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Health department tracesresidents with Mers-Cov ZAMBOANGA City––The City Health Office has already located, through the conduct of contact tracing, two of the five residents of this city who arrived in the country together with a Filipina nurse tested positive with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus (MERSCoV), the first such case in the country.
Lawmaker turns over P10m worth of school buildings
See FULL STORY, page A6
By PAT SAMONTE Regional Editor-Caraga
As negotiation failed
Dad eyes expropriation over Lapasan land row DUE to failure of negotiations, the City Council committee on subdivision and landed estate chaired by Councilor Alexander Dacer on Monday recommended that the city government of Cagayan de Oro proceeds
with the expropriation of a property in Barangay Lapasan. The City Council earlier enacted Ordinance No. 12906-2015, authorizing Mayor Oscar See land, page A11
BUKIDNON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES MULTI-PURPOSE COOPERATIVE (BUGEMCO) To all BUGEMCO Members; Notice is hereby made that the Membership Annual General Assembly of BUGEMCO will be held on February 27, 2015, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at Kaamulan Open Theather, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon. RUBY R. GALOPE Secretary Attested: RICHEL R. OKIT, CPA, MBA Chairperson
PACMAN IN ORO. Congressman and world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao admits how he was able to cut his vices such as “being a alcoholic” and “being a womanizer” before he became a born again Christian during the National Bible Celebration in Cagayan de Oro City on Saturday (February 14). Pacquiao, a member of the Jesus Christ Is Lord (JCIL), visited Cagayan de Oro City to lead the group’s prayer rally held at the Pelaez Sports Complex along Velez Street around 5 in the afternoon.
BUTUAN City––Agusan del Norte First District Rep. Lawrence Lemuel Fortun recently handed over P10,163,084 worth of classroom buildings to schools in five barangays here as part of his infrastructure projects this year. According to Fortun, education is a priority program for which he has
photo by gerry lee gorit
See school, page A11
arm and was brought to the Malaybalay Polymedic General Hospital (MPGH). He is scheduled for an operation for a broken bone. The birdwatchers were identified, according to the visitors’ permit the PASu granted them on January 29, as British nationals Peter Simpson, Paul Thomas Rendell, and Jill Patricia Rendell; Danish nation-
als Leo Soegaard Borch, Birgitte Noerregaard, and Ole Frederiksen; and Australian national Richard Lindsay Johnstone. One of the foreigners was reported lost and killed but Somera clarified that Johnstone only got separated from the group. The bird watchers were scheduled to visit a site
Guide hurt as foreign bird watchers caught in clash between government troops, NPA rebels By Walter I. Balane of MindaNews
MALAYBALAY City––A local tour guide was hurt when a group of foreign bird watchers he was helping got caught in an encounter between the Army and the New People’s Army Friday morning, the office of the Protected Area Superintendent (PASu) of the Depart-
ment of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) here said. Daniel Somera, deputy PASu told MindaNews all seven foreigners were unhurt contrary to reports that one of them was killed. Tour gui d e C arlito Gayramara, 61, considered by the PASu personnel as “expert local tour guide in the area” was hit on his left
See rebels, page A11
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