MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 April) – The City Government of Malaybalay may get close to P1 billion from the national government, if the Supreme Court decides favorably on a petition it filed along with other local government units. The amount is
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/25 January) – The national government has released a total of P1.075 billion in cash grants last year to beneficiaries of its continuing conditional cash transfer program in Region 12 and portions of the Autonomous Region in
VALENCIA CITY (MindaNews/17 January) – The Valencia City council approved a resolution authorizing Mayor Leandro Jose Catarata to allocate P6.08 million for the urgent purchase of three water pumps to irrigate at least 700 hectares of rice farms in villages
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/15 Dec) — The P120 million loan Mayor Ernesto Matugas has proposed for the purchase of heavy equipment is “too high” for a local government already struggling financially and some councilors want the amount reduced. Councilors Luceniano E.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/12 December) – Regular and casual employees of the provincial government will receive P60,000 each in cash gift or performance enhancement incentive, Bukidnon Vice Gov. Jose Ma. R. Zubiri Jr. announced last week. Zubiri made the announcement even
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 November) – Close to 50 percent of the supplemental budget the city council approved on Monday will go the Pasko Fiesta next month, which includes cash incentives for City Hall and barangay employees. The city council approved
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/10 November) – The provincial government of South Cotabato is cutting back on its maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE) by next year due to the reduction of its annual Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) from the national government.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/17 September) — The Tourism Infrastructure Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) has allocated P157 million to further develop the tourism industry in Mindanao, Sec. Luwalhati Antonino, chair of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), said. TIEZA, formerly the Philippine Tourism
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/06 September) – The city government’s finance committee is having difficulty in prioritizing projects and programs with the P170-million reduction in the city’s Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) next year. Two factors have caused the cut in the IRA,
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/31 August) – The national government has allocated P301. 92 million for the implementation of priority flood control and road projects in South Cotabato province next year. South Cotabato 2nd District Rep. Daisy Avance-Fuentes said the funds
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 June) – The local government of Malaybalay has allotted P29.8 million for the city’s disaster risk reduction and management fund, a portion of which would be used to fund training and operation of a 24-member volunteer rescue
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/17 Feb) – The local government of Kidapawan is expected to lose starting next year P36 million from its internal revenue allotment (IRA) because of the recent Supreme Court ruling on the 16 new cities, five of which
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/22 January) — Members of the Surigao del Norte Provincial Board have asked the finance officers of local government units in the province to give importance to budget hearings instead of treating them as mere formalities. Board Members
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 Jan) – Mindanao is getting 24 percent of the country’s total infrastructure budget this year, proof enough that the campaign for increased share for Mindanao in the national budget has been working, Mindanao Secretary Luwalhati Antonino said.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/19 January) — For acknowledging and then vetoing portions of the “Babiera” (Vice Gov. Norris Babiera) version of the P1.38-billion 2011Misamis Oriental budget ordinance, Gov. Oscar S. Moreno risks facing criminal and administrative charges which the
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 Jan) – Bukidnon Gov. Alex Calingasan vowed to cut the extra cash gifts, or what is now known as the performance enhancement incentives, the provincial government intends to give to its employees in December 2011. Calingasan said
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 Jan) – The Malaybalay City Government is at a crossroads over its controversial P225-million public market-terminal-commercial building complex. The contractor of the ill-fated project, H.R. Lopez Co. Inc., has requested for the city government to turn over
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/07 January) – The provincial government of Bukidnon released a total of P184.920 million for extra cash gifts or what is now called performance enhancement incentives, reliable sources at the Capitol who asked not to be named said.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/05 January) — Despite only having only four allies in the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, Misamis Oriental Gov. Oscar S. Moreno may succeed in vetoing the controversial P1.38-billion 2011 budget of the province. Vice Gov. Norris Babiera, a
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/04 January) — Verbal fireworks which nearly turned into a fistfight at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) session last Monday may turn into a legal battle as Vice Governor Norris Barriera said he would file criminal and
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 Dec) – The city council approved in a special session on December 17 the general fund budget of the city government at P596.4 million, with the budgets for city health and agriculture offices getting substantial amounts. City
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/18 December) – There is no Christmas truce in the Misamis Oriental capitol as Governor Oscar Moreno maintains he would veto the budget being pushed by the opposition in the Sangguniang Panglalawigan (SP) which introduced deep
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/15 December) – The city council’s blue ribbon committee yesterday made an investigation into the failure of the supplier of a set of equipment and software purchased in 2008 for a Human Resource Management Information System project to
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/05 December) – Questions posed by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan on specific projects have prevented the passage of Bukidnon’s P1.3-billion proposed budget for next year despite extensive hearings followed by two days of deliberations last week by the provincial
