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Zamboanga City peaceful during barangay elections Volume II, No. 120
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By DOMINIC ILAGAN SANCHEZ
AMBOANGA City––While the rest of the country was busy with the barangay elections last Monday, Zamboanga City was relatively peaceful as the police and military maintained full alert status to curb any possible threats to the security here after the crisis that nearly paralyzed the city for over a month last September. SEE FULL STORY/p.8
FDC Misamis Power Corporation awards the equipment supply contract to The First Northeast Electric Power Engineering Corporation of China Energy Engineering Group (NEPC China) and the construction contract to NEPC Power Construction Corporation (NEPC Philippines). Joining the FDC Misamis team, President Jesus Alcordo (4th from left), Execom Chairman Jonathan Gotianun (6th from left), and EVP Mario Pangilinan (5th from left), are, from left to right: Alstom representative Ayon Banerjee, Dai Xianli of NEPC Philippines, Cai Ming of NEPC China, Roberto Jose Castillo of EEI Corporation, and SKM’s Graham Paynter.
Stolen telephone cable recovered, suspect caught, three others escape By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
Aquino tells govt agencies: ensure safety, convenience of commuters during ‘Undas’ President Aquino has directed all pertinent agencies to ensure the safety and convenience of the commuting public in the coming Undas on Friday and Saturday. In a statement issued by the Office of the Presidential Spokesperson, President Aquino, along with other Cabinet officials, will inspect terminals and other transport hubs as part of the operations. The Metropolitan See safety/p.11
POLICE in Cagayan de Oro City arrested on Tuesday morning a suspect in the theft of cable wire owned by the Misamis Oriental Telephone Company. PO3 Alaindelan Tacubao of Police Station 1 identified the suspect as Vic Mark C. Bragat, 22, of barangay Consolacion. Tacubao said Bragat was caught driving the motorela that carried the stolen cable wire at Ysalina Bridge. Police also confiscated from the suspect a hacksaw blade. Three of the suspect’s companions, however,
See escape/p.11
NPA rebels burn Mega ‘pork farm’ By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor with GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
CABLE THIEVES. Some 10 meters of telephone cables
cut into 11 pieces were recovered by the police and the Misamis Oriental Telephone Company on Tuesday morning in Cagayan de Oro City. Misortel overseer Fernando Vincent Dy (inset) confronts the suspect Vic Mark Bragat at Police Precinct 1 while the latter’s mother looks on. Mindanao Daily News photo by Gerry Lee Gorit
SOME 150 fully armed communist guerrillas of the New People’s Army (NPA) swooped down on a piggery and poultry farm in Libona, Bukidnon Wednesday morning, burned the stockyard and hacked 500 pigs. Capt. Christian Uy, spokesperson of the army’s Public Affairs Division of the 4th Infantry Division here, said that the NPA rebels attacked the “Mega Farm,” a multi-million piggery farm that supply pork and beef meats in all shop-
ping malls here. Mayor Leonardo Calingasan said no one was hurt in the attack. Calingasan said the farm, one of the biggest piggery and poultry farms in the region, is situated nearer to neighboring Manolo Fortich town. The Mega Farm was located in the more than 200-hectare hinterland village of Sil-ipon in Libona, Bukidnon, owned and managed by Erwin Bryan See. The farm supplies its own power needs that could even provide energy requirements of, at least, two nearby villages. See PORK/p.11
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