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PCG Commandant Admiral George Ursabia Jr. inspected the radar station located in Barangay Malabugas, Bayawan City, Negros Oriental on Thursday.
The Coast Guard said the station allowed PCG personnel to strictly monitor maritime vessels and further uphold maritime security particularly off Sulu Sea.
“The infrastructure allows the PCG to strictly monitor transiting vessels in the area and further uphold maritime law enforcement, maritime security, maritime safety, and marine environmental protection, most especially in the Sulu Sea,” the PCG said in a statement on Sunday, July 11.
The PCG said it also set to construct a search and rescue base in the city to intensify maritime rescue operations in the province.
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As youth residents of Pag-asa Island aspired to become law enforcers in the future, Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Commandant Admiral George Ursabia Jr. encouraged them “to study hard and be the future” for their community.
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The Philippine Coast Guard said Wednesday that it planned to upgrade its station on Pag-asa (Thitu), an island in the South China Sea, to improve monitoring in contested waters where Manila has complained about incursions by hundreds of Chinese ships.
Adm. George Ursabia Jr., the head of the coast guard (PCG), visited Pag-asa on Tuesday as part of a move by Manila to assert sovereignty over the West Philippine Sea, a section of the South China Sea that falls within the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
“There’s a plan to further improve the PCG station in Pag-asa for monitoring purposes, especially for maritime safety and search and rescue,” Commodore Armando Balilo told reporters on Wednesday. “It’s also for our fishermen.”