Businessman Cesar Concio Jr (Image courtesy of Instagram) Businessman Cesar Rafael M. Concio Jr., husband of actress-media executive Charo Santos-Concio, passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 4, weeks before celebrating his 92nd birthday. ABS-CBN confirmed the news and expressed their condolences to...
BUTUAN CITY – The Department of Public Works and Highways has disclosed that five high-impact road projects are ongoing in the Caraga region. DPWH-13 Director Pol delos Santos said these projects have a total length of 418.963 kilometers and a total budget of P64.311 billion. These are the Daang...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police are eyeing land conflict as a possible motive in the murder of a Marine reservist by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Barangay Sinawal, this city, on Friday, September 22. Police Major Carl Jayson Baynosa, Police Station 2 commander, said they are looking at a land...
(Unsplash) When Filipinos think of General Santos City in South Cotabato, they think about tuna. The House of Representatives members who attended plenary session Monday night, Sept. 18 thought of the same thing, as all 249 of them at the time of...
GUEST COLUMNIST By Lt. Gen. Jaime S. de los Santos, AFP (Ret) Sept. 21, 2023, marks the 51st anniversary of the declaration of martial law, a momentous event that occurred half a century ago. Over this period, our country had undergone significant political transformations under different...
COMEDY ICON Jon Santos in Bawat Bonggang Bagay Hot on the heels of its sold-out run and due to insistent public demand, Bawat Bonggang Bagay —the Filipino-translated staging of Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe’s Every Brilliant Thing —will return for a limited run this September. ...
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,...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Authorities have intensified anti-smuggling operations following the seizure of 1,700 reams of smuggled cigarettes loaded in three mini-van cargo trucks estimated to be worth P19 million in a military checkpoint in Barangay Bawing, this city, last week. Col. Ruben...
GUEST COLUMNIST By Lt. Gen. Jaime S. de los Santos, AFP (Ret) Last July 21, 2023, the leadership of the AFP changed hands. Gen Andres Centino turned over the position to Gen Romeo Brawner Jr. Succession to the highest leadership of command is predicated on a new retirement law that gives a...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A suspected robbery gang member was killed after he shot it out with policemen who tried to serve an arrest warrant against him in his safehouse in Barangay Fatima, this city, on Saturday, August 19. Police Col. Nicomedes Olaivar, newly installed city police director,...
Erik Santos recently made public the death of his dad, Renato Aquino Santos. He was 70. On Instagram, the singer uploaded a picture of his father. His caption read: “Our beloved Tatay has now joined our Creator.” “Mahal na mahal kita, Tay.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Erik...
Diocese of Antipolo Bishop Ruperto Santos will offer a funeral mass at the Santo Domingo Parish in Talim Island for the casualties of the boat that capsized on its way to Talim Island from Binangonan in Rizal. Bishop Ruperto Santos (Facebook) Parish priest Fr. Edwin Tirado will co celebrate the...
