DAVAO CITY — The former town mayor of Caraga in Davao Oriental surrendered to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on March 13, following the warrant of arrest issued by the Sandiganbayan who convicted him for graft and sentenced the former mayor for 10 years in jail. Atty. Archie Albao, director of the NBI XI […]
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“One Family, One Professional” program in Misamis Occidental a is big leap for the family
The “One Family, One Professional” as a personal educational program of Misamis Occidental Governor Henry Oaminal is now reaping fruits as hundreds of young Misamisnons will soon graduate in the fields they have chosen. The program has 3,200 scholars to date while others are still freshmen enrolled at the different colleges and schools in said […]
2 fugitive foreigners face deportation
DAVAO CITY — A Taiwanese and a South Korean are facing deportation for being fugitives from justice in their homelands, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported on Monday. Commissioner Norman Tansingco in a statement identified the fugitives as 44-year-old Taiwanese national Li Ming Hsiu was arrested in Makati City on March 5. while 39-year-old South […]
Marawi residents agree to create 3 new villages
DAVAO CITY — Majority of the 2,265 registered voters in the mother barangays in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur voted to the creation of three new barangays in a plebiscite held Saturday. Based on the data released by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Saturday night, a total of 2,121 or 93.73 percent of the registered […]
Marcos to visit Germany, Czech Republic next week
DAVAO CITY – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and First Lady Maria Louise Araneta-Marcos have been invited by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for a Working Visit to Germany, and by Czech President Petr Pavel for a State Visit to the Czech Republic. The back-to-back visits will be held from 11 to 15 March 2024. The […]
Palace appoints Santos as OIC of NFA
DAVAO CITY — The Palace announced today the appointment of Piolito Santos as officer-in-charge of the National Food Authority. This, after NFA administrator Roderico Bioco and 138 other officials and employees of the agency were place under preventive suspended for the 6-months following the questionable sale of the government’s rice buffer stocks. Bioco and his […]
Davao City bags 2023 Seal of Good Financial Housekeeping
DAVAO CITY — The City Government of Davao once again bagged the another accolade as it was among the local government units (LGUs) that passed the Good Financial Housekeeping assessment conducted by the Department of the Interior and Local Government for the year 2023. Davao City along with Island Garden City of Samal, Panabo, Digos […]
Court dismisses Cyberlibel case against Gov Jubahib
DAVAO CITY — The provincial Prosecutors Office of Davao del Norte court dismissed the cyberlibel case against Governor Edwin “Kuya Gov” Jubahib filed by Vice Governor De Carlo “Oyo” Uy due to a lack of evidence to merit the prosecution of the case. In a decision handed down by Provincial Prosecutor Norman Solis on January […]
Navy confiscates P28 million worth of smuggled cigarettes
DAVAO CITY — Personnel from Naval Forces Eastern Mindanao confiscated some 1,846 cases of smuggled cigarettes from a motorized watercraft off the water of Balut Island, Davao occidental early this week. The crew revealed that the contrabands came from the province of Tawi-Tawi. The boat had 25 crew onboard. The boat, MB Mhufar-3 was still […]
Cadaver of the slain rebel leader is now home
DAVAO CITY —- They belong to the same region but used to stand on different ideological grounds but death broke the barrier, the soldiers whom her group once considered their enemy brought her cold cadaver to her family to be reunited. Aprecia Gonzales Alvarez, known as Bambam, served as head of the Western Mindanao Regional […]
Samal Island shares resources to landslide victims in Davao de Oro
DAVAO CITY —– Officials from the Island Garden City of Samal led by Mayor Al David Uy travelled to Nabunturan Davao de Oro to turnover their assistance for the victims of the February 6, Masara landslide which claimed 98 lives, 8 still missing and thousands displaced. Uy handed the Php 500,000 in financial aid during […]
Mindanao Independence Movement is a tickler- Duterte
DAVAO CITY — Former President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday night press conference was smiling when he told reporters that the much-talked Mindanao Independence from the Philippine republic was a tickler. On January 30, Duterte in a press conference said “What is at stake now is our future, so we’ll just separate,” He then appointed former […]
Keeping Indigenous People’s culture, tradition and customary laws under one roof
DAVAO CITY — Educating the new generation of indigenous people about the culture and traditions of their tribe while growing up was among the reasons why the Bangsamoro Government constructed a P1.5 million Indigenous People’s building at Barangay Kitulaan in Carmen town in Cotabato province, an area considered as Special Geographic Area (SGA) of the […]