Parents must clean schools

AS ENROLLMENT for school year 2010-2011 begins, parents have to clean first the classrooms before their students are admitted to class.

BIR-Northern Mindanao surpasses collection target

THE Bureau of Internal Revenue in Northern Mindanao (BIR-16) registered a collection of P2,111,975,891.82 per partial computation from January to May of this year, surpassing its collections of the sa

Campaign manager: Uy concedes to Emano

A CAMPAIGN manager of first district Representative Rolando Uy confirmed Friday that the defeated mayoralty candidate already conceded to Vice Mayor and Mayor-elect Vicente Emano.

Warrant of arrest up for shooting suspect

THE warrant of arrest for Police Inspector Anselmo Ladra is set to be released this month as the prosecution department started to draft a resolution on the murder charges against him.

City Prosecutor: Uy petition vs Emano weak

THE moves to nullify the proclamation of Mayor-elect Vicente Y. Emano and his party-mates may likely be junked because of "technicalities."

Probe counts out City Hall workers

CAGAYAN de Oro City Police Office (Cocpo) has practically put all the blame on the officials of the local Commission on Elections (Comelec) office for the loss of election paraphernalia in its possession

Environment agency execs may face graft raps

AT LEAST five officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Northern Mindanao may face graft and corruption charges before the provincial prosecutor's office.

PDEA agents to fight vs drug spread at schools

AS THE proliferation of drugs in the region has become widespread and even blatant inside the schools, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Northern Mindanao region is fielding some of its agents in schools targeted by these illegal drug pushers.

PDEA chief Emerson L. Margate said the regional anti-drug department is monitoring some schools in the region particularly in Cagayan de Oro where they believe huge stocks of illegal drugs are delivered from neighboring cities for distribution in various campuses here.

Argument results in 2 deaths

A HEATED argument has resulted in the shooting of a security guard and his girlfriend inside an abandoned bus turned into a makeshift sleeping quarters.

Police Officer 2 (PO2) Noel E. Perpetua, investigator of Cugman police station, identified the victims as Noel Japon, 36, married, a native of Lumbo, Alubijid, Misamis Oriental and Anafe Lara, 23, single, a native of Zone 6, Bagong Silang, Iligan City.

Drug agency nabs alleged drug dealers

THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Northern Mindanao region scored anew against dealers of illegal drugs on two separate occasions in Cagayan de Oro and Claveria town in Misamis Oriental.

Ben Calibre of the PDEA-10 said 14 sachets or five grams of suspected shabu were confiscated from a certain Roderick Fulminar alias “Tayak,” 32, of Agora, Lapasan, Cagayan de Oro, in a buy-bust operation conducted Tuesday afternoon outside a university in Lapasan.