General Santos News

General Santos City journalists arm themselves
GENERAL SANTOS CITY: Fearing that more attacks would be launched against them, media practitioners here have started to arm themselves following the murder of local tabloid publisher Christopher Guarin earlier this month.

The Philippine tuna industry crisis: Another look (2)
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/05 February) -- The two-year ban has impacted the volume of landing of tuna at the General Santos City fishing port complex.

PDEA nabs 3 in GenSan drug buy-bust
MANILA, Philippines - Three people were arrested when agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) busted a drug den in General Santos City this week, PDEA said on Saturday.

Magnitude 4.5 quake rocks General Santos
DAVAO CITY -- General Santos City has been shaken by a magnitude-4.5 quake Sunday morning, state seismologists said. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the quake,...

Magnitude-4.5 quake hits General Santos area in Mindanao
A magnitude-4.5 quake jolted the General Santos City area in Mindanao Sunday morning, but there was no initial report of damage or casualty.

SOCSKSARGEN government unions protest “oppressive” budget memo
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (January 27, 2012) - Government employees’ unions from all over SOCSKSARGEN launched a signature campaign among their members Wednesday (January 25) in a petition protesting Budget Circular No. 2011-05 they dubbed as “oppressive”.

Syndicate offering non-existent jobs at LTO-12
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/03 February) – The Land Transportation Office (LTO) in Region 12 warned residents on Friday regarding the operations of a recruitment syndicate that reportedly offers fake job openings at the agency in exchange for hefty fees. Arlan Mangelen, LTO Region 12 director, said they are currently tracking down the movements of several [...]

DSWD-12 delists 11,367 ‘unqualified’ 4Ps beneficiaries
GENERAL SANTOS CITY — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Region 12 or the Soccsksargen region has delisted some 11,367 households from the beneficiary database of the national government’s conditional cash transfer program due to inclusion errors, fraud and other eligibility problems.

Comment: Unsolicited Advice
General Santos City (MindaNews) – Does Manny Pacquiao really want to help the poor? If I remember it right, he said this during his first triumphant homecoming from the United States. This, purportedly, was his prime motivation in running for Congress; hence, his promise to build a tertiary hospital in Sarangani once elected congressman. So he did, filing HB 02379 – his first bill now pending in ...