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DAVAO City Vice Mayor Paolo Z. Duterte lets out all

his frustrations in resign-ing from the local ruling party Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod.

Saying he was unhap-py, Duterte said the cur-

rent leadership of Hug-pong sa Tawong Lungsod failed to recognize the effort and determination he had invested to the party which, he added, is “intentionally turning a blind eye to my contribu-tion to the cause.”

“Hence, my decision to resign from the Hugpong as I feel that my presence is unappreciated and un-acknowledged and some-times even unwelcomed to the current leadership of the party,” Vice May-or Duterte added in his

letter to Hugpong sec-retary general and City Administrator Atty. Jesus Melchor V. Quitain dated September 23, 2015. The resignation is effective immediately.

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FEAST OF SACRIFICE. Muslim women participate in morning prayers to celebrate Eid al-Adha or the Feast of Sacrifice, a festival in honor of the Islamic prophet Abraham, at Tionko field in Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval

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SAYING that the kid-napping in Davao del Norte is an “isolated

law enforcement incident,” Senate President Franklin M. Drilon on Tuesday urged the Philippine National Po-lice (PNP) to act with dis-patch in the investigation of the abductions and work for the immediate and safe release of the victims.

“I condemn in the strongest terms the recent abductions of these for-eigners along with a Fili-pino woman in Davao del Norte and call upon the Philippine National Police to ensure safe return of these individuals to their families and arrest the per-petrators of this crime the soonest,” said Drilon, a for-mer executive and justice secretary.

It has been reported

that three foreigners – two Canadian citizens, a Norwe-gian and a Filipino woman – were abducted by a group of people, whose identities are still being investigated by the authorities.

“I urge the police au-thorities to mobilize their resources to secure the im-mediate release of the vic-tims,” said Drilon.

While the case is isolat-ed in the generally peaceful Mindanao, Drilon said that this kind act “has no place in our society.”

“Those who commit crimes like kidnappings and illegal abductions have no place in a civilized so-ciety like ours. We must enforce the law and make sure that kidnappers will face the full consequences of their criminal actions,” stressed Drilon.

THE Davao City Police Office (DCPO) has as-sured tourists that

Davao City is still safe de-spite the kidnapping inci-dent in Island Garden City of Samal (IGACOS) on Monday night.

This after the govern-ments of the United King-dom and Canada issued a travel advisory on the Davao Provinces and the Autono-mous Region of Muslim Min-danao (ARMM).

Driz said the release of the advisories was “unavoid-able” since a crime had been committed that could threat-en their citizens, but she added that the incident was “an isolated case.”

“We assure them that Davao City is a safe place for tourism and business,” she said.

Driz also said while IGA-COS is not part of Davao City, the kidnapping will have a negative effect because it is

the gateway to other areas in the region since the airport is located here.

“Maybe Davao City was generalized because of the airport,” she said.

She also said the city is safe under the leadership of Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte. She said the police are on alert status and are now con-ducting random checkpoints especially in all entry points.

Driz said DCPO director Senior Superintendent Vi-cente D. Danao Jr. issued an order to all police station commanders to intensify their intelligence monitoring and coordinate with other law enforcement groups so that no criminal elements can enter the city.

The two countries had advised their respective citi-zens against travel to ARMM which consists of the prov-inces of Basilan, Sulu, Ta-wi-Tawi, Lanao del Sur, and

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And now, here are the correct photosDCPO rectifies error on couple’s photos

THE Davao City Po-lice Office (DCPO) yesterday issued

a correction on the pho-tos of two of the Samal kidnap victims that were released by the Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom) last Tues-day.

In an interview yes-terday, DCPO spokes-person Chief Inspector Milgrace C. Driz admit-ted that the photos came from the DCPO Intelli-gence Unit but added that the pictures were supposed to have been

subjected to verification first before being re-leased to the public.

Driz said the pictures were distributed to oth-er agencies such as the Army for their own veri-fication to see if the pic-tures were really those of the victims.

“The pictures were not supposed to be for public dissemination be-cause we were still in the process of verification,” she said.

The photos, however, were distributed to the media by EastMinCom on

Tuesday and were print-ed by newspapers the following day.

Driz said the Army may have released the photos under the impres-sion that what the DCPO had given it had already been verified.

The photos of victims Kjartan Sekkingstad and John Ridsdel were veri-fied but it turned out that the released photos of Robert Hall and Marithes Flor (who was still called only “Tess” at the time) were not of the victims.

Driz said the Flor in

the photo is deceased while the Hall in the pho-to was not the one ab-ducted.

Driz released new photos of Flor and Hall that had been verified by the one of the managers of Holiday Ocean View and the high school class-mate of Flor in Valencia, Bukidnon who was with her in the resort at the time of incident.

Driz said the DCPO In-telligence Unit also ver-ified the true of picture from other government agencies.

MUNICIPAL Mayor Benzar Ampatu-an expressed con-

cern over the safety of in-nocent civilians in his town tagged by a government panel probing the January 25 Mamasapano carnage as among those responsible for the killing of 44 Special Ac-tion Force troopers.

He said there are inno-cent civilians identified with the Ampatuans but tagged as members of private armed group (PAGs) who may have been among the 90 individ-uals charged by the National Bureau of Investigation and the National Prosecution

Service.“I will help them. In the

first place, I personally know they were not involved,” the mayor vowed.

Ampatuan also expressed willingness to help govern-ment authorities in identi-fying those charged who are members of the Moro Islam-ic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).

Aside from the 44 SAF operatives killed, the MILF also suffered 17 casualties. Three civilians were likewise killed in what is now known as the Mamasapano massa-cre.

DCPO to tourists:Davao City is safe

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Drilon denounces Davao kidnapping

Mamasapano mayor worried overinnocents tagged in SAF 44 killing

INQUIRY. Commission on Human Rights (CHR) commissioner Robert E. Cadiz listens intently to the statements of Gabriela Party-list Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate who acted as resource persons during the CHR public inquiry on the human rights situation of

Indigenous People (IP) in Mindanao facing threats of displacement and those encamped in Haran, Davao City. The inquiry was held at the Apo View Hotel yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

REAL PICS. The Davao City Police Office (DCPO) yesterday released the real photos of Samal kidnap victims Robert Hall and Marithes Flor. The Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom) had inadvertently released wrong photos of the two on Tuesday.

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THE Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday constitut-

ed a special investigating team to investigate the alleged harassment com-mitted against the indig-enous peoples, including the killing of members of a Lumad tribe.

In the three-page De-partment Order No. 792 signed by DOJ Secretary Leila M. De Lima, five pros-ecutors from the National Prosecution Service (NPS) and 11 officials and per-sonnel from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) will compose the joint special investigation team.

NBI Deputy Director Edmundo Arugay will head the group.

The group will partic-ularly investigate the inci-dents of harassment per-petrated on the Lumads in the provinces of Davao del Norte, Bukidnon and Surigao del Sur, including the tension that happened in the United Church of Christ in the Philippines in Haran Compound, Davao City.

The investigation is geared towards fil-ing a criminal complaint against the individuals who will be identified as responsible in the harass-ment committed against the indigenous people.

De Lima gave the group a period of 60 days from Thursday within which to submit a final report and recommendation. (PNA)

THE Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD) has

tentatively set for next week its party conven-tion to discuss political matters in preparation for next year’s presidential polls.

House Independent Bloc Leader and Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez,

president of Lakas-CMD said the party has yet to decide where to align for the elections following the declarations of Sen. Grace Poe, Vice President Je-jomar Binay of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) and former Interior Sec. Manuel Roxas II of the rul-ing Liberal Party (LP) to

THE entire Region 9 and parts of North-ern Mindanao have

experienced power out-age Thursday due to a line fault in the transmission line of the National Grid Corporation of the Philip-pines (NGCP).

Elizabeth Ladaga, NGCP regional corporate communications officer, said the line fault was be-tween the sub-stations in Baloi, Lanao del Norte and Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur.

“Reports indicated that power loss was expe-rienced at 9:34 a.m. due to the tripping of Baloi-Au-rora 138 kilovolt (KV)

line,” Ladaga added.She said they are still

determining the cause of the transmission line fault and “will issue a state-ment immediately when investigation is complet-ed.”

She said power service has been restored in parts of Northern Mindanao around 11:40 a.m. after implementing a remedial scheme.

Meanwhile, power ser-vice has resumed shortly before 2 p.m. in this city which is being served by an Independent Power Producer (IPP), the West-ern Mindanao Power Cor-poration (WMPC). (PNA)

DAVAO Light and Power Company’s frontline ser-vices will be available

for the public on September 25, Friday, declared as a regular non-working holiday in celebra-tion of the Eidul Adha or Feast of Sacrifice, one of the major re-ligious feasts in Islam.

Payment and customer ser-vices in the full service centers in SM Lanang Premier and in SM City Davao in Ecoland will be accepted from 10:00 AM to 7:00

PM.Meanwhile, Panabo branch

customer services will be open from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM and its payment services will be from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Toril and Calinan payment offices will be open from 8:00 AM to 12:00 noon, and from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM. Only Sto. Tomas payment office remains to be un-available during the holiday.

Emergency service will re-main available 24 hours through 229-DLPC (3572).

THE Davao City Council will call a conference of the department

heads of the 19 offices of the city government to hear the reports on the status of their project implementation and expenditures.

In an interview yester-day, City Council committee on finance, ways and means, and appropriation chair Danilo C. Dayanghirang said the reports will be the basis for approving the 2016 an-nual budget.

Dayanghirang noted that

in the past, some offices did not implement projects for which they had requested budgets.

“We just want to clarify this issue,” he said.

He said the conference will be held after the submis-sion of proposals on October 16.

Dayanghirang said the conference aims to get the specifics on the different revenues of the city since it is difficult to discuss the budget if the items are too general.

“They should specify it one by one and corre-spondingly what is the total amount in collection that should be reflected in the proposal,” he said.

Dayanghirang said the discussion on the 2016 bud-get will be hastened because the election is already ap-proaching.

“There might be some budgets that will not be cov-ered because of the election ban,” he said.

He said he asked the City Accounting Office to give

his committee an update on the latest budget guidelines from the Commission on Au-dit (COA) and Department of Budget and Management (DBM) which he said regu-larly issue a new administra-tive orders,” he said.

Dayanghirang said the budget that will be appropri-ated in 2016 will be at least 15 percent higher than the P5.8 billion in 2015.

“I am sure it will be more than P6 billion. We will see the collection performance of the city,” he said.

THE Department of So-cial Welfare and De-velopment (DSWD) 13

has already augmented more than PHP2 million worth of relief assistance consisting of food, non-food and other items to the more than 600

families representing more than almost 3,000 individu-als at the sports complex in Tandag City in the province of Surigao del Sur.

In a press statement released on Wednesday, the DSWD regional office

through Eunice Montaos of their social marketing unit said so far, a total of PHP2,365,998 worth of relief assistance had been augmented by the agency’s regional field office.

According to Montaos,

this amount is comprised of 2,824 family food packs worth PHP1,181,335.68; non-food items amounting to PHP979,790; nutri-cere-als, PHP122,304; medical assistance, PHP3,569; burial

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DSWD 13 augments P2.37-M relief aid to Surigao del Sur evacuees

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Lakas set to finalize alliance with other political parties

Davao Light customer services open today

Power outages hit Region 9, parts of Northern Mindanao

LUMAD DISPLACEMENT. Gabriela Party-list Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan nar-rates incidents of militarization and military encampment in the Lumad communities which led to massive evacuation of Indigenous People (IP) to Davao City. Ilagan and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate were resource

persons during the Commission on Human Rights’ public inquiry at the Apo View Hotel yesterday on the human rights situation of Indigenous People (IP) in Mindanao facing threats of displacement and those encamped in Haran. Lean Daval Jr.

COOPERATIVE SUMMIT. Davao City Cooperative Development Council chair Agripino L. Torres gives an update in yesterday’s I-Speak Media Forum on the Regional Cooperative Centennial Summit to be held on September 28 at the SMX Convention Center. Torres said the highlight of this event is the

plan of all cooperatives of Mindanao to bid for the ownership of Agus-Pu-langi Hydro-Power Plant Complex which will be privatized soon. Armando B. Fenequito Jr.

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THE abduction of three for-eign nationals

and a Filipina at a resort in the Island Garden City of Sa-mal Monday night deals a setback to Mindanao’s tour-ism and investment upswing, according to Mindanao Devel-opment Authority chair Luwalhati An-tonino.

The MinDA chair has also demanded for immediate and unconditional re-lease of the kidnap victims, even as she calls on authorities for heightened ef-

forts to rescue the victims safely and bring the perpetra-tors to justice.

While stressing that the incident is not reflective of the entire Mindanao situation, particu-larly in other major tourism and invest-ment destinations, Antonino said that “perception wise, it does stir a fair amount of concern.”

MinDA noted that Mindanao has seen a sustained uptick in both do-mestic and foreign tourist arrivals in recent years in

spite of travel advi-sories arising from isolated incidents of bombings and armed clashes in parts of the island.

It added that the reinforced percep-tion of Mindanao as an unsafe destina-tion for tourists and investors should be matched with right context as the en-tire island pursues a vibrant economy.

“Mindanao, has time and again demonstrated re-siliency and can always rise above challenges,” Antoni-no stressed.

SMALL and medium en-terprises (SMEs) rep-resent the backbone

of the region’s economy making up 90 percent of all businesses operating in the Asia-Pacific.

In the Philippines, SMEs provide a living for 65 percent of the labor force.

However, compared to large international compa-nies, SMEs are more vul-nerable to natural hazards due to resource, knowl-edge, planning and expe-rience gaps. Post-disaster data illustrates this point.

In the aftermath of typhoon Yolanda (inter-national name: Haiyan), many SMEs in the Philip-pines were hit hard as they suffered from delays in operation, losses in inven-tories and decline in sales.

Lives, livelihoods and communities were serious-ly affected. Overall damag-es to the economy were estimated to be around 15 percent of its gross domes-tic product (GDP) in 2013.

The challenges that SMEs face in disasters can destabilize entire indus-tries. And yet, many SMEs lack disaster planning.

Large-scale emergen-cies in the region such as typhoon Yolanda put the vulnerability of SMEs and entrepreneurs into great-er focus on the Asia-Pacif-ic Economic Cooperation

(APEC) agenda.Such concerns have in-

spired emergency manage-ment officials from across the APEC region who will convene this week here in Iloilo for the Workshop on Business Continuity Planning for APEC SMEs: Building Sustainable and Resilient Communities or-ganized to prepare mem-ber economies to protect people’s lives and assets and facilitate secure trade in the region.

The main goal of the workshop is to promote SMEs to establish business continuity plans (BCPs) for sustainable global supply chains.

This is accomplished by training related govern-ment, non-profit and pri-vate sector organizations in APEC member econo-mies, so they, in turn can train SMEs in their respec-tive economies.

Experts have already developed a simple step-by-step APEC Business Continuity Planning Guide-book for SMEs.

There are three stag-es of business continu-ity plans. These include pre-disaster measures, emergency response during a disaster and con-tinuity strategies post-di-saster.

A key element of a busi-ness continuity plan is to

Samal abduction a setback– MinDA

Preparing APEC SMEs in emergency situations

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LAWYERS of the legal section of the Depart-ment of Public Works

and Highways in Region 11 have been instructed to fast-tract talks with own-ers of right-of-way (ROW) lands in order to facilitate the development of various infrastructure projects pro-gramed for implementation in Davao City.

DPWH 11 Regional Di-rector Mariano Alquiza ad-mitted to news reporters

attending the Regional De-velopment Council (RDC) 11 press briefing at the Na-tional Economic Develop-ment Authority (Neda) re-gional office yesterday that ROW problems threaten to delay the multi-million peso infrastructure projects in the city.

A case in point is the proposed extension of Car-los P. Garcia Diversion Road from the diversion road’s junction with the Catalu-

nan Grande Road to the old Davao-Cotabato Highway connecting Puan withLubo-gan in Toril.The extension road, whose estimated cost is P260 million, will be built in lieu of the proposed Ulas flyover which earlier stud-ies found to be less cost ef-fective compared to the ex-tension road.

Alquiza said that the proposed extension road will cross the Davao-Bukid-non Highway near the new

San Pedro College and the old Maligaya Subdivision.

The project will neces-sitate a bridge to be built in the upstream of the Talomo River just above the Coca Cola Plant.

When the DPWH survey team earlier visited the area near the planned bridge they found six houses. How-ever, when they returned to the area lately they found more than 20 new houses, many of which are made

of semi concrete and good lumber. None of the people building the houses would talk to the DPWH people. They would not say who owned the “subdivision.”

Alquiza said the legal team of his office has been instructed to seek out the owner of the subdivision and discuss the problem.

The DPWH regional director said that his con-sistent policy is to conduct a dialogue with property

owners along the way of projects rather than go to court.

He said court cases just prolong the problem while dialogue opens the mind of the property owners to the importance of the proj-ects, thereby softening their stand and later agreeing to amicable settlement.

This soft approach has often worked in solving ROW problems, Alquiza said.AMA

DPWH probes ‘instant subdivision’

SADDENED by the kid-napping of three for-eigners and a Filipino in

Samal Island, Davao Oriental earlier this week, the De-partment of Tourism (DOT) on Wednesday said that it is coordinating with authori-ties to monitor the safety of tourists in the island.

“The DOT Region XI is deeply saddened by the in-cident which involved our tourists who came here to have a good leisurely stay,” DOT XI regional director Roberto Alabado III told the Philippines News Agency in a phone interview.

“Because of the incident we have a crisis right now in Samal Island, which is con-sidered a prime destination not only in the region but in the whole Philippines,” he added.

Alabado, however, as-sured that the priority of the department was on recover-ing the safety of tourists.

“We are coordinating

with proper authorities but at the same time we are monitoring situation in tour-ism industry including tour-ist arrivals, check-ins, check-outs, and cancellations,” the regional director said.

Alabado admitted that the incident was bound to be have a negative impact to the region’s tourism industry, but expressed hope that it will be “very minimal.”

He said that so far, only three foreign tourists have cancelled trips to Davao Re-gion within the week. He further said that these were “understandable” but de-scribed it as an “insignificant number.”

Despite the incident, Ala-bado was optimistic that the region will still be hitting its tourism targets by yearend.

“(The incident happened in Samal Island) but we also have (other destinations) in Davao. I’m sure we will (still) be hitting our targets,” he said. (PNA)

DOT monitoring safety of tourists

THE Information and Communication (ICT) Davao Inc. sympa-

thized with the victims of the abduction in the Island Garden City of Samal as well as their families.

At the same time, ICT Davao remained confident with local government au-thorities and that they will stop all kinds of criminality in this part of the land.

“We, in the information and communications tech-nology (ICT) industry, share

the concern of all Davaoeños over the safety of our guests, and empathize with their loved ones who are justly worried about their where-abouts and well-being,” ICT Davao president Atty. Sam-uel Matunog said in a state-ment.

Matunog said they learned of the kidnapping incident during the regular meeting of the Regional De-velopment Council (RDC) Tuesday where Davao del Norte Gov. Rodolfo del Rosa-

rio informed the body of an on-going law enforcement investigation concerning a reported kidnapping of three foreign nationals and a Filipina the night before.

“There are always law-less elements who wish to test the resolve of police au-thorities to stop and deter crime. But we are confident that these elements will not succeed,” Matunog said.

“The confidence of the ICT industry stems from the generally low levels of vio-

lent crimes particularly in Davao City, owing in no small measure to the visible pres-ence and capabilities of our policemen,” he added.

Despite the incident, the ICT Davao remains unfazed.

“As Davao City continues to absorb about half of the national demand for BPO services, we are assured that this will widen livelihood op-portunities and contribute to the building of safer and more prosperous communi-ties,” Matunog said.

THE Philippine govern-ment aims to help mi-cro, small, and medium

enterprises (MSMEs) engaged in food processing and agri-business so the country could achieve inclusive growth.

The Philippines’ head of delegation for the 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooper-ation (APEC) SME Ministerial Meeting, Jerry Clavesillas, said on Monday (Sept. 21) that the government should make in-terventions to help MSMEs in the food processing and agri-business sectors participate in the global value chain.

Clavesillas is also the ex-ecutive director at the Bureau of MSME Development under the Department of Trade and Industry.

“Why focus on food pro-cessing? Because more than 60 percent of our MSMEs are in the processed food (busi-ness),” he said.

“We have already impact-ed about 60 percent of the total MSMEs in the country, includ-

ing their workers, and other dependents of this particular sector,” he added.

Since the Philippines is an “agriculture economy”, he said, MSMEs in agribusiness should be provided assistance to enable them to comply with global standards.

“There are so many things that they have to comply with, now that the market is becom-ing more selective. For agricul-tural products, the preference of the market is organic prod-ucts,” he noted.

“These are the things you also have to be aware of. Just a little intervention in your pro-duction process can already increase a lot, in terms of the value of your product.”

Clavesillas emphasized that facilitating MSMEs so they could meet the global market’s requirements will empower more MSMEs to participate in the global value chain and help the country achieve inclusive growth. (PNA/PCOO News Re-lease)

Phl focuses on assisting small, medium ventures

ICT Davao still confident amid abduction

GOING ORGANIC. Passersby purchase organic vegetables on display at the organic market at Rizal Park in Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

GROWTH of remittanc-es going to the Philip-pines remains within

the central bank’s five per-cent target but it has slightly slowed compared in the pre-vious years.

Bangko Sentral ng Pili-pinas (BSP) data shows that cash remittances has been growing at about five percent level since November 2014.

In June 2015 alone, cash remittances grew by 5.6 per-cent, a drop from the six per-cent expansion same period in 2014.

Inflows amounted to US$2.18 billion in the sixth month this year, higher than month-ago’s US$2 billion and year-ago’s US$2.1 billion.

Cash remittances posted its fastest expansion in Janu-ary 2013 when it rose by 9.1 percent to US$1.7 billion.

Remittances has been among the major drivers of the domestic economy for years now as it contributes about 10 percent in gross do-mestic product (GDP).

It has also proven its re-siliency during the recent global financial turmoil.

And while its growth has slowed a bit, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Deputy Governor Diwa Guinigundo remains confident that it will continue to be a major boost for the domestic economy.

He explained that the seeming slowdown of in-

flows from overseas Filipinos is not negative because it only reflects that remittance busi-ness in the country is reach-ing maturity.

“The growth of five to six percent is something that is already appropriate in this point,” he said in a briefing Friday.

Guinigundo also cited the softness in global expansion as another factor in the slight slowdown in remittance in-flows.

He, on the other hand, pointed out that the in-flows are now more reces-sion-proof because of the di-versified profiles of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

Previously, most of the

Filipino workers abroad are household helpers or con-struction workers.

Now, more OFWs are skilled and work in the field of medicine and information technology among others.

And with higher remit-tance coming from skilled workers the central bank official is optimistic that the inflows would continue to firmly support the country’s balance of payment (BOP) position.

“I think a five to six per-cent growth assumption is appropriate at this point. The US$24, US$25 or US$26 bil-lion inflows from remittances will continue to support the BOP,” he added. (PNA)

Remittances to Phl remain high

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PHOTOS By LEAN DAVAL JR.

CHOICE MARTINDAY SARA’S CHOICEFORMER Davao City May-

or Sara Duterte-Carpio is now the new face of

Choice Mart by NCCC.The first lady mayor in the

city made her choice to be the ambassadress of the home-grown supermarket because she already knew the values of being implemented by the owner.

“I am very happy to be the partner of NCCC,” she said.

Aside from it, Sara agreed with the partnership because of the good services being of-fered the people of the city.

Sara said the company has a good reputation in terms of their relationship with the customers and employees.

“They are taking care of the people who are important to them,” she said.

NCCC Supermarket Vice President said the company choosed Sara because she em-bodies the characteristics of new generation moms.

“Her choice to focus on be-ing mother to her two kids and a loving wife to her hus-band above all else makes her fit to become NCCC’s ambas-sadress,” Canda said.

Canda said busy mom-

mies will find Choice Mart’s Grocer-ring delivery service convenient as they can call the store anytime to restock their pantry with their kids’ snacks and other food items. Prepar-ing meals for the family is also a breeze as the freshest choic-es of meats, fruits and veggies are made available.

“With Choice Mart, moth-ers need not spend much of their time running errands since the store pretty much has it all in one stop sparing them from the hassle of traffic and high transportation cost,” Canda said.

Choice Mart is the conve-nience store version of NCCC Supermarket which now the destination of choice when it comes to the daily consumer needs because of its acces-sible location in residential communities.

It offers a wide selection of goods and services such as grocery items, housewares, bills payment, delivery ser-vice and food choices on-the-go giving Dabawenyos a has-sle-free shopping experience.

Available in this stores are smart deals like Choice Sav-er’s and Fresh Specials where

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Marco Polo Davao chef wins culinary tilt

CHEF ALEX DESTRIZA, the newly appointed Execu-tive Sous Chef of Marco Polo Davao, wins the Elite Chef Challenge culinary competi-tion held last September 17 at the Davao Convention Cen-ter. The culinary competition was organized by the Chef-manship Academy by Uniliv-er Food Solutions which aims to discuss food trends and menu innovations to hotels, restaurant owners, and other culinary enthusiasts. Chef Alex in his winning creation, Trio Flavored Rice Noodle Soup, was given 45 minutes for the quick fire challenge to create and prepare an innovative soup noodle dish. Chef Alex’s intricately-prepared trio dish comprised of Bacon-wrapped meat-ball with onion, Kani and shrimp crusted, and Napa cabbage wrapped tofu mushrooms and chilies were per-fect compliments to the rice noodle soup, giving him an edge against his competitors. Chef Alex Destriza competed with other chefs from all-over Mindan-ao and was awarded with a medal, plaque, certificate and cash prize.

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Chef Alex receiving his award at the Davao Convention Center.

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James and Nadine’s kiss thrills celebs, fans, and netizens“ON the Wings of Love” lead stars James Reid and Na-dine Lustre had fans, netizens, and even celebrities glued on their TV screen, shrieking in delight as their characters Clark and Leah shared their first real kiss last Thursday (September 17) in an episode dubbed as “The Most Ap-proved Kiss.” After the near-kiss of Clark and Leah in the hit primetime series’ ‘Most Kilig Night Ever’ episode last week that had fans hanging and wanting for more, the show finally granted avid viewers’ wish to see Clark and Leah kiss not just once, but many consecutive times. “That was the point of the ‘Most Kilig Night Ever’ episode. It really set up the real thing,” ex-plained James in an inter-view with “TV Patrol.” The episode ruled its

timeslot and garnered a national TV rating of 24.8% - its highest rat-ing so far this month and double the rating of its ri-val program. It also broke micro-blogging site Twitter the same night as its official hashtag #OT-W O L -M o s -t A p -

provedKiss earned more than two million tweets and became a trending topic worldwide. Apart from tweets, loyal fans also shared on social me-dia their excite-

ment as they watched the episode. Most of the videos featured the fans shrieking in delight as James and Nadine locked lips.

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lez, Myrtle S a r r o s a , and John L a p u s , a l s o c ou ld n’t hide their happiness

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THE phenomenal love team of Jericho Rosales and Kris-tine Hermosa is set to have a comeback on cable TV as their hit and internation-ally acclaimed drama series “Dahil May Isang Ikaw” pre-mieres on Jeepney TV start-ing on September 21 (Mon-day). Originally aired on ABS-CBN in 2009, “Dahil May Isang Ikaw” marked the last romantic team-up on television of Jericho and Kristine after a string of successful teleseryes together. “Dahil May Isang Ikaw” is a ro-mance and legal drama of ABS-CBN that revolves around two families featuring a powerhouse cast that includes Lorna Tolentino, Gabby Concepcion, John Estrada, Chin Chin Gutierrez, Sid Lucero, and Karylle. The ABS-CBN teleserye also earned nominations in the 2010 International Emmy Awards and

in the 2011 New York Festivals for TV and Film. “Dahil May Isang Ikaw” will air on weekdays at 1PM on Jeepney TV. The iconic Pinoy comedy shows “Home Along Da Riles” and “Goin’ Bananas,” will also have TV come-backs on Jeepney TV this month, along with the phenomenal Asianovela “Meteor Garden” un-der the banner “JTV BY Request”

after it drew the most poll votes from Jeepney TV’s online follow-ers. Meanwhile, Jeepney TV’s icon of the month Piolo Pascual will be highlighted via his most memo-rable dramatic performances on “JTV Star Showcase” on all Sun-days of September every 8PM. A special documentary on Piolo titled, “BTS: Piolo Pascual” will air as well on September 27 at 9PM.

Jericho and Kristine to relive chemistry on Jeepney TV

their kilig reactions. “On the Wings of Love” is surely taking the coun-try by storm and even abroad where overseas Filipinos are feeling the JaDine fever. James re-counted that when they were in London for “ASAP Live in London,” fans were calling them by their char-acter names. “It’s nice to see that even around the world Filipinos watch our show. It’s so un-expected and we are so thankful,” he added. Next week, fans can look forward to “On The Wings of Love’s” Sweetest Night Ever where James and Nadine’s characters share another heartwarm-

ing moment in the rain. “On the Wings of Love” airs weeknights after “Pangako Sa’yo” on ABS-CBN Primetime Bida. For more information about the program, visit the of-ficial social networking site of Dreamscape En-tertainment Television at Facebook.com/Dream-scapePH, Twitter.com/DreamscapePH, and In-stagram.com/Dreamsca-pePH. Meanwhile, viewers may also catch up on full episodes and past episodes of “On the Wings of Love” through ABS-CBNmo-bile. For more informa-tion, please go to www.abscbnmobile.com.

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CHOICE MART, A1shoppers can get up to 50 per-cent off on selected fresh, fro-zen, chilled, breads, dairy, sea-food and meat products.

Choice Mart even has food carts so the whole family can munch some of their food crav-ings on the way out.

The NCCC is intending to expand it closer to residents in nearby residential commu-nities in Davao City and other

neighboring Municipalities in Mindanao.

Currently, there are five Choice Mart stores in Davao City, and more branches are ex-pected to open in 2016 as part of its expansion efforts.

For a hassle free shopping of your everyday needs, visit Choice Mart stores located at The Woodlane Shoppes, Damo-sa Gateway, Catalunan Grande,

Nova Tierra and Landmark. Stores are ready to serve shop-pers as early as 8am. Sara em-bodies the characteristics of new generation moms. “Her choice to focus on being moth-er to her two kids and a loving wife to her husband above all else makes her fit to become NCCC’s ambassadress,” says Jojo Canda, NCCC Supermarket Vice President.

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When life throws you lemons, make some pie.

Us, we change the game.The only thing constant in this world is change.

That said, EDGE Davao is consistently pushing itself to ride the winds of change. With this young organization’s battlecry “Change the game”, we are again blaz-

ing the trail amidst the autobahn speeds of developing technology by going to the social media platform to advance our coverage.

Two weeks ago, we posted the “Crying Lady” photo on our Facebook page and it generated nearly 200,000 views in 24 hours. On Monday, as we took to the social media our coverage on the much-anticipated “Announcement II” of Mayor Rodri-go Duterte, a series of posts reached over 100,000 in a matter of minutes leading up to the press conference. In sum, over 200,000 were reached in those hours of “Announcement II” where Mayor Duterte reiterated he is not running for Presi-

dent and is considering reelection for Mayor if his daughter Sara Duterte-Carpio decide not to run.

The numbers speak for the reach of this coverage from our print copy to our on-line content and we intend to intensify our push towards the optimization of our

news reach in the social media platform where the battle has shifted.

These days, most news organizations are taking their content to the social media which has proven to be the most accessible vehicle for news content.

Let’s face it, the game has shifted.

If one has to be in the thick of the fight, one’s presence in this platform would spell the difference. This is where the real demographics are measurable and

tangible, not to mention relevant and not limited to a few respondents only of a particular segment.

It’s a no-brainer. Hundred thousand views can’t be wrong.

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FOR some time now, the local government of the Island Gar-den City of Samal (IGACOS) has been trying to implement City Ordinance 2009-150 or the Revised Comprehensive Zoning

Ordinance which prohibits beach resorts from building jetties in their respective areas. Those who have been to the island know that these structures -- some of them made of simple material but most constructed of concrete -- dot the coast and have multiple uses for the resort owners. The most obvious is as docking areas for boats, but the jetties also act as fences and dividers that delineate one re-sort from its neighboring ones. As a result, moving from one resort to another is prevented, which works well for the resort owners but is detrimental to the rights of the people who, by law, must have open access to the shoreline. Indeed, many observers have said that while Samal is a nice place to visit, one is constrained to stay in only one place because moving to another resort -- even the one right beside where one is staying -- takes some effort and often a lot of expense. While Samal is often compared with the beaches of Bora-cay and Bohol, the presence of these jetties have become a major spoiler.

Many have also complained that the jetties have impeded

movement through the coast, and this has compromised the secu-rity not just of the individual resorts but of the entire island as well. This is now being blamed for the relative ease with which armed men abducted a Filipina and three foreigners from a resort in the island this week. Davao del Norte Governor Rodolfo del Rosario has noted that there are “so many obstructions” on the island, making it “difficult to respond” whenever there is a crisis. This, he said, makes it necessary for a clear beach line that can be used as passageway so that the authorities can respond more quickly when the need arises. As it is, securing the island city from external threats has proven to be a difficult undertaking precisely because of these obstructions.

The resort owners have resisted the local government’s efforts to clear the beaches of jetties and have even filed a case in court to stop the implementation of the ordinance. Indeed, resort owners have said the jetties are precisely what keep outside forces from entering their premises. This week’s experience, however, tells us that this assertion is weak and that more weight ought to be given to del Rosario’s argument that a clear coastline is necessary for the authorities to secure the island garden city. If a major kidnapping incident doesn’t clear IGACOS’ coastline of jetties, nothing will.

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Recovering Tacloban City

Discipline is the key

Henrylito D. Taciohenrytacio@gmail.com

THINK ON THESE!

RIC de Veyra and Arthur Golong are among the community leaders who had worked with

LCREP in assessing the needs of their respective villages and helping us ad-just our inputs. Ric is from Barangay Cabarasan Guti in Palo. It is an inte-rior village that gets cut off from help when the road to the town proper gets inundated by floodwaters. Arthur on the other hand is from Barangay 88, one of the San Jose villages near the airport that was hardest hit by the storm surge. We had followed Arthur’s transition from the tents to the duplex bunkhouses in New Kawayan to his permanent housing in Kawayanville, courtesy of Habitat for Humanity. At each of these post-disaster shelter fa-cilities, he had demonstrated to be a natural leader, a force to be reckoned with in getting the needs of his fellow IDPs (internally displaced persons) addressed.

From a modest P10,000 start-up capital that they will eventually pass on to someone else on the line, Ric and Arthur have respectively gotten a small business off the ground. Ric runs a stall in the public market of Palo while Arthur had fixed up the living area of his modest home and turned it into a beauty salon.

“I do not any more have to go out to do home ser-vice in or-der for us to have something to eat today. People in Kawayanville know where to find me,” he beamed.

Over at Anibong where five cargo ships had slammed against homes, Chat Bactol of Barangay 70 thanked LCREP for the series of livelihood trainings that the women’s associa-tion had availed.

“The women can now help their husbands earn. And they can do it without having to leave the home,” she said.

Asked about what among LCREP inputs had really helped her village, Chat said that the training on psycho-logical first aid helped her constitu-ents put their Yolanda experience in perspective and get them to realize that they had to be prepared in the event that something like that hap-pened again.

“As you can see, we’re still here. That could happen to us again. We have yet to be relocated,” she said.

While much of Barangay 70 is in the no-build zone, the Yolanda rehab

has prioritized the allocation of per-manent housing to those displaced from San Jose.

Bactol said that the basic life sup-port skills they learned from the sol-diers could come in handy. “That one taught us to make use of just about anything there is to stop blood loss or to transport the injured, especial-ly when we just have to make do be-cause the ambulance could not get to us,” she explained.

She remembers best the Lakbay Aral to the Davao Oriental area where on the occasion of the TS Pablo anni-versary last year, Gov. Cora Malanyaon treated the Leyte visitors to lunch and a tour of the museum. Lieutenant Col-onel Krishnamurti Mortela then gen-erously shared with the visitors on his role in the post-Pablo recovery of Baganga. Bactol said she had learned so much from Davao Oriental.

“Building back better,” she said. “That indeed is how to do it.” (The author finished this piece at around 1 a.m. on August 31. By 7 a.m., thou-sands had occupied Candelaria St. but dispersed mid-morning as soon as officials in Manila announced the dis-persal of the rallies in front of the De-partment of Justice in Manila and the EDSA Shrine area).

Wayward and fancifulBy Gail Ilagan

2nd of two parts

WHEN President Ferdinand E. Marcos launched Bagong Li-punan (New Society), he ini-

tiated several programs and initiatives. Perhaps one of the most popular slogans during that time was: “Sa ikakaunlad ng bayan, disiplina ang kailangan.” It can be literally translated as: in order for a coun-try to progress, discipline is needed.

“Why is discipline important?” asked John F. MacArthur Jr. “Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than de-sire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and per-mits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.”

If you love football, then you probably know Jerry Lee Rice. To the uninformed, he was an American football wide receiv-er who played 20 seasons in the National Football League. He is widely considered to be the greatest wide receiver in NFL history and among the greatest NFL play-ers overall.

There is an interesting anecdote on how he became such. In Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know, author John C. Maxwell relates this story:

“People who knew him well say he is natural. Physically his God-given gifts are incredible, yet those alone have not made him great. The real key to his success has been his self-discipline. He works and pre-pares -- day in and day out -- unlike any-one else in professional football.

“During practice in high school, Rice’s

coach, Charles Davis, made his players sprint twen-ty times up and down a f o r t y - y a r d hill. On a par-ticularly hot and hungry M i s s i s s i p p i day, Rice was ready to give up after elev-en trips. As he sneaked toward the locker room, he real-ized what he was doing.

“’Don’t quit,’ he told himself. ‘Because once you get into that mode of quitting, then you feel like it’s okay.’ He went back and finished his sprints, and he has never been a quitter since.”

And so, Rice became a professional football player -- and was so famous, too. “Even in the off-season, while other play-ers are fishing or lying around enjoying downtime, Rice is working, his normal exercise routine lasting from 7:00 am to noon,” Maxwell wrote.

Discipline -- that’s what separates Rice from good to great. Leonardo da Vin-ci puts it this way: “You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal jus-tice. He who cannot establish dominion

over himself will have no dominion over others.”

In creative writing, discipline is a pre-requisite. Michael Chabon said, “You need three things to become a successful novel-ist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.”

This is what author H. Jackson Brown said, “Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or side-ways.”

“No success was won without self- determination and self-discipline,” wrote Lailah Gifty Akita in Pearls of Wisdom: Great Mind. William Cullen Bryant re-wrote Thanatopsis a hundred times. Edward Gibbon rewrote his Autobiogra-phy nine times. Plato wrote the first sen-tence of his Republic nine times. Virgil spent 12 years writing his Aeneid.

Practice makes perfect, so goes a pop-ular saying. That is what discipline is all about. “I believe that we learn by practice,” Martha Graham, American modern danc-er and choreographer, believes. “Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same.

“In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a sat-

isfaction of spirit,” Graham further said. “One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart also said: “It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I as-sure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in mu-sic whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.”

When asked by a fellow pianist if he could be ready to play a recital on short notice, Jan Paderewski replied, “I am al-ways ready. I have practiced eight hours daily for 40 years.”

“I wish I had been born with such de-termination,” the other said. Paderewski answered back: “We are all born with it. I just used mine.”

Even if in the beginning you fail, just go on. Discipline yourself no matter what happens, you will be able to attain what you want. An assistant of American inven-tor Thomas Alva Edison was bewildered when he found out that he did 50,000 experiments before he succeeded with a new storage battery.

“Results?” Edison told him. “Why man, I have gotten lots of results. I now know 50,000 things that won’t work.”

“... A disciplined pursuit of less will keep us focused and make the greatest impact,” wrote Tim Hiller in Strive: Life is Short, Pursue What Matters.

She remembers best the Lakbay Aral to the Davao Oriental area where on the

occasion of the TS Pablo anniversary last year, Gov. Cora Malanyaon

treated the Leyte visitors to lunch and a tour of

the museum. Lieutenant Colonel Krishnamurti

Mortela then generously shared with the visitors

on his role in the post-Pablo recovery of Baganga. Bactol

said she had learned so much from Davao

Oriental.

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be able to resume disrupt-ed operations as quickly as possible. This could in-volve a contingency plan to relocate operations to a safer venue.

SMEs can develop their own business continui-ty plan tailored to their unique company needs and size and many mea-sures can be implemented cost-effectively. The focus of business continuity planning is for all employ-ees to be able to continue to execute their roles in emergency situations.

The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in Thailand and the Asian Disaster Reduction Cen-ter in Japan are also using the APEC Guidebook as a teaching tool to train SMEs on business continuity

planning.Policy recommenda-

tions resulting from the APEC workshop in Iloilo City will be reported to senior emergency man-agement officials during the 9th Senior Disaster Management Officials Fo-rum (SDMOF) scheduled from September 22 to 23 to be hosted by the Nation-al Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) and the Office of Civil Defense (OCD).

The forum will be the venue for the discussion of various disaster risk reduction and manage-ment (DRRM) topics and the sharing of best prac-tices of the various mem-ber-economies. Specialist topics will be presented by subject-matter experts

on DRRM hailing from in-ternational DRR agencies such as the Association of Southeast Asian Na-tions (ASEAN) Centre for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Management (AHA Centre) and the United Nations Interna-tional Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR).

Addressing the “new normal” is the highlight of the 9th SDMOF, the pro-posed theme of which is “Whole-of-Economy Ap-proach: A Paradigm Shift to Adapt to the “New Nor-mal”. This is in cognizance of the fact that climate change does not recognize national boundaries, or political or economic affil-iations.

According to NDRRMC Executive Director and

Civil Defense Administra-tor, Usec Alexander Pama, the Philippines, as a mem-ber economy of APEC, advocates for stronger programs on disaster risk reduction and manage-ment that will make the economy more resilient and beneficial to the peo-ple.

“There really is a need for an inter-economy co-operation in dealing with disasters to ensure sus-tainable economic growth in the Asia-Pacific Region and promote a holistic, comprehensive, integrat-ed and proactive approach as a new paradigm in ad-dressing disasters and managing risks,” Usec Pama said in a statement. (PNA/PCOO News Re-lease)

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the vice mayor’s father, Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte. The elder Duterete, how-ever, has been publicly announcing that he pre-fers his daughter, former Davao mayor Sara Duter-te-Carpio, to run for may-or in 2016.

In his television pro-gram “Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa” aired last Sun-day, Mayor Duerte also mentioned four council-ors whom, he said, can be fielded by the party for the vice mayoral post in May.

Mayor Duterte, how-ever, said he has to wait for the final decision of his son.

The young Duterte is only in his first term as vice mayor, but said recent events “have per-suaded me to carefully examine the direction my political career is taking.”

“It is time to change the direction of my polit-ical career. Rest assured that I will not be changing my thrust and mission which is to be of service to the City and its citizens,”

Vice Mayor Duterte said.He, however, doused

off speculations of a pos-sible Duterte vs Duterte showdown in May.

“After serious consid-eration, I have come to a decision to speak out and put my worth on the table. Not for selfish motives but by the achievements I have earned and the acts and efforts I committed to the Office and to the peo-ple. Below is the resigna-tion letter I have tendered to Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod,” the Vice Mayor

posted on his Facebook account yesterday.

“You can be assured that you will never see the day that anyone of us in the family will meet head to head in a political arena. They will always be a family to me,” he added.

Meanwhile, Councilor Mabel Sunga-Acosta said Duterte’s departure is a big loss to the party.

“I hope VM Paolo would reconsider. Each member is valuable,” Acosta said.

Maguindanao, due to the serious threat of terrorist at-tacks and kidnapping.

They also advised against travel to the Zambo-anga Peninsula and the prov-inces of Sarangani, Lanao del Norte, Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur (excluding urban areas of Davao City), Davao Occidental, Davao Ori-ental, Cotabato, South Cota-bato, and Sultan Kudarat.

For his part, Department of Tourism (DOT) Assistant Secretary Art Boncato said the department will work with all agencies, organi-zations, and individuals in easing advisories against travel to our beautiful desti-nations.

Boncato said tourism is a major industry in the Davao Region and has be-come strong enough in the past years to withstand un-fortunate blows.

“We continue to work hard to make tourism work. Where there is tourism there is peace,” he said.

Mayor Duterte had ear-lier he cannot do anything if foreign embassies give a travel advisories against Davao City.

“Although Samal Island is not part of Davao City, I can do nothing if these governments will release a travel advisory. You cannot control any government,” he said. ABFJ

assistance, PHP20,000; ma-terials and snacks for the psycho-social processing (PSP) activities, PHP59,000.

Montaos said non-food items distributed include plastic mats, blankets, mos-quito nets, toothbrushes, slippers, toothpastes, laun-dry soaps, bath soaps, un-derwear; plates, glasses, soup bowls, mugs, kettles, forks and spoons.

DSWD 13 Regional Di-rector Minda B. Brigoli said that the department’s social workers have also conduct-ed PSP to 226 individuals.

“Through this activity, the evacuees were able to freely communicate to the social workers their expe-riences and needs after de-parting from their homes due to threats,” Brigoli said.

Aside from PSP, friendly spaces for women and chil-dren were also put up, initi-ated by the DSWD with the assistance of the provincial local government units and other agencies.

Some 756 children were able to utilize the chil-

dren-friendly space. The so-cial workers of DSWD Cara-ga conducted activities such as expressed art therapy and story-telling with the chil-dren at the said space.

Also, 136 women, most of whom are pregnant, lac-tating and persons with dis-abilities (PWDs) have used the women-friendly space, Montaos said.

The regional child pro-tection welfare group mem-bers have also conducted monitoring on Sept. 18 in the evacuation camp to as-certain for the safety and security of the children from the risk of potential abuses.

As of posting time, a to-tal of 614 families or 2,908 individuals are still inside evacuation centers in Su-rigao del Sur, according to Montaos.

The villagers sought ref-uge at the sports complex in Tandag City after leav-ing their homes in remote communities, following the murder of three civilians from their villages early this month.(PNA)

run for 2016 presidential race.

“We will be meeting to set the convention prob-ably next week to discuss political matters. We have to consolidate and strat-egize our forces for next year,” said Romualdez

He disclosed that his friends from the Nation-alist People’s Coalition (NPC), the party wide-ly-perceived to carry Poe and her running mate Sen. Francis Escudero and

UNA, are inviting him to join them.

“Political party is about inclusion and we would want to have relationships with all our friends in oth-er parties, including UNA,” he pointed out.

Earlier, Romualdez ex-pressed gratitude to NPC over his inclusion to its Senate slate being formed by party stalwarts.

Romualdez was re-acting to the statement of House Deputy Speaker

and Isabela Rep. Giorgidi Aggabao, president of the NPC that he was among the “definite” part of the would-be senatorial can-didates of the NPC.

Aggabao said the NPC is forming a coalition of parties in completing their would-be senatorial bets for next year’s polls, apparently to the Poe-Es-cudero tandem.

“Congressman Ro-mualdez is definite, and I think Congressman Ro-

man Romulo too is in the line-up. As for Secretary Joel Villanueva, he has been in our headquarters and he is most welcome,” Aggabao added.

The NPC president was referring to Technical Ed-ucation and Skills Devel-opment Authority (TES-DA) Director General Joel Villanueva who may not run under the ruling Lib-eral Party (LP) following his falling out with Justice Sec. Leila de Lima. (PNA)

NEWS

report was one of the best in the 2015 competition. By winning the coveted Gold Award, Globe Telecom places among the top 5% best an-nual reports internationally. The judges were particularly impressed with the Interior Design and especially by the outstanding Graphics. Bravo to Globe Telecom for pro-ducing a world-class annual report,” MerComm Presi-dent Reni Witt said, adding that a total of 2065 annual reports were received from 35 countries this year.

Globe first won the award in 2012. Using the Global Reporting Initia-tive (GRI) standards for its sustainability reporting, the report is externally as-sured by ECCI Internation-al. The Globe 2014 Annual & Sustainability report also bagged the Gold Award in Telecommunications’ Annu-al Report and Silver Award in Telecommunications’ Sustainability Report from the League of American Communications Profes-sionals.

ny’s global value chain by 2020. The program, called 5by20, tries to address the most common barri-ers women face to suc-ceed in the marketplace.

Locally, the realiza-tion of this commitment is happening through the STAR Program, which tar-gets to train and empow-er 200,000 women sa-

ri-sari store owners in the Philippines b 2020 – with 50,000 coming from the Visayas, 50,000 from Min-nanao, and the balance from the National Capital Region and Luzon.

As of August 2015, STAR has helped about 36,000 Filipino women in more than 40 cities na-tionwide.

TRADITION. A woman distributes traditional dried dates to fellow Muslim women who attended the early morning prayer to celebrate Eid al-Adha or the Feast of Sacrifice at Tionko field in Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

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“We know that the drivers behind spe-cies loss are mostly

increasing - land con-version and degrada-tion, pollution, climate change. And of course the human population is still growing and consump-tion is growing - and most of that consump-tion is not sustainable.” -- Braulio Dias, executive secretary of the Conven-tion on Biological Diver-sity

***Some 10,000 years

ago, humanity started a great experiment that changed the world. Us-ing biological diversity (biodiversity) around them, they began har-vesting wild seeds and plants and domesticat-ing them, choosing those varieties that yielded the most food, or the best rope, or which did well even in drought years.

Around the same time, they commenced domesticating animals as well, harnessing their power, eating their meat and drinking their milk.

The diversity of the plants and animals the first farmers had to work with allowed them to se-lect strains of plants and breeds of animals spe-cifically tailored to meet specific needs.

Today, genetic diver-sity remains essential for the continued sus-tainability of world agri-cultural production.

“Safeguarding and using the potential and diversity of nature is critical for world food s e c u r i -t y , ”

stresses the United Na-tions Food and Agricul-ture Organization (FAO) of the importance of bio-diversity.

Biodiversity for food and agriculture includes the components of bi-ological diversity that are essential for feeding human populations and improving the quality of life. It includes the variety and variability of ecosystems, animals, plants and micro-organ-isms, at the genetic, spe-cies and ecosystem lev-els, which are necessary

to sustain human life as well as the key functions of ecosystems.

Scientists have iden-tified about 1.4 million unique species of plants and animals on the plan-et -- so far. Nearly every day, it seems, a new spe-cies is added to the list.

“This variety of life is essential to human existence,” FAO claims. “We depend on it for food, w a t e r , e n e r g y , s h e l t e r a n d i n -n u -

m e r -ous oth-er ways as well. But as the

p l a n e t ’ s human population

continues to expand, this biodiversity is com-ing under increasing threat.”

“Every hour three species disappear. Ev-ery day up to 150 spe-cies are lost,” notes the Convention on Biologi-cal Diversity, which has been signed by almost 200 countries already, including the Philip-pines.

In terms of food production, the loss of biodiversity is very alarming. FAO cites the following facts and fig-ures:

· Of the 8,300 animal breeds known, 8 per-cent are extinct and 22 percent are at risk of ex-tinction.

· Of the over 80,000 tree species, less than 1 per-cent has b e e n s t u d -

ied for potential use. · Fish provide 20

percent of animal pro-tein to about 3 billion people. Only ten species provide about 30 per-cent of marine capture fisheries and ten spe-cies provide about 50 percent of aquaculture production.

· Over 80 percent of the human diet is pro-vided by plants. Only five cereal crops pro-vide 60 percent of ener-gy intake.

“Some people will argue that if we lost a number of insects yes-terday, and the sun still

came up today, does it truly matter?” asked Prof. Norman Myers, au-thors of several books and has served as a con-sultant to several UN agencies.

Here’s what Time, in a special report, has said: “The damage being done is more than aesthetic. Many vanishing species provide humans with both food and medicine. What’s more, once you start tearing out swaths of ecosystem, you upset the existing balance in ways that harm even ar-eas you didn’t intend to touch.”

Dr. Peter Raven, a noted American biolo-gist, is very much con-cerned with the fast disappearance of the world’s biodiversity. “Of all the global problems

that confront us, species extinction is the one that is moving the most rapidly and the one that will have the most seri-ous consequences,” he contends.

Unlike other global ecological problems, Dr.

Raven stressed, the crisis is com-

pletely irre-v e r s i b l e .

“Ex-

t i n c -tion is

forever,” declared the Washington-based World Resources Insti-tute.

The main culprit of the disappearance of biodiversity is the de-struction of its habitat. “The most visible harm is caused by damage to natural habitats,” FAO says. “Wild species be-come extinct when the places where they live are destroyed. Pollu-tion, urbanization, de-forestation and conver-sion of wetlands force out wildlife. Misman-agement of agriculture, forestry and fisheries can further accelerate this destructive pro-

cess.” Biodiversity is as

just as important on farms and in fields as it is in deep river val-leys or mountain cloud forests. “This agri-cultural biodiversity consists of countless farmed plants that feed and heal people, crop varieties and aquatic species with specific nutritional character-istics, livestock species adapted to harsh envi-ronments, insects that pollinate fields and mi-

croorganisms that re-generate agricultural soils,” FAO explains.

In human history, about 7,000 species of plants have been

cultivated for c o n s u m p t i o n . The tropical r a i n f o r e s t s are reposito-ry of crops. “The rain-forest is the host to some 2,500 spe-cies of fruits fit for us to eat,” said for-

mer Senator Heherson Alva-rez, who used to head the Depart-

ment of Environment and Natural Resourc-es. “Only a few such as banana, grapefruit and pineapples have

been commercialized.” Alvarez believes

that the destruction of rainforests will

wipe out its ability to “re-fuel” existing

crops.

“ R i c e , m i l l e t ,

soybean, egg-plant, yam and

sugarcane origi-nated from there,” he

said. “Genetic resourc-es from tropical forests have saved a number of important crops such as cacao, banana and coffee.”

According to FAO, genetic diversity is essential for the con-tinued sustainability of world agricultural production. “Farmers and agricultural sci-entists need it in or-der to adapt plants to changing conditions or expand production in new, previously un-farmed areas,” it says. “The hidden genetic diversity of plants hold the key to improved yields, and crops that not only produce more to eat, but more nutri-tious food as well.”

Biodiversity: Going, going, gone?By HENRYLITO D. TACIO

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GLOBE Telecom’s 2014 Annual Sustainability Report, titled “Let’s

create a wonderful world,” bagged the Gold Award at the 29th International ARC Awards, a highly-esteemed global competition honoring outstanding achievement in annual reports. Globe won in the Combined Annual and Sustainability Report cate-gory.

“Globe strives for excel-lence in all areas of opera-tions. Proof of our success is our leadership in mobile and continued strong business performance brought about by our passion for innova-tion and pursuit of superior customer experience,” said Yoly Crisanto, Globe Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications.

However, aside from fi-nancial gains, Globe has also

embraced its responsibility to do social good across var-ious sectors and adopt effi-ciency measures to reduce our impact to the environ-ment, she added.

The ARC Awards are globally recognized, provid-ing a platform for the high-est standards in the annual report industry. Established by MerComm, Inc. in 1987, ARC Awards were created to honor overall excellence in annual reports, and to encourage noteworthy and vital writing, as well as imag-inative and original design. The competition is open to corporations, small compa-nies, government agencies, non-profit organizations and associations, as well as agen-cies and individuals involved in producing annual reports.

“Globe Telecom’s annual

15COMPETITIVE EDGE

AND then there was one. From the four con-testants – including a

car salesman and a barista – chosen to participate in the AirAsia Travel Photographer 2015, the online votes have been tallied and 36-year-old Velvet Lagman takes home the grand prize.

Mentored by Malaysian photojournalist Adam Lee, Lagman received the coveted title of AirAsia’s Best Travel Photographer of 2015 along with 100,00 AirAsia BIG

Points and a Nikon D5500 with a 18mm-55mm lens kit.

The photo contest was jointly organized by AirAsia and ThinkDharma Inc. (the exclusive distributor of Nikon Digital Cameras) in partner-ship with AirAsia BIG, the airline’s global loyalty pro-gramme.

The Lucky Voter Grand Prize was awarded to Mia Celindro, who received 100,000 AirAsia BIG Points and a Nikon 1 J5. Ten oth-er lucky voting contestants

were awarded with AirAsia BIG Points plus other goodies from Nikon.

Assisted by acclaimed photographers from the Philippines and Malaysia as their personal coaches, four pre-selected contestants travelled across Asia for one week, which started on July 21.

The contestants were tasked to capture unforget-table moments in categories: landscape, food, portrait, architecture and travel in

Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, In-donesia, and Hong Kong.

Online voting via www.airasiatravelphotographer.com was opened to the public from August 20 and concluded on September 5.

Philippines AirAsia Head of Commercial Gerard Pena-flor led the awarding cere-mony held in Mandaluyong City on September 18, 2015 and joined in the ribbon-cut-ting of the exhibit featuring pictures taken on the contest leg.

AirAsia, Nikon firms pickBest Travel Photographer

TOP PHOTOGS. AirAsia Travel Photographer winner Velvet Lagman (3rd from left) with fellow contenders (from left) TJ Nepomuceno III, Paul Delfin, and Sarah Garcia at the awarding ceremony held recently in Mandaluyong City.

SMART Communications showcased its innova-tive solutions to im-

prove the delivery of health-care services at the recent Global Forum on Research and Innovation for Health at the Philippine International Convention Center.

Ramon Duremdes, Jr., adviser for Digital Health Ini-tiatives at Smart, highlighted SHINE (Secured Health In-formation Network and Ex-change), an award-winning open-source innovation plat-form with core functions of recording, reminding, refer-ring, and reporting.

Used mainly by local gov-ernment-operated health-care facilities as an EMR (electronic medical record), SHINE has now evolved into an open-sourced health tech-nology solution that is in-teroperable with other health systems. It allows for the cre-ation of plug-ins and modules that can help the local health IT industry to look into the

many gaps and opportunities within the medical system.

Working with partners, Smart has also developed mobile screening applica-tions for patients needing prosthesis via ASCENT (Am-putee Screening via CEll-phone Networking), and for those needing facial recon-struction (Operation Smile). The ASCENT and OpSmile mobile apps and the SHINE OS+ version were developed in partnership with the Ate-neo Java Wireless Competen-cy Center.

Duremdes, one of the panelists for the session on “Increasing Access to Infor-mation on Health Equity and Development,” underscored Smart’s efforts in creating value for consumers and in fostering financially sustain-able information and commu-nications technology-based innovations that will improve delivery outcomes for health in the country.

He emphasized the im-

RECOGNIZING the significant role of women microen-

trepreneurs in driving economic growth and community development, Coca-Cola Philippines, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), and a civil society organization recently inked a three-way partnership to im-plement a training and economic empowerment program for women sa-ri-sari store owners and operators in Mindanao.

Under the agreement, the First Community Co-operative (FICO) in Davao would be empowered to conduct the modules of the Sari-Sari Store Train-ing and Access to Re-sources (STAR) program in areas where they op-erate.

The agreement also directs FICCO to nomi-nate and develop “trainer teams” that will undergo training and certification by TESDA.

TESDA, the agency which took care of the implementation of the modules that were co-au-thored with Coca-Cola, intends to transfer knowl-edge and skills to its civil society partners so that they can, in turn, do the same for their network of microentrepreneurs.

The partnership will run from 2015 to 2020 to ensure the sustain-ability and continuity of the STAR Program even after Coca-Cola Philip-pines completes its target of empowering 200,000 women microentrepre-neurs by 2020.

Signing the memoran-dum of agreement in the event was Provincial Di-rector Nestor Tabada on behalf og TESDA Secre-tary Joel Villanueva.

Four years ago, The Coca-Cola Company made a commitment to eco-nomically empower five million women entrepre-neurs across the compa-

Smart’s Health innovationstake spotlight at global forum

portance of enabling access to information on price, care quality, and outcomes to consumers for a better user

experience. He also called on government and the private sector to support innovative digital health startups.

Globe Annual Sustainability Reportbags gold in 29th Int’l ARC Awards

Coca-Cola, TESDA, FICCO partnerto empower Mindanao women

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BOUNCING BACKFOLLOWING an embarassing

loss, the Philippine national men’s basketball team vent-

ed its ire on Hong Kong, 101-50, to bounce back in the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship on Thursday at CSWC Dayun in Changsha, China.

Jayson Castro led Gilas Pilipi-nas with 21 points and also fired five triples in the game to go along with his five boards and two as-sists.

Naturalized player Andray Blatche added 17 points while Dondon Hontiveros chipped in 14 points to help Gilas Pilipinas re-

cover from a shocking loss to new-comer Palestine on Wednesday.

Gilas Pilipinas made sure that it would dominate Hong Kong this time around. The Filipinos got off to a 12-0 start and never let Hong Kong score its first basket six min-utes into the game.

Behind Siu Wing Chan’s seven straight points, Hong Kong man-aged to threaten for a run and was able to keep within just 13 points, 28-18, after the first quarter.

But Gilas Pilipinas pulled away in the second quarter as the team’s outside shooting finally

clicked. Dondon Hontiveros fired three triples in the first half alone, while Castro and Blatche made their own long bombs to give the Filipinos a 51-22 cushion at half-time.

Gilas Pilipinas never looked back and unlike in its meltdown against Palestine, the squad con-tinued to pounce on the hapless Hong Kong and even erected a 50-point lead, 88-38, to cruise to the victory.

Gilas Pilipinas will next face Kuwait on Friday to round out its Group B assignments.

Gilas vents ire on Hongkong, notches 51-point win

HOW WE STAND

PALESTINE 1 0PHILIPPINES 1 1HONGKONG 1 1KUWAIT 0 1

NOT GIVING UP. Veter-an Asi Taulava of the Philippines holds his own against the de-fenders of Hongkong. FIBA Asia photo

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TU R N I N G P o i n t : P h i l i p -

pines opened the game with a 12-0 blast that all but o b l i t e r a t e d any chance of the Hong Kongers stick-ing around. C a s t r o , Blatche, and H o n t i v e r o s all conspired in that strong start for the Pinoys, who never looked back.

Stats Don't Lie: This was one of the most scintillating shooting displays the Filipinos had ever produced. They made a total of 14 three-pointers in the game, with Blatche, Castro, Hontiveros, and Romeo each hit-ting at least twice from the beyond the arc. Needless to say, if the Philippines continue to shoot this well, they re-main a strong title contender.

Game Hero: Jayson Castro had a bit of a subpar out-ing yesterday against Palestine, but in this game he reminded everyone why he was among the All-Star Five in the 2013 FIBA Asia Champion-ship. Castro wound

up with 21 points in under 20 minutes, shooting 7-of-9 from the floor, including 5 triples. He also col-lared 4 rebounds, dished out 2 assists, and got 2 steals.

The Bottom Line: The Philippines definitely needed to win this one by a big margin to offset the shocking and h e a r t - w r e n c h i n g defeat they experi-enced yesterday. It’s a good thing, then, that they played near-flawless bas-ketball against a visibly overmatched East Asian side. Hong Kong, for its part, can learn from this and hope to spring their own version of an upset tomorrow against dangerous Palestine.

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GAME ANALYSIS

THE Philippine na-tional men’s bas-ketball team’s

starting point guard Jayson Castro proved he was a dangerous scorer in the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship, especial-ly in the big moments, en route to being named to the All-Tournament Five in Manila.

Castro averaged 11.8 points for Gilas in 2013, including some huge games against Korea (17 points) and Iran (18 points) in the semifinal and final rounds.

But as a veteran on the latest incarnation of the Gilas team, he has tried to become more of a leader and facilitator,

allowing teammates like naturalized player An-dray Blatche and talent-ed newcomer Terrence Romeo more room to shine on the offensive end during their prepa-rations for the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship in Changsha, Hunan, China.

With his team need-ing a strong statement game following a shock opening day loss to Pal-estine, Castro showed that he definitely still has what it takes to dominate a game when he helped lead Gilas to a whopping 51-point victory over Hong Kong.

“I always look to our shooters and try to in-volve them but this game,

I tried to be aggressive on my offense because coach Tab (Baldwin) told me I need to score but at the same time, involve my teammates,” Castro said during the postgame press conference at the CSWC Dayun on Thurs-day.

That he did, scor-ing 21 points on 7-for-9 shooting to lead all scor-ers aside from racking up two assists. Castro was so good on this day that his team outscored their opponents by 44 points in the 18 minutes and 16 seconds he was on the floor.

After Gilas faced questions about their ability to score against a

zone defense in the pre-vious game, Castro made sure to answer that de-finitively, knocking down five of his six three-point attempts to lead an im-pressive shooting display from the Filipinos, who hit a total of 14 triples in the game.

Despite leading the scoring charge, he stressed the need to share the ball so they can prove those doubts wrong.

“Yeah, I try to involve my teammates, especial-ly the shooters because we need to show that we can hit the outside shot. Because they are ques-tioning us that we don’t have shooters,” he said.

HUFFING AND PUFFING. Naturalized player Andray Blatche added 17 points while Dondon Hontiveros chipped in 14 points to help Gilas Pilipinas recover from a shocking loss to newcomer Palestine on Wednesday.

STILL DANGEROUS. Jayson Castro of the Philippines tries to barrel his way through against a Hong-kong defender. FIBA Asia photo

Castro’s switch to scorer’s mentality pays off for Gilas

THE Manila South-woods Masters shoots for its fifth

straight championship when the 10th Philippine Airlines (PAL) Ladies Inter-club golf team tournament gets going on Oct. 8-10 at the Negros Golf and Coun-try Club in Marapara, Ba-colod City.

The defending cham-pion heads a field of 19 teams, including a squad from Australia, converging for the three-day event.

Last year, South-woods-Masters rallied in the final day to edge Cebu

Country Club (CCC) by a single point at the Alta Vis-ta Golf Club in Cebu City.

CCC is again fielding a strong squad which aims to end Masters’ four-year reign.

Aside from Masters and CCC, the other participat-ing clubs are the Alabang Country Club, Apo Golf and Country Club, Camp Agu-inaldo Golf Club, Bacolod Golf and Country Club, Ma-nila Golf Club, Iloilo Golf Ladies Club, Manila South-woods Masters Team, Ne-gros Occidental Golf Club, Pueblo de Oro Gold Team,

Rancho Palos Verdes Golf Club, Valley Golfer and Country Club, Victorias Golf and Country Club, Mactan Island Golf Club-Team B, Wack Wack Golf and Country Club,Del Mon-te Golf Club, Eagle Ridge (Ladies Group), Davao City Golf and the Club Lady Ea-gles Australian Golfers, the only foreign-based squad.

The event is divid-ed into four divisions: Championship, Founders, Sportswriters and Friend-ship. It will be played for two rounds with each team allowed to field eight play-

ers with the best five scor-ers counting.

The Molave point sys-tem will be used for the event, according to tour-nament director Henry Ar-abelo.

A team captains’ meet-ing will be held on Oct. 7 to be followed by the ceremo-nial tee-off and captains’ tournament.

The event will be spon-sored by the Mareco Broad-casting Network (Cross-over), Travelife, Business Mirror, Airbus, Splash Phil-ippines, Wealth Inc. and East Gate Publication.

Southwoods shoots for 5th PAL Ladies Interclub title

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