The military leadership on Friday relieved Maj. Gen. Nestor Anonuevo as head of the Army’s 4th Infantry Division based in Camp Evangelista in Cagayan de Oro in the aftermath of the ambush by New People’s Army (NPA) rebels on the convoy of Gingoog City Mayor Ruthie Guingona whose two bodyguards were killed.
While other Catholic prelates have endorsed specific candidates, the Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro City has urged his flock to be “pan-partisan” but to junk political dynasties.
Saying passenger safety was their foremost concern, lawmakers and businessmen here and in the province of Misamis Oriental are calling for the postponement of the opening of the Laguindingan Airport until after the necessary navigation aids have been installed.
On Easter Sunday, Fr. Joesillo Amalla climbed the pulpit at Cathedral of St. Joseph here for his homily but began by blowing on something that looked like a whistle. “This,” he told the congregation, “is a spent [shell of a bullet for an M16] that I picked up when we were attacked during the Good Friday procession.”
Local technicians are not capable of fixing the Lumbia airport’s busted runway threshold identifier lights or RTILs here, prompting local airport authorities to send damaged parts to Manila for repair, according to an area official of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines.
More Cebu Pacific flights to and from Lumbia Airport in Cagayan de Oro City have been cancelled after the facility’s runway lights were disabled by lightning last Monday.
At least 50 passengers are stranded at the Lumbia Airport here after their flights were cancelled without prior notice on Tuesday afternoon.
Four Chinese nationals have been arrested by police after they fired two unlicensed firearms during a shooting competition in a firing range beside the regional police office here.
Moderate rain and wind continue to hit this city, some five hours after Typhoon “Pablo” made landfall in Baganga, Davao Oriental at 4:45 a.m. Tuesday.
This time, the city will not be caught by surprise. Unlike in December 2011, the city is prepared should tropical storm “Bopha” (to be called “Pablo” when it enters the country) intensify and dump even more rain than storm “Sendong” did, disaster officials said on Friday.
Four companies issued quarry permits by the city government to extract sand and gravel in the hinterland Iponan River were actually mining for gold, according to the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB).
Eight persons were wounded when a hand grenade whose pin was tied to an accordion-type door of a finance firm in Cagayan de Oro City went off as the establishment opened for business around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, police said.
Police authorities here said Thursday’s bomb blast outside a hotel in Cogon area, which killed two people and injured two police officers, should not be immediately tied to the signing of the framework agreement between the government and Moro rebels.
