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Butuan Water District celebrates its 39th anniversary By PAT SAMONTE MDN, Butuan City
BUTUAN City––The Butuan City Water District (BCWD) is celebrating the 12th Water Consciousness Week and its 39th Found-
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Tremor in Surigao
THE Philippine Institute of Volcanology (Phivolcs) announced a magnitude-5.2 quake and at least two aftershocks shook the Surigao area in Mindanao on Black Saturday. While the tremor was initially measured at See Tremor/p.10
SK illegal loggers
KORONADAL City––The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 12 is still clueless on who could be behind the massive illegal logging activities uncovered recently in Bagumbayan town in Sultan Kudarat province, See Illegal/p.10
ing Anniversary from April 1-6, 2013. BCWD Senior Public Relations Officer Ramil Barquin said this year’s affair dubbed “A day of giving back to the community” will kick-off with the handing of
BCWD’s 39th Anniversary t-shirts to the first concessionaires who paid their water bills. A raffle draw will then follow at the water firm’s collection lobby. Pr i z es w i l l i nclud e
P9,000 for the first prize, P6,000 for the second prize, P5,000 for the third prize, and 38 consolation prizes at P1,000 each. A Department of Trade representative will be present to validate the result of
He added that winners of the raffle draw will be announced through the radio, TV and newspapers and will be posted at the BCWD bulletin board. They will also be informed through mail and by phone, he said.
‘Politics is not private property’ BUKIDNON bishop on political dynasties
By Walter I. Balane of MindaNews.com
MALAYBALAY City––Lambasting political dynasties across the country on Easter Sunday, Malaybalay Bishop Jose A. Cabantan urged the conversion of the faithful “to new values so politics treated as private property will be changed.”
First meeting
DAVAO City––The 15-member Bangsamoro Transition Commission (TransCom) of the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will have its first meeting on Wednesday, April 3, not in any of the Bangsamoro areas in Mindanao but in Pasig City in Metro Manila. See Meeting/p.10
Pine tree in B’non
MALAYBALAY City––The Bukidnon Sangguniang Panlalawigan has approved on second reading last Monday a proposed ordinance banning the extraction of pine tree resins in the province. The measure was proposed after the provincial Department of Environment See Tree/p.10
the draw, he said. According Barquin, a blood-letting activity will be conducted simultaneously at the BCWD Training Hall in coordination with the Philippine National Red Cross.
THE PRINCESS OF HER PEOPLE. “Sabah is not for sale, it is for the people,” Princess Jacel Kiram (right), daughter of Sultan Jumalul Kiram III, emphasizes Monday during a press conference in Davao City. She also scored the Malaysian government for going against the “ethical warfare” with its alleged abuses against the Filipinos in Sabah. Davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante
In his Easter message, Cabantan called on parishioners to “roll away the stones to allow the light to dispel darkness in the tomb.” “There will be no radical change in our political situation unless we all undergo a change of heart—conversion [that is]—in our priorities, in our values,” Cabantan said. Along with political dynasties, the bishop noted as among the “stones” the Reproductive Health Law, ongoing killings, “unabated
Armm to prioritize Villar vows to push for education, peace and hubby’s anti no exam bill development efforts By AL JACINTO, Editor-at-large
ZAMBOANGA City––The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao vowed to continue the reforms President Benigno Aquino started and to prioritize education and peace and development programs in the five provinces under it. Gov. Mujiv Hataman, in his graduation message to all high school and elementary, said the Aquino administration will continue to support the ARMM in an effort to bring peace in the region, once wracked with scandals and corruptions. More than 91,000 students have graduated in elementary and high school in the Muslim region which is composed of Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao, including the cities of Marawi and Lamitan. See Efforts/p.10
CYNTHIA GRACES AGDAO COOP GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Senatoriable Cynthia Villar arrives in Davao City in time for the general assembly meeting of Agdao Multi-purpose Cooperative attended by some 8,000 members. There, Mrs. Villar expressed her desire to give livelihood support to the coop members, through the Villar Foundation. In same occasion, she sounded the need to increase the budget for the state colleges and universities, relating such a need to the case of the late UP Student Christel. While in Davao City, Mrs. Villar also guested the convention of the Liga ng mga Barangay. Photo provided
suffering of the poor,” especially President Benigno Aquino III’s recent vetoing of the Magna Carta for the Poor, the electoral process of 4Ps (patronage, personality, power and popularity), and the ongoing ecological destructions. Cabantan cited “Proclaim the Message, In Season and Out of Season,” a pastoral letter by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, which mentioned the stones as storms See Dynasty/p.10
Clashes on ‘Station of the Cross’
BUTUAN City, Agusan del Norte––Military and armed groups believed members of the New People’s Army (NPA) clashed in Barangay Anticala here in the morning of Good Friday killing a paramilitary volunteer. The firefight occurred while while hundreds of devotees were holding the “Way of the Cross,” a traditional re-enactment of Jesus Christ sufferings by Roman Catholic devotees during the Lent. Lt. Joe Patrick See Clashes/p.10
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