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By URIEL C. QUILINGUING, Contributing Editor THE Department of Health on Tuesday said the 46 acute flaccid paralysis specimens from Northern Mindanao that were sent to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine last week all tested negative for poliovirus. This was indicated in a DOH-10 briefer, even as the synchronized …

MARATHON budget deliberations on the city’s executive budget for 2020 continues this week. Sitting as a Committee of the Whole, the City Council held deliberations on the proposed budgets of the CDO Trade and Investment Promotion Center; Technical Vocational Institute; City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office; Human Resource and …

COUNCILOR Maria Lourdes Gaane, chair of the City Council committee on health and health insurance, lauded the efforts of health workers who have been on the frontline of the mass immunization drive in the city. This, as the Department of Health (DOH) in coordination with the City Health Office conducted …

THE City Council during its regular session recently has enacted an ordinance authorizing the purchase of various equipment/items amounting to P2,382,168 for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation under the Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund five-percent Calamity Fund for calendar year 2019  of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management …

TWO more barangays can now continue implementing their remaining plans, programs, and projects for the year. This after the City Council adopted separate resolutions returning to Barangays Agusan and Macabalan their respective supplemental budgets No. 1 with the information that these are in order and may be given force and …

By NITZ ARANCON Correspondent and CONG B. CORRALES Associate Editor THE anti-graft court has ordered the arrest of former Cagayan de Oro councilor and Misamis Oriental board member President Elipe and his sister Pristine Quizon in connection with their 2018 conviction for graft and falsification. Elipe The bench warrant of …

By URIEL C. QUILINGUING , Contributing Editor ALL moves to enact a law on sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions (Sogie) must be opposed because this would only perpetuate a culture of lies, deceit, and deception which most lesbians, gays, bi-sexuals, transgenders, queer plus community members have been espousing, a missionary …

Vivian Magno, the widow of Senior M/Sgt. Jason Magno, receives a posthumous award for her husband from Philippine National Police Chief Lt. Gen. Archie Francisco Gamboa during the Initao hero’s wake. Photo by Nitz Arancon Read the Latest News and Updates in Mindanao

There is an existing law prohibiting passengers from sitting at the back of pick up vehicles. What about overloaded public utility jeepneys? Photo by Joey P. Nacalaban Read the Latest News and Updates in Mindanao

The foundation for achieving lasting peace and progress in Mindanao as defined within the government’s ‘One Nation’ framework lies in re-awakening and mobilizing the Filipino’s ‘bayanihan’ spirit, Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Oscar Moreno said. In a message welcoming delegates to the People’s Organization, Non-Government Organization, Civic Organization (PO-NGO-CO) Forum …