MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XI, No. 059
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Thursday, September 30, 2021
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LTFRB 10 maximizes Libreng Sakay for hospital workers By MARK FRANCISCO and GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - THE Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) in Northern Mindanao has now tapped a total LTFRB 10 director Aminoden Guro, Region 10 alone has been allocated P135 of 189 units for its Libreng Sakay million for the program’s second tranche program, prioritizing hospital which started last September 14. photo workers with ten trips per day by gerry lee gorit in each route.
The government’s Libreng Sakay program was launched to especially help frontliners and other essential workers travel to their workplaces during the quarantine implementation. According to LTFRB 10 director Aminoden Guro, Region 10 alone has been allocated P135 million for the program’s second tranche which started last September 14.
The service contracting program allows drivers to earn based on the number of kilometers traveled, instead of the number of passengers. “N’a ‘tay gi-install na GPS system kada sakyanan to ensure nga ang driver wala nilapas sa iya ruta,” Guro said. The government pays P82.50 for every kilometer traveled for buses and P52 for modernized
jeepneys. Along this line, Guro said they are focusing on hospital-based trips for this second tranche. Drop-off points here in Cagayan de Oro City include Capitol University Medical Center, Maria Reyna Hospital, Northern Mindanao Medical Center, Sabal Hospital, Cagayan de Oro Medical Center,
Grenade lobbed at Deputy House Speaker’s residence in CdO See MAXIMIZES, page 11
By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: Un i d enti fe d susp e c t s lobbed a grenade on the ancestral house of Deputy House Speaker Rufus Rodriguez early Wednesday morning, the police said. Rodriguez, the representative of Cagayan de Oro’s Second Congressiomal district, was not in the house when the incident took place about 1:15 Wednesday morning. His younger sister, City Councilor Jocelyn Rodriguez told the Manila Times that the deputy house speaker Rufus Rodriguez returned to Manila Saturday after turning over various A police officer checks the outer area of the Rodriguez residence in Barangay Nazareth See LOB, page 11
after a grenade was thrown into the compound Tuesday dawn. photo by
gerry lee gorit
more Covid variants P13.5 million imported onions 36 detected in Caraga, bringing from China destroyed by BOC-10 to a total of 149 cases By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Bureau of Customs in region 10 has destroyed P13.5 million onions from China which were wrongfully declared as food stuff by the importer. The shipment was declared as “cream cheese” and “frozen puff pastries” but turned out to be onions upon inspection by the Customs Intelligence
and Investigation Service (CIIS) Oliver Valiente, CIIS head in Northern Mindanao, said they received intelligence report that a shipment will arrive at the Mindanao Container Terminal sub-port in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental on Aug. 10, 2021. The cargo, Valiente said, was consigned to JDFallar Photo shows the P13.5 million imported onions that Consumer Goods Trading. were destroyed by the Bureau of Customs at a facility in See DESTROYED, page 11
Manolo Fortich recently.
By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur -- Thirty six more positive cases for COVID-19 variants of concern were detected in Caraga region, the Department of HealthCenter for Helath Development reported. Covid Delta variant is still dominant cases with 31, three Alpha variants and two Beta variants bringing a total of 149 variants of
concern in the region. These were the samples sent to University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center last August. Agusan del Sur have the highest cases of Delta variant with recorded 24 distributed in Loreto with five cases Bayugan City and San Francisco town each with four cases, San Luis and Talacogon town with three cases each and one See DETECTED, page 11