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Children to be banned from riding motorcycles Volume III, No. 269
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May 12, 2015
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BILL banning small children from riding as passengers on a motorcycle unless they can comfortably reach the standard foot peg of the vehicle has been passed by the Senate on third and final reading yesterday.
Rallies held as House committee sets vote on BBL By FROILAN GALLARDO of MindaNews
CAGAYAN de Oro City--Peace advocates on Monday held rallies in key cities in Mindanao to drumbeat support for the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law which was scheduled for voting at the House ad hoc committee on the BBL. In Cagayan de Oro, Archbishop Antonio Ledesma, SJ, and parishioners took to the streets to urge Congress to pass the bill. “View the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) as partners. Internal security issues like the Abu Sayyaf, BIFF and the MNLF can be best handled by the Muslims themselves,” Ledesma said at the rally in Gaston Park. The archbishop warned the House that the
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Government deployed more OFWs than it created jobs
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and dramatist, is one of the most important of French Romantic writers, says “there is nothing more powerful on Earth than an idea whose time has come.” That’s a paraphrase of the original but it captures the essence of the forces that are coming together for peace in Mindanao. Leaders of the Citizens’ Assembly for the BBL with Cagayan de Oro Press Club President Jerry Orcullo releasing white doves as a symbol of the coming of peace in Mindanao once the BBL is signed into law. Taken during the CAB Peace Walk at the Misamis Oriental Press Freedom Monument May 11, 2015. Photo by Mike Baños, NPN
Rufus says ‘ad hoc’ committee starts taking up proposed BBL By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
CAGAYAN de Oro City--It would take, at least, three days for the 75-member “ad hoc” committee to deliberate and study the 246 sections of the proposed Bangsamoro
Basic Law (BBL), a lawmaker said on Monday. Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, chair of the BBL “ad hoc” committee, said that there is a need to review and examine closely 60 sections, out of the 246 sections of the proposed BBL.
“We have to make sure that the provisions in the 60 sections would align in terms with the interpretation and understanding of the existing laws,” Rodriguez said. He said that the See STARTS, page A11
THE number of overseas Filipino workers deployed far outpaces jobs generated in the country, according to research group IBON. “This also means that more and more Filipinos are being forced to risk their lives abroad and in extremely vulnerable circumstances,” it said. The country deployed over 4,500 workers per day in 2014 which is much greater than the 2,800 additional employed domestically per day, the group said. IBON said preliminary deployment data from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) showed 1.7 million deployed overseas Filipino workers in 2014, or an average of 4,508 leaving every day. Earlier data for the first nine months of the year showed over 5,200 See JOBS, page A11
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