Top cop linked to illegal mining

By Julius Breva

Confiscated truck (Photo by Jong Cadion)

Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur – Dumingag Mayor Nacianceno M. Pacalioga, Jr assailed a powerful group, including a top provincial cop, for being behind illegal mining. 

Pacalioga said he was so saddened that as Mayor he could not stop armed men from mining illegally in Dumingag and could not hold their confiscated mineral ore.

Last November 10, the local police apprehended a truck containing 216 sacks of mineral ore from a mining site in Dumingag and impounded it at the police station.

However, Nieves Erojo, along with his husband Police Major Prudencio Erojo, the Provincial Officer of Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, came last November 16 to Dumingag Mayor’s Office to own the confiscated ore and  to negotiate with Pacalioga for its release.

Mayor Paccalioga (right) interview with NUJP Pres. Jong Cadion

Pacalioga said the rule of law does not anymore exist in Dumingag because around 30 people continue to mine gold and copper at barangay Licabang, Dumingag without permit from the municipal and provincial governments, guarded by two squads of heavily armed men brandishing Armalite rifles.

He said the armed men reportedly belong to the dreaded Kuratong Baleleng group of Ozamiz City and to the notorious MILF faction led by Juaning Abdussalam.

Seven persons killed by insane person

By Jong Cadion

Pagadian City – At least eight persons including the suspect were reportedly killed in a massacre in the early morning on October 26 in the small village of Tikwas, Dumalinao, Zamboanga del Sur fifteen kilometers from Pagadian City going to Guipos.

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Pagadian City councilor Arnold Gavenia receives cash prize from the Overseas Worker Welfare Administration as a regional awardee for land-based category during the awarding ceremony of the regional search for “ 2011 Model Overseas Filipino Worker Family of the Year Award” on October 4, 2011 at Lantaka Hotel, Zamboanga City.

Statistics Changing Lives: DENR Joins the 22nd NSM Celebration

By Jong Cadion

PAGADIAN CITY NEWS - “Quality Social Protection Statistics for Focused Targeting: Improving Outcome, Changing Lives”, this year’s national theme for the 22^nd celebration of National Statistics Month (NSM) that was started on October 1 to 31, 2011.

The activities were started last September 29, 2011 by the hanging and displaying of streamers from the different national and local government agencies here, the new Administrative Region in western Mindanao, Pagadian City.

National Chalk Day: A Call for Change

By John Ryan C. Dela Cruz

September 16, 2011 was declared as National Chalk Day by The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT). The move was materialized not to literally suspend classes but to show to the government that the chalk allowance given to teachers is too far from

enough.

GSIS expands partnership with LBP to cover active members

By Ana Marie O. Macuja

The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) announced that beginning August this year, its more than 1.4 million members may already choose to have their loan proceeds and other benefits credited to a UMID (Unified Multi-Purpose Identification) eCard issued by the Land Bank of the Philippines.

By choosing LANDBANK as servicing bank, GSIS members would be able to benefit from LANDBANK’S wide network covering 327 branches and more than 900 ATMs nationwide.

Army promotes peace in Mindanao; pacifies feuding families

By Arthur L. Eamiguel

PAGADIAN CITY – In an effort to establish peace and unity among warring Muslim families, the 51st (FUERTE-UNO) battalion in coordination with Philippine National Police members of Malabang, Lanao del Sur on Saturday has pacified a days long “rido” or family feud between warring clans in said municipality.

Zambosur PNP director welcomes PNP’s procurement of latest technologies

PAGADIAN CITY – The Philippine National Police’s (PNPs) procurement of latest technology is a welcome move and a key in both preventing and solving crimes.

This was the reaction of Zamboanga del Sur PNP provincial director P/Sr. Supt. Jose Bayani L. Gucela on the statement of Director Arturo Cacdac Jr., chief of the Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management during the weekly program “Talking Points” of PIA, PCOO and Radyo ng Bayan where he was the guest.