Arts & Culture, History, News & Features from Metropolitan Cagayan de Oro
The Cagayan de Oro City Water District (COWD) would like to explain why a water rate adjustment has become necessary. COWD’s water rates have remained unchanged since 2014. For more than a decade, despite rising operating costs, COWD has continued to provide water service without increasing rates. Today, revenues are sufficient only for daily operations, maintenance, and …
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With service-affecting cable theft and vandalism on the rise in Mindanao, PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) are working closely with local leaders and residents to maintain network reliability while keeping communities safe. In some areas where recurring incidents of cable theft and vandalism have been reported, PLDT and Smart are collaborating …
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ILIGAN CITY- This City of Majestic Waterfalls sparkled with two of the finest exhibits we were a most fortunate witness to during the 84th Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor) last week. In the morning, the Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) unveiled the Brig. Gen. Guy O. Fort Collection at its University …
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Industry Players Driving Climate Action to Manage Climate Risk and Strengthen Resilience Climate goals are ambitious, and with limited time and resources, the urgency to act has never been more urgent for the Philippines. Inaction risks lives, livelihoods, and long-term economic stability. Bold measures such as reducing emissions by decarbonizing operations and value chains are …
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22 February 1943 G-2 Section, 10th Military District Three rugged years of concentrated efforts of the Intelligence Section of the Mindanao Guerrillas brought recognition in the form of commendation from the Highest Headquarters of the United States Army in the Pacific in which Major General A. C. WILLOUGHBY, Assistant Chief of Staff, G2, in communication …
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A. The Need For Unity The diverse guerrilla bands springing into existence and taking shape and form during the last quarter of 1942, were loosely organized, clearly wanting in discipline and manifestly in dire need of many necessary attributes that make up the requirements for fighting units. The guerrillas had no definite source from which …
1. Factors Favorable For Guerrilla Growth: a) Natural Barriers: Mindanao turned out to be a fertile field for originating, nurturing, maturing and welding into a compact organization, guerrilla units. The island abounds in jungles, irregular land surface, rivers, mountains, steep cliffs, swamps and two big lakes (Lanao and Mainit), all offering obstacles in the way …
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FIRST PHASE: 8 DEC 1941 – 6 MAY 1942. On 8 December 1941, Japan struck vital United States territories without warning or formal declaration of war. One of the first Japanese bombs fell in Davao, Mindanao. The whole Philippines awoke horror-struck at what was the inception of a most horrible national cataclysm. Girded for battle …
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18 June 1945 Combined American and guerrilla operations in the area of the 106th Division forced the remains of the enemy, as elsewhere, to flee to the mountains. 300 to 400 Jap troops sought refuge in the Mt Blik area, Cotabato (present day Talayan, Maguindanao), but hot on their trail were the combined American and …
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1 May 1945 The 130th Regiment, 107th Division, under the command of Major Saturnino R. Silva Sr., with a strength of eighty-nine officers 4nd 1,292 enlisted men, aided by the 111th Provisional Battalion (Bn), launched the Ising, Davao (present day Carmen, Davao del Norte) offensive on 1 May 1945 following orders from Col. Wendell W. …
