News: 4-year-old blast victim celebrates birthday

October 5th, 2009

CHRISTIAN Ocoy, one of the victims of the Iligan bombings last week, will celebrate his fourth birthday Tuesday inside a small room of the Northern Mindanao Medical Center in Cagayan de Oro City.

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News: Martinez kin vows justice for salvage-victim

October 5th, 2009

THE family of salvage-victim Robert Martinez has denied reports that they are negotiating with some of the suspects for an out-of-court settlement.

Seventy-five-year-old Federico Martinez said he wants justice for his murdered son and vows to pursue the case until the perpetrators are behind bars.

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News: Martinez kin vows justice for salvage-victim

October 5th, 2009

THE family of salvage-victim Robert Martinez has denied reports that they are negotiating with some of the suspects for an out-of-court settlement.

Seventy-five-year-old Federico Martinez said he wants justice for his murdered son and vows to pursue the case until the perpetrators are behind bars.

Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo

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News: 4-year-old blast victim celebrates birthday

October 5th, 2009

CHRISTIAN Ocoy, one of the victims of the Iligan bombings last week, will celebrate his fourth birthday Tuesday inside a small room of the Northern Mindanao Medical Center in Cagayan de Oro City.

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News: Martinez kin vows justice for salvage-victim

October 5th, 2009

THE family of salvage-victim Robert Martinez has denied reports that they are negotiating with some of the suspects for an out-of-court settlement.

Seventy-five-year-old Federico Martinez said he wants justice for his murdered son and vows to pursue the case until the perpetrators are behind bars.

Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo

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News: 4-year-old blast victim celebrates birthday

October 5th, 2009

CHRISTIAN Ocoy, one of the victims of the Iligan bombings last week, will celebrate his fourth birthday Tuesday inside a small room of the Northern Mindanao Medical Center in Cagayan de Oro City.

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News: Oro cops, soldiers unite vs threats

October 5th, 2009

THE Cagayan de Oro police and the military have forged a joint security effort, in the wake of last week’s twin bombings in Iligan City that has so far killed three persons and injured scores of shoppers.

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Opinion: Editorial: Lying through his teeth

October 5th, 2009

IT HAS gotten more excruciating for the public to watch Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)-Northern Mindanao Regional Director Mustapha Gandarosa desperately cling to his position — a public office, by the way, that is not beholden to a theocratic government as Mr. Gandarosa seems to believe.

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Opinion: Valdehuesa: Roots of Modern Conflict in Mindanao, Resentment

October 5th, 2009

(Sixth of 10 Parts)

PRESIDENT Diosdado Macapagal, the “poor boy from Lubao,” had a vision for the country, or claimed he had. But beyond the rhetoric, he couldn’t get the people enthusiastic. He referred to them as the “Common Man,” which wasn’t very flattering. And he didn’t understand why calling them that didn’t endear him to them.

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News: Arroyo wants arrest of Bravo, others

October 5th, 2009

THE police and military based in Iligan City were caught by surprise by the hastily called command conference at the Lumbia Airport VIP lounge last Thursday.

Furious over last Wednesday’s bombings in the southern Philippine city that killed three people and hurt 53 others, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo called the region’s police and military officials to the conference.

Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo

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