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See story on Page A1 12 December 15, 2014 P15.00
Ex-US Marine survives ambush in Surigao City Volume III, No. 165
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By Roel Catoto of MindaNews
URIGAO City--A retired US Marine survived an ambush attempt Tuesday in a remote village in this city. A police report said Mark Ernest Southworth, 56, was riding his Toyota HiLux from his residence in Barangay Balibayon and was ambushe d upon reaching Escalon Bridge in the said village. See full story, page A5
Villanueva town fiesta wraps up By DODO CANOY Contributor VILLANUEVA, Misamis Oriental--The Mardigras Street Dancing, Tribal Dance Competition, Drum and Lyre Competition, and some activities organized by religious sectors were some of the main highlights of the weeklong celebration of this town’s annual fiesta in honor of its patron, Saint Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, that ended on December 13. “The festival is a sign of our strength as a people in unity,” said Villanueva town Mayor Julio T. Uy. The annual town fiesta started on December 8 and culminated on December 13, 2014. Carrying the theme “Villanueva-Kaniadto, Karon, ug Ugma,” the weeklong See fiesta, page A7
Mayor Julio T. Uy (right) of Villanueva town and Misamis Oriental second district Rep. Juliette T. Uy (third from right) pose with one of the winners of Mardigras, a street dancing competition, where the champion team receives P50,000. At least 11 barangays competed in the street dancing competition. Non-winning teams receive P20,000 as a consolation prize. The street dancing competition serves as one of the highlights of the annual town fiesta of Villanueva in honor of its patron, Saint Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Photo courtesy of Dodo Canoy
LTFRB on B’non bus blast: RTMI’s lapses won’t affect its franchise
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Who’s behind the Bukidnon bus blast?
COTABATO City––Who’s behind Tuesday’s bombing inside a passenger bus in Maramag, Bukidnon? Less than 24 hours after the blast that killed 10 persons, five of them students of the Central Mindanao University, and injured 42 others, newspaper and television reports quoted military officials as saying the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), a Maguindanao-based armed group wanted by the military, was the perpetrator. The BIFF, however, denied it had a hand in the bombing of Rural Transit of Mindanao, Inc. bus 2460 in Barangay Dologon, Maramag town, about a kilometer away from the CMU, even as the Eastern Mindanao Command in Davao City maintained the improvised explosive device (IED) used was a “signature bomb” of the BIFF, fashioned from an 81-mm mortar. BIFF spokesperson Abu Misry Mama condemned the attack. He said they only knew of the incident when a Bukidnon-based broadcaster reached him for comment on the military’s claims that his group carried out the bombing. In a telephone interview, See blast, page A3
Bus firm management got flurry of text messages to pay up or else…
MALAYBALAY City––The franchise of Rural Transit Mindanao Inc. (RTMI) won’t be affected despite having committed “lapses” in relation to the bombing of one of its buses Tuesday in Maramag, Bukidnon that killed 10 people and wounded 42 others, an official of the Land Transportation Franchising and
THE Rural Transit in Mindanao Inc. received a flurry of text messages from unknown persons to pay P50 thousand a month or one of their buses would be bombed, police and military officials said. An RTMI bus bearing body number 2640 was bombed late Tuesday afternoon in Barangay Dologon,
See LAPSES, page A7
See flurry, page A7
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