Author: The Cordillera Connection

Davao City: The largest city in the Philippines

The City of Davao, a 1st class highly urbanized city in the island of Mindanao, has a total land area of 2,444 sq.km., making it the largest city in the Philippines in terms of land area.

Based on the 2020 Census of Population and Housing, Davao City has a total population of 1,776,949, becoming the first City in Mindanao and the Visayas, and the fourth nationwide, to exceed one million inhabitants. The increase in the City’s population during the 20th century is attributed to the massive migration waves coming from other parts of the nation and the in-migration trend which continues to this day.

Majority of residents of Davao City or  Davaoeños are Visayans which are mostly Cebuanos and Hiligaynons. The others different ethnicities are collectively categorized as the indigenous communities which make up the remainder of the local population.

There are also Islamized group that makes up the city population which are the Maguindanaons, Maranaos, Iranuns, Tausugs and the Sama-Bajaus. Non – Filipino Asians such as Indonesians, Malaysians, Taiwanese, Chinese, Filipinos, Koreans, Japanese and Indians have settled and made small communities in Davao City. Non-Asian foreigners such as the Americans and Europeans are also residing in the City.

Agriculture is the largest economic sector in Davao City, comprising of banana, pineapple, coffee and coconut plantations. The City is Mindanao’s leading exporter of fruits such as mangoes, pomelos, bananas, coconut products, pineapples, papayas, mangosteens and cacao.

Davao City’s latest agri-based development is the chocolate industry. Actually, the country’s leading artisan chocolate recognized worldwide is Malagos Chocolate, developed by Malagos Agriventures Corp. On the other hand, the country’s biggest exporter of cacao to Barry Callebaut is the Seed Core Enterprises which is also based in Davao City. Banana is the largest fruit export of the City and the locally grown and harvested durian is also a notable export. This is the reason why the operations and headquarters of Local corporations such as the Lorenzo Group, Anflo Group, AMS Group, Sarangani Agricultural Corp. and Vizcaya Plantations Inc. are based in Davao City. Even multinational companies such as Dole, Sumifru/Sumitomo and Del Monte, have their regional headquarters in the city.

In the Fish Industry, the source of livelihood of many fishermen is the Davao Gulf. It abundant with fish and sea food such yellow fin tuna, brackish water milkfish, mudfish, shrimp and crab. 

Dave City also serves as the main trade, commerce, and financial industry hub of Mindanao. The Phoenix Petroleum, a multinational oil company, is based in Davao City and is the first company in the Philippines based outside Metro Manila to be in the PSE Composite Index. Industrial plants of Coca-Cola Bottlers, Phil., Pepsi-Cola Products, Phil., Interbev Phil Inc. and RC Cola Phil., are also some of big companies that operates in the City. Industrial construction plants such as Holcim Philippines, Union Galvasteel Corporation, and SteelAsia also operates in Davao City, SteelAsia plant, now being the largest and most modern steel rolling mill production facility in the country.

BDO Network Bank (formerly One Network Bank) is based in Davao City and is the largest rural bank in the Philippines in terms of assets.

Davao City, being a domestic and international gateway to other visitor destinations in the island, is also a premiere tourist destination in Mindanao. The city offers a combination of nature-based, man-made, historico-cultural, adventure and sports, special interest, religious, educational, agro-industrial, attractions, pleasure and entertainment, festivals, dining and shopping. Popular tourist attractions include Mt Apo, the highest mountain in the Philippines, The Philippine Eagle, Philippines’ biggest Crocodile in captivity, Araw ng Dabaw and Kadayawan Festivals.

Notable Awards & Citations of Davao City

  • 2nd Most Competitive Highly-Urbanized City (2020)
  • Red Orchid Awardee (Anti-Smoking Campaign) “Hall of Fame” (2015, 2014, 2012, 1999, 1998)
  • Child Friendly City (2015, 2014, 2012, 1999, 1998)
  • 1st Price Winner and Hall of Famer (2012) in the National Literacy Award for Outstanding LGU, Highly Urbanized City Category
  • Consistent Performing LGU in the country 2009-2011
  • Best Practice Award for LGU HIV Prevention Seal of Good Housekeeping (2011)
  • 2009 Philippine’s Most Livable City (https://davaohive101.wordpress.com/)
  • One of the Only Three Areas in the World to have the Integrated Emergency Response System 911 as Top 25 Best Practices in the Philippines

Source: NEDA

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Cebu City: The Oldest City and The First Capital of The Philippines

Cebu City is the oldest city and first capital of the Philippines. Being the first Spanish settlement in the country, the city became the birthplace of Christianity in the Far East. During the 300- year Spanish rule , Cebu built the country’s oldest university, San Carlos University, as well as the oldest street, Colon Street.

Today, Cebu City, is the capital of Cebu Province, an island 365 miles south of Manila and the home of the Cebuanos. Based on 2020 census, Cebu City has a population of 964, 169.

Cebu City is now a commercial center for different industries such as being one of the major hub for business process outsourcing (BPO), banking, finance, IT, tourism, copper mining, fishing and aquaculture, farming and agriculture, shipbuilding, steel and cement. The harbor of Cebu City serves both international ocean-going vessels and domestic ships and five inter-island shipping companies, hence the prime centre of trade of Southern Philippines.

Photos by Project Lupad and Wikipedia.

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WAR IS NOT A JOKE BUT WEST PHILIPPINES SEA IS OURS. FILIPINOS NEED TO CLAIM AND GUARD IT!

China Coast Guard continuous to bully the Philippine Coast Guard because Philippines allowed them to do so.

War is not a joke. It will bring humanity to its lowest point. Just look at Ukraine and Gaza. Philippines can prevent war with China over the fight on the West Philippines Sea. West Philippines Sea is obviously closer to the Philippines and China knows it’s ours. The China Coast Guard acts against the Philippine Coast Guard are just acts of bullying.

There are 3 possible solution that Philippines can undertake in order to claim ownership of the West Philippines Sea.

First one is to send every Filipinos who blames America on the issue. Let those group of Filipinos be the front line in confronting China. As they say, we don’t need America. So let them do it! Filipinos who hate how America is meddling with the issue might have the strength and power to defeat China. They don’t see that for a long time Philippines have been trying to resolve the issue in a diplomatic resolution. They don’t see the fact that a lot of Chinese are infiltrating the country. These group of Filipinos still believe in the conspiracies that America is just using Philippines or they believe that America would just like Philippines to buy weapons from them. Wake up! Philippines can’t afford American weapons so stop believing those conspiracies.

If the first one does not work, let us send our corrupt leaders and politicians to guard the West Philippines Sea because it is also for their own good anyway. They need to protect the Philippines otherwise, all the wealth they accumulated will become useless if China will conduct special military operation against the Philippines and turn it into a waste land or communist country. These corrupt politicians could have used our resources to enhance our defence and not for their shallow personal interests. Send with them the politicians and authorities who allowed chinese immigrants to secure permanent residency in the Philippines. Corruption in our country is just so unbearable. Corrupt Filipinos do not think at all, they think they are intelligent but actually no brains. They are leaving their own blood and grandchildren with uncertain future.

Last remedy is for Philippines, with the help of America and other allies, to seriously claim and guard the West Philippines Sea and do not allow China to bully our country. For the next generation sake, let us all admit that Philippines alone can not defend our sovereignty. We need help! All we need is to be serious in claiming and guarding the West Philippines Sea and China will stop its bullying acts. China does not want war, it conquers countries by economic means!

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Refreshing sight: The Benguet Capitol

The Benguet Capitol, La Trinidad, Benguet. Photo by Benguet Vibe

A refreshing sight of the Benguet Capitol in La Trinidad, Benguet was shared by Benguet Vibe. It features a new mural painting at the bottom of the hill where the capitol sits. The mural depicts the cultural identity of Benguet Province and was an excellent craftmanship of Iyaman Art Exhibit Artist, Xanthos Oyan.

Do you have any news about your place you want to share? Send us and we will feature on our next post.

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Philippines: War between the South, Central & the North political figures: The fight of the Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

Philippines sees the upcoming fight between the political giants of the country.

The resignation of Vice President Sara Duterte as Secretary of Department of Education and as cabinet of Bong Bong Marcos Administration resonates a possible war of the political giants of the country. Her resignation was expected after the blatant disregard of Bong Bong Marcos’ courtesy to former President Rodrigo Duterte.

For whatever reasons, the Team Unity of Bong Bong Marcos and Sarah Duterte has now come to its end. Looking at the possibilities, the fight for power will now be an expected eventuality. If Raffy Tulfo, another giant in Philippine Politics, will also throw his hat in the rivalry, it will become a fight of the South, Central and the North. This will also translate as the fight of the The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly. It is now the choice of Filipinos to choose who will control over the fate of the country.

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Filipinos now can’t be easily fooled on social media. They know if you are helping others for the sake of social media.

Team Malakas, Rendon Labador and Rosmar at their “charity event in Coronavirus, Palawan.

Rendon Labador and Rosmar of Team Malakas could be declared persona non-grata in Coron, Palawan for heavily confronting a municipal staff who rant on facebook about the motive of Team Malakas’ charity event. The staff aired her frustration as the charity event did not really helped the people of Coron. Instead, people were seem to be just lured to go to the event and waited for nothing.

The staff has a point because if Rendon and Rosmar really wanted to help, they have plenty of people to help at their own locality or in Manila without having to go to Palawan. Filipinos already know that they went there for the sake of social media.

Lesson Learned: Help others if you really want to help others, not for something else.

The Cordillera Connection (TCC) has been doing charity works since 2012 and we learned that to help others, you must really have the good intention.

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Why Baguio will be more expensive than London.

P250 per entry congestion charge will make Baguio more expensive than London. How?

The plan of Baguio City to implement P250 congestion charge each time a vehicle enters the City Business District will make the city more expensive than London.

To elaborate the comparison, London congestion charge is just £15 per day. This means a driver will pay the charge only once a day, no matter how many times the car will enter the congestion charge zone. £15 is also just over an hour pay of an ordinary worker. The minimum pay in London or UK is £11.44 per hour. Residents within the Congestion charge are also exempted.

In Baguio, the proposed congestion charge is P250 per entry. P250 is more than half of the daily minimum wage which is P430/ roughly P60 per hour. P250 is more than 4 hours pay of a minimum wage worker. If the driver enters the City Business District 10x in a day, the driver will be charged P2,500.00. If a driver needs to go inside the City Business district once a day, everyday, it means he needs to pay P7,500.00 per month or P90,000.00 per year.

Roughly speaking, 5,000 vehicles entering the city each day, guarantees P1,250,000.00 income for the city per day or P37,500,000 a month or nearly half billion pesos a year. More than enough fund for a candidate to campaign for a national position.

If this is implemented, Baguio City will be more expensive and more stressful than London. It is a very lucrative income-generating scheme that will be masked as a solution to traffic.

If a solution to the traffic condition is the only reason, why not try banning all private vehicles entering the City Business district and only allow PUJ/ PUV as a common transport to all residents, tourists, rich and poor just like London? Not a very expensive cruel P250 Congestion Charge.

Proposed Flights Baguio-La Trinidad

Baguio City- The Philippine Airlines (PAL) has terminated its Baguio- Cebu flights due to low passenger turn-out. This is expected as not a lot of Baguio and Cordillera residents are not keen to travel to Cebu. Probably proponents of this project just wanted to use investors funds and not really made a feasibility study.

With the cancellation, it is proposed that Baguio- La Trinidad Flights will be put in place instead. Only, they have to build an airport at the Strawberry Farm. This might work better when the implementation of P250 Congestion Charge when travelling to Baguio has been finally put into ordinance.

Politicians and businesses keep on thinking about how to make money so this might be more acceptable and beneficial to the poor community, not for the benefit of the rich but small segment of our society.

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Search for Philippine’s Most Valuable Content Creator

The Cordillera Connection (TCC) is launching its online search for Philippines Most Valuable Content Creator.

Nomination is now open for Philippines’ Most Valuable Creator, open to all Philippines-based or overseas Filipino Content Creators who are creating contents that delivers great impact to the lives of Filipinos or the world.

Mechanics: Simply fill-up the form below to nominate yourself or someone who you think deserves the recognition. Open to all ages, religious denominations, sexual orientations, political affiliation, or anything, as in no boundaries, big or small content creators. Nominees will be judged by our chosen panels.

Nomination closes June 30th, 2024.

Prize: Plaque, Ph10,000.00 plus Free 1-week holiday break in a secret resort located in Northern Luzon, includes travel, accommodation, and food for a maximum of 5 people including the winner. Money prize might increase from sponsors.

Sponsorhip: Contact us for sponsorship for this competition at info@thecordilleraconnection.org.

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TCC-Israel Receives 2022 Adivay Global Icons

Congratulations to TCC-Israel for being one of the recipients of the 2022 Adivay Global Icons, awarded by the Provincial Government of the Province of Benguet for the recognition of the contributions of Benguet OFWs to the Benguet Community, Culture, Nature and the Future!

Representative of TCC-Israel, TCC-Israel President Jovelyn Taynan’s cousin who received the recognition trophy.

TCC-Israel President Jovelyn Taynan (Middle) with the TCC-Israel. They have been consistently providing sponsorship to medically-ill beneficiaries and supporting scholars most especially through out the pandemic.

With the Benguet Provincial Officials and other recipients of the award.

TCC-Israel receives the award thru its representative, with the Benguet Provincial Officials and other recipients of the award.