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Volume IX, No. 048
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Task group formed to probe slay of Kidapawan radioman By EDWIN FERNANDEZ PNA
Barangay tanods from Nazareth, Cagayan de Oro City stand guard Thursday (July 11, 2019) as two overlapping and contradicting notices (one for closure and one for reopening) are posted at the padlocked entrance of the Nazareth Lawn Tennis Club. The barangay council insisted to close the property so it could transform it into a multi-purpose building but City Hall claimed that the estate is theirs, resulting to the stalemate. photo by mark francisco
Slain Kidapawan City radioman Eduardo “Ed” Dizon. Photo courtesy of DXND Kidapawan
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- A special task group has been created to investigate the killing of radioman Eduardo “Ed” Dizon, a police official said Friday. Lt. Col. Maria Joyce Birrey, city police director, said Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) Dizon aims to speed up the probe on the radioman’s murder Wednesday evening by still unidentified motorcycle-riding gunmen. “We are currently reviewing the CCTV footages that captured the crime,” Birrey told Radio Station DXND here. Dizon, a resident of Tejada Subdivision here, was driving his Mitsubishi sedan on his way home at past 10 p.m. when two men onboard a motorbike opened fire on him. A former municipal councilor of neighboring Makilala town in North Cotabato,
See SLAY, page 11
Unverified terror reports harmful to public: DND By PRIAM NEPOMUCENO
MANILA -- Unverified reports about an Egyptian couple now roaming Sulu and planning to conduct bomb attacks upon instructions of Islamic State terrorists are doing the public more harm than good, Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Friday. Aside from causing undue alarm, the DND chief said the frequent release of such unverified reports have the tendency to make people skeptical and could make them ignore legitimate information on such matter.
P20-M US grant boosts fight vs. plastic pollution By CATHERINE TEVES
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana. File photo
“It is unverified news like this that unduly alarm the public. The down side is that if this happens often enough na hindi naman totoo (that it is not true), time will come when the people See REPORTS, page 11
MANILA -- The US government is helping the country battle marine debris. On Thursday, the US government awarded local environment advocate, Mother Earth Foundation, and public interest network EcoWaste Coalition grants totaling some PHP20 million to support anti-marine debris projects the groups had committed to undertake in the country.
“We’re proud to work with the Philippines in finding and funding solutions to the plastic waste problem in our oceans,” US Deputy Chief of Mission John Law said at the grant-signing event in Quezon City. He raised the urgency for action, noting that plastics’ invasion of marine waters is already harming ecosystems and biodiversity aside from threatening people’s health. “Every year, eight million tons
of plastic waste are dumped in the world’s oceans,” he said. Such waste ends up inside the bodies of people who eat fish that ingest this debris, he noted. The grants are part of the Municipal Waste Recycling Program (MWRP) of USAID, the lead US government agency for international development and disaster assistance. MWRP “supports solid waste management and water recycling See GRANT, page 11
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