Day: October 24, 2024

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) 5 (Bicol) has deployed its mobile command center (MCC) with state-of-the-art information and communications technology (ICT) equipment that can improve and expedite data gathering for need assessment of families affected by Severe Tropical Storm Kristine (international name: Trami) in Naga City and other areas in Camarines Sur. In a phone interview, DSWD-5 disaster response management division information officer Carl James Cabarles said the MCC can ensure continuous, effective, reliable, and timely emergency telecommunications support needed in their disaster response operations. “Data gathering is very important as it will help us in the

Tojo Motors Corp., a local electric vehicle (EV) ‘fabricator’, has received close to 1,000 orders of EV units for public utility vehicle (PUV) modernization. On the sidelines of the 12th Philippine Electric Vehicle Summit (PEVS) in Pasay City on Thursday, Tojo Motors chief executive officer Ralph Legaspi said the company would need additional capital to boost its capacity to meet the growing demand driven by the government’s PUV Modernization Program. A Laguna-based EV fabricator, which designs, fabricates, manufactures, and assembles the EV unit, Tojo Motors is expected to deliver 576 units for the transport cooperative servicing Makati-Manila area, 150 units

Datu Rico Maca, an Indigenous People (IP) leader in Surigao del Sur, praised the recent transfer of the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) to the Office of the President (OP) from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Maca believes the move, outlined in Executive Order No. 71, will enhance government attention on IP concerns, improving resource allocation and ensuring more efficient implementation of programs that protect IP rights and ancestral lands. He thanked President Ferdinand R. Marcos for prioritizing IP communities. “This transfer assures us that our concerns will be heard at the highest level,” Maca said

The local government has issued guidelines for the observance of All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days on Nov. 1-2, including a ban on disposable plastic bottles in public cemeteries. In a statement, Mayor Rolando Uy said the directive covers traffic management, peace and order, and environmental monitoring from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2. “The public is advised to bring tumblers while the local government will provide free water by putting water dispensers in select areas within the City Memorial Park,” Uy said. Under the guidelines, the City Local Environment and Natural Resources Office was tasked to observe the banning of

Inter-government quick response teams in Apayao province continue to reach out to families who have evacuated due to Severe Tropical Storm Kristine (international name: Trami) as of Thursday. Jocelyn Loyon, head of Apayao’s Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office, in a statement said there is a total of 483 affected families, composed of 1,661 individuals. “Of the 483 affected families province-wide, at least 162 families or 516 persons have been served,’ she said. As of this posting, 35 evacuation centers across the province are being used as temporary shelters for affected families who were pre-emptively evacuated due to their susceptibility