Mindanao Daily (June 7, 2018)

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Volume VIII, No. 017

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June 7, 2018

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LTFRB-10 can’t revise taxi fare hike in Oro, but… By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent

CAGAYAN de Oro City-The regional office of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board-10 (LTFRB-10) is ready to receive any request that would exempt the city’s taxi drivers and operators from applying the additional charges to their passengers. If the city’s legislators, commuters and the transport sector can draw up a petition so that the additional charges to the regular taxi fare could not be implemented, LTFRB-10 regional director Aminoden Guro said he will welcome such initiative. Guro was reacting to a news report stating that City Councilor Teodulfo Lao Jr., chairman of the public utilities committee, has complained about the new charges and accused the agency of implementing the new rates without holding public consultations. For his part, Guro said

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Inflation no effect on govt projects By Azer Parrocha PNA

FINANCE Secretary Carlos “Sonny” Dominguez III on Tuesday said that the rising inflation rates will not hinder the Duterte administration from implementing projects that will be beneficial to Filipinos in the long run. “We shall continue to prioritize investments that will improve health and education of our people, enhance security and public order and build a world class infrastructure,” Dominguez said in a press conference in Seoul, South Korea. “We realized that this is not an easy task. We have to face the short term challenges of the fast growing economy and we must tackle these problems in order to succeed in the long run. The 4.6 percent inflation rate in May of 2018 cannot hinder us from our objective,” he added. Dominguez made the statement after government data released Tuesday showed that inflation Bureau of Customs agents stand beside part of the misdeclared ukay-ukay, garlic and onions that the Bureau of in May rose to 4.6 percent, higher than April’s rate of Customs that they were able to seize at the Mindanao Container Terminal in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental.

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Capitol security guards foil kidnapping of 9-year-old girl CAGAYAN de Oro City-Misamis Oriental disaster reduction risk and management officer Fernando Dy Jr. reported yesterday that two unidentified motorycle-riding men snatched a nine-year-old girl female kid from the internally

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Oriental. Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapena, who personally led the seizure, said the cargo came in 14 containers – nine vans containing

used clothing or ukay-ukay in loal parlance, four vans containing garlic and one van containing onions. The used clothing was

P35-m worth of ‘Ukay-ukay,’ condiments seized in Misor port

displaced community but Capitol guards gave chase, causing the suspects to leave By MARK FRANCISCO the girl behind but with her Correspondent clothes already in tatters. The incident happened CAGAYAN de Oro City-The Bureau of Customs at 3:40 a.m. last Tuesday. Dy said the Capitol park (BOC) yesterday intercepted See foil, page 11 a total of P35 million worth

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