ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews / 19 June)—Hours after Mayor Oric Furigay declared Lamitan City as free from the influence of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) on Tuesday morning, a bomb exploded at a gasoline station in the early evening, which authorities
Laborers unload boxes of fish at Sta. Ana Port in Davao City on Wednesday (19 June 2024). According to the fishermen, their daily catch has dwindled due to the annual three-month closed fishing season in the Davao Gulf, wherein catching pelagic fish are banned to allow the latter time to spawn. MindaNews photo
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 June)—Amid the growing conflict between their families, Vice President Sara Z. Duterte has resigned as secretary of the Department of Education (DepEd) and vice chairperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed
The wick burns,the flame in silence screams.Our candle tapersalong with fading dreams.Listen, rue not the smallnessof those dreams.The mighty oceans flowfrom veins of humble streams. So live this life.On those rainbows stride,and hug the colorsthat soon will hide.Go sail againstthe
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 June)—The City Council here is planning to invite the Aboitiz-led Davao Light and Power Company (Davao Light), the lone power distribution utility provider here, to explain the “sudden” rise of their electric rates. Councilor Louie
MindaNews fact-checked the June 11 post of Darren Ferrer on Facebook warning people not to consume fish, saying a hospital dumped tubes used on HIV patients into the sea. The post is fake. Darren Ferrer posted on his Facebook page
