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Day: June 3, 2006

Relatives of slain B’laan hunter seek justice

COLUMBIO, Sultan Kudarat (MindaNews/03 June) – Relatives of a B'laan who was killed in an alleged indiscriminate firing perpetrated by government soldiers in a remote village here want justice for his death.

Relatives of Rogelio Lagaro, 35, also demanded that the Army's 25th Infantry Battalion assigned in this town indemnify the victim.

Lagaro, a hunter, died when soldiers reportedly fired shots towards him and five of his friends on June 1 while they were hunting wild animals in Sitio Gosmolo, Barangay Datal Blao.

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COMMENTARY: The pregnant cashier by Jelieta E. Mariveles-Ruca

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 June) — What a wonderful ability of a woman to bear child in her womb. This is so amazing and noble task to carry the child in her womb for nine months. She never complains about it. She is happy to show it to the world that she is pregnant and carrying the fruit of her love. But is anyone concerned about her, outside her family?

When I saw the pregnant cashier named Delhia Jamil at the wine section stretching her legs while doing her job on May 22, nobody noticed it, not even the management of NCCC Mall of Davao City.

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T’boli sits on tons of gold

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/02 June) – This sleepy but scenic interior town of South Cotabato sits on tons and tons of gold that have remained untapped, a government geologist announced.

The deposit is estimated at four million metric tons but “much of the gold deposits in T’boli is waiting to be excavated despite the rush of small scale miners in the area for a long time now,” said Jaime Flores, chief of the geosciences division of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau of Region 12 (Southwestern Mindanao). 

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COMMENTARY: The Bangsamoro has nothing to gain from GM’s cha-cha and shift to Federalism

TAGUIG CITY (MindaNews/02 June) — Proponents of Charter change aggressively campaign for the shift to Parliamentary and Federalism. To gain support and appeal to the Moro people of Mindanao a Federal Bangsamoro state is alloted for them.

The GRP (Government of the Republic of the Philippines) negotiating panel in the peace process emphasizes the need to change the Constitution to accommodate the demands of the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) that will reflect in their imagined peace agreement this year.

 

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Data-gathering for living standards survey done

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 June) – The country’s first index survey on living standard, a set of baseline economic and social indicators, would have to delay its awaited presentation and early use in the city’s budget allocation and delivery of social policies. 

Dr. Samuel Cruz, administrative officer of the City Health Office (CHO), said the living standard index (LSI) survey already finished the major requirement of field survey and data have been inputted into the main computer system. 

 

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Printer distributors find comfortable niche in ad industry

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 June) – Distributors of various lines of large format inkjet printers, and marketing officers of advertising agencies outside the national capital, have found a comfortable and profitable niche in the country’s rich advertising industry. 

Despite competition, money poured into advertising has been tremendous and has kept them going, a widespread perception of a general letdown in the economy notwithstanding.

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