The poverty alleviation program of the government, the expanded Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps, continue to hit in far-flung villages as …
ONE OF the world’s largest miners, the Phoenix, Arizona-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc., has expressed interest to invest as much as $…
At least 16,366 job openings for overseas workers is set in Surigao City mega job’s fair in the first week of next month. Ms. Annette Lovete, head pr…
A National Food Authority (NFA) official Tuesday said Caraga Region is now practically flooded with locally harvested and imported rice as another bo…
Officials of Surigao del Norte on Tuesday said they are set to ask the Supreme Court again to reconsider its earlier ruling that declared the creatio…
Municipalities in Surigao del Norte were chosen as pilot areas for a project that would help local government units (LGUs) identify disaster risks an…
Losing Surigao del Norte gubernatorial bet Robert "Ace" Barbers appeared before the House committee on suffrage and electoral reforms heari…
The 33 electric cooperatives in various areas in Mindanao decried over the weekend the 66 percent transmission rate increase on ancillary service cha…
More stories of election irregularities cropped up during the resumption of the House investigation on alleged poll fraud, including selling of compa…
The Supreme Court has upheld its earlier decision that nullified for being unconstitutional a law creating the province of Dinagat Islands and voided…
The state-owned National Food Authority (NFA) started selling imported rice stocked at the agency’s various warehouses in this northeastern Mindanao …
An airport improvement project in Siargao Island has been inspected by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo but the incomplete facility failed to underg…
Two Surigao del Norte congressmen-elect have vowed to support any move to elect outgoing President and incoming Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroy…
Prosecutors in the parricide case against congressman-elect Ruben Ecleo Jr. will cite his victory in last Monday's elections to persuade a Cebu j…
The Provincial Board of Canvassers (PBOC) here finally proclaimed former education Caraga regional director Sol Matugas at past 11pm, Saturday(May 15…
THE influential Ecleo political clan of Dinagat Island in the Caraga Region dominated the local elections there, according to the official tally of v…
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said today she is going around the country to check on her projects on education, environment and the economy (3Es)…
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo today inspected the ongoing expansion of the Siargao airport. Come November, bigger planes from Manila will be able…
Nineteen of 20 Surigao del Norte Lakas-KAMPI-Padajon Surigao mayoral candidates in twenty municipalities have beaten their Nacionalista Party-Abante …
The local COMELEC here will start enforcing a liquor ban effective Sunday (May 9) in time for the first-ever automated election on Monday, May 10. Th…
Provincial Election Supervisor Atty. Geraldine Samson confirmed today that the reformatted compact flash cards arrived here yesterday evening at arou…
13 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines and its battery packs for the May polls in Loreto, Dinagat Islands have arrived last May 5, Election O…
Surigao del Norte solon, Caraga Comelec chief deny NPA allegations on election fraud plan in Siargao
Following an impending threat to teachers in Siargao Island because of the spread of leaflets by group of NPAs led by Ka Jojo of Pulang Diwata Comman…
With three more days before the election, security preparations for the first-ever poll automation are now in full gear in this province. PNP Provinc…
The family of the late Alona Bacolod-Ecleo, wife of parricide suspect and cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr., will seek a reconsideration of a court decisio…
Problems in the country's first ever nationwide automated elections continued to mount Thursday as officials confirmed that clustered precincts i…
The Philippines’ number one domestic airline, Cebu Pacific (CEB), announces that it will begin flying from Manila to Surigao starting June 17, 2010. …
In both Surigao City and Province, the contest is between two families. The Barbers’ and the Matugas’. The political description can be summarized…
The communist New People's Army on Monday claimed responsibility for last weekend's attack on the house of Surigao del Norte mayor Teodoro Si…
Gemaceta is a mother ofand a resident of Barangay Geotina, Basilisa, Dinagat Islands. Her husband, Juan Rustia Sr. is a fisherman who earns an income…
Around 50 unidentified armed men attacked the house of ruling Lakas-KAMPI party mayoralty bet in Surigao del Norte early dawn Saturday, wounding five…
Surigao City Mayor Alfonso Casurra will accept an electric tricycle (Etrike) donated by the British embassy in Manila in ceremonies on May 4, late Tu…