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Disqualification raps filed against Nacaya Volume VII, No. 274
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ARMM GRDP growth rate hits high 7.3% By Noel Punzalan
4:00 p.m. Thursday. He said that the COMELEC has forwarded the complaint to the COMELEC Manila who would hear the case. “It is now up to COMELEC Manila to set the hearing of the case because the local COMELEC has no longer jurisdiction of the complaint,” Acol said in an interview with Magnum Radio Station Friday mornSee filed, page 11
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case to disqualify Reina A. Nacaya, a candidate for “Punong Barangay” in Barangay Nazareth, Cagayan De Oro City, was filed with the Commissions on Elections (COMELEC) Thursday afternoon.
on April 26, 2018.
Duterte greenlights $15.3- B airport, rail projects By Cecilia Yap
A multi-billion-dollar proposal by San Miguel Corp. to build an alternative to the Philippine capital’s congested airport passed a crucial government hurdle, leading the list of approvals for more than a dozen projects. San Miguel’s offer to invest 735.6 billion pesos ($14.1 billion) for an integrated airport project in Bulacan province north of the capital was approved by a Philippine inter-agency
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COTABATO CITY -- The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) gross regional domestic product (GRDP) growth rate peaked at 7.3 percent in 2017 compared to a dismal 0.4 percent in 2016 -- the highest economic growth rate so far in the region's history. ARMM's record-breaking GRDP also surpassed the national economic performance at 6.7 percent last year. The u npre c e d e nte d performance, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), has put the region at sixth place among 17 regions in the country, overtaking other fast-growing economies nationwide. PSA noted the region's recovery in the agriculture, hunting, forestry, and fishing sectors as contributory factors for the region's economic performance. It SELFIE WITH THE PRESIDENT. President Rodrigo R. Duterte poses for a selfie with a registered a 15.5 percent foreigner as he gets a warm welcome upon his arrival at the Ritz Hotel in Singapore growth from a mere 4.3
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The complaint was filed by Eduardo ‘Bong; Rubic and ‘Klang-Klang; Guidaben, both residents of Barangay Nazareth, who runs as Barangay Kagawads of Nazareth on May 14, 2018. Lawyer Ramil Acol, C agayan De Oro City Comelec Registrar, confirmed that the complaint of misrepresentation and disqualification against Nacaya was received by the COMELEC office about
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committee led by President Rodrigo Duterte. The proposal will be subject to a public challenge under local rules. The government also approved a 12.6 billion-peso tender to operate Clark international airport at the former U.S. military base and a 50 billion-peso railway project that will connect Clark to the Subic free port, Economic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia said in
a mobile phone message. Twenty projects and funding plans were given the go-ahead, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Airports and railways are key components of Duterte’s 9 trillion-peso infrastructure push. Under a program called “Build, Build, Build,” the Philippines aims to boost infrastructure spending to 7.3 percent of gross domestic product by 2022 from 6.3 percent this year to support an economy that’s been growing above
6 percent since 2012. Manila’s 70-year-old airport handles passengers well beyond the 30 million it was designed for, prompting the need to expand Clark airport. This has drawn interest from the likes of Changi Airports International Pte Ltd, Incheon International Airport Corp., Malaysia Airport Holdings Bhd and Chinese airport operators, Bases Conversion Development Authority President Vince Dizon said in an inSee projects, page 11
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ALGAE NETS. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) personnel use nets to trap green algae during the first day of the six-month rehabilitation period of Boracay Island on April 26, 2018 in Malay, Aklan. Environmental experts say the presence of thick, slimy algae in Boracay’s shoreline is an indicator of worsening pollution in the world-renowned island. (pna photo by cindy ferrer)
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