SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – Returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from the Middle East will start arriving in Subic Bay International Airport (SBIA) via rerouted Philippine Airlines (PAL) flights starting on July 5 under a government program to facilitate their trip back home during the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) chairman and administrator Wilma T. Eisma said on Friday that the SBIA is expecting six PAL Airbus A330 flights this month to ferry home an average of 230 passengers each flight, mostly OFWs from Dammam and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia on July 5, 7, 15, 17,
TACLOBAN CITY – At least 17,791 tourism workers in Eastern Visayas have received PHP88.95 million cash grant under the Department of Tourism (DOT) coronavirus disease 2019 adjustment measures (CAMP) program this year, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported on Friday. As of June 30, the DOLE regional office here has facilitated the payment of cash aid to the tourism workers from the region’s six provinces displaced by the health crisis. Funded under the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act, beneficiaries receive a one-time PHP5,000 financial support from the central government, DOLE Eastern Visayas regional director Henry John Jalbuena
BUTUAN CITY – A Butuan City Police Office (BCPO) station is into mushroom production with support from the Department of Agriculture in Caraga (DA-13). In a statement on Friday, DA-13 said the project of BCPO-5 aims to encourage income opportunities among farmers in its area of operations (AORs). BCPO-5 covers the 11 villages of Amparo, Bitan-agan, Tungao, San Mateo, Florida, Mandamo, Nongnong, MJ Santos, Manila de Bugabus, Dankias, and Dulag. “The mushroom production was realized through the Station Action Council (SAC) of BCPO-5 as the council wanted to come up with a project to help the livelihood of residents, especially
DUMAGUETE CITY – Local government units (LGUs) in Negros Oriental are given the discretion to decide whether or not to allow indoor and outdoor dining services in their areas while the province is placed under the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ). Capitol information officer Bimbo Miraflor on Friday said this is based on the latest Omnibus Guidelines for areas placed under MECQ as set by the National Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), and following the Department of Tourism’s Administrative Order No. 2021-004. Miraflor made the clarifications due to public clamor that while many restaurants
DAVAO CITY – The city government through the Peace 911 Davao is capacitating women by providing egg layers and feeds to a women association in far-flung Paquibato Proper village here. PEACE 911 is a comprehensive peace-building and development initiative of the city government under Mayor Sara Z. Duterte’s leadership for Paquibato District. Its main thrusts are peace economy and strengthening people’s organization, good governance and rule of law, identity and healing, strengthening of people’s organizations, and ancestral domain. Peace 911 Davao focal person Mary Aileen Mabanding said the activity is part of their focus program, Peace Economy and Strengthening Peoples
