Governance

Authorities have arrested on Thursday morning Councilor Sergio Batistis, Jr. of Albuera, Leyte after selling fake receipts of the Philippine Councilors League in a mall here.

The City Council approved during its regular session on Tuesday the proposed resolution enacting an ordinance that will ban mining activities here.

Long-time farmers living in the University of the Philippines Mindanao campus now face total eviction with the imminent construction of an P8-billion sports complex in their area.

Mayor Rodrigo Duterte expects the new representative for the indigenous people in the city to talk with the New People's Army whose members in the countrysides are mostly IPs.

The local government of Asuncion town owes the Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative, Inc., under the National Electrification Administration P 8 million.In an interview with Davao Today, Daneco legal counsel, Atty. Jorge Rapista, said Daneco’s board of director and management decided to cut the power supply of Asuncion local government because of “none payment of obligations.”