Mindanao Daily NEWS Radio commentator ‘Joas Dignos’ killed Volume II, No. 143
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P.69m worth of illegal logs seized in Butuan
By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor and GERRY GORIT Correspondent
CAGAYAN de Oro City––A hard-hitting broadcast commentator was shot dead in Bukidnon on Friday night a few days after the broadcast and print journalists in the country commemorated the anniversary of the “Maguindanao massacre” in Mindanao. See FULL STORY, page A2
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PAGE A11: Yolanda death toll rises to 5,632, damage now at P30B -- NDRRMC RESIDENTS along the coastal area in Barangay Gusa in Cagayan de Oro City are still murmuring for payment, which is until now, unpaid. They claim of receiving notice to relocate but vowed they will not vacate the area unless they receive the money. The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Region––through the effort of second district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez––will construct a by-pass road which will serve as alternate route parallel to the national highway. Mindanao Daily News photo by Gerry Lee Gorit
BUTUAN City––Two hundred thirty-one illegally cut lauan (dipterocarp) logs with a total volume of 142 cubic meters and estimated value of P698,830 were discovered floating along the Agusan River on Wednesday morning. Police Supt. Romy Palgue, deputy director of the Butuan City Police Office said an anonymous informant told the Presidential Anti-organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) about the presence of the logs in barangay Mahogany. He said that aside from the PAOCC and the local and regional police, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the local government unit went with the team. Senior Insp. Nefre Acaso, chief of the city police’s public safety company said his men found the logs floating and abandoned in the river. The DENR personnel measured the logs, and the policemen kept watch to prevent them from being smuggled before their turnover to the DENR or local government unit, said Acaso. He said the same policemen who found the logs belonged to the same police team that raided the See logs, page A11
Abamin: Imem will increase power rates in Mindanao by 1,000 percent Blurb: Profits of IPPs with oil-fired power plants to rocket 2,000 percent under IMEM
THE party list ABANTE MINDANAO fears power rates paid by consumers in Mindanao would increase by ten times the present rates if the government alMembers of the Philippine Rescue 2000 of Region 10 lows the Interim Mindanao during the actual Search and Retrieval operation of the Electricity Market to operate victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda in Tacloban, Leyte.
starting December 3. In a privilege speech delivered to the House of Representatives, 16th Congress last Tuesday, 26 November, Rep. Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr. said while the average rate charged today
by the PSALM (Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management) Corporation is less than P3.00 per kilowatt hour (kWh), the price of electricity sold under the IMEM will be as much as P32.00/kWh.
“It would be unconscionable for the Philippine government to allow the price of rice in typhoon-devastated Samar and Leyte to increase by more than 100 percent of the pre-typhoon price,” the Mindanao solon said. “Yet in Mindanao, where people are suffering from See power, page A11
18 women activists killed, 23 detained under Aquino govt rights violations against women. Citing data from the human rights AN organization of women rights de- alliance Karapatan, Tanggol Bayi said fenders scored President Benigno S. 18 women were victims of See WOMEN, page A11 Aquino III for the continuing human By RONALYN V. OLEA of Bulatlat.com
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