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Illegal gold miners defy DENR’s order
OIL FIRMS in the country implemented another round of price cuts on fuel products this week as world oil prices continued to fall. Current price of regular gasoline was slashed to P0.90 per liter, P0.45 per liter for premium plus unleaded and premium unleaded gasoline and P0.35 per liter for diesel and kerosene. The oil firms namely Petron Corp., Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp., Phoenix Petroleum Philippines, Chevron Philippines, Seaoil Philippines, PTT Philippines, Total Philippines and Shell Philippines implemented the fourth consecutive weekly price rollback for the month of May. The oil firms cut prices over the weekend, bringing the current price of oil products to P54.50 to P59.52 per liter for premium plus unleaded, P49.50 to P57.71 per liter for premium unleaded, and P48.55 to P56.05 per liter for regular gasoline. Diesel prices are now at P41.85 to P45.85 per liter while kerosene sells at P48.65 to P55.73 per liter. According to reports compiled by the Department The illegal gold mining activities in Bayog town in of Energy, the International Zamboanga del Sur province in Western Mindanao. OIL/PAGE 7 (Mindanao Examiner Photo)
WEATHER UPDATE At 2:00 a.m. yesterday, the Low Pressure Area (LPA) was estimated based on satellite and surface data at 270 km East Northeast of Virac, Catanduanes (14.0°N, 127.0°E). The eastern section of Southern Luzon and Visayas 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. Light to moderate winds blowing from the Southwest to West will prevail over Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao and coming from the Southwest to South over the rest of Luzon. The coastal waters throughout the archipelago will be slight to moderate. SOURCE : PAGASA
3 hurt in hospital grenade blast COTABATO City––Three people were injured in a grenade explosion on Monday at a hospital in Cotabato City in the southern Philippines, authorities said. It said the explosion occurred just after midnight outside Room A27 in the second floor of the Notre Dame Hospital where
a shooting victim Badrudin Sarudsong is recuperating from his wounds. Police arrested one person Ismael Yusoph, who was allegedly the owner of the grenade. Yusoph was one of the watchers guarding Sarudsong, but it was unclear BLAST/PAGE 7
By AL JACINTO, Regional Editor-Zamboanga
PAGADIAN City––Authorities have failed to put a stop to illegal gold mining activities despite a government order in the town of Bayog in the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga del Sur, officials said. Officials said the illegal activities continue unabated in Balabag in the mountain village of Depore, where one miner had died from a recent landslide. The Environment a l Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Western Mindanao said at least 28 owners of illegal rod mills used in processing of gold continue to operate in Balabag without any government permits. “It was observed that mining activities were proliferating in the area, and
operating without valid environmental permits from the EMB. Illegal rod mill operators violated Clean Water Act of 2004, Clean Air Act of 1999, Toxic Substances, Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act of 1990,” said EMB Regional Director Sixto Tolentino in a letter sent recently to Zamboanga del Sur Governor Antonio Cerilles. Cerilles is also the chairman of the Zamboanga del Sur Inter-Agency Task Group on Mining, Environment, and Public Order, and Safety. Just this year, Cerilles ordered the closure of all
illegal mining operations in Bayog, but some of its financiers were government officials. The task group is composed of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau, Environmental Management Bureau, Provincial Environment Office, Armed Forces of the Philippines through the 1st Infantry Division, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and representatives of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Zamboanga del Sur. The MGB has released an (cease and desist) order last month stopping all illegal mining operations in Balabag. But military and police authorities have failed to carry out the order for a still unknown reason. The EMB warned owners of illegal rod mills, mostly members of the Monte de Oro Small Scale Miners Association headed by ORDER/PAGE 7
The demise of political kingpin By MANNY MAULANA and JEESREL HIMANG Correspondents
PAGADIAN City––Former Governor Vicente Madarang Cerilles, more fondly called by friends and subordinates as “manager,” joined his Creator on May 20, 2012 at the age of 88 at Quezon City in Metro Manila. His remains was brought to Pagadian City on May 26, 2012. His interment is scheduled on June 2, 2012 at Pagadian cemetery. He is survived by second wife, Jean, and children, Vicente H. Cerilles Jr., a government retiree, Antonio
H. Cerilles, the incumbent provincial governor of Zamboanga del Sur, Almario H. Cerilles, a practicing Ophthalmologist, and Divine H. Cerilles, who has long been in the United States of America and an American citizen. Inting Cerilles, as he is more popularly known, became a government official as Municipal Judge of Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur. There he became a fiscal (known today as prosecutor). But his stint
CERILLES as appointive public official was short-lived because he joined politics. KINGPIN/PAGE 7
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