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Volume VIII, No. 014
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June 4, 2018
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Two power distributors fight over posh villages By MARK FRANCISCO, Correspondent
CAGAYAN de Oro City--The City Council committee on public utilities is set to tackle a complaint by the Misamis Oriental-1 Rural Electric Service Cooperative (Moresco-1) against another utility, the Cagayan Electric Power and Light Company (Cepalco). Committee chair Councilor Teodulfo
Lao reported that he had received a letter late last week from Moresco-1 board president Agustin Caberte alleging that Cepalco usurped into its service area, particularly in barangay Canitoan, this city by erecting electricity connections particularly in profit-rich Pontefino Estates, a complex of high-end gated subdivisions. In his letter, Caberte reminded the management of Cepalco that although
Canitoan is a barangay in Cagayan de Oro City, Moresco-1 has been granted under law to provide electricity there. Caberte claimed that their personnel saw Cepalco linemen erecting an electric post in the vicinity, particularly at a main artery leading to St. Francis Heights, the first subdivision being developed and pushed by Pontefino Estates. He further said that Moresco-1 had
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already executed an affidavit from Canitoan barangay chair Joshua Taboclaon recommending to the City Engineer’s Office to demolish the said post because it “poses hazard to motorists traversing the area.” In a separate interview, Cepalco corporate communications manager Marilyn Chavez said that Cepalco had already won the right to provide electricity in See VILLAGES, page 11
City council asked LTFRB to suspend taxi fare rates in Oro
THE City Council during its 83rd regular session last Monday, presided over by Vice Mayor Raineir Joaquin V. Uy, adopted a resolution requesting the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to suspend for the meantime the increase of the taxi fare rates in Cagayan de Oro City. This is in response to the special report of Councilor Teodulfo Lao Jr., chair of the City Council commitTAXICABS. Dozens of taxicabs queue up at a parking lot in Cagayan de Oro City as they take turns for their tee on public utilities, that meters to be recalibrated by the Land Transportation Franchising and Reguatory Board (LTFRB) for the increased some of the commuters are rates. File photo by Mark Francisco complaining on the sudden
increase of taxi fare rates without proper information and dissemination. “I think, there was no proper information being disseminated or being published for the commuters to be aware of this current fare”, he stressed. Lao said he received several complaints about the increase, saying they could not really afford the increase of 50-percent. This can be burdensome on the part of commuters, he said. “We wish that the LTFRB should first have See rates, page 11
Two frog hunters die of electrocution Mercedes-Benz CLA Seductively Engineered Compact Executive Car
By Mel Madera, PNA
MALAYBALAY City--Two men believed to be hunting frogs for food were found dead in Purok 8, Barangay Tongan-Tongan, Valencia City, Bukidnon province on Friday. The victims were identified as Cesar Somodivilla, 21, a rice mill operator and resident of Purok 3, Kimalok, Libertad, Misamis Oriental; and Isagani Teves, 37, a resident of Zone 1, See HUNTERS, page 11
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