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WEATHER UPDATE MONSOON trough affecting Southern Luzon. Eastern and Southern Luzon and Northeastern 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. SOURCE : PAGASA
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Butuan Housing office bares 4 die in 150 lots open to applicants strafing By PAT SAMONTE, Regional Editor-Caraga with JOEL PORTUGAL, Correspondent
BUTUAN City––The City Housing and Development office has announced that residents near river banks or danger zones can now apply for 150 vacant lots. Engr. Lorden Vismanos, CHDO chief, said those eligible to apply for the vacant lots should be residents moved to the Agusan River East Bank
from Barangay Aupagan and Barangay Banza. Vismanos said that in coordination with Gawad Kalinga, 18 families had already been given reservations while other applications were still being processed. It will be recalled that 16 families living in the city’s danger zones had
benefited from lots provided by the city government in Barangay Mahay relocation site. Mayor Ferdinand Amante Jr. said his administration has made it a priority to transfer residents from the city’s danger zones especially those near the Agusan River bank and other waterways to higher and safe areas and urged them to cooperate with city authorities.
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By AL JACINTO Regional Editor-Zamboanga
ZAMBOANGA City––Four people were killed and two others injured after gunmen opened fire on jitney in the southern Philippine town of Parang, police said Thursday. Police said the attack killed the driver, Bisman STRAFING/PAGE 11
PCA granted police power
PCA could arrest, seize, and investigate unauthorized transport, cutting of coconuts By CRIS DIAZ, Associate Editor
THE DAYS of coco lumberjacks and rampant cutting of coconut trees are over. Congress approved on third and final reading a bill granting police powers to the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) under Republic Act 8048 or the ‘Coconut Preservation Act of 1995.’ The bill allows PCA to investigate suspected violators, arrest and apprehend any person actually committing or attempting to
commit an offense, search and seize a moving vehicle with illegally cut, gathered, collected, or removed coconut lumber.
House Bill 6131 substitutes House Bill 3515 and House Resolution filed by Rep. Danilo Suarez of Quezon and HB 3864 authored by AAMBIS-OWA Party List Rep. Sharon Garin The newly approved HB 6131 bill vested PCA with the authority to exercise duly delegated police powers such as to investigate, search and seize; arrest or apprehend violators of this Act, among others, Batangas
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Rep. Mark Llandro Mendoza said. Mendoza said the PCA could ‘stop the transport or shipment of coconut lumber without authority or without legal documents. He said the government forfeits confiscated coconut lumber including the machinery equipment, implements, and tools illegally used and to dispose the same in accordance POLICE/PAGE 11
Photo by Shaun Alejandrae Yap Uy BusinessWeek Mindanao Executive Editor Allan Mediante (rightmost) acknowledges LAPANDAY Food Corporation representative Mr. Jonnel Bergado, materials management head, as he receives the award for Lapanday as Most Outstanding Mindanao Business Leader in Agri-Business – Corporate Category, while BWM Publisher Dante Sudaria and STEAG State Power communications officer Jerome Soldevilla look on.
Lapanday hailed as outstanding business leader in Agri-business THE Lapanday Foods Corporation is known today as one of the leading fresh produce growers and export¬ers in the Philippines; but years ago, its beginnings were planted in a small seed. On three parcels of land near Davao City, banana farms had flourished in the 1970’s but had become virtually abandoned in the 1980’s as world oversupply depressed banana export prices. Luis F. Lorenzo, Sr., whose family had deep roots in Mindanao, looked at these lands and saw the opportunity amid challenges. During the turbulent 1980’s, even while the La-
panday farms got caught in the middle of armed conflict, the Lorenzo-led management focused single mindedly on turning the business around. Through its purposive and sustained partnership progress with the farm managers and workers to resolve operational and labor related problems, the road to recovery got underway. When the world opened for trade in 1997, it marked Lapanday Foods Corporation’s expansion from being a grower and packer for multinational brands to being a respected exporter and regional produce supAWARDEE/PAGE 7
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