MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XI, No. 014
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Thursday, June 17, 2021
Dads push economic aid to city residents under MECQ C
By CRIS DIAZ, Executive Editor
AGAYAN DE ORO CITY: Two opposition Cagayan de Oro City councilors pushed for the provision of economic aid to city residents hard hit by the imposition lf the Modified Enhance Community Quarantine (MECQ) here.
Opposition City Councilors Lourdan Suan and Jocelyn Rodriguez made the appeal for economic support for city residents during the city council’s regular session on Monday. Both Suan and Rodriguez contended that the imposition of the MECQ in the city has displaced thousands of workers following the shutdown of Elizabeth E. De Las Llagas, deputy district collector for operations of Bureau of Customs in Northern Mindanao, many establishments. together with other BOC-10 personnel and officials, inspect the China-made cigarettes which were illegally imported, before being destroyed in Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon on June 15, 2021.
Most of the affected establishment were in the service sector, especially the massage clinics, hotels and restaurants and other establishments engaged in non-essential businesses. Suan said that the city government must extend economic aid in cash or in kind to the jobless thousands who were affected by the economic slowdown See AID, page 11
photo by gerry lee gorit
Imported cigarettes worth P75 million condemned by Customs in NorMin BY GERRY LEE GORIT, Correspondent
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Bureau of Customs in Northern Mindanao has destroyed P75 million estimated worth of imported cigarettes that it has intercepted months on Tuesday (June 15).
Villanueva, Misamis Oriental Mayor Jennie Uy-Mendez holds her annual State of the Municipality Address last Monday. The mayor thanked her constituents for continually cooperating amidst this COVID-19 health crisis and is looking forward for a better year ahead even as she rallied councilors, department heads, municipal employees and barangay officials alike to remain unified in their responsibilities to serve the people of Villanueva. lgu villanueva photo
Oliver Valiente, chief of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service in Northern Mindanao said the condemned cigarettes was intercepted at the Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) in Tago-
loan, Misamis Oriental. He noted that the boxes are printed with the “made in the Philippines” but are actually from China. “They want to make it appear that these cigarettes are local,” Valiente said, referring to the P75 million worth of cigarettes that
were destroyed at a facility in Barangay Mantibugao, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon, on Tuesday, June 15. He said the shipment arrived at the MCT January this year and was declared by the consignee Sixty Nine Enterprises as kitchenware. See CIGARETTES, page 11
LGU Iligan puts up another Covid vax site
ILIGAN CITY--The city government here is set to open another vaccination site as part of its continuing efforts to speed up the progress of the government's free COVID-19 vaccination program. On June 9, 2021 at the Provincial Pavilion, Tagum, Davao de Norte, the rescued IP "Atong ge-anticipate nga children, their parents, and a roster of former rebels told the truth about the workings of the CPP-NPA-NDF which involve the death of many IP youth during rallies.
See COVID, page 11