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Oro vice mayor’s reply to Fr. Yap miss-sent to DSWD Volume IV, No. 061 web portal: www.mindanaodailynews.com
Thursday
July 30, 2015
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By BONG D. FABE, Contributing Editor
Aquino Legacy: more poor Filipinos
CAGAYAN de Oro City--No, he is not a snob. Vice Mayor Caesar Ian Acenas is just inept and incompetent as shown by his own admission that his reply to the letters of the City Solid Waste Management Board (CSWMB) was miss-sent to the Social Welfare department instead of to the letters’ sender, Fr. Roberto “Bobby” Yap, a source said yesterday. See FULL STORY, page A9
Public schools in Misor built in danger zones? By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
MISAMIS Oriental--Public schools in Misamis Oriental are along the “volcanic fault lines” considered as danger zones, a senior provincial official said Wednesday. Fernando Q. Dy, officerin-charge of the Provincial Disaster, Risk, Reduction
and Management Council (PDRRMC), said that the PDRRMC discovered the anomaly during an earthquake drill in the town’s public schools here. Dy identified some public schools in the towns of Balingasag and Lagonglong as “sitting in danger zones” because the constructions See DANGER, page A13
Department of Great Taste White explains to the media practitioners the mechanics of their latest promo dubbed as Choose Great Win Great raffle during a gathering in Cagayan de Oro City organized by JG Summit Holdings, Inc. represented by its Corporate Communications Officers Viveca R. Singson and Jannelyn B. Balmonte with Charles Lim of the Selrahco Management and Consultancy Services. Photo by Shaun Uy of BusinessWeek Mindanao
Great Taste White to give P27m worth of prizes in nationwide promo
2016 budget to spur broader growth: PNoy President Benigno S. Aquino, III—through the Department of Budget and Management (DBM)—on Tuesday submitted the proposed P3.002-trillion 2016 National Budget to Congress, as the Administration continues to expand the national economy and sustain governance and budget reforms instituted over the last five years. The proposed 2016 National Budget is double the budget of the past six years, from P1.541 trillion of the 2010 General Appro-
GREAT TASTE COFFEE PROMO. Julius R. Flores of the Beverage Marketing
AQUINO
priations Act (GAA) to the P3.002 trillion planned for next year. This is also 15.2 percent higher than the 2015 enacted budget. On the other hand, the GDP share of 19.5 percent in 2016 will take up a larger See budget, page A13
THE Great Taste White under the Universal Robina Corp. (URC) will be giving away a whopping P27 million worth of prizes via its Choose Great Win Great raffle promo. Julius R. Flores of the Beverage Marketing Department of the Great Taste White said the first regional draw will be held in Cagayan de Oro City on August 15, 2015. The promo will have four regional draws in five areas: Greater Manila Area, North Luzon, South Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
For every regional draw, there will be one winner of P200,000 and one winner of P100,000 in each area. Two winners will also get their very own white MacBook Air, four winners will take home a white iPhone 6, and six winners will receive a white iPad Mini. The Great Taste White: Choose Great, Win Great Promo will culminate in the Grand Draw where one lucky winner will take home P3 million pesos in cash and eight others will get to own a white Toyota Vios 1.3 E M/T.
To make his winning moment an even greater experience, the grand prize winner will get an exclusive sneak peek into the Pinoy Big Brother experience. Apart from the P3 million cash prize, he will also receive VIP tickets to the PBB: 737 Big Night, tour the PBB House, and get to meet and greet PBB: All In Big Winner Daniel Matsunaga. “Through Great Taste White: Choose Great Win Great Promo, we aim to let more consumers savor greater wins,” said Lance See PROMO, page A13
BFAR exec mystified over sharks eating human flesh By GERRY LEE GORIT and ERCEL MAANDIG Correspondents with MARK FRANCISCO Staff member
CAGAYAN de Oro City--An official from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Region 10 could not yet ascertain the species which reportedly ripped the cadaver of
a person in pieces off the El Salvador City coastline Tuesday. Teodoro Bacolod, acting regional director of BFAR10, said his agency is still in the process of identifying the species of the sharks that attacked the torso. Bacolod said that he has already sent a team to investigate the rare incident,
saying sharks normally don’t eat human flesh. He added that it was the first time that it happened in Northern Mindanao that sharks attacked the dead. Bacolod suspects the sharks were forced to eat “dead human flesh” because they found no other food to hunt. He added that See flesh, page A13
THE growing number of poor Filipinos in the country today debunks the Aquino administration’s claims that its successful poverty alleviation strategy would be one of its achievements that must be continued by the succeeding administration, the research think-tank IBON Foundation said. The group delivered its assessment of the Aquino administration’s five years in office in its Birdtalk yesterday at the University of the Philippines School of Economics. Using an altered methodology based on very low standards resulting in only P52 as the official poverty line, government statistics counted 23.8 million poor Filipinos in 2012, See LEGACY, page A13
Shellfish ban up in Davao By Cielito M. Reganit of PNA
THE Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Wednesday said that shellfish collected from the waters at Balite Bay in Mati, Davao Oriental; coastal waters of Dauis, Bohol; Irong-irong Bay and Canbatutay Bay in Western Samar; and the coastal waters of Milagros in Masbate remain positive for paralytic shellfish poison that is beyond regulatory limits. In its Shellfish Bulletin NO. 19 issued July 24, BFAR said that all types of shellfish and Acetes sp. or alamang gathered from such areas are not safe for human consumption. Fish, squid, shrimps and crab are however safe to eat as long as they are fresh See ban, page A13