DAVAO CITY — President Rodrigo Roa Duterte wants the vaccination of an actor in Paranaque City investigated, saying people jumping the line in the government mass immunization campaign may affect future vaccine donations. During a public address Wednesday, President Duterte ordered Health Secretary Francisco Duque III to investigate the incident in Paranaque City and submit […]
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Volunteers’ cleanup trek nets 200 kilos of trash from Mt. Apo
KIDAPAWAN CITY, North Cotabato – Environmentalists and tourism officers, including guides and porters, trekked Mt. Apo, the country’s highest peak, and collected almost 200 kilos of garbage over the weekend. On Monday, Karl Tanaid, Magpet town tourism officer, said about 130 volunteers from mountaineering groups and other organizations climbed Mt. Apo for a cleanup activity. “We […]
More Soccsksargen barangays up for drug-clearing assessment
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – More barangays in Region 12 (Soccsksargen) are due for assessment in the next two months for possible declaration as drug-cleared areas, an official of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said. Naravy Duquiatan, PDEA-Region 12 director, said Tuesday they received applications from over a dozen barangays for the validation of their […]
Police officer, 4 others nabbed for robbery-extortion in Zamboanga
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Criminal and administrative cases are being readied to be filed against a police official and four policemen involved in irregularities in this city, an official announced Tuesday. Police Brig. Gen. Ronaldo Genaro Ylagan, Police Regional Office-9 (PRO-9) director, said that cases of robbery extortion and violation of Republic Act 3019, anti-graft and […]
PNP ordered to regionalize processing of death claims
DAVAO CITY — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, March 22, ordered Philippine National Police (PNP) to stop the practice of requiring dependents of deceased policemen to go to the police headquarters in Camp Crame to process death benefits. In a televised weekly public address, President Duterte reiterated the implementation of his previous order to make […]
One biker dead, two joggers injured in Davao landslide
DAVAO CITY — A biker was killed while two joggers were injured when boulders started to erode from still unfinished Mandug-Acacia bypass road in Sitio Sto. Niño, Barangay Mandug here at about 6:45 on Tuesday morning March 23, 2021. The incident happened in an area being developed for the Mandug-Acacia bypass road, it is left […]
Voter’s Education: Boon or bane?
DAVAO CITY — For ages, Philippine politics is almost tantamount to rice and sardines over and above the vote-buying issue, hence, people have been trapped to this political reality due to poverty and access to information of the rightful man to sit in power. But the recent crusade of former House Speaker Pantaleon D. Alvarez […]
Mindanao-based bus firms laud IATF for lifting travel restrictions
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Bus companies operating in Mindanao have welcomed the move of the local governments to open their borders to public utility vehicles (PUVs) in their respective jurisdiction following the decision of the national government to ease up travel restrictions in the country. The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious […]
1.4K PAL retrenched workers get P2.3-B separation pay says DOLE
MANILA – Some 1,400 retrenched workers of Philippine Airlines (PAL) have received their separation pay amounting to more than PHP2 billion. In a statement released on Saturday, the Department of Labor and Employment – National Capital Region (DOLE-NCR) said the 1,455 affected workers of the flag carrier were able to receive their separation pay worth […]
DavSur farmers to produce quality potato soon
DAVAO CITY — The farmers of barangay Kapatagan in Digos City and Managa in Bansalan town in Davao del Sur are expecting to produce best quality potato after the Department of Agriculture XI (DA-XI) provided them with high-quality imported Granola potato seed variety from Prince Edward Island in Canada, source of one of the best […]
NMIS reprimands meat dealer over carcass mishandling
DAVAO CITY — The office of the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) on Monday, March 15, has reprimanded a meat dealer for mishandling carcass from the slaughter house to the market. Acting on a Newsline.ph post on Facebook, Dr. Jason L. Olalia of the NMIS revealed that based on a photograph by Newsline, they were […]
Obu-Manuvo tribe of Mt. Apo protest over royalty fee
DAVAO CITY –Aggrieved over what they claimed to be unfair and unjust release of the royalty fees for their lands, Manobo landowners at the foothills of Mt. Apo occupied the road of Barangays Sabayan and Ilomavis leading towards the geothermal plant site to demonstrate protest. Armed with placards to dramatize their demand for the release […]
DavNor town rolls out Covid-19 vaccine
STO. TOMAS, DAVAO DEL NORTE— Some 200 medical front-liners here received anti-covid-19 vaccine jab from AstraZeneca on Thursday, March 19. Those who received the vaccine were workers from the Municipal Health Center and private hospitals, dubbed as ” “Resbakuna Kasangga Ng Bida”. The first to get inoculated was Davao del Norte Board Member Dr. Denise […]