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Lanao candidates vow to end poll violence, cheating VOL. 2, No. 252
Cagayan de Oro City
Thursday
March 14, 2013
P10.00
By Violeta M. Gloria
Humanitarian Ceasefire
Members of the Initiative for International Dialogue hold a protest outside the Malaysian Consulate in Davao City on Monday, March 11. The group is calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Sabah, Malaysia. A letter addressed to the Malaysian Prime Minster was delivered to the Office of the Consul-General. Mindanews Photo by Ruby Thursday
NGCP funds Humanitarian teams 1-hectare mangrove intensify efforts to assist Pinoys in Sabah plantation In support of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources' (DENR) National Greening Program, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) funded a mangrove plantation project near the coastal area of Brgy. Bunawan, Davao City. NGCP and DENR Region 11 entered into an agreement to develop a one-hectare mangrove plantation as part of the tree seedling replacement/planting project of the transmission company for the DENR. Subsequently, DENR's Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) contracted the Association of Fisherfolk Davao City, Inc. (AFDCI), a non-¬stock non-profit funds | page 10
MANILA, (PIA) -- The Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur have intensified efforts of its humanitarian/ consular teams to reach out and assist more Filipinos affected by the recent events in Lahad Datu and other places. “We are exerting utmost efforts to reach out to as many Filipinos in eastern Sabah at the soonest time possible. We are making arrangements to repatriate those who express the desire to do so. We feel and understand the anxieties felt by many of our kababayans,” Philippine Ambassador to Malaysia J. Eduardo Malaya said in a statement. “Even as we await the approval from local authorities for full access, our humanitarian/consular teams are working full time to ensure our kababayans’ safety and well-being,” Ambassador Malaya added. In Lahad Datu, a three-man team from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) led by Undersecretary Parisya Hashim-Taradji arrived there on March 12, and teamed up with the Embassy humanitarian/consular team which has been in the town since March 1. They now help in manning a mobile humanitarian/ welfare desk to further assist affected Filipinos. Together with the DSWD team, the group sabah | page 10
MARAWI City––Electoral candidates in Lanao del Sur and this city signed on Monday a covenant to end violence and political machination that made the area as the “cheating capital of the country.” The signing at the Noramis Convention Center here was witnessed by multisectoral groups, election officials, military, police, and other authorities from all over Lanao del Sur and Marawi. With a Qur’an laid on the table, candidates who signed the agreement on paper and on mounted tarpaulins vowed to uphold the right of the people to vote freely; not to tolerate their respective supporters to do vote-buying, use threats, employ violence, or stop voters to exercise their right to suffrage. They agreed “that the right to suffrage is a sacred
right.” The covenant mentioned that they agreed to be accountable to their respective bodyguards and supporters who violate Comelec Resolutions 9561-A and 9608, policies that regulate the carrying and transporting of deadly weapons and about the employment of bodyguards during election. They also agreed to join candidates’ forums that will be initiated by non-partisan groups. During the gathering, rival candidates shook hands and hugged each other, and engaging themselves in open conversation. For instance, Marawi Mayor Pre Salic was seen hugging Prof. Pundama Sani, his rival for the mayoralty post. The six rival congressional candidates for the first and second districts were seen raising each other’s hand. Lawyer Ramon Casiple, cheating | page 10
Agusan Sur vice mayor killed in road accident By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN angle,” said Chief Inspector Nilo Texon, police chief of SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan Prosperidad town where del Sur--- Police is consid- vice mayor Ron Agcopra ering a possibility that the figured a fatal road accident vice mayor of Trento this in the village of Awa while he province killed in a road was driving his governmentaccident early Wednesday issued Ford Everest from could have been tired and Trento to Butuan City at sleepy while driving that around 1:30 a.m. he rammed a flower on the Agcopra,51, who is seekopposite lane of the national ing reelection under the highway. National Unity Party was “This is not conclusive declared dead on arrival accident | page 10 but were’ considering this
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BIR-Caraga breaches 2012 collection target BY PAT SAMONTE BUTUAN CITY – The Bureau of Internal Revenue Region No. 17 (Caraga) had topped its 2012 collection target of P3,047,077,000 by P223,550,068.53. In his report during Tuesday’s program to kickoff this year’s tax campaign
at Almont Inland Resort Hotel and Convention Center here, Regional Director Norberto Vitug revealed that actual revenue collection of P3,270,627,068.53 had breached by 7.34 percent its P3,047,077,000 goal for Calendar Year 2012. In the wake of this encouraging development, BIR
Assistant Commissioner Lucita Rodriguez announced during the program that the region’s revenue target for 2013 has been raised to P4.1 billion. According to Vitug, percentage-wise Revenue District Office No. 105-Surigao City recorded the target | page 10
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