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VOL. 1, No. 239
Cagayan de Oro City
Monday
February 27, 2012
P10.00
Catastrophic M’nao brownouts looming FORMER Senator Migz Zubiri has warned of “catastrophic brownouts” in Mindanao inside five weeks, unless government moves fast to fix the island’s massive power supply deficit.
In a letter to Energy Secretary Jose Almendras, Zubiri expressed alarm over the current two-to four-hour daily brownouts in many parts of Mindanao, which he said “could worsen into power outages of up to eight hours by April, on account
of increased demand associated with the summer season.” To effectively cure Mindanao’s power supply shortage, Zubiri put forward the following remedies: • The temporary deployment of additional power
barges to reinforce supply in affected areas in Mindanao; • The use of the renewable energy trust fund to grant incentives to entities prepared to install and deliver new biomass, solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and/ or ocean power supplies,
For more details, contact Tel. No.: 309-5276 HERMILINO VILLALON Manager
ZUBIRI exclusively for Mindanao, in six to 18 months; and • The energy sector’s retention in the Investment Priorities Plan of the Board of Investments, in order to attract fresh capital needed to quickly grow Mindanao’s LOOMING/PAGE 11
Emano belittles critics on recall As shown in this recent aerial photo, this gold panning operation earlier reported by GMA Isyu Karon continues. The equipment sucks river sand ang processes it for gold and other minerals then throws back the tailings to the river bed, contributing to the silting of the Iponan River. Note how the hillsides on the river banks have been scarred by hydraulic mining. GMA has filed a complaint against a barangay kagawad for allegedly threatening the GMA Isya Karon team which reported this earlier. Photo supplied
WEATHER UPDATE EASTERLIES prevailing over Mindanao. Eastern Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of the country will have partly cloudy skies except for isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms over the eastern sections of Luzon and the rest of Visayas. Moderate to strong winds blowing from the Northeast will prevail over Northern Luzon and its coastal waters will be moderate to rough. Elsewhere, winds will be light to moderate coming from the East to Northeast with slight to moderate to seas. source: pagasa
THE object of the suspension and recall movement himself, embattled Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Vicente Emano, instead of lashing out at the opposition, is giving hints and suggestions to the proponents of the recall movement regarding the right ways to make their cause of removing him more viable. “The case they filed with Malacañang about their desire to have me suspended was sloppily prepared,” Emano said in a press statement. It is known that the opposition has filed an administrative case against Emano appealing to the president to suspend the mayor if found guilty, after a thorough investigation, of contributing to the death of thousands when the typhoon Sendong struck the city. “The prayer of the case they filed against me in EMANO/PAGE 11
Mayor, kin deny ambush story By RIC CLET, Contributor
COTABATO City Mayor Japal J. Guiani Jr, his sister City Administrator Atty. Frances Cynthia GuianiSayadi, and five others, have
refuted claims that they were behind the ambush of Vice Mayor Muslimin Sema. Earlier, the Criminal Investigation and Detec-
tion Group (CIDG) filed frustrated and attempted murder against the Guianis but the Guianis claimed that they were innocent of the charges being hurled STORY/PAGE 2
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