Manuel Cayon

DAVAO CITY—Electric consumers in the island resort of Samal sought relief from rising electricity cost at a level near the collection rate of the former ailing electric cooperative, the Davao Consumer Movement said.

DAVAO CITY—The city government will be implementing a universal feeding in target schools inspired by successful implementation in a Metro Manila city and the Bangsamoro region, and proponent city councilor hoped her colleagues will back her.

DAVAO CITY—A Filipino Catholic cardinal who was a leading figure in interreligious dialogue in former troubled central Mindanao was named to receive the inaugural award of a Southeast Asian regional peace body.

DAVAO CITY—Electricity consumers in the Davao Region urged three government energy agencies to stabilize electricity rates as power distribution companies warned residential consumers to brace for higher rates in the next billing.

DAVAO CITY—Workers in the private sector across the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) are set to receive a wage increase in two installments, the Bangsamoro Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board said, after it approved and issued the new Minimum Wage Order No. BARMM-05 on Wednesday.

DAVAO CITY—The Local Government Support Fund (LGSF) is spending P70 million to put up regreening spaces in some parts of the Davao Region.

The Bangsamoro Information Office disclosed that the autonomous government expanded its investments in education and social protection on July 22 “by

Public Works Secretary Vivencio Dizon made this statement after inspecting the repair of a slippage of a road along mountainous Marilog Highway connecting this city to Bukidnon and Cagayan de Oro City.

DAVAO CITY—A consumers' group in the Davao Region has asked President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to bring down fuel prices and electricity rates across Mindanao to “unburden” the residents in the island already reeling from steady increase in the rates of electricity and commodity prices.

Dino Ferdinand I. Galido, this year's national chairman of the search, said 30 names in Mindanao alone have been submitted by nominators and expected more to fill the list as deadline nears.