Mindanao Daily NEWS
Volume II, No. 178
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January 24, 2014
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AMBOANGA CITY – Police seized a huge quantity of illegally cut mangrove tree on Sacol Island off the southern Filipino port city of Zamboanga. SEE FULL STORY/p.8
Solon continues education, other assistance sans PDAF
Despite the recent scrapping of the Priority Development Fund in the 2014 national budget, CongressBarangay officials of Austin Heights, Kolambugan town, receive from Rep. Imelda Quibranza-Dimaporo the key to their new barangay hall, one of the many projects woman Imelda Quibranzafunded earlier from her PDAF. Also present during the turnover ceremony were Gov- Dimaporo assures her constituents that essential social ernor Khalid Dimaporo and some municipal officials.
MyPhone to invade Dinagyang Festival for the 2nd time MyPhone, the pioneering Filipino mobile phone brand, with Panay News will set Plazoleta Gay grounds on fire for the second time as they invade the Dinagyang Festival on the nights of January 24 to 26. In 2013, MyPhone brought the very first MyPhone MyParty in Iloilo bringing in performers from the local music industry. The crowd went crazy over former XLR8 members
MM and MJ Magno and VIVA artist rap star Pio Balbuena. The Major 7 Brand and Daniel Zedane opened the program with their song numbers. What kept the crowds energy high, aside from the artists’ performances, were the phones that were given away as prizes and the shirts thrown away via slingshot. The crowd’s favorites MM and MJ Magno, who See invade, page 11
programs like her college scholarship and burial assistance will be continued. The controversial PDAF or pork barrel fund was abolished following a series of protest actions in Manila
after controversies involving Janet Napoles and several lawmakers were highlighted by national media. For ordinary folks, however, the PDAF served as a very imSee solon, page 11
Opol to strengthen water system, health, environment, education, taxation, services By GERRY LEE GORIT
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - The local government unit of Opol in Misamis Oriental has began implementing a program called WHEELS for the development of the municipality. WHEELS stand for water system, health, environment, education, local taxation and sectoral services. Opol Mayor Maximino B. Seno said the program has taken off and that the
municipality is on its way to delivering the benefits for the people especially the poor and marginalized. Seno said they are aiming for self-sufficiency in water and that a company is already looking for a source to supply bulk water exclusively to the residents of Opol. He said the municipal health center is now wellstocked with medicines for common ailments during a See opol, page 11
Opol Mayor Maximino B. Seno presents an architect’s site development plan for the proposed fish landing port to be constructed at Luyongbonbon. The P20-million project will be funded through the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to benefit the fisherfolk of Opol, Misamis Oriental. photo by gerry lee gorit
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