COMVAL MAKES DAY FOR PAROLEES

Compostela Valley Province’s ‘We Care’ program took a new spin this week, this time giving a day of fun and camaraderie for the province’s probationers, parolees and pardonees.
 
Led by Governor Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy and ILAW (I Love and Act for Women), CVPCOW (Compostela Valley Provincial Council of Women), and tthe Department of Justice – Parole [...]

Cracks in ComVal mining village threatening landslides

Mining operations stopped
COMPOSTELA Valley Governor Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy may lift the order of suspension of mining operation in Barangay Pamintaran in Maragusan, after the province would have evaluated risk factors in the gold-rush area.
Hundreds of small scale miners have protested the closure order to start this week after Mine and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) declared the [...]

Comval BSP Annual Council held

 The Boy Scout of the Philippines (BSP) Compostela Valley Council held its Annual Council Meeting Friday, September 11 at the provincial capitol with the election of 5 Execom Board and 10 sectoral representatives. 
 

The Comval Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) Council  during their Annual Council Meeting held last September 10. One of the upcoming [...]

COMVAL province recognizes LGUs, health workers in Comval

Compostela Valley Province – In recognition to their unrelenting efforts as best performers in their commitment and providing for health services, the local government units and health workers were conferred awards at the provincial capitol this month.
 
It is the first time that the provincial leadership under Gov. Arturo Uy has given them such awards, among [...]

Abaca weaving thriving in ComVal

THE province of Compostela Valley has institutionalized its abaca handicraft industry recently by establishing the Cooperative Handicraft Industry of Nabunturan (Chain).
Nabunturan, capital town of ComVal Province, has been a known producer of high-quality handicrafts from woven abaca fabric.
Some decades ago, Nabunturan, along with other towns in the undivided Davao del Norte, were heavy producers of [...]

Landslides spark emergency relocation in Monkayo

Only miners allowed
 
Even as Mt. Diwata may no longer be fit for human habitation, smallscale miners would be allowed to mine for gold in this mining barangay of Monkayo.  
Governor Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy, who has declared Mt. Diwata as ‘no man’s land,’ said continuing threats of landslides forced the Diwalwal Crisis Committee which he [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Landslides in Diwalwal looming

ComVal tries to avert another Masara tragedy
 
 
With the tragic death of 24 people in the twin Masara landslides still fresh in the mind, Compostela Valley Governor Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy, Monkayo Mayor Manuel Brillantes, Mt. Diwata Brgy. Captain Franco Tito including regional officials of national government line agencies in December 6 held an emergency meeting as [...]