BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/12 Sept) – Here’s a new twist in this city’s political scene: two formerly estranged widows of the Plaza political clan are ironing out a united force to challenge incumbent Mayor Ferdinand Amante in the 2013 elections. Former
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 its reported plan to revive a case questioning the constitutionality
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/29 May) — Tension gripped a foreign-funded college run by a Christian foundation here after the school president whose term expired on May 12 refused to vacate his post when the newly installed officer-in-charge tried to take over
m14road SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews/14 February) – An Australian assisted program on developing local road network infrastructure tapped village-based women’s groups here to participate in maintaining and rehabilitating their access road so as to push economic activities in
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/04 February) — An organization of Butuanons including US-based groups urged Congress to scrap what it called a “deceptive” proposed law to protect Hilong Hilong from destruction but would seemingly allow mining, logging and quarrying in area. Rene
SURIGAO DEL SUR (MindaNews/06 August) — An Army soldier was killed while six others were injured in an ambush Saturday afternoon by suspected New People’s Army guerrillas who abducted the mayor of Lingig town and his two Army escorts earlier
SURIGAO DEL SUR (MindaNews/06 August) — The mayor of Lingig town in Surigao del Sur and his two Army escorts were abducted in his house Saturday morning by suspected New People’s Army rebels posing as government agents. Lt. Col. Ruben
PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews) – Agusan del Sur Governor Adolf Edward Plaza is optimistic the hostage crisis would soon be over. This, as two of the 15 hostages — teachers Hipolito Lastimado and Diosdideth Canbantac — were sent down to the poblacion of Barangay La Purisima mid-afternoon Saturday to get food, on instructions they were to return or the remaining hostages would be killed.
PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews/02 April) – Armed men, including two brothers of Datu Ondo Perez who is in jail for holding hostage 125 students and teachers here in December 2009, have been holding hostage 14 persons since 4 p.m. Friday, demanding the release of Perez. Among the hostages were the Agusan del Sur school division supervisor, a school supervisor for district II, six teachers and two elementary students.
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/01 April) – Public vehicles here ground to a halt Thursday as various local transport groups joined the one-day long nationwide strike demanding for a rollback of oil prices and the scrapping of the oil industry deregulation law.
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/05 January) — Nine persons were killed while two others were missing following massive flashfloods spawned by heavy rains since Sunday that hit 364 villages in 36 towns in Caraga Region’s four provinces and has affected close to
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/10 Dec) – Local governments, especially those in the margins of conflicts, must incorporate conflict transformation in budget planning, according to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG). The barangays, according to DILG-Caraga assistant regional director Lilibeth
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews/15 November) – “The Church will stand up for and defend the environment if the Department of Environment and Natural Resoruces (DENR) cannot,” Butuan Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos said Saturday, after officiating at the
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/26 October) – Vote-buying dominated the conduct of Monday’s Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections in parts of the Caraga Region. Killings, massive vote-buying, intimidation and “hoarding” of voters on the eve of election day were reported in
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/21 Oct) — A part-time computer instructor at a Catholic-run university here was charged Monday at a local court for sexual harassment and child abuse after he allegedly threatened to flunk his teenage girl student if she would
CORTES, Surigao del Sur (MindaNews/15 October) — A large-scale logging firm whose Timber License Agreement (TLA) expired two years ago continues to operate inside ancestral lands in Cortes and Lanuza towns of Surigao del Sur using a “defective and erroneous”
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/23 August) — Nearly a thousand “job order” workers of the city will no longer return to their offices following the expiration of their contracts on July 31. Mayor Ferdinand Amante Jr has started to accept new applicants
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/16 August) – Growing local demand for pangasius has encouraged a newly created state university here to set up a breeding-trial and grow-out pond for the tropical warm water catfish inside its campus to stimulate production in the
m12payhike Caraga workers get P10 wage hike By Alden Pantaleon / MindaNews BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/12 Aug) — Caraga’s Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) recently approved a new wage hike order which provides for a P10 increase in workers’
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/08 August) – Threats posed by logging and mining activities to the city’s water supply have led to a proposal from a government-initiated body to create a permanent one-kilometer buffer zone at the Taguibo watershed area that straddles
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/22 July) – Small-scale wood processors here said they might be forced to shut down for lack of raw materials as tree farmers have stopped supplying them logs to evade the alleged rampant extortion activities at checkpoints along
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews) – A new political realignment in the Caraga region is shaping up as four of the six congressmen in four provinces have joined President Benigno Aquino III’s Liberal Party as others vowed to support the new administration.
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/25 June)– Delegates of non-government organizations from Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Spain’s Instituto de Promocion y Apoyo Al Desarollo (IPADE) will meet here starting Monday for the three-day first Asian regional conference on the country’s biodiversity conservation
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/26 May) — The regional office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources here has started pushing for the adoption of solid waste management program in the Caraga Region after outgoing President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s call to speed
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/23 May) — Offices of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in provinces and cities including key towns in Caraga region have mobilized its personnel to closely monitor the prices of school supplies including “fake” and “mislabeled” products
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/22 May) — A former police chair in Talacogon, Agusan del Sur who won the vice mayoralty race was shot by still unidentified armed men on a motorcycle Thursday afternoon. Talacogon Vice Mayor-elect Rodolfo Bosque, 57 (Lakas-Kampi) was riding
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/19 May) – Warehouses of the National Food Authority in Caraga Region have started selling imported rice to accredited grain dealers in the region. Gil Pepito B. Paqueo, NFA regional director, announced on Tuesday that provincial and city
BUTUAN CITY (Mindanews / 14 May) – Electric consumers in Mindanao would be expected to experience anew rotating and long blackouts probably starting next month as power producers signified scheduling “preventive” maintenance of their respective power plants due to full
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/13 May) — A doctor who is also a neophyte barangay captain has just won the mayoralty race in this city, effectively ending the 18-year reign of the Plazas. The city’s Board of Canvassers (BOC) proclaimed Ampayon barangay
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/11 May) – The regional office of the Commission on Elections in Caraga (Region 13) reported a 70-percent voter turnout in the country’s first automated general elections. Regional Comelec Director Francisco Pobe declared the voting in the region
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/10 May) – “Unsystematic” procedures and faulty precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines are to blame for the delays in the voting in several parts of the city, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) of the
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/09 May) – Congressional bet Roberto “Bob” Aquino of the lone district of Agusan del Sur is facing arrest for allegedly falsifying a document. The warrant of arrest for Aquino was issued Friday afternoon by the Municipal Trial
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/04 May) – A militiaman and his wife were killed and their daughter wounded when suspected members of the New People’s Army ambushed them in a remote village in Hinatuan town in Surigao del Sur Monday afternoon, reports
