The Department of Agriculture (DA)-XI and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-XI together with the Monkayo LGU have released the wages for the 186 farmer-beneficiaries of the Cash-for-Work Program in Brgy. Salvacion, Monkayo, Davao de Oro, on December 16, 2020. The Cash-for-Work Program is a joint initiative by DA-XI and DSWD-XI which aims…

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To help the agri-fishery sector survive, reboot and grow amid and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic, the Department of Agriculture-XI (DA-XI) has inked a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the City Government of Davao for the implementation of P113-M agri projects as part of the agency’s productivity enhancement programs under the “Bayanihan to Recover as One…

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By Anthony S. AlladaThe tremendous and horrible effects of the series of strong earthquakes last year did not hamper the local government of Magsaysay (Davao del Sur) to bag again the prestigious 3rd place award for the Most Competitive Municipality for Resiliency (3rd and 4th Class).Magsaysay defied the odds and once again recognized nationally during…

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MANILA, Dec. 17 —  While some progress has been made to reduce the number of families that have experienced involuntary hunger in the fourth quarter of the year, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles on Wednesday said that “much work still has to be done to return to and improve on the country’s pre-pandemic hunger figures.” Nograles,…

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Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte has formed a technical working group (TWG) to formulate the implementing rules and regulations of the Special Office for Children’s Concern (SOCC) via Executive Order 66, Series of 2020. The order, which she signed on December 11, tasked the TWG to provide the guidelines for the special office’s composition,…

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Over 3,000 Davao City government-paid health workers will be receiving their Active Hazard Duty Pay (AHDP) and Special Risk Allowance (SRA) covering September 15 to December 19, 2020. The City Health Office (CHO) has identified 3,538 health workers, medical, allied-medical, and other personnel who are directly catering to or are in contact with Covid-19 patients.…

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Davao City is this year’s Second Most Competitive City in the Highly-Urbanized City category, a notch higher from the 2019 Competitiveness Index Awards. Davao City ranked next to Manila City in the first place while Pasay City in third place. The three highly-urbanized cities bested 30 other cities in the same category. The recognition was…

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If you are a person who tested positive for coronavirus disease but showed no symptoms or without life-threatening symptoms, you will not be sent to a hospital. Instead, you will be placed in isolation  for 14 days  to prevent the spread of the virus. This according to Dr. Marjorie Culas, Davao City assistant city health…

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MANILA, December 11 — Key officials of partner agencies participating in the Duterte administration’s Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPAHP) program met a year after its creation to assess and formulate directions for the anti-hunger and anti-povery initiative. “It was December 9 of 2019 that we signed a MOU for EPAHP, which is the…

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DAVAO CITY- About 8,000 farmers in the two municipalities of Davao Oriental are benefiting from the implementation of Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Program (RCEP) of the Department of Agriculture (DA). This came after the Provincial Agriculture’s Office (PAO) started its distribution of rice seedlings to farmers in Lupon and Governor Generoso in the said province. In…

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