Lisette Marquez, City Tourism head, reports on the 35th ASEAN Tourism Forum, held in Davao City on January 18-25. The city hosted a previous ASEAN Tourism Forum 10 years ago. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Author Archives: ACE R. MORANDANTE
Orlando L. Alvaira of the City Civil Registrar’s Office says the Civil Registration Week this February will focus on activities to educate the people to write their names properly to avoid errors and paying expensive sum to correct these clerical errors.(Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Norma Javellana, spokesperson of the Save Shrine Hills Advocates says the Comprehensive Land Use plan of 2013-2022 violated the procedures of amending zoning ordinances. Her group was not invited during the public hearings conducted last year. Also, she claims that the ordinance puts the city’s green spaces under threat. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
discuss about the passage of the Comprehensive Land Use plan of 2013-2022. Environmentalist groups Save Shrine Hills Advocates and the Interface Development Interventions opposed the ordinance due to its lack of public consultation. The ordinance awaits its third and final reading. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Fr. Bong Gonzaga, of the Saint Francis of Assisi Parish leads the prayer for the turnover ceremony of 86 motorcycles and 54 multicabs to every barangays in Davao City. The event held at the People’s Park was graced by presidential aspirant and Davao City Mayor, Rodrigo Duterte. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
A resident of Isla Noah, Barangay Lapu-lapu, Agdao district is guarding their houses due to the information that their community will be demolished. The residents said the demolition was reportedly to be carried out at 1:00 pm on Monday. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Workers paint the side of one of the buildings of a university using makeshift ladder along Bonifacio Street in Davao City. (Ace R.Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Atty. Gil Norman Ciudadano, Deputy Ombudsman Mindanao spokesperson during the I-speak media forum on Thursday says they cannot control the filing of complaints against officials running in the coming elections. But he said they fast track the cases and resolve it within 120 days. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Police Chief Inspector Andrea dela Cerna, Police Regional Office XI spokesperson presents the computerized composite sketch of two of the nine suspects in the jewelry robbery in a Tagum shopping mall last January 16 of this year. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
As their form of protesting against President Benigno Aquino III’s veto of House Bill 5842, a bill seeking for the P2,000 increase in pension of Social Security System members, women from various sectors here held a flash mob in front of the SSS regional office Tuesday.