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Volume III, No. 072
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See story P15.00 on Page 12 August 15, 2014
Marawi City earns DILG’s ‘Seal of Good Housekeeping’ By SONNY SUDARIA Mindanao Daily News-Armm
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CAGAYAN de Oro City––The Islamic City of Marawi finally earned the much-coveted Seal of Good HouseKe e p i n g ( S G H ) award of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).
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CIDG men deny extorting money from beleaguered NFA executive u A5 WESTMIN
See FULL STORY, page A4
Misor turns over another emergency response cars MISAMIS Oriental––The provincial government of Misamis Oriental has turned another seven emergency response vehicles to barangays of the first district on Thursday, August 14. This is part of Governor Yevgeny Vincente B. Emano’s goal of providing emergency response vehicles to all barangays of the province. “Ako gayud isiguro nga sa panahon sa emerhensiya, adunay magamit ang mga tao nga sakyanan aron magdala kanila, ehemplo paingon sa mga balay tambalanan,” Emano said. Beneficiaries are barangays of San Juan, Dansuli, Quezon, Kibanban, and 1, Balingasag and barangays of Valdeconcha and Mabini, Binuangan. As of press time, Capitol has turned over 34 emergency response vehicles to 34 barangays of the first district. pio-misor
INTERIOR and Local Government Acting City Director Lininding Lao (above photo, third from right) of Marawi City hands over the certificate of the Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH), signed by Undersecretary Austere A. Panadero for local government of the Department of the Interior and Local Governments (DILG) and DILG Technical Services Director Nomaire Madid of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm), to Marawi City Mayor Sultan Fahad U. Salic (above photo, third from left). DILG Sports and Information Officer Sozimo Pazaol, former Assemblywoman Samirah Gutoc Tomawis, also the solid-waste management coordinator for Marawi City, Association of the Barangay Council (ABC) President Alvin Abduljabar Awar witnessed the event. With SGH certification, local government unit can avail of financial assistant from private and government banks and other funding institutions. (Full story on B4) Photos by Sonny Sudaria of MDN-Armm
Zamboanga City Police Office remains aggressive in anti-crime efforts u A6 DAVAO
Anti-Narcotics cops intercept P2-million worth of ‘shabu’ inside LBC package u A2
Getting ‘organic’ certification too Four civilians hurt in slow and expensive, say farmers BIFF bombing attack DAVAO City––Farmers’ groups and advocates of organic agriculture here said the practice of certifying products as “organic,” institutionalized by Republic Act 10068, is “too slow” and “inaccessible.” Speaking at a press conference at the Ateneo de Davao University Finster Hall Tuesday, Chito Medina, national coordinator of the Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (MASIPAG), said
the certification practice has only gathered less than one percent of farmers’ produce three years since the law’s implementation. The law, Medina said, aims to reach five percent of the country’s 9.57 million hectares of agricultural lands. The problem? Certification costs P150,000, Medina pointed out. He said farmers would rather go for an alternative and affordable guarantee
system called the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS), which the group launched the same day. The MASIPAG officer said some local governments have already practiced the farming certification, which has cost farmers a small fraction of the recommended third-party certification system proposed by the law. “Certification costs only P700 in Zamboanga and P1,000 in Quezon province,” See farmers, page A7
COTABATO City––Suspected Moro militants, targeting a military convoy with a roadside bomb in Maguindanao Wednesday afternoon, instead hurt four civilians, the military said yesterday. Colonel Dickson Hermoso, regional Army spokesperson, said the roadside bombing at a highway in Barangay Sambolawan, Datu Salibo town came a day after Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) si-
multaneously attacked Army detachments in nearby villages of Magaslong, Sharif Saydona town and Buayan, Datu Piang town, also in Maguindanao. Hermoso, speaking for the 6th Infantry Division, said the bombers could have targeted a convoy of soldiers belonging to the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Battalion but missed, hitting another vehicle tailing the Army at past 4 p.m. See attack, page A7
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