Cagayan de Oro City News February 2015

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Cagayan de Oro City Public Market
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The river of cagayan de oro city
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St. Augustine Metropolitan Cathedral

Wars of ancient history were about possessions, territory, power, control, family, betrayal, lover's quarrel, politics and sometimes religion.

But we are in the Modern era and supposedly more educated and enlightened .

Think about this. Don't just brush off these questions.

  • Why is RELIGION still involved in WARS? Isn't religion supposed to be about PEACE?
  • Ask yourself; What religion always campaign to have its religious laws be accepted as government laws, always involved in wars and consistently causing WARS, yet insists that it's a religion of peace?

WHY??

There are only two kinds of people who teach tolerance:
  1. The Bullies. They want you to tolerate them so they can continue to maliciously deprive you. Do not believe these bullies teaching tolerance, saying that it’s the path to prevent hatred and prejudice.
  2. The victims who are waiting for the right moment to retaliate. They can’t win yet, so they tolerate.
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Flood Waters in the streets of Cagayan de Oro City
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Cagayan de Oro City Buildings
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Bus Terminal, Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City

DSWD calls families to adopt children

(CSLPT/DSWD/PIA10)

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, February 10 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is encouraging families to adopt children who are now under its custody.

Elena Palma, social welfare officer for the Department, says that about 12 children in the Regional Reception and Study Center for Children, a residential facility of the DSWD based in Cagayan de Oro are available for foster care or for legal adoption. Their ages range from zero to seven years old. Another nine children are also currently being assessed to be declared as available for adoption.

“There is now an increasing number of children who need families to love them, to take care of them; these little ones need to be integrated with good families and communities which are necessities to the well-being of a child.”

Legal Adoption

Adoption, which is defined as a socio-legal process of providing a permanent family to a child who se parents have voluntarily or involuntarily relinquished parental authority over the child, is the State’s protection of the child which requires sufficient study to make certain that the placement is suitable and presents no hazard to the child’s growth and development.

Adoption is for children who cannot be reared by their biological parents and who need and can benefit from new and permanent family ties.

Republic Act 8552, otherwise known as the Domestic Adoption Act, states that the process of legally adopting a child involves several steps such as application of interested parents, preparation of home study report, approval and disapproval of application, matching or family selection, pre-placement and placement of child, supervised trial custody, finalization of adoption, issuance of adoption decree and amended birth certificate, and conduct of post-adoptive services. This process would usually take six months to a year.

Couples who have underwent the legal adoption process for their adopted children revealed that the process was all worth it -- they now have a child that they can love and care for, and who also loves them in return.

Simulation of Birth Certificates

The DSWD also reminds families that simulating birth certificates is punishable under the Philippine Law. Those found guilty of simulating birth certificate may be punished with imprisonment of six years and one day to 12 years, and a fine not exceeding P50,000.

DSWD will be observing the Adoption Consciousness Week on February 21-27, 2015 with lined up activities advocating legal adoption.

Family Welfare body confab highlights labor laws compliance system

By Glenford Labial (DOLE-X)

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Feb. 9 -- The Northern Mindanao Federation of Family Welfare Committees (NMFFWC) highlights Labor Laws Compliance System (LLCS) among other DOLE programs as its main topic in the first general assembly and learning session cum fellowship on February 20, 2015 at the Empress Court, Grand Caprice Restaurant, Limketkai, Cagayan de Oro City.

Some 80 participants coming from both labor and management sector, representing 30 different companies in northern Mindanao are expected to attend said activity.

In a board meeting held on January 30, chairperson Florita B, Quijano of Mabuhay Vinyl Corporation showed support to regional director Raymundo G. Agravante and DOLE’s LLCS that assesses and certifies, as well as recognizing companies---the employers and workers in the entire process of inculcating voluntary compliance.

Quijano emphasizes the federation’s support to the program stating that the organization plays a vital role in ensuring workplace productivity and harmony.

Further, she elaborated optimism that with LLCS, more jobs will be created.

Other topics include Occupational Safety and Health’s Mandatory Requirements with speaker Ann Louise L. Melicor of OSH Center; DOLE Compliance of Companies by TSSD chief Atheneus A. Vasallo and the Gardens in Go, Grow and Glow with speaker NEDA-X retired regional director Casimira V. Balandra.

NMFFWC is the prime mover in the development of the Department’s Family Welafre Program (FWP) that responds to the needs of its member companies in sustaining moral leadership and promoting labor-management relationships.

FWP refers to the program that provides family welfare services to workers, which is carried out in the workplace by the employer through a Family Welfare Committee as mandated by Department Order No. 56-03.

Interested companies may contact the provincial FWP focal persons or through regional focal persons Shirley P. Alvarez and Glenford C. Labial with contact number (088) 857 1931. Registration fee is P550.00 only.

Filinvest strengthens nationwide footprint in 2015

By Mike Baños

Filinvest Land Inc., the real estate arm of the Gotianun Group, plans to increase its residential offerings in 2015 to continue its legacy of housing developments in the country.

Actual Oasis MRB & Clubhouse: When Bldg 1 of One Oasis is completed in the 2nd quarter of 2015, amenities such as this clubhouse will also be completed and enjoyed by the first batch of unit owners. (photo supplied)

With an estimated land bank of over 2,400 hectares, Filinvest has announced that it would ramp up project offerings for its real estate portfolio next year with new project launches in Taguig, Pasig, Valenzuela, Paranaque, Cavite, Binondo, Manila, Mactan, Cebu, Dumaguete and Iloilo.

“Filinvest is one of the country’s top and largest nationwide developers in the affordable and middle-income market segments. We have a sustained focus on our core affordable market in 2015. The nationwide housing backlog would still drive the housing demand for our middle income and affordable brands,” notes Filinvest Land, Inc. president and CEO, Josephine Gotianun Yap.

The company addresses these markets through the continued roll-out of its Futura brand of affordable homes and the Oasis and Spatial MRBs (medium rise buildings) in progressive urban centers.

“By focusing on MRBs and traditional housing, Filinvest continues to develop projects with construction cycles of less than a year to meet the immediate needs of our end user market,” Yap adds.

One Oasis Cagayan de Oro

One Oasis CDO, the very first mid-rise condo development of Filinvest in Cagayan de Oro City, is set for completion, which means a delivery date to homeowners to as early as the second quarter of 2015.

“Completion and delivery dates are top considerations of Filinvest Land, which sets our project apart from the rest with a 5-year lag time,” notes Ms Ara Solidum, FLI Area General Manager for North Mindanao.

One Oasis CDO is strategically located along Rosario Limketkai Avenue in Bgy. Lapasan, Cagayan de Oro City, One Oasis Cagayan de Oro is just a short walk to lifestyle hubs like Limketkai Center, Ayala Centrio Mall and Gaisano City Mall; A 5-minute drive to schools like Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, Mindanao University of Science and Technology and Capitol University. Hospitals like the Northern Mindanao Medical Center, CU Medical City, Xavier University-Maria Reyna Hospital and Cagayan de Oro Polymedic General Hospital are but a short drive away. Public transport is easily accessible along Limketkai Avenue, CM Recto Avenue and JR Borja Extension.

“At One Oasis CDO, you do not just come home to a well-built mid-rise condominium. Each Oasis development has been carefully planned to ensure that homeowners are accorded a much-needed respite from their daily grind. In here, frazzled urbanites can find a refuge in stylish mid-rise buildings blended with luxuriant landscapes, seamlessly laid out to provide that much sought sense of space and privacy,” adds Solidum.

One Oasis CDO is your own secret garden in the heart of the busy metro. Each Oasis community serves as a green respite, a breathing space from the congested concrete jungle as 55 percent of the entire development is devoted to greeneries, intelligently planned amenities and open spaces. Residents of One Oasis CDO can look forward to healthy bliss and serenity.

DPWH funds for Oro up at P2.05B

By Jigger J. Jerusalem

DEPARTMENT of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Rogelio Singson has assured the city of more infrastructure projects as its budget for Cagayan de Oro has increased from P1.2 billion in 2014 to P2.05 billion this year.

Singson announced this in his visit to Cagayan de Oro City to grace the opening of the DPWH-implemented P271.774-million bridge connecting J.R. Borja Street on the eastern part of the city and Max Suniel Street in Barangay Carmen on Friday, February 6.

The biggest portion of the fund, he said, will be for the construction of the megadike beside the Cagayan de Oro river as part of the flood control and mitigation project, he said.

He also recognized the willingness and commitment of the local leaders for the success of the DPWH’s various projects.

The successful implementation of the infrastructure, Singson said, is due to the support and cooperation of local government units (LGUs).

“I was telling Mayor Oscar (Moreno), we just really need the help of the LGU so that we can have the proper access, and so that we can implement all of our projects for 2014 and 2015 expeditiously, para mapakinabangan na po ng taong bayan ng Cagayan de Oro lahat ng proyektong pinupunoduhan ng national government,” he told the crowd of local dignitaries, guests, and government officials.

“We hope that we will get all the necessary support so that we can expedite the implementation of our projects,” he added.

For his part, Moreno said the new bridge will provide better and easier access between the two sides of the city’s river as it will help ease the flow of vehicles in its major thoroughfares.

DPWH-Northern Mindanao Director Evelyn Barroso said the J.R. Borja bridge is the longest Spanish government-assisted project in the entire country so far.

Spanning 307.79 linear meters with 120 linear meters concrete-paved approaches, Barroso said the structure has a 20-ton capacity.

“It will significantly improve the access of farm products of the local populace, and will facilitate the faster delivery of goods, service and people within the influenced areas. Hence, the completion of this bridge will decongest the traffic within the city proper,” she added.

Most of the materials, especially the steel bridging components, were supplied by the Spanish firm Centunion Española Coordinacion Tecnica y Financiera, S.A. Javier Grahe represented the company.

As for the rest of Mindanao, Singson said the island will also get a considerable chunk of the DPWH budget.

He said 30 percent of the DPWH budget will be poured in Mindanao, as the agency will focus on developing the Mindanao logistics network that will link and provide better access to all airports, seaports, production areas, and tourism destinations, in the remaining months of President Benigno Aquino’s term.

“Talagang bubuhusan namin yan ng pundo (Mindanao) so the connectivity will finally be realized. We need to make Mindanao more productive by providing it better access to markets and to the production centers, plus the airports and the seaports,” he added.

Second district Representative Rufus Rodriguez also announced during the opening that two more bridges will be built next year connecting barangays Macasandig and Balulang and Macabalan and Bonbon.

With the Macabalan-Bonbon bridge, all cargoes from the city’s wharf going to the western side of Mindanao will no longer pass through the C.M. Recto Avenue. Instead, it will take the route to Bonbon, Igpit, Opol and straight to Iligan City, cutting travel time.

Also to be implemented is the alternate Cagayan de Oro-Laguindingan road from Barangay Puerto that will pass through Lumbia and to the Laguindingan Airport.

Rodriguez said the road that will connect J.R. Borja extension to Sayre Highway is on the drawing board.

Gift bags for 100 children at Oro relocation site

(PR)

THE Department of Labor and Employment, Regional Office X (Dole-X) Western Misamis Oriental Provincial Field Office (WMO PFO), in partnership with Dole-Northern Mindanao Cares Multi-Purpose Cooperative (MPC), conducted an Angel Tree project gift giving to some 100 children living in Calaanan relocation site, Cagayan de Oro City last January 6, 2015.

These kids were survivors of Typhoon Sendong in 2011. Each received a gift bag containing school supplies, toiletries, and goodies. Parents also celebrated with their children that day who were also recipients of Dole-Northern Mindanao livelihood assistance.

OIC-Assistant Regional Director Rodrigo A. Deloso imparted to the children the significance of parents as gifts from God. “Importante kaayo inyong mga ginikanan. Dako ang ilang sakripisyo sa pagpadako sa inyuha.Busa, sukli-an nato ang ilang mga buhat sa mga maayong inyong buhat. Eskwela gyud mo ug sakto. (Your parents are very important. Their big sacrifices in raising you up must be exchanged with your good deeds to them. You all must make good in school),” said Director Deloso in his message.

Launched every December, Angel Tree is a way of assuring children of families who are financially struggling to have a wonderful Christmas.

Children love receiving gifts and this brings smiles to them. This is the very essence of Angel Tree Project, to put smiles on every child who has nothing for Christmas.

The gift giving was capped with parlor games and sumptuous snacks of Jollibee sponsored by the Dole-Northern Mindanao Cares MPC.

PFA to hold franchise seminar in CdeO for women entrepreneurs

(PR)

AS PART of its continuing efforts to promote franchising as a tool to create thousands of businesses and millions of jobs, the Philippine Franchise Association (PFA) will hold a ‘How to Franchise your Business’ seminar in Cagayan de Oro City on February 10 at Seda Centrio Hotel. The said seminar is a key component of the Franchising Regional Enterprises by Women (FREE Women) project, which is an advocacy project of PFA aimed at helping women entrepreneurs grow their business via franchising.

The said project, which is supported by the US Embassy, has already held seminars in Cebu, Tagaytay and Davao targeting women entrepreneurs in Visayas, South Luzon and South Mindanao. The seminar in Cagayan de Oro hopes to gather participants from North Mindanao and the Caraga region.

Recognizing the contributions of women entrepreneurs in the country’s economic advancement, the seminar is open exclusively for women entrepreneurs and is for free. Interested participants may get in touch with the PFA secretariat via email at pfa@pfa.org.ph.

After the seminar, a select few will be chosen to be featured in the Incubation pavilion of Franchise Asia Philippines 2015, PFA’s annual franchise show. Participating in the said international franchise expo will give them the opportunity to test the market, attract possible investors and partners, and benchmark with the best practices of successful franchise concepts.

The FREE Women franchise seminar in Cagayan de Oro is held in partnership with the Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Department of Trade and Industry.

Photo shows the Davao leg of the FREE Women franchise seminar, which was attended by more than 60 participants.

Listing of city government savings sought

(PNA), RMA/CD/CD/EDS

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Feb. 4 (PNA) –- The City Council here on Wednesday ordered the Local Finance Committee (LCF) to submit detailed and itemized savings of the city government since 2013.

In a resolution No. 11915-2015, the City Council ordered the LCF to furnish the local legislative body of “a comprehensive and itemized listing of all savings since the assumption of the present administration in 2013 as well as of prior years.”

City Councilor Prexy Elipe, chair of the city council committee on finance, ways and means, said that the City Council has been approving ordinances that appropriate funds from the city’s savings for payment of various claims and other purposes.

Elipe, however, said that the LFC has not furnished the City Council reports on whether the approved funds were really spent for the purpose.

Elipe, who sponsored the resolution, said that the LFC’s comprehensive report about the amount of savings of the city government is necessary in aid of legislation.

Primavera’s La Rondine Hall now open for public use

(PR)

PRIMAVERA Residences Condominium Corporation officially opens to the public La Rondine Hall as a new venue in Cagayan de Oro catering to parties, events, training and learning sessions, among others.

La Rondine Hall is also a venue for art appreciation, providing an avenue for local artists to showcase their art works.

Formerly Primavera’s multi-purpose hall, La Rondine has been a venue for social gatherings, trainings, seminars and art exhibits. Now that it has opened its doors to the public, more people can experience Primavera as an alternative venue in uptown Cagayan de Oro.

“La Rondine, which is Italian for Barn Swallow, is a bird that returns to Italy during spring season, or Primavera. It is mainly for this reason that we opted to use the name,” Italpinas CEO and Arch. Romolo Nati explained.

La Rondine is a migrant bird that is known to gracefully dart over fields and open water. With its shiny cobalt blue top mixed with tawny feathers underneath, this agile flier comes back to Italy at Primavera, when the countryside is brimming with colors and nature is at its best.

Provided with a 90-square-meter floor area and decorated with a variety of artworks (for display and for sale), La Rondine Hall is suited for versatile events such as birthday parties, learning sessions, yoga parties to mention some.

“We offer our clients with an affordable deal of P750 per hour. This is inclusive of hall, electricity charges, and maintenance personnel assistance. There are no corkage fees also,” said Jelly Galleto, Primavera Residences Property Manager.

La Rondine Hall can accommodate up to 80-100 people.

DBP, COWD sign MOA for 'Bill Payment Facility'

By Butch D. Enerio

THE Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has marked 2015 with its first -- to serve a water district using its electronic channels for the Bills Payment Facility.

Clients of the Cagayan de Oro Water District (COWD) need not transact over the counter since an innovation with the DBP would now make a fast and hassle-free water bills payment through the bank’s automated teller machines (ATM).

A memorandum of agreement (MOA) between DBP and COWD was signed on January 29 which authorizes the bank to receive payment from COWD clients.

Gil A. Buenaventura, DBP president and CEO who signed the MOA on behalf of the bank, said the venture DBP entered into with the COWD is a milestone for the bank where it can serve the most important transaction – customers paying their bills.

“DBP, in doing this, will be able to help the COWD and other water districts and electric cooperatives not just in ensuring a more efficient means in facilitating payments but more so in their revenue generation, aside from providing the convenience and ease for customers,” Buenaventura said.

He said that with COWD as the first for DBP in this endeavor, more water districts and electric coops would be served by DBP in the near future.

“My hope is that more water districts will follow this trailblazing path by the COWD, which took the significant step toward modernized and automated payment collection facility providing additional payment options for the convenience of its customers,” Buenaventura said.

Utilizing DBP’s ATM units available nationwide, customers of COWD who are also DBP ATM cardholders no longer have to stand in line in collection centers to make their payments.

The facility is available 24 hours, seven days a week to any DBP ATM Visa Debit cardholders. And customers can make their transaction anywhere in the country or even when they are in other countries where a DBP branch is located.

Rachel Beja, COWD general manager, said that the bills payment facility with DBP came about as a result of the long and trustworthy relationship where the bank’s support to the COWD has made the water utility sustained its operability in terms of providing low interest loans.

“Because of DBP’s untiring support to COWD we have established and developed a relationship with trust and confidence. And we are proud to say that more than 90 percent of COWD’s cash is deposited at DBP,” Beja said.

“The COWD has more than 86,000 connections and DBP hopes to get 15 to 20 percent from the customers who would open an account with the bank to avail of the bill payment facility, excluding those who are already cardholders, thus would expand the bank’s client base in the near future,” said Neogen Chaves, DBP vice president for Northern Mindanao.

DBP has more than 420,000 cardholders where about 25,000 cardholders are in Cagayan de Oro. The bank has 377 ATMs nationwide and eight are in Cagayan de Oro.

Judges, prosecutors to hold office at City Hall

By Jigger J. Jerusalem

IN THE wake of the fire that gutted the Benigno S. Aquino Hall of Justice late Friday night and well into Saturday morning, judges and prosecutors will be temporarily holding office at a City Government building starting Monday, an official said.

City Information Officer Maricel Casiño-Rivera, in a text message sent to Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro on Sunday, said that all the branches of the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC) and the National Prosecution Service (regional, city and provincial prosecutor’s offices) of the Department of Justice (DOJ) “will start holding temporary office at the City Tourism tomorrow, Monday, February 2. City Hall is now preparing for the transfer.”

Spared from the fire that left two persons dead were the RTC branches 40 and 41 that are located at Luna Street. The fire left an estimated P28-million worth of damages.

Rivera said Mayor Oscar Moreno is also considering on establishing a judicial center in Barangay Indahag “to house all offices of the judiciary including the [Court of Appeals] Mindanao Station,” although she added it is “still an idea.”

On who or what started the fire, Rivera said Moreno doesn’t want to point a finger just yet.

“He (Moreno) doesn’t want to delve on speculations regarding the cause of fire especially in connection with the high-profile cases pending investigation of the Bureau of Fire Protection,” she said.

But, she added, “It doesn’t mean that justice will not be served anymore. There will just be delays.”

DOJ to pour resources

Meanwhile, the DOJ has vowed to pour its financial resources to the Regional Prosecutor’s Office (RPO) following the fire that destroyed the entire Hall of Justice building at Hayes Street.

Regional Prosecutor Jaime Umpa said Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has been apprised of the situation last Friday while firefighters tried to contain the conflagration inside the judiciary building, which started around 9:34 p.m. and was declared “fire out” at 2:21 a.m. Saturday.

“She (de Lima) has already given the go-signal to provide whatever support the RPO needs,” he said.

“In fact, Prosecutor General Arellano will be flying in here (February 2) to assess the damage so necessary logistical and financial support could be extended to our office,” Umpa told Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro over the weekend.

The two-story Hall of Justice housed 28 courts including the RPO, as well as the city and provincial prosecutor’s offices, alongside the regional and municipal trial courts, the offices of the Parole and Probation, Mediation and Reconciliation, Public Attorney, and the Clerk of Court.

Umpa could not yet determine the exact amount of the damage of the National Prosecution Service offices but he estimated it could run up to millions of pesos since the regional, city and provincial prosecution offices had equipment such as desktop computers, laptops, copiers, fax machines, among others that were lost to the fire apart from the documents including countless case files, resolutions, and other pertinent papers.

He also assured that the high-profile case handled by the panel of prosecutors he created will be coming out with its resolution but a slight delay can be expected owing to the conflagration.

Umpa referred to the complaints filed against four policemen and a lawyer who are allegedly involved in the shooting to death of brothers Harold and Roland Jamaca and Maria Erica Yabut in December 2014.

He admitted it will not be easy to reconstitute the documents related to the Jamaca summary killing case, but Umpa said the panel can ask the complainants and respondents, as well as the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG)-Northern Mindanao and Scene of the Crime Operatives (Soco), for reproduced copies of their respective files.

“The panel will have to exert extra effort to collect the necessary case files, but it can be done,” he said, adding that the dismissal of the Jamaca summary killing case is out of the question.

Also, Umpa said they could request the DOJ in Manila for backup copies of the cases handled by the RPO since it is a standard operating procedure of his office to provide the justice department files of local cases.

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