PIA Davao Region

DAVAO CITY, Feb. 5 (PIA)--- Ending Local Communist Armed  Conflict (ELCAC) program should be  an election issue,  Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Director General Ramon L. Cualoping III said while projecting the possibility that “terror” may again reign should there be a shift to policy approach to peace and order. Guesting at the latest edition of One Davao Presser, Cualoping said “peace may not prosper”  and the gains reaped in ending the 5-decade insurgency problem “may go to  waste if the next president will not continue the program.” “It is true that the idea of ending local communist armed conflict is one of the greatest legacies of President Duterte. Peace and Order has always been at the forefront of the President’s agenda to give a comfortable life for all Filipinos. That’s why I really think this should be an election issue,” he said. He urged electorates to ask their candidates on their stand regarding ELCAC, on the terrorist groups, about the Barangay Development Progra

Bilawa Mainit Hot Waterfalls, a much visited tourist spot in Davao de Oro was once a rebel infested area DAVAO CITY- From an insurgency-wracked province which used to host 14 New Peoples Army guerrilla fronts, Davao de Oro has managed to transform itself as one of the country’s premiere tourism destinations.   “In 2019 we are placed 11 th  in the entire country in terms of statistics, the entire 2020 we placed 5 th  in terms of stays, arrivals,” says Christine Dompor, Provincial Investment and Tourism Officer of Davao de Oro province.   Dompor attributes the development to the National Task Force Ending Local Communist Armed Conflict which had reduced the 14 guerrilla fronts to just one operating in the province and that lone front is in danger of being disbanded.   “I would really like to highlight the efforts of ELCAC, it has opened the whole of Davao de Oro, if you have heard of Manurigao, it is also being opened, there are developments there and roads leading to Manurigao is really

DIGOS CITY, June 30 (PIA) – A memorial was recently built in honor and in memory of the 39 Bagobo-Tagabawa tribe members who were massacred by the communist rebels 32 years ago in a hinterland cultural community in Sitio Rano, Barangay Binaton, this city.   The 32nd anniversary of the Rano massacre was remembered with the unveiling and inauguration of the Rano Memorial situated at Rimpong Tribal Village in Brgy. Binaton.   Director General Alex Paul Monteagudo of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) has led other national and local government officials in commemorating the tragedy and in condoling with the survivors and families of the victims.   Monteagudo dedicated the newly-inaugurated Rano Memorial to the Bagobo-Tagabawa tribe who lost loved ones in the horrendous massacre which happened on June 25, 1989.     “This memorial is part of teaching our people, especially the young, about what happened to our Bagobo-Tagabawa people in 1989… This place is a tribute to the