DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 August) – Who should suspend classes in case of floods fire and other emergencies? The mayor and barangays captains, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 August) — "Where is Ipil and Zamboanga Sibugay, Mama?,” a nine-year old girl asked while Fr. Julius Tonel, the first parish priest of the Ascension of the Lord Parish in Matina, now Bishop of the Prelature of Ipil in Zamboanga Sibugay, was delivering his homily for the 9 a.m. mass today.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 August) – Mindanao has six women governors now, representing 22.2 per cent of Mindanao’s 27 provinces.
This is the highest number thus far, of women serving as governors in Mindanao.
GOUDA, The Netherlands NETHERLANDS (MindaNews/26 August) — Ever heard of diaspora philanthropy? This collective donation by migrant communities to their homeland is increasingly becoming part of the global philanthropic landscape.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 August) — Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has admitted full responsibility for the city government's failure to anticipate the problem of lack of road right of ways in building the city's P247 million urban drainage and flood control project.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 August) – Mindanao has six new cities this year, bringing the total number of cities to 33.
Mindanao now has 27 provinces and 33 cities.
The new cities are Bayugan, Cabadbaran, El Salvador, Lamitan, Mati and Tandag.
MAITUM, Sarangani (Sarangani Information Office/25 August) – “Kasi mahirap talaga ang pobre” (Because it’s really difficult to be poor).
This sums up what motivated Tom Balatac, 24, to enroll in Grade I this year.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 August) — Officials of the Mindanao Business Council and the Mindanao Coalition for Development NGOs (MinCODE) said the initiative for transparent and accountable governance in 16 Mindanao cities has provided a venue for the local government, the business community, and the civil society organizations to work together.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 August) – The 21 persons who were presented before Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and the media as surrenderers from Front 34 of the New People’s Army (NPA) were not NPA guerrillas but Lumads (indigenous peoples) the military armed, the NPA-Southern Mindanao said in a press statement.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 August) – Mindanao’s first Law Journal will be launched at the Ateneo de Davao University on Thursday, August 30.
