Nat’l gov’t ‘owes’ Malaybalay almost P1B
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 April) – The City Government of Malaybalay may get close to P1 billion from the national government, if the Supreme Court...
P1B released to 4Ps in R-12, Marawi in 2011
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...
SP questions budget, activities for Kaamulan
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...
Valencia City approves P6M for 3 irrigation pumps
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...
Half of Bukidnon’s P270-million supplemental budget for cash gifts
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...
Councilors say Surigao City mayor’s proposed P120 million loan is “too high”
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/15 Dec) -- The P120 million loan Mayor Ernesto Matugas has proposed for the purchase of heavy equipment is “too high” for...
Bukidnon provincial employees to get P60T cash gift
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,...
Nearly half of Davao City’s supplemental budget for Pasko Fiesta
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 November) – Close to 50 percent of the supplemental budget the city council approved on Monday will go the Pasko Fiesta...
South Cotabato to slash MOOE next year; cites reduced IRA
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/10 November) – The provincial government of South Cotabato is cutting back on its maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE) by next...
Mindanao gets P157-M tourism dev’t budget
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/17 September) -- The Tourism Infrastructure Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) has allocated P157 million to further develop the tourism industry in Mindanao,...
Zambo City braces for P170-M IRA cut
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/06 September) – The city government's finance committee is having difficulty in prioritizing projects and programs with the P170-million reduction in the...
South Cotabato to get P301M for infra next year
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/31 August) – The national government has allocated P301.92 million for the implementation of priority flood control and road projects in...
Malaybalay puts up P29.8M risk reduction, management fund
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 June) – The local government of Malaybalay has allotted P29.8 million for the city’s disaster risk reduction and management fund, a...
Bill on transparency in budget discussions hailed
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/08 June) -- An anti-corruption advocate in North Cotabato has hailed Senator Teofisto Guingona III’s proposal to include representatives from the civil...
Kidapawan LGU to lose P36M due to 16 new cities
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/17 Feb) – The local government of Kidapawan is expected to lose starting next year P36 million from its internal revenue allotment...
Surigao Norte town finance officers told to attend budget hearings
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/22 January) -- Members of the Surigao del Norte Provincial Board have asked the finance officers of local government units in the...
Antonino happy over Mindanao’s increased share in infra budget
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 Jan) – Mindanao is getting 24 percent of the country’s total infrastructure budget this year, proof enough that the campaign for increased share for Mindanao in the national budget has been working, Mindanao Secretary Luwalhati Antonino said.
Gov. Moreno may face raps over partial veto of Mis. Or. budget
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/19 January) -- For acknowledging and then vetoing portions of the "Babiera" (Vice Gov. Norris Babiera) version of the P1.38-billion...
Bukidnon gov vows cut in Capitol 2011 bonus
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 Jan) – Bukidnon Gov. Alex Calingasan vowed to cut the extra cash gifts, or what is now known as the performance...
Legal battle seen over Malaybalay’s P225-M market project
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 Jan) – The Malaybalay City Government is at a crossroads over its controversial P225-million public market-terminal-commercial building complex.
The contractor of the...
Bukidnon raises ‘extra cash gift’ to P80,000 per employee, official
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/07 January) – The provincial government of Bukidnon released a total of P184.920 million for extra cash gifts or what is now...
Moreno's veto of Misamis Oriental’s 2011 budget may succeed
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/05 January) -- Despite only having only four allies in the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, Misamis Oriental Gov. Oscar S. Moreno may...
Bickering over Mis. Or. budget may reach court
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/04 January) -- Verbal fireworks which nearly turned into a fistfight at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) session last Monday may...
Malaybalay city council approves P596M budget for 2011
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 Dec) - The city council approved in a special session on December 17 the general fund budget of the city government...
P5-M budget proposed to make "city in the forest" a tourist destination
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/23 December) -- The City Tourism Board has proposed a P5-million initial fund to develop this "city in the...
Malaybalay City gov't employees to get cash gifts of P50,000 each
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/20 December) -- Officials and regular employees of the city government here are the envy of their counterparts in other cities in...
Moreno, SP fight over MisOr 2011 budget
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/18 December) -- There is no Christmas truce in the Misamis Oriental capitol as Governor Oscar Moreno maintains he would...
Malaybalay City council probes P2.3-M MIS project
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/15 December) - The city council's blue ribbon committee yesterday made an investigation into the failure of the supplier of a set...
Bukidnon SP puts on hold approval of 2011 budget
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/05 December) - Questions posed by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan on specific projects have prevented the passage of Bukidnon's P1.3-billion proposed budget for...
Health, nutrition, population top Bukidnon budget
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/22 Nov) - Health, nutrition and population make up for the highest chunk, a total of 31 percent, of Bukidnon Gov. Alex Calingasan's...