BY ROGER M. BALANZA and ESPERIDION TAGABUNLANG Agusan del Sur Governor Adolph Edward Plaza has vehemently denied any link to illegal logging, saying reports about it could be handiwork of political opponents. The late Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo could have been fed with wrong information, also said […]
BY JUN TAGABUNLANG SURIGAO CITY — After the slay attempt on Surigao del Norte Governor Sol Matugas, the killing of a foreigner and a major heist, businessmen in Surigao has questioned the police’s capability in the campaign against crime. Alarmed, they are demanding that police review its […]
Illegal loggers, allegedly backed by unscrupulous politicians and influential businessmen, have renewed their operations inside the 51,000-hectare Manobo Agroforestation Complex in Agusan del Sur and other parts of the Caraga region, said a tribal leader. Manobo chieftain Bae Hawodon Cugbahan Merlyn Tagleong Coguit said the loggers […]
Guingona: If it ain’t broke, why fix it? BUTUAN CITY – Senator Teofisto “TG” Guingona is against amending the Constitution saying “why fix it when it ain’t defective?” Guingona, Senator Koko Pimentel and Mindanao Development (MinDA) Authority Secretary Lualhati Antonino expressed their views against Charter Change (ChaCha) at […]
BUTUAN CITY – Mindanao political and business leaders have welcomed President Benigno S. Aquino III’s P43.72 billion budget for infrastructure projects for Mindanao next year, which is 26.4 percent up against this year’s allocation. At the close of the 21st Mindanao Business Conference in Butuan City on […]
WORK IN PROGRESS. Skeptron Hotel of the JTC Mining of Rosario, Agusan del Sur Mayor Jessie Cuyos is the latest comer to Davao City’s skylines drastically changed by a building boom. Photo by JOANNA C. BALANZA Mindanaoans are not being left behind by bigtime real estate developers and […]
BUTUAN CITY – Mining of the responsible kind took centerstage at the 21st Mindanao Business Conference (Minbizcon) held August 2-4, 2012, in Butuan City, the capital city of Caraga Region that prides itself as one of the country’s regions with rich mineral deposits. Mindanao business leaders backed Responsible […]
BY ROGER M. BALANZA BUTUAN CITY – Taking advantage of of having a valued and moneyed audience, Butuan City Vice Mayor Lawrence Fortun went for the guttural to invite Mindanao businessmen to invest in his city, as he spoke at the 21st Mindanao Business Conference held here from […]
