PIA Davao Region

  NABUNTURAN, Davao de Oro (PIA) - An official of the Land Transportation Office enjoined the public for the eradication of colorum vehicles plying the streets in Davao region. During the second episode of Kapihan sa Bagong Pilipinas in Davao City, LTO XI Regional Director Eleanor Calderon urged the public not to patronize colorum vehicles to avoid any road safety risk and to also complement their enforcement operations against these violators. “If we stop patronizing these (colorum vehicles), they will just die a natural death; mawala ra na sila sa kalsad a (they will just vanish in our roads),” Calderon said. The traffic official emphasized that LTO XI has apprehended a total of 115 colorum vehicles from January to April 2024. Calderon also provided tips to identify colorum vehicles. She said that UV express vehicles should have yellow plates; other than that, the public should not board not yellow-plated vehicles whose drivers or operators are offering rides for a fee. “Dapat ...

TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte (PIA) - - The Department of Transportation (DOTr) opened on May 31 the Metro Davao Bike Lane Project which is part of  the P5-billion Active Transport Program anchored on the transport policy of the  Philippine Development Plan 2023-2028. DOTr Secretary Jaime Bautista led the opening ceremony of the bike lane project by t aking a bicycle ride from Robinsons Place Tagum to the nearby section of Daang Maharlika Highway. The bike lane project is implemented by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) XI. With a total funding of P290,966,073.55, the Metro Davao Bike Lane Project establishes 47.79 kilometers (both ways) of bike lanes along the selected roads in the cities of Tagum and Davao. Davao City and Tagum are major components of the Metropolitan Davao declared through Republic Act No. 11708. The project also includes the maintenance and upgrading of a total of 60.24 kilometers (both ways) of bike lanes, including those along the Daang M...

DAVAO CITY, May 31 (PIA)- Secretary Jesus Dureza who served six Philippine Presidents in various capacities launched his 478-page autobiography titled “Walked with the Presidents: An Autobiography” last May 28 at the Guillermo E. Torres Auditorium, University of Mindanao campus in Matina, this City.  With around 200 people mostly family members, relatives, colleagues, friends and supporters gathered at the auditorium for a short program which was capped by a book signing by the author.  President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, a high school classmate of the book author and Senator Christopher Bong Go delivered their recorded congratulatory messages.    “It’s a long walk for about 32 years with six Presidents  kaya di na ako tumakbo ng  Senator, senior citizen Jess  nalang ako para maalagaan ko ang aking asawa, mga anak at aking mga apo  (That is why I didn’t run for senator I will be just senior citizen Jess so I can take care of my wife, my children and gr...

DAVAO DEL NORTE, 31 May (PIA)—The Department of Social Welfare and Development recently turned over the P1,072,690.00 worth of indigenous people’s building called Tog’gan  Center for the IPs in Barangay Carcor in the municipality of New Corella.   Done in just 72 construction days, the Tog’gan Center was funded through the Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan (KALAHI) - Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) subay sa Indigenous Peoples Community Driven Development (IP-CDD).   In a recently held turn-over rites, Datu Jolito Manabogan, barangay Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representative (IPMR) expressed his happiness saying, the Tog’gan Center “is a valuable” facility of the IP community.   During the same occasion, Punong Barangay (Barangay Captain) Filbert Dawal of Brgy. Carcor vowed to support  the IP community and help its members take care of the facility, and to organize events  and activities for the IPs.   "Sa ingon mapreserba ug mapasundayag nato an...

DAVAO CITY, May 31 (PIA) – The provincial government of Davao del Sur has assisted more barangays and peoples organizations as it continues to provide livelihood support and projects across the province. In the convocation program of the employees at the provincial capitol in Digos City on Monday (May 30, 2022), Governor Marc Cagas has turned over a total of P3.1 million worth of financial assistance to a barangay council and various POs. From the total financial assistance, the Barangay Buas in Matanao town received P2 million to fund its relocation site with a land area of 20,000 square meters. According to the Davao del Sur Provincial Information Office, the aid under the Relocation Site Development Program (RSDP) will benefit 149 qualified residents. For the livelihood assistance, the Punta Biao Fish Vendors Association of Barangay Cogon in Digos City is a recipient of P112,000.00 to be used as additional capital for their micro-enterprise projects. Among those that received financ...

DAVAO DEL NORTE,  May 30 (PIA)—Aside from seizing P189,000 worth of illegal drugs, the joint  elements of  the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)  Davao del Norte and  the Sto. Tomas Municipal Police Station eventually dismantled a drug den in an enforcement operation done on May 29, 2022 at around 11:40 in the evening at Purok 1, Barangay New Katipunan, Sto. Tomas, Davao del Norte.   The illegal drug identified as “shabu” or methamphetamine hydrochloride  was seized from Dexter Carlos Perez alias Bibi, 31 years old, single, truck driver  who was with his brothers in a shabu session when the enforcement operation was carried out.   The brothers were caught on the act of selling and using shabu in an entrapment operation during which Perez was selling one piece of medium heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet of “shabu” weighing more or less one gram worth Php. 9,000,  to PDEA XI  agent who acted as poseur buyer  at that ...

DAVAO CITY, May 30 (PIA) – Davao Region is set to receive more tourists as the Department of Tourism (DOT) launched its communication campaign, “ Colours of Mindanao”. In the One Davao Presser held  recently at the Aeon Towers, Tourism Director of Davao Region Tanya Rabat-Tan bared that with the ready tourism circuits of the region which may be integrated or connected with the other regions in Mindanao, the region is expected to gain more tourists. Rabat-Tan explained that the campaign is all about assigning colors to the many tourism circuits in the different parts of Mindanao such that one region gets to offer their own circuits to the similar circuits in other regions and the campaign consolidates it by offering attractive package tours. The campaign will showcase new products under colour themes corresponding to a tourism aspect — blue for dive tourism, teal for sun and beach, green for ecotourism, brown for farm tourism, violet for culture and heritage, red for adventure and s...

DAVAO DEL NORTE, May 30 (PIA)—  The Regional Sub-Committee for Welfare of Children (RSCWC) of Davao Region opens itself to providing  technical assistance to local government units (LGUs) especially in their bid to revise  their Local Code on Children.   RSCWC Regional Coordinator Reneeboy “Bhong” Binondo said that RSCWC XI is momentarily opening up doors for LGUs which seek to review and amend provisions of their respective codes on children to integrate new laws that further uphold children’s rights and welfare..   Even if LGUs have just recently passed or amended their Local Code on Children but Binondo said that if new national policies need to be integrated to form part of the local policies on children, “the Local Code on Children can readily be updated.”   Binondo was particularly referring to the Republic Act 10821 or “An Act Mandating the Provision of Emergency Relief and Protection for Children Before, During, and After Disasters and Other Emergen...

DAVAO CITY, May 30 (PIA) – An official of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation in the region has called on all members to register with PhilHealth “Konsultang Sulit at Tama” Package to avail of the outpatient health services.   Johanna Blason, PhilHealth-XI press relations officer, explained that the Konsulta package is an expansion of primary care benefit which is newly-implemented, to cover all Filipinos as mandated by the Universal Health Care Law.   It offers the comprehensive outpatient health services such as initial and follow-up primary care consultations, health screening and assessment and access to selected diagnostic services, and medicines.    “This is what we have been clamoring and waiting for, to have outpatient health services… This is to prevent us from getting sick or for our sickness to get worst. We don’t need to be hospitalized to avail of Philhealth services,” Blason stated.   She bared that there are 13 laboratory and diagnost...

DAVAO CITY, May 30 (PIA) - - The Tactical Operations Wing Eastern Mindanao (TOW EastMin) celebrates the 75 th  anniversary of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) with an exhibit in Abreeza Mall, Davao on May 31 to June 2, 2022. According to the Public Information Office of TOW East Min, the exhibit located at the Activity Center Area at the ground floor of the mall will showcase the force’s humanitarian and disaster response (HADR) equipment, firearms, and aircrafts in replica. During the exhibit, the force’s K9 units will also showcase their capabilities. TOW East Min hopes to promote through the display the accomplishments of PAF, including its command thrust dubbed as LIPAD PAF, and the Flight Map 2028. The operations wing also welcomes applications for aspiring individuals to be a part of PAF as regular, reservist, or civilian human resource. Aside from Abreeza Mall, PAF also holds an exhibit at Ayala Center in Cebu on May 13, at KCC Mall de Zamboanga on May 17-19, at SM City Mall i...

DAVAO CITY, May 26 (PIA)—Davao Region has 53 active Trafficking-in-persons cases being heard in courts according to Assistant Regional Prosecutor Gladys Joy Almazan-De Leon, in the first Law Enforcement Quarterly meeting of the Inter-Agency Council against Trafficking held at the Women and Children’s Protection Unit Office at the Police Regional Office XI headquarters in Barangay Buhangin.   She said that top-notcher is Davao City with 30 cases, followed by seven cases in Digos City, Davao del Sur and five cases in the Island Garden City of Samal, Davao del Norte.   Almazan-De Leon said Panabo City, Tagum City, Davao de Oro, Mati City, and Davao Occidental have one case each.   “If you notice, in our records as of March 2022, there was no TIP case in Davao Oriental and Davao del Norte,” she said.   Almazan-De Leon said these TIP cases are currently handled by the law enforcement agencies under the Police Regional Office XI, Talomo Police Station and the National Bure...

DAVAO CITY, May 30 (PIA)- The Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) is eyeing an emergency and possibly a permanent relocation of the existing Philippine Eagle Center in Malagos to a 50-hectare City Government property in Barangay Eden. Andi Baldonado, Development Manager of the PEF said due to threats brought by the Avian Influenza they are on standby to relocate the Philippine Eagles to a local government property. Baldonado said the recent Avian Flu infection in Magsaysay town which is 90 kilometers away from the center “practically brings the threat on their doorstep.” “A single case of this virus in the Philippine Eagle Center can potentially wipe out all 34 Philippine Eagles that we have right now,” Baldonado said during her guesting at the Kapihan sa Dabaw held at SM City Davao. “Right now, we have intensified bio-security measures which means people that have access to the eagles in the center are their keepers. The keepers are assigned to specific eagles they go to strict measures...

DAVAO DE ORO, May 27 (PIA) - - A former member of the New People’s Army (NPA) tipped off authorities in the latest unearthing of arms cache at Sitio Liboton, Barangay Andap in New Bataan, Davao de Oro on Wednesday.   The cache includes three AK-47 rifles with two 30-round magazines, and one M16 Rifle with an attached M203 grenade launcher.   Alias Winwin revealed that the arms belonged to the Regional Operations Command/Regional Headquarters of the Southern Mindanao Regional Committee (ROC/HQ SMRC) led by a certain Leo Lacumbo alias Ole or Liang.   Winwin, who claimed to be a member of the ROC/HQ, surrendered to the Davao de Oro Provincial Police Office (DDOPO) last April 1, 2022 along with alias Jakjak of Guerilla Front 2.   The recovery of the arms cache was jointly operated by the DDOPO and the 66 th  Infantry Battalion.   The firearms are now in the custody of 1st Davao de Oro Provincial Mobile Force Company for proper disposition.   Lieutenant Col...