Day: January 3, 2009

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 January) –  Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez wants the Mindanao Economic Development Council (MEDCo) converted into the Mindanao Economic Development Authority (MEDA) “to preserve, protect and strengthen the gains derived thus far from the peace and development efforts in Mindanao and create a permanent mechanism to ensure consistency and continuity for development efforts in the South.”

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 January) – The New People’s Army (NPA) has reset the release, supposedly this week, of 1Lt. Vicente Cammayo, “until such time that all offensive military operations within the AOR (area of responsibility) of the 3^rd Special Forces Battalion-AFP are ceased.”