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BoC seizes P25M Indian rice, expands probe VOL. I
No.176
Cagayan de Oro City
Wednesday
Febuary 20, 2013
P10.00
By Arjay S. Felicilda, News Director and Jun P. Felicilda, City Editor
C
AGAYAN de Oro City – The Bureau of Customs (BoC) is expanding its probe over the identity of people financing the rice scam, vowed Deputy Customs Commissioner Danilo Lim.
Smuggled rice again-Bureau of Customs-10 District Collector
Lourdes Mangaoang (left), with (BOC-10) Deputy District Collector Marvin Mison and Customs Deputy Commissioner Danilo Lim (third,fourth), present to local media a 25M worth of smuggled rice from India. The rice was confiscated inside the MICP in Tagoloan town, Misamis Oriental yesterday morning. photo by R olando N. S udaria of MinSTAR
Atty. Cirilo Nala
This, after BoC Cagayan de Oro District has seized another shipment of undocumented Indian white rice, estimated to cost P25 million, at the Mindanao Container Port (MCP-Subport) in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental. “Also subject of the expanded probe are “their protectors, if there are any, inside and outside the BoC,” said Commissioner Lim, who personally supervised the confiscation, with Customs District Collector Lourdes Mangaoang. Expressing grave surprise why Cagayan de Oro has become the unloading point of illegal importation, he identified the shipment’s consignee, as the Jefmin Farm-
Mr.Froilan Gallardo
ers Multi-purpose Cooperative of Barangay Datung Matas in Concepcion, Tarlac. It can be recalled that on February 12, this year, BoC Cagayan de Oro District had confiscated some 5,500 bags of Vietnam rice, consigned to another Luzon-based farmers cooperative. Commissioner Lim observed pattern that has emerged “that Luzon-based farmers cooperatives, without any permit from the National Food Authority (NFA), prefer Cagayan de Oro as unloading point for their illegal importation. It begs the question WHY?” Yesterday’s confiscation boc /P5
PDEA-10 pinpoints marijuana plantations By Jasper Marie Oblina-Rucat
CAGAYAN de Oro City - The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-10) has identified five marijuana plantations in Bukidnon. This was disclosed by PDEA10 Director Emerson L. Margate during the first quarter meeting of the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC-10) February 8. Such plantations, he said, are particularly located in the pdea /P5
Motorized trisicad driver sa Brgy Barra, Opol gipasiduggan
Mr. Richel Umel
Mr. Allan Mediante
Mr. Dante Sudaria
Mr. Joe Felicilda CONTINUING EDUCATION – The Philippine Press Institute (PPI), in its consistent desire of keeping the trimedia abreast of the latest trend in ‘election reporting’ and the Comelec rules and regulations, has conducted a one-day Seminar on Election Coverage, yesterday, February 19, this year. Held at the BusinessWeek Mindanao Media Center, Abellanosa St., Cagayan de Oro City, the activity had the following resource persons : Mr. Froilan Gallardo of MindaNews (Safety and Conduct of 2013 Election Coverage); Mr. Richel Umel of the European Press Photo Agency and Agence France Press (Ethics and Reporting Techniques); Atty. Cirilo Nala, Comelec supervisor of Misamis Oriental (Comelec Rules and Regulations); and Mr. Joe del Puerto Felicilda, BWM Media Center broadcast training director and MinPressDev lead convener (How to Cover Political Campaigns). The activity was facilitated by PPI Regional Coordinator Allan Mediante, editor-in-chief of Mindanao Daily News, in collaboration with the Sudaria Group of Publications, headed by its CEO, Dante M. Sudaria. (photo by Rolando N. Sudaria)
OPOL, Misamis Oriental - Si Victor Lapura Jr., usa ka motorized trisicad driver ug membro sa BAMOTODA sa Barangay Barra, Opol, gipasidunggan isip Outstanding Driver in Opol 2013. Ang Search for Outstanding Skilled Worker sa LGU Opol garekognisar sa mga nakab-ot nga kalampusan sa mga drivers sa lungsod diin nakahatag ug inspirasyon sa iyang pamilya, sa
organisasyon ug sa komunidad. Ang sectoral search usa ka pamaagi aron makapartisipar ang katawhan sa pagpalambo sa lungsod. Ang mga finalists ug ubang mga membro sa sektor gahatagan ug higayon nga mopadangat sa mga problema ug isyu nga giatubang sa ilang sektor deretso sa mayor pinaagi sa usa ka dialogo. opol /P5
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