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AGAYAN de Oro City-- About 300 vendors stormed the City Council during its regular session on Monday demanding the recall of an order suspending the operation of the 10-yearold “Nite Café” at the Plaza Divisoria here.

City Mayor Oscar Moreno issued Executive Order No. 00012013 dated July 1, 2013, suspending temporarily the “Nite Café” at Plaza Divisoria as his first official act as the new Cagayan de Oro City Mayor. The vendors, in a petition addressed to the City Council dated July 8, alleged that the suspension order was unfair and demanded for the immediate reopening of the “Nite Café.” “We were neither informed nor invited to a meeting prior to the suspension of the “Nite Sidewalk vendors and Night Café concessionaires surround authorities who prevented them from setting up Café”operations,” the vendors said. their wares and eating places at Divisoria on Friday evening. They complained that they have not been given The suspension order caught another area to move from Divisoria where they have been selling for years since the Emano administration. vendors | page 11

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Sidewalk vendors in the Cogon and Carmen markets were also ordered removed by Mayor Oscar Moreno. Photo By Gerry Lee Gorit of Mindanao Daily News

Capitol ground is best ‘Nite Café’ site

LOCAL residents endorsed the provincial capitol ground in Misamis Oriental as a new site for vendors and stall holders following the suspension of the “Nite Café” at the Plaza Divisoria in Cagayan de Oro City. Provincial Capitol employees also welcomed the move by Governor Yevgeny Vincente Emano to allocate a portion of the sprawling Capitol ground for “Nite Café” as a major attraction for domestic and foreign tourist. The plan of the provincial government to hold the “Nite Café” along with the “Tiange ng Bayan” (People’s Market) at the capitol ground is a welcome move, Engr. Lester Bolo of the provincial engineer’s office said. Dolly Pelone, a resident in Cagayan de Oro City, said that a “Nite Café” at the provincial capitol ground would be safer and would not cause traffic congestion in the city. She said that the provincial government, however, should provide latrines in order that sanitation is maintained during the “Nite Café.” site | page 11

Turnover of Day Care Center in Bugo Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, (8th frm L), 2nd District, Cagayan de Oro City, is joined by Bugo Barangay Chair Raul Aleria in the ribbon cutting ceremony for the turnover of the newly built Day Care Center at Purok 8 costing P 200,000. Also in photo are Party List Rep. Maxie Rodirguez of Abante Mindanao,(6th frm L), DPWH- DE Allan Borromeo, ADE Cesar Hipona Jr. and the barangay officials. Advertorial

CAGAYAN de Oro City-The MicroTrade, a Taiwanese firm, that won the bid for the P 93.5 million traffic light upgrade of the city’s traffic light system snubbed the invitation of the city’s probe team looking into the deal. City Councilor Roger Abaday, chair of the City’s Committee on Public Utility, felt slighted when the representatives of the MicroTrade firm did a “no show” of the committee invitation on Wednesday. He said that the committee meeting was the first formal meeting that would supposedly look into the legality of awarding of the traffic light project since the two previous bidding called by the previous administration repeatedly failed. “We were upset with the failure of the contractor to honor the committee invitation,” Abaday said. Abaday was referring to the MicroTrade firm that won the bidding for the installation of the traffic lights with closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in the city. A representative from the National Telecommunications (NTC) who was also invited during Wednesday’s initial inquiry did not show up, Abaday said. He said he has instructed the Committee Secretary to move the meeting Wednesday next hoping the NTC and the contractor would appear in order to stump the issue out. light | page 11

PNP’s ‘most corrupt’ gov’t agency says TIP THE Philippine National Police (PNP) was regarded as the most corrupt institution in the Philippines, according to a recent by the Transparency International of the Philippines. Malacanang, however, viewed the latest TIP sur-

vey as “instructive” and for government institutions mentioned to improve. Based on the Global Corruption Barometer, about 35 percent of the Filipino respondents have said that corruption in the Philippines went down a “little” in the past two years

while 31 percent argued that the level of corruption “stayed the same.” With regard to the most corrupt institution according to perception, the police topped the list at 69 percent, followed by public officials and civil servants, 64 percent,

political parties 58 percent, the judiciary, 56 percent, and parliament and legislature, 52 percent. Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said that reforms are now being undertaken by the Philippine

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