MINDANAO DAILY
THE NATION’S ADVOCATE FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS Volume XIIl, No. 163
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Media Wise Communications wins two IABC Gold Quills
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oronto, Canada (June 6, 2023) Publishing powerhouse Media Wise Communications/ MUSE Books powered to a rare two-gold harvest in the 2023 IABC Gold Quill Awards.
The twin wins, together with the other awards, were announced this April by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). All winners were presented their awards at the IABC World Conference on June 6, 2023 in Toronto, Canada. Media Wise Communications president and CEO Ramoncito Ocampo Cruz, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery Dr. Clifton Pe, MD., former UST FMS Regent Dr. Gabriel Pastrana received the awards. Media Wise Communications’ golden harvest came
in the publications category with two coffee-table books. Honora Medicum: 150 Years of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery University of Santo Tomas, a collaboration with the UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, led by USTFMS regent Fr. Angel A. Aparicio, O.P. together with UST FMS dean ; and, Sugar & Smiles: The Negrense Legacy Beyond 2020, a collaboration with Impress Philippines and Abanse Negrense, led by Messrs. Conrado Gen Tomas, Jose Kilayko Montalvo III, Benjamin de Leon Torre, J. Albert Araneta Gamboa, and Ms. Ma. Teresa Quebrar-Manalili. The two books are Media Wise Communications’ fifth and sixth Gold Quills, with previous golds in 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Eight other Media Wise president & CEO Ramoncito Ocampo Cruz, Dr. Clifton Pe, MD. & former UST FMS See MEDIA, page 11 Regent Dr. Gabriel Pastrana with the Gold Quill for Honoris Medicum coffee table book.
FACT CHECK: Fake page on Iligan LGU circulates on Facebook
The Facebook Page City Government of Iligan is the official social media account of the local government unit (LGU). The Government of Iligan City Facebook Page, on the other hand, is a fake. The fake page has at least 6.1k followers and 3.7k likes as of Friday, 09 June 2023. Its URL is https://www.facebook. com/asensoiliganpaingon-
sapaglambo. “Asenso Iligan Paingon sa Paglambo” means “Onwards Iligan towards Prosperity.” The fake page claims to be the official page of the city’s initiatives, based on its About section. However, its contents are obviously against the administration of incumbent Mayor Frederick Siao, previously the city’s Congressional represen-
current iteration, Government of Iligan City, was a result of a rename on February 20, 2023. The Iligan LGU’s official Facebook Page is named City Government of Iligan. It currently has at least 19k likes and at least 35k followers. The official Facebook page posts announcements, services and accomplishments achieved by the local government. According to the Facebook page’s transparency tab, the City Government of Iligan page was created on June 28, 2022 and has never been tative. renamed. According to the bogus The official Facebook Page page’s transparency portion, includes an email address it was originally called Iligan (cioiligan2022@gmail.com) City’s House of the Represen- for the public to contact its tative, created on November administrators. 21, 2021. It was later renamed As with all our other reLGU Iligan City on May 26, ports, MindaNews welcomes 2022. On June 29, 2022, the leads or suggestions from the page renamed itself as the public to potential fact-check Government of the Lone Dis- stories. (Yas D. Ocampo / trict of Iligan City. The page’s MindaNews)
A worker makes a big basket using bamboo splits in hinterland Barangay Pugaan in Iligan City Sunday morning (31 March 2019). MindaNews photo by BOBBY TIMONERA
Canadian firm to invest $2-M for bamboo venture in Davao Region DAVAO CITY – Canadian firm Pure Life Carbon is pouring $2 million (P112 million) for a bamboo project in Davao del Norte, which is set to start this year, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Davao revealed Wednesday. Pure Life Carbon’s pro-
cessing plant would be established at the Anflo Industrial Estate in Panabo City, while the 10,000-hectare bamboo plantation would be put up in partnership with indigenous communities within their ancestral domain areas in Davao del See BAMBOO, page 11