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‘Black Friday’ drive vs. TRAIN law, oil price hike By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
CAGAYAN de Oro City-Various militant groups yesterday launched the “Black Friday,” a signature campaign, in this seaport capital of Northern Mindanao to dramatize their protests against the un-
relenting increased of oil products, and the scrapping of the TRAIN law. TRAIN stands for Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion, a tax reform program that the government has implemented this year. The transport group lead by the militant Solidarity of Transport in Region 10
‘Fake news,’ says mining firm on DOLE ‘endo’ report
(STAREX)-Piston is also flexing muscles in a series of protest next week as another round of oil price hike took effect Tuesday. “For the past two weeks, the pump prices of oil for both diesel, gasoline, and kerosene products climbed by as much as P 2.00,” Ringo Lago, the spokesperson of
Starex- Piston in Northern Mindanao, said. Lago said that another oil price hike took effect Tuesday at P 0.65 per liter for gasoline, P 0.35 per liter for diesel, P 0.45 per liter for kerosene. Since May 22, 2018, the last oil price hike was pegged at P 1.15 per liter for diesel,
P 1.60 per liter for gasoline and P 1.00 per liter for kerosene, he said. He said that various transport groups in Cagayan de Oro City condemned the series of oil price hike while urging the Duterte administration to repeal the “oil deregulation law.” Lago said that the gov-
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NPAs shot dead village councilor By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
ROSARIO, Agusan del Sur--A mining company here has clarified they are not engaged in illegal labor contracting scheme contrary to the report released by the Department of Labor and Employment. “It’s fake news,” said lawyer Raul Villanueva, president of Philsaga Mining Corporation, as he debunked the report that 6,524 workers are affected by the company’s supposedly labor only contracting system, saying the figures were even bloated. Villanueva questioned DOLE’s report saying their company has only employed a total of 4,743
ernment should adopt measures to cushion the impact of oil price hike like the creation of the Oil Price Stabilization Fund (OPSF) in the 1970s that served as a buffer fund when oil prices suddenly climbed in the world market. The administration of
Misamis Oriental former Vice Governor and Villanueva town Mayor Julio Uy chitchats with some of the officials of FDC-Misamis Power Corporation on Wednesday (May 30). The FDC Misamis Power Corporation, a coal-fired power plant located in Villanueva town, conducted Brigada Eskwela, an annual program of the Department of Education (DepEd), where it has chosen Looc Elementary School as its recipient this year. Photo by Gerry Lee Gorit
BUTUAN City--A newly-elected village councilman in Cabadbaran City who is also an active militiaman was gunned down by suspected New Peoples Army hitmen while watching an event on the patronal feast day celebration of Barangay Mahaba on Wednesday noon, belated military reports said. Capt. Al Anthony Pueblas, spokesman of the 402nd Brigade based in Bancasi village of this city, said the victim, Edgar Rosal Panisan, 40, married was shot dead by alleged communist rebels belonging to Guerilla Front 21C of Northeastern Mindanao Regional Committee. “While serving his constituents during their Barangay fiesta See dead, page 11
More than half of Sibugay villages are affected by illegal drugs By Antonio Manaytay Contributing Editor
MORE than half of the 390 barangays (villages) of Zamboanga Sibugay are affected by illegal drugs, according to the provincial office of the Philippine Drug
Enforcement Agency (PDEA). In a report during the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) meeting held May 25, PDEA agent Dorothy Joy Villoso said 228 villages are slightly affected, 148 are moderately af-
fected, and the remaining villages are still unaccounted. PDEA had classified the barangays as seriously, moderately, and slightly affected based on Resolution 2 of the Dangerous Drugs Board, which took effect
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