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Darimbang gives goods to survivors of ‘Sendong’ By GERRY L. GORIT, Regional Editor-Zamboanga
SENDONG survivors of Cagayan de Oro who are temporarily sheltered in the Tent City at barangay Calaanan received on Wednesday more dry goods and food stuff. C a n d y D a r i mb a n g , chairperson of the Higala Sa Katawhan (Alang Sa Kalamboan) Movement, led the distribution of brand new and slightly used clothes, food items, boxes of bottled water and vitamins for children. Darimbang said the donation came from the
Taiwan National Council, Congressman Roman Romulo and the Tau Gamma Phi fraternity represented by Bryan Capaning of the Cagayan de Oro Council. More than 1,000 packs were given to some 220 families of the Tent City. Darimbang said this is the first time for her group to give at the Tent City although they have previously provided relief goods to the survivors while they were still housed in evacuation centers in the early weeks of the calamity.
She said the previous donations also included those that came from Congressman Romulo and his wife, Councilor Shalani Soledad Romulo. Darimbang brushed aside comments that this act was done for political reasons leading up to the 2013 elections, saying she has been active in community services such as medical missions and livelihood projects for the poor since the year 2000. She added that this service program of hers will Clothes for children are given by Candy Darimbang, chairperson of the Higala Sa Katawhan (Alang continue in the years to Sa Kalamboan) Movement to a mother and her child, one of the beneficiaries at the Tent City in GOODS/PAGE 11 barangay Calaanan, Cagayan de Oro. Children were also given vitamins. Photo Gerry L. Gorit
Workers call labor dept’s order ‘a hoax’ Contractual workers WEATHER UPDATE in the Philippines work under worse conditions compared to their regular fellow workers.
AS of 2 a.m. yesterday, a low pressure area (LPA) was estimated based on satellite and surface data at 670-kilometer East of Northern Mindanao (9.0°N, 133.0°E) embedded along the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) affecting Mindanao. Tail-end of a cold front affecting Northern Luzon. Northern and Central Luzon and Eastern Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming cloudy with widespread rains over Extreme Northern Luzon which may trigger flashfloods and landslides. The rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening. SOURCE : PAGASA
By MARYA SALAMAT, Bulatlat.com
EMPLOYEES who get ‘endo’ (end of contract and thus end of job) after four to five months still populate the employed in the Philippines, six months after the labor department issued an order that it claimed would have ended contractualization. It is the employment will end the prevalent 5-5-5 scheme that has helped employment scheme where employers cut down wag- workers are hired for just es, benefits and undercut five months and then, after unions, but which workers the end of their five-month have been complaining of contract, they are rehired as illegal and anti-worker. for another five months. But six months have When the labor department issued the Department passed since the department Order 18-A Series of 2011 order was issued, WORKERS/PAGE 11 last November, it said it
Couple killed by lone gunman in Agusan Sur By PAT SAMONTE, Regional Editor-Caraga with JOEL PORTUGAL, Correspondent
BUTUAN City––A 36-yearold man and his wife were shot dead by an unidentified gunman while the husband was playing billiards in Purok 2, Barangay Mabuhay, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur Friday.
Killed by a single bullet were Urso Tejero and his wife, Shirley. Police said Urso was playing at the billiard hall owned by Edgar Soco while Shirley was watching at around 3:15 p.m., when the
latter suddenly embraced her husband to protect him from a man she saw draw a firearm. The unidentified gunman shot and hit Urso in the head and Shirley’s forehead with a single bullet. The couple died “instantaneously,” police said. COUPLE/PAGE 11
Power forum update slated May 24 CAGAYAN de Oro City–– The Institute of Integrated Electrical Engineers of the Philippines (IIEE) will be hosting a Mindanao Power Forum Update at the Grand Caprice Restaurant and Convention Center here on May 24. “This will be one of the events cum technical sessions we will be holding in connection with our hosting of the 2012 National Midyear Convention theme “Engineering a Safe and Better Nation Through Excellence in Electrical Profession” May 23-26, 2012 Grand Caprice Restaurant and Convention Center, Limketkai Center, Cagayan de Oro City. The forum is sponsored by Primavera Residences (Green Residences in Cagayan de Oro) as presentor and the following major sponsors: Aboitiz Power POWER/PAGE 11
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