PIA Davao Region

DIGOS CITY, Davao del Sur, March 23 – Davao del Sur coffee farmers have proven to be the producers of the best Arabica coffee in the country as they cement their position in the top ranks of the Philippine Coffee Quality Competition this year.   Marifel Dela Cerna and Cherry Gil Cabanday of the Balutakay Coffee Farmers Cooperative (BACOFA COOP) snagged the Top 1 and Top 2 ranks, respectively, in the Arabica category.   The two coffee farmers bested all 45 entries submitted nationwide in this year’s PCQC under the Arabica category.                                           Dela Cerna now joins the ranks of Davao del Sur’s Marites Arellano and Marivic Dubria, who also topped the Arabica category in 2021 and 2019, respectively.   Dela Cerna credits her success to her mentors and to all institutions that helped their cooperative including the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Department of Agriculture (DA), ACDI/VOCA, among others.   She encouraged her fellow coffee farmers to co

DAVAO CITY- The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a cease and desist order to LMB Football which is promoting investment-taking activities with the lure of promising profitable returns. LMB Football is a reverse betting platform or football score prediction trading it is also known as wrong score prediction platform. The public are enticed to invest a minimum of P300 which will earn 3- 8% interest daily or profit a one-time investment or 90-240% profit in 30 days. LMB Football is not registered with SEC   either as a corporation or partnership which operates an online investment solicitation business.   It only represents as a business registered with the Department of Trade and Industry. Thus SEC has ordered LMB FOOTBALL, and its officers, operators, administrators, promoters, representatives, salesmen, agents, investment team planners, mentors, enables, influencers, assigns, conduit entities, subsidiaries, and any and all persons claiming, acting, and operating for

DAVAO DEL NORTE, March 25 (PIA) -- Members of the Barangay Health Emergency Response Team (BHERT) have a role to play during election campaign  period, together with the barangay officials and barangay tanods. Under Rule VII Section 25 of COMELEC Resolution 10732 on Monitoring and Implementation, COMELEC designates authority  to “Barangay Officials, Tanods and Members of BHERT to impose strict observance with Minimum Public Health Standards during the conduct of election campaign activities.” “Dahil nga pandemic, may mga restrictions tayo in  the conduct of the COMELEC  campaign activities. Sila po ‘yong makakatulong sa atin ( Due to the pandemic, we have restrictions in the conduct of COMELEC campaign activities.  They are the one who can help us) in monitoring the compliance of minimum public health standards), ”  said Atty Emilie Camaganacan, provincial election supervisor of COMELEC Davao del Norte during her guesting at Kapihan sa DavNor. Atty. Camaganacan explained that COMELEC

DAVAO CITY, March 24 (PIA)—The Acting City Executive mulls of amending the city ordinance on Anti-Discrimination to include the peace champions or the former rebels who would like to be integrated in the mainstream society. Acting Mayor Sebastian Duterte bared his plan to talk first to the members 19 th City Council in order to amend the Anti-Discrimination Ordinance during the victory declaration against the communist insurgency in Davao City, five months before the end of the term of the present administration. He intended to expand the coverage of the anti-discrimination ordinance to former rebels. “While you are in Davao City, you can assert your right by not being labelled as former rebels when you apply for a job or to just simply live in the city as an ordinary citizen,” Duterte said. He told the peace champions that by the time they surrendered, they also restored the trust and confidence they earlier lost from the government. Duterte welcomed the peace champions and prodded o

MATI, Davao Oriental (PIA)- The Province of Davao Oriental was named as the 2021 National Anti-Drug Abuse Council   Gold Awardee during the 2020-2021 Davao Region Anti-Drug Abuse Council Performance Awards held on March 15 in Davao City. During the 2019 ADAC Performance Audit, Davao Oriental garnered a score of 100 functionality points with a corresponding adjectival functional rating of (Ideal) High Functionality.   Among the functionality score indicators are the creation and reorganization of Anti-Drug Abuse Council, allocation of funds, implementation of plans and programs, and the conduct of meetings and innovations. Davao Oriental has been a Gold Awardee province since 2017 as it has prioritized and implemented various anti-drug programs aimed at protecting the community from the drug menace. One of these programs is the   Lihok Nagkahiusang Lumulupyo Kontra Droga which mobilizes communities and partners to fight against drugs up to the barangay level.   Currently, a total of 15

DAVAO CITY, March 22 (PIA) – Following the gains of the recently held National Vaccination Day IV, the Davao Region is set to hold the Special Vaccination Days on March 29, 30, and 31. This time, the vaccination program is targeting to cover the primary and booster doses of 18 years old and above individuals as well as primary doses of 12 years old. The strategy employed for this Special Vaccination is “ Tutok and Suyod Barangay”, focusing the target unvaccinated population in every barangay. To ensure for a high turn-out of vaccination, municipalities will identify the top 3 to 5 barangays with the highest unvaccinated population. The vaccination teams may proceed to neighboring barangay once done with the identified barangay. The 18 years old and above vaccinees are recommended to get Janssen as primary dose while Pfizer, Astra Zeneca, Sinovac, and Moderna for booster dose. The 12 to 17 years old vaccinees will be receiving Pfizer or Moderna as primary dose. The NVD IV resulted to a

  MALITA, Davao Occidental, Mar. 22 (PIA) – The most-awaited Davao Occidental General Hospital has been opened to start providing medical services to the constituents of the province and nearby towns.      Senate Committee on Health Chairperson Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go graced the soft opening of the first  general hospital located in  Barangay Lacaron in the municipality of Malita.   The establishment of the Level 3 hospital in the province was materialized through  Republic Act 11568 signed by President Rodrigo Duterte   on  June 24, 2021.   The general hospital has a 100-bed capacity  and with a funding of almost  P100 million under the  Health Facilities Enhancement Program of the Department of Health.   With the presence of the DOGH, Go expressed his happiness for the residents, especially the less fortunate, who can now have easy access to a more improved medical, hospitalization and emergency services.   “Ako’y masaya dahil aside from being the sponsor nitong establ