MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH. JUSTICE. PROGRESS.
Volume IX, No. 316
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Mon-Tue, August 10-11, 2020
PNP-Tagoloan intensifies drive vs all forms of illegal gambling
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BY GERRY LEE GORIT, Correspondent
AGOLOAN, Misamis Oiental-Police authorities of this town have intensified its campaign against all forms of illegal gambling.
Police Captain Mark Allan P. Dungca. chief of Tagoloan Police Station, said 39 video karera machines were destroyed at Tagoloan Dome around 10 on Friday. Dungca, however, said that the dozens of video karera that were destroyed were the result of the unified efforts of policemen in Misamis Oriental against video karera.
Aside from video karera, Dungca said that policemen in Tagoloan are also strictly monitoring the presence of illegal cockfighting ang card games. He also said that the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Tagoloan town has also arrested one of the "Top 10" high-value target in illegal drugs. See GAMBLING, page 11
DA’s Agri 4Ps to boost CDO’s food adequacy Police Captain Mark Allan Dungca is caught reading this lensman reading the book authored by Cagayan de Oro Press Club (COPC) President Doc Manny Jaudian and Allan Mediante, COPC executive vice president. The book was entitled “How to handle media and basic communication.” photo by gerry lee gorit
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY-With its thrust to increase food sufficiency across the region, the Department of Agriculture–Regional Field Office (DA-RFO)-10 dispensed a total of 585 packets of assorted vegetable seeds to the different offices within the city.
ILIGAN CITY - The Poverty Reduction, Livelihood and Employment Cluster (PRLEC) of region X launched the Project HOPE (Heal One, Protect Everyone) on Thursday, August 6, in Brgy. Rogongon, this city. In support of Executive Order No. 70 of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte which institutionalizes a “WholeOf-Nation Approach” to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (ELCAC), Project HOPE aims to make Indigenous Peoples (IP)
The Poverty Reduction, Livelihood and Employment Cluster (PRLEC) of region X launches the Project HOPE (Heal One, Protect Everyone) in Brgy. Rogongon, Iligan City to transform Indigenous Peoples (IP) to be self-reliant, resilient, and empowered. (PIA ICIC)
DA-RFO 10 Regional Technical Director for Operations Carlota S. Madriaga, who handed over the seed interventions, said each packet of the veggie seeds, weighing 36 grams can cover up to 1,000 square meter area.
Environmentalists nationwide join calls to save the giant Toog tree By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur—Calls to save the giant 300-year-old Philippine Rosewood tree (Petersianthus quarialatus) or locally known as Toog have snowballed with environmentalists and tree preservation experts in other parts of the country joining the fray.
Another letter appeal from Philippine Native Tree Enthusiasts (PNTE) based in Quezon will be sent Monday morning to Mayor Solomon Rufila of this town, Agusan del Sur Gov. Santiago Cane, Jr. and Hadja Didaw D. PiangBrahim, Caraga regional See TOOG, page 11
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PRLEC-X launches Project HOPE in Iligan communities self-reliant, resilient, and empowered. "To do this we have to equip them with adequate knowledge and skills through series of training interventions," said Director Lorenzo G. Macapili, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Mindanao Cluster Head. Macapil said TESDA will conduct skills training for construction-related and agriculture-related qualiSee HOPE, page 11
A bronze marker inside the fenced giant Too tree describe the information details of the 300 year iconic tree. chris v . panganiban