Arts & Culture, History, News & Features from Metropolitan Cagayan de Oro
In the future, July 23, 2024, could be remembered as just another stepping stone in the quest of a visionary Filipino who seeks to bring cheaper, safe and sustainable drinking water to every Filipino home. Barely 13 years after they started, his company JE Hydro and Bio-Energy Corporation, commissioned and turned over its 20th Design …
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Nestlé Philippines continues to embody its role as Kasambuhay for Good of Filipino families as it forges a significant partnership with the City Government of Cagayan de Oro. The partnership was formally launched on March 6, 2024 with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at the Cagayan de Oro City Hall, and is …
Cagayan de Oro City needs to move forward and apply basic solutions to address its current water supply problems instead of bickering to find a scapegoat for the ongoing brouhaha over the quality of its current water services to its consumers. In a radio interview over Strong Radio with anchor Patrick Tablon in the program …
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Singapore’s Best Hair & Scalp Treatment Center opens in SM CDO Downtown As the gateway city to Mindanao for the Visayas and Luzon, here’s another good reason why Filipinos from up North should soon beat a path to Cagayan de Oro City. RETERN Hair & Scalp Institute, billed as Singapore’s Best Hair and Scalp treatment …
The Cagayan de Oro City Water District (COWD) is actively seeking an acceptable compromise with its majority partner regarding the price of bulk water it sources from their joint venture company.\ During a media press conference held 16 January 2024 at the COWD Board Room, Engr. Antonio Young, COWD General Manager, said the dispute arose when …
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Before the advent of single use plastics and most especially plastic sachets, homemakers were already used to buying their daily food needs from the neighborhood sari-sari store and tiangge, and brought along used glass bottles for their cooking oil and condiments, and bayongs for their meat, fish and vegetable purchases. As the late National Artist Nick Joaquin coined it, the …
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Solid waste continues to be a challenge for the Philippines as waste generation rates steadily rise annually while recovery and recycling rates lag behind. Of the estimated 61,000 metric tons of solid waste generated daily in the Philippines, up to 24% is plastic, the biggest source of which are packaging materials or SKUs (stock keeping …
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Nestle Philippines conducted a one-day Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) education and registration drive dubbed “Rethinking Plastics: EPR Paving the Way Towards Circularity” on October 6 at the Mallberry Suites Business Hotel, Cagayan de Oro City. The Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Act, which lapsed into law in July 2022, …
Cagayan de Oro City rose one rank higher to No. 7 in the Cities and Municipalities Competitive Index (CMCI) for Highly Urbanized Cities for 2023. It was previously ranked No. 8 in 2022. Cagayan de Oro is ranked Top 2 for the Resiliency Pillar, Top 5 for the Innovation Pillar, Top 7 for both Most …
No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light. (Luke 8:16 NIV) The global pandemic created havoc and all sorts of disruptions in the lives of people around the …
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