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BY LEANDER C. DOMINGO TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan (May 20)—The Cagayan State University (CSU) has been awarded more than P2.95 million worth of financial grant for its three major projects in two of its campuses from the Department of Science and Technology (DoST). Cagayan State University will be receiving more cash and equipment grants from the Department of Science and Technology this 2021 in support of its Electromobility Program, Metals Engineering and Innovation Center and Food Innovation Center. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Engineer Sancho Mabborang, DoST Region 2 director, said during the virtual awarding earlier this month that CSU has been an active partner of the DoST by producing various science and technology innovations.  The DoST-funded project titled “Production & U...

BY CORIE CORPUZ, DENR TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan (May 19)—The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 2 has turned over to three municipal local government units in Nueva Vizcaya infrastructure facilities to improve the lives of upland dwellers in the province.  The four agroforestry support facilities worth 58.3 million pesos constructed under the Forestland Management Project (FMP) also aim to ensure the protection and maintenance of about 3,000 hectares reforestation and agroforestry plantations developed by the people’s organizations in the municipalities of Dupax del Sur, Kasibu and Kayapa.  FMP is a 10-year watershed rehabilitation project implemented by the DENR and funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) under a loa...

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan (May 19)—A petition for quo warranto filed against Mayor Celia Layus of Claveria town for “continuously incapacitated” to perform her duty has been denied for “lack of merit” by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 12 of the Second Judicial Region in Sanchez Mira town. Executive Judge Gemma Bucayu-Madrid of RTC-Branch 12 in her decision dated April 23, 2021 states: “Wherefore, in light of all the foregoing, the petition is hereby denied for lack of merit.” Claveria Vice Mayor Solferino Agra filed the petition for quo warranto against Layus asking the RTC to declare the latter as “continuously incapacitated to perform the duties of a mayor and all transactions, memorandums, orders and the like she has made therefrom are considered void ab initio.” Acc...

BY LEANDER C. DOMINGO TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan (May 19) —Surveillance Operations of the Western Cagayan Maritime Police Station in the coastal town of Claveria in Cagayan province led to the arrest of 10 illegal miners on Monday, Police Regional Office 2 (PRO2) said. Lt. Rhayan Turingan of Claveria police station said the miners were arrested along the shoreline of Barangay (village) D’Leano in Claveria town in collaboration with the explosives ordnance disposal and canine (EOD K9) unit and the Claveria police station. Turingan identified the arrested suspects as Edgene Caligan, Reylie Acob, Noel Inocencio, Joel Caligan Jr., Rhayan Avanzado, Oscar Avanzado, Noel Avanzado and Clarence Magayano, all residents of Claveria town. The two other suspects -- Keith Reeve Julaquit and ...

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan (May 19)—A training on Workplace Management Monitoring System (WMMS) was conducted for the members of the Cagayan Valley Regional Task Force (CV-RTF) Task Group to equip them on monitoring and enforcement of minimum health protocols in private workplaces. Given the complexities in the field, the vast number of business establishments in the region and limited human resource, the Task Group was created by the CV- Regional Inter-Agency Task Force through a resolution to augment the efforts and expand the coverage of the monitoring and enforcement activities being conducted by Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), and Department of Health (DOH).  The task group will also ensure that transmission of the coronavir...

SANTO NIÑO, Cagayan (May 18)—Five members of the New People’s Army (NPA) surrendered to the police here as a result of the PNP's Lingkod Bayanihan Project, police regional office 2 (PRO2) said on Sunday. For security reasons, the PRO2 only identified the surrenderers as Jun, 36 years old; Jong, 40; Sendong, 29; Lino, 23 and Kiko, 38, all known in the sub-village of Lagum in Barangay (village) Lipatan as ordinary farmers. In a tactical interrogation conducted by the police, Jun admitted that he joined the NPA in 2011 after eight days of combat training. Jong also joined the NPA in 2011 after he was issued a firearm. His initial assignment was to gather intelligence information for the NPA as he was not able to undergo training for health reasons. In 2004, Kiko joined the NP...

BY LEANDER C. DOMINGO TUGUEFARAO CITY, Cagayan (May 17)—The Department of Health (DoH) in Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) has confirmed at least 16 cases of variants of concern (VoC) of Covid-19 recorded in the region. According to DoH-Region 2, the Covid-19 VoC cases were recorded in the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela and Quirino. Cagayan Valley comprises the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya, Quirino and the island province of Batanes. The Health department said the recorded VoC cases included 14 UK variants and two South African variants, adding nine were local transmissions and seven were from returning overseas Filipino workers. The UK variant cases are from Ilagan City, and the towns of Alicia, Benito Soliven, Cordon and Gamu, all in Isabela province. The U...