The Commission on Elections is to put up makeshift voting centers in areas hardest hit by Typhoon Pablo last December as school buildings that were flattened still have to be rebuilt, a local election official said.
The Commission on Higher Education has ordered at least six schools in Southern Mindanao to stop offering nursing courses effective June due to the mediocre performance of their graduates in recent Nursing Board exams, among others reasons.
Negotiations between thousands of Typhoon “Pablo” survivors and social welfare officials ended on Wednesday with an agreement to review the list of relief beneficiaries.
President Aquino has said his favorite success story these days is that of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), an agency notorious for corruption during the Arroyo administration.
Two high-ranking environment officials in Southern Mindanao downplayed suspicions that illegal logging and mining activities exacerbated the impact of typhoon “Pablo” in the hardest-hit provinces of Compostela Valley province and Davao Oriental.
The country’s plastics could face death sooner than later as more and more local government units outlaw the use of plastic bags and polystyrene foam materials in the retail of food items, an industry association official said here Thursday.
Sagittarius Mines Inc., the Philippine unit of the Switzerland-based Xstrata, has bypassed the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and gone straight to the Office of the President in its bid to operate a gold and copper mine project in South Cotabato, a company official confirmed Wednesday.
The much-anticipated new mining policy of the Aquino administration may very well spell the end of the “pick and shovel” practice of small-scale miners, according to Compostela Valley Gov. Arturo Uy.
More than half of student boarding houses inspected by fire officials in four southern Mindanao provinces last month were found to be either fire hazards or fire traps, an official of the Bureau of Fire Protection said.
The Mindanao Development Authority (MINDA) is seeking an annual budget of P200 million for the management and development of Mindanao’s watersheds and river basins.
The regional office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Southern Mindanao is investigating the alleged involvement of local government officials in illegal logging activities in Davao Oriental and neighboring provinces.
There will be no wage hike for Southern Mindanao workers as of yet but they will start receiving the remaining P10 of the P15 cost of living allowance (COLA) granted to them last December in time for the Labor Day.
President Benigno Aquino III’s role in the Mindanao Power Summit here Friday would be more than just ceremonial, as he was expected to approve short-term and long-term proposals for implementation by the government to solve the power shortage on the island.
