BusinessWeek MINDANAO CREDIBLE
Volume VII, No. 152
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Briefly Mid-year bonus ABOUT 3,000 casual and regular employees of the Misamis Oriental provincial government would receive their midyear bonus this week, Governor Yevgeny Vincente Emano said Wednesday. Emano said that the mid-year bonus is equivalent to one month salary, which the provincial government usually releases in May as the enrollment for the school year approaches. He said the mid-year bonus could help the parents in enrolling and acquiring the important school items for their children for the coming school year. Emano said that aside from the midyear bonus, provincial capitol employees are also entitled to the 13th month pay given every end of the year.
Rehab program A COMMUNITY-based rehabilitation program under the auspices of the Mamayang Ayaw sa Anomaliya, Mamayang Ayaw sa Ilegal na Droga (MASA-MASID) was launched on May 17 at barangay Bulua covered court here. The program is a joint endeavor of the Barangay Council of Bulua, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), Technical Education and Skills Development Authority ( T E S D A ) , Ci t y S oci al Welfare Development Office (CSWDO) and other partner agencies and groups. MASA-MASID is an intervention program that helps transform drug respondents into a better, responsible citizens by staying away from the drug menace. Barangay Bulua, under the leadership of Barangay Chairman Al Legaspi, is eyeing to become a drug-free barangay in Cagayan de Oro City. (CIO/PIA10)
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EYOND the utility scaledriven capacity buildup, the thre e retai l electricity supplier (RES) units of Aboitiz Power Corporation have been targeting to corner an amalgamated 800 megawatts portfolio by year 2020, according to the conglomerate’s Chief Executive Officer Erramon I. Aboitiz.
DANCING CADETS. Cadets from the Philippine Military Academy Mabalasik Class of 2019 break into a dance after performing a silent drill at the University of Southeastern Philippines in Davao City on Wednesday. The cadets are in Davao City for their 2017 Southern Cruise program. mindanews photo by manman dejeto
He said that will serve as a continuing strategy from the 400-500MW that they currently have – and part of the capacity to be offered will be from the company’s 300-megawatt Toledo coal-fired power facility. The capacity of the Toledo plant, which is under Therma Visayas, Inc. (TVI) corporate vehicle, had not been fully contracted yet, Aboitiz said. That then sets a leeway for part of its generated capacity to be offered to customers in the retail competition and aboitiz/PAGE 11
Normin’s economy up by 7.6% in 2016 NORTHERN Mindanao’s economy expanded by 7.6 percent in 2016, faster than the economic growth of 5.7 percent in 2015. The acceleration was due to the improved performance of the Service and Industry
sectors, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Regional Office 10. Ser vices grew by 8.3 percent in 2016, higher than the 7.5 percent growth in the previous year. Trade, which accounted for the biggest
share in the total output of Services, expanded at a faster rate of 10.0 percent compared with the growth of 6.6 percent in the previous year. Such faster expansion was due to boost in retail trade. economy/PAGE 11
Duterte warns courts to avoid issuing TRO on Chinese projects By ANTONIO L. COLINA IV, MindaNews
DAVAO City -- President Rodrigo R. Duterte said the implementation of Chineseinvested projects in the country will be accelerated,
but he warned to disobey the courts issuing temporary restraining orders intended to deliberately delay projects in favor of other bidders.
In his arrival message at the F. Bangoy International Airport (formerly, Davao International Airport) early Tuesday, Duterte said he and China’s two highest leaders avoid/PAGE 11
SAGUDSOD. Children from a poor Maranao community in Lanipao, a hinterland barangay in Iligan City, play “sagudsud” Thursday. The game involves kicking stones and making sure they land inside rectangles drawn using charcoal. mindanews photo by aubrey rocin llamas
gov urges truck ban Farmers to press claim on MisOr to ease traffic in Cag. de Oro 145-ha land in Tagum By ANTONIO L. COLINA IV, MindaNews
DAVAO City -- Banking on President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of suppor t, farmers belonging to the Madaum Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association Inc. (MARBAI) will again attempt to reclaim possession of a disputed 145-hectare property in Tagum City from Lapanday
Fo o ds C or p. ( L F C ) on Thursday. In a phone inter view We d n e s d a y, M A R B A I member Linda Dayahan said that Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano, along with officials from the Department of Interior and Local Government in Davao Region, will serve
the writ of installation on Thursday morning. “We are t han k f u l to Duterte that he hears our plight to reclaim the land because we have long been neglected in the past. It was not an easy fight for us but we tried our best to keep going. After all, this is not just about us, MARBAI farmers, but also other claim/PAGE 10
MISAMIS Oriental Governor Yevgeney Vincente B. Emano on Tuesday urged the city government to impose strictly the “truck ban” in order to ease the traffic congestion in the city and Misamis Oriental. Emano made the unsolicited advice in the wake of the burgeoning traffic congestion in the city’s major thoroughfares here throughout the day. ”The city government should impose the city
ordinance on banning big cargo trucks and vehicles, especially 10- to 16- wheeler trailer trucks, from plying the city’s major streets during the daytime,” Emano said. He said that cargo and delivery trucks, trailers and other big vehicles should be allowed to travel only from 10 p.m. until 4 p.m. According to Emano, the city government could coordinate with other traffic ban/PAGE 11
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