Mayor Casurra ng Surigao city, may hamon sa kanyang mga kritiko

Nagsalita na si Surigao city mayor Alfonso Casurra hinggil sa mga balitang suportado siya ng New Peoples Army. Sinabi ni Casurra na simula nang pumasok siya sa pulitika ay ito na ang palaging ibinabato sa kanya para sirain ang kanyang kandidatura. Sa kabila nito, sinabi ni Ca…

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Comelec to delay printing of ballots for Dinagat Islands, Special polls also likely if Supreme Court dissolves province with finality

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will try to delay as long as practicable the printing of ballots for Dinagat Islands, the province dissolved by the Supreme Court last week, to reflect any revisions in the list of candidates. Consequently, the printing of ballots for Su…

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Sa kabila ng El Niño, Surigao City nagkansela ng biyahe dahil sa tindi ng ulan

Dismayado ang maraming biyahero sa Surigao City matapos magkansela ng biyahe ang mga eroplano kahapon, Feb. 19 dahil sa masamang panahon. Sa report ni Gay Tiu ng RMN Surigao, patuloy ang pag-ulan sa lugar kaya kahit ilang beses na nag-attempt ang mga eroplano na mag-take off…

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It’s still all in the family in Mindanao’s political landscape:Davao City, Dinagat and Lanaos

In Davao City, it’s Duterte versus Nograles and in the City Council, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, wives and husbands are running for the post their loved ones are vacating. Post-EDSA six-termer mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte (1988 to 1998; 2001 to 2010) is not run…

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Konsehal ng Surigao, dasal ang mapayapang halalan

NANANALANGIN ngayon si Surigao City Councilor Luceniano Lancin na sana’y magiging mapayapa ang nalalapit na eleksiyon sa Mayo. Ayon pa sa kanya, sa mga nangyayaring pamamaril at pagpatay sa mga bayan ng Alegria, Taganaan at San Francisco ay sana’y mabigyan na ng solusyon. Pan…

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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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