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Esperon Could Be Blessing or Curse to Arroyo

A major risk-consultancy company says Esperon, if he becomes armed forces chief of staff, ?could be a destabilizing factor in politics?

DAVAO CITY ? President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo may be lucky for having Lt. Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr., the chief of Philippine Army, by her side. But while he may be a blessing to her, he could also be a curse, according to the U.S. company Pacific Strategies and Assessments (PSA), one of the most respected risk-analysis groups in Southeast Asia with deep sources within the Philippine military.

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Security Guards To Be Trained as Child Protectors

DAVAO CITY — Private security guards, especially those assigned to secure business establishments, will soon carry the additional task as child protectors after undergoing a training on handling children in conflict with law.

The Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of? Children (RSCWC) in Southern Mindanao is? bringing security agencies into its fold as child advocates and protectors, in a memorandum of agreement signed on Wednesday.

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Workforce Crisis Endangering Public Health: WHO

At least 1.3 billion people worldwide lack access to the most basic healthcare, often because there is no health worker. The shortage is global, but the burden is greatest in countries overwhelmed by poverty and disease where these health workers are needed most.

MANILA ? A serious shortage of health workers in many countries is impairing the provision of essential life-savings interventions such as childhood immunization, safe pregnancy, and access to treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.? This shortage, combined with a lack of training and knowledge, is also a major obstacle for health systems as they attempt to respond effectively to chronic diseases, avian influenza and other health challenges, according to The World Health Report 2006 – Working Together for Health, published today, April 7, by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Talaingod Lumads Complete Kalahi Projects

TALAINGOD, Davao Del Norte — The communities of Sto. Ni?o, Tibi-tibi, Salawao, Misolong, Cabadiangan, Palma Gil, Butay, Dagohoy and Tibucag of Talaingod town, Davao Del Norte, recently completed nine projects under the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS), the flagship program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

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Undaunted by Declining Job Prospects, Hundreds Troop to the Mall

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DAVAO CITY — Lured by the promise of exciting jobs in travel and tourism, thousands of jobseekers trooped this week to a tourism jobs fair in a shopping mall here. Tourism secretary Ace Durano said the fair would create 33,000 jobs for the travel and tourism-related industries nationwide.

Among those who lined up was Peter Premallon, a 21-year-old BS Mathematics graduate from Sultan Kudarat, who has just ended his teaching contract with the Mati Polytechnic College in Davao Oriental in March. ?Private schools are no longer hiring regular teachers now, so, I’m trying my luck,? he said.

He could no longer afford to be choosy, Premallon said. He will look for a job here or abroad. He will even work as clerk for an oil company, if no other option comes his way.

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