MINDANAO DAILY
THE NATION’S ADVOCATE FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS Volume XIIl, No. 145
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BOC offers support for 16th Bright Leaf Agricultural Journalism Awards
By MARK FRANCISCO
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regional official of the Bureau of Customs in the Northern Mindanao revenue district assured executives of tobacco giant Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Corporation (PMFTC) of its continuing campaign against agricultural smuggling.
Speaking during the Cagayan de Oro launch of the 2023 Bright Leaf Agricultural Journalism Awards, Customs deputy district collector for assessment Jesus Llorando acknowledged the numerous challenges that the agency is meeting against the entry of smuggled goods. “At the Port of CDO alone, we have apprehended
several millions worth of smuggled onions which if these have successfully been released would have hurt our CDO-based farmers,” Llorando said. Agricultural smuggling and other issues concerning the agricultural sector in the country are expected to be the elements of the entries in the 2023 Bright
Market here. The joint crackdown of stores dubbed as "Oplan Megashopper" also resulted in the arrest of one Bernard Pacho, 33 years old and currently residing in Barangay Balubal, this city. The police reported that
at around 11:00 in the morning of April 26, 2023, joint operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) based in Cagayan de Oro; together with CIU-CDO, Police Station 2 Cogon, Cocpo and
See BOC, page 11
Cops raided stores in Oro selling illegal cigarettes BY JOEL CALAMBA ESCOL, Managing Editor
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY A composite team of police enforcers based in this city raided Wednesday (April 26) all stores selling illegal cigarettes at Cogon Public
See RAIDED, page 11
Rep. Duterte proposes establishment of CA division in the City of Davao In pursuit of speedy trial of cases and of increasing access to the services of the Court of Appeals, including the declogging of court dockets of the CA’s divi-
sions, Rep. Paolo Duterte has filed a bill seeking the establishment of another division in Mindanao, to be stationed in the City of Davao.
House Bill No. 7895 is seeking the establishment of a division of the Court of Appeals in the City of Davao, to be known as the Court of Appeals in Davao City, with jurisdiction over cases originating from the 11th and 12th Judicial Regions. Duterte noted that despite government initiatives for a speedy disposition of cases, the CA’s court dockets remained unattended, wherein its number of divisions in the country remained to be three – in See DUTERTE, page 11
Customs deputy district collector for assessment Jesus Llorando
Two Ozamiz City Centenarians receive P300K each Cash gifts totaling P300,000 were awarded to two women from Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental who recently turned 100. After Pompia Ochagabia Balcita from Barangay Maningcol and Tiburcia Gaid Parojinog from Barangay Molicay celebrated their 100th birthday in April, the centenarians each received a total of P300,000 in cash gifts—P100,000 from the National Government by virtue of Centenarians Act of 2016 (Republic Act No. 10868), doubled by the Misamis Occidental Provincial Government and Governor Henry Oaminal, and the third from the City
Government led by Mayor Henry “Indy” Oaminal, Jr. and the city council. “These gifts are only one part of how the Ozamiz City LGU expresses our commitment to the welfare of
our senior citizens,” Mayor Oaminal, Jr. said. “As a city we fully embrace senior citizen-centered policies such as the Centenarians Act, so that we may conSee OZAMIZ, page 11