CENTRIO MALL, Cagayan de Oro City
MINDANAO DAILY T H E P U RV E YO R O F T R U T H , J U S T I C E , A N D D E V E LO P M E N T
Volume VI, No. 136
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November 14, 2016
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CPP to Duterte
Don’t mind paying debt to Marcoses
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ALAYBALAY City––The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has “advised” President Rodrigo Duterte against proceeding with giving a hero’s burial for ousted strongman Ferdinand Marcos “in exchange for financial and political support” from his family during the election. See PAYING, page A11
Bishops slam court ruling on Marcos burial
‘21-gun salute to FM’
CAGAYAN de Oro City-Ousted strongman Ferdinand E. Marcos will be given a 21-gun salute should his family’s wish to have him buried at the Libingan Ng Mga Bayani push through, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Friday.
OLDEST WAR VETERAN. Marcelo Polonia, 104 years old (left), and the oldest
World War II veteran from Northern Mindanao, waits his turn to be recognized by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana (right) during Veterans Day celebration last Friday (November 11, 2016) at Limketkai Center Atrium. Mindanao Daily photo by Mark Doña Francisco
War veterans honored in Oro
The venue was filled to the brim as around 1,200 retired soldiers trooped to the area in the whole-day affair which THE annual Veterans Day was held once lasted until late afternoon just in time again this year at Limketkai Atrium in for the veterans to mall around together Cagayan de Oro City last Friday, No- with their spouses who accompanied them vember 11. during the celebration. By MARK FRANCISCO Correspondent
See SALUTE, page A11
See veterans, page A11
Duterte sees common link with Trump
Catholic bishops have deplored a court decision that allows a hero’s burial for the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. In a strongly-worded statement, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines hit the Supreme Court’s verdict, which dismissed all the petitions against the government’s plan to bury Marcos at the Heroes’ Cemetery. “The burial is an insult to the EDSA spirit. It mocks our fight to restore democracy. We are puzzled and hurt and in great grief,” said CBCP president Archbishop Socrates Villegas. “It calls on us for greater courage to make the full truth of the dictatorship known,” he said. Voting 9-5 with one inhibition, the High Court said the petitions had no merit, adding that there
DAVAO City––President Rodrigo Duterte says what he shares in common with newly elected United States President Donald Trump is the passion to serve. Speaking to reporters at dawn on November 11 Filipinos in KL. President Rodrigo Duterte arrives at the Grand Ballroom of Man- downplayed comparisons darin Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur to meet with the Filipino community in Malaysia with tough-talking Donald on Nov. 9, 2016. Duterte talked about the situation in the Philippines, his war on drugs, Trump.
See SLAMS, page A11
See links, page A11
and congratulated Donald Trump who had just won the US Presidency. ROBINSON NIÑAL JR./Presidential Photo
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