The Air New Zealand has been crowned the world’s best airline for 2020. This is sccording to AirlineRatings.com, the world’s only safety and product rating website. Singapore Airlines (SIA), the title holder for 2019 slipped to second place, but Singapore carrier took top spot with its more premium offerings, winning the Best First Class Airline award […]
Wonderland-inspired Christmas decors and lights at Kahayag Festival in Carmen town
CARMEN, Davao del Norte — There is wonderland in this town. The disney characters inside the wonderland highlight this year’s 9th Kahayag Festival, which officially kicked off on Friday, December 6, with Mayor Virginia J. Perandos leading the official lighting ceremony. The tall Christmas tree and the nativity symbols which sit inside the town complex catch the attention of […]
Collection gikan sa DavNor quarry misaka
DAKBAYAN SA TAGUM-— Misutoy og taas ang collection gikan sa quarry dinhi sa Davao del Norte tungod sa guot nga pagpatuman sa balaud ug sa partisipasyon sa mga nanag-iya ug quarry. Sa rekord sa Provincial Treasurer’s Office, mikita og P13,381,783.88 milyones gikan enero hangtud Oktober karong tuig, kumpara sa susamang bulan niadtong 2018 nga mikita […]
Philippines secures lead to champion the 30th SEA Games
DAVAO CITY— Now it can be told, Team Philippines’ will emerge the overall champion in the 30th Southeast Asian Games. As of this publication, Team Philippines has already garnered 91 Gold Medals, 70 silver and 71 bronze or 232 medals. which is enough lead to secure and claim the overall championship in the competition. Here […]
P1.2-M smuggled cigarettes seized in Zambo port
ZAMBOANGA CITY — Authorities have intercepted a shipment of PHP1.2 million worth of smuggled counterfeit cigarettes in an intelligence-driven anti-smuggling operation here, a top military official said Friday. Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) chief, said the shipment was intercepted Wednesday aboard a Bongo-type truck inside the local port by the Task Force Aduana […]
2 more NPA rebels yield in Lake Sebu
GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Two more New People’s Army (NPA) rebels surrendered to government troops in Lake Sebu town, South Cotabato province on Thursday, the second in the area in two days. 1Lt. Efren Halawig, civil military operations officer of the Army’s 27th Infantry Battalion (IB), said Friday the rebels decided to yield following negotiations with […]
P2-M worth of marijuana plants uprooted in DavOr town
DAVAO CITY –Authorities uprooted and burned some 10,000 hills of fully-grown marijuana plants worth PHP2 million in Lombong Sitio Tagbaloyan, Barangay Tubaon in Tarragona, Davao Oriental on Thursday. In an interview on Friday, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Region 11 Director Antonio Rivera said the marijuana was allegedly planted and cultivated by Melindo Malintad and his son Jurel. […]
P18.7-B Davao Bus system begins in 2020
DAVAO CITY — People of Davao City will feel the changes in their mode of transport starting next year, as the Department of Transportation implements the P18.7-billon “high priority bus system.” The DOTr last week announced that the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) Board made a resolution approving the project’s implementation through the agency’s Davao […]
Duterte honors hero cop in Misamis school explosion
INITAO, Misamis Oriental — President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on Thursday has posthumously conferred the Order of Lapu Lapu on a policeman killed by a grenade blast here last November 28. The President awarded the Order of Lapu-Lapu, Rank of Kalasag to Police Master Sgt. Jason Magno who died during an incident involving a man armed with […]
NEDA board approves Mindanao railway project-Phase 1
DAVAO CITY — The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Board has approved the implementation of the Phase-1 of the Mindanao Railway Project (MRP) next year. The NEDA Investment Coordination Committee – Cabinet Committee (ICC-CabCom) gave its go signal by confirming the July 10 and September 27 approval for the Tagum-Davao-Digos segment or Phase 1 […]
Tacloban eyes single-use plastic ban in 2020
TACLOBAN CITY — The city government here has taken initial steps to regulate the generation of solid waste next year through the passage of an eco-friendly ordinance banning “single-use” plastic. In an interview on Thursday, Vice Mayor Jerry Yaokasin said an ordinance is needed since the sanitary landfill, which just opened this year and designed to […]
5.6 Magnitude quake jolts Davao Occidental
DAVAO CITY — A 5.6 magnitude earthquake of tectonic origin jolted parts of Southern Mindanao at around 8:24 Thursday evening, December 5. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) located the quake at 169 kilometers southeast of Jose Abad Santos in Davao Occidental. Reported Intensities:Intensity III – Glan, Malapatan and Alabel, SaranganiIntensity II – […]
Again, Duterte opens peace talks with CPP
DAVAO CITY—- Again, President Rodrigo Duterte opened the door for a peace talk with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). Duterte issued the statement while presiding briefing on the effects of Typhoon Tisoy in Legazpi City, Albay, late Thursday afternoon, December 5. “I’m sending (Labor) Sec. (Silvestre) Bello…(to) talk to them,” “Basta I’m sending […]