The Department of Tourism (DOT) is stepping up its efforts to ensure fun and safe tourism in Eastern Visayas as more destinations reopened their doors to guests after year-long movement restrictions due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. DOT Eastern Visayas regional director Karina Rosa Tiopes said on Wednesday they have been meeting personnel of DOT-accredited establishments and community-based tourism organizations through face-to-face and virtual events to raise awareness on safe tourism. “We want to ensure resilience of the Eastern Visayas tourism industry and provide stakeholders with information that will help them assess situations and make informed-management decisions,” Tiopes
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Tuesday turned over to its Civil Relations Service essential electronic equipment earlier donated by Australia, which will be used in efforts to counter violent extremism. “The electronic equipment and gadgets, previously housed at the AFP Education, Training, and Doctrine Command (AFPETDCOM), will enhance the capability of the CRSAFP (Civil Relations Service AFP) in their function of documenting and encoding diverse and vast information on personalities and events relative to violent extremism and terrorism,” AFP Chief-of-Staff, Gen. Jose Faustino Jr., said in a statement. Faustino, together with CRSAFP commander, Maj. Gen. Manuel Sequitin,
The usual observance of All Saints Day in Sagada, Mountain Province where the town appears to be “on flame” will not happen again this year after the local government unit (LGU) ordered cemeteries to be closed on November 1. “We will not have the usual observance of November 1 where residents light a “saleng” (pine twig) together at the cemetery in the afternoon,” Mayor James Pooten said. Pooten, in a phone interview with the Philippine News Agency on Wednesday, said the municipal Inter-Agency Task Force (MIATF) adhered to the order of the national IATF to close all cemeteries nationwide to
Mothers belonging to a women’s organization in Surigao City are now undergoing a short training on meat processing with the hope of finding more opportunities to increase their income amid the continuing threat of the pandemic. A total of 52 members of Punta Bilar Women’s Association (PBWA) from Punta Bilar, Surigao City are currently involved in the four-day livelihood activity. “The training involves basic meat processing with end-products such as longanisa, embotido, and tocino,” Desily Awid, technical staff from the Livestock Program of the Department of Agriculture (DA) 13 (Caraga), told Philippine News Agency on Wednesday. The first batch of
A total of 18,872 vehicle registrations expiring starting this month with plate numbers ending in zero may avail of the extension program of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) 13 (Caraga) until the end of 2021. LTO-13 Director Nordy Plaza told the Philippine News Agency on Wednesday that they have intensified their information drive to let motorists in the region know about the extension program. “The LTO is considering as we are still threatened by the pandemic and quarantine restrictions are still up in the different areas in the country. Expiring vehicle registrations with plate numbers ending in zero, student permits
Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar instructed Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) Director Reildrin Morales to support the production and distribution of rabbit for meat consumption and livelihood. “We will see to it that we provide strong support for the massive production of rabbits to be distributed initially here in Caloocan, so we can show the world that rabbit meat can be a substitute for pork,” Dar said in a media statement on Wednesday. He added that DA will support the advocacy of the Association of Rabbit Meat Producers Inc., led by Artemio Veneracion Jr., for the development of
