GENERAL SANTOS CITY (23 January 2015) - Public Utility Vehicle (PUV) drivers got a chance to give their recommendations to City Mayor Ronnel Rivera and the rest of panelists of the first Public Transportation Summit Thursday, January 22, on how to solve the existing problems of the transport system of the city. The mayor thanked them for their suggestions and stated that what these drivers raised will be listed and will be integrated to the transportation management plan. (Gensan CPIO/ Russell Delvo)
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (23 January 2015) - City Mayor Ronnel Rivera hands the cash assistance to the elderlies of the city Tuesday, January 20, inside the City Hall. The cash assistance is a program by the Department of Social Welfare and Development and is implemented by the City Social Welfare and Development Office. (Gensan CPIO/ Russell Delvo)
More than 1, 000 elderly people from General Santos City have been enlisted as beneficiaries of monthly pension from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
City social welfare and development officer Rebecca Magante said pension is released to the beneficiaries every quarter by the City Social Welfare and Development Office.
Senior citizens who reach the age of 77 and not a recipient of other pensions will qualify to avail of a P500 monthly pension from DSWD.
Calixta Bacalso, 91, a resident of Barangay Conel, was elated despite falling into a long queue inside the City Hall to claim her quarterly pension amounting to P1,500.
"I am very old already. I cannot work anymore. This pension will be of help for me to sustain my daily needs," Bacalso said.
City Mayor Ronnel Rivera thanked the DSWD for its support to the elderly people in the city.
"I need the support of other government agencies to help in developing Gensan into a competitive city that cares for the indigents and the marginalized sector," Rivera said.
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Arturo Valero, regional director of the National Economic and Development Authority-12 (NEDA-12), said construction of the road project recently resumed following the negotiation made by City Mayor Ronnel Rivera with some 40 families who were affected by the project.
Valero said the construction of the bridge connecting Barangays Mabuhay and Apopong that will complete the circumferential road project had been hampered in the past due to issues involving the road-right-of-way. The bridge alone was supposed to have been finished last March.
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) sought the assistance of Rivera who held series of dialogues with the affected families.
“I had to intervene so that this project can proceed but at the same time, I should not set aside the welfare of my constituents. These negotiations will prove that we can come up with a win-win solution as long we meet halfway,” Rivera said.
The DPWH had resumed the construction of the bridge which costs P60 million.
The circumferential road, if completed, is expected to decongest traffic along the city’s major thoroughfares and provide a better connection between the city and its neighboring areas.
City Mayor Ronnel Rivera invites different delegates and stakeholders of the 16th National Tuna Congress which opened Thursday, September 4, to invest in Gensan, as it is a city with "tons of potentials". (Gensan CPIO/ Russell Delvo)GENERAL SANTOS CITY (06 September 2014) - "This is a city built on Tuna." This is the statement made by Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Director Atty. Asis D. Perez during the opening of the Trade Fair and Exhibit of the 16th Tuna Congress Thursday (September 04, 2014). According to Perez, Gensan, as the Tuna Capital of the Philippines, has greatly shaped the fishing economy of the country, as well as helped the local employment generation. The BFAR director declared the "true heroes" of the fishing industry in the city are the small local fishermen who have worked hard perennially just to catch fishes. SOCSKSARGEN Fishing Federation and Allied Industries Inc. (SFFAII) president Joaquin Lu added to the words of Perez and emphasized that the tuna economy of Gensan is in good hands. "Our current administration here in Gensan is always ready to help the fishing sector," Lu stated. Prior to the 16th Tuna Congress, City Mayor Ronnel Rivera has already invoked that Gensan's fishing industry has been steady in its catches and contribution to the local economy. He also debunked some claims that the tuna industry in the city is already flunking, and that Gensan has been ousted in its throne as the Tuna Capital of the Philippines by Mindoro. In 2013 alone, Gensan has a total fish catch of 167,578,75 tons (152,024,884.74 kilos) compared to the 600,000 kilos of Mindoro in the fusion of their 2012 and 2013 catches. Regardless of this, Mayor Rivera bared that tuna industry won't pose any significant growth for the years to come due to the strict regulations imposed by foreign countries regarding fishing in international waters. (Gensan CPIO/Ian John M. Lagare)
The SoCCSKSarGen Bloggers will hold the BlogFest SoCCSKSarGen 2010 on 11 December at the Grand Royale Ballroom of the East Asia Royale Hotel, General Santos City. It is put as the largest gathering of bloggers in the region.
General Santos City serves as the industrial destination for sights, sounds and culture of SOCCSKSARGEN. The city lies at the southern part of the Philippines and has a total land area of 53,606 hectares. It is composed of 26 barangays and belongs to the First Congressional District of the Province of South Cotabato under Region 12.
Remember your first experience with the wonders of 3D cinema? You know, back when the 3D glasses you had to put on to enjoy the then-nascent technology had a lens in a different color from the other, and were ridiculously huge and made of cardboard? It was anything but wondrous, and that would be putting it mildly because so crude was the technology then that not a few people emerged from the 3D cinema experience nauseous, even physically ill.
In this photo: Dimple Dulay, Cidz Bascon, Armando Nicolas PJ, Rabsky Marcos Villanueva, Jose Laurence Perez Erojo, Jose Laurence Perez Erojo, Ariel Lalisan, Avel Manansala, Gilbert Yap Tan, Hannah Garchitorena Espinosa, Alexis Cañizar Chua, Vince Celeste, Louis Outnumbered Gazo, Hector Miñoza, Job Oberio, Sheila Marie Dumalay, Chariz Fredeluces Mundo, Van Almeria, Kyawkyaw Dee, Marz Fernandez Bendol
Grab a Crab Restaurant Oval Room
Robinsons Place - General Santos City
01:00 to 05:00 PM | 25 April 2010

