DAVAO CITY –— The Special Investigation Task Group Plaza on Wednesday named former Presidential Security Group commander BGen. Jesus Durante III and nine other members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines as suspects in the killing of Davao model and businesswoman Yvonne Chua Plaza on December 28, 2022. The cases were filed before the […]
Budget cut affects small town in Basilan
AKBAR, BASILAN PROVINCE— The reduction of this year’s National Tax Allotment (NTA) or Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) has affected the Akbar town in Basilan Province. The municipality of Akbar has only Ten Million (P10,000,000) annual budget and the budget cut as imposed by the national government has further reduced the already small appropriation of said […]
Police extracts vital information from the slain model’s laptop
DAVAO CITY — The Special Investigation Task Group Plaza extracted vital informaton from the personal laptop of the slain model/businesswoman Yvonne Chua Plaza. The vital information according the Police Major Eudisan Gultiano, the spokesperson of the task group, gives the police a good direction in the investigation towards the solution of the case “The […]
Flash floods displaces hundreds in Mindanao
DAVAO CITY — Hundreds of residents from the cities of Zamboanga, Gingoog, Lamitan and Gingoog in Mindanao were displaced due to flash floods brought about by the shear line weather condition. In Zamboanga City, the city government immediately announced that Manicahan bridge was rendered impassable due to the rising flood waters. The flash floods plunged […]
Davao Oriental vows to bounce back after pandemic
DAVAO CITY — The two-year pandemic has crippled with world economy, a reason why Davao Oriental Governor Corazon N. Malanyaon vowed to bounce back by sthrengthening the tourism sector, the agriculture sector of her province and by doing a massive investment drive to lure investors to pour capital given the vast resources of her province. […]
Marcos asks third party to inspect smuggled onions before market distribution
DAVAO CITY — In an effort to protect the FIlipino consumers health safety, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Tuesday ordered the phytosanitary inspection of smuggled onions before they are released to the market. During th Tuesday Cabinet meeting marcos stressed “The problem with the onions we’ve been trying… since kasi ang dami nating nahahanap […]
Samal-Davao-bound passengers, motorists endure long hours to cross Pakiputan strait
DAVAO CITY — Thousands of visitors and residents going in and out of Island Garden City of Samal (IGACOS) endured from four to seven hours of queueing to cross the Pakiputan Strait which connects the Samal and Davao City. Only three Roll-on, Roll-off operated last weekend making the travel longer while the other Roro operator […]
Despite glitch, PH departures increase
DAVAO CIT Y — Despite New Year’s day technical glitch the Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported an increase in departures. Immigration Port Operations Divisions (POD) Chief Atty. Carlos Capulong, only a total of 19,010 travelers departed on January 1. The number jumped to 41,757 the following day, and the BI continued to process around 34-37k […]
Marcos admin targets 6M housing units in six years
DAVAO CITY — The administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. wants to address the housing backlog of the country by building six million (6) houses in six years which he said is expected to benefit some 30 million Filipinos. The Pambansang Pabahay para sa Pilipino (4PH) Program envisions the construction of 6.15 million housing […]
Ex-DOTr chief accused of diverting P13-B airport upgrade fund which resulted to fiasco
DAVAO CITY — Former Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade has been accused of diverting P13-billion fund for the backup of air traffic control systems which resulted to the two-day air space fiasco on January 1 and 2 which caused flight cancellations and stranded thousands of passengers. The Philippine Congress in 2018, approved the P13-billion budget but […]
BFAR confiscates dried shark fins at Zamboanga airport
DAVAO CITY — Personnel from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resource (BFAR )regiona IX confiscated 14.4 kilograms of dried shark fins worth more than Php 100,000 at the Zamboanga airport on December 22, 2022. In a Facebook post on January 3, 2023, the BFAR IX stated that personnel from the Regional Fisheries Inspection and […]
Abalos orders all police generals and colonels to tender courtesy resignation amid illegal drugs problem
DAVAO CITY — “This is a very radical move but we have to do this”, this was the statement of Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Benhur Abalos as he ordered all full-pledged police generals and colonels of the Philippine National Police (PNP) including the chief PNP to tender a courtesy resignation for the […]
Customs intercepts P17M worth of smuggled onions
DAVAO CITY –— Personnel of Bureau of Customs (BOC) have intercepted around P17 million worth of onions hidden between sacks of used clothings known as “Ukay-ukay” inside three container vans from China on December 23, 2022 but the Customs office only released the press statement on Tuesday. Authoritries suspect that the shipper smuggled the onions […]