DLPC assures no power shortage during summer A

n official of the Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) assured on Monday that Davao City will not be experiencing power shortage in the coming months specially during summer.

“Davao City will not experience any shortages in the coming months specially summer months. We are safe. Varying any of course mga incidences that may cause our supply to be disrupted but other than that we won’t be experiencing any shortages,” said Rodger Velasco, president and chief operating officer of DLPC during the Kapihan sa PIA at DLPC.

Velasco explained that there may be emergency interruptions that may cause power interruptions.

“Those are emergency interruptions that are beyond our control. May nabaling poste, foreign objects perching our lines,” he said.

Velasco cited DLPC’s partic-

Major Eudisan Gultiano, Police Regional Office-Davao (PRODavao) spokesperson, said the number of security personnel consists of 3,700 police officers, 330 augmented personnel from the Bureau of Fire Protection and the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and 3,000 force multipliers, including village watchmen.

Their main task is to keep the public safe, particularly the commuters, churchgoers and tourists visiting the region this week, she said.

Gultiano noted the security personnel would be deployed to 304 places of worship, 140 thoroughfares, 70 transportation hubs, 165 commercial areas and 292 places of convergence across the region.

Brigadier General Alden Delvo, PRO-Davao director, said the security personnel would do their best “to ensure a peaceful and orderly observance of Holy Week.”

He reminded passengers commuting at public and private terminals to come early and to avoid wearing expensive jewelries.

In Davao City, Major Catherine dela Rey, spokesperson of

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Davao IPs get P2.9M worth of agri projects

An Indigenous People’s (IP) group in Paquibato District here received PHP2.9 million worth of agriculture support from the Department of Agriculture in Davao Region (DA-11) over the weekend.

In a statement Monday, DA-11 Director Abel James Monteagudo said the Lolopongan To Mog Igbuyag To Pog-uyan To Ingod Inc. (LIPI) received the financial support through the agency’s Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran ng Kababayang Katutubo (4K) program.

goat shed, and PHP459,000 farmhouse.

Monteagudo underscored the importance of the tribe’s “consistent and strong support” to the programs and projects of the agency for the development of the agri sector, especially in the hinterlands.

“We at DA commit to inclusivity in all our initiatives in the department. We believe that with the strengthened partnership between the government and the IP communities, we can have an empowered and productive farming communities especially here in FDLPC, P10 FDAVAO, P10

The aid consisted of a PHP1.33-million agricultural water system, PHP1.15-million