PIA Davao Region

Animated short  "Unos" by Arthur Mercader DAVAO CITY - Six short films from Dabawenyo filmmakers will be screened online during the first Metro Davao Family Short Film Festival, one of the major activities of the 2021 Davao Pasko Fiesta (Davao Paskonline Fiesta). Davao Paskonline Fiesta Festival Director Gatchi Gatchalian said the six curated short films are Christmas or Family-themed films. These may be shorts but tall on message of love, hope and family. And thru this platform of films we want to inspire Dabawenyos families with the values presented in the curated films. And also we would want to showcase the creativity of our local filmmakers, these are really good, very touching films,” Gatchalian said. The holding of the Metro Davao Family Short Film Festival is held in partnership   with the Mindanao Film and Television Development Foundation Inc. (MFTDFI) the organizers of the annual Mindanao Film Festival. “These curated films were previous entries to the Mindanao Fil

DOH Usec Dr. Abdullah Dumama, Jr. administers the vaccination of Diosdado Canete during the Bayanihan Bakunahan SULOP, Davao del Sur, Nov. 29 (PIA) – The officials of the Department of Health and the local government unit of Sulop in Davao del Sur, were happy to see the influx of eager residents to get inoculated during the provincial kick-off of the National COVID-19 Vaccination Days in said municipality.   Many eligible Sulopians have flocked to the Holy Cross of Sulop, where the kick-off ceremony took place, to take the chance of receiving their COVID-19 vaccines.   As of 6:00pm on November 29, Municipal Health Officer Dr. Fidel Marcelo Malate reported through a phone interview that from the five vaccination sites, a total of 1,277 Sulop residents have been vaccinated during the first day of the NVD.   Malate said that the number has so far been the highest recorded in a day of vaccination in the entire municipality. “The NVD activity has really helped a lot,” he stated.   Although

DAVAO CITY, November 29 (PIA) - At six in the morning, on the first day of the 3-day nationwide Bayanihan Bakunahan, Jessa Gomota left her new-born baby to her partner at home and proceeded to the People’s Park in Davao City where she would be getting her first dose of COVID19 vaccine. "Naa man gud koy baby nga dili nako basta-basta mabiyaan sa balay. Sakto karon kay off duty ang akong partner mao nga siya akong gibilinan sa among anak. Mao nga nakahigayon ko karon ug pagpabakuna . (I have a baby that’s why I just can’t leave home anytime. Good thing that my partner is taking a day off and that allowed me to come here and get vaccinated.),” Gomota said. She learned about the Bayanihan Bakunahan which runs from November 29 to December 1 on social media. Included in the announcement which she read is the vaccine brand that interested vaccinees will be able to get. Gomota shared that she has long wanted to be vaccinated with a Pfizer brand. “ Naengganyo pud ko kay nahibal-an nako nga

TALAINGOD, Davao del Norte, Nov. 29 (PIA) ---  The three-day national vaccination drive dubbed as “Bayanihan Bakunahan” is seen to  boost the percentage of vaccinated individuals especially in areas of low vaccination rates.   Davao del Norte Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Alfredo Lacerona was optimistic that the vaccination rate in the Municipality of Talaingod would  ramp up as he noted the huge influx to Sto Nino Gymnasium of individuals interested to  get jabbed. The Municipal Health Office is targeting to vaccinate 8,000 Talaingod residents at the close of the 3-day vaccination drive on December 1 This may be seen as just a minimal target compared to other towns but this figure is  seen as a key to hitting the 70 percent herd immunity in Talaingod with only 30,000 population, mostly Ata-Manobo indigenous peoples (IPs). Municipal Health Office (MHO) data showed that from the start of vaccination campaign up to November this year, only a total of 2,652 were fully vaccinated while 3,

TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte—The City Government of Tagum has opened 22 vaccination sites for the three-day National Vaccination campaign with  the end goal of vaccinating a  total of 51,649 individuals. City Health Education Promotion Officer (HEPO) Rae Catherine Apura told PIA that the city government aims to achieve 17,216 jabbing daily from Nov. 29 to Dec. 1. After the kick-off rites at Tagum City Hall Atrium this morning (Nov. 29), Tagum City Mayor Allan Rellon dispatched all City Department Heads to see to it that targets are met and even surpassed. The city government  has  clinched agreements with malls, hospitals and schools aside from government facilities as sites of the 3-day national vaccination campaign Bayanihan Bakunahan. Some 200  volunteers have manifested support for the city government in rolling out the campaign to all corners of the city, Apura said.  (JMDA)

DAVAO CITY, Nov. 25 (PIA) – The provincial government of Davao del Sur has targeted 134,866 individuals in the entire province to get inoculated during the “Bayanihan Bakunahan” National COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign on November 29, 30 to December 1, 2021.   Davao del Sur Governor Marc Douglas IV Cagas has issued Executive Order No. 39 Series of 2021 on Monday (Nov. 22), enjoining all local government units and stakeholders in the province to support and participate in the three-day vaccination drive.   In the executive order, Cagas raised the importance of the provincial LGU’s full support to the national vaccination campaign to further accelerate the vaccination rollout and to achieve at least 70 per cent of its eligible population.   It aims to get a daily target of 44,962 vaccinees in the whole province during the period.   The following are the breakdown of the total target population per city/municipality: Bansalan -5,667; Digos City - 13,005; Hagonoy - 5,310; Kiblawan - 4,274; M

DAVAO CITY- The Province of Davao Oriental is eyeing to vaccinate 96,744 individuals during the Bayanihan Bakunahan (National Vaccination Days) slated Nov. 29- Dec. 1 According to Davao Oriental Provincial Health Officer II Dr. Reden Bersaldo this would mean a target of 32,248 vaccinees per day during the three-day event. Dr. Bersaldo who is also the Provincial Task Force on COVID-19 Action Officer said the vaccination would focus on population groups; the pediatric population (12 to 17 years old), senior citizens, frontline personnel in essential sectors, indigent population. The three day Bayanihan Bakunahan aims to vaccinate persons not yet vaccinated in an effort to achieve herd immunity. In the Davao Region, the Department of Health-XI is targeting 753,294 unvaccinated individuals. Based on provincial data, Davao Oriental has a total population of 607,851 and 70% of the population is pegged at 425,494. Around 214,857 have already been vaccinated which is 50.50% of the total target

Japan Consul General in Davao Miwa Yoshiaki DAVAO CITY, Nov 22 (PIA) –The Office of the Consulate of Japan in Davao takes on initial talks for industrial development project in Mindanao focusing on the local government’s industrial and innovation policy through the Seeds and Needs Matching webinar in collaboration with the Cagayan de Oro Local Government Unit, Department of Trade and Industry and the University of Science and Technology in Southern Philippines held last week.   Consul-General of Japan in Davao Miwa Yoshiaki aims to integrate the concept and to have a collaborative effort in rebuilding industrial development in Southern and Northern Mindanao. Consul-General Yoshiaki said, “In order to develop industry, innovation is very important and all countries are looking forward or ways to promote in cooperation with the government, academia and industry in order to meet the seeds and needs.”    The Kitakyushu Science and Research Park Development Project is a community where adva

DAVAO CITY, Nov. 23 (PIA)—The head of the Davao City Social Services and Development revealed that the city will bring the gifts for the Indigenous Peoples directly to their communities.      Atty Marlisa Gallo, chief of the City Social Services and Development said IPs no longer have to go down to the city proper to get their gifts because the city government will bring the gifts to them.   Gallo mulled on distributing the gifts as early as December 6.   She bared that their office is currently preparing 30,000 gifts for the IPs this Christmas, apart from the 29,000 beneficiaries last year.     Gallo said the gifts will comprise of food packs composed of rice and canned goods.   “It is intended for everyone, “she said.   Gallo said initially the delivery will happen in Paquibato and Marilog Districts.   She said they will just coordinate with the barangay chairs but the actual distribution will be done by the CSSDO personnel.   Gallo said the IP communities will claim the items by the

PIA Dir. Gen. Usec. Mon Cualoping (center) with DOH-XI Reg Dir. Dr. Anaballe Yumang and DILG-RD Alex Roldan DAVAO CITY, 19  Nov (PIA) ---  Vaccination  has made this year much  better says Undersecretary Ramon Cualoping of the Philippine Information Agency XI “This year is proof.  Compared last year, this year is much better because there is vaccine,” he  said in  a press conference on Nov. 19 with Regional Director Alex Roldan of the Dept of Interior and Local Government (DLIG) XI and with Regional Director Annabelle Yumang of the Department of Health (DOH) XI.   He looked back  at how sober the situation was last year during which there was silence with a number of those who contracted COVID-19 severely suffered and some even succumbed to death.   “November  and December last year, mingaw kaayo  but because we have vaccinated more than half of the target population, we are much better now. Wala na kaayo’y nangamatay, wala  na kaayoy na ICU (Lesser have died and only a few were on ICU

DAVAO DEL NORTE, Nov. 23 (PIA) – More than 30 former members of the Communist Party of the Philippines - New People's Army (CPP-NPA) recently surrendered to government troops in the Province of Davao Del Norte with their firearms turned over to the 10th Infantry AGILA Division of  the Philippine Army. Presented during a turnover rites at the Davao del Norte Tahanan ng Lalawigan on Nov 22, they were members of Sub-regional Guerilla Unit (SRGU), Sub-regional Committee (SRC) 5, Southern Mindanao Regional Committee (SRMC).   Ata-Manobo residents in the hinterlands of  the Municipality of Talaingod, the 30 out of 31 surrenderees attended the turning over of firearms to Provincial Governor Edwin I. Jubahib and 10 th  Inf “Agila” Division commander, Major General Ernesto C. Torres Jr. Presented in the turnover ceremony was the video from Jubahib sent to Datu Eloy Bontolan of Sitio Pongpong, leading the latter and his group to surrender. " Ang focus sa atong gobyerno karon nga magkahi

Maj. Gen. Ernesto Torres with a recent NPA surrenderer DAVAO DEL NORTE, Nov. 23 (PIA) -- Major General Ernesto Torres Jr. of the 10 th  Infantry Division recently cited  Executive Order No. 70 as “very effective mechanism” to permanently address all the problems brought about by insurgency”.   He made the statement  as he appealed  lawmakers in Congress and in the Senate to reconsider their  move to slash lean the budget for the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) created thru  E.O. 70 issued by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte to focus on addressing the more than 5-decade local communist insurgency problem.   Looking back, Torres recalled the insurgency problem was used to  be primarily addressed only by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP).   He confessed the military to  have tried a number of campaign plans such as the  “Lambat Bitag”  among others,  but he said the  gains of such were found not sustainabl