Village chief threatens voters
Saturday, May 11, 2013 - 01:18 a.m.POLITICAL supporters see more election-related harassments looming, particularly in the hinterland barangays, two days before the May 13 mid-term polls.
Three supporters of the Liberal Party-Cagayan de Oro (LP-CDO) members reported to Lumbia Police Station that they were allegedly harassed and threatened by Barangay Besigan chief Melenio Minister and his group on May 9.
Kauswagan mayor’s supporters ‘guard’ town hall
Saturday, May 11, 2013 - 01:17 a.m.KAUSWAGAN, Lanao del Norte -- Hundreds of people held vigil at the town hall here since Tuesday to show support for embattled Mayor Rommel Arnado who is facing possible ouster after the Supreme Court (SC) recently ruled as invalid his candidacy during the 2010 polls.
Arnado’s supporters started massing outside the town hall Tuesday afternoon when the SC ruling became public. By Wednesday morning, new batches of supporters replaced those who ‘guarded’ the town hall through the night.
Airline to squeeze early flights in Laguindingan
Saturday, May 11, 2013 - 01:17 a.m.WITH barely a month left before the scheduled opening of the Laguindingan Airport in Misamis Oriental, flagship carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) will be introducing earlier flights to accommodate passengers.
Peaches Paguidopon of PAL in a press forum Friday said, PAL will continue to fly passengers to Davao and Manila.
Free cervical cancer screening at NMMC
Saturday, May 11, 2013 - 01:17 a.m.A PRIVATE pharmaceutical company, in partnership with the Department of Health (DOH) and medical societies, kicked off a month-long free cervical screening at the Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) Wednesday morning.
Marge Villanueva, corporate affairs manager for Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) Pharmaceutical Company said, they hope to go full circle for this year’s Cervical Cancer Awareness Month in May, and strike directly at the source of cervical cancer—the human papilloma virus (HPV).
PCOS tests run smooth
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 11:11 a.m.THE final testing and sealing (FTS) of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines in the city went smoothly on Tuesday, despite minor glitches.
Inside Room 1 at the Consolacion Elementary School here, Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) chair Edgar Lacre was so anxious during the testing of the PCOS machines that he forgot he slid the vital memory card in the pocket of his denim pants.
Army, rebels clash in Gingoog
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 11:09 a.m.MARINES securing the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines encountered members of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Barangay Samay in Gingoog City on Thursday morning.
Major Leo Bongosia, spokesperson of the 4th Infantry Division (4th IB) of the Philippine Army, said the marines encountered the NPA rebels while they were on foot patrol coming in from behind the Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs) for Barangay Samay.
Bishop Ledesma: ‘Be vigilant’
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 11:08 a.m.CAGAYAN de Oro Archbishop Antonio Ledesma is calling on the people to be more vigilant emphasizing the need for transparency in the process of handling Monday’s national and local elections.
Ledesma said there is really a need for accountability and transparency in handling the election materials after the incident on Monday where four boxes were moved from the City Finance office to the Budget office.
Namfrel volunteers ready for polls
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 11:06 a.m.AROUND 400 volunteers of the National Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) gathered last May 8 for the final orientation and briefing before their field assignments on May 13 elections.
Arian Magadan Edullantes, one of the local coordinators of Namfrel Cagayan de Oro, said the event was purely focused on election monitoring especially that 2013’s election in the city is in its highest intensity.
Police unhappy over victim’s refusal to file raps
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 11:04 a.m.A POLICE official in Cagayan de Oro is unhappy over the refusal of victims and witness to testify against their attackers despite the determination of authorities to jail the suspects involved in crime.
Senior Inspector Alfredo Ortiz, Carmen police station commander, said he was disappointed with the collector, whose name is withheld for security reasons, of Rusi Motors who was robbed in Macanhan, Barangay Carmen last week for refusing to file a complaint against the suspect who was identified as Jonathan Abecia alias Tanggoy, 27, of Mabasa, Barangay Balulang this city.
On Emano-Moreno face off: Mayoral bet cries ‘unfair’
Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 02:41 p.m.CAGAYAN DE ORO City mayoralty bet Elmer Francisco cried foul over what he perceived as discrimination when he and four other candidates were excluded in a candidates’ forum held at Xavier University gymnasium on Tuesday.
Francisco, a businessman, on his Facebook page, posted the letter from Xavier University-Governance and Leadership Institute that arrived in his office only on Tuesday, the day of the forum.
Groups sign poll manifesto
Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 02:40 p.m.MEMBERS of the civil society organizations, government and private agencies on Wednesday signed a manifesto for a credible, clean and peaceful May 2013 election.
The ecumenical prayer was organized by the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)-Misamis Oriental.
MILF: New term of Najib good for Mindanao peace process
Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 02:39 p.m.ILIGAN CITY — The victory of the political coalition headed by Najib Tun Razak during the recent Malaysian polls boosts the peace process in Mindanao.
This is the contention of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chair Murad Ebrahim who sent his congratulations to Najib immediately after the Malaysian election commission declared the Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition victorious in the ballot.
LP-Cagayan de Oro demands recovery of four boxes
Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 02:38 p.m.SATISFIED with the result of the re-inventory of the election official ballot boxes and paraphernalia stored at the City Finance office, the legal team of the Liberal Party-Cagayan de Oro (LP-CDO) has expressed its intent to recover the four boxes and have them opened.
Lawyer James Judith, member of LP’s legal team, said the real issue is the transfer of the four boxes to the office of the budget officer from the City Finance Office which acting city budget officer Griscelda Joson claimed as her personal things.
Evangelical group eyes block voting
Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 02:38 p.m.A RELIGIOUS group composed of different church denomination here announced Wednesday afternoon that it has collectively chosen local political candidates whom they will endorse and support through their members’ block votes.
The Philippine Evangelical Networks (PEN), established in 2007 under the chairmanship of Bishop Albert Herbert Gadian from the evangelical church “Jesus for all Nations,” claimed to have 75,000 solid voting members who will give their full support to incorruptible politicians with good leadership skills.
Police: 3 dead found from Davao
Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 02:37 p.m.THE Cagayan de Oro city police office (Cocpo) has identified Wednesday the three dead bodies found dumped in Macapagal Road in Barangay Carmen on Sunday morning. The mother of one of the victims arrived in Cagayan de Oro and the confirmed her son Ivan August Sardoncillo is one of those found dead.
She identified the two others as Jay Lozada, 16, and Russel. Sardoncillo and Lozada were both residents of Sitio Mahayahay in Barangay Tugbok in Davao City while Russel, 21, was from Magallanes also in Davao City.
Emano-Moreno race for city hall ‘countdown begins’
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 12:11 p.m.FINALLY, the city’s most intense political bets re-electionist Mayor Vicente Emano and former ally Misamis Oriental Governor Oscar Moreno smiled at each other, shook hands, and fearlessly traded barbs on each other’s failure to provide the best for their constituents amid deafening cheers and jeers.
The most awaited face off was also the most intense in the series of candidates’ forum that Xavier University through its Research and Social Outreach (XU-RSO) cluster sponsored to provide the voters venue for them to know their candidates well with regard to their respective platforms.
On election paraphernalia: Comelec begins re-inventory
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 12:11 p.m.THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has begun the re-inventory of all election paraphernalia in the city following allegations that poll forms, envelopes for voting and counting, pens and indelible inks were stolen Monday night.
Comelec officer Raul Pabito handed Tuesday morning the order to city treasurer Engr. Marilyn Legaspi at the Cagayan de Oro City hall amid the mounting political tension following the discovery of the alleged theft.
As Mother’s day draws near, daughter seeks mother
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 12:10 p.m.ELEVEN days after the disappearance of a woman farmer organizer in Balingasag, Misamis Oriental, her family is seeking help to bring her back.
Estelita Tacalan, 60, widow with three children, has been a community organizer and health worker for peasant group KMP for five years in Misamis Oriental until her disappearance on April 27, 2013.
MPC to help relieve power shortage
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 12:09 p.m.ILIGAN CITY – The Alcantara Group-controlled Mapalad Power Corporation (MPC), which operates the 98 megawatt (MW) Iligan Diesel Power Plant (IDPP) is ready to deliver 10 MW of power beginning May 6 to provide relief to the power shortage in Mindanao especially that the May 13 elections draw near.
MPC began its rehabilitation work on the 20-year old diesel plant on March 11 this year.
200 police from Cebu deployed for polls
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 12:08 p.m.AT LEAST 200 police officers are now at the Regional Training School (RTS) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) based in Patag, Cagayan de Oro, to augment the regional security force during the upcoming mid-term elections on May 13.
Supt. Ronnie Francis Cariaga, PNP regional spokesperson, said the police personnel landed at the Lumbia airport Tuesday morning in two batches.
One killed in a kidnap attempt of a Chinese trader
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 12:07 p.m.ILIGAN CITY – A resident was killed and another was injured in a resident while police and the army chased abductors of Chinese business woman in Iligan City Sunday evening.
Police Senior Superintendent Cristito Rey Gonzalodo, acting police city director, identified the person killed as Michie Facundo, 37, married and a resident near C3 road in Sta. Elena while the Chinese business woman, Ting-ting Yeong, 46, of Fujian, China and owner of Hong Jek Merchandize along Quezon Avenue here escaped the attempted abduction.
Doubts fill City Hall over ‘transferred’ boxes
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 02:04 a.m.DOUBTS have filled the Cagayan de Oro City Hall after three of its workers allegedly transferred boxes from the city finance storage to the acting budget officer’s office.
Lawyer Jonathan Pacuribot, one of the legal counsels of Misamis Oriental Governor Oscar Moreno who seeks the mayoralty post in the city, cried foul over the suspicious transfer of four boxes from the city finance storage to the office of Criselda Joson, the acting budget officer, without clearance from the office of the City Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday afternoon.
Relocatees silent over ‘No vote, evict’ campaign
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 02:03 a.m.THE Social Action Center (SAC) of the archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro admitted that Sendong survivors who reported the “No vote, evict” campaign that has been spreading in relocation sites could not come out to complain as fear overpowers them.
Fr. Nathan Lerio, the SAC director, said the complaints against “No vote, evict” from the residents in relocation sites are real, but the residents are more afraid to come out fearing possible backlash in the future.
Top cop: ‘No death squads’
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 02:03 a.m.“THERE are no death squads in Cagayan de Oro City.”
Senior Superintendent Graciano Mijares, city police director, made this statement, after three dead bodies were found dumped in Macapagal Road in Barangay Carmen on Sunday morning.
Police, army ready for polls
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 02:02 a.m.SIX days before the mid-term polls, the Cagayan de Oro City Police Office (Cocpo) has finalized its security preparations to ensure peaceful, organized and honest elections on May 13.
Senior Inspector Alfredo Ortiz, Carmen police station commander, said Cocpo, along with the Philippine Army’s 4th Infantry Division (4ID), Commission on Elections (Comelec), the City Treasurer’s Office and the Department of Education (DepEd), has ironed out security measures for the conduct of elections.
1 killed in kidnap try of Chinese trader
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 02:01 a.m.ILIGAN CITY -- A resident was killed and another was injured when the police and army chased the would-be abductors of a Chinese businesswoman in this city Sunday evening.
Senior Superintendent Cristito Rey Gonzalodo, acting police city director, identified the person killed as Michie Facundo, 37, married and a resident near C3 road in Sta. Elena, while the Chinese business woman, Ting-ting Yeong, 46, of Fujian, China and owner of Hong Jek Merchandize along Quezon Avenue.
Groups: ‘No vote, evict’ untrue
Monday, May 6, 2013 - 01:39 a.m.VARIOUS groups in Cagayan de Oro City campaigned against the “no vote, ibot” (no vote, evict) threat that Tropical Storm Sendong survivors reportedly received over the weekend, as they assured the residents in resettlement areas that no one can remove them from their houses.
“Dili tinuod ang ‘No vote, Ibot. Ang pagpahimulos sa kapobrehon usa ka mangil-ad nga taktika sa politico nga angayang puohon. Ang pagpamugos, pagpanghulga, pagpamalit og boto ug uban pang panghaylo usa ka krimen (There is no truth to ‘No vote, evict’. Taking advantage of poverty is a despicable tactic of politicians that must be stopped. Coercion, threat, vote-buying and other acts of bribery are crimes),” the groups said in a statement.
Mayoralty bet vows to fight harder
Monday, May 6, 2013 - 01:38 a.m.DESPITE trailing behind Mayor Vicente Emano in the recent survey result of Xavier University-Kinaadman Research Center (XU-KRC) on April 26-28, mayoralty bet Misamis Oriental Governor Oscar Moreno remained fearless and vowed to continue the big fight.
Moreno said his team looked at the figures objectively to help them plan and strategize.
BEIs get legal assistance
Monday, May 6, 2013 - 01:38 a.m.THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) will provide legal assistance for Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs) in case charges of election offense will be filed against them.
Lawyer Palmer Palamine, Cagayan de Oro City election officer, told Sun.Star that the Comelec has allocated funds for legal assistance to fend off harassment by losing candidates against BEIs.
Rebels, soldiers clash anew in Agusan del Norte
Monday, May 6, 2013 - 01:37 a.m.MEMBERS of the New People’s Army (NPA) and government troops clashed anew in San Antonio patrol base in RTR town in Agusan del Norte on Saturday dawn.
Lieutenant Joe Patrick A. Martinez, commanding officer of the 42nd CMO Company of 4th Infantry Division (4ID), said about 50 members of the communist rebels belonging to the Guerilla Front 21C of North Eastern Mindanao Regional Committee attacked the patrol base for the second time.
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