PIA Davao Region

DAVAO CITY- The 2021 Online Global Leaders’ Conference opened on July 3. The event organized by Tomorrow International Institute Inc. (TII) The 2021 Online Global Leaders’ Conference carries the motto “My Small Idea Changes the World”. The event will run today (July 3) to July 19. Youth social problems including the huge number of teenage pregnancy rates, HIV/STD cases, individuals with poor mental health amidst the pandemic, unsolved problems of the “indigenous people” community and other social issues, will be the main concerns of the 2021 Leaders' Conference.   TII (Tomorrow International Institute, Inc.) is an international private institution that provides innovative and quality training, workshop and interactive team building activity which focuses on the emotional and aptitude growth of an individual through its Mind Education Program. “In partnership with the Univ Leaders and International Youth Fellowship, conducting the Leaders Conference as one of the programs of Wo...

Makati, Philippines, July 7, 2021  – Philippine healthcare now becomes more accessible with   mWell , the country’s first fully integrated,   health & wellness app  designed to transform the way healthcare is delivered to every Filipino.   PLDT Home provides digital services that enable families to do things better at home powered by the fastest broadband connectivity. Through this partnership, PLDT Home-connected families get free online check-up and consultations with  mWell  doctors in the areas of primary care, pediatrics, internal medicine, ob-gyn, cardiology, gastroenterology, dermatology, and COVID-19, that they can conveniently book and so have  safer consultations .   Soon to be launched by Metro Pacific Health Tech Corporation ( MPHTC) , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Metro Pacific Investments Corporation ( MPIC ) ,   mWell  is an  all-in-one app  set to transform the demand for treatment and care, during this ...

DAVAO CITY, July 12 (PIA)—Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio revealed it is up to the Inter-Agency Task Force on COVID-19 to declare the new quarantine classification of the city come July 15, 2021 given that it has more parameters to look into.    Speaking at the Davao City Disaster Radio, she said she will abide with the decision of the IATF if it finds enough reason to ease the quarantine status of the city.   Duterte-Carpio stressed that regardless of variants, minimum health protocols, washing of hands with soap, water and alcohol, social distancing and vaccination must be strictly followed in the city because the infection still comes from the same virus.    Duterte-Carpio noticed hesitancy in the vaccination among Indigenous Peoples being the first to receive the jab as indigents.    She said that as a proper protocol, they first coordinated with the tribal leaders who will explain the need for vaccination to their members.    Duterte-Carpio ob...

DAVAO CITY, July 9 (PIA)—The City Tourism Office today pointed out that Davao City is excluded in allowing interzonal travels as ordered by the Inter-Agency Task Force on COVID-19 resolution No. 124-B as it remains under the modified enhance community quarantine classification.   The IATF 124-B resolution released on July 2, 2021, allows interzonal travels from general community quarantine to modified general community quarantine areas and vice versa for fully vaccinated persons.   Generose Tecson, city tourism officer underscored that even the city’s quarantine classification is placed under general community quarantine, the city cannot adhere interzonal travel because of presence of the city ordinance that requires test before travel.   She said this ordinance has to be amended first, before allowing interzonal travel for persons who are fully vaccinated.    Tecson told the people who want to travel to peer on the guidelines of the accepting lo...

Colonel Darren Comia, new commander of the Task Force Davao DAVAO CITY, July 7 (PIA)—The new Task Force Davao commander mulled of implementing the culture of security to guard the city against terrorism.   Colonel Darren Comia, new commander of the Task Force Davao said the culture of security was initially implemented during the pre-pandemic times when the performance started.   He credited Colonel Constancio Yecla for introducing the culture of security and told his men to enhance the security of the city and advocate relentlessly down to the grassroots level, or the barangays the security measure.    “All residents must be aware of the kind of security we are implementing here,” Comia said.   He was the former Battalion Commander of the 16 th  Army Battalion assigned in Davao del Norte in the 1003 rd  Brigade covering Paquibato District assumed as the new commander of the Task Force Davao.    Comia recalled witnessing the turn-over ceremon...

DAVAO DE ORO, July 7 (PIA) - - Gold sold to Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is tax-free. Acting Director Jane Ann Gonzales of BSP Davao encouraged gold miners and traders in Davao de Oro to sell to them their gold produce as it will be exempted from tax, based on Republic Act 11256. During an interview in the State of the Province radio program over Z Radio on July 5, 2021, Director Gonzales emphasized that the act was enforced last 2019; however, only a few might have known of it.  Gonzales said that from 2011 to 2019, two percent excise tax and five percent withholding tax were deducted to the gold seller’s income. “Mao na katong 2011 to 2019, ninghinay gyud ang pagdala og gold dinhi sa atoa,” she said. (That is why from 2011 to 2019, there is a decline in the selling of gold to us.) Gonzales also bared that the ‘gold’ tax was the biggest factor that caused the gold smuggling in the region. The BSP director also highlighted that aside from being tax-free, the gold sold to them...

DAVAO CITY, July 6 (PIA)- “Bayanihan” is the age-old Filipino custom of communal unity, people working hand-in-hand to achieve a common goal. And this was witnessed in the recent Bakuna by the Sea, a vaccination program intended to inoculate an estimated 9,000 tourism industry workers in the city.   The gargantuan task was made possible thru the efforts of the City Government of Davao particularly its attached offices such as the City Health Office and the City Tourism Operations Office in partnership with the Davao Tourism Association, a private organization of tourism stakeholders plus the mammoth generosity of Waterfront Insular Hotel Davao.   Waterfront Insular Hotel Davao to meaningfully celebrate its 60 th year provided the venue and major logistical counterpart in conjunction with DATA which is composed of various tourism and allied businesses in the city.   DATA was able to gather several tourism industry associations to bond as one cohesive unit.  The part...

DAVAO ORIENTAL — Seven former members of the Communist-Terrorist New People’s Army have voluntarily surrendered to the authorities in the hopes of getting another shot at living a normal life. In the simple surrender ceremony on Monday, July 5, dubbed as “Pag-uli: Acceptance Ceremony of Returning Rebels,” Governor Nelson L. Dayanghirang warmly welcomed the former insurgents as he awarded each of them  P100,000 cash assistance. Six tipsters and negotiators, on the other hand, who facilitated their surrender have received P50,000 each. A total of P1 million was awarded during yesterday’s ceremony. This additional cash benefit that the provincial government offers to surrenderees and tipsters aims to entice more rebels to yield to the government in the hopes of attaining the province’s target of zero insurgency by the end of the year. The former rebels who were identified as alias “Abay,” “Kabal,” “Ram,” “Renz,” “Champ,” “Daks,” and “Remel”, who were operating in different fronts i...

DAVAO City, July 6 (PIA)—The school-year 2020-2021 will end in July 10, 2021.   This was revealed by Jeneilito Atillo, spokesperson of the Department of Education XI who said that the remaining two days will give time for teachers to catch up for those who are about to submit their modules for the fourth periodical grading.    He said the teachers must work overtime in ensuring that the Graduating class, particularly the grade six in the elementary education, grade 12 in senior high, the completers in grade 10, must be worked ahead like the preparation of their grades.    Atillo described the first batch of all learners as the ones who need to complete their requirements for graduation.   He disclosed that the other grade levels will have to wait since there are those who are hard in submitting the modules on time.    “Perhaps the parents are not yet through in responding the modules,” he said in jest.  Atillo surmised the teachers want to ...

PIA Dir. Gen. Mon Cualoping in an interview with Energy FM 91.1 Digos DIGOS CITY, July 6 (PIA) – Director General Ramon Cualoping III of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) has emphasized that the government does not impose the “no vaccine, no work” and “no vaccine, no travel” policies.   Cualoping clarified this concern raised by a resident of Davao del Sur during a live radio interview on Energy FM Digos over the weekend.   The PIA Undersecretary also stressed that there is no policy that getting vaccinated is mandatory to all.   “Walang polisiya ang gobyerno sa ilalim ni Pangulong Rodrigo Roa Duterte na mandatory ang bakuna sa lahat. Kasi human right yan. It is guaranteed and enshrined in the Constitution. It is the choice of a person, same way as we cannot mandate everyone to undergo drug test,” he stated.   Cualoping though asked the assistance of the media in Davao del Sur to help the government make people understand on the importance of g...

PIA Director-General Mon Cualoping in an online meeting with Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte DAVAO CITY, July 5 (PIA)--- Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte recently expressed commitment to help push a proposed law designed to “strengthen the mandate of PIA as information and communications agency not just of the President but the entire bureaucracy.”   In her recent online conversation with Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Director General Ramon L Cualoping III in Davao City, Mayor Duterte recognized the need for PIA to be given the necessary support to roll out public information up to the local government level. “   So when you do submit your proposal to Congress, let us know so that if there is anything you need, to assist you inside the House of Representatives, we will do that Sir,” she told Cualoping who shared her the vision for PIA to become the anchor communications and information arm of the entire government.   Mayor Duterte had seen the relevance of PIA’s mandate...

A vaccinee at the Bakuna by the Sea.  DAVAO CITY, July 5 (PIA) – Philippine Information Agency Director General Usec. Ramon Cualoping III lauded local chief executives and all working for the roll-out of the National Vaccination Program in Davao Region for a good turn-out of the vaccination. “The numbers we are seeing from the vaccination roll-out in the region is very good. Davao City has started inoculating the A4 Priority Group while continuing A to A3. We must give the credit to our local chief executives,” Usec. Cualoping said. The Philippine Information Agency leads the Task Group on Vaccine Demand Generation and Communications under the Vaccine Cluster of the National Task Force on COVID19. Vaccine statistics of the region as of June 29 showed that 709,150 doses of vaccines were received; all of which were distributed; 424,576 doses were administered. About 78.6 percent or 348,723 have received their first dose while 28.6 percent or 75,853 have received their second dose. Th...

DAVAO City, July 2 (PIA)—The vaccination roll out dubbed as “Bakuna by the Sea,” went on its third day with the objective of protecting the tourism workers from COVID-19, in the pursuit of the new normal and to start the reopening of the industry. GeneroseTecson, City Tourism Officer said the vaccination roll out started June 30 for the tourism sector in the location that is conducive to the theme which is the tent of the Waterfront Insular Hotel.   She thanked the management of the Waterfront Insular Hotel, for supporting the activity by sponsoring the logistics for the vaccination and also recognized the efforts of the Davao Tourism Association and other tourism associations, for providing the manpower, time, water and food to ensure that the vaccination roll out would proceed.  Tecson aimed to vaccinate 14,000 from the tourism sector and allied services. She recalled that as of June 30, more than five hundred tourism workers were vaccinated, 808 yesterday and 750 vac...