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MINDANAO DAILY T H E P U RV E YO R O F T R U T H , J U S T I C E , A N D D E V E LO P M E N T
4 pump boats nearly capsize Volume VI, No. 167
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Tuesday
December 20, 2016
By BEN EMATA, Bennex News Service
NEWSBREAK--Just came in from Cagayan de Oro submitted by Froilan Gallardo revealed that four pump boats filled with an undetermined number of passengers left from Villanueva town, on stormy weather, bound for Dumaguete to attend a wedding were declared missing. Search and rescue See HISTORY, page A7
Priest: Many lawmakers are anti-death penalty, but...
CAGAYAN de Oro City--Four pump boats loaded with passengers bound for Dumaguete City from Villanueva town in Misamis Oriental on Friday nearly capsized due to rough seas and strong winds, a rescue official said Saturday.
AN HONEST TAXI DRIVER. Ronde Amarga (center) of Jikko Taxi returns a Laptop left by a passenger to the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board in Region 10 through LTFRB-10 acting Regional Director Aminoden “Allan” D. Guro (left) and Hearing Officer Solayman “Jhun” B. Macatoon. Photo courtesy of Hussein U. Diamla
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Lawmaker to DENR: Be fair to small scale miners A LAWMAKER has called on the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to “give due considerations to alleviate the pitiful situation” of the country’s small-scale miners “instead of threatening them of losing their decades-old source of livelihood.”
Bayan Muna Representative Carlos Isagani Zarate, chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources, made the call Thursday (December 15) during a gathering of small-and large-scale miners in Itogon, Benguet, where he also said that the Mining Act of 1995
is “lopsided in the favor of largescale mining corporations.” “The DENR cannot just dismiss the operations of small-scale miners as illegal and demand it to stop. This is livelihood for thousands of people, and it has been so for generations especially here in the
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News in a flash ‘History might repeat itself ’
By Froilan Gallardo of MindaNews
All 18 passengers, among them minors, are safe. P/Ens Mary Ann Solares of the Philippine Coast Guard in Northern Mindanao on said the rough environment forced the boats to scatter in various directions. Solares said two of the small boats turned back and sought safety in the
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Cordillera,” Zarate said in a press statement. “Secretary Gina Lopez must heed the plight of the ordinary small-scale miners. Instead of closing them down, it must push for the modernization of our See fair, page A7
The country’s model of politics can be a game changer when it comes to the Duterte administration’s firm resolve to revive the death penalty in the country, a Catholic priest said. S o f a r, Franciscan Fr. Robert Reyes of the C oalition Against Death Pen- Reyes alty (CADP) said many legislators are against the capital punishment. “But the problem is our politics! It’s a politics of compromise and accommodation,” said Reyes, who is also known as the “running priest.” This early, he said, some congressmen are already insinuating that it will be hard for them to go against the administration “because they have to survive politically.” “This is about survival. As early as now, they are already thinking See LAWMAKERS, page A7
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