DAVAO CITY – The mayor of a remote coastal town in Davao Occidental remains hopeful that unfinished and substandard projects in the municipality will be completed or repaired amid ongoing investigations on alleged anomalous infrastructure projects nationwide. The town of Jose Abad Santos in Davao...
DAVAO CITY – The mayor of Jose Abad Santos town, Davao Occidental province where a ghost flood control project was discovered last week has lamented that alleged substandard road projects have contributed to the sluggish progress of the coastal municipality. These had an adverse impact on the...
DAVAO CITY – The mayor of the remote coastal town of Jose Abad Santos in Davao Occidental, where a P96-million ghost flood control project was discovered, has hinted that there are still some alleged anomalous infrastructure projects in his town. “Marami pa pong ibang ghost at substandard...
DAVAO CITY – A flood control structure worth P96.5 million in Jose Abad Santos town, Davao Occidental province was exposed as a ghost project following an inspection by the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Thursday. During a...
A three-year-old girl was raped and killed by her 17-year-old brother in Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental on Thursday, March 6. Police said the suspect arrived home drunk and took his sister. He brought her to a nearby furnace where she was raped and killed when she resisted. Neighbors heard the...
BUTUAN CITY – A magnitude-four earthquake jolted Davao Occidental on Wednesday morning, August 30 . The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the earthquake was registered at 4 a.m. and its epicenter was only 10 kilometers northeast of Jose Abad Santos,...
The Department of Education (DepEd) said that there are “sufficient chairs and tables” for learners in Jose Abad Santos High School, clarifying that the students who were captured sitting on the floor on the first day of classes were actually doing “psychosocial activities.” (Unsplash) The...
By Cherrylin Caacbay Justice Jose Abad Santos General Hospital (JJASGH) received on Thursday, Dec. 16, eight additional mega tents from various organizations and officials for COVID-19 patients. Manila City Vice Mayor Honey Lacuna, Congressman Yul Servo Nieto, and JJASGH Director Merle...
Malacañang tried to appease the public Tuesday, Dec. 14 over the backlash on the new P1,000 banknote featuring a Philippine eagle design that will be issued alongside the existing bill thas has portraits of World War II heroes Vicente Lim, Josefa Llanes Escoda, and Jose Abad Santos. (Ali Vicoy/...
While recognizing the importance of paying homage to three Filipino World War 2 heroes, human rights lawyer Chel Diokno on Monday, Dec. 13, expressed his reservations over replacing their portraits with the Philippine eagle in the new design of the P1,000 banknote. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno...
