DAVAO CITY — Personnel of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) arrested a passenger after discovering cocaine hidden inside his luggage on March 21 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), Terminal 1, Pasay City. The arrest was made through a joint operation by the BOC at the NAIA), Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and NAIA […]
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IDIS launches Ecological Policies SurveyEcological policy study
DAVAO CITY — The Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability (IDIS), Inc. launches a City-Wide Social Survey that assesses the knowledge in terms of awareness, attitude in terms of satisfaction of the citizens, and the practices in terms of their encounter with the various ecological policies in Davao City, translated in the city ordinances and executive […]
Dying King Cobra bites and kills onlooker
DAVAO CITY — A man died after being bitten by a dying King Cobra on March 20, 2023, in Santa Maria, Davao Occidental. A video posted on social media showed that residents had already chopped off the snake’s body when a man identified as Renante, playfully let a dead King Cobra bite his hand. Renante […]
Former rebels get P1.26-M grant under E-CLIP
DIGOS CITY, Davao del Sur –— Twenty-one former members of the New People’s Army (NPA) received P1.26 million in cash assistance on Monday, March 20, under the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP) in a ceremony led by Davao Del Sur’s Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC). The ceremonial turn-over was […]
PNP Internal Affairs starts PNP-BARMM audit
LAMITAN CITY, Basilan —The Philippine National Police-BARMM Regional Internal Affairs Office has started the annual inspection and audit in the region. Atty Richard Opinion, Director of RIAS-BARMM. said that the PNP will audit whether the performance of the police is lackluster, and will see if it is in line with the PNP’s mandate. Opinion visited […]
Lucy Torres di maulaw magbalikbalik og suot sa iyang senina
DAKBAYAN SA DABAW— Wala gikaulaw ni Lucy Torres-Gomez, nga iyang balikbalikon og sout ang iyang mga senina, dili susama sa ubang mga sikat nga personalidad nga maulaw, mosuot og balik sa ilang senina. Sa iyang interview sa PEP.ph gisaysay ni Lucy nga dili sya maulaw nga ibalik og suot ang senina, kay matud niini, dili […]
PhP 1.2M handed over to Former Rebels
DAVAO CITY –— Twenty one Former Rebels (21) received a total amount of PhP1,265,000.00 from Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (ECLIP) as facilitated by the Davao Del Sur’s Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC) during the Provincial Local Government Unit’s convocation on March 20, 2023 held at Provincial Coliseum, Digos City, […]
Lamitan City employees plant 2K mangroves to protect bays, shores
LAMITAN CITY, Basilan — In an effort to protect their bays and shores, employes of the city government and other offices based here planted hundreds of mangrove trees in barangay Tandung Ahas on March 18. Mangroves act as a natural carbon sink and a buffer between land and sea, protecting shorelines by preventing coastal erosion […]
Power rates continue to decrease for March 2023
DAVAO CITY — The overall power rate of Davao Light and Power Co., Inc. (Davao Light) further decreased from P11.52 last month to P11.14 this March. The thirty-eight (0.38) centavo per kilowatt-hour decrease is due to (1) Davao Light’s participation in the commercial operation of the Philippine Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) in Mindanao which […]
PAGASA to establish weather station in Lamitan City
LAMITAN CITY —The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) will establish a weather station here. On march 25, the City government represented by Mayor Roderick H. Furigay and City Administrator Maria Florencia Candelaria Bisal signed the memorandum of agreement (MOA) with PAGASA Administrator Vicente Malano and Chief Mindanao-PAGASA Anthony Joseph Lucero for the […]
Basilan agri office asks farmers to let rubber trees recover before tapping
The Provincial Agriculture Office of Basilan Province has asked rubber tree farmers to wait for all the leaves affected by Pestalotiopsis to fall and let their trees recover before tapping them again. Task Force Pestalotiopsis is going around the province to assess the damage brought by the diseases that damage rubber trees causing their production […]
Delvo is new PNP XI Regional Director
DAVAO CITY –Philippine National Police XI has new regional director in the name of Police Brig. Gen. Alden Bacarra Delvo, he replaced Brig. Gen Benjamin Silo. Silo formally relinquished his position to Delvo in a turn over ceremony Monday afternoon at Camp Sgt Quintin M Merecido. The two are among the eleven (11) ranking police […]
3 drug suspects face charges in Zamboanga City
The Zamboanga City Police Office has filed charges against three suspected drug pushers after a buy-bust on March 15 that yielded more than P1 million worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride or Shabu. Police Station 7 chief Police Major Jamar Tagayan said that the police conducted three weeks of surveillance operations against the suspects before the actual […]