DIGOS CITY – Mayor Josef Cagas said Friday he instructed the City Information Office to conduct a house-to-house information dissemination campaign on vaccination. Cagas, in an interview, said the house-to-house drive is necessary, given the low turnout of vaccinees. “They need to do the house-to-house campaign to further entice people on the goodness of vaccine to one’s health,” he said. As the city is under stricter policies to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), Cagas said barangay officials and tanods (watchmen) have been deputized to issue citation tickets to violators of minimum public health standards. On June
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – Authorities seized some PHP1.3 billion worth of counterfeit cigarettes and raw materials in Mabalacat City, this province on Thursday. Col. Arnold Ibay, provincial director of the Pampanga Police Provincial Office, said Friday the operation also resulted in the arrest of five individuals identified as Danny Martizano, a resident of St. Paul District Bisug, Surigao del Sur; Richie Aliminion of Barangay Malbug, Cawayan, Masbate; Sammy Molina of San Macario Norte, Natividad, Pangasinan; Ryan Tilanduca of Barangay Bangcud, Malaybalay, Bukidnon; and Efren Tacomto of Marcos Village, Mabalacat City. The five have been associated with the Wendel
SISON, Pangasinan – Authorities recovered abandoned bricks and tubular packs of dried marijuana in Barangay Agat, this town on Thursday. In an interview on Friday, Sison police investigator Senior Master Sgt. Fernando Mason said the recovered marijuana weighed an estimated 13 kilograms worth PHP1.56 million. “We were conducting checkpoint at Barangay Agat thoroughly after we were advised that a shipment from Baguio City will pass through Pangasinan. While conducting a checkpoint on Thursday night, personnel of the Regional Police Drug and Enforcement Unit in the Ilocos Region (RPDEU) saw a box at the roadside some 500 meters from the border
COTABATO CITY – Some 500 indigent residents of an upland South Upi town in Maguindanao stand to benefit from a water project courtesy of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Japanese government. In collaboration with the Bangsamoro government and Ministry of Labor and Employment (MOLE), the ILO on Friday turned over a Level II Water System to the Looy Integrated Technical and Vocational High School (LITVHS) in the town’s Barangay Looy. A tree-planting activity was also conducted in the area on the same day. Masahiro Nakata, the representative of the Japan Embassy in the Philippines, confirmed that Japan and
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Joint law enforcement operatives have arrested an alleged “bomb courier” in a law enforcement operation on Thursday afternoon in a village in Polomolok town, South Cotabato province. Col. Jemuel Siason, South Cotabato police director, said Friday suspect Boni Lingay Sueb, 22, was nabbed while reportedly carrying explosive components at the boundary of Barangays Sulit and Lapu around 5:30 p.m. He said the operating team, which was in the area to serve several arrest warrants and conduct internal security operations, stopped and searched Sueb after noticing him moving suspiciously in the area. The operatives, composed of elements
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has provided emergency employment to 3,940 residents from this city’s 92 barangays through its Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD). Facilitated by the office of Iloilo City Lone District Rep. Julienne Baronda, DOLE has allocated PHP25 million for the selected workers tasked to undertake cleanup activities in their respective barangays. “We know life is so hard these days. We looked for ways to help our people,” Baronda said in an interview on Friday. The 15-day cash-for-work emergency employment began on June 13 and they will be paid based on
