Cagayan de Oro City

We been posting about formerly mayor Jaraula’s pet project, the “Golden Mile”. After one year I have been back to look at the place again. I went to the riverside and wanted to take some pictures of the construction site but security didn’t let me in even as a visitor. So I had to do with [...]

I have been back to Cugman’s zone 2 two days after the fire. People have started rebuilding and some are already back in business. The whole place is busy again. The barbershop is not renovated yet but he is eagerly waiting for customers.  The brother of the owner told me, they are three brothers. He has [...]

Just an hour before electric service was installed again, the before thriving commercial district of barangay Cugman in Cagayan de Oro, at about 10 pm. was hit by fire that destroyed property of almost P7 million and 46 houses, affected 73 families with 424 persons, according to Ms. Teresita Montanes from the District Office of [...]

When I was on my way by taxi to the city yesterday there was a new police checkpoint just after SM. The checkpoint was manned with a lot of policemen for both directions. Since the signboard read COMELEC, I think it had to do with the gun ban. They checked and searched each car fast and quick [...]

The Golden Mile is a flagship project of Mayor Jaraula and designed to attract more investors and tourists. The initial phase consists of a 600-meter long “walkway” from City Hall to the 5th (Kagay-an) Bridge, and a one kilometer “Boulevard” from Toribio Chaves Street to J.R. Borja Street. The project also aims to promote Cagayan de [...]

This project in Divisoria of Cagayan de Oro City is critizised by some people. They argue this project is not needed for DVsoria because the place has no history of flooding in that area. In the peoples opinion, the problem in the Coca Cola Bottlers area should be fixed instead because when it gets [...]

The Amateur Boxing was in connection with the fiesta celebration of Gusa in Cagayan de Oro City. It was sponsored by Congressman Klarex Uy hoping they would discover another boxing world champ like Manny Pacquiao. The event was Titled Boxing sa Plaza as it is seen on one of the pics and they say they will [...]

The law prohibits to put underage children and youth behind bars. A while ago even the President gave an order to all police stations nationwide not to put children in jail. This photo is from THE SUNSTAR accompanied by the following text: CAGAYAN DE ORO. The law says he’s not supposed to be put behind bars, [...]

A controversial regional tax official who was reassigned has returned to claim his post. Mustapha Gandarosa, Bureau of Internal Revenue director for Northern Mindanao, was sent to Manila last november after businessmen in this city protested his alleged corruption. But he came back earlier this month to claim his post and sued Alberto Olasiman, who was [...]

ANOTHER Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) contract has been entered into by the Cagayan de Oro City Government as it signed a P250 million deal with businessman Erwin Bryan See to reconstruct the Agora market and bus terminal. The BOT deal is still subject for approval by the City Council. The scheme is very simple. The [...]