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WEATHER UPDATE AS of 2:00 p.m. yesterday, a Shallow Low Pressure Area (SLPA) was estimated based on satellite and surface data at 230 km East of Eastern Samar (12.3°N 127.6°E). Monsoon trough affecting Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms. Moderate to strong winds blowing from the southwest will prevail throughout the archipelago and the coastal waters will be moderate to rough.
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Still no alias warrant for alleged masterminds THE Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Makati has deferred resolution of the prosecution’s second motion for the issuance of alias warrants of arrest against the alleged masterminds in the March 24, 2005 killing of journalist Marlene Esperat. The arrest and trial of alleged masterminds Osmeña Montañer and Estrella Sabay have been on hold since November 2009 due to a writ of preliminary injunction
issued by CA Mindanao Station in response to the accused masterminds’ petition for certiorari. (http://www. cmfr-phil.org/2011/11/04/ finding-justice-for-the-
slain-journalists-extraordinary-delays/) In an May 18, 2012 order, presiding acting judge Joselito Villarosa of RTC Branch 138 reiterated his earlier decision that the court will address motions for the issuance of alias summons only when “the accused’s petition (for certiorari) has been finally resolved with finality.” An alias warrant is issued by a court when the original warrant is returned in ten
days without being served. The RTC Branch 138 judge had earlier denied the first motion filed on September 22, 2011, explaining that the Court would wait for the resolution of the alleged masterminds’ motion asking the Court of Appeals Mindanao station to reconsider the August 19, 2011 dismissal of their petition for certiorari. The accused masterminds’ MR had been denied on January PHOTO BY SHAUN ALEJANDRAE YAP UY SLAY/PAGE 11 BusinessWeek Mindanao Publisher Mr. Dante Sudaria (left)
Agusan Norte sets six-day celebration for 45th ‘Araw’ By PAT SAMONTE, Regional Editor-Caraga with JOEL PORTUGAL, Correspondent
PROVINCIAL Capitol, BUTUAN City––The Agusan del Norte provincial government has set a six-day celebration to mark its 45th Founding Anniversary. Provincial information officer Edgar Palarca Jr. said this year’s Araw ng Agusan del Norte is anchored on
the theme: “Kauswagan ug Kahiusahan (Progress and Unity),” to emphasize the goals Governor Erlpe John M. Amante has always worked for since he took the province’s top post nine years ago. Palarca said Day One of the celebration will com-
mence at dawn of June 12 , Philippine Independence Day, with a Flag Caravan to be participated in by the province’s 11 municipalities. Two Philippine flag-carrying groups, one from the eastern towns of Kitcharao, Jabonga, Santiago, Tubay, Cabadbaran City, Remedios T. Romualdez, Magallanes and Las Nieves will leave at 4:30 am to gather in Ba-
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rangay Ampayon here, and another group, from the western municipalities of Carmen and Nasipit will proceed to Buenavista town to join the latter’s delegates. The two groups will then move and converge at the corner of J. C. Aquno Avenue and Capitol Avenue here, then proceed to the provincial capitol grounds AGUSAN/PAGE 11
hands over an award to Department of Tourism Regional Director Catalino “Butch” Chan for Northern Mindanao during the just-held 2012 Mindanao Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs Awards held at Pryce Plaza Hotel in Cagayan de Oro.
DOT-10 head gets special awardee for tourism promotion By JOE PALABAO, Reporter
DEPARTMENT of Tourism (DOT) Regional Director Catalino “Butch” Chan for Northern Mindanao received a “special award” during the awarding ceremony of the just-held 2012 Mindanao Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs Awards organized by BusinessWeek Mindanao and Mindanao Daily News. Chan has been cited for his excellent efforts in promoting Mindanao tourism in the national and international markets. During the awards night, he was considered as the “Man of the Hour” in terms of promoting tourism in Mindanao. He catapulted Northern Mindanao as one of the leading tourist destinations of the country today. Under his leadership since 2005 and through concerted efforts and support of all tourism stakeholders, Northern Mindanao and well as the whole of Mindanao Island, and Camiguin island, are now the most preferred eco-adventure tourism destinations of the AWARDEE/PAGE 7
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