Security Bank wins its 4th Bank of the Year Award
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Mindanao Governance & Leadership Awards reset to Feb 23 By MARK FRANCISCO Correspondent
DUE to insistent public request for more time to field nominees to the Mindanao Governance & Leadership
NoCot guv condemns attempt vs. mayor’s life By EDWIN FERNANDEZ and NOEL PUNZALAN
KIDAPAWAN CIT Y -North Cotabato Governor Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza on Tuesday condemned the assassination attempt Monday against Libungan town Mayor Christopher Cuan inside the town hall premises. “The Provincial Government of North Cotabato See CONDEMNS, page 11
Excellence awards, which was tentatively schedule on January 25, the event will be held on February 23, 2018, according to Awards Exec. Director Allan Mediante and
Chairman Dante Sudaria. Sudaria says the project is aimed at giving due recognition to government leaders and private sector achievers for bring fame and honor
to their communities. “ These leaders have shown good governance and leadership traits and best practices in steering their communities and or-
ganizations into winning various achievement awards. Thus the need to trumpet their achievements through media platforms, such as the presentor – Mindanao Daily
News,” Sudaria Added. Mediante opined that government and private sector leaders are facing completely new pressures,
TRUST and confidence. Both led FDC Misamis Power Corporation and APEX Mining Corporation, Inc. (APEX Mining) to renew ties for another five-years for a 5-MW power pact in a simple yet meaningful signing ceremony of the Electric Power Purchase Agreement (EPPA) held
at Annabel’s Restaurant in Tomas Morato, Quezon City on January 7, 2019. Meaning, FDC Misamis, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FDC Utilities, Inc., the utilities and power arm of Filinvest Development Corporation (FDC), will still be the exclusive power supplier of APEX Mining in
its processing plant located at its mine site at Masara, Maco, Compostela Valley. The newly-signed power agreement, however, already took effect on December 26, 2018 and concludes in 2023. But, as stated in the renewed contract, FDC Misamis, operator of the 3x135-MW circulating fluidized bed
coal thermal plant in Villanueva, Misamis Oriental, will provide APEX Mining only 4-MW of power supply in the first two years, from 2019 to 2020. And, will be up to 5-MW in 2021 to 2023, the contract further reads. FDC Misamis, one of Mindanao’s giant power producer, has been
the power provider of APEX Mining since the former had started its commercial operations in 2016 under a two-year 3-MW power pact that ended late of December last year. “What a wonderful development on our part at the start of the new year,”
FDC Misamis, APEX Mining renew partnership pact
See RESET, page 11
See RENEW, page 11
Local government officials of Camiguin take a look at the various handicraft locally made by residents in Mambajao town, as part of the island-province’s 51st founding anniversary, which is celebrated on yesterday From left: Mambajao mayor Jurdin Jesus “JJ” Romualdo, Camiguin Gov. Maria Luisa “Baby” Romualdo, and Provincial Tourism Officer Candice Naome Dael. Mayor Romualdo is running for the province’s gubernatorial race, a position he had previously held. photo by gerry lee gorit
New recruits boost Davao City police force By RHODA GRACE SARON
DAVAO CITY – The Davao City Police Office (DCPO) took in more than a hundred new recruits that will serve as additional force in its anti-criminality drive.
Police Senior Supt. Alexander Tagum, in an interview on Monday, said the infusion of additional police officers has increased the DCPO’s strength to more than 2,000 personnel. See BOOST, page 11
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