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Volume IX, No. 065
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Quijano confirms body retrieved from river was his missing wife I
By DIVINA M. SUSON, Correspondent
LIGAN CITY – Philippine Veterans Investment Development Corporation (PHIVIDEC) administrator and former Iligan City Mayor Atty. Franklin Quijano has confirmed that the body found floating in a river near their house was that of his missing wife Salma Theresa Gerona – Quijano.
In this photo, Salma Theresa Gerona-Quijano (center) is seen with Iligan City Mayor Franklin Quijano (at her back) and their colleagues of the Couples for Christ during the organization’s 31st anniversary in July 2017. (Photo from Ana Merlyn Encarnado)
Quijano also told media on Thursday that the family have stopped the search of his wife, who was missing since June 27. On June 29, a decaying body was found floating at the Mandulog River, some 300 meters away from their house, but the Quijano fam-
ily disregarded the idea that it was Salma’s body because they could not remember Selma ever wearing that “rash guard and pants” the dead woman was wearing. However, a dental examination conducted on the said cadaver showed
AgNorte town declares NPAs persona non grata By MARY LOVE BUTIGAN, SARA JANE, LAPERAP and MIKO PAGAPULAAN, ABCCA Interns
THE municipality of Buenavista, Agusan del Norte has declared the Communist Party of the Philippines/ New People’s Army/National Democratic Front (CPP/NPA/NDF) as persona non grata following the series of bloody
encounters between the government troops and the rebel groups operating in the hinterland barangays which the local government said hinders the delivery of basic services and drives away See DECLARES, page 11
See CONFIRMS, page 11
On the Yanson family feud
“If your hearts are already cold then listen to the voice of the 18,000 employees” - OVY in taking over the position of LRY. The mother and founder difficulty for the past days “The past weeks has been of the Yanson Group of because of her old age, and difficult for me, in my old Bus Companies (YGBC) is their unprecedented moves age. I was supposed to be now appealing to her four children, who “wrongfully” took over the helm of the company, to heed the call of 18,000 workers who have already pledged their support to the administration of Leo Rey “LRY” V. Yanson. In a letter sent by Mrs. Olivia V. Yanson to her four children namely Roy V. Yanson, Emily V. Yanson, Ma. Lourdes Celina Y. Lopez and Ricardo V. Yanson, The mother and founder of Yanzon Group of Bus Companies Olivia V. Yanzon appealed to her children to listen the Jr. over the weekend, she (YGBC) heart and voice of the 18,000 workers affected by their family said she has been suffering feud. (RTMI-photo supplied) By APRILLE DOMINGO, (OBM - Oro Broadcast Media)
resting and relaxing. Instead, you took control of our head office in Mansilingan and made yourselves as the new See YANSON, page 10
PERSONA NON GRATA. Buenavista town Mayor Norbert Pagaspas (center), with wife Vice Mayor Amy Cabunoc Pagaspas (left) and 23rd Infantry Battalion Commanding Officer Lt/ Col. Francisco L. Molina Jr. during the recent declaration of the CPP/NPA/NDF as persona non grata in the municipality. photo provided
Gov’t to build training center for info officers in Bukidnon Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar inspects the equipment of state-run Radyo Pilipinas in Calbayog City during his visit in Samar province in March this year. photo from the facebook page of martin andanar
By SARWELL MENIANO
COMMUNICATIONS Secretary Martin Andanar said the national government will build its first strategic communications training center to capacitate state information ofSee CENTER, page 9
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