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Volume III, No. 263
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Wao killings spark evacuation By WALTER I. BALANE of MindaNews
MALAYBALAY City--Over a thousand residents fled Barangay Park Area in Wao, Lanao del Sur following the massacre of six people, not seven as earlier reported, prompting investigations by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and a factfinding body created by the local government, officials said on Wednesday. Nine people were also hurt in the incident, reports said. The Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (MDRRMC) said a total of 1,115 barangay residents sought refuge at BLISS-Western in the town proper. Lominog Poloyagan,
municipal environment and natural resources officer, a Maranao, said the evacuees are a mix of Moro and settler folks from the upland areas. Wao’s population is 83-percent settlers and 17-percent Moro. The town used to be a predominantly Maranao community until settlers came in. Poloyagan said the regional government deployed a humanitarian team and distributed relief goods to evacuees. Lanao del Sur is part of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Poloyagan cited that some persons spread alarming text messages such as the alleged occurrence of See killings, page A11
Six schools in Oro to hike school fees
BLOOD DONOR – VICE GOVERNOR JOEY G. PELAEZ personally donates blood during the bloodletting activity organized by Magnum Radio and Philippine Red Cross (PRC), Cagayan de Oro City-Misamis Oriental Chapter. Vice Governor Pelaez encourages everyone to donate blood to be able to give life to others. Pelaez is currently a Member of the Board of Directors of the PRC CDO-MisOr Chapter. Also present during the activity were Provincial Board Secretary Atty. Ernesto Sotto, Jr. (3rd from right), MISORTEL Manager Fernando Dy, Jr. (seated), Provincial Cooperative Office Head Alberto Acain (4th from right), MOISC General Manager Gerardo Sabal III (4th from left), Provincial Information Office-OIC Allyn A. Peñalosa (3rd from left) and Blood Center Manager Dr. Myra G. Yee (extreme left), among others. photo supplied
Mild quakes jolt 2 M’nao provinces AT least two mild earthquakes shook the provinces of Davao Occidental and Surigao del Norte on Friday morning, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). In its bulletin, Phivolcs said the first quake with a magnitude of 3.5 occurred at 12:49 a.m. with its epicenter traced 90 kilometers southeast of Jose Abad Santos in Davao Occidental. The quake, which was tectonic in origin, had a depth of 115 kilometers. The second quake with a magnitude 3.3 occurred around 1:15 a.m. with epicenter traced some 12 kilometers northeast of Socorro in Surigao del Norte, which also felt Intensity 1. Phivolcs said there was See quakes, page A11
NCCA wants state honors for T’boli ‘dreamweaver’ GENERAL Santos City-The National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) will offer state honors to the late T’boli “national living treasure” Be’ Lang Dulay, who passed away on Thursday after being in coma since January following a mild stroke. Carlo Ebeo, vice chair of the NCCA’s national committee on cultural education,
said Friday Lang Dulay is entitled to full state honors being a Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan or National Living Treasure awardee. Such recognition is equivalent to the national artist award bestowed by the national government, he said. “She’s a national cultural icon so it’s only fitting for us to give her the highest hon-
ors,” he told MindaNews. Lang Dulay died at age 91 at around 3 p.m. on Thursday, April 30, at her home in Sitio Tukolefa, Barangay Lamdalag in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato. Ebeo said her health started to deteriorate late last year due to hypertension and other illnesses that eventually led to a mild
THE number of unemployed remains most concentrated among the youth, according to the research group, Ibon Foundation. Official unemployment figures also show that many
jobless workers are highschool or college-educated, it said. According to Ibon, this underscores not only the gravity of the worst-ever jobs crisis under President
Benigno Aquino III but also the economy’s inability to sustain job creation in the country, including for the youth joining the labor force.
CAGAYAN de Oro City-Six schools have signified its intention to increase its tuition and other school fees next school, according to the report of the Power, a daily newsletter of the City Council. In a report, the Power said The Southern de Oro Philippines College (SPC) applied for a 15 percent increase in tuitione, including fees for its miscellaneous, with the Commission on Higher Education (ChEd). Aside from SPC, Xavier University is also increasing its tuition by six percent, Capitol University and Liceo de Cagayan University five percent increase for
both tuition and miscellaneous. Cagayan de Oro College (COC) has also applied for a four percent tuition hike while Lourdes College applied for a three percent increase on its tuition for the next school year. The City Council committee on education chaired by Councilor Adrian Barba will soon deliberate on the letter from the ChEd. In a letter, the ChEd told the City Council that six out of 20 or 30% of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the city have applied for an increase in their tuition and other school fees for SY 2015-2016.
See wants, page A11
Group: Youth comprises most of jobless Filipinos
See jobless, page A11
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