MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume X, No. 137
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Fri-Sat, April 9-10, 2021
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Claim that PRRD suffered mild stroke ‘fake news’: Andanar By RUTH ABBEY GITA-CARLOS
MANILA — Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar on Wednesday branded as “fake news” the report that President Rodrigo Duterte suffered a “mild heart attack”. “Huwag magpapaniwala sa fake news (Don’t believe in fake news),” Andanar said in a Facebook post, sharing
a screenshot of a report by Maharlika TV that Duterte had a “mild stroke”. In a now-deleted post, Maharlika TV cited “reliable sources” who claimed that Duterte’s public address was canceled on Wednesday because the 76-year-old Chief Executive “suffered a mild stroke” Duterte’s scheduled talk to the nation on Monday
was moved to Wednesday night. However, Duterte was forced to reschedule anew his address to the nation after many members of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). In a separate Facebook post, Senator Christopher
IN GOOD HEALTH. Sen. Christopher Lawrence Go shares a photo of him and President Rodrigo Duterte in Malacañang. Duterte’s scheduled talk to the nation on Monday was moved to Wednesday night but he was forced to reschedule anew his address to the nation after many members of the Presidential Security Group tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019. (Photo courtesy of S en . B ong G o )
24,000 Sinovac doses arrive for NorthMin’s frontliners See SUFFERED, page 11
By FROILAN GALLARDO MindaNews
LAGUINDINGAN, Misamis Oriental -- It took only 19 minutes to transfer the shipment of 24,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine from the Philippine Airlines plane to a refrigerated van waiting at the tarmac of the Laguindingan Airport. All under the watchful eyes of armed police officers who later escorted the van and other vehicles to the Department of Health regional office in Barangay Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, 33 kilometers away. The vaccines, said health officials, are intended for the medical frontliners of Northern Mindanao. A personnel from the Department of Health-Region 10 checks the Sinovac COVID-19 PAL Flight PR 2519 vaccines upon arrival at the Laguindingan Airport on Wednesday (7 April 2021). See ARRIVE, page 11
City Hall worker in CDO nabbed in drug buy-bust By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: An employee of the city government was nabbed together with his cousin in an anti-illegal drug buy bust Thursday morning in the city’s major subdivision here. Col. Henry Dampal, the city’s chief of police, identified the suspects as MindaNews photo by FROILAN GALLARDO Macbeth Ratunil Carretas,
44, of Nazareth, Cagayan de Oro City. Carretas, reportedly an employee at the city hall’s Human Resource Department, was collared along with his cousin identified as Enesio Ratunil Villanueva, 40, of Ilaya, Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City. Dampal said that the police operatives disguised as buyers seized from the See NABBED, page 11
Datu Salibo Mayor Solaiman Sandigan shares the municipal government’s accomplishments for the past two years and cited how optimistic he is that their humble town shall perform and deliver for the better for the benefit of its constituents. He also discussed his plans for Fiscal Year 2021. (Analisa P. Española)