PIA Davao Region

DAVAO CITY, July 2 (PIA) – The National Nutrition Council in Davao Region launched the nutrition month celebration highlighting the fight against malnutrition and the focus on the first 1,000 days of life. Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator Dr. Maria Teresa Ungson bared in the One Davao Virtual Presser that the COVID19 pandemic has brought impact to the nutrition of individuals. Families had limited access to food, food items in the form of “ayuda” were insufficient to meet nutritional needs, maternal health services were affected, and physical inactivity and unhealthy behaviors increase. Although at the start of the pandemic, she said that local government units had efforts in providing nutritious food items as part of the “ayuda”. Fruits and vegetables were included in the food packs. However, as the pandemic extended for months since its onset last March of 2020, Ungson expressed concern especially to pregnant women and the health of children especially on its first 1,000 days o...

D AVAO CITY, July 1 (PIA) – Committee chairperson on education, science and technology, arts and culture of the 19th Davao City Council Councilor Pilar Braga proposed to the council designating the SenTro Mindanaw as Davao City’s Science Centrum and Venue for Inventors and Innovators. Guesting in the One Davao Virtual Presser, the councilor announced the said ordinance as the next bold step to implement the recently approved ordinance establishing the Davao City Inventors and Innovators Center. Braga explained that “the center shall serve as a venue for inventors, innovators and creative researchers to come together where ideas, innovations, and inventions can be fully developed, promoted and protected.” The ordinance approved last April 20 was also envisioned to develop and promote local technologies to improve productivity, competitiveness and quality of life. “I was surprised because I get to learn every time through the pool of inventors and innovators that we have their products a...

An old hand in Mindanao’s peacebuilding and development circles has expressed full support to the extenstion of the transition period of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Gus Miclat, Executive Director of the Davao City-based Initiatives for International Dialogue, said in an exclusive interview that the extension “is a no-brainer. The transition period should have already been determined to be not less than five years at the least in the CAB (Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro signed in 2014).” Multisectoral efforts have been underway for months to press government to extend the transition period of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA), created two years ago and set to be dissolved next year in time for the elections in Muslim Mindanao. Transition proponents want the new date to be on 2025. “How can we honestly and practically say that we can achieve even the basics within three years given the enormity not only of the tasks, but of addressing th...

DAVAO CITY- “Working as a hospitality sales professional in Davao, most of our work we are exposed to different people, face- to-face transaction is a primary requirement so I decided to get the vaccine to protect myself, not just myself but my family, friends and colleagues at work and at the same time to protect our valued clients,” said Francis Gevin Morales who was the among the vaccinees at the vaccination program for tourism workers in Davao City which formally started June 30. Francis was the first of the 500 vaccinees for the launch held at the seaside Grand Pavilion of the Waterfront Insular Hotel Davao.  The resort-themed Bakuna by the Sea was organized thru a public-private partnership spearheaded by the City Government of Davao, the private sector led Davao Tourism Association and the Waterfront Insular Hotel Davao. The hotel provided the venue and counterpart logistics for the vaccination site as a way of celebrating its 60 years in Davao City. Apart from the hotel oth...

DAVAO CITY, June 30 (PIA) – About 10,000 government employees in Davao City are set to get inoculated starting today and is expected to run in the next three weeks. The Davao City Government called for interested sectors to help in the roll out of the national vaccination program. As the Davao City LGU is in the process of completing the vaccination for the A1, A2, and A3 Priority Groups, it has also allowed sectors to establish additional vaccination sites specific to cater their respective sector. The Association of Regional Executives of National Agencies XI (ARENA XI), being the organization of the different heads of offices, orchestrated the establishment of two vaccination sites including the gathering and training of vaccination team who are volunteers from the different member agencies of the ARENA XI. “We also thank the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP) and the University of the Philippines (UP) Mindanao for serving as host site in the vaccination. These two site a...

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 pl...

Freezer for the vaccines at the Waterfront Insular Davao vaccination site DAVAO CITY- It’s all systems go for Bakuna by the Sea, a vaccination program for Davao City’s tourism sector workers.   The vaccinations will start tomorrow, June 30 at 8 :00 a.m.  with the Grand Pavilion of the Waterfront Insular Hotel serving as the venue of the vaccination site.   An initial 2,000 doses of vaccines will be provided to jumpstart the vaccination of an estimated 7,000 tourism workers and and those working in allied establishments. The site will also accommodate members of the Davao City media for the vaccination.   Dubbed as Bakuna by the Sea (Vaccination by the Sea) the lush seaside tropical garden and coconut grove within the grounds of the Waterfront Insular Hotel will provide a resort-like ambiance to the vaccination.   The tourism sector vaccination is a multi-sectoral partnership between the City Government of Davao, the private sector spearheaded by the Davao Touris...