FINGERLINGS DISPERSAL. Personnel of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Central Luzon release over 80,000 tilapia fingerlings in Almacen River in Hermosa town, Bataan province on Monday (Aug. 15, 2022). The activity is part of continuing efforts to revitalize the aquaculture industry through the Balik Sigla sa Ilog at Lawa (BASIL) program.(Photo courtesy of BFAR Central Luzon) CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga - The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Central Luzon (BFAR-3) on Monday released around 80,000 tilapia fingerlings in Almacen River in Hermosa town, Bataan province as part of its continuing effort to revitalize the aquaculture industry. The dispersal activity aims to repopulate the rivers and lakes in the region with tilapia through the Balik Sigla sa Ilog at Lawa (BASIL) program. Bataan Provincial Fisheries Officer Harlyn Recabar-Purzuelo and BFAR-3 BASIL focal person Al Dimaquibo led the dispersal of the fingerlings from the Technology Outreach Station fo
Maj. Malu Calubaquib, PRO-5 spokesperson (PNA file photo) LEGAZPI CITY - The Police Regional Office in Bicol (PRO-5) reported on Wednesday the confiscation of 32 loose firearms, 31 arrests, and one death of a suspect in the one-week Simultaneous Anti-Criminality and Law Enforcement Operations (SACLEO) conducted from June 20 to 27 this year. Maj. Malu Calubaquib, PRO-5 spokesperson, in an interview, said the one-week intensified drive is also a move to address the problem of the previously reported violence and incidents that involved the use of unlicensed firearms. "From the given period, the province of Albay has the most numbered of undocumented firearms confiscated with 11, followed by Masbate with 10; Camarines Sur with 5; Camarines Norte and Sorsogon with 2 each while in Catanduanes and Naga City with one each," Calubaquib said. A total of 134 pieces of ammunition were seized during the operation. Of those individuals arrested, 11 were from Albay; Masbate-8; Camarines Su
MANILA - The Philippines and France on Sunday formally marked 75 years of diplomatic relations, with the latter seeing closer engagements on food security and education. "We really have had this very long friendship and cooperation, we're celebrating the 75th anniversary but our relations are even older than that," French Ambassador Michle Boccoz said during the 75th-anniversary celebration at Pinto Art Museum. "[It's] definitely a long story. So we're very happy now to look towards the future because what we want is to bring our youth together, to bring our people closer. So we are working and creating and educating together," she added. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., who was also present at the anniversary, hoped for deeper friendship and partnership as he noted how far the two countries' relations reached since June 1947. STRONG TIES. Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (center) and French Ambassador to Manila
(File photo) MANILA -Immuncompromised minors aged 12 to 17 years old in San Juan City have started to receive Thursday their Covid-19 booster shots. Mayor Francis Zamora, in an interview, said Cardinal Santos Medical Center would accommodate the first booster vaccination for the immunocompromised pediatric category, as defined by the Department of Health (DOH). "This is a very stringent criterion because they have to be a cancer patient, HIV patient, transplant patient, or with other immunodeficiency ailments so we understand because this is a very, very small group of children but we are preparing for the expansion of this age group for those who are healthy," Zamora said. Zamora also reported that around 5,000 minors under the age bracket have received the full Covid-19 primary series. "We are expecting the same number for the first booster," he added. Zamora said the city's booster vaccination rollout would be stricter as the parents of vaccinees must have se
LEGAZPI CITY - Enhancing their skills while conserving and promoting diversity, at least 70 Indigenous Peoples (IPs) from Camarines Sur completed training on urban gardening and diversified farming, the Department of Agriculture in Bicol (DA-5) on Monday said. DA-5 spokesperson, Emily Bordado, in an interview, said the participants were IPs from Barangays Del Rosario, Hanawan, San Jose Oras, Gatbo and Sta. Cruz in Ocampo, Camarines Sur. "The training was essential for the IPs because their communities received assorted vegetable seeds, garden tools, and other farm inputs needed for the establishment of their community garden," Bordado said. She said the interventions received by the IPs are from the Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran ng Kababayang Katutubo (4Ks) program of the DA-5 in coordination with the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) that is implemented in the provinces of Albay, Camarines Sur, Camarines Norte and Sorsogon. "Dipisilun an buhay mi bilang sarong a