Compostela Valley worst hit in January floods

P30 million in road damages
in Compostela Valley floods
 
            Massive floods in Compostela Valley in December and January resulted to more than P30 million in damages to roads, throwing a damper to current programs by the provincial government to build more road networks.
            Governor Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy, in his State of the Province Address (SOPA) at [...]

USWAG-GK PARTNERSHIP IN FULL STREAM

GK turns over fund for 100 housing units
 
            True to its promise it would match donations for cost of housing units pledged for victims of the Masara twin landslides last year, the Gawad Kalinga last week said it would turn over fund for 100 low-cost housing units.
    

        Governor Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy said Tony Meloto, [...]

COMVAL-GK PARTNERSHIP IN FULL STREAM

1000 join USWAG-GK Bayani Challenge
 
More than 1000 people—some armed with hammers and saws but all carrying hearts willing to share muscles for a cause—on Saturday joined the USWAG-GK Bayani Challenge in Compostela Valley to start construction of the initial 50 houses for displaced victims of the twin landslides in Masara in August last year.
 
The [...]

Davao City Council performance report 2008

Paolo, Cabling are top council performers  
By ROGER M. BALANZA
 
            Neophyte Davao City councilor Paolo Duterte outraced veteran councilors in last year’s Individual Performance, racking up 299 legislative measures for his Committee on Barangay Affairs for the period July to December 2008.

            Councilor Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling, chair of the Committee on Housing, Rural and [...]

Vice Mayor affirms trust on Cabling

Sara turns down plan to
break up housing body
By ROGER M. BALANZA
 
            Vice Mayor Sara Duterte has shot down a proposal to break up the Davao City Council committee on housing, rural and urban development into three committees, in an apparent expression of confidence on councilor Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling who heads the committee.

MAYOR [...]

COMVAL UNDER STATE OF CALAMITY

 
The Compostela Valley Provincial Board has passed a resolution declaring the entire province under a state of calamity.
 
The approval last week of the resolution paves the way for Governor Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy to set aside funds for emergency assistance to thousands affected by massive floods that hit several municipalities and for rehabilitation of destroyed [...]

Secretary Atienza repels AO on mining permits

Governors get back power to issue mining permit
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Lito Atienza has given back to governors the authority to issue Mineral Ore Export Permit (MOEP) following a protest against a DENR administrative order primarily initiated by Compostela Valley Governor Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy.
Sec. Atienza has declared as repelled [...]

DAVAO CITY CELEBRATES CHINESE NEW YEAR

“Kung choy fatyon”
The Davao City Chinese community’s jubilation at the formal opening of the Davao Chinatown—a 20-hectare portion of Sta. Ana district that is the city’s equivalent to Binondo’s Chinatown—coinciding with the Chinese New Year has taken a sour note.
KUNG HEI FAT SOY, Chinese for Happy New Year, has taken a new spin among true-blue [...]

Davao City eyes comfort for dead

City plan for crematorium on stream
By ROGER M. BALANZA

The Davao City government plan for the dead is up and alive, its proposal to establish a crematorium and columbarium on stream to give hope and assurance to the departed for a peaceful place away from congested cemeteries.

FOR THE DEAD. Councilor Nilo Abellera, right, and Joe [...]

Anti-aerial spray group running out of funds

Maas, IDIS turn mendicants; Beg for fare money from city officials
By ROGER M. BALANZA

The anti-aerial spray group rumored as agents of foreign-banana growing countries out to kill the local banana industry has no money for travel to pursue their fight in the appeals court in Cagayan de Oro City which has thrashed an ordinance banning [...]