DAVAO CITY — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) director general Aaron Aquino as the president and chief operations officer of the Clark International Airport Corporation on 22 May 2020. He will be replaced by Colonel Wilkins Villanueva the director from Northern Mindanao. Aquino and Villanueva both served Davao City in […]
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BARMM reports 11 more students from Cebu tested positive for COVID-19
COTABATO CITY —The Ministry of Health of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) has recorded eleven (11) new Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) confirmed cases in the region on Tuesday, May 26. MOH Minister Dr. Saffrullah Dipatuan said these new cases are among the 16 students from Cebu who were sent back to the region […]
Davao City Gov’t proposes incentives for business firms supporting the city’s Covid-19 response
DAVAO CITY — City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio has asked the City Council to approve an ordinance containing her proposal to grant incentives and relief to business establishments supporting the city government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. In a press statement issued by the City Information Office on Tuesday, it reported that Duterte-Carpio already submitted the […]
University professor shot dead in GenSan
GENERAL SANTOS CITY — A professor of the Mindanao State University here was shot by motorcycle-riding gunmen in front of the KCC Warehouse in Apopong, General Santos City at past 4 pm yesterday afternoon, May 26. Professor Mohammad Taha Abdulgapor was with his unnamed wife inside their car when the still unidentified gunmen shot them. […]
4 Davao City market vendors fail Covid screening, rapid tests
DAVAO CITY – Mayor Sara Duterte said Tuesday that four out of the 464 vendors of Agdao Public Market failed the screening and rapid tests conducted by the City Health Office (CHO) on Monday. Vendors of Agdao Public Market, one of the biggest markets in the city, were tested on Monday after six persons tested positive […]
Duterte asks LGUs to accept returning OFWs
DAVAO CITY — President Rodrigo Duterte is again calling on the local government units (LGUs) to accept returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) stressing they could be charged if they refuse to take in the returning workers. Everyone’s right to travel and to return home is guaranteed under the Constitution, President Duterte said. “Now let me […]
Catholic Churches prepare for May 31 resumption of masses sans community singing
DAVAO CITY –— The Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of Davao are preparing to resume Church service and Holy Masses on May 31, but this time no more community singing, said Monsigñor Paul A. Cuison. Churchgoers must strictly follow the guidelines and health protocol. Cuison, the Vicar General of the Archdiocese and personal liaison of […]
Cotabato City mayor’s secretary shot dead
COTABATO CITY – The police and the city leadership here are facing blank wall over the death of Aniceto Rasalan, the secretary and the spokesperson of Cotabato City Mayor Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi, who was shot dead Monday morning. Rolen Balquin, chief of the Cotabato City Public Safety Office, said Rasalan, 58, secretary of the Mayor, was shot […]
Pregnant NPA medic reunites with sons after 9 years
BUENAVISTA, Agusan del Norte — A pregnant member of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) has been reunited with her three sons nine years after she left them in the care of her family. “Apay”, 38, along with 18-year-old “Wena”–another pregnant colleague–surrendered to the Army’s 23rd Infantry Battalion on May 16 after a civilian tipoff led […]
Lanao del Norte ‘habal-habal’ driver’s son makes it to PMA Class 2020 Honor Roll
LANAO DEL NORTE – The Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Class Masidlawin 2020 were honored in a simple graduation rites on Friday away from the grandiose of its usual annual ceremonies in Fort Del Pilar in Baguio City. The topnotchers were given recognition – one of them, who ranked 9th place in the honor roll, is […]
Returning architect grad new Covid-19 patient in CDO
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The newest coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) patient in this city is an aspiring architect who has been on quarantine since he returned here from Cebu City early this week, health officials said Saturday. Dr. Joselito Retuya, the resident epidemiologist at the City Health Office (CHO), said the 26-year-old patient arrived here […]
Troops mark Marawi siege 3rd anniversary
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Army’s 103rd Infantry Brigade held Saturday a simple yet meaningful commemoration of the 3rd anniversary of the Marawi siege at Kampo Ranao that houses the brigade’s headquarters in Marawi City. The Marawi siege broke out around 2 p.m. of May 23, 2017 when joint military and police forces launched a “surgical operation” […]
City Vet alarmed over reported new ASF cases in Davao City amidst Covid-19 pandemic
DAVAO CITY — Backyard piggery owners from the purok 32 and 29 in the village of Inayangan are doubly hit while they are free from infection from coronavirus-19 pandemic, their hogs are dying due to suspected cases of African Swine Free (ASF). A backyard piggery owner informed Newsline that his two hogs died a week […]