DAVAO CITY — Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte attributed the city’s worsening garbage problem to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), citing the agency’s closure of the sanitary landfill in Barangay New Carmen. Landfill operations were…
MANILA, Philippines — A court in Quezon City has convicted a Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) member over a highway blockade staged during the 2024 police operations against televangelist Apollo Quiboloy. The Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 39,…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The University of Cebu (UC) Webmasters unloaded a fiery second-half outing to come up with a lopsided 76–59 win over the San Pedro College (SPC), 76–59, to capture the championship title of the…
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — The National Bird Breeding Sanctuary (NBBS) in Barangay Eden in Davao City reported a breakthrough for the conservation of the critically endangered Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) as it produced another eaglet. On Tuesday,…
MANILA – The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Wednesday said its operatives have arrested two foreign fugitives in separate operations in Davao City. In his report to BI Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado, BI Fugitive Search Unit (FSU) chief…
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte arrived in Bangkal, Davao City on December 25, to spend Christmas at her family’s ancestral home. According to the statement from Office of the Vice President (OVP), “She [will] join…
DAVAO CITY–Police investigators have begun piecing together information they have gathered to get a fuller picture of the activities of Sajid and Naveed Akram while they were in the city from November 1 to 28. Maj. Catherine…
MANILA, Philippines — Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte declines the Independent Commission for Infrastructure’s (ICI) summons, stating that the investigating body, which the executive branch created, has neither power nor jurisdiction over him. In a December…
DAVAO CITY — Twenty-one-year-old Veronica “Kitty” Duterte, the former President’s youngest daughter, appears as a possible replacement to Davao City Councilor Rodrigo S. Duterte, who will be taking his oath as vice mayor here before the year…
CEBU, Philippines — The magnitude 6.9 earthquake that hit Bogo City, Cebu, on September 30 and the magnitude 7.4 tremor that struck Davao Oriental on Friday, October 10, are not related, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and…
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — “Walang lechon baka dito pero merong kunsensya (We don’t have roasted cow here but we have our conscience),” Kunsensya Davao convener Mags Maglana described in the local dialect their Citizens Rage Against Corruption…
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — While there is no word yet if former President Rodrigo Duterte, currently detained at the International Criminal Court (ICC) facility in The Hague in the Netherlands, can take his oath as mayor of…
