MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XI, No. 101
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Tuesday, January 11, 2022
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Church groups in CDO, MisOr unify vs casino in Opol By FROILAN GALLARDO MindaNews
MINDEX Community Service. As part lof its commitment to serve, Mindanao Daily Express Transport Cooperative (MINDEX) in partnership with ZAKKA 2020, Inc., an anti-crime volunteer watchdog in Cagayan de Oro launched an outreach community service last January 9, 2022 . Beneficiaries were abandoned and homeless children, ages 7 to 16 of Calabrian Childrenâs Foundation Inc., operated and managed by the Calabrian priests and brothers in Brgy. Bayabas, Cagayan de Oro City. On hand to deliver the goods and household items to the children were Board Secretary Ruffy Magbanua, Manager Arjay Felicilda and Treasurer Alexander Calonge.
Unvaxxed people will only be sent home, no arrests: DILG
By CHRISTOPHER LLOYD CALIWAN
See UNIFY, page 11
Poor population in Normin estimated at 33.8% CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- The proportion of poor individuals in Region 10 whose per capita income is not sufficient to meet their basic food and non-food needs or the poverty incidence among the regionâs population was estimated
at 33.8 percent during the first semester of 2021. This translates to 1.72 million individuals in the region who lived below the poverty threshold estimated at P11,920, on the average, for a family of five per month in the first semester
of 2021. Meanwhile, subsistence incidence among population in the region or the proportion of Region 10 poor individuals whose income is not enough to meet even the basic food needs, was recorded at 15
MANILA â Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año on Monday clarified that individuals who are unvaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) will only be requested to go home and will not be arrested. Under the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) resolution, unvaccinated individuals are mandated to remain in their residences at all times except for the procurement of essential goods and services, such as food, water, medical services, public utilities, and work. Many business leaders, medical groups, and organizations have been pushing for the restrictions to be implemented nationwide amid the spike in infections and the threat of the Omicron coronavirus variant. He noted that check- Misamis Oriental Gov. Yevgeny Vincente B. Bambi Emano delivers his State of the points were installed to Province Address at rhe Provincial Capitol grounds Park on Jan. 10. 2022. photo by See SENT, page 11
CAGAYAN DE ORO -- Religious leaders are organizing a united front against a gambling casino in the neighboring town of Opol, Misamis Oriental which they say started operations without consulting their parishioners. Opol town parish priest Father Joel Oga said he would meet with his counterparts in the Iglesia Filipina Independiente to unify their opposition against The Grand Imperial Opol, a casino operated by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) in Barangay Taboc, Opol town. The casino, which started operating on December 19, 2021, is open daily âfrom 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm,â according to the social media page of the the casino. âWe were not properly consulted. We were misled
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percent or about 762,000 individuals whose income is below the monthly food threshold of P8,305 for a family of five for the same period. Among the families, poverty incidence for the same period was estimated at 26.2
percent, which is equivalent to around 312,000 poor families. Meanwhile, the proportion of food poor families was estimated at 10.9 percent or about 130,000 families who cannot afford even their basic food needs. (PSA-10/PIA-10)