526 Bukidnon lumads await DAR help to take over 1,023 hectares of their ancestral land
IT was a milestone win, but previous administrations could not enforce their final takeover of the lands their ancestors owned.
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IT was a milestone win, but previous administrations could not enforce their final takeover of the lands their ancestors owned.
THREE groups previously fighting the government signed a joint declaration last Sunday in Davao City “to support the people’s grant of revolutionary powers to President Rodrigo R. Duterte.”
SOME 257 PDP-Laban leaders from various regions in the country trooped last Saturday in the Grand Menseng Hotel in Davao City and converted their national conference into a National Council in session.
MAYOR Ruperto “Rupet” Gonzaga III of Mawab, will be launching on February 1 a unique program where the municipal government would rent a house near the Davao Regional Medical Center (DRMC) in Apokon, Tagum City where relatives of confined patients from Mawab could stay—with free board and lodging.
SO as not to inconvenience seacraft riders during typhoons, members of the City Council of the Island Garden City of Samal asked the Coast Guard on Tuesday to coordinate with the city government before issuing no-travel orders to seacraft during typhoons.
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) of Davao del Norte on Monday has approved the provincial government’s budget for the year 2018 amounting to P1,658,100,000.
THOUSANDS of buyers of Cavendish bananas, a top export variety of the fruit, are flocking to Davao del Norte in an attempt to procure the fruit at a cheap price through “spot buying.”
FOR the second time, Tagum City’s giant holiday tree at the New City Hall grounds will be lighted at 6 p.m. on November 25, with a traditional Yuletide revelry program to be led by City Mayor Allan Lopez Rellon.
THE construction of the 1-kilometer flyover that would rise along the national highway section in Tagum City will start next week following a two-week mobilization and dry-run process.
THE businessman in Tagum City who successfully cracked the process of refilling empty butane canisters with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) could not imagine that one day, his innovation could be massively imitated as it is now.
Davao del Norte Indigenous People Mandatory Representative (IPMR) Datu Marcial Lig-onan successfully pushed for the passage of an ordinance enshrining a province-wide Tipanud Festival every fourth week of October to celebrate, showcase and promote the culture, tradition and products of the seven tribes of the province.
The barangay-based waste-collection system of Panabo City is proving to be just sustainable until today after being used for the past 20 years.
COMPOSTELA Valley Provincial Warden Jose Marvin Coquilla said after 19 years of freely staying in Barangay Mankilam, Tagum City, they could most possibly transfer next year.
ACES School honcho Dr. Francisco dela Peña Jr. is asking local authorities of the Island Garden City of Samal to give him authority to develop around 5 hectares of the Samal Sandbar, also called the “vanishing island”, for a world-class, exotic, floating aquamarine tourism park.
THE National Electrification Administration (NEA), through its Task Force Duterte Northern Davao Power (NDP) took over the management of the Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative (Daneco) last Thursday, designating new managers from other electric cooperatives in Mindanao.
THE Tagum City government is readying for the construction of big-ticket national projects even while it is currently processing to avail itself of a P680-million loan to fund its own high-impact projects.
THERE is a group of people living in Samal Island in Davao del Norte who consider a site in their village as sacred ground.
PHILIPPINE Army 1003rd Brigade commander Col. Ernesto Torres said Davao City and neighboring areas in Davao region are considered “good targets” of Islamic State terrorists, as Davao City is considered the seat of government outside of Metro Manila, being President Duterte’s home city.
CONSTRUCTION of the P16.47-billion bridge that will connect Samal Island to Davao will begin in mid-2019 and end in 2024, an official of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said.
LITO de la Corta, 54, only wanted to end the foul odor emanating from the murky and polluted Baslayan creek area near his house. It was also a breeding ground for the big flies and mosquitoes that annoy his family and, yes, threaten the health of their neighborhood.
THE Davao del Norte Provincial Board’s ways and means committee, chaired by Board Member Alfredo de Veyra III, has come up with a “win-win solution” to have the Ecosystem Service Charge (ESC), a new revenue-seeking program, approved by sand-and-gravel operators on Wednesday.
A number of sultans from various sultanates in Mindanao are offering their traditional leadership to help forge lasting peace in Mindanao.
KAGAN Sultan Abdul Mawla Camamara III of Davao City was chosen via consensus by reigning sultans in the Davao region as the Prime Sultan (equivalent to king or president) of the Sultanate of Region 11, also known as the Davao region.
THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) in the Port of Davao has exceeded collection targets for three consecutive months, or from July to September 2016.
A MEDIAMAN who allegedly posted the photograph and videos of a naked and unconscious rape victim in his social-media account has been charged by the local police with video voyeurism.
ACTING on complaints that small exporters of Cavendish banana have been allegedly milked of P8,000 per shipping container, or P40,000 per transaction, by several Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) quarantine officials for years now, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol has relieved a quarantine officer in Davao City.
DAVAO City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said implementation of the K to 12 Program was “apparently ill-advised,” noting that funding for the program seem to be not forthcoming as planned or promised.
By Cha Monforte / Correspondent
TWO top campaign aides of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, including the driver and the aide’s son, cheated death, as the Toyota Fortuner sport-utility vehicle they were riding on turned turtle on Wednesday morning at around 6 at a high-altitude zigzag road in Quezon town while on their way to Valencia City, Bukidnon, to prepare for the speaking engagement of the mayor.
DAVAO del Norte Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario said that, considering the congestion in the Sasa area, the long-dreamed-of Samal bridge is better off to span from Barangay JP Laurel, the first barangay of Panabo City right after northernmost Barangay Lasang in Davao City.
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