The local government has placed the town under a state of calamity following flashfloods that have affected more than 2,000 families here. David Don Saure, Kabacan disaster management action officer, said Wednesday 2,071 families in at least six farming villages in the town have been hit by floods triggered by recurring heavy rains for the past month. “Some 110 hectares of rice fields have also been damaged by the floods after the Kabacan River overflowed due to heavy downpour in the Agusan provinces and eastern part of North Cotabato,” Saure said in a radio interview. Kabacan, situated on the border
Construction of the 19 stations of the Philippine National Railways (PNR) Calamba is set to begin in 2022. During a site visit at the PNR Balagtas Station, Department of Transportation Undersecretary for Railways Timothy John “TJ” Batan said construction works are set to begin as bidding for all nine contracts of the project is “almost complete.” “The first six contracts are already undergoing Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) review for concurrence, following which the contracts will be awarded and signed, and construction will very soon be mobilized,” Batan said. The PNR Calamba is a 57-kilometer railway project and is the third
A total of 700 personnel of the Butuan City Police Office (BCPO) have received their shots of anti-flu vaccines in a one-day inoculation activity here. BCPO Public Information Officer, Maj. Emerson Alipit, told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) on Wednesday the anti-flu vaccination was among the initiatives of BCPO chief, Col. Excelso Lazaga Jr. to provide Butuan cops with health protection. “The vaccines were free, which were sourced out from the Department of Health. The vaccination ended until 8 p.m. on Tuesday,” Alipit said. About 400 dependents of BCPO personnel were also inoculated with anti-flu vaccines during the activity, he
Farmers’ cooperatives in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) are seen to improve their productivity and revenue after receiving interventions from the region’s agriculture office. On Wednesday, 22 different farmers’ cooperatives in the BARMM areas of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Cotabato City, and 63 villages in North Cotabato have received organic inputs and chemical supplies from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Agrarian Reform (MAFAR) during ceremonies at the MAFAR covered court here. Other BARMM component areas set to receive the same farm inputs soon are the cities of Marawi and Lamitan, and the island provinces of Basilan,
Police here have welcomed the surrender of six armed men who belonged to a private armed group (PAG) of a local politician in Maguindanao, a top regional police official said Wednesday. In a statement, Brig. Gen. Eden T. Ugale, director for the Police Regional Office – Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PRO-BARMM), said the PAG surrenderers were followers of former Maguindanao Assemblyman Sidik Ameril who has two more of such groups that the police are hunting down in the province. “The surrendering PAG of Ameril on Tuesday afternoon has been operating in Barangay Mangay, Talitay, Maguindanao. It has been
A total of 109 barangays in Region 12 (Soccsksargen) have retained their status as drug-cleared, boosting efforts to contain the illegal drug problem in local communities. Kath Abad, spokesperson of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 12, said on Wednesday the concerned barangays have passed the validation for retention conducted by the Regional Oversight Committee of the Barangay Drug Clearing Program. Abad said 64 of them are in North Cotabato, 27 in Sultan Kudarat, 17 in Sarangani, and one in South Cotabato. A total of 974 out of 1,153 barangays in the region were already declared as drug-cleared as of
