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New group to monitor govt, MILF peace deal Volume III, No. 231
By ALEX LOPEZ Correspondent
A PEACE monitoring network, composed mainly of multi-sectoral organizations from communities in Mindanao, was launched in Cotabato City, in time with the commemoration of the Jabidah Massacre on Wednesday (March 18). The group, dubbed as Grassroots Peace Monitoring Network (GPMN), will reaffirm the vital role of communities in supporting the current peace process between the government and
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the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Peace and development advocates Fr. Bert Layson, OMI, and Guiamel Alim led the convergence of various groups in the region in the formation of the peace monitoring network. “We have to collaborate with each other in attaining the peace that we are longing for and we need to work together. If we want to go far, we should walk together,” Layson said in his opening statement during See peace, page A11
Night flights at Misor airport, good for tourism CAGAYAN de Oro City-The opening of night flights at Laguindingan airport in Laguindingan town in Misamis Oriental will boost the tourism industry of the city, as well as Misamis Oriental, said Vice Mayor Caesar Ian E. Acenas. Acenas was elated over the reports that the first night flight, a Cebu Pacific Air plane, landed at the airport last Thursday.
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“This is a good development which will boost commerce in the city and the province,” he added, citing that busy businessmen can now go to Manila or other destinations in the morning and come back at night which will save them a lot of time. According to the vice mayor, this will also encourage tourists to come See flights, page A11
PEACE MONITORING. About a hundred representatives from various peace advocacy and development groups in Mindanao converged in Cotabato City on Wednesday (March 18) for the launching of the Grassroots Peace Monitoring Network (GPMN), an initiative that will reaffirm the vital role of communities in supporting the peace process between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Mindanao Daily News photo by Alex Lopez
IP scholar urges IP children to pursue college education CAGAYAN de Oro City-A government scholar of the tribal community in Bukidnon on Tuesday urges children of the indigenous people (IP) to pursue college education. Marlon Mandago, 24, a scholar of the government Pantawid Pampamilyang
Pilipino Program (4Ps), believes that education could emancipate the tribal communities from poverty. Mandago, a member of the Higa-onon tribe lives in San Luis, a farming village in Malitbog, a town in Bukidnon that borders in Misamis Oriental, 42
kilometers southeast of here. He said that he does not want to go through “what my parents have gone through” as a lowly paid farmers of a vegetable farm in Malitbog. Mandago also called on women in the IP community to assert their rights See scholar, page A11
Dads earmark P7.8m for assistance to judiciary
CAGAYAN de Oro City-The City Council appropriated P7.8 million during its regulat session on Monday to support the needs of the Department of Justice (DOJ), Regional Trial Courts (RTCs), and See assistance, page A11
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