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Volume IX, No. 093
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Friday, September 6, 2019
Residents oppose CADT inside Magdiwata shed By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur -- Opposition has mounted against the inclusion of the protected Mt. Magdiwata Watershed here from the 7, 800 hectares Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT) applied by a local Manobo tribal group. The San Francisco Water District has initiated legal actions to prohibit the inclusion of the 1,658-hectare watershed from the CADT application of Oyay Mansaloay Antod Ogow Bando Ugong (OMAUBAO) Tribal Clan Organization which already completed perimeter survey and community map validation. Elmer Luzon, SFWD general
manager, said they already sought legal assistance from the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel in Quezon City to defer the processing of the CADT while they are protesting against the intrusion of the watershed fearing this will pave the way to the resumption of large-scale mining activities within the protected area. “We fear that if the CADT application will be approved by higher authorities, mining companies would take advantage and start to sprawl with OMAUBAO since Application for Production Sharing Agreement and Exploration Permit Application are adjacent to the watershed,” Luzon See OPPOSE, page 11
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P15.00 Woman keeps partner’s decaying body in CDO By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: A woman kept the decomposing body of her live-in partner for days in keeping with his partner’s promised that he would get well soon. Village officials found the decomposing body of a certain Romeo Bagtong, 50, who was presumed to be dead for the last four days since Monday. Local officials and neighbors, who barged into the house, found the live-in partner Melita Alembo, 38, in between sobs, beside the victim’s body while picking up lice on her hair. Melita told the police investigators that her live-in partner suffered a “cram” and told her that he would be well in five minutes. The majestic Mt. Magdiwata is facing danger of intrusion anew after it was “I decided not to report included in the Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title applied by local tribal group of San Francisco, Agusan del Sur.
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P780 K‘Negosyo Carts’ for prov’l capitol vendors mulled
PROVINCIAL governor Yevgeny Vincente “Bambi” Emano, of Misamis Oriental, welcomed the offer of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to provide carts worth P 780,000 to members of the provincial capitol vendors. Emano said that Ms. Alice Tinhay, the DOLE’s Northern Mindanao focal person of the project, known as “Negosyo Cart”
is part of the labor department’s livelihood program. He said that he was glad that the DOLE’s positive respond to his request to provide a clean and better place for the vendors around the provincial capitol compound. According to Emano, the Ms. Tinhay has reported that the P 780,000 funds intended to procure See VENDORS, page 11
Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Oscar Moreno (center), accompanied by Councilor Ian Mark Nacaya and other city officials, watch the monitors of the newly operated security cameras around Cogon public market which were inaugurated last Tuesday (September 3, 2019). cagayan de oro city information office
Pagadian City ready to host PUVMP caravan Mindanao-leg ByGERRY LEE GORIT, Correspondent
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board Regional Office 9 (LTFRB-9) and the Local Government Unit of Pagadian City (Pagadian-LGU) are in the thick of things preparing for the Second Leg of the Public
Utility Vehicle (PUV) Modernization caravan set to arrive here on September 17, 2019, the 1st Leg of which has been completed in Luzon last month. Kicking off in General Santos City, SOCSARGEN, last September 2, the PUV Modernization caravan Mindanao-leg, with the theme: “Arangkada See READY, page 11
Pagadian City Mayor Samuel Co (left) discusses preparations for his city’s hosting of the PUV Modernization Caravan Mindanao-leg, set to be in Pagadian on September 17, 2019, with Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board 9 (LTFRB-9) acting Regional Director Aminoden Guro, also LTFRB-10 regional director, at the City Mayor’s Office.photo by gerry lee gorit
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