VOL. 10 ISSUE 133 • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2017
www.edgedavao.net
EDGEDAVAO Serving a seamless society
P 15.00 • 20 PAGES MYSTERY VAN. Workers guide a forklift operator in hauling a container van onto a trailer truck at Sasa Port in Davao City on Wednesday. Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio urged the Davao office of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to have the x-ray machine in Sasa Port reopened and used to enhance the safety and security of Davao City from terrorist attacks and to prevent smuggling and corruption in the city’s main port. Lean Daval Jr.
TALKS WITH REDS
Sara bares first meeting to pave way to negotiation NTC-Davao hits 2017 P40M goal
By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
T
he Davao City Local Peace Committee (DC PEACE) will hold its first meeting next week for the proposed local peace talks between the local government and the Communist Party of the Philippines - New People’s Army (CPPNPA) in the city. This was bared yesterday by Mayor Sara Z. Duterte-Carpio in an interview after her weigh-in for the FitFil National Weight Loss Challenge. “Sa first meeting, naa ko didto para mag discuss mi sa among guidelines (In the coming first meeting, I will be there to discuss the guidelines),” she said. Duterte-Carpio said the city government is set to
release the appointment papers to the people who will be part of the DC PEACE within this week. The peace committee will be chaired by retired Davao City Regional Trial Court Judge Ridgway Tanjili and the members are Archdiocese of Davao Archbishop and incoming Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Romulo Valles City Social Service and Development Office (CSSDO) head Malou Bermudo, Malabog Barangay Captain Jessie Areja and lawyer Elisa Lapina from the City Legal Office. She said after the meeting next week the committee will immediately conduct its dialogue with the
CPP-NPA. “Kita, nag-open lang ta sa channels kung interesado sila na makig-istorya and nay mga tao na authorized by the city government to talk to them (We are just opening channels for them if they are interested to have a dialogue and there are people who are authorized to talk with them),” she said. Earlier, the mayor said that the DC PEACE will be given up to November 30 next year to pursue dialogue with the CPP-NPA. Duterte-Carpio said if there is no positive development “there is no point” that the city would continue the dialogue. “There is more than one-year na sila makipag-
storya (There is more than one year that they can talk with us),” she said. She will also ask the committee to accommodate the members of the CPPNPA who will surrender their firearms to the government. Duterte-Carpio said that she received around eight surrender feelers but advised them to direct their intentions to the committee instead. She also said that the members of the CPP-NPA need not surrender their firearms because her plan is to make them work with the government. “We are very flexible for that just to attain the elusive dream of peace,” she said.
T
he National Telecommunication Commission in Davao Region has achieved its P40 million annual target in a quarter away to end 2017. NTC 1I director Nelson Canete attributed the positive performance of the agency to a more aggressive and renewed service
delivery of its mandate. “We would be earning more with the remaining three months this year,” he said. Canete also reported NTC is on track on their dialogue with local government units and clients operating radio stations,
NTC, 10
The moon, mooncake and good company