Cha-Cha to Worsen Economic, Environment Degradation, Says Virador
DAVAO CITY -- Bayan Muna Rep. Joel Virador said yesterday that the Charter Change being pushed by the Arroyo administration will "give more teeth" to the Philippine Mining Act. This,…
Suara Bangsamoro Denounces GMA for Anti-Terror Bill Push
DAVAO CITY -- The partylist group Suara Bangsamoro denounced last week President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for pushing the passage of the Anti-Terrorism Bill by using the recent Jolo bombing as justification.…
Davao?s Great Potentials for Diving
DAVAO CITY — Diving is a niche market in the Davao region and the area has major potentials.
Department of Tourism assistant regional director Roger Layson in an interview after the Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City Davao said they have identified diving sites in the region, athis includes the Ligid and Malipano at the Island Garden City of Samal, one in Sta. Maria, Davao del Sur and another in Mabini, Compostela Valley Province.
Although Layson said that there are several other sites and many potential dive areas? all around the Davao Gulf.
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Davao Holds First Frisbee Game
DAVAO CITY — An extremely popular game in the white-sandy beaches of Boracay was formally introduced for the first time in Davao City with some 25 of its pioneering participants at the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP) football ground, last Sunday, April 2.
Played in full court with seven players each side, the first formal game was held following the conduct of a blitz introduction on the basic rudiments of the play like the one-on-one perfect toss and catch of the rounded, saucer-like plate.
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Davao?s Unsafe Beach Resorts Won?t Be Promoted: DOT
Nine beaches in the city failed? water-sampling tests
DAVAO CITY — Despite marketing Davao City as a premier islands-to-highland getaway and a land of cool highlands and sunny beaches, the Department of Tourism in Southern Mindanao will not promote beaches or resorts that fail to pass the safety standards set by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
?DOT will not promote unsafe beaches. We respect DENR?s findings,? said Roger Layson, assistant regional director for DOT in Southern Mindanao.
Last Sunday at his weekly television show Gikan sa Masa, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte read a letter from the Center for Health Development Davao Region of the Inter-Regional Inter-Agency Committee. The letter contained the list of nine beaches in the city, which had failed the water-sampling test conducted by the DENR-Environmental Management Bureau.
The beaches were found to have high pathological contamination and indicated severe water pollution. All of these unsafe beaches were located along Davao City?s coastline.
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