GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Locals and tourists alike are expected to “experience new flavors” of the famed tuna from the thriving multimillion industry here as the city government unveils this week a “bigger and grander” Tuna Festival 2019, an official said. Rofil Mae Rillo, festival director, said Tuesday that this year’s weeklong festival has been reinvigorated […]
Duterte hits Aquinos for excluding Hacienda Luisita from land reform
MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday described the exclusion of the Hacienda Luisita from the agrarian reform program as “the greatest aberration” done to farmer-beneficiaries. Duterte said although he has “nothing against” the Aquino family, including the late President Corazon Aquino and her son, President Benigno Aquino III, he said farmer-beneficiaries should have been awarded […]
PNP acquires ten new choppers
DAVAO CITY–The Philippine National Police (PNP) has acquired 10 new helicopters to further enhance its crime-fighting capability, an official said on Thursday. Lt. Gen. Archie Francisco Gamboa, PNP deputy chief for operations, said the new helicopters worth PHP1.75 billion will be the police’s first active air assets since 2009. Gamboa said the new air assets […]
Kapa members tagged in Kidapawan radio anchor’s slay
MANILA — Three members of the Kapa-Community Ministry International (Kapa) were tagged in the murder of Brigada News FM radio anchor Eduardo “Ed” Dizon in Kidapawan City, Cotabato last July 10. In a Malacañang press briefing on Thursday, Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar and Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) Executive […]
Former Maguindanao town vice mayor arrested for gun possession
DAVAO CITY — Authorities arrested on Wednesday, August 21 , Nasser Gumila Uko, the former vice mayor of Kabuntalan town in Maguindanao for possessing an unlicensed firearms. Major Joseph Nandu, deputy police chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (CIDG-BARMM), said a team of CIDG and city police operatives […]
Duterte to decide on China’s proposal to ban online gambling
MANILA — Malacañang will leave it to President Rodrigo Duterte to decide whether he would heed China’s suggestion to ban all online gambling in the Philippines. “We will have to ask the President on his policy on this. Hindi natin alam kung may possibility or walang possibility (We don’t know if there is a possibility for a total ban or […]
166 health workers deployed in Davao City villages
DAVAO CITY–The City Health Office (CHO) and the Department of Health (DOH) deployed 166 health professionals to several barangays in the city to further boost the delivery of health services. Monday’s deployment is composed of doctors, dentists and nurses under the national government’s Human Resource for Health (HRH) program with the aim of addressing the […]
Huge waves destroy 10 houses in Pagadian City
PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur — Huge waves destroyed 10 houses that were mostly made of light materials on Monday in the coastal barangay of Dumagoc, this city. Resident Nenita Revilla said they were caught by surprise when huge waves struck the village at 6 a.m., as it was not raining and the weather was calm. […]
7 tons of fossilized giant clams recovered in north Negros
BACOLOD CITY — Some seven tons of fossilized giant clams (Tridacna gigas) worth about PHP28 million were recovered by authorities in Escalante City, Negros Occidental last Saturday. A report from the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office released on Monday afternoon showed these were found at the house of Jasper Bacaron in Hacienda Juliana in Barangay Washington […]
BRP Davao Del Sur now in SoKor to escort BRP Conrado Yap
MANILA — BRP Davao Del Sur (LD-602), one of the Philippine Navy (PN)’s two strategic sealift vessels, arrived at the Jinhae Naval Base, South Korea on Friday afternoon after its successful participation in the Russian Navy Day Celebration in Vladivostok, Russia on July 28, 2019. In a statement late Saturday, Navy spokesperson, Captain Jonathan Zata said […]
Cadaver of ex-mayor’s wife found, family seeks closure
ILIGAN CITY — After a month of searching for his missing wife, former Iligan City m and lawyer Franklin Quijano announced on Thursday (August 1) that the family has stopped the search for Salma Theresa who had gone missing since June 27. This after the dental examination result of a body floating in Mandulog River, about […]
Bishop asks Duterte not to put Negros under martial law
MANILA — A bishop on Friday appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte not to put Negros Oriental under martial law, claiming it would not solve the problems there. “We also appeal to the President not to declare ‘Martial Law’ in Negros, as Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo insinuated that the President will use his emergency powers to ‘quell […]
KWF tightens bid to protect indigenous languages
MANILA — Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) aims to better help avert the extinction of indigenous languages nationwide. KWF will align its efforts to achieve such a goal with the endangered language preservation and rehabilitation agenda developed by the agency and other stakeholders. “We’ll move based on that agenda,” KWF language researcher Earvin Pelagio said. He […]