Mandaue City has already cleared most of its barangay roads

Mary Rose Sagarino 12/08/2020

MANDAUE, Philippines — The Mandaue City Enforcement Unit (MCEU) and the city’s barangay road clearing task forces have already cleared most of the obstructions found in the city’s barangay roads since Saturday, December 5, 2020. Edwin Jumao-as,…

Año to public, officials: Refrain from holding events

Dona Pazzibungan, Jeannette Andrade 11/30/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año on Sunday advised the public and his fellow government officials to refrain from holding community events if they could not guarantee compliance with coronavirus measures. Año also said he would…

Madridejos welcomes DILG probe on crowd gathering

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/29/2020

BANTAYAN ISLAND, Philippines — The local government of Madridejos town in northern Cebu welcomed the decision of the national government to conduct an investigation into the mass gathering during last November 27’s Suroy-Suroy Sugbo in Bantayan Island. …

Typhoon Ulysses death toll climbs to 14

Darryl John Esguerra - Reporter / @DJEsguerraINQ 11/13/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Over a dozen individuals have died as a result of the onslaught of Typhoon Ulysses in Metro Manila and other parts of Luzon. Citing data from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council…

Basak San Nicolas barangay chief begins serving suspension, plans to appeal to DILG

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/05/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Barangay Basak San Nicolas Captain Norman Navarro has started serving his six-month suspension over alleged anomalies in the distribution of the Special Amelioration Program (SAP) here.  Navarro was ordered suspended from November 4,…

DILG starts training of Cebu City contact tracers

Doris C. Bongcac 10/05/2020

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – The first batch of contact tracers who were newly hired by the Cebu City office of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) were made to undergo orientation on Monday, October 5,…

‘Pre-registration’ for national ID to start October — DILG

Consuelo Marquez 09/29/2020

MANILA, Philippines — The pre-registration for the national ID will begin next month for easier distribution of government assistance, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said on Tuesday. “In our last Philsys meeting, it…

DILG eyes 600 contact tracers to augment contact tracing teams in Cebu City

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/23/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) is looking to add 600 new contact tracers to the contact tracing teams here. DILG Cebu City Officer-in-charge Kenneth Lucero said the addition aims to…

Basak San Nicolas chief to appeal suspension

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/12/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Basak San Nicolas Barangay Captain Norman Navarro will try to appeal the six-month suspension imposed on him by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) due to allegations over the…

5 Cebu barangay execs, 4 others face preventive suspension over SAP anomalies

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/12/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Nine barangay chiefs in Central Visayas, including five from Cebu, are facing preventive suspension for six months over alleged anomalies surrounding the first tranche of the Special Ammeloriation Program (SAP) fund distribution. They…

89 barangay captains suspended for 6 months over SAP irregularities

Katrina Hallare 09/12/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Eighty-nine barangay captain  were slapped with a six-month preventive suspension over anomalies in the implementation of the first tranche of the Social Amelioration Program (SAP), the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)…

Gov’t mulls strict ‘no home quarantine’ for COVID-19 patients

Consuelo Marquez 09/08/2020

MANILA, Philippines — The government is eyeing to strictly implement the “no home quarantine” for COVID-19 patients to avoid transmission of the virus to members of their household, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said on Tuesday. “Magkakaroon ng…

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