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No evidence of HR violations, former rival says Philippines wins Miss Universe title

FOR former House Speak-er Prospero Nograles, the allegations of human

rights violations hurled against Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte are just that: allega-

tions. “There are allegations that

Duterte has violated human rights. Correct — these are just allegations and accusations,” Nograles told reporters on

Sunday. “I had that matter pur-

sued since 2010. It’s now 2015 and there is still no evidence. If there is no evidence, then there is no case. I won’t let my

reputation as a bar topnotcher get tarnished by that,” he add-ed.

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR), then

By JON JOAQUIN

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BEAUTY PAGEANT. A candidate waits for the announcement of winners of her school’s beauty pageant, which was held at the same time as the Miss Universe 2015 pageant which won by Ms. Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach yesterday. The world’s most prestigious beauty pageant was marred with controversy as host Steve Harvey initially announced the wrong winner but corrected it minutes later. Lean Daval Jr.

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THE death of 58-year old Councilor Leonar-do “Happy LA” Avila III,

Davao City Council’s green champ, did not only sadden environmentalist groups in Davao. It also poses as chal-lenge to the groups to press for the advocacies of the late councilor even after his un-timely demise.

“The death of Sir Leo is really a great loss for IDIS (In-terface Development Inter-ventions),” IDIS executive di-rector Mary Ann Fuertes said during the Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City Annex yesterday.

Avila , the chair of the City Council committee on envi-ronment , died Sunday morn-ing after suffering a stroke. He was confined in the intensive

care unit (ICU) of the Davao Medical School Foundation (DMSF) Hospital since Sep-tember and was not able to recover from the attack.

Avila served as a coun-cilor for seven terms — from 1988 to 1998, 2001 to 2010, and 2013 until his death – and served as officer in charge of

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DISTRACTED. Davao City reporters view a live stream of the Miss Universe 2015 pageant at the sidelines of yesterday’s Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City Davao. Lean Daval Jr.

THE Davao City Police Office (DCPO) will not its guard down against

illegal drugs even after the successful implementation of a “one-time, big-time” anti-ille-gal drug operations last killed that resulted in the killing of two drug suspects and the ar-rest of 40 others last week.

In an interview yesterday, DCPO spokesperson Chief In-spector Milgrace C. Driz said the police are still monitoring drug activities because the de-mand for drugs is usually high-er during the holiday season.

“Maong kami mga pulis mag-conduct gihapon mi’g op-erations against illegal drugs (That’s why the police will still

conduct anti-illegal drug op-erations this holiday season),” she said.

Driz said the DCPO and other law enforcement agen-cies in the city will heed the mandate of Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte to cleanse the city from illegal drugs.

Meanwhile, Driz said of the 40 drugs suspects arrested last week, 28 tested positive for the use of shabu (meth-amphetamine hydrochloride) while the remaining12 tested negative.

This, however, does not mean the 12 will be set free be-cause they still have to answer for the drugs that were found in their possession.

During the conduct of the operation early morning of Thursday, two men identified as Jonas Joban and John Mi-chael Pajegal were killed after allegedly resisting arrest.

Based on the police report, Pajegal was killed by opera-tives of San Pedro Police Sta-tion in a buy-bust operation in Acacia street when he attempt-ed to retaliate.

Police said Joban also also resisted arrest when officers of Toril Police Station were im-plementing a search warrant.

Operatives seized a total of 338.5 grams of methamphet-amine hydrochloride (shabu) valued at P3.046 million, of which 73 grams came from

buy-bust operations while 265.5 grams came from the implementation of search war-rants.

The police also seized a to-tal of 1,837.3 grams of marijua-na valued at P27,641, of which 1,048 grams from buy-bust operations and 788.7 grams came from the implementa-tion of search warrants.

The police also confiscated eight firearms: two caliber .45 caliber pistols, three .38 cali-ber revolvers, one .357 caliber revolver, and two .22 caliber pistols.

A total of 84 ammunition of different calibers and two hand grenades were also con-fiscated from the suspects.

THE Department of Health (DOH) in Davao Region supported the

call of Davao City Mayor Ro-drigo Duterte to declare a total firecracker ban if he is elected President in 2016.

“Hundreds have died while thousands have been disabled because of firecrack-er incidents nationwide,” DOH 11 regional director Dr. Abdul-lah Dumama said yesterday during the Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City Davao Annex.

Dumama said implement-ing a total firecracker ban na-tionwide would reduce fire-cracker injuries and ensure

the safety of Filipinos every new year.

Firecracker injuries take the form of tetanus, blindness, and amputation. Sometimes they can also be deadly.

In Davao City, the city government has been imple-menting a total firecracker ban under City Ordinance 060-02, Series of 2002 for 13 years. Firecracker injuries here have been negligible.

However, the DOH 11 has recorded several incidents in other areas in the Davao Re-gion.

From January 2014 to

GOV. Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao

(ARMM) is optimistic that the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) will be approved before Congress will adjourn “sine die.”

Hataman issued the state-ment as he noted that the House of Representatives has already concluded the period of interpellation on the pro-posed law.

Hataman said the mem-bers of House of Representa-

tives are expected to under-take amendments on some of the provisions of the pro-posed BBL once they resume session in January 2016. At present, Congress is on re-cess.

“The period of interpella-tion is longer than the period of amendments based on my experience in Congress,” Ha-taman told the Philippines News Agency.

“There is still a big pos-sibility to approve the BBL since there is still enough time

for Congress to hold sessions and discuss it,” he added.

Hataman, before he be-came ARMM governor, has served in Congress for three consecutive terms as AMIN partylist representative.

In the case of the Senate, Hataman noted that Senate Pres. Franklin Drilon has vowed to approve the pro-posed BBL before the 2016 national and local polls.

He said the proposed BBL can be immediately tackled on bicameral conference once

both the Senate and House are through with the period of amendments.

However, Hataman said he foresees a delay in the composition of the Bang-samoro Transition Authority (BTA) since by March it is al-ready prohibited to hire and appoint in the government sector due to the elections.

He said Pres. Benigno S. Aquino can still appoint the members of the BTA once there is a special provision de-spite the prohibition. (PNA)

Police to continuedrive against drugsBy ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.

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DOH supports Duterte plan to ban crackers nationwide

crc@edgedavao.netBy CHENEEN R. CAPON

Hataman optimistic of BBL approval before Congress adjourns ‘sine die’

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MOVIE TIME. Phenomenal love team Alden Richards and Maine “Yaya Dub” Mendoza pose for a group photograph with director Jose Javier Reyes, comedy queen Ai-Ai de las Alas, and “Bosing” Vic Sotto after a press conference to promote their upcoming movie My Bebe Love at The Marco Polo, Davao over the weekend. Lean Daval Jr.

MINING BAN. Davao City Watershed Management Council ‘s Chinkie T. Pelino (right) and Interface Development Interventions (IDIS) Inc. executive director Mary Ann Fuertes give updates on the ordinance banning mining in Davao City during yesterday’s Kapehan sa Dabaw at the Annex of SM City Davao. Lean Daval Jr.

The Davao City Police Office (DCPO) urged businesses transporting

firecrackers through Davao City to other points to secure the necessary permits or else their cargo will be confiscated under the city’s ban on fire-crackers and pyrotechics.

In an interview yesterday, DCPO spokesperson Chief In-spector Milgrace C. Driz said the drivers will be detained if they cannot present all the permits needed to transport the firecrackers.

“If they have complete

documents, for example they purchased it legally, they have a travel order or transport per-mit, then we will let them go,” she said.

Driz said the DCPO will se-cure the entry and exit points of the city to ensure that no firecrackers are unloaded in the city.

“We know that only Davao City has the firecracker ban, and that is why they need to secure permits to prove that their stocks are legal,” she said.

She said City Ordinance 060-02, Series of 2002 or the

firecracker ban states that mere possession of firecrack-ers is already a violation.

Driz said drivers who are able to present the proper documents will be monitored by the police to make sure they do not unload the firecrackers within Davao City.

Driz said the police sta-tions in the city have no re-ports yet on the apprehension of violators of the ordinance.

She said the DCPO re-minded the public not to be involved in selling firecrackers and pyrotechnics this Christ-

mas season or else be charged for violating the firecracker ban.

Driz said the city police will not hesitate to arrest all vi-olators of the ordinance since it has been existing since 2002.

Under the ordinance, a person arrested violating the ordinance will be slapped with a P1,000 fine or imprisonment of one month for the first of-fense. For the second offense the fine is P3,000 or imprison-ment for three months, and for the third offense it is P5,000 or imprisonment of six months.

VICE Presidential can-didate Senator Alan Peter Cayetano urged

the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to fast-track the decision of the disqualification case filed against his running mate, Davao City Mayor Rodri-go R. Duterte.

In an interview, Cayeta-no said the credibility of the Comelec as well as the 2016 election are at stake in the disqualification case against Duterte.

“Lahat ng ito siguro prose-so. Pero yung credibility of the elections and credibility of the Comelec is at stake here (All of these are part of the process. But the credibility of the elec-tions and the credibility of the Comelec are at stake here),” he said.

“Sana aside from bilisan, maging fair ito (Aside from fast tracking it, the Comelec should also be fair),” he added.

The Comelec has already accepted Duterte’s certificate of candidacy (COC) but said it

was without prejudice to the disqualification case against the mayor.

Duterte is running as a subsitute to erstwhile PDP-La-ban standard bearer Martin Diño, who withdrew his candi-dacy earlier.

A possible glitch is making it possible for Duterte to be disqualified: Diño wrote down “mayor of Pasay City” as the post he was running for in his COC.

Cayetano said substitution is allowed by the law and many politicians have used it over the years.

“May pagkakamali man sa position but very clear sa juris-prudence that it’s the intent (Although there is a mistake in the position but is very clear in jurisprudence that it’s the in-tent that matters),” he said.

Duterte, for his part, has said he is ready to accept the decision of Comelec since he is not dreaming of becoming President. ARMANDO B. FEN-EQUITO JR.

INDEPENDENT presidential candidate Sen. Grace Poe on Monday said the recent sur-

vey showing her as the voters’ top choice for 2016 proved that Filipinos are not swayed by the legal and political maneuver-ings of her opponents.

“It gives me strength to know that our countrymen continue to stand with me in our pursuit of a better, livable and equitable society that ben-efits all Filipinos and not just a favored few,” Poe said in a press statement.

“I remain committed to serving them as well,” said Poe, who is still included in the ros-ter of the country’s 2016 pres-idential candidates while the legal tussle on her citizenship and residency continues.

The latest nationwide survey commissioned by The Standard showed Poe as the top choice for president, with 28 percent of respondents say-ing they would vote for her. In her usual strongholds—Metro Manila, Bicol and the rest of Lu-zon—Poe won an even bigger

chunk of the voting population, with 35 percent.

The survey, conducted on Dec. 4-12, had 1,500 respon-dents equally distributed be-tween Metro Manila, Northern and Central Luzon, Bicol and Southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. It had a margin of error of 2.6 percent.

Respondents belonging to the lowest economic classes are also for Poe, with 28 percent of those in class D and 31 percent of those in class E saying they would vote for her.

Poe was also the top choice of Muslim voters, with 33 per-cent opting for her from the list of six candidates presented to them.

Duterte, who hails from Mindanao, followed with 30 percent.

“These are the people who have been left behind for so long, and who wish to benefit from the economic growth be-ing touted by our government. They are the reason I am com-mitted to fight for my right—and the right of all foundlings—

MALACAÑANG on Mon-day lauded Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach for winning

the prestigious Miss Universe crown, deeming her triumph an honor for the entire Filipino nation.

“She is the embodiment of the Filipinos’ intelligence, talent and skill that has also gained recognition in many fields of endeavor by the glob-al community. Her victory is a most welcome Christmas pres-ent to a grateful and hopeful nation,” said Presidential Com-munications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. in a statement.

Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda also credited Wurtzbach’s triumph in the pageant to the tremendous support of countrymen which helped propel her to become a pageant favorite and eventually led to her winning.

“In bagging this victory, Ms.

Wurtzbach not only serves as a tremendous source of pride for our people, but also holds up the banner of our women and of our country—as a true rep-resentative of what the Filipina can achieve,” Lacierda said.

“Indeed, this triumph is the result not only of her beau-ty but also of her passion for positive change, as one who is confidently beautiful with the heart. Over 42 years and to-day, once more the Philippines shines forth with joy and cele-bration,” he added.

Wurtzbach is the third Miss Universe of the Philip-pines, following in the foot-steps of Gloria Diaz and Margie Moran-Floirendo who won the title in 1969 and 1973, respec-tively.

Over 80 contestants com-peted for the crown Monday in the Miss Universe 2015 pag-eant held in Las Vegas in the United States. (PNA)Firms told to get permits

to transport firecrackersBy ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.

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Cayetano to Comelec: Fast-trackdecision on Duterte’s DQ case

Poe says survey shows voters continue to stand with her

Palace lauds Pia’sMiss Universe win

to serve,” Poe said.The survey also confirmed

Poe’s popularity among the youth, with 36 percent of vot-

ers aged 18 to 34 choosing her as president.

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LOCAL banana export is expected to further drop next year because of the

possible effect of the forecast-ed “banana world war,” an ex-ecutive of the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Associ-ation (PBGEA) said.

“Stakeholders in the local banana industry were earlier warned that 2016 will contin-ue to be not a good year for the banana industry because of the forecasted banana global war,” PBGEA executive director Stephen A. Antig said.

Antig said the “banana world war” will come as a re-sult of markets diversion done by Canada, Norway, US and Eu-ropean Union countries which was earlier banned from ex-porting agriculture and poul-try products to Russia for one year.

Russian president Vladi-mir Putin earlier signed an or-der banning the entry of fruits and vegetables from European countries as well as the poultry products from US countries as

retaliation over the sets of eco-nomic sanctions imposed by Western countries to Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine since 2014.

Ninety-two percent of Russia’s total agricultural im-ports were from the EU, USA, Canada, Australia, and Norway, while the Netherlands, Germa-ny, and Poland are currently Russia’s biggest food suppliers in the EU.

Moscow earlier an-nounced that it will increase its agricultural import from Latin American countries specifical-ly Ecuador, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina.

Antig said the import ban imposed by Moscow over western countries would affect the global supply of agriculture commodities like banana.

“Companies operating in these Western countries will have to divert their market oth-erwise they will have a huge loss,” Antig added. “Chances are that these western coun-

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By CHENEEN R. CAPON

THE first 105 megawatt (MW) Unit 1 of the 210 MW coal-fired power

plant of Alsons-controlled Sa-rangani Energy Corporation (SEC) in Maasim , Sarangani will be commercially opera-tional by the end of February next year.

“The first 105MW in-stalled capacity of the SEC is 90 percent contracted,” Alsons Power Group vice president for business development Jo-seph C. Nocos told reporters

during the recent power stake-holders’ forum at Marco Polo Davao.

Nocos said the large bulk or 70MW of the 105MW of Unit 1 installed capacity will go directly to South Cotabato Electric Cooperative (SOCOTE-CO) II.

Socoteco II is supplying to areas of General Santos City, Sarangani, and the towns of Tupi, Polomolok, and Tam-pakan in South Cotabato. So-coteco II has estimated peak

demand of 115MW and its demand has an annual growth rate of 4.2 percent.

Earlier reports said that only 42 MW of Socoteco II’s total power supply is sourced out from the state-owned Agus Pulangi Hydro Electric Power Plants.

The rest of Socotecto’s re-quirement is sourced from all diesel-fueled plants Therma Marine (TMI), Mapalad Pow-er Plant, Sol Energy, and Peak Power.

Meanwhile, other electric cooperative which has sealed a contract agreement with SEC were Agusan del Norte Elec-tric Cooperative (ANECO) for 10MW; Agusan del Sur Electric Cooperative (ASELCO) for 10 MW; and Davao del Norte Elec-tric Cooperative (DANECO) for 15MW.

The second 105MW of the Alsons-controlled coal-fired power plant will be operation-al by third quarter of 2018.

Unit 1 of coal-fired power plant operational by end of February

BUMPY roads leading to tourism sites in Island Garden City of Samal,

Davao del Norte may soon be a thing of the past, a tourism official has said.

Department of Tourism (DOT) Assistant Secretary Ar-turo Boncato said that tour-ists will find it easier to get to tourism sites quickly and eas-ily with the completion of the Samal Circumferential Road by early next year.

The Samal Circumferen-tial Road, Boncato said, is the

island’s main project under the Tourism Road Infrastruc-ture Program Convergence (TRIPC) of the DOT and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).

“We have selected the circumferential road as our main TRIPC project because we would like our resorts to be connected with its attrac-tions,” Boncato told reporters in an interview.

“Soon we could have a smooth ride going to the re-sorts,” he said, noting that

tourists have to get to the re-sorts via banca. “We would like to have a land-based transport system so that there would be more access for residents and tourists.”

Boncato stressed that the development of the Samal Cir-cumferential Road is consid-ered to be one of the agency’s major TRIPC projects.

To recall, a total of PhP 60.48 billion has been allot-ted for TRIPC projects which involve the construction and concreting of tourism roads in

15 regions in the country from 2011 until 2015.

It covers 2,502 kilometers in various parts of the country -- 922 km of national roads and 1,573 km of local govern-ment roads.

For the Samal Circumfer-ential Road alone, which is expected to be completed in January next year, around PhP 875 million was spent for the project.

“Since we started TRIPC, Region 11 has received the

DOT: Samal road project to spur tourism

A 12-MEMBER delega-tion from India and Mongolia visited re-

cently sub-projects of the Department of Agriculture Philippine Rural Develop-ment Project (DA-PRDP) in Davao Region for a learning exchange visit in the country.

Together with the World Bank representatives, the del-egation visited a farm-to-mar-ket road in Panabo City, Davao del Norte and the Cacao Pro-duction and Marketing of Dry Fermented Beans in Davao City.

World Bank Rural Devel-opment Specialist Carolina Figueroa-Geron said that these countries, who are also implementing World Bank supported projects in their re-spective countries, have been requesting the World Bank to visit the sites of PRDP to learn how things are done within the project especially with the use of geotagging technology.

Monitoring and Evalua-tion Specialist for Livestock and Agricultural Marketing Project (LAMP) in Mongolia Bolor-Erdene Battsengel said that the Philippines and Mon-

golia have the same systems for their World Bank projects, but the difference is how these systems are being implement-ed locally.

“One thing that I want-ed to bring to Mongolia is planning. Your plans are very detailed and you track imple-mentation very well,” added Battsengel.

Joint Secretary to the Gov-ernment of West Bengal and Project Director of the Institu-tional Strengthening of Gram Panchayats Project (ISGPP) in India Soumya Purkait said that like the Philippines, In-dia has also set up geographic information system (GIS) but added that it’s more advanced in the Philippines.

“I’m impressed with the activities of the PRDP because measures on accountability and transparency are put in place in implementing any ac-tivity within the time frame,” he explained.

Davao del Norte Project Management and Implement-ing Unit presented the plan-ning process for their PRDP sub-projects using the tools

Foreign delegates learn from PRDP in Mindanao

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EXCLUSIVE. Abreeza Mall marketing manager Ruby B. Ochoa welcomes members of local media to an exclusive screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens to the media at the mall’s Cinema 3 over the weekend. The event was the mall’s Christmas treat for their media friends. Lean Daval Jr.

Mindanao gets its biggest budget–Sid UngabPRESIDENT AQUINO is sched-

uled to sign today the P3-tril-lion 2016 budget approved

by both chambers of Congress last week.

Davao City Rep. Isidro T. Ungab, House appropriations committee chairman, is not very far from the outlay proposed by President Aqui-no in July.

Ungab, who is the first law-maker from Mindanao to head the House appropriations body, said

next year’s General Appropriations Act will contain the biggest budget for Mindanao so far.

Without giving details, the law-maker from Davao City also said that the Davao Region composed of the provinces of Davao del Sur, Davao de Norte, Davao Oriental, Compostela Valley and Davao Occidental and the cities of Davao, Panabo, Tagum, Di-gos, Mati and Samal will also get its biggest budgetary allocation so far.

Ungab rhapsodized the fact

that during his chairmanship of the House appropriations body, the an-nual budget was always passed on time, so that there was no need to reenact the budget.

He reported that the joint Senate and House conference committee restored P8 billion in conditional cash transfer program funds, earlier slashed by the Senate.

“We also allocated additional P2.7 billion for senior citizens, P4.7 billion for veterans’ pension and

P7 billion to augment funds for the planned four-year salary increase of the 1.5 million government person-nel starting next year,” Ungab was quoted as saying by House report-ers.

The 2016 budget is a real finan-cial bonanza for Mindanaoans and Dabawenyos as billions of pesos worth of infrastructures and other big ticket projects are lined for im-plementation in these areas, he said. AFJRep. Isidro T. Ungab

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Will ourcoral reefssoon be gone?By HENRYLITO D. TACIOPhotos by DARRELL BLATCHLEY

(First of Two Parts) “Many local, coastal communities do not understand or know

what a coral reef actually is, how its ecosystem interacts with them, and why it is so important for their villages to preserve and conserve it.” -- Southeast Asian Centre of Excellence

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DARRELL Blatchley was still sleepy but he had to wake up early. The rea-

son: he had to dive the waters near the Pearl Farm Beach Re-sort where had stayed for the night. He was excited; after all, he had been raring to see what others had been telling him.

“If you ever get the chance to dive, do it here; you will see what the best of the Davao Gulf has to offer,” says Blatch-ley, an American who has been living in Davao City al-most half of his life. “Fishing is strictly prohibited so the fish are plentiful and big. The fish are not afraid of you so they come in close as if they want to say hi!”

Among those that he saw while diving were the parrot-fish, triggerfish, barracuda, and the poisonous but im-pressive lion fish.

According to Carlos R. Munda, Jr., a diving enthusi-ast and instructor, the Island Garden City of Samal is “stra-tegically located in one of the most dive-friendly locations in the world.” Although it is relatively unknown outside a small circle of diving enthusi-asts, the waters surrounding the island “is a treasure trove of dive sites for every kind of underwater adventure.”

While the Samal reef gar-

dens display colorful under-water vistas with its treasure of tropical marine life, some of the corals are not in good shape.

A survey conducted in 1991-1992 by the Regional Fishermen’s Training Cen-ter in Panabo City at Saran-gani Bay and Davao Gulf had shown that most of the shallow or inshore coral reefs “were totally damaged because they are exposed to greater pressure.”

But destruction of coral reefs is rampant not only in Davao Gulf but in other parts of the country as well. In the late 1970s, the East-West Center in Hawaii sounded the alarm. At that time, the study disclosed that more than half of the reefs were “in advanced state of destruction.” Only about 25% of live coral cov-er were in “good condition,” while only 5% were in “excel-lent condition.”

Nothing much have changed since then. In fact, 30% of the country’s coral reefs are reportedly dead while 39% are dying. Reef Check, an international orga-nization assessing the health of reefs in 82 countries, iden-tified the coral reefs which are in “excellent condition” are the Tubbataha Reef Marine Park in Palawan, Apo Island

in Negros Oriental, Apo Reef in Puerto Galera, Mindoro, and Verde Island Passage off Batangas.

“Nowhere else in the world are coral reefs abused as much as the reefs in the Philippines,” commented Don E. McAllister, who once stud-ied the cost of coral reef de-struction in the country.

Most of the coral reefs are found in the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn -- in the Carib-bean, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and South Pacific. They also thrive where warm currents are found -- off Flor-ida, Bermuda, southern Japan and Australia.

The richest reefs, howev-er, are located in the so-called “coral triangle,” which spans eastern Indonesia, parts of Ma-laysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands. Covering an area that is equivalent to half of the entire United States, it is considered “the epicenter for marine biodiversity.”

About 600 of the 700 or so corals known to man have

been this discovered in this re-gion touted to be as “the Am-azon of the Sea.” In the Philip-pines alone, more than 400 coral reefs are found.

There are three types of coral reefs, according to Dr. Ra-fael D. Guerrero III, the former head of the Philippine Coun-cil for Aquatic and Marine Research and Development. These are the fringing (found on the edges of islands), the barrier (best exemplified by the Dajanon Reef of Central Vi-sayas), and the atoll (of which Tubbataha and Cagayan Reefs in the Sulu Sea are examples).

Because of their structure, coral reefs serve as shelter to fishes and shellfishes. A single reef can support as many as 3,000 species of marine life. As fishing grounds, they are thought to be 10 to 100 times as productive per unit area as the open sea.

About 80-90 per cent of the incomes of small island communities come from fish-eries. “Coral reef fish yields range from 20 to 25 metric tons per square kilometer per

year for healthy reefs,” said Dr. Angel C. Alcala, former envi-ronment secretary.

Despite their economic importance, coral reefs in the Philippines are on the brink of extinction.

The World Atlas of Coral Reefs, compiled by the United Nations Environment Pro-gram (UNEP), reported that 97% of reefs in the Philip-pines are under threat from destructive fishing techniques, including cyanide poisoning, over-fishing, or from defor-estation and urbanization that result in harmful sediment spilling into the sea.

But the Filipinos them-selves are the primary culprit. “Life in the Philippines is nev-er far from the sea,” wrote Joan Castro and Leona D’Agnes in a report. “Every Filipino lives within 45 miles of the coast, and every day, more than 4,500 new residents are born.”

The Philippines is now home to more than 100 mil-lion people. “Human activities are the major cause of coral reef degradation,” said a docu-

ment that was released during the International Coral Reef Initiative held in Dumaguete City.

Dr. Edgardo D. Gomez, one of the country’s most noted marine scientists, agrees. “If asked what the major prob-lem of coral reefs is, my reply would be: ‘The pressure of hu-man populations.’”

A visit to any fishing villag-es near a reef will quickly con-firm this. “There are just too many fishermen,” Dr. Gomez pointed out. “They overfish the reefs, and even if they use nondestructive fishing gear, they still stress the coral reef ecosystem.”

Dr. Robert Ginsburg, a spe-cialist on coral reefs working with the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sci-ence at the University of Mi-ami, also said human beings have a lot to do with the rapid destruction of reefs. “In areas where people are using the reefs or where there is a large population, there are signifi-cant declines in coral reefs,” he said. (To be concluded)

Diving in Samal

Soft coral reefs Ready for diving

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EDITORIALCorrecting our mistakes

THE entire country is rejoicing over the victory of our very own Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach in yesterday’s Miss Universe pag-eant, and rightly so. Throughout the contest she showed the

beauty, poise, and wisdom needed to bag the crown, and it helped that a major gaffe almost robbed her of her title after the host an-nounced the wrong winner. The mistake made her win all the sweet-er, and she deserves the congratulations that are coming her way.

It is thus rather strange and perhaps even “killjoy” that we find the need to point out that Ms Wurtzbach herself made what many feel was a mistake in her answer during the question-and-answer portion of the pageant. “Do you think,” she was asked, “the Unit-ed States should have a military presence in the Philippines?” Her reply, and we quote: “I think that the US and the Philippines have always had a good relationship with each other. We’ve been colo-nized by the Americans and we have their culture in our traditions even up to this day. The Philippines is very welcoming with the Americans and I don’t see any problem with that at all.”

The problem is that our country fought long and hard against the US bases for decades because of all the wrong things they rep-

resented. There were two US bases in the country, both of them re-minders of the colonization that Wurtzbach almost casually men-tioned, as if that period in our history was one of the best we have ever had. Being colonized was far more than just being introduced to a foreign culture; we were subjugated, held against our will, and governed by a foreign country whose interest was primary and not ours. The Americans did leave in 1945, but their military presence remained through the bases in Subic and Clark. The fight against the US bases culminated on September 16, 1991 when the Phil-ippine Senate voted to reject a new treaty. The vote was seen as the Senate’s — and the country’s — stand that it was time to end American presence.

But while we can fault Ms Wurzbach for her answer, the blame really lies on our own failure to educate our children and young people on our history. Perhaps the young generation has lost touch with our past and, lacking appreciation for it, are more apt to com-mit what the older generation sees are grave mistakes. We see in Ms Wurzbach’s answer our own mistakes, and we must work hard to correct them.

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Panabo City’s chess pride

YES, the title was taken from the 1946 Hollywood movie. The Frank Capra-directed film is actually a

dark, bittersweet post-war tale of a sav-ings-and-loan manager who struggles against a greedy banker and his own self-doubting nature in a small town.

Earnest do-gooder George Bailey (played superbly by James Stewart) rec-ognizes his life as wonderful and truly rich, even in its humdrum and bleak nature, only after suffering many hard-ships, mishaps and fateful trials (includ-ing compromised dreams of youth to leave the town and seek fame and for-tune, other sacrifices, dismay, losses and the threat of financial ruin, and suicide). He is given encouragement by a whim-sical, endearing, trainee-angel named Clarence (in the person of Henry Tra-vers).

The story turns Charles Dickensian (similar to A Christmas Carol, although told from Bob Cratchit’s point-of-view rather than from Scrooge’s) when the hysterical, despairing, and melancholy family man is shown what the small town (Bedford Falls, now renamed Potters-ville after the town’s evil tycoon) would be like without him. It’s a frightening, nightmarish, noirish view of the world (at Christmas-time) that brings him back from self-destruction. He returns to the idyllic, small-town world that he left,

with renewed faith and con-fidence in life itself. Hence, the film’s title.

T h ro u gh the years, I have collected some sayings, adages, and quotations, which point out that life is indeed won-derful, if not beautiful. Consider the fol-lowing collection I have (sorry the sourc-es are now lost somewhere):

Each day is a little life. We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do. Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. Rather fail with honor than suc-ceed by fraud.

I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it. To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK. If you’re not failing,

you’re not growing. Happiness is a direc-tion, not a place. Life is meant to be lived.

It does not require many words to speak the truth. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. Success must be continually prac-ticed or it will take wings and fly away.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Believe the best of everybody. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons. Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing on one’s own sunshine. Alter your life by altering your attitudes.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. No man walks with dignity whose step is rushed. Write on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

In the middle of difficulty lies oppor-tunity. Never take away hope from any human being. The mere sense of living is joy enough. In life, you can never do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. Life is

painting a picture, not creating a sum. Life isn’t a matter of milestones but of

moments. If man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to be a man of value. Every day is a good day.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than look-ing. When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. Into each life some rain must fall. Some days must be dark and dreary. The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determi-nation. Think you can, think you can’t; either way you’ll be right.

When you have a choice and don’t make it; that, in itself, is a choice. Happi-ness is a perfume you can’t pour on oth-ers without getting a few drops on your-self. Never explain yourself: Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t be-lieve it. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we? Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

HENRY Roger Lopez, a bespecta-cled young man, is not the kind of chess player you would meet.

He’s extraordinary.Why? Because just last Wednesday

he tied for first in the recently-conclud-ed 2nd Manny Pacquiao Random Chess tournament held at the GenSan SM. (IM Ronald Dableo- a GM candidate - won the tiebreak over NM David Elorta and Lopez who all ended up with 8 pts at the end of the 9-round Swiss system).

Aside from not being a titled player, Henry is a PWD. He suffered from polio many years ago when he was just ten. He is now 35 and still a pawn-pushing bachelor.

But his physical disability did not rob Lopez of the oozing confidence he is now exuding. A graduate of Holy Cross of Davao College, the fellow is trying to finish his law studies at the University of Mindanao in Davao City.

His championship performance should give Panabo City a sense of pride. Lopez is also a member of the Philippine team who took the gold medal in the most recent Para SEA Games.

His accomplishments in chess should be a yardstick for young people to emulate, especially those aspiring

to achieve success in their cho-sen field in sports.

Playing on a wheel-chair, Lo-pez capi-talized on a major blunder of GM Rogelio “Joey” Antonio in his last match to notch his eighth point.

Dableo and Elorta, also with seven, beat erstwhile leader FM Austin Jacob Literatus and IM Joel Pimentel, Jr, re-spectively, resulting in a triple tie.

The random chess competition is an old idea conceptualized by the late Bobby Fischer, the controversial Amer-ican chess wizard who became world champion in 1972, trouncing then de-fending titleholder Boris Spassky of USSR in admirable fashion.

Starkly opposite to the classical set up, Fischer’s idea was rejected by most East European chess leaders because it threatened their hold on to world chess supremacy.

Per Lopez’ personal experience, he

said random chess enables aspiring untitled players to battle their more skilled titled counterparts on an even field. In the former, if one is not im-mersed in book lines, a titled player usually pounces on the amateurish ap-proach of untitled rivals particularly on opening theories.

GM Eugene Torre, the country’s and Asia’s first grandmaster, commented that random chess may not really sit well with FIDE, the international feder-ation that governs and reigns the sport.

“First, it is a threat to classical chess. Second, natural kasi ang talent ng Pi-noy. Maski hindi yan nag-aaral sa libro, lumalaban…kaya maraming nahihi-rapan sa atin,” Torre commented in a table talk with this columnist, citing the late GM Rosendo Balinas as an ex-ample.

Torre, an Ilonggo, is a very close buddy of Fischer. He was commis-sioned by Rep. Pacquiao to organize and run the random chess tournament in his name that gave out P1.5M in cash prizes.

Several outstanding pawnpush-ers from GenSan were also recipients of awards including a twelve year old chess whiz, Jim Warren Julom.

Lopez, who frequently takes part in

mini-chess competitions organized by Pacquiao at his Tinoto, Maasim beach resort, is hoping that the Pambansang Kamao would institutionalize the ran-dom-style chess competition because it has now established a great follow-ing.

Majority of Metro Manila based GMs, IMs & NMs hied to GenSan, at-tracted by the cash prizes offered by Pacquiao. The first three individual winners received P50K, 30K & 20K, re-spectively (this was pooled and divided pro-rata due to the tie).

Team prizes for champion, run-ner-up and third placer were P400K, 220K & 130K, respectively.

My sportswriter-friends from na-tional dailies covering the event (Eddie Alinea of Peoples’ Journal/Tonight, Ar-man Armero of Manila Standard & Roy Luarca of PDInquirer) tinkered with the idea that Torre should convince Pacquiao to put up a national random chess association with Torre as Presi-dent and the Sarangani congressman as chairman.

Congrats, Henry Roger Lopez! Your winnings (P33K) should color you and your family’s Christmas red! (Email your feedback to fredlumba@yahho.com). God bless the Philippines!

It’s a wonderful life!

Henrylito D. Taciohenrytacio@gmail.com

THINK ON THESE!

Fred C. Lumba

SPECKS OF LIFE

VOL. 8 ISSUE 192 • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 201510 EDGEDAVAONEWSNOGIE... FROM 1 Death... FROM 2

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VOL. 8 ISSUE 191 • SUNDAY-MONDAY, DECEMBER 20 - 21, 2015 15CLASSIFIEDSEDGEDAVAO

Notice is hereby served that the Provincial Government of Compostela Valley thru the COM-MITTEE ON AWARDS FOR THE APPRAISAL AND DISPOSAL located at Capitol Building Compostela Valley Province, will sell the following Unserviceable equipment Motor vehicles and materials with appraised value offered by lot at PUBLIC AUCTION on January 12, 2016.Dropping of Bid Entries shall be from 8:00 A. M. to 12:00 PM. Opening of bids shall start at 1:00 P.M. at the same date (Note: Bid box shall be closed at Exactly 12:00 PM) .Venue is BAC Secretariat Office, Ground Floor, Right wing, Prov’l Capitol Bldg., Cabidianan, Nabunturan, Compostela Valley.

INVITATION TO BIDPUBLIC AUCTION SALE

BY ITEM:LOT 1: UNSERVICEABLE SERVICE VEHICLES

LOT 2: UNSERVICEABLE MOTORCYCLES

LOT 3: SCRAP MOTORCYCLES

LOT 4:

LOT 5:

LOT 6:

LOT 7:

LOT 8:

ITEM No. QTY. ARTICLE DESCRIPTION PLATE No. APPRAISED VALUE

1 1 ISUZU FORWARD SGH 436 50,000.002 1 ISUZU PICK-UP SGC 179 100,400.003 1 FUSO CANOPY/CANTER SFF 139 49,850.004 1 ISUZU HIGHLANDER SHA 181 61,430.005 1 MITSUBISHI L-200 SDC 692 46,980.006 1 MITSUBISHI PICK-UP L-200 SGA 573 57,200.007 1 ISUZU HIGHLANDER SGC 145 59,710.008 1 ISUZU HIGHLANDER SGA 887 57,000.009 1 ISUZU HIGHLANDER SGA 897 57,00.00

10 1 TOYOTA TAMARAW FX SDV 307 38,740.00

ITEM No. QTY. ARICLE DESCRIPTION PLATE No. APPRAISED VALUE

1 1 HONDA XRM-110 SF 3645 5,800.002 1 MOTOR STAR SF 3465 6,205.003 1 HONDA DREAM SF 3415 5,635.004 1 IHONDA XRM-110 SF 3636 5,800.005 1 HONDA SR-125 SF 3467 6,705.006 1 HONDA SR-125 SF 3468 6,855.007 1 HONDA XL-125 SF 3469 8,850.008 1 HONDA XRM-110 SF 3649 5,800.009 1 HONDA XL-125 SF 1229 7,886.00

10 1 HONDA XL-125 SF 3400 8,920.00

11 1 HONDA DREAM ELECTRIC STARTER SF 1212 4,950.00

12 1 HONDA SR-125 SF 1194 6,049.0013 1 HONDA XL-125 SF 1628 7,900.0014 1 HONDA XRM-110 SF 3639 5,800.00

ITEM No. SCRAP ESTIMATED KILO

APPRAISED VALUE

1 HONDA XRM-125, SE-3425

420 KGS 10.50/ kgs.

2 SUZUKI 125, SE-34903 YAMAHA, SE-23014 KAWASAKI-125, SF-23325 HONDA XL-125, SF-23026 HONDA, SF-34137 HONDA TMX, SE-10748 HONDA 200R, SE-27359 KAWASAKI-125, SE-4616

10 SUZUKI 125, SE-273711 HONDA XLR, SE-109912 SUZUKI 125, SF-3509

ITEM No. ITEMS/DESCRIP-TION

QTY APPRAISED VALUE

1 SCRAP IRON 10,000 kgs 10.50/kgs

1 NEWSPAPER 120 kgs 1.00/kgs

1 COMPUTER PARTS AND ACCESSORIES 150 kgs 9.00/kgs

ITEM No. ITEMS/DESCRIPTION QTY APPRAISED

VALUETIRES-HEAVY EQUIPMENT

1 11.00 X 20 180 PCS 30.75/pc.2 14.00 X 24 96 PCS 30.75/pc.3 8.25 X 20 30 PCS 30.75/pc.4 10.00 X 20 56 PCS 30.75/pc.5 295R20 59 PCS 30.75/pc.6 12.00 X 20 18 PCS 30.75/pc.7 8.25 X 15 27 PCS 30.75/pc.8 12.5 X 18 21 PCS 30.75/pc.9 23.1 X 26 3 PCS 30.75/pc.

10 17.5 X 25 1 PC 30.75/pc.TIRES-LIGHT VEHICLE

1 265/70R16 34 PCS 35.50/pc.2 265/65R17 18 PCS 35.50/pc.3 245/65R17 12 PCS 35.50/pc.4 195R14 28 PCS 35.50/pc.5 185R15 16 PCS 35.50/pc.6 30.00 X 9.50 R15 8 PCS 35.50/pc.7 700/15 12PR 16 PCS 35.50/pc.

ITEM No. ITEMS/DESCRIPTION QTY APPRAISED VALUE

1 BATTERY-12 VOLTS. 9-PLATES 1 PC 435.00/pc2 BATTERY-12 VOLTS, 11-PLATES 5 PCS 555.00/pc3 BATTERY-12 VOLTS, 13-PLATES 19 PCS 747.00/pc4 BATTERY-12 VOLTS, 17-PLATES 7 PCS 958.00/pc5 BATTERY-12 VOLTS, 21-PLATES 1 PC 1,415.00/pc

Activities Schedule1 Issuance of Bid Documents December 21, 20152 Pre-Bid Conference January 05, 20163 Deadline of Submission January 12, 2016 @ 12:00 NN4 Opening of Bids & Bid Evaluation January 12, 2016 @ 1:00 PM5 Awarding of item January 19, 2016

NOTE:

a. The above items can be inspected at the Provincial Capitol Compound, Cabidianan, Nabunturan Compostela Valley.b. The above articles will be sold through SEALED PUBLIC AUCTION . Your bid entries SHALL BE

dropped in a bid box at the BAC Secretariat Office, Ground Floor, Right wing, Prov’l Capitol Bldg. Cabidianan , Nabunturan , Compostela Valley Province

c. Bid Entries must be accompanied with a bid security in the form of Cash or manager’s check. Personal and certified checks shall not be accepted. Cash or Managers checks in the amount equivalent to at least 10% of the total appraised value of each items or appraised value of each lot. ( “ AS IS WHERE IS “ basis )

d. Financial proposal and bid security must be enclosed in separate envelopes. Each envelope shall bear the bidder’s name, address and the item or items or lot in which you are participat-ing (Bidders Forms are available at the BAC Secretariat Office Ground floor, Right wing, Prov’l Capitol Bldg.Cabidianan,Nabunturan, Compostela Valley).

e. The Award shall be given to the Highest Bidder. The winning bidder should effect the full payment of his bid within 5 working days from the date of receipt of the notice of Award. Bid proposal lower than the appraised value shall be automatically disqualified.

f. All commercial prospective bidders are required to submit documents for accreditation with non-refundable payment in the amount of Php 300 only.

g. Submit a certificate of inspection as part of technical requirement to manifest that ocular visit was conducted prior to the submission of Bids.

h. Bid form is available at the BAC Secretariat Office, Ground floor, right wing Prov”l. Capitol Bldg. Cabidianan, Nabunturan Compostela Valley Province. For more details, please see the Head of Secretariat of the BAC.

By Authority of the Governor(Sgd.)VIRGILIA S. ALLONES

Vice-Chairperson, Committee on Awards for the Appraisal and Disposal

chaired by Leila de Lima who later became Justice Secre-tary, conducted a probe in Davao City in 2009 of Duterte’s supposed role in vigilante kill-ings here.

No case was filed against Duterte, but the same issues are now being raised with Duterte filing his candidacy for President. Among others, Duterte is being accused of sponsoring vigilantes who have killed hundreds of sus-pected criminals since 1996.

Nograles’ statement left no doubt about his decision to end his rivalry with Duterte and support the mayor in his bid for the presidency.

“For 30 years we fought, but now we’re OK. There are no hard feelings. Peace na mi ni Duterte. And I’m glad that he is running for President. May-be we’ll get lucky and have the first Dabawenyo President in the history of the Republic of the Philippines,” he said.

Nograles said for his part, he has already made history by being the first House Speaker from Davao City and Mindan-ao.

“Duterte is 71, I am 68. Ka-puy na (I’m tired),” he said.

The unlikely alliance be-tween the former rivals has also resulted in Duterte’s political party, Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod, not fielding an opponent to Nograles’ son,

incumbent first district Rep. Karlo Alexei Nograles, who is running for his third and final term.

Nograles said because of this, his family will not get in-volved in local elections and will not field a candidate for mayor in 2019. “Hugpong did not put a candidate against Karlo (this election), therefore we will not put up a candidate against them (in 2019),” he said.

For his part, Carlos Conde of Human Rights Watch said regardless of Nograles’ state-ment, his group’s challenge to the Philippine government remains.

“It should in-vestigate the allega-tions against May-or Duterte and other lo-cal officials implicat-ed in Davao Death Squad kill-ings. The DOJ (Department of Justice), which is investigating these killings, should file ap-propriate charges, as it said it would, if evidence warrants,” he said.

He also said the Commis-sion on Human Rights (CHR) should be commended and supported after saying it would look into the allegations against Duterte.

“Justice for the vic-tims of summary kill-ings in Davao City is long over-due,” Conde said.

2015, the regional health agency recorded a total of 139 cases. Of these, 71 were re-corded in Davao del Norte, 27 in Davao Oriental, 31 in Davao del Sur, 8 in Compostela Val-ley, and two in Panabo City.

Dumama said for this year, the DOH will be imple-menting a “white alert ” status in all local government hospi-tals and health facilities as well as in the Southern Philip-pines Medical Center (SPMC)

“Our health personnel in all government hospitals will be on duty round the clock,” he said.

Aside from 24-hour oper-ation, Dumama said it will be also implementing a massive anti-firecracker information dissemination program in all provinces in Davao Region.

“We have coordinated with municipal health officers for information dissemina-tion on the ground level,” he said.

Campaign materials like posters will be also pasted in health facilities to inform the public.

“The DOH 11 will be using both positive and scary cam-paign materials to encourage the public to refrain from lighting firecrackers during the New Year,” he said.

Dumama said the pub-lic can use safer noisemak-ers like torotot (hornpipe), among others.

“Use safe merry-making instruments and alternative noise maker like car horns, or by playing loud music,” he said. CHENEEN R. CAPON

expansion of economic oppor-tunities outside mega-cities, re-ceived the same strong support from voters in urban and rural areas across the country, with 29 percent and 28 percent, re-spectively.

“It humbles and inspires me to see that despite the dif-ficulties, people still have faith that we will achieve our shared vision for this country,” she said.

Nationwide, Poe was fol-lowed by Vice President Je-jomar Binay (23 percent) and Mar Roxas (22 percent) who were statistically tied.

Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ranked fourth with 19 percent, while Sen. Miriam De-fensor-Santiago trailed every-one with three percent.

Poe has been a consistent frontrunner in most voter pref-erence surveys even before she declared her presidential bid in September.

Following her proclama-tion, however, Poe began to face a string of cases seeking to can-cel her certificate of candidacy for president by questioning her citizenship and residency. (PNA)

such as geotagging, which is utilized in validating, review-ing and monitoring sub-proj-ects proposed and imple-mented under the PRDP.

Davao del Norte Governor Rodolfo del Rosario thanked the World Bank and the PRDP and said that infrastructure projects are vital in laying foundations for economic growth.

“The PRDP’s precursor Mindanao Rural Development Program has helped the prov-ince realize a dramatic turn-around through the provision of farm-to-market roads, post-harvest facilities and more,” del Rosario said.

The group also inter-viewed provincial and baran-gay officials on how they han-dle and monitor sub-projects implemented in the area.

“The visit to the FMR proj-ect is a sort of an eye-opener for us. They document each and every step from the start of the project implementation. That was wonderful. We have learned a lot,” said Purkait.

The group also visited the cacao enterprise develop-ment sub-project in Calinan, Davao City where the coop-erative demonstrated the post-processing of cacao fer-mented beans.

TheP26-million enter-prise received recently ap-proval for funding under the PRDP.

“The project implementa-tion has just begun but they have accomplished so much. This shows how dedicated the people in the Philippines are,” said Battsengel. (Cath Nanta, InfoACE Unit-NPCO)

The construction of the P12-billion two-phased coal-fired plant started in 2013.

The project cost for the

first phase that included com-mon facilities was pegged at $310 million, the report added. CHENEEN R. CAPON

highest amount in terms of funding in development of roads. It bodes well for the future of the region,” Boncato said.

“Because almost all of the provinces in the region are now enjoying funding from the program, DOT and local government units will have to identify roads that lead to tourist destinations that re-quire prioritization. We have to prioritize because there are already existing tourism activ-ities in the area,” he added.

DOT Region 11 Director Roberto Alabado, meanwhile, said that Samal Island is the

top destination for tourists who visit Davao.

“Last quarter, in Davao, compared to last year’s same quarter, we had an increase of six percent. We know that to tourists who arrive in Davao, their priority is to visit Samal,” Alabado said.

The Davao region ac-quired the most number of tourist arrivals in Mindanao with 2.52-million visitors in 2014. This is followed by Northern Mindanao, CARA-GA, Soccsksargen, Zamboanga Peninsula, and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). (PNA)

the City Agriculturist Office from 2010 to 2013.

Fuertes said the presence of the late councilor in the City Council, who was passionate, approachable and studious, made the job of environmen-tal advocates “easier”.

She said Councilor Avila, more known as “Happy L.A.” for the jovial presentation of his top rating radio broad-cast for decades, was a strong partner of IDIS in its advoca-cies for preservation and pro-tection of the environment.

“Isang text lang sa kanya, kahit walang formal letter or invitation, pumupunta agad sya,” Fuertes said, adding that finding another councilor who has the same passion for environmental protection is another challenge that IDIS have to face now that Avila is gone.

Meanwhile, IDIS project coordinator Chinkee Peli-no-Golle also said that the legacies of Avila will inspire the group to push for the im-plementation of environmen-tal policies to make Davao greener as what the councilor dreamed of.

At the time of his death, Avila and environmentalists were working on the codifica-tion of all city’s ordinance on environment.

“IDIS and its partners will ensure the formulation and implementation of environ-ment code of Davao City,” she added.

Avila authored and co-au-thored mostly of the popular social ordinances of the city such as the Davao City Chil-dren’s Welfare Code in 1994 which is the first in the coun-try, and Elderly Welfare Code.

During his term as the committee chair on transpor-tation and communication, Avila also pushed for the re-moval of messy overhead ca-bles which has already start-ed in the City Hall area. The product of his efforts to push the power and the telecom-munication companies to re-quire them to install their ca-ble underground will be first seen before the year ends.

Also, among the green or-dinances that Avila authored or co-sponsored were The Anti-Smoke Belching Ordi-nance (2006), the Ban Aeri-

al Spray Ordinance (2009), the Watershed Code (2007), the Establishment of Marine Protected Areas (2007), the Fisheries Code (2008), the Rainwater Ordinance (2009), Ecological Solid Waste Man-agement Ordinance (2010), Septage and Sewerage Man-agement Ordinance (2010), Organic Agriculture Ordi-nance (2010) and the Bicycle Ordinance (2010) and the Or-dinance Closing off the City of Davao to Mining Operations (2015).

Long before the Depart-ment of Interior and Local Government issued a Mem-orandum Order for LGUs to make their own action plan related to climate change, Avila had already organized the Davao Climate Change Action Network, a coalition of government and non-govern-ment organizations as well as individuals. DavCCAN is en-gaged in activities that raise awareness of the impact and possible mitigating actions to respond to increasing tem-perature and the unpredict-ability of weather.

Avila built a strong net-work of partners by continu-ously initiating projects and programs that are advocating awareness and action from civil society organizations and the public in general.

He also pushed for a “Davao Gulf Week” for a coastal clean-up involving ba-rangays along the coast, and the Flight of the Eagle series, a biking event that adopts a different environment theme every year.

In 2009, he led the first Davao Living Arts Festival, which got artists and cultural workers involved in paying homage to the environment, with the Davao Gulf as central focus.

In 2010, he was lead con-venor of “Run for Water” in Davao City and was part of the Steering Committee of the Davao City’s yearly “Earth Hour” event.

Meanwhile, Davao City councilor and colleague Dr. Mary Joselle Villafuerte also shared the grief with the fam-ily and close friends on the death of Avila. (CHENEEN R. CAPON/ with reports from Mindanews)

tries will dump their exports in other markets which the Phil-ippines also supplies.”

The global banana mar-kets for the Philippine banana is also now at stake not only because of the effect of the Russian ban but also to the growing banana production in other Asean countries.

Other agriculture econ-omies in the Asean like Sri Lanka, Vietnam have a grow-ing banana industry, while the banana production in other Asian countries like India and Taiwan continues to gain more momentum in the global mar-ket.

Japan, a very huge market for Philippine fresh banana, is now dwindling as it starts to import banana from other ba-nana producing countries in the Asean at zero tariff while Philippines exports banana at a higher tariff depending on the season.

China, on the other hand, has reduced its imports from the Philippines during the last period of the year because it has already consumed its own banana supply grown in prov-inces of Hainan and Guang-zhou.

Antig said the banana in-dustry will also continue to suffer from the onslaught of the El Niño which is expected to end by June.

“The effect of the dry sea-son will be felt by the agricul-ture sector three months after June,” he added.

He also said the pest and diseases problem in banana in-

dustry is still a huge challenge to be addressed.

The PBGEA and its 29 members have been conduct-ing research for three years in a bid to develop a Panama dis-ease-resilient banana variety. However success has not yet achieved, according to Antig.

The year 2015 was not re-ally a good year for the banana industry.

The sector suffered in 2015 as the volume of export-ed fresh banana to Philippines’ major market dropped by 5.2 percent in the first 9 months of the year.

“This is lower compared than the volume of banana ex-ported by our members on the same period last year,” Antig said.

said the 5.2 percent de-crease in volume of exported banana was equivalent to 4, 822,989 boxes of 13 kilogram banana per box.

“Shipped banana by our members reached an estimat-ed of 170 million boxes last year,” he said.

Antig attributed the de-crease to the damage caused by the long drought season which started last year and is expected to worsen this year.

“Not only did the produc-tion decrease due to El Niño but the quality as well,” Antig said. “The size of banana fin-gers shrunk.”

The banana exportation also decreased as the de-mand from Philippines’ major market like China and Japan dropped.

he said.There are lots of causes why

dissolved oxygen gets low in a body of water. He cited sudden change of water temperature, pu-rity level, algal bloom, soil erosion and siltation.

Talavera said they should have gotten water samples a few days into the fishkill.

“The report came to us late because it was two weeks after the fishkill,” she said.

Talavera stressed that water parameters such as total sus-pended solids and total dissolved solids were not included in their tests. adding other agencies could do it.

The BFAR-Caraga could not give the exact number of affected fisherfolk in the lake towns de-spite having launched a program a year ago, to register the number of fisherfolk per municipality.‘Don’t eat the fish’

Talavera advised residents not to eat the floating dead fish.

“It’s not advisable to eat the dead ones especially those in a state of decomposition,” she said.

She urged fishermen to re-trieve the dead fish and bury them to avoid the spread of bacteria.

Talavera said she has not re-ceived reports of people who got sick from eating freshly-caught tilapia from the lake.

But majority of the people around lake Mainit have tried not to eat the fish, waiting for official announcement from the BFAR.

As of Saturday, BFAR has not released the results of the labora-tory analysis.

Economically affectedFisherfolk around Lake Main-

it are spending a bleak Christmas due to the fishkill.

Junmar Mosende, 33, a fish vendor at the public market said that since the fishkill a month ago, it’s been a month of low incomes for them. (Roel N. Catoto / Min-daNews)

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Air Supply Reloaded

GRAHAM RUSSEL and Russel Hitchcock brought back memo-ries of the famed Air Supply of old when they hit town last De-cember 9 at the SMX Convention Center.

The duo regaled the sizeable weekday crowd in their second Davao concert in three years.

“This one is really special. They are still very good,” screamed one fan shortly after the concert.

Russell and Hitchcock met the first day of rehearsal as chorus members in a Sydney, Australia production of “Jesus Christ Super-star” in May 1975, they realized that they had many things in common including hav-ing seen The Beatles perform in concert in 1964.

Forty years later, the duo -- which at-tained worldwide fame as pop/rock duo Air Supply with hit after hit in the early to mid-’80s -- celebrates their special anniversary while looking forward to another whirlwind slate of international appearances with one of pop music’s most enduring powerhouse touring bands.

Air Supply’s albums Lost in Love, The One That You Love, Now & Forever, and The Greatest Hits have sold in excess of 40 mil-lion copies. “Lost in Love” was named Song of the Year in 1980, and, their singles have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.

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Merry Noche Buena eatsCHRISTMAS is truly the most won-derful time of the year. With parties and good times flowing, oftentimes we can get caught up in all the excitement and find ourselves lacking time to pre-pare for the traditional Noche Buena feast. Luckily, Davao’s top hotels are offer-ing sumptuous Noche Buena dinner spreads to ensure that your family feast is not ruined by the horrendous traffic thanks to the holiday rush.

Giving guests the best Yuletide treats, Seda Abreeza offers a Noche Buena Din-ner Buffet on the 24th of December where families and friends can savor signa-ture holiday treats as ham, keso de bola, and roast beef, perfectly matched with Yuletide beverages. Guests shall be entertained with live music all night, and surprise raffle items are up for grabs on this highly celebrated occasion. The buffet is available at Php 1380 nett for adults, Php 780 nett for kids aged 7-12, and free for kids aged 6 and below.

The holiday buffet at the RBG Res-taurant Bar and Grill of Park Inn by Padisson Davao this coming December 24 brings together this season’s finest flavors, from your Christmas classic Holiday Leg of Ham to the all-time family fa-vorite, Lechon. Satisfy your sweet cravings with decadent cakes and assorted pastries which shares spotlight alongside the spread of savory dishes. Christmas Eve buf-fet is at Php850 net per person and Php1400 net per person with un-limited wines, beers, spirits and cocktails.

The Waterfront Insular Hotel Davao of-fers a special buffet dinner on December 24. The dinner feast features traditional Lechon as well as Roast Turkey for a more western take on Noche Buena. Christmas Eve buffet dinner is at Php1,800 nett per person.

Celebrating a star-studded holiday season, The Marco Polo Davao takes diners on a special Noche Buena din-ner buffet at the Cafe Marco featur-ing Roast Turkey, Leg of Lamb, and Lechon, this December 24 for only Php 1,300 nett. The Lotus Court of the Marco Polo will also offer a spe-cial Noche Buena buffet featuring Chinese specialties also for Php1,300 nett. Guests can also purchase and bring home holiday goodies from the Marco Polo Davao at the hotel’s lobby.

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Pia Wurtzbach is Miss Universe 2015

DANRICH fans got an early Christmas treat after Daniel Matsunaga and Erich Gonzales personally watched with them the pilot week episodes of their upcoming ABS-CBN series “Be My Lady.” Also joining the special screening dubbed “Christmas with DanRich” were other cast members that include Yves Flores, MJ Cayabyab, Karen Demetera, Devon Seron, Clint Bondad, comedy trio No Direction, Perry Escano, and Marife Necesit, director Ted Boborol, and business unit head Ruel Bayani. Loud cheers and giggles filled the jampacked Cities Events Place as Daniel’s and Erich’s characters shared ‘kilig’ moments on screen. The audience also erupted in laughter over the other

characters’ funny banter. After the exclusive screening, the real-life couple gamely mingled with their fans from different groups and granted photo and selfie opportunities with them. “Be My Lady” features the love story of Phil and Pinang, two different people from two different races who will find the love they have always dreamed of.

This is the first project where Daniel and Erich are working together as an official couple after their successful soap “Two Wives.” “We are very happy (to work with each other). It’s even easier because I am with my girlfriend. At least we get to spend time and we enjoy our days taping even though it’s very hot in our locations,” Daniel shared.

“We also get the chance to get to know each other even better,” Erich added. The two indeed are truly blessed this year personally and professionally. When asked what they are most thankful for this year, both Daniel and Erich smiled and pointed at each other. “Be My Lady” airs this January 2016 on ABS-CBN.

MISS PHILIPPINES Pia Wurtzbach was crowned Miss Universe 2015 on Sunday, Dec 20 (Monday, Dec 21 local time) at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. The announcement however came after host Steve Harvey earlier announced Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez as the winner. Upon realizing he was wrong, and Harvey apologized, “I will take responsibility. It was my mistake,” adding, “Please don’t hold it against the ladies.” Harvey also added that the mix-up was a “horrible mistake” on his part and later revealed to the camera the contents of the envelope with the names of the winners. Pia was visibly shocked when the “correction” in the announcement was made. The star-studded affair featured Charlie Puth, The Band Perry, and Seal who gave musical performances during the Miss Universe pageant. Emmitt Smith, Niece Nash, and Olivia Culpo, a former Miss Universe herself, served as the judges, who evaluated the 80 Miss Universe 2015 pageant contestants from

Daniel and Erich celebrate early Christmas with fans

everywhere around the world in the swimsuit, evening gown, and interview competitions. It has been a long journey for the 26 year old actress and beauty queen who represented the country in the global contest after her third attempt in joining the Binibining Pilipinas beauty pageant. During the final question and answer

round – in which the top three contestants were asked the question, “why should you be the next Miss Universe?,” this was her answer: “I want to show the world – the universe rather – that I am confidently beautiful with a heart.” Pia is now the third Filipino who won the prestigious title after Glaria Diaz (1969) and Margarita Moran (1973).

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Department of Tourism 11 Regional Director Roberto Ala-bado said that “the Christmas tree symbolizes the festivities of the season. We also want that with this tree, people will re-member that peace and justice should reign in the season.” For IGACOS Mayor Aniano P. Antalan, the ceremony was also a thanksgiving activity for a successful collaboration of the private and public sector in the year that was. “This year, we are delighted

that we have successfully imple-mented programs and projects that contribute to the develop-ment of our beloved island. IGACOS has never been this better, amidst the challenges of time, we are able to cope with the demands in the public ser-vice”, Mayor Antalan said. “The Christmas tree lighting ceremony is an extraordinarily special event as it symbolizes our continued hope to enlight-en the future of our island city through the convergence of var-

ious stakeholders: the local gov-ernment, the national agencies, the private sectors and most es-pecially, the Samaleno people,”

Mayor Antalan continued. Department of Tourism, meanwhile noted that this activ-ity is one of more activities that

the Department has prepared for the bigger promotion of the island destination. “We are pro-moting Samal as a peaceful and a must-experience year-round destination, where people can enjoy the Christmas season and have an enjoyable holiday expe-rience here in the island”, Ala-bado said. The 20-feet Christmas tree is strategically located at the ro-tunda in Babak, Samal, in the crossways going to Samal from Davao, and to the destinations. The ceremonial lighting will was led by the officials from the DOT, namely Assistant Secre-tary Arturo P. Boncato, DOT-XI Regional Director Roberto P. Al-abado, IGACOS Mayor Aniano Antalan, IGACOS Vice-Mayor Al David Uy, Paradise Island Park and Beach Resort Owner and Samal City Resort Owners Association (SCROA) Member Julian Rodriguez, and Davao del Norte Provincial Tourism Offi-cer Noel Daquioag. The activ-ity also featured performances by Neil Llanes, Anonang High School Chorale, and Samal Na-tional High School Chorale, Rondalla and Drum and Bugle.

IN ITS continuous effort to boost tourism in Samal, the Department of Tourism, in partnership with the Island Garden City of Samal (IGACOS), conducted a ceremonial lighting of a Christmas tree dubbed as “Light up for Samal: Christmas Tree Lighting Pro-gram” on Wednesday, December 16, 2015.

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Notice is hereby served that the Provincial Government of Compostela Valley thru the COM-MITTEE ON AWARDS FOR THE APPRAISAL AND DISPOSAL located at Capitol Building Compostela Valley Province, will sell the following Unserviceable equipment Motor vehicles and materials with appraised value offered by lot at PUBLIC AUCTION on January 12, 2016.Dropping of Bid Entries shall be from 8:00 A. M. to 12:00 PM. Opening of bids shall start at 1:00 P.M. at the same date (Note: Bid box shall be closed at Exactly 12:00 PM) .Venue is BAC Secretariat Office, Ground Floor, Right wing, Prov’l Capitol Bldg., Cabidianan, Nabunturan, Compostela Valley.

INVITATION TO BIDPUBLIC AUCTION SALE

BY ITEM:LOT 1: UNSERVICEABLE SERVICE VEHICLES

LOT 2: UNSERVICEABLE MOTORCYCLES

LOT 3: SCRAP MOTORCYCLES

LOT 4:

LOT 5:

LOT 6:

LOT 7:

LOT 8:

ITEM No. QTY. ARTICLE DESCRIPTION PLATE No. APPRAISED VALUE

1 1 ISUZU FORWARD SGH 436 50,000.002 1 ISUZU PICK-UP SGC 179 100,400.003 1 FUSO CANOPY/CANTER SFF 139 49,850.004 1 ISUZU HIGHLANDER SHA 181 61,430.005 1 MITSUBISHI L-200 SDC 692 46,980.006 1 MITSUBISHI PICK-UP L-200 SGA 573 57,200.007 1 ISUZU HIGHLANDER SGC 145 59,710.008 1 ISUZU HIGHLANDER SGA 887 57,000.009 1 ISUZU HIGHLANDER SGA 897 57,00.00

10 1 TOYOTA TAMARAW FX SDV 307 38,740.00

ITEM No. QTY. ARICLE DESCRIPTION PLATE No. APPRAISED VALUE

1 1 HONDA XRM-110 SF 3645 5,800.002 1 MOTOR STAR SF 3465 6,205.003 1 HONDA DREAM SF 3415 5,635.004 1 IHONDA XRM-110 SF 3636 5,800.005 1 HONDA SR-125 SF 3467 6,705.006 1 HONDA SR-125 SF 3468 6,855.007 1 HONDA XL-125 SF 3469 8,850.008 1 HONDA XRM-110 SF 3649 5,800.009 1 HONDA XL-125 SF 1229 7,886.00

10 1 HONDA XL-125 SF 3400 8,920.00

11 1 HONDA DREAM ELECTRIC STARTER SF 1212 4,950.00

12 1 HONDA SR-125 SF 1194 6,049.0013 1 HONDA XL-125 SF 1628 7,900.0014 1 HONDA XRM-110 SF 3639 5,800.00

ITEM No. SCRAP ESTIMATED KILO

APPRAISED VALUE

1 HONDA XRM-125, SE-3425

420 KGS 10.50/ kgs.

2 SUZUKI 125, SE-34903 YAMAHA, SE-23014 KAWASAKI-125, SF-23325 HONDA XL-125, SF-23026 HONDA, SF-34137 HONDA TMX, SE-10748 HONDA 200R, SE-27359 KAWASAKI-125, SE-4616

10 SUZUKI 125, SE-273711 HONDA XLR, SE-109912 SUZUKI 125, SF-3509

ITEM No. ITEMS/DESCRIP-TION

QTY APPRAISED VALUE

1 SCRAP IRON 10,000 kgs 10.50/kgs

1 NEWSPAPER 120 kgs 1.00/kgs

1 COMPUTER PARTS AND ACCESSORIES 150 kgs 9.00/kgs

ITEM No. ITEMS/DESCRIPTION QTY APPRAISED

VALUETIRES-HEAVY EQUIPMENT

1 11.00 X 20 180 PCS 30.75/pc.2 14.00 X 24 96 PCS 30.75/pc.3 8.25 X 20 30 PCS 30.75/pc.4 10.00 X 20 56 PCS 30.75/pc.5 295R20 59 PCS 30.75/pc.6 12.00 X 20 18 PCS 30.75/pc.7 8.25 X 15 27 PCS 30.75/pc.8 12.5 X 18 21 PCS 30.75/pc.9 23.1 X 26 3 PCS 30.75/pc.

10 17.5 X 25 1 PC 30.75/pc.TIRES-LIGHT VEHICLE

1 265/70R16 34 PCS 35.50/pc.2 265/65R17 18 PCS 35.50/pc.3 245/65R17 12 PCS 35.50/pc.4 195R14 28 PCS 35.50/pc.5 185R15 16 PCS 35.50/pc.6 30.00 X 9.50 R15 8 PCS 35.50/pc.7 700/15 12PR 16 PCS 35.50/pc.

ITEM No. ITEMS/DESCRIPTION QTY APPRAISED VALUE

1 BATTERY-12 VOLTS. 9-PLATES 1 PC 435.00/pc2 BATTERY-12 VOLTS, 11-PLATES 5 PCS 555.00/pc3 BATTERY-12 VOLTS, 13-PLATES 19 PCS 747.00/pc4 BATTERY-12 VOLTS, 17-PLATES 7 PCS 958.00/pc5 BATTERY-12 VOLTS, 21-PLATES 1 PC 1,415.00/pc

Activities Schedule1 Issuance of Bid Documents December 21, 20152 Pre-Bid Conference January 05, 20163 Deadline of Submission January 12, 2016 @ 12:00 NN4 Opening of Bids & Bid Evaluation January 12, 2016 @ 1:00 PM5 Awarding of item January 19, 2016

NOTE:

a. The above items can be inspected at the Provincial Capitol Compound, Cabidianan, Nabunturan Compostela Valley.b. The above articles will be sold through SEALED PUBLIC AUCTION . Your bid entries SHALL BE

dropped in a bid box at the BAC Secretariat Office, Ground Floor, Right wing, Prov’l Capitol Bldg. Cabidianan , Nabunturan , Compostela Valley Province

c. Bid Entries must be accompanied with a bid security in the form of Cash or manager’s check. Personal and certified checks shall not be accepted. Cash or Managers checks in the amount equivalent to at least 10% of the total appraised value of each items or appraised value of each lot. ( “ AS IS WHERE IS “ basis )

d. Financial proposal and bid security must be enclosed in separate envelopes. Each envelope shall bear the bidder’s name, address and the item or items or lot in which you are participat-ing (Bidders Forms are available at the BAC Secretariat Office Ground floor, Right wing, Prov’l Capitol Bldg.Cabidianan,Nabunturan, Compostela Valley).

e. The Award shall be given to the Highest Bidder. The winning bidder should effect the full payment of his bid within 5 working days from the date of receipt of the notice of Award. Bid proposal lower than the appraised value shall be automatically disqualified.

f. All commercial prospective bidders are required to submit documents for accreditation with non-refundable payment in the amount of Php 300 only.

g. Submit a certificate of inspection as part of technical requirement to manifest that ocular visit was conducted prior to the submission of Bids.

h. Bid form is available at the BAC Secretariat Office, Ground floor, right wing Prov”l. Capitol Bldg. Cabidianan, Nabunturan Compostela Valley Province. For more details, please see the Head of Secretariat of the BAC.

By Authority of the Governor(Sgd.)VIRGILIA S. ALLONES

Vice-Chairperson, Committee on Awards for the Appraisal and Disposal

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Fishkill in Lake Mainit dueto low dissolved oxygenTHE incidents of fishkill in

Lake Mainit have been traced to low dissolved oxygen in

the country’s fourth largest lake, initial findings of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resourc-es-(BFAR) Caraga said.

Tilapia and carp have been found floating dead in Lake Mainit since a month ago.

The fishkill has affected the livelihood of hundreds of fisher-folk who depend on the lake for their livelihood.

Fisherfolk in towns of Mainit and Alegria in Surigao del Norte in-cluding Kitcharao and Jabongga in Agusan del Norte had earlier said they suspect mining activities up-stream are to blame for the fishkill.

Dr. Anne Melisa Talavera, of-ficer-in-charge of BFAR’s Regional Fish Health Laboratory of BFAR, told MindaNews Friday that parts of the lake have low dissolved oxygen, at two parts per million (ppm), from the normal level of at least four ppm.

She said bigger tilapia need more dissolved oxygen to survive.

“That’s exactly one of the rea-sons why bigger ones are affected by the fishkill in Lake Mainit,” she said.

Using Hach Water Test Kit, Talaver said they conducted an in-spection on November 26, Decem-ber 3, and 9 in the towns of Alegria and Mainit in Surigao del Norte and in Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte

on December 16.BFAR also took samples of

water and samples of dead fish for laboratory examinations in Manila.

Nerio Casil, Director of BFAR-Caraga told MindaNews last Thursday that they also tested the water for presence of heavy met-als.

“Water and fish are also checked for bacterial analysis,” he said.

Casil debunked reports that their office has done nothing on the fishkill.

“Right after we received infor-mation, we immediately acted on it,” he said.

Casil reacted to a statement of Judith Rojas, assistant director

of BFAR-Caraga. Rojas last week that their office did not receive any request letter from affected local government units.

“We made an effort imme-diately. In fact, we are waiting for the results this week from Manila,” Casil said.

Dissolved oxygen levels Darwin Brain Lawas, a marine

biologist of Green Mindanao As-sociation said fish growth usually requires 5 to 6 ppm of dissolved oxygen.

“Dissolved oxygen levels be-low 3 ppm are stressful to most aquatic organisms. Levels below 2 ppm will not support fish at all,”

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dor was named Most Valuable Player of the 2015 Gaisano Grand Cup basketball tourna-ment but his personal accomplishment was incomplete after As-sumption College of Davao dealt Ateneo de Davao University a 67-62 defeat in Game 2 of the Finals on Sunday night.

Escandor was picked the tourna-ment’s best player by a Selection Board from the spon-s o r i n g G a i -s a n o

Grand and the Samah-ang Basketball ng Pili-pinas-11.

Escandor was joined in the Mythical Team selection by John Hon-ra of Holy Child College of Davao, Crus Mar-vin Vistal of Assump-tion College of Davao, Kalen Axel Doromal of Assumption College of Davao and Mario Ion Angeles of Ateneo de Davao University.

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PROMISING flyweight fighter Genesis Libranza of MP Davao Stable continued his winning

ways by stopping a more experi-enced Renerio Arizala of Manila via a second round technical knock-out in the main event of the Blow by Blow Reloaded held Saturday night at the Panabo covered court in Panabo City.

The 22-year old Libranza bombarded Arizala with left-right combinations near the ropes be-fore landing a solid right followed by a left hook to end the fight in 2:59 of the second round.

Libranza remained undefeat-ed with nine straight wins with six knockouts while Arizala dropped to 13-3-1 win-loss-draw record.

Arizala, who also suffered a deep cut on his left eye, was downed on his knees and was immediately helped by his trainer Jonathan Penalosa.

“This was a good test for Li-branza because Arizala was a more experienced fighter. He just arrived from Japan to be a sparring partner of a world champion,” said TV pro-ducer Manny Pinol.

Arizala, a former Luzpro-ba flyweight champion, recently stayed for three weeks in Japan to spar with current WBO junior ban-tamweight and former WBC light flyweight champion Naoya “The Monster” Inoue (8-0-0), who is set to defend his title against another Filipino Warlito Parrenas on Dec. 29 in Tokyo.

“Malaki ang improvement ni Libranza. Kailangan pa niya ng tat-lo pang magandang laban bago siya isasabak natin sa championship,” said MP Davao Stable head trainer Raides “Nonoy” Neri.

It was only Libranza’s second

fight in 10 rounds. In his first ten-ner, Libranza slowed down already going to the final four rounds but still won by a unanimous decision against Michael Rodriguez last Sep-tember 6 in General Santos City.

In the main supporting bout, former IBF Pan Pacific flyweight champion Ryan Rey Ponteras of Agusan del Sur showed his ring experience in stopping Margarito Moya of Cebu City by a techni-cal knockout in 2:49 of the 10th round.

“Matibay pa rin si Ponteras dahil kahit na tinatamaan na siya pero sige pa rin siya sugod ng su-god kay Moya,” said Ponteras’ for-mer trainer Bruce Lerio.

Ponteras, 25 now has 14 wins against 11 loses and 1 draw while 20-year old Moya dropped to 8-2-0.

The other tenner saw Orly Silvestre of MP Davao knocked out Allan Doronilla of Bukidnon in 1:49 of the first round.

The other results:Marvilo Aballe won over John

Rey Logatiman by unanimous de-cision; Elias Joaquino won against Aries Buenavides by a majority decision; Rene Mark Cuarto won against Jerome Clavite by unan-imous decision; Michael Bravo knocked out Rolley Bersabal in the second round (32 seconds); Jelo Bacalso settled with Clarito An-taran Jr. in a majority draw;

Raymart Lumacad stopped Junrex Saldivis by a TKO in the first round (39 seconds);

Jason Neri won against Ramel Antaran by unanimous decision;

Vincent Dayaganon had a ma-jority draw with Marvin Viloria; Romshane Sarguilla won against Roger Salaton by UD.

BLOWN AWAYLibranza stops Arizela in 2nd round, Ponteras defeats Moya

WHEN Nonito “The Fil-ipino Flash” Donaire recently won the WBO

junior featherweight champion-ship several names cropped up as possible opponents for the new champ this coming 2016.

Former IBF world feather-weight champion Evgeny Gra-dovich wanted to face Donaire. Nicknamed “El Ruso Mexicano,” Gradovich is originally from Russia, but now resides in the boxing cradle of Oxnard, Cali-fornia. He is trained by Robert Garcia.

“That would be a big fight. He has a title. He is my friend but in the ring we won’t be friends. We can be friends again after. I hope that the fight can be possi-ble in the future,” Gradovich was quoted by BoxingScene.

With a record of 20-1-1, he returned from his first career

defeat with a split decision vic-tory over Aldimar Santos. In May he lost his IBF title via technical decision to Lee Selby. He will return to the ring on January 9, 2016 with an opponent still to be determined in Valencia, Spain.

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is also eyeing a possible fight with the Ukraine-born fighter Vasyl Lomachenko, who carries the WBO world feather-weight crown. He was an Olym-pic gold medalist in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012.

On June 22, 2014, Lo-machenko defeated Gary Rus-sell, Jr. via twelve round majority decision to win the vacant WBO featherweight title. In doing so he equaled the feat of Saensak Muangsurin of Thailand as the fastest fighter to win a world ti-tle in just his third professional

bout. He already successfully defended his crown three times.

But right after his victory in the Fight of the Year candi-date over Mexican Cesar Juarez, Donaire wanted to give him a rematch. “I will definitely give him a rematch,” said Donaire as quoted by spin.ph. “I’m not tak-ing anything away from him.”

A second encounter with Juarez will surely be a block-buster. The Mexico City native was not satisfied at how the judges scored the fight. And a lot of experts scored it closer for Donaire.

Another boxer being con-sidered was his last tormentor Nicholas Walters. On October 18, 2014, Donaire lost in the first defense of his WBA (Super) featherweight championship against the undefeated Jamai-can, the WBA (Regular) feather-

weight champion. “I wanna make the [Walters]

fight happen, but I’m not gonna be foolish enough to go up two weight classes or a weight class, where I know the experiences I’ve had in the past have led me to making the right decisions. I’m willing to fight anybody, but it has to be in a fair atmosphere,” he was quoted by BoxingScene.

The Filipino Flash has learned his lesson. He should not be complacent in training. After he won the Fighter of the Year Award 2012 in practical-ly all sports awarding bodies, his attitude towards hard work changed. It cost him his title and reputation.

Now he is back at the helm of the junior featherweight di-vision. He must choose proper-ly his next foe. And should not commit the same mistake.

RUPIA Inck and Bea Tan re-covered from a set down to beat Alexa Micek and

Charo Soriano, 17-21, 24-22, 15-12, in the finals of the Beach Volleyball Republic Christmas Open at the Sands SM by the Bay on Sunday.

Inck, a beach volleyball first-timer, was happy to come back home to Brazil with a title after winning a thrilling match played under clear sky for a change after a rain-hit elimina-tion round.

“It’s just so good. This is just so crazy. This is just my first beach volleyball tournament ever. I always play for fun and I always dreamed of being a beach volleyball player. It feels really, really good,” she said.

Inck and Tan handed them-selves an early Christmas pres-ent after they won the grand prize of P100,000.

Inck and Tan stormed to a 6-1 lead in the third set but So-

riano shook off cramps on her left leg to bring her team with-in 12-14 before Inck scored the winning point.

Meanwhile, Bang Pineda and Janine Marciano settled for third place after they bested Maica Morada and April Hing-pit, 21-15, 21-8. They pocketed P15,000.

Micek and Soriano, who topped Group A, clinched the first championship berth after making quick work of Maica Morada and April Hingpit, 23-21, 21-15 while Inck and Tan ended the win streak of Group B top seeds Pineda and Marciano, 21-11, 21-17, in the Final Four.

The tandem of Soriano and Micek and the pair of Inck and Tan finished the eliminations with identical 3-1 win-loss cards.

Pineda and Marciano swept the 4-game elims capped by a 21-13, 21-15 demolition of Hingpit and Morada.

MILWAUKEE Bucks coach Jason Kidd is taking an in-definite leave to have hip

surgery.Assistant coach Joe Prunty

will direct the team in Kidd’s absence, general manager John Hammond said on Sunday night (Monday, Manila time) after the Bucks’ 101-95 victory over the Phoenix Suns.

“I tried to put off surgery for as long as I could, but after consulting with my doctor, he advised that the best course of action was to have the procedure now,” Kidd said in statement re-leased by the team.

The Bucks are 11-18 this season and 52-59 in two seasons

under Kidd.Prunty has 20 years of NBA

coaching experience, including three under Kidd. He served as an assistant during Kidd’s one season coaching the Brooklyn Nets and has been with Kidd in Milwaukee the past two seasons. Prunty also is the head coach of Britain’s national team.

“I have every confidence in Joe to lead our team during my absence,” Kidd said. “Joe has many years of coaching expe-rience both in the NBA and in international competition. He’s well-respected in the league and I know our players and coaches will give their all during Joe’s time as head coach.”

BLOW BY BLOW. Blow by Blow Reloaded TV producer-commentator Manny Pinol (2nd from left) interviews undefeated flyweight Genesis Libranza after he scored a 2nd round TKO win over Renerio Arizala last Dec. 19 at the Panabo covered court. With them are promoter Lito Mondejar (extreme left) and MP Davao Stable trainer Nonoy Neri. (Photo by LDR)

WINNING POSE. The finalists pose at the end of a well-fought match.

Donaire’s possible foes in 2016 bared Beach volleyball first-timer Rupia Inck combines with Bea Tan to win BVR Open

Kidd tales indefinite leave

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CH R I S T O P H E R “Bong” Go scored 45 points and vice

presidential aspirant Sen-ator Alan Peter Cayetano added 29 to lead the City Mayors Office to a 100 – 96 come from behind vic-tory over PNPA Officers in Game 4 of their bas-ketball friendly series at the Davao City Recreation Center Almendras Gym on Friday.

Go, the trusted-aide of presidential contender Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, once again put up a famil-iar shooting clinic to keep the City Hall dribblers un-defeated in four outings.

The sweet-shooting guard knocked down nine 3-pointers that came from different angles where he shot in a pull-up transi-tion, catch and shoot and off the dribble.

“It was a shooting clin-ic. We just watched and marveled his shooting accuracy, “ said teammate Michael Peloton.

Policeman Daniel Pu-meca top scored for the PNPA with 17 points. Fire-men Alex Pamaybay and Randolf Arbutante had 14 and 11 points respectively.

PNPA put up a gallant fight against the CMO which was playing badly in the early going in the match with Go missing target.

Behind its fluid game marked with great ball movement, the PNPA was leading the entire first half and looking pretty good to score its first win in the friendly series.

But CMO unleashed a flurry of baskets in the second half behind Go, who went supernova, as the City Hall dribblers back in the game.

Go found his touch and accurately gauge his shot that led to a variety of long distance bombs.

Cayetano and Joel Ab-erilla joined the fray in the final period to help CMO’s late game spurt that shut the light out for the PNPA.

Aberilla chipped in 15 baskets for the CMO which is drawing consis-tent contribution from Cayetano in the series.

Cayetano scored 16 points in CMO’s 86- 76 Game 3 victory that went good enough to backstop Go’s 37 points output. (Rico Biliran)

HOT STREAKGo fires 45 in come-from-behind win over PNPA

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