“Mindanao’s Underground Economy Reflection”

            Many articles talk about the underground economy of Mindanao. When we say underground economy or informal economy, this is the illegal trading that is present in the economy. These are the goods and services that are sold without permission and are hidden from the government.

            In an article that i read, it was mentions that the underground economy in Mindanao has created feud and conflict in terms of peace in the society. Illegal trading such as selling of guns and illegal drugs has become rampant in Mindanao. The sad fact about this is that the government hasn’t created a proper solution and action in this problem. These traders initially don’t contribute to the economy since they don’t pay taxes and thus contributes mostly to the spreading crime and poverty in our country. I believe that the government should take proper actions for this problem is rotting our country from inside out. Mindanao has been given negative labels all over the country and has been one of the reasons why we are feared by tourist. As a student, I can help our economy by promoting to my relatives and friends to avoid purchasing from traders that are not monitored and approved by the government. This simple act can definitely make a difference in the economy.

            Mindanao has not flourished through the years and the informal economy has contributed a lot to this. I believe that the government must take action to this obvious problem in our society but I also believe that the government couldn’t do this without the help of the citizens itself. The government and its people should work hand in hand to this problem for a better and fruitful economy.

Editorial

 Turn back to Nature

People may think that natural calamities are inevitable, but we cant deny the fact that we contribute to these calamities. We always point our fingers to others whenever a calamity happens not knowing that we should put our fingers on ourselves. No matter how we deny it, we are killing nature even at the slightest sin of throwing a candy wraper everywhere.

As an education student, we should take the first move of helping nature. Mother earth has never failed in giving our needs but we never look back on taking care of the thing that keeps us alive in this world. According to Ms. Gerlinda Corpus, “we should preserve nature up to the next 7th generation in order to keep the balance of nature”. We are nothing without mother earth. Lets show our love by starting the change whithin ourselves. Only then, that we can spread and encourage everyone we know to the significance of nature in our lives.

Living our lives on a clean and green sorounding will be a dream come true for us who lives in a grey and dirty environment. One piece of candy wraper may cause a life which we can never take back

COC Education Culminating Day

        The Cagayan de Oro College Education students recently celebrated their annual Education Day or the Education Culminating Activity Day last January 29, 2011 at the ground floor of SM city mall which started at exactly 3 o’clock in the afternoon.

        The audience of the culminating activity were the cheerful COCean Education students, the SM City shoppers, SM workers and faculty teachers namely Ms. Grace Villamor, Ms. Hasima Salic, Ms. Gerlinda Corpus, Ms. Rhizhaly Maandig, Ms. Braziel Ongcachuy and the Education Department Dean Ms. Nimfa Osias. The event was hosted by 3^rd year Education students Ms. Princess Josol and John Mark del Rosario. Everyone was united to witness the Culminating activity.

        Many contests were done during the event such as the 2012 Brainiac which was won by the host herself Ms. Princess Josol; story telling won by Ms. Jeda Quino for the story “My Grandmother to the Rescue”; 2012 Education icon won by Ms. Lomonggo. The judges for the contests were Ms. Grace Villamor, Ms. Braziel Ongcachuy and Mr. Wilson Caliat. There were also other games such as answering trivia questions, paint me a picture and charades, the winners were given prizes and gift boxes. The winners were announced after all the contests and the winners were given certificates and cash prizes. It was followed by a prestigious fashion show for the 13 lovely candidates. Everyone were mesmerized by the beauty of the candidates fighting for the 2012 Ms. COC crown. Each had their loud cheers for their favorite candidate.

        The event lasted for less than four hours and was ended by a short thank you speech by Ms. Grace Villamor. Each one bought with them the happy memory that they made during the once in a year activity made for the COC Education students.