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80th Araw ng Dabaw preparation in fullswing EDITOR: CHENG ORDOñEZ

Tuesday

February 28, 2017

By Rod Sevilla Davao Regional Editor

DAVAO CITY -- An executive committee has been created by Mayor Sarah Duterte–Carpio to prepare for the 80th Araw ng Dabaw celebrations, through Executive Order No.3 dated Feb. 6, 2017. Mayor Inday Sara will be represented by City Administrator Suleika Lopez. This year’s private sector co-chair is Renato “Gatche” Gatchalian owner of Saging Republika and President of Davao Tourism Association (DATA) Vi c e M a y o r Pa u l o Duterte is the vice–chair while the members include City Mayor’s Office Chief-of-Staff Raul Nadela Jr., City Tourism Officer Regina Rose Tecson, Assistant City Administrator Tristan Dwight Domingo, City Accountant Vingelina Bajan and Councilor Al See dabaw, page A2

DAVAO CITY — The New People’s Army (NPA) in Southern Mindanao has agreed to talk with Davao City mayor and Presidential daughter Sara Duterte who earlier offered her “hand in peace” to the rebels. In a statement e-mailed to the media late Sunday afternoon, NPA-Southern Mindanao spokesperson Rigoberto Sanchez said they will suspend their operations for a few hours and order any NPA camp in the city and nearby areas to host

the talks with the mayor at a mutually agreed time and date. “The NPA would gladly discuss any matter that she would like to take up with the revolutionary movement, the duties and responsibilities of the people’s democratic government, the role of the NPA, the on-going all-out war of the AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) and the GRP-NDFP (governmentNational Democratic Front of the Philippines) peace negotiations,” he said. He said they are look-

Davao envisions to become PHL’s cacao capital DAVAO CITY -- The Davao region is expected to become the country’s cacao capital especially when the five-year Davao Agricultural and Fisheries Development Plan 2018-2022 is completed. “Agriculture is one of the priorities of Mayor Sara Duterte and with her pronouncements we are confident that Davao will become the cacao capital of the Philippines,” said Councilor Marissa Abella, chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Food of the City Council. Abella said the plan was drafted as early as 2012 but it needs to be updated. Mayor Sara is set to issue an executive order reconstituting the technical working group to work on the plan. Hopefully, she said, cacao will be included in the plan as there should be a program that will focus on production, and the monitoring of the area’s cacao production. “Farmers need to have access to a state-of-the-art facility so they can come up with value added for cacao such as cacao liqueur and cacao butter for export,” she said. Cacao liquor is made from pure cocoa beans See become, page A7

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Army commander vows to pursue illegal drug lords in Maguindanao

Army, NPA clash anew in DavNor, Sarangani

ing forward to substantial negotiation with Duterte for the welfare of the masses. He said he was optimistic the mayor would “judiciously discern the realities of the civil war, not merely through the statistics of AFP casualties and its civilian victims but by seeing the imperative to address the roots of the armed conflict.” He said the talks would be “auspicious,” following the encounter between military and rebel forces last February 16 in Paquibato and Calinan Districts that

DATU PAGLAS, Maguindanao -- A newly designated battalion commander in Mindanao vowed to pursue anti-illegal drug campaign in support to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) following the discovery and recovery of almost PHP500 million worth of prohibited drugs from suspected big time drug lord in a remote village here Saturday. Lt. Colonel Harold Cabunoc, chief of the Army’s 33rd Infantry Battalion, led government forces and members of PDEA in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-

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DAVAO CITY –- Skirmishes between government troopers and members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were reported in the provinces of Davao del Norte and Sarangani on Sunday, the Philippine Army has said. A 40-minute gun battle between elements of the 60th Infantry Battalion (IB) and NPA rebels belonging to guerrilla front 33 erupted at 10 a.m. Sunday in Sitio Alungan, Barangay Sangayen, Asuncion, Davao del Norte, Capt. Rhyan Batchar, chief information officer of the Agila 10th Infantry Division (ID), told reporters on Monday. Two rebels were killed

NPA accepts peace-talk offer of Mayor Sara D. By Antonio L. Colina IV of Mindanews

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during the encounter. Their remains have already been recovered by the Army for identification and disposition. Batchar added that 60th IB troopers also recovered two AK-47 rifles from the encounter site. “ Two MG520 attack helicopters supported our ground troops during the encounter. Rockets were fired towards the position of the NPA rebels,” he said, adding that another encounter took place Sunday noon in Sarangani. Elements of the 27th IB engaged in a five-minute encounter with an undeSee clash, page A7

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