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Volume IV, No. 002 web portal: www.mindanaodailynews.com
Tuesday
May 19, 2015
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Cagayan de Oro City HIV positive faces the public F
By URIEL C. QUILINGUING, Contributing Editor
Oro dad to invite experts in hearing
VICE Mayor Caesar Ian E. Acenas on Monday proposed that the Institute of Electronics and Communications Engineers of the Philippines (IECEP) and computer engineers be invited during discussions on problems regarding the slow internet services in Cagayan de Oro City. Earlier, Councilor Ramon Tabor aired complaints from subscribers of telecommunication companies regarding wifi connections, which he said are not the speed the companies have advertised. The report was referred to the joint committees on trade, commerce and cooperatives and on public utilities chaired by Councilors Edna Dahino and Roger Abaday, respectively, for appropriate action. Acenas expressed concern that among Asian countries it is only in the Philippines where maximum internet speed is only 3.55 megabytes per second (Mbps).
inally, the campaign to curve down the stigma and discrimination against persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV) including those whose conditions have advanced to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Cagayan de Oro and Northern Mindanao has a face. See full story, page A3
MILF close to removal from UN list of groups using child soldiers COTABATO City--The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) announced it was on its way to completing the UN-MILF action plan to get it delisted as a group A boy hits the small surfs along Apple Tree resort hotel during a skimboarding competi- that uses child combatants. tion held in Opol, Misamis Oriental May 17. Mindanao Daily News photo by Gerry Lee Gorit International human
rights standards define a child soldier or combatant as an individual who is below 18 years old. The announcement came in time for the launching Monday of the “Children, See soldiers, page A11
Fate of BBL lies in the hands 98 reps, mostly from M’nao DAVAO City––The fate of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) — whether it is one that adheres to the letter and spirit of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) or one that may render the future Bangsamoro less autonomous than the present Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) – is in
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the hands of 98 representatives, majority of them from Mindanao’s 27 provinces and 33 cities. All representatives from Mindanao’s 59 congressional districts are members of the 75-member Ad Hoc Committee on the Bangsamoro Basic Law (AHCBBL). The Committee’s 75 members plus 23 ex officio members – or a total of 98 representatives — are expected to vote in open session on May 18, 19 and 20. There would be no explanation of the vote, said AHCBBL chair Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez. That will be done at the plenary, which he expects to begin on May 25 “from 4 p.m. to midnight or from
See hands, page A11
BANGSAMORO BASIC LAW. Senator Alan Peter Cayetano tells Miriam Coro-
nel Ferrer, chair of the government peace negotiating panel for talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), that the present form of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) will allow the MILF to dominate the transition commission. Cayetano also said that the BBL is giving the MILF “too much power” during Monday’s hearing on the BBL. Photo courtesy of Joseph Vidal
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