Cagayan de Oro City

Yesterday evening has Mario F. taken into custody by the NBI and his computer has been confiscated. The Department of Social Welfare and Development is filing a case against Mario F. on monday. Mario F. is accused of child abuse of two sisters, one 14 years old and the other only 7 years old. He is also [...]

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 [...]

Some of the beaches in Opol has been cleaned after the flood and we met some people are back in business as usual. We met this mother with her daughter who has build a little stand on the beach to sell some sweet potatoes on a stick, cooked bananas and green mango. Also the regular sunglass vendor [...]

These lumpia wrapper makers are actually bakers. They just make lumpia wrappers as a sideline job for Peso 400 for one sack of flour made into wrappers. When they have vacant time they will just go to the owner and start making lumpia wrappers. They can finish one sack of flour in just about two [...]

Some maybe remember when we wrote about the banana plantation inside the Bolonseri Cemetry in barangay Camaman-an in Cagayan de Oro City before All Souls Day last year. We promised to follow up this story and here we are with more photos of Bolonseri and what is going on there. The bananas growing again between the [...]