Mindanao’s beginning to open up, but is it ready? (Last of 3 parts)

More than one week after Mindanao was placed under the modified general community quarantine, local government units are coming to terms that the island...

Gensan’s 2nd COVID case is 22-year old from Cebu

A 22-year old student is the second COVID-19 positive case in the city, according to Mayor Ronnel Rivera. The city’s latest COVID case patient arrived...

Tornado slams Gensan

GENERAL SANTOS CITY - Bienvinido Limbo said he heard a loud high-pitch whistling sound before the galvanized iron sheets that served as roof to...

Mindanao’s beginning to open up, but is it ready? (2nd of 3 parts)

Current COVID figures for Mindanao Mindanao has total population 23.9 million as of 2015, that is roughly 23 percent of the country’s total of 105...

Mindanao’s beginning to open up, but is it ready? (First of 3 parts)

Among the three largest islands of the archipelagic Philippines, Mindanao is by far the least affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with only 572...

Arrival of COVID modular set delayed

GENERAL SANTOS CITY - The arrival of the modular laboratory that will process swab samples to detect the presence of coronavirus in patients has...

BREAKING NEWS: OFW from Kuwait tested COVID positive

Just in. Mayor Ronnel Rivera said one of the OFWs who arrived on May 27 who, together with the others were transported through the...

Duterte: Journey to the Presidency

(Excerpts from the manuscript of the book with the same title published in 2018) The presidency is a matter of destiny. We heard this often from...

To mass test or not, or do we have to?

More than two months after the country was placed under a state of national emergency, the number of unique COVID-19 testing has left plenty...

Focus is now on shifting

The announcement of DoH 12 that there are 3 new confirmed cases in Region 12 only proves the inevitable of COVID eventually catching up...