THE DREAM, THE CHALLENGE, THE PROMISING DEVELOPMENT

THE President's 3rd SONA has brought joy and hope to the Filipino people especially when the President delivered these inspiring lines. "But what we know about our people, and what we had proven time and again to the world was this: Nothing is impossible to a united Filipino nation. It was change we dreamed of, and change we achieved; the benefits of change are now par for the course." Indeed, we are glad to know the very promising transformation from being the "sick man of Asia to one who now beams with vitality with a growing GDP by 6.4 percent which is said to be much higher than projected. It was a great relief to hear comments that "Once, we were the debtors; now, we are the creditors.” How will this apply to Northern Mindanao? Checking the revenue performance statistics of Northern...

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Pill remains the top choice of contraception in Normin

Pill remains the top choice of contraception in Normin                           Population problems have been man’s concern since ancient time. Matters concerning the need to stimulate or retard population growth had received various opinions from statesmen and thinkers whose concerns ranged from political to social and economic considerations until modern population theory emerged in the current time. Thus, some economists had said that the use of contraceptives in modern times had made it possible to check population growth effectively making the ‘preventive checks’ and ‘positive checks’ introduced by Malthus irrelevant and obsolete.             Speaking of contraceptives,...

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OFWS IN NORMIN INCREASING SLIGHTLY

OVERSEAS migration movements by, Filipinos are described to be mostly economic in nature. In an article titled "Statistics on Filipinos' International Migration: lssues and Steps Towards Harmonizing the Data," Opiniano (2007) wrote that "the Philippines is lucky for having a well-placed government structure that facilitates the international movement of people, and that statistics on Filipinos' international migration is fairly developed," The article cited that gaps are expected from these, but the basic socio-economic and demographic variables of these international migration statistics are spelled out. The author, however, stressed "that the general context is that international migration is a phenomenon so difficult to track, that relies on multiple sources (both in the Philippines...

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TWO TOP TOURIST DESTINATIONS ARE IN NORMIN

SEVERAL  studies have been conducted to theorize the complex links that exist between the tourism industry and processes of economic development. The study conducted by Milne and Ateljevic ( 2001) took the readers to the past three decades and allowed them to reach the conclusion with a discussion of the 'new' economic  geography of tourism, in which cultural and economic boundaries are being transcended across a variety of scales. Other studies pointed out the importance of investigating the relationship between destination image and destination personality which were found to be related concepts, while the rest described the trends in developing traveler  destination choice models which covered important issues in need of resolution for making advances in understanding,...

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NorMin marriages, what does emerging pattern tell?

SHERI and Bob Strit’s article on Philippine marriages painted a very good picture of the Philippines, when they wrote: “If you assume that getting married in the Philippines is an easy process, you are mistaken.” This implies that the legal aspects of Philippine marriages  have fully protected our people. They advised those who are not citizens of the Republic of the Philippines to take note of the required documents which would include a certificate of legal capacity to contract marriage.    This means that any foreigner who wishes to marry in the Philippines is required by the Philippine Government to obtain from his/her Embassy a “Certificate or Legal Capacity to Contract Marriage” before filing an application for a marriage license. This certification affirms that there...

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State of education in Normin: Improving or declining?

JUNE of every year invariably highlights the continuing efforts of the government towards quality improvements on education. While both state and civil society organizations have incessantly exerted significant efforts to address multifaceted problems that confront the educations system, results have fallen short of the mark. Because we fully believe that education is an engine of growth, we cannot avoid asking this question – “Where do we stand?”             According to the 2008 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) conducted by the National Statistics Office, eight percent of the estimated 3.7 million population 6 years old and over in 2008 in Northern Mindanao had no formal education. This is somewhat high...

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