Peace body asks banning of overloaded trucks By Johny S. Natad
BUTUAN CITY -- The Butuan City Peace and Order Council (CPOC) has passed a resolution requesting the Sangguniang Panglungsod (SP) to forbid trucks overloaded with forest and agriculture
products from major city thoroughfares. The resolution also aims to regulate the transport such products within the city to ensure safety of the general public. Earlier, Councilor Jaime M. Cembrano Jr., chair of the SP Police and Public Or-
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Authorities nab five ‘druggists’
By Chris V. Panganiban, Regional Editor
AN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur — With small children in tow braving the more than day-long hard journey from their remote villages in Loreto town, more than a thousand ‘lumad’ residents camped out at the provincial capitol covered court since Friday calling for the pull-out of military troops in their strife-torn communities.
The Provincial Crisis Management Committee, however, came up with an alternative solution making their villages a “zone of peace” by prohibiting Army soldiers to stay at Barangay halls and set up detachments about 500 to 1000 meters away from the village center. Josefina Bajade, secretariat of the Crisis Man-
agement Committee, said the provincial government has provided the ‘campers’ food and took the children having coughs and fever to the provincial hospital for medication. Bajade said, Army representatives who attended the crisis management meeting have agreed to the alternative solution since the Children came along with their parents to the provincial capitol to ask public officials
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for a military pull out of their strife-torn villages.
(Chris V. Panganiban/asf)
CAMP RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City - Personnel of San Francisco Municipal Police Station (SFMPS), intelligence operatives of Agusan del Sur Police Provincial Office and PDEA agents have arrested five suspects in illegal drug trade. They are Melton Anchiangco Burdeous, 32 years old, of Poblacion, Bayugan City; Anafie N. Mondragon, 19 years old, of Barangay 1, San Francisco town; and Christine Joy Bustamante, 22 years old, also of Barangay 1, San Francisco town;
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Butuan’s economic strides lauded By Pat Samonte Regional Editor
BEST PRACTICES - Philippine Information Agency (PIA-Caraga) Deputy Regional Director Fryan E. Abkilan (standing left) shares the agency's best practices to Fr. Saturnino Urios University (FSUU) Communication students on Wednesday, July 31. Topic on what stories to cover by a government information officer was also discussed by PIACaraga Operations Chief Nora CL Molde (standing right). (NCLM/Gerie Mae G. Coco, PIA-Caraga/asf)
BUTUAN CITY - Director Diosita T. Andot, assistant head of the Mindanao Coordinating Committee - Office of the President, has lauded Mayor Ferdinand Amante Jr. as she cited the city as a “thriving commercial and economic hub” and as gateway to Caraga Region. In her keynote speech during the People’s Summit, STRIDES | page 11
BUTUAN’S ECONOMIC STRIDES - Director Diosita Andot (at podium) of the Mindanao Coordinating Office appreciates Butuan City’s economic strides, under the Amante administration, despite the slump in the local wood industry. This, during the People’s Summit, Friday. (Photo by Pat Samonte/asf)