Philippines News Gazette

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police authorities on Tuesday assured that the city’s security situation remains under control in the wake of the series of killings perpetrated by motorcycle-riding gunmen in the past several weeks. Col. Gilberto Tuzon, city police director, said he has ordered police units in the city to expand their intelligence monitoring and…

SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique –The provincial government here has committed to vaccinate its uniformed personnel once supplies are available. Governor Rhodora Cadiao, during the meeting of the provincial inter-agency task force Monday afternoon, said she favors the move to vaccinate uniformed personnel of the Antique Police Provincial Police Office (APPO), Philippine Army (PA), and…

DUMAGUETE CITY – Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo requested Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., National Task Force against Covid-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) chief implementer and vaccine czar, for more doses of vaccines for Negros Oriental as the province continues to suffer from a surge in cases. Assistant Provincial Health Officer Dr. Liland Estacion, Covid-19 incident commander…

CEBU CITY – The Department of Health (DOH) in Region 7 (Central Visayas) will make sure that President Rodrigo Duterte’s order on arrival protocols for overseas Filipino workers (OFW) and returning overseas Filipinos will be implemented at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport. “With the order of the President of the Republic of the Philippines, we will…

TACLOBAN CITY – The city government here has decided to cancel fiesta-related events this month due to rising cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). In his post on his social media account on Tuesday, Mayor Alfred Romualdez said there would be no activities relative to the city’s fiesta on June 30, which were traditionally held…