Caraga Infocus - December 8 - 14, 2018

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Contents An Electronic News Magazine of Philippine Information Agency Caraga

December 8 - 14, 2018

Volume II, No. 89

RIACAT-VAWC Caraga nagsagawa ng ‘Buntis Congress’ sa Bislig City

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SSS News: SSS receives lot donation from CamNorte LGU

DOE News: Cusi highlights investment opportunities in energy sector

Regional News 8

PWDs sa Caraga region isinusulong ang PDAO

Provincial News 11

3 Butuan enterprises are new Bagwis awardees

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Agusan Norte to create PESO

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Mindanao News

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CDO police readies more charges in cop slay

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Chinese consular office in Davao opens visa services

National News to get pistol, rifle each 17 Cops by 2020: PNP 18

PRRD awards 1st 500 houses to Scout Rangers

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News Briefs

• PIA CARAGA: In regard to the attendance of private school learners & teachers, per DepEd Order No. 25, s. 2018, private schools have the discretion to develop and follow their own school calendar as long as the minimum number of class days is completed and the provisions of Republic Act No. 7797, or the “Act to Lengthen the School Calendar From Two Hundred (200) Days to Not More Than Two Hundred and Twenty (220) Class Days,” are observed. (DepEd)

• PIA AGUSAN DEL NORTE: PNP Agusan del Norte Provincial Office led by PSSupt Ramir Perlito Perlas held a Drug Abuse and Resistance Education graduation ceremony to 500 students of Cogon Elementary School at the Covered Court Brgy. 2, Buenavista, Agusan del Norte.

• PIA AGUSAN DEL SUR: The Department of Agrarian Reform through the support services program for Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Organization (ARBOs) has recently partnered with the DSWD’s Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP) for Day Care Centers, the Department of Agriculture and the Local Government Unit (LGUs) by creating a collaborative effort in engaging the poor households and work closely with the rural communities to provide essential social and economic services toward eliminating hunger and alleviating poverty through the implementation of Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty program. It is a convergence program intended to create essential social infrastructure aimed at improving access to basic services and facilitating investment into the rural economy by adopting a comprehensive community driven development approach.

• PIA SURIGAO DEL NORTE: PDIC urges creditors of the closed San Francisco del Monte Rural Bank, Inc. to file their claims against the bank’s assets on or before January 21, 2019. Claims may be filed either personally or by mail. Claims filed after said date shall be disallowed.

•PIA SURIGAO DEL SUR: Hinatuan District Hospital (Hospital-LGU Category) & Nagkahiusang Mangingisda sa Hinatuan (NAMAHIN) (Peoples Organization Category), all in Hinatuan, Surigao Sur were proclaimed as winners and hall of fame awardees during the recent National Gawad KALASAG Search for Excellence in DRRM and Humanitarian Assistance in Quezon City. (PDRRMO)

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COVER STORY

RIACAT-VAWC Caraga nagsa sa Bislig City

By Jennifer P. Gaitano

LUNGSOD NG BISLIG - Sa layuning mas matugonan at mapabuti pa ang kalagayan ng mga nagbubuntis, hanggang sa kanilang panganganak, at nang mabawasan ang child mortality rate sa rehiyon, nagsagawa ng Buntis Congress ang Regional InterAgency Committee Against Trafficking – Violence Against Women and Children (RIACAT-VAWC) kasama ang ibat-ibang ahensya ng pamahalaan dito sa lungsod.

person sa RIACAT-VAWC, layunin ng naturang congress na mabawasan ang mga kababaihang nabibiktima ng anumang karahasan at madagdagan ang kanilang kaalaman kung paano nila maipaglaban ang kanilang karapatan.

Dagdag pa ni Aranas, bagamat may pagtaas ng reported VAWC cases kompara sa nakaraang taon, nagpapahiwatig naman umano ito na nagiging mas alerto

Ayon kay Jessie Catherine Aranas, na at porsigido sa pakikipaglaban sa Protective Services Division Chief ng kanilang karapatan ang mga kababaihang Department of Social Welfare and nabibiktima ng mga pang-aabuso.

Development (DSWD) Caraga at focal

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agawa ng ‘Buntis Congress’

Sinabi naman ni Joan Ingente, Social Worker II ng CSWD-Bislig City na binibigyang halaga nila ang implementasyon ng mga programa para sa mga kababaihan.

Base sa kanilang datus, nangunguna ang physical abuse sa mga kababaihan, pangalawa ang economic abuse.

akong natutunan sa congress na ito,” sabi niya.

Samantala, masayang tinanggap ng mga partisipante ang buntis kits mula sa RIACAT-VAWC at gift packs mula sa lokal na pamahalaan ng Bislig.

“Mayroong 24 barangays ang Bislig Napag-alaman na ang susunod na City, at lahat ng naitalang biktima ng Buntis Congress ay gagawin naman sa VAWC ay nabigyan ng akmang tulong na Surigao del Norte at Dinagat Island. kinakailangan nila,” sabi ni Ingente.

Dahil sa mabusising kampanya ng

Ibinahagi naman ni Teresa Lumocso, gobyerno laban sa karahasan, nagiging siyam na buwang buntis, ang kanyang mas empowered na ang mga kababaihan pasasalamat sa RIACAT-VAWC. at mas natututong lumaban sa kanilang mga karapatan. (JPG/PIA-Caraga)

“Nagpapasalamat ako dahil marami

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SSS receives lot donation from CamNorte LGU

SSS

DAET, Camarines Norte -- The state-run Social Security System (SSS) on Tuesday received a 1,000sq. meter land from Camarines Norte’s government for the construction of the SSS provincial office and processing center in Sto. Domingo, Vinzons, here.

SSS President and Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel F. Dooc expressed his gratitude to the Camarines Norte provincial government, headed by Governor Edgardo A. Tallado and Vice Governor Jonah G. Pimentel, for the land donation.

the Bicol region. It will be the first SSS processing center in the province.

The service office will be under the supervision of SSS Daet Branch, which currently serves more than 48,000 registered members.

In the first semester of 2018 alone, SSS Daet

“This piece of land will be helpful in Branch served an average of 800 transactions bringing SSS services closer to the public. It daily. Transaction volume refers to the number will benefit Bicolanos in Daet as social security of forms received through the receiving centers protection is now within their reach. We would and number of transactions through electronic like to sincerely thank the local government of transfer.

Camarines Norte for donating this lot,” Dooc said in a news release.

“The processing center will expedite the processing of claims filed by our members,

Camarines Norte, through Sangguniang pensioners and their dependents. A shorter Panlalawigan Resolution No. 474-2018 issued processing time will let our claimants reap the last Sept. 26, granted Tallado the authority to benefits of their contributions to the pension donate the land to SSS for the construction of fund,” Dooc said. a processing center in the area.

The SSS has 10 processing centers (PC)

Based on the deed of donation, the SSS nationwide, which are located in Diliman, will construct a service office and a processing Makati, Pasig, La Union, Tarlac, San Pablo, center on the lot within three years after the Cebu, Iloilo, Cagayan de Oro, and Davao. In property has been legally transferred to it. addition, the Diliman PC has an extension office in Naga while the Davao PC has an extension

The soon-to-rise SSS offices will cater to office in Zamboanga. (PR) approximately 603,000 registered members in

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REGIONAL NEWS

PWDs sa Caraga region isinusulong ang PDAO

By Jennifer P. Gaitano

LUNGSOD NG BUTUAN - Kasabay sa isinagawang Trainers’ Training for Speakers’ Bureau on Disability Rights Promotion sa lungsod kamakailan, pinapaabot din ng mga persons with disability (PWDs) sa pamahalaan ang pagpapatupad ng permanenteng posisyon para sa Persons with Disability Affairs Office (PDAO) at pinakiusapan ang Civil Service Commission (CSC) na babaan ang kwalipikasyon para sa nasabing posisyon.

Ayon kay Ramita Castro, ang PDAOdesignate sa Dinagat Island, nangunguna sa kanilang issues and concerns ang implementasyon ng PDAO sa ibat-ibang lugar sa rehiyon.

Ganun din ang pangunahing issue na nakita ni Hernane Dublin Jr, PWD Federation President sa Bayugan City, Agusan del Sur. Pagkakaroon ng office sa PDAO naman ang ninanais ni Pablo Manding, regional PWD president mula Surigao del Sur.

“Kailangan namin yung office para may lugar kami kung para sa gagawing meetings. Mas mabuti nariyan lang ang office at may mai-designate na tao,” sabi ni Manding.

Ibinahagi rin ni Rizalio Sanchez, information, education and communication division chief ng National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) ang kanyang opinyon tungkol sa isyung ito at pinakiusapan ang CSC at Department of the Interior and Local

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Government (DILG) na bigyang atensyon ang panawagan ng PWDs at matugunan ang kanilang pangangailangan.

Samantala, binigyang-diin naman ni Minerva BC Newman, former regional director ng Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Region 7, ang kahalagahan ng partisipasyon ng mga PWDs at kontribusyon nito sa peace and development efforts ng pamahalaan.

Dagdag pa niya, malaking tulong para sa sector na ito ang isinagawang pagsasanay ng kanilang kakayanan sa pagiging effective communicators upang mas lalo pa umanong mapaabot sa publiko at sa mismong sektor ang mga karapatan nito.

Matapos ang nasabing pagsasanay ay mas naging kampante at nadagdagan pa ang tiwala nila sa sarili.

(JPG/PIA-Caraga)

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DOE

Cusi highlights investment opportunities in energy sector

By Kris Crismundo MANILA -Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Alfonso Cusi called on energy sector stakeholders to look for new investment opportunities that will come as a result of increasing power demand in the near future.

Photo Courtesy of Manila Bulletin

During the 2018 Energy Investment Forum in Taguig City on Tuesday, Cusi stressed “Ensuring reliable, sufficient, and that the country’s power requirement by affordable electricity in the country entails 2040 will reach 43,765 megawatts. close cooperation and collaboration with all our partners in the industry,” said Cusi.

He added that the DOE, National Electrification Administration, and “We need to step up to further Philippine Rural Electric Cooperatives are strengthen and sustain our partnership, strengthening their collaboration to provide especially in terms of building energy resilient electricity to unserved and underserved infrastructures, as well as in the exploration areas by 2020. and development of our indigenous energy resources,” the DOE chief added.

Just last month, the DOE started to accept applications for energy He noted that his department is resources exploration under its Philippine closely working with lawmakers to pass Conventional Energy Contracting Program the Energy Virtual One Stop Shop (EVOSS), (PCECP), wherein the government offers 14 which targets to streamline the permitting pre-determined areas for interested parties process in the energy sector for the entire to invest in drilling activities. project cycle.

Aside from the pre-determined areas, DOE also accepts nomination of areas for exploration. However, this is still subject to DOE’s approval.

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EVOSS aims to accelerate the establishment of power plants by expediting the process for investors in the energy sector. (PNA)

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PROVINCIAL NEWS

AGUSAN DEL NORTE

3 Butuan enterprises are new Bagwis awardees

BUTUAN CITY -- With the awarding of three new certified establishments with the Bronze Bagwis seal and the leveling up of one to a Silver Seal, the province of Agusan del Norte including this city now have a total of 52 Bagwis Seal awardees.

Of the total number, one has been given the Gold Seal, which is the highest level given to Sharp Philippines.

As Bagwis awardees or the so-called certified establishments are stores that have been evaluated to uphold the rights

The three newest additions to the of consumers, implement good business existing 38 Bronze level that were recognized practices and give customers best value on October 30 include the L. Orongan for money.

Enterprises, Recon Trading and North-Min Auto Dealership.

The awarding ceremony was one of the highlights during the regional

The former bronze seal awardee culmination of the Consumer Welfare which now joins the 13 Silver seal holders in Month recently held at the Robinsons Place the province is Villahermosa Shoppers.

Atrium Butuan. (DTI-Agusan del Norte/PIAAgusan del Norte)

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AGUSAN DEL NORTE

Agusan Norte to create PESO

By Aimee B. Sienes

BUTUAN CITY -- The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) of Agusan del Norte created the Public Employment Service Office (PESO) in the province of Agusan del Norte through Provincial Ordinance No. 502-2018 in a regular session.

efficient delivery of employment services to the constituents of the province.

This is also in line with Republic Act No. 10691, otherwise known as the PESO Act of 1999, mandating the establishment of PESO in

This is one of the priority legislative all provinces, cities and municipalities that will measures of the SP as part of the Legislative serve as an extension arm of the Department Agenda, resulting from discussions during of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in all its labor a consultative meeting conducted by the and employment assistance programs and Committee on Human Resource Development, activities.

Labor and Employment, chaired by Provincial Board Member Virgilio R. Escasiñas, Jr.

PESO will focus on labor and market information, referral and job placement,

Based on the study conducted by the counseling to job seekers on the current labor committee, it was known that the establishment market situation, conduct job fairs and other of a labor market information infrastructure in programs and services to put in place the the province of Agusan del Norte can be more employment services in the province. efficient and effective in providing employment services to facilitate the meeting of demand Said ordinance was authored by and supply for skills and reduce the transaction Escasiñas, together with Provincial Board cost of information on available skills and jobs. Members Aquino W. Gambe and Elizabeth Marie R. Calo. (LGU-Agusan del Norte/PIA Provincial Board Member Escasiñas said Agusan del Norte) that the PESO shall ensure prompt, timely and

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PRC Awarding 2018

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Philippine Red Cross Agusan del Norte - Butuan City Chapter 2018 Awarding Ceremony South Atrium, Robinsons Place Butuan, International Volunteer Day 2018 Celebration #ThanksVolunteers

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MINDANAO NEWS

CDO police readies more charges in cop slay

By Jigger Jerusalem and Ercel Maandig

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- Police authorities here are preparing charges against the other The ensuing shootout killed Maceren and suspects in Thursday’s shootout that killed a Adilao, and wounded Baltazar. police official and one of his assailants.

A woman who was inside Adilao’s vehicle

Supt. Mardy Hortillosa, spokesperson of during the shootout, identified as 30-year old the Cagayan de Oro Police Office (Cocpo), Joan Gomez, was unscathed and surrendered said murder and frustrated murder charges are to the police. being readied against two more unidentified suspects who were seen fleeing the scene Hortillosa said the police are already prior to the shootout that killed SPO1 Sergs de searching for two persons who may be Adilao’s Constantine Maceren. cohorts.

Maceren and two other colleagues with the Regional Highway Patrol Unit -- SPO2 Lyndie Baltazar and PO1 Joel Laurente -- flagged down a white Hyundai Accent in Barangay Carmen over a suspicious license plate (ULI448).

He noted that the 42-year-old Adilao was said to be a dealer of firearms. His motive for engaging the policemen in a shootout remains unknown. Gomez, on the other hand, has refused to answer questions about the incident, he added.

However, when Maceren and Baltazar approached the vehicle near a gasoline station, the driver, identified as Abdulrahim Batawi Adilao, fired at them using an M4 rifle equipped with a suppressor.

Police said Adilao’s identification card indicated that he is a resident of Mabalacat town in Pampanga, although he and Gomez maintain a residence in Upper Carmen.

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“We need to know from her (Gomez) what was their purpose,” Hortillosa said, In a statement, Chief Supt. Roberto referring to the possible motive of the suspects. Fajardo, the PNP’s Highway Patrol Group (HPG) director, said a deeper investigation is

Hortillosa said the female suspect also underway to verify Adilao’s background, and denied any knowledge of the weapon that if he has any link with the two suspects recently Adilao used to engage the highway patrol arrested by Maceren and his colleagues. officers.

A few days ago, Fajardo said two

He said they will also investigate why motorists tried to bribe Maceren in exchange Adilao was carrying a firearm inside his vehicle, for the release of their vehicles that were considering that Mindanao is under the state of impounded for delinquent registration and martial law, and that civilians are not allowed unauthorized license plates. to possess a high-powered weapon, such as the one he used to shoot the policemen.

Maceren refused the bribe allegedly offered by suspects Gary Ranalan and Franklin

In an interview Friday, Insp. Tawide Jhon Ramos, both Cagayan de Oro residents, Galleon, Carmen police deputy chief, said and instead filed criminal charges against the Adilao owned a chain of gun shops, including two for offering the bribe. (PNA) one located in Marawi City.

Chinese consular office in Davao opens visa services

By Lilian Mellejor

DAVAO CITY -- This city’s vice mayor and several members of the Filipino-Chinese community in this city became the first visa applicants when the visa section of the Consular Office of the People’s Republic of China here opened on Monday.

Li, who is married to a Chinese national, said the opening of the visa section is a respite to a long process of getting a Chinese visa in Manila.

She said the opening of the visa

Vice Mayor Bernard Al-ag said he service will make business transactions more will use his visa in traveling to China for the convenient and cheaper for her clients. launch of the Davao City-Jinjiang direct flight on December 18.

Consul General Li Lin said the opening of the visa section will not only further bolster

“This visa service is one of the elements the tourism and business industry of Davao to support the direct flight from Davao City but also the Philippine-China relations. It to Jinjiang,” Al-ag said. came only just two months after the Chinese Consulate opened in October here.

Jinjiang is Davao City’s second sister city in the People’s Republic of China.

Li said the visa section can receive 100 to 150 applications per day, and fees

Among the early applicants include will differ depending on the number of stay Jill Irish Li, who runs a travel agency in the and entry to China. city.

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MINDANAO NEWS

Li said they can also renew passports of Filipino-Chinese or Chinese citizens and process other consular documents. Based on his information, Li said Filipino-Chinese make up 2 to 3 percent of Mindanao’s population.

According to Li, the opening of the Chinese Consulate has already triggered an increase in Chinese visitors to Davao either on pleasure or business.

“Actually, there is quite a lot of

“This service is first in Mindanao,” he Chinese business groups coming to visit told reporters in an interview on the sidelines here to have a feasibility study. We have of the launch. already asked four to five businesses to come to Mindanao,” Li said.

He said the consulate can also support or promote friendly bilateral relations “I hope visa and passport service and help boost economic cooperation will add an element to facilitate bilateral between China-Davao and Mindanao cooperation and friendly exchanges especially in the area of agriculture, illegal between China and the Philippines with drugs rehabilitation program, fishery and a focus on Mindanao,” Li added. (Lilian C the “Build, Build, Build” strategy.

Mellejor)

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Cops to get pistol, rifle each by 2020: PNP

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By Sarwell Meniano and Lizbeth Ann Abella Brazil. Casimiro personally inspected the factory to check the capability of the firearms.

Casimiro was in Leyte to lead the handover of PHP56.8 million worth of internal security operations equipment and field investigators crime scene kit for PNP regional office and field offices in Eastern Visayas.

PALO, Leyte – The Philippine National Police (PNP) is eyeing to provide a pistol and a rifle for each of the 200,000 policemen in the country by 2020, a key police official said on Monday.

Chief Supt. Angelito Casimiro, PNP Director for Logistics, said there is an ongoing procurement of equipment to boost the operation and intelligence functions of the police.

The distribution is part of the PNP modernization program where the law enforcement agency got a higher budget under the Duterte administration. The official said this is just the first batch of delivery.

Casimiro said the central government provided PHP2.9 billion for 2019 and PHP7.79 billion for 2018. This is higher than the PHP2 billion annual budget received by PNP from 2008 to 2016.

On top of firearms, the PNP has been procuring choppers, patrol cars, thermal imagers, global positioning system, field investigation kits, protective gears, and other assets “critical for the performance of PNP’s functions.”

To date, only 82 percent of policemen have pistols while 68 percent have rifles.

However, the figures are higher than the 33 percent of policemen with short firearms and 24 percent with long barrel firearms before the term of President Rodrigo Duterte.

“The present leadership provided us resources that made history in PNP. This will

“If we want our policemen to be further boost our operation and intelligence respected, we have to provide them with functions as well as the morale and welfare decent police car, equipment, investigation of our personnel. Gone will be the days that kits, and proper training,” Casimiro told we will be fighting the enemy with both reporters. hands held behind use because we don’t have the equipment and protection,”

The PNP’s small firearms are produced Casimiro added. from one of the world’s largest gun-makers, Forjas Taurus, which is based in Porto Alegre, The official emphasized the need to

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NATIONAL NEWS boost the capability of PNP, considering the Philippines, some policemen are also that policemen are present in every city engaged in internal security operations and and town. Just like the Armed Forces of counter-terrorism. (PNA)

PRRD awards 1st 500 houses to Scout Rangers

By Jelly Musico

SAN MIGUEL, Bulacan — Living up to his promise to provide decent and affordable housing units for military and police, President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday led the initial awarding of the 500 housing units to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)’s Army Scout Rangers.

Duterte inspected a model house of the Scout Ranger Ville Housing Project inside the 50-hectare land area located in Brgy. Calumpang, San Miguel, Bulacan.

to pay only PHP4,000 monthly amortization for a fully-furnished, two-bedroom unit with 60-sq. meter floor area and space for garage.

“Owning a house has always been a dream of every Filipino. I urge every beneficiary of this housing program to take good care of these units,” Duterte said in his speech after the ceremonial turnover of the housing units to the beneficiaries.

“Ngayon kasi nakikinig kayo dito, and very behave kayo, (Now because you are listening and you are behave), less 100. So 844. So it’s about 4,000 monthly,” Duterte announced, drawing applause from beneficiaries and their respective families.

“May this project further inspire you to serve your nation, deepen your patriotism and foster your sense of family and community,” he added.

NHA general manager Marcelino Escalada Jr. announced that the remaining 500 units of the housing project in San Miguel, Bulacan will be completed by May next year.

The National Housing Authority (NHA) has appraised the value of the 150-square meter housing unit at PHP1.5 million but the government made it only PHP944,000 per unit constructed by Eddmari Construction and Trading.

Aside from amenities like clubhouse and wet market, Escalada said the Scout Ranger Ville Housing project will have an Olympic-size swimming pool where AFP swimmers can train.

Duterte, however, reduced further the The housing project will also have price to PHP844,000, meaning recipient has one unit of three-story, 15-classroom school

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building.

Escalada said the AFP and PNP have other housing projects in Davao City, Lanao del Norte, Tarlac, Negros Occidental, Zamboanga, Baguio City, La Union, Samal and Davao Oriental.

He said 10,000 units are being

constructed for 2018 and additional 10,000 will be built in 2019.

Meanwhile, First Scout Ranger Regiment commander, Brig. Gen. William Gonzales, expressed “sincerest” appreciation to Duterte for his care and concerns to the Filipino soldiers. (PNA)

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