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
Volume VI, No. 154
Solons berate Duterte LAWMAKERS belonging to the Alliance of Concern Teachers (ACT) partylist yesterday slammed President Rodrigo Duterte’s treat to human rights activists critical of extra judicial killings amid the government’s anti-drug war, saying that he should address the criticisms they air rather than threaten to kill them and blame them for the proliferation of drugs. “Blaming the country’s problems on presidential critics and threatening them with harm is reminiscent of Marcos. The President should refrain from issuing menacing statements like this since they place a chilling effect on
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Stakeholders split on merits of WESM ON Energy for Mindanao
By Mike Baños, Editor at large
GENERATION companies and the Department of Energy are renewing their call for Wholesale Electricity Spot Market in Mindanao with the emergence of excess electricity supply in the grid but consumers are wary this would instead lead to an increase in power rates. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi said a spot market in the Mindanao grid would efficiently utilize the excess capacities of new power plants not covered by bilateral contracts with distribution utilities and directly connected industries. In his message to the Association of Mindanao Rural Electric Cooperatives, Inc. (AMRECO) Summit in Cagayan de Oro City last week, Cusi said a WESM in Mindanao “runs parallel with President Rodrigo Duterte’s twin priorities of fully addressing the power
See SOLONS, page A11
NTC eyes cheaper text, internet rates
See merits, page A11
THE National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is looking at slashing the rate of short message service (SMS) and Internet cost next following the decision of Globe Telecom Incorporated and PLDT Incorporated to reduce their interconnection charges for voice calls. NTC Commissioner Gamaliel Cordoba said lowering voice call rates is just the first step of a string of Jaywalking. Deputized traffic enforcers escort pedestrians after they were reforms eyed by the regula- caught jaywalking along JP Laurel Avenue in Davao City on Thursday (1 December 2016) as the City Transport and Traffic Management Office (CTTMO) began strictly tory body See cheaper, page A11
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Students of state-owned colleges to get free tuition
CLOSE to a million students of state colleges and universities (SUCs) will not pay tuition next year if Minority Leader Ralph Recto’s amendment to the 2017 national budget to exempt them from basic matriculation will be carried in the final version of the P3.35 trillion spending measure. Recto’s amendment to appropriate P8 billion to cover tuition cost of SUCs imposing the anti-jaywalking law under the city’s Comprehensive Transport and Traf- enrollees is included in the Senate version of the fic Code. Mindanews photo
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Duterte administration’s first general budget. The proposed P8 billion “Higher Education Support Fund” has been added to the budget of the Commission on Higher Education. If approved, it will be CHED that will administer the fund. See STUDENTS, page A11
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