Mindanao Daily Northmin (August 19, 2013)

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Volume II, No. 066

Misor to use IRA to pay its 1,200 unpaid employees MISAMIS Oriental--Payments for the 1,200 unpaid casual and contract workers in Misamis Oriental would be taken from the province’s monthly Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA), a provincial official said on Friday. Provincial Administrator Edmundo Pacalan Jr. said that the provincial board has already approved the payment for the province’s casual and contract workers amounting to P 14 million. “We will pay the unpaid workers on a monthly basis every time the province received its monthly IRA of P 61 million,” Pacamalan added. He said that the province could not pay all the casual and contract workers on a “one-shot-deal” because of the liquidity problem left by former Gov. Oscar Moreno. “Apart from the fact that the province of Misamis Oriental is bankrupt, former Gov. Moreno has left more than P 200 million cash liability that the province is obliged to settle,” Pacamalan added. Pacamalan also said that the province has adopted strict austerity measures in the wake of the findings of the Commissions on Audit (COA) that Moreno’s administration incurred a deficit of P506 million. He said that the province will pay the unpaid casual and job order workers who did not receive their salaries for the month of April, May, and June 2013. The province would pay because the casual and contract workers had already rendered the services, Pacamalan said. CD

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August 19, 2013

• ‘Oca’ blames the City Council for the delay • Gan: Council to tackle issues in today’s session By CRIS DIAZ, Executive Editor Mindanao Daily News

CIT Y Hall on Thursday expressed the apprehension of the failure of

the city’s finance department to release the Aug. 1-15 salaries of regular employees of the city government.

READ FULL STORY ON PAGE 11

212 people missing in sea collision off Cebu By PAT SAMONTE and GARRY CRUZ of Mindanao Daily News-Caraga

BUTUAN City––S ome 212 passengers of M/V St. Thomas Aquinas, most of them from Caraga Region, were still unaccounted for when the roro vessel sank

after it collided with M/V Sulcon Express 7, a cargo ship, in the vicinity of Lawis Ledge, Talisay, Cebu on Friday night. See PEOPLE, page 11

Pelaez Sports Center general manager Boboy Sabal (left) and an assistant prepares to hang a tarpaulin announcement of the “15 SA 15” program of the Misamis Oriental provincial government for users of the sports center in Cagayan de Oro. Effective August 15, the entrance fee to the facility has been lowered from P30 to P15 per individual. Mindanao Daily News photo by Gerry Lee Gorit

Marina suspends all ships of 2GO, Sulpicio Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) adminLt. Commander Ramil Palabrica of the Philippine Coast Guard points to the site where passenger vessel St. Thomas istrator Maximo Mejia Jr. Aquinas and cargo vessel M/V Sulpicio Express 7 collided Friday night in Cebu City. Coast Guard headquarter on Saturday ordered the deployed additional 32 divers who are loading the BRP Pampanga to help in the search and rescue operation in immediate suspension of all Talisay, Cebu on Saturday (August 17, 2013) at Pier 13 in Port Area, Manila. PNA photos by Avito C. Dalan

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Govt ready to extend help to victims of Cebu sea mishap: Palace THE government said it is ready to extend assistance to the victims of a sea mishap in Talisay City, Cebu, in addition to the help being extended by the shipping companies.

“Handa naman tayong magbigay ng kahit anong assistance na kailangan nila. As of the current situation, the management of 2Go Shipping Lines is providing relief assistance to them,” Deputy

Presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said in a radio interview over dzRB Radyo ng Bayan on Saturday. As of the moment, Valte said the shipping company has ex-

The Philippine Coast Guard tended temporary shelters, hot meals, and medical assistance to reported that as of 10 a.m. Saturday the survivors. Other survivors are the casualty figure was pegged at also being given accommodation 26 while there were 629 survivors. Different concerned while the situation is being sorted out, she added. See Palace, page 11

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