MONKAYO, Compostela Valley (DA_MRDP/30 October) — It is impossible, other residents say of the potable water system to be installed per household. But the Mandaya people’s organization in Brgy. Union, Monkayo, Compostela Valley proved them wrong.
Today, the people’s organization members get potable water right in their households, a far cry from when they had to walk two to three kilometers just to fetch water.
Cotabato City inks waste pact with Ecogov, DENR
COTABATO CITY (Cotabato City Public Information and Promotion Division/30 October) — The City Government of Cotabato reiterated its commitment to strengthen its program on solid waste management as it signed another Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the USAID-GEM 2 Philippine Environmental Governance (EcoGov) Program and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Field Office XII during a simple ceremony held 25 October 2007 at the Office of the City Mayor.
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/30 Oct) – A still unidentified gunman shot dead a newly proclaimed barangay chair in Sultan Mastura town in Shariff Kabunsuan 11:30 p.m. Monday, reports said.
DAVAO CITY (Mindanews/30 Oct) — Juicy economic benefits await winners of Monday's barangay elections, officials of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) said.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/30 Oct) — The Department of Agriculture in North Cotabato has stepped up its campaign to prevent the attack of the dreaded coconut leaf beetle (Brontispa longgissima) and safeguard the province’s coconut industry.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY
Two days after plunder convict Joseph Ejercito Estrada, the 30-month immediate past president, drove out of his luxurious estate-detention in Tanay, Rizal – released from life sentence by presidential clemency – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was put to the test by the Moro National Liberation Front.
