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Author: Alden Pantaleon

Tandag mayor to LCP: Let new cities be

BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/14 June) – The mayor of one of the 16 new cities in the country appealed to the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) not to pursue its reported plan to revive a case questioning the constitutionality

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Agusan women tapped in road network project

m14road SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews/14 February) – An Australian assisted program on developing local road network infrastructure tapped village-based women’s groups here to participate in maintaining and rehabilitating their access road so as to push economic activities in

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Lingig mayor abducted

SURIGAO DEL SUR  (MindaNews/06 August) —  The mayor of Lingig town in Surigao del Sur and his two Army escorts were abducted in his house Saturday morning by suspected New People’s Army rebels posing as government agents. Lt. Col. Ruben

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Agusan Sur Gov confident hostage crisis to end soon

PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews) – Agusan del Sur Governor Adolf Edward Plaza is optimistic the hostage crisis would soon be over. This, as two of the 15 hostages — teachers Hipolito Lastimado and Diosdideth Canbantac — were sent down to the poblacion of Barangay La Purisima mid-afternoon Saturday to get food, on instructions they were to return or the remaining hostages would be killed.

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14 teachers, students held hostage in Agusan Sur

PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews/02 April) – Armed men, including two brothers of Datu Ondo Perez who is in jail for holding hostage 125 students and teachers here in December 2009, have been holding hostage 14 persons since 4 p.m. Friday, demanding the release of Perez. Among the hostages were the Agusan del Sur school division supervisor, a school supervisor for district II, six teachers and two elementary students.

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95% of public transport paralyzed in Butuan

BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/01 April) – Public vehicles here ground to a halt Thursday as various local transport groups joined the one-day long nationwide strike demanding for a rollback of oil prices and the scrapping of the oil industry deregulation law.

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9 killed, 2 missing in flashfloods in Caraga

BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/05 January) — Nine persons were killed while two others were missing following massive flashfloods spawned by heavy rains since Sunday that hit 364 villages in 36 towns in Caraga Region’s four provinces and has affected close to

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Butuan mayor starts filling contractual jobs

BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/23 August) —  Nearly a thousand “job order” workers of the city will no longer return to their offices following the expiration of their contracts on July 31. Mayor Ferdinand Amante Jr has started to accept new applicants

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Caraga workers get P10 wage hike

m12payhike Caraga workers get P10 wage hike By Alden Pantaleon / MindaNews BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/12 Aug) — Caraga’s Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) recently approved a new wage hike order which provides for a P10 increase in workers’

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Asian NGOs to hold biodiversity conservation meet in Butuan

BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/25 June)– Delegates of non-government organizations from Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Spain’s Instituto de Promocion y Apoyo Al Desarollo (IPADE) will meet here starting Monday for the three-day first Asian regional conference on the country’s biodiversity conservation

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Solid waste management program pushed in Caraga

BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/26 May) — The regional office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources here has started pushing for the adoption of solid waste management program in the Caraga Region after outgoing President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s call to speed

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DTI Caraga monitors prices of school supplies

BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/23 May) — Offices of  the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in provinces and cities including key towns in Caraga region have mobilized its personnel to closely monitor  the prices of school supplies including “fake” and “mislabeled” products

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Talacogon vice mayor-elect survives slay attempt

BUTUAN  CITY (MindaNews/22 May) — A former  police chair in Talacogon, Agusan del Sur who won the vice mayoralty race was shot by still unidentified armed men on a motorcycle Thursday  afternoon. Talacogon Vice Mayor-elect  Rodolfo Bosque, 57 (Lakas-Kampi) was riding

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NFA-Caraga starts selling imported rice

BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/19 May) – Warehouses of the National Food Authority in Caraga Region have started selling imported rice to accredited grain dealers in the region. Gil Pepito B. Paqueo, NFA regional director, announced on Tuesday that provincial and city

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70% voter turnout in Caraga

BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/11 May) – The regional office of the Commission on Elections in Caraga (Region 13) reported a 70-percent voter turnout in the country’s first automated general elections. Regional Comelec Director Francisco Pobe declared the voting in the region

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PPCRV-Butuan hits delays in voting

BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/10 May) – “Unsystematic” procedures and faulty precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines are to blame for the delays in the voting in several parts of the city, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) of the

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Agusan Sur’s Aquino faces perjury charges

BUTUAN CITY   (MindaNews/09  May) – Congressional bet Roberto “Bob” Aquino of the lone district of Agusan del Sur is facing arrest for allegedly falsifying a document. The warrant of arrest for Aquino was issued Friday afternoon by the Municipal Trial

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