Category: General

Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez and Lone District Rep. Greg Gasataya here switched posts, running for congressman and mayor, respectively, under Team Asenso Bacolod in the May 2025 elections. Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran is challenging Gasataya for the mayoral post as both are set to finish their three terms after the elections next year. ‘I thank Mayor Albee and the Team Asenso for the trust they have given me. It’s not that Mayor Albee is going to leave us; it’s only that when you’re in a team, you have to play different roles with one common objective. That is, do

A total of 420 partner-beneficiaries of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) 5 (Bicol) water and food project from Sorsogon province received their wages from the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) emergency employment program on Monday. In an interview on Tuesday, Carl James Cabarles, DSWD-5 disaster response management division information officer, said more than PHP3.4 million was disbursed to the beneficiaries from the towns of Sta. Magdalena and Magallanes through the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) program of DOLE. “Each partner-beneficiary received PHP7,900 as full compensation for participating in a 20-day cash-for-training and work program,

The Department of Social Welfare and Services (DSWD) allocated PHP40.9 million worth of assistance through the Cash for Food Subsidy Plus program. Shalaine Marie Lucero, regional director of DSWD-Central Visayas, said the assistance program is a joint project of the agency and the provincial government of Cebu. It is implemented through QR (Quick Response)-coded cards issued to persons with disabilities (PWDs). Lucero said 10,249 PWDs that DSWD identified as poor will receive the PHP500 monthly subsidy for eight months. The PWD residents of the province, including those residing in Mandaue City identified as poor by the Listahan 3 database and

The United Nations Habitat Philippines (UN-Habitat) and the Surigao City government opened Monday the city’s first model housing unit for the Sama-Badjau residents. The model housing unit, a quadruplex that could accommodate four families, was opened and turned over to the recipient Sama-Badjau families. UN Resident Coordinator in the Philippines Gustavo Gonzales and Surigao City Mayor Pablo Yves Dumlao II handed over the certificate of ownership of the first housing unit to the Sama-Badjau community in Sitio Panubigon, Barangay Lipata, represented by chieftain Dahila Araman. Launched on March 21, the Huy-anan nan Bajau sa Surigao Project (Bajau Housing Project) has

This capital city’s midterm polls next year will see a four-corner fight for the mayoral race as acting Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) on the last day of filing on Tuesday. Garcia will battle three other candidates who earlier filed their COCs – incumbent Councilor Nestor Archival of the Bando Osmeña Pundok Kauswagan, former Customs commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz of the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan, and dismissed mayor Michael Rama under Partido Barug. Running under the Kugi Uswag Uswag Sugbo-Panaghiusa coalition, Garcia pledged to create more opportunities for the city residents to enhance their quality of