DOTr includes Normin in granting of cash aid to PUV operators

More than 5,000 public utility vehicle (PUV) operators in the region have become recipients of the P36 million cash aid from the Department of Transportation (DOTr) after Northern Mindanao has been included in the granting of financial assistance to the public transport sector, an official from the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board-10 (LTFRB-10) said Monday (Nov. 23).

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Read more about the article Woman gives birth outside health center closed due to COVID-19
Concerned citizens assist the woman who gave birth outside the health center in Barangay Nazareth on Friday, Oct. 23. The facility was temporarily closed for disinfection after a nurse tested positive for COVID-19. (Photo courtesy of Ryan Christian Amistoso)

Woman gives birth outside health center closed due to COVID-19

A woman gave birth just outside a birthing facility that was temporarily closed due to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Barangay Nazareth on Friday morning, Oct. 23.

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Local tourists enjoy the beauty of White Island in Camiguin, in this recently taken photo. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

Camiguin launches pandemic response playbook

The provincial government of Camiguin has come up with a pandemic response playbook in response to the threat of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) while awaiting the reopening of the local tourism industry.

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60-year old organizer abducted Palparan-style, still missing

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today

Rights activists here can’t simply brush the idea that the newly appointed officer-in-charge of the Philippine Army’s 4th Infantry Division has a hand on this matter.  For after all, they claimed, Brigadier General Ricardo Visaya and Palparan “had been working closely in the past and share the same image of being human rights violators.” 

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