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Monday, January 7, 2019
Kuyamis 2019 kicks off today
• Various contests to highlight festival
C OMPETITIONS and other fun-filled events will highlight the celebration of the 6th Kuyamis Festival as it kicks off at the Misamis Oriental Provincial Capitol grounds today Monday,
January 7. Governor Bambi Emano together with Board Member and vice guvernatorial candidate Prexy Elipe will lead the heads of 44 strong Capitol departments and
employees in today’s kick off of the Kuyamis Festival 2019, January 7. The Provincial Tourism Department, headed by Atty. Jeffrey Saclot, is organizing the weeklong festivities with
several activities are lined up to make it a fun-filled and memorable experience for both local and foreign tourists. There will be nightly See KUYAMIS, page 11
Misamis Oriental Gov. Yevgeny Vincente Emano (left) shakes the hands of the Ms. Kuyamis 2019 candidates during the swimsuit competition at Lohas airport hotel in Laguindingan recently. photo by gerry lee gorit
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Bombo managers gather in Iloilo - Bombo Radyo Philippines station managers from 24 key cities nationwide to attend TOP LEVEL MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE (TLMC) 2019 in Iloilo City - Bombo Music Festival now on its 2nd Year… bigger, grander! BOMBO Radyo Philippines, an Ilonggo-home grown brand that has continued to make the radio broadcasting landscape exciting and relevant to the Filipinos, bares its trade secrets as it holds its Top Level Management Conference in Iloilo City from January 6 to 12, 2019. Dr. Rogelio M. Florete, the Chairman of 31 strong AM & FM radio stations located in 24 key cities disclosed that Bombo Radyo’s continued airwave dominance is borne out of its culture, discipline and work habits to be able to offer to the Filipino people - the singular brand of Bombo Radyo. As the torched is passed on to Ms. Margaret Ruth C. Florete, the Network’s President/CEO, Bombo Radyo formally launches the “Digital Bombo Radyo Experience” for this year’s TLMC Theme to highlight the Bombo Mobile App. With Bombo Radyo’s strong and relevant content on your cell phones, everyone can continue to listen to and interact with his favorite Bombo Radyo and Star FM Station, via the Bombo Mobile App, even outside your homes and anywhere in the world. It is with great pride that Ms. Florete, also invites all music loving Filipinos to personally witness the Bombo Music Festival for the live performances of the 12 Finalists on Saturday, January 12, 2019 at the Rose Memorial Auditorium
MARGARET RUTH C. FLORETE PRESIDENT CEO
of the Central Philippines University. A 30- piece Bombo Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Gerardo Muyuela will ensure an evening of enthralling musical experience that will spotlight the musical talents from all over the country, the best of almost 1,000 entries submitted to Bombo Radyo or Star FM stations nationwide. A prestigious Board of Judges will select this year’s BMF Champion who will bring home bigger prizes and whose musical compositions will be played in all Bombo Radyo and Star FM Stations nationwide. This year’s jury is composed of Mr. Ryan Cayabyab, the preeminent musician and National Artist in Music; Mr. Jim Paredes of the musically-gifted APO Hiking Society, Fr. Jun Borres, a noted Jesuit musician, Isabelle de Leon, matinee idol, singer and artist; and Rivermaya lead singer and artist Jason Fernandez who was also a “The Voice” finalist.
Trisikad driver Oro chamber prexy urges massive info stabbed to death drive on ‘Traslacion’ cp signal jamming By DIVINA M. SUSON Correspondent
ILIGAN CITY -- A trisikad driver died after he was stabbed several times by his friend, around 10:00 o’clock in the evening of Thursday, January 3, at Rabago Subdivision in Barangay Villaverde, here. The victim was identified as Aga Gapul, 39, of Barangay Tambacan while the suspect named Jessie
Manugas, 35, is a watchman, temporarily residing at Barangay Saray. Police initial investigation bared that Gapul and Manugas’ wife, Marisa, 32, were walking at a park in Villaverde when the suspect arrived on board a motorcycle. “The suspect confronted the victim but the latter ran and was chased by the
See DRIVER, page 11
By MARK FRANCISCO Correspondent
THE president of the largest group of small-scale entrepreneurs in the city (Cag de Oro Chamber of Commerce) expressed her reservation on the plan of the government to cut phone signals during the five-hour-long Black Nazarene traslacion on January 9 here in Cagayan de Oro. In a phone interview,
Oro Chamber president Irene Floro urged the government to embark on a massive information drive so all stakeholders – providers and consumers alike – could prepare ahead and forge transactions before the outage. It can be recalled that the city government and the Cagayan de Oro City Police Office (Cocpo) already separately announced that
signals of both Globe and Smart-enabled cellphones within the vicinity o the city will be frozen during the procession which will start at 5:00 a.m. this Wednesday. The procession that traverses from the mouth of the St. Augustine Cathedral towards Velez St. and on to CM Recto Avenue at the entrance of the Archdiocesan Shrine of the Black Nazarene is expected to draw more
than 200,000 people and is expected to last for more than four hours. Cocpo deputy director for operations Supt. Robert delos Reyes said authorities deemed it a security risk if cellphones are operational within the vicinity and duration of the said religious event and requested the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) See DRIVE, page 11
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