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Peace talks may derail due to Sabah -advocates VOL. 2, No. 259
Cagayan de Oro City
Friday
March 22, 2013
P10.00
By MindaNews
Ms. Cora dela Cruz (right), Executive Director of the Canadian Chamber, stresses a point during the Oro chamber general membership meeting in Cagayan de Oro yesterday. At left, former Orochamber past president Antonio Uy chats with incumbent President Efren T. Uy. Photo by Rolando Sudaria
DAVAO CITY – Peace advocates warned Thursday a possible derailment of the peace talks between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) because of alleged interested groups that are riding on the Sabah issue. Rev. L. Daniel Alba Pantoja, president of the Peacebuilders Community, said in a rally at the Freedom Park here his group believes that there is a "force behind" the Sultanate of Sulu's claim of Sabah. Many would lose their businesses from the culture of war as wealth and power landscape will change in the culture of peace, Pantoja said. He said he was able to talk
with Sulu's Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, who rarely spoke as there was someone who did most of the talking in Kiram's behalf. He said the Peacebuilders, a peace building arm of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches, supports the resumption of peace talks without being derailed by the Sabah crisis. Should both parties complete the peace process, he explained, then they would be able to extend their capacity to settle other issues such as that on Sabah. He added that while the government continues with the peace talks, there is still a need to provide relief for the Filipinos affected in Sabah, and to create a committee or commission that will focus on the issue.
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Canadian chamber exec director graces Plaza siblings rivalry Oro Chamber general members’ meeting in AgSur heats up CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – No less than the Executive Director of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines was invited by this city’s premier busi-
ness organization – the Oro Chamber - to grace its 1st Quarter 2013 General Membership Meeting yesterday at the N Hotel. Ms. Cora dela Cruz, Executive Director of the
Canadian Chamber, graced the Oro Chamber meeting and induction of new members. Cruz who hails from Tarlac immigrated to Canada in 1971, and has dual
Canadian-Philippine citizenship. She lived in Ontario, Canada, but moved back to the Philippines upon her assignment as executive director of meeting | page 10
Ed in Chief Allan Mediante was one of the newly inducted members of the Chamber.
One killed, 3 wounded as NPA-Army clash in MisOr By Cris Diaz Associate Editor
MISAMIS ORIENTAL – A militiaman was killed while three soldiers of the army’s 58th Infantry Battalion
wounded when government troopers and New People’s Army (NPA) rebels engaged in a day-long running gun battle in the hinterlands of the municipal town of Claveria Wednesday.
Lt. Col. George Banson, commander of the army’s 58th IB based in Claveria, on Thursday said that the running gun battle started about 7:00 o’clock wounded | page 10
By CHRIS PANGANIBAN Adolph Edward Plaza about the alleged multi-million SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan anomalies and mismandel Sur— With still more agement of the provincial than a week before the lo- government. cal campaign period starts, The Plaza family who the bitter rivalry among the dominated politics in the siblings of the long running province for almost half a Plaza political dynasty in century have broken up into this province has heated up two factions with Rodolfo siding with younger brother in public gatherings. Former three-term con- Victor, an incumbent progressman Rodolfo “Om- vincial board member who pong” Plaza who is on a is running for vice governor, comeback bid in the sec- while Adolph Edward who ond congressional district is seeking his fourth reelechas broke the silence that tion is with his two sisters, would spark the animosities Ma. Valentina and Evelyn among the siblings when Plaza Mellana, who are also he openly lambasted in vil- seeking reelection bids in lage meetings, his younger the first and second congresbrother and incumbent Gov. sional districts respectively. Interestingly, Rodolfo’s camp which coalesced with former two-term congressman Ceferino Paredes Jr., a long-time political rival of the Plaza clan, has brokered moderate to occasionally both the ruling Liberal Party heavy rain showers and and the opposition United thunderstorms which may Nationalist Alliance while trigger flashfloods and Gov. Plaza who was a close landslides due to a low ally of former pressure area (LPA). President Gloria Macapagal In its 5 p.m.
LPA spotted 170 kms east of Hinatuan, Surigao Sur
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 21 March) – It’s summer but the weather bureau has warned residents of Caraga and Davao regions in Mindanao and Eastern and Central Visayas of cloudy skies with
spotted | page 10
rivalry | page 10
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