MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH. JUSTICE. PROGRESS.
Volume IX, No. 335
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MINDEX transport coop braces for ‘cashless transactions’ P40M cigarettes from China seized by Customs in Misamis Oriental
By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Imported cigarettes from China valued at P40 million were apprehended by the Bureau of Customs-10 (BOC-10) on Sept. 17, the agency said Tuesday. The contraband arrived at the Mindanao Container Terminal, a sub-port under the jurisdiction of BOC10, in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, said Cris Angelo Andrade, the bureau’s regional information officer. Andrade said the cargo has no import papers and other documents, prompting the Customs to declare it as a “pre-lodged shipment.” FORLAND brand makes a courtesy visit to Mindanao Daily Express Transport Coop Prior to the contraband’s erative offering Class 2 model to the Board of Directors led by Dante Sudaria, the arrival, the BOC-10 district coop Chairman and likewise the publisher and CEO of BusinessWeek Mindanao and See SEIZED, page 11
A CAGAYAN de Oro City based transport cooperative is bracing for a “cashless transaction” as the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in Manila recently implemented the “No Card, No Ride” rule. Dante Sudaria, Chairman of the Mindanao Daily Express Transport Cooperative (MINDEX), a Cagayan De Oro-based transport cooperative, said that MINDEX is ready to implement the
LTO’s cashless transaction here. Sudaria said that the cashless transaction, also known as the “Automatic Fare Collection System.. (AFCS)” scheme, is part of the package of the transport modernization program, scheduled for full implementation in 2021. “The MINDEX transport cooperative is now consolidating its 160 plus jeepney units for some seven routes in Cagayan De Oro City,” See BRACES, page 11
PCAP: Professionalizing criminology in the Philippines By MARK FRANCISCO, Correspondent
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Seno envisions Opol as a city By MARK FRANCISCO Correspondent
Seno
OPOL, MISAMIS ORIENTAL - ”Hopefully, before my last term ends, Opol will be a chartered city of our province”, thus declared Mayor Maximino Seno. During a recent press conference on the effects of Covid 19 pandemic on his town and non-pharma-
ceutical responses being adapted by his administration, Mayor Seno also cited the gains of his seventh year as local chief executive. “It cannot be denied that aside from tourismoriented businesses that have sprouted in Opol, major investments have been located here and more are to come”, added Seno.
Seno is optimistic that considering the unprecedented economic growth and the ever-escalating value of properties in his locality, the realization of cityhood for Opol is not far-fetched. “We are bounded by two cities, Cagayan de Oro and El Salvador, and naturally, Opol would eventually See SENO, page 11
CRIMINOLOGISTS are the law enforcement backbone of the country. They comprise half of the police officers in the Philippines. The rest are detailed in related jobs such those serving in BJMP, Bureau of Fire Protection and being instructors themselves, training young criminologists in
the making. It is thus important for the continuing professionalization of criminologists given their profound role in society. This responsibility lies heavily in the Professional Criminologists Association of the Philippines (PCAP). For more than See CRIMINOLOGY, page 11
