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VOL. 1, No. 291 Cagayan de Oro City Tuesday May 1, 2012 P10.00 NONOY NONOY LECHON SERVICES OFFERED OUT OF TOWN ORDER For more details, contact Tel. No.: 309-5276 HERMILINO VILLALON Manager www.mindanaodailybalita.com Editorial: 74-53-80, e-mail: [email protected] Advertising: 0917-7121424, e-mail: [email protected] WEATHER UPDATE AT 2:00 a.m. yesterday, the Active Low Pressure Area (ALPA) was estimated based on satellite, surface and radar data at 60 km North Northwest of General Santos City (6.8°N, 125.0°E). Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming cloudy with widespread rains over the Eastern Mindanao which may trigger flashfloods and landslides. The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the eastern sections. SOURCE: PAGASA GANG/PAGE 7 www.businessweekmindanao.com BusinessWeek BusinessWeek YOUR LOCAL ONLINE BUSINESS PAPER MINDANAO Workers vow to rally v. PNoy By MARYA SALAMAT of Bulatlat.com By AL JACINTO Regional Editor-Zamboanga Three members of gang linked to Rodwell abduction arrested The latter has gone vi- ral in the Philippines and abroad as various groups’ criticisms of Aquino’s in- action on peoples’ issues seemed to have hit a nerve. As example, the labor center KMU (Kilusang Mayo Uno) cited the president’s refusal to hike wages by a significant amount, Aquino’s refusal also to save workers from contractual employ- ment schemes as shown in the case of the Philippine Airlines, his government’s failure to stop the violent demolitions of urban poor communities, the persis- tent oil price hikes, and the continued mockery of land reform. These, the labor center said, prod “the workers and the poor this Labor Day to take President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to task for failing to respond Abante Mindanao (Abamin) party-list Rep. Maximo Rodriguez distributes chicken meat and vegetables to Sendong survivors who are temporarily housed at the relocation center at Barangay Canitoan, Cagayan de Oro. The relief giving of the congressman was held Saturday and came after the distribution of rice the other week in a continuing program of helping the displaced residents. Photo by Gerry L. Gorit PAGADIAN City––Govern- ment troops captured three gunmen in a clash Saturday with a notorious gang tied to the kidnapping of an Australian national in Zam- boanga Sibugay province in the southern Philippines, officials said. Officials said the troops raided the hideout of Wan- ing Abdulsalam in the town of Naga, but the gang leader who was previously impli- A photo released by the Philippine Army shows kid- napped Australian adventurer Warren Rodwell. This Labor Day, the workers and the poor will take President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to task for failing to respond to their calls, making the hunger and poverty situation in the country even worse, and exceeding even the previous government’s puppetry to the United States. Leaders of labor groups and other sectors criticize Aquino’s inaction on pressing national issues. Photo courtesy of Kilusang Mayo Uno / bulatlat.com SINCE President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III became president, he has en- gendered criticisms that boil down to “Anybody home?” and “Noynoying.” The first captures the impression that he is frequently out of the loop, and the latter, a play on his name, has come to connote “doing nothing.” to their calls, making the hunger and poverty situ- ation in the country even worse, and exceeding even the previous government’s “puppetry to the US.” Leaders of progressive labor and transport groups, including the leaders of ur- ban poor organizations and public sector employees, announced in a press con- ference Friday that they are aiming for a 30,000-strong mobilization in Metro Manila cated in the kidnapping of Warren Rodwell, 52, es- caped. “We were not able to get Waning, but we captured three of his followers in a clash that lasted over 30 minutes. There is no re- port about Rodwell,” Army Colonel Gerry Barrientos, commander of the 102nd Infantry Brigade, told the Mindanao Examiner. He said troops recovered weapons from Abdusal- salam’s hideout in the village of Mamagon. Abdulsalam was a former commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front which is currently negotiat- ing peace with Manila. Aside from Abdusalsalam, au- thorities also linked another MILF leader Barahama Ali to Rodwell’s kidnapping. Rodwell was kidnapped in December last year by 6 gunmen disguised as po- licemen from his house in the seaside town of Ipil in Zamboanga Sibugay. He was reported by the police and military to have been brought to Basilan prov- ince, just several nautical miles from here, and also in Zamboanga Peninsula. Authorities have not re- ported much on the prog- ress of the operation to rescue Rodwell except that the kidnappers have been moving the former Sydney man from one hideout to another to avoid detection by the military. The kidnappers have demanded $2 million ran- som for the safe release of BUTUAN City––As police investigators are still deep in looking into the case, the New People’s Army has owned up to the April 23, 2012 raid of Earth Saver Security Agency branch here and claimed to have Rebels raid security agency; take 66 guns By PAT SAMONTE Regional Editor-Caraga seized 66 high-powered firearms, handguns and several ammunition from its armory. In an unsigned press statement, Ka Allan Juan- ito who claimed to be the spokesperson of the Bagong Hukbong Bayan Julito Tiro Command in North WORKERS/PAGE 7 REBELS/PAGE 7

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VOL. 1, No. 291 Cagayan de Oro City Tuesday May 1, 2012 P10.00

NONOYNONOY LECHON SERVICES

OFFERED OUT OF

TOWN ORDER

For more details, contact Tel. No.: 309-5276

HERMILINO VILLALONManager

www.mindanaodailybalita.com

Editorial: 74-53-80, e-mail: [email protected] • Advertising: 0917-7121424, e-mail: [email protected]

WEATHER UPDATEAT 2:00 a.m. yesterday, the Active Low Pressure Area (ALPA) was estimated based on satellite, surface and radar data at 60 km North Northwest of General Santos City (6.8°N, 125.0°E). Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming cloudy with widespread rains over the Eastern Mindanao which may trigger flashfloods and landslides. The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the eastern sections.

SOURCE: PAGASA

GANG/PAGE 7

www.businessweekmindanao.com

BusinessWeekBusinessWeekYOUR LOCAL ONLINE BUSINESS PAPERMINDANAO

Workers vow to rally v. PNoy

By MARYA SALAMATof Bulatlat.com

By AL JACINTORegional Editor-Zamboanga

Three members of gang linked to Rodwell abduction arrested

The latter has gone vi-ral in the Philippines and abroad as various groups’ criticisms of Aquino’s in-action on peoples’ issues seemed to have hit a nerve.

As example, the labor center KMU (Kilusang Mayo Uno) cited the president’s refusal to hike wages by a significant amount, Aquino’s refusal also to save workers from contractual employ-ment schemes as shown in the case of the Philippine Airlines, his government’s failure to stop the violent demolitions of urban poor communities, the persis-tent oil price hikes, and the continued mockery of land reform.

These, the labor center said, prod “the workers and the poor this Labor Day to take President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to task for failing to respond

Abante Mindanao (Abamin) party-list Rep. Maximo Rodriguez distributes chicken meat and vegetables to Sendong survivors who are temporarily housed at the relocation center at Barangay Canitoan, Cagayan de Oro. The relief giving of the congressman was held Saturday and came after the distribution of rice the other week in a continuing program of helping the displaced residents. Photo by Gerry L. Gorit

PAGADIAN City––Govern-ment troops captured three gunmen in a clash Saturday with a notorious gang tied to the kidnapping of an Australian national in Zam-boanga Sibugay province in the southern Philippines, officials said.

Officials said the troops raided the hideout of Wan-ing Abdulsalam in the town of Naga, but the gang leader who was previously impli-

A photo released by the Philippine Army shows kid-napped Australian adventurer Warren Rodwell.

This Labor Day, the workers and the poor will take President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to task for failing to respond to their calls, making the hunger and poverty situation in the country even worse, and exceeding even the previous government’s puppetry to the United States.

Leaders of labor groups and other sectors criticize Aquino’s inaction on pressing national issues. Photo courtesy of Kilusang Mayo Uno / bulatlat.com

SINCE President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III became president, he has en-gendered criticisms that boil down to “Anybody home?” and “Noynoying.” The first captures the impression that he is frequently out of the loop, and the latter, a play on his name, has come to connote “d oing nothing.”

to their calls, making the hunger and poverty situ-ation in the country even worse, and exceeding even the previous government’s “puppetry to the US.”

Leaders of progressive labor and transport groups,

including the leaders of ur-ban poor organizations and public sector employees, announced in a press con-ference Friday that they are aiming for a 30,000-strong mobilization in Metro Manila

cated in the kidnapping of Warren Rodwell, 52, es-caped.

“We were not able to get Waning, but we captured three of his followers in a clash that lasted over 30 minutes. There is no re-port about Rodwell,” Army Colonel Gerry Barrientos, commander of the 102nd Infantry Brigade, told the Mindanao Examiner.

He said troops recovered weapons from Abdusal-salam’s hideout in the village of Mamagon.

Abdulsalam was a former commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front which is currently negotiat-ing peace with Manila. Aside from Abdusalsalam, au-thorities also linked another MILF leader Barahama Ali to Rodwell’s kidnapping.

Rodwell was kidnapped in December last year by 6 gunmen disguised as po-licemen from his house in the seaside town of Ipil in Zamboanga Sibugay. He was reported by the police and military to have been

brought to Basilan prov-ince, just several nautical miles from here, and also in Zamboanga Peninsula.

Authorities have not re-ported much on the prog-ress of the operation to rescue Rodwell except that the kidnappers have been moving the former Sydney man from one hideout to another to avoid detection by the military.

The kidnappers have demanded $2 million ran-som for the safe release of

BUTUAN City––As police investigators are still deep in looking into the case, the New People’s Army has owned up to the April 23, 2012 raid of Earth Saver Security Agency branch here and claimed to have

Rebels raid securityagency; take 66 guns

By PAT SAMONTERegional Editor-Caraga

seized 66 high-powered firearms, handguns and several ammunition from its armory.

In an unsigned press statement, Ka Allan Juan-ito who claimed to be the spokesperson of the Bagong Hukbong Bayan Julito Tiro Command in North

WORKERS/PAGE 7

REBELS/PAGE 7

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CALAMBA, Misamis Oc-cidental––A policeman is now in hot water after he was caught allegedly having a pot session with his brother, the subject of the Philippine Drug E n f o r c e m e n t A g e n c y (PDEA) and Task Force Panguil of the Philippine National Police (PNP).

In a report received from the PDEA Provin-cial Special Enforcement Team IA3 Ariel Escudero and PNP team led by Sr. Insp. Bryan Reponte, under the supervision of PPSC Commander Supt. John Francis Encinareal and acting provincial di-rector, identified the sus-pect as Nico Violango of Purok 4, D’Ban, Calamba.

Violango was collared after he reportedly sold a sachet of suspected il-legal drug worth P200 to an undercover agent.

The PDEA and police recovered nine more plas-tic heat-sealed sachets containing white crystal-line substance, believed to be “shabu” including

2 TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012

www.mindanaodailybalita.comNEWS IN FOCUS

We welcome the City Government’s plan of recognizing Cagayan de Oro City’s past leaders. We, therefore, support the move of City Mayor Vicente Emano in naming several landmarks in the city in honor of those who worked and contributed for the city’s develop-ment.

There is no question that from a place known only for its Jesuits-run seminary school in the 1950s, Cagayan de Oro City has metamorphosed into an urban capital in recent years.

Thanks to the illustrious Cagayanons and migrants who have spent their lifetime in carv-ing progress that transformed Cagayan de Oro City into what it is today.

Certainly, native Cagayanons and those who have made Cagayan de Oro City their second home are proud of being part of the city’s de-velopment all through the years.

City Mayor Vicente Emano’s tribute to those whose visions left indelible mark in the city’s hearts and minds may not be enough. How-ever, Mayor Emano’s act of paying tribute on the achievements of those renowned men would go down in the city’s history for future generations to cherish.

Indeed, we the people of Cagayan de Oro are lucky to bear witness the landmarks of the city’s progress nurtured by men who have touched the lives of the Cagayanons.

Among the public servants where Cagaya-nons were indebted were former Senator and City Mayor Nene Pimentel, former City Mayor Reuben Canoy, former City Mayor Pablo Mag-tajas, and former City Mayor Tinnex Jaraula.

The late City Mayor Justiniano Borja and his equally deserving predecessors also de-served a place in the memory of the people of Cagayan de Oro.

Thus, the move to honor the memory of Cagayan de Oro’s exemplary citizens and pub-lic servants in naming important landmarks in their behalf is an endeavor worth the support of the entire citizenry.

Mabuhi ang Cagayanon! Mabuhi ang Cagayan de Oro!

NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

PD ADVT

Force...from page 3as psychological deterrence roles, and support civil authorities for peace and development,” the AFP chief stressed.

Dellosa added there should also be a territorial defense dimension to this order as the regular-reserve force-mix in the locality serves as the nucleus of the centers of resis-tance of the total Army which, he said, is “a strategic deterrence to foreign invasion or occupation.” CD

Cop caught in ‘pot session’By PJ TREMEDAL, Western Mindanao Bureau

the marked money af-terwards.

Aside from Violango, the PDEA and the po-lice managed to arrest PO3 Ruben Violango, a pol iceman assigned at the Calamba police sta-t ion, and Demothenes Violango.

The raiding team said they caught PO3 Viol-ango on the act having a pot session with De-monthenes. They were able to confiscate from the suspects a piece of aluminum foil with resi-due, four pieces of opened sachet with residues, four aluminum foils and two disposable lighters.

In a related operation, the same team from PDEA and MOPPO-PPSC/Task Force Panguil collared an-other suspect at a Caltex station in Barangay D’Ban on the same day wherein suspect Joel Macalisang, a resident of Barangay Calaran, Calamba.

Macal isang was ap-prehended after he sold a sachet of illegal drug

to a PDEA undercover worth 200 pesos.

The buy bust opera-tion against the suspect recovered another f ive sachets, believed to be “shabu,” placed inside a Marlboro 10’s Light pack with the marked money, a 100-peso bill, bearing serial number DE341052 and two 50-peso bills with serial numbers KD676549 and KW166522.

Sr. Supt. Raul Benitez commended the PDEA and the police for the successful operations.

B enitez told Mind-anao Dai ly News that with the apprehension of PO3 Ruben Violango, the suspect will be meted with both criminal and administrative cases in the violation of RA 9165 and the violation of the PNP Rules and Regulation in regard to the use of il-legal drugs by a member of the Philippine National Police pursuant to the 10-point agenda of the Chief PNP, PDG Nicanor Bartolome.

President Benigno S. Aquino III delivers his message during the turnover ceremony of permanent shelter units to survivors of typhoon “Sendong” at the Calaanan Permanent Resettlement Site Phase III in Barangay Canito-an, Cagayan de Oro City on Friday (April 27, 2012). Also in photo are (from left) Cagayan de Oro City 1st District Rep. Benjo Benaldo, Vice President Jejomar Binay, Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman, Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Vicente Emano, Habitant for Humanity (HFH) Philippines Manag-ing Director and CEO Charito Ayco, Cagayan de Oro City 2nd District Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, Cagayan de Oro Archbishop Antonio Ledesma, and Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation Chairman and CEO Cristino Naguiat Jr. Photo supplied

PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III urged residents on Friday to help the gov-ernment in protecting the equipment to be installed by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) as part of its Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards (NOAH) against people who may steal and sell them.

DOST’s project NOAH was just launched recently in an eff ort to improve the country’s fl ood warning sys-tem in which 600 automated rain gauges along with 400

PNoy asks Cagayan de Oro help protect S&T equipment

water river censors are about to be established in 18 major river systems and its water-sheds nationwide.

President Aquino ex-pressed concern over some people who have the impu-dence to pilfer such equip-ment aft er they are set up by the government since these are made of steel that can be sold in junkshops.

“Syempre po automated, nakikusap po ako, magtu-lungan po tayo dito. May-roon ho tayong ibang ka-babayan ‘nung nakita itong mga gauges at censors, ang

nakita bakal na pwede ibenta por kilo, nawala ang ating weather gauge at censor. Tulungan po ninyo kaming hulihin ang mga walang konsensyang taong ito,” the President said in his speech.

According to the Presi-dent these equipments would enable the country’s weather bureau to be more specifi c and more timely in its pre-dictions on the amount of rainfall that a typhoon may unleash to avoid a tragedy similar to what happened in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan late last year.

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News in Focus

By PAT SAMONTE

BU T UA N C i t y – – For-eign observers of mining companies operating in Northeastern Mindanao have noted that industry workers are beset with problems like labor con-tractualization, lack of workers’ organization and poor economic condition.

In a press conference at Embassy Hotel here on Sunday, representatives of the International Solidar-ity Mission on Mining (ISMM) presented the problems following meet-ings with Caraga labor leaders particularly from the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU).

Margaret Donehue, Co-lin Muir of Australia and Michael May of Germany

Lack of workers’ securityof tenure in mining firms

said mining workers in Region 13 have practi-cally similar complaints as other industry workers across the country.

The mission was or-ganized to 1) assess the impacts of mining op-erations in the communi-ties and the environment vis-à-vis the profitabil-ity of the multinational mining companies; 2) to investigate the workers’ economic status, working conditions and violation of workers’ rights; 3) create a venue to share experi-ences and come up with possible common platform for campaigns and work-ers’ struggles between the Philippines and kindred organizations or interested individuals from different countries.

Daisy Arago of the Cen-ter for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), who served as spokesper-son for the mission said f irst-hand information from the workers side were gathered to complement the mission’s objective.

KMU-Caraga secretary general Jacinto Tanduyan revealed that out of 10 mining workers, only three are “regular” or permanent employees.

To show the lack of workers’ organization in the region, he said that of 4,000 mining workers, only 700 are union members.

KMU-Caraga chair Ed-win Batac said there is “rampant contractualiza-tion” of workers in mining firms in Surigao del Norte and Surigao del Sur.

ARMED FORCES of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Jessie Dellosa said on Saturday he wants the country’s military reserve units to play a larger role on the country’s defense affairs.

In line with this, Dellosa has issued an order call-ing for a strategic review of the AFP Reserve Force Development Program to ensure synchrony between

AFP mobilizes reserve forcethe military’s active and re-serve forces in their roles in internal security operations and territorial defense.

Dellosa also instructed the AFP Reserve Com-mand to give priority to the development of the reservists as territorial forces for internal peace and security, and make community-based reserv-ists the backbone of the military’s first responders

in the event of calamities and natural disasters.

“Our reservists must form part of the integrated territorial defense system in peacetime or the sus-tainment phase of our Internal Peace Security Program (IPSP) “Bayani-han” campaign. Thus, we must endeavor to have our reservists ready to perform a variety of physical as well

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ATTY. MARIO T. JUNI. . .

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THINK a minute.Imagine that e ver y

morning somebody put $86,400 in your bank ac-count.

T h e n , e v e r y n i g ht whatever you didn’t spend that day was taken out of your account and thrown away.

Wouldn’t you take out every cent of your $86,400 and spend it every day? So none of it would be wasted or thrown away.

Did you know that you real ly have a bank ac-count just like that one? It’s called TIME.

Ever y morning our time bank gives you and me 86,400 seconds. Then, every night the time we did not use that day is gone.

So we must use it all up or lose the time each day we do not spend well. You use it or lose it. Then what are the best bargains

Your biggest bank account

and deals in life which are worth our valuable time?

Would you like to know the two best investments of your t ime that wi l l bring you real success and wealth in your life?

The f i rst smar t in-vestment of your time is people. Spend your time with your family.

At the end of your life, you will never be sorry for the time you spent with your children, your wife or husband, your broth-ers and sisters, and your parents.

We should also spend

our t ime on the many people all around us each day to help make their lives happier.

Spending your time on people gives you wealth and happiness that you can never lose

The second, yet by far most important, invest-ment of your time is to spend it with your own Maker.

He is the Person Who Himself gives you every second you receive to keep living. You see, God didn’t just make us and then forget us.

Quite the opposite! God created you to be His child and friend, so you can enjoy living every day with Him. That’s why God the Son came to show us what He’s like.

He wants us to see the good life He designed for us to enjoy.

T h e m ore t i m e we spend with Jesus, the bet-ter we know how to live well and successfully.

In fact, Jesus Christ guarantees that if each day you will spend your 86,400 seconds on living for Him and others, then at the end of your life when you’ve run out of seconds, you will be truly wealthy and satisfied with no regrets!

Even if you just start right now. So why not ask Jesus to forgive you and to take full charge of the time you still have left?

Just Think a Minute.

Think A Minute

Jhan Tiafau HurstJhan Tiafau Hurst

Workers Unite!

Are the Cagayan de Oro police useless?

LABOR DAY celebration in the Philippines dates back more than a hundred years ago. It was when hundred thousand workers waged the first known labor rally in the coun-try. The protesters were members of the Union Obrero Democratica de Filipinas (U0DF) who marched to Malacanang in Manila to demand higher wages and better working condition. That rally on May 1, 1903 marked the first Labor Day celebration in the country.

A year before, on Jan. 1, 1902, Isabelo de los Reyes organized the Union de Impresores de Filipinas (UIF), as the first formal trade union. A month later, Her-minigildo Cruz and de los Reyes founded the Union Obrera Democratica. UOD became the first labor federation comprising 85 affiliated labor unions. Members were lowly workers of printing presses, cigar workers, tailors, mechanics and laborers.

The Philippines was under the American colonial rule at that time. It was on May 1, 1903 that workers in the country rally together to exposed abuses of the Americans on Filipino workers. The American colonial government did not issue a permit for that rally. However, the Americans were alarmed over hundred of thousand workers who marched to Mala-canang shouting ‘death to Americans and down with US imperialism.’

Leaders of that historic rally were arrested and charged with sedition and illegal assembly. Printing presses where the official labor newspaper was printed

were raided and padlocked. The four-paged weekly La Redencion del Obrero, written in Tagalog and Span-ish served as the official mouthpiece of the workers.

In 1904, after its 20th circulation, the newspaper folded up when its editor, Isabelo de los Reyes, was convicted by the American government for agitat-ing wage increase, eight-hour working hours, and protection of workers’ rights. However, the fight for the workers’ right did not end with the conviction of del los Reyes and the folding up of La Redencion del Obrero. Another newspaper, the Los Obreros, continued the fight for workers rights and just wages.

On April 8, 1908, the Philippine Assembly approved a bill declaring May 1, every year in the Philippines as Labor Day. The bill was patterned after the Americans observance of May 1 every year in the United States as Labor Day, too. The US senate approved the bill declaring May 1 every year in the US as Labor Day on May 1, 1886.

The celebration of Labor Day is not an ordinary celebration or Holiday. It is the day when workers freely air grievances against low wages, poor working conditions, and unfair labor practices. Every Labor Day celebration in the Philippines is a historic flash-back of Filipino workers who fought workers’ rights in the past.

This year’s Labor Day celebration is expected to be more aggressive as workers demand for higher daily wage and benefits amid high cost of living. Every Labor Day celebration demonstrates the workers’ united force that send a strong message that they are the backbone of every nation’s economy.

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As Far As I Know

Roy Gaane, Roy Gaane, West Covina, CaliforniaWest Covina, California

IN many countries, the po-lice are either respected or feared. In Cagayan de Oro, they are ignored. Or at least that’s what I observed in my two months stay in Cagayan de Oro. When I was growing up in Cagayan de Oro we had a saying, “pagbantay kay naay pulis.” Or to make us behave, we would be told “hala naay pulis.” Are those expressions relevant today in Cagayan de Oro?

My impression is that the police in Cagayan de Oro, if there are any, are not feared and not respected. Why do I say that? Go to the main streets in Cagayan de Oro

and witness pedestrians, adults with children, moth-ers with infants in their arms in reckless abandon cross the streets anywhere they please. Those pedestrian lanes were just a waste of the city’s paint. In some areas, there are pedestrian overpasses but who use

them? It’s quicker to cross the street with ongoing traffic than climbing the steps. Nobody stops the pedestrians anyway except the oncoming vehicle prob-ably afraid their vehicle will be stained with blood.

I drove around Cogon market. It took me a long

time dodging pedestrians, vendors and other vehicles trying to beat each other to an inch of free space. Where were the police? Along the highway from from Velez St all the way to Gusa during busy hours, there were traf-fic aides but all they do was make stop and go signals ignoring public jeepney transportations that load and unload passengers any-where they please. Should they not be ticketed? I don’t know if tickets are issued in Cagayan de Oro. Maybe they have traffic violation tickets but they don’t issue

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Forum underlines role of media in attaining peaceMARAWI City - The peace communication forum held last week in Cotabato City has emphasized the big role of media in attaining peace. “A minor skirmish can escalate into a major war because of irresponsible reportage,” said Carol Arguillas of MindaNews during the occasion where she discussed the role of media in promoting peace in the coverage of armed conflict. She noted that many journalists who are covering armed conflict in Mindanao do not care about the impact of their stories.

DTI-Caraga strengthens advocacy on Tobacco ActREGION 13 - The DTI-Caraga is strengthening its advocacy campaign on Republic Act 9211, otherwise known as the Tobacco Act of 2003. According to Regional Arbitration Officer Elmer Natad, they will inform the public, especially the youth, on the provi-sions of the law that law points out that smoking is absolutely prohibited in public places, such as play-schools, preparatory schools, elementary schools, high schools, colleges and universities, youth hostels, and recreational facilities for persons under 18 years old.

IC, DoF hold training on insurance advocacyCAGAYAN de Oro City - As part of the nationwide micro-insurance literacy campaign to strongly push for the wider acceptance of micro-insurance among the informal and low-income sectors, the Insurance Commission (IC) and the Department of Finance (DoF) have sponsored a three-day training on micro-insurance advocacy in this city. The Commission and DoF also conducted the, “Magpaseguro Para Protektado: Advocacy Seminar on Microinsurance.”

40 TESDA specialista recognized AGUSAN del Sur – Forty individuals were officially recognized as ‘TESDA Specialistas’, according to TESDA TSTP Focal Person Norberto Dorado. The specialistas will be under constant monitoring for six months for them to prove that they have put into action and perform what they learned from their training. Specialista Richard Fuenteshe said he had discovered from within himself that in fact, he has so many hidden skills that were not harnessed before until they were discovered through TESDA.

Director Abner M. CagaPIA, R10 & 13 Cluster

PIA News Bits

Compiled by KHRISTHA RIVA ARFENEMDaily Joke

New rules of company Management writes to workers: Please

be advised that these are new rules and regulations on ‘transportation’ implemented to raise the efficiency of our firm. It is advised that you come to work driving a car according to your salary.

1. If we see you driving a Honda, we assume you are doing well financially and

therefore you do not need a raise.2.If you drive a 10 year old car or taking public trans-

portation, we assume you must have lots of savings therefore you do not need a raise.3. If you drive a Pickup, you are right where you need

to be and therefore you do not need a raise. (Siddu S Hosageri)

A real friend is not like the rain that pours heavily, then disappears. A real friend is like the wind, some times quiet but always around. (Atty. Vic Carillo, Cagayan de Oro City)

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

BY ROWJOE S. FELICILDA M C

I PLung cancer stages

STAGING is used to describe how far a patient’s cancer has spread.

There are different systems for the two main types of lung cancer. Small-cell lung cancer is di-vided into two stages: “Limited” means the cancer is confined to one lung and maybe nearby lymph nodes. “Extensive” means the cancer has spread to the other lung or beyond.

Non-small-cell lung cancer is assigned a stage of one through four, depending on how far it has spread. (WebMD)

By RHODA VALDEUEZA

MISAMIS Oriental - The Family Planning Orga-nization of the Philip-pines (FPOP), Incorpo-rated Misamis Oriental Chapter has a new set

FPOP elects new officersof off icers.

E l e c te d du r i ng t h e chapter’s general assem-bly over the weekend are President Ray C. Abejo, Vice President Cath-erine Fonollera Hooper, Treasurer Katheri Ann

Charcos-Puyo and Sec-retary Jose del Puerto Felicilda.

C o u n c i l M e m b e r s Eduard Bryan Cabunoc, Ed Cuaresma, Ray An-thony Obligado, Elvigia Parel, Neil Sabejon and

Bernardo Taguic Jr.Also elected are Youth

Leaders Junwerl Ng, Eri-ka Oliveros and Chester John Pasco; Ex-Officio Council Members Rosie Realda and POPCOM 10 Director Psyche Paler.

By GLENFORD C. LABIAL

CAGAYAN de Oro City – The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE-10), in coordination with the Tripartite Industrial Peace Council of Western Misamis Oriental-Cagayan de Oro (TIPC-WMOCDO), is all set for the Labor Day, today.

Highlighting the cel-ebration are the early morn-ing parade of workers; La-bor Day Program at Capitol University Gymnatorium, with Representative Rufus

DoLE-10 is all set for 110th Labor Day

Rodriguez (2nd District of Cagayan de Oro City), as keynote speaker; and a Jobs Fair at SM Cagayan

de Oro. Other activities are the

signing of Voluntary Code of Good Practices for the

Construction Industr y and agreement for out-of-school-youth technical vocational trainings; distri-bution of P380,800 worth of Livelihood Starter Kits to displaced OFWs; launching of the Search for 2011 Most Outstanding Employees; and awarding of companies that have contributed to maintenance of industrial peace, among others.

This year’s Labor Day theme is “Pagtutulungan, Pagbabago. Disenteng Tra-baho”. (GCL/DoLE-10/PIA-10/jdelpf )

By RUTCHIE CABAHUG-AGUHOB

CAGAYAN de Oro City – A total revenue of P459.52 million was collected by the Land Transportation Office (LTO-10), last year, higher by 15.94 percent compared to P396.35 million in 2010.

LTO-10 collects P459.52M in 2011

FREE CLINIC - An elderly woman receives free medi-cines during the mobile clinic at the interior town of Salvador, Lanao del Norte initiated by the provincial government. (PIO-LDN)

Data at LTO-10 also show an increase in the number of licenses/transactions, from 213,938 to 222,121 or 3.87 percent and licenses/permits is-sued, from 153,169 to 162,854 or 6.32 per-cent.

Registration trans-actions also increased from 261,874 to 287,547 or 9.80 per-cent, while the number of apprehensions on erring motorists in-creased from 15,233 to 21,144 or 38.80 per-cent.

LTO-10 Director Esteban Baltazar said a total of 219,962 motor vehicles (MVs) were registered in 2011, higher by 12.14 percent compared to 196,155 MV’s in 2010. (rcc, PIA-10/jdelpf )

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FIDE Master Haridas Pascua of Pangasinan clobbered defending champion Na-tional Master Mari Joseph Turqueza of Quezon City to wrest the lead anew in the men’s junior division of the 2012 National Age Group and National Juniors Chess Championships at the Event Center in Tanauan, Batangas.

FIDE Master Paulo Bers-amina of Pasay and Visayas leg winner Joel Pimentel, Jr. actually matched Pas-cua’s total of 7.0 points aft er beating separate rivals, but the latter had more wins to show on his card.

Bersamina toppled Jan Francis Mirano of Aklan while Pimentel crushed Baltazar Rafales of South Cotabato.

Th e tournament employs a point system where a win is worth three points and a draw is equivalent to one point. Meaning, a win and loss will earn more points than a couple of draws.

Pascua had seven wins and one loss for 21 tiebreak points while Bersamina and Pimentel had similar re-cords of six wins and two draws for 20 points. The women’s junior division, where Woman National Master Jedara Docena of Bohol is the solo leader,

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them to save on paper and ink. The City should consider that issuing tickets to traffic violators is another way of raising revenues for the city. That’s huge bundle of revenues.

There are “No Parking” signs but I have been told by at least three friends on separate occasions that traf-fic signs are only “sugges-tions”. They are not meant to be followed. Suggestion or joke? So I was no longer surprised to see vehicles park along “No Parking” signs and sometimes there are double parking by those signs. There are also signs at those overpasses the city wrongly calls “flyovers” that says “No heavy trucks and motorcycles allowed”. No hour during the day passes without seeing those trucks and motorcycles driving by. Are there no police or are they looking the other way?

One day, there was a traf-fic gridlock along Corrales Ave and Recto Ave. Vehicles stood still for minutes until one good citizen got out of his pick-up to untangle the traffic with the help of a rela operator. That was the first time I admired a rela operator. But where were the police or traffic

aides? This was at ten in the morning on a weekday. Pastilan!

Not very recently, a mayor in Newark got out of his car and rushed to a burning house to save a woman. Firefighters were supposed to do that but Mayor Booker was there first so he rushed to the burning house and saved the woman. The mayor suffered minor burns. I don’t know if the mayor of Cagayan de Oro would do that. He was not seen during the first 2 days when Sendong struck, I was told. What’s this got to do with traffic? If the mayor doesn’t care about a horrific flood with hundreds of lives lost, I don’t think the mayor and his councilors care about the traffic. And the police? I think for as long as they are paid for wearing their uniforms why should they endanger themselves or why sweat it out with a traffic violator?

We are talking here only of traffic violations. What about anti-littering, anti-smoking ordinances and other city ordinances? Will the Cagayan de Oro City Police go after these viola-tors? They know who is the number one anti-smoking violator and the police have no guts to go after him.

Pascua back on top in nat’l jrs chessCagayan de Oro’s Salgado leads age group under 20

Rizal Park Chess Foundation chairman and Spartan Mining head Louie Ramos, National Parks Development Committee administrative officer Estrelita Laraya and National Chess Federation of the Philippines Executive Director GM Jayson Gonzales shakes hand with GMs Wesley So, Oliver Barbosa and Mark Paragua to usher the traditional ceremonial moves. Looking on are NM Gerry Cabellon, IM Chito Garma, GM Rogelio Barcenilla, NA Alfredo Chay, IA Rolly Yutuc and IM Ronald Dableo. ISMAEL AMIGO

had an off day on Saturday.Th e leaders in the age

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Ramos of Cebu in GU-8.The national junior

champions will represent the country in the 2012 World Junior Chess Cham-pionships in Athens, Greece while the category winners in age group competition will compete in the 2012 Asian Youth Championships in Sri Lanka. ISMAEL AMIGO

MARIAN Rivera laughs off rumors that she is preg-nant courtesy of Dingdong Dantes.

Rumors of her pregnancy started when some fans congratulated Dingdong via Twitter and Facebook. Many surmised that the messages were about a baby, and they connected it with Marian being pregnant.

But Marian is quick to clarify the rumor. Somebody dear to her boyfriend is infanticipating, all right, except it’s not her.

“Hindi ako ‘yung buntis,” the actress said between laughs during the press launch of her new comedy

Marian laughs off pregnancy rumors

series on GMA, “Tweets For My Sweet.”

“Yung sister ni Dong na si Trina ‘yung buntis kaya marami ang nag-congratu-late sa kanya. Magkakaroon na siya ng pamangkin kasi. Kaya nagulat naman ako na ako ang pinaghihinalaan. Mukha ba akong buntis?”

Marian wore a sexy long white dress during the event.

The dress clearly proved she is not heavy with child, showing off her fine curves and her flat belly.

“How I wish na buntis ako, ‘di ba? Pero hindi at malayo pa ‘yan sa mga plans namin ni Dong,” she said.

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Rodwell, who married a Filipina, Miraflor Gutang, 27, last year in Ipil town. Both the Philippine and Australian governments rejected any payment of ransoms to the Abu Sayyaf.

Zamboanga Sibugay Governor Rommel Jalosjos has imposed a news blackout on the Rodwell kidnapping, although the kidnappers had contacted him several times to negotiate for the safe release of the foreigner.

The kidnappers sent photos and a video clip to Rodwell’s wife in Decem-ber as proof of life, but the woman said they had no money to pay ransom.

In Basilan, Army Col-onel Ricardo Visaya, the provincial military com-mander, said that Rodwell may have been smuggled out by the kidnappers to Zamboanga Peninsula due to their continued opera-tions against the militant group Abu Sayyaf.

“We have no information or reports about Rodwell. There last information we have on him was that he was spirited out of Basilan to Zamboanga Peninsula due to the military operations against the Abu Sayyaf,” he said.

Visaya overran the jungle base of Abu Sayyaf leader Puruji Indama in Sumisip town during a recent offen-sive. (Mindanao Examiner)

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and more than a hundred thousand-strong mobiliza-tion across the country.

In another development, t he government-backed Trade Union Congress of the Philippine and the Free Filipino Workers formed an alliance called “Nagkaisa” which promises to conduct mass actions, “if needed,” to oppose price hikes.

‘A day of reckoning’Calling this year’s Labor

Day “a day of reckoning,” the KMU called on Filipinos “to give vent to their frustrations and anger at the Aquino government and join our protests on Labor Day.”

The labor center said people “have every right to take Aquino to task for fail-ing to respond to their calls and making their situation worse.”

A mong t he Aqu i no presidency’s sins against the workers and the people, the workers’ organizations are particularly angered by Aquino’s freezing wages while allowing prices of basic goods including oil, water, electricity, foodstuff, medi-cines, housing and tuition fees to rise unabated.

As such, on the days lead-ing to May 1, workers have filled up their calendar with schedules of protest actions to be held in front of offices and depots of oil companies, for example, and the regional wage boards.

“Because the regional wage boards are structur-ally programmed to refuse granting a significant wage

hike, we have been calling for their abolition. Even the highest amount granted by a regional wage board (P36) will not suffice to help work-ers cope with high prices at present,” said Lito Ustarez, vice president of KMU.

The labor center finds it “deplorable” that the coun-try’s wage boards have not only refused to recognize the record levels of oil prices this year as a supervening event calling for wage hikes earlier than the one-year ban. “They are still holding con-sultations on what workers already consider as obvious fact––that there is a need to hike wages,” Ustarez said.

Most labor groups in the country have expressed a desire for Congress and not the regional wage boards to

act on their calls for a wage hike. “Workers need a wage increase that’s substantial, not measly, to cope with the prices of basic goods and services that have been soaring not only this year but in recent years,” Ustarez explained.

The labor groups also condemned “Aquino’s sub-servience to the US” as worse than that of Arroyo. “He is pushing for expanded US military presence in the country and greater US military intervention into issues that are internal to the country,” said Elmer “Bong” Labog, chairman of KMU.

“The workers and the poor are hungrier and poorer and are fed up with Aquino’s empty promises,” said Elmer “Bong” Labog, chairman of

KMU. Since experiences un-der Aquino have showed that workers “cannot rely on it to improve our situation,” Labog urged his fellow workers to fight this government’s poli-cies, which, he said, are slowly but surely being exposed as “anti-poor and pro-elite.” (http://bulatlat.com)

Central Mindanao Region, said the raiders took from the security agency 46 AK-47 assault rifles, three M14 sniper rifles, 10 automatic shotguns, seven pistol, several magazines, ammunition and other military items.

Police said some 16 armed men in black sweatshirts and bull caps with NBI marking, on board a Hyundai Galloper van and blue Estrada pickup arrived

in front of Earth Saver security agency branch office in Arujville Subdivision at around 8:55 p.m.

Police said the armed men told the three guards on duty that they were serving two search warrants for the two apart-ments occupied by Earth Saver. The raiders then handcuffed guards Ronnie Flores Royo, Ju-nar Lumawag San Diego and Roger Mandahinog Basisihan and entered apartment units 4 and 5. The gunmen took three cellphones, a backpack contain-ing personal belongings owned by security guards and the “items taken from Unit 4 (have) yet to be determined,” police said.

Earth Saver Butuan branch manager Napoleon Nario was out of town during the incident, police said.

Police reported that police station 3 elements recovered a

Hyundai Starex van with plate no. LYT-725 in Barangay Bonbon in Barangay Bonbon here at around 9:30 p.m. of the same date.

A team from the 13th Re-gional Public Service Battalion and Butuan City Public Service Company conducted “pursuit operation in the area,” authori-ties said.

According to Ka Allan Juanito, the rebels belonging to Front 4A-Cesar Cayon Command took only 10 minutes to “successfully” complete the tactical operation aided by the power brownout.

He said the seized firearms could well equip a company of NPA rebels. He also accused Nario to have used the security agency’s firearms to allegedly harass communities opposed to mining operations in Sta. Maria, Trento and Rosario towns in Agusan del Sur.

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