Appearing before the reg-ular session of the Davao City council, 1003rd Brigade com-mander Lt. Col. Harold Cabre-ros said that the 69th Infantry Battalion and units under him were just conducting needs as-sessment surveys, an activity he described as “mandated” by the National Economic and De-velopment Authority (NEDA).

“We are finding out what are issues and concerns of the community,” said Cabre-ros referring to the question-naire-forms they required from residents to fill-up.

Cabreros said that through the survey, they will able to know the needs of the com-munity like a farm to market roads, health center and water system.

The army official said

that the questionnaire-forms, which he said comes from NEDA, is only used for needs assessment and not intended to identify people who sup-ported the New People’s Army.

He, however, did not dis-close in what authority the military performs the mandate of NEDA.

Earlier, Barangay Cap-tian Celso Bughao of Lumiad, Paquibato district said that the soldiers made a ‘house to house’ campaign in three puroks of his barangay. Then, one of his barangay tanods was asked to sign the waiver.

The tanod was reportedly bodily searched by the mili-tary to look for any mark such as tattoo and scars that could prove his identity.

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ARMY: NO ‘RED-TAGGING’Military denies ‘red-tagging’ homes of suspected rebels in Paquibato

Members of different progressive groups stage a protest rally against the Philippine and American governments at Freedom Park along Roxas Avenue in Davao City a day after the first visit of U.S. President Barack Obama in the country. Lean Daval Jr.

DISNEY IN DAVAO CITY. International evangelist pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy treats thousands of children with colorful Disneyland-inspired parade during his birthday celebration in time for the 9th National Children’s Day at the Kingdom of Jesus Christ compound along Carlos P. Garcia highway (Diversion highway) in Davao City over the weekend. Lean Daval Jr.

A TOp official of the philippine Army yesterday denied conducting “red-tag-ging” activities in some villages in the

remote paquibato district, Davao City.

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Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte attends to his constituents who are seeking medical and other assistance during his first day in the office after a month-long leave. Lean Daval Jr.

PIquED by his own ob-servation on a number of passengers who gets

on board the public utility ve-hicles even in the middle of the road, Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Z. Duterte yesterday proposed for the installation of railings along the major cross-ings and sidewalks to strictly impose the proper loading and unloading of passengers.

“Butangan na’g railings hangtod kung asa pwede pa-

parahaon ang mga jeep. Kan-ing sa mga crossing butangan na nag railing diha para mismo ang pasahero di na makapara og jeep anang mga crossing na maka cause of traffic, ” Duterte said.

With the installation of railings, the passengers could no longer take a ride outside the designated loading and un-loading areas.

Duterte said the proposal has been presented to the ex-

ecutive department and the city council will immediately approve the allocation of funds once it is transmitted back to the legislative body.

Duterte said the priority areas for the railing are the major thoroughfares and side-walk areas where heavy con-gestion of vehicular and pas-senger traffic usually occurs especially during rush hours like in morning when many people report to their work-

places.He appealed to the passen-

gers to observe discipline and cooperation to help address and ease the growing traffic congestion in the city.

“Daghan na kaaoyg gina-sulti atoang mga motorists, daghan na kaayog reklamo mo dayon dayog ingon na abusa-do ang bise-mayor. Dili man na buhaton kung disciplinado mo sa inyong kaugalingon,” he stressed.

THE Davao City council will support r the rec-ommendation of Davao

City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte to allocate additional financial assistance to fire victims in the three coastal barangays.

Councilor Danilo Dayang-hirang, chairman of the com-mittee of finance, ways and means and appropriation, told reporters in an interview yes-terday that they are just waiting for the recommendation to offi-cially reach the legislative body.

“Assistance, rehabilitation, whatever it will be listed there by the mayor we will support,” said Dayanghirang.

He said that that at present there is enough fund to back up the proposed additional allo-cation for the victims on top of the P45-million calamity fund the city government released last month.

“The mayor will not recom-mend if we have limited funds,” he said.

He said that the additional allocation will be drawn from the calamity fund of the city.

Earlier, mayor Duterte is mulling to give additional as-sistance to fire victims in Isla Verde to help them recover from the devastation.

Duterte said that the initial

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has urged the public to regis-

ter as early as possible to avoid rush and long queues during the coming nationwide regis-tration of voters.

In a statement, Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes said the public should do away with the “mañana” habit or the ten-dency to delay doing certain tasks for a later date.

“It is the responsibility of registrants to register as early as possible and to avoid last-minute registration,” he added.

The voter’s registration is set to resume on Tuesday, May 6, until Oct. 31, 2015.

Brillantes said new regis-trants and those who do not have biometrics may register in all Offices of Election Offi-cers (OEOs) nationwide.

“With the opening of the poll registration, we encour-age all unregistered qualified voters to register and exercise their right to vote,” he said.

Brillantes added, “But more importantly, we focus

on having the biometrics data of all registered voters by the end of the poll registration pursuant to Republic Act No. 10367, which provides for the mandatory biometrics voter registration.”

Earlier, the Comelec said there are about 9.6 million registered voters that are still without biometrics data while they are looking to register three million new voters.

Meanwhile, the Comelec has directed all OEOs across the country to post a certified list of voters who are slated to be delisted in the 2016 polls if they do not participate in the voters’ registration system.

Those that will be delisted are voters without biometrics data and those who failed to vote twice in the two preceding successive regular elections.

“On or before April 25, (OEOs must) post the certified lists in the bulletin boards of the OEO, city/municipality/ba-rangay hall, furnish the repre-sentative of existing local polit-ical parties and citizens arm of the Commission,” said the poll

body in Resolution No. 9863.Likewise, local Comelec

officials have been directed to send personal notice by reg-istered mail to the voters con-

cerned.R.A. 10367 or the Manda-

tory Biometrics Registration Act of 2013 states that voters

NATIONAL Disaster Risk Reduction and Manage-ment Council executive

director Eduardo Del Rosa-rio filed his resignation citing health as reason, NDRRMC spokesman Major Reynaldo Balido confirmed on Tuesday.

According to Balido, Del Rosario submitted his resigna-tion to Defense Secretary Vol-taire Gazmin personally last Thursday (April 24).

“Last April 24 he personal-ly tendered his resignation, cit-ing health concern saying that the physical condition seemed to weaken brought by the seemingly series of calamities like the Bohol earthquake and typhoon Yolanda,” Balido told the Philippines News Agency (PNA) in a phone interview.

Among the disasters

that Del Rosario handled as NDRRMC executive director were Habagat in August, the 7.2 earthquake in Bohol and super typhoon Yolanda on No-vember all in year 2013.

Malacanang will make an announcement on Del Rosa-rio’s resignation since he is an appointee of the President, Balido said.

Del Rosario is a former commander of the military’s Southern Luzon Command. He was appointed by President Benigno Aquino III in February 2013 as executive director of the NDRRMC.

It would be recalled that Del Rosario’s predecessor Benito Ramos also resigned, a year ago due to his wife’s de-teriorating physical condition. [PNA]

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Comelec: Register early, avoid last-minute rush

NDRRMC head quits, cites health reasons

FOR FIRE VICTIMS

Council backs plan to increase aid

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Thank you for the memories, Daddy Ram.

Lt. Col. Harold Cabreros of the 103rd Brigade of the Philippine Army does a presentation before the Davao City Council at Sangguniang Panlungsod the security situation in Paquibato and Talaingod. Lean Daval Jr.

uS President Barack Obama expressed his gratitude to President

Benigno S. Aquino III for the hospitality and kindness giv-en to him and the members of his delegation in his visit to the Philippines.

“I’ve only been here two days but the kindness that

you’ve shown me and the extraordinary hospitality that has been extended to us leaves us with very warm feel-ings and reflects, I think, the legendary spirit of the Filipino people,” he said in a message during the state dinner in Malacanang.

The uS leader praised the

Aquino family to their contri-butions to Philippine society noting that there is no greater nobility than offering one’s life to the nation as what the President’s father did during Marcos’es martial rule.

Obama also mentioned the role of the President’s mother, former president

Corazon Aquino, as the coun-try moved on following the Marcos dictatorship.

Obama recognized Fili-pino talents like Manny Pac-quiao and Cris Comerford, the White House’s executive chef who was born in Manila.

Also, Obama said Ameri-

LEADING telecommuni-cations company Globe Telecom, in collaboration

with the Coalition for Better Education and the Department of Education, kicks off the 2014 Global Filipino Teacher (GFT) Program designed to equip public school teachers with 21st century learning techniques in preparation for the incoming school year.

GFT is a nationwide cam-paign that enables teachers to effectively integrate Infor-mation and communications technology (ICT) in the class-room for enhanced learning particularly among high school students.

“Globe is fully committed

to its mission of helping im-prove the educational system in the country by harnessing its core competency to build an ICT-empowered public school system that will benefit mar-ginalized students and teach-ers and give them the oppor-tunity to expand their knowl-edge,” said Fernando Esguerra, Globe OIC for Corporate Social Responsibility.

For the initial activity, 35 teachers from public second-ary schools in Metro Manila, Cordillera, Southern Tagalog, Bicol, and Western Visayas were selected to undergo a five-day intensive training in Cebu City.

DESPITE the non-com-mittal stance of Pres-ident Barack Obama

to defend the Philippines in case of China invasion, law-makers crossed party lines in expressing satisfaction to his statement, stressing it is the most diplomatic and realistic political position that the most powerful man in the world can avoid a destructive war.

Independent Minority Bloc leader and Leyte Rep. Ferdi-nandMartin Romualdez, Cavite Rep. Elpidio “Pidi” Barzaga, NegrosOccidental Rep. Alfredo

“Albee” Benitez, Magdalo par-ty-list Rep. Gary Alejano and Iloilo Rep. Jerry Treñas agreed with Obama’s statement.

“I am satisfied because that is the realistic position the uS can take under the circum-stances. The important thing is they are here to help ensure a peaceful resolution of the conflict that will be beneficial to all,” said Romualdez adding that Obama made it clear that the uS is a strong ally of the country.

Romualdez reiterated his

Pres. Obama grateful for Filipino hospitality

Lawmakers crossed party lines on Obama’s non-committal stance

Globe equips public school teachers with 21st century learning techniques

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GOVERNOR Rodolfo del Rosario signed Provincial Ordinance

No. 2014-003 enacting the Davao del Norte Public-Pri-vate Partnership (PPP) Code, which intends to en-sure the active participa-tion of the private sector in local governance and implementation of local projects.

The governor approved the Code in the presence of Vice Gov. Victorio Suayba-guio, Jr. and the members of the Sangguniang Pan-lalawigan during their 13th Regular Session.

Del Rosario said the ordinance fortified the PPP approach, as one of the major components of his P.E.O.P.L.E. development agenda.

“This Code gives effect to the PPP sanctioned by the national government recognizing the indispens-able role of the private sector touted as the main engine for national growth and development,” he said.

The governor add-ed the Code is among the crucial policy tools needed

to adequately prepare the province for the regional economic integration in 2015.

He revealed the de-crees earlier passed by the province in gearing up for the ASEAN Economic Community include the Provincial Investment and Incentives Code, Provincial Tourism Code and local road networks connecting Davao del Norte to the oth-er provinces.

With the PPP Code, the governor is confident that the province will be able to invite more investors to pour in capital for big ticket projects, such as the bridge linking the Island Garden City of Samal to the main-land.

Board Member Atty. Raymond Joey Millan, who is the author of the Pro-vincial PPP Code, said the ordinance seeks to encour-age greater participation of the private sector in the provision of basic public infrastructure through in-vestments, construction and operations and man-agement.

He bared the legal bas-es for the enactment of the ordinance include the R.A. 7160 known as the Local

Government Code (LGC) of 1991 and the Department of Justice Opinion No. 18, Series of 2012.

The DOJ ruling stresses that LGus may enact their own PPP code or omnibus ordinance outlying, among

others, all applicable mo-dalities provided no statue will be fringed. [Noel Bagu-io]

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PARTNERSHIP CODE. Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario signs the Davao del Norte Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Code, which intends to ensure the active participa-tion of the private sector in local governance and implementation of local projects. [Noel Baguio/DavNor PIO]

Del Rosario inks provincial PPP Code

“WATER is one of the basic neces-sities of life. Here

in our Barangay, we consider water as life,” stressed Camba-gang Barangay Captain Jimmy Ambasan at the blessing of the rehabilitated Potable Water System (PWS) funded through Kalahi-CIDSS DSWD.

After months of continu-ous brainstorming, rigorous planning and implementation, the rehabilitation of the Po-table Water System is finally complete and is now accessi-ble for public use.

Water was one of the ma-jor difficulties in the commu-nity.

Though, there was a water

reservoir in the area, people residing in farther sitios could barely obtain water for their daily needs. unless they hike far, they would remain water-less with their mouths and containers running dry.

With the few connections [water spouts] available, only a few households could readily access the water system.

A number of residents of barangay Cambagang, Mar-agusan, Compostela Valley would walk for an hour just to fetch water from the nearest water pipe. However, out of ne-glect, water pipes began bear-ing damages and subsequent ruptures.

Then entered DSWD Ka-

lahi-CIDSS PAMANA (Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan) which invests in empower-ing people and in advancing peace-promoting community projects.

Having undergone the distinct Kalahi-CIDSS social preparation process which involves orientation, commu-nity assemblies, participatory situation analysis, and vali-dation, the community then signified to pursue repair or rehab of their surviving water system.

In the execution of the community project, the wom-enfolk took a leap of faith as they registered a high partic-ipation rate.

“There are only a hand-ful of men in our barangay but I am very pleased that our women worked and heavily involved themselves in con-structing this project,” Baran-gay Captain Ambasan proudly shared.

He is hoping that more projects would continue to arrive in their village because this will not only make their lives easy but would also build camaraderie within the com-munity.

Having augmented the pipes and rehabilitated the impaired ones, fresh and pre-cious water can now easily be had by households even in far-thest sitios. [DSWD]

Fresh water gushes forth in remote ComVal village

THOuSANDS of job va-cancies are up for filling out at SM City General

Santos on May 1. The annual Job Fair is a joint project of SM, the Department of Labor and Employment XII and the Public Employment Service Office in observance of the 112th Labor Day celebration. Around 60 companies will be participating with more than 52 offering local deployment. Overseas vacancies include opportunities in Singapore, Malaysia, Norway, Hongkong and the Middle East. Job

placements for professional nurses and teachers as well as skilled workers are available. Pre-registration is on-going at the Mall Atrium.

Job Fair proper will be on Thursday, 9AM-5PM at the SM City General Santos Trade Halls 1 & 2. Jobseekers are encouraged to pre-register in order to avoid queuing on May 1.

In addition to the Job Fair, supporting activities will also be conducted such as the World of Work Fair (WWF) and Industry-Academe Forum

(IAF). The WWF will be par-ticipated in by the different companies and schools that will simulate the actual work situation of in-demand and hard-to-fill occupations. This is aimed at helping students in choosing their future ca-reers.

The AIF, on the other hand, aims to address the gaps between the industry and the academe and the labor-sup-ply demand mismatch. Big companies and schools in the region are expected to join the activity. The WWF will be held

at the 3rd floor bridgeway while the IAF will be held at the Trade Hall Meeting Room.

There are 45 SM Su-permalls hosting the DOLE Job Fair this May 1 includ-ing Mindanao malls SM City Davao and SM City Cagayan de Oro. SM Lanang Premier will be putting up a dropbox for jobseekers on May 1-4 at the upper ground floor of the mall.

For inquiries, call (83) 878.0667. Like SM City Gen-eral Santos on Facebook for event and promo updates.

Thousands of jobs available at SM City Gensan Job Fair

GENERAL SANTOS CITY

THE General Santos City Council wants the airport in Tambler offi-

cially named as General San-tos City International Air-port, as a symbol of the city’s continuing development and progress.

The council started de-liberations for a proposed ordinance that seeks the designation of the airport in Tambler into General Santos City International Airport, replacing its current code-name “Tambler/General Santos Airport.”

Councilor Shandee The-resa Llido-Pestaño, chair of the council’s Committee on Tourism, and proponent of the resolution, said the city airport should be properly named or identified along with the city.

“The airport not only reflects the city’s dreams but also the culture, heritage and landscape of the area,” she said.

Pestaño said the airport should be called General Santos City International Airport to establish a distinct name and instill a sense of ownership, common pride and enduring identity for the people of the city.

She added that the Local Government Code of 1991 provides that the city coun-

cil, in consultation with the National Historical Commis-sion, has the authority to name or change the names of its barangays as well as its local facilities such as public places, streets and struc-tures.

The city airport, which is located in barangays Fatima and Tambler, is an alternate facility that mainly serves the greater area of Region 12 (Southwestern Mindanao).

Region 12, also known as the Soccksargen Region, comprises the provinces of South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, North Cotabato and the cities of General Santos, Koronadal, Tacurong, Kidapawan and Cotabato.

The facility is the larg-est in Mindanao in terms of runway area and is officially classified as an international airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines.

The airport serves 21 regular flights every week or thrice daily from this city to Manila through leading do-mestic airlines Cebu Pacific and Philippine Airlines.

Cebu Pacific also uses the facility for its four reg-ular weekly flights to and from this city and Iloilo and three weekly night flights to Manila. [MindaNews]

GenSan wants airport officially named after it

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San Pedro College (SPC), St. Peter’s College of Toril (SPCT) and university of Immaculate Conception (uIC), all members of the Davao Association of Catholic Schools (DACS), signed a memorandum of agreement with Davao City Water District (DCWD) for the Adopt-a-Site project on April 22 at the DACS office.

All three schools agreed to adopt sites inside Mt. Talomo-Lipadas watershed with SPC and uIC adopting five hectares each and SPCT, one hectare. Signing the MOA on behalf of the school adopters were their respective presidents, namely, Sr. Annabella A. Roña, OP of SPC, Sr. Samuelita P. Enriquez, PM of SPCT and S. Ma. Marissa R. Viri, RVM of uIC while acting general manager Edwin V. Regalado, Community Relations and External Affairs Department manager and official spokesperson Imelda T. Magsuci and Environment and Watershed Protection Division manager Engr. Anthony D. Miranda represented DCWD.

Also present in the MOA signing was DACS president Jimmie Loe P. dela Vega who in the words of GM Regalado “bridged and promoted DCWD’s Adopt-a-Site project to its member schools.” Earlier this year, Holy Cross of Davao College with the help of DACS inked a MOA with DCWD for the adoption of five hectares of land also inside Mt. Talomo-Lipadas. Dela Vega shared that the addition of the three schools as adopters concretized DACS’ vision to take action by putting the schools’ resources into a commitment to protect the environment. Likewise, GM Regalado thanked DACS and the new school adopters as well as the partners from the academe DCWD has had over the years in its campaign for environmental and watershed protection.

The Adopt-a-Site is a five-year project wherein an adopter pledges to donate Php 6,000 every year for every hectare to be rehabilitated inside Mt. Talomo-Lipadas watershed. It was launched in 2001 and through active multi-sectoral participation, 816.5 of the 1,000 hectares assigned by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to DCWD have been completely rehabilitated to date.

Groups and individuals interested to adopt watershed sites may contact DCWD’s Environment and Watershed Protection Division thru 297-4238 local 429. (Jamae R. Garcia)

SPCT, UIC and SPC join watershed adopters. (L to R) DCWD Environment and Watershed Protection Division manager Engr. Anthony D. Miranda, Community Relations and External Affairs Department manager and official spokesperson Imelda T. Magsuci, acting general manager Edwin V. Regalado, SPCT pres. Sr. Samuelita P. Enriquez, PM, UIC pres. S. Ma. Marissa R. Viri, RVM, SPC pres. Sr. Annabella A. Roña, OP and DACS pres. Jimmie Loe P. dela Vega sign the Adopt-a-Site project MOA.

More DACS member schools adopt watershed sites

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OVER 20,000 job vacan-cies will be offered in this year’s Labor Day

Job Fairs. The Department of Labor

and Employment (DOLE) in Davao region said the agency has prepared a total of 24,031 job vacancies for local and overseas employment oppor-tunities who will flock the May 1 Job Fair in three different mall venues.

Dole 11 regional director Joffrey M. Suyao said that from the total of 224 hiring com-panies and employers, some 5,754 job vacancies for local employment are posted while 18,277 vacancies are for over-seas employment

“This is the biggest and grandest celebration Job fair of the year where we expect to have over 5,000 job seekers and hopefully at least 15% of them will be hired on the spot,” Suyao said.

Suyao said the Job Fair the highlight of this year’s 112th Labor Day celebration with the theme “Sa Sipag, Tiyaga at Talino, Buong Mundo Saludo sa Manggagawang Pilipino” salutes to the distinct amiable

characteristics, work attitude and competence of the Filipino labor force all over the world.

“I thank the continued support of our partners for this event are Gaisano Mall of Davao, Gaisano Mall of Tagum and SM City Davao and me-dia outfits ABS-CBN and GMA Davao,” Suyao said.

Gaisano Mall of Davao will hold the Job Fair on May 1-2, 2014. While SM City Davao will hold the event on May 1.

Gaisano Mall of Tagum will also be hosting Job Fair on May 1 to cater applicants from the provinces of Davao del Norte, Compostela Valley and even those from Davao Oriental.

“The DOLE and our part-ners work to make it easy and fast for job seekers to find jobs that fit their qualifications, interests, and career inclina-tions,” he added.

Topping the list of the most number of vacancies for local employment are Call Center Agent, Product dealers, Customer Service Assistant, Service Crew, Telemarketer, Administrative Clerk, Cred-it Counselor, Kitchen Crew,

Computer Programmer, Data Receiver, Contractual Produc-tion Workers, Carpenter and

Accounting Staff. Top overseas employment

vacancies include household

services workers, murses, Salesman, Security Guard, Laborer, Mason, plumber, car-

penter, Electrician and Janito-rial services. [Sherwin B. Man-ual/ DOLE11]

READY FOR SALE. An “ukay-ukay” shoes vendor repairs his goods before selling them along Roxas Avenue, Davao City in this photo taken last Monday, 28 April 2014. [MindaNews photo by Toto Lozano]

Over 24, 000 jobs available for grabs on Labor Day Job Fairs

EDGEDAVAO

THE ECONOMY

DuRING the annual stock-holders’ meeting of Security Bank Corpora-

tion (PSE: SECB) on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, Security Bank President and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Alberto S. Villarosa highlighted the robust growth in the Bank’s core business and balance sheet in 2013. Total re-sources grew by 34% to reach an all-time high of Php 347.5 billion at year-end 2013. Loan portfolio growth was 38% as retail, commercial, and corpo-rate loan demand was strong. Asset quality remained supe-rior with the non-performing loans (NPL) ratio at 0.11%, while the NPL reserve cover remained among the highest in the industry at 195%. 36 new branches were opened during the year, bringing the Bank’s network to 244 branches at year-end 2013. Deposits grew by a record 45% driven by in-vestments in the sales force and branch network. 2013 saw the execution of key retail bank initiatives with the goal of establishing the retail seg-ment as one of the Bank’s ma-jor business pillars. Amidst this business expansion, the Bank earned Php 5 billion in net income, with return on share-holders’ equity of 13%.

In the first quarter of 2014, Security Bank reported net in-come of Php 1.43 billion, repre-senting 17% year-on-year in-crease, driven by 42% growth in net interest income. The return on shareholders’ equity was at 13.8% for the first quar-

ter of 2014.In response to reporters’

queries, Mr. Villarosa said, “We continue to grow our core business and expand our bal-ance sheet profitably. To com-plement our strengths in the corporate, commercial and fi-nancial market businesses, we have accelerated the journey towards comprehensive retail bank transformation which we started in 2012 to make bank-ing easier and better for our customers. Superior customer experience is the anchor of our value proposition to our target retail markets.”

Security Bank’s total re-sources grew to Php 377 billion as of March 31, 2014 represent-ing 46% year-on-year growth. Loan portfolio was Php 166 billion for a 39% year-on-year growth. Deposits increased to Php 211 billion, 49% year-on-year growth. Capital grew by 11% year-on-year to Php 42 billion as of March 31, 2014.

Security Bank recently received Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas (BSP) approval of the regular semestral cash divi-dend of Php 0.50 per share and a special cash dividend of Php 0.50 per share earlier declared by the Bank’s Board on March 25, 2014. The record date for the Php 1.00 per share cash dividend is May 7, 2014 and the payment date is June 2, 2014.

During the stockholders’ meeting and the ensuing orga-nizational board meeting, the following were elected to the Board of Directors: Frederick

Y. Dy as Chairman, Paul Y. ung as Vice Chairman, and Diana P. Aguilar, Anastasia Y. Dy, Jose R. Facundo, Eduardo I. Plana, Ra-fael F. Simpao, Jr., Alberto S. Vil-larosa as directors, and Philip T. Ang, James JK Hung, and Joseph R. Higdon as independent di-rectors.

In 2014, Security Bank was the recipient of awards such as “Best Cash Management Solu-tion” and “Best Service Pro-vider and eSolutions Partner Bank” in the Philippines by The Asset; “Excellence in Payment Innovation” by The Retail Bank-er International; “Best Investor Relations Company” and “Best

CEO (Investor Relations)” by Corporate Governance Asia of Hong Kong; and cited as “Best Investor Relations Compa-ny” by FinanceAsia. In 2013, the Bank was recipient of key awards such as “Best Managed Bank in the Philippines” by The Asian Banker; “Best Do-mestic Bank”, “Best Domestic Debt House”, and “Best Overall Domestic Provider of FX Ser-vices” in the Philippines by Asi-amoney; and “Best e-Banking Implementation Solution in the Philippines for Cebu Pacific Air” and “Best Service Provider and eSolutions Partner Bank in the Philippines” by The Asset.

Security Bank sustains core business growth

by the numbersPHL’s total trade-in-goods

deficit in first two months was US$1.6 billion, lower than the

US$1.7 billion posted in the same period a year ago.

Source: NeDA

THE Philippine econ-omy’s remarkable growth of 7.7 per-

cent in the first half of 2013, along with the gov-ernment’s investments in social development programs, significantly reduced poverty in the period, possibly marking the beginning of an appre-ciable downward trend in poverty incidence, accord-ing to the National Eco-nomic and Development Authority (NEDA).

The Philippine Sta-tistics Authority (PSA) revealed today that 24.9 percent of Filipinos were considered poor based on their average income in the first semester of 2013, down from 27.9 percent in the same period in 2012. In terms of families, pov-erty incidence likewise declined to 19.1 percent in the same period from 22.3 percent in 2012.

“The remarkable im-provement in the poverty incidence in the first half of 2013 is evidence that the

Philippine’s development strategies are heading in the direction of inclusive growth,” said Economic Planning Secretary Arsen-io M. Balisacan.

“Sustaining rapid eco-nomic growth while main-taining a sound macroeco-nomic environment has proven to be effective in re-ducing poverty,” he added.

For the first time, offi-

cial poverty statistics used the income data from the Annual Poverty Indicator Survey (APIS). Previous estimates were based on the Family Income and Ex-penditure Survey (FIES), which is being conducted every three years.

The PSA also report-ed that subsistence inci-dence, or the proportion of extremely poor Filipino families or individuals who could not afford to meet their basic food require-ments, declined in the pe-riod to 7.7 percent among Filipino families and 10.7 percent among Filipinos.

Poverty reduced in first half of 2013

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THE Department of Sci-ence and Technology (DOST), in coordina-

tion with the university of the Philippines, will deploy a plane that would survey calamity-prone areas in the Autonomous Region in Mus-lim Mindanao by August.

The endeavor is part of the department’s Disaster Risk and Exposure Assess-ment Mitigation (DREAM) Project.

The DREAM Project seeks to create hazard maps which can be used for the implementation of disaster preparedness measures by communities within the re-gion.

“The plane will gather information through the use of the Light Detection and Ranging or LIDAR technol-ogy to produce high resolu-tion, detailed and up-to-date elevation map and data sets,” DOST Assistant Secretary Raymond Liboro announced during an information drive on disaster preparedness which was held in Zamboan-ga City recently.

The information cam-paign which is entitled “Sci-ence for Safer Communities: Iba Na ang Panahon” was participated by mayors, di-saster response officials and other local government offi-cials from Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-tawi (BASuLTA).

The participants were provided access to scientific tools such as flood hazard maps, flood models and high

resolution maps which may be utilized to implement im-mediate action plans to deal with disasters.

LIDAR is a technology which uses laser light to map out topographic features of land forms such as moun-tains and valleys and water systems such as river, lake, stream, among others.

The data that will be gathered through the plane’s LIDAR equipment will be analyzed to produce hazard maps that will assess the vul-nerability of communities to natural calamities such as typhoons, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

The maps will be based on flood models and used with the integrated Flood Early Warning System which will provide people and communities a six hour no-tice to prepare for impend-ing floods and other disas-ters.

The plane will be de-ployed in the BASuLTA prov-inces, according to Liboro.

The DOST official ex-pects that the hazard map-ping will be completed by next year as the process of its preparation usually takes three months.

To date, DOST has in-stalled 46 weather sensors all over the ARMM to help the region monitor rainfall, water level and stream lev-el to prepare for disasters such as flooding, earthquake and tsunami, among others. [PNA]

DOST to provide hazard maps in ARMM for disaster preparedness

FOSSIL fuel subsidies are contributing to fiscal instability and under-

mining governments’ efforts to combat serious economic and environmental challenges, such as climate change, and the transition to an inclusive green economy, according to experts.

“Reforming Fossil Fuel Subsidies for an Inclusive Green Economy” is the theme of the two-day event co-orga-nized by uNEP, IMF, GIZ and the Global Subsidies Initiative of IISD. Sessions will focus on how fiscal policies can address the perverse effects of fossil

fuel subsidies and strengthen government spending for sus-tainable development.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change re-cently reported that CO2 emis-sions from fossil fuel combus-tion and industrial processes were responsible for approxi-mately 78 per cent of the total increase in greenhouse gas emissions between 1970 and 2010.

Experts say reducing or eliminating harmful fossil fuel subsidies - and properly pric-ing energy to account for en-vironmental impacts - is one of the most promising ways

governments can promote a transition to a greener econo-my, and even the playing field for investments in energy effi-ciency and renewable energy.

Subsidies to producers often support inefficient state-owned energy companies and stifle incentives for greater efficiencies and innovation, while subsidies to consumers often encourage excessive con-sumption, which has knock-on effects for pollution, human health and greenhouse gas emissions.

Globally, fossil fuel subsi-dies are estimated to be in the range of uS$500 billion. When

taking into account implicit subsidies from the failure to charge for pollution, climate change and other externalities, the IMF estimates the post-tax subsidy figure is closer to $2 trillion worldwide - equivalent to about 2.9 per cent of global GDP, or 8.5 per cent of govern-ment revenues. Furthermore, it finds the removal of such subsidies could lead to a 13 per cent decline in CO2 emissions.

In comparison, according to the International Energy Agency, global subsidies to the renewable energy industry were $88 billion in 2011.

“Fiscal policies are of par-

ticular importance in a green economy transition. Confront-ed by a fiscally constrained world, government reforms might appear to be a daunting challenge,” said uN under-Sec-retary-General and uNEP Ex-ecutive Director Achim Steiner.

“However, it is important to note that fossil fuel subsi-dies cost countries precious funds. For example, they di-vert government resources from pro-poor spending in Africa, where governments spend an estimated 3 per cent of GDP - equivalent to their to-tal health care allocation - on fossil fuel subsidies,” he add-ed.

Several countries, in-cluding Ghana, Namibia, the Philippines and Turkey, have all shown that it is possible to reform energy subsidies and prices. uNEP is currently undertaking green economy fiscal policy studies in sever-al countries, including Ghana, Kenya and Mauritius, which

will inform the respective governments as they advance their fiscal policy reforms.

Experts are calling on gov-ernments to use government policies to leverage private investment in green sectors by redirecting public invest-ments to clean technologies and providing direct public expenditure for research and development. For example, tax incentives could make investments in clean technol-ogies more attractive, while government funds could re-duce the risk profile of capital intensive new technologies.

In addition, experts ac-knowledge that, in some cas-es, eliminating these subsidies could have ramifications on the poor or weaken the com-petitiveness of domestic in-dustries. Therefore, they said, social protection measures are needed to ensure vulnera-ble groups are not overlooked and receive assistance during a transition period. [UNEP]

Fossil fuel subsidies hamper pathway to inclusive green economy- - Experts

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THE Philippine Press Institute quiet-ly marks its golden anniversary with the conferment of the annual media

awards, the holding of its annual assembly and other events in Metro Manila. Former President Fidel V. Ramos will be keynote speaker with this year’s golden theme “@50 and Beyond”.

The theme has added significance because what lie “beyond” this celebratory milestone are real challenges that the Philippine press still must face. It has to deal with issues on credibility , media killings, legislative ad-vocacies, search for justice, press freedom, capacities and working conditions of media

workers, mechanisms of redress, internal discipline and viability, among others. And decidedly, the bigger challenge today is the emerging dominance of cyberspace as a fast-er platform for information and views.

It is in this environment that PPI is mark-ing its half-century milestone mindful that the Philippine press must continue and re-main to do its role in upholding press free-dom and provide the public with verified, accurate and truthful information that is vi-tal to democracy.

So while we celebrate, we are also burdened by the thought that there is much yet to be done “@50 and Beyond”.

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By LEiLANi S. JUNiO

SPECIAl FEATURE

By MANNy VALDEhUESA   

WORM’S EYEVIEW

Corporate greed

Seeing hope for normalcy

Service-oriented and Orderly Abroad; Sana Also at Home

CONSuMING PuBLIC ACT IN FRENZY - What will the people expect about the long hot summer months in the big bus-

tling metropolis and its suburban areas? Possi-bly all nights out together with friends in lavish beach parties and euphoric bar joints? Between the crazy heat waves and insane traffic gridlock, there’s some more.

We mean to say this will actually make the irate and disgusted consuming public act in frenzy. And, the consumers were unhappy. How can they be delighted if they continue to writhe due to the scarcity of fresh potable water and power supply?

Simple logic dictates that the lesser the supply, the smaller supposedly is the tab. But it’s entirely different nowadays. The longer the water interruption the bigger the account and the longer the brownouts the bigger is the bill. Water and power distributors reasoned out that supply normally is tight and scarce during the summer months. It’s basically about the law of supply and demand.

Power distributors say that prevailing elec-tricity cost in the market is high therefore they have to impose higher distribution and genera-tion charges to the consumers who are always at the losing end. That’s an add-on effect with-out even sharing part of the additional financial burden.

It’s really sad when greed sinks into the heads of big business entities and their high-ly-paid corporate executives. And this made me to remember of a very significant quote I’ve happened to peruse in the internet which says: “When I was young I’m scared of darkness, now with my electricity bill I’m scared of the lights.”

IMPROVING FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELA-TION – The country’s economic relations with foreign investors have been resilient for quite some time that any renewed concessions can be considered significant. The Philippine gov-ernment is now reasonably confident that for-eign investors aren’t about to abandon their basic position in the domestic market.

Government economists and financial managers say the big factor in strengthening economic relations, which had given the coun-try guarantees that foreign entrepreneurs will

stick to their previous com-mitments is that more have inter-est in the Philip-pine’s economic environment.

Helping to r e i n v i g o r a t e the country’s economic activ-ities were the commitment of some foreign investors and their governments to pour in more capital for infrastructure de-velopment, information technology, manufac-turing and agricultural expansion. Still, the re-newed investment guarantee was an achieve-ment.

Lead by the u.S., British Virgin Island, Japan, Netherlands and Australia, the country will benefit from a combined foreign investment worth P300 billion. Any fresh business nego-tiations are seen by the Aquino administration as very encouraging because foreign capitalists don’t seem to care about what the rabid critics and political detractors say about the country’s present socio-economic and political situation.

However, other private economists are pes-simistic still, and they are not so sure about the country’s recent economic improvement. For one, they noted that in terms of foreign direct investments (FDI), the country still lagged be-hind its neighboring regional economies. May-be, but their observation has some basis. Here are the numbers: what the country obtained from FDI is still not substantial.

It’s actually a pittance compared to what Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and other countries in the ASEAN region acquired. Singapore, for example, received a significant portion of the FDI amounting to staggering $56 billion while the Philippines only got a tiny slice of the investment pie amounting to just $2.6 billion. What a difference!

Of late, though, government was focus-ing too much on the trading floor and forgot about the rest, say some inquisitive economic experts. Foreign investors are interested in

fast-growing sector. Aside from infrastructure and agricultural development, information technology and electronics manufacturing are two sectors that global fund managers under-stand. Both sectors are hungry for capital.

Elsewhere, foreign investors are pump-ing their money into energy development and consumer-based stocks while others find some ways around investing heavily in modern agri-cultural technology and mass food production not to mention mine and oil explorations. But among nations, economic expansions mostly FDI dependents continued to endure.

Well, the corporate outlook may not look so good and the economy may be slowing down a bit, but that’s only temporary. The long-term economic viewpoint for the country is superb. Indeed, foreign investors persist and expectant that our national leaders, President Benigno Aquino III above all, have the political will and determination to carry out reforms and solve the country’s slackening economic fundamen-tals.

Though official government forecasts call for modest economic growth confidence was high that FDI would continue to stream in. FDI are key elements that fuel a country’s economy and the potential benefits and impact of capi-tal inflow may lead to permanent upsurge in economic growth. The most important thing, noted some reputable economists was that government is now able to disseminate infor-mation about FDI on a real-time basis.

With up-to-the-minute progress, foreign investors are more eager to pour in more cap-ital. Nevertheless, in any relationship, people express diverse views and some are negative. Some prefer to think that foreign capitalists have a commitment to invest in all emerging markets in the region not just because it’s a de-veloping country like the Philippines.

The question particularly for the govern-ment is how it can make sure the economic pursuits it would undertake are actually add-ing a bit of value to the lives of the marginal sector. The FDI is something that we are to be proud of, but only adds little comfort to the “built-in” critics and political adversaries of the present leadership.

THE context of his other writings also reflected the condition of many colonial societies and made

him an iconic figure in the annals of the Malay world—where he is admired to this day.

***** Thank goodness, we overcame that

colonial episode and the cobwebs of prejudice. But the march of civilization never ends and we must ever strive to refine our ways as citizens of an honor-able society.

One of the refinements needing our attention and action is civic conscious-ness. We must address the paradox of our split-level behavior: abroad, we are service-oriented, eager to please, and fastidious OFWs (overseas Filipino workers)—but not in our home country.

While abroad, we are great maintain-ers of foreigners’ homes, compounds, or communities. But back here, we behave differently.

We neglect the governance and up-keep of our own community/barangay. We leave arrangements to others and don’t even bother to supervise the public servants we elect.

Thus even where our public servants prove to be unruly, corrupt, or inept, no one takes them to task, no one bothers to have them disciplined, or removed and replaced as the law requires.

All this is true at barangay as well as at upper levels, municipal to national. It doesn’t strike anyone that a nation of ne-glectful citizens can never be truly pro-gressive, or be truly great.

Yet, practically everywhere abroad we we’re used to take care of homes, households, compounds, even entire communities. We make them orderly, neat, and pleasant by giving proper at-tention to detail, a habit that endears our OFWs everywhere, one that is consistent with orderly, civilized living.

But look around, starting with the Barangay Hall. Hardly do they project a sense of orderly, civilized living.

Why is it so impossible to build and maintain the same standard and sense of elegance here at home as abroad?

In only a very few places do we find well-maintained barangays—and they’re likely to be the privately-owned portion of it. The rest is sloppy, neglect-ed, uncivilized, with squatters practically everywhere.

This is very surprising to alien ex-patriates who visit or live with us—be-cause it concerns the very spaces we oc-cupy, where we live.

Let’s hold that thought till next time as we explore this thread further.

[Manny, among others, is former UNE-SCO regional director for Asia-Pacific, sec-retary-general of Southeast Asian Publish-ers Association, director at Development Academy of Philippines, member of the Permanent Mission to the United Nations, vice chair of Local Government Academy, member of the Cory Government’s Peace Panel, and PPI-UNICEF awardee for out-standing columnist. You may reach him at valdehuesa@gmail.com]

MORE than five months after super typhoon “Yolanda” struck Eastern Visayas last November, a growing sense of hope for

recovery and rehabilitation is now visible for the Sara-Osos siblings, who have been living by them-selves in Hilusig Village in the town of Mahaplag, Leyte.

This positive attitude can be attributed to Jo-nel, 22, the oldest in a brood of six who never tires trying to open up the eyes of his siblings that there is always road to recovery and rehabilitation — through determination

As a welder employed under the Cash-for-As-set and Livelihood Program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the municipal government, Jonel continues to inspire his brothers and sisters that there will be normalcy in their lives.

According to an information officer of DSWD, Jonel disclosed that like other survivors in the town, they are happy that basic services are now back, like the stable supply of electricity from the Dulag Rural Electric Cooperative (DuRELCO) and clean water flowing from community taps.

He also shared that many farmers have re-turned to the fields, and because of this, the local market now abounds with goods, and the roads have been cleared of debris.

“We owe a lot of it from the national govern-ment, through the different line agencies, and oth-er humanitarian groups who were instrumental to this big improvement in the town,” said Jonel

He also cited the DSWD for not neglecting them during the times they needed food as the relief assistance from the agency kept them going through “difficult times,” especially days following the devastation brought about by the typhoon.

“Dako kayo akong pasalamat sa DSWD kay wala mi gipasagdaan kay ka-16 jud mi nakadawat bisan ug layo kayo mi sa Tacloban City (We thank DSWD for not neglecting us because we received relief goods 16 times even if we live far from Ta-cloban City),” Jonel said.

He added that through the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO), the DSWD distributed relief goods and other rehabil-itation materials to survivors of “Yolanda” in the five urban barangays and 23 rural villages of the town.

Jonel said that being a beneficiary of the Pan-tawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the DSWD helps them also to cope as they are among those receiving cash grants to meet his younger siblings’ education and health needs.

Jonel recalled that his father died some years back due to a road accident while her mother is working in Manila.

He said that after “Yolanda” washed away their home that was built by their father, they are

currently staying in the house of their aunt.As he assumed the responsibilities of his

father to his younger siblings, he became aware that he had to look for other means to meet their daily needs, augmenting the meager amount earned by their mother.

He was thankful that the Cash-for-Asset and Livelihood Program was implemented by the DSWD, where survivors like them are given the chance to be employed and earn.

“Akong gihulat nga mahuman nako ang Cash-for-Asset aron akong itukod og balay (I am wait-ing for the completion of the Cash-for-Asset so that I can use my income to rebuild a new house),” Jonel said.

He added that being a beneficiary of the Cash-for-Asset and 4Ps made it easier now for him to fulfill his obligations to his siblings.

He vows to find another job after he has com-pleted the Cash-for-Asset work to ensure that their journey to normalcy will continue and prove that if there is a will, there will always be ways for them to achieve normalcy.

Cash-for-Assets activities include river dredg-ing and embankment; canal and irrigation system digging and dredging; restoration of farmlands, farm-to-market roads, public markets, and school facilities; communal farm preparation; and mu-nicipal road and bridge clearing and cleaning..

Mahaplag is 71 kilometers south of Tacloban City and is the last municipality of Leyte province in the south. [PNA]

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Republic of the PhilippinesDepartment of Transporta-tion and CommunicationsLAND TRANSPORTATION

FRANCHISING AND REGuLA-TORY BOARD

Regional Office No. XIDavao city

petition for Renewal of a Certif-icate of public Convenience to operate apUJ Ordinary Regular Service

MARY JOY p. CHARMAN, petitioner Case No.2000-XI-00507

x- - - - - - - - -- - - -----x

NOTICE OF HEARING

Petitioner is a grantee of a Certificate of Public Con-venience issued in this case authorizing the operation of a PuJ Ordinary Regular Ser-vice on the route: TIGATTO ROuTE with the use of ONE (1) unit, which Certificate has expired last September 30, 2013.. In the petition filed on April 15, 2014, petitioner re-quest authority to extend the validity of said certificate to operate along the same route with the use of the same unit previously authorized.

NOTICE, is hereby giv-

en that this petition will be heard by this Board on MAY 13, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. at this office at the above address.

At least, TEN (10) days prior to the above date peti-tioner shall publish this No-tice once in a one (1) daily newspaper of general circula-tion in Mindanao

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

This petition will be acted upon by this Board on the ba-sis of its records and the doc-umentary evidence submit-ted by the parties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documen-tary and/or oral evidence.

WITNESS the Honorable BENJAMIN A. GO, CESO V,, Re-gional Director, this 15th day of aPRIL 2014 at Davao City.

TERESITA DELA PEÑA-YÑIGuEZ

Chief Transportation Development Officer

REPuBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINESREGIONAL TRIAL COuRT11TH JuDICIAL REGION

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COuRT-SHERIFFDAVAO CITY

HOME DEVELOpMENT MUTUAL FUNDMortgagee

-versus- EJF-REM CASE NO. 14,583-14

SHIRLEY S. JAYSON married to JOSEpH B. JAYSONMortgagor/s.

x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -xNOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE

upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135, as amended, filed by the above- mentioned morgagee against above-mentioned mortgagors with postal address at LOT 17 blk 76 ,PH 4 DECA HOMES Subd., Mintal, Davao City to satisfy the mort-gage indebtedness which as of November 25, 2013 amounted to ( p 823,124.24 ) 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 undersigned Sheriff IV of the Regional Trial Court, Davao City, will sell at public auction on May 23 , 2014 at 10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, Ecoland,Davao City to the highest bidder for Cash or MAN-AGER’S CHECK and in Philippine Currency, the following real property to-gether with all the improvements thereon, to wit:

Transfer Certificate of Title No. T- 146-2011012839

“ A parcel of land (Lot 17, Blk. 76, xxx) situated in Barangay of Tugbok, City of Davao Island of Mindanao.xxx Containing an area of ONE HUN-DRED TWENTY (120) 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 June 20, 2014 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 situated 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, April 15, 2014

FOR THE EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF: (SGD.) CONRADO p. MACAUTAY, JR.

Sheriff IVNoted by: (SGD) ATTY. EDIpOLO p. SARABIA, JR.Clerk of Court VI & Ex-Officio Provincial Sheriff

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MICROINSURANCE. Cebuana Lhuillier General Manager Jonathan Batanga discusses to members of the local media its latest product, the microinsurance, during a press briefing yesterday at the company’s regional office in Ladislawa Village, Davao City. Lean Daval Jr.

Bugahao appeared during the council’s regular session last month to ask the com-mittee on civil, political and human rights headed by coun-cilor Karlo S. Bello to probe the alleged forcible signing of waiver made by soldiers of theb69th Infantry Battalion to the residents.

The waiver, copies of which were distributed to re-porters in the session hall gal-lery, was in the form of a cer-tification that the “signatory voluntarily submitted himself to clear his name from the list of active New People’s Army (NPA) membership, support-er and sympathizer.”

Bughao said that he wor-ried about people who already signed the waiver that their life would be at risk knowing that the NPA has a presence in the area.

But Cabreros denied that they have invited some resi-dents in Paquibato proper to come to the military camp for some questions and clarifica-tions, saying that their “peace and development teams” did not even try to make any head counts among the resi-dents.

He said that the teams only conducted “house to house” dialogues or held dia-logues in barangay hall.

P10,000 cash assistance were just only given to them to stabi-lize their situation but the they need the fully recover from the incident by giving them addi-

tional financial aid.He said that he will ask

first City Treasurer Rodrigo Riola over the availability of funds for allocation and the city council for the approval.

Duterte said that the ini-tial P45-million calamity fund allocated for assistance is not enough to restore their lives after the incident.

City Social Service and Development Office (CSS-DO) assistant head Liwayway Caligdong earlier said that of the P45 million, P28 million has been set aside for cash assistance and the remaining amount of about P17 million was allotted to purchase food packs, beddings, and kitchen utensils.

The CSSDO has recorded a P155.4 million estimated damage from the fire last April

4. Based on their monitoring report as of last Monday, the CSSDO already listed 3,547 af-fected families in seven shelter areas.

Of the total, 2,279 were classified as owners, 883 are renters, 228 are boarders, 145 are sharers while 12 are care-takers. The report further dis-closed that there were 2,235 totally damaged houses while 44 were partially destroyed.

The CSSDO has already extended assistance to the vic-tims such as food packs, hot meals, partial beddings and kitchen utensils. [ABF]

The training covers rele-vant usage of ICT tools such as desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones; a clear under-standing of the internet and its tools for education, as well as mastery of word processing applications for good class-room management.

It also involves prob-lem-based learning (PBL) approaches that challenge students to learn through en-gagement in actual and relat-able problems. It is a format that places students in the role of problem-solvers and teaches them how to be active and independent learners.

“We have been doing PBL but we didn’t know that it could be applied in other ways. usually, we tell the students what to do but through this process, we can just supervise the students and give them freedom to solve the problem on their own pace. This way, the stu-

dents not only develop their intellectual skills but also ex-perience less pressure. This will also help enhance their self-esteem and interpersonal skills,” said Nelia Depaynes, a Science teacher at Tublay School of Home Industries in Tublay, Benguet.

Rick Babatuan, also a Science teacher of Katipunan National High School in Car-men, Bohol said: “The training teaches us how to integrate ICT in teaching. ICT is chang-ing the classroom situation. Students are no longer con-fined within the four walls of the classroom.”

Likewise, Globe will launch a leaders’ strand next month to formally create new GFT trainers from high per-forming graduates who would be tasked to independent-ly conduct GFT workshops within their respective school, division, and other scopes of influence.

From the leaders’ strand, and along with teacher eval-uations, Globe expects to produce more than 250 GFT graduates by the end of 2014 alone, on top of the 262 grad-uates produced during the four-year existence of the program. Globe also continu-ously evaluate the proficiency of graduates to maintain high standards in carrying out us-age of the learning tools in public schools nationwide.

The GFT program has so far produced several out-standing graduates such as Shateen D. Seraña of Taluk-sangay NHS in Zamboanga who won the 2012 Innovative Teachers Leadership Award, an international award for teacher excellence given by Microsoft; and Marivi L. Cas-tro of Gensan SPED and Gal-coso Alburo of Concepcion Integrated School who were among the Metrobank Out-standing Teachers awardees.

appeal to President Benigno Aquino III to immediately dis-close to Congress the contents of the Enhanced Defense Co-operation Agreement (EDCA) of the Philippines and the unit-ed States in the name of trans-parency and accountability.

Barzaga, House head of the National unity Party (NuP), agreed with Romualdez, say-ing “Obama’s statement is already a very encouraging assurance implying that if any country would no longer be operating in a peaceful and responsible manner, within the territorial domain of the Philippines, we could always expect of the help of the united States of America.”

Benitez, a stalwart of the ruling Liberal Party (LP), laud-ed Obama’s position, describ-ing it “as a balance and pru-dent statement aimed at not provoking China.”

“War has no place in mod-ern days. Let us work together to amicably settle the territori-al dispute and we should avoid provocative statements that could lead to chaos and dis-tress,” Benitez stressed.

For his part, Alejano said: “I agree with President Obama. That would be a politically right statement and that would be enough assurance for us. Statements of heads of state are China’s aggression and ex-pansion and therefore balance

the power in the region.”“The defense agreement

with the uS is enough de-terrent against the Chinese expansionism in our area. I believe it is enough,” Treñas, another leader from LP point-ed out.

However, Akbayan par-ty-list Rep. Walden Bello slammed the military deal which is counter-productive to the interest of Filipinos. “It’s a very bad deal. We’re giving them rent-free bases with no commitment of support for defense of Scarborough and Kalayaan because they say these areas are not covered by Mutual Defense Treaty.”[PNA]

cans are inspired by the Filipi-no’s resilience and determina-tion to rise from any adversity like the devastating Typhoon Yolanda that hit the Philip-pines last year.

“Tonight, our hearts ac-

tually grieve for some of our fellow Americans back home who have been devastated by very terrible storms and tornadoes, but we draw our strength from your example,” he said.

“For even as we grieve, we know that we will recover and we will rebuild in these communities that have been affected because people will care after each other,” he add-ed. [PNA]

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RICE farmers can help reduce methane emissions into the

atmosphere by adopting controlled irrigation or al-ternate wetting and drying (AWD) technology.

Developed by the Lagu-na-based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), AWD is a technology which allowed rice fields to dry for a certain period before ap-plying irrigation water.

Also called controlled irrigation or intermittent irrigation, AWD technology can actually save farmers almost one-third of irriga-tion water without sacri-ficing yields. It also saves farm inputs like oil, fuel, and labor being utilized on the operation of water pumps.

On an 8-season field experiment conducted at IRRI, it was found that AWD “has real potential to reduce the global warming impact of paddy fields to one-third of the conventional contin-uously-flooded field water management.”

In a paper presented during the international workshop on “Water Man-agement and Technology for Crop Production under Climate Change” in Suwon, Korea, the authors claimed AWD “can reduce methane emissions by over 40%.”

Rice fields using this technology are alter-nately flooded and dried. The number of days of non-flooded soil can vary from one day to more than 10 days, according to IRRI. It uses an “observation well” that is made of bam-boo, plastic pipes, or any hollow indigenous materi-al. Perforations are made in the lower half of the tube.

The AWD technology can be started a few days

after transplanting (or with a 10-centimeter tall crop in direct seeding). When many weeds are present, AWD can be postponed for 2-3 weeks until weeds have been suppressed by the ponded water. Local fertiliz-er recommendations as for flooded rice can be used. Ni-trogen fertilizer maybe ap-plied preferably on the dry soil just before irrigation.

“A practical way to im-plement AWD technology is by monitoring the depth of the water table in the field using a simple perforated field water tube,” IRRI ex-plains. “When the water level is 15 centimeters be-low the surface of the soil, it is time to flood the soil to a depth of around 5 centime-ters at the time of flower-ing, from one week before to one week after the max-imum flowering.”

The water in the rice field is kept at 5 centime-ters depth to avoid any wa-ter stress that would result in severe loss in rice grain yield. The threshold of wa-ter level at 15centimeters is called “safe AWD,” as this will not cause any yield de-cline because the roots of the rice plants are still be able to take up water from the saturated soil and move it to root zone.

“The field water tube used in this technology will help to measure the water level in the field so that in-cipient water stress in the rice plants can be antici-pated,” the IRRI points out. As such, the AWD technol-ogy does not only save wa-ter but can greatly reduce emissions of methane.

Dr. Drew Shindell, a climatologist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia

university in New York, once said: “If we control methane, which is viable, then we are likely to soften global warming more than one would have thought, so that’s a very positive out-come.”

After carbon dioxide, methane is the second most important greenhouse gas, which is responsible for trapping the heat from the sun at it radiates back into space. Methane is created naturally as a waste prod-uct of anaerobic bacteria (living with little or no ox-ygen). These bacteria pro-duce methane gas in water-logged soil and wetland, but also in human-produced environment such as rice paddies.

Scientists explain that long-term flooding of the fields cuts the soil off from atmospheric oxygen and causes anaerobic fermen-tation of organic matter in the soil. During the wet season, rice cannot hold

the carbon in anaerobic conditions. The microbes in the soil convert the carbon into methane which is then released through the respi-ration of the rice plant or through diffusion of water.

It wasn’t until in 2001, when the united Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) submitted its report that methane was given much attention. “One of the most potent greenhouse gases on Earth,” the report said.

“Methane absorbs heat 21 times more than carbon dioxide and it has 9-15 year life time in the atmosphere over a 100-year period,” says Dr. Con-stancio Asis, Jr. supervising science research specialist at the Philippine Rice Re-search Institute (PhilRice) in Muñoz, Nueva Ecija.

A new study, which ap-peared in the journal Geo-physical Research Letters, said that methane’s effect on warming the world’s

climate may be double what is currently thought. The new interpretations reveal methane emissions may account for a whop-ping third of the climate warming “from well-mixed greenhouse gases” be-tween the 1750s and today.

Rice fields are one of the major contributors of methane in the atmo-sphere. “An estimated 19 percent of world’s meth-ane production comes from rice paddies,” admits Dr. Alan Teramura, a bot-any professor at the uni-versity of Maryland. “As populations increase in rice-growing areas, more rice – and more methane – are produced.”

According to Dr. Asis, rice crops emit methane starting from the trans-planting to harvesting stage, peaking at two weeks after transplanting up to the tillering stage.

The AWD technology is one of the farming sys-

tems that can help mini-mize methane emissions. But there’s more: “AWD technology can reduce the number of irrigations significantly compared to farmer’s practice, thereby lowering irrigation water consumption by 25 per cent, reducing diesel fuel consumption for pumping water by 30 liters per hect-are, and producing 500 kilograms more rice grain yield per hectare,” the IRRI says in a statement.

However, the AWD technology has its shares of disadvantages. For one, rice productivity is reduced using AWD tech-nology if moisture stress condition is induced. But studies have shown that the reduction of yield was less compared to the yield reduction due to the direct moisture stress effect.

Another disadvantage: emissions of nitrous oxide, also a greenhouse gas, are increased.

Controlling water in growing rice reduces methane emissions

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AGRITRENDS

By GERRY T. ESTRERA

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From Paris to oz or another imaginary land far and away, every excited parents’ imagination run wild with each monumental occa-sion in their child’s life. Supported by event specialists, parents are able to achieve the best scenery and décor with style impact and flair. Nowadays, there is a good roster of talented stylists who can help parents conceptualize a creative setting that brings any event to life.

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Party Decor-room Creations Party Depot is the brainchild of two dedicated mothers, ro-wena marie “Ena” C. Tai

and marie F. Lo, bound to-gether by their love for all things related to parent-ing and motherhood. This

event styling company specializes in beautifying event spaces with party decors and furnishings that are tailor-fit to every client’s taste and budget. “We’ve always loved arts and crafts even be-fore we became mothers,” shares Ena. “And now that we have our own children, we get to enjoy more of crafting by sharing little handmade creations with kids and fellow mommies. We’re also very hands on when it comes to planning our own parties. We even make the decors, invites, and pastries ourselves.” Channeling martha Stewart eventually took marie and Ena from one creative venture to anoth-

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bing Workshop. To add to the excitement, local Jrock cover bands, Seiteki and Evening Tea Time will en-tertain the con-goers with their delightful renditions of our favorite Japanese songs. Aside from local acts, Japanese pop idol group Starmarie will be flying straight from Japan to per-form for their Filipino fans once again. The audience will surely be entranced by the dance-y hits of the lovely girls, Shino Taka-mori and Nozomi Kishita. Excited con-goers will also witness the highly anticipated comeback of the Visual Kei rock Band, UchuuSentai:NoIZ. Hear Angel-Taka, Yamato, Ko-taro, masato, and Kyo per-form their newly-released oPm cover song, Liwanag sa Dilim live for the very first time!

BoA Summer LIVE! DavaoIn response to the re-quests of Davaoeños, we are bringing “BoA Sum-mer LIVE!” to mindanao on may 4 at the Function room 2, SmX Convention Center Davao, Sm Lanang Premier, J.P. Laurel Ave., Davao City, from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm. Watch participants from the different parts of mindanao unleash their talents in the competitions metro manilans have al-

ways enjoyed at BoA. Art-ists will prove their creative prowess at the Quickdraw Competition. Ingenuity and resourcefulness will be displayed in the east-meets-west Cosplay Com-petition. musical gifts will flourish as amateur sing-ers take their shot to be the Karaoke Competition Winner. Davao-based idol group, Pastel mix will also be entertaining the crowd with their cute per-formance ala-Starmarie that will definitely bring in moe-moe-kyun vibe to this exciting event. And finally after two years, UchuSentai:NoIZ will be back to the town that started their fondness of the Philippines. Con-goers at the “BoA Summer LIVE! Davao” will get to hear, and feel, once again the music of our beloved warriors from space.

Fan MeetAfter UchuSentai:NoIZ’s manila performance, fans will get an exclusive audi-ence with the boy. one hundred fifty babies (mon-iker for UchuSentai:NoIZ fans) will be treated to panel discussions with their idols, and an auto-graph signing and photo session on may 2 at THE PAD by Padi’s Point, San miguel by the Bay, Seaside Blvd., Sm mall of Asia, Pa-say City.

Babies from the south-ern part of the Philippines will also get their chance to meet their idols just before their Davao performance. An autograph signing and photo session for one hun-dred fifty fans will be held on may 4 at the meeting 2 and 3, SmX Convention Center Davao, Sm Lanang Premier, J.P. Laurel Ave., Davao City. Ticket prices start at Pho300 for regular conven-tion pass in manila/Davao. VIP passes, which includes convention pass and Fan meet pass, is priced at Php1,200 for manila, and Php600 for Davao. For more information, check out “The Best of An-ime” Facebook page. You may also call Primetrade Asia office at 895-1706/895-2966, or send us an e-mail at thebestofanime@primetradeasia.com or boamktg@primetradeasia.com. “BoA Summer LIVE!” is organized by Primetrade Asia Inc., in partnership with Hero TV, in coopera-tion with Creative Com-munications and Com-mons, Anime Alliance Philippines (manila), and Ambox Events (Davao), and sponsored by mogu mogu manila. Catch up-dates from our media part-ners: mYX, AnimePH-project, Deremoe, Anime Pilipinas, and arkadymac.com.

From one of the big-gest cosplay conven-tions in the country, “The Best of Anime (BoA),” comes a new project that is sure to make your summer even more exciting! Primetrade Asia, Inc. and Hero TV brings you “BoA Summer LIVE!” Set on may 1 (manila) and may 4 (Davao), “BoA Summer LIVE!” is guar-anteed to give you two rockin’ days of creativ-ity, music and friendship. Join our exciting com-petitions and win prizes! Call your friends for a fun get-together and jam with the thrilling performances from both local acts and foreign ones featuring, UchuSentai:NoIZ and Starmarie!

BoA Summer LIVE! ManilaHappening on may 1 at the metrotent Conven-tion Center, metrowalk Plaza, ortigas, Pasig City, 10:00am to 8:00pm, met-ro manilans are invited to take part in the activi-ties and surprises of “BoA Summer LIVE!” There will be a big battle of talents as we bring you BoA’s Top 3 most request-ed competitions! Budding artists will clash in a sin-gle-round, time-pressured QuickDraw Competition. musical notes will rise as Jpop and Jrock belters take center stage and contend to be the sole winner of the Karaoke Competition. Contestants will showcase their crafting and acting skills as they bring favor-ite characters to life in the open-category Cosplay Competition. Attendees will also get to improve their voice act-ing skills as veteran voice dubbers and dubbing di-rectors Jefferson Utanes and Filipina Pamintuan from Hero TV drop by for a one hour dynamic Dub-

ThE country’s premier provider of dynamic science edutainment Mad Science is set to dazzle kids of all ages at the Mad Science Kids’ Day on May 4, 5PM. highly interactive and experiential, Mad Science encour-ages kids’ scientific inquiry, creative hypotheses and analy-sis, and builds discussions on the learners’ ideas. On Sun-day, shoppers can expect foggy dry ice storms, giant beach balls floating in the air and a special Mad Science “burp” potion. Get the whole fam-ily ready in an after-noon of fire and ice as Mad Scien-tists join the 3 Day Sale at SM City Davao. Admission is free. Enjoy up to 70% off on great selections mall-wide at the SM Davao 3 Day Sale. SM Advantage, Prestige/BDO Re-wards card holders may avail of additional discounts when using their cards at The SM Store, Surplus, ACE hardware, SM Appliance Center, Watsons, Toy Kingdom and Levi’s during the much anticipated SMAC Sale Special happening between 9AM-12NN on May 2. On Friday, get fit with zins Lei Valle and Jonathan Gamil at the Zumba Fitness Night, 5PM. At 7PM, the cool dudes from Itchyworms are set to entertain shoppers with their feel-good music. Campus Crush Summer Tour features teen star Nash Aguas in an evening of music, dance and a whole lot of fun on Saturday, 7PM. Plus, catch the Red Light Sale at participating tenants. Avail of freebies and enjoy more discounts when your fa-vorite store turns the red light on. More surprises await everyone at the SM 3 Day Sale. Sale runs May 2-4 with ex-tended mall hours up to 12 MN on Friday and Saturday, and until 10PM on Sunday. For inquiries, call 297-6998 local 126. Like SM City Davao on Facebook or follow @smcitydavao on Twitter and @smdavao on Instagram for event and promo updates.

GLOBE TELECOM’S free Facebook offer helped drive the company’s subscriber uptake as it enabled customers to get into mobile browsing activities without cost. The offer also doubled mobile browsing adoption among the com-pany’s customers. At the end of 2013, Globe subscribers have reached a fresh record 38.5 million, a 16% rise from 33.1 million sub-scribers at the end of 2012. Most notable is that fourth quar-ter gross subscriber acquisitions registered a quarterly high of 8.8 million subscribers, a 19% jump from the previous quarter, steered by record acquisitions of the company’s prepaid (Globe Prepaid) and TM brands. Globe launched in November last year an exclusive and groundbreaking partnership with Facebook allowing its subscribers to have free access to the social networking site using the Globe data network. The company shared its technological capabilities and modernized network in-frastructure to drive the ambitious commercial offer, which was aimed at increasing mobile browsing adoption in the country. “By providing free access to Facebook, many of our sub-scribers have realized the benefits of mobile internet con-nectivity which helped sustain continued growth in sub-scriber acquisitions,” Globe President & CEO Ernest Cu said, adding that the offer also more than doubled mobile inter-net adoption among Globe customers. Aside from its col-laboration with Facebook, Globe has also partnered with popular message applications such as Viber, Facebook Messenger, Kakao Talk, WeChat, Whatsapp and Line, allow-ing many of its subscribers to communicate through mo-bile data services and providing alternatives to traditional telephony services. The collaboration with Facebook brought together first-of-its-kind customer experience innovations such as avail-ability in all Facebook mobile platforms, advice of charge notifications, one-click to purchase data plans & data ac-cess lending to access links outside Facebook. The free Facebook offer started in October and ends on April 30.

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Mad Science at SM City Davao 3 Day Sale, May 4

Globe free Facebook offer lifts subscriber uptake

Catch the BoA Davao Leg on May 4 at SMX Davao

Experience an anime convention

like never before at BoA Summer LIVE!

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EVERyThING is coming up roses for the protago-nists until the antagonists put an end to their lucky streak at the May episodes of the iconic fashion serye “Magkaribal’s” sub-titled version on The Filipino Channel (TFC) for non-Filipino speaking viewers worldwide. On the first week, May 4 on TFC worldwide, (May 3 Riyadh and London time), Gelay (Bea Alonzo) suc-cessfully sets up her very own boutique together with partner Mark Laurel (Edward Mendez) after clinching popular publi-cation Metro magazine’s competition amongst budding designers. Ge-lay’s string of good luck continues as the man of her life, Louie (Derek Ramsey) proposes mar-riage after coming home a sporting hero after win-ning an international com-petition. Chloe (Erich Gon-zales) is also on a roll as she comes home successful after having finished her scholarship in Barcelona, Spain. The same fate however did not befall for the antagonists Victoria (Gretchen Barretto) and Vera (Angel Aquino) as the former finds out she is heavy with Louie’s child and the latter tries to hide from the authorities and those she owes. The tables turn on the second week of May (May 11 worldwide and May 10 Riyadh and London time)

as Gelay finds out about Victoria’s pregnancy the same time she gets a false alarm. Meantime, Caloy (Enchong Dee), now a changed man after accepting his long-lost mother’s (Pinky Amador) riches turns fighter once again when he finds out about Victoria’s pregnan-cy and hits Louie for hurt-

ing his best friend Gelay. On May 18 (May 17 Ri-yadh and London time), Chloe photographs Caloy for the promotion of his chain of hotels which he inherited from his mother. The former lovers’ feelings seemingly rekindle. As for Gelay, Mark convinces her to give Louie a second chance. Louie decides to

take responsibility for Vic-toria’s baby but will marry Gelay. The following week on May 25 (May 24 Riyadh and London time), the tension increases as Gelay finds out that a fashion show will be combining her and Victoria’s clothing line. She lets out all of her suppressed anger on Vic-toria during a party in what could be the most antici-pated moments on “Mag-karibal’s” history. Mean-time, Chloe and Caloy throw caution to the wind and sleep together despite the former’s engagement with her mentor and now fiancé Neil (Mark Abaya). On the final week of “Magkaribal’s” sub-titled version (May 31 Riyadh and London time), Gelay and Louie’s happy mo-

ShE was once famous for doing sexy films. But now, God is the center of her and her husband’s lives. This Wednesday on Pow-erhouse, join Kara David as she explores the home of former sexy actress Rica Peralejo and her pastor hus-band Joseph Bonifacio. The Bonifacio couple lives in a condo unit in Eastwood, Libis in Que-zon City. This is one of the fruits of Rica’s 18 years in showbiz. Their home has a vintage ambiance because of old stuff like mason jars, an oven from her grand-mother, and a nursing chair which Rica used back when she was still a child. Rica will tour Power-house inside her work area where she usually writes

articles and blogs about her married life. here, one can see their book collection. She even lets the audience take a peek inside the room

of their baby Nathaniel Phil-ip. A large map is painted on the ceiling because Rica feels that her son would be a traveler when he grows

up. Rica admits that her life nowadays has changed. her showbiz career started when she joined a kiddie show and later, she dab-bled into sexy films. her mother almost renounced her when she started to rebel and have vices like drinking alcohol and smok-ing. When she met her husband, she left her old life and embraced her faith anew. Now, Rica is a full-time wife and mother, while her husband Joseph is a pastor and the executive director of Lifebox in Victory Church. Catch the inspiring conver-sation with Rica and Joseph Bonifacio on Powerhouse this Wednesday, April 30, right after Saksi on GMA 7.

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Bea Alonzo slowly rises against Gretchen Barretto in TFC’s sub-titled version of ‘Magkaribal’

Rica Peralejo and Joe Bonifacio on Powerhouse this Wednesday

ments together continue as the latter is awarded the “Athlete of the year.” In Victoria’s solitude, she only finds solace and a solution in her pills. Chloe and Neil, another couple yet to mar-ry, is faced with the stigma of Chloe’s one-night stand with Caloy. Neil, out of her true love for his former ward, accepts Chloe’s mis-takes and continues the engagement. Unexpected twists and

turns continue on TFC’s “Sub-titled Classics pres-ents: Magkaribal” all Sun-days (Saturdays in Riyadh and London) of May on TFC worldwide. Relive the surprising developments on TFC’s sub-titled version of the iconic fashionserye on TFC’s official online service TFC.tv, anytime anywhere. Connect with fellow global Kapamilyas. Visit www.facebook.com/TFCKapamilya

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er. “As DIY (do-it-yourself) fanatics, we are always on the lookout for unique art materials --- to a point that we’ve become hoarders. To our dismay, there are just a few shops in town which sell these items and we end up buying our materials abroad or in manila. We knew a lot of mothers are also into crafting, nowa-days. So we decided to put up our own online shop and supply materials to other DIY fanatics.” “It didn’t take long be-fore inquiries started to come in, asking us if we supply party decors. Soon, our online craft shop be-came a full-blown busi-ness, servicing parties and other events. Now, aside from supplying craft mate-rials, we also lease out food carts and design dessert stations and table center-pieces. We also customize loot bags, giveaways, in-vitations, and other party decors.” Ena describes their planning and design philosophy as creative, contemporary, and fun. “Some parents may have this notion that anything DIY or handmade is ex-pensive. marie and I un-derstand and share all these concerns on bud-get and party planning. That’s why we always work around our client’s budget. After all, our main func-tion is to help every family create happy memories.” Follow @creationspar-tydepot on Instagram and Facebook to view their list of products and party packages. For inquiries, bookings and/or orders, please contact Ena or ma-rie at 0925-5231951.

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THE university of the Philippines Mindanao bestowed degrees to the

204 graduates of Class 2014 during the 17th Commence-ment Exercises last April 23 at the Administration Building Atrium, Mintal, Davao City.

On the morning of April 23, Kriza Faye A. Calumba, a BS Food Technology major, ad-dressed her fellow graduates as Class Valedictorian. Calum-ba cited the awkward transi-tion and adjustments she and

her fellow food technology students went through during their freshmen year in uP Min-danao. Those crucial moments, Calumba expressed, taught her the value of diligence. Also the recipient of the Chancellor’s Awards for Academic Excel-lence and Leadership, Calum-ba graduated magna cum laude and garnered a cumu-lative weighed average grade (CWAG) of 1.2248.

Another magna cum laude honoree was Jade Mark C. Sa-

lubre, also a BS Food Technol-ogy graduate, who garnered a CWAG of 1.4135.

Ten graduates of the BA Communication Arts program received cum laude Latin honors: Mary Lyn E. Bernales, Fila Guia C. Hidalgo, Samuelle Marionne C. Sanchez, Arianne Dacalos, Mark Jester M. Lim, James S. Labrigas, and Flor Niño S. Palma.

The BS Applied Mathe-matics program had five cum laude honorees: April Jane S.

Sillada, Neil Marc Z. Sordilla, Maria Teresita T. Baliga, Ralph Reanne B. Cosare, and Junessa Bianca M. Libarnes.

Five from the BS Biology program also graduated cum laude: Marianne Kristelle E. Yarra, Sandy Faye D. Salma-san, Sharmaine L. Solatorio, Philippe Ceasar C. Basco, and Jyan Desse M. Solano.

Three cum laude gradu-ates completed degrees in BS Computer Science: Margaret D. Manalo, Joelieus V. Cossid II, and Pamela Llorence D. Demafeliz.

The BS Food Technology program had two cum laude graduates: Jamie Marie C. Salubre and Mylene Ross P. Arcena.

Allen Faw Samsuya, a BA English graduate and pub-lished poet, was awarded the Chancellor’s Award for the Arts.

Apart from the 23 newly conferred undergraduate de-grees in BS Agribusiness Eco-nomics, uP Mindanao’s School of Management bestowed Master in Management de-grees to 18 graduates.

Commencement Speak-er Dyan Aimee V. Mabunga Rodriguez spoke to the new Mindanawon graduates of uP about the meaning of service outside of the university.

Vice President for Ac-ademic Affairs Dr. Gisela P. Concepcion led the awarding of titles and conferment of degrees, while Alumni Regent Ponciano Rivera inducted the graduates into the uP Alum-ni Association. Also in atten-dance was Student Regent Krista Melgarejo, a graduate of uP Mindanao. Melgarejo is the first uP Mindanao gradu-ate elected to the uP Board of Regents.

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COMMUNITY SENSEUP Min confers degrees to 204 grads

Magna cum laude Kriza Faye A. Calumba (BS Food Technology) holds her diploma, flanked by (left-right) Univer-sity Registrar Julius Quiz, Vice Chancellor Karen Cayamanda, Chancellor Sylvia Concepcion, and parents Mrs. and Mr. Calumba.

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Five Manilans, three Ilonggos and two Ce-buanos took the top ten

slots for boys in the Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA Philippines 2014 presented by Alaska, while five girls – three from Manila, one from Cebu and one from Iloilo – formed the first batch of Jr. WNBA All Stars in the NBA’s international develop-mental basketball program held at SM Mall of Asia Music Hall Sunday.

After three days of bas-ketball boot camp at the PICC Forum and the SM MOA Music Hall, Paul Matthew Manalang, Jan Cyril Narva-sa, Samjosef Belangel, Luigi Velasco and Rhayyan Amsali from the Manila Regional Se-lection Camp; John Richard Gan, Vince Leo Dolendo and David Leandro umadhay from the Iloilo Regional Se-

lection Camp and Andrew Vincent Velasco and Jethro Rocamora from the Cebu Re-gional Selection Camp bested the competition and emerged as this year’s Jr. NBA All-Stars.

Five girls – Arielle Marie Lanot, Kreecie Bettina Binao-han and Roxanne Salvador from the Manila Regional Selection Camp, Karl Ann Pingol from the Iloilo Region-al Selection Camp and Mary Jean Pascual from the Cebu Regional Selection Camp – joined the ten boys in sharing the honor reserved for play-ers aged 10-14 who exhibited a superior skills set and best embodied the Jr. NBA S.T.A.R. values of Sportsmanship, Teamwork, a positive Atti-tude and Respect.

The ten young male cagers and five girls will be rewarded with an authentic

once in a lifetime NBA experi-ence and the chance to travel abroad – all expenses paid -- to play against a counterpart Jr. NBA Team later this year.

The training camp was jointly conducted by WNBA Legend Tina Thompson, utah Jazz player Gordon Hayward, Senior Director of Basketball Operations of NBA Asia Sefu Bernard, Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA coaches Chris Sumner, Jojo Lastimosa, Melissa Jacob, Ish Tiu, Alaska coaches and volunteer coaches who were candidates for this year’s Coach of the Year Awards.

Coach Cliff Andy Teso-can of Tacloban, Leyte was selected as the 2014 Jr. NBA Coach of the Year and Coach Pia Dysangco of Manila was named as the first ever fe-male Coach of the Year for having grown the sport of

basketball in the Philippines while promoting the Jr. NBA S.T.A.R. values of Sports-manship, Teamwork, a posi-tive Attitude and Respect to young basketball athletes.

A much awaited event highlight was the second Jr. NBA All-Star Alumni Game contested by Team Gordon and Team Tina, with the two NBA talents acting as head coaches of the two teams. Team Gordon won, 62-57, on the heroics of 2010 All-Star Henry Asilum who top-scored with 17 points, ably aided by Ichi Altamirano and Paul Dagunan, both from Jr. NBA Batch 2012. Team Tina led by as much as 11 points at 45-34, but the team effort of Team Gordon carried it through. The game was last deadlocked at 53-all, with 5:53 to play.

WITH foreign entries seeing action in the 9th Pomelo Tee In-

vitational Golf tournament on May 1-4 at the Rancho Palos Verdes Golf and Country Club, the battle for top honors have become more exciting.

Japanese golfers Masahi-ro Yoshida, TamioSakurai, Fu-mio Ohashi, Toshi Sugiyama, Yunozoke Iino, Marsao Wa-chil, Hitoshi Ando and Yoshiro Terada have signed up for the tournament.

On the other hand, res-ident Koreans Kim Young Hoon, CK Chang, Jeong Sang Hyun, Kyu Hyeok Ryu, Kang Ho Bong, Chon Young Rung, Kim Min Yuk, Cho Yn Hee, Jeoung Jeoung Hyun, Lee Eun Mi, Son Dae Ho, Kwon Eun Kyoung, Song Keoung HO, Ham Guen Hee, Kang Ho Bong, Chon Young Rung, Park Ok Hee, Kim Min Ae, Kim Min Suk, Jung In Kyu, Song Keong Ho and Han Guem Hee have

also joined the hunt for the coveted prizes in the annual tourney hosted by the RPVG-CC.

According to tournament rules, each team shall be com-posed of two players with one player a bonafide club mem-ber and an invited guest play-er. A club member can have a maximum of two teams but can only play a maximum of 36 holes.

Registration fee is P3,500 per player with lots of excit-ing giveaways and fabulous raffle prizes. A Mulligan fee of P500 is available for two days.

Prizes will be awarded to the over-all team gross and net champions, gross and net first to third runners-up, over-all Class A, B, C and D gross and net champions, first to second runners-up, Ladies gross and net champions and runners-up.

Fabulous prizes will be given away during the award-

ing night on May 4 at 6:30 p.m. at the clubhouse. The hole-in-one prizes are the P750,000 cash at hole nos. 2 and 11, a brand new motor-cycle from Emcor Davao at all

par 3s, a brand new car from KarAsia at all par 3s, a Class A golf share from RPVGCC in all par 3s, and a round-trip from the Royale Caribbean Cruise Ship in all par 3s.

WINNERS. Class gross and net winners of the recent 1st WOMB Golf Tournament pose during the awarding ceremonies on Sunday at the Davao City Golf Club. Boy Lim

The Miami Heat's march toward a fourth straight NBA

Finals appearance took a huge step forward Mon-day night when the two-time defending champions swept the Charlotte Bob-cats, 4-0, in Round 1 of the Eastern Conference play-offs.

LeBron James scored 19 points in the third quarter and the Heat ran away with Game 4 of the best-of-7 series at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, 109-98. It was the Heat's 10th consecutive series win since losing to the Dallas Mavericks in the 2011 NBA Finals.

The 6-foot-9 James, the reigning league MVP in-jured his thigh in the third period, but in didn't stop the offensive juggernaut from clocking a game-high 31 points with 9 rebounds

and 7 assists. He drilled 10 of 19 field goals.

It was a concerted ef-fort for the East's No.2 seed with Chris Bosh finishing with 17 and 8 boards and Dwyane Wade logging 15. Point guards Norris Cole and Mario Chalmers com-bined for 23.

The Bobcats, who have yet to win a playoffs game in franchise history, put up a gallant stand. They made 35 of their 69 field goals (50.7 percent) and convert-ed 7 of 25 threes (28 per-cent). But without big man Al Jefferson, their inside scoring was extremely lim-ited while defense suffered.

Kemba Walker paced the Bobcats with 29, hit-ting 11 of 15 field goals, including 4-for-7 from long distance. Gary Neal contrib-uted 16 while Gerald Hen-derson struggled with 12, missing 7 of 11 shots. (AD)

Heat sweep Cats

Rey "Boom Boom" Bau-tista has never trained as hard as he is for his

ring comeback against Mexi-co's tough Sergio Villanueva at the Mall of Asia Arena on May 10.

ALA Promotions president Michael Aldeguer told the Ma-nila Standard "we've never seen Boom Boom train as hard and stay as focused for this fight. He has never matured this way."

He noted that fight fans "had so much expectations of Bautista and if you watch and just appreciate what he does in the ring you will be entertained. Thats what Boom Boom is all about and we are very excited."

Bautista is coming off a close split decision loss to Mex-ico's Jose Ramirez in which he lost his WBO International featherweight title but is de-termined to regain his momen-tum against the 22 year old Villanueva who has a record of 26-3-2 with 13 knockouts and is coming off a ten round unan-imous decision over Fabian

Vladimir Rios last July 19. Bautista who wil soon turn

28 has a record of 34-3 with 25 knockouts.

Aldeguer said that "people felt that after Manny Pacquiao, he was the next savior but it was unfair to a guy who was so young and had limited skills but he entertains and cares for the fans."

He said Bautista "wants to come back and prove ev-erybody wrong and has been working on his flexibility, agil-ity and I think he has improved a lot and hopefully he won't throw it out of the window come fight time."

Aldeguer said that with former flyweight challenger Milan Melindo who is eager to get a rematch with Juan Fran-cisco Estrada also on the card against Mexico's Martin Tec-uaptela in a WBO INternation-al flyweight title fight he ex-pects a terrific night if boxing in the tremendously succesful Pinoy Pride series of the g iant broadcast network ABS-CBN in cooperation with ALA Pro-motions.

Boom Boom training hard for comeback

Jr. NBA, WNBA All Stars named

Foreign entries in 9th Pomelo Tee

TOP YOUNG CAGERS. The Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA Philippines 2014 All-Stars and Coaches of the Year: (L-R), first row, Coach Cliff Andy Tesocan, Arielle Marie Lanot, Karl Ann Pingol, Roxanne Salvador, Kreecie Bettina Binaohan, Mary Jean Pascual and Coach Pia Dysangco; (standing) Jethro Rocamora, Luigi Velasco, David Leandro Umadhay, Rhyann Amsali, Jan Cyril Narvasa, Samjosef Belangel, Andrew Velasco, Vince Leo Dolendo, John Richard Gan and Paul Matthew Manalang.

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DALLAS (AP) — Boris Diaw’s big third quar-ter wasn’t enough to

hold off a Dallas comeback.The San Antonio veter-

an’s decisive shot in the final minute was.

Diaw hit a go-ahead 3-pointer for the last of his 17 points, Manu Ginobili scored 23 and the top-seed-

ed Spurs held on to beat the Mavericks 93-89 in Game 4 on Monday night, pulling even in their first-round playoff series.

“You’ve got to give up something,” said Dirk Nowitzki, who was running at Diaw as the shot was re-leased. “That was a tough one.”

Just like Vince Carter’s buzzer-beating 3-pointer was for the Spurs two days earlier, when Dallas went up 2-1 with a one-point win. The difference was, the Mavericks had a chance to do something about Diaw’s shot after San Antonio went up 90-87 with 32 seconds remaining.

Nowitzki, who had 19 points, had a putback on a missed 3 by Monta Ellis to get Dallas within 90-89 with 19 seconds to go. But the Maver-icks let nearly 10 seconds run off the clock before fouling Ginobili.

Ginobili missed one of the free throws, giving Ellis a chance to tie on a driving layup. Ellis, who led the Mav-ericks with 20 points, missed again to finish a 6-of-20 shooting night.

“I had a good look at the end but it didn’t go down,” Ellis said.

The Spurs, who led by 20 points in the third quarter, regained the home-court ad-vantage by getting a split of two games in Dallas, match-ing what the eighth-seeded Mavericks did in San Antonio.

Game 5 is Wednesday night in San Antonio, and the Spurs are going back tied be-cause a bench that’s been qui-et this postseason outscored Dallas’ reserves 50-30.

“We knew that we could do better,” Diaw said. “We didn’t play the same like we did during the regular sea-son.”

Tim Duncan and Tiago Splitter had double-doubles for the Spurs, with Duncan getting 14 points and 10 re-bounds and Splitter adding 10 points and 12 boards.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Atlanta’s Mike Scott hit Indiana with the first

3-point barrage Monday night.

The Hawks’ defense staggered the Pacers with some late stops.

Now Atlanta is heading home with a chance to de-liver the knockout punch to the Eastern Conference’s top seed.

Scott scored all 17 of his points during the Hawks’ incredible second-quarter run, and the defense fend-ed off the Pacers’ frantic fourth-quarter charge to hold on for a 107-97 victory and a stunning 3-2 lead in the first-round series.

“We can play with this team,” Scott said. “They’re a great team, especially at home, great players, great coach, but we have a belief in ourselves as well.”

Why not?All the Hawks have to do

is protect their home court and they will reach the sec-ond round for the first time since 2011, and throw the East into disarray after the talk all season was about an Indiana-Miami rematch in the conference finals.

That looks like a long

shot now. The Pacers hav-en’t won consecutive games with their regular starters in the lineup since mid-March and the league’s best regu-lar-season home team (35-6) has inexplicably given away home court advantage to the Hawks — twice.

They’re making it look easy, too.

Atlanta shredded one of the league’s top defenses during a remarkable sec-ond quarter, making 13 of 16 shots overall and 9 of 11 from beyond the arc. Scott made all five of his 3s during the decisive 30-6 run, which actually started with the fi-nal basket of the first quar-ter, to turn a 21-18 deficit into a 48-27 lead.

Indiana never recovered.Atlanta outscored the

Pacers 41-19 during that 12-minute stretch, match-ing the second-highest sec-ond-quarter scoring total in the franchise’s postseason history. The Hawks scored 41 against Detroit on March 17, 1986, and the St. Louis Hawks had 45 against Fort Wayne on March 14, 1957.

Indiana, meanwhile, allowed a second-quarter franchise record, breaking the previous mark of 39

points set by Boston on April 23, 2005.

The Hawks joined the 1970 Milwaukee Bucks as the only road teams in the shot-clock era to score at least 40 points in a quarter and give up fewer than 19.

Not enough? Atlanta tied an NBA record with 9 3-pointers, most recently done in 2008, and also broke the franchise playoff record for 3s in a game with 15. The previous mark was 12.

“I didn’t even know,” Kyle Korver said after mak-ing two 3s in the second quarter and another late in the game to keep the Hawks in control. “Mike got hot. I don’t know how many 3s he hit in that quarter. Mike hadn’t shot the ball as well as he did tonight, but he hasn’t shot that well all se-ries.”

Shelvin Mack led the Hawks with 20 points, while Paul Millsap had 18.

The Pacers, meanwhile, endured yet another bleak chapter in a second-half col-lapse that could go down as the worst in NBA history — if they lose either of the next two games.

And it was downright dismal.

THE 10 participating teams will finally get their chance to practice

the four championship boats at the Baywalk, queensland for the 1st Davao Dragon Boat Fes-tival slated on May 1-4.

This was bared by Danilo “Jun” Bacus of the Davao Drag-on Boat Association (DDBA) at the SCOOP Session of The Roy-al Mandaya Hotel.

The Philippine Air Force composed of 40 players, how-ever, have already been prac-ticing with the boats since they were the ones who brought boats from Manila last week.

Excited to get their turn on the boats are Davao’s only team Hiraya Minokawa Dabaw composed of 42 play-

ers.The other teams are the

Philippine Blue Phoenix (28 players), Bakunawa (26), Tri-ton Team (43), FSuu (59), Philippine Army (30), Am-ateur Paddlers (40) and the all-female squad Boracay Bombshells (13).

The Davao Dragon Boat Festival is also supported by the City Tourism Office, De-partment of Tourism, City Sports Development Division, queensland Hotel Davao and APM.

The major sponsors are Deca Homes, SM Davao, San Miguel Beer, Holcim and Skim. It is also sponsored by Cebu Pacific, Punta del Sol Resort, Emcor and Bogser’s.

BILLY Tapucar and Zeus Sara shared top honors in the Junior Golf League

of Davao tournament held April 28 at the Apo Golf and Country Club.

The multi-titled Tapucar carded a four-over par gross 76 to win the Class A division for 15-17 years old. Ronnel Taga-an shot a 79 to cop first runner-up.

Sara, on the other hand, shizzled a gross 85 to win the Class D (9-10) division. First runner-up was Ken Ruel Zuno (93).

The one-day event was the elimination for the 2014 Youth Cup slated on May 4 at the Pueblo de Oro in Cagayan de Oro City.

The other results:Class B (13-14) – champion

Edmar Salvador Jr. (83), run-ner-up – Raffy Torrobo (90).

Class C (11-12) – cham-pion – Alexander Flores (93), runner-up - John Christopher Labrador (96).

Class E (8 and below) – champion – Edison Tabalin (47), runner-up – Francis James Pepilo (49).

Girls Division:Class A (16-17) – Samantha

Beltran (100)Class B (13-14) - Verlalaine

Rosal (116)Class C (11-12) – Florence

Yvon Bisera (73)Class D (9-10) – Ella Nagayo

(98).

10 dragon boat teams practice today

Tapucar, Sara top Jungolf League

Spurs draw even with Mavs

Hawks a win away from ousting Pacers

TAKING IT STRONG. Atlanta Hawks’ Jeff Teague (0) goes up for a shot as Indiana Pacers’ George Hill (3) defends during the first half in Game 5 of an opening-round NBA basketball playoff series Monday (Tuesday PHL Time), April 28, 2014, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

BACK OFF. San Antonio Spurs' Patty Mills, left, is knocked back by Dallas Mavericks' Jose Calderon as Calderon loses control of the dribble in the first half of Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

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Already the hot-bed of sports in the Davao Region, Davao del Norte brought its sports program to a notch higher by focusing on high al-titude sports training with an experimen-tal batch of natural-ly-talented athletes.

Governor Ro-dolfo del Rosario launched last Mon-day the Talain-god-DavNor Runners

that put premium on the welfare of the Ata-Manobo children in terms of sports.

The program aims to discover and train top-caliber runners for regional, national and interna-tional competitions.

The running team is composed of six girls and four boys, who will train mainly for long dis-tance running.

By NOEL BAGUIO

THE future looks bright for ten young boys and girls from the obscure hinterlands of Talain-

god in Davao del Norte.

They are Rochell Ang-gol, 13; Rica Andil, 11; Jean-neth Mansumilay, 15; Jesme Baucon, 11; Relyn Calooy, 14; Shiela Mae Bantao, 14; Ruben Enggo Jr., 15; Junior Lito Mabanag, 12; Ronald Dauban, 13; and, Joshue Ti-wog, 15.

The kids were selected from more than 100 trib-al children that were later trimmed down to 20 aspi-rants based on their time record and age.

Prof. Renato unso, head coach of the Philippine na-tional running team, han-dled the final tryout for the remaining kids last year at the modern Davao del Norte Sports and Tourism Com-plex in Tagum City.

The initiative is a joint project of the provincial gov-ernment of Davao del Norte, municipal government of Talaingod, Department of Education and the office of Congressman Anthony del Rosario.

The Provincial Sports Development Office has pro-grammed a regimen of sci-entific training program for the kids, aside from provid-ing them food, supplements and athletic gear.

The runners are now billeted in quarters provid-

ed by the municipal govern-ment, which will also shoul-der food, security and train-ers for the kids.

DepEd offered a spe-cial curriculum to start this coming school year in order to ensure continuous train-ing for the running team to be supervised by two of its coaches.

The governor said the program was designed to balance sports and educa-tion since four of the athletes are honor students.

Mansumilay, who topped her second year class at the Datu Jose A. Libayao Memorial National High School, was ever grateful for the opportunity given her.

The fourth child of a gov-ernment employee prom-ised to do her best to juggle her studies and training in order to win medals in com-petitions.

She said it is a tall or-der but she hopes to win in national competitions like the Palarong Pambansa that could be her ticket in getting a college scholarship grant.

“Maningkamot jud ko nga makadaog aron matagaan ko ug scholarship pohon (I would do my best to win medals to get a schol-arship,” she said.

Governor Rodolfo del Rosario launches the Talaingod-DavNor Runners that put pre-mium on the welfare of the Ata-Manobo children in terms of sports.noel baguio/davnor pio

The Ata-Manobo running team show their running prowess at the launch of the Talaingod-DavNor Run-ners. noel baguio/davnor pio

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