SABONG MONEY CTO anticipates higher revenue from operations of 2 cockpits in Davao City

By MAYA M. PADILLO

The City Treasurer’s Office (CTO) is anticipating higher revenues from two major cockpits in Davao City including the so-called Covid-19 “Ground Zero” which recently resumed operations in Davao City.

Maribel Paguican, officer in charge of the Davao City Business Bureau, said on Wednesday during Wednesdays at Habi at Kape media forum at

6.6 to 7.1

Ageologist from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) disclosed during a virtual press conference that the faults in Davao de Oro are capable of generating 6.6 up to 7.1 magnitude earthquake.

Geologist Jeffrey Perez said that the segment faults in Davao de Oro are part of their operations after their temporary closure due to the pandemic.

Paguican said the CTO is expecting to surpass the revenue generated by the said cockpits pre-pandemic.

39 Special Forces soldiers held by MILF in Lanao Sur released

More than three dozen Special Forces soldiers earlier detained for more than 25 hours in Lanao del Sur by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) were released late Wednesday afternoon.

three Sunday operations of the two cockpits, the revenue collected reached almost P1 million.

Col. Michele Anayron Jr., commander of the 403rd Infantry Brigade, said the soldiers belonging to the Army’s 1st Special Forces Battalion were released after the arrival of the government and MILF Coordinating Committees on the Cessation of Hostilities (CCCH) in Maguing town, Lanao del Sur Wednesday.

The soldiers—three Special Forces teams— have just raided a nearby camp of the New People’s Army’s (NPA) Sub-regional Committee 5 and were going home when they strayed close to the perimeter of the MILF camp, Anayron said.

Maguing shares borders with the municipalities of Talakag and Kalilangan of Bukidnon, which has a strong NPA presence.

“The soldiers are also safe and have gone back to their headquarters. We used the peace mechanisms to effect their release,” Anayron explained.

She said during the pre-pandemic, the revenue collected from the cockpit operations has reached P12 million and that CTO is expecting to surpass this as for just

In April 2020, former mayor and now Vice President Sara Duterte banned cockfighting in Davao City following the transmission of individuals with Covid-19 after attending the six-cock derby for the “Araw ng Davao” celebration at the New Davao MaFSABONG, P6

The MILF earlier “put on hold” the soldiers after they strayed close to the MILF’s 103rd Base Command in Barangay Dilimbayan, also in Maguing town, around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The government and the MILF signed a peace agreement in 2014, ending the decades-old insurgency and paved the way for the creation of a new autonomous entity, the

Abreeza Mall, that the Business Bureau has already issued permits to the New Davao Matina Gallera and the Calinan Cockpit Arena, which have returned to FSPECIAL, P7