MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XI, No. 151
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
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MDNN “Kalandrakas” host wins Globe Media Excellence Awards By MDN Reportorial Team
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - Dr. Manuel V. Jaudian, the host of Mindanao Daily News Network’s (MDNN) public affairs program “Kalandrakas” was awarded Newsmaker of the Year by Globe Media Excellence Awards (GMEA). Dr. Jaudian, who is an experienced broadcast journalist for more than 40 years now, is currently Dean-atLarge of Criminology of the Phinma Education Network
and National Director of the ETEAP (Extended Tertiary Educational Accreditation Program) of Phinma handling lectures and supervising the program in Phinma colleges and universities nationwide, such as COC Cag de Oro; Araullo University; University of Iloilo, St Jude College Manila, Republican Colleges Quezon City, etc. He is the incumbent Chairman of COPC Journalism Institute, and See WINS, page 11
Collaborative effort crucial to Marawi rehab, social healing Anti-terror law effective gov’t tool to dismantle CTGs: Duterte By RUTH ABBEY GITA-CARLOS
MANILA – The Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 serves as an effective tool of the government in dismantling communist terrorist groups (CTGs), President Rodrigo Duterte said. “It would be easier now really to just… ‘Yung [law
against] terrorism, it’s actually a vehicle for fighting the rebels who are out to destroy the government,” Duterte told Pastor Apollo Quiboloy in a prerecorded interview aired over SMNI on Friday. Duterte said communist
President Rodrigo Duterte (File
See TOOL, page 11
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By LADE JEAN KABAGANI
THE whole-of-nation approach of the government has been crucial in the rehabilitation of war-torn Marawi city and the social healing of residents, five years since the infamous siege between government forces and terrorists. The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU) recognized the collective efforts of multistakeholders to push for the total recovery of the city and social healing of the people. In a statement on Friday, OPAPRU cited clear evidence that “a greater sense of normalcy has returned to the lives of its people”. “Residents who once fled for their safety are now slowly returning to their communities and rebuilding their homes. Small business establishments have opened,
Marawi City in 2017 after the five-month siege (File
as trade and commercial activities have started to pick up,” it said. For the past five years, the OPAPRU and 56 other implementing agencies of the Task Force Bangon Marawi (TFBM), local government unit, and other
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civil society organizations (CSOs) have been leading concerted efforts to revive the city’s striving economy. OPAPRU said multistakeholder partnerships for Marawi’s rehabilitation seek “to heal the wounds of the past” and strengthen the ca-
pacity of community leaders to push for peace-building and conflict resolution. The initiatives include peace conversations among women and the youth sector and constant dialogues with internally displaced persons See REHAB, page 11