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Anti-trafficking task force rescues 4 women in Zambo
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By MINDANEWS
Police step up security in Oro as ‘All Souls Day’ draws near
AMBOANGA City––Four women from Metro Manila were rescued Saturday noon, October 25, 2014, by the multiagency Sea-Based Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force (SBATTF), in an east coast barangay here.
By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
See FULL STORY, page A6
Mindanawon installed as prexy of New York’s St. John’s University DAVAO City––Dr. Conrado “Bobby” Gempesaw, a Dabawenyo and an alumnus of the Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU) is the new President of the St. John’s University in New York, a Catholic and Vincentian university founded in 1870. The university’s website, http://www.stjohns.edu/ announced that Gempesaw was installed as the university’s “17th and first lay president” on October 24. The website describes its President as “an accomplished scholar, teacher and administrator who comes to St. John’s with almost three decades of academic and administrative experience.” Before assuming the post of President of St. John’s University, G emp esaw served as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He also served as Dean of the University of Delaware (UD) Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, Vice-Provost for Academic and International Programs, Interim Dean of UD’s College of Arts and Sciences, and Chair of the Department of Food and Resource Economics. See prexy, page A7
TRANSPORT STRIKE. Dozens of commuters wait for a ride along Apolinar Velez Street in Cagayan de Oro
City before noon yesterday as the driver of this motorized tricycle and a barker make a living out of the nationwide transport strike initiated by the Solidarity of Transport of Transport Alliance in Region 10 (STAREX) and its ally, the Pinagkaisang Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide (PISTON). Photo by Gerry L. Gorit of Mindanao Daily News
BANGSAMORO PUBLIC HEARINGS
Rodriguez to IPs in Bangsamoro: ‘Do not worry. IPRA will be applicable’ First of two parts By Carolyn O. Arguillas of MindaNews UPI, Maguindanao––The chair of the House of Representatives’ Ad Hoc Committee on the Bangsamoro Basic Law (AHCBBL) has assured residents of this predominantly Lumad town that what the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA) has given them will not be diminished but will instead be enhanced in the future Bangsamoro. “It will be IPRA plus plus plus,” Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, chair of the 75-member AHCBBL told a crowd of about 400 at the Upi School Gym during the public hearing on October 22, the first out of town hearing on what is now House Bill 4994. “Do not worry. IPRA will be applicable (in the Bangsamoro). It is applicable now, it is applicable in the future, Rodriguez said, to
IPs to benefit from additional rights under Bangsamoro Law.
the delight of IP groups pushing for the specific mention of RA 8371 or IPRA in the BBL. HB 4994 does not specifically mention IPRA but both government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) claim it provides for all the rights guaranteed under IPRA,
a national law passed on October 29, 1997 but not implemented in the IP areas under the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), the core territory of the proposed Bangsamoro government. The proposed BBL “recognizes, promotes and protects the rights” of the IPS
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to: their native titles and/ or fusaka inged, indigenous customs and traditions, justice systems and indigenous political structures; an equitable share in revenues from the utilization of resources in their ancestral lands; free and prior informed consent; political participation in See worry, page A7
CAGAYAN de Oro City–– S e c u r it y pre p ar at i ons heightens here as the observance of the “All Souls Day” on November 1 near, local police officials said. Supt. Faro Antonio Olaguera, chief of the Cagayan De Oro City police force, said that about 1000 police officers have been initially deployed in the city this week to secure revelers during the “All Souls Day.” Olaguera said that the security preparations have started this early as people start to flock to public and private cemeteries to spruce up the graveyards of the departed. He said that more police officers would be deployed in Bolonsori, Camaman-an, the largest public cemetery here during the “All Souls Day.” Police officers would also be deployed to augment traffic management toward all other private and public cemeteries in the city. “We would see to it that the “All Souls Day” celebration would be peaceful,” Olaguera said.
All systems go for All Saints’ Day, says Palace IT is all systems go for All Saints’ Day, said Presidential Communication Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr., on Sunday. “Batay sa kautusan ng Pangulo (Benigno Aquino III), isinasagawa ng lahat ng mga kinauukulang ahensya ng pamahalaan ang See PALACE, page A7
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