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ALL ABOUT KITES. Popular kite maker and entrepreneur Car-lito Perez puts some finishing touches on a bee-shaped kite at his roadside shop named Carlo’s Kite along V. Mapa Street in Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

SETTLED. Andrew Baustista, president of Flight  5J-971 Crash  Victims  Association, Inc. (left), announces that a settlement between their group and Cebu Pacific has

been reached in a press briefing yesterday at the Royal Mandaya Hotel in Davao City. With him is lawyer Robert De Leon, the group’s counsel. Lean Daval Jr.

The 42 passengers who called them-selves Flight 5J971 Crash Victims Asso-ciation reportedly got only one-tenth of the compensation they demanded from the airline company but nonethe-less hailed the swift resolution of their demand—a first in Philippine aviation

history where a huge group of crash sur-vivors received indemnification for their traumatic experience.

But the victims have bound them-selves not to reveal how much.

Flight 5J971 Crash Victims Associ-

Cebu Pacific airport accident

S-s-s-h-h-h-! Victims agreenot to reveal amount

By NEILWIN JOSEPH L. BRAVOand EJ DOMINIC FERNANDEZ

WHERE the Gokongwei-owned Cebu Pacific failed in swiftly putting into action the required evacuation emergency procedures when its aircraft skidded off

the Davao International Airport runway on the night of June 2, it made up with a quick resolution to compensate its passen-gers.

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A six-member valida-tion team formed by the National Lit-

eracy Coordinating Coun-cil (NLCC) has lauded the literacy programs being implemented by various departments and offices of the Davao City govern-ment.

The validation team, composed of a three-member board of judges and three from the NLCC, visited the city starting Thursday for a two-day validation pro-cess, including the pre-

sentation of award docu-ments and on-site visita-tions.

Davao City is vying for the Hall of Fame of the National Literacy Awards which it won in 2008, 2010 and 2012. It is also the official entry of the Philippines this year to the UNESCO Literacy Awards.

“Over the years, Davao City’s literacy programs have been consistent in terms of sustainability, expansion, integration FESTIVAL TALKS. City Tourism Office head Lisette Marques (right) whis-

pers something to Councilor Al-Ryan Alejandre, chair of the Sanggunian Committee on tourism, during yesterday’s I-Speak media forum where they

discussed details of the activities for this year’s Kadayawan Festival. Lean Daval Jr.

JOB-SEEKER. A lady fills up an application form when applying for a job in one of the departments of the local government of Davao City yesterday at Osmeña Park along San Pedro Street. Lean Daval Jr.

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By GREGORIO G. DELIGERO

Davao City’s literacy programs hailed

A noted civil and traffic engineer-ing firm will use

Davao City as a model for the whole Philip-pines and Asia for their technology by install-ing 130 more camer-as for protection and traffic management in coordination with the Public Safety Com-mand Center (PSCC).

PSCC head, retired police official Fran-sisco Villaroman, in Thursday’s iSpeak fo-rum at the city hall,

said the city govern-ment has allocated P100 million for the installation of the 130 cameras by Abratique & Associates inc.

“The project is on-going, so far the city already has 40 camer-as installed in strategic traffic areas while 130 more will be added, even as we are target-ing a total of 200 cam-eras in all,” he said.

Villaroman said, Abratique & Associates inc. chose Davao City

as a model, the first city with this many high-technology cam-eras in the Philippines.

Abratique & Asso-ciates Inc. is a profes-sional civil and traffic engineering firm of consultants specializ-ing in the design, de-ployment and main-tenance of advanced traffic for over ten years, based in Los An-geles County, South-ern California, with their local branch in Makati City.

These cameras are more ‘intelligent’ than those in other cities,” Villaroman said.

“We just push a button and we can be able to detect how many traffic violators there are and where criminal activities are happening,” he said. “It would be easi-er to determine at what time and where should authorities pa-trol and will keep the city a very safe and se-cure place.”

130 more CCTV cameras to be installed in the city

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By EJ DOMINIC FERNANDEZ

THE Department of Health (DOH) 11 has noted 217

Chikungunya cases in region 11 from January to June 2013.

In an interview, Mary Divene C. Hilar-io, officer-in-charge of the DOH-Human Ad-vocacy Promotion said that chikungunya is caused by virus-carry-ing Aedes mosquitoes.

“Though we have not received number of death cases caused by this disease, the pub-lic should still impose safety measures like those for protection against dengue,” she told Edge Davao.

Hilario added that there is a big possibility

that both chikungunya and dengue would be experienced by a per-son.

“If that happens it would be life threat-ening, chikungun-ya causes joint pains while dengue can cause bleeding. The victim could possibly suffer,” she explained.

She bared the fol-lowing cases in the dif-ferent areas of Davao region: 39 in Compos-tela Valley Province; 37 in Davao City; 89 in Davao Oriental; 20 in Davao del Norte; and 32 in Davao del Sur.

Chikungunya causes an illness with symp-toms similar to dengue

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By CHERRY MAE PALICTE

Chikungunya cases in region now 217

PUBLIC Safety Command Center (PSCC) head retired

police chief superinten-dent Fransisco Villaro-man admitted that the description by their wit-ness of the other two ve-hicles that escaped during the July 11 kidnapping shootout was wrong.

Villaroman in Thurs-day’s I-Speak media fo-rum at the city hall said the witnesses were prob-ably still dazed by the

shootout and were not able to give a correct de-scription of the two vehi-cles that escaped.

They found out that the Montero sports utili-ty vehicle that is in their custody was bought in Baliuag, Bulacan by the owner who is from Ango-no, Rizal.

This would definite-ly clear Nelson Doloiras, whose name was dragged into the kidnap-for-ran-

Kidnap caperCar description wrong,businessman is cleared

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GENERAL SANTOS CITY

A farming village in Koronadal City has been placed

under a state of calami-ty due to the increasing cases of suspected chi-kungunya disease.

Cyrus Urbano, city administrator, said Thursday the ba-rangay council of San Roque issued the ca-lamity declaration as the number of residents

who have shown symp-toms of the dengue-like chikungunya already reached “almost 200.”

“Our health person-nel are currently in full force in the area, treat-ing the infected resi-dents and implement-ing various measures to prevent the further spread of the disease,” he said in a radio inter-view.

Urbano said the city health office conducted fogging operations on Wednesday within the affected communities.

Barangay San Roque is located at the bound-ary of Koronadal City and Tampakan town, where the initial cases of the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease were detected in early June.

The village hosts ba-nana plantations of the Tampakan-based Glob-al Fruits Corporation (GFC) and Lapanday Diversified Products.

The South Cotabato Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) earlier pointed to the area’s banana planta-tions as the possible breeding places of mos-quitoes that carry the

chikungunya virus.According to the

World Health Organi-zation’s (WHO) Media Centre, chikungunya is a viral disease that is spread by mosquitoes and causes fever and severe joint pain. Oth-er symptoms include muscle pain, headache, nausea, fatigue and rash.

The disease, the WHO said, “shares some clinical signs with dengue, and can be misdiagnosed in areas where dengue is com-mon.”

It added that there is “no cure for the dis-ease. Treatment is fo-cused on relieving the symptoms.”

“The proximity of mosquito breeding sites to human habita-tion is a significant risk factor for chikungun-ya,” it said.

Urbano said the city government’s efforts are presently centered on the treatment of the infected patients and preventing the spread of the disease to other areas.

“Since this is a con-tinuing concern, the re-lease of the necessary assistance has been also ongoing,” he said.

The initial cases of chikungunya in Baran-gay San Roque emerged late last month and gradually increased in the last three weeks.

Early last week, the IPHO’s epidemiology and surveillance unit confirmed 36 cases of chikungunya within the village.

The entire munici-pality of Tampakan was placed under a state of calamity last July 9 due to the rising chiku-gunya cases that then reached 306.

The affected areas were barangays Pobla-cion, Maltana and Ki-palbig, where the initial cases of chikungunya were detected in the first week of June.

Aside from Tampa-kan, two cases of chi-kungunya were con-firmed last July 8 by local health personnel in Barangay Crossing Rubber in Tupi town. [MindaNews]

High incidence of chikungunya disease noted in farming village

TOURISM stakehold-ers in South Cotaba-to are aggressively

campaigning for the se-lection of the famed re-sort town of Lake Sebu as one of the country’s next mainstream tourist desti-nations.

Cesar Sulit Jr., South Cotabato tourism officer, said Thursday they are currently rallying resi-dents of the province and the neighboring areas to cast their votes for Lake Sebu in the search for the country’s top 10 emerg-ing tourism sites or Phil-ippine Gems.

He said they are tar-geting to gather enough votes to help Lake Sebu clinch the top spot in the ongoing public online vot-ing for the search, which is mainly backed by con-sulting firm Isla Lipana & Co. and the Department of Tourism (DOT).

Lake Sebu was among the 25 tourism sites earli-er shortlisted for the Phil-ippine Gems search, which mainly “aims to show-case the country’s good

side to the world, espe-cially the many pristine natural sceneries of our picturesque country.”

A screening commit-tee coming from the DOT, University of the Philip-pines-Asian Institute of Tourism, travel bloggers and media personalities picked the 25 tourism sites out of the 50 that were initially considered for the search.

As of Thursday morn-ing, Lake Sebu is a ready in second place in the top 10 ranking, a significant improvement from 15th place two weeks ago. Vot-ing will end on July 24.

At the top spot is the Calaguas Group of I lands, which is located in the Pacific Ocean, off the coasts of Vinzons town in Camarines Norte.

Sulit said they ear-lier launched a massive awareness and promo-tion campaign regarding the search and Lake Se-bu’s potentials of making it in the top 10. [Allen V. Estabillo / MindaN-ews]

SouthCot pushes Lake Sebuto be top emerging tourism site

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HANOI

MANILA MANILA

NEW YORK

MANILA

CONFERENCE. Stuart Jamieson, managing director of Nielsen Philippines, discusses “The Changing Consumer-A Global and Local Insight” during the Franchise ASIA Philippines 2013 International Conference “Asia to the

World. The World to Asia: Driving Growth Towards a Philippine Tiger Econo-my” on July 17, 2013 at the SMX Convention Center Mall of Asia, Pasay City.[PNA/Jess M. Escaros]

VIETNAM has voiced protest about the acts of a Chinese

ship which chased and bullied two Vietnamese fishing vessels in the wa-ters at Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago on July 7.

Responding to report-ers’ question regarding the incident, the spokes-man of Vietnam’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, Luong Thanh Nghi said yester-day that these acts have violated Vietnam’s sov-ereignty over Hoang Sa archipelago, Vietnam’s sovereign rights and ju-risdiction in the East Sea.

It runs counter to the spirit of humane treat-ment of fishermen, the stipulations of interna-tional law and the spirit of the agreement on basic principles guiding the set-tlement of marine issues between Vietnam and China, as well as the Dec-laration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC), he said.

Relevant agencies re-

ported that the Chinese ship coded 306 chased after the two ships QNg 96787 TS and QNg 90153 TS which were fishing as usual in the area around Vietnam’s Hoang Sa ar-chipelago.

The Chinese crew even went on board the two Vietnamese ships, searched the ships, beat the fishermen, broke things and took away some property from the two fishing vessels.

According to the spokesman, a represen-tative of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has met representatives from the Chinese Embas-sy in Hanoi to hand over a note protesting the act.

The Vietnamese side requested that the Chi-nese side launch serious investigation and strictly deal with the aforesaid wrongdoing, as well as compensate the Viet-namese fishermen, and prevent the recurrence of similar incidents in the future. [PNA/VNS]

Vietnam protests Chinese ship’s bullying in Paracel

MALACANANG will be conducting periodically a re-

view of the performance of Cabinet officials to make sure the commit-ments made in a year are followed and set targets are achieved.

“It’s more for tracking the work done by each

and every Cabinet sec-retary,” said Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacier-da.

Each Cabinet secre-tary is directed to submit to the Office of the Presi-dent its accomplishment report every quarter, which will be then re-viewed against the pro-

gram targets for that pe-riod.

Tasked to supervise the performance audit of the Cabinet are Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr., Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras and Bud-get and Management Sec-retary Florencio “Butch” Abad.

Abad earlier proposed for a performance con-tract scheme of Cabinet officials.

He recognized that if the performance of gov-ernment employees are periodically reviewed, so too must the performance of the Cabinet members. [PNA]

MORE than 90 per-cent of journalist killings worldwide

remain unpunished, the UN News Center said on Thursday Moscow time.

UN Deputy Secre-tary General Jan Eliasson described the trend as “shocking and unaccept-able” during a special meeting on the protection of journalists in armed conflicts.

“The least we can do when a journalist is mur-dered, is to ensure that the death is investigated swift-ly and justice is served,” the UN News Service quoted the official as saying.

He said that about 600 journalists have been killed worldwide in the past 10 years. Although 41 journalists were killed last year in war-torn Syria alone, the majority of jour-

nalists and media staff are killed while reporting on corruption and other ille-gal activities.

Every time a journal-ist is killed or intimidat-ed into silence, “there is one less voice to speak on behalf of the victims of conflict, crime and hu-man rights abuses…one less observer of efforts to uphold rights and ensure human dignity,” Eliasson

said.Kathleen Carroll, As-

sociated Press executive editor and vice chair of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), said that according to CPJ figures, 5 in 6 murdered journalists are killed in their own hometowns covering local stories, of-ten related to crime and corruption.[PNA/RIA No-vosti]

Palace to conduct periodic review of Cabinet officials Why Aquino’s 4th SONA is crucial

Over 90% of journalist killings go unpunished, says UN

DOJ urged to make sure Napoles won’t leave PHLTHE Partido Lakas

ng Masa Thursday urged Justice Sec-

retary Leila M. De Lima to make sure Janet Lim Napoles cannot leave the country following the controversy surrounding the P10-billion pork bar-rel scam where Napoles was accused of being the

“brains”.During a protest rally

at the Dept. of Justice, PLM chairperson Sonny Mel-encio said Napoles should be held liable for dipping her hands into the govern-ment coffers.

They also called for an investigation on allega-tions Executive Secretary

Paquito “Jojo” N. Ochoa, Jr., whose law firm has allegedly represented Na-poles and the Liberal Par-ty, received P100 million from her.

“Ochoa and the Liberal Party have to disclose the kind of connections they have with Napoles…A dis-closure is relevant in order

to allay the public’s fear of possible whitewash in the investigation by Mala-canang or the ruling par-ty,” Melencio said.

The PLM also reiter-ated their call for the ab-olition of the pork barrel which, they said has been a source of graft and cor-ruption. [PNA]

MIDWAY through his term, Pres-ident Benigno

Aquino III is set to face a new Congress in his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA), with new leaders elected in the May 2013 national and lo-cal elections.

While he has yet to hint at what his speech will include, Aquino has already began gathering public support, particu-larly during his talk at the 67th anniversary of the UP Beta Sigma Fraternity July 15.

The SONA, the Pres-ident said, will heighten public discourse and will encourage many Filipinos to “help row the boat in the right direction.”

“Mahalaga pong im-ulat ang mamamayan ukol sa tunay na estado ng ating bayan (Opening people’s eyes to the coun-try’s true state is import-ant),” he added.

Highlighting the goodA look through Aqui-

no’s past SONAs gives Filipinos reason to ex-pect that he will highlight country’s achievements under his watch, especial-ly as the country basks in good news.

In 2011, for instance, Aquino highlighted im-proved poverty and hun-ger statistics as well as an influx of investments, among others.

Stellar economic per-formance and the ben-

efits of the conditional cash transfer programs have meanwhile been un-derlined in his speech in 2012.

The President often attributed these gains to his administration’s “tu-wid na daan (righteous path)” battle cry.

In his last two speech-es, Aquino also picked up from his campaign against “wang-wang,” a term he popularized in his inaugural address to refer to abuse of power.

“Humarap po ako sa inyo noong aking ina-gurasyon at sinabing: Walang wang-wang sa ating administrasyon. At ngayon, patuloy nating itinitigil ito (I have faced you at my inauguration and said: There will be no wang-wang in this admin-istration. We continue to stop it now),” Aquino said in 2011.

In his SONA last year, he noted: “Ang wang-wang sa lansangan, galing na lang sa pulis, ambulan-sya, o bumbero—hindi sa opisyal ng gobyerno (Now wang-wang on the streets is only heard from the police car, ambulance or firetruck).”

Not-so-subtle attacks against Arroyo

Aside from his “tuwid na daan” and wang-wang” rhetoric, Aquino has also punctuated his past speeches with jabs at the previous administration. [Yahoo!]

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TWO scholars of Davao City Wa-ter District’s

Karunungan ng Kabata-an Project passed the Alternative Learning System Accreditation and Equivalency (ALS A&E) Test given last De-cember 2012. These are Mary Jane P. Calo and Shiela Mae D. Sayson of Brgy. Carmen in Baguio District.

The ALS A&E test is given to ALS students in order to assess if they have mastered all the competencies of the ALS curriculum for the sec-ondary level. Students who passed this exam like Calo and Sayson are entitled to all the rights of a duly recognized sec-ondary education grad-uate. This means that they are eligible to pur-sue higher education.

Calo is already 28 years old and completed her second year in high school in 2002 but was not able to finish high school because she mar-ried early. Although she has already taken the ALS A&E test in 2011, she failed despite being prepared and confident. The trauma she expe-rienced with the death of her five year-old son

overtook her concentra-tion when she was asked to write a composition entitled “Ang Karanasan na Hindi Mo Malilimu-tan”.

Sayson, on the other hand, is 18 years old and is still single. She was only able to finish until second year high school and was forced to stop because of her family’s financial difficulties. Like Calo, she also took the 2011 ALS A&E test and failed due to being men-tally and emotionally un-prepared because at that time, she still did not fully embrace the ALS program as her desire to pursue formal education was still strong.

The Karunungan ng Kabataan Project offers opportunities to indi-viduals who are inter-ested to enrol in ALS education by providing the budget needed to recompense an instruc-tional manager to teach enrolled ALS students for six months. DCWD partners with the De-partment of Education ALS Division and vari-ous schools in order to realize this cause.

The water utili-ty hopes to encourage more individuals who have were not able to finish secondary edu-cation to avail of this opportunity. (Jovana T. Duhaylungsod)

DCWD ALS SCHOLARS. (From L) Mary Jane P. Calo and Shiela Mae D. Sayson of Brgy. Carmen in Ba-guio District pass the Alternative

Learning System Accreditation and Equivalency test and are now eligi-ble to pursue higher education.

DCWD scholars pass ALS test

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ONE Network Bank (ONB) is looking into offering trust funds

so that depositors can ac-cess better interests.

ONB President Alex V. Buenaventura said the bank has applied with the BangkoSentralngPilipinas (BSP) for a license in setting up a trust funds depart-ment so it could offer unit investment trust funds to the public.

ONB, one of the coun-try’s largest rural banks,

wants to service clients who want to invest their money in trust fund rather than on time deposits because of the disparity in interests as trust fund could even earn as high as 12% while time deposits earn less than 3%, Buenaventura said.

“The money (that used to be in time deposits) is going that way (trust funds) because of interests,” he said, adding that commer-cial banks have facilitated the transfer of time depos-

its to trust funds.When the interest on

deposits started to go down about two years ago, he said the bank decided to compete with commercial bank by raising interest rate.

Buenaventura said the interest in investing on trust funds is buoyed by the better performance of the stock market, where parts of the funds are in-vested, and the good eco-nomic outlook of the coun-try. Ratings agencies have been raising their econom-ic forecasts for the coun-try, some of them like the Standard and Poor’s even raised to investment grade.

In its Circular 767 last year, the BSP said that these funds are “open-end-ed pooled trust funds de-nominated in pesos or any acceptable currency, which are operated and adminis-tered by a trust entity and made available by partici-pation.”

These funds are invest-ed in financial instruments that can be traded and oth-er so-called liquid invest-ments, making it attractive to investors because there is lesser risk, Buenaventu-ra added.

If approved, the bank will again be “exempted from the rule” as rural banks are not allowed to offer services that can only be offered by commercial banks.

However, the bank, because of its sheer size which can be compared with compared with com-mercial banks, has offered several other products that only rural banks can offer like clearing of checks. The bank has a capital bigger than the P2.4 billion, a re-quirement so that a bank can become a commercial bank.

Meanwhile, Buenaven-tura said ONB, which has 96 branches nationwide, will concentrate on pro-viding credit windows in the countryside. “There is a very big demand for credit in unserved areas,” he said as the bank continues to expand in areas that are considered progressive but have no or few banks.

The bank has contin-ued to provide loans to ag-riculture as it concentrates on reformatting its loans for banana farms in Com-postela Valley and Davao del Norte which were hit by typhoon in December. Buenaventura explained that what the bank has done is lengthen the pay-ment period so that bor-rowers can pay their loans.

Although he did not mention the amount the bank lent to the banana in-dustry in the affected, Bue-naventura said it has lent a sizable amount as the industry, particularly in the two provinces, lost about P8 billion.

ONB to go into trust fundsBAHAY Financial

Services, Inc. (BFS) extended its loan

condonation and restruc-turing program in con-tinuing its effort to help Balikatan borrowers real-ize their homeownership aspirations.

Called the Panalo Max Offer, the program was first launched in April 2012 and its primary objective was to offer highly-discounted terms for delinquent Balikatan borrowers as well as oth-er term financing resolu-tions depending on the status of borrowers’ ac-counts.

“It has been BFS’ pol-icy that foreclosure is a last resort and least pre-ferred option in resolu-tion situations. We want borrowers to be able to save their homes and get closure rather than see them go through fore-closure and eviction be-cause of one reason or another,” explained Juno Henares-Chuidian, head of corporate communica-tion.

“This is what the ex-tended Panalo Max Offer represents – a ‘helping hand’ extended by BFS in realizing our borrowers’

dreams of homeowner-ship,” he added.

To date, the response for the Panalo Max Offer has been positive with thousands of borrowers resolving their accounts which included Balika-tan borrowers who were based abroad as OFW’s.

In spite of its past suc-cess, BFS urges the qual-ified Balikatan accoun-tholders to resolve their accounts earlier since the foreclosure process does not stop until and unless they enter into a loan set-tlement agreement with Balikatan. The extended Panalo Max Offer runs up to September 23, 2013

In the past seven years, BFS has constantly tried to reach its borrow-ers in efforts to encour-age them to avail of its affordable condonation programs.

The company has cre-ated a number of chan-nels its dedicated account specialists can use to communicate to clients. Past efforts have used letters, phone calls, SMS, B-Online (an online vid-eo counselling service), including door-to-door visits to key areas such as Metro Manila, Cavite, Bulacan, Laguna, Rizal, Batangas, Bataan, Pam-panga, General Santos, Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Bacolod and Iloilo.

Since BFS took over the highly-delinquent portfolio from the Na-tional Home Mortgage Finance Corporation (NHMFC) in 2006, thou-sands of Filipino families throughout the country were helped to fully re-solve their long outstand-ing and overdue loan ob-ligations.

BFS extends loan condonation program

Each Filipino owes P57,063

in MayEach of the

94 million Filipi-nos theoretically owed P57,063 in May as the nation-al government’s outstanding debt hit P5.364 trillion during the month, up 4.2% from the previous year.

Of the amount, domestic debt – mainly govern-ment bills and bonds – reached P3.461 trillion, 13.9% higher than the year-ago level of P3.038 trillion, Bureau of Trea-sury data showed Thursday, July 18.

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DAVAO Oriental Gov. Corazon N. Malanyaon has

asked the Mati City gov-ernment to study the possibility of reopen-ing the three-decade old Mati National Airport in preparation for an influx of domestic and foreign tourists and investors when the Mt. Hamiguitan bonsai mountain is finally proclaimed as a heritage site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) in 2014.

Newly-installed Mati City Mayor Carlos Luis P. Rabat confirmed that Governor Malanyaon has

directed him to find ways how the city government could utilize the airport as it is the only qualified to be an alternate inter-national airport in the Davao region.

“We need to be ac-cessible (by people who want to visit us),” Rabat told BusinessWorld senior correspondent Carmelito Q. Francisco, adding that the airport can accommo-date aircraft that ply local routes.

He said that with the airport in operation, it would be easier for the city to invite tourists as the facility is even closer to its othercrown jewel in

terms of tourist attraction, the Dahican beach.

But Mr. Rabat point-ed out that operating the airport, formerly named Imelda B. Marcos Airport and classified as second-ary airport by the defunct Air Transportation Office (now Civil Aviation Au-

thority of the Philippines or CAAP), will still take time to start because of the dispute in the owner-ship of the land.

He said that the Rabat and Rocamora families own the land but the big-gest part of the airport is owned by the Rocamoras.

“The problem is that when it was built, there was no deed of donation from the families,” he said, pointing out that the same issue has become the stumbling block in commercializing its operations.

“We are now doing the legwork (for the owner-

ship of the airport),” he added, pointing out that the Rabat family owns only the tarmac and ter-minal, while the rest of the airport, including the runway, is the property of the Rocamora family. The Rabat and Rocamoras are cousins.

MATI CITY

Cora looks into revival of Mati airport

UPGRADING. Linemen of a telecommunications company install new cables as part of the company’s massive upgrading project to improve its services. Lean Daval Jr.

Rabat Malanyaon

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THE Mindanao De-velopment Au-thority (MinDA)

reiterated that coconut is still a top priority for the government despite the growing popularity of palm oil.

“The production of palm oil is only being en-couraged and promoted in idle lands and in no way should palm compete with the existing coco-nut plantations,” MinDA director for investment promotion and public af-fairs Romeo Montenegro said at a press conference Wednesday at the Marco Polo Hotel here.

He said coconut copra and palm kernel remain the top dollar earner of Mindanao with a 21.26 percent share in the total exports of Mindanao as of 2012.

However, he said that coconut exports de-creased by 19.48 percent, from 1.1055 billion dol-lars in 2011 to .89 billion dollars in 2012.

The MinDA report shows that coconut or co-pra got the largest share

of Mindanao’s exports to the United States amount-ing to 359 million dollars or 43.2 percent of the to-tal exports to the US.

Coconut copra was also Mindanao’s largest export to the Netherlands amounting to 303.68 dol-lars or a share of 61 per-cent of the total exports to the same country, Monte-negro explained.

“Despite the challeng-es faced by the coconut industry demand contin-ues to increase but there seems to be a reduction of supply,” he said.

Montenegro said this is why the government is encouraging the planting and production of more coconut and its byprod-ucts.

He mentioned the increasing demand of Franklin Baker which en-joys robust demand for its coconut water in the export market.

Farmers are also en-couraged to intercrop coconuts with cocoa and coffee as these are also in demand top commodities, he added. [PNA]

Coconut still top priority over palm, says MinDA

THE Department of Agriculture will up-grade and modern-

ize livestock trading in major animal production areas to provide farmers, raisers and traders more income, and create more jobs.

Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala said the DA is pursuing the initia-tive in partnership with the Japanese government and host municipalities and cities, during the re-cent inauguration of a P40-million upgraded livestock ‘oksyon’ market (LOM) in Lemery, Batan-gas.

The upgrading of the Lemery LOM was jointly funded by the Japanese government which pro-vided P34 M under the 2KR grant, the DA through the Bureau of Animal In-dustry (BAI) sharing P3 M, and the host municipal government counterpart-

ing P3.5 M.Also present during in-

auguration were Japanese Embassy First Secretary of Agriculture Ryutaro Aoki, Lemery Mayor Cha-risma Alilio, DA Assistant Secretary Davinio Catba-gan, Dr. Rubina Cresen-cio of the DA’s Bureau of Animal Industry, Manuel Jarmin of the Livestock Development Council and DA region 4A director Vil-ma Dimaculangan.

Secretary Alcala com-mended the Japanese government, as well as Lemery local government officials, for upgrading the facilities and adopting an automated transaction system at the Lemery LOM, which is considered the biggest in the country. Thousands of cattle, cara-baos, hogs, goats, chicken are sold twice a week (ev-ery Tuesday and Satur-day) at Lemery LOM.

When fully operation-

al, Secretary Alcala said livestock raisers are ex-pected to earn more in-come by up to 25 percent with the transparent and automated livestock trad-ing system. Also, more jobs will be generated.

He said the Lemery LOM will also serve as a model of other livestock auction markets in the country. He enjoined oth-er livestock raisers and local government offi-cials to visit Lemery to appreciate the new and modern facilities like animal sheds, weighing scale house, and loading and unloading ramps, and observe the auto-mated transaction and trading system.

Japanese embassy first Secretary Aoki said the auction market will serve as “the public face of the livestock industry in Lemery, and will be the center for a healthy

and fair livestock trading.Aoki added that the

project serves as a testi-mony of the strong RP-Ja-pan friendship and the Japanese government’s recognition of the plight of livestock farmers.

Secretary Alcala urged Mayor Alilio to fur-ther improve the trading system and provide effi-cient services, and to ful-ly maximize its capacity.

He also instructed DA region 4A director Di-maculangan to validate and assess the viability of constructing a farm-to-market road that will connect the Lemery LOM to the main highway, and thus encourage more livestock raisers and traders from other parts of Batangas, and Luzon provinces to sell and trade their livestock and poultry animals. [Adora Rodriguez, DA Informa-tion Service]

DA to upgrade livestock markets

THE Philippine Ex-porters Confeder-ation (Philexport)

is set to form a group that will look into the possible closure of the Iran banana market to Davao banana exporters due to the Unit-ed States economic embar-go on Iran.

“We are not aware that our banana exports are no longer being sent to Iran but we will surely look into this, especially with the Mindanao Exporters Con-gress,” Philexport XI chair-person Domingo Ang said

during Club 888’s media forum held at the Marco Polo Davao Wednesday.

The Mindanao Devel-opment Authority (MinDA) reported that banana is the number two dollar earner of Mindanao next to coco-nut, with a 14.94 percent share in the total Mindan-ao export.

MinDA also reported that Mindanao’s banana exports increased by 33.85 percent, from 467.3 million dollars in 2011 to 625.5 million dollars in 2012.

Ang said the problem

will definitely be discussed during the Mindanao Ex-porters Congress slated in the city on August 1 to 3, 2013.

On the other hand, Ang said the Congress will focus on topics like Improving Exports to Increase Phil-ippine Competitiveness as well as Strengthening the Enabling Environment for Mindanao’s Export Growth.

The Philippine Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA) ear-lier expressed its concern

about the possible P4 bil-lion losses that will be in-curred by the region’s ba-nana industry as shipping companies stopped all shipments to Iran this year, including the shipment of exported bananas from Re-gion 11.

PBGEA executive di-rector Stephen Antig said Mercury Steamship Agen-cies, Inc., an agent of the Pacific International Lines which ships bananas to Iran, has advised them about the suspension of its operations. [PNA]

Philexport wants to close Iran banana market

‘Asuete’ exported to Vietnam

THE country’s farmers scored another break-

through as they started exporting atsuete (an-natto or bixa orellana), a food colorant and ad-ditive, to Vietnam, ini-tially at 20 metric tons (MT).

Agriculture assis-tant secretary Dante Delima, who represent-ed Secretary Proceso J. Alcala, led an inau-gural send-off on July 8, 2013, at the Manila North Harbor Center, where a 20-foot con-tainer van was loaded with 400 50-kilogram sacks of atsuete seeds, with a gross value of about P1.3 million (or $30,000).

The atsuete export was consolidated by Lingkod Saka, Inc., an NGO, and exported through the Vegetable Importers, Exporters and Vendors Associa-tion of the Philippines (VIEVA), with assis-tance from the DA’s High Value Commercial Crops Program (HVC-DP).

Delima said the atsuete was bought from farmers at P45 to P50 per kilo. Of the total volume, 10MT

each was sourced from farmers in Barangay Datu Ladayon, in Ara-kan, North Cotabato and in Sitio Kibalang, in Barangay Marilog, Davao City.

Actually, the coun-try still imports raw and powder atsuete, at 10,000 MT annually, but Cruz said they took the opportunity to ex-port because the Viet-namese buyers offered a good price, and pre-ferred Philippine at-suete which is of better quality than those from Africa, where they reg-ularly import.

Cruz said VIEVA and Sikat Saka are current-ly consolidating anoth-er order of 40 MT that will be exported again to Vietnam. She said importers from Hawaii and the US mainland are also interested to buy Philippine atsuete.

The inaugural send-off was also attended by DA-HVCDP director Jennifer Remoquillo, DA-Bureau of Plant In-dustry director Clarito Barron, farmer-leaders from North Cotabato and Davao, and officials from Sikat Saka and VIEVA. [Marlo Asis/DA Information Service]

Producers are Arakan, North Cotabato and Marilog, Davao City.

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EDITORIALCebPac saga

ALL is well that ends well. This proverb (not idi-om), coined by John Heywood 50 years before William Shakespeare wrote a play using it, may

well apply to the conclusion of the riveting story of Cebu Pacific Flight 5J971 which overshot the runway of the Davao International Airport while landing last June 2.

Yesterday, the management of CebPac paid off each of the 42 passengers who earlier incorporat-ed themselves as 5J971 Crash Victims Association, Inc. The amount was not made public as the passen-gers were made to swear they would not disclose it as part of the settlement agreement. The company is reportedly willing to pay the remaining 123 trau-matized passengers if they come forward and claim their share.

Early on, the victims who were indemnified yester-day demanded damage payment of P1 million each. A number of passengers insisted—although with a smile---they received much, much less.

Whatever, the incident must have cost CebPac a modest fortune and some goodwill (public relations points, if you please). An example is the withdrawal of patronage from the airline by the Ateneo de Davao University as announced by its activist president, Fr. Joel Tabora, S.J.

Fortunately for CebPac, the bad press was not enough to diminish the company’s important role in revolutionizing travel in the Philippines. The coun-try’s history is marred by the monopolistic excesses of the now moribund shipping companies and their ‘floating coffins’.

The advent of the so-called low-cost carriers (LCCs) is one of the great fortunes of Filipino passengers during the last two decades. They’ve brought down the fares to amazingly give-away levels. Indeed, be-cause of this, “now everyone can fly,” to paraphrase the apt company slogan of AirAsia, one of the world’s great “no frills” airlines.

Still, it is not a license to abuse passengers.

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NO politically contentious issue has ever escaped the eye and the pen of partisan and activists journalists.

Labor journalist John Swinton used his press to campaign for working people in 1884; Helen Hunt Jackson confronted the treatment of American Indians in 1885; John Muir defended the Yosemite Valley from the timber industry in 1890; Jacob Riis recorded tenement poverty in How the Other Half Lives in 1890; and Ida B. Wells exposed the South’s causal lynching practices in 1892.

The muckrakers of the new century revealed Standard Oil’s bullying ways, political corruption in cities, the states, and the U.S. Capitol; patent-medicine and insurance swindles; unhealthful food; the sale of convicts to contractors; and more. In later decades, the communist press — yes, the communist press — alerted readers to the perils of silicosis and cam-paigned against color-line in Major League Baseball. The photographs of Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Adminis-tration in the late 1930s and Margaret Bourke-White for Life magazine in the 1930s and 1940s provided a window on poverty.

From the end of World War II until the civil rights movement began its ascension, the partisan and activist journalism faded but didn’t disappear, its practice crimped perhaps by the so-called “Great Con-sensus” that had evolved, as Daly wrote in Covering America. Part of its demise can be attributed to changing social attitudes. To write against segregation in the 1950s marked you in many corners as a disrup-tive partisan or activist, not a journalist; by

the time the civil rights protests became a TV miniseries, to write in support of segre-gation made you suspect; after the March on Washington in 1963, support of full citizenship for African-Americans was the default mode for the mainstream press. In other words, the once-radical became the norm, and after it did, those who criticized American apartheid in the approved lan-guage were no longer marginalized as ac-tivist or partisan journalists.

In the 1960s, the best opinionat-ed, fact-based journalism appeared in such books as Rachel Carson’s Si-lent Spring (1962), Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963), Jessica Mit-ford’s The American Way of Death (1963), Michael Harrington’s The Other Ameri-ca (1963), and Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed (1965). The lefties at Ram-parts magazine broke stories on Michi-gan State University fronting for the CIA (1966), the use of napalm in Vietnam (1966), and the CIA funding of the Na-tional Student Association (1967). Later revelations in the early to mid-1970s by the New York Times and the Washington Post (and others) about the Pentagon Pa-pers, Watergate, and intelligence agency abuses were, at their root, as partisan as any of the NSA investigations Glenn Gre-enwald has contributed. Remember, as

Christopher B. Daly recently pointed out, Daniel Ellsberg chose to leak the Pentagon Papers to New York Timesreporter Neil Sheehan because he 1) trusted Sheehan from their years in Vietnam, and 2) had recently read a long essay-review Sheenan had written for the paper’s book section titled “Should We Have War Crime Trials?” As Daly writes, “Three months later, Shee-han wrote the first front-page article in the series that became known as the Pentagon Papers.”

I could continue my honor roll of partisan journalism through the ages, Ms. magazine cultural critiques, muckraking by the Village Voice and other alt-weeklies, Mark Dowie’s piece in Mother Jones on the exploding Ford Pinto (1977), the Progressive magazine’s H-bomb expose (1979), the overtly tech-no-libertarianism of the Louis Rosset-to-era Wired magazine, and skipping to very fast-forward, Jeremy Scahill’s book Blackwater (2008), David Corn’s Romney tape (2012), and Radley Balko’s new book about the SWATing of Amer-ica, Rise of the Warrior Cop. But I think you get my drift.

My paean to activist and partisan jour-nalism does not include the output of the columnists and other hacks who arrange their copy to please their Democratic or Republican Party patrons. (You know who you are.) Nor do I favor the partisan jour-nalists who insult reader intelligence by cherry-picking the evidence, debate-club style, to win the day for their comrades. Click and read a few of the articles I cite above and then ask yourself: Where would we be without our partisan journalists?

RELATED RISE IN ANXIETY – We used to subscribe on the belief that there can be no economic prog-

ress in certain areas if there is no real and meaningful peace. Here’s one shud-dering example: with its vast track of fertile lands and rich natural resources, the provinces in Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) promises to be perfect places for business. But for the prospective entrepreneurs, to establish business and make money in those plac-es, first you have to stay alive.

On the surface, life in several provinc-es in the ARMM region particularly Ma-guindanao seems to be normal, but there is actually a general sense of unease. The drumbeat of renewed attacks by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s (MILF) breakaway group, the Bangsamoro Is-lamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) against the police and military, and government structures have resumed without remis-sion. The dreaded BIFF group was found-ed years back by its notorious leader, Ku-mander Umbra Kato after differences in principles with the MILF leadership.

Three weeks on, the reality is vast-ly complicated. Doing business in the troubled areas is a high risk and there are widespread concerns about security. The Maguindanao province and ARMM in general have indeed moved forward under the Aquino dispensation, but the progress has been matched by a corre-sponding rise in anxiety. People in ARMM territory routinely veer from optimism to apprehension due to security problems. A series of attacks targeting police and military detachments and government facilities in several Maguindanao towns and some municipalities of the province of North Cotabato adjacent to the trou-bled areas have stoked fears that the very

f o u n d a t i o n of their so-cio-economic fabric is shak-ing. It is per-haps a hopeful sign that cap-tains of trade and industry in those ar-eas made an appeal to the g ove r n m e n t with the coop-eration of the MILF leadership to put to a halt BIFF’s lawlessness.

In situations where terrorist attacks are high risk, businesses likewise face old-fashioned robbery, highwaymen abound, travel to town markets is ham-pered and main roads connecting the different towns have been totally closed. The business groups tout the idea that government and the MILF will inevitably demand an end to the hostilities and en-sure peaceful environments. Peace and security remain the No.1 concern in these areas prompting the different business groups and the private sector to ask the government and MILF leadership to sign a peace agreement as a mean to neutral-ize the threat posed by the ragtag BIFF armed band.

In order to isolate lawless elements taking refuge in or near MILF-controlled communities, government has to em-ploy an AdHoc Joint Action Group (AH-JAG). It would likewise stop the armed skirmishes specifically in some towns of Maguindanao and North Cotabato that leave thousands of displaced poor farm-er families. But for some daring people in those localities, shootings, ambuscades,

bombings and roadblocks have become part of daily life – a regimen in which new opportunities coexist with the most terri-fying of dangers.

Right now the business sector blames the breakaway rebel group for the ag-gressions that continue to plague the en-tire region. Security is tight in affected ar-eas, owing largely to the military who are increasingly taking over at checkpoints and vital government facilities. Neverthe-less, for the dauntless entrepreneurs life is tough, but still they believe there are rewards. They think the situation fits well into a pattern of confidence that many lo-cal traders feel toward doing business in a hostile territory.

Amid the hostilities are hard-nosed business smarts, say those who were al-ready there. They’re scoping out oppor-tunities, anticipating that sometime the hostile situation is going to die down. As for attacks against traders in those areas, the exact number is unknown. The local entrepreneurs say the experience and know-how they obtained through the hair-raising years will give them a huge valuable edge over new prospective in-vestors.

By the way, who would be willing to invest in troubled areas, it might be asked? Well, you have to be a little bit cra-zy. No one can predict violence to happen, but if it does ensue, it could really slow-down business activities and the pouring in of investments. The unstable peace and security situation, however, has not dented some traders’ confidence. They remained optimistic that the region’s business potential is huge. All of which proves their point: for the daring and the fearless, it’s a great place to make money, but of course, they have to be sure to stay alive and remain at a safe distance.

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AQUILES Z. ZONIOCorrespondent

Doing business in a hostile territory

We need partisan journalism

In Britain, a summer of

quiet revolution

BY JOHN LLOYDANALYSIS

BY JACK SHAFERCOMMENTARY

(Conclusion)

(Conclusion)

MORE of interest popularly: Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Prince William, is

preparing to give birth, and in doing so will break all kinds of precedents. Her husband will attend the birth; they will spend the first weeks of the baby’s life with her parents, who are commoners of middle and work-ing class origin; and William will take only the standard two weeks of paternity leave from the Royal Air Force, in which he’s a helicopter pilot. He’ll then return to work. Un-heard of — before now.

Now, there’s an unannounced de-termination to put Britain’s monarch on something like the same level as the Dutch and Scandinavian royal families, though retaining the splen-did and popular public ceremonies at which the theatrical, sentimental British excel. The newborn child will inherit wealth and status, but will be expected to be modest about it. Royals can’t swagger anymore in de-mocracies. The Queen’s husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, believes the Brit-ish royals survive on their thrones and in their palaces only because the public like them: once that ends, so do they.

Also this past week, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Ed Mili-band, announced he wanted to see unions that are affiliated to the par-ty offer members an upfront choice about paying a political levy to the party (they are presently deemed to consent unless they explicitly “con-tract out” of payment). What appears a mere technicality is instead a cast-ing away of one of the few ropes ty-ing the unions to a Labour Party that, one hundred years ago, they found-ed. In Britain more than in most de-mocracies, the labor movement was an organic whole, the unions and the party umbilically tied, with a demo-cratic socialism as the natural posi-tion of the working class.

Miliband’s suggestion attracted bitter rhetoric, including a call from Bob Crow, leader of the biggest rail union, to form a new party “that speaks for the working people and the working class communities that find themselves under the most bru-tal attack from cuts and austerity in a generation.” The links, once very strong and close, were weakened un-der Tony Blair’s leadership, but even Blair didn’t go so far as to propose a measure that must radically reduce the party’s income, and force it fur-ther away from the unions in finding alternative sources of income. Mili-band expressed the core of the mat-ter, when he said, “in the twenty-first century, it just doesn’t make sense for anyone to be affiliated to a politi-cal party unless they have chosen to do so.” Now, choice, not class, is king.

Finally, and most shockingly: a Brit — a Scot, even! — won Wimble-don. Now that really is the end of the British way of doing things.

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ation lawyer Robert de Leon in a press forum yesterday at the Roy-al Mandaya Hotel said, “The victims received reasonable compensa-tion, which we are not allowed to divulge out of respect for the agree-ment we made with Cebu Pacific.”

It was also in the agreement that the vic-tims should “keep qui-et” after they receive the amount, hence the press forum right before they received the money, said Flight 5J971 Victims president Andrew Bau-tista

However, uncon-firmed reports reaching Edge Davao indicated that the amount was P100,000 for each pas-senger.

“Psychological inju-ries are never that easy to demand for compen-sation and is potentially unprecedented in our jurisprudence, we are happy this is finally over. We commend the man-agement of Cebu Pacif-ic for its willingness to negotiate and settle this matter without going to court,” Atty. Robert de Leon told Edge Davao.

Last June 20, de Leon told Edge Davao that the victims sent a letter to Cebu Pacific head Lance Gokongwei, demanding P1 million for each pas-senger.

“We have basis for demanding the amount by comparing the flight 5J971 incident to other similar events in Amer-ica and Canada where

passengers had not suf-fered injuries but were emotionally distressed,” he said. “The victims in those flights were com-pensated with amounts between P650,000 and P2.5 million each.”

Bautista, under-standably in a jolly tone said, “The airline’s rep-resentatives have lis-tened to our concerns about passenger service and handling, and rec-ognized specific points for improvement, and we have also agreed to accept their very rea-sonable offer of financial assistance to cover pas-sengers’ expenses relat-ed to the incident.”

“The respect that Cebu Pacific has given us is unquantifiable and is worth more than P1 mil-lion, enough to clear the trauma we experienced,” Bautista said.

He said the financial amount that they re-ceived from Cebu Pacific is enough for them to fly again with the airline.

Flight 5J971 Crash Victims Association public relations officer Niño Alinsub said the fi-nancial assistance given by Cebu Pac is for all the 165 passengers, which means, those that are not included in their as-sociation can approach de Leon to get their share of the compensa-tion.

The association has 42 members, including four minors, and the fi-nancial assistance will be given by batch de-pending on how many

people will be present in the Cebu Pacific fo-rum at Mandaya Hotel for the turning over of the money, said Bautis-ta.

Bautista said, it was easier to reach a settle-ment because they gave the special power of st-torney (SPA) to de Leon, making it less compli-cated for Cebu Pacific to negotiate because they only had one person to talk to--De Leon.

The settlement con-cluded the saga of the Flight 5J971 Crash Vic-tims Association but not that of another fac-tion of survivors who formed another group called “Survivors.”

Text messages re-portedly coming from the “Survivors” group circulated Wednesday asking other passengers not to accept the settle-ment and push for their own P500,000 demand.

De Leon said he also learned of the text mes-sages although he elect-ed not to confirm nor confirm.

“I really do not know about the other group. What I know from Mr. Lance Gokongwei him-self is that they are set-tling with our group based on what we have negotiated and agreed. Anything beyond that is up to those who are demanding to pur-sue or go to court. But they (“Survivors”) may choose to settle through us and accept the com-pensation,” De Leon ex-plained.

and institutionalization,” said Sr. Rosanne B. Mal-lilin, president of St. Paul University in Surigao City and chair of the board of judges.

“You are leading the way. You can be an in-spiration to other cities and municipalities in the country,” she add-ed during the presenta-tion of the city’s literacy programs and projects attended by city depart-ment heads and chiefs of offices.

Acting city admin-istrator Jhopee Avan-cena-Agustin said the validation will help the city government “see the other side of our literacy framework from another perspective.”

“As we pursue the gains of collective efforts in promoting literacy in the 21st century by in-fusing it as a component that cuts across all im-plemented programs, projects and activities, we touch lives in every sense of the word,” she said.

“Taking off from a well-established gover-nance, this administra-tion continues the im-plementation of its best practices and conceptual-ized upgraded and inno-vative programs that are responsive to the growing needs of the population,” Avancena-Agustin added.

Research and statis-

tics division chief Cres-encia F. dela Victoria, who presented the city’s literacy programs and projects, said Davao City advocates the promotion of literacy in all ages and embedded various liter-acy interventions in pro-grams and projects being pursued by different de-partments and offices of the local government.

“Even before a person is born, the city govern-ment promotes literacy among mothers, particu-larly on maternal health and child care program to reduce, if not eliminate, incidence of maternal and infant deaths by ensur-ing that mothers receive pre-natal care and their deliveries are attended by skilled birth attendants,” she said.

To ensure timely reg-istration of births, Dela Victoria said the city government also intensi-fied the implementation of our civil registration program, particularly tar-geting children in need of special protection, Mus-lim Filipinos and Indige-nous People.

She said that the city provides the children, upon reaching three years old, with day care services which introduce developmentally-appro-priate practices and psy-chosocial activities. The city maintains 538 day

care centers and 106 day care services in home-based sites.

Dela Victoria said the city’s early childhood care and development (ECCD) program provides mobile ECCD to reach out to far-flung communities where there are no day care ser-vices available.

“Recognizing that reading in informative years is critical in the child’s learning cycle, the city government is mak-ing sure that books are accessible to children by providing a library nook in identified pre-schools in far-flung barangays,” she said.

In the elementary and secondary level, Dela Vic-toria said the city govern-ment utilized its Special Education Fund (SEF) in the construction of addi-tional classrooms, desks and chairs and in the hiring of locally-funded teachers.

“Aside from extending support to formal educa-tion, library services are strengthened through

Magbasa Ta literacy program, which aims to go beyond the confines of the library to actively reach out to communities and look for creative ways to promote reading and make the library resourc-es and services accessible to as many users as possi-ble,” she said.

fever, with an acute febrile phase of the ill-ness lasting only two to five days, followed by a prolonged arthral-gic (same to arthritis) disease that affects the joints of the extremi-ties.

There currently is no licensed vaccine to protect against chikun-

gunya virus. The most effective means of pre-vention are protection against contact with the disease-carrying mosquitoes as well as mosquito control.

Recovery from the disease varies by age, younger patients re-cover within five to 15 days; middle-aged pa-

tients recover in one to two months while re-covery is longer for the elderly.

The severity of the disease as well as its duration is less in younger patients and pregnant women which has no untoward ef-fects are noticed after the infection.

som news by some media outlets.

In the July 12-13 issue of Edge Davao entitled “Three Kidnappers killed in shootout, victim safe,” it was stated, “The SUV (Montero sport now under the custody of the author-ities) was registered to a certain Nelson Doloiras.”

Doloiras sent Edge Davao an email saying, “My name was erroneous-ly dragged into the kid-nap-for-ransom shootout in Davao last week because

of a photocopy of a vehi-cle registration found in one Mitsubishi Monte-ro that was used by the suspects.”

The copy of the reg-istration, according to investigators, was one of about 10 other copies of vehicle registration found inside the Monterosports,” he said. “Unfortunately, only the registration that has my name was hastily picked up by reporters on the scene.”

“On closer look at the

copy of the registration re-ceipt, it was indeed in my name but it was for an Isu-zu truck, not for the Mon-terosport,” he said.

Villaroman said no criminals will use real plate numbers since authori-ties at checkpoints would easily spot a plate number which is hot, or coming from a stolen vehicle.

“The Monterosport under our custody has its own real plate number un-der the fake plate number used,” Villaroman said. EJF

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EVERY year the Ro-tary Club of Wal-ing Waling Davao

spearheads the Rotary District 3860 blood let-ting activity to support the Voluntary Blood Donation Program that serves as a lifeline to many beneficiaries in need of blood and its components.

RCWWD was joined by RC Central, RC West, RC East Davao, RC Pa-gAsa, RC Sta Ana, RC To-ril, RC Downtown, RC North Davao, RC Davao 2000and RC Davao last Saturday, July 6, 2013 at the Seamen’s Hospital AMOSUP Building. Ninety-six potential donors were screened by the Davao Blood Center and 52 bags of blood were collected. Every bag of blood provides plasma, packed red blood cells and platelets that will serve three recipients or about 156 benefi-ciaries.

Apart from the Blood Letting Activity,

there was also a public forum with lectures on topics which include: overview of the blood service program by Dr Renie Maguinsay, RCWWD Past Presi-dent and Association of Hematologists in Mindanao Fund, Inc (AHMF) President; the importance of blood letting by Dr Leoncio Ong, Director of the Davao Blood Center; importance of blood products by Dr Grace Pecson, Thalassemia Coordinator; and den-gue hemorrhagic fever by Dr Jennifer Banlu-ta, a pediatrician and Davao Medical Society Secretary.

AMOSUP-JSU Medi-cal Director John Rich-ard Pecson welcomed the participants and donors while Gov. Ed Chiongbian was ably represented by SAG Vir Sojor of RC East Davao. RC PagAsa President Larry Ignacio kept the program dynamic as emcee and host.

Saving Lives: ‘Saling Dugo, Saling Buhay’

RCWWD leads blood-letting

RCWWD with their partner-in-service, the Rotaract Club of University of Immaculate Conception

Staff from the Davao Blood Center extracts blood from a donor

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THE Los Angeles Lak-ers are looking to the future in an at-

tempt to rebuild the team and may have their sights set on potential 2014 free-agents LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony, ac-cording to ESPN

The Lakers have indi-cated that they want to be in position to make an offer to one or both after

next season, team sources told ESPN. They called the wing-ranging possibili-ties of landing either su-perstar both realistic and far-fetched.

A number of other at-tractive players could be-come available after next season. The list includes Dwyane Wade, Amare Stoudemire, Chris Bosh, Luol Deng, Danny Grang-

er, Andrew Bogut and Dirk Nowitzki.

ESPN sources said James has yet to entertain thoughts about his plans beyond next season in Miami. The Heat will be coming off their second straight NBA champion-ship.

“It’s all wishful think-ing at this point,” a league source told ESPN. “Teams

are doing more wishing than LeBron is wanting right now. It’s not about where LeBron wants to go. He already has two rings. If LeBron moved to Reno, teams would come to him.”

Anthony has an early terminiation option after next season in his con-tract with the Knicks. He could seek an extension

or opt to become a free agent.

The Lakers were left with a void when center Dwight Howard decided not to return to the team and instead sign with the Houston Rockets. There also is uncertainty with Kobe Bryant’s recovery from an Achilles’ tendon rupture and the health of veteran point guard Steve

Nash.Bryant has said he

wants to play two to three more seasons and would help recruit star play-ers to L.A. He will be the highest-paid player in the NBA next season at $30.5 million but appears will-ing to rework his deal to allow the Lakers enough cap room to bring in top talent.

LAKERS EYE LEBRON, MELO

NBA Finals MVP LeBron James (right) and New York Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony are the prime free-agent target next year.

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GMA-7’s Kusina Master proves its international cali-ber once more af-ter winning as Best Lifestyle Program at the prestigious 19th Annual NAMIC Vi-sion Awards. Chef Boy Logro’s well-loved cooking show, which was submit-ted as an entry for GMA Life TV, the first Filipino lifestyle channel abroad, also makes history as the first ever winner from GMA as well as the Philippines in the said competi-tion. GMA Pinoy TV’s co-production Pusong Pinoy Sa Amerika, on the other hand, bagged a nomina-tion in the Foreign Lan-guage Category. GMA Vice President and Head of Interna-tional Operations Joseph T. Francia considers their latest achievement as an important milestone for GMA Life TV, which re-cently marked its fifth anniversary. “This award is truly an honor for both GMA Life TV and the ex-cellent team behind Kusi-na Master, confirming its world class standards for the second time this year,” he said. Kusina Master bested entries from Scripps, one of the biggest TV net-works in the US. This award comes right on the heels of the program’s re-

cent victory at the 2013 US International Film and Video Festival, wherein it earned a Certificate for Creative Excellence. GMA OIC for Enter-tainment TV Lilybeth G. Rasonable expresses her thanks for all the rec-ognition and praise that Kusina Master has been receiving not only in the Philippines, but also inter-nationally. “We sincerely thank the NAMIC Vision Awards for this honor and we commit to continue delivering superior in-formation and enter-tainment to our audi-ence here and abroad,” she enthused. Nicol Turner-Lee, Ph.D, President and CEO of the National As-sociation of Minorities in Communications (NAM-IC), informed GMA In-ternational of the win and

extended her “congratu-lations on this esteemed honor.” Representing GMA In-ternational at the award-ing ceremo- n y held last July 11 at the Pacif-ic Design Center in Los Ange-l e s ,

California were Jush An-dowitt, GMA Internation-al Marketing Consultant, and respected immigra-tion lawyer Atty. Lou Tancinco, host and pro-ducer of “Pusong Pinoy sa Amerika.” The NAMIC Vision Awards is dubbed as “a celebration of multicul-tural contributions in the media industry.” It is “one of the few national (US-wide) competitions that salute original tele-vision or digital content that reflects the depth and breadth of experience and contributions of people of color.” The likes of CNN, HBO, Disney, ESPN, Nickelodeon and other mainstream US networks usually dominate the Vi-sion Awards. GMA Pinoy TV and GMA Life TV along with GMA News TV Inter-national can be seen in Canada and the US and in countries in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa

and Asia Pacific. For more details, visit the

GMA International website www.gma-network.com/in-ternational, Face-book pages www.facebook.com/GMAPinoyTV,

www.facebook.com/GMALifeTV,

and, www.facebook.com/GMANewsInter-national, or Twitter pag-es @GMAPinoyTV,@GMA_LifeTV and @GMANewsTVIntl.

PASSENGERS of Philippine Airlines can now make phone calls and browse the internet while inflight with the installation of OnAir cutting-edge connectivity equipment on PAL’s long-range aircraft. The novel service, called PAL iN AiR, is made possible with the installation of the first inflight con-nectivity hardware, called GSMConneX, on a PAL Boeing 777-300ER aircraft that flew from Ma-nila to Vancouver last July 9, 2013, providing passengers with GSM and WiFi services during the flight. The special connectivity equipment will progressively be fitted in all B777 and Airbus A330-343 aircraft of PAL. PAL is the first commercial airline installed with the GSMConneX equipment supplied by TriaGnoSys, while OnAir is the supplier for the GSM and WiFi connection. PAL President Ramon S. Ang said, “Allowing our passen-gers to call and surf the web while flying is another first only a legacy carrier like PAL can offer. This new service is part of our strategy to provide only the best to our customers.” Dr Axel Jahn, Managing Director of TriaGnoSys, said, “PAL is the first GSMConneX commercial airline customer. We designed our hardware and software portfolio to be highly flexible, so we were able to move very quickly to meet the airline’s specific requirements, which in this case included the addition of WiFi capability.” Aside from connectivity, the GSMConneX platform was designed to host a wide range of software application mod-ules, including entertainment and non-flight-critical cockpit applications. The GSMConneX hardware is manufactured at TriaGnoSys’ headquarters in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany.

CALLING all Philippine scriptwriters! The Film Development Council of the Philippines has now laid the groundwork for Sineng Pam-bansa National Film Festival for June 2014. The festival will focus on ‘genre’ filmmaking with 12 entries exploring the possibilities of an entire spectrum of cinematic types with vast domes-tic and global appeal. The genres included are confined to: action, comedy, fantasy, horror, thriller, futuristic and a hybrid of any two or three. For the purpose of the festival, the limelight centers on all writers as a nationwide scriptwriting contest is hereby launched. A call for entries is made effective immediately, with winners to be announced on December 2013. The FDCP shall invite prospective independent producers, film studios and film divisions of TV networks with which a co-production agreement shall be proposed. The sole pre-rogative to conscript directors to interpret the films out of the winning scripts lies with the FDCP film committee in concur-rence with the prospective co-producers. The resulting films will be part of the official selection for the Sineng Pambansa National Film Festival of 2014, and shall be named, “The Mas-ters ‘Genre’ Film Festival”. A ‘competition’ committee jury shall appropriately con-vene to select winners from all the submitted screenplays accordingly through meritorious process. The winning scripts will be awarded cash prizes: the first six best with Php200,000 and the next six with Php100,000. Entry forms and guidelines can be retrieved at www.fdcp.ph. The forms must be duly accomplished and submitted with the completed screenplay entry. The scriptwriters may also choose to submit the forms, without the completed en-try, in order to accordingly signify an interest of participation. No more than one entry will be accepted from each script-writer. No entry shall be accepted beyond the deadline. Deadline for submissions is on 30 September 2013.

LEADING telecommunica-tions company Globe Tele-com will be the official tech-nology partner of the 2013 Ironman 70.3 Philippines, the country’s premiere triathlon event scheduled on August 4 at Shangri-La Mactan Island Resort in Cebu City. This is the fifth year that Globe will provide high-speed broadband internet service in support of Iron-man 70.3 Philippines. By making fast and reliable in-ternet connectivity available at the venue, Globe would enable partici-pants, and even the public to go on-line anytime they want so that they can post status updates in popu-lar social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. “We are all set to provide our cus-

tomers with a high quality mobile experience that would allow them to use their smartphones, tablets, and even laptops to chronicle the games from start to finish. Our sup-port for this top triathlon event is also in line with the company’s ad-vocacy to promote and encourage sports and other athletic activities,”

said Yoly C. Crisanto, Head of Globe Corporate Communications. Since its inception in 2009, Iron-man 70.3 Philippines has become one of the most-anticipated sport-ing events in the country. The num-ber of participants continues to rise with about 2,150 athletes from 35 countries worldwide already signed up for the individual or relay com-petitions. For this year, the race will feature a 1.9-km swim in the open sea, a 90-km bike and 21-km run. The five biggest foreign delega-tions are expected to come from Singapore, Japan, Australia, US, and Hong Kong. Being a World Triathlon Corporation sanctioned event, win-ners of Ironman 70.3 Philippines are entitled to slots in the World Cham-pionships on September 8, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Inflight calls, Internet now on PAL flights

Two months remain for the FDCP’s ‘Genre’ Film Scriptwriting Contest

Kusina Master wins big at NAMIC Vision Awards

Globe is official technology partner of Ironman 70.3 Philippines

Jush Andowitt, GMA International Marketing Consultant, and respected immigration lawyer Atty. Lou Tancinco, host and producer of Pusong Pinoy sa Amerika receiving the award on behalf of GMA International.

AS GMA NETWORK CELEBRATES ITS 63RD ANNIVERSARY, ANOTHER HEART-WARMING TV FARE WILL TOUCH THE HEARTS OF FILIPINO VIEWERS VIA THE FAMILY DRAMA SE-RIES, BINOY HENYO.

Premiering July 22, Binoy Henyo features the ingenuity and craftsman-ship of a genius boy who possesses a big and op-timistic heart despite his struggles with poverty and his longing for a father fig-ure in his life. The program takes us on a captivating and inspiring adventure that the whole family, most especially the moms and kids, can enjoy.

Binoy Henyo’s storyline teaches parents to raise their kids to be the best they can be while highlight-ing the importance of main-taining a strong parental involvement in every child’s learning and development. Hence, the program be-lieves that an encouraging parent is every child’s great-est asset.

Sought-after Kapuso actress Sheena Halili takes up the challenge on play-ing her first mother role in the series. Sheena, who has showcased her versatility in portraying character roles in various GMA programs including Indio, Tweets for My Sweet, Alice Bungisn-gis and Her Wonder Wa-lis, Amaya, among others, dabbles in her most chal-lenging role yet as Agnes, David’s uneducated mother who loves him uncondi-tionally and will do any-thing to protect her child.

Sheena says she is grateful to GMA for con-tinuously giving her good projects and for trusting her as she tackles a meaty role in Binoy Henyo, “Pinag-katiwala nila sa akin yung show na ito dahil naniniwa-la sila na kaya kong maging nanay, gusto kong talagang magampanan ito ng tama. Kaya ko tinanggap yung role na ito hindi lang para sa viewers, gusto kong may matutunan ang mga nanay na napaka-importante na habang lumalaki ang mga anak ay gabayan natin sila kung ano man ang pinag-daraanan nila. Kaya may puso talaga yung show.”

Sheena also shares that she observes her own mother while preparing for her role. “Ino-obserbahan ko siya. Pag malungkot ako, doble ang lungkot niya. Pag masaya ka, makikita mo yung glow sa mukha nila. So, iyon yung tinatan-daan ko. And inaaral ko rin si David. I want to develop a relationship with David on and off screen. Pag nasa set ako, alam kong nanay na ako. Si David dapat makikinig or makikipagla-ro siya sa akin, yung hindi na siya maiilang. Iyon yung ina-apply ko every taping. During the auditions, kay David ko naramdaman na yung iyak niya, tumatama sa akin. Hindi lang iyak

lang. Kaya alam kong may potential yung bata, ma-mahalin siya. Kahit sa set, hindi namin kayang mag-alit sa kanya kahit makulit siya.”

Adding star power to the program is talented Kapuso actor Luis Al-andy as Francis, Agnes’ boy-

friend and David’s long lost father.

Fast-rising actress Gwen Zamora plays a vital role as Emily, Luis’ barren wife.

Joining the cast is one of Philippine Cinema’s high-ly-commended veteran actresses, Ms Nova Villa as-Chato, Agnes’ aunt.

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Newly-appointed Sports Development Division of the City Mayor’s office (SDD-CMO) head William Ramirez discusses his plans and programs for Davao City sports during yesterday’s Davao Sportswriters Association (DSA)

at Calle Cinco along J.P. Laurel Avenue. Also in the photo is Goldie Delvo. Lean Daval Jr.

SOME 2000 runners are expected to see ac-tion in Fun Run: Tak-

bo Para sa Tahanan that is set to unfurl on August 11 at 5 a.m. in an out-and-back course at NCCC Mall Davao.

The footrace, present-ed by LTS City Foods Inc.’s Brad Factory and Munch-ies, aims to raise funds for the Habitat for Humanity Philippines.

“Portion of the fun run will be for Habitat’s Re-build program wherein it will assist disaster victims to build decent and afford-able homes,” said Aileen Gojo, Public Relations of the NCCC Group, during the Davao Sports Writers Association Forum at Cal-le Cinco, yesterday.

It features 3K, 5K, and 10K. Registration is pegged at P250 (3K), P300 (5K), P350 (10K) and are inclusive of sin-glet, race bib, finisher’s certificate, light snack, re-usable water pouch, and raffle entry. The route of the race will be along Gen. Douglas MacArthur High-way. Turning point for the 3K will be at Venee’s Hotel, 5K will be at Land Bank-GSIS, and 10K will

be at PLDT Bangkal. Wa-ter Stations will be in be-tween turning points.

Runners may regis-ter at Bread Factory and Munchies branches in NCCC Mall Ramon Mag-saysay, NCCC Mall Davao, NCCC Centerpoint, NCCC Panacan, and Calinan. Bread Factory branches in Bolton St., Cabantian, San Pedro, Toril, and Catalunana Pequeño. Munchies branches at Davao Doctors College, John Paul II College, and Brokenshire College. As of press time some 400 runners have registered for the race.

Habitat will also be entertaining interested participants at the reg-istration centers if they wish to pledge, volunteer, or sponsor for the organi-zation. Today they will be presenting the organiza-tion’s programs and ways people can volunteer at NCCC Mall Davao Bread Factory.

Aside from the fun run, there will also be a zumba class led by Metrolifestyle Gym, mas-cot shows, and a walk-in exhibit by Habitat on the day of the race.

DAVAO City will be sending a full delegation to the

upcoming Batang Pi-noy 2013 in Tagum City, Davao Del Norte from August 27 to 31.

“We will be having a meeting with Jimmy Cerojales of DepEd on the finalization of the

number of athletes we will be sending to the games. However, the ap-proval will also depend on the finance board. We hope to send a full del-egation since the venue is near and this will also be a huge exposure for under 15 athletes,” said Sports Development Di-

vision of the City Mayor’s Office (SDD-CMO) offi-cer-in-charge William “Butch” Ramirez during the Davao Sports Writ-ers Association Forum at Calle Cinco, Bajada.

The budget for the delegates is yet to be approved however; Ramirez mentioned that

whatever the budget outcome may be they will look for partner-ships to shoulder other expenses.

A total of 82 athletes were sent in the Batang Pinoy 2012 at Dapi-tan City wherein they bagged a total of 50 gold, 36 silver, and 19 bronze.

DC to go all out for BP elims

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) -- Roger Fed-erer rallied to beat

Daniel Brands 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 Wednesday at the German Tennis Championships in his first match since his second-round loss at Wimbledon last month.

Using a bigger racket for the first time, Federer served three aces in the opening game but still lost his serve and ultimately the set to the German. The former No. 1 broke once in

the second set and twice in the decider to reach the third round.

The 17-time major champion is a four-time winner in Hamburg, the city where he won his first title in 2002 to break into the top 10.

After losing at Wim-bledon to Sergiy Stak-hovsky - who failed to qualify for the main draw in Hamburg - Federer dropped to No. 5 in the rankings, the first time in

a decade that he’s been that low.

Brands, who cele-brated his 26th birthday Wednesday and received a cake after the match, got few presents from the top-seeded Federer in the last two sets. Howev-er, the Swiss star needed four match points to close it out. He finished with nine aces on the clay-court surface.

‘’It was a tough match. Daniel is playing a very

good season,’’ Federer said.

Federer will play qualifier Jan Hajek of the Czech Republic, who beat 15th-seeded Ernests Gul-bis of Latvia 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.

Tommy Haas outlast-ed qualifier Blaz Kavcic of Slovenia 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 to advance to the third round.

The second-seed-ed Haas blew a 4-1 lead in the third set but held serve and broke to clinch

the match when Kavcic sent a forehand long.

‘’At the end, it’s the victory that counts,’’ Haas said.

Haas was runner-up in the tournament last year and is the oldest player in the top 100 at 35. He is looking for his second title at home this season, after winning in Munich.

Fourth-seeded Jer-zy Janowicz of Poland, a Wimbledon semifinalist, prevailed 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (4)

over Robin Haase of the Netherlands.

Defending champion Juan Monaco of Argenti-na, seeded fifth, beat Gael Monfils 6-4, 6-4.

Four other seed-ed players lost - No. 6 Andreas Seppi, No. 10 Tommy Robredo, No. 13 Mikhail Youzhny and No. 16 Martin Klizan.

No. 11 Feliciano Lo-pez, No. 12 Fabio Fognini and No. 14 Fernando Ver-dasco advanced.

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Fun Run at NCCC

Roger Federer returns a ball during his match against Daniel Brands at the Ger-man Open tennis tournament in Hamburg on Wednesday. (AP Photo)

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