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Displaced families in Marawi City transferred to transitory shelters By DIVINA M. SUSON Correspondent
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MARAWI CITY -- The National Housing Authority turned-over on Thursday (January 17), 550 units of transitory shelters in Barangay Boganga, here, to families who lost their homes during the five-month war between the government forces and the Maute-ISIS terrorist group that started May 23 in 2017. The first batch of beneficiaries, consisting the 206 families have occupied their assigned units after the turn-over ceremony while the remaining units will eventually be occupied by the beneficiaries identified by the local government unit of Marawi while the NHA continues to build more. The transitory relocation site in Boganga, called Lake View Shelter, is the second temporary relocation site for the displaced fami- ECO-FRIENDLY MART. Inside a supermarket in Cagayan de Oro City, cashiers and lies particularly from the baggers now use either paperbags or reusable “eco-bags” in wrapping the costumers’ See TRANSFERRED, page 11
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CAGAYAN de Oro City-All business establishments and vendors in this city are now using reusable “eco bags” or paper-based wrappers, and finally got rid of the single-use plastic bags, the head of the City Local Environment and Natural Resources Office (Clenro) said on Wednesday. Engineer Armen Cuenca, the Clenro chief, claimed that since the implementation of City Ordinance No. 13378-2018 just two weeks ago, their monitoring teams have noticed that business
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owners are now careful not to violate the said ordinance to skip penalty. “We have now a 100 percent compliance (rate); just today some already paid their penalties,” he said, referring to one of the big malls in the city, which was caught by Clenro enforcers issuing plastic bags. “Each plastic bag has a penalty of PHP3,000. The violator (the mall) paid PHP12,000 for four plastic bags,” he said, adding that it was so far the highest amount they fined a business establishment with so See COMPLY, page 11
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Drug group eyed in murder of cop GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- Police are eyeing a drug group operating in the city as behind the killing of a police intelligence officer in a village here last week. Senior Supt. Raul Supiter, city police director, said Thursday that pieces of evidence gathered by investigators showed that the murder of Police Officer 3 Joseph Pequierda was perpetrated by an organized
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group. Supiter said it also appeared that the two suspects who gunned down the police officer were guns-for-hire from outside the city, who were commissioned by the undisclosed drug group. He said Pequierda, a former operative of the city police drug enforcement unit, might have earned the ire of the suspects for his involvement in previous
anti-drug operations. Several drug personalities believed to be members of this group were arrested in the process, he said. Pequierda was reportedly on his way to an operation when shot dead by two motorcycle-riding suspects at the corner of Guinto St. and Dacera Ave. in Barangay San Isidro last January 7. The victim, assigned at the city police’s mobile force
company, had just left his home in Salangsang Village aboard a motorcycle driven by a friend when waylaid by the suspects at about 6:40 p.m. Supiter said they already arrested and filed murder charges against one of the two gunmen before the city prosecutor’s office last Tuesday. He declined to identify See EYED, page 11
DRUGS SEIZURE. Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Aaron Aquino (with microphone) presents to the media assorted illegal drugs seized from Dec. 28, 2018 to last Jan. 14, at the PDEA Headquarters in Quezon City on Thursday (Jan. 17, 2019). The drugs, including shabu, ecstasy, and kush -- a strain of cannabis, were worth PHP160.5 million and were hidden inside packages declared as canned goods, food and clothing held at the Clark Freeport Zone. (PNA photo by Joey O. Razon)
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