Mindanao Daily NEWS
Volume II, No. 150
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Wednesday
December 11, 2013
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Rape victim ‘possessed’ students to seek justice? By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN, Regional Editor-Caraga
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OSARIO, Agusan del Sur––Strange and weird it may seem, but many people here believed that the spirit of a former student who was raped and killed two years ago was the one believed to have entered and “possessed” the bodies of at least 24 students of Datu Lipus Makapandong National High School last Friday to seek justice to her gruesome plight. Read the full story on page 4
PDIC takes over rural bank in Gensan
GENERAL Santos City–– The Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC) has placed one of the oldest rural banks here under receivership, stunning its more than 2,000 depositors. Nathanel Tumbokon, PDIC public information officer here, said Tuesday they took over the Sarangani Rural Bank Inc. (SRBI) located along the P. Acharon Boulevard effective last December 6 based on a memorandum issued by the PDIC central office’s STILL NO HOPE. Donna Demina of Gabriela USA expresses solidarity with Typhoon Pablo survivors in a rally monetary board. He did not cite the exact at the DSWD regional office in Davao criticizing government’s neglect in rehabilitating houses and farms. Davaotoday.com photo by Earl O. Condeza reasons for the takeover but
Housing woes of Pablo survivors in Davao Oriental By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA of Davao Today
CATEEL, Davao Oriental––Normelinda Masumbid and her neighbors waited in anticipation of owning units in a housing subdivision being constructed across the street. The houses, painted yellow, were supposed to be given to Typhoon Pablo survivors like them last December 4 by the provincial local government. Governor Corazon Malanyaon, however, dashed Normelinda’s hopes when the governor said they had to postpone the turnover of the houses
because President Benigno Aquino III, “had other important things to attend to.” “Let us wait for him as the President still signified intention to attend,” Malanyaon added. Normelinda’s town, Cateel, was one of the towns heavily battered by Typhoon Pablo destroying farms and houses. For a year, Normelinda and her neighbors have been living in a makeshift house they built with galvanized roofs donated by the Philippine Red Cross and tarpaulins as walls which they got from aid groups.
Before the storm, her family relied on a coconut farm in Barangay Aliwagwag that her husband tended to. But the storm uprooted all the trees. Now her husband drives a trisikad at the town proper, while Normelinda sells plastic wares and beauty products. Like Normelinda, thousands of other families in Cateel, Boston and Baganga towns have been living in temporary shelters such as ‘bunkhouses’ built by the government or in ‘shelter tents’ donated by aid groups. In its statement during the See SURVIVORS, page 11
hinted that it was due to problems with the bank’s operations. “We’re focused right now on the immediate processing of the claims of the banks borrowers,” he told reporters. SRBI, which is considered one of the pioneering rural banks in the area, celebrated its 55th anniversary last August 18. The bank reportedly has over 2,000 depositors, who are mostly vendors at the city’s central public market and operators of business establishments along See bank, page 11
The housing project in Barangay Poblacion, Baganga, Davao Oriental. Photo contributed by Juland Suazo
Impunity is a serious matter By BENJIE OLIVEROS of Bulatlat.com
ON THE occasion of the 62nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which marked the first semester of the Aquino administration, President
of a Human Benigno Aquino III Bulatlat perspective Rights Desk Operations declared his government’s commitment Manual for the Philippine National Police, and the to human rights. He announced the for- creation of a Department of mation of a human rights Justice Task Force to review office in the Armed Forces of unresolved cases of See impunity, page 11 the Philippines, the crafting
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