Surigao Norte Police reports improved crime solution efficiency

The comparative crime volume in Surigao del Norte dropped by 45.60 % from January to December, last year as compared to the year 2009 based on record by the Police Provincial Office. PC/Insp. Rudy Elandag said it registered a decrease from 2,796 cases in 2009 to 1,521 cases…

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Surigao mulls establishment of peace village for former rebels

The provincial government here thru the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) is mulling the establishment of a peace village for the former rebels (FR) to help them assimilate and live normally in the mainstream of society. In the recently held PPOC meeting, Provincial…

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Pag-amuma sa maayong panglawas gituki sa kapitolyo

Pag-amuma sa maayong panglawas gituki atol sa Monday Morning Sharing sa kapitolyo Si Dr. Lamberto P. Vasaya, Jr. ang Municipal Health Officer (MHO) sa Lungsod sa Sison, Surigao del Norte mao ang nahimong mamumulong sa maong Monday morning sharing. Haum sa maong tema karong …

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Programa sa kapitolyo para sa mga Senior Citizen gilusad

Gilusad niadtong Febrero 17, 2011 ang “Oplan Pustiso Tabang sa Masa para sa mga Senior Citizens” didto sa Placer, Surigao del Norte. Tungod kay ang Senior Citizen mao ang usa sa prayoridad sa HEALS nga programa nga mao ang pag–amuma sa atong mga Senior Citizen. Gipamulong n…

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Sandigan: Rep. Ecleo's Conviction is Final, Appeal Dismissed

The Sandiganbayan First Division on Monday dismissed Dinagat Island Rep. Ruben Ecleo Jr.’s eleventh-hour attempt to keep himself from being arrested, following his conviction on three counts of graft in 2006. In a one-page order, the anti-graft court denied Ecleo’s motion t…

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Surigao Norte commits to pilot test DepED's new programs

Education stakeholders in Surigao del Norte gave their commitment to Education Secretary Armin Luistro to pilot test new programs of the Department of Education in their province. Led by former DepEd Regional Director and incumbent Surigao del Norte Governor Sol Matugas, st…

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Feature: Mining companies in Caraga lead in rescue and rehabilitation works

The entry of January 2011 was really a wake‐up call for the Caraga Region. During this month, continuous rainfall was experienced but the heavy downpour in the later part of January caused by the Low Pressure Area was the most devastating. This triggered the overflow of wat…

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Quake jolts Surigao early dawn today

A predawn magnitude-3.6 quake rocked Surigao City today, but state seismologists said no damage was expected. Phivolcs said the quake was recorded at 5:42 a.m., and was tectonic in origin. In its bulletin, Phivolcs said the quake’s epicenter was 43 km southwest of Surigao C…

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Sec. Luistro lauds Surigao Norte's education roadmap

Department of Education (DepED) Secretary Br. Armin Luistro, FSC lauded the province’s Educational Roadmap as being well-developed and well-placed. Speaking before hundreds of teachers, Luistro said that if there is any province that could be an education province, it must …

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Surigao City Demolition: Tension rises at market, city gov’t defers demolition of stalls beside market after vendors insist they have authority

Tension ran high Sunday at the Surigao City Public Market after traders resisted the local government’s move to demolish their stalls, all located within a public space near the market. The traders – most of whom are of Maranao descent—barricaded their stalls and hanged pos…

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Libreng medical check-up sa mga empleyado sa kapitolyo ipahigayon

Ang buhatan sa probinsya ubos sa administrasyon ni Gobernador Sol F. Matugas, mopahigayon ug libreng Panambal o medical check-up sa tanang empleyado sa kapitolyo aron mahatagan ug pag-atiman ang maayong panglawas sa mga empleyado. Tungod kay mao kini ang usa sa pinaka bug-a…

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Caraga geohazard maps finally completed

After five years in the making starting the year 2006, the 1:50,000 - scale landslide and flood susceptibility maps of Caraga Region is finally completed. Covering 55 quadrangles of the entire Region-13, the generation of rain-induced geohazard maps digitized in a Geographi…

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Editorial: Ecleo’s predicament

JUST when things turned bright for Ruben Ecleo Jr. with his election in May to the House of Representatives and his parricide case in Cebu not going anywhere, in came the Sandiganbayan exploding a bomb. The supreme master of the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Associatio…

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Reinvestigation of Cuiting's case urged

The Hong Kong-based sister of a Filipino-Chinese businessman who had been missing for more than two years now after having been reportedly kidnapped in Surigao City on Jan. 7, 2009 is appealing for a re-investigation of her brother’s abduction. Through her Filipino represen…

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DepEd secretary to grace Education Summit today

Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Armin Luistro is set to visit the province of Surigao del Norte to attend the 2011 Education Summit which will be held at the provincial convention center, capitol compound this city on February 15, 2011. Prior to the event, Sec. L…

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