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DAVAO City – Davao Oriental Governor Corazon Malanyaon has urged local government units (LGUs) Thursday to strictly enforce regulations in all mining activities in the province. In a statement, Malanyaon asser ted the provincial gover nment’s authority as an independent LGU over the mining operations in the province. In a meeting with the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) Wednesday, the governor examined the inventory of all existing mining tenements in the province and the status of mining operations and permits granted by the MGB.
Davao coffee DAVAO CITY – The World of Coffee (WOC) convention at the Milano Convention Center in Milan, Italy, has provided a venue for the Philippine coffee producers to shine internationally. Jeannelle Ellson, marketing specialist of the Philippine Coffee Advancement and Far m Enterprise (PhilCAFE) project, said Philippine coffee— e s p e c i a l l y t h e R o bu s t a variety—received positive feedback during the June 2325 gathering. “We promoted Robusta there, although we brought various coffee varieties to the convention. Italy is known as espressobased when it comes to coffee, but they admire the taste of our coffee and have set a good impression on it,” Ellson said in an interview Wednesday.
PAMULAK SA KADAYAWAN. Colorful floats adorned with flowers joining the Pamulak sa Kadayawan, a flower floatparade, were the crowd-drawers on Sunday (21 August 2022), capping the month-long celebration of the 2022 Kadayawan Festival of Davao City. MindaNews photos by MANMAN DEJETO
HE Department of Energy (DOE) has scheduled a 60-day “competitive challenge” for coal operating contracts (COCs) originally applied for by Vintage-21 Coal Mining Corporation covering coal blocks in Lingig, Surigao Del Norte and Boston, Davao Oriental in Mindanao. In an ‘invitation for challenge’ issued by the e n e r g y d e p a r t m e nt , it stipulated that opening of tenders to be submitted by interested investors will be by September 9 this year. “Interested applicants may challenge the application of Vintage-21 Coal Mining Corporation by submitting their application over the same area in accordance with and subject to the following prescribed timeline and COAL/PAGE 7
Frustration, confusion mar DSWD distribution of educational assistance By ROMMEL G. REBOLLIDO MindaNews
Confusion and frustration marred the first day of the distribution here of educational cash assistance by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Soccsksargen region on Saturday. Thousands of residents from this city and Sarangani province flocked to distribution kiosks set-up by the Department of Social
Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the Soccsksargen region for the aid to indigent students at P1,000 for every elementary student, P2,000 for junior high student, P3,000 for every senior high school student and P4,000 for every college student to enable them to buy school supplies before classes start on August 22. CONFUSION/PAGE 7
Tribal village opens DAVAO City – The renovation of the Kadayawan Tribal Village in Magsaysay Park here has been fasttracked for its scheduled opening on August 5. One of the highlights of the 37th Kadayawan sa Dabaw Festival next month, the tribal village was built to showcase the rich culture and heritage of the city's 11 tribes. Councilor Al Ryan Alejandre, the Kadayawan Execom spokesperson, said the Kadayawan Tribal Village is “a way of educating the people about the way of living of the tribes living in the city of Davao.”
Waste-to-energy ‘can’t solve’ Davao’s garbage woes: green lawyer By ANTONIO L. COLINA IV MindaNews
WOODEN ARK. A wooden ark under construction in Barangay Pasiagan, Bongao, Tawi-Tawi. MindaNews photo by BONG S. SARMIENTO
T he c onst r u c t i on of a waste-to-energ y (W TE) facility here would not address the city’s problem on solid wastes, lawyer Mark Peñalver, executive director of the Interfacing Development Interventions
for Sustainability (IDIS), said. Reacting to the statement of Mayor Sebastian Duterte during his program over Davao City Disaster Radio (DCDR 87.5) last Friday that the city needs to modernize its approach in dealing with solid wastes, Peñalver told
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