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Emano supporters to protect City Hall VOL. 2, No. 203
Cagayan de Oro City
Saturday-Sunday
January 12-13, 2013
P10.00
by CRIS DIAZ Staff Member, MDN
Supporters of Mayor Vicente Y. Emano show their sentiments in a rally yesterday at the City Hall grounds pending the arrival of a reported suspension order from Malacanang. Some 20,000 people have congregated around the City Hall grounds and would likely stay there until Friday when deadline passes for the serving of the suspension order. photo by gerry lee gorit
PB could provide info on illegal drug trade
here could provide information about the illegal drug trade in North Mindanao, a senior drug official here said. Robert Opena, regional director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), said that the susCAGAYAN DE ORO CITY pect Geodegui Ursal, 32, of - The provincial board mem- Gingoog City, a member of ber in Misamis Oriental Misamis Oriental’s arrested in a drug ‘buy bust’ TRADE | page 10
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - Seventy-six out of 80 barangay captains were all set to protect City Hall should administration-backed political opponents ‘invade’ City Hall to force the serving of the much-talked ‘suspension order.’ The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) regional office here said it did not receive any ‘suspension order’ against City Mayor Vicente Emano
No disaster response, humanitarian expert groups in Baganga -survivors by CRIS DIAZ BAN-AO, Baganga, Davao Oriental—Survivors have noted the “conspicuous absence” of so-called disaster response and humanitarian expert organizations in the area that badly and urgently
needed their services. Barangay Chairperson Mera A. Ching, who was among the survivors of Pablo’s wrath, said she has not heard nor seen anyone representing the United Nations’ many humanitarian organizations. She was refer-
ring to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA), among others. “I have heard about UNOCHA. But no, they are not here in Ban-ao or in Baganga,” she told this
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who is charged with dereliction of duty resulting in massive destruction of properties and deaths to riverbank residents of this City when typhoon Sendong wrought havoc here in mid-December last year. City hall supporters and sympathizers, however, were not giving chances as past experiences , they say, proved that administrationbacked politicians always employed whatever it takes in serving suspension orders to perceive political nemesis emano | page 10
Duterte hits back at detractors Assails malicious insinuations on his giving P500,000 to NPA typhoon victims By Marlon Gayog
2012 Year-end Review
(Pagbalik-lantaw sa dagkong panghitabo sa Year of the Dragon 2012)
ENERO 31, 2012 – Fire destroyed nearly 20 houses in Dabatian and V. Castro Streets in Barangay Carmen in Cagayan de Oro. Fire Officer 2 Dennis Dales of the City Fire Station said the fire destroyed at least P1.3 million worth of property. Dales said the fire reportedly started from the house of a certain Belen Villadores. Investigators however have failed to determine the cause of the fire.
FETCHING WATER. A survivor of Typhoon Pablo in Barangay Ban-ao, Baganga, Davao Oriental carries two empty 6-liter bottles of water from his destroyed house behind the hill and braves the scorching noonday sun just to fetch potable drinking water from a still functioning deepwater pump in the barangay poblacion. (Photo by BONG D. FABE)
Davao City: VICE Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday that some members of the military are giving malice to his services to the leftists, adding that his present position is merely to serve as a link between the government and the back | page 10
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