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The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) said Saturday that it will rehire 15,000 contact tracers (CT) for at least another six months to ensure the continuity of the country's contact tracing efforts.

The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said Saturday that it will closely monitor the construction of a steel bridge in Villaverde, Nueva Vizcaya that will enable residents to bypass the the Ibung-Caldaan River to reach their destinations.

Four policemen and their cohort were arrested Friday by operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) in a clandestine shabu laboratory at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in Zambales.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has extended for another week the previous January 15 deadline for the local government units (LGUs) to comply with the agency’s “Road Clearing Operation 2.0 (RCO 2.0).

Six farmer-scientists were commended on Thursday by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) for extending their technical expertise in developing the first successful urban vegetable gardening project in Tondo, Manila.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said Thursday that the sandbars along the constricted portion of Cagayan River known as the “Magapit Narrows’’ will be removed late this month or early February.

Joint operative of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) nabbed a supplier of party drugs and seized assorted party drugs during a buy-bust operation in Quezon City on Wednesday.

Some 555,610 signatures and local government units (LGUs) resolutions were submitted by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments on Wednesday which supports the lifting of the restrictive economic provisions of the Constitution.

The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) emphasized Wednesday AstraZeneca is the preferred COVID-19 vaccine of most local government units (LGUs) after the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 bared the list of available vaccines in the market.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has assured that all localities are included in the national government’s COVID-19 vaccination list, brushing off fears that smaller communities will be left behind in the supply of the vaccines.

The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) confirmed Monday that Secretary Eduardo Año will be on leave from his official duties as head of the agency until January 31.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) reminded the concerned local government units (LGUs) on Monday to intensify their respective “Road-Clearing Operations 2.0 (RCO 2.0)’’ as the 60-day deadline for its implementation nears on January 15.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) was urged on Sunday, Jan. 10, to strictly monitor the enforcement of minimum health standards in the localities with the expected surge of COVID-19 cases after the holiday season.

A door-to-door delivery rider’s insistence to double-check a client’s package led to the discovery of P3.4-million worth of illegal drugs in a kitchen-type laboratory in Cainta, Rizal on Thursday.

The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) has compelled local government units (LGUs) Thursday to coordinate with the national government though the National Task Force ( NTF) Against COVID-19 and Department of Health (DoH) in the roll-out and purchase of COVID-19 vaccines.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) mourned Wednesday the death of Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Danilo Lim who passed away on January 6.

The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) stressed Wednesday that measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are being strictly enforced by the government.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) confirmed Tuesday that the five CPP-NPA-NDF (Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front) members killed in a shootout in Rizal last month were part of the NPA death squads deployed in Southern Luzon on orders of CPP founder Joma Sison.