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Laguindingan airport now CEB’s 7th Regional Hub T By MIKE BAÑOS, Editor-at-large
Ms. Scuba Philippines 2017 Sherlyn Legaspi Doloriel joins the signature campaign for Green Environment, Monday, Oct. 23, at Limketkai Luxe Hotel, Cagayan de Oro City. The Provincial Government of Misamis Oriental led by Gov. Bsmbi Emano bestows Doloriel a warm homecoming celebration. photo by gerry lee gorit for mindanao daily news
FBI confirms Hapilon is dead THE United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon, the alleged “Emir” of the Islamic State in Southeast Asia is dead. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana announced the FBI’s confirmation in a press statement released Saturday.
He said the FBI confirmed that the DNA sample from a body recovered by the Philippine military in the battlefield in Marawi “matches that of Isnilon Hapilon,” “This process of verification is also being conducted on the cadavers of the other terrorists that have been
HE public and private sector have joined forces to invest in the future of Laguindingan as an airport hub linking Northern Mindanao to the rest of the island and the Visayas. In a brief ceremony held Friday, 20 October 2017 at Laguindingan Airport, Misamis Oriental, (IATA: CGY) top executives of the country’s leading airline and chief executives of the government from the national, regional and local level launched the facility as the 7th Regional Hub of Cebu Pacific Air (PSE: CEB). “Despite the current situation in Marawi City,
Cebu Pacific has seen the promise of what Mindanao can be, and can become in the coming years,” said Pres. Rodrigo Duterte. “Laguindingan serves thousands of passengers daily and is integral to economic activity in the Cagayan-Iligan Corridor,” noted Marvin Cui, Director, CEB Standards and Compliance for Airport Services. “Earlier we launched two new flights to and from
President Rodrigo Duterte, Cebu Pacific President and CEO Lance Gokongwei and other luminaries clap after unveling the commemorative marker. photo courtesy of charo l . lagamon
CGY: Cagayan de Oro to Caticlan, and Cagayan de Oro to Dumaguete. CEB is flying from Cagayan de Oro to Boracay and Dumaguete
three times a week.” “Starting today, the entire Cebu Pacific network will have nine direct connec-
GOVERNMENT forces battling terrorists confined in only one building near the lake are expecting to end the 153-day Marawi Crisis before midnight Sunday, confident that the remaining hostages held by the Maute Group have all been rescued, Col. Romeo Brawner, deputy commander of Task Force Ranao said. “We believe there are no more hostages remaining,” Brawner told a press briefing at the provincial capitol The provincial government of Misamis Oriental represented by Gov. Yevgeny Vincente Emano (left) donates 220 early Sunday afternoon. chairs to be used by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) here. Accepting is Executive Judge Dennis Alcantar. He said they “exhausted
all means to rescue the remaining hostages.” At the press conference announcing the death of the Abu Sayyaf ’s Isnilon Hapilon and the Maute Group’s Omar Maute on October 16, General Eduardo Ano, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines said he was “certain that the neutralization of Hapilon and Omar was the last straw that has broken the camel’s back” and that the then 147-day Marawi Crisis “will be over — sooner than
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