SHFC-PANABO CITY LGU INKS PARTNERSHIP ON HOUSING FOR HOMELESS

“Malaki ang aking pasalamat sa Social Housing Finance Corporation sa pag-finance sa LGU Panabo upang matulungan ang homeowners’ associations sa aming siyudad. We look forward to more partnership with you. Maraming salamat!”
-Hon. Jose Relampagos, Panabo City Mayor

KILLER OF DAVAO BROADCASTER DENNIS DENORA ARRESTED

The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) has announced the recent arrest of Richard Posas Bolastig, one of the suspected gunmen in the murder of journalist Dennis Denora, with the active involvement of the Davao del Norte Police Provincial Office.

In a report submitted to Malacañang by Lt. Col. Verna Cabuhat, acting chief of police of Panabo City Police Station, police operatives were able to serve a court-issued warrant of arrest against Bolastig on Feb. 22 for the murder of Denora as earlier directed by the Task Force.

Bolastig is now detained at the Tagum City Jail awaiting trial.

“This is proof of the government’s unwavering commitment to bring to justice all perpetrators of media killings in the country. I commend the men and women of the PNP for capturing this most wanted criminal. We will not rest until all those responsible for the murder of Dennis Denora are brought to justice,” PTFoMS co-chairman and Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar said in a news release on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco, executive director of PTFoMS, said the arrest of Bolastig is a validation of President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s unbroken promise to end the plague of violence against media workers by bringing perpetrators behind bars.

“We assure our media workers that the so-called culture of impunity in the Philippines has finally ended with the creation of the Task Force by President Duterte. PTFoMS is living proof of the government’s pledge to safeguard press freedom,” Egco said.

Denora, the publisher of Trends and Times, a community paper based in Davao del Norte, was killed by two gunmen in an ambush in Panabo City last June 7, 2018, one of whom was said to be Bolastig.

Earlier, a murder charge has been filed against Bolastig and another unidentified cohort in 2019 for the killing of Denora under Criminal Case no. 425-2019. The case is pending at Branch 4 of the Regional Trial Court of Panabo City presided by Judge Carmel Gil Grado.

The only one in existence in the world, PTFoMS was created by Duterte in 2016 with a dedicated mandate to resolve all media killings in the country.

Egco earlier declared that in just four years, the country has achieved another world’s first by so far resolving 50 cases of media killings with the conviction of accused Leonardo Banaag Jr. for the murder of broadcaster Jovelito Agustin.

This brings to 67 the total number of suspects that were found guilty by the courts for the killing of journalists, with sentences ranging from reclusion temporal to life imprisonment. (PR)

AGRIYA – Agricultural City By Anflocor

The AGRIYA

Many years of planning and ready to share with everyone the first master planned Agricultural Metropolis in the Davao Region.

With its beginnings deeply rooted in Panabo City, Davao del Norte, ANFLOCOR is proud to highlight the importance of agriculture and its role in the community and particularly the families its affects.

Over 88 hectares of Residential, Commercial, Institutional and Agri-Tourism offerings, AGRIYA will be able to cater to the needs of its residents, guests and surrounding communities for generations.

 

Anflo Management and Investment Corporation (ANFLOCOR) Group chair Linda F. Lagdameo (3rd from right), ANFLOCOR Group agri operations president Vicente Floirendo (2nd from right), ANFLOCOR Group real estate and livestock operations president Ricardo Floirendo (rightmost), Industrial Group president Anton Lagdameo (center), Department of Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat (3rd from left), Damosa Land first vice president Ricardo Lagdameo (2nd from left) and Panabo City Vice Mayor Biboy Gavina lead the cutting of ribbon to mark the launching of DLI’s Agriya in Panabo City on Thursday. Contributed photo

 

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DEL ROSARIO: Panabo City is DavNor’s second industrial city

Panabo gets nearly P700 million investment in 2018

By SILVER C. BALANZA, Reporter

Governor Anthony del Rosario vowed to hasten the full industrialization of Panabo City as Capitol’s investment generation efforts earned for the Davao del Norte city a total investment of nearly P700 million last year.

The huge investment volume in Panabo City alone is a slap to the face of critics of the del Rosario administration claiming that investors are shying away from Davao del Norte for lack of a comprehensive zoning plan.

ALVAREZ CAMP SNAPS AT DUTERTE FOR SAYING DAVNOR IS FASTEST GROWING PROVINCE

Panabo City will be our second industrialized city after Tagum City, said del Rosario in a radio interview Monday, March 11 in the “IKAW NA BA?” segment of the Banat radio program of brodcaster Jun Bersamin of ABS/CBN’s DXAB radio.
Tagum, the capital city of the province, is emerging as one of Southern Mindanao’s fastest growing cities. Davao del Norte’s third city, the tourist island, Island Garden City of Samal (Igacos), is being promoted by the Department of Tourism (DoT) as one of the country’s major tourist destinations.
“IKAW NA BA?” interviews candidates in the Davao Region running in the coming May 13 mid-term election.
Del Rosario is running for First District Congressman under the banner of the Hugpong Ng Pagbabago (HNP), the Davao regional political party of presidential daughter Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Zimmerman.
The incumbent governor is challenging the reelection of Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez of the Alvarez Wing, a local faction of the ruling Partido Demokratiko Pilipino/Lakas ng Bayan (PDP/Laban).

Alvarez is facing a steep hill in his bid to return to Congress, with Mayor Duterte-Carpio vowing to campaign against the reelection of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Alvarez faces the coming election still limping from the painful wounds of his ouster in a July 23 coup in the House that led to him being replaced by former President now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Even as Alvarez is a party mate being the ruling party’s secretary general, President Rodrigo Duterte, who chairs PDP/Laban, has already expressed support for del Rosario and the rest of the HNP bets. President Duterte is confident that Davao del Norte is on its way up with del Rosario playing key role in its march forward.

Davao del Norte, under the command of Governor Antonio Rafael del Rosario, will continue to become one of the fastest-growing provinces in Mindanao, said the President.

“With its vast resources and strong, resilient, and vibrant people, the province will be able to achieve greater development at par with the rest of the nation,” the President said in his speech during the 50th founding anniversary celebration of Davao del Norte.

Alvarez and his rag-tag bench under the Alvarez Wing are facing a powerhouse political machinery led by the tandem of del Rosario and cousin  Second District Rep. Antonio Floirendo Jr. Running for Governor under the HNP is the governor’s older brother Rodney del Rosario who is up against virtual unknown former bus conductor Edwin Jubahib of the Alvarez Wing. Re-electionist Floirendo is facing a token rival, his former political protegee Vice Governor Alan Dujali of the Alvarez Wing.   

Once elected to Congress, del Rosario vowed to seek national funds for the faster industrialization of Panabo City, which shares boundary with Davao City south of the province and is now home to various major industries, including international-standard port facilities.
Panabo City is the take-off point for export Cavendish bananas, Davao del Norte’s major export industry, shipped to the world market.
Davao del Norte’s investment climate under del Rosario figures in the value of investments last year.
Panabo City got a total of P700 million in investment last year, said Ma. Lourdes Lim, director of the National Economic Development Authority in Region 11 (NEDA-11).
Lim said Panabo City took a large share of the total investments in the Davao Region, with the PHP365.1 million expansion project of the Good Shepherd Hospital and the PHP325.9 million poultry production facility of Syntek Agri-Bio Corporation.
Davao Region bagged a total of PHP17.2 billion investments in 2018, with the Davao City Water Bulk Project of the Apo Agua Infrastructura Inc. in Marilog District in Davao City as the single biggest project, according to the Board of Investments (BOI).
In Bersamin’s program, del Rosario said the investment generation campaign of the province would be backed up by massive construction of farm-to-market roads in the First District and Second District in support of local agriculture.
Davao del Norte’s infrastructure building program would make it ready for business and economic opportunities that would come with completion of the Tagum City-Davao City-Digos City component of the Mindanao Railway System, said the governor.
In the Second District, Floirendo  is hauling in large infrastructure funds from the national coffers for the development of Igacos, Davao del Norte’s third city in the middle of th Davao Gulf, as a major tourist destination.
Last year, Floirendo caused release of funds for 9 multi-million-peso road construction and rehabilitation projects 9 multi-million-peso road construction and rehabilitation projects  by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) leading to various tourism sites of the tourist island.
The funds came after the ouster as Speaker of Alvarez, who is accused of deleting congressional development funds for the Second District following a spat with Floirendo