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Briefly Anti-firecracker BUTUAN City -- The Department of Health Regional Office 13 in a press forum on Friday evening at the conference room of a local hotel here in the city announces the waging of its anti-firecracker campaign for the forthcoming yuletide and 2016 New Year’s celebrations. Dr. Cesar Cassion, the DOH 13 Assistant Regional Director said that their hands were filled with the preparations for the campaign even as the Caraganons were also preparing themselves to celebrate the Christmas solemnity and wave goodbye to 2015 as the year ends. The anti-firecracker campaign, which carries the theme, “Wag Pasaway, Sa Paputok Goodbye Kamay,” focuses on encouraging the public to use alternative ways to celebrate the two previously mentioned major events, according to Cassion.
BBL on ARMM THE proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) will fill the deficiencies of the current Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) through a better structure of government, according to the House of Representatives ad hoc committee on the BBL chair and Cagayan de Oro City Representative, Rufus Rodriguez. “We are giving them more autonomous powers that will deal better the subsidiary measures of the region. We should not overreact to the powers given to the (Bangsamoro) parliament. We believe that BLBAR will bring peace in the Bangsamoro, and that with peace, economic development will happen,” Rodriguez told Magdalo Party-list Representative, Francisco Ashley Acedillo, during the resumption of plenary interpellations at the House earlier this week. BLBAR, or the Basic Law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, is the version of the BBL approved by Rodriguez’s committee.
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Dealing with the Past: TJRC submits report to GPH, MILF peace panels By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews
DAVAO City -- The fivem e m b e r Tr a n s i t i o n a l Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC)
has handed over to the government (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels
its report on dealing with the past in the Bangsamoro and ensuring accountability, serving justice, and achieving reconciliation. Under the Annex on
Normalization, the GPH and MILF peace panels mandated the TJRC to undertake a study and to propose appropriate mechanisms to address legitimate grievances of the
Bangsamoro People; correct historical injustices; address human rights violation; and address marginalization through land dispossession. report/PAGE 11
Govt set to bid out Oro port terminal project
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HE Port of Cagayan de Oro is the first to be bidded out for the construction of its passenger terminal building worth P297.63 million, according to an invitation to bid published in a national daily. The project is part of the government’s expansion program for three regional ports, cumulatively worth P608.6 million. T h e D e p a r t m e nt of Transportation said the winning bidder will be responsible for supply and driving of pre-cast piles for foundation, as well as construction of the two-
storey facility with roofdeck, including reinforcements and gravel bedding. The project must be completed within 720 days. Ne x t i n l i n e i s t h e P60.69-million deal for the construction of port operations building in the Port of Lucena in Brgy. Talaotalao, Lucena. project/PAGE 10
TJRC chair Mo Bleeker, accompanied by TJRC members, submits final report to the government through peace panel chair Miriam Coronel-Ferrer in Pasig City on December 9, in the presence of Secretary Teresita Quintos-Deles, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process. photo courtesy of tjrc
UN’s FAO woos donor agencies for Mindanao agricultural program By CARMELITO Q. FRANCISCO, Correspondent
Motorelas decorated for Christmas join the Paskorela celebration in Cagayan de Oro City on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. Paskorela is a competition of dressed-up motorelas, the city’s chief means of public transportation. mindanews photo by froilan gallardo
THE United Nations’ (UN) Fo o d a n d Ag r i c u l t u re Organizat ion (FAO) is calling for funding support from donor agencies to roll out the Mindanao Strategic Programme for Agriculture and Agribusiness (MSPAA), a six-year project that aims
to strengthen the south’s agriculture sector. In a statement issued on Friday, the FAO said it is urging donor communities help bankroll the program t hat wi ll have sp e cif ic strategies for the more developed agriculture areas
in the south and those that have been lagging, mainly due to armed conflicts. The MSPAA also intends to link these two distinct agricultural segments. The FAO Philippine office said there is no final amount yet needed for the program, but it is planned program/PAGE 11
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