WEATHER UPDATE AS of 2:00 a.m. yesterday, the Active Low Pressure Area (ALPA) was estimated based on satellite and surface data at 640 km East of Casiguran, Aurora (16.5°N, 129.0°E). Moderate to strong winds blowing from the Southwest to West will prevail over Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao and coming from the Northeast to Northwest over the eastern section of Northern and Central Luzon and the coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough. Elsewhere, winds will be light to moderate coming from the West to Northwest with slight to moderate seas. SOURCE : PAGASA
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www.mindanaodailybalita.com VOL. 2, No. 53
Cagayan de Oro City
Friday
July 20, 2012
P10.00
NCIP inaction nearly kills dozens of lumads By BUTCH D. ENERIO Correspondent
QUEZON, Bukidnon––Sensing that the National Commission on the Indigenous People ( NC I P ) d o e s n’ t care about them and their children, a group of lumads here decided to take over, by force, the ancestral land that the government had denied them for decades.
The group, belonging to the Manolo tribe, claimed the NCIP, the government agency that is supposedly tasked to look after their welfare, did not acted into their legitimate claim. The NCIP is indifferent, said the lumads as they accused the NCIP of allegedly colluding to landlords thus depriving them of their NCIP/PAGE 15
PHOTO BY BUTCH ENERIO TRIBAL PROTEST VS NCIP. Datu Timbangan Aduardo Salibo one of the Tamvilca leaders gestures in calling the local government to intervene and resolve the issue of the tribe against National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP).
TWO YEARS AFTER HIS PRESIDENCY
Aquino govt still no gain to speak By SONNY AFRICA, IBON executive director
THE Aquino administration asserts that “good governance leads to good economics” and points to rapid economic growth in the first quarter of 2012, supposedly looming investment-grade credit ratings, and even alleged creditor nation status. Yet while these indicators of supposedly sound macroeconomic and fiscal fundamentals are appealing to banks, credit rating agencies and investor groups, they do not reflect the reality of continuing problems for the economy and tens of millions of Filipinos. The administration is hard-pressed to provide similar glowing accounts of sustainable development on the ground because there are still no such gains to speak of. The reported high 6.4% growth in gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter is welcome but unfortunately empty and appears SPEAK/PAGE 15
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Libel v journo junked GENERAL Santos City–– The city prosecutor’s office here has recommended the dismissal of the P18 million libel case filed by a former official of the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG) in Mindanao against a local journalist. In an eight-page resolution, state prosecutors Jose Blanza Jr. and Edilberto Jamora junked the libel case lodged by former PASG Mindanao head Mohamad “Bong” Aquia against freelance journalist Edwin Espejo for lack of probable cause. It was dated June 29 but a copy of the resolution was only obtained by the local media on Thursday through the Center for International Law (CenterLaw). Espejo writes for the Asian Correspondent and is a contributor at MindaNews, the online news portals that carried the story that was the basis of Aquia’s complaint. The same articles were used separately by world boxing icon and Sarangani Rep. Emmanuel Pacquiao to also sue Espejo for libel at the city prosecution’s office last March. LILBEL/PAGE 15