ZAMBOANGA CITY — The Philippine Statistics Authority in Region 9 said that delays in the delivery of the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys or National ID) are due to several factors but mainly to Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for printing, and producing the ID and the Philippine Postal Corporation (PhilPost) for delivery. The PSA is the […]
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Service disruptions on March 19 and 20 in Downtown, Davao City
Davao Light and Power Co., Inc. will conduct switching power interruptions on March 19, Sunday, and March 20, Monday, affecting customers in the downtown area of Davao City. This service disruption will be necessary to facilitate the deloading of NGCP’s Davao Substation for the preventive maintenance of their power transformer. The first power interruption will […]
Gensan pushes 2nd phase of walkable center project
GENERAL SANTOS CITY — City Mayor Lorelie Geronimo Pacquiao on Wednesday led the groundbreaking ceremony for Phase 2 of the Walkable Center Project at the City Oval Plaza grounds. The project aims to transform the entire government center complex from the Oval Stage to the Plaza Heneral to make it even more attractive to the […]
Zambo City seniors to get free movie passes weekly, allowance quarterly
ZAMBOANGA CITY — Senior citizens of this city will get their free movie privilege back this week as the city government brings back normalization post-Covid-19 pandemic. The free movie passes for 60 years old and above were suspended by then-Mayor Maria Isabel Climaco as the Covid-19 outbreak raged on. Mayor John Dalipe brought back the […]
2 super health centers to rise in Davao Oriental
DAVAO CITY — The province of Davao Oriental will soon have two “super health centers” with the groundbreaking of the said facilities in Mati City and Lupon town on March 11. This came a long way from realization for the province as senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go promised that there would be more health facilities […]
Customs, PDEA intercept P40M shabu
DAVAO CITY –— The Bureau of Customs Ninoy Aquino International Airport (BOC-NAIA), Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), and NAIA Inter-Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group (NAIA-IADITG), intercepted a luggage containing methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu, and arrested the passenger on March 12, 2023, at Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Pasay City. Through the intensified x-ray screening operations by […]
Baste’ Duterte is chair of Davao Region’s peace body
DAVAO CITY — Mayor Sebastian “Baste’” Duterte was named chairperson of the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) for Region Xi, this was the announcement of Malacañang on Tuesday. Appointed along with Duterte is Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong, as chair for Cordillera Administrative Region’s peace and order council. Duterte and Magalong were appointed by […]
Google runs tests to block access to news for some Canadian users
DAVAO CITY –— Google is running a tests which intends to block access to news for some Canadian users, the move is in response to Canada’s bill that could compel large digital platforms like Google and Meta’s Facebook to negotiate deals with publishers to pay them for content they produced A Reuters report which was […]
Bukidnon PNP files murder vs 27-year old killer of his partner
DAVAO CITY — The Don Carlos municipal police office has filed murder charges against Edson Erap Campo Jamisola, the 27-year old jobless man who killed his hapless partner on Saturday inside their house in Barangay Poblacion Sur, Don Carlos, Bukidnon. Don Carlos Municipal Police Station Officer-In-Charge Police Major Patrick Castro said that the couple had […]
5K joins rally vs power coop in Tagum City
TAGUM CITY — “Tama na! Palitan na! (Enough! Change it!” Those words were the by-words uttered by some 5,000 disgruntled protestors during the Awakening Rally against Northern Davao Electric Cooperative (NORDECO) on Monday at Rotary park here. The rally that was organized by the Tagum City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc., started with a […]
Service disruptions on March 15 in Downtown, Davao City
Davao Light and Power Co., Inc. will conduct two power interruptions on March 15, Wednesday, affecting customers in the downtown area of Davao City. The first power interruption will be for 30-minutes, anytime between 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. This service disruption will be necessary for the normalization of loads after the erection of the […]
Davao City Police files double murder charges vs ex-airport manager
DAVAO CITY — The Davao City Police Office filed a double murder case against a former Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) Region 11 area manager on March 8, The cases against San Felix, 70-year-old Frederick, the police describned is a “crime of passion”. San Felix stands as the suspect in the killing of […]
1002nd IB runs after NPA remnants
DAVAO CITY –—The Philippine Army’s 1002nd Infantry Brigade based in Sarangani province said that “it is closing in on the few straggling Guerilla Front 57 of Sub-Regional Committee (SRC) 5, Southern Mindanao Regional Command (SMRC) of the New People’s Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, in the Southern part of […]