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slam
statute on minors | | | The
Mines and Geo-sciences Bureau (MGB) has blacklisted two contractor/claimants of
quarry operations in the province for violations of environmental laws.
The
MGB said that Tatong Tan of Tantrade Corporation here and Cebu-based Domingo Chua
who has several mining claims (through several corporations) in the province failed
to settle their obligations/penalties based on the findings of the environmental
law enforcers.
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| | | | HOMAGE.
The living will pause today, All Saints Day, to remember their departed loved
ones, as people from all walks of life troop to the various cemeteries. Photo
shows a portion of Victoria Memorial Park in Taloto District, this city. Foto
SONIETA LABASAN |
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MAJESTY OF THE LAW" | | | The
Chronicle, many times, had expressed our belief in the merits of the Parliamentary
system. Too, we shared the view that it's time we give foreigners the right to
own Philippine land and develop the capital-intensive mining industry as part
of the constitutional economic reforms.
But
we will not stand behind any fraudulent, sleight of the hand revisions that is
unconstitutional as the Supreme Court had rightly labeled the People's Initiative
to be.
FULL
STORY | | | Just
Before Deadline
DOLE
probes lists
for "aberrations"
MANILA.
Labor Secretary Arturo Brion admitted yesterday that the controversy surrounding
the leak-tainted June nursing licensure examinations was far from over.
At
a press briefing, Brion said the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) was
investigating what he described as "aberrations" in the three lists
of nursing board passers from the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and
would submit a report on the results to the "proper forum" on November
6.
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ANOTHER
DISCARDED FETUS. Barely a week after a fetus and a newborn child was recovered
in Espuelas St. and Habitat Village, this city, a janitress found Sunday this
five month old fetus left in a garbage bin in Hontanosas St. Foto DANNY REYES
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