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Sunday, October 16, 2022
Friday, July 8, 2022
Construction of Samal-Davao bridge to start soon
SAMAL ISLAND– The P23-billion bridge connecting Davao del Norte’s the Island Garden City of Samal to Davao City is set to begin, according to Philippine government officials.
Sunday, July 25, 2021
Barangay, nadale ng diarrhea
NORTH COTABATO – Nagbabala ang mga health experts sa publiko na pakuluaan ang kanilang mga tubig upang masigurong ligtas ito sa anumang bacteria matapos na 2 katao ang nasawi at maraming iba ang tinamaan ng diarrhea sa bayan ng Santo Tomas sa Davao del Norte kamakailan lamang.
Sunday, August 2, 2020
Zamboanga bans pork from Luzon, Mindanao provinces
ZAMBOANGA CITY has banned the entry of pork from Luzon and many provinces in Mindanao where there are reported cases of the African swine fever or ASF.
Friday, December 7, 2018
DepEd denies ordering closure of any Lumad school
THE DEPARTMENT of Education (DepEd) has strongly denied ordering the closure of any school serving indigenous peoples (IP) learners.
In a statement, DepEd said DepEd 11 (Davao Region) reported the closure of the Salugpungan Ta’ Tanu Igkanon Community Learning Center, Inc was a community decision supported by a resolution issued by the IP community council in Talaingod, Davao.
"Salugpungan Ta’ Tanu Igkanon Community Learning Center, Inc. is one of the three groups of private learning institutions operating in the region that have been granted permit to operate in 2014," the statement read.
The DepEd issued the statement following the recent claim that a Salugpungan learning center in Region 11 was closed “upon the orders of the Education department.”
To date, there are 73 private learning institutions in the region with most of the learning centers found in Davao del Norte.
DepEd also clarified that "permit to operate” refers to temporary authority to operate granted by the department to a private learning institution and is granted to an applicant still in the process of completing the requirements for full recognition.
"Recognition” refers to the granting of authority to operate by DepEd to a private learning institution after submission of application requirements, and its consequent approval following the application procedure provided in the agency's guidelines.
DepEd Davao Del Norte chief Josephine Fadul said the Salugpungan schools are recognized by DepEd, adding that the permit to operate was issued by then DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro after complying with the requirements and having a curriculum tailor-fit for IP learners.
DepEd said it supports the Indigenous Peoples Education initiatives as stated in DepEd Order Number 21 series 2014 or the Guidelines on the Recognition of Private Learning Institutions Serving Indigenous Peoples Learners. "It is in the belief and confidence in the role of and partnership with private institutions and community stakeholders that the Department consistently underscores the importance for these learning institutions to secure recognition and permit to operate from their respective DepEd regional office," it said.
DepEd added it encourages IP learning centers to apply for recognition to assure that their learners’ grade level are recognized in the event that a learner transfers or enrolls in a public school or a recognized private learning institution. To ensure the safety and security of the IP learners, DepEd said it continues with its dialogues with communities and concerned stakeholders.
"DepEd puts a premium on the process of dialogue as it has been one of the core foundations of our work with IP communities. It takes succeeding steps guided by the commitment to arrive at decisions that are in the best interest of the IP learners’ education," the statement read. (Maria Teresa Montemayor)
In a statement, DepEd said DepEd 11 (Davao Region) reported the closure of the Salugpungan Ta’ Tanu Igkanon Community Learning Center, Inc was a community decision supported by a resolution issued by the IP community council in Talaingod, Davao.
"Salugpungan Ta’ Tanu Igkanon Community Learning Center, Inc. is one of the three groups of private learning institutions operating in the region that have been granted permit to operate in 2014," the statement read.
The DepEd issued the statement following the recent claim that a Salugpungan learning center in Region 11 was closed “upon the orders of the Education department.”
To date, there are 73 private learning institutions in the region with most of the learning centers found in Davao del Norte.
DepEd also clarified that "permit to operate” refers to temporary authority to operate granted by the department to a private learning institution and is granted to an applicant still in the process of completing the requirements for full recognition.
"Recognition” refers to the granting of authority to operate by DepEd to a private learning institution after submission of application requirements, and its consequent approval following the application procedure provided in the agency's guidelines.
DepEd Davao Del Norte chief Josephine Fadul said the Salugpungan schools are recognized by DepEd, adding that the permit to operate was issued by then DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro after complying with the requirements and having a curriculum tailor-fit for IP learners.
DepEd said it supports the Indigenous Peoples Education initiatives as stated in DepEd Order Number 21 series 2014 or the Guidelines on the Recognition of Private Learning Institutions Serving Indigenous Peoples Learners. "It is in the belief and confidence in the role of and partnership with private institutions and community stakeholders that the Department consistently underscores the importance for these learning institutions to secure recognition and permit to operate from their respective DepEd regional office," it said.
DepEd added it encourages IP learning centers to apply for recognition to assure that their learners’ grade level are recognized in the event that a learner transfers or enrolls in a public school or a recognized private learning institution. To ensure the safety and security of the IP learners, DepEd said it continues with its dialogues with communities and concerned stakeholders.
"DepEd puts a premium on the process of dialogue as it has been one of the core foundations of our work with IP communities. It takes succeeding steps guided by the commitment to arrive at decisions that are in the best interest of the IP learners’ education," the statement read. (Maria Teresa Montemayor)
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018
OPINION: Adventurism in Talaingod town by Jun Ledesma
THIS HINTERLAND town is home to gentle and peaceful indigenous tribe – Talaingod. The local and the provincial government have seen to it that their culture and traditions are preserved. Even the curriculum of their education dovetails with these as observed in the Davao del Norte State College- Datu Jose Libayao extension school. The Salugpongan community school supported by the leftist organizations does something else. Something extremely radical is happening in the school reviving that adventurism in the 1960s when cell meetings and teach-ins are covertly conducted with the Red Book as the bible alongside the lessons of dialectic materialism.
We were told by Gov. Anthony del Rosario that Salugpongan had been taken over by leftist elements and took advantage of the frailties of the innocence of the children of the indigenous peoples. The tribal council had since then demanded for the closure of the school as this has become a veritable ground to pursue the communist ideology and training ground for child-armed revolutionaries.
A number of armed encounters were reported in what was once a peaceful mountain town. Some of the tribal leaders were victims of atrocities. We always get conflicting reports. Communist partylists always beats military in propaganda and would blame the Armed Forces and their para-military units for the deaths of the lumads. Not because they have anything to do with the murder of tribal leaders but they would go through the process of investigation before coming out with their version of incidents. The military and police always are losers in propaganda warfare.
Take the case of the recent incident in Talaingod that hugged the front pages of newspapers and lead story in broadcast networks. There is an apparent attempt at discrediting the AFP even as Ka Satur Ocampo, President of Bayan Muna, and ACT Teacher Rep. France Castro were caught herding school children towards Salugpongan in an unholy hour. Teach-ins, we used to call this before ...or during Ka Satur’s time. This time however, the Red Book of Chairman Mao had become irrelevant considering how modern China has become the 2nd most advanced economy in the world, thus the ideologues of today would rather use video presentation and perverted versions of the national anthem to hypnotize the kids in their leftist adventurism.
Foreign Affairs Sec. Teddy Locsin must have thought that the time lapse when he and Ka Satur were in Congress together had withered his former colleague especially when he had gone through the torturous martial regime and, as the Secretary puts it, “we protected him against warrants of arrests”. Fine. But Locsin should realize that Satur is no longer in the halls of Congress or the streets in Manila where he can shout his slogans and incendiary speeches. This time, his friend Satur, refuses to believe that the China of his time is just a chapter in history and there is no time machine invented to bring them both together at least during their halcyon days in Congress. Satur got stuck in his utopia and he wants to resuscitate this moribund plot by inveigling the innocent tribesmen of Talaingod to embrace his cause.
The military this time caught Satur and his colleagues Red handed. The Lumads, worried about their missing children, denounced the leftist leaders that include a number of protestant pastors (?) for kidnapping their kids. Neither Governor del Rosario nor Mayor Libayao and the tribal chieftain were informed of the activity which the suspects intended to do in that unholy hour of the night when the children ought to be asleep amidst the soporific monotony of crickets chirps.
That they were there to rescue the children from military atrocity does not stand to reason. That to me, to borrow the word of Locsin, is bullshit. It is no secret however, that children and adults of the various indigenous tribes from Talaingod, in Davao del Norte, Agusan provinces and North Cotabato are pitiable spectacles whenever rallies are staged in Davao City. They bear placards that denounce government, dictatorship of whoever sits in Malacanang and the usual ‘imperyalistang Americano’. Young and innocent children, some barely in their teens bellows the banal slogans so worn out as their slippers, with eyes wide open as they stare at concrete edifices much taller than lawaan trees in their backyards.
But why do they hold rallies in Davao City. For one, in Duterte city they do not need permits to staged rallies. Moreover, they organizers love it here because Davao is not only the center of commerce and trade of the south, it is also the communication center. The demonstrators are covered live nationwide by TV and radio stations and their stories are carried by print media. Perfect outputs for pan-handling NGOs in their solicitation of funds from generous but ignorantly naive donor foundations in Europe, Canada and America.
Satur Ocampo and his comrades are surprisingly out on bail given the existence of martial law in Mindanao but they should absorb lessons from this experience in that commercialism and ideological adventurism don’t mix. (Jun Ledesma)
We were told by Gov. Anthony del Rosario that Salugpongan had been taken over by leftist elements and took advantage of the frailties of the innocence of the children of the indigenous peoples. The tribal council had since then demanded for the closure of the school as this has become a veritable ground to pursue the communist ideology and training ground for child-armed revolutionaries.
A number of armed encounters were reported in what was once a peaceful mountain town. Some of the tribal leaders were victims of atrocities. We always get conflicting reports. Communist partylists always beats military in propaganda and would blame the Armed Forces and their para-military units for the deaths of the lumads. Not because they have anything to do with the murder of tribal leaders but they would go through the process of investigation before coming out with their version of incidents. The military and police always are losers in propaganda warfare.
Take the case of the recent incident in Talaingod that hugged the front pages of newspapers and lead story in broadcast networks. There is an apparent attempt at discrediting the AFP even as Ka Satur Ocampo, President of Bayan Muna, and ACT Teacher Rep. France Castro were caught herding school children towards Salugpongan in an unholy hour. Teach-ins, we used to call this before ...or during Ka Satur’s time. This time however, the Red Book of Chairman Mao had become irrelevant considering how modern China has become the 2nd most advanced economy in the world, thus the ideologues of today would rather use video presentation and perverted versions of the national anthem to hypnotize the kids in their leftist adventurism.
Foreign Affairs Sec. Teddy Locsin must have thought that the time lapse when he and Ka Satur were in Congress together had withered his former colleague especially when he had gone through the torturous martial regime and, as the Secretary puts it, “we protected him against warrants of arrests”. Fine. But Locsin should realize that Satur is no longer in the halls of Congress or the streets in Manila where he can shout his slogans and incendiary speeches. This time, his friend Satur, refuses to believe that the China of his time is just a chapter in history and there is no time machine invented to bring them both together at least during their halcyon days in Congress. Satur got stuck in his utopia and he wants to resuscitate this moribund plot by inveigling the innocent tribesmen of Talaingod to embrace his cause.
The military this time caught Satur and his colleagues Red handed. The Lumads, worried about their missing children, denounced the leftist leaders that include a number of protestant pastors (?) for kidnapping their kids. Neither Governor del Rosario nor Mayor Libayao and the tribal chieftain were informed of the activity which the suspects intended to do in that unholy hour of the night when the children ought to be asleep amidst the soporific monotony of crickets chirps.
That they were there to rescue the children from military atrocity does not stand to reason. That to me, to borrow the word of Locsin, is bullshit. It is no secret however, that children and adults of the various indigenous tribes from Talaingod, in Davao del Norte, Agusan provinces and North Cotabato are pitiable spectacles whenever rallies are staged in Davao City. They bear placards that denounce government, dictatorship of whoever sits in Malacanang and the usual ‘imperyalistang Americano’. Young and innocent children, some barely in their teens bellows the banal slogans so worn out as their slippers, with eyes wide open as they stare at concrete edifices much taller than lawaan trees in their backyards.
But why do they hold rallies in Davao City. For one, in Duterte city they do not need permits to staged rallies. Moreover, they organizers love it here because Davao is not only the center of commerce and trade of the south, it is also the communication center. The demonstrators are covered live nationwide by TV and radio stations and their stories are carried by print media. Perfect outputs for pan-handling NGOs in their solicitation of funds from generous but ignorantly naive donor foundations in Europe, Canada and America.
Satur Ocampo and his comrades are surprisingly out on bail given the existence of martial law in Mindanao but they should absorb lessons from this experience in that commercialism and ideological adventurism don’t mix. (Jun Ledesma)
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Sunday, November 25, 2018
OPINYON: Sayo nga pagtan-aw sa politika sa Davao Norte ni Jun Ledesma
ANG GOBYERNO. Apan ang politika makamugna sab og grabe nga pagkabahin bisan sa mga suod nga higala nga moresulta sa away nga way pulos ug modaot sa ang-ang sa gobyerno nga ilang gidumala ug mobuak sa mga kabotantehan.
Mao kini ang dagway sa politika sa Davao del Norte. Sulod sa pipila ka dekada, kining maong probinsya, bantugan sa iyang industriya sa saging ug mga destinasyon nga pangturista, gibantog sab sa iyang kalinaw ug kahilom sa panahon sa eleksyon. Ang nanag-unang magpapatigayon, si Don Antonio Floirendo ug Jesus V. “Chito” Ayala, nag-amoma sa industriya sa saging nga ikaduha sa ranggo sa tibuok kalibutan. Managlahi sila og baruganan sa politika apan wala kini makababag sa ilang hiniusang pagpaningkamot sa pagkab-ot og tingusbawan sa probinsya.
Ningpanaw na ang duruha gikan sa kalibutan sa mga buhi. Si Don Antonio Floirendo ningtisok sa unang saging nga Cavendish sa kalapokan nga iyang giarkilahan sa gobyerno mga dekada na ang ninglabay. Usa siya ka mechanical engineer nga ganahan sa kahumot sa yuta ug dinalian niyang gipalapdan ang iyang kaumahan sa saging ug human niini nangarisgar siya og tanum og pinya ug boongon. Ang iyang kaumahan paborito nga bisitaanan sa mga Presidente apil si Diosdado Macapagal ug Ferdinand Marcos. Gihinginlan sa nasud ug gitam-okan og black propaganda sa mga bata-bata ni Cory Aquino, gipapauli siya sa Davao atol sa pinakabangis nga pagsulay sa kudeta kontra sa gobyerno ni Cory uban sa pagtabang sa mga tauhan ni Cory nga bilib kaayo sa iyang mga prinsipyo ug krusada sa tingusbawan.
Ingon niini kaniadto ang dagway sa politika sa Davao del Norte, ang kausbawan sa probinsya ang sukaranan ug kinutoban sa tanang kalihokan. Ning-impluwensya sab kini sa lihok sa politika sa Davao City ug sa tibuok rehiyon sa Southeastern Mindanao. Gigiyahan ni Floirendo ug Ayala ang mga kalihokan sa pagpakusog sa ekonomiya ug pagdisiplina sa mga politiko.
Sila ang pinakalabawng arkitekto sa pagpaabante sa agrikultura pinaagi sa pagbutad ug pagduso sa ekonomiya sa rehiyon palayo gikan sa himatyon nga industriya sa pagpamuril og kahoy nga naghatag og benepisyo sa pipila lamang nga ningbun-ag og puhunan nga kita nila gikan sa kalasangan kasagaran didto lamang sa Makati ug wa dinhi sa Davao. Dili apil sa maong han-ay si Alcantara, nga sakop sa mga liga sa mga dagko, si Robillo, Dalisay ug Gomez nga mga gagmay nga operator apan wa mobiya sa Davao. Si Alcantara ningbuhi og puhunan sa bakahan ug aqua-culture sa Sarangani. Nakit-an nako ang ilang giproseso nga bangus ug tilapia sa mga grocery sa Texas ug Los Angeles.
Grabe ang akong pagkadismaya pagkakita nako nga ang Davao del Norte nagapadulong sa magubot ug gipikas-pikas nga natad sa politika samtang nagaduol ang eleksyon sa May 2019. Ang mitsa nga ningsunog sa politika sa Davao mao ang gipasakang kaso sa Ombudsman ni Rep. ug Speaker Bebot Alvarez batok kang Rep. Tonyboy Floirendo (2nd Dist.), nga suod niyang higala. Samtang ang unang mga hungihong ningtudlo sa ilang mga hinigugma nga nanag-away, ang maong rason layo ra gyud kaayo sa tinuod. Ang pagdistrungka sa mga quarantine checkpoint sa mga plantasyon sa mga Floirendo mohatag og clue pero kinahanglan nga mokawot ka pa og lawom aron kahibalo ka sa rason. Ang kaso sa Ombudsman gisang-at na sa Sandiganbayan ug ato na ning biyaan didto kay basin og ma-contempt pa ko.
Ang industriya sa saging mao ang dugokan sa ekonomiya sa rehiyon ug kun sulayan kini og guba, makalilisang ni nga urom sa mga lider sa patigayon ug politika sa rehiyon sa Davao tungod kay ang kasagingan maoy naghatag og trabaho sa gatosan ka libo ka mga trabhante. Niadtong panahona nga ang staff ni Alvarez kauban ang taga DPWH ug mga elemento sa kapulisan ningsulong sa plantasyon ug nangguba sa mga instalasyon sa kwarintinas, ang alerto sa Fusarium wilt, ang labing ginakahadlokan nga sakit sa saging, nabutang sa pinakataas nga ang-ang o koda: pula, buot ipasabot, pinakataas nga alarma. Naukay ug nasuko ang Davao niini. Idugang pa ang mga komentaryo ni kanhi Speaker Alvarez batok sa Hugpong ng Pagbabago ni Mayor Inday Sara ug segurado ka nga ang nagbukalbukal nga kawa moyabo kang Bebot gikan sa liderato sa Kamara de Representante.
Ang umaabot nga eleksyon sa Davao del Norte dili na laay sama niadto. Ang ex-Speaker dili na magsalig sa iyang ex nga amigo nga si Tonyboy tungod kay matud pa sa kadaghanan duna siyay kaban sa bahandi nga mohangtud kutob sa adlaw sa eleksyon. Kaparang niya si Anthony del Rosario, ang kasamtangang gobernador, nga usa sa mga orihinal nga haligi sa HnP ni Inday Sara. Si Inday nga way kalaban isip kandidato pagka mayor sa Davao gilauman nga molabang sa nipis nga utlanan sa probinsya ug sa siyudad aron pagkampanya para kang Anthony. Ug naa pa gyud si Tonyboy, ang mapahiyomon nga politiko nga ang dughan karon nag-aso-aso.
Si Alvarez nga ningbuhos og pundo sa mga kapitanes sa barangay sa District 1 dili na speaker ug ang natad sa politika pwerteng pagkausaba. Nobyembre pa lang gani. (Jun Ledesma)
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Monday, November 19, 2018
OPINION: Preview of Davao’s political landscape by Jun Ledesma
POLITICS CREATES BONDS of friendships, strong ties that decide what course the government pursues. But politics creates the deepest cleavage even among friends that leads to irrational conflicts that damage the government units they govern and divide political constituencies.
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