The Department of Agriculture (DA) in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) has launched the Farmer Livestock Schools (FLSs) in far-flung villages of the region to bring livelihood to the people and boost swine re-population effort of the government. Dr. Cameron Odsey, DA-CAR OIC-Regional Executive Director, on Thursday said that 79 individual beneficiaries from Mountain Province have started their four-month training on the management of sow (pregnant pig) and hog production. “This is the DA-CAR’s parallel response to the agency’s national campaign for swine repopulation,” Odsey said. The conduct of the FLS is a locally funded program of the DA under
The city government kicked off its “VAX-i” mobile vaccination campaign in the three major public markets on Friday to make coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) jabs more accessible to residents. In a statement, Mayor Evelio Leonardia said the “VAX-i” is part of his administration’s commitment to inoculate as many people as possible, especially those coming from the marginalized sectors. The mobile vaccination clinic targets workers such as vendors and public transport drivers, who are unable to leave their work for a day to go to vaccination centers. “They are those who are in the fringes of society. They cannot easily leave
Work is underway to identify in Metro Manila’s neighboring areas the safe open spaces (SOSs) where people can run to and assemble when the “Big One” strikes. The “Big One” is a worst-case scenario of an earthquake from the West Valley Fault, a 100-kilometer fault that runs through six cities in Metro Manila and nearby provinces. A tsunami is also foreseen in the scenario set by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). The National Mapping and Resource Information Agency (NAMRIA) already identified and mapped SOSs in Metro Manila and began to do the same for neighboring areas as
Cases of Covid-19 Delta variant in Eastern Visayas have jumped to 11 with the detection of a new carrier in Borongan City, Eastern Samar. The Department of Health announced in a press briefing late Thursday that this confirmation of the new Delta variant case was communicated by the DOH Epidemiology Bureau last week. Marc Steven Capungcol, head of the DOH regional epidemiology and surveillance unit, said all cases of Delta variant are considered local transmission as they do not have any travel history outside the region since the pandemic broke out last year. “The DOH stresses the importance of active
The provincial government of Apayao will continue its aggressive community testing (ACT) to further detect carriers of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) using kits provided by the Department of Health (DOH). In an advisory posted in its official social media account on Friday, the Provincial Inter-Agency Task Force (PIATF) said they received an additional 3,000 reagent kits that will allow the province to swab test its residents. “The Provincial IATF plans to undertake an aggressive community testing together with the Municipal IATFs because of the surge in the number of confirmed cases in the province in the last two weeks,”
A policeman who was tagged as a primary suspect in the killing of a fisherman in a village here surrendered to his superiors on Thursday night. The suspect, Patrolman Jade Rio Rosales Mantua, 31, yielded to the Tambler police station at about 7 p.m. after hours of negotiations, Col. Gilberto Tuzon, the city police director, said Friday. Mantua initially sent feelers to colleagues at the Regional Mobile Force Battalion (RMFB) 12 (Soccsksargen), where he was assigned as an intelligence officer and was eventually convinced by their officials to give up, Tuzon said. He surrendered a Philippine National Police-issued Zigana PX-9
