MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH. JUSTICE. PROGRESS.
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Volume IX, No. 220
www.mindanaodailynews.com
1923
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Friday, February 21, 2020
Traffic exec in Oro vows to implement DILG order By MARK FRANCISCO
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DILG to LGUs:
Ban pedicabs, trikes on nat’l highways MANILA - The Philippine Government is now stricter than ever as far as laws on the country, with the Department of Interior and Local Government leading the charge for the total implementation of a memorandum circular, prohibiting the entry of pedicabs, motorized pedicabs and tricycles in national highways. To signal a stricter implementation, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año urged the local government units (LGUs) to form a tricycle taskforce that will design effective ideas especially on drawing route plans for pedicabs and tricycles in their localities. Based on the DILG memo #2020-036, Secretary Año hereby directed the tricycle taskforce should be separate from regulatory boards in every city and municipality. The municipal mayor will act as chairman and the town’s chief of police shall act as the vicechairman of the taskforce that will be created. The taskforce membership, according to Año, shall compose the following: Sanggunian’s committee chair on transportation or public safety, the planning and development officer, the president of the Liga ng mga Barangay, the head of See BAN, page 15
GROUPIE OF ‘EAGLES’ IN PUBLIC SERVICE. Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) Commissioner ‘Kuya’ Atty. Manuelito Luna, National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director ‘Kuya’ Atty. Dante Gierran, DPWH 10 Assistant Regional Director ‘Kuya’ Engr. Rey Peter Gille, NBI Deputy Director ‘Kuya’ Atty. Eric Distor with The Fraternal Order of Eagles National President EY 2016-2017 now Chairman for Overseas Affairs ‘Kuya’ Louie Ceniza and Senior National PEIL Director ‘Kuya’ Ferdinand Bernasor pose for a groupie at LKKS Luxe Hotel in Cagayan de Oro City.
AGAYAN de Oro City - A top-ranking official of the Roads and Traffic Administration (RTA) has vowed to implement the recent memo circular of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Manila, banning all pedicabs, motorized pedicabs and tricycles along the National Highways. RTA operations chief Engr Nonito Oclarit said the government of Cagayan de Oro is mandated by the DILG to implement memo circular 2020-036, or else face sanctions from DILG Manila, “The City Government See ORDER, page 15
Stringent bank requirements worry transport operators • Mindanao Transport Summit mulled to address bureaucratic processes
CAGAYAN DE ORO — Public land transport operators here are crying out loud on the very stringent bank requirements tasked to provide financial support to the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP). This concern was raised by transport operators to Cooperative Development Authority Chairman Orlan Ravanera during the See WORRY, page 15
TRANSPORT SECTOR EMPOWERMENT. CDA Chair Orlan Ravanera stresses a point on the need to hold a Mindanao-wide transport summit next month to address pressing issues and concerns of PUVMP implementation during the blessing and inauguration of the newest transport cooperative, Mindanao Daily Express Transport Cooperative last Tuesday, February 18 in Cagayan de Oro City.