MINDANAO DAILY
THE NATION’S ADVOCATE FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS Volume XII, No. 24
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Thursday, March 9, 2023
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Agusan mining company's shareholders remove Australians from the board
ROSARIO, Agusan del Sur — At the Philsaga Mining Corporation's annual stockholders meeting on March 6, shareholders voted to replace the Australian directors giving the board a new composition with Filipinos now entirely comprising the seven-member board. Three Australians and a Filipino working for Australian mining company Ten Sixty Four Limited (ASX: X64) were removed from the board by a unanimous vote of the shareholders, according to lawyer Raul C. Villanueva, president of Philsaga, thus making the company completely controlled by Filipinos. This development resulted from the decision See MINING, page 11
PNP chief: Probers on Degamo Border security tightens, police slay find substantial evidence to engage with local officials BY JOEL CALAMBA ESCOL, Managing Editor
The chief of the country's PNP organization has confirmed Monday that authorities obtained a good lead which might help in the identification of the mastermind, in the killing of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo on March 4, this year. See EVIDENCE, page 11
ARRESTED. Pursuing PNP operatives from the local police in Pamplona, Negros Oriental and PNP regional office (PRO-7) arrested three suspects in the killing of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo. They are identified as Joven Aber, 42, an ex-army from Negros Oriental; Benjie Rodriguez, 45, from Bonifacio, Misamis Oriental; and Joric Labrador, 50, an ex-army from Cagayan de Oro City.
BY CRIS DIAZ
CAMP ALAGAR, Cagayan de Oro City: The police regional command here on Tuesday directed all police units in the region to tighten border security and coordinate with local officials as part of security engagement. P/Major Joanna Navarro, the police regional spokesperson, said that the engagement with public officials is part of the measures adopted to determine possible security threats on public officials. She said that Police Re-
Police Regional Director Lawrence Coop of Region 10 issues a directive to all police units in Northern Mindanao to engage with officials of the local government units (LGU) to adopt an effective security policy to secure public officials. Photo Cris Diaz gional Director Brig. Gen. the latest, was the attacked Lawrence Coop has ex- and the killing of Negros pressed alarm over the Oriental Gov. Roel DeSee POLICE, page 10 killing of public officials,