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Mambajao is PH’s most competitive municipality Volume IV, No. 053 web portal: www.mindanaodailynews.com
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July 20, 2015
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By MIKE BAÑOS, Editor at large
MDN, BWM to honor biz leaders in Oro on July 25
HE capital town of the smallest province in Northern Mindanao has emerged as the best performing local government unit in the recently concluded 3rd Regional Competitiveness Summit held last week in Manila.
By IRENE DAYO Staff member
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Ampatuan patriarch is dead By Carolyn O. Arguillas of MindaNews
DAVAO City––Datu Andal Ampatuan, Sr. former three-term governor of Maguindanao and one of the principal suspects in the 2009 massacre of 58
persons in Ampatuan town, passed away at 10 p.m. on Friday, Eid’l Fitr, 42 days after he was admitted at a state-owned hospital in See dead, page A15
From left Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo O.Parojinog Sr. and Tourism Infrastructure Development Authority General Manager Mark Lapid confer with Department of Tourism (DOT) Regional Director Catalino Chan III for Northern Mindanao. Lapid reported that P25 million is ready to construct an Eco-Tourism Park in Ozamiz City. See full story on page 2. Mindanao Daily News photo by Gerry Lee Gorit
WITH only a few days left, the panel of judges for the 4th Mindanao Business Leader and Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2016 met in one of the establishments in Limketkai Center in Cagayan de Oro City on July 15 for the judging. The award is an annual project of the BusinessWeek Mindanao Corporation under President and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Dante M. Sudaria. See honor, page A6
PWDs hope to strengthen Int’l flights inclusive development for all in Misor By Shaun Alejandrae Yap Uy of BusinessWeek Mindanao
CAGAYAN de Oro––The Persons with Disability Affairs Office (PDAO) in collaboration with the Cagayan de Oro City Council on Disability Affairs (CdOCCDA) and the city government celebrated the 37th national disability prevention and rehabilitation weeks (July 12–23) with the theme: “Health and wellness of persons with disabilities, opportunities toward an inclusive development for all.” Newly-appointed Persons with Disability Affairs Office (PDAO) head Melagros M. Maquiling encouraged all Persons with Disability (PWDs) to participate in the 1st Mindanao PWD Job Fair on July 22
from 12 noon to 5 in the afternoon. According to Maquiling, PWD job fairs have already been implemented in Luzon and Visayas, but this is only the first time in Mindanao. “It is disheartening to know that when PWDs join regular job fairs, they are denied the opportunity to secure a job just because they have disabilities; that is discrimination,” Maquiling lamented. Maquiling also served as National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) council member for the PWD sector. PWDs are invisible In the recent “Talakayan sa PIA,” hosted by the Philippine Information Agency in Region 10,
Maquiling, citing statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO), said that 10% to 18% of the population are PWDs. “If Cagayan de Oro has a population of 700,000 then we can expect about 70,000 PWDs in our city,” she said during the holding of the Talakayan sa PIA, hosted by the Philippine Information Agency in Region 10. The problem, according to Maquiling, is that these PWDs are “invisible” or in hiding perhaps due to embarrassment or insecurity. “I encourage all PWDs to come out in the open – the issue of disability is not our own issue but everyone’s issue, almost all senior See hope, page A15
airport in Q4 this year By Mark D. Francisco Staff member
CAGAYAN de Oro City–– The Laguindingan Airport in Misamis Oriental is expected to accommodate international flights by the last quarter of the year. Speaking in an event in Ozamiz City, Department of Tourism (DOT) Regional Director Catalino E. Chan III for Northern Mindanao reported that the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) is set to initially authorize flights coming from both Seoul and Busan in South Korea to Cagayan de Oro. See airport, page A15