TOURISM

KIDAPAWAN
CITY – The North Cotabato delegation to this year’s Sinulog
Festival in Cebu City failed to win a single award in its first try but the
experience was worth the efforts, officials said today.

Nilo
Estorbo, Department of Education coordinator and chief of mission of Alamada
National High School, said they failed in the competition but as sportsmanship
dictates, competing with the country’s best street dancing groups was already a
victory of sort.

KORONADAL CITY - Two city mayors in the SOCCSKSARGEN region will be awarded as 'Iloilo Dinagyang Warriors' during the Dinagyang 2015 celebration later this month, the Iloilo City information office said.Mayor Peter Miguel of Koronadal and Mayor Lina Montilla of Tacurong City will receive the awardin a ceremony at the Freedom Grandstand on January 25, while their festival tribes will perform their native dances during the ceremony, Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog.Mabilog said MayorsMontilla and Miguel will also be guests of honor during the Dinagyang Festival 2015 in Iloilo City to hig

TACURONG CITY - The Tacurong City government is sending last year'schampion in Talakudong Festival to participate in this year's Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City. Tribu
Manubiaw will showcase the spectacle of Talakudong Festival in one of Iloilo’s
most celebrated tourist attractions—the Dinagyang Festival.

Join the fun, lingaw ang Kidapawan

TULUNAN, North
Cotabato – Family, friends, fans and practically all Cotabatenios pray, and
praying hard, that Mary Jean Lastimosa could bring home the 2015 Miss Universe crown.

In her
hometown in Barangay Sibsib, Tulunan, North Cotabato, town mates pray and vowed
to hold rosary prayers so the country’s bet in the world’s prestigious beauty
pageant could make it.

A gay
beautician who personally know MJ,” Ms. Lastimosa’s nickname here, said
confidently that she can make Filipinos happy by January 25 in Doral, Miami,
Florida.

KIDAPAWAN CITY - This house here has become local tourist attraction of sort with its miniature Christmas village as Christmas Day nears.Different kinds of Santa Claus effigies and glittering lightsbecome center of attraction.Former RTC Judge now City Councilor Francis Palmones owns the house. (Williamor Magbanua)

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The
provincial capitol of North Cotabato here is bustling with lights expressing
joyous season and peaceful holidays, officials said today. Lights and Christmas decors
enveloped the three-story provincial capitol building in Barangay Amas here
converting it into a tourist attraction among locals. The capitol building is bordered with
assorted Christmas lights deliberately placed all over the structure and the
decorations of every office which make the area more eye-catching. And because Christmas is really

KORONADAL
CITY - To solve the increasing problem on firecracker and other pyrotechnic
devices related injuries during the Holiday season, the provincial board has
already approved on third and final reading a provincial ordinance that regulates its uses. ”An ordinance regulating the
manufacture, sale, distribution, possession, or use of firecrackers and other
pyrotechnic devices within the
territorial jurisdiction of South Cotabato and providing penalties for

KIDAPAWAN CITY -International environmental advocates, tourism officials from South and Central Mindanao region, lumad leaders, and the local chief executive here signed on Wednesday a memorandum of agreement (MOA) to preserve, protect, and develop carefully the environment’s resources, especially in Mount Apo.

COTABATO CITY - The Barangay Fiesta sa Plaza has opened here as part of the Shariff Kabunsuan Festival commemoration, officials said.