MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH. JUSTICE. PROGRESS.
Volume IX, No. 323
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Wed-Thu, August 26-27, 2020
NorMin transport coops await loan releases to operate
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Several transport cooperatives in Northern Mindanao that have switched to modern public utility vehicles (PUVs) are just waiting for the Land Bank
of the Philippines to release their loans before they can start operation. Once their loan applications are approved and released by the state-run Land Bank of the Philippines, the
transport cooperatives can immediately place their orders with PUV manufacturers, said Aminoden Guro, LTFRB-10 director, on Tuesday. Guro sees more mod-
ernized PUVs owned and operated by transport cooperatives and corporations will ply the various routes in the region before the year ends. The PUVs include public
See AWAIT, page 11
By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
MISAMIS Oriental--A local government unit (LGU) now supplies food packs to residents on a locked down village here after a resident was diagnosed positive for COVID-19 virus, an official said Wednesday.
See RATION, page 11
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utility jeepneys, taxis, and vans, he said, adding the operation of the modern PUVs is in line with the national government’s PUV modernization program.
Talisayan locks down Covid village, ration food packs Leth Maestrado, the town’s information officer, said that Talisayan, a coastal town east of Misamis Oriental, has locked down the San Jose District 4 village to a 14-day quarantine period starting Tuesday. She said that the LGU now supplies, food packs to the 25 affected village households, while no one is allowed to enter or leave the place. Maestrado said that it all started when two LGU officials contracted the dreaded corona virus during a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) two days ago. However, she said, that during a confirmation swab test on Tuesday, only one of them was found positive for
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Make investment climate corruption -free
AS the country prepares for the ‘re-starting’ of the badly beaten economy due to Covid-19 health crisis, the government needs more clarity in policy direction to lure foreign investors.
FULL STORY ON PAGE 4
3 NorMin provinces get P5.6-M agri aid By NEF LUCZON
Communications Secretary Martin Andanar (File
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Department of Agriculture (DA) 10 (Northern Mindanao) will distribute some PHP5.6 million worth of basic farm inputs as aid for three provinces in the region that were affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), an official
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See GET, page 11
Bayanihan 2 to ensure ‘needed, timely’ Covid-19 response By RUTH ABBEY GITA-CARLOS
THE proposed Bayanihan to Recover as One Act (Bayanihan 2) would allow the government to step up its fight against the coronavirus
disease (Covid-19), Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar said on Tuesday. In a press statement, Andanar said the “needed and
timely” Covid-19 response can be further realized, once the proposed Bayanihan 2 is passed into law. Andanar‘s remarks came amid President Rodrigo Duterte’s anticipated signing
of the proposed Bayanihan 2 following the ratification of the measure by both the Senate and the House of Representatives. “Now needing only President Duterte’s signature to
become a law, it will ensure that the needed and timely responses and actions undertaken by the government in our fight against Covid-19 will continue and will be See ENSURE, page 11
