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(File photo) MANILA - Metro Manila will be under a more relaxed Alert Level 2 quarantine classification starting Nov. 5 until Nov. 21, Malacanang announced on Thursday night. "The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on Thursday, November 4, 2021, approved the de-escalation of the National Capital Region to Alert Level 2. This shall take effect beginning tomorrow, November 5, 2021 until November 21, 2021," Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a press statement. The IATF also approve...

National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict vice chair Hermogenes Esperon Jr. (File photo) MANILA - Around PHP500 million worth of Barangay Development Program (BDP) projects are now in the implementation stage in the Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, and Palawan) Region which is scheduled to be visited by President Rodrigo R. Duterte on November 3. "Of the 822 barangay recipients for 2021, 25 are found in Mimaropa wherein a total of 109 BDP projects worth PHP500,000,000...

(Photo courtesy of Pulis Anahawan Southern Leyte) ORMOC CITY, Leyte - Following the "Peace Forum with the Religious Sector" sponsored by the municipal government of Hinunangan, Southern Leyte, religious leaders agreed to address communist infiltration of the religious sector and support the campaign of the Regional Task Force 8 to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF8-ELCAC) through the whole-of-government and whole-of-nation programs. The forum on Friday was attended by more than 3...

National Security Adviser and National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) Vice Chairman Hermogenes Esperon on Wednesday revealed “there are only three guerilla fronts remaining in Region 4A, two of which were already considerably weakened by the administration’s security forces.” He also announced the scheduled visit of…

City seeks money from state aid program

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – The Regional Task Force on the Homeless has changed its name to the Regional Task Force on Homelessness, intended to signify the difference between who a person is versus the circumstance in which a person may find themselves, it was announced Tuesday. “`The homeless’ sounds like an identity. Homelessness is a circumstance,” said Tamera Kohler, CEO of the task force, the regional authority charged with establishing a community vision and goals to prevent and end homel...

Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya (DILG photo) Bayan Muna Rep Eufemia Cullamat earlier branded DILG Secretary Eduardo Año as “thick-skinned’’ for proposing an additional P40 billion in the 2022 budget for the BDP where 2,000 barangays that have been cleared of New People’s Army (NPA) influence will be allocated with funds for the establishment of various development projects like farm-to-market roads, schools, houses, health centers, electrification, water, and livelihood projects among o...

SAN DIEGO — The city of San Diego should hire more experts on homelessness, create more affordable housing and have less emphasis on shelters, according to a report released Thursday by a consultant. The report was created over the past six months by former U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness Executive Director Matthew Doherty, who was asked to study the city’s response to homelessness in January by Mayor Todd Gloria, who took office just a month earlier. “Mayor Gloria and his team ...

Print Oceanside is considering a series of zoning amendments intended to streamline the creation of emergency shelters and low-income housing in the city. Shelters on city-owned properties in commercial, industrial, and public or semi-public zones would not need to obtain a conditional use permit or other discretionary approvals under the amendments. “The city is creating more flexibility and opportunities for these facilities ... and streamlining review and contracting,” said Shannon Vital...

IACAT The Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) has mobilized its regional task forces to effectively prevent mass trafficking of indigenous peoples (IPs). “As a preventive and proactive approach, the IACAT will further strengthen its Regional Task Forces and review existing tr