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DAVAO CITY -- The province of Davao Oriental is getting closer to its goal of being declared insurgency-free, officials declared Friday following recent breakthroughs in peace and security. In a statement, Governor Nelson Dayanghirang said he was pleased to see that the provincial government was finally beginning to reap the rewards of its efforts and sacrifices in the fight against the communist insurgency. "It has been a long time that we had suffered from the horrors of the armed conflict, but today we are happy that we are now nearing our goal of achieving genuine peace in the provinc...

SUPPORT FOR BDP. Mayor Melecio Yap Jr. of Escalante City, Negros Occidental defends the budget for the Barangay Development Program of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, which has benefited 14 insurgency-cleared villages in his city. "I challenge all those legislators who want to defund the NTF-ELCAC, the PHP280 million is with us. You can come here, you can scrutinize these projects," Yap said in a video message posted by the Philippine Army's 3rd Infantry Division on Thursday (Nov. 25, 2021).(Screenshot from 3rd Infantry Division, Philippine Army vid...

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Brig. Gen. Inocencio Pasaporte, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander, DILG provincial director Roselyn Quintana and Mayor Renato Gustilo

GROUNDBREAKING. San Carlos City Mayor Renato Gustilo and First District Rep. Gerardo Valmayor Jr., together with the Department of the Interior and Local Government and Philippine Army officials, lead the groundbreaking ceremony for the Barangay Quezon concrete access road on Tuesday (Nov. 23, 2021). Construction of the road project, funded under the Barangay Development Program of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, is expected to start in the first week of December.(Photo courtesy of NegOcc-San Carlos City Information Office) BACOLOD CITY - Some three insurgency-cl...

REGISTERED CENTENARIANS. Apo Sabas, 116, in traditional tribal costume, meets with North Cotabato Governor Nancy Catamco (right in white) during the Barangayan Serbisyo Caravan of the provincial government in remote Barangay Kulaman Valley, Arakan on Tuesday (Nov. 23). where he availed of the late birth registration service. Another centenarian, 112-year-old Apo Andaiz of Barangay San Miguel also availed of the same service last November 18 in the same town. (Photos courtesy of North Cotabato PIO) ARAKAN, North Cotabato - Two centenarians in separate remote indigenous villages here have availe...