Vendors take up positions by a road side near a memorial park in Barangay Apopong, General Santos City with their makeshift stalls of merchandise, consisting of flowers and candles on Monday, 28 October 2024. They expect brisk sales on Nov. 1 and 2 — All Souls’ Day and All Saints’ Days. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
What remains of a tree at the national highway in Barangay Apopong, General Santos City on Monday, 28 October 2024. The Department of Public Works and Highways cuts down around 40 matured hardwood species trees in three barangays to gIve way to a highway expansion project. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
MALUNGON, Sarangani (MindaNews / 28 October) – Public school teacher Jacelyn Tuan-Miguel recalls that as a child, the burial practice of the Tbolis was to have the remains of their dearly departed preserved inside a log for a year or more,
Rain clouds begin to gather while a worker cuts grass near the Monument of Peace rotunda in barangay Apopong, General Santos City, on Saturday, 26 October 2024. The rotunda, called by locals as “roundball,” intersects the City Airport–Barangay Ligaya diversion road and the Makar–Koronadal national highway. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
After strong winds and heavy rains that forced local officials to suspend classes for two days, sun is up morning of Thursday, 24 October 2024, in General Santos City and nearby towns even as typhoon Kristine has turned into a severe storm and continues to ravage other parts of the country. The national government reported seven dead so far and thousands displaced by Kristine. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
A boxer and his trainer work it out at the Oval Plaza in General Santos City on a hazy early Monday morning, 21 October 2024. The place gathers doers of all sorts — joggers, runners, sprinters, sweepers, even commuters rushing to their work. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
Dozens of trees along a highway in Barangay Apopong, General Santos City were topped, or their upper parts removed, drawing the ire of many residents. Reports said the trees will ultimately be cut down to give way to a highway expansion project. This photo was taken on Saturday, 19 October 2024. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
A five-coach road train touted to run on electricity and diesel fuel lies idle at the Oval Plaza in General Santos City on Thursday (17 October 2024). Since its announced launching in November 2017, the vehicle was never put into its purpose of helping decongest the tricycle-filled roads in the city. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
Goalie Jay Sanchez of the College of Agriculture of the Mindanao State University (MSU) GenSan displays his soccer prowess in a practice match on Sunday, 13 October 2024. MSU Gensan currently holds its yearly sports intramurals. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 08 October) – Two seasoned politicians will vie for the gubernatorial post in North Cotabato (Cotabato province), with a former governor challenging the reelection bid of the incumbent governor. Former Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol filed
MALUNGON, Sarangani (MindaNews / 08 October) – Sarangani province will see next year the emergence and re-emergence of officials with the same surnames, using the elections as a chance to reshuffle and readjust their reigns of power. A father-and-daughter tandem
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 07 October) – An all-female, three-cornered battle looms for this city’s mayoral post come the May 12, 2025 elections as of Monday, October 7. This as incumbent Vice Mayor Rosalita Nuñez filed her certificate of
A child, whose feet could barely touch a motorbike’s footrest, could have fallen if not for the incessant horn blast that alerted her mother on Friday, 04 October 2024, in Labangal, General Santos City. There is a law that prohibits small children from riding motorbikes, making their parents or whoever takes them for a ride liable. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
A pair of huge dump trucks heavy with coal enters the San Miguel Corporation port in Kalaong, Maitum, Sarangani on Tuesday (1 October 2024) to unload coal mined in Barangay Ned, Lake Sebu town, South Cotabato. MindaNews photo ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 2 Oct) – The rapper son of boxing icon and former senator Manny Pacquiao will be joining the party slate of his aunt, Mayor Lorelie Pacquiao, in gunning for a seat in the General Santos
A fisherman shows coal granules he took from a beach in Sitio Tarucao, Barangay Kalaong in Maitum, Sarangani on Monday, 30 September 2024. The place is near a seaport where coal stocks, mined by San Miguel Corporation subsidiaries, are stockpiled in the open, uncovered, while awaiting shipment by boats. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
A vehicle cruises along a national road in Maitum town, Sarangani, on Monday, 30 September 2024. The road to the left also leads to Barangay Ned in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato. A collapsed bridge up ahead forces motorists to make a detour to reach Lake Sebu. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
A delivery table with electronic maternal and neonatal mannequins to simulate real childbirth scenarios allows trainees to practice obstetrics procedures and post-partum care. These and several other multi-million pesos state-of-the-art equipment were granted to MSU GenSan College of Medicine in rites on Friday (27 September 2024). MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
CHED Chair Prospero de Vera III checks on a high-tech pedia mannequin at MSU Gensan College of Medicine on Friday (27 Sept 2024). The school is a recipient of a multi-million peso grant for equipment to help enhance its compliance to standards. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 25 Sept)—A fisherman on a night hunt for mud crabs along the marshy shorelines in Barangay Kawas, Alabel town in Sarangani province hacked a creature, suspecting it as a large monitor lizard. The fisherman immediately
An unusually slow day at this roadside stall selling for P25 a kilo different durian varieties in Labangal, General Santos City, noontime on Monday (23 September 2024). The two kids tease the stall owner for free durian. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 23 September) — Wildlife experts tracking a saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) along Sarangani Bay intend to capture the four-meter long reptile to extract Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) samples to determine its possible origin. They are, however,
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 20 September) — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Region 12 (DENR-12) has cautioned a group of fishermen and barangay officials who plan on capturing a saltwater crocodile, said to frequent the coast
Many families devote time for departed loved ones at the La Trinidad Memorial Park in Polomolok, South Cotabato, late afternoon of Monday (16 September 2024), a special no-work day in most localities in Region 12. Muslims worldwide celebrate Maulid-Un-Nabi, birth of Prophet Muhammad, on this day. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
Spicy fried locusts
A vendor sells spicy fried locusts at 50 pesos a cup along the national highway in Polomolok, South Cotabato, on Sunday, 15 Sept 2024. This local delicacy called “apan” is a hit among motorists, best when paired with beer or with rice. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 13 September) – United States ambassador to the Philippines MaryKay Carlson said China’s maritime claims are not a factual representation of international maritime laws. “I can certainly say that nine dash line, or now ten
A young Maguindanao girl tends to her family’s fruit stall selling lanzones in Dalican, Datu Odin Sinsuat town, Maguindanao del Norte on Sunday (8 September 2024). The fruit came from Sulu province where locals take pride as having the sweetest lanzones. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
A policeman in battle gear directs traffic in front of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Cotabato City on Sunday (8 September 2024). Many Catholics in the city celebrate Notre Dame Day on this day. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
Workers at the underpass project in General Santos City return to their duties after a snack break on Saturday (07 Sept 2024). The underpass, costing almost a billion pesos, is set for completion in November 2025. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 4 Sep)—Davao Region’s top cop has urged the public not to be swayed by propaganda maneuvers of the group of Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, whom Brig. Gen. Nicolas Torre III said is out to divert public
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 4 Sep)—Local officials here on the opposite sides of the political spectrum traded barbs over the non-inclusion of the city in a September 2024 list of towns and cities with special non-working holidays as proclaimed
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 4 Sep)—Brig. Gen. Nicolas Torre III, Police Regional Office – 11 (PRO-11) chief, said the police will get Pastor Apollo Quiboloy even if it takes more than a year, and bring him to face the
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 03 September) – The Department of Health – Region 12 (DOH-12) clarified that there is still no confirmed case of the dreaded mpox, previously known as monkeypox, in the region. Officials, however, admitted there are
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews /01 September) – Merrymaking for the week-long “grand celebration” of the 2024 Tuna Festival in the country’s tuna capital begins on Sunday, September 1, but for some, the celebrations can wait. The city government has lined
FRESH CATCH. It is Tuna Festival time, but it is still business-as-usual for many Mindanao fish traders who buy their supply of fresh fish, mainly tuna species, from the fish port in General Santos City. A usual street scene photographed on Saturday (August 31) in the city tagged as Tuna Capital of the Philippines. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
An ambulant fish vendor on Saturday (31 August 2024) slices a “Karaw,” a popular tuna variety, that many General Santos City residents simply grill or make into “kinilaw.” It is now Tuna Festival in the city known as the Tuna Capital of the Philippines. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
Construction personnel on Friday (30 August 2024) rush finishing works on a multi-million pesos medical school building of Mindanao State University in the heart of General Santos City. The edifice is set for completion in September 2024. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 30 August) – A week after storming the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) compound in Davao City where they suspect fugitive self-styled son of God Pastor Apollo Quiboloy and his co-accused have been hiding, battle-clad
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 29 Aug)—The police called on members of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) to understand the nature of police work and aske d them, especially their lawyers, to convince their leader to surrender and defend
Former tuna fisherman Jun Seno, 52, earns a far cry from what he used to. A lung ailment forced him to quit fishing and resort to shoe repair. He gets paid P100 for this pair of shoes he is repairing on Tuesday (20 Aug 2024) in Labangal, General Santos City. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 16 August) – Agriculture officials in Region 12 have further tightened biosecurity measures and quarantine protocols to prevent the further spread of the deadly African Swine Fever (AS F) that already hit big hog raisers
NED, LAKE SEBU, South Cotabato (MindaNews / 15 Aug)—Convoys of lumbering huge 35-ton dump trucks is a daily sight along the 60-kilometer Lake Sebu-Maitum road since coal mining operations by subsidiaries of San Miguel Corporation (SMC) began a few years
A gasoline bottle in one hand and without helmet, a minor precariously drives a motorbike in Labangal, General Santos City on Wednesday (14 August 2024). A 16-yearold boy has died along this same road months ago when a motorbike he borrowed slammed the rear-end of a parked cargo truck. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
Fish vendor Gilbert Pangamal, 32, dreams of someday having his own car and a house for his family. Here, he displays an assortment of deep sea fishes that he sells house to house on a bike in Labangal, General Santos City, on Tuesday (13 August 2024). MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 11 August) — The names Charlotte Mae and Jeffrey Bactong, Jr. may not ring a bell to the millions who follow their Facebook pages and YouTube channel but BJ and Charlotte, or Sweetnotes, certainly will.
Dump trucks each carrying 36 cubic meters of coal on Saturday (10 August 2024) negotiate a detour route due to a damaged bridge in Barangay Upo, Maitum, Sarangani province. Hundreds of these trucks transport coal from mine sites in barangay Ned, Lake Sebu town, South Cotabato, to a port in Kalaong, Maitum. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
A motorcyclist passes by a coal mine area, one of several in barangay Ned, Lake Sebu town, South Cotabato, on August 10, 2014. The coal mine is run by the energy group of San Miguel Corporation. MindaNews photo by ROMMEL REBOLLIDO
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 07 August) – Authorities in Cotabato province rush to contain the rising cases of African Swine Fever (ASF) as the dreaded hog disease is back anew in its third wave, threatening once again the over
