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Davao picked as one of 4 pilot cities for climate change studies

UN body to seek funding for city

This is a big help!DAVAO FLOOD PLANS

Blame the floods

DAVAO City offi-cials are banking on the United

Nations Human Set-tlements Programme (UN-Habitat) to look for fund sources for the city’s climate change ad-aptation plans.

The city is one of the four cities identified as pilot areas for UN-Hab-itat’s climate change adaptation studies. The other cities are Cagayan de Oro, Iloilo and Butu-an.

“We are still in the planning stage where the agencies concerned are conducting workshops and databanking for the formulation of the com-prehensive plan,” Engr. Andrew Lepardo of the City Engineer’s Office said during Thursday’s iSpeak press conference at the City Hall.

“UN-Habitat will be-come an agent of pro-posals to first world countries that are ready to provide financial grant for our project,” he said. If the plan shows a major requirement like a

CHINESE ZODIAC. Whether one is of Chinese descent or not, Dabawenyos just can’t help them-selves from checking out the Chinese Zodiac and the lucky charms that are on sale inside a mall along J.P. Laurel Avenue, Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

THE Davao City Environment and Natural Resources Of-fice (Cenro) expects solid

waste collection to go up by15.2 percent because of the recent

floods that the city has experi-enced, even as it announced that 64 waste segregation violators had been penalized.

The average volume of sol-

id waste collected by the Cenro for 2012 was 412 tons daily, but because of the recent floods it may reach 475 tons a day for this

Cenro expects garbage volume to rise by 15.2%By EJ Dominic Fernandez

VOL.5 ISSUE 237 • FRIDAY - SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 01-02, 2013THE BIG NEWS2

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DTI says it can be surpassed in 2013

MALACANANG wel-comed reports the Philippine econo-

my grew by 6.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, assuring the Aquino gov-ernment will continue to work even harder to main-tain the economy’s upward trajectory, a Palace official said.

Presidential Spokes-person Edwin Lacierda is-sued the statement during the regular press briefing in Malacanang Thursday following reports that the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 6.8 percent due to the robust performance of the ser-vices sector led by trade and real estate, renting and business activities as well as the substantial improve-ments in manufacturing and construction.

“The Philippine econ-omy grew by 6.8 percent in the 4th quarter of 2012, bringing full-year growth for 2012 to 6.6 percent. This is higher than the gov-ernment’s official target of 5 to 6 percent,” Lacierda said.

“What is particularly important to note is that

while growth was initial-ly driven by government stimulus, it is now being increasingly driven by pri-vate sector activity, includ-ing investments, which grew by 8.7 percent in 2012. This means growth is becoming more sustain-able from a fiscal and mac-roeconomic perspective,” Lacierda noted.

Lacierda said the con-tinued growth of the GDP is proof of the country’s ability to sustain a united march towards equitable progress.

“Private sector activity has been enabled by the Aquino administration’s dedication to positive reform. Without doubt, good governance means good economics,” Lacierda stressed.

“The administration’s vision for the economy has always been to ignite a vir-tuous cycle of growth and empowerment—to enable business and enterprise to flourish; to open doors of opportunity for each citi-zen; and to invest in them so that they can truly take hold of their own desti-nies,” he said. (PNA)

Malacanang elated over 6.8 % growth

EMBRACE OF PEACE. Baclid clan representative Datu Jainodin “Toks” Baclid, (left), embraces Danny Llup, representative of farmer beneficiaries, after their ceremonial signing of the Agreement per Farm Lot Allocation witnessed by North Cotabato Gov. Emmylou “Lala” Talino-Mendoza (3rd from right of back row), Department of Agrarian

Reform Sec. Virgilio R. delos Reyes, Vice Gov. Gregorio T. Ipong, Makilala Mayor Rudy S. Caoagdan and other visiting dignitaries during “Kanduli sa Kalinaw ug Kalambuan” in Sitio Lacobe, Brgy. Malabuan, Makilala, North Cotabato yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

DEPARTMENT of Trade and Indus-try (DTI) Secre-

tary Gregory L. Domin-go said the estimated 2012 growth of 6.6 per-cent on gross domestic product (GDP) was sus-tainable and could be surpassed in 2013.

“This was sustain-able, we could (easily) surpass this record,” Secretary Domingo said when asked per-sonally of his reaction on the data released by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) on Thursday.

Secretary Domin-go’s confidence could be attributed to the positive start of the year which, during the first two weeks of Jan-uary, the agency had

already recorded some P75 million new in-vestments.

The DTI also started relaxing some foreign investment rules as it proposed to allow for-eign contractors a 100 percent foreign equity to undertake projects as among its amend-ment to the Contrac-tor’s License Law.

Moreover, the Sen-ate’s ratification of a bill which would al-low 60 percent foreign ownership on rural banks would surely fuel growth as more capital and financing facilities will become available.

For his part, Rick Santos, Founder and

Managing Partner of DBRE Philippines, said “the confidence in the Philippines (to sustain its growth), from an in-vestment standpoint, is very high.”

“The strong mac-ro-economic funda-mentals combined with an amazing confluence of events: renewed confidence in the coun-try’s leadership, record low interest rate, a strengthening curren-cy and an increase on the number of tourist arrivals, would surely help sustain the eco-nomic gains of 2012,” Santos said.

He added that the expansion of the Busi-ness Processing Out-

sourcing (BPO) sector has created a 4.5M square feet demand for new office a year.

“And with the in-creasing purchasing power of the consum-ers, demand for more residential and hous-ing developments will continue to grow,” he added.

Fueled by strong service sector led by the trade and real es-tate, renting and busi-ness activities and the improvements in manufacturing and construction, the coun-try’s GDP grew by 6.8 percent during the fourth quarter of the 2012 which paved the way for the full year GDP growth estimate of 6.6 percent. (PNA)

GDP growth is sustainable

THE Department of Social Welfare and Development

(DSWD) said that while the 2009 Social Weath-er Stations (SWS) survey showed 9.4 million Fil-ipinos could not afford to lead decent lives, the number of poor people in Mindanao has greatly de-creased over the years.

“There is a big differ-ence in the reduction of poverty incidence in Min-danao based on the latest SWS survey,” DSWD Com-munication Development and Research Division,

Social Marketing Service chief Ana Marie Daep said during a DSWD Partners’ Forum held in the city last week.

Daep said studies show that the government has been making a difference in reducing the intergen-erational cycle of poverty. “Many were not able to graduate, hence could not find decent jobs and end-ed up in poverty,” she said. “When they have children, they could not also send them to school because of poverty,” she added.

The DSWD continues

to implement various programs known as the tatlusok or convergence strategy to combat pov-erty. Among these are the Pantawid Pamilya Pro-gram or Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) which provides financial sup-port to poor families sub-ject to certain conditions, the Kalahi CIDDS and the Sustainable Livelihood Program.

“Our goal is to make the families more capable of supporting themselves after a five-year period,” she said.

DSWD Policy and Plans Division chief Ra-quel Nunez said they have no intention of making beneficiaries dependent on government support which is why there is a strategy for the program which includes survival, subsistence and self-suf-ficiency.

“While our programs are in place, we are not claiming that the recent survey showing a reduc-tion in poverty in Mind-anao is because of DSWD,” she said. [Lovely A. Caril-lo]

Number of poor Filipinos in Mindanao down - DSWD

DAVAO Light & Power Compa-ny will conduct

two 15-minute switch-ing power interruptions on February 3 and 4 af-fecting customers in the southern part of its fran-

chise Communication Offi-

cer Ross Luga said that the scheduled outages are necessary to allow the rehabilitation of lines and poles along

Feb 3,415-min power interruuptions

FOOTWEAR SALE ON FOOT. An old woman patiently displays on the pavement pairs of used shoes she’s selling outside the Sangguniang Panlungsod building along San Pedro Street, Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

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TAGUM business bureau bared that they issued 5,030

business permit renew-als on January 2013 compared to 4,801 appli-cations for business per-mit last January 2012.

“The 5% increase of business renewal is due to investors’ confidence,” said business bureau Chief Noeme Cacayorin when she emphasized the cause of increasing numbers of business in the city.

Senior City Council-or De Carlo Uy, SP Chair on Budget and Finance, takes pride in its suc-cessful implementation of streamline processing in one-stop shop. “We downsized by half the usual process, from 10 steps cut to 5 steps. Our

clients can finish a single transaction within half-day period only,” he said.

Record shows in bu-reau’s statistics that a total number of 7,184 business permit issuanc-es were listed in 2012 as compared to 6,268 in 2010, thereby indicating a 13% increase of new businesses in the span of 3-year period.

Mayor Rey Uy is con-fident of the business climate in Tagum City which continues to pro-liferate. The increasing number of major in-vestors in commercial banks, shopping malls, hotels, resorts, well-ness, and restaurants are positive indicators that Tagum is an inves-tor-friendly city.[CIO Tagum]

STREAMLINED. Clients sit while waiting for their documents during the streamline processing of the business bureau. A single transaction can be done in half-day period. [CIO Tagum]

Tagum City posts increase in business permit issuance

ANOTHER member of a tribal clan op-posing the Tampa-

kan copper-gold project of Sagittarius Mines, Inc. was killed in an alleged en-counter with the military.

Capt. William Rodri-guez, 1002nd Infantry Bri-gade civil military officer, identified the fatality as Kitari Capion, who was de-clared dead by physicians in a hospital in Koronad-al City around 1:45 p.m. Wednesday.

The fatality was the younger brother of Da-guel Capion, the leader of an armed tribal group op-posing the operations of Sagittarius Mines in their ancestral domain.

In October last year, the tribal leader’s wife Juvy and their two young

children were killed in an alleged firefight between government troops and Capion’s group also with-in the mines development site. Critics of the Tampa-kan project described the incident as a “massacre.” Thirteen soldiers involved in the operation were later recommended for a court martial for apparently breaking the rules of en-gagement.

Rodriguez said that a firefight ensued between nine soldiers and the Capi-on brothers and their four followers around 7 a.m. Wednesday.

“Our troops were talking with the communi-ty in Nakultana when they were fired upon, first by a Carbine rifle and then by an M-79 grenade launch-

er. The troops were on routine patrol,” Rodriguez said on the phone.

Nakultana is a sitio in Barangay Kimlawis in Ki-blawan town, Davao del Sur, where the other Cap-ion family members have been staying.

Rodriguez said the government troops re-taliated that left Kitari wounded in the hip.

The military official stressed it was a “legit-imate encounter,” citing also that there is a gun ban in connection with the May 2013 polls.

Kitari was brought to the hospital after his com-panions retreated follow-ing a five-minute exchange of gunfire, said Rodriguez.

Rodriguez said that Kitari was still alive when

they brought him to the hospital, though the mili-tary official could not say what time they exactly ar-rived there.

There was almost a seven-hour difference from the time of the en-counter until he was pronounced dead. Travel from Nakultana to Koro-nadal City would take around two hours.

With Kitari Capion’s death, he urged Daguel Capion to yield and face the charges filed against him.

Daguel admitted re-sponsibility to the killing in March 2011 of three workers of a construction company hired by Sag-ittarius Mines for a road project. [Bong S. Sarmien-to / MindaNews]

1 killed in renewed violence in Tampakan mining site

FILING charges against eight leaders of a barricade that

demanded an end to for-eign and large-scale min-ing and commercial log-ging in ComVal and Davao Oriental, which protesters claimed aggravated the devastation caused by Ty-phoon Pablo, showed that the government would not stand for the poor.

This was what Pedro Arnado, secretary general of the Kilusang Magbu-bukid sa Pilipinas (KMP) Southern Mindanao, said in an interview Wednes-day.

Some 5,000 protesters, reportedly from ComVal and Davao Oriental, put up a human barricade at Montevista highway in Compostela Valley last

January 15 that tied the traffic for at least nine hours.

Eight of them – namely, Barug Katawhan (People Rise Up) members Car-los Trangia, Grace Curso, Bello Timdasan and Leni Camino, Prof. Mae Templa of BALSA Mindanao, Tony Salubre of KMP, Bayan Southern Mindanao sec-retary general Sheena Du-

azo and Juland Suazo of Panalipdan Southern Min-danao – are facing charges of “public disorder”.

The Montevista mu-nicipal police reportedly filed Thursday cases of “tumultuous and public disturbance, unlawful ut-terances and/or alarm and scandal” against the protesters. [Lorie Ann A. Cascaro / MindaNews]

KMP urges gov’t to stand for Montevista protesters

SUPREME Court Chief Justice Ma-ria Lourdes Sereno

personally accepted on Wednesday morning in Alabel, Sarangani he deed of donation for two new regional trial court build-ings donated by the pro-vincial government.

The facility was con-structed in a lot donated by the province located within the provincial cap-itol complex.

The project worth about P9 million is part of the provincial govern-ment’s efforts to improve the administration of jus-tice in the province.

Gov. Miguel Domin-guez said access to justice is not just the sole respon-sibility of the courts.

Dominguez bared that in 2006 the province linked up with the private sectors, stakeholders and other government insti-tutions in order to realize the objective of making access to justice easier for Sarangani residents.

Based on the record of the Provincial Legal Office, more than 3,000 cases were clogging the dockets of the then lone regional trial court branch 38.

As a result, the 200-ca-pacity Sarangani Provin-cial Jail was teeming with inmates whose pending cases remained untried.

Many of the prison-ers, in fact, had already

served more than their prescribed sentences.

Provincial legal offi-cer Arnel Zapatos, who worked hard for the suc-cess of the project, said “What transpired over the years, about this project, have been stories of how our people, officials and government institutions worked together,” Zapa-tos said.

The provincial govern-ment, Zapatos bared, for-mally launched in 2006 Justice Enhancement and Empowerment Program with the battle cry “Bring justice closer to the peo-ple.”

Working hand in hand with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), the provincial government strengthened the justice system right in the grass-roots through the “Baran-gay Justice Advocates” and alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).

The purpose is to screen and reduce the number of cases being filed in court.

In 2007, the province set up the Provincial Me-diation Center to further decongest court dockets of pending cases.

The following year, the provincial government institutionalized the only locally-funded “Justice on Wheels” in the country.

No less than former

Sarangani donates twoRTC buildings to SC

By Aquiles Z. Zonio


FSARANGANI, 11

EDGEDAVAO 3SUBURBIA

TAGUM business bureau bared that they issued 5,030

business permit renew-als on January 2013 compared to 4,801 appli-cations for business per-mit last January 2012.

“The 5% increase of business renewal is due to investors’ confidence,” said business bureau Chief Noeme Cacayorin when she emphasized the cause of increasing numbers of business in the city.

Senior City Council-or De Carlo Uy, SP Chair on Budget and Finance, takes pride in its suc-cessful implementation of streamline processing in one-stop shop. “We downsized by half the usual process, from 10 steps cut to 5 steps. Our

clients can finish a single transaction within half-day period only,” he said.

Record shows in bu-reau’s statistics that a total number of 7,184 business permit issuanc-es were listed in 2012 as compared to 6,268 in 2010, thereby indicating a 13% increase of new businesses in the span of 3-year period.

Mayor Rey Uy is con-fident of the business climate in Tagum City which continues to pro-liferate. The increasing number of major in-vestors in commercial banks, shopping malls, hotels, resorts, well-ness, and restaurants are positive indicators that Tagum is an inves-tor-friendly city.[CIO Tagum]

STREAMLINED. Clients sit while waiting for their documents during the streamline processing of the business bureau. A single transaction can be done in half-day period. [CIO Tagum]

Tagum City posts increase in business permit issuance

ANOTHER member of a tribal clan op-posing the Tampa-

kan copper-gold project of Sagittarius Mines, Inc. was killed in an alleged en-counter with the military.

Capt. William Rodri-guez, 1002nd Infantry Bri-gade civil military officer, identified the fatality as Kitari Capion, who was de-clared dead by physicians in a hospital in Koronad-al City around 1:45 p.m. Wednesday.

The fatality was the younger brother of Da-guel Capion, the leader of an armed tribal group op-posing the operations of Sagittarius Mines in their ancestral domain.

In October last year, the tribal leader’s wife Juvy and their two young

children were killed in an alleged firefight between government troops and Capion’s group also with-in the mines development site. Critics of the Tampa-kan project described the incident as a “massacre.” Thirteen soldiers involved in the operation were later recommended for a court martial for apparently breaking the rules of en-gagement.

Rodriguez said that a firefight ensued between nine soldiers and the Capi-on brothers and their four followers around 7 a.m. Wednesday.

“Our troops were talking with the communi-ty in Nakultana when they were fired upon, first by a Carbine rifle and then by an M-79 grenade launch-

er. The troops were on routine patrol,” Rodriguez said on the phone.

Nakultana is a sitio in Barangay Kimlawis in Ki-blawan town, Davao del Sur, where the other Cap-ion family members have been staying.

Rodriguez said the government troops re-taliated that left Kitari wounded in the hip.

The military official stressed it was a “legit-imate encounter,” citing also that there is a gun ban in connection with the May 2013 polls.

Kitari was brought to the hospital after his com-panions retreated follow-ing a five-minute exchange of gunfire, said Rodriguez.

Rodriguez said that Kitari was still alive when

they brought him to the hospital, though the mili-tary official could not say what time they exactly ar-rived there.

There was almost a seven-hour difference from the time of the en-counter until he was pronounced dead. Travel from Nakultana to Koro-nadal City would take around two hours.

With Kitari Capion’s death, he urged Daguel Capion to yield and face the charges filed against him.

Daguel admitted re-sponsibility to the killing in March 2011 of three workers of a construction company hired by Sag-ittarius Mines for a road project. [Bong S. Sarmien-to / MindaNews]

1 killed in renewed violence in Tampakan mining site

FILING charges against eight leaders of a barricade that

demanded an end to for-eign and large-scale min-ing and commercial log-ging in ComVal and Davao Oriental, which protesters claimed aggravated the devastation caused by Ty-phoon Pablo, showed that the government would not stand for the poor.

This was what Pedro Arnado, secretary general of the Kilusang Magbu-bukid sa Pilipinas (KMP) Southern Mindanao, said in an interview Wednes-day.

Some 5,000 protesters, reportedly from ComVal and Davao Oriental, put up a human barricade at Montevista highway in Compostela Valley last

January 15 that tied the traffic for at least nine hours.

Eight of them – namely, Barug Katawhan (People Rise Up) members Car-los Trangia, Grace Curso, Bello Timdasan and Leni Camino, Prof. Mae Templa of BALSA Mindanao, Tony Salubre of KMP, Bayan Southern Mindanao sec-retary general Sheena Du-

azo and Juland Suazo of Panalipdan Southern Min-danao – are facing charges of “public disorder”.

The Montevista mu-nicipal police reportedly filed Thursday cases of “tumultuous and public disturbance, unlawful ut-terances and/or alarm and scandal” against the protesters. [Lorie Ann A. Cascaro / MindaNews]

KMP urges gov’t to stand for Montevista protesters

SUPREME Court Chief Justice Ma-ria Lourdes Sereno

personally accepted on Wednesday morning in Alabel, Sarangani he deed of donation for two new regional trial court build-ings donated by the pro-vincial government.

The facility was con-structed in a lot donated by the province located within the provincial cap-itol complex.

The project worth about P9 million is part of the provincial govern-ment’s efforts to improve the administration of jus-tice in the province.

Gov. Miguel Domin-guez said access to justice is not just the sole respon-sibility of the courts.

Dominguez bared that in 2006 the province linked up with the private sectors, stakeholders and other government insti-tutions in order to realize the objective of making access to justice easier for Sarangani residents.

Based on the record of the Provincial Legal Office, more than 3,000 cases were clogging the dockets of the then lone regional trial court branch 38.

As a result, the 200-ca-pacity Sarangani Provin-cial Jail was teeming with inmates whose pending cases remained untried.

Many of the prison-ers, in fact, had already

served more than their prescribed sentences.

Provincial legal offi-cer Arnel Zapatos, who worked hard for the suc-cess of the project, said “What transpired over the years, about this project, have been stories of how our people, officials and government institutions worked together,” Zapa-tos said.

The provincial govern-ment, Zapatos bared, for-mally launched in 2006 Justice Enhancement and Empowerment Program with the battle cry “Bring justice closer to the peo-ple.”

Working hand in hand with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), the provincial government strengthened the justice system right in the grass-roots through the “Baran-gay Justice Advocates” and alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).

The purpose is to screen and reduce the number of cases being filed in court.

In 2007, the province set up the Provincial Me-diation Center to further decongest court dockets of pending cases.

The following year, the provincial government institutionalized the only locally-funded “Justice on Wheels” in the country.

No less than former

Sarangani donates twoRTC buildings to SC

By Aquiles Z. Zonio


SIMPLE actions by consumers and food retailers can dra-

matically cut the 1.3 bil-lion tonnes of food lost or wasted each year and help shape a sustainable future, according to a new global campaign to cut food waste launched today by the UN Environ-ment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and partners.

The Think.Eat.Save. Reduce Your Food-print campaign is in sup-port of the SAVE FOOD Initiative to reduce food loss and waste along the entire chain of food pro-duction and consumption - run by the FAO and trade fair organizer Messe Düsseldorf - and the UN Secretary General›s Zero Hunger Challenge. The new campaign specifically targets food wasted by consumers, retailers and the hospitality industry.

The campaign har-nesses the expertise of or-ganizations such as WRAP (Waste and Resources Ac-tion Programme), Feeding the 5,000 and other part-ners, including national governments, who have considerable experience targeting and changing wasteful practices.

Think.Eat.Save. aims to accelerate action

and provide a global vision and information-sharing portal (www.thinkeatsave.org) for the many and diverse initia-tives currently underway around the world.

Worldwide, about one-third of all food pro-duced, worth around US$1 trillion, gets lost or wasted in food pro-duction and consump-tion systems, according to data released by FAO. Food loss occurs mostly at the production stages - harvesting, processing and distribution - while food waste typically takes place at the retailer and consumer end of the food-supply chain.

“In a world of seven billion people, set to grow to nine billion by 2050, wasting food makes no sense - economically, en-vironmentally and ethi-cally,” said UN Under-Sec-retary-General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.

“Aside from the cost implications, all the land, water, fertilizers and la-bour needed to grow that food is wasted - not to mention the generation of greenhouse gas emis-sions produced by food decomposing on landfill and the transport of food that is ultimately thrown away,” he added. “To

bring about the vision of a truly sustainable world, we need a transforma-tion in the way we pro-duce and consume our natural resources.”

“Together, we can re-verse this unacceptable trend and improve lives. In industrialized regions, almost half of the total food squandered, around

300 million tonnes an-nually, occurs because producers, retailers and consumers discard food that is still fit for con-sumption,” said José Graziano da Silva, FAO Director-General. “This is more than the total net food production of Sub-Saharan Africa, and would be sufficient to

feed the estimated 870 million people hungry in the world.”

“If we can help food producers to reduce losses through better harvesting, processing, storage, transport and marketing methods, and combine this with pro-found and lasting chang-es in the way people con-

sume food, then we can have a healthier and hun-ger-free world,” Graziano da Silva added.

The global food sys-tem has profound im-plications for the envi-ronment, and producing more food than is con-sumed only exacerbates the pressures, some of which follow:

4 EDGEDAVAOSCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT

THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources

(DENR) has classified 51 additional water bodies in terms of best usage and water quality in or-der to boost protection and ensure proper man-agement of these water resources.

This brings to 676 the number of water bodies which have been clas-sified nationwide, and DENR Secretary Ramon J.P. Paje explained that the classification is nec-essary to determine the best uses to be imple-mented within these wa-ters and the set of water quality standards to be observed in order to pro-tect those uses.

“The Philippines has water potential abun-dant enough to last us for more than a decade,” Paje pointed out. “It is a matter of managing and utilizing our water re-sources sustainably, and classifying water bodies,

whether fresh or coastal and marine, will guide all stakeholders, from sur-rounding communities to water-related agencies, businesses and indus-tries, on how best to pro-tect and manage them so that the next generations will equally enjoy their full potential.”

Pursuant to Republic Act 9275 or the Philip-pine Clean Water Act of 2004, all water bodies in the Philippines are provided a water quality classification based on existing, or expected best usage, of each water body or water body segment.

Paje said classifica-tion is a tool that govern-ment agencies, particu-larly the DENR’s Environ-mental Management Bu-reau, use to manage and protect all fresh surface waters like streams, riv-ers, lakes and reservoirs, and coastal and marine waters in the country.

“Classifications and their associated protec-

tion rules are designed to protect water quali-ty, fish and wildlife, the free flowing nature of a stream or river, or other special characteristics,” Paje said.

Each classification has associated standards that are used to deter-mine if the designated uses are being protected, he added.

According to their beneficial use, fresh sur-face waters are classi-fied as Class “AA” (Public Water Supply Class I), “A” (Public Water Sup-ply Class II), “B” (Recre-ational Water Class I), “C” (Fishery Water, Rec-reation Water Class II, Industrial Water Supply Class I), “D” (For agricul-ture, irrigation, livestock watering; Industrial Wa-ter Supply II; and other inland water).

Coastal and marine waters, on the other hand, are classified as Class “SA” or those suit-able for the propaga-

tion and harvesting of shellfish for commercial purposes, tourist zones, national marine parks, coral reef parks and re-serves designated by law and concerned authori-ties; “SB” (Recreational Water Class I, Fishery Water Class I); “SC” (Rec-reational Water Class II, Fishery Water Class II, marshy and/or man-grove areas declared as fish and wildlife sanctu-aries; and “SD” (Indus-trial Water Supply Class

II and other coastal and marine waters by their quality).

The classification of the 51 additional water bodies is listed in DENR Memorandum Circular (MC) No. 2013-03. The list covered nine regions, namely: Cagayan (Region 2), Central Luzon (Region 3), CALABARZON (Region 4A), MIMAROPA (Region 4B), Bicol (Region 5), Western and Eastern Vi-sayas (Regions 6 and 8, re-spectively), Central Mind-

anao or SOCCSKSARGEN (Region 12), and Caraga (Region 13). Regions 4B and 8 had the most num-ber of water bodies clas-sified at 14 each.

Among the fresh sur-face water bodies, the Montible and Nagsaguipi River in Puerto Princ-esa City, Palawan, have been classified as Class A, which means water sources require com-plete treatment to meet National Standards for Drinking Water (NSDW).

DENR classifies 51 new water bodies

UNEP, FAO launch global campaign to change culture of food waste

VOL.5 ISSUE 237 • FRIDAY - SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 01-02, 2013 5EDGEDAVAO THE ECONOMY

THE European Union (EU) will provide this

year P2 billion in de-velopment aid to the Philippines to support grassroot develop-ment in Mindanao and in the health sector.

“The EU is sup-porting the Mindanao Peace Process in vari-ous ways. We support the IMT (International Monitoring Team) and we also provide de-velopment assistance to reduce poverty –which is partly at the origin of the conflict,” said Guy Ledoux, the head of the EU delega-tion.

Ledoux said the EU was the first to provide development assistance to Mindan-ao immediately after the signature of the Framework Agree-ment with a P400 mil-lion grant.

“People in Mind-anao need to see the peace dividend quick-ly,” he noted.

For one, the gov-ernment of Italy is providing over the

next six years P68 mil-lion in technical assis-tance grant for the im-plementation of agrar-ian reform community development support program in Mindanao.

The program aims to contribute to the improvement of the living conditions of about 53,000 rural families in five prov-inces of Regions XII and Autonomous Re-gion of Muslim Mind-anao (ARMM).

France, for its part, has started imple-menting livelihood projects with the local communities in Mind-anao to increase their income and improve their everyday life.

Ledoux said the EU has been helping boost the Philippine health sector for al-ready 10 years.

“We are deepen-ing cooperation with DOH (Department of Health), we support the healthcare policy,” he said.

For his part, Na-tional Economic and Development Author-

ity (NEDA) Deputy Director General Ro-lando Tungpalan said the EU has been also assisting the Philip-pines to fight poverty through trade.

EU’S third phase of Trade Related Techni-cal Assistance of the Philippines (TRTA) covers the areas of trade policy, standards conformity, food safe-ty, competition and trade facilitation.

“Things that we need to prepare the society, the economy to address the expect-ed influx of invest-ments and at the same time help us diversi-fy exports. The ODA (official development assistance) helps im-prove logistics, phy-tosanitary conditions and even design,” Tungpalan said.

In the Philippines, the disbursement of EU aid reached 110 million Euros (or 5.9 billion) in 2011, 90 percent of which are in the form of direct grants rather than loans. [PNA]

EU to provide PHL P2 billion in development assistance

VOL.5 ISSUE 237 • FRIDAY - SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 01-02, 20136 EDGEDAVAOTHE ECONOMY

MONTHLY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE (January 2009 - December 2011)

Month 2012 2011 2010

Average 43.31 45.11December 43.64 43.95November 43.27 43.49October 43.45 43.44

September 43.02 44.31August 42.42 45.18

July 42.81 46.32June 43.37 46.30May 42.85 43.13 45.60April 42.70 43.24 44.63

March 42.86 43.52 45.74February 42.66 43.70 46.31January 43.62 44.17 46.03

Stat Watch5.8%

1st Qtr 2012

6.4 %1st Qtr 2012

USD 4,931million

May 2012USD 4,770

millionApr 2012USD -135

millionApr 2012USD -209

millionMar 2012

P 4,580,674 million

Apr 2012

4.1 %May 2012P131,403

millionMay 2012

P 5,075 billion

Apr 2012

P 42.78Jun 2012

5,091.2May 2012

130.1 Jun 2012

2.8 Jun 2012

3.7 Jun 2012

349,779Apr 2012

18.8 %Jan 2012

7.2 %Jan 2012

1. Gross National IncomeGrowth Rate(At Constant 2000 Prices)

2. Gross Domestic ProductGrowth Rate(At Constant 2000 Prices)

3. Exports 1/

4. Imports 1/

5. Trade Balance

6. Balance of Payments 2/

7. Broad Money Liabilities

8. Interest Rates 4/

9. National Government Revenues

10. National government outstanding debt

11. Peso per US $ 5/

12. Stocks Composite Index 6/

13. Consumer Price Index 2006=100

14. Headline Inflation Rate 2006=100

15. Core Inflation Rate 2006=100

16. Visitor Arrivals

17. Underemployment Rate 7/

18. Unemployment Rate 7/

Cebu Pacific Daily 5J961 / 5J962 5:45 Manila-Davao-Manila 6:15Zest Air Daily Z2390 / Z2390 5:45 Manila-Davao-Manila 6:25Cebu Pacific Daily 5J593 / 5J348 6:00 Cebu-Davao-Iloilo 6:30Philippine Airlines Daily PR809 / PR810 6:10 Manila-Davao-Manila 7:00Philippine Airlines Daily PR819 / PR820 7:50 Manila-Davao-Manila 8:50Cebu Pacific Daily 5J394 / 5J393 7:50 Zamboanga-Davao-Zamboanga 8:10Cebu Pacific Daily 5J599 / 5J594 8:00 Cebu-Davao-Cebu 8:30Cebu Pacific Daily 5J347 / 5J596 9:10 Iloilo-Davao-Cebu 9:40Cebu Pacific Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri/Sun 5J963 / 5J964 9:40 Manila-Davao-Manila 10:10Philippine Airlines Daily PR811 / PR812 11:30 Manila-Davao-Manila 12:20Cebu Pacific Daily 5J595 / 5J966 12:00 Cebu-Davao-Manila 12:30Silk Air Mon/Sat MI588 12:55 Davao-Cebu-Singapore 09:05Cebu Pacific Thu 5J965 / 5J968 12:55 Manila-Davao-Manila 13:25Cebu Pacific Tue/Wed//Sat 5J965 / 5J968 13:35 Manila-Davao-Manila 14:05

Silk Air Mon/Sat MI588 / MI588 18:55 Davao-Singapore 13:35 Silk Air Wed/Sun MI566 / MI566 18:55 Davao-Singapore 15:20Silk Air Thurs MI551 / MI551 15:45 Davao-Singapore 12:05Cebu Pacific Mon/Tue/Wed/Fri 5J507 / 5J598 15:00 Cebu-Davao-Cebu 15:30Philippine Airlines August 15:55 Mani2Mani 16:50Zest Air Daily Z2524 / Z2525 16:05 Cebu-Davao-Cebu 16:45Cebu Pacific Daily 5J967 / 5J600 16:35 Manila-Davao-Cebu 17:05Philippines Airlines Daily PR813 / PR814 16:55 Manila-Davao-Manila 17:45Cebu Pacific Mon/Tue/Thu/Sat 5J215 / 5J216 18:00 Cagayan de Oro-Davao-Cagayan de Oro 18:20Cebu Pacific Daily 5971 / 5J970 18:40 Manila-Davao-Manila 19:10Cebu Pacific Tue/Sat/Sun 5J973 / 5J974 20:00 Manila-Davao-Manila 20:30Cebu Pacific Daily 5J969 / 5J972 20:30 Manila-Davao-Manila 21:00Airphil Express Daily 2P987 / 2P988 20:30 Manila-Davao-Manila 21:00Philippine Airlines Daily except Sunday PR821 / PR822 21:20 Manila-Davao-Manila 21:50Philippine Airlines Sunday PR821 / PR822 22:20 Manila-Davao-Manila 22:50

as of august 2010

CHEAPER. A vegetable vendor wraps bundles of fresh “kangkong” at the bagsakan area of Bankerohan Public Market in Davao City yesterday. Budget conscious buyers prefer to buy vegetables and fruits in the said area where prices are much cheaper. Lean Daval Jr.

THE Philippine Contrac-tors Accreditation Board (PCAB) is set to conduct

a public hearing on the pro-posed amendments to the im-plementing rules and regula-tions (IRR) of the Republic Act No. 4566 at the Royal Mandaya Hotel in Davao City on Febru-ary 5.

RA 4566 is an act creating the Philippine licensing board for contractors, prescribing its powers, duties and functions, providing funds therefore, and

for other purposes.In the said public hearing,

among the major amendments to be tackled will be “the Reg-ular License shall be reserved for and issued only to construc-tor-firms of Filipino sole pro-prietorship, or partnership/corporation with at least 60 percent (from the previous 70 percent) Filipino equity partic-ipation and duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the Philippines”.

Department of Trade and

Industry (DTI) Regional Direc-tor for Davao Region Marizon S. Loreto said this is an opportuni-ty for the region’s construction industry stakeholders to share their thoughts on the proposed amendments, whether it’s ben-eficial or not.

“We have to hear their views on the proposed amendments so that PCAB, which is an at-tached agency of DTI, can do the necessary steps following thereafter,” she said.

Apart from the contractors,

the one-day consultation is also expected to gather participants from the local government units (LGUs), national government agencies (NGAs), academe, and various associations related to the construction industry.

Loreto encouraged those interested stakeholders to contact Ms. Lani T. Catalan of PCAB-Davao at (082) 224-0511 local 417 for additional information about the one-day gathering. [DTI 11/Jen Mendo-za]

Public hearing on proposed amendments of RA 4566 set

HAILING the country’s economic growth as “phenomenal,” famed

economist Nouriel Roubini stressed the need for more structural and institutional re-forms to sustain the country’s economic gains.

“The country has shift into an economic model, it has to be more active in integrating with the ASEAN economies,” Roubi-ni said as he lauded the many efforts of the administration in promoting good governance.

Visiting the Philippines for the first time, Roubiniwas the keynote speaker at the Philip-pine Investment Summit 2013 held at the Makati Shangri La on Wednesday and described the country’s businessmen as “sophisticated in their acumen” and very warm and cordial.

In his assessment of the country’s economy, Roubini ex-plained that the country should liberalized foreign direct in-vestment (FDI) rules and the financial market regulations in

order to attract more invest-ments.

“Foreign investment is rath-er modest…FDIs are source of greater amount of investments but for more foreign invest-ments to pour in, the (gov-ernment) has to ensure the sanctity of contract and ease on conducting business,” he explained.

”Openness to FDI will in-crease the competition among the (local) economic powers and would break the monopo-

lies,” he stressed.He added “there should be

stronger competition policies, put more emphasis on multi-lateral trade and open up for more investments.”

At the same time, Roubini stressed the importance of the present administration’s thrust to provide the small and medi-um enterprises (SMEs) more access to capital and financing and encourage more private in-vestments to meet the demands of strong consumption. [PNA]

PHL needs to liberalize FDIs to attract more investment


WORLD Bank offi-cials visited re-cently the towns

of North Cotabato to in-

spect implementation of infrastructure projects they co-finance with the national government.

The eight-man WB team visited the farm-to-market road (FMR) projects implemented by

the Department of Agri-culture – Mindanao Rural Development Program (DA-MRDP) in the towns

of Aleosan and Libungan.“We are here to per-

sonally look into the sta-tus of various MRDP proj-ects. We would like also to solicit from you sugges-tions to improve the pro-gram implementation,” said WB country director for East Asia and Pacific John Roome during the focus group discussion in Aleosan town.

Meanwhile, MRDP deputy program director Arnel de Mesa said that the visit was also as part of the series of assess-ments for the proposed Philippine Rural Develop-ment Program (PRDP).

PRDP is envisioned to be the up-scale version of MRDP which will cover all the 80 provinces across the country.

“As PRDP will be pat-terned from MRDP, Mind-anao regions will serve as role model in project im-plementation for Visayas and Luzon,” De Mesa said.

Among the FMR proj-ects in Aleosan town, the team visited the on-going 4.34 kilometer FMR reha-

bilitation projects in ba-rangays Upper and Lower Mingading. The project amounted over P14-mil-lion.

Aleosan Mayor Loreto Cabaya Jr. said the FMRs availed of the local gov-ernment unit from MRDP have significantly reduced the transportation cost of the farmers.

“With the better road conditions we have re-duced the risk on travel-ling produce to the mar-ket and bringing farm inputs especially on the highly-elevated portions. While the savings on transportation mean in-crease income of farmers,’ Cabaya said.

Aleosan town produc-es mainly corn, rice, coco-nut and high value com-mercial crops like rubber.

In Libungan town, the team visited the FMR con-creting Sitio Abacanhan, Sitio Nueva-Fuerza, and Sitio Largo with a total length of close to a kilo-meter amounting to P 6.4 million. (Sherwin B. Man-ual/DAMRPD)

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WARM WELCOME. World Bank country director for East Asia and Pacific John Roome is warmly welcomed by the beneficiaries of the WB-funded program Mindanao Rural Development Program, a project of the Department of Agriculture. [Photo by DA Region 12]

WB officials visit infra projects in North Cot

AGRICULTURE Secre-tary Proceso J. Alca-la underscored the

important role and con-tribution of the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) in the government’s goal to attain food sufficiency during the agency’s recent 83rd anni-versary celebration in San Andres, Manila.

He commended the men and women of the BPI, led by Director Clarito Bar-ron, for their valuable con-tribution in the sustained growth and development of the country’s crop in-dustry, which last year grew by 4.1 percent, with a total value of P797.7 billion at current prices.

The crop subsector contributed more than one-half (51.5%) to total agriculture production, which increased by 2.92% last year, despite several typhoons that hit the coun-try.

The DA chief also urged the men and women of the DA-BPI to be pro-active in providing needed ser-vices and interventions to make the country’s crop sector ‘climate-smart’ and compliant to international food safety standards, and further enhance the com-petitiveness of Philippine fruits and vegetables in the world market.

“Let’s protect diligent-ly our border’s safety. Not only for those products we import, but also for those we export,” Secretary Al-cala said. For those serv-ing as plant quarantine officers, he asked them to communicate to him what-ever intervention needs to be done, to swiftly resolve major issues and concerns.

One of the pioneer bureaus under the De-partment, the BPI is man-dated to provide farmers and crop industry stake-

holders various technical services and assistance. These include plant genet-ic resource conservation and management; conduct of researches to improve crop farming systems; pro-duction of quality seeds and planting materials; en-forcement of plant quaran-tine laws, rules and regula-tions; and development of processing technologies on utilization of agricultural crops and its by-products.

The agency also pro-vides technical services on farm mechanization, phys-ico-chemical, microbiolog-ical and pesticide residue analysis, seed testing and seed certification, and pest surveillance, control, man-agement and forecasting.

During the anniversary program, Secretary Alca-la presented awards and commendations to out-standing BPI employees, distributed seeds of organ-

ic and aromatic rice vari-eties to farmers, including fruits and vegetables pro-duction guides.

For his part, Director Barron cited the agency’s major milestones and ac-complishments, including the conduct of more than 100 research studies on crop varietal development.

The BPI also imposed stricter measures to en-sure that the country’s fruits and vegetables for both domestic and export markets are free from in-sects and diseases. In par-ticular, it issued a new set of guidelines in the accred-itation of exporters, trad-ers, growers, and packing facilities for export of fruits and vegetables. To date, the BPI has accredited 59 banana exporters, 431 ba-nana growers, 74 packing facility operators, and 422 packing facilities. [DA In-formation Service]

BPI plays key role in food sufficiency program--DA

THE Department of Agriculture is en-couraging more

farmers, entrepreneurs, hobbyists and overseas Filipino workers to es-tablish organic farms that will serve as agri-tourism sites.

Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala made the pitch as he commended a model organic farmer from Laguna, Ronald Cos-tales, and presented him a certificate as an accred-ited technology extension provider, during the 26th anniversary celebration of the Department of Ag-riculture’s Agricultural

Training Institute (ATI) last January 28.

The DA chief said Cos-tales owns a ‘nature farm’ in Majayjay, Laguna, fre-quently visited by Filipino and foreign tourists, and boasts of being the first agri-tourism site accred-ited by the Department of Tourism.

Costales was chosen as the country’s best organic farmer in 2012, under the Gawad Saka, sponsored by the DA honoring the country’s outstanding achievers in agriculture and fisheries. He is also considered a ‘magsasa-ka-siyentista’ by both the

DA and DOST.His farm features an

integrated natural farming system producing organ-ic vegetables, fruits, fish, poultry and livestock. Cos-tales said he has also ad-opted Japanese and Korean natural farming systems.

Secretary Alcala said he wants to see more Costales in the years to come, as the Aquino government pro-motes both agriculture and tourism.

In fact, President Aqui-no cited agriculture and tourism as among the pri-ority investments areas in the country, during a speech at the World Eco-

nomic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland.

During the ATI anni-versary, Secretary Alcala also inaugurated a Learn-ing and Discovery Center (LeAD) for agriculture and fisheries, which serves as a showcase for value chain and farming systems, and innovations in organic farming.

He urged farmer-lead-ers and agriculture indus-try stakeholders to adopt organic agriculture tech-nologies to reduce pro-duction costs and make agricultural products more competitive in the international market.

DA to promote organic farming, agri-tourism

THE value of coconut exports dropped 21.57 percent to

.54 billion in 2012 from

.96 billion in 2011 due to depressed world markets prices.

PCA Administrator Euclides Forbes said de-pleted prices were due to the weak demand from the United States and Eu-rope.

However, coconut ex-ports increase by 1.49 percent to 1.53 million metric tons (MT) in 2012 from 1.51 million MT in 2011, in terms of volume.

Coconut oil shipments grew by 3.7 percent to 851,913.18 MT from 821.445.37 MT. Receipts of coconut oil, however, dropped by 30. 25 per-cent to 2.32 million from .41 billion.

Moreover, average world market price of coconut oil dropped by 32.75 percent to ,153.08 per MT in 2012 from , 714.54 in 2011.

The PCA plans to du-plicate its 2012 record of fertilizing 20 million co-conut trees, again another record for a year and has bought more than a bil-lion pesos worth of salt fertilizer through a public bidding since 2008.

It also wants to estab-lish 300 community based organizations which shall serve as a conduit of its poverty alleviation pro-gram known as KAANIB.

The components of the programs are replant-ing, intercropping, live-stock raising, trainings, and it costs P1 million each. [PNA]

PHL coco exports drop in 2012 by 21.57 percent

AGRICULTURE Secre-tary Proceso J. Alcala has urged the coun-

try’s agricultural attaches to find ways to increase exports of Philippine farm and fishery products, and improve the country’s bal-ance of trade.

“Help conclude trade transactions. Understand our products and find ways to break barriers for the benefit our farmers, fishers and agri-fishery stakehold-ers,” said Secretary Alcala, during his recent meeting with the Department of Ag-riculture’s foreign agricul-ture service corps (FASC).

“In one of my meet-ings with the President, he

pointed out that we have unfavorable balance of trade in agriculture with so many countries. I acknowl-edged that the DA has not given enough attention and effort on this. This is one of your immediate tasks – to look into the existing trade relations, and find ways to improve our balance of trade in agriculture,” the DA chief noted.

Currently, the DA has 12 agriculture attaches de-ployed in eight countries, namely: Washington, USA; Beijing, China; Dubai, UAE; Brussels, Belgium; Bang-kok, Thailand; Rome, Italy; Tokyo, Japan; and Geneva, Switzerland.

Sec. Alcala urge attaches to increase farm exports

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EDITORIAL

City’s tax collection up

DAVAO City Mayor Sara D. Carpio and members of her team must be smiling from ear to ear these

days. And for good reason. The huge in-crease in tax collection recorded by the city government at the start of the year. Logically, the feat should hearten all Dabawenyos, considering that increased tax collection means more money for badly-needed public service projects.

As of Tuesday, January 29, or three days before the deadline for applying for business permits, collection had al-ready reached P531.8 million, up by P89,405,393 or 20.20 percent higher than the P442,476,362 collected during the same period in 2012.

Statistics actually show that there has been an increasing trend in collection from 2011 to 2013. In 2011, the collec-tion was placed at P401,644,943.

The same report also bared an increase in the number of business permits ap-plied and paid for this year compared to last year’s figures over the same period from 21,733 in 2012 to 24,502 in 2013.

City Treasurer Anastacio Jardin told EDGE Davao that the upswing trend is attributed to administrative policies an-chored on peace and order to ensure a

favorable business climate. Jardin said the increase was “built up from the pre-vious policies of the city and not done overnight.”

“Previous policies such as policies fo-cusing on peace and order and creating more infrastructures, making Davao City more conducive for investments,” Jardin said.

Many other factors can be credit-ed for this happy development. Among them are the ideal business climate that Dabawenyos and their leaders have cre-ated for the city in the past decade or so. Foremost of these is the maintenance of law and order, the passage of some or-dinances that have made the city more attractive to investors. Many believe though that the most impressive achieve-ment by our city is the much improved transparency in government transac-tions. They would like to give credit to Mayor Sara for her being a stickler for the rules of discipline and propriety that she wants everybody to follow. We take note that in the last few months of her administration, she did not hesitate to reshuffle personnel in the city treasur-er’s office. This may have been one of the reasons tax collection surged.

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CHINESE authorities need to put more stricter measures in force when talking about re-

ducing pollution, as more than 10 percent of the country was shrouded by thick smog this week.

Looking to be determined in re-ducing air pollution, cities like Bei-jing have announced plans to shut down heavily polluting plants in ur-ban areas and cut the number of gov-ernment-owned cars running on the streets.

The moves sound encouraging, but when it comes to actual practice, much stricter supervision has to be implemented to make sure they are followed.

The very reason China is facing such a poor pollution situation is slack supervision.

A relevant incident took place in early January in north China’s Shanxi Province - environmental authorities did not tell the public that poisonous liquid aniline had tainted a major river until five days after it was de-tected.

Some experts also blame the country’s oil giants for churning out substandard products that have in-creased pollution emissions from automobiles.

Although it is easy to blame busi-nesses for their lack of social respon-sibility, the fact is that it is the gov-ernment’s job to keep such behavior in check, instead of just covering it up.

Some local governments fail to take pollution issues seriously, re-sulting in mass protests in some ar-eas.

Some governments have even attempted to silence protestors for fear of losing face and tax money.

It is time for authorities to stop focusing on boosting the GDP and take real action to change China’s economic growth pattern.

In the meantime, Chinese legisla-tors need to work out stricter laws to punish polluters and those who cov-er up for them.

China currently has an Environ-mental Protection Law and dozens of other specific laws regarding pollu-tion of the air, soil, forests and water.

However, laws on paper do not necessarily equate with effective im-plementation.

Many businesses and government officials have sidestepped or com-pletely ignored such laws.

Therefore, while enhancing leg-islation, authorities must improve supervision by making it more con-venient for the public to report on polluters and severely punishing en-vironmental officials who are caught shirking their duties.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), has said that the people are the source of China’s power.

However, it is the people who must now depend on the govern-ment to lift the smog that has choked so many cities, as well as make other efforts to ensure a greener tomor-row. [PNA/Xinhua]


PRESIDENT Yudhoyono when opening a regional meeting on the Post-2015 Development

Agenda in Bali, last year, said given the nature of poverty which is multi-facet-ed and triggered by many factors, pov-erty eradication should be a far-reach-ing and continuous effort.

He stated that global prosperity can only be attained if economy grows with equity, and in the long-run, the global economy must continue to grow in a strong, balanced, inclusive, and sus-tainable way.

According to Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa, as the Chair of APEC in 2013, Indonesia has intended to make concrete contri-butions to the establishment of a future economic architecture.

President Yudhoyono has set the theme for APEC 2013, namely “Re-

silient Asia Pacific, Engine of Global growth”. With this theme, Indonesia will continue to promote a stronger and resilient Asia Pacific as the locomotive for world`s economic growth, the min-ister explained.

And among Indonesia`s priorities as the APEC Chair is to achieve “Sustain-able Growth with Equity, with the focus on the SMEs, global competitiveness, financial inclusion, food security, and health,” Marty said when delivering his annual statement in Jakarta, on January 4, 2013.

The World Bank Group in a discus-sion on the Joint Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Indonesia for the

period 2013 -2014, in Washington DC, December 2012, pledged its support to Indonesia`s Masterplan for accelerated growth, which is pro-growth, pro-jobs, pro-poor, and pro-environment.

“Building on six decades of part-nership with Indonesia, during which economic growth thrived beyond ex-pectations and millions of people were lifted out of poverty, the World Bank Group pledges its continued support of Indonesia`s agenda of growth with eq-uity,” said Stefan Koeberle, World Bank Country Director for Indonesia, in a statement.

He described Indonesia`s agenda as “a strategy that focuses on tackling growth constraints across the archipel-ago and strengthening connectivity will bring jobs and educational opportuni-ties to many more Indonesians.” [PNA/Antara]

IF I could remove any word from Oscar conversations, it would be “snubbed.” It’s catchy and makes

good headline fodder, but it implies that a cabal of Academy members sat in a room and consciously decided to os-tracize this actor or that moviemaker. These ballots are filled out by 6,000 to 7,000 voters, ranging from visual effects experts to screenwriters to studio chiefs. I can’t envision secret meetings to de-cide the fate of each candidate.

Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained) and veteran French star Jean-Louis Trin-tignant were both considered serious contenders for a Best Actor nomination; neither made the final cut, even though Trintignant’s co-star in Amour, Em-manuelle Riva, was nominated for Best Actress. At one point, the gifted John Hawkes was touted as a shoo-in for his brilliant performance in The Sessions. But I’ve learned never to use the word “shoo-in” where the Oscars are con-cerned.

There were fewer surprises in the Best Actress category, although some pundits had predicted Helen Mirren for Hitchcock, Marion Cotillard for the French import Rust and Bone and Rachel Weisz, who won the New York Film Crit-ics’ award, for (The Deep Blue Sea). As it happens, they took a collective backseat to the youngest female ever nominated in this category, 9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) and the oldest, 82-year-old Riva.

The always-crowded Supporting Ac-tor and Actress rosters excluded such prominent figures as Nicole Kidman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson and Maggie Smith, while admitting Phil-ip Seymour Hoffman for what is clearly a leading role in The Master.

But the biggest buzz concerns this year’s Best Director lineup. Experienced

Oscar watchers could see this brewing, as the current Oscar setup has a built-in dilemma. To understand it, one need only do the math: With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences now enabling nine films to compete for Best Picture — in fact, they allow as many as 10 — but retaining only five slots for Best Director, at least four world-class filmmakers are guaranteed to be left out in the cold. How those four happened to be Kathryn Bigelow, Ben Affleck, Tom Hooper and Quentin Tarantino this year is anybody’s guess.

Only members of the director’s branch get to nominate directors; that’s an elite group of fewer than 400 people. The same constituency didn’t cite Af-fleck for his terrific movie The Town a few years ago but did support Bigelow and Hooper, who went on to win for The Hurt Locker and The King’s Speech, re-spectively. They were early boosters of Tarantino, who won an Oscar forBest Screenplay in Pulp Fiction in 1994 and was nominated again for Best Director for his last film, Inglorious Basterds. It may be true that they’ve undervalued Ben Affleck, but there is no logic to the omission of the three other Best Picture directors.

What’s more, the Academy’s direc-tor lineup doesn’t coincide with that of the Directors Guild of America, which historically, and almost invariably, has forecast the Oscar winner. But that was before the Academy opened up the Best Picture category beyond its traditional five slots, so now all bets are off. (For the record, this year’s DGA nominees are Af-fleck, Bigelow, Hooper, Ang Lee and Ste-ven Spielberg.)

Every round of Oscar nominations brings its share of surprises and dis-appointments. Many people I know were counting on Judi Dench to be up for Best Supporting Actress, which would have made her the first person to be singled out for a performance in a James Bond movie in that series’ 50-year history. There was also great enthusiasm for Javier Bardem’s perfor-mance as the movie’s colorfully sinister villain. Both Dench and Bardem are for-mer winners, so the Academy actors’ branch clearly appreciates them … just not enough to make this year’s finals. Even so, Skyfallearned a record five nominations, including one for Thom-as Newman’s rousing music score and one for cinematographer Roger Deak-ins, who has been nominated 10 times and never taken home one of those gold statuettes. (It’s the first time around for Adele, who sang and co-wrote the mov-ie’s theme song.)

Over the course of the year, a hand-ful of other films elicited critical notice that might have led to Oscar recogni-tion: Richard Linklater’s Bernie offered Jack Black an unusually juicy part as a real-life Texas character who may or may not have murdered his older fe-male companion. Novelist Stephen Ch-bosky’s adaptation of his best-selling book The Perks of Being a Wallflow-er earned warm reviews for its deeply felt look at high school outcasts. Co-star Ezra Miller has been singled out in particular amid a talented young cast. Two of the best performances of the year were given by Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña in David Ayer’s vibrant L.A. cop drama End of Watch, but their work has been largely overlooked. For-tunately, Peña is in the running for an Independent Spirit Award as Best Sup-porting Actor.

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BY FRED KRUPPANALYSIS

BY LEONARD MALTINANALYSIS

ICT HUBDavos power rankings: Who’s up, who’s down

and who’s out?

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Indonesia strives for economic growth in equity

The gems and stars left off the Oscars list

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AFTER another year of panels, collo-quia, summits, meetings, whispers and skiing, the Davos emissaries

headed home with a few new connec-tions and catchphrases (“Resilient Dy-namism” forever!). After four years of gloomy predictions and summits domi-nated by post-financial crisis concerns, this year the mood was significantly more positive. While I would argue that the pendulum of sentiment has swung too far, there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic. Based on my observations at the 2013 World Economic Forum, here’s a power ranking of who’s up, who’s down and who’s off the radar—according to Davos attendees, at least.

UPUnited States: The politics of Wash-

ington were all but forgotten. With the so-called fiscal cliff standoff resolved and no current budget battle hurdles (at least for the next few weeks), there were no urgent crises to distract Davos from the strong American economic fundamen-tals. Instead, the chatter was about in-sourcing, the energy revolution and the positive growth outlook this year – all sources of a (perhaps inflated) exuber-ance.

Eurozone: Almost every eurozone leader of merit turned up, and so the chatter was good. (Davos is an easy place to please, as long as you put in the ef-fort.) Mario Draghi and Angela Merkel charmed, but Christine Lagarde was the belle of the ball. She stole the show with her keynote speech; one of her strongest messages was the need to narrow the gender gap, not only from an equal rights perspective but also because “it makes economic sense to improve the situa-tion of women.” The Europeans, it was clear, had reached bottom, and are now quite ready to make their way back from whence they came. While they’re not there yet, they’re definitely closer than last year.

Japan: For the first time since I can re-member, the Japanese delegation seemed to have a certain confidence and an ad-mirable level of coordination. Prime Min-ister Shinzo Abe dialed in via satellite to give a brief address; Japanese represen-tatives had their talking points in order; and Japan Night – a party 15 minutes from the Congress Centre (somewhat of a trek for the rarified air of Davos) – was a huge success, with 1,000 attendees. Most importantly, people seem, for now, comfortable with “Abenomics” and its re-liance on government-supplied stimulus.

Sub-Saharan Africa: There were a re-cord number of heads of state and min-isters from Africa this year, and, unlike in the past, they played a central role. They were on all sorts of major panels and weren’t just consigned to talking about African issues. This year, many African players were seen as emerging markets in their own right.

DOWNBritain: David Cameron’s speech in

London announcing Britain’s potential withdrawal from the European Union was all the rage here…but not the right kind. Cameron was hammered with questions during his Davos appearance, and while people were polite enough in public, based on what I heard in private, blokes were less kind. Delegates from corporations, eurozone countries and financial enterprises were all nervous about the uncertainty that Cameron had injected into the market — and it’s a cloud that could hang over the Unit-ed Kingdom for five years, given his call for a referendum by 2017. As Sir Mar-tin Sorrell, chief executive of the WPP Group, said, Cameron may have created a “gray swan” that will limit investment in Britain.


The Philippines will buy 12 South Ko-rean FA-50 fighter

jets to strengthen its poor-ly-armed military, gov-ernment spokesmen said Wednesday, amid increas-ing maritime tensions with China.

The FA-50s will be the first fighter jets to be op-erated by the Philippine air force since it retired the last of its US-designed F-5

fighters in 2005, said Pres-

ident Benigno Aquino’s spokesman Edwin Lacier-da.

“We don’t have any ex-isting jets right now that are in use, therefore it is necessary for us to up-grade. This is part of the ongoing process of mod-ernizing our military hard-ware,” he told reporters.

Lacierda said the jets would be used for “train-ing, interdiction and disas-

ter response” and would

use their aerial cameras to survey areas.

He stressed that the planned purchase was “not aimed at any particular country” despite the new tensions with China over conflicting maritime terri-torial claims in the South China Sea.

Defense department spokesman Peter Galvez said the FA-50 was cho-sen because it fitted all the

country’s requirements

and because of its cost, adding that 18.9 billion pesos ($464 million) had been budgeted for their ac-quisition.

Manila will now begin negotiations for the air-craft, he said, adding that the government will seek to have two planes deliv-ered as soon as possible so Filipino pilots can begin training on them.

In recent months the cash-strapped Philippines has stepped up efforts to modernize its military in the face of increasing Chinese assertiveness in pressing its claims to most of the South China Sea.

Although the Philip-pines has long relied on its defense ties with the Unit-ed States for most of its arms, it has recently been seeking more weaponry from other countries like Poland, Spain, Italy, Canada and France.

President Aquino dis-cussed acquiring more South Korean military equipment when South Ko-rean President Lee Myung-Bak visited the country in November 2011. [AFP]

THE U.S. govern-ment has already vowed to disman-

tle a warship stuck in the Philippines’ Tubbataha reef, but at least one of its high-profile citizens finds the idea absurd.

The namesake son of real estate magnate Don-ald Trump thinks saving the $277-million USS Guardian should be pri-oritized over saving the protected Philippine reef.

“This is how stupid we are! $1/4 bil+ ho hum ‘@DRUDGE_REPORT: Navy to scrap $277 million ship to avoid scraping reef... http://drudge.tw/XS-G79T’,” Donald Trump, Jr. posted on his Twitter ac-count Thursday.

He was reacting to a story published on the Washington Free Bea-con about the U.S. Navy’s decision to cut up the minesweeper to prevent it from further damaging the Tubbataha Reef.

Trump’s statements almost immediately drew reproach from his follow-ers, Filipinos and other netizens alike.

Most of the reactions noted that the reef is an environmental trea-sure and is worth more than the U.S. ship which ran aground earlier this month while on its way to Palawan.

The Tubbataha Reef was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in

1993 and included in a global list of Wetlands of International Importance in 1999.

“@DonaldJTrumpJr A boat is more important than a coral reef?” a user called Adam Quirk chal-lenged.

Trump was quick to respond: “@adamq112 not the whole reef but yes a 277mil boat is more important than a 200x50 section of reef that has al-ready been run over.”

“[T]he whole reef was not destroyed just a chunk the size of a boat. That is not worth 277 million by any standard,”

he added.He also slammed the

U.S. government’s move to shoulder the cleanup cost.

“[P]lease cleanup costs? The ship is 200 by 50 at most on the edge of a reef. it hit and stopped give me a break 277 mil-lion,” Trump tweeted.

Filipinos took out on Trump more aggresively.

Controversial cultur-al activist Carlos Celdran said: “@DonaldJTrumpJr @DRUDGE_REPORT This is our natural resources. US should spend more than 277 million to repair damage. Jeez. Asshole

much?”“Hijo @Donald-

JTrumpJr, before you crit-icize, you ought to ask yourself how in the world did they even get there?” Twitter user @dudeinter-rupted said.

Krizette Chu said: “@DonaldJTrumpJr YOU ARE UR FATHER’S SON, DUMB ASS. The reef is worth MORE THAN 200M. It Takes thousands of years to regenerate!”

“And for your infor-mation, the TUBBATAHA is home to HALF OF THE WORLD’s marine species. Is it still expensive?” she added. [Yahoo!]

10 EDGEDAVAONATION BRIEFS

Increase

The Philippines said Thursday its economy grew

by a better-than-ex-pected 6.6 percent last year as confidence rose in President Benigno Aquino’s efforts to fight corruption and allevi-ate poverty.

A final-quarter ex-pansion of 6.8 percent boosted the full-year figure, the government said, cementing the country’s status as one of the best performing in Asia and raising ex-pectations of stronger growth in 2013.

Blackout

While it denied actively en-forcing a news

blackout, Malacañang admitted that discuss-ing plans to repatriate Aman Futures CEO Manuel Amalilio might complicate the matter.

“Operationally, it’s not good for us to be telegraphing what we are doing insofar as a particular operation is concerned. I suppose it is prudent for us to not disclose every step of an operation,” Pres-idential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said in a briefing.

Presidential

The Lakas-Chris-tian Muslim Democrats (Lak-

as-CMD) is considering fielding Senator Ramon Bong Revilla Jr. in the 2016 presidential elec-tions, the lawmaker himself admits. In an interview with report-ers, Revilla said that the option to field him in 2016 is being con-sidered by the party, of which he is president.

“Madami nang nagsabi [niyan sa akin] but siyempre hindi ganun kadali yun,” he added. “Napag-uusa-pan pero siyempre too early para pag-usapan. Dito muna tayo sa tra-baho natin sa Senado,” he added.

Elected

Senator Edgardo Angara on Thurs-day said that he

has been elected as the first Asian chairman of the Global Conference of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC). “I was elected last night as the chair-man and chief execu-tive of the GOPAC,” Ang-ara told reporters in an interview on Thursday.

According to its website, GOPAC is an “an international net-work dedicated to good governance and combating corruption throughout the world.”

Cautioned

With the mid-term elections just months

away and with political groups already gear-ing for the presidential election in 2016, Presi-dent Benigno Aquino III on Thursday cautioned that reforms must be maintained to avoid a return to patronage politics and corruption.

“Without structural reform, another cor-rupt president might one day take the reins of power; another chief justice might one day again betray the pub-lic trust,” Aquino told attendees in the 5th Global Conference of the Global Organiza-tion of Parliamentari-ans Against Corruption, where he was keynote speaker.

WORLD TODAYFresh air

China’s foulest fortnight for air pollution

in memory has re-kindled a tongue-in-cheek campaign by a multimillionaire with a streak of showman-ship who is selling canned fresh air.

Chen Guangbiao, who made his fortune in the recycling busi-ness and is a high-pro-file philanthropist, on Wednesday handed out soda pop-sized cans of air, purported-ly from far-flung, pris-tine regions of China such as Xinjiang in the northwest to Taiwan, the southeast coast.

Warned

South Korea warned the North not to make the

mistake of conduct-ing a third nuclear test and its president summoned top secu-rity officials for an un-scheduled meeting on Thursday, amid signs the rival was moving ahead with prepara-tions.

The warning by the outgoing adminis-tration of Lee Myung-bak was the toughest yet after North Korea vowed to conduct more rocket and nu-clear tests in response to a U.N. censure for its launch of a long-range missile in December.

Condemned

Lebanon’s militant group Hezbol-lah condemned

on Thursday an Is-raeli attack which it said targeted a Syr-ian research centre, saying it was an at-tempt to thwart Arab military capabilities and pledging to stand by its ally President Bashar al-Assad.

“Hezbollah ex-presses its full sol-idarity with Syria’s leadership, army and people,” it said in a statement.

Sentenced

A court in Chi-na has handed down heavy sen-

tences to a Tibetan monk and his nephew for inciting eight peo-ple to set themselves on fire in anti-Chinese protests, media said on Thursday, the first time punishment has been meted out over such protests.

Nearly 100 Tibet-ans have set them-selves on fire to pro-test against Chinese rule since 2009, with most of them dying from their injuries.

NATION/WORLD

DAMAGED. This handout photo, taken on January 22, 2013 and released by Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), shows a government diver investigating the damage to corals after a US navy minesweeper, the USS Guardian, ran aground on January 17 at the Tubbataha reef, off the western island of Palawan.

Trump Jr. wants U.S. ship saved before Tubbataha

Philippines to buy 12 S. Korean fighter jets

A FA-50 fighter jet model is displayed at Baghdad’s International Fair for Defense and Security on April 15, 2012. The Philippines will buy 12 South Korean FA-50 fighter jets to strengthen its poorly-armed military, government spokesmen said Wednesday, amid increasing maritime tensions with China. [AFP]

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Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno who came over on Nov. 28,2008 to receive the do-nation – a bus cum mobile court – from the provin-cial government.

The provincial legal officer, however, said a mobile court is just a pal-liative solution.

Zapatos claimed that since the inception pro-gram, the number of pending cases was signifi-cantly reduced to around 700, about three-fourth of which are new cases.

The provincial gov-ernment, with the help of Congressman Manny Pacquiao, lobbied hard for the passage of Repub-lic Act 10123 which was enacted into law by Con-gress on June 3,2010.

RA 10123 paved the way for the creation of

five more regional trial courts designated by the Supreme Court as RTC branches 47, 48, 49, 50 and 51.

However, due to bud-get constraints, only two out of the five RTCs – branches 47 and 48 – have so far been constructed.

The building, which is now ready for occupancy, houses not just the two new RTCs.

It also has an IBP lounge, an office for the clerks of courts, records room and comfort rooms.

The provincial govern-ment, Zapatos said, has done its part in fostering and nurturing justice.

“Now, it’s the Supreme Court’s turn to respond and take the challenge,” Zapatos said.

It’s now up to the Supreme Court to cre-

ate plantilla positions, to appoint the required personnel and to allo-cate funds needed for the full operation of the new courts.

In his speech, Supreme Court Administrator Mi-das Marquez hailed the provincial government for taking the initiative to enhance the delivery of justice and rule of law in this part of the country.

“This is not the first time that the province of Sarangani partnered with the Supreme Court to improve the delivery of justice especially to far-flung areas,” Marquez said.

He said the Supreme Court is impressed that all stakeholders in the prov-ince are working together to improve the justice sys-tem in the province.

megadike, he said, then UN-Habitat will bring the proposal to possible funding sources.

Lepardo said that once the funding coun-tries find the proposal viable they will provide a grant, not a loan, so the city will not pay for it. This is a very big project, he added, and the city cannot do it on its own.

“The city government does not have the capa-bility because this is not an isolated plan and will

require other communi-ties to get involved,” he said, adding that “If the plan requires us to re-direct the flow of water, then it will be redirect it to another communi-ty which should also be protected and we cannot do this on our own.”

“The plan is a com-prehensive one to avoid displacement of com-munities,” he said, ad-mitting that there is no adaptive measures on the drawing board yet

considering that large portion of the com-munities live near the shores.”

Lepardo said he could not conclude if the recent floodings in the city is caused largely by garbage because he could not put a percent-age on which types of garbage were found in the debris. “There were tree branches, weeds, coconut husks and plas-tics,” he added. [Lovely A.Carillo]

month, according to Sol-id Waste Management Board division chief Dolly Remojo in a statement at the iSpeak forum at the City Hall yesterday.

Remojo said, “Because of the flood, from January 21 to 31, a daily average of 360 tons of solid waste were collected in flood affected areas, such as JadeValley, Ma-a and Ban-kerohan.”

“We are still collecting solid waste up until now, and if we finish collecting solid waste from all of the barangays in the city, we expect the collection to reach 475 tons a day,” she

added.Meanwhile, the Cenro

has already penalized 64 people for violation of the City Ordinance No. 0361 – 10 which is the Manda-tory Segregation of Solid Waste.

She said, “Cenro has documented a total of 4,851 violators, 3,108 of whom paid fines, attended seminars and served time for community service.”

“Cenro has already filed 617 cases, and 64 people already convict-ed and summoned to pay the maximum penalty of P5,000,” she added.

The fine for the first

offense is P300 plus a mandatory seminar; the fine for the second offense is P500 plus 5 days com-munity service; the fine for third offense is P1,000 plus a 10 days community service while the fourth offense will mean prose-cution of the violator by a court.

Remojo expressed dis-appointment, saying, “We are serious in implement-ing the segregation law of the city, however, there are citizens who just want to throw their garbage in an easier way, without segre-gation when Cenro people are not around.”

Catalunan Pequeño for a more reliable power supply.

Particularly affected by these service disrup-tions are customers con-nected to Ecoland, Ma-tina, Bangkal and Puan Substations.

To keep the power interruptions within the least possible time, loads connected to the said substation will be trans-ferred to nearby sub-stations which will take place from 4:00 a.m. to 4:15 a.m. on Feb. 3. Nor-

malization or return of loads back to its normal set-up will be on Feb. 4 from 5:00 a.m. to 5:15 a.m. after maintenance works will be completed.

Customers affect-ed by these scheduled service disruptions are those from Bankerohan Bridge up to Ulas Police station. This includes the whole area of Matina, Maa, Ecoland, Bangkal, Catalunan Grande and Ulas.

However, those resid-ing from Talomo bridge

up to Bago Aplaya and from Ulas to Angalan Tugbok will only expe-rience the outage set on Feb. 4, Monday.

Davao Light apologiz-es for the inconvenience of these scheduled pow-er interruptions. But, it will exert all efforts to restore electric service as scheduled or earlier. However, there may be instances where resto-ration may extend be-yond the schedule due to unavoidable circum-stances.

MANILA, Jan. 31 (PNA) –- Another 80 Filipino work-

ers who fled from the up-heaval in Syria returned to the Philippines Thurs-day, the Dept. of Foreign Affairs said.

The Filipinos arrived at 6:30 a.m. at the Ninoy Aquino International Air-port Terminal I aboard Emirates flight EK 336.

Their arrival brings to 3,451 the total num-ber of Filipinos who have

returned home since the Philippine government imposed mandatory repa-triation of workers there in 2012.

A civil war has en-gulfed the Arab nation and the Al-Assad regime has continued to step up its offensives against ci-vilians and rebels despite an array of sanctions and condemnations by the United Nations, the Unit-ed States and its Western and Middle East allies.

As the security situa-tion in the country con-tinues to deteriorate, the DFA appealed anew to all Filipinos who are still in Syria to seek immediate repatriation.

Philippine officials had to buy out their con-tracts from the employers so they would be allowed to join the repatriation while others refused to go home due to lack of opportunities in the Phil-ippines .

Another 80 OFWs flee Syria, arrive in Manila

A troubled man set his home ablaze before blowing

himself and his teen-age son up using a hand gre-nade past noon Wednes-day in Sulit village, Polo-molok town, South Cota-bato.

PO3 Homer Celiz, in-vestigator of Polomolok Police Station, identified the victims as Charlie Mantilla, 37, and his son Charles Joven, 12.

Celiz said that at around 12:00 noon Wednesday they re-ceived a call informing them that there was a fire incident followed by an explosion in Sulit vil-lage.

Polomolok police re-covered from the scene a safety lever of an MK2-type grenade, a jolen gun, empty bottle of wine, burned motorcycle and the blasted bpfies of the victims.

Celiz said their initial investigation showed that Mantilla was suf-fering from depression based on the accounts given by neighbours and some people close to him.

Police investiga-tion further bared that the victim’s wife has been working abroad for about six years and is scheduled to return home this February.

In an interview, Lu-cila Mantilla, mother of Charlie, disclosed that her son became despon-dent when he learned from his son Charles Jo-ven that his OFW mom was planning to get her child.

“One time, when my grandson arrived home after visiting his mater-nal grandparents, he told his father that his moth-er wanted him to live with her own parents,” Lucila said.

The mother said Charlie was so close to his son because he was the one who took good care of him while his wife was working abroad.

Victoria De Pusoy, adopted daughter of the Mantillas, claimed that prior to the explosion she overheard Charles Joven pleading with his father to calm down.

“Bembem (Charles Joven) asked him to

stop what he was doing, which was setting his motorcycle on fire, went inside the master’s bed-room and burned their clothes. A few minutes later, there was a loud explosion,” Victoria nar-rated.

Neighbors destroyed the padlock of the kitch-en door to gain entry.

The mutilated bod-ies of the victims were found in separate areas of the kitchen.

Neighbors helped n putting out the fire to prevent it from spread-ing towards the other houses.

Bebing Tanare, a childhood friend of Charlie, said her friend had been showing signs of depression before the incident.

“He told me there’s a voice whispering in his ear that his son wouldl be taken away from him. Maybe, this was an ad-verse effect of too much alcohol intake,” Tanare said.

“I didn’t expect him to do this because he had been telling me he was okay,” Tanare said.

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HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND, Mortgagee -versus- EJF-REM CASE NO. 13, 886-12

SAMUEL M. JULAINE married to JENNIVIVE P. JULAINE Mortgagor/s.

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Upon extra-judicial petition for foreclosure and sale under Act 3135, as amended, filed by the above-mentioned mortgagee against SAMUEL M. JULAINE , with postal address at Lot 32,blk. 23 Gallera de Oro Subd., Bago, Davao City to satisfy the mortgage indebted-ness which as of October 19, 2011 amounted to Php 300,270.03 Philippine Currency, inclusive of interest, penalty charges, plus attorney’s fees equivalent to TEN ( 10%) of the total indebtedness plus other legal expenses incident of foreclosure and sale; the under-signed Sheriff IV of the Regional Trial Court, Davao City, will sell at public auction on February 21, 2013 at 10:00 A.M. or soon there-after, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, Ecoland,Davao City to the highest bidder for Cash or MANAGER’S CHECK and in Philippine Currency, the following real property together with all the improve-ments thereon, to wit:

Transfer Certificate of Title No. T- 253104 “ A parcel of land (Lot 32, Blk.23xxx) situated in the Barangay of Bago, City of Davao, Island of Mindanao.xxx Containing an area of NINETY THREE (93) SQUARE METERS, more or less”

All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated time and date.

In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date,it shall be held on March 21, 2013 without further notice.

This NOTICE will be posted in three (3) conspicuous public places in the City of Davao and in the place where the property is located and where the auction sale will take place for the information of the general public and the parties.

Prospective buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the titles herein described real property/ies and the encumbrances thereon, if any there be.

Davao City, Philippines, January 2, 2013

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PHOENIX (AP) -- Michael Beas-ley scored a sea-

son-high 27 points and the Phoenix Suns rallied from 13 down in the fourth quarter to hand the Los Angeles Lakers their eighth straight road loss 92-86 on Wednesday night.

The dramatic come-back came in Steve Nash’s first game in Phoenix since he left for the Lak-ers after last season.

The Lakers, who had won three straight - all at

home, lost Dwight How-ard when he reinjured his right shoulder with 6:57 to play.

Beasley, whose pre-vious season best of 25 came two games earlier, scored on a scrambling layup as the shot clock was expiring to put the Suns ahead 88-86 with 43.8 seconds to play.

Kobe Bryant had 17 points and nine assists, but missed what would have been the tying layup with 24 seconds to play.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Knicks finally got a

glimpse of what the front line of Carmelo Anthony, Amara Stoudemire and Tyson Chandler can do hitting on all cylinders, and it was pretty impres-sive.

Anthony scored 20 points to set a team-re-cord with his 30th straight 20-point game, and Chan-dler and Stoudemire com-bined for 35 points on 17 of 18 shooting from the field in leading the Knicks to a 113-97 victory over the reeling Orlando Magic on Wednesday night.

‘’When I first got here I always said it was go-ing to take maybe three years,’’ Anthony said of meshing with his fellow bigs who all came to New York between June 30, 2010 and Dec. 9, 2011. ‘’We had two half seasons to make something hap-pen overnight. Now this season we can go through ups and downs and try to make something happen. When the three of us are on the court, we are mak-ing things happen offen-sively and defensively.’’

The trio was at their best in the third quarter in sending Orlando to its seventh straight loss

and 18th in 20 games. They combined for 18 of New York’s 28 points and keyed a late run that gave New York the lead for good.

‘’The third quarter was great,’’ said Stoudemire, who hit all seven of his shots. ‘’We played great defensively. We were able to get a good lead and cap-italize. Anytime guys are double-teamming Carme-lo, it gives us a chance to open a lead.’’

Chandler had one of his best games in week. The All-Star center fin-ished with 21 points on 10 of 11 shooting, along with seven rebounds and a season-high five assists.

‘’I had a couple of rough games and I felt like I really wanted to get into the offense early,’’ Chan-dler said. ‘’So I came out and made it a point to be more aggressive.’’

Knicks coach Mike Woodson was thrilled with his big men.

‘’That’s the beauty of having two big guys play and Melo plays big as well,’’ Woodson said after his team beat the Magic for the third time in as many games this season. ‘’It’s kind of nice to have three big guys like that up front playing.’’

INJURED. Lakers star center Dwight Howard reinjured his shoulder.

RECORD. Carmelo Anthony has scored 20-plus points in 30 straight games.

Howard injured as Lakers lost to Suns

Melo makes Knicks record

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US Jr. NBA Coach Sefu Bernard, who is also Di-

rector of Basketball Operations NBA Asia, got kids really engaged in his fun condition-ing drills during the Jr. NBA School Clinics held at the CSI Stadia in Da-gupan City last week-end.

Besides condition-ing, the clinic partici-pants also learned bas-ketball fundamentals in shooting, dribbling, passing and footwork, with emphasis on the Jr. NBA core values of Sportsmanship, Team-work, a positive Attitude and Respect (S.T.A.R.).

The Jr. NBA Philip-pines 2013 presented by Alaska has completed its Touring Clinics in Lu-cena and Dagupan and moves on to Davao City this weekend (February 2 and 3) in partnership with Phoenix Petroleum for coaches and school clinics at the Ateneo de Davao.

Regional Selec-tion Camps which will choose the most out-standing young cagers in the various regions for inclusion in the Na-tional Training Camp will be held in March and April. Visit www.jrnba.com.ph for more details and schedules.

WE will shoot for no less than num-

ber one.”That’s the bold decla-

ration of PRISAA Region XI Executive Director Joaquin Sarabia as the regional athletes are high on their buildup to the 2013 PRISAA National Games in Pangasinan set February 11-16.

Guesting at the DSA Forum yesterday at Dex-ter’s Pizza Stadium, Sara-

bia said the Davao Region will try to improve on their fourth place finish in the 2012 edition of the Games in Cebu last year.

“If you ask me, we will shoot for number one, it’s not easy but it’s not impossible,” Sarabia, the athletic director of pow-erhouse University of Mindanao, declared when pressed on their targets.

The Davao Region will be composed of 335 athletes, coaches and of-

ficials and will be seeing action in all 18 events.

The best finish of the Davao Region was sec-ond place which they did twice, the last in 2010 where they came short by 6 golds of overhauling pe-rennial champion Cebu.

“Cebu is a very strong contingent. They have the support of the private sector aside from their schools. It’s very hard to dislodge Cebu but who knows? We are playing in

Pangasinan this year, not Cebu,” he added.

Davao Region will be defending their titles in baseball where 9 golds will count, women’s beach volleyball with three golds, and sepak takraw with 9 golds. The region also has strong chances in women’s bas-ketball and in the med-al-rich athletics.

The PRISAA Region XI has allocated P2.8 Million for their participation.

APO Golf and Country Club, the breeder of several top ama-teurs and professionals, will

bring its rich tradition to the 66th Philippine Airlines Interclub set to tee off in Cebu City beginning on Feb-ruary 21.

Apo, which has been the training ground of such golf luminaries as Tony Lacuna, Cassius Casas, Elmer Salvador and Jay Bayron, is hoping it can break through the annual team golf tournament this year in Cebu.

Apo’s men’s squad will be bank-ing on Karlos Alba, Almar Etrone, Denden de Castro, Toffee Tionko, Pe-ter Pineda, Patrick Tan, Pitt Jun Batu, Leo Fusilero and Chikoy Saavedra.

Cebu Country Club and Mactan Island Golf Club will host the regular Interclub set February 26 to March 2. More than half of the 78 squads in the regular Interclub are from overseas.

In the Senior’s Interclub, Apo will be fielding a team led by former World Cup veteran Tibor Marcelino, Interclub veterans Soc Cadayona, Ting Castillo, Lando Cachuela, Boy Tan, Jun Horfilla, Jun Serado, Joe Mar-fori and Chito Nucum.

Canlubang will defend the se-niors’ title it narrowly won last year in Davao in this year’s edition set Feb-ruary 21-24 at the Alta Vista Golf and Country Club and Club Filipino de Cebu Golf Club. A record 100 teams, including 53 from abroad, are en-tered in the Seniors event.

For this year’s event, the hosts un-ravel four golf courses for the event, hence the theme “4 at the Fore.”

Presented by PAL, the event is sponsored by Mareco Broadcasting Network (Crossover), Solar Enter-tainment, Plantation Bay and Me-dia Five. It is also backed by major sponsors Manila Broadcasting Corp., Philippine Broadcasting Network, Stargate Media and Radio Mindanao Network.

Corporate sponsors include Shangri La Hotel Mactan, Boeing In-ternational Corp., Radisson Blu Hotel and Philippine Daily Inquirer. Minor sponsor is Ginebra San Miguel.

PRISAA NATIONAL GAMES

Davao shoots for no. 1By Neil Bravo

“

PAL INTERCLUB PREVIEW

Apo parbusters are no pushovers

(Second of 3 parts)

By Neil Bravo

Jr. NBA: Davao City kids up next

SENIORS. Boy Tan of Apo Golf and Country Club will be playing in the Seniors Interclub.(Boy Lim)

PRISAA. Joaquin Sarabia, executive director of PRISAA Region XI briefs media during the weekly DSA Forum on the forthcoming PRISAA National Games in Pangasinan. (NJB)

JR NBA. Coach Bernard Sefu shows kids some basketball limbering up exercises.

A prom dress is like the wedding gown of high school girls. Some take months planning what to wear in this momentous evening, also considered a rite of passage.


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Words and styling:MEGHANN PATRICIA A. STA. INESCreatives: KENNETH ONGPhotographer: AYIE HERNANDEZMake-up: MELODY ROSS TINOYModel: QUEENN AMORALocation: ARTISAN DESIGN STUDIOClothes: KASUOTANCakes from BLUGRE, OSVALDO’S, LACHI’S, TINY KITCHEN, and MISS VANILLA.

The prom season is usu-ally frolicking in pastel confection of poufy and satiny cloth, sashaying the halls of a dreamy ballroom. Young girls in soft, sorbet-hued layered dresses are always a delightful sight, like seeing a modern Ma-rie Antoinette swarmed in macarons and other French pastries. Pastels are usually the main choice for prom as they are the colors that en-hance, accentuate, and add a romantic appeal to the youthful glow on teens. Just like the joy in every

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GLOBE TELECOM gets first dibs on the Samsung Galaxy SIII mini as the first Philip-pine telco to carry the latest device from Samsung’s roster of Galaxy S smartphones. Exclusively offering the device from January 23 to February 28, Globe empowers subscribers with various plan options to get the Sam-sung Galaxy SIII mini for as low as P999 monthly depending on their budget, needs and lifestyle. Under Unli Surf Plan 999, sub-scribers get the Samsung Galaxy SIII mini for free with unlimited mobile surfing and one (1) call and text free-bie* changeable monthly. Subscribers can also opt to get the device for free under My Super Plan 999 with P900 worth of monthly con-sumable amount for calls and texts, free 50MB data for mobile surfing, and two (2) call and text freebies* that are changeable monthly. Finally, subscribers can avail of the Platinum Plan 3799 which gives them the Samsung Galaxy SIII mini and the Samsung Galaxy SIII for free, complete with unlimited mobile surf-ing, P2,800 worth of monthly con-sumable for calls and texts, and seven (7) call and text freebies* that are changeable monthly. Subscribers availing of the Plati-num Plan 3799 are also eligible to get the Platinum Blue membership, which includes access to the 24/7 Globe Platinum Hotline for after-sales support, nationwide assistance from the Platinum Concierge Ser-vice, exclusive offers and privileges from partner establishments, and priority lane access in Globe Stores nationwide. “We cement our leadership in postpaid with our opening salvo for 2013 – the Samsung Galaxy SIII Mini.

Our one-month exclusivity with the device testifies to our strong and ro-bust partnership with Samsung. Get the best smartphone experience from Globe with the new Samsung Galaxy SIII mini, headlined by our roster of customizable postpaid plans and exclusive offers, powered by a faster Globe network, now with more per-vasive 3G and 4G coverage nation-wide,” said Martha Sazon, Head of Globe Postpaid. Sazon added, “The components of our plan offers are perfect for us-ers to enjoy the features of the new Samsung Galaxy SIII mini – from unlimited surfing to upload multi-media content and update social net-working sites worry-free, to free calls and texts to connect with one’s social circles anytime, anywhere.” The Samsung Galaxy SIII mini

resembles Galaxy SIII’s minimal and organic design inspired by nature. Its beautiful 4.0-inch Super AMO-LED display offers a generous view-ing experience that lets users view multimedia and Web content in brilliant color and clarity. It is pow-ered by Samsung’s own 1 Ghz dual core processor, 4-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operat-ing system, complete with Bluetooth, WiFi and WiFi hotspot. Its human-centric nature provides an ergonomic and comfortable experience with en-hanced usability, while its comfort-able grip and gentle curves deliver a natural feel and design. Starting February 1, subscribers who wish to purchase the device can go to a Globe Store nearest them to apply.

SM Lanang Premier rolls the carpet for their first-ever Great 3 Day Sale on February 1, 2 and 3. Spoil yourself with a great shopping spree and avail of up to 70% discount mall-wide. SM Advantage, Prestige and BDO Rewards cardhold-ers may avail of additional 10% discount from SM af-filiate stores on Friday, from 10AM to 12 NN. Be up close and personal with the Phil-ippine crooner Richard Poon on Saturday, 6 PM and learn more about Feng Shui with Maritess Allen on Sunday af-ternoon at the mall atrium. Mall hours are extended until midnight on February 1 and 2. Plus, get a chance to take home one of the five Devant 50’’ SMART 3D Internet TV! Its amazing discounts and so much more at SM Lanang Premier’s 3 Day Sale this week-end so gear up and shop! For inquiries, call 285.0943. Like SM Lanang Premier on Facebook or follow @smlanangpremier on Twitter for event and promo updates.

DAVAO CITY, January 2013. Engr. Diosdado Banatao who is known as “The Filipino Bill Gates” and “The Father of the Semi-conductor,” is greeted by Ateneo Presidents after his talk on Depth Engineering at the Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU). The talk was attended by Deans, faculty and staff of all Ateneo Universities, along with ADDU students. (L-R) Ateneo de Zamboanga University President and incoming Philippine Jesuit Provincial Fr. Tony Moreno SJ; Ateneo de Manila University President Fr. Jett Vilarin SJ; Ateneo de Davao University President Fr. Joel Tabora SJ; Engr. Banatao; Xavier University President Fr. Bobby Yap SJ; and Ateneo de Naga University President Fr. Jun Viray SJ. Engr. Banatao is an Atenean, being a graduate of the Ateneo de Tuguegarao, Cagayan Valley. He has since made his home in Silicon Valley (Ateneo IPO).

DAVAO CITY, January 2013. Fr. Joel Tabora SJ, President of Ateneo de Davao University welcomes Fr. Francisco “Patxi” Alvarez SJ, assistant to the Father General on Social Apostolate and Ecology worldwide. Fr. Patxi visited and had a dialogue with the social apostolate centers of the University. He praised ADDU’s commitment in helping flood and typhoon victims within the city and the region (inset photos). (Ateneo IPO).

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SM Lanang Premier 3 Day Sale, Feb 1-3! Globe is exclusive PH

carrier of the Samsung Galaxy SIII mini

SM Department Store brings you the Branded Accessories’ Jewelry Fair, a Nationwide Luxury Sale of Jewelry on Feb-ruary 1 to 28, 2013 -- featuring brands such as F&C, The Jew-eller and Hearts & Arrows! Shoppers get up to 50% off on all items, plus 10% discount with your SM Advantage, SM Prestige, or BDO Re-wards card. Get exclusive freebies for a minimum purchase of P10,000. SM’s Branded Accessories’ Jewelry Fair, is a Nationwide Luxury Sale on February 1 to 28, 2013 in all Branded Accessories Department of SM Depart-ment Store branches nationwide.

SM Dept Store holds nationwide branded jewelry fair

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Alicia Keys named BlackBerry’s new global creative directorWHO KNEW Alicia Keys was so tech savvy?! Earlier today, Black-Berry announced that the Grammy-winning singer has been named the smartphone company’s new global creative direc-tor. “Excited2jump right in2my new role as Global Creative Director of@Blackberry!” Keys tweeted after the big news went public. “#BlackBerry10 #keepmoving #forward-

thinking.” According to Keys’ offi-cial website, her new Black-Berry duties will include working “closely with app developers, content cre-ators, retailers, carriers and the entertainment com-munity to further shape and enhance the Black-Berry 10 platform, and in-spire creative use through its remarkable capabilities and functionality. “From music to books, to film, to apps, Keys will lead the charge of enhanc-

ing entertainment con-sumption and distribu-tion, through the power of BlackBerry 10.” Additionally, BlackBerry President and CEO Thor-sten Hein said in a state-ment, “We are excited she will be bringing to us her enormous capabilities, as well as a vast network of relationships in the enter-tainment, social media and business communities, to help shape our brand and grow our business.” Congrats, Ms. Keys!

KATE MIDDLETON isn’t letting a little thing like pregnan-cy get in the way of some retail therapy. Just days after hitting up a maternity shop on trendy King’s Road, E! News confirms the preg-nant Duchess of Cam-bridge browsed casual clothes and sportswear at Sweaty Betty, a women’s sportswear brand, while

at Selfridges department store in London on Mon-day. A store source told E! News that Middleton browsed the clothes but could not confirm if the mother-to-be actually purchased any items. The source added that no one noticed her browsing or took photos of her while she was there. Last week, a royal insid-

er told E! News exclusively that despite Middleton’s occasional trip out to a few stores, “Kate’s been laying low. She’s been staying at Kensington Pal-ace and living the life of a duchess.” And obviously waiting for the arrival of her and Prince William’s little one. The palace announced earlier this month that the bundle of joy is due in July.

WATCH OUT Jer-emy (Steven R. Mc-Queen), there’s a new hunter in town! Twilight actor Charlie Bewley is set to guest star on The Vampire Diaries as Vaughn, another member of the Five, a highly skilled group of vampire hunters whose tattoos are a road map to the cure for vam-pirism. We’ve got your exclu-sive first look at Bewley as the “charming and tough as hell” Vaughn, who isn’t exactly Damon’s (Ian Somerhalder) biggest fan. In these stills from the CW hit’s Feb. 14 episode “Down the Rabbit Hole,”

Bewley makes his debut as Vaughn, a hunter, when the gang, including Da-

mon, Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Stefan (Paul Wesley), take a trip to Nova Scotia in an attempt to find the cure. (Nothing good ever happens in the woods, have they learned noth-ing from scary movies or their previous experienc-es?!) Vaughn is seen tortur-ing Damon, whom he’s heard a lot about, but can’t quite understand why he feels so strongly about Elena. As we first reported, Be-wley, who played Volturi member Demetri in the Twilight franchise, will stick around for several episodes.

Pregnant Kate Middleton spotted browsing for workout clothes

The Vampire Diaries first look: Twilight’s Charlie Bewley makes his Damon-torturing debut

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cake slice, pretty pastels also bring us back to the divine sweetness of our youth --- back in the care-free days when calories didn’t figure. While prom fashion has gotten a bit sexier nowadays, with skirt lengths cut right at the knee, most designers have maintained the dainty take by frosting on cotton candy shades with semi-precious stones, floaty feathers, lace, floral applique and other ultra-feminine broderie.

Young girls in soft, sorbet-hued layered dresses are always a delightful sight, like seeing a modern Marie Antoinette swarmed in macarons and other French pastries.

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A league of their own

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WITH its spank-ing new sports c o m p l e x ,

Davao del Norte will be strongly making a pitch for the 2014 PRISAA National Games.

PRISAA Regional Ex-ecutive Director Joaquin Sarabia said Vice Gov-ernor Baby Suaybaguio and provincial sports

coordinator Giovanni Gulanes will be official-ly presenting the bid of Davao del Norte during the PRISAA National Games in Pangasinan.

The PRISAA Nation-als will be held in Pan-gasinan on February 11-16 in Lingayen and Dagupan.

“They have the spe-

cific instruction of Gov-ernor Rodolfo Del Ro-sario to strongly bid for the Games next year and we are very happy for that,” said Sarabia who welcomed the move.

Davao has not host-ed a national event of such magnitude ever since the UAAP Na-tionals was held at the

fire-razed Palaruang Lungsod sometime in the 80s.

Davao del Norte boasts of a 12-hectare sports complex with a rubberized track oval, 10-lane Olympic-sized pool, 5,000-seat grand-stand, 1,000-seat bleachers, clubhouse, air-conditioned gymna-

sium and professional lighting.

The facility was in-augurated last Decem-ber 12, 2012 although the layering of the rub-berized track is still underway due to the delays caused by recent rains.

“It is the turn of Min-danao next year and we

are praying it will be in Davao del Norte,” Sara-bia said after noting that Zamboanga City has always hosted the event during the Mind-anao cycle.

“For a change, they said Zamboanga is will-ing to pass it up for Davao,” he added. (Neil Bravo)

Davao Norte bids for 2014 PRISAA

FROM homeless to a league they can call their very

own.It used to be that

members of the Davao Football Community (DFC) were homeless weekend warriors who had to scamper for a field in order to sweat it out with

whatever is left of their fad-ing football skills.

Now, t h e

D F C has

established a home inside the sprawling Davao Crocodile Park and has organized its own Division II league called the DFC.

Jack Ibarreta, DFC Tournament Commis-sioner, yesterday offi-cially announced the opening of the 2013 DFC season with the staging of the DFC League beginning this Sunday at the Davao Crocodile Park.

“We are opening our DFC League tour-nament this Sunday and it will be played every Sunday for elev-en Sundays,” Ibarreta said during the weekly Davao Sportswriters Association (DSA) Fo-rum at Dexter’s Pizza Stadium.

The DFC League has grown to 12 teams

this year with two new clubs as expansion.

The DFC clubs are Solido FC, Fil-Chi FC, Belisario Futbol, Davao Crocodile FC, KMMPC FC, and Davao Agila FC.

The tournament is a 9-a-side league with double round elimi-nation format. It will have a total of elev-en matchdays with each team playing two matches every Sunday.

“We have balanced teams now and we have excluded all ac-tive Division I players,” Ibarreta added.

Meantime, DFC Ad-ministrator said they are proud to have contributed to the de-velopment of young football players in Davao City. He cited two junior players Jed

Diamante and Javi-er Romero-Salas who starred for the Phil-ippines’ Little Azkals U-14 squad. The two players used to don for Solido FC but have joined the ranks of Di-vision I in the Davao Football Association (DFA).

“They are the youngest Division I players at 14. They have bright future ahead of them,” A r r i e t a said.

Dia-m a n -te and R o m e -r o - S a l a s carried the scoring cudgels for the Little Az-kals in their friend-ly matches against Chelsea FC of Ko-rea.

DAVAO FOOTBALL COMMUNITY LEAGUE

By Neil Bravo

FOOTBALL. Jack Ibarreta, Tournament Commissioner of the Davao Football Community, announces the staging of the DFC League beginning Sunday at the Davao Crocodile Park during the DSA Forum at Dexter’s Pizza Stadium yesterday. Lower photo shows some of the DFC players in action during their weekly community games. (NJB)

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