MINDANAO DAILY
THE NATION’S ADVOCATE FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS Volume XIIl, No. 148
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from Sia, was a graduate from Mariano Marcos State University-Batac campus. He was Alexis Castillo Alegado. There were also top 10 placers from Mindanao and they were identified as Kyle Adrian Olivia, 5th placer from Mindanao State University; Jester Javier Silapan, 9th placer, from the University of Southern Mindanao - Kabacan campus; and Mohaimen Hadji Omar Pasawilan, 10th placer, from the University of Mindanao - Kabacan campus. They were followed by Reden Christian Tandoc Mercado from Saint Louis University and Casmer Blah Dilangalen from University of the Philippines-Diliman who both got 90.45 percent. Based on the PRC records, there were 5,887 out
of 16,936 who passed the licensure examination, or 34.76 percent. The exams, PRC said, were administered in National Capital Region, Baguio, Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Koronadal, Legazpi, Lucena, Pagadian, Palawan, Pampanga, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga on April 23-24. The top performing schools according to Philippine Regulation Commission were the following: De La Salle University-Manila with an 88.99 percent passing rate (97 out 109 examinees passed the licensure exams) and Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila with an 81.52 percent passing rate (75 out 92 examinees passed the licensure exams).
Kagay-anon tops Civil Engineering Board Exam BY JOEL CALAMBA ESCOL, Managing Editor
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AGAYAN DE ORO CITY - A native of Cagayan de Oro recently topped the Civil Engineering board exam recently held all over the country.
Garret Wilkenson Ching Sia, the exam's first placer, hails from this city but studied civil engineering at De Lasalle University in Metro Manila. Sia garnered a 92.10 percent exam rating based on the exam results reported by the Philippine Regulation Commission (PRC). MDNN learned that there were actually two board passers who snatched the first place. One of those aside Garret Wilkinson Sia
Appointed Maguindanao del Sur governor no longer opposing appointment of counterpart in Maguindanao del Norte By FERDINANDH B. CABRERA
a press conference in her office in Buluan town on Wednesday. She said she and her party BULUAN, Maguindanao del were responding to the call Sur (MindaNews / 04 May) of the president for unity. — Appointed Maguindanao She emphasized that her del Sur Gov. Bai Mariam camp is willing to sit down Sangki-Mangudadatu on and discuss differences and Wednesday declared she wishes to settle misunderand her party are no longer standing in the past and let opposing the appointment the leaders move on. of Abdulraof “Sammy Gam“We warmly welcome bat” Macacua as governor Governor Macucua, no one of Maguindanao del Norte. can stop his destiny,” she In the May 2022 elecadded. tions, Mangudadatu, who During the press conferran under the Family Alence, Mangudadatu called liance Party, was reelected Macacua “Bapa Sammy” as governor of the then (Uncle Sammy), revealing undivided Maguindanao. that they are actually related Macacua, the secretaryby blood. “I am optimistic we can reach to an agreement and work together in peace and security of the now divided province,” she said. The governor of Maguindanao del Sur was referring to the recent armed hostilities among MILF members, as well as, between government forces and suspected terror groups. “It was actually a winwin solution, we need to communicate closely this Maguindanao del Norte OIC Gov. Abdulraof time,” she said. Macacua in his temporary office in Cotabato She cited that Macacua’s City on Tuesday (11 April 2023). MindaNews See APOINTED, page 11 photo by FERDINANDH CABRERA general of United Bangsamoro Justice Party, the political party of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, was a senior minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao at the time of his appointment by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Mangudadatu made the declaration a week after taking her oath of office in Malacanang on April 28. “We have no more opposition, it’s time to embrace peace. Our people will suffer if we will not unite. We call on our supporters and allies to seek reconciliation also,” Mangudadatu said in
NAGPAKABANA Multipurpose Cooperative receives the P5,491,055 million check from DOLE Camiguin PFO Chief Arlyn Z. Bael during the funding turnover of DILP projects in Camiguin, May 4, 2023. (JME/PIA10/Camiguin)
DOLE Camiguin turns over P5-M aid to boost partner coop's projects CAMIGUIN (PIA)--As an accredited co-partner with 164 projects, NAGPAKABANA Multipurp os e C o op erat ive was handed a check amounting to P5,491,055 million from the Department of Labor and Employment Camiguin Provincial Field Office (DOLE Camiguin PFO), in conjunction with the 121st Labor Day Celebration, here, May 4. While over two million of the turned-over fund is budgeted for different beneficiary organizations under NAGPAKABANA’s projects, over three million
is budgeted for a total of 151 individual starter kits for multiple projects. "Mao na siya ang katuyuan sa D OLE na mga livelihood projects, p ara muuswag inyong panginabuhian pinaagi niining mga starter kits or enhancement na mga funding nga gihatag sa inyo," said DOLE Camiguin PFO Chief Arlyn Z. Bael. (That is the purpose of DOLE for the livelihood projects: to develop your livelihood through these starter kits or enhancement funding that is granted to you)
Bael also turned over a total of P263,000 to three "Mission Race" Program beneficiaries and eight parents of child laborers under the Child Labor Prevention and Elimination Program (CLPEP). "I hope from now on, mahimo kining kabahin sa inyong development dinha sa inyong kaugalingon and even sa inyong community—ang paghatag niining maong proyekto so that ang atong panginabuhi muuswag dili lang kay sa pormal na pagpanarbaho but also pinaagi sa atong See DOLE, page 10