Another batch of taxi drivers were recognized by the local police on Monday, March 14 for their honesty.
Davao Region’s average inflation rate for the 3rd quarter last year dropped to 2.13 percent, which was 1.90 percentage points lower than the level recorded in the same quarter in 2014.
A Mindanao-based group said that Senator Grace Poe’s recent victory at the Supreme Court does not reflect the aspirations of women, even if the presidential candidate thinks it does.
In what could be seen as sign of hope, presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte and his running mate, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, vowed over the weekend to distribute the P80-billion coco levy funds to small coconut farmers in just one month should they win in the upcoming May elections.
The Apex Mining Company Inc operating in Maco, Compostela Valley said they are responsible partners of their host barangays where they operate.
A big portion of the Davao River is contaminated with the coliform bacteria, the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 11 said.
The Army’s 10th Infantry Division said the soldier and four members of the Special Cafgu Active Auxiliaries (SCAAs) of the 72nd Infantry Battalion are “placed under arrest” for alleged torture of an elderly Tagakulo tribal man in Barangay Demoloc, Malita, Davao Occidental on February 19.
A Davao-based poll watchdog and PDP-Laban Presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte slammed the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday, March 10 for threatening to postpone the May 9 elections.
A peasant group has criticized on Friday, March 11, Presidential aspirant, Senator Grace Poe for siding with business mogul Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr. and accused Poe of “reversing the historical truth” on the coconut levy fund issue.
The Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations (COCOPEA), a conglomeration of private schools, colleges and universities in the country, has expressed its full support to the implementation of Department of Education’s senior high school program next school year, an official said on Thursday, March 10.
