Ilang daan sa Surigao City, ipapasara sa pagsasagawa ng Calagan Festival

IPAPASARA ang iilang bahagi ng daan sa Surigao City sa nalalapit na Pebrero 23 sa pagsasagawa ng Streetdancing Competition sa Calagan Festival. Ito ay bilang bahagi ng mga aktibidad sa WOW Caraga na kung saan ang lungsod ang Host ngayong taon. Ang mga ipapasara na mga daan m…

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Food security, good infrastructure key to development and progress - PGMA

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Tuesday said that food security, through agriculture and good infrastructure are the key to development and progress. Mrs. Arroyo stressed that the completion of the Surigao-Davao Coastal road will lift from the bondage of poverty poor r…

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BJMP, nasorpresa sa pagkakaaresto ng isa nilang tauhan sa buybust

Ikinagulat ng ilang opisyal ng Bureau of Jail Management and Penology o BJMP ang pagkakahuli sa isang Jail Officer sa buybust operation na isinagawa ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency o PDEA kamakailan. Ayon sa kauupo pa lamang na BJMP Regional Director Jail Senior Supt. …

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Jail officer tiklo sa buy bust operation ng PDEA sa Surigao City

NAHULI ang isang Jail Officer ng Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) sa drug buy bust operation ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). Kinilala ang suspek na sina JO2 Reyfi Salino, Benjie Janier at Rochito Entendez Yap, nakuha sa kanila ang 4 na sachet na pi…

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City Government launches 2010 Kasalan sa Valentines

Since its inception in 2000, the KASALAN SA VALENTINES of the City Government spearheaded by City Mayor Pons Casurra has catered to a number of couples who wanted to get married but does not have the financial capacity to enter into the marriage ceremony. This year, 212 cou…

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PGMA vows to 'liberate' Surigao from poverty

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo today vowed to "liberate" this province, the tenth poorest in the country, from poverty by improving the productivity and incomes of rural farmers and opening markets through ports and other vital infrastructures. Surigao del Norte…

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PGMA does a ‘tourist’ check on LGU-owned resort

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo surprised her delegation and advanced party here today when she shunned off a catered lunch at the Surigao del Norte College of Agriculture and Technology (NSCAT) to have it at the Mainit Kasili Resort, a pilot local gov’t project which ope…

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PNP to revive search for kidnapped Surigao banker

What his predecessors had failed to do, new Surigao del Norte Provincial Police Director Senior Supt. Gilbert Dela Cruz Cruz has promised to achieve: finally locating kidnapped Fil-Chinese trader Johnson Custodio Cuiting, dead or alive. “With more than a year since he disapp…

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Arroyo to visit Mindanao

After her two-weeklong cyber-corridor and Urban Luzon Beltway tours, President Arroyo is set to visit Mindanao next week to promote it as an agri-business super region, Malacañang said Saturday. Deputy Presidential Spokesman Ricardo Saludo bared Mrs. Arroyo’s visit to Mindan…

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Magnitude 4.6 quake hits Surigao anew

Residents in the coastal villages of Surigao del Sur facing the Pacific Ocean were alarmed when a magnitude 4.6 earthquake rocked the area on Friday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported Saturday. However, the Office of Civil Defense (OC…

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Surigao City police station napili bilang most outstanding police station sa CARAGA

MASAYANG ibinalita ni Police Supt. Arthur Sanchez ang pagkakapili sa Surigao City Police Station bilang Outstanding Police Station of the Year sa buong rehiyon ng Caraga. Tinukoy nito, kasalukuyang tinatanggap ang naturang award sa PNP Regional Headquarters kasabay sa PNP An…

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Mga opisyales ng Dinagat Province, nagulat sa desisyon ng SC sa muling pagbalik nito sa probinsya ng Surigao del Norte

NAGULAT ang mga opisyal ng Dinagat Province sa ipinalabas na desisyon ng Korte Suprema na nagbabalik sa kanila sa Mother Province ang Surigao del Norte. Ayon kay Gov. Jade Ecleo hindi pa nila natanggap ang kopya ng desisyon ngunit nakatakda silang magsampa ng Motion for Reco…

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Businesses bemoan daily blackouts in Caraga

Small and mid-sized businesses – including street vendors – have expressed alarm over daily blackouts that began early this month in the Caraga region. Cold storage facilities have become useless since these lacked electricity to preserve fish and other aqua marine products,…

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Dinagat Islands townsfolk saddened by SC declaration of provincehood as 'unconstitutional'

The townsfolk on this island were saddened by the Supreme Court's (SC) decision to declare as "unconstitutional" the law creating the province of Dinagat Islands, Governor Geraldine "Jade" B. Ecleo said on Friday. "This is not favorable to our p…

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SC declares "unconstitutional" creation of Dinagat Islands province

The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday declared as "unconstitutional" the law creating the Province of Dinagat Islands. In a 30-page decision penned by Associate Justice Diosdado Peralta, the SC said Republic Act No. 9355 ("An Act Creating the Province of Dinagat…

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