By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 26 2013 9:10 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 April) – Caraga region is no longer the country’s “poorest region,” a title it held in 2006 and 2009. In fact it dropped to sixth place among… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 26 2013 9:07 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 April) – The five-province, two-city Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) posted the highest poverty incidence among families in the country’s 17 regions nationwide in 2012, with… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on March 20 2013 6:27 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 March) – The city government has created three new offices in a bid to improve its service delivery to residents in all 26 barangays. Mayor Darlene… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on October 29 2012 5:07 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/29 October) — The city government has allocated some P120 million for the implementation of additional infrastructure projects, among them major drainage and flood control structures, in… »
By Walter I. Balane on October 18 2012 12:38 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 18 Oct) – About 700 lumad leaders attending the 1st Bukidnon Provincial Indigenous Peoples Congress signed Wednesday a resolution urging President Benigno Simeon Aquino III to… »
By Erwin Mascariñas on October 14 2012 6:31 pm
MADRID, Surigao del Sur (MindaNews/14 October) — Multiectoral groups all over Surigao del Sur called on voters to support in next year’s elections, candidates with clear agenda on the protection… »
By Walter I. Balane on October 9 2012 6:25 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 8 Oct) – Eighteen of the 23 local government units in Bukidnon have been awarded their Bronze Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH) for 2011 by the… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on September 26 2012 10:18 am
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/26 September) – President Benigno Simeon Aquino III has announced to the five provincial governors in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) that OIC Governor Mujiv Hataman… »
By Walter I. Balane on September 13 2012 6:06 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/12 September) – Former Valencia City mayor Jose M. Galario Jr. will appeal the decision of the Sandiganbayan First Division sentencing him to six years imprisonment after they… »
By Mindanews on August 8 2012 9:39 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 August) — The Anti-Smoking Task Force (ASTF) has proposed imposing stiffer fines for violators of the comprehensive anti-smoking ordinance to attain the local government’s goal for a… »
By Walter I. Balane on July 27 2012 8:45 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/26 July) – From the country’s P302.3 billion Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) for 2013, local government units in Bukidnon will get around P4.7 billion. The amount, based on… »
By Walter I. Balane on July 25 2012 7:33 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews /24 July) – Bukidnon may have been the first province in the country to comply with mandatory representation of the indigenous peoples in the municipal, city and… »
By Walter I. Balane on July 18 2012 10:51 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/17 July) – Only two of Bukidnon’s 20 towns and none of its two cities have completed the drafts of their revised Comprehensive Land Use Plans (CLUP) as… »
By Walter I. Balane on July 12 2012 7:15 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/11 July) – The local government units in the province should focus on economic development and be sensitive in promoting the economy instead of politics, a business leader… »
By Roel Catoto on July 11 2012 6:38 am
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/10 July) — Saying it would help boost the city’s capability to finance development projects, Surigao City Mayor Ernesto T. Matugas is pushing for the collection of P200,739,598.72… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on June 26 2012 6:40 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/25 June) – In a bid to improve local tax collections, the provincial government of South Cotabato has linked up with government-owned and controlled Philippine Veteran’s Bank… »
By Walter I. Balane on June 20 2012 8:04 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/19 June) – – Four of Bukidnon’s 20 towns were among the 12 local government units in Northern Mindanao that the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on June 15 2012 10:25 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 June) – The provincial legislature of Maguindanao moved to its “permanent” home on Thursday, June 14 with the inauguration of a rehabilitated structure at the old Capitol… »
By Alden Pantaleon on June 15 2012 10:25 am
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/14 June) – The mayor of one of the 16 new cities in the country appealed to the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) not to pursue… »
By Walter I. Balane on June 15 2012 10:24 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 June) — The commemoration of the city’s 135th founding anniversary lacked “sense of history” and understanding of the people who built the place as a settlement before… »
By Erwin Mascariñas on June 15 2012 10:23 am
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/14 June) — Environmental protection and ecotourism will take center stage during the 3rd Mindanao Island Congress of the Vice Mayors League of the Philippines (VMLP) next week.… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on May 26 2012 11:41 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/25 May) – Revenue officers in North Cotabato padlocked on Thursday one of the biggest grocery centers in Midsayap town due to its alleged failure to pay taxes… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on May 11 2012 9:50 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 May) — OIC Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) says he is “sure” that majority of the 27 persons named to the… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on April 15 2012 8:39 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 14 April) – Members of the city council here are bent on going to court if the National Power Corporation (Napocor) and other subsidiary agencies of… »
By Walter I. Balane on April 14 2012 7:27 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 April) – The City Government of Malaybalay may get close to P1 billion from the national government, if the Supreme Court decides favorably on a petition it… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 9 2012 8:56 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/08 April) – Mayor Sara Duterte posted a net worth of P16.24M in her Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) as of yearend 2010 while her… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 8 2012 1:27 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 April) – Only 18 of Mindanao’s 27 governors filed their Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) in 2010 and out of the 18, Davao del… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 8 2012 1:26 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 April) — Davao del Norte Governor Rodolfo del Rosario has consistently been the richest governor in Mindanao for several years now, based on the Statement of Assets,… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 8 2012 1:26 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 April) – Surigao City’s Ernesto Matugas is not only the richest city mayor in Mindanao among 27 of 33 city mayors who filed their Statement of Assets,… »
By Walter I. Balane on March 18 2012 10:13 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/17 March) — Provincial board member Jay Albarece has proposed an ordinance granting real property tax discounts for lots with high density of trees to serve as incentive… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on March 10 2012 7:55 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/09 March) – With the local business scene here and in nearby areas currently “picking up,” an official of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) directed their… »
By Roel Catoto on February 11 2012 8:19 am
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/10 February)–Another case has been filed before the office of the Ombudsman against Surigao City Mayor Enesto T. Matugas. For the fifth time, Matugas has been charged for… »
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on February 8 2012 12:11 pm
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/08 February) — It’s 15 months before the May 13, 2013 elections but the political scene here has heated up with the filing Monday of charges of frustrated… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on February 7 2012 10:31 pm
BULUAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/07 February) — A big Arabian corporation is coming to war-torn Maguindanao province for a business venture with a capital requirement of $20 million or roughly P855 million… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on January 26 2012 7:11 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/25 January) – The national government has released a total of P1.075 billion in cash grants last year to beneficiaries of its continuing conditional cash transfer program… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on January 25 2012 10:36 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/24 January)—Tax collections last year in Region 12 reached P4.4 billion, surpassing the target set for the period by 6.1%, a Bureau of Internal Revenue official said yesterday.… »
By William R. Adan on January 21 2012 8:56 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/20 January) – Members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan have questioned some activities being lined up for this year’s Kaamulan as inappropriate to the annual celebration of Bukidnon’s indigenous… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on January 21 2012 8:51 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/20 January) –The provincial government of South Cotabato is expecting to generate P30 million this year from the small-scale mining industry players in the area, officials said. Gov.… »
By Walter I. Balane on January 18 2012 8:23 am
VALENCIA CITY (MindaNews/17 January) – The Valencia City council approved a resolution authorizing Mayor Leandro Jose Catarata to allocate P6.08 million for the urgent purchase of three water pumps to… »
By Toto Lozano on January 7 2012 5:17 am
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/06 January) – Local Governments Secretary Jesse Robredo has ordered the closure of tunnels in high-risk areas and the demolition of houses in “no habitation” zones in… »
By Walter I. Balane on January 6 2012 4:44 pm
VALENCIA CITY (MindaNews/06 January) — The Valencia City Government is pushing though with the celebration of it 11th Charter Day events, which started in December and will last up to… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on December 21 2011 9:25 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/21 December) – Power distribution utility South Cotabato I Electric Cooperative (Socoteco I) is set to sign an agreement with the provincial government of South Cotabato to… »
By Walter I. Balane on December 17 2011 7:23 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/16 December) — The Bukidnon provincial board approved Wednesday a total of P269.18 million in supplemental budget with more than half of it, or P138.66 million, for the… »
By Roel Catoto on December 16 2011 8:10 am
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/15 Dec) — The P120 million loan Mayor Ernesto Matugas has proposed for the purchase of heavy equipment is “too high” for a local government already struggling financially… »
By Walter I. Balane on December 12 2011 10:23 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/12 December) – Regular and casual employees of the provincial government will receive P60,000 each in cash gift or performance enhancement incentive, Bukidnon Vice Gov. Jose Ma. R.… »
By Darwin Wally T. Wee on December 3 2011 7:49 am
BEIJING (MindaNews/02 December) – The Philippines’ status in the corruption perceptions index (CPI) has slightly improved, according to the 2011 annual report published by Berlin-based Transparency International (TI) [http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/]. The… »
By Mindanews on November 29 2011 9:07 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 November) – Close to 50 percent of the supplemental budget the city council approved on Monday will go the Pasko Fiesta next month, which includes cash incentives… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on November 11 2011 5:57 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/10 November) – The provincial government of South Cotabato is cutting back on its maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE) by next year due to the reduction of… »
By Walter I. Balane on October 26 2011 7:56 am
VALENCIA CITY (MindaNews/25 October) – Irregularities were found in the implementation of the National Irrigation Agriculture’s fertilizer subsidy program in Northern Mindanao, but Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala was satisfied with… »
By Walter I. Balane on October 8 2011 8:20 am
MALAYBALAY CITY – (MindaNews/6 Oct.) – Vice Gov. Jose Ma. R. Zubiri Jr. announced he will be leaving for the United States this month to accompany his wife, Ma. Victoria… »
