Volume VI, No. 117
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The woman in the freezer is a mother of 7 from Sulu By Carolyn O. Arguillas of MindaNews
DAVAO City––Laida Hajan of Barangay Kapian in Indanan Sulu is coming home soon, in a box from Iraq, a country that was not her destination and where deploy-
ment of Filipinos is supposed to be banned. A victim of human trafficking, the 36-year old Laida passed away in her sleep on August 27 in Erbil, Kurdistan in northern Iraq, her remains kept in a freezer at a hospital morgue under another name. Her
unclaimed body may perhaps have been disposed of and nobody would have known she had died were it not for a concerned employer and a concerned Embassy official who “did a DU30” in dealing with the unconcerned employment agency. Victimized by an illegal re-
cruiter, Laida left her husband and seven children in Sulu over a year ago, and together with other victims “took a perilous boat ride to Malaysia” supposedly en route to their employment in Jordan or Dubai, “and eventually ended See TAGGING, page A11
Laida Hajan
MINDANAO DAILY THE PURVEYOR OF TRUTH,JUSTICE, AND DEVELOPMENT
Tagging of taxi starts By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
CAGAYAN de Oro City-The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board in Northern Mindanao (LTFRB-10) has vowed to eliminate “colorum” public utility vehicles (PUVs), especially taxis, or those operating without franchise
permits as it introduced a new system that will help the agency with achieving this goal. Starting last week, LTFRB-10 began tagging taxis with yellow stickers equipped with a security feature in the form of a bar code. The sticker said
See TAGGING, page A11
OPINION TODAY n What can we get from China?
A4 n OFW dies, remains left to freeze in morgue
Statements: “DO not offend the Lord our God any more, because He is already so much offended.” (Our Lady of the Rosary to Lucia at Fatima, October 13, 1917)
ANTI-COLORUM DRIVE. Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board-10 (LTFRB-10) acting re-
gional director Aminoden Guro (wearing long-sleeved shirt) tags a taxi with a yellow sticker at the LTFRB-10 office in Barangay Bulua, this city, as a means of ridding Cagayan de Oro of ‘colorum’ public utility vehicles. LTFRB-10 is calling all taxi operators to have their units be tagged. Mindanao Daily photo by Gerry Lee Gorit
Phivolcs warns of stronger aftershocks
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Reasons why men have low ‘Libido’
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