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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. directed concerned government agencies on Friday to ensure the effective implementation of the Comprehensive Social Benefits Program (CSBP), as he recognized the contributions of the members of the military and the police who died or were wounded while performing their duties.
MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos rejected the notion that the Philippines has a “damaged culture,” a phrase used to describe the country notably in an article published by The Atlantic in 1987.
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte and the Department of Education (DepEd) which she heads will not have confidential funds next year as lawmakers decided to realign the amount – totaling P650 million – in the 2024 national budget that the House of Representatives approved in record speed yesterday.
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DAVAO CITY – Some people think that it would be impossible for a former lair of the New People’s Army (NPA) to become an emerging tourism destination. However, the local government unit (LGU) of Matanao, Davao del Sur, is out to prove skeptics wrong.Early this week, Matanao officials hosted the first-ever Cave Congress in the Davao Region to showcase the richness and beauty of the town's over 60 caves.Three of the caves - Su’bon, Asbang Faksol, and Dats – are all certified by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) as safe and "tourist-ready."The caverns in Barangay Asbang have been spruced up to preserve their natural beauty that no one would have known that these were once lairs of NPA rebels.In fact, only a few years ago, local officials would have shooed unsuspecting visitors who are lured by the town's exotic caves, which were thought to be occupied by insurgents.Years of peace initiatives and intensified campaign against the NPA, however, have borne fruit for places like Matanao which has been plagued by the rebels' terroristic activities, Mayor Vincent Fernandez said.Before the term of then President Rodrigo Duterte, who aggressive advocated for a whole-nation approach to the insurgency problem, Fernandez described Barangay Asbang as a “war-torn area.”“Before we open our tourism here, I made sure that there is no presence of the NPA, that they no longer existed,” he said. “I was apprehensive before (to invite visitors), but now cave tourism has changed the face of our municipality."
DAVAO CITY – The Department of Agriculture in the Davao Region (DA-11) has disbursed PHP56.5 million worth of fertilizer discount vouchers (FVD) to small rice farmers as of Sept. 18, an official said Thursday.In an interview, DA-11 rice program coordinator Evelyn Basa said 27,894 rice farmer-beneficiaries so far received their FDVs covering 41,841 hectares of rice fields.For this year, DA-11 has a total budget of PHP1.17 billion for the program, targeting more than 60,000 rice farmers in the region for the two cropping seasons in a year.“This will increase their production because DA subsidized at least two to three bags per hectare at a PHP4,000 voucher per hectare,” Basa said.At least 40 out of 43 municipalities from the five provinces in the region have started distributing the vouchers.