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EDGEDAVAO
THE BIG NEWS
VOL. 7 ISSUE 68 • THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2014
VANISHING PEDESTRIAN LANES. Passersby walk through an almost blotted out pedestrian lane along Roxas Avenue in Davao City yesterday. Majority of pedestrian lanes in Davao City are now almost completely erased and need to be repainted. Lean Daval Jr.
TRAFFIC WOES
ADDU seeks permit to build walkway
By KAI DEL CORRO
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FTER giving in to the request by the city government to close three entrance gates to ease traffic along MacArthur Highway, Ateneo de Davao University now seeks for a permit to build an elevated walkway in its Matina Campus. According to Jeremy Eliab, assistant to the President of Ateneo de Davao University, the Jesuit-run institution is now waiting for the spe-
cial permit from the city government for the installation of the walkway from the new parking facility to the main campus along Juna Subdivision. The walkway is envisioned to connect the parking building to the main campus above the street on the second level between the structures. Eliab said this walkway will solve both safety and congestion issues as
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WEATHER FORECAST
PRO II takes over probe of King slay By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
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HE investigation on the killing of a Cebuano hotel magnate has been elevated to the Police Regional Office (PRO)-11 Special Investigation Task Group. According to PRO-11 chief of staff Sr. Supt. Camilo Cascolan, they have already formed the regional investigating team that will continue the probe on the case
of Richard L. King who was shot to death by a lone gunman inside his establishment in Sobrecarey Sreet, Davao City last week. “There will be people who will be going out of Davao just to investigate. Not a man hunt operation,” Cascolan told reporters in yesterday’s AFP-PNP press corps at The Royal Mandaya Hotel.
Cascolan said that the regional SITG “King” is now headed by Sr. Supt. Aaron Aquino Deputy Regional Director for Operation of PRO-11. He said that after they shall have gathered information and evidence, the SITG will re-evaluate the case to identify the suspect. “We are still awaiting a lot of information coming
from his other friends,” said Cascolan. He said that they already gathered some information from the smartphone of King while they are still looking for other phones and his other circle of friends as well his relatives. Cascolan said that they discounted the theory of
small exporters. For instance, Cavendish bananas from Mindanao only reach market as far as Middle East, but not Europe because there are no vessels big and fast enough to ship the product. “If only there’s one or two shipping companies willing to provide this service, I think we can expand our market coverage,” he said. Currently, the biggest
market of Mindanao’s Cavendish banana is China with a population of more than one billion. He said that 30 percent of their total produce goes to the Chinese market. However, China is just one market and there’s still markets that should be tapped, he said. Other markets that should be explored are markets of United States, Europe and other Asian
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Poor logistics hampers efforts of banana men to export more By CHENEEN R. CAPON
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LOCAL businessman in Davao City said that poor logistical system in the country inhibits banana exporters in the region from exploring the global market. Luciano Frederick P. Puyod III, a local banana exporter and a member of Mindanao Banana Farmers and Exporters Association (MBFEA), said that this is the huge problem confronted by exporters of fresh products.
“We don’t have shipping lines that will carry our products as far as Europe and other countries unlike Costa Rica of South America that also has big banana plantations,” he said during yesterday’s Club 888 press conference at The Marco Polo Davao. This is ironic because the Philippines is the top producer of Cavendish banana in Asia but it doesn’t have a strong logistics system needed by of big and
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