PIA Davao Region

DAVAO DEL NORTE, Feb. 22 (PIA) -- A total of 14 persons who used drugs (PWUDs) graduated from the Katawhan Kontra Droga sa Komunidad (KKDK) Program of the Provincial Government of Davao Del Norte, a community-based rehabilitation process for people convicted of pushing or using illegal drugs. After the first batch of 25 drug reformists who graduated from the KKDK Program last year, 14 individuals finished their rehabilitation process at the Balay Silangan Reformation Center as the second batch of graduates from the said program. These 14 drug reformists are those convicted of drug use or selling whose request for a plea bargaining agreement was approved by their respective trial courts. In an interview by One DavNor Network, some of them expressed their experiences and stories of the program helped them to become better. “Ang akong experience sa sulod nakahatag nakog leksyon kanang malayo sa pamilya; malayo sa akong mga anak. Lisod kaayo kay makita nako pagbisita nila, namayat sila, ap...

DAVAO CITY- Three hospitals in the Davao Region has been accredited by PhilHealth to provide the COVID-19 Home Isolation Benefit Package ( CHIBP). These hospitals include Davao Oriental Provincial Medical Center in Davao Oriental, Rivera Medical Center, Inc. in Davao del Norte and Davao Doctors Hospital in Davao City. With the accredited hospitals, patients who are tested positive for COVID-19 through RT-PCR tests but are asymptomatic or with mild symptoms can avail of the CHIBP by coordinating with these providers for assessment so they can receive adequate health support in their homes. The list of accredited CHIBP providers is expected to grow in the region as PhilHealth-accredited KonSulTa providers, Community Isolation Units (CIU), infirmaries, hospitals can still enlist as CHIBP providers at no accreditation fee. The accredited CHIBP providers is in line with the release of PhilHealth Region XI Advisory No. 2022-0011 which announced the acceptance of applications for those wantin...

DAVAO DE ORO, February 22 (PIA) - - Major General Nolasco A. Mempin PA assumes on Wednesday, February 22, 2022, as the commander of the 10 th  Infantry Agila Division replacing Lieutenant General Ernesto Torres, Jr. AFP, who is now the commander of the North Luzon Command. Before his appointment, Major General Mempin was the deputy chief of staff for Civil Military Operations (CMO) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) since October 2021. MGen Mempin is not new to the area of the Agila Division as he served as its assistant division commander from June to October 2021. Prior to that, he was the commander of the 1003rd Infantry Raptor Brigade from March 2019 to June 2021, and commander of Task Force Davao on August 2017 to March 2019. During his stint as the Raptor Brigade commander, Guerilla Front 56, and Pulang Bagani 2 and 3 of the New People’s Army were dismantled. BGen Mempin is a member of Philippine Military Academy “Bigkis Lahi” Class 1990. During the Change of Comman...

DAVAO CITY, February 22 (PIA) – “Mindanao is still in the catch-up mode as compared to how Luzon has been moving and developing. Our infrastructure is still an unfinished agenda in Mindanao. Linking growth corridors with transport and logistics network still need to be pushed”, Mindanao Development Authority Deputy Executive Director Asec. Romeo Montenegro said in the One Davao Virtual Presser. The MinDA official shared the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data that Mindanao, despite being the source of 43% of the country’s total farm produce and the home of 36% of the country’s farm area, is still host to 9 out of 10 poorest provinces in the country. Montenegro highlighted that many parts of Mindanao, especially in the Bangsamoro Region, do not have the necessary logistics support and infrastructure. “Most of our export products come from the Bangsamoro Region. Unfortunately, there is no processing center in most of these areas that’s why the products need to be transported to Da...

DAVAO REGION, Feb. 22 (PIA)--- “We need to  have that sense of urgency,”  Lt General Romeo Brawner, Philippine Army commanding general has ordered officers and elements  of the 10 th  Infantry “Agila” Division to do.   Addressing the Change-of-Command Ceremony of the Philippine Army Agila Division based in the Municipality of Mawab, Davao de Oro, Brawner pitched the call for urgency emphasizing the need to meet the order of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.   “Kasi nga po sinabi ng ating Pangulo (because the President said) that by the end of his term we have to  end the local communist armed conflict. Hindi lang (Not only the) local communist conflict but even the  local terrorist operating  the in southern portion of Mindanao. Sabi nya na tatapusin na natin sila (He said that we have to end them),” he said.   He cited the daily reports on encounters of the Philippine Army infantry divisions nationwide, with local terrorist groups, as a ...

DAVAO DE ORO, February 22 (PIA) - - Some 91 banana plantation workers who are member of the Nagkahiusang Mamumuo sa Suyapa Farms (NAMASUFA) surrendered recently to the authorities in the province of Davao de Oro. During the ceremony held at the Davao de Oro Police Office complex, the workers revealed that their group has been used by the Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army – National Democratic Front (CPP-NPNA-NDF) to create chaos in their working field, and even organize movement against the government.   Vicente Barrios, president of NAMASUFA, bared in his speech that their group was infiltrated by the communist group and have been exploiting their social issues to agitate them against the company, their employer, and the government.  “Among narealize nga walay pulos ang tanang kalihukan nga amoang nahimo ilabina ang kalabanon ang atoang tinood nga gobyerno; ila (CPP-NPA-NDF) lang kaming gilingla og gigamit ang amoang kahuyang,” Barrios said. (We have rea...

DAVAO CITY, February 21 (PIA) The Department of Education XI contemplates of returning the face-to-face classes now that the city eases the restrictions under the alert level II of the Inter-Agency Task Force on COVID-19. However, Jeneilito Atillo, spokesperson of the Department of Education XI bared they have yet to determine the terms based on the safety school assessment tool. He said this tool will emanate from the school environment in itself with the purpose of assessing the readiness of the school to conduct the face-to-face classes gauging its facilities and the capacity to handle the classes.   Atillo underscored those teachers must be fully vaccinated.   He said that face-to-face classes may be handled on the alert level I and II but will automatically stop when the alert level III is declared by the IATF and would revert back to the use of modules and online classes.     Atillo stressed the DepED also need to get the nod of the local government unit for ho...