The Mindanao Cross | March 12, 2022

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Vol. LXXIV| No. 6| Cotabato City | Saturday, March 12, 2022 |8 Pages | P10.00

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BARMM-Lamitan infra efforts takes off

Bishop lauds PH move to welcome Ukrainian refugees

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Tapatan Mary Jaquiline Chua Fernandez

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EXEMPLARY WOMEN.They were honored for their exemplary services and significant contributions to the promotion of women’s rights in the city. Photo courtesy of City Government of Cotabato

BEST HIDEAWAY. Balut Island, a beautiful, stunning island of white unblemished sands and peaceful seas located west of Barangay Paril, Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat, emerging as favorite local destination to unwind and replace the stresses of urban living. Photo courtesy of Hero Dimalen Salik

COTABATO CITY HONORS WOMEN LEADERS

FIRST on the list of the awardees was City Mayor Atty. Frances Cynthia J. Guiani-Sayadi who, in her message, emphasized further that women of today play a more active and important roles in nation-building.

Be vigilant of foreign ships in Sulu, BARMM urged

Floods devastate southern towns, cities By John Felix Unson HUNDREDS of families were displaced by flashfloods and landslides in parts of Mindanao following weather disturbances the past few days A villager was drowned in floodwaters while crossing a river in Barangay Ned, Lake Sebu, South Cotabato on Tuesday. Rolly Aquino, OIC of South Cotabato Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office,

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told Mindanao Cross Wednesday the cadaver of the villager was recovered by local emergency responders a day after the incident. Aquino said the PDRRMO and the municipal government of Lake Sebu are now together reaching out to flood-stricken residents. The villages of Barangays Lamlahak and Halilan were badly hit by flashfloods spawned by heavy

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MORO peace advocates have urged the Bangsamoro Government to be vigilant of probable transnational formation of allied military powers along the open lanes of South Sulu Sea, which is feared to drag the country into a bigger international conflict than the regional South China

By Nash B. Maulana Sea disputes. The Ranao Youth Council (RYC) said it did not want the fledgling Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to “end up a host” to convergence of transnational military powers with Tawi-Tawi coves being a vast

anchorage area for naval ships, amid the armed conflict in Eastern Europe. Carl Lacoto Ma-amor, RYC overall chairman, said more Moro people have expressed fears that the nearest military superpower to probably make use of the TawiTawi coves for naval anchorage

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New labor minister: Designation a “challenge” THE chairman of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) saw as “another way forward” his designation as new labor minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

By John Felix Unson Muslimin Sema said the region’s chief minister, Thursday he has accepted Ahod Ebrahim. the post for it can be a “This is big challenge. springboard in furthering I will do my best to be of peace and sustainable service to the public again, development in BARMM, this time as BARMM labor s o m e t h i n g t h a t c a n minister,” Sema said. complement the peace and He had served as development initiatives of mayor of Cotabato City for

three consecutive terms. Sema’s designation, effective March 8, 2022, was signed by Ebrahim, who is at the helm of the 80-member Bangsamoro Transition Authority, also known as BARMM’s interim parliament.

DID YOU KNOW?

MARCH 11-18 is Grandparent’s Week Grandparents’ Week is obser ved every March 11-18 by virtue of Republic Act No. 757, s. 1996 by then President Fidel V. Ramos

FLOOD-STRICKEN. Flashfloods hit many areas in Lake Sebu this week, damaging crops and causing displacement of hundreds of residents, mostly ethnic Tbolis. John Felix Unson

This waning tradition of fostering love and care for the elderly as represented by our “lolos” and “lolas” needs to be preserved and inculcated in our youth and in the succeeding generations of Filipinos.

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