mj_admin, Author at Mindanao Journal

DepEd and CBS Champion Financial Wellness for Educators NationwideEmpowering Teachers Through Financial Literacy and Capability-Building

mj_adminSeptember 6, 2025September 11, 202504 mins

In celebration of National Teachers’ Month, the Department of Education (DepEd) and China Bank Savings (CBS) have once again joined forces to roll out a nationwide series of Financial Wellness Workshops, aimed at enhancing the financial literacy and capability of public school teachers. Niel Jumawan, First Vice President and Head of CBS’s Automatic Payroll Deduction…

DCWD prepares Barangay Plumber Associations

mj_adminSeptember 6, 2025September 6, 202502 mins

Davao City Water District held an orientation among plumbers and barangay representatives on August 21, 2025 at DCWD Matina Office Multi-Purpose Hall as part of the preparations for the establishment of Barangay-Based Plumbers Associations. Said project aims to organize local plumbers and equip them with knowledge on DCWD plumbing standards so they may provide DCWD…

From Savers to Investors (Mindful by Jay Ledesma)

mj_adminSeptember 6, 2025September 6, 202509 mins

“How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings account? I rest my case.” – Robert G Allen Very few of us in life will become rich quick. Unless, of course, you are a shady DPWH contractor, a “nepo” baby or a corrupt politician, who can amass billions in one…

Globe Mobile Base Hits 62.5 Million with Increasing Customer Trust

mj_adminSeptember 6, 2025September 6, 202502 mins

Globe ended the first half of 2025 with 62.5 million mobile subscribers, marking a 5% increase from 59.5 million in the same period last year. This growth reflects Globe’s continued ability to engage and retain customers through relevant offers, an improved network experience, and trusted service. The company remains committed to innovation, aggressively pushing digital…

Gaisano Mall asked to scrap parking fee

mj_adminSeptember 5, 2025September 5, 202503 mins

Photo courtesy: Councilor Danny Dayanghirang facebook page By Ivy Tejano DAVAO CITY – A city councilor urged Gaisano Mall of Davao to withdraw its newly implemented parking fee policy, warning that it places an unfair burden on customers and could influence other malls to adopt similar measures. Councilor Danilo Dayanghirang, chair of the Committee on…

Diverting the probe won’t wash (Editorial by Jun Ledesma)

mj_adminSeptember 5, 2025September 6, 202504 mins

The anti- Duterte propagandists some of them pretending to be political analysts are in full throttle to divert the issues surfounding the ghost and substandard flood control projects and the hundreds of billions of pesos paid to at least 15 contractors. They made a big issue of ₱51-billion infrastructure budget for Davao City’s District 1…

DPWH Sec. Dizon widens ghost flood control probe

mj_adminSeptember 5, 2025September 5, 202505 mins

At the rate Department of Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon is going, it is not farfetched that his probe into the ghosts and substandard flood control projects has already started in Visayas and Mindanao. Sources who begged not to be identified, disclosed that there are indications that information gathering activities are already ongoing prior to…

Dizon after the beasts behind ghost projects (LETTERS FROM DAVAO by Jun Ledesma)

mj_adminSeptember 5, 2025September 5, 202507 mins

The newly appointted DPWH Sec. Vince Dizon is facing a gargantuan task of thoroughly overhauling the graft and corruption – ridden department. It would be easier to simply excise the agency and transfer its functions including its budget to other departments or devolved to the local government units. But it is easier said than done….

Floods Don’t Kill—Corruption Does. (THE THIRD EYE by Carlo Manubag)

mj_adminSeptember 5, 2025September 5, 202504 mins

Screen grab from: AP Every monsoon that batters our land does more than unleash rain—it exposes the rot in governance. Floodwaters rise not because nature is cruel, but because billions supposedly spent on flood-control projects were stolen through ghost contracts, fake contractors, and sham infrastructure. Lives, homes, livelihoods, and small businesses are washed away while…

A ‘Political Eunuch’ To Work Efficiently In Silence! (FOOD FOR THOUGHT by Manny Piñol)

mj_adminSeptember 5, 2025September 5, 202505 mins

In the deeply divided Philippine Politics where groups are identified by their political loyalties as Dilawans (now Pinklawans), DDS or Loyalists, it is almost unthinkable for a prominent personality to be able to move on from his association with a previous administration and occupy a sensitive role in the next. But Vivencio “Vince” Dizon, the…