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Resolute for peace THE government peace panel in talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has reiterated the firm resolve of the Aquino administration to bring peace and development to Mindanao despite the controversies and political issues. “We have seen this strong commitment as early as President Aquino’s inauguration in 2010,” government peace panel chair Prof. Miriam Coronel-Ferrer said. During his inauguration in June 30, 2010, Aquino declared his government “will be sincere in dealing with all the peoples of Mindanao,” adding “we are committed to a peaceful and just settlement of conflict, inclusive of the interests of all— they be Lumads, Bangsamoro, or Christian.”
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RESIDENT Aquino’s sixth and last State-of-the-Nation-Address (SONA) on Monday has bred frustrations from various sectors and local leaders in Cagayan de Oro City as they staged protest actions while the Chief Executive was delivering his two hours and ten minutes speech beamed live by television channels.
Four groups—three of which are anti-administration, and one supporting the President—converged in Divisoria Plaza to listen to what the President has to say in his last report on the state of the country under his term. But religious activists have expressed dismay saying SONA/PAGE 11
NOYNOY’S LAST SONA. President Benigno Aquino III speaks before the combined houses of Congress and the Senate, delivering his last State of the Nation Address on Monday.
Lawmaker gives SONA almost perfect rating By CRIS DIAZ, Contributing Editor
PPP confab MISAMIS Oriental – The Vice governor of Misamis Oriental led more than 40 participants, both coming from the Legislative Department and the Executive Department of the Provincial Government of Misamis Oriental, in attending the one-day Public-Private Partnership (PPP) OrientationWorkshop held last 21 July 2015 at the Session Hall of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan. The Orientation-Workshop was organized by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to facilitate the crafting of a legislative measure to institutionalize guidelines for Public-Private Partnership to cater to the priority of Governor Bambi Emano to develop the properties of the Provincial Government of Misamis Oriental. Agape Comendador and Kathleen Geslani, both Training Specialists of the Capacity Development and Knowledge Management Service of the Public-Private Partnership Center of the Philippines, facilitated the orientation.
A CAGAYAN de Oro City lawmaker gave an almost perfect rating to President Benigno Aquino III’s last State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday. Rep. Rufus Rodriguez of Cagayan De Oro City gave a rating of “9,” in a scale of “10,” to the Aquino government for bringing the country to a “higher level of economic development.” He said that the Aquino administ rat ion has initiated programs that reduced poverty, lowered unemployment rates, increased direct foreign
investment, and on good governance. Mr. Aquino’s fight against graft and corruption in the government through the administration’s “Tuwid na Daan” (straight path) policy has also brought confidence among investors in the US and Europe to invest in the country, Rodriguez said. He said that the Aquino administration has transformed the country as the “new economic Tiger” in Asia. Aquino also worked for the attainment of a lasting peace rating/PAGE 11
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PEOPLE’S SONA. Activists call for the resignation of President Benigno Aquino III at a protest rally in Davao City on Monday. mindanews photo by toto lozano
SPI’s Carbon Sink project, a model of environmental rehabilitation By BONG D. FABE, Contributing Editor
CUGMAN, Cagayan de Oro City — “If you leave a logged over and denuded forest
alone, it will become a forest again in several years. But if we help through sustainable
forest rehabilitation, we can fast track the process by a few more years,” said Dr. Cesar Nuevo. project/PAGE 11
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