SunStar Network News feed for Cagayan De Oro, Philippines http://www.sunstar.com.ph en-us Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:53:02 +0800 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:53:02 +0800 CONSIDERED as the school of champions, Corpus Christi will be sorely missed as the annual Cagayan de Oro Sports Athletic Association gets to unveil its 2008 edition. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/09/sports/corpus.athletes.to.skip.08.cosaa.meet.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified IT TAKES former basketball coach William "Butch" Ramirez to be a top leader of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) to realize that his favorite event could hardly bring honor to the country when it comes to global competition. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/09/sports/ramirez.we.have.no.chance.in.basketball.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Lynde Salgados HANJIN'S peremptory walkout from Tagoloan and Villanueva, despite the costs they already incurred, is a terrible blow to the character of the people of the two towns. It also deals a black eye to the national government. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/09/oped/manuel.valdehuesa.street.talk.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Manuel Valdehuesa Street Talk WHY is DTI Regional Director Ma. Eliza Pabillore complaining about the results of the Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Project (PCCRP), the flagship research undertaking of the Asian Institute of Management Policy Center's City Competitiveness Program? http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/09/oped/jb.r..deveza.freewheeling.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 JB R. Deveza Freewheeling CAGAYAN de Oro City Mayor Constantino Jaraula said a "house cleaning" at City Hall is in the offing to weed out bad employees from the local government workforce. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/09/news/mayor.vows.house.cleaning.at.city.hall.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified MORE sharp reactions came after Cagayan de Oro managed poorly in the 2007 assessment of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) policy center for most livable cities in the Philippines. Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/09/news/aim.study.basically.flawed..html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified WITH soaring food and fuel prices, the cost of doing business is getting really tough. Businesses need to use Information Technology to become more agile and efficient. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/09/life/cdo.it.roadshow.opens.thursday.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified RICHARD Poon's repertoire is dominated by great musical works of Frank Sinatra, Harry Connick, and Tony Bennett. Newer arrangements of other well-loved standards from Michael Bubble and Rod Stewart add on to the rich list of cover songs. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/09/life/richard.poon.live.at.sm.city.on.july.18.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified CONVENIENCE best describes the New SM Bills Payment and Foreign Exchange Facility located at Makro, Kauswagan Highway, Cagayan de Oro City. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/09/life/sm.billing.facility.rises.at.makro.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified CITY officials went sour Monday after Cagayan de Oro fared poorly in the recent 2007 assessment of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) policy center. The Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Oro chamber) held an emergency meeting Monday to discuss why the city managed poorly in terms of business competitiveness compared to 25 other medium-sized cities in the Philippines. Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/08/news/city.officials.aim.study.is.unfair.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Danilo Adorador III and Mark Francisco MILITANT groups in Cagayan de Oro staged a noise barrage at noon Monday protesting the series of spikes in fuel and food prices. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/08/news/activists.protest.vs.rising.prices.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Annabelle L. Ricalde FOR the apolitical, thinking citizens among us, the results of Asian Institute of Management (AIM) City Competitiveness study for 2007 must have come as a shock. Why not? After the same study gave Cagayan de Oro a miserable scorecard in 2005, the city was not expected to perform lousily but better. At least it could have made a stride way past the unflattering swamp outside the Top 10. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/08/oped/editorial.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified FIGURES do not lie. Cagayan de Oro's competitiveness to attract business has dropped steadily since 2003 when the first survey of Philippine cities was made by the Asian Institute of Management policy center. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/08/news/cdo.competitiveness.has.dropped.steadily.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified JM POULTRY & Livestock Supply (Cebu), Incorporation, exclusive distributor of Unifeeds products, will open Tuesday its new showroom at ADM Building at Max Y. Suniel corner V. Neri Streets, Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/08/bus/jm.poultry.opens.new.showroom.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified THE National Union of Students of the Philippines, Kabataang Pinoy Party, Kabataan Party and Youth Act Now! Alliance, along with other student and youth groups, forge unity to denounce the intensifying crisis on education through at citywide Youth Summit at AVR1, Xavier University. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/07/oped/armieyah.ayob.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Armieyah Ayob MEDIA practitioners as a class are well-meaning people. Many are idealists who strive to serve the community by giving voice to its problems and championing its interests. Concerned about honesty and good governance, they expose corruption and denounce inefficiency. To promote order and propriety, they attack disorderly conduct or blow the whistle on wrongdoers. It is an essential role, a civilizing one and to the extent that they do it evenhandedly, they deserve the community's gratitude. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/07/oped/manuel.valdehuesa.street.talk.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Manuel Valdehuesa Street Talk KAUSWAGAN, Lanao del Norte -- A driver was killed while three passengers were wounded when gunmen tried to rob a bus from Cagayan de Oro Sunday dawn in Barangay Kawit Oriental, Kasuwagan town, Lanao del Norte. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/07/news/1.killed.3.wounded.in.foiled.lanao.bus.robbery.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Richel Umel CAGAYAN de Oro managed poorly in competitiveness, placing only 11th among mid-size Philippine cities, according to the 2007 assessment of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) policy center. Dr. Federico Macaranas, AIM executive director, made the announcement at the Manila Intercontinental Hotel last July 4. He said 90 Philippine cities were covered by the survey. Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/07/news/cdo.is.not.among.top.10.livable.cities.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Froilan Gallardo ON THE process of re-acquiring two multi-million markets with borrowed funds, local officials in Cagayan de Oro are now gearing to enter yet another P250 million Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) agreement to reconstruct another market. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/06/news/opposition.hits.agora.bot.bid.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified MISAMIS Oriental Governor Oscar Moreno rejected Philippine Star columnist Jarius Bondoc's opinion piece alleging that Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Corporation had pulled out all its equipment "with not a single nail or brick left behind" from the shipyard construction site inside the Phividec Industrial Estate. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/06/news/guv.spurns.columnist.on.hanjin.claim.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Mark D. Francisco TUBOD, Lanao del Norte -- Local Government Units, faced with increasing budget deficits, rued Friday on athletes who opted to play for better pay in Manila universities. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/05/sports/rights.of.athletes.tackled.in.confab.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Lynde Salgados ON THE process of re-acquiring two multi-million markets with borrowed funds, local officials in Cagayan de Oro are now gearing to enter yet another P250 million Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) agreement to reconstruct another market. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/06/news/opposition.hits.agora.bot.bid.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified MISAMIS Oriental Governor Oscar Moreno rejected Philippine Star columnist Jarius Bondoc's opinion piece alleging that Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Corporation had pulled out all its equipment "with not a single nail or brick left behind" from the shipyard construction site inside the Phividec Industrial Estate. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/06/news/guv.spurns.columnist.on.hanjin.claim.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Mark D. Francisco TUBOD, Lanao del Norte - THE Saguingan Festival of Tubod bagged the championship award of P100,000 during the showdown of festivals on Tourism Day Thursday at the world-class Mindanao Civic Center here. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/05/life/tubod.contingent.wins.showdown.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Richel V. Umel SUN.STAR Cagayan de Oro celebrates with a beach party its 13th anniversary Saturday morning at Jetti Resort (formerly Lopez Beach) at the Sunset Side of Opol Beach Strip. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/05/life/sun.star.celebrates.13th.anniversary.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Mark D. Francisco EMPLOYEES of the National Transmission Corporation (Transco) are growing apprehensive over job security, saying the company's new owner and the government have done nothing to clarify their employment status once the transmission firm is transferred to private hands by September. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/04/news/fears.of.job.loss.grow.as.transco.changes.hands.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified THE demise of RMN co-founder and media pioneer Henry R. Canoy stokes memories of earlier days when broadcast was associated more with public service and refined perspectives than with sensationalism and crass commercialism. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/04/bus/canoy.brothers.legacy.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Manuel Valdehuesa Street Talk TUBOD, Lanao del Norte -- They came to promote peace and the beautiful island of Mindanao through sports development as the catalyst for change. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/04/sports/athletes.promote.peace.in.mindanao.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Lynde Salgados FIVE gasoline stations have been found by the City Treasurer's Office shortchanging their customers by as much as 75 milliliters or P4.70 for every liters of gasoline or diesel of purchase. The operators and owners of these gas stations were called to a meeting by the Committee on Public Utilities last Tuesday. They reportedly did not appear in the City Council. Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/04/news/city.probes.5.gas.stations.over.shortchanging.customers.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Annabelle L. Ricalde REIGNING National Shell Active kiddies chess champion Lennon Hart Salgados of Cagayan de Oro hopes to sustain his winning ways now that he'll be campaigning in the much tougher junior division of the prestigious tourney. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/03/sports/oro.s.chess.whiz.eyes.shell.junior.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified A 19-YEAR-OLD woman was found dead on Wednesday inside her home in posh Sta. Cecilia Subdivision in Barangay Gusa, Cagayan de Oro. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/03/news/woman.found.hanging.from.window.domestic.partner.missing.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Stephanie S. Viovicente CASH-trapped, the troubled Cagayan de Water District (Cowd) sees hampered operations in the next days while admitting it may break auditing rules by using daily collections to continue operating. Cowd's bank accounts were confiscated by the regional office of Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)-Northern Mindanao last week to collect the company's assessed tax liabilities from 1997 to 2003, all amounting to P340,948,913.57. Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/03/news/water.district.in.trouble.anew.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Mark D. Francisco and Annabelle Ricalde TUCKED in one of the newest and hippest places in town is an unpretentious but sophisticated joint in the "uptown" area of the city. A place where one can enjoy the simple yet elegant ambiance with delectable and appetizing foods. A place where one can just truly sit and dine without being stressed, communicate without being bothered by the outside world, hang around and idle away the hours. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/03/life/alfon.s.grill.(ktv.bar.and.restaurant).html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Chef Ed Dychauco Pots and Pans THERE are many names to the faceless, nameless woman trying and successfully breaking the glass ceiling. One of these is Rhia Rita Y. Abalos. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/07/03/life/making.dreams.real.with.rotary.district.guv.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified