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RabiesdeathsalarmhealthofficialsKIDAPAWAN City––The City Veterinarian Office (CVO) here has expressed alarm over the recent death of a villager due to rabies. Reports reaching the office said another villagerin Barangay Balindog here also died of the virus. Samson Dayanan, 49, died last week of rabies, data from the City Health Office said. Dayanan, according to his wife Malou, was beaten by one of their puppies some-time in March this year. The puppy died the next day, the wife said. But her husband just shrugged his shoulders when told the dog might be rabid and that it might kill him. Last week, Malou said, her husband experienced fever, numbness, discomfort, and paralysis. Later, her husband had hallucinations and became hydrophobic. When reports about Dayanan’s death reached

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Manhunt against Novostore owner launched

By CRIS DIAZAssociate Editor

BUTUAN City–– Police this week launched a man-hunt on owners of the ill-fated Novo Jeans and Shirts En-terprise razed by a fire last May 9 killing 17 stay-in sales per-son trapped inside the building. Most of the victims came from the provinces of Zam-boanga del Sur, Bukidnon, Misamis Occidental, Agusan and Surigao, and the cities of Dipolog, Ozamis and Zamboanga. Interior Secretary Jes-se Robredo on Saturday gave the local police un-til Wednesday to submit official report on result of the investigation and whereabouts of the real

BUSY WITH THE ARRESTThis member of the Roads and Traffic Administration (RTA) is busy arresting motorcycle riders wearing no helmet along Claro M. Recto fly-over but motorists are asking who are in-charge of the monstrous traffic jam from Barangay Lapasan down to Licoan junction. Photo by Shaun Alejandre Uy

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1 killed, 16 hurt in car accidentBUTUAN City––A septuage-narian passenger of a 10-wheel truck was killed and 16 others were injured when the vehicle fell from an elevated road in Purok 1, Barangay Dulag here Friday. Killed was Apolinario Palingkod, a widower and

resident of Purok 26, San Roque, Barangay Tungao here. Truck driver Tiburcio Esyum Patac, 59, told police he lost control of the vehicle when its brakes malfunc-tioned. Th e 10-wheeler fell from the elevated concrete road, he said.

Th e victims were rushed to the Butuan City Medical Center in Barangay Tiniwisan, police said. Th e fatality’s remains were brought to Raniel Funeral Parlor. Patac and his truck are now in the custody of the local police.

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Police Regional Office (PRO)-13 information of-ficer said, “police officers must not only serve as protectors of the public to uphold peace and security in the community. They should also serve as pro-moters of healthy lifestyle in the community.” P/Supt. Gamba said

MOA SIGNING – Dr. Rosalito Quirino (right), president of the Misamis Oriental School of Ag-riculture and Technology (MOSCAT) hands over to DAR-10 Regional Director Felix Aguhob the signed Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) at the conclusion of the ceremony held at the school campus in Claveria, Misamis Oriental recently. The agreement covers the DAR-MOSCAT joint economic program in the area. Party-list Rep. Maximo Rodriguez (left) of Abante Mindanao witnesses the event. (Photo by ERS)

Caraga police advocates for healthy lifestyleBy ROBERT E. ROPEROS

BUTUAN City - Aside from ensuring public safety, po-lice officers in Caraga Re-gion is advocating for a healthy lifestyle. P/Supt Martin Gamba,

the general public, as well, should know the importance of living a healthy lifestyle by getting involved in exercises, sports, and even “fun run” for which the Philippine National Police (PNP) is regularly conducting. He added if the com-munity is healthy, then people are also active and

will always be alert for any circumstances that threaten peace and security. “In this way, the public will also have the capacity to defend themselves from any criminals because they are active and alert,” he said. For the part of the po-lice, Gamba said if they are in good shape, they will be more productive as they can really implement security measures against criminals, “thus, ensuring public safety.” Early this year, PRO-13 conducted the “Tak-bong Maharlika, Tungo sa Pagkakaisa,” aimed to encourage and urge PNP personnel and citizens in the region to take on the fitness project and exercise a national culture of fitness, leading to the vision of a healthier Philippines.(RER/PIA-Caraga/asf )

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Think a minute… How’s your eyesight and vision? A famous blind woman once said: “It’s bet-ter to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and not see yourself as you truly are.” As the well-known saying goes, “No one is as blind as those who will not see.” A fa-mous philosopher said that one of the most important priorities in life is to ‘know thyself ’, because when we’re blind to ourselves, we be-lieve that our way is always right. Like the husband who said: “When I married her I knew she was Miss Right, but I didn’t know her first name was Always!” Many of us are like that wife. We think we see ev-eryone else so clearly, but what about ourselves? We can’t see what we need to correct and change in our

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own character, so we never reach our potential and live our life to the fullest. We handle our marriage and other relationships, raise our children, and go through life never seeing ourselves as we really are. So we de-velop wrong thinking and bad attitudes that hurt our family members and others. Sometimes we might even believe the lie that we cannot change because that’s just the kind of person we’ll always be. But our blindness, and sometimes pride, doesn’t

really want to see and admit our faults. We might we even blame others for our problems and personality. You see, until we hon-estly admit that we don’t have a healthy character, we’ll never know we need a doctor to get healed. We need someone else with perfect, clear vision to show us what we don’t see in our-selves. Jesus Christ came to do that for us. He will start changing your heart and help you to humbly admit when you’re wrong. He’ll

show you how to better treat your wife or husband and children. He’ll give you an attitude and heart that easily forgives those people who wrong and hurt you. He’ll give you the strength to always be honest, no matter how much you can get away with. Jesus will also help you not be quick to see faults in others or gossip about them. So today, if you’ll ask Jesus to forgive you of your pride and blindness to your own faults; and ask Him to start healing and changing your heart, He will. Then, as you start living His way every day, you will start to see yourself becoming a new person who can reach your full potential. That’s the only way you can have the successful, satisfying life Jesus created you to enjoy. Just Think a Minute…

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IN many regions of the world, airports are being renovated with a grow-ing number of air travelers demanding more pleas-ant environment including green comfort rooms, a variety of restaurants, gift shops, currency exchange counters, automated bank teller machines and a hotel located within a walking distance from the terminal. Airports should not have any dysfunction. These are show windows of a destina-tion aside from an economic indicator of the prospect of attracting tourists and inves-tors. Much more, airports have to be friendly and peaceful. Of course, brawls and fracas should never be allowed to happen as it is disgusting to the sensi-bilities of the other foreign nationals and traumatic for travelling children. Airport hotels are part of the convenience of travel. It may have varying policies

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I had the opportunity to join a group tour to the famous Pagsanjan falls of Laguna over the weekend. To be honest, this is not my first choice as a tourist for three reasons. One, I don’t know how to swim. Two, I’m afraid of the water. And

three, it was a long trip by van. (I’m one of those who think it’s more glamourous to fly.) The group I was traveling with were business partners who came over to the Philippines for an event. The 2.5-hour drive left us with knees bent stiff in a van. (The falls were worth it.) When we arrived at the resort, we were served lunch amidst the fishy scent of the river. If you have a sensitive

nose, you would feel sick. Then we changed clothes at a nearby locker, rustic with its unfinished yet ce-mented walls. We were then fitted with a life vest and a helmet, and then supplied with plastic bags for our cameras and another small transparent ziplock bag with a P50.00 bill neatly folded inside. Our travel agent told us it was mandatory to tip the boatmen after the

two-hour trip to the falls. The arrangement was there will be two boatmen per boat, one in the front and the other in the rear. Two guests are seated in the middle like in a kayak, the first will hold on to a steel bar in front and the second will hold on to the arms or waist of the first. It was very dangerous to hold on to the side of the boat, as the sides will make contact with the huge boulders and rocks in the river, and may result in deep wounds or fingers sliced off. As we charged down the steps leading to the boats, I, being the only Filipino in the group, was addressed by the boatmen to add one more person to

on whom to serve, either exclusive to guests staying overnight or those availing day rates? Many airport ho-tels in Metro Manila during the early 90’s were serving airline lay-over passengers who were either bumped off from their flights due to reservations snafu or cancel-lation of flights as a result of unfavorable weather. Sometimes travelers under force majeure are left at their own looking for a nearby hotel for ac-commodation. There are airport stresses caused by technical problems arising from flight delays when air-planes suddenly developed

mechanical trouble and there is no immediate air-craft replacement. Airport hotels are necessities but could also become diminish-ing returns ventures unless revenues are enhanced by selling services to travelers regardless of whether they book a room for a night or develop other leisure prod-ucts like Spa, health clubs and gambling casinos for business synergies. In places where gam-bling license are issued, airport hotels branch out into gambling casinos as a come on for travelers relax-ation while waiting for their flights. Theme restaurants

also become fashionable when someone seeking a break from airport food could walk over for a meal and enjoy a more tranquil atmosphere. Waterfront Hotel along the Mactan International Airport in Cebu located just across the terminal is the only surviving airport hotel outside of Metro Ma-nila. It is afloat because of a Casino. The first 5-star airport hotel in the late 70’s built in Manila at the former Manila International Airport, the Philippine Vil-lage Airport Hotel has long closed shop in the year 2000 and the building has been mothballed for the last 12 years for lack of investors to undertake its renova-tions. The hotel has made its mark as an airport hotel and casino and has seen the best during the Marcos era. At the NAIA 3, along Pasay City, a new airport

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It’s a dream that comes true for the beneficiaries of Surigao del Sur Police Cooperative (SURPOCO) who now receives the initial release of funds from Pag-IBIG amounting to 6.48 M for the payment of the land the association intends to develop for their housing needs. The cooperative has a total approved GLAD loan of 12.248 M with Pag-IBIG Fund. In a simple gathering at the Jin’s Restaurant in Tandag City, a symbolic turn-over of fund was held

In the grueling summer heat, Butuan Branch Membership Task Force brave the pierc-ing heat of the sun on their active campaign regarding the mandatory member-ship coverage of RA 9679 or known as the Pag-IBIG law of 2010. The Task Force was spearheaded by the Chief of Division of Marketing & Housing Loan in the person of Engr. Noly Quimbo. The focus of the campaign is to register unregistered employers with Pag-IBIG especially those covered by RA 9679. Likewise, those private employers who did

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not remit the member-ship contributions of their workers and those who failed to deduct contribu-tions from their workers are enforced by Pag-IBIG to follow the mandates of the new law. In line with the enforce-ment campaign, Pag-IBIG Fund is also offering a Penalty Condonation to the employers who would manifest intention to reg-ister with the Fund and remit the contributions in arrears that are due to their workers. This Penalty Condonation Program of Pag-IBIG took effect last

January 2012 and will soon expire on June 30, 2012. Engr. Quimbo iterates that delinquent employers should avail of this Penalty Condonation Program in order not to be compro-mised with cases in court that will be filed against them by Pag-IBIG. In similar development, Pag-IBIG is also offer-ing a Loan Restructuring Program to delinquent Pag-IBIG housing loan borrowers. This program is another avenue offered by the Fund to its delinquent borrowers to update their housing account. Notices are being served personally to the borrowers. They are encourage to avail of the program least, they will be facing foreclosure proceed-ings in court if they will not give due importance on the enforcement campaign of the Fund.

Pag-IBIG Fund Released 6.48 M to SURPOCO’s GLAD project

in order to formally wit-ness the start of the GLAD obligations by the associa-tion. The take-off ceremony was officially graced by Mr. Generoso H. Balacuit, Department Manager III of Butuan Branch, who personally brief the benefi-ciaries and the association officials regarding their role and obligations to Pag-IBIG relative to the grant of the loan. Likewise, present in the occasion is the con-tracted Davao-based de-veloper by the cooperative who promised to effectively

start the development of the area on the third week of May 2012. On the part of SUR-POCO, General Manager Jiji Irong had assured Pag-IBIG and its beneficiaries to double-time its effort in complying all the needed requirements in order to fast track the early accom-plishment of their project. Manager Irong stressed that there are still wait-listed members of the association that are most willing to avail of the same program of Pag-IBIG.

IPONAN Elementary School (IES) may have suffered from much devastation due to the flooding brought by Typhoon Sendong, but the support and blessings from various institutions and individuals have been enormously pouring-in. Such a collective gesture of generosity has tremendously strengthened – among others – the school’s feeding program, as it became one of the lucky recipients of the “Emergency School Feeding Program ” of the United Nations – World Food Programme, CFSLI and the UNICEF. Weeks after the typhoon struck Cagayan de Oro, sacks of rice and mongo, and gallons of palm oil were delivered to the school. The General Parents Teachers and Community Association (GPTCA) has been mobilized in the distribution and monitor-ing of supplies, with the Home Room PTAs taking charge of the daily preparation of food, like ginataang monggo with dilis, vegetables, meat, mongo pattie, mongo lumpia, champorado, arozcaldo and benignit, among others. On the other hand, the UNICEF provided the cooking facili-ties, such as stoves and LPG tanks; utensils, like cups, saucers, spoons and fork. The teachers provide the list of daily recipients and volunteer parents, as well as the menu. The feeding activity is closely monitored by CFSLI person-nel, who regularly visit the school. The rice supply is enough to last until the end of the school year. It can be noted that the IES feeding program has created a big impact on the school, parents and pupils. Right after the flooding only a few pupils reported to school. However, at the outset of the program, those gravely affected by the calamity – particularly those who lost their houses – are encouraged to come to school regularly. The effort of the GPTCA is also commendable. Its officers themselves played a vital role in sustaining and in making sure that the program will succeed. Teachers readily fill-in what has been lacking, utilizing their very own pockets, so as the children can eat well on time. The program has kept the spirit of cooperation and volun-teerism alive in Iponan Elementary School.

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TACURONG City––The National Bureau of Inves-tigation (NBI) in Central Mindanao Friday busted an illegal recruitment syndicate that prey on young girls in Koronadal City and nearby municipalities.

NBI-12 agent Timotheo Rijano identified the sus-pected illegal recruiter as Mary Linao, 38 years old and resident of Tacurong City.

Agents processing the release of NBI clearance became suspicious of Linao, who facilitated the acquisi-tion of NBI clearance for 16 minor women she recruited from Shariff Aguak, Magu-indanao.

Rijano told reporters that entries to the birth certificates of 16 minors have errors and deficiencies that led them to believed they were fake.

Linao admitted that in-deed the certificates were manufactured.

An applicant for NBI clearance needs to submit copies of his or her birth certificate from the National Statistics Office and in se-curity paper (secpa) form.

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minors for MEfake and manufactured. Linao later admitted that the girls were for deployment to the Middle East, particularly in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and nearby coun-tries through a recruitment agency based in Manila.

She could not say wheth-er her agency in Manila was legitimate or not since she was only dealing with another woman working in the said agency.

The “rescued” minors are now under the custody of the Department of Social Welfare and Development and DSWD-12 is now co-ordinating with the DSWD in Maguindanao. The NBI turned over Linao to the local police for filing of appropriate charges.

NBI-12 has issued advi-sories to parents in far flung areas to be extra careful with recruiters who promised decent job opportunities overseas to avoid having their children landing as slaves in foreign lands.

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houses continues, “We are expecting 251 more house-holds to be settled in the following weeks,” said Iris Montellano, Ecoville Camp Manager. The transfer of families will finish by June. And, in 8 months, a chapel, community center and about 500 permanent houses for the relocatees are expected to stand on the 5.3 hectare Ecoville. While waiting for the Ecoville's completion, re-locatees are undergoing livelihood training. Outside bunkhouses, some house-holds are already planting vegetables for selling and consumption. As of March, a cooperative is already taking its advent as the relocatees and livelihood facilitators are raising mem-bership and funds to meet the requirements for the coop's legislation. A small stall containing food and other products serves as the consumer cooperative's store and base. “Those who are skilled in cooking and crafts are encouraged to display their products in the stall,” said Christine Torvillo, Xavier Ecoville Livelihood Facili-tator. This endeavor, as soon as it fulfills the legal requirements, will soon become the Xavier Ecoville Beneficiary Multipurpose Cooperative, a cooperative for the Ecoville inhabitants. Elle Lour, a former baker and cooperative member, wishes to raise capital for starting a bakery. “Kung naanakoygamitngainsakto, magsugodnakougbaliksa-panginabuhiparamakapond-arkosaakongpamilya,” (If

Building Homes, Rebuilding LivesBy GAPS SABUERO

CAGAYAN de Oro City - It was another day for the relocates, as they went through their day-to-day lives in their temporary bunkhouses. Relief has prevailed their eyes, as they are now settled in the Xavier Ecoville at Barangay Lumbia, Cagayan de Oro. It was not so long ago when they were living in, now, their displaced homes. Fathers worked to earn a living; mothers tended their family's needs; children went to school. They were living a life they were accustomed to. Little did they know that overnight, they would witness the flood taking everything away from them. Upon the height of the tragedy, most of the families watched over their proper-ties drowning in the mud-dy waters – on their roofs counting every piece of furniture, appliances, books and every investment they made with their livelihood drifting away. Some were lucky to rush to safety dur-ing the advent of the flood. But, all of them stayed in different evacuation centers for weeks with no sense of their lives' direction. It was during the end of February 2012 that a total of 249 households were already transferred to the Ecoville. DSWD's comprehensive list helped the Xavier Ecoville identify the families who lived in no-build zones and had their homes washed out. Families as such were draft ed to live in the Ecoville. As the construction of more temporary bunk-

only I have enough ma-terials, I could start again having a livelihood to have an income for my family), says Elle. He is one of the many who wish to continue to strive despite the fl ood due to typhoon Sendong disrupting their lives. Also one of such is Vi-cente Ruiz, a security guard at Xavier University. A week aft er the fl ood, having en-sured his family's condition and replacing his uniform that got lost in the fl ood, Vicente went back to work – guarding the school gate as the relief operations were going on. Charita, his wife, directly tended to the fam-ily. During the course of their transfers from Xavier University covered court to Manresa then to Ecoville, his children, Rose Cherry, a development communica-tion student in the university and her brothers continued going to school. Vicente, Elle and all relo-

catees living in the Ecoville are moving on and having a new start in their new found community. Th is takes them a leap further from the tragic past and a step closer to a better future. “We call it community building in the real sense of the words because these families coming from diff er-ent places and diff erent walks of life are being brought together,” says Montellano. “Physically, we are bringing them together to their new homes but in thought they are also brought to new lives,” she added. Xavier Ecoville, carry-ing the principles of en-vironmentalism, with the cumulative eff orts of Xavier University, Habitat for Hu-manity Philippines, LGUs and other stakeholders are building this new commu-nity of renewed people. Defi nitely, the eff ort is not only building homes but also rebuilding lives. (XU)

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Quiamjot...from page 4

and make it three. Appar-ently this will result in more income for them. However, our agent firmly said no and so I was off with my boat partner with no additional third person. We were first tugged down the river in a convoy by a motor boat. The river was very wide and reminded me of the Mekong. There were no fish and the water was brown because it rained the previous night. (Some-times the water is blue, said the boatmen.) Coconut trees and lush greenery covered the banks and stretched up to the mountains on either side of the river. Every now and then we would come across boats parked up-side down at the banks, or women washing clothes. Since it was summer, there were also children playing in the river. They all waved at us as our convoy of 5 boats passed through them. We all waved back and smiled. The motor boat dropped us off the mouth of the Pagsanjan falls were the boatmen’s hard manual labor were to begin. The boatmen assigned to me incessantly told me of their hard work and asked for “dagdag” or additional money. Not that I’m belittling it, but it irri-tated me a little bit. I told them early we were gonna

Suguitan...from page 4

hotel owned by Alliance Global operated by Mar-riot of the US international chain of hotel is given a run of their money against a sister company competi-tor Maxim’s which has a Resorts World casino and a huge theater for the per-forming arts. Maxim’s is a full service hotel suite with butler’s service. A new concept in luxury hotel ac-commodations. In the near future, luxury hotels will be defined with full butler’s service. With uniform staff doubling as personal assistant to take care of meal arrangements, laundry and even setting up appointments for business meetings. Among the new properties coming up in the Makati Central Business District, Raffles Suites a joint venture of the Ayala Land and Kingdom Hotels of Saudi Arabia will be a dream come true when every hotel guests are treated in a spacious suites like royalties. Hotel accommodations are going over from the neces-sity among travelers into a standard of measurement among the rich and famous. It has become a status sym-bol when one stays at a hotel carrying the international brand of Radisson Blue, Shangri-La or Sofitel. Many among these brands are now in Mindanao, debuting in Davao City in the next 36 months. The possibility of Cagay-an de Oro as a magnet for international hotel manage-ment companies to operate locally owned properties will be a new dawn in the hospi-tality industry in Northern Mindanao. It could be a good direction to uplift the competitive standard of services that we lack against the other big Asian cities and improve our share of visitors’ arrivals with a marketing penetration in the international tourist market. Government through the Department of Tourism recently gives us an update during the ADB Board of Governors meeting of the 1st quarter foreign visitor’s arrivals to have hit 1.148 million or on-tract with the 4.6 million full year forecast for 2012. It was higher by 16.03% more than the 989,501 arrivals recorded in the same period last year. Internationally rated airports are attractions for hotel investments. Returns of investments for tourism infrastructure projects are easily projected to recoup basing on the airline capaci-ties and flight frequencies

tip them but they kept tell-ing me that of the P1,000 fee per person, only P200 go to them. They also told me that since there are over 2000 boatmen, they only get to work once a week due to rotation. As the boatmen paddled with their feet against the rocks and carried our boats up and down the stream, numerous beautiful sights met us. There were black dragonflies who, when they start flitting about, revealed sparkling blue-green wings. They looked like jewels against the black rocks and brown water, and yes, they were sparkling. Water spewed every now and then from the rocky mountain walls up above. The temperature was very cool since the rapids were bordered on both sides by mountains. In the middle of the trip, there was a store selling grilled chicken and Coke in cans. At the end, there was the famed (but to me very scary) Pagsan-jan falls. Tourists sat on a bamboo raft and held on to ropes as a guide pulled the raft into and out of the falls. As we approached the falls, my breath started to come in rapid short rasps and I had to close my eyes as the very strong current drenched us from head to toe. (That’s what the hel-met was for!) Behind the falls was a small dark cave and from there you can see where you came from amidst a curtain of water. (Quite frankly I was so afraid I was gonna have a heart attack! But I conquered my fear and also, now I got a runny nose from the cold water.) But going back to the forced tipping, this is prob-ably a complaint of not one

but many tourists who have been there before. During the river cruise, there were huge signs by the mayor or another public servant posting hotlines for those who were being forced to tip. So we have the factor of boatmen who feel that they deserve to get more than just P100 per trip and more than just one work day per week. And we have the other factor of irritated tourists from whom the boatmen beg for additional tips. So why don’t the pub-lic and private sectors just join hands and agree on an across the board increase of say P300 cut per boatman per trip for all that manual labor that they have to do? I think tourists will pay for the increase for that kind of adventure (why be a tourist when you aren’t willing to pay for it?) and I think the boatmen will stop whining about their small wages. They do deserve it. Email sara.suguitan@gmail.com

owners of the garment and merchandized department store. Lawyer Oliver Yuan, appearing as Novo’s legal counsel in many instances, told media that Novo was owned by mainland Chinese and Taiwanese. Parents and relatives of the victims who had a dialogue with Robredo complained that owners of Novo promised each of them P25,000 cash assistance but did not assist them on their needs while in Butuan City. ‘The local government provides us meals and ac-commodation while we are waiting schedules to bring the cadavers back to our homes,’ relatives told Robredo. They said they could not bring their cadavers home since the Bollozos and Ran-iel Funeral Parlors allegedly Alarm...

from page 1the City Health Office and City Veterinarian Office, they immediately went to the victim’s place and gave the family doses of anti-rabies vaccine.They are still verifying re-ports that another resident of Barangay Balindog here died of rabies virus. Doctors at the hospital where Dayanan was treated and died eventually told the public to be extra cautious of dog bites as the animal might be a carrier of rabies virus. Rabies, they said, is a preventable disease that occurs in animals and at-tacks the brain, which might

cause severe inflammation or encephalitis and death. WIRE REPORTS

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charged P50,000 for each of the cadaver. ‘How could we redeem our cadaver when the Novo management gave us only P25,000,’ parents and relatives complained. They said Novo’s legal counsel even advised them to just go home and wait for the cadaver since the management will take care of sending these cadavers to their respective destinations. Parents and relatives asked the interior secretary to order the Bureau of Im-migration to issue a hold departure order to owners of Novo. However, Robredo said, a hold order departure order can only be issued should a case be filed in court against suspected Novo store own-ers believed to be Chinese and Taiwanese nationals. Robredo said that the Caraga Regional Philip-pine National Police has already alerted the entire Metro Manila police to arrest suspected Novo own-ers believed to be still in Manila.

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS TRAINING - A member of the Lanao del Norte Provincial Emergency Re-sponse Team (PERT) demonstrates the proper way of armslinging. This, during the two-day Disaster Preparedness training at the Mindanao Civic Center (MCC) complex, Tubod town. (PIO-LDN)

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