By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today

“This is a manifestation of the peoples’ anger over the recurring six to eight hours daily rotational brown-outs,” Ruby Padilla-Sison, secretary general for Makabayan-North Cotabato ...

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today

“Bill Gates promised to take care of one-third of the foundation’s budget to eradicate polio.” -- Ibarra Panopio, District Rotary Foundation Chair ...

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today

Citing that Mindanao mainly depends on the Agus-Pulangi hydro complex, which accounts for half of the island’s power supply, Llaneza said the most that the government can do is “minimize” power interruptions. ...

By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today He believes that the best solution for Mindanao’s power woes is to install an “effective mix” of renewable energy plants mainly hydropower and solar. ...

By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today Calling it as just a “stop-gap measure,” the Kidapawan City-Local Council of Women (KC-LCW) said the solution is “palliative and an added burden for the consumers” especially the women sector whom, it said, shoulder the brunt of household budgeting. ...

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today MinDA through the Mindanao Power Monitoring Committee is looking into renewable energy sources or those that come from natural sources like the geothermal heat, rain, sunlight, tides, waves and wind. ...

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today “Thousands of power consumers are still waiting for our services to go back to normal as 185 out of 374 villages are still without electricity” -- Benedicto Ongking, Officer-in-Charge General Manager of the Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative ...

By CHRISTINE J. KUIZON Davao Today Magsuci said the water district office is providing free access to five faucets at their Matina office to the 35,000 lines -- households or establishments -- whose water supply has been cut off. In simple arithmetic, this would be 7,000 lines per faucet. ...

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Assistant City Veterinarian Esther Cherrie Rayos said during Monday’s Kapehan sa SM that their office is intensifying the campaign starting at the slaughter houses up to the display stalls in market centers “to ensure the health and safety of consumers.” ...

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Sheena Duazo, spokesperson of the militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan)-Southern Mindanao, said once Daneco falls into the hands of a private corporation, its main concern would no longer be in the service to its consumers “but for business and profit.”  ...