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Rep. Rufus B. Rodriguez, (center with a Spade), participates in the groundbreaking ceremony of the road concreting project for COMSAT – Kabiloganin Barangay Bugo costing P5 million. With Cong. Rodriguez is Barangay Chairman Jesus S. Morial Jr.,Kag. Presley Emano, Kag. Ponciano J. Dawal, Kag. Edwin V. Aban, DPWH OIC- Asst. Mabel F. Saa and COMSAT Staff. KENDISCHAVES
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Police dragnet nips 2 motorbike thieves
Warning out on ‘massive’ pesticides use Pesticide use is “very alarming”, warns a study conducted by the National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines (UP) Manila. “The massive use of pesticide is an issue in Pangasinan and Benguet,” said Dr. Jinky Lu, a Research Professor at UP Manila who conducted the study about pesticide residues on eggplants. “Farmers don’t know it is unnecessary.” “Pesticides affect farmers’ and community health; farming is a household work, a household-based economy, she said. “These farms are interspersed between homes, so families and children are affected.” These are crops that are brought to the market and eventually on the table, so the health of consumers is affected as well, she said during the launching of a the book, “Socioeconomic Impacts of Bt Eggplant”. The book was published by the International Service for the Acquisiton
ROOPERS from the 30th Infantry Battalion, on routine security patrol, engaged 20 New People’s Army (NPA) fighters in a 30-minute firefight inflicting undetermined number of casualties to the rebel force in Barangay Cambuayon, Bacuag town, Surigao Del Norte Sunday morning.
By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
MISAMIS Oriental––Two hardened thieves who stole motorcycles in exchanged for ‘cash and drugs’ were collared Sunday in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, the police said on Monday.
Tagolo-an is a coastal town 30 kilometers east of the capital city of Cagayan De Oro in Misamis Oriental. Police identified the suspects as Erwin Taca-taca, a.k.a “Butsoy” and Mark Adani, all of Tagolo-an, Misamis Oriental. See police, page 11
Denied protection in 2008, radio blocktimer shot dead GROUNDBREAKING. Alubijid town Mayor Alvin Geovani Labis, Lanao Barangay Chairman Rozenger Janubas, Vice Mayor Emmanuel Jamis join Misamis Oriental second district Rep. Juliette Uy in breaking the ground for the P100-million 3.8 kilometers road concreting project in Barangay Lanao in Laubijid town in Misamis Oriental on June 6. Photo courtesy of Dodo Canoy
A journalist whose request for a writ of amparo in 2008 was denied by the Court of the Appeals was shot dead in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro province, on June 9, 2014. The writ of amparo is “a remedy available to any person whose right to life, liberty and security is violated or threatened with violation by an unlawful act or omission of a public official or employee, or of a private individual or entity.” It was adopted by the See denied, page 11
Misor doubles travel allowances of workers By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
MISAMIS Oriental––The provincial government has doubled the monthly allowances of workers deployed to deliver basic services to the
province’s far flung towns and villages starting this month, Governor Yevgeny Vincente Emano announced on Monday. Emano said that the workers will now receive a monthly stipend of P1,500,
up P900 from the current monthly allowance of P600. “I realized the priceless sacrifices of provincial government workers who braved through storms and floods in order to deliver urgent services to the hin-
terlands of Misamis Oriental during disasters and calamities,” Emano said. Emano made the statement while lambasting the previous administration under former See workers, page 11
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