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www.mindanaodailybalita.com VOL. 2, No. 46
Cagayan de Oro City
Wednesday
July 11, 2012
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Land squatting ‘boss’ nabbed in Davao City By BEN D. ARCHE Regional editor-Davao
DAVAO City––With the arrest of the alleged leader of illegal settlers, police authorities said the operation of the socalled professional squatting here has been deemed to have broken off. Supt. Dionisio Abude, Talomo Police Station chief, personally led the team that collared the suspected leader identified as Manolito Gavas, a native of Bohol province, in their illegally settled area at Victoria Village, Barangay Matina Aplaya this city. Abude said the suspect failed to present pertinent documents that could attest the legality of their occupation in said area when interrogated at the police BOSS/PAGE 9
PHOTO BY GERRY L. GORIT Police Director Arnulfo R. Perez (left), director for logistics, representing PNP chief Director General Nicanor A. Bartolome, hands over a sword to incoming Northern Mindanao regional police director Gil Jamila Hitosis during the turnover of command ceremony at Camp Alagar in Cagayan de Oro Monday. Chief Supt. Hitosis replaced outgoing regional director Chief Supt. Jufel C. Adriatico.
WEATHER UPDATE INTERTROPICAL Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Southern Luzon and Visayas. Southern Luzon will experience cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming widespread rains over Batangas, Mindoro Provinces and Palawan which may trigger flashfloods and landslides. Mindanao will be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms. Light to moderate winds blowing from the Southwest to Southeast will prevail over Luzon and Visayas and coming from Southwest over Mindanao. The coastal waters throughout the archipelago wil be slight to moderate. SOURCE : PAGASA
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Lawmaker hits PNoy’s Executive Order 79 A PROGRESSIVE lawmaker condemned Executive Order 79 saying that it gives more room for mining companies to commit abuses against the environment and communities. President Benigno Aquino III yesterday issued EO 79 allegedly to institute reforms in the mining industry. Partylist Rep. Antonio L. Tinio said that “there is nothing new in PNoy’s ‘new mining policy.’ EO 79 maintains the same regime tried and tested by largescale mining companies under his wing, and even improves it.” Tinio noted that EO 79 demeans the authority of local governments over mining activities within their respective jurisdictions while it cedes vast discretion to the Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC). “In the past, LGUs served as some form of restraint against excesses of these firms. Some heed the alarm raised by communities on the threats caused to environment and the locals by imposing moratoriums on mining activities in their respective areas. HITS/PAGE 9
‘Time for Flashfloods wash away 11 houses peace is in four villages in Butuan City now,’ Deles tells MILF SULTAN Kudarat, Maguindanao––President Benigno Aquino III’s peace adviser has told supporters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) who gathered here over the weekend that peace is now at hand. “The time for peace is now,” Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Quintos Deles told the MILF and its supporters, emphasizing the TIME/PAGE 9
BUTUAN City––Flashfloods washed away a total of 11 houses in four hinterland villages situated near the Agusan River Sunday evening, belated report reaching urban center of Butuan said. The Butuan City Information Office in their report identified the three barangays as barangays Camayahan, Tag-abaca, Lemon and Salvacion. Report from Butuan City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) claimed two houses were destroyed af-
ter huge logs carried by strong flashflood current hit them while four houses were washed away by strong current in barangay Camayahan, this city. CDRRMC identified the owners as Cadoy Pepito, Joel Lumon, Sergio Lumon, Inday Sanico and Cora Madelo. The report however failed to mention if there were people inside said houses when flash floods occurred and washed- out their houses. In barangay Salvacion, at least five houses were
destroyed. CDRRMC identified the owners of destroyed houses in barangay Salvacion as Danilo Lugsong, Espandonis Atanog, Alolan Ybañez, Crisencio “Sencis” Andihuyan and Manuel “Manny” Dejarlo. In barangay Tag-abaca, the house owned by Evelyn Dayuc was also damaged by flash floods, CDRRMC reported. Flash floods also caused the evacuation of some 42 families from said four barangays which were all HOUSES/PAGE 9
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