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==Maguindanao gears for Sagayan Festival; alert status up== | |||
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=403497 | |||
*February 7, 2012, 7:36 pm | |||
:By. (PNA) | |||
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Feb. 7 (PNA) - A tourism spectacle conceptualized to help bring about peace and progress in this province notorious for its chaotic past will sizzle here starting Friday, with the area’s security raised to red alert beginning Tuesday. | |||
Maguindanao Governor Esmael Mangudadatu, flanked by military and police officials, held on Monday a press launching of the Sagayan Festival in Buluan town, with the hope that “all bad things about the province would buried be into oblivion.” | |||
“We want to showcase the hidden tradition and joys in Maguindanao,” he said, lamenting that his province has been known more for violence than anything, apparently referring to the infamous massacre on November 23, 2009 and the Moro rebellion. | |||
By staging the Sagayan Festival, Mangudadatu said they hope this will foster unity among the people to further quest for lasting peace in the area, a known stronghold of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). | |||
He said they will be inviting representatives of the MILF to the Sagayan Festival so the front “would feel the importance of unity in the quest for peace.” | |||
Also, the province government expects to attract domestic and foreign investments to Maguindanao through the festival, the governor said. | |||
Sagayan is a dance of nobility, gallantry and honor. The festival’s theme is “Blending of Rich Culture and Traditions among Maguindanaoans as a Road to Peace.” | |||
According to a project brief, it is shared by both the Maguindanaon and Maranao, and depicts fierce warriors carrying a shield called “klung” elaborately painted with curlicues, rounds, twirls and adorned with mirrors which are attached with shell noisemakers. In their other hand, they carry a double-bladed sword of metal or wood. | |||
Racquel Magalona, Sagayan Festival chairperson, said there are two kinds of Sagayan, the dalkat and delna. | |||
The province is celebrating Sagayan Dalkat, which is a native exhibition performed in festive occasions through dances and sounds, she said, noting that delna, a ritual healing of a sick person, “is against Islam.” | |||
She said that apart from native dance exhibitions, there will be a "kanduli" (grand thanksgiving), trade fairs, and a carabao race, among others. | |||
For one week, expect stricter security arrangement in this town, police and military officials meanwhile said. | |||
“We will place the entire province in red alert status starting Tuesday,” said Supt. Marcelo Pintac, the provincial police director, adding that a Task Group Sagayan has been created jointly with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). | |||
Pintac added that they will start observing a 24-hour security check until the end of the festival, in which bomb experts will be on standby in case there are bomb threats. | |||
==South Cotabato seeks P68.2-M tax settlement deal with power coop== | ==South Cotabato seeks P68.2-M tax settlement deal with power coop== | ||
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=403293 | *Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=403293 | ||
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The official said they are banking on the payment of Socoteco’s tax dues to ease the impact of the reduction by P36 million this year of the provincial government’s internal revenue share from the national government. | The official said they are banking on the payment of Socoteco’s tax dues to ease the impact of the reduction by P36 million this year of the provincial government’s internal revenue share from the national government. | ||
==RDRRMC-12 undertakes review of Crisis Manual for Disasters== | ==RDRRMC-12 undertakes review of Crisis Manual for Disasters== | ||