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Siao confirms mayoral run
He is already set on it, “win or lose,” he added. He will file his Certificate of Candidacy within October 1 to 8, he said.
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Nora Soriño
Nora Soriño is a veteran and pioneering correspondent for Mindanao Gold Star Daily based in Iligan City and the papers Bureau Chief. With decades of reporting experience, Nora has become a trusted voice in Northern Mindanao, covering governance, community issues, and local history. Her work provides a critical on-the-ground perspective that strengthens the publication’s regional news coverage.
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Opinion
Variant on the Afghanistan narrative
Days ago, the whole world was just shocked at the sudden chaos in that part of the world. It was not only the Afghans that were involved. Americans too and other nationalities. Even Pinoys there.
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The message in the bullets
Recently, the pope received a message, maybe from some persons who did not like him. It was in the form of bullets placed inside an envelope addressed to him. These were discovered by sorters in Milan. It had come from France reports say but with no specific address.
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Iligan city implements strict border control after report of 2 Delta variant cases
Leony Roy Ga, city administrator here yesterday said that city police forces have been deployed and tasked to undertake these measures. Persons going out of the city and or going inside the city will be questioned, monitored, and such other protocols to be instituted if only to be assured that no such similar development would happen.
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Opinion
Watery views
Anyway, one particular wannabe with moist eyes to some local position here, said that “this water problem is a technical problem.'” The solution, he said is to dig underground in strategic places and then bring these waters to the respective houses that need these waters. Especially in such barangays like Dalipuga, Acmac, Sta. Elena, Sta. Filomena, Bagong Silang, and several others. (There are 44 barangays here, to note.)
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Iligan city changes curfew hours anew
“This is because ‘an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure,’ “ the mayor said adding that the threat of the delta variant is real. So, the public must act with much restraint even if the city is still under Modified General Community Quarantine.
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Opinion
A lab story
So this dreamed laboratory (lab) here in this city began in October 2020. This is according to Councilor Lamberto Macapagal, chair of the Sanggunian Panglungsod’s Committee on Health. The cost? P20 million. Plus P2 million.
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Some Sona side comments
He had made so much noise about it that his remarks were included in one episode of Trevor Noah, an international stand-up comedian. There, Digong’s remarks were repeated.
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Dilemma
This is about what’s going on in the head of the good mayor of this city, Celso G. Regencia. Like, will I be visible today? Or shall I open my mouth today and answer “hard” questions thrown my way by “unfriendly” reporters? Or, shall I get myself vaccinated or not?
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Iligan mediaman writes 30
It was learned that Clet succumbed to complications of diabetes. Clet served as the vice president of Iligan Tri-Media Association, Inc. He had also written news reports with Mindanao Gold Star Daily in the early years of his career as a media man.
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Iligan mayor mulls running again
In a rare statement broadcasted live by the city’s “own” media outlet Radyo Bandera, Mayor Celso G. Regencia the other day said that a lawyer from Manila told him that he “could still run as mayor of the city.”
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Earlier days of MGSD
The founder/ CEO, Ernesto “Toto” Chu also made it a point to visit the bureaus one at a time so maybe to assess what support they could further give to us, the provincial bureaus.
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