COTABATO CITY: Fourteen private surveying outfits will start setting this week demarcations separating several towns in Basilan and Maguindanao whose local government units are locked in long-time border disputes.
The contracts for the projects were awarded to the 14 surveying companies during a simple rite on Saturday at the office here of Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Governor Mujiv Hataman, in the presence of local officials and representatives of different media entities.
Kahal Kedtag, ARMM’s regional natural resources secretary, said the surveying firms that won the bids will commence this week with the work plans they are to comply with.
Five of the 36 towns in Maguindanao, Mangudadatu, Pandag, Datu Piang, Datu Salibo, Datu Abdullah Sangki, and Upi, will be subjected to the initial cadastral surveys in the province to determine their boundaries with municipalities around them.
Firm urged to back off project
MANILA: Fisherfolk group Pamalakaya yesterday urged a Denmark construction firm to stop pursuing the reclamation project in Cavite City for the construction of an international seaport and airport in Southern Luzon.
Pamalakaya vice chairperson Salvador France said Rambol Group/AS should back off from the project in Sangley Point in Cavite City that would be detrimental to thousands of fishermen and urban poor residents in the area.
France made the appeal to Frantz Knudsen, project director of Rambol Group based in the Danish capital.
Knudsen and his team of European airport construction experts will arrive in November to work on the feasibility study of the country’s newest international airport and seaport that the local consortium All-Asia Resources and Reclamation Corp plans to build.
Woman killed in flash floods
ZAMBOANGA CITY: A woman was killed while another was missing after flash floods swept at least three houses and inundated four villages in a town of Zamboanga del Norte over the weekend, police said.
The latest fatality brought the death toll to rise to three after two minors were also killed in a landslide in this city on Saturday.
More than a thousand residents were also affected in this southern port city when flood rose and submerged many areas in at least eight barangays and triggered landslides in three areas.
Police Regional Office 9 (PRO) reported that the flash flood hit the town of Gutalac, affecting three barangays and sweeping three houses, mostly made of light materials, and farm animals at Barangays Cocob and Sibalic.
Councilman held for killing
ILOILO CITY: A chair sparked a shooting during the opening of the annual fiesta celebration of Panit-an town in Capiz last Saturday night.
Senior Superintendent Domingo Cabillan, Capiz police director, said the suspect, Basilio Dibes Jr, 36, councilman of Barangay Agkilo, Panit-an, was immediately arrested after killing Ronnie Dorado, 29, and wounding Rustico Diestro, 56, with a 9mm pistol.
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