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WEATHER UPDATETAIL-END of a cold front affecting Visayas and Mindanao. Luzon will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered light rains while Visayas and Mindanao will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and isolated thunderstorms with widespread rains over Central Visayas and over the Northern and Eastern sections of Mindanao which may trigger flashfloods and landslides. Moderate to strong winds blowing from the Northeast will prevail over Luzon and Visayas and coming from the Northeast and East over Eastern Mindanao. The coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough. Elsewhere, winds will be light to moderate coming from the Northeast with slight to moderate seas.

BrieflyBrieflyRadio jammerDIPOLOG City––The city coun-cil here recently passed a resolution urging the Na-tional Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to hunt down illegal handset radio operators and jammers that have already interfered with the radio transceivers of the city police station. City coun-cilor James Cyril Ruiz, who sponsored the said resolution, underscored the importance of insulating the radio trans-ceivers of the police from jammers and unscrupulous handset radio operators to protect the public against any untoward incident.

94 stalls closedKORONADAL City, South Cotabato ––Some 94 stalls inside the Koronadal City Public Market were padlocked yesterday following an order from the Office of the City Treasurer. Owners of these stalls, according to acting city treasurer Marluon Gum-bao – majority from the meat section -- have been remiss in renewing their business permit and rental despite re-peated notices and reminders. A composite team from the Office of the City Treasurer, City Administrator’s Office, City Security Unit, Koronadal City PNP, and Office of the Market Supervisor implemented the closure of stalls.

Workshop in OroCAGAYAN de Oro City––The Senate Committee on Climate Change and the Asia-Pacific Institute for Green Develop-ment will be holding a Re-gional Workshop for Effective Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation on February 24, 2012 at the provincial capitol, here.

ZAMBOANGA City––Au-thorities tightened security in the southern province of Sulu where over a dozen terrorists had been killed in a US-led military air strike on a Jemaah Islamiya base.

Police fear that terror-ists would retaliate for the killings of Malaysian bomb expert Zulkifli bin Hir, also known as Marwan; and In-dian militant Abdullah Ali,

Security heightened in Sulu after strike on JI, Sayyaf targetsalias Muawiyah, and Um-bra Jumdail, whose nom de guerre was Dr. Abu.

Two Philippine Air Force planes bombed the hinter-land village of Lanao Dakula in Parang town at around 2.30 a.m. on Thursday and destroying the hideout.

One military official said an unmanned US drone

helped tracked down the terrorist hideout.

“We are in heightened alert now for possible retali-ation of the terrorists for

the killing of their leaders. We have deployed additional forces to guard vital areas in the province against terrorist attack,” Senior Superinten-dent Antonio Freyra, the Sulu police commander, said.

Freyra, who led police commandos in the ground operation, said the terror-ist hideout was totally de-stroyed. “Nothing was left of the camp and everything disintegrated at ground zero, but there is a report that some terrorists were able to take away some of the bodies. Two of six bodies recovered by the Abu Sayyaf were left behind for a still unknown reason.

Environmentalist Gina Lopez talks with Engr. Aloysis Diaz of SRMI while Mindanao Daily correspondent Manjo Egay is taking note. Photo by Obet SamonteAGUSAN del Norte––The

municipality of Tubay was in a festive mood last Friday when personalities from Manila visited SR Metals Inc. (SRMI) to assess the complaint filed by local officials and residents who are calling for the closure of the mining firm.

People carrying banners trooped to the town center as they appealed for an investigation and closure of SRMI allegedly for de-stroying the environment.

Palace backs Recto on ‘Saln’ filing

Environmentalists inspect mining firm

Party list Representative Maxi Rodriguez of Abante Mindanao and Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, 2nd District, Cagayan de Oro City, pro-ponents of House Resolu-tion No. 1975 directed the

CONGRESS adopted a resolution seeking inquiry on allegation that government funds for educational assistance program of indigenous cultural communities in the country have been misused.

committee on national cul-tural communities to set an investigation on the matter.

The congressmen based their resolution on a report submitted by the

Special Report

SRMI had been operat-ing a large-scale mining permit to extract nickel, cobalt and iron in the vast mountain of Barangay La Fraternidad in Tubay since 2007.

But Vice Mayor Fidel Garcia Jr. told reporters that SRMI is destroying the town’s mountains that caused floodings and silt-ation on the coastal waters.

Garcia said the SRMI allegedly did not implement

THE Palace said it is supporting the proposal of Sen. Ralph Recto who asked the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to conduct a nationwide education campaign to all government offices for proper filing of the new statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN).

“Maganda pong mungkahi ’yan galing kay Senator Recto. In fact, naka-receive kami ng memorandum galing po sa Civil Service Commission tungkol sa bagong form ng SALN at may maliit na guide kung

papaano pini-fill up,” Deputy Presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said in a radio interview over dzRB Radyo ng Bayan on Saturday about the procedure on filing the SALN.

Valte said she has seen a copy of a memorandum issued by the CSC Chair-man Francisco Duque last week discussing the new format and a guide in filling out the SALN.

The filing of SALN by government

Run afterillegal druggroups, PNPchief tellspolicemenTHE country’s premier po-lice force will not only be busy serving and protecting millions of Filipino people, but will also be definitely busy running after illegal drug groups.

This, after Philippine National Police Chief Nica-nor A. Bartolome ordered to intensify crackdown against illegal drugs nationwide.

“We must continue to hit hard on organized crime groups behind the manu-facture, cultivation and trafficking of illegal drugs in support of the national anti-drug campaign,” Bar-tolome said.

The PNP chief cited their major accomplishments as early as January of this year against illegal drug syndicates where the police raided a shabu laboratory in Caloocan that yielded 280 kilograms of shabu worth P1 billion.

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Environmentalist Gina Lopez with Ted Failon in Tubay town

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By PAT SAMONTE, Regional Editor-Caraga

By CRIS DIAZ, Associate Editor

Severely flooded schools namedREGION 10––The following are the severely flooded school buildings in Lanao Norte District 2 : Iligan City National High School, Tambacan Annex, with P1.003 million cost of damage; Villaverde Elementary School, P54,000; Benito S. Ong Memorial ES, P326,000; Kapisahan ES, P294,300 and Pugaan ES, P120,000.

PNOY Bayanihan ProjectREGION 13––TESDA Sec. Emmanuel Joel Villanueva underscored the importance of the PNOY Bayanihan Project. He said through the project, some elementary and high schools in the city will benefit in a form of armchairs distribution. He also stressed, this will help the schools in providing schoolchildren conducive environment for learning.

Data gathering on IDPs tops list of needsREGION 10––Collection of disaggregated data for all groups of the internally-displaced persons (IDPs), in host families and in rented accommodations, has topped the priority needs of the Camp Coordination/Camp Management (CCCM) and Non-Food Items (NFI) Clusters of the Post Sendong Operations Center, RDRRMC, in Northern Mindanao. The CCCM and NFI Clusters of the Post Sendong Operations Center, RDRRMC, aims to provide emergency shelter repair kits and others.

PNOY Bayanihan turns-over 2,000 chairsREGION 13––DepEd Sec. Armin Luistro, TESDA Sec. Emmanuel Joel Villanueva, PAGCOR Chairman Cristino Naguiat, Jr. turned-over some 2,000 armchairs to Agusan National High School (ANHS). Held late last week at the school’s covered court, it was part of the PNoy Bayanihan Project.

DepEd cites two benefactor-companiesREGION 10––DepEd officials cite Sugar Industry Foundation, Inc and Coca-Cola Foundation-Phils for their help to build new schools, in support of the government’s goal to eliminate child labor. Spear-headed by the International Labor Organization, concerned government agencies and NGOs recently broke grounds for a school building project worth P4 million at Butong, Quezon town.

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This, after Philnico Mining Corporation and San Miguel Corporations forged a memorandum of agreement on January 4 for a joint venture giving Philnico the green light to resume nickel ore mining in the island.

Under the MOU, San Miguel Corporation, rep-resented by Chief Operat-ing Officer Ramon Ang, commits to rehabilitate Philnico’s old plant into a modern nickel refinery using electro-magnetic technology in extracting nickel ores.

In the same MOU, Phil-nico President Evaristo Nar-vaez, pledged to undertake payment of $300 million in back taxes Philnico owed to Philippine government.

The rehabilitation of Philnico’s nickel plant may cost US$ 2.5 billion. “It’s eco-friendly since the new plant will not employ chemi-cals as it does 10 years ago,” City Mayor Ernesto Matugas of Surigao City said.

Once in full operation, the nickel plant will hire about 6,000 skilled and unskilled laborers, 2,000 of which shall come from

Surigao’s flexing itseconomic muscles

Environmentalist Gina Lopez with Ted Failon chat at the stage of Tubay municipal building shortly after they arrived in Tubay town on January 3 upon the invitation of SR Mining, Inc.

Photo By Obet Samonte

Surigao, Matugas added.He said the nickel plant,

operating in a sprawling 106-hectare land owned by the city government, is going to pay US$ 25 million in realty tax annually.

“With a P1.075 billion annual realty tax, Surigao City becomes a top earn-ing local government unit in the country,” Matugas added. The annual realty tax represents one per cent of the refinery’s cost of US$ 2.5 billion, he said.

Definitely, the city’s downstream economy of food chains, transport and construction industries spawned by an active min-ing industry will also invite employment opportunities in the locality, Matugas said.

For instance, he said, San Miguel Corp also pledged to allow the city government to borrow some P 50 mil-lion, for the construction of an additional 800-meter runway at the Surigao City Airport to accommodate large aircrafts.

Matugas said amortiza-tion payment of the amount is deductible from the min-ing company’s tax obligation with the city government.

Philnico bought the Nonoc mine from the Phil-ippine government in 1996. No cash was paid but Phil-nico agreed to pay the Phil-ippine government US$300 million in two tranches of scheduled payments in10 to 15 years without interest.

While Philnico agreed to invest US$67.5 million to restart the mine and processing plant, the plan did not prosper and Philnico paid only US$ 1.25 million in scheduled payment with the national government against the US$300 million obligation.

In 2004, the national gov-ernment declared a default and demanded rescission of the contract but Philnico demanded reimbursement in the amount of US$67.5 million from the national government.

The amount purport-edly cover the company’s investment in fees paid to the principals, feasibility studies and consultants hired in the failed attempt to restart the mine.

Philnico then obtained a restraining order from a court in Makati for the rescission of contract with the national government. Since then, Philnico and the national government engaged in long-running court battle of claims and counter–claims mothballing the refinery plant’s opera-tion.

SURIGAO City––Surigao’s lethargic econo-my will likely gushed into a bustling market with the operations of the stalled Philnico Mining Corporation in the nickel-rich island of Nonoc.

Motorcycle-riding gunmenshot dead highway flagman

MAKILALA, North Cota-bato––Unidentified armed men torched a building of the Gocotan Elementary School at Barangay Gocotan, one of the remotest villages in Pikit town in North Co-tabato, at around 7:30 p.m. Friday, the police reported.

SPO3 Sandique Sulay-man, chief investigator of the Pikit police, said the fire damaged the classroom for grade six pupils and all the reference materials inside it, including kitchen utensils, were burned.

The fire did not spread to other rooms when vil-lagers rushed coming to save the school, according to Sulayman.

“The residents used, in whatever way possible, the firefighting materials avail-able in the area. They used pails and got the water me-ters away from the burning room. They helped each other to put off the fire,” said Sulayman.

Authorities have yet to know the motive and those responsible for the fire.

In Makilala town, also in North Cotabato, suspected New Peoples’ Army (NPA) rebels torched a temporary outpost of a platoon of the 57th Infantry Battalion of the Army at Purok-6 in Barangay Batasan, Saturday dawn, a military official said.

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Armedmen torchschoolbuilding

BUTUAN City––Two motorcycle-riding gunmen shot and killed a traffic spot-ter and flagman at an on-going road construction in Barangay San Isidro, Santiago, Agusan del Norte while man-ning his post. “Flagmen” are spotter assigned at both ends of national roads and highways to direct traffic while construction is going on.

Authorities said Rico Pasiones, 29, was directing traffic along the national highway at around 3 pm when attacked.

Police investigation showed that the suspects, riding in tandem on a red Honda XRM motorcycle, stopped near Pasiones, drew their handguns, shot him three times and fled.

The victim was rushed to Cabad-baran District Hospital where he suc-cumbed to gunshot wounds in the head at around 4:45 pm, police said.

Caraga police spokesperson Supt. Martin Gamba said investigators were gathering leads to determine the motive and identities of the killers.

With a report from CD

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THE Malaysian Police has sent a special team to identify three militants killed in an air strike by the Philippine Air Force on a hideout of the Abu Sayyaf group on Sulu Island in southern Philippines.

Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said Malaysia would like to confirm if the bodies were that of Malaysian Zulkifli Abdul Hir, a senior leader of the Abu Sayyaf and the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), and two Sabah Darul Islam (DI) members, Bacho and Jeknal Adil.

“(The Malaysian Police) is liaising with the Philippine National Police to provide DNA samples of Zulkifli’s family for confirmation purposes,” he said in a state-ment here Friday.

Fifteen militants were reported killed in Thursday’s air strike by the Philippine Air Force on the Abu Sayyaf and JI.

Hishammuddin said if the identities of the bodies could be confirmed, the police would bring them back for burial.

He said police were awaiting confirmation on the two DI members, who were believed to be with the Abu Sayyaf during the air strike.

Bacho and Jeknal Adil had escaped police arrest dur-ing an operation in November last year, he added. (PNA)

Malaysia sends special team to confirm militants’ identities

Hence, Police Regional Office (PRO)-10, headed by Police Chief Superintendent Jufel C. Adriatico, inked up a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on the Deputization of Private Security Person-nel as Force Multipliers of the PNP, today, with the Philippine Association of Detective and Protective Agency Operators, Inc. (PADPAO) in Northern Mindanao, represented by its president, Nicolas S. Raagas, to tap the security guards as partners in law enforcement.

PNP Chief Police Direc-

Cagayan de Oro second district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez introduces a group of German visitors to Cagayan de Oro Mayor Vicente Y. Emano during a courtesy call Friday at the mayor’s office in city hall. The Germans are visiting the city to extend help to typhoon Sendong victims. Photo by Gerry L. Gorit

PNP deputizes private security guards in Northern Mindanao as police deputies

CAGAYAN de Oro City––The Philippine National Police (PNP) in Northern Min-danao has established an innovation in advancing the capabilities of law enforce-ment in fighting criminality by utilizing and mobilizing the strong private security guards in the region as police deputies in maintaining peace and order.

tor General Nicanor A. Bar-tolome, on the other hand, cited security guards play an important role in securing safety and an effective tool for the PNP to ensure the community is safe.

PDR Bartolome said se-curity guards may initiate arrest through citizen arrest.

Among others, the terms of reference in the MOA stipulate that during duty, deputized security guards within the bounds of the property or compound with

whom they are detailed may affect arrest when in his presence the person to be arrested has committed, is actually committing, or attempting to commit a crime.

They can also arrest a person when a crime has just been committed and he has probable cause to believe based on personal knowledge of facts and cir-cumstances that the person to be arrested has committed the crime.

A deputized private se-curity guard can also arrest a person if the person is a prisoner who has escaped from a penal establishment or place where the latter is serving final judgment or temporarily confined while his case is pending.

That in case of arrest as allowed under the rule

CAMIGUIN province was among the Local Govern-ment Units (LGUs) select-ed as the case study sites for the 2011 Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH) and Performance Challenged Fund (PCF) assessment.

The La Salle Institute of Governance (LSIG) is part of the consortium tasked to conduct the rapid as-sessment, which is being undertaken with the support of World Bank.

The assessment accord-ing to LSIG Director, Fran-cisco A. Magno will examine the incentive effects of the 2011 PCF program on the local government unit be-havior.

LSIG arranged an inter-view with Governor Jurdin Jesus M. Romualdo, together with other key provincial LGU officials to include the

Camiguin included in PCF fund case study site

44 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012TOP STORIES Editor: CRIS DIAZ , Email: cris_d1954@yahoo.com

SecurityFrom page 1

Our informants also spotted rebel leader Aha-dun Adak with at least 21 followers near the area,” he said.

JI leadersInitial police reports

said 11 people were killed in the air strikes, but the military’s Western Mind-anao Command claimed as many as 15 terrorists, including Zulkifli, Abdul-lah and Jumdail, had been killed in the attacks.

Zulkifli and Abdullah are included in the US wanted list and carried a $5 million and $50,000 bounty respec-tively, while Jumdail also had a $140,000 reward for his capture dead or alive.

The Abu Sayyaf has been coddling Jemaah Islamiya terrorists tagged as behind the spate of bombings in the southern Philippines.

The group is still holding two Malaysian nationals, an Indian married to a Filipina and a Japanese treasure hunter in Tawi-Tawi and Sulu provinces.

Aussie hostageAn Australian adventur-

er, Warren Rodwell, is also being held by another Abu Sayyaf faction in Basilan province near Sulu.

Rodwell, 53, was kid-napped on December 5 by gunmen disguised as policemen from his home in the seaside town of Ipil in Zamboanga Sibugay prov-ince on Mindanao Island where he married a Filipino

woman, Miraflor Gutang, 27, in June last year.

The kidnappers demand-ed $2 million ransom from his wife in exchange for his freedom, but the woman said they cannot afford to pay. Both the Philippines and Australia flatly rejected the ransom demand.

Colonel Ricardo Visaya, commander of army forces in Basilan, said Rodwell is being held by the group of Puruji Indama.

“Rodwell is still with that group and we are doing all we can to recover him safely,” he said.

He said the killings of Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiya leaders in Sulu are a big blow to the terrorist groups.

“It’s a big blow alright and we still don’t know how this would affect the safety of Rodwell. But knowing the Abu Sayyaf, ransom is still its main goal here,” Visaya said.

Major General Noel Co-balles, Western Mindanao military chief, said they are concentrating on building up intelligence to pinpoint the exact location of the kidnappers in Basilan.

“This group is highly mobile to avoid detection by the military,” he said.

NegotiationsAnother army official

said there is an ongoing negotiation between the kidnappers and the spe-cialized unit called Police Anti-Crime and Emergency Response.

But details or progress

of the negotiations are to-tally unknown because no officials would come out in the open to brief the media about it.

Governor Rommel Jalos-jos, of Zamboanga Sibugay, who is believed to be nego-tiating also with the kid-nappers, said Rodwell is still alive, but he did not give any more details about ongoing efforts to free the Aussie man.

He imposed a news blackout since the kidnap-ping of Rodwell. “He is alive,” he said.

The Western Mindanao Command also maintains that Rodwell is still being held by Indama’s group. “Rodwell is still being held by the group of Indama,” said Lt. Col. Randolph Ca-bangbang, an army spokes-man.

Military sources also said there are two Austra-lian government officials in Zamboanga City and is monitoring the progress of the negotiations with the Abu Sayyaf.

The two arrived in Janu-ary and is housed at Western Mindanao Command. They are also in close coordina-tion with the Philippine National Police.

The identities of the two Australian officials were not disclosed.

Abu SayyafSecurity officials said

they did not know the condition of Rodwell. But traditionally, kidnapped victims held by the Abu Sayyaf are either chained or

hand cuffed as in the case of California man Guillermo Sobero, who was tied on a tree during his captivity in Basilan.

Sobero was kidnapped in 2001 along with Kansas missionary couple Gracia and Martin Burnham at a posh resort in Palawan province and brought to Basilan by boat.

The Abu Sayyaf initially demanded the release of the blind Muslim cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman and two other international ter-rorists, one of them was Al-Qaeda bomber Ramsey Yousef; and the withdrawal of all US forces Israel.

They later demanded ransoms for their foreign hostages.

Sobero was eventu-ally beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf and left his body to be eaten by wild animals in the jungle.

Only a few of his bones were recovered. Burnham was killed during a US-led rescue operation in Zambo-anga del Norte where the kidnappers escaped.

His wife was rescued, but had been shot and wounded.

Same with US man Jef-frey Shilling, who was held for over 8 months in Sulu province after being lured by the Abu Sayyaf in Zam-boanga City.

He was chained to a tree during his captivity.

The Abu Sayyaf demand-ed $10 million ransom for his release.

He was eventually res-cued by policemen.

The Abu Sayyaf also kidnapped 20 mostly Euro-pean holidaymakers from the Malaysian resort of Si-padan in 2000 and brought them by boat to Sulu and negotiated with Libya and Malaysia for the release of the hostages in exchange for millions of dollars.

The Philippine govern-ment helped facilitated the payment of ransoms - se-cretly.

The terrorists also kid-napped dozens of foreign journalists covering the hostage situation in Sulu. They were freed after the Filipino government paid over half a million pesos to buy their freedom.

VIP treatmentThe Abu Sayyaf also

chooses what food to feed their hostages - if they are Filipinos and are wealthy or foreigners whose family can afford to pay so-called

"board and lodging" fees while negotiating for their release, the kidnapped usu-ally feed they captives with chicken and rice, sometimes beef.

Same privilege is rare on Filipino hostages, who are only given root crops, sometimes rice and salted dry fish. If the hostage is a VIP, then they get chicken and rice for food.

In the case of the Burn-ham’s, the Abu Sayyaf had at one time fed them ham-burger and fries, and cola.

The survival of the hos-tages depends entirely on how their family can quickly pay the ransom demand. But there were many instances in the past that private ne-gotiators jacked the ransoms and get their share of the loot. And in some cases, ran away with the money.

Help MePolice and military have

linked some of its rogue commanders and members to the spate of kidnappings in the South.

And authorities also implicated a senior rebel leader Barahama Ali in the kidnapping of Rodwell, an accusation strongly denied by the MILF.

Rodwell, a prolific world traveler and English teacher in China, has appealed for his safe release.

The kidnappers have sent a video clip of Rodwell appealing to Australia to work for his safe release.

“To my family please do whatever to raise the two million US dollars they are asking for my release as soon as possible. To the government, to the Filipino government especially the government of Zamboanga Sibugay, Rommel, I’m ap-pealing to you please help me to coordinate with my family to raise to whatever money is being asked.”

“To the Australian em-bassy here in the Philip-pines, this is your constitu-ent appealing for his life and safety. Please help facilitate to give the group the de-mand. Yes, I was former army of my country but it is differently particularly the terrain. The only solution to ensure my safety is to go with whatever they need. If I’m given my last wish, my last wish is to please help me out of here alive please Madame Ambassador,” the distressed Rodwell said in the video sent by the kid-nappers. (Al Jacinto)

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officials has turned into a major concern after Presi-dent Aquino’s congressional allies filed an impeachment case against Chief Justice Renato C. Corona for non-filing of his SALN as well as other charges.

The prosecution panel filed eight articles of im-peachment against Corona zeroing in on Article 2 for non-disclosure of his SALN.

Under the Constitution, constitutional officers like a justice or the chief jus-tice of the Supreme Court could be removed from office through impeach-ment. The four grounds for impeachment include culpable violation of the Constitution, treason, graft and corruption, and betrayal of public trust.

In the ongoing impeach-ment trial, the prosecution panel said Corona under-valued numerous real estate properties on his (SALN). They argued that Corona’s inaccurate declaration in his SALN is a violation of the Constitution and betrayal of public trust.

Gordonnamed as SBMAdirectorPRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III has appointed former Zambales Vice Governor Anne Marie C. Gordon as member of the board of directors of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA).

In an interview aired over government-run dzRB Radyo ng Bayan, Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte said Gordon replaced Teodoro D. del Rosario.

“In-appoint po ni Pan-gulong [Benigno] Aquino si Anne Marie C. Gordon bilang miyembro, represent-ing the local government unit of Olongapo City, sa board of directors ng Subic Bay Metropolitan Author-ity,” Valte said.

Valte said Gordon’s term will expire on August 17, 2013.

Gordon is the wife of Olongapo City Mayor James “Bong” L. Gordon, Jr.

The SBMA is the op-erating and implementing arm of the Government of the Philippines for the de-velopment the 262 square mile (670 square kilometer) area of Subic Bay Freeport (SBF) in Subic Bay into a self-sustaining tourism, industrial, commercial, financial, and investment center to generate employ-ment opportunities.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012 5DevelopmentEditor: RUEL PELONE , Email; mindanaodailynews@gmail.com

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By GLENN B. AÑORA, Scouter,Cagayan de Oro City Council

WELL DONE. At least 50 units of ShelterBox tents up and ready for occupation. Let’s call it a good turn day Scouts. An aid memoire with ES Abner Tayco of ShelterBox Philippines, CSE Rudy G. Guligado, CSE Rogelio S. Roferos of the Boy Scout of the Philippines local councils, BSP Regional Staff and Scouters from Cagayan de Oro City and Misamis Oriental.

7AM Sharp! This is part of the text message that every Scouts received as their marching orders to put themselves into a very anxious situation under the punishing heat of the morning sun.

Putting up shelter box tents for the flood survivors at the Calaanan ShelterBox relocation site would have been the best chance to quit as a new Scout under the NSTP CWTS Scouting program.

One would think that staying at home would be much better than putting oneself in such a precarious situation wherein Loving and Living doesn’t make sense, after all the heat of the sun would put one to question his real motive of being a Scout.

Scouts, do a good turn!

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Coming to the meeting place much earlier say 30 minutes is an unambiguous indication that a Scout is up to the challenge.

The Calaanan ShelterBox relocation site is ripe for the taking; a perfectly plowed c o r n field was prepared for the 50 units of $1,000 each green box.

At ground zero, Scouts eagerly awaits the opening of the first green box that contains a tent, mat, water container, water purifier, kitchen set, tool kit, and many more.

We were notified by our tent setting up leader that a record 14 minutes was recorded in Brazil to put up a complete tent. Are

we flabbergasted by the information? Not all, we took our time together as a group and put up the tent on our own terms and tempo. No amount of record would dampen our spirits.

We put it up in a man-ner we think is best. It was perfectly done and the first to be set up in the field,

now it will house a family that lost their home in the flood brought by

Sendong.After an hour and a half

break, we’re back in the field this time though the smoldering sun seems to have looked favorably upon us and simmered down its emanation of heat.

The Safer River Life Saver Foundation, Inc. of Liceo de Cagayan University provided us with bottled water to help quench our thirst.

As the clock tick at 5 O’clock, all 50 shelter box tents stood neatly aligned in their assigned place waiting for their occupants. Now, it can be told that a noble act would always come into completion.

Scouts and Scouters from Boy Scout of the Philip-

pines Cagayan de Oro City Council, Misamis Oriental Council, Liceo de Cagay-an University, PNR High School, City High and other schools coexisted for a day for a common cause to pro-vide shelter to the survivors of the dreadful flood.

Under the surefire lead-

ership of our CSE’s Rudy G GULIGADO and Rogelio S ROFEROS Scouts and Scouters for sure called it a day feeling contented that doing a good turn is more than just enough to set them apart from the rest.

Scouts’, doing a good turn in its essence is a mystical

CAGAYAN de Oro’s famous white water rafting routes are up and running, and safe to traverse despite the devastation wrought by Tropical Storm Sendong.

“We issued a travel ad-visory last Dec. 27, 2011 informing the public white water rafting in Cagayan River was suspended to allow our rafting outfitters to clear the river of obstruc-tions and ensure its safety for visitors,” said Catalino E. Chan III, Department of Tourism Region-X di-rector. “However, this has since been superseded by another advisory issued by our office dated January 5, 2012 declaring white water rafting operations were now fully operational.”

Business as usual for Cagayan de Oro’s white water raftingMr. Chan said person-

nel of the six white water outfitters which comprise the Oro Rafters Association used the hiatus to clear the river of logs, debris and other objects which compromised the safety of visitors.

“All the major road net-works in the city are gener-ally passable,” the advisory read further. “Public trans-portation is available, sea and air transportation are fully operational. Hotels and tourism-related establish-ments are likewise in full operation.”

Electricity in the city was restored by the Cagayan Electric Power and Light Company, Inc. (CEPALCO) on Dec. 18 and water ser-

vice by the Cagayan de Oro Water District (COWD) re-stored ahead of the original 30-day schedule except for some areas where distri-bution pipes damaged or destroyed by Sendong are

still undergoing repairs and rehabilitation.

White water rafting out-fitters say the basic and advanced courses are now cleared and continually patrolled by members to

identify and clear any fur-ther debris or obstructions.

“We have sur veyed the upstream portions of Cagayan River where our basic and advanced courses are run and we are happy to report there are virtually no casualties among the residents living near river banks along this areas,” said Vitalino Espulgar, president of the Oro Associatigon of Rafters (OAR).

Visitors who often visit Cagayan de Oro for its white water rafting have been shunning the city lately since Sendong struck on fears the white water rafting courses along Cagayan River had been affected and other

unfounded rumors generally circulating in social media like Facebook.

As a result, white wa-ter rafting outfitters re-port many cancellations, as have hotels that already had conventions and con-ferences scheduled as far off as March. Local airlines report a drop in passenger load factor from 80 to 69 percent.

OAR and other tourism related organizations such as the Cagayan de Oro Hotel and Restaurant Association (COHARA), Cagayan de Oro Travel and Tours As-sociation (COTTA), Pro-mote CDO Foundation,

White water rafting is back in Cagayan River after out-fitters cleared the basic and advanced routes of logs and other debris. Photo courtesy of Menchit Ongpin

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THINK a minute.Winston Churchill was

65 years old when he first became England’s Prime Minister.

It was May of 1940 and England’s military was not well armed or prepared for war.

So when Hitler’s huge, powerful German army was planning to attack the British Isles, most military experts expected Germany to easily defeat England in no time.

But these experts could not imagine that in only 7 months, Winston Churchill would change the history of England and the entire Western World.

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lessness were soon replaced by great confidence, hope, and victory.

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to get the English people to believe in themselves—in their own cause and abilities. And defeating Germany’s powerful army became Eng-land’s finest hour!

It’s been said: “People who feel good about them-selves do their best.”

Whether it’s at work on the job, at home with their mate and children, or with

friends.So if you want people to

change, you’ve got to help them believe in themselves so they will want to change and do their best.

But when we criticize and shame our children, our wife or husband, or people we work with, we only hurt them and tear down their self-confidence.

So why should we expect them to do better when we’ve made them believe they can’t!

We all do our best when

we feel good about our-selves. That’s why a suc-cessful businessman says: “Instead of catching people doing something wrong to criticize and punish them, try to catch people doing something right and praise them for it. Then they will want to keep doing that right thing and always do their best.”

This is why Jesus Christ commands us to love others as yourself.

Make others feel good about themselves the way you want to feel good about yourself.

So won’t you ask Jesus to forgive you for your past and for treating others wrongly?

Then ask Him to start changing your heart, so you can not only become your best, but you will also bring out the best in others.

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THE harassment experienced by a GMA television crew gave credence to this corner’s expose of untouchable miners in the hinterland of Cagayan de Oro City.

The incident also manifests the reality that the life of anybody who dare speak against miners is court-ing danger.

Based on the report, a leader of the Higa-onon, a tribal community, escorted GMA crew to a site in upper Iponan River where mining activities are active. The crew wanted to take footage of the mining activities in the area for a possible news story.

Upstream, the crew found a barge owned by a min-ing firm with offices in a building in Cagayan de Oro City owned by a city councilor. Perhaps, the barge is use to transport rocks and alluvial sands for beneficiation.

Beneficiation is a mining term where ore undergoes various stages to process extraction of gold, chrome, nickel and other mineral ore.

Has the city councilor, owner of the building where the mining firm holds office, have had some connections with the mining activity? It is another story.

What happened to GMA television crew also hap-pened to most people who, out curiosity, may have stumbled on illegal mining activities in the hinterlands of Cagayan de Oro.

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Perhaps, the reason why highly financed mining ac-tivity there employs armed groups for fear that without enough security these illegal activities are exposed.

What was hard to explain was the presence of a tribal leader acting as guide of GMA crew. It was clear that tribal groups in the hinterlands of Cagayan de Oro and Opol in Misamis Oriental are up against these mining activities.

Are these tribal communities aware that mining in-vestors invoke the rights of tribal communities to gain mining permits in their ancestral domain?

It is lamentable that unscrupulous mining capitalists are taking advantage of the innocence of tribal groups in our country. True, the government had created an office to protect the interest of the indigenous people.

Nevertheless, these government agencies, tasked to protect the interest of the indigenous people, are the same agencies that exploit our tribal groups.

It is no wonder if the barangay official who threat-ened the GMA crew would also harass tribal folks protesting legal and illegal mining in the area. Prob-ably, the tribal leader was glad a television crew finally had the heart to cover their ancestral home robbed of natural wealth.

The call, condemning the hostility toward GMA television crew on a legitimate coverage, is not enough. Punish the culprit! The media must rally together to end, once and for all, illegal and legal mining in the outskirts of Cagayan de Oro and Opol, Misamis Oriental.

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THERE are always hot stories in the mass media worldwide regarding the tensions that are building up in the worsening rela-tions of the United States of America and Iran.

The principal issue in-volved is nuclear program of Iran which the Western countries believe is about to produce nuclear bombs. And then there was a state-ment of Iran that it will block passage to the Strait of Hormuz. If this happens, hundreds of ships carrying oil to various directions will be stopped.

T h e Un i te d St ate s warned Iran not to do it or it will suffer more sanc-tions from the West. The warning it seems, is noth-ing to the Iranians since it did not feel threatened whatsoever. But the better part of the story is that Iran allowed the delegation of the United Nations to visit the country and examine for themselves the fact that they are not building any nuclear weapons at all. If they are enriching uranium and other elements for that

Iran versus USA?matter, it is for peace pur-poses and nothing more.

The United States which is highly alarmed of the situation, has sent an air-craft carrier and several battleships in the Persian gulf. It alleged that naval fleet has been there for a long time and it is not for the purpose of anything. Of course, the matter is viewed by some world powers as in preparation of war against Iran should things run out of control. Iran one time warned everybody of military actions by its navy.

The visit by a UN del-egation in Iran is good enough since the latter ut-terly showed its good faith on its statement that they are not building nuclear weapons. The trouble is the western countries do not believe on this stand and insist that the Iranians will develop the modern war material very soon, maybe in a month. It is in this stage that the misunderstanding finds no solution at all.

Iran is considered by many countries to have

IN the light of the expand-ing property development in the southern cities of Mindanao and in the whole country which is now see-ing skyscrapers horizontal building construction boom, institutions offering aca-demic courses are called to revise school curriculums that will prepare graduates in the science of Engineering or Business management to include in their courses the technical theory in property management and under-standing legal terms and compliance to government regulations.

The key in maximizing building and property sales and occupancies is retain-ing desirable clients. This can be achieved through professional property man-agement. There are busi-ness strategies in retaining tenants through quality building administrations. The same as hotels and condominium unit rentals

enjoys continuous or repeat business by way of higher occupancies and more units earning daily or monthly revenues maximizing the developer’s profit.

Management a long these areas has to undergo restructuring attuned to investments and the envi-ronmental requirements of a modern city.

Property owners are faced with hypothetical figures on how to recover capital expense that goes to the building construction or return of investments (ROI) for the money used to finance the project and

realize the desired profit. ROI are actualized with the cost of money over a certain period of time it was withdrawn from the banks or borrowed from the financial institutions and sank into the project.

Money spend must bear interests and profits as it is part of the cycle of business. Students in architectures or management disciplines are challenged with a growing future demands in profit-able property management.

The role of building ad-ministrators includes budget preparation to cover security and safety programs that

calls for a good understand-ing of modern surveillance equipment or CCTV. It must have understanding on Fire Safety and the applications of technologies on fire de-tection and suppressions.

The same as the adminis-trator’s practical knowledge in pest control to safeguard the building from degrada-tion and contamination. These are few insights that must be built up in the curriculum aside from the legal requirements in the preparation of the building house rules and regulations acceptable to the tenants and in consonant with the lease and rental agreements allowed by law.

In some business cur-riculums there are subjects in obligations and contracts, insurance and corporate laws. This augurs’ well to a good foundation and un-derstanding the legal obli-gations of the developers

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MARKET WATCH February 6, 2012

US$ 1.00 - PhP 42.713Repo Rate - 6.25%Reverse Repo Rate - 4.25%

Inflation Rate -4.2%(2006=100) -4.0%(2000=100)

91-day T-bill Rate - 0.919%Gold Buying/ troy oz. - US$1756.55Silver Buying - US$34.20

but positive sentiments on the domestic economy buoyed the peso. The trader expects a knee-jerk reaction from the peso once the anticipated credits rating upgrade happens in the coming months with the peso cutting further by around P0.50 against the dollar. The peso’s positive perfor-mance will further be boosted by positive news on the US, the trader said. The US government is sched-uled to release its employment and payrolls data Friday night (Philippine time). “If it’s good we expect the peso to strengthen further,” the trader said. The trader expect the one-week peso performance to stay within 42.50-43 to a dollar. (pna)RMA/JS/utb

So. Korean firm eyes processedchicken meat products from RPGOOD news for Region 10’s poultry industry stake-holders! Th e Department of Agri-culture said on Friday that a South Korean company may start importing processed chicken meat products from the Philippines once Seoul completes its quarantine re-quirements and risk analysis of the local poultry produc-tion. Bureau of Animal In-dustry (BAI) director Efren Nuestro said the bureau has started talks with Korea’s Sinwoo Food Inc. for the importation of heat-treated and fresh frozen chicken leg quarters. Th e Korean fi rm was just waiting for the approval of the Korean government.“We have already submitted the necessary documents to the Korean government on how we handle the pesticide and drug residue, which is one of their major concerns,” Nuestro said. “Th e Philippines has been exporting chicken meat to Japan since 2004, which has one of the most stringent standards, but we are able to comply with their re-quirements. Th is is a good indicator for Korea to pursue importation in the Philip-pines,” Nuestro said. Th e DA offi cial said the agriculture department expected to facilitate the early commencement of the project, if possible, by May 2012. Nuestro said that South Korea, which currently im-ports their chicken require-ments from the United States and Brazil, is now more in-terested to chicken products from the Philippines because it is tastier. Th e offi cial also noted that as an Avian Infl uenza-free country and in terms of

By CHRISTOPHER LLOYD T. CALIWAN

logistics, the Philippines is in closer proximity to Korea compared with its traditional meat exporters.Meanwhile, Nuestro said that offi cials from San Miguel Food Inc. and Bounty Fresh Food Inc. had already pre-sented their production, market offer and export capacity to their counterparts

in Sinwoo Food. Earlier, Department of Agriculture offi cials met with their counterpart from South Korea to discuss the South Korea-Philippines multi- industry cluster project, a possible overseas devel-opment assistance coop-eration on agriculture and the execution of pest risk

analysis on fresh agriculture products,including poultry. Th e Philippines has be-come a preferred provider of chicken products in Asia as the country remains free from the dreaded avian in-fluenza virus, which has crippled poultry industries in its neighboring countries. (pna)

Peso improves vs. US dollarBy JOANN SANTIAGO

THE Philippine peso rose against the US dollar Friday alongside other Asian currencies Friday due to among others the large investment flows and expectation of credit rating upgrade on the Philippines. The local unit closed P0.06 stronger Friday after ending the day at 42.60 from the previous day’s 42.66 close. It opened at 42.72, better than Thursday’s 42.74 start. It rose to as much as 42.59 and down to 42.82 bringing the average for the day at 42.73, lower than day-ago’s 42.71. Volume of trade also declined to US$ 1.01 billion from day-ago’s US$ 1.27 billion. A trader said the local cur-rency is still tracking the Euro

GENERAL SANTOS CITY — The spiraling cost of fuel products and the purse seine fi shing ban in pockets of the Pacifi c Ocean have cut down frozen tuna landings at the fi sh port complex here last year, the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) said, citing preliminary data.In the BAS 2011 fi sheries sit-uationer report released on Tuesday, the agency noted that unloading at the fi sh port com-plex declined by 47,049 metric tons (MT) or about 18 percent from 2010. In 2010, the unloaded volume at the fi sh port complex, which is managed by the Philippine Fisheries Development Author-ity, was pegged at 144,812.05 MT. Last year, it went down to 117,315.29 MT. “Th e closure of [pockets of the] high seas as imposed by the Western and Central Pacifi c Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) on its member countries to replenish stocks of the highly migratory tuna species…was another contributing factor to the output reduction,” said the 20-page BAS annual report, which also includes other marine commodities. Th e other factors cited for the decline in tuna unloading,

High fuel price, fishing ban reduce 2011 tuna output

of the eight regular session of the Commission for the Con-servation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacifi c Ocean (or WCPFC8) also moved the venue from Palau to Guam. He said the postponement of the meeting extended for another three months the resolution of the purse seine fi shing ban in pockets of the Pacifi c Ocean that practically slowed down the tuna fi shing industry here in the last two years. Asis Perez, Bureau of Fish-eries and Aquatic Resources national director, earlier said a permanent Philippine team was created last year to push the country’s agenda in the WCPFC. Th e team is composed of representatives from the depart-ments of Agriculture, Foreign Aff airs, and Trade and Industry, the Mindanao Dev’t Authority and other fi shing industry lead-ers.

besides fuel price hikes, were dry-docking of some com-mercial vessels for repair or maintenance and lesser fi shing expeditions due to weather disturbances.With the WCPFC ban on purse-seine fi shing in two pockets of the high seas in the western and eastern parts of the Pacifi c Ocean starting January 1, 2010, foreign fishing vessels have dominated the unloading of frozen tuna in this city for the needs of the canneries. Owing to the ban, local tuna fi shing companies have complained that they could not aff ord the additional costs in operating in farther fi shing grounds. As a result, thousands of workers in the tuna fishing industry have lost their jobs, according to the regional Depart-ment of Labor and Employment, which had extended assistance to them. Th e two-year ban in pockets of the Pacifi c Ocean should have lapsed last December, but a meet-ing that would have discussed the matter had been cancelled and moved to March. Marfenio Tan, director of the Socsksargen Federation of Fishing and Allied Industries Inc. (SFFAII), said that organizers

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IN its commitment to fully serve the needs of its clients, especially the business sector, the Misa-mis Oriental Telecom-munications (Misortel) is set to purchase modern communications facilities worth P41 million. The communications firm also has decided to purchase new Next Gen-eration Network (NGM) switch for technology up-grade due to the burgeon-ing business activities in Northern Mindanao region. NGM is a latest tech-nology of MetaSwitch Networks that drives the evolution of communi-cations networks and services — from circuits to packet, TDM (time division multi-flexing) and to Internet Protocol, it was also gathered. NGM has a capacity

of 70,000 lines with a speed of one gigabyte per second. The new facility is now under test by Misortel’s and will launch its broad-band fixed line service in Cagayan de Oro and Tagoloan in Misamis Oriental. Once fully operational, Misortel is also eyeing to expand its NGM at the ongoing multi-bil-lion-peso Laguindingan International Airport in Laguindingan town, Misamis Oriental. Misortel has started upgrading its facilities and “migrate” old sub-scribers to the new tech-nology. “The equipment re-ally differs from the old version in terms of size. It is already remote maintenance, is licensed-number activated and

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Notice is hereby given that the intestate estate of late FELIPE C. PABLICO, who died on March 24, 2009 in the Medical Center, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, that the said decedent died without leaving any will, left parcel of Land (Lot 1401-H-1-A, Psd-10-008128, being a portion of Lot 1401-H-1, Psd-10-006998), situated in the Barrio of Kauswagan, City of Cagayan de Oro, Island of Mindanao. Containing an area of FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE (485) SQUARE METERS, more or less, is under EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS in Favor to his wife LUZVIMINDA M. PABLICO, of legal age, widow, Filipino and a resident of, Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines and GWENHWYFAR SHANE M. PABLICO, likewise of legal age, single, Filipino and a resident of Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City, Philip-pines; are the only surviving and legitimate heirs of the deceased FELIPE C. PABLICO; as per Doc. No. 183; Page No. 37; Book No. XLI; Series of 2009.

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4th Shari’a Judicial DistrictIligan City

IN RE: PETITION TO CIVIL CASE NO. 2012-005APPROVE THE DIVORCE BETWEEN SPOUSES BRYAN E. REPONTE AND ROSEMARIE O. VERAN,

BRYAN E. REPONTE ANDROSEMARIE O. VERAN, Petitioners.x------------------------------------/

ORDER

Before this court is verified Joint Petition for the approval and Registration of the Divorce filed by their counsel and alleging among others: That petitioners are husband and wife, respectively, in a marriage performed under Civil rites on May 26, 2004 at Recodo, Zamboanga City, they converted to Islam faith, of which conversions to Islam were Registered with this court, both of them can be served with summons and notices at Iligan City, c/o Zaide Law Office, 2nd Floor, Pafs Mejia Bldg., Roxas Avenue, Corner Aguinaldo St., Iligan City. That said marriage did not last long, due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunder-standing between petitioners and reached the point of irreconcilability and they decide to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Divorced Agreement in order to formalize their separation: since their separation for more than Thirteen (13) years now, they had never been communicating or supporting either financially or emotionally to each other, neither minding each other’s affairs: petitioner’s seek judicial decree of divorce thereby surviving their marriage bond on May 26, 2004, so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden; reconciliation between them had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this joint petition to be sufficient Inform and substance, set the initial hearing of this case on February 24, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at which time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted., Let copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of General Circulation in the City of Iligan one week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner. SO ORDERED. Iligan City, Philippines, this 26th day of January 2012.

(Sgd.) HON. OSOP M. ALI Presiding Judge

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AQUARIUS.AQUARIUS. Hidden aspects of your past can have an Hidden aspects of your past can have an impact on the present, you are in a good position to move impact on the present, you are in a good position to move confidently into the future. However, it’s important to know confidently into the future. However, it’s important to know that over the next few months situations may play out that that over the next few months situations may play out that you do not have control over. you do not have control over.

PISCESPISCES.. If you feel there’s a clash between your sense of If you feel there’s a clash between your sense of duty and the freedom to make your own decisions, get to duty and the freedom to make your own decisions, get to the bottom of the situation and make the necessary changes the bottom of the situation and make the necessary changes so you regain control.so you regain control.

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LEOLEO.. There are some invaluable lessons, which will be useful There are some invaluable lessons, which will be useful to take into consideration for the next 12 month period. If to take into consideration for the next 12 month period. If you want to work on the things that need to be updated in you want to work on the things that need to be updated in your life, you should see the benefits quickly.your life, you should see the benefits quickly.

VIRGO.VIRGO. It is your choice if you want to change or not. Last It is your choice if you want to change or not. Last year you persevered through many tribulations and as a year you persevered through many tribulations and as a result, some people would have left your life. You are now result, some people would have left your life. You are now in a new cycle, and it’s important to be true to you. in a new cycle, and it’s important to be true to you.

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SAGITTARIUS.SAGITTARIUS. In general, personal development means In general, personal development means exploring all aspects of who you are. Dig deep and you exploring all aspects of who you are. Dig deep and you will discover the old you no longer serves its purpose or will discover the old you no longer serves its purpose or even exists. Focus on your new image and how you want even exists. Focus on your new image and how you want to be perceived.to be perceived.

CAPRICORN.CAPRICORN. To be able to know and understand the inner To be able to know and understand the inner workings of your own mind can be one of the most potent workings of your own mind can be one of the most potent tools you have. Get to know yourself on a deeper level and tools you have. Get to know yourself on a deeper level and realize you are in fact a multi–faceted person.realize you are in fact a multi–faceted person.

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PropertyFrom page 6

their clients or tenants.Universities and Colleges

offering Hotel & Restaurant management courses have accounting and finance subjects to in calculate in the students mind the cost and revenue aspect in run-ning a hotel or managing a condominium unit. It also offers the technical train-ing in Housekeeping to put order and lodging systems in place in the property.

Taking note of the build-ing boom expansion in the modern cities, government has found good sources of raising revenues to imposi-tion of taxes and permits and other governmental regulations compliance ex-ercised by the Housing and Land Regulatory Units as

far as selling condominium units. The Bureau of Internal Revenues (BIR) monitors taxes through collection of realty taxes and excise tax after transfer of ownership to the buyers in a form of sales and documentation taxes.

Property development in the country that ranges from hotel owners to condo-minium builders has a role to accomplish to support the government’s tourism promotions program and the housing requirements of the middle class. It fa-cilitated likewise the entry of other foreign business looking for headquarters in the modern financial centers of the country.

Big names developers crowd the market and never run out of new projects that modernize the build-

ing structures in the entire country. It also makes the Philippines a choice invest-ment destination in the Asia Pacific region for Business Outsourcing Centers (BOC) and other international fi-nancial headquarters that leases high rise structures in the Makati, Ortigas and Alabang financial districts pumping rental money to the economy. Property man-agement plays a success in the expansion of the Cebu Business Park and soon in Cagayan de Oro City.

IranFrom page 6

authored some terror-istic activities around the world. It has threatened to erase in the world map Israel and its people. It was believed to have sponsored

some terrorism activities carried by its allies in Leba-non, Syria and other places. To the minds of the West, Iran is one place it cannot be trusted on anything.

Tension has escalated lately and the way I look at it, a slight mistake of Iran will start military confron-tation with the U.S.A. Iran for many years had criticized every effort of the USA and surely this irritated the Americans. What the USA is trying to avoid is for Iran to produce nuclear weapons which will be recklessly and irresponsibly used by it for abuses and power.

What we want to avoid is war. In war nobody is victo-rious. Everybody suffers the injuries and loses of lives. It destroys relationships and endanger lives of soldiers as well as civilians. Natural

living of people and peace are disturbed. Lives, funds and properties are lost and always war is a dreadful mat-ter that should be avoided as much s possible. We only hope things will not go that far and preservation of peace worldwide will prevail.

RaftingFrom page 1

the Cagayan de Oro Cham-ber of Commerce and Industry Foundation, Inc. (Oro Cham-ber) have come together to launch an information, edu-cation and communications initiative dubbed “It’s a Go for CDO!” aimed at correcting the misconceptions about how the city is doing after Sendong.

“I’ve been doing white water rafting regularly since it started and I’ve noted how the Cagayan River has changed at least four times already following storms and floods

like Sendong,” said Tito Noel A. Mora, COTTA president. “Always however, the river remained navigable and fun, just like how it is now for white water rafting.”

In fact, Mr. Mora said the Philippine Travel Agencies Association (PTAA) recently agreed to promote COTTA’s innovative “Fun Help” tour packages during the Travel Tour Expo slated at SMX on Feb. 17-19, 2012.

The Fun Help packages grant visitors concessionary rates for transport, food and accommodation in exchange for their participation in relief operations, stress debriefing and other similar “immersion activities” with victims of the Sendong flash floods.

“Visit Cagayan de Oro now and do a good turn for the victims of Tropical Storm Sendong,” Mr Mora said. “The City of Golden Friendship awaits you.”

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Commission on Audit (COA) that the government funds for the Educational Assistance Program (EAP) of the Indigenous Cultural Communities (ICCs) in the country have been misused by the previous adminis-tration.

For instance, the ir-regular disbursement of EAP funds in Region 4 through approvals and fund releases based on incomplete documentation and the fund releases in Region 9 amounting to P5,621,838 which were used to pay for other obligations rather than educational assistance, the resolution said.

The resolution is asking an inquiry to determine whether the funds for the EAP are really being used to help poor but deserving ICC/IP students or if they are being misused to benefit a few to the disadvantage of the intended beneficiaries and the Philippine govern-ment.

The educational as-sistance program should benefit ICCs enrolled in the elementary level, high school, vocational, college, as well as post-graduate courses with the financial

assistance ideally covering the tuition fee, books and living allowance of every student grantee.

The COA report, how-ever, said that some EAP beneficiaries were sons or daughters of officials of the National Commission in Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) who can afford to send their children to school.

Resolution 1975 served notice to all concerned, particularly the COA, the NCIP and other agencies and entities which may shed light and resolve the issue, it said.

Deputies...from page 3

of court, private security guards should turnover the arrested person to the police authorities including all evi-dence gathered.

Further, part of the terms of reference is for private security guards to report immediately to the nearest police station any information or incident of kidnapping, bomb explosion, carnapping, bank robbery or any threat to the peace and order o the community.

Meanwhile, CSupt. Adriatico said at the onset of typhoon Sendong a number of security guards were mindful of the safety of the residents and have helped in saving the lives of those people affected.

For his part, Raagas as-sured the steadfast commit-ment of PADPAO in the pursuit of protecting the community regardless of the costs.

Under the law, Republic Act (RA) 5487, private security guards are placed under the general supervision of the police. The concept of utilizing blue guards for PNP’s peace and order drive is related to the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Units (CAFGU) Active Auxiliary that the Armed Forces has organized, trained and deployed to compensate for the augmentation that gov-ernment troops needed in its anti-insurgency campaign.

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the Provincial Vice Governor, Finance and Committee Chair of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, Budget Officer, Provincial Treasurer and the DILG Provincial Director, with all the heads of various units in the provincial government.

The meeting seeks to find whether the design of the program as a type of performance-based match-ing grant provided the nec-essary incentive for the LGUs to achieve the SGH and proposed local proj-ects that are aligned with the national development priorities.

LSIG also reviewed pro-cesses undertaken by the DILG in developing the SGH and PCF criteria and the subsequent assessment in choosing the awardees.

Magno said, the assess-ment will further determine the inclusion of civil society organizations in the LGU assessment proceeded ac-cording to the DILG’s plan and whether this feature produced the effects the DILG intended.

The Seal of SGH was conferred to the province September last year. Aside from Misamis Oriental, it is only Camiguin who was able to qualify for the local governance award in the provincial category for the entire Northern Mindanao region.

FirmFrom page 1

the dig, fill and reforest and was even blamed on the recent flooding in their municipality.

He also added that dur-ing the time when SRMI was still operating in a small scale mining permit, the municipality has been enjoy-ing revenues coming from the 30% extraction permit which could have helped in developing the municipal-ity’s projects.

“The visit of Ms. Gina Lopez, who is a known environmentalist, will help put a closure on issues which we hope will give justice to the people who are living near the mining area,” said Garcia.

Ms. Lopez was accom-panied by TV personality Ted Failon, MGB National Director Leo Jazareno and EMB Regional Director Alilo Ensomo.

They made an aerial inspection before going to the municipal hall for a short program attended by residents from various barangays.

But Engr. Dandy Mari-ano, SRMI Vice President for Operation, responded that their company had been transparent with their operation and welcomes any investigation.

They also welcome ev-erybody to visit and observe their operation. SRMI was keen in showing their being environment-friendly.

He also stressed that after their “mine out” operation; they immediately filled in the site and reforest the areas affected.

SRMI also prepared a briefing for the visitors on safety while inside the mining area but Ms. Gina Lopez along with Mayor

Sadeka Garcia-Tomaneng and some officials ignored the procedure and even-tually proceed but were stopped at the entrance by the company’s security. The convoy was forced to go back to SRMI office for the short briefing.

After the briefing, the convoy then proceeded to the area for the inspec-tion. They were guided and explained by SRMI Chief Operation Officer, Engr. Aloysis Diaz at the view deck of the area on the day to day operation of SRMI.

Ms. Lopez also reacted on reports that the seashore near the extracted ores was silted and becomes red es-pecially during downpours.

But SRMI officials dis-missed the allegation as untrue and showed Ms. Lopez, MGB and EMB the ports area.

They are also making mitigating measures to en-sure that siltation will not happen in the seashore.

Other areas vis ited were the newly renovated Mountain Beach Resort, the nursery pond and siltation ponds.

On the part of Dir. En-somo, he told Mindanao Daily that SRMI obliged by the requirements but kept mum on the event.

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