Private sector workers in the two Agusan and Surigao provinces and their component cities got a post-election gift in the form of a P10 across the board salary increase that the Caraga region’s wage board approved.
Caraga Region’s political dynasties, many of them allied with the Liberal Party (LP) of President Benigno Aquino III, have retained their grip on power.
A total of 2,623 farmers in Caraga region are now landowners, the Department of Agrarian Reform said on Tuesday following the distribution of titles to 3,790 hectares of agricultural land in the region.
When the government submerged Pantabangan town in Nueva Ecija in 1973 to create a lake that fed what was touted then to be the second largest dam in Asia, more than 1,300 residents yielded to the plan and rebuilt the town on a mountaintop.
At least three policemen were wounded during an operation that led to the arrest of one of the most wanted criminals in the Caraga region on Friday.
The government is now focusing its crackdown on illegal logging in six provinces in Mindanao where loggers still reign in “connivance” with local, environment and police officials.
BUTUAN CITY—Ako Bikol Rep. Rodel Batocabe on Thursday said he was seeking an investigation on the reported violation of environmental and health hazard laws, and nonpayment of taxes by four large-scale mining firms based in the Caraga region. Batocabe said that on Tuesday, he filed House Resolution No. 2124 for an investigation into the compliance [...]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has shut down 94 of 119 wood processing firms in the Caraga region in connection with the department’s implementation of President Benigno Aquino’s executive order banning commercial logging nationwide.
Close to 4,000 armchairs made from confiscated logs were turned over on Friday to two of the most populated schools in the Caraga region.
A Catholic bishop who had asked President Benigno Aquino III to resign, supposedly received illegal donations from the previous management of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) and also requested a vehicle as a “birthday gift” from then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Lawyer Aleta Tolentino, a PCSO director, provided the Inquirer with a copy of the [...]
