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Labor leaders picket 2 Novo branches in Surigao City

Labor leaders picket 2 Novo branches in Surigao City
By Vanessa Almeda SURIGAO CITY (10 June) –  While motorists shied away from the streets during the pre-Pacquiao fight Sunday,  about a hundred  labor leaders from the National Council of the Kilusang Mayo Uno picketed two branches of the Novo Jeans and Shirts retail shop alo…
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Malnutrition rate in Surigao City higher in 2011

By Roel Catoto Malnutrition rate in the city among children below seven years was higher in 2011 than in 2010, an official said. Based on the survey on malnutrition prevalence, 690 or 11.29 percent of 17, 381 children below 7 years were found to be undernourished or underwe…
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Ship ran aground off Surigao port

Ship ran aground off Surigao port
By: Roel Catoto A ship bound for Surigao City ran aground Tuesday morning as it was about to dock at this city's main seaport. Marina Official and Philippine Coast Guard Officials are now conducting a marine inquiry on the incident that occurred at around 5:30 in the mo…
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Boulevard real estate row in Surigao settled

Boulevard real estate row in Surigao settled
By: Roel Catoto After months of throwing potshots, the city government finally settled the issue with local Filipino-Chinese magnate Alfredo T. Bonpin on the controversial two-hectare property at the City Boulevard. Bonpin, chairperson of the Surigao Realty Development Corp…
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Quarry operations continue in Surigao del Norte despite ban

Quarry operations continue in Surigao del Norte despite ban
Quarrying activities by illegal operators continue unabated in one of the municipalities of Surigao del Norte despite the local government’s ban on extracting sand and gravel, government officials admitted. Ivonnie B. Dumadag, head of the Provincial Environment and Manageme…
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Surigao traders want to go to court to stop night café

Surigao traders want to go to court to stop night café
Businessmen here questioning the legality of the night café operations may have found a key ally at the City Council, even as they threatened to go to court to close down the weekend revelry. Last week, Councilor Baltazar C. Abian said he will move for the suspension of the…
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Barangay officials oppose ‘illegal’ beachside construction in Siargao

Barangay officials oppose ‘illegal’ beachside construction in Siargao
Barangay officials in a Siargao town are up in arms over a construction located just a stone’s throw away from the seashore, which they said was spoiling the barangay’s tourism program and violated the law on easement zones. The officials of Barangay Pacifico, San Isidro to…
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Korean investors eye coal-fired power plant in Surigao City

Korean investors have expressed interest to build a coal-fired power plant in this city, Mayor Ernesto T. Matugas said. In a press conference recently held at the city hall, Matugas said he recently met the investors in Manila and they told him they plan to put up a coal-fi…
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Surigao Norte to set fixed rates for transport, other services catering to tourists

Complaints that operators of public transport and other services are charging unjust rates local and foreign tourists visiting Siargao and Bucas Grande Islands in Surigao del Norte, have prompted the provincial government to come up with fixed rates for these services. The P…
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Surigao fire victims cry foul in relief distribution

Victims of the fire that his this city over the weekend are complaining of alleged unfair distribution of relief goods. The fire at P. Reyes Extension in Barangay Taft last Saturday, which claimed the life of a 68-year-old woman, was reported to be the worst to hit the city …
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1 dead, 200 houses razed in Surigao City fire

1 dead, 200 houses razed in Surigao City fire
A 68-eight-year-old woman died in Saturday night’s fire that also gutted more than 200 houses in Barangay Taft, the worst fire incident here in a decade. Police Chief Inspector Charlie Cabradilla said at least 360 families have been rendered homeless while Surigao City Fire…
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Human trafficking incidents hit record high in Surigao City

The number of victims of human trafficking here in the first half of this year has reached record high. The Visayan Forum Foundation Inc. (VFFI), a non-government organization based in Lipata Port and known for its effective measures on anti-trafficking programs revealed tha…
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Mining firm pays P72.5 million to IPs from 2006 to 2008

SURIGAO CITY – Taganito Mining Corporation, now under the Nickel Asia Corporation Group of Companies, has paid a total of P72.5 million to the Mamanwa, the indigenous peoples on whose ancestral domain the mining firm operates in Claver, Surigao del Norte. Jane Urbanek, Grou…
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Phoenix-based mining firm interested in Siana, Mainit project

ONE OF the world’s largest miners, the Phoenix, Arizona-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc., has expressed interest to invest as much as $5 billion in a mining project in either Kalinga or Surigao del Norte, a Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) official said. “Fre…
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‘Urduja’ causes floods in Northern Mindanao

Typhoon “Urduja” caused flashfloods, landslides and the evacuation of 1,664 families or some 8,000 persons in Region X, according to reports from the National Disaster Coordinating Center (NDCC). Sources said that evacuation started since Tuesday evening in eight barangays …
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ZestAir flies to Sandakan thrice a week, resumes flight to Surigao

ZestAir flies to Sandakan thrice a week, resumes flight to Surigao
Zest Air has resumed the Zamboanga-Sandakan (Malaysia) route, flying there thrice weekly, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The route was suspended in April last year under Asian Spirit and resumed on October 16 under Zest Air, the Mindanao Economic Developmen…
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New CBCP President a Bacuaganon

New CBCP President a Bacuaganon
The new president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference is again a Mindanawon: Bishop Nereo Odchimar of the Archdiocese of Tandag in Surigao del Sur. Odchimar, 68, a canon lawyer and presently CBCP vice president, won the votes of 86 out of 88 bishops present at the 99th Plena…
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Mindanawon reps’ vote for HR 1109: 42 of 53

Forty-two out of 53 elected congressional representatives in Mindanao supported the passage of the controversial House Resolution 1109, for the House to convene into a constituent assembly and amend the 1987 Constitution. Mindanao’s 26 provinces and the cities…
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70,000 people jobless in Caraga region

At least 70,000 out of Caraga region’s total labor force of 1.045 million are jobless and only 21,000 of them are looking for employment either in the locality or overseas, a report released by the region’s labor and employment office here, said. The regio…
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In 2007: Bukidnon, Mindanao's biggest earner, spender

Bukidnon topped 25 other provinces in Mindanao to have the highest income earned from local revenues in 2007 with P1.295 billion in gross income, making it also the country’s tenth biggest. Bukidnon is the only province from Mindanao to make it to the Top 10 list, according …
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