The Davao Region registered the third-highest inflation rate in the country, with prices shooting up by 9.4% in January.
Even this Valentine’s Day finds Davaoeño couples opting for practical celebration.
An electric cooperative in Davao del Norte admitted that it is a challenge to serve their clients in over 600 far-flung sitios (sub-villages) due to lack of accessible roads.
The illegally imported red onions with estimated value of P57 million in pesos had been intercepted at the Mindanao Container Terminal sub-port in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental.
Despite the series of confiscation of millions worth of red onions coming in as illegal imported agricultural produce at the Mindanao Container Terminal sub-port in Tagoloan town in Misamis Oriental, the smuggling of red onions has continued.
According to the Customs in Northern Mindanao in a Facebook post, the onions were burned and buried in a pit inside the destruction facility.
City councilors here grilled the Philippine Long Distance Telephone representative invited in the council session Tuesday to discuss the poor connectivity and services provided to subscribers in the city.
A councilor in the third district of this city is calling for a sustainable potable water system in majority of his district which has no access to potable water.
From serving four villages here, the locally created Mindanao Cooperatives Water Service Federation (MCWS) will soon be providing its services to consumers in the cities of Cotabato and Bislig.
Latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that inflation rate in Davao Region rose to two percent in December 2019 from 0.7 percent in November the same year.
