100 Street Kids received Gifts

By PJTremedal

Cagayan de Oro – More or less One hundred (100) street kids received Christmas presents from the SSS Foundation, a non-government organization focused to help street children here in this city. SSS means Save the Kids, Save our Future, Share our Smile, is foundation established for years now to help and support street children that needs affection and attention.

Ms. Irene Mercado Anibong, who used to be a media practitioner, focuses her attention to these children. “For years now SSS foundation had help street kids, especially during Christmas Season were we can see them roaming around begging for ”Pinaskuhan” (Christmas gifts) from passengers, of jeepneys, private cars, and even the poor motorela drivers.” She said.

Pitiful as she is, Ms. Anibong came to her mind to leave her media profession and focus to help these children thru establishing a non-government organization and find financial support to help her to get involved in saving the kids, saving their future, and share their smiles.

This week as Christmas Season had begun, SSS Foundation started to gather street kids and give them some food, toys as Christmas present. “This year with some our benefactor like, friends from the Media of Cagayan de Oro, DD toys. ACCP, Jabar, Disomimba Stall Holders, Echavez Family, !Fm, Yes Fm, RMN, and Ms. Salome Nunez of the Kids Ministry who supported our cause send some things for the street kids” Ms. Anibong added

The gift giving was also witness by some politicians, candidates for the May Election 2010 who in way or another help also in distributing gifts to the children. The said gift giving was a yearly activity of the SSS Foundation.

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One Month of suffering..Do we need more?

Gruesome killing of one the victim of the Maguindanao Massacre

By PJTremedal

Cagayan de Oro- After the Maguindanao Massacre last November 23, 2009, we had suffered a lot…do we need more to know what truly democracy means?

In this page, Mindanao ON-LINE wishes to share to the readers what the National Union of Journalist in the Philippines has implanted in their hearts and minds to what media practitioner should be…I as a member I would like to say..Justice to them…Justice for all!

NUJP says on the one month commemoration…

“Justice still a far cry for Ampatuan massacre victims

A month has gone by since at least 57 people, at least 31 of them media workers, were slaughtered in the hills of Ampatuan town in Maguindanao.

Today, all over our benighted land, we gather to commemorate the fallen and recommit ourselves to the cause of ensuring justice for them.

Today, we gather to remember that the Ampatuan massacre was not, as some would have us believe, an isolated incident borne of the feud between two contending warlord families but the logical, if bloody, consequence of a system of governance that not only nurtured but armed the likes of the Ampatuan clan and the many more warlords like them who rule their regions, provinces, cities and towns like personal fiefdoms.

Today, we gather to remember that the Ampatuan massacre was not only the worst single attack on the press in history but a continuation of the series of assaults on press freedom that have been abetted not just by official inaction but by this administration’s many attempts to muzzle the independent Philippine media.

Today, we gather to remember and to impress on our people that the Ampatuan massacre and the search for justice for its victims is not the cause of the media alone but should be the cause of each and every Filipino who values freedom and democracy.

Today, and on the 23rd of each month hereon, let us gather and remember the fallen and recommit ourselves to the cause of justice and freedom and holding accountable not just the killers but, just as important, those who created the circumstances that made this crime against humanity possible”.(Nestor Burgos, NUJP)

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‘Let the justice system work’ in Ampatuan case—Palace says

“Let the justice system work.”

This was the advice Press Secretary Cerge Remonde gave the lawyers of the Ampatuan family, some of whose members are primary suspects in the Nov. 23 Maguindanao massacre of 57 people, over 30 of whom were journalists.

“We are not in a position to give advice to the Ampatuans or anybody for that matter on how to handle the case,” Remonde said in a radio interview this morning (but) “President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is determined to see that justice is given to all, especially the victims of the massacre.”

Earlier, the President described the Maguindanao massacre as a “dark day” in the country’s history.

“How the suspects will handle themselves is up to them. Of course, we will ask them to abide by our laws and our justice system. As to how they handle their case, that is their own right,” he said.

(PIA- Pagadian City)

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PGMA’s legacy: A stable economy, free elections

With just six months left in her presidency, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo wants to be remembered as having brought economic stability—elevating the economy to first world status—and a free, fair, and open elections.

This was the gist of the President’s interview with Romeo Bernardo and Margarita Gonzales for New York-based think-tank Global Source Partners. Dated Dec. 15, the special report read by movers and shakers in the Philippines and elsewhere in the world described the President as “the Philippines’ economist-in-chief…who not only has a doctorate in economics… but also the second longest-serving head of state, one who had governed through a very difficult environment for the country.”

“I pledge to see the election through to its proper end and work cooperatively with the incoming administration so that they can hit the ground running,” the President said.

“Our nation is entering a crucial election year at a time when our economy is just starting to recover from the global recession. Now more than ever, it is important for me to focus on ensuring free, fair and open elections that reflect the will of the people,” she said.

The report said the economy during her nine-year presidency has been a “mixed bag of triumphs and disappointments—a stable macroeconomic environment against deterioration in competitiveness and governance indicators, improvement in credit standing because of fiscal consolidation that still left ratings lower than where she found them, and solid gross domestic product (GDP) growth despite a global crisis that relied heavily on remittances sent home by overseas Filipino workers, numbering a fourth of the country’s workforce.”

The report noted her ability to survive the political arena marked by noisy critics, whom the President described as “men and institutions who seek only to further their own agenda. That is why I have avoided the debate and instead channeled my energy into lifting the poor and bringing economic prosperity to the people of the Philippines through my economic reform agenda.”

President Arroyo said she never believed in popularity as an indicator of whether someone would make a good leader. “The Philippines needs a reformer, one who can make tough decisions needed to transform the country and the economy so it can continue its way to becoming a first world country.”

On what she thinks is needed to raise the potential growth rate of the country to be at par with its East Asian neighbors, the President named three factors: a) improving rural employment and incomes through agricultural productivity; b) rooting out corruption, especially in the economic and fiscal governance areas; and c) instituting more effective and sustained population management programs that remain consistent with the core values of a dominant Catholic nation.

Amid speculations of a possible failure of elections—from former close aides—the President said she is “confident in the power of the democracy of our nation, in the ability of the newly-automated polling system to deliver accurate results that will enable fair election, and in the people of the Philippines and their passion to come together to ensure a successful election next year.”

“We must not forget that the success of an election in a democratic country such as ours is as much in the hands of the people as it is in the hands of government,” the President added. (PIA- Pagadian City)

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