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==Tawi-Tawi | ==Over 200 suspected trafficked victims rescued in Tawi-Tawi== | ||
*Source: http://www. | *Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/11/20/11/over-200-suspected-trafficked-victims-rescued-tawi-tawi | ||
* | *11/20/2011 5:09 PM | Updated as of 11/20/2011 7:39 PM | ||
:By | :By Queenie Casimiro, ABS CBN News Zamboanga | ||
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines – Authorities in Western Mindanao intercepted a vessel loaded with over 200 suspected victims of human trafficking. | |||
Reports from the Coast Guard Zamboanga Station revealed two monitoring and control vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources were on routing patrol operations with joint elements from the Coast Guard District South Western Mindanao on Saturday when they spotted and intercepted Motorlaunch Wendelene at the vicinity of Taganak Island in Tawi-Tawi. | |||
The vessel was proceeding towards the direction of Sabah, Malaysia. | |||
Upon inspection, authorities discovered that the ferry was carrying over 200 passengers, way above its capacity of 58 passengers. | |||
The vessel is said to be owned by a certain Bernaida Julwadi of Canelar, Zamboanga City, while the ferry captain was identified as Rogelio Anas. | |||
Coast Guard Zamboanga Station Commander Perfecto Eden said ML Wendelene is now being escorted by authorities to Zamboanga City while the rescued victims are set to be turned over to the NGO Visayan Forum Foundation. | |||
Under Republic Act 9993, otherwise known as the Philippine Coast Guard Act of 2009, the Coast Guard is mandated to assist in the enforcement of laws on human smuggling, among others. | |||
==Tawi-Tawi agenda== | |||
*Source: http://www.tawitawi.net/peace-week/ | |||
*NOVEMBER 17, 2011 | |||
:By tawitawi.net | |||
BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi (PIA) – The range of Tawi-Tawi continues to propel a healthy resources supervision (NRM) module on Mapun and Turtle Islands, dual far-flung municipalities of this southernmost province. | |||
Provincial Information Officer Abdel Nasser Tahang pronounced in a formulation assembly during a Sangguniang Panlalawigan Session Hall that Vice Governor Ruby Sahali discussed a bulletin with a endangered agencies participating in a doing of a module that includes mangrove planting in partnership with a Department of Environment and Natural Resources, fruit-bearing tree planting, dive exploration, and coastal apparatus supervision and meridian change. | |||
==Suspect in slay of Tawi-Tawi deputy police chief killed in shootout== | ==Suspect in slay of Tawi-Tawi deputy police chief killed in shootout== | ||