’s Facebook account may likewise do the trick.

But how soon should you do that ac-knowledgement? “As soon as possible,” wrote Alyson Ward of McClatchy News-papers. “Writing within a few days is ide-al. A few weeks is acceptable. After that, it gets sticky. But how late is too late? Never, etiquette experts tell us. Just because it’s been six months, you’re not off the hook. No matter how long it’s been, you still re-ceived a kind gift -- and you’re probably still grateful. What a load off your guilty mind to simple write the note.”

Jarod Kintz, author of This Book is Not FOR SALE, wrote: “I guess I should be thankful. Full of thank. But what is thank? I can’t eat thank, so I know my stomach isn’t full of thank. I can’t smell or breathe thank, so I know my lungs aren’t full of thank. I’m not even sure how much thank I could fit in the trunk of my car. But I do know one thing. It’s much easier to give thanks than something that actually costs money to give.”

Some years ago, I had the opportunity of visiting my sister in Livingston, Mon-tana (they now live in Grand Rapids, Min-nesota). I stayed for almost a month and when it was time to return back to the Phil-

ippines, she had to drive me for more than an hour to bring me to the airport in Bozeman.

A f t e r c h e c k i n g in, we had a s u m p t u o u s lunch togeth-er. We talked for a few min-utes before she bade goodbye. I was alone at the airport. Now, I was ready to enter the departure area but before that, I had to undergo the routine check-up.

I was busy trying to find my papers when I noticed that the person before me was Hollywood actor Dennis Quaid (yes, the lead star of The Day After Tomorrow and The Parent Trap, to name a few). Next to him was an old lady carrying some heavy bags. “Can I carry some of them?” Dennis inquired.

The lady looked at him for a few min-utes. “Sure,” she replied, and gave him her other bag. When we were inside the wait-ing area, the lady came to Dennis and said, “Thank you very much for helping me.”

“In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others,” wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Letters and Papers from Prison.

“Saying thank you is more than good

manners. It is good spirituality,” said Al-fred Painter. William Shakespeare, the touted Father of English literature, wrote, “I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.”

“Thank you” may be simply said, but to a person receiving it, it means a lot. “Every morning of the world I give thanks for all the wonderful things in my life,” a young man declared enthusiastically. “And do you know something? It’s strange indeed, but the more I give thanks, the more I have reason to be thankful. For, you see, bless-ings just pile up on me one after another like nobody’s business.”

“None of us ever too busy to pay his way,” said David Dunn. “It takes only a few seconds to say a heart-warming ‘Thank you.’”

Look at former American President Theodore Roosevelt, who lived a more hur-ried and hectic life. Even on political cam-paign trips, when he was so busy and could hardly take a deep breath, he would excuse himself to go to small people and talk with them for few seconds. It was his custom before leaving his private train to thank the engineer and fireman for a safe and comfortable trip. “It took but a fraction of a minute of his time, but he had two more friends for the rest of his life,” Dunn said.

“Good politics,” most people say. “But good living too,” added Dunn. “For, after all, isn’t having friends the basis of happy living, as well as of successful politics?”

Dunn continued, “Nor I have found any situation in which thanks cannot be given. You can thank even total strangers with a nod of the head, a gesture of the hand, a grateful glance – in jostling street crowds, in swaying subway trains, at the theatre, in

the quiet of a church service, anywhere at all, if you heart is saying, ‘Thank you.’”

Yes, we seldom pause to give thanks for the simple blessings of life. “One reason is that we are used to having so much,” Rich-ard B. Douglas contended. “We simply as-sure that we will have all the good things of life.

“Another reason is that it hurts our pride to be grateful,” Douglas continued. “We do not want to admit that God is the Provider of all good things. We are sim-ply His stewards. Being thankful requires humility and faith in God. When we have these, we can be grateful.”

If you have to thank someone, do it now – before it’s too late. Do not wait for tomor-row for that day may not come anymore. A widow, who had spent long days and hours in the factory and at home raising her four children, lay exhausted and emaciated on her deathbed.

Around her stood the four of them, now grown-up men and women. The eldest son, in tears, said to her, “Mother, you have al-ways been so good and kind to us. We want to thank you. We’re so proud of you.”

The mother opened her eyes and asked, “Why have you waited so long to tell me that? You never ever said so before.”

She turned her head away and died.“Being in the habit of saying ‘Thank

you,’ of making sure that people receive attention so they know you value them, of not presuming that people will always be there -- this is a good habit, regardless...make sure to give virtual and actual high-fives to those who rock and rock hard.”

That’s what Sarah Wendell wrote in Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels.

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THINK ON THESE!

SERVANT Leadership was coined and popularized by Robert K. Greenleaf in his 1970 essay “The Servant as

Leader.” Its tenets are still popularly held these days, enriching the lives of not only those at the receiving end of its principles, but also the very people who practiced it.

Wait, I know what you’re thinking: it’s a 45-year old belief system that is potentially considered ancient. It might interest you to know that Servant Leadership is wide-ly adopted by many of the most successful organizations in the world. In fact, three of the top five of Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2013 are Ser-vant Leadership companies (SAS #2, CHG Healthcare Services #3, and Wegmans Food Market #5). For me, that means this leadership philosophy is timeless.

For the uninitiated, Servant Leadership may come across as an oxymoron: the two words contradict each other. Greenleaf brought these words together and gave it new meaning, and no less than the world’s top leadership development gurus—the likes of Ken Blanchard and Stephen Cov-ey, among many others—have embraced its principles, inspiring millions with their words and propelling organizations to suc-cess.

What makes this leadership philoso-

phy so special is that it is so effective that the leader who embraces and practices its tenet is able to harness the creativity, skills, and pro-ductivity of his organization’s most import-ant asset -- its people. Companies who want to have the best employees, or those that want to im-prove the quality and calibre of their peo-ple, know that one sure-fire way to do so is to practice Servant Leadership.

Servant Leadership is driven by the motivation to help others become the best they can be, encouraging them to find and achieve their best qualities. Once others find their ‘greatness’, they work to the best of their capability, and it is this perfor-mance of excellence that will drive organi-zational success.

This is in stark contrast to the archaic type of leadership that only aims to accu-mulate power and wields it in ways that are often self-serving. These so-called leaders

are so lacking in real leadership vision, skills, and knowledge that they use the power embedded in their position to wal-lop anyone they perceive to be a threat to them. In the end, their acts only betray their insecurity, weakness, and mediocrity.

One of the tenets of Servant Leader-ship I find inspiring is Service to Others. Oh, how difficult it is to find a leader so self-secure and grounded enough to be open to serve others. Service to Others does not mean the leader does the work for his people in what could be construed as serving. Instead what the leader does is ‘serve’ others by helping them realize their potentials to do their jobs to the best of their ability. This makes people feel good about themselves and motivates them to aim for excellence and take the extra mile on the job.

Another tenet is Holistic Approach to Work which Greenleaf explains to mean as “the work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work.” This en-tails leaders to understand, respect, and put value not just on the work itself, but also on the person doing it. An employee who feels the leader is merely using him as a workhorse to get the job done, without regard to what he thinks or feels, might perform the task because he has to, but

will certainly not put in the extra effort to improve an average output.

Yes, employees will do their jobs be-cause they are paid to do so, but most will give only the barest minimum or, worse, a second-rate, unremarkable output when they feel their leaders are exploiting them or taking them for granted. When we ne-glect or fail to value our people, they will not exhibit ideal employee behavior that exhibits ‘run to work’, ‘burning passion’, or ‘extra mile’. We then fail to get their com-mitment to work to attain long-term orga-nizational goals that can lead us to success.

Some pundits argue that Servant Lead-ership has its own share of weaknesses which, they argue, is the reason it is not as prevalent around the globe. If this is true, I think it is only because not everyone is ca-pable of taking on the challenge of practic-ing this leadership model. It takes a higher level of self-confidence, skills, and matu-rity to become a Servant Leader. In fact, I believe it takes someone with a greater calibre of leadership and incisive people skills to be successful at it. Those who pos-sess these qualities will not only lead their organization to success; they become the true drivers of that success.

So, have you found your Servant Lead-ers yet?

In search of Servant Leadership


ICT HUB

GLOBAL Shapers Manila Hub, in partnership with Globe Telecom, is

staging a two-day hackathon on January 15-16 at the Globe Valero Telepark in Makati City to address the challenges in creating a more transparent and accountable Sangguniang Kabataan (SK).

Dubbed Shaping Davos, the hackathon will be part of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Swit-zerland to be held a week later. Forty of the select Hubs world-wide will discuss 10 issues related to the theme of the meeting, with the Manila Hub assigned the topic “Working from the bottom up: The new future of governance.”

The Manila Hub is part of the Global Shapers communi-ty, a global program of WEF, and is composed of young ex-traordinary individuals with great potential for future lead-

ership roles in society, making it imperative for its members to look for ways to resolve con-cerns affecting the youth.

Globe is a staunch advo-cate of good governance initia-tives, having conducted several leadership workshops such as LeadCom with Ayala Foun-dation Inc. and C@talyst also with Global Shapers Manila Hub to help produce effective and trustworthy leaders out of young Filipinos.

“Globe is committed to helping transform the youth into good citizens and future leaders,” said Fernando Es-guerra, Director of Globe Cor-porate Social Responsibility. “At the same time, the compa-ny believes in the importance of innovation not only in creat-ing new or better products and services but also in spurring good governance,” he added.

Thus, to bring youth good governance ideas to fruition,

Globe Labs and Globe CSR decided to support the hack-athon by providing connectiv-ity to incubate the apps that will be featured at the WEF.

At the same time, Globe Labs will present its latest APIs (application program inter-face) which can be used in app development that may benefit the Sangguniang Kabataan in the exercise of its duties.

SK is a youth council in each barangay in the Philip-pines which represents teen-agers from 15 to 17 years old. It is supposed to lead the local youth program and projects of the government in the local vil-lage but is currently under fire for poor performance in com-ing up with legislations and promoting the development of young people.

The Manila Hub will also host Interactive panel dis-cussions on the morning of January 15 which is open to

non-participants of the hack-athon. The event will be graced by key person-alities from the gov-ernment such as Senator Bam Aquino and National Y o u t h C o m -m i s -s i o n

Chair-m a n G i o Tingson as well as the devel-opment sector like Transparency International-PH, and the media.

GLOBETEL Singapore Pte. Ltd. has secured a facilities-based opera-

tions (FBO) license to provide international cable and other telecommunications services in Singapore.

GlobeTel Singapore is a wholly owned subsidiary of GTI Business Holdings, Inc. which is in turn a wholly owned subsidiary of Globe.

In a statement, Globe-TelSingapore said its offer to provide international cable services will help strengthen connectivity between Singa-pore and the Philippines and provide support for business-es operating in the two coun-tries.

Service offers by GlobeTel Singapore will also provide alternate and redundant cable paths from Singapore to Hong Kong and Japan transiting the Philippines, further strength-ening connectivity within the

region.Globe Telecom’s expan-

sion of its operation in Singa-pore is in line with the tele-communication company’s goal to develop other growth areas within the ASEAN to complement relatively strong economic growth within the region.

This year, the ASEAN Eco-nomic Community sets in motion the creation of single market and production base for the 10-nation bloc foster-ing free flow of goods, services, skilled labor, investments and capital. The ASEAN member countries include Brunei, Cam-bodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malay-sia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sin-gapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

In recent years, Globe has been strengthening its net-work infrastructure in line with such goal. Recently, the Ayala-led telco provider joined a consortium of seven inter-

national telecommunication companies for the construc-tion of a new submarine cable system directly connecting Southeast Asia and the United States (SEA-US).

Expected for completion in the last quarter of 2016 at proj-ect cost of approximately $250 million, the SEA-US undersea cable system will provide su-perior latency, delivering an additional 20Terabits per/second capacity, utilizing the latest 100 gigabits per second transmission equipment. Such additional capacity will cater to the exponential growth of bandwidth between the two continents.

Linking five areas and territories that include Mana-do (Indonesia), Davao (Phil-ippines), Piti (Guam), Oahu (Hawaii, United States) and Los Angeles (California, Unit-ed States), the SEA-US project will be approximately 15,000

kilometers in length, provides route diversity from the North Pacific, avoiding earthquake prone areas in East Asia. The cable system is expected to provide more efficient con-nectivity to approximately 1.5 billion people.

In addition to the SEA-US cable system, Globe is also a member of an international consortium of telecommuni-cations and technology com-panies operating the Southeast Asia-Japan Cable (SJC) system., Globe has also made invest-ments in the East Asia Cable system (EAC) , Asia Pacific Ca-ble Network-2 (APCN2), Tata Global Network–Intra Asia ca-ble system (TGN-IA), the City to City cable system (C2C) and is interconnected with major Trans-Pacific Cable systems, which encompasses the Unity, Tata Global Network-Pacific, (TGN-P) and the Japan-US Ca-ble Network (U-US).

FACEBOOK founder and CEO Mark Zuck-erberg the other day

announced that the popu-lar social networking site is launching “AMBER Alerts” to “use the power of our com-munity to help find missing children.”

“Over the past few years, we’ve seen people using Facebook on their own to help find kids who have been abducted. This inspired a team of us here to build a better tool so you can use Facebook to help reunite families,” Zuckerberg said in a post on his timeline dated January 13.

“We care deeply about this work. Facebook isn’t just about sharing the moments in your life – it’s also about helping our community be a force for good in the world,” he added.

AMBER alert is a child abduction alert system in the US. In collaboration with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NC-

MEC), Facebook will now post geo-targeted AMBER Alerts to users’ news feeds in order to broaden search efforts for missing children.

The alerts, which can be re-shared by Facebook users on both mobile and desktops versions, will include photo-graphs of the missing along-side any pertinent case de-tails – including license plate numbers, names and physical descriptions of victims and suspects.

Though they will appear in news feeds, the alerts won’t set off phone notifications.

While Facebook users themselves have turned to the platform for years to help retrieve missing children, this marks the first time that such efforts are coming directly from the site.

Similarly, the company announced a “Safety Check” feature last October that, with a simple click, lets users affected by a disaster or cri-sis inform friends and family that they are safe.

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THEY were still reel-ing from the dev-astation caused by

Typhoon Ruby before the close of 2014, but a cous-in-and-friends team from Sitio Bato, Borongan, East-ern dominated the 15th Edition of San Miguel Brewery Inc.’s National Beer Drinking Contest

(Pale Pilsen segment) and carted away P250,000.

“Dako ini nga bulig ha amon (This is a very big help for us),” said Jovencio Alcido Jr., whose neigh-borhood was literally swept by flash floods. The team, composed of Alcido, Charlie Katalbas, Ronnel Cananua, Benjamin Bagas,

and Fortunato Cananua, was about to give up their participation in the na-tional finals to rush fixing their houses for Christ-mas. Alcido said they only brought prayers and a lit-tle hope with them when they came to Manila.

The team had an of-ficial drinking speed of

48:81 seconds while Ba-rangay Parang, Marikina’s Team, pulled of 50:01 seconds for the runner-up honors.

For the first time, the country’s most popular beer drinking contest in-cluded segments featur-ing other SMB brands like Red Horse Beer, San Mig

Light, and SMB Flavored Beer. The winners of the Red Horse segment (Puer-to Princesa City’s Baran-gay Masikap) also won P250,000 while San Mig Light segment’s winners from Caloocan City and Flavored Beer segment winners from Manila won P50,000 each. A P25,000

incentive was likewise giv-en to winning barangays.

The annual beer-drink-ing competition engages at least 300,000 beer drink-ers in more than 20,000 barangays nationwide.

For ongoing and up-coming SMB events, log on to http://www.sanmi-guelbrewery.com.ph.

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TRACK and Trace, an online container tracking system de-

veloped in-house by the International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) for customers of its flagship Manila Inter-national Container Ter-minal (MICT), has been updated to version 4.0 to further improve overall system functionality and user experience.

“The new version of the MICT Track and Trace further enhances the sys-tem’s overall functionality and value for both ICT-SI and our clients at the MICT,” ICTSI Commercial Director Christian Lozano said.

“As we have developed this system in-house, we could easily update and improve Track and Trace to become a more robust and dependable system,” Lozano added.

Version 4.0 features the new email notification function that delivers con-tainer movement updates straight to a client’s inbox. Users simply need to enter an email address where they want to receive up-

dates.The email notification

feature follows the release of the SMS notification system, which came out with version 3.0.

“The Track and Trace system was specifically built to provide clients with visibility, control and automation, allowing them to stay updated on the status of their contain-ers. The system embodies ICTSI’s initiative to pro-vide clients with trans-parency, helping them improve their daily work output by giving them ac-cess to important infor-mation anytime and any-where,” Lozano said.

Users can search for import and export laden containers as well as emp-ty containers within MICT premises. Registration is not required. Clients sim-ply need to input the bill of lading and container num-ber. Container movement and storage period are on record, and stored in the system for three months.

Trucks’ time of entry and exit to and from MICT are recorded into the sys-tem. Clients need to enter

the plate numbers of their trucks to monitor their movements within MICT in the last 30 minutes. ICTSI aims to improve this fea-ture to provide real-time tracking by early 2015.

ICTSI uses data gath-ered by Track and Trace as a business metric to gauge increases and declines in container movement, as well as system efficiency. “We’ve noticed a significant increase in the number of users, daily search hits and unique container searches, which points to how the system has improved in terms of value and usabili-ty,” Lozano explained.

Track and Trace also monitors and records ev-ery invalid search attempt by users. ICTSI contacts its clients at the end of each month to ask for feed-back regarding the invalid search attempts. The com-pany uses the feedback mechanism to fine-tune the system and help clients use Track and Trace more efficiently.

Lozano said ICTSI is working to add more fea-tures to Track and Trace. One such feature is the

ICTSI rolls out enhancedcontainer tracking system

live chat, which will allow MICT clients to engage the Company’s customer care agents to ensure that in-quiries and concerns are attended to in real time.

An application, the MICT Mobile, is also being developed that will enable clients to access Track and Trace using their mobile devices. ICTSI aims to offer full mobile functionality through another mobile feature called Text and Trace. This feature will al-low clients to receive con-tainer movement updates via text messaging.

In the pipeline is a cli-

ent dashboard interface for Track and Trace, which will transform data into a visu-ally appealing and easy to understand monitoring tool. It will allow clients to see all data and reports on container movement. This will provide MICT custom-ers with useful information in making business deci-sions.

Track and Trace was first implemented in Feb-ruary of 2012 to comple-ment the MICT iBox, an e-commerce facility de-signed to provide MICT clients with information on vessel schedules, cargo

movements and statement of accounts among oth-ers. As ICTSI continues to improve Track and Trace, port users can expect bet-ter and more transparent terminal operations and handling of containers at the MICT.

ICTSI is an internation-al operator of common-us-er container terminals serving the global contain-er shipping industry. ICTSI is the largest port operator in the Philippines and has a portfolio of 29 container terminal operations in 21 countries across six conti-nents.

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FASTEST BEER DRINKERS. Team Visayas from Barangay Bato, Borongan, Eastern Samar composed of Charlie Katalbas, Jovencio Alcido, Jr., Ronnel Cananua, Benjamin Bagas, and Fortunato won the P250,000 cash prize and the bragging rights of being the fastest and meanest San Miguel Beer drinkers in the country.

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Claude’sIF EVER there was an establishment that can be called a landmark in Davao City both in terms of food and ambience, Claude’s Lé Café de Ville is surely it.

The history of Claude’s goes back over twenty years when Davao’s food scene was still young, with only a handful of places where one could get good food let alone West-ern-style cuisine. Luckily, Claude Le Niendre and his wife Tess opened the restaurant after Claude’s stint in the hotel industry. I can still remember the first time I set foot on the restaurant, which was still located at the Ha-bana compound, with its wooden floors and show kitchen complete with

lovingly restored by Tess into its former art deco grandeur. Fast forward to Thurs-day last week and I was back at Claude’s again thanks to an invite from my friend Blogie Robillo. It had been a while since I was at Claude’s to have a meal as the last time I visited the restaurant was more of a cocktail session with Claude’s daughter Celina who is the ambas-sador of Don Papa rum. For starters we ordered Claude’s Duck Terrine. More meaty than a pate, the terrine was chunky and served with a side of red wine caramelised onions to add flavour to the appetiser. I loved that it also paired well with the house white and rose wines that we ordered. Since we were at a French restaurant, for

copper pans. The vibe of the restaurant was elegant and so was the service. The restaurant eventually moved into the Oboza house on 2011 which was

the main course we de-cided to order Claude’s Duck Breast in Foie Gras Sauce. The price may seem steep on the menu but it is actually made to serve two diners and is complete with vegetables and choice of starch. The duck was cooked to medi-um rare which is the way

I like it and the peas and mashed potatoes compli-mented the flavour of the Foie Gras sauce. Dinner ended with ev-eryone’s favourite Creme Brûlée. The serving was generous and I loved the crack of the torched sugar, although the creme was a tad bit too sweet for my

taste. Overall though, it was a beautiful dinner with great company and lots of catching up. Follow me on Instagram or on Twitter at @kenneth-kingong for more travel stories, foodie finds, and happenings in, around, and beyond Durianburg.

Claude’s Duck in Foie Gras sauce.

Duck Terrine.

Claude’s elegant bar and show kitchen.

Outside Claude’s Le Cafe De Ville.

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EMPLOYEES of SM malls across the country initiated a volunteerism project called “ChriS-Miles” as a way of giving back to the community last Christmas season. In Mindanao, volunteer em-ployees of SM City Davao, SM City Cagayan de Oro, SM City General Santos and SM Lanang Premier chipped in donations in cash and kind for the said project, which benefited more than 130 recipients from various needy sectors. Rank-and-file employees to managers and executives collec-tively participated in the ChriS-Miles activity conducted on December 22 and 23, 2014. They contributed their personal time, effort and resources to spread love and joy to each mall’s se-lected beneficiaries. SM City Davao mall adminis-tration employees and the Cus-tomer Relations Services team, in partnership with the mall’s se-curity personnel, opted to share their blessings to more than 50 elderly from the Missionaries of Charity Immaculate Heart of Mary Home for the Sick, Aban-doned and Dying Destitute. They performed Christmas car-ols for residents of the Home and shared a meal with them. Nine sacks of rice, a wheelchair and a walker were donated to the Mis-sionaries of Charity. In SM City Cagayan de Oro, employees aptly dubbed their ac-tivity ‘An Extra Mile for ChriS-Miles,’ giving children from the DSWD Reception and Study Center and DSWD Haven for Women Dependents a special Christmas treat. Each employee made sure to spend time with his or her chosen kid beneficiary. The kids enjoyed free fun rides at the mall and they also received goodies courtesy of McDonalds. Meanwhile, staff of SM City General Santos treated orphaned children from the St. Marcel-lin Home for Boys, St. Gemma’s Orphanage and St. Agnes Mon-tepulciano Home for Children to an exciting day at the mall and at the McDonalds store. The

kids were presented with bal-loons and they were very excited to ride the Cyber Ferris Wheel with SM employees. At SM Lanang Premier, em-ployees from the mall adminis-tration and SM Lifestyle Enter-tainment, Inc., in coordination with DSWD Region XI, gave

kids from the Pantawid Pami-lyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) an activity-filled experience at the lifestyle mall. The kids reveled in air castle inflatables slide activity and a free movie showing at SM Cinema Lanang. They were also given free passes to Jollibee’s Jol-litown, where they played with

other kids at the SMX Conven-tion Center. Selected children beneficiaries of the said malls also delighted in a mall tour with employees as their guide. A program was also planned out, where kids were given the chance to play games, receive gifts and prizes and in-dulge in a sumptuous meal. ChriSMiles is an annual na-tionwide activity under the Em-

ployee Volunteerism Program of SM Supermalls. It encourages employees to find the deeper meaning of Christmas by being more appreciative of their in-dividual blessings and sharing these with the underprivileged sectors of the society. The pro-gram started in 2012 wherein the beneficiaries were children. In 2013, ChriSMiles focused on the victims of Typhoon Yolanda.

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Staff of SM City Cagayan de Oro shares a tender moment with a child beneficiary.

Kids from the St. Marcellin Home for Boys, St. Gemma’s Orphanage and St. Agnes Montepulciano Home for Children play parlor games with staff of SM City General Santos.

SM employees spread love on ChristmasReach out to needy children and the eldery

Children beneficiaries from DSWD’s 4Ps visited SM Lanang Premier’s giant Christmas tree with mall employees.

JUDY ANN SANTOS-AGONCILLO praises Pope Francis’ plan to visit the survivors of Typhoon Yolanda dur-ing his papal visit in the country. The award-winning host of the hit game show, “Bet On Your Baby” reveals that she is very happy and touched with the Pope’s efforts, shar-ing further that Pope Francis’ actions encour-age people to always keep the faith. “It’s very uplifting to know that Pope Fran-cis will visit the Yolanda survivors because he makes us feel that there is always someone who is ready to help and give

inspiration to those who feel hopeless,” Juday re-marked. Wearing her #POPE-TYSM shirt, Juday admits that she wants to see Pope Francis if ever given a chance. “Even seeing the Pope from afar is a huge bo-nus. That’s already okay for me,” she adds. Meanwhile, the “Bet On Your Baby” host is grateful for the outpour-ing support that her game show receives and promises that the year 2015 means more prizes are in store for all ador-able contestants. Catch “Bet On Your Baby” every weekdays 5PM on ABS-CBN.

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Pepito Manaloto presents ‘senior citizen’ episode this Saturday

Create your own sawsawan in ‘Idol sa Kusina’

THIS SATURDAY in Pepito Manaloto, Ang Tunay na Ku-wento, Nova Villa’s character Mimi is celebrating her birth-day. However, she is not in the mood to celebrate since she now becomes a “se-nior citizen.” Her daughter Deedee (Jessa Zaragoza) tries to make her happy and enjoy her birth-day but she fails. Tommy (Ronnie Hena-res), conversely, gets angry when he was asked to pres-ent his senior citizen ID in the cinemas. But when he found out that cardhold-ers get to watch movies for free, he got an idea of an-other “raket”. Elsa (Manilyn Reynes), on the other hand, needs to go somewhere and she leaves Clarissa (Angel Satsumi) with Mimi but Roger comes over and asks Mimi to go on a date. At the office of Pepito (Michael V), their photo-copy machine needs to be fixed and Patrick (John Feir) asks Mang Gaspar, the old, slow, deaf and sleepy repair man to fix it. Will Roger and Mimi’s date push through? Will Mang Gaspar be able to fix the photocopy machine in

Pepito’s office? Meanwhile, at the re-cently concluded 13th Gawad Tanglaw, Pepito Manaloto, Ang Tunay na Kuwento bagged the Best Comedy / Gag Show award. Other winners were iBilib (Best Educa-

tional Program); I-Witness (Best Documentary Pro-gram); Keempee De Leon – “Kulungan, Kanlungan” The Eat Bulaga Lenten Special (Best Performance by an Actor); We Love You: The Canonization of John Paul II and John XXII – A

GMA News Special Cov-erage (April 25-27, 2014) (Special Award for Com-prehensive Coverage). Don’t miss Pepito Manaloto, Ang Tunay na Kuwento this Saturday (January 17) after 24 Oras Weekend on GMA7.

DIP in to another enjoyable night of great Pinoy reci-pes in this Sunday’s serving of Idol sa Kusina on GMA News TV. This week, the idol kitchen tandem of Chef Boy Logro and Bettina Carlos are sharing anoth-er set of delicious saw-sawan recipes to serve along with some of fa-vourite Pinoy dishes! Learn how to make your own Sukang Sina-mak and Pinakurat by following Chef Boy’s easy

to do instructions. Try dif-ferent dips that use soy sauce which are all per-fect with grilled Tuna Bel-ly and Salmon! And make those fried fishes more exciting by serving them with an irresistible trio of classic Pinoy sawasan. Plus add a sweet end-ing to the feast by whip-ping up some Pan-grilled Saba with Caramel and Vanilla Ice Cream! It’s definitely another yummy kitchen bonding and eating on this week’s episode of Idol sa Kusina, 7:15PM on GMA News TV.

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BE IT sweet or savory, we love the idea of munching on a plateful of salad on any given day. Believed to have originated from the Romans and ancient Greeks, salad consists of pieces of a mixture of raw and cooked food accom-panied with dressing or sauce and other condi-ments of eggs, grains and dried fruit pieces. For most, salads consist of greens and fruits, that’s it. On the other hand, many have a love af-fair with a plate of greens, pasta, and fruits in one. Personally, I love a mixture of crunch, colors, and salt in my plate. Not a big fan of meat pieces in my salad but I have to make an exception for my mom’s creamy chick-en macaroni and SOUL Kitchen Co.’s Chunky Chick-en Cream, Chicken Quinoa and Tune Spiral in a jar. I’d gladly have them any time of the day! The deal breaker in every salad is the dressing. Usually cream or oil based, a salad dress-

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A salad dressing love affair

ing is made to pair up with the greens, fruits, and nuts in your salad. Top 10 salad dressings include Ranch, Caesar, Vin-aigrette, Italian, Bleu Cheese, Thousand Island, Balsamic Vinaigrette, Honey Mustard, French and Greek (source: ht t p://w w w.foodcha nnel .com/). Before we say goodbye to the first of twelve, let’s make some salad dressings that we can store in the fridge and drizzle over our mix and match raws anytime and anywhere. I’ve scouted for some easy fix-in’s, here’s what I got:

Homemade Pineapple Dress-ing for all the leftover pine-apples and/or oranges over the holidays. In a blender, combine ½ c pineapple chunks, 2 tsp dried parsley, 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice, 2 tbsp honey, 1 tbsp vege-table oil, salt and pepper. Pulse until smooth. Taste and adjust seasoning accordingly.

Ranch Dressing perfect for both cold and warm salad; even with fish and calamares. In a bowl, whisk together 1 tbsp mayonnaise, ½ tsp vin-egar, ¼ tsp garlic powder, fresh

chives and 2 tbsp milk. Taste and season accordingly. You can add fresh garlic and herbs.

Honey Mustard for a sweet-tangy medley on your raws. In a bowl, mix 1 ¼ c may-onnaise, 2/3 c vegetable oil, 1 tbsp white vinegar, ¼ c honey, minced onion, dried parsley and 2 tbsp mustard. Mix until smooth and creamy.

Vinaigrette goes well with any-thing. You can modify the fla-vors by adding some fruits and/or herbs. In a bowl, whisk 1 c good

quality olive oil, ½ c vinegar, garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper to taste. Blend.

Sometimes, when I’m too tired, I whisk in calamansi juice, oil, salt and pepper for an easy vinaigrette. Oh, don’t forget to store your dressings in an airtight con-tainer and chill. Make #TheRoyalChef your Thursday habit! Email me at [email protected] (subject:RoyalChef) ortag me on instagram (herroyalheiress) for your delicious pics and food finds!

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Under the general GSP, commodities like pineap-ple juice with 28.5 percent, preserved fruits with 6 to 9 percent, fruit jams with 20.5 percent, and canned tuna with 20.5 percent has reduced tariffs.

But the new export reg-ulation, now this products will be allowed at 0 percent import duty.

Raf Vlummens, founder and president of Philexport Davao partner Exportdesk.eu, said this new regula-tion offer the opportunity to boost Philippines export to Europe as well as create export-related jobs.

Vlummens added that analysts say that this could lead to an increase of as much as 32.5 billion worth of Philippine exports to Eu-rope within one year and will stimulate the creation of more than 200,000 sus-tainable export related jobs.

“This new regulation is the best Christmas present to the food sector in Davao

and Mindanao could ever get,” Vlummens said.

He said the possibility to export at zero percent to the European market open multiple opportunities not only for SME’s of quality products like processed fruits and fishery products, but also for attracting for-eign investments in focused sectors.

To equip and educate the prospective exporters of the European market, Philexport partner Ex-portDesk. Eu will assists exporters from here with the analysis of their export readiness, the analysis opf the potential opportunites of the selected markets and with the compliance of the import requirements of the European Union.

As part of the education process, he said that around 20 successful exporters and SMEs from Mindanao will be brought to Europe for exposure and possible busi-ness matching this year.

Mindanao.”It cited excerpts from a

paper sent to the ConCom in 1986 that autonomy “is an expression of the Bangsa Moro’s conviction of its being a viable alternative to sepa-ration….The Bangsa Moro is historically and culturally a distinct and separate nation ….. and the political fusion with the Christian majori-ty is workable only under a framework of political au-tonomy which shall allow the full flowering of the genius of Bangsa Moro in the context of his Islamic culture.”

The 1987 Constitution provides for the creation of autonomous regions in Mus-lim Mindanao and the Cordil-leras.

The Autonomous Re-gion in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) was set up in March 1990 after four provinces voted for inclusion in the re-gion in the November 1989 plebiscite. The autonomous region in Cordillera has yet to be set up because only one province voted for autonomy and the Supreme Court de-clared there cannot be an au-tonomous region consisting only of one province.

48 members, 18 surviv-ing

Forty-eight persons were appointed in 1986 by the then newly-installed Presi-dent, Corazon Aquino (moth-er of incumbent President Benigno Simeon Aquino III) to the 1986 ConCom.

Of the 48, only 18 are surviving members but only 14 managed to attend their “first formal meeting since the drafting of the 1987 Char-ter” with the remaining four “either bed-ridden or could not be reached.”

“This Statement on the Bangsamoro deals with the vision, spirit and the core principles behind the provi-sions on autonomous regions which to our mind constitute the essential constitutionali-ty of the proposed Bangsam-oro Basic Law,” the statement read.

The signatories to the statement are Felicitas Aqui-no-Arroyo, Adolfo S. Azcuna, Teodoro C. Bacani, Joaquin

G. Bernas, Florangel Rosario Braid, Hilario G. Davide Jr. , Edmundo G. Garcia, Jose Luis Martin C. Gascon, Christian S. Monsod, Ricardo J. Romulo, Rene V. Sarmiento, Jaime S.L. Tadeo, Wilfrido V. Villacorta, Bernardo M. Villegas.

The statement noted that four other surviving members of the ConCom who were unable to attend the meeting were Ponciano L. Bennagen, Teresa F. Nieva, Florenz D. Regalado, and Na-poleon G. Rama.

Reflex reaction rather than reasoned response

The framers appealed the public to “set aside par-tisan politics and stop the urge to exhibit our ability to find nuances of legalism that can delay, or worse, derail the process, feeding on the cyni-cism and playing on the fears in the national psyche that are more reflex reaction than reasoned response.”

The framers said it has been 27 years (28 by Febru-ary) since the Constitution was ratified by the Filipino people “but we are still living in the mass poverty, gross inequalities and cultural in-equities of the past, and the promise of genuine social change has not unfolded.”

The framers said there is “no better way to demon-strate our commitment to peace and development than by giving the Bangsamoro people the opportunity to create a higher and better future for themselves than what they have. This calls for courageous statesmanship from our leaders and the generosity of spirit of a unit-ed nation.”

The framers also chal-lenged the Bangsamoro peo-ple to “demonstrate the same commitment by treating oth-er indigenous peoples and uniting all Muslim commu-nities with magnanimity and statesmanship.”

“In this manner, Bang-samoro can be a model for us to do the same for the rest of the country and thereby build together a more just and peaceful nation,” the framers said. (Carolyn O. Ar-guillas / MindaNews)

workshops.The CPMIU will have

three units: Investment for Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Plan, Plan-ning at the Local and Nation-al (I-Plan), Intensified Build-ing-Up of Infrastructure and Logistics for Development (I-Build), and Investments for Rural Enterprise, Agri-

cultural and Fisheries Pro-ductivity (I-Reap).

The I-Plan will be head-ed by Planning Officer Engr. Jose Froilan T. Rigor, the I-Build will be headed by City Engineer Office head Engr. Roland C.Reyes and the I-Reap will be headed by City Agriculturist Office head Rocelio T. Tabay.

“Those strict rules and reg-ulation are just used to scare students,” he added.

He said that there will be a consultation with parents and authorities from DMEMS and DMSF on the revision of the

fines and penalties.Pillai said once the revi-

sion is finished, parents will be asked to sign a contract signifying their affirmation of the list of rules to be imposed inside the dormitories.

ter. We also have an area at the back that can accommodate around 30,000 people,” Beti-los said.

There are 103 quadrants around the 5 hectares space where the pope will hold his mass. A single quadrant has a capacity of 600 individuals.

“Since we also have to en-sure the security of the Holy Father, we have to limit the attendees to around 80,000 individuals. That is a conser-vative estimate,” Betilos said.

The delegates are expect-ed to come on the evening of January 16 because roads are

declared no mobility on the 17th.

Security will be tight, with people allowed to bring only transparent bags and rain-coats with them. People are also not allowed to bring bot-tled water.

Betilos said the organiz-ers will provide transparent raincoats to the people. Water refilling stations will also be made available.

Thousands of police and other government security agencies from nearby regions will also be deployed in the area.

ments are needed to ensure the sustained growth of the domestic economy.

He explained that pri-vate consumption drives 70 percent of the economy and this easily provides about four percent of an-nual output.

“But the margin is real-ly determined by exports and investments and gov-ernment. The 30 percent margin, to get from four percent to six or seven percent (growth) is what should be focused on,” he said.

Chua stressed that “the Philippines is still doing very well” but pointed out that this needs further boost from investments.

The WB report said that revised growth fore-cast for the country was made on expectations that the government would be able to meet its expendi-ture program this year.

Aside from risk posed by possible failure of the government to meet its expenditure program, WB is also considering delays in the awarding of the projects under the public-private program (PPP), domestic reform lags such as those target-ed to raising revenues and pro-poor spending, weak-er-than-projected global growth and financial vola-tilities as a negative for the economy. (PNA)

“Setbacks that we are not proud of and have affected our morale. But these should not be a hindrance to our desire for excellence in the delivery of services,” he added.

During the New Year’s Call, the PRO-12 gave out cita-tions and recognized local po-

lice offices, stations and units that recorded major accom-plishments last year.

Among the major achieve-ments in 2014 was the award-ing of the PRO-12 website by the PNP central office as the “Most Outstanding PNP web-site.”

Edge Davao, Alvarez said the law only allows one-third of the total population of stu-dents to be allotted for for-eign students.

“DMSF admitted that the school has already exceeded the number of Indian stu-dents enrolled in its medical course,” he said.

Alvarez was not able to give the exact number of Indian students enrolled in DMSF this school year.

He said Filipino students do not have to worry about this because only 50 to 60 percent of the original num-ber of foreign students grad-uate and finish the course.

He also said other ac-credited colleges and uni-versities in the city can ac-commodate the increasing number of foreign students who want to continue their studies here.

Alvarez said there are other schools that can han-dle the undergraduate stud-ies of foreign students.

“Incoming foreign stu-dents do not have to wor-ry because there are still schools here that have good track record that can still ac-cept their applications,” he said.

Alvarez said he already recommended to the Bureau of Immigration (BI) that it stop accepting students once CHED has the com-plete list of Indian students at DMSF.

He also said DMSF is al-ready taking action on the matter.

Alvarez said Davao City should expect a lot of foreign students to come in. He said a group of Nigerian students is expected to arrive in the city soon.

AT YOUR SERVICE. A staff member of The Marco Polo, Davao pushes a guest’s wheelchair at the hotel’s entrance. Just one of the reasons Filipinos are known for their service. Lean Daval Jr.

year.Abacahin said an inter-

faith gathering will be held at the Freedom Kiosk in Divisoria

here to coincide with the arriv-al of Pope Francis in Manila on Thursday afternoon. (Froilan Gallardo / MindaNews)


MO Williams could sense what was happening and knew the Indiana

Pacers couldn’t stop it. He told them that, too.

“When you are in the zone, you don’t know the magnitude of the game,” Williams said. “I am glad to put on a show.”

He put on the best one in the NBA this season.

Williams scored a ca-reer-high 52 points, most in the league this season, and the Minnesota Timberwolves snapped a 15-game losing streak with a 110-101 victory over the Pacers on Tuesday night.

Williams also broke the Timberwolves’ franchise re-cord.

“Mo was unbelievable,” Minnesota coach Flip Saun-ders said. “I have been in the league 17 years and I have had some guys have hot games, but I don’t think I have had any-body where he was at. He did everything.”

Williams surpassed the 46 points scored this season by both Carmelo Anthony and Pau Gasol, which had been tops in the NBA.

He recorded the high-est-scoring game by an op-ponent in Bankers Life Field-house and told the Pacers there was nothing they could do about it.

“I was telling C.J. Watson during the game, I said, ‘There was nothing you are going to do today, don’t even worry about it,’” Williams said.

Williams made six 3-point-ers, including one that gave Minnesota a 102-96 lead. An-drew Wiggins added 20 points

and Gorgui Dieng had 10 for the Timberwolves (6-31), who won for the first time since beating Portland 90-82 on Dec. 10.

C.J. Miles had 22 points and C.J. Watson added 17 for the Pacers (15-25), who have lost three of four.

Wiggins scored on a put-back dunk and then converted a 3-pointer to give the Timber-wolves a 93-90 lead with 4:29 remaining.

But it was mostly Williams who powered the Wolves to just their third road victory. After a couple of 3-pointers earlier in the fourth quarter, he tied the game at 83 on three free throws, including one for a

technical called on Ian Mahin-mi with 7:10 remaining.

“You are just in a zone, you don’t really see anybody,” Wil-liams said. “You just go back to the places when you are in the gym by yourself with your own trainer. You are just shoot-ing shots and it doesn’t matter where the defense is at.”

The Pacers lost to another of the league’s worst teams, having given Philadelphia just its seventh win on Saturday, 93-92.

Minnesota avoided ex-tending the team’s losing streak to 16 games for the first time since a 16-game skid stretching from Feb. 24 to March 28, 2010.

The Pacers never led by more than eight points in the first half and were ahead 52-46 at the break.

They were still ahead 86-83 in the fourth but Williams answered every time Indiana went on a run.

“He was in a ridiculous zone,” Pacers coach Frank Vo-gel said. “We tried multiple de-fenders. We tried pushing him one way, then another.”

Williams entered the game averaging 11 points per game, but the Pacers were well aware of what he was capable of. Wil-liams scored 24 points in a 100-96 loss to Indiana in the first meeting between the two teams back on Dec. 21.

15SPORTSEDGEDAVAO

LEBRON James scored 33 points in his return from a two-week layoff but it

wasn’t enough to prevent the Cleveland Cavaliers from going

down to their s i x t h

s t ra i g h t l o s s , 107-100 to the P h o e -

nix Suns on Tuesday

night.M a r k i e f f

Morris scored a c a - reer-high 35 points on 15-of-21 shooting for the Suns, who outscored the Cavs 11-3 over the last 3:31.

The Cavaliers rallied from a 19-point, third-quarter deficit to go ahead in the fourth, the first of eight lead changes down the stretch.

J.R. Smith, who joined the Cavaliers during James’ ab-sence, scored 29, going 8 of 14 on 3-pointers.

James, who took the time off to rest his sore left foot and low-

er back, made 11 of 18 shots, 6 of 8 in the second half.

The Cavaliers were 1-7 in James’ absence and have lost nine of 10 overall to fall below .500 at 19-20.

The Suns, opening an eight-game homestand, have won 11 of 15.

Kyrie Irving, who averages 21 points, scored nine of 4-of-14 shooting for the Cavs.

Cleveland was down 80-61 with 3:26 to play in the third quarter, then finished the peri-od with an 18-5 flourish.

In the final seconds of the quarter, James made a thun-derous dunk, then Smith stole the ball in backcourt and sank a 3-pointer at the buzzer to cut the Suns’ lead to 85-79 entering the fourth.

The Cavaliers took their first lead since the opening min-utes when Tristan Thompson dunked off a pass from James to make it 90-88 with 7:31 to play.

James gave Cleveland its last lead, 97-96, with a driv-ing layup 3:52 from the finish. The Suns made nine of 11 free

throws from there, the last four by P.J. Tucker in the final 18.1 seconds. Phoenix’s lone field goal in the final run was Alex Len’s tip-in.

James had not played since Dec. 28 to rest his injuries.

He practiced for the first time since then on Monday, then flew to Texas to cheer on Ohio State in the national col-lege football championship game. He said he got back at 12:30 a.m.

The Cavaliers survived a big scare in the first half.

With 9:12 left in the second quarter, James took an elbow to the head from Tucker and fell to the floor. He stayed there for a moment, surrounded by all his teammates, before slow-ly getting up. He stayed in the game, though. Later, Morris’ hand slammed into James’ face on a layup try.

James’ first basket was a powerful reverse dunk from the baseline, then he ended the half with an equally impressive stuff, but the Suns led 59-51 at the break.

LeBron James drives for a shot against Alex Len of the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday at U.S. Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Barry Gossage/NBAE via Getty Images)

LeBron’s 33 points in return not enoughCAVS LOSE 6TH STRAIGHT

THE Washington Wiz-ards ended nearly a decade of frustration

on Tuesday with a 101-93 NBA triumph over San An-tonio, their first win over the Spurs since 2005.

John Wall scored 25 points and handed out eight assists for the Wizards, who had lost 17 straight encoun-ters against the Texas team.

Wall, drafted first overall in 2010, was a personal 0-7 against the Spurs. Washing-ton’s last win over San Anto-nio came on November 12, 2005.

French big man Kevin Seraphin scored 11 of his season-high 17 points in the fourth quarter for the Wiz-ards.

Bradley Beal and Paul Pierce added 13 points apiece for the hosts, and Marcin Gortat pulled down 11 rebounds.

French point guard Tony Parker led the reigning NBA

champion Spurs with 14 points. Tim Duncan added 11 points and 12 rebounds for his first double-double since December.

A day after the Spurs received a warm welcome at the White House from US President Barack Obama, in honor of their fifth NBA title, the Wizards were less hospi-table.

Wall got off to a hot start, netting 12 points on five shots in the first quarter. The Wizards hit five of six from three-point range to seize a 31-24 lead.

The Spurs trailed until Boris Diaw’s hook shot ear-ly in the fourth quarter gave them a 76-75 advantage, and it was a back-and-forth battle early in the final peri-od.

Seraphin’s layup with 5:44 remaining put the Wiz-ards ahead for good with the 10th lead change of the quarter.

Wolves pound Pacers, 110-101

Wizards finally beat Spurs

Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert, right, controls the basketball as Minnesota Timberwolves center Gorgui Dieng reaches toward the ball. (AP Photo/R Brent Smith)

VOL. 7 ISSUE 214 • THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 201516 EDGEDAVAOSports

PARTICIPANTS to the Palarong Pambansa 2015 in Davao del Norte

can enjoy enough supply of water and uninterrupted power on top of a round-the-clock security when the country’s biggest sporting event for elementary and sec-ondary athletes fires off this summer.

Davao del Norte pro-vincial sports coordinator Giovanni Gulanes said the host province has designed

measures to address these three main concerns in their effort to make this year’s Palaro a wonderful experi-ence for every participant and the best ever in history.

Gulanes said for the Palaro, which will be held in Tagum City from May 3 to 9, they will produce 60,000 li-ters of water per day to meet the needs of each region tak-ing part in the annual sports conclave. New water lines will also be installed in each

of every 17 billeting schools. This is aside from the two tanks with a capacity of 5,000 liters each to be set up in each billeting quarter as backup.

“Water issue would therefore be solved,” Gulanes said in his presentation during the Davao Regional Athletic Association (Davraa) board meeting Tuesday at the Department of Education (Deped) office along F. Torres St.

Gulanes also announced

that the province was also able to get the assurance from the Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative (Dane-co) of a sufficient and reliable power supply come the stag-ing of the Palaro.

As for security, the host province will deploy close to 1,000 police personnel in the billeting schools and playing venues to ensure the safety of the participants. In Tagum City alone where the Davao del Norte Sports and Tourism

Complex and other venues is situated, there will be a total of seven check points to be set up.

“These check points will operate in what they call dragnet operations that if something happens some-where, these check points which are strategically locat-ed in the ingress and egress of Tagum will be immediately activated,” Gulanes said.

The province has also identified 10 hospitals to be

utilized in case of an emer-gency. A medical staff com-posed of doctors and nurses will also be set up during the Palaro.

Davao del Norte Gov. Ro-dolfo del Rosario, who was also present in the board meeting, is confident his province will stage the best Palaro ever.

“Let’s hope and pray that everything will turn our good for Region 11 thru this Pala-ro,” Del Rosario said.

NO INTERRUPTIONContinuous water, power supply assured in Davao del Norte Palaro

PROMOTER Bob Arum told Yahoo Sports on Tuesday that Man-

ny Pacquiao has agreed to terms for a May 2 bout with Floyd Mayweather, and that the only thing in the way of the long-awaited fight oc-curring is Mayweather’s ap-proval.

Arum said Mayweather’s representatives have also agreed to the deal but have not been able to get May-weather’s agreement. How-ever, there is no verification from anyone representing Mayweather whether Ar-um’s side is accurate.

On Friday, the Los An-geles Times reported that progress was being made on making the match a reality. Multiple sources told Yahoo Sports over the weekend that a deal for the two superstars to fight at the MGM Grand Garden was imminent.

The sources told Yahoo Sports that not only have the sides agreed for the fight to be May 2 at the MGM, but also on a 60/40 purse split that would favor Mayweath-er. Mayweather could make in the range of $120 million. An MGM spokesman told Ya-hoo Sports that there was no deal for the fight to be held at the Grand Garden as far as he is aware.

In order to pay the astro-nomical salaries the fighters will command, ticket prices will be scaled at an all-time high. The top ticket at the MGM Grand Garden is ex-pected to go for $5,000 so

Manny Pacquiao has agreed to terms for a long-awaited super-fight with Floyd Mayweather on May 2 in Las Vegas.

2014 was a big year for the Philippine Azkals, as fans and critics came to

expect much more from the men’s football team after they were able to amass some of the best available talent from foreign-based Filipinos to ma-turing homegrown players.

Expectations were high not only to do well, but to finally win and lift some se-rious hardware above their heads. And so, the year began by bringing in a coach whose experience and credentials fit the tee.

Former U.S. men’s World Cup team captain Coach Thomas Dooley knew what he was getting into. He had just a few months to prepare for the AFC Challenge Cup, and his goal was clear – to win it all.

The Azkals went all the way to the Finals for the first time ever but fell one goal short against Palestine.

As the year ended, the biggest Southeast Asian tour-nament was the final target of the Azkals, and coming in second place in the Challenge Cup raised the bar even high-er as a regional championship was now at reach.

The Azkals, however, failed to make it to the Fi-nals of the AFF Suzuki Cup, bowing out in the semi-final against powerhouse and

eventual champion Thailand.Despite this, Dooley said

he was satisfied with the per-formance of the team, and given the time and circum-stances he had to deal with, he has some ideas of how the players can and should de-velop further, including the urgent need to improve the quality of the local profes-sional league.

“Overall, I think it was a good year for us,” said Dool-ey. “It was good development in the direction where we should be focused on.”

“We got a couple of re-cords, we won against teams we haven’t won against be-fore. Obviously, going to the final is also a record, but los-ing it is not good,” he added. “So I am a little bit disap-pointed about that.”

“But overall, again it comes back to (the fact that) we are not in charge of the overall development of play-ers. We can only get the play-ers together and put them on the field, and let them know how we want to play and try to play a certain style.”

ControversyDooley’s first year in

charge would not be without controversy, as star players took to social media to de-mand his removal, or else they would not suit up for the Azkals.

By CHARLES RAYMOND A. MAXEY

Pacman agrees to terms for Floyd fight

that the arena can be scaled to produce a $40 million live gate.

A $40 million live gate would be virtually double the existing record gate of $20,003,150, which was set at the MGM in 2013 by May-weather and Canelo Alvarez.

Arum refused Tuesday to speak about details, but said Pacquiao was on board with all terms.

“I want to get some movement here, with bring-ing Mayweather to the table so we can go out and get ev-erything signed and get the networks together and get the thing finished,” Arum told Yahoo Sports on Tues-day.

Mayweather has an exclusive contract with Showtime and Pacquiao is obligated to HBO. It is not immediately clear which network will broadcast the fight, though it is expected that both will be involved. That was the solution worked out in 2002, when Mike Tyson (Showtime) fought Lennox Lewis (HBO) in Memphis, Tenn.

A Mayweather-Pacquiao bout first began to be se-riously discussed in 2009. Mayweather ended a brief retirement by routing Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM on Sept. 19, 2009. Two months later, in perhaps the defining performance of his

career, Pacquiao stopped Miguel Cotto at the MGM in the 12th round on Nov. 14, 2009.

It was clear at that point that they were not only the best welterweights in the world, but also the two best pound-for-pound fighters, period. While Mayweath-er is now widely acknowl-edged as the No. 1 fighter in the world, there was some debate in 2009 after Pac-quiao stopped Cotto. Pac-quiao was on a streak of 11 wins in a row that included dominant one-sided victo-ries over Cotto, Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton, Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales.

Phl Azkals coach lookingforward to ‘15 campaign

DAVNOR SPORTS COMPLEX. The Davao del Norte Sports and Tourism Complex will again see action in the 2015 Palarong Pambansa on May 3-9, 2015.


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