“If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children.” Davao City policemen took this words of wisdom from Mahatma Gandhi seriously as they pushed for the construction of a daycare center in one of the remote areas of the City in order to enable children to have...
Filipino-American Lee Kiefer of the USA Fencing Team celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's individual foil event in the Tokyo Olympics Sunday in Japan. (Photo from the Instagram fencing_fie) Filipino-American Lee Kiefer fencer of the USA captured the gold medal in the women's...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Sunday urged the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to investigate the recent killings involving three radio personalities who were reportedly murdered by snipers. De Lima said the killings of radio block-timer Reynante "Rey" Cortes last July 22 and...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has ordered a thorough investigation on the assassination of a female lawyer and her husband who were shot by a sniper outside their house in Davao City. Eleazar said the use of sniper in the killing of Hilda...
Cyclists in Davao City now have their very own "safe space" on the road after the Department of Transportation (DOTr) opened on Tuesday, July 20, the nearly 55-kilometer (km) long bike lane network in the city. (Photo from Department of Transportation) The Davao City bike lane project completes the...
(PHIVOLCS) The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has detected a magnitude 5.3 earthquake off the coast of Davao Occidental early Wednesday morning, July 21. Phivolcs traced the epicenter of the tremor at 175 kilometers southeast of Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental...
Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Art Tugade has opened the P145.371 million bike lane in Davao City which spans 54.744 kilometers. IMG-84fb969d7d4152ffeea4bedb041b6061-V It was part of the government's P1.09 Billion Bayanihan Bike Lane Networks project, 497 kilometers of pavement markings, physical...
DAVAO CITY – City Mayor Sara Duterte has responded to the question of why she is going around the country. "It is true that there is a pandemic but it will not suspend the filing of COCs (certificates of candidacy) in October or postpone the elections on May 2022. A decision has to be made...
DAVAO CITY - The City Health Office (CHO) has started the inoculation of persons deprived of liberty (PDL) and jail personnel at the Davao City Jail (DCJ) last week. According to Dr. Michelle Schlosser, spokesperson of the COVID-19 Task Force, the CHO is targeting to vaccinate 1,000 jail personnel...
THE family of 1st Lt. Sheena Alexandrea Tato bids an emotional farewell as she was laid to rest in Davao City Saturday. Tato was one of the 50 soldiers who perished in the C-130 plane crash in Sulu last July 4. (Keith Bacongco) DAVAO CITY – 1st Lt. Sheena Alexandrea Tato, the 30-year-old female...
Vice President Leni Robredo has expressed dismay over some known politicians who as early as now are focusing on the 2022 elections instead of the efforts in addressing the pandemic. Robredo, an opposition leader, lamented the misplaced priorities of possible candidates posturing for next year's...
DAVAO CITY - The city government of Davao will still require inbound flight passengers to show an RT-PCR negative test requirement even as local government units were given by the prerogative by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) to utilize...
