PIA Davao Region

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 Emergency Situations.”   RA 10821 pa

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 diagnostics examinations which can be

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 in Le

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 Bureau of Investigation

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 Colonel Julius Munar, commander of 66

DAVAO CITY, May 27 (PIA) - Seven families are set to arrive in Davao del Norte soon after the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) has given its go signal following the validation for them to qualify as beneficiaries of the Balik Probinsya Bagong Pag asa Program (BP2P). In the One Davao Virtual Presser, PSWDO focal for the BP2P Lanny Guinit bared that out of the 46 families who initially sent their application thru the BP2P website, only 7 families are ready to be relocated in Davao del Norte. "Some who initially sent their application have withdrawn while some are asking for more time before getting dispatched to the province," Guinit said. The seven families approved and validated by the PSWDO are set to arrive the soonest. Members of the Technical Working Group (TWG) of the BP2P Davao del Norte have consolidated the services ready to be offered to the beneficiaries. Guinit said that the TWG has learned lessons from the implementation of the program for