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Volume III, No. 032
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See story P15.00 on Page 12 June 26, 2014
DTI launches participatory budgeting in Agusan Norte PLDT cuts off long distance services of the MISORTEL By ERCEL MAANDIG
MISAMIS Oriental––The Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) has cut off the long distance services of the province’s cash trapped Misamis Oriental Telephone (MISORTEL) system, MISORTEL Manager Fernando Dy said on Wednesday. Dy made the disclosure as he begged for the release of P6.2 million, representing as partial payment of MISORTEL’s P 51 million debt with the PLDT, with members of the provincial board during the board’s regular session last Monday. PLDT is the major communication provider of the MISORTEL company that provides communication services to some 3,000 local subscribers in Cagayan Style icon and TV host Tim Yap shares the bed on stage with America’s Next Top Model Cycle 12 and All Stars finalist Allison Harvard at the activity center of the Centrio Mall, De Oro City and Misamis Cagayan de Oro City, for its Style Origin “Inspiring Fashion and Beauty” event series, June Oriental. Dy said that MISOR21. photo by shaun alejandrae yap uy
TEL owes PLDT about P 45 million in 2005. “The amount has ballooned to P 51 million for the last nine years because of the unpaid 8 percent annual interest,” Dy told the provincial board members. He said that the situation was exacerbated with the pulling out of MISORTEL’s institutional clients such as the Del Monte Philippines and the Pilipinas Kao, all multi-national companies in Cagayan De Oro and Misamis Oriental. In response, the provincial board members passed a resolution for the release of P 6.2 million as MISORTEL’s partial payment to PLDT for the immediate reconnection of the international direct dialing lines of the province-owned telephone system. Dy said that the amount is a shot in the arms of See services, page 11
Judge orders Lasureco to reconnect power supplies of Lanao’s 35 towns By SONNY SUDARIA Mindanao Daily News-Armm
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MARAWI City--A Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge ordered top officials of Lanao del Norte Electric Cooperative (Lasureco) to reconnect the electricity of at least 35 towns in Lanao del Norte. Judge Wenida B.M. Papandayan of the 12th Judicial Region cited the nature of the case as follows:
• This is an (original) action and or petition for Mandamus under Rule 65 of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure as amended, to compel respondent Lanao del Sur Electric Cooperative or “Lasureco” for brevity to perform a ministerial duty as public servant and more particularly to reconnect petitioner’s electricity or electrical services in their respective municipalities
and or every qualified constituents, consumers and residents that were unlawfully and illegally disconnected; an act which the law specifically enjoins as a duty resulting from office, trust or station that petitioners are lawfully entitled, and there is no plain, speedy and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law. • This petition likewise
By PAT SAMONTE and CRISTINA DEDEL
BUTUAN CITY – The Department of Trade and Industry in Agusan del Norte (DTIADN) has launched six projects in four towns to jumpstart the agency’s 2014 grassroots participatory budgeting (GPB) implementation in the province. See FULL STORY, page 4
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