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Volume II, No. 219
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Rains did not stop LGU from holding disaster drill BUTUAN City––Light to moderate rains affecting Butuan City and the neighboring places of Caraga since Tuesday afternoon brought about by the low pressure area, 845 kilometers east of Mindanao, has not keep Butuan City Hall from pushing through with its scheduled earthquake drill, early morning on Wednesday.
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SM City in C. de Oro joins Earth hour 2014
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WHERE’S THE PEDESTRIAN LANE? Despite efforts to strictly implement road discipline and courtesy, a scene like this is common among the pedestrian lanes in Cagayan de Oro City. Erring drivers are supposed to be liable for “obstruction” but it seems traffic enforcement agencies have overlooked this matter. Photo by Gerry Lee Gorit of Mindanao Daily News
Earth Hour is a simple concept that quickly turned into a global phenomenon. Last 2013, over 7,000 cities, towns, provinces and municipalities in 154 countries and territories joined and switched off their lights for one hour to highlight awareness on global climate change. On the 29th of March 2014, from 8:30 to 9:30 in the evening, The SM City Cagayan de Oro will once again join Earth Hour to inspire everyone, as well as to make a stand in creating a better future for our planet. Join us this Earth Hour. Let us go beyond the hour, so after the lights go back, SOON THEY SHALL FALL. The sight of two golden shower trees festooned think of how we can con- with yellow leaves provides a stark contrast to the overcast skies above Malaybalay tinuously make a differ- City in this photo taken on Wednesday afternoon, 19 March 2014. MindaNews photo by H. Marcos C. Mordeno ence.
DAVAO City––Lumad or indigenous peoples leaders in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have expressed support to the creation of the Bangsamoro region, but
are worried on the fate of their ancestral domains in the new entity. In a press conference on Wednesday at the Philippine Information Agency office here, Timuay Alim
Bandara, a Teduray tribal leader, said that indigenous peoples have expressed to their representatives in the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) the need to respect their
Ampatuan scion among country’s new lawyers COTABATO City––Twentyeight year old Bai Saudia Shahara Biruar-Ampatuan, a grand daughter of former Maguindanao governor Andal Ampatuan Sr., was among those who passed the 2013 bar exams.
Will she be joining the defense team of her grandfather and other family members accused in the grisly Ampatuan massacre on November 23, 2009 that killed 58 people, including See LAWYERS, page 11
Mayor Uy leads first caged bangus harvest By IRENE ROA ANIBONG and DODO CANOY Contributors
ancestral domain claims. The BTC is drafting the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), the charter that would govern the new Bangsamoro region once
VILLANUEVA, Misamis Oriental––Mayor Julio Uy and Maxim Xerxes Cabio of the Provincial Fisheries Office (PFO) spearheaded the just-held first Bangus Cage harvest in Poblacion 3 here. The 10 by 10 meters fish cage located in Barangay Looc is a joint project of the local government of Villanueva under Mayor Uy and the Bureau of
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Lumads back Bangsamoro creation but…
Jeepney, trike drivers oppose public bus system u 9
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