PIA Davao Region

DAVAO DEL NORTE, June 22 (PIA) — Tagum City and Panabo City are making efforts to enforce the policies amidst the province’s General Community Quarantine (GCQ) status.    In Tagum, the City Economic Enterprises Office leads the inspection of frontline services and establishments to make sure that the health protocols are implemented.    Through their operation called “OPLAN DAKOP”, health protocol violators in the Economic Enterprises such as the Public Market, Terminal, Livestock and Trade Center are issued with a citation ticket.    Those issued with the ticket will have to pay P540 to the City Treasurer’s Office within 7 days or face a legal case filed against them.    Among the most common violations found is the failure to wear or improper wearing of facemasks.    Similarly, in Panabo City, the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) Inspection Team targets the Panabo Public Premium Market, 3’F Marketing, and other establishments.  ...

Regional Border Control point at Pasian, Monkayo in Davao de Oro. DAVAO DE ORO, June 22 (PIA) - Since the start of the implementation of the uniform guidelines on the regional border control, authorities in Davao de Oro has barred the entry of 190 persons at the checkpoint in Barangay Pasian, Monkayo from June 8 to 21, 2021.  Police Captain Marion Sibayan, 3rd platoon leader of the 1st DDO Provincial Mobile Force Company, revealed that the reason for the denial is mostly due to lack of RT-PCR test results.  “Aside from RT-PCR, ang uban kay non-essential ang lakaw; ug ang uban wala makapakita og documents, proof, or justification nga essential ilang lakaw,” PCpt. Sibayan said. (Aside from RT-PCR, the other (reason) is that their travel is considered non-essential; while other persons did not have documents, proof, or justification that their travel is essential.)  The uniform guidelines on the regional border control is in accordance with Joint Regional Inter-Ag...

    DAVAO CITY- The president of the Davao Tourism Association, Renato "Gatchi" Gatchalian said that it is the new role of the business owners to inform and educate their workers on the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines. “It is now our role as businessmen to let them (employees) understand na because of the situation they have to cooperate, they just have to resurrender themselves to this weapon, kasi hindi natin alam etong gyera na hindi natin nakikita ang kalaban, kelangan natin ng weapon at ang bakuna ay isang sandata . (we do not know this war, which we do not see the enemy, we need this weapon and the vaccine is the weapon). Gatchalian’s DATA along with various tourism businesses in Davao City is partnering with the City Government of Davao to vaccinate around 5,000 to 7,000 tourism workers in the city. DATA is an association of tourism and tourism-allied establishments operating in the city. Gatchalian a popular local restaurateur known for his coffee shops and themed rest...

DAVAO DEL NORTE, June 21 (PIA) – The Provincial Government along with National Government Agencies (NGAs) conducted a meeting on June 18 to discuss plans on how to bring Ending Local Communist Armed Conflict (ELCAC) stories to more Filipinos. During the online meeting, 10th Infantry Division Public Affairs Office (10IDPAO) suggested that a dramatization style of content on ELCAC stories could be more appealing to the Filipino public. For this, PICKMO (Provincial Information, Communication and Knowledge Management Office) suggested that among the ways in telling these stories is through animations since it can ensure the privacy of the source subject and since both PICKMO and the Department of Education (DepEd) already have teams of animators. To reach the target audience in the Indigenous People (IP) communities, it was discussed that ELCAC stories in the language easily understandable to the IPs should be created more. With this, Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Region XI said...

DAVAO CITY, June 21 (PIA)- Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio revealed that the city takes its cue from the Inter-Agency Task Force on Covid-19 regarding the quarantine status to be followed beyond June 30. She clarified that the City Government follows only the advice issued by the national government when it comes to quarantine classification. Duterte-Carpio suspected that the surge is due to the presence of a more infectious variant, more people outside going to work, and non-practice of the minimum public health standard inside the dwelling places. “MPHS is not practice much on the households,” she said. Duterte-Carpio advised COVID-19 positive patients who are waiting for pick up might resort to telemedicine to talk to the doctors regarding the felt symptoms. She said the CHO is establishing this system. Duterte-Carpio said the City Government will also provide care-kits for patients who are waiting for pick up at the TTMFs like the asymptomatic and mild cases. “They will be provided...

DAVAO CITY, June 21 (PIA) – Advocacy group, Talikala, and the Philippine Information Agency Davao Region conducted on Thursday (June 17) the second of its series of media forum discussing Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (OSAE). Talikala Inc. executive director Jeanette L. Ampog bared that reporting online sexual abuse cases remained to be a challenge for the said advocacy group and even for government authorities. “While there has been reported increase in OSAE cases during the time of the pandemic but we still find it challenging on convincing people to come out and report these abuses. Many people still don’t know what to do with their information and they only get to discuss it when the government and advocacy groups hold a forum in the community,” Ampog said. Common reason voiced out by victims or family of the victim would be the repercussion or impact that it might cause to the family if and when the abuse is reported. Ampog shared that there is still a need to intensify th...

  DAVAO City, June 18 (PIA) -- Lockdown is already lifted at the Police Regional Office XI. Police Major Eudisan Goltiano, spokesperson of the PRO XI confirmed this information, as no one among the police assigned at the camp is COVID-19 positive. However, she said that more COVID-19 cases were noted in the provinces like 28 cases as of June 17, and 162 active cases as of June 18. Goltiano said that a total 695 cases of COVID-19 have been noted in the whole police force of Davao Region since the start of the pandemic last year. “Most of the police afflicted with COVID-19 was asymptomatic,” she said. Goltiano revealed that a total of three policemen died because of this virus. She said that civilians who have transactions at the PRO XI still have to comply with negative anti-gen test result or 72 hour-RT-PCR test result to prevent more lockdowns in the future. “We are waiting for the recommendation of our medical unit if we can relax the regulations, but for the meantime, with ...