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Briefly Job fair DAVAO City – The Department of Labor and Employment in Davao Region (DOLE-11), in partnership with other government agencies, will conduct three major activities to honor Filipino workers on May 1 for the 121st Labor Day celebration. In an interview Thursday, DA-11 Kadiwa focal person Juvy Pregon said the activities include the Kadiwa ng Pangulo Para sa Manggagawa, the awarding of government assistance to workers, and the conduct of job fairs. DA-11 will establish Kadiwa corners to host the Kadiwa ng Pangulo Para sa Manggagawa with the Department of Agriculture-Davao Region (DA11) the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Association of Labor Unions (ALU), and the city’s Public Employment and Services Office (PESO), Pregon said.
Ecotourism THE Department of Transportation (DOTr) is integrating ecotourism in the design of many transport infrastructure projects, Secretary Jaime J. Bautista announced Thursday, April 20. Sustained mobility supports the rebound of the tourism industry while protecting the environment, he reasoned. "We are therefore pushing for non-disr uptive programs that will benefit both transport stakeholders and the environment," Secretary Bautista stated during the Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) Fellows Meeting.
‘Mega project’ A HOMEOWNERS’ association in the Cagayan de Oro City uptown area has asked the current city council to repeal a city ordinance that changed the zoning of the area beside a village where a “mega project” will be built. Arthur Aranas, president of the Morning Mist Village Homeowners Association, has urged the city council to repeal City Ordinance No. 14256-2022 which he alleged was hastily passed and approved by the previous council to change the zoning of an area and pave the way for the construction of a mega project beside Morning Mist Village. "It (referring to the said city ordinance) was done in 53 seconds without second reading; without final reading," Aranas said.
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AVA O C i t y – Farmer-led umbrella group Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (Masipag) has exhorted local government units (LGUs) in the country to join the c ampaign against the commercial release of genetic ally modified crops Golden Rice and Bt Eggplant.
This after the Supreme Court (SC) granted a Writ of Kalikasan to the petitioners led by Masipag, who sought to stop the commercial propagation of genetically modified rice and eggplant products over environmental and health concerns and compliance with legal requirements. Leo XL Fuentes, Masipag-
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CONSTRUCTION WORKER. A worker measures steel reinforcement bars at a construction site in Davao City on Thursday, April 27, 2023. MindaNews photo
Composite team raids stores PH a hotspot of illegal trade in giant selling illegal cigars in Oro clams in Southeast Asia, says report By JOEL ESCOL Managing Editor
A COMPOSITE team of police enforcers in Cagayan de Oro City raided Wednesday (April 26) all stores selling illegal cigarettes inside the Cogon Public Market here. The joint crackdown of stores dubbed as “Oplan
Megashopper” also resulted in the arrest of one Bernard Pacho, 33 years old and currently residing in Barangay Balubal, this city. The police reported that at around 11:00 in the morning of April 26, 2023, joint operatives of the Criminal Investigation
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DAVAO City — Former Sarangani Governor Miguel Rene Alcantara Dominguez has joined the 60-year-old Alsons Development and Investment Corporation (Alsons Dev) as its new director who will oversee the business strategy and operations of the premier property developer and real Different brands ofCity. counterfeit cigarettes were estate pioneer in Davao seized byDev police operatives in various stores inside Alsons is the real estate the Cogon Public Market in Cagayan de Oro City.
By H. MARCOS C. MORDENO MindaNews
MALAYBALAY City — The Philippines emerged as a hotspot in Southeast Asia in the illegal giant clam trade in the past 20 years, the Trade Records Analysis of Flora and Fauna in Commerce (Traffic), a wildlife monitoring network,
said in an assessment released Wednesday, April 26. The assessment recorded 170 giant clam s eizures involving Southeast Asia between January 2003 and December 2022. T h i s re s u lte d i n t h e confiscation of 121,391 tons of giant clams and a further 7,682 shells destined for illegal
trade, with 56% occurring since 2017, Traffic said. It cited that the world’s biggest bust, which involved 120,000 tons of giant clams, occurred in the Philippines in 2019. The Philippines made t h e g re at e s t nu mb e r of confiscations (71), with 62%
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Iligan’s Mercy hospital turns solar ILIGAN City — The 75-bed Mercy Community Hospital of Iligan City has turned to solar power to save on energy costs and its carbon footprints. Greenerg y Solar PH commissioned on April 26 Mercy Community Hospital’s 201 kilowatts on-grid Solar Energy System. This solar energy system results in up
to 45 percent energy cost reduction for the level 2 hospital in Iligan City. Savings and environmental renewal have driven the Sisters of Mercy, the hospital administrators to transition to solar power. “Solar energy system helps us generate more income to serve our poor patients. Solar
energy is low cost and helps us clean the environment so that the planet will be more livable by the next generation,” said Sr. Julpha E. Meron, administrator of the Mercy Community Hospital. The transition of Mercy C ommunity Hospit a l to clean and renewable energy
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