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February 19, 2013
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The world-class Laguindingan international airport in Misamis Oriental to use “matamata” [visualize system] on its ‘soft-opening’ on April 30 due to the absence of air navigation facilities
Rebels to free POWs
By Mike Baños of Mindanao Daily News
By AL JACINTO of MindaNews.com
CAGAYAN de Oro City––Stakeholders from Northern Mindanao have issued a strongly worded manifesto asking the Department of Transportation and Communications to defer the planned ‘soft opening’ of the Laguindingan Airport in Misamis Oriental scheduled for April 30, 2013. bucks | page 10
REGIONAL Development Council Co-Chair Arsenio L. Sebastian III for Northern Mindanao presides over the Laguindingan Airport stakeholders meeting February 15 at a local hotel. Those present signed a manifesto to President Benigno Aquino III asking for the deferment of DOTC’s planned April 30, 2013 soft opening over safety concerns and the adverse effects of the cancellation of night flights on Northern Mindanao’s economy. Photo by Mike Banos
Z AMB OANGA City–– Communist rebels holding a captured government soldier and a policemen have declared a four-day unilateral truce in preparation for the safe release of the prisoners, the New People’s Army said on Monday. It said the suspension of military offensives takes effect on February 19 in the towns of Kapalong, San Isidro, Asuncion, New Corella, all in Davao del Norte and Laak in Compostela Valley. REBELS | page 10
Robbery, shooting alarmed residents in Oro Experts from Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau, Palawan Wildlife and Rescue Center, and Davao Crocodile Park perform a necropsy on the belly of Lolong at the Bunawan Eco-Park in Agusan del Sur early dawn Tuesday (12 January 2013). Their initial findings were inconclusive, and the experts said they have to conduct more laboratory tests and results may come in two weeks. MindaNews photo by Roel Catoto
‘Lolong’s’ death wont affect Caraga’s tourism By Erwin Mascariñas of MindaNews.com
BUTUAN City––The death of Lolong, the world’s largest saltwater crocodile in captivity, will not affect tourism in the region and in the town of Bunawan in Agusan del Sur, Letty Tan, regional director of the
Department of Tourism (DOT) said. “Tourism in Bunawan is not dead. Lolong was only a part of the entire tourism promotion, the main tourist attraction in the town as TOURISM | page 10
CAGAYAN de Oro City––Robbery and shooting alarmed residents of this trading hub following the shooting to death of an American national Monday morning. Aside from the shooting to death of Michael Alan Turner, an American engaged in internet business, another victim was separately shot dead in a robbery hold up Sunday night in barangay Kauswagan here. Alma Naguita, 35, was only a few meters away from her house in Sunrise
Village in Kauswagan when waylaid and shot dead by an unknown gunman riding on a motorbike. Joselito Ti-on, Alma’s husband, told police that his wife has just gone home from work Sunday evening when held up and shot dead by an unidentified gunman. He said that his wife usually went home late at night since she worked in a mini-grocery store in barangay Carmen here. Joselito, a taxi driver, said he failed
to fetch his wife Sunday night since he went home late due to an outside city trip. He said that he thought his fatherin-law would have fetched Alma. ‘If I am not around, my father-in-law who also drives a taxicab sometimes fetch Alma,’ Joselito said. Alma sustained three gunshots in various parts of her body. The handbag containing an undetermined amount of money was robbery | page 10
BUKIDNON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES MPC (BUGEMCO)
To all BUGEMCO Members; Notice is hereby made that the 23rd Annual Membership General Assembly of BUGEMCO will be held on February 22, 2013, 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at Kaamulan Open Theater, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon. Attested:
RICHEL R. OKIT, CPA, MBA Chairperson
PRINCESS FAIRLANE R. ANAJAO Secretary
J.P. RIZAL - CRUZ TAAL STS., (NEAR SHANGHAI BAKERY) DIVISORIA, CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY
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