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. 281
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SM-Cagayan de Oro Downtown Premier to open on May 12 Page 8
SM CDO Downtown Premier. The newly built SM CDO Downtown Premier, the 61st mall of SM Prime Holding, the sixth in Mindanao, and the second in Cagayan de Oro will open on May 12. Located at the busy intersection of Claro M. Recto Avenue and Osmena Street, the five level, 177,743.21 square meter mall, will serve shoppers in Cagayan de Oro and nearby cities and provinces in the Northern Mindanao area. Photo by Gerry Lee Gorit for Mindanao Daily News.
National ID system hurdles committee level THE National Identification System Bill yesterday passed the House committee level, a party-list lawmaker said. However, Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate said the new measure is “not only be violative of the people’s right to privacy but will even pose a serious security implication to our
country.” “Aside from the fact that this is an invasion of our people’s privacy this measure may have some very serious security implications since the proposed repository of all these data is the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) that is now being controlled by a US-based
firm called Unisys,” Zarate said in a press statement. Earlier, Bayan Muna has filed House Resolution 592 to inquire into the P1.59billion 12-year contract won by the US firm Unisys Corp. over its control of PSA’s civil registry system starting March this year until 2029.
Zarate noted that the Civil Registr y SystemInformation Technology Project Phase 2 (ITCP2) deal between PSA and Unisy will be the second contract for the US-based firm, which also won control of the first phase of the project from the defunct National Statistics Office (NSO).
He, however, said Unisys had committed gross violations of the contract provisions for the project’s first phase, according 2005 and 2015 reports, respectively, of the Commission on Audit (COA). Zarate warned that with “Unisys having unbridled control” of the civil reg-
Farmers of war zone village yield bountiful harvest of organic rice
Lt. Col. Randolph Rojas, commanding officer of Army’s 36IB, recalled the hardships they had gone through in convincing farmers to go into organic rice farming in his talk during the KANINhawaan celebration in Lindoy village. Photo by Chris Panganiban
istry system, the US government can easily have undiminished access to all civil documents of more than 100 million Filipinos. CRS-ITP 2 was still awarded to Unisys, despite the company’s and glaring contractual violations and failures during the See level, page 7
By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
Renovated Veterans Bank-Davao inaugurated
TAGO, Surigao del Sur--For the first time in many years, lowly farmers in this conflict-stricken impoverished village of Lindoy who are now into organic farming have yielded bountiful harvest on their rice lands. Two farmer-siblings who belong to Lindoy Bio-organic Farmers Association proudly said that their yield in their harvest on Monday have at least doubled when they fully embraced the organic farming technology PVB DAVAO INAUGURATION. In the Photo (L-R) Post President Florentino B. taught by Ignacio Lauzon Jr. Babila – Tugbok Post Davao (leftmost); Post President Teofilo A. Gamutan – Premier Post Davao (3rd from Left)pose with PVB Chairman and CEO Roberto F. De Ocampo and his two farming
DAVAO City––Philippine Veterans Bank recently its newly renovated Branch last Friday, May 5, 2017 in time for the 72nd anniversary of the Liberation of Davao on May 3, 2017. The Bank’s invited special guests Atty. Sonia S. De Los Reyes BSP Regional Director and Veterans Federation of the Philippines (VFP) Davao Post President Florentino Babila and VFP Region X Post President Teofilo Gamutan. On the side of the Bank, PVB Chairman & CEO Roberto F. De
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and PVB President and COO Nonilo C. Cruz.
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