MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH. JUSTICE. PROGRESS.
Volume IX, No. 362
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SM City Mindpro opens
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UST in time for Christmas, SM City Mindpro opens its doors in Zamboanga City, on Friday, November 27, 2020, bringing great shopping, leisure, and entertainment to this beautiful western Mindanao city. It is SM Prime Holdings’ 76th supermall, the seventh in Mindanao, and the first in the Zamboanga Peninsula region.
Zamboanga City, 6th most populous and 3rd largest city by land area in the Philippines, is the region’s cultural, economic, and educational center. Highly urbanized, it is a busy port strategically located on the southwestern tip of the Zamboanga Peninsula, on Basilan Strait, and sheltered by Basilan Island. The immediate coastal lowlands are narrow with low, rugged hills located a short distance inland. Zamboanga’s Spanish-style architecture, breathtakingly beautiful beaches, mountainous back-
drop, and cool climate make it a favorite tourist destination. Founded by Spanish forces in 1635 on the site of a native settlement, Zamboanga is known as Asia’s Latin City, and most residents speak the local dialect Chavacano, a Spanish based Creole language. Strong SM City Mindpro brings great shopping, leisure, and entertainment to beautiful Zamboanga City. It is SM Prime Spanish and Latin influ- Holdings’ 76th supermall, the seventh in Mindanao, and the first in the Zamboanga Peninsula region. ences may also be found in the city’s architecture and historical attractions like Fort Pilar, the shine of Our Lady of the Pillar which was built in the 17th By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN
Agusan farmworkers to finally get land titles
See OPENS, page 11
‘Task Force Oro’, CIDG raids ISIS lair in Cagayan De Oro By CRIS DIAZ, Executive Editor
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: Elements of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and the ‘Task Force Oro,’ backed by tanks and soldiers, raided the suspected hideout of the alleged ISIS terror group in an outskirt subdivision here early Wednesday morning. The law enforcers seized firearms, ammunitions, hand grenades and ammonium nitrates, used in the making of im-
provised explosive device, and an “ISIS flag” during a raid on one of the three adjacent houses in Villa Candida, Bulua, Cagayan de Oro Wednesday morning. A military tank secured the entrance of the subdivision along the highway in Bulua as the “Task Force Oro” composed of the military and the police secured all entrances and exits of the subdivision. See RAIDS, page 11
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur--- After 32 years, thousands of oil palm plantation farmworkers of a multinational company turned agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) will finally get their individual land titles next year when the Department of Agrarian Reform implements the Support for Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) program. The DAR provincial office here has identified about 3,800 hectares of Collective Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CCLOA) title of NGPI Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Multi-Purpose Cooperative (NGPI ARB MPC) as priority to be sur-
veyed for individual titling for the first quarter next year as part of the targeted 51,000 hectares in Agusan del Sur to be implemented in a span of three years. Other large tract of lands owned by splinter groups of ARB cooperatives within the oil palm plantation will be also surveyed for individual titling. NGPI ARB MPC with 864 members were former farmworkers of the some 7,000 hectares oil palm plantation operated by the defunct NDC Guthrie Plantations, Inc. which was covered under Compredel Sur Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Ofhensive Agrarian Reform Agusan ficer II Jamil Amantonding, Jr. signing his commitment Program (CARP) of which on the white board where the salient features of SPLIT See TITLES, page 11
Program is posted.
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