Economic News

ANTIPAS, Cotabato -- Officials of the Cotabato Electric Cooperative (Cotelco) energized on Wednesday another 69-kilovolt transmission line located in Antipas, North Cotabato.

COTABATO CITY – The Department of Trade and Industry of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DTI-ARMM) is conducting a two-day training and workshop on trade regulation and consumer protection for its employeesonJune 26-27.Through this activity, the department expects to enhance the technical know-how of its employees, including those in the provincial offices, on the latest policies and laws on trade and industry.One of the highlights during the opening dayon Tuesdaywas the launching and orientation on the ARMMe-Presyo.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Kidapawan City Mayor Joseph Evangelista has sought authority from the legislative department to allow him to enter into a loan agreement worth P140 million, which he explained was intended to purchase at least 15 units of heavy equipment for road repair and rehabilitation, garbage collection, and maintenance of sanitary landfill.

COTABATO CITY -- Whilethe growth rate of the Philippines’ gross domestic product slowed at the national level, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has shown an accelerated growth rate pegged at 7.3 percent in 2017, a significant leap from the 0.4 percent gross regional domestic product (GRDP) growth rate it registered in 2016.

COTABATO CITY-- The mayor here regarded the entry of an aviation school as an indication of the city’s growth.Mayor Frances Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi met on Tuesday with executives of Aviation Technical School of Cotabato (ATSC) and regarded such development as proof of local economic growth.The ATSC is the first and only aviation school in Central Mindanao that includes this city, the provinces of Maguindanao, North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat and in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).Guiani-Sayadi was very upbeat upon learning about the progress of aviation school, which has produce

COTABATO CITY -- The Regional Board of Investments of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (RBOI-ARMM) conducted an Investment Promotion Forum for the Bangsamoro on Wednesday in this city.Representatives from the different ARMM line agencies as well as representatives from business establishments in the region gathered to tackle the different ways on how to promote investments in Bangsamoro areas.Atty. Ishak V.

COTABATO CITY -- The Regional Board of Investments, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (RBOI-ARMM) approved the registration of a Php290 million cavendish banana plantation project owned and managed by EKASALAM AgriVenturesCorporation located in Kauran, Ampatuan, Maguindanao.RBOI chair and managing head, lawyer Ishak Mastura, said that for the first time in the history of RBOI, the project registered is initiated by one hundred percent Filipino investors residing in the locality who managedto link with the international banana market particularly Bahrainand other middle east countries.Ac

MAGUINDANAO --- Sectors addressing misguided Islamic militancy see brighter days ahead with the planned employment soon of clerics fluent in Arabic by an emerging call center in Maguindanao.Maguindanao province, a component area of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, has 36 towns where there are Islamic schools propagating Muslim-Christian solidarity, but now misconstrued as espousing militancy and instigating animosity towards the government.A Maguindanaon Army official, Col.

BULUAN,
Maguindanao – One year from now, Maguidnanao will have its own call
center that will cater to Arab nations, Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Toto
Mangudadatu today said.

This after he
inaugurated the P200 million worth of mixed used building that will rise here and will house the business processing and outsourcing center for Maguidanao, a
first in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

BULUAN, Maguindanao – Mindanaons should
patronize Mindanao products.

This was the message of Presidential son Baste
Duterte when he spoke during the 2nd Inaul Festival cooking show
here Monday.

He said Maguindanaon’s should patronize Mindanao’s
century’s old weaving practice that produces intricate designs of weaved
fabrics called Inaul.

Baste said like him and many constituents of
Maguindanao and its leaders, everybody should start to recognize their own
culture.