IN DUMAGUETE
Proliferation of
mendicants to be solved

The Association of Barangay Councils in Dumaguete, headed by Buñao Barangay Captain Lionel Banogon, and the Children’s Bureau of the City Administrator’s Office, joined efforts to address the proliferation of mendicants in the city.

Program initiator Gemma Iso said an information and education campaign will be held in the 30 barangays of the city, since grassroots officials play an important role in addressing the problem as frontliners.

The City Social Welfare Office recently gathered almost a hundred Badjaos, street children, mendicants, and Aetas roaming around the city and begging for money, food and the like, for documentation and to lecture them on laws and ordinances.

PHL, MILF see final
peace deal in weeks

MANILA – The Philippine government and the country's main Muslim rebel group said yesterday they hoped to sign within weeks a final peace deal to end decades of deadly insurgency after clearing the last hurdle in 18 years of negotiations.

A "comprehensive agreement" with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front should be signed in February or March, Manila's chief negotiator Miriam Coronel-Ferrer told AFP, following a breakthrough announced on Saturday.

"We have just been discussing the next steps and our goal is to be able to get a good schedule for that," she said from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur where the last round of talks was held.

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