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CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga — The Central Luzon police’s strict implementation of gun ban in the whole region in line with the forthcoming national and local elections has resulted into confiscation of about 700 firearms and explosives.

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has completed more than 1,000 road projects in Central Luzon under the 2021 Regular Infrastructure Program in Region 3.

PAMPANGA — Police Regional Office 3’s top cop Brig. Gen. Matthew P. Baccay advised his 12,188 police force in Central Luzon to remain apolitical and refrain from campaigning for any political candidate in the 2022 national and local elections.

Senatorial candidate Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito on Friday expressed belief that Central Luzon holds a unique position in the country’s infrastructure development.

A member of the notorious Serrano group criminal gang and Central Luzon’s most wanted person was arrested by the Bulacan police during a manhunt operation on Monday, Feb. 21.

In the next 24 hours, the frontal system, also known as the convergence of warm and cold winds from the northeast and southeast, is expected to bring rain showers in the eastern section of central Luzon, said the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) on Monday, Jan. 31.

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) announced Friday, Oct. 8, the development of test kits for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Central Luzon.

The Philippine National Railways’ (PNR) Clark Phase 2 project is expected to produce more jobs and spur economic recovery in Central Luzon once completed, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) assured.

About 3,600 Kawayan tinik (Bambusa blumeana) and Bayog (Dendrocalamus merrillianus) propagules have been planted in various sites and forest reserves in Central Luzon as part of Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ (DENR’s) efforts to rehabilitate denuded forests that have impacts on the Manila Bay.

As the National Capital Region (NCR) inches closer to finishing the inoculation of its around 9.78 million residents against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), majority of the arriving vaccines in the fourth quarter of the year will be allocated in other Luzon provinces, the country’s vaccine czar revealed Thursday night, Aug 26.

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) installed its first-ever radio repeater center in Central Luzon on Wednesday, Aug. 25.

About 23,000 tons of wastes have been collected from the tributaries of Manila Bay in Central Luzon since January 2021 as the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) continues its clean up efforts, a DENR director disclosed Monday, Aug. 23.

President Duterte lauded the newly completed Clark International Airport (CRK), saying it will help boost the economic development in North and Central Luzon.

Over 15,000 infrastructure projects have been built across the different provinces of Central Luzon in the past five years as part of the Duterte administration’s mission to spur countryside development.

Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque hoped that God will finally allow him to run for senator in the 2022 elections, saying God told him that someone from Central Luzon might be needed in the Senate.

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has granted P6 million worth of assistance to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Central Luzon to adopt technological innovations in a bid to improve their products, services, operations, and increase their productivity and competitiveness.

Undistributed land titles in Central Luzon are now down to less than a thousand after 75 percent of them were successfully awarded to farmer-beneficiaries.

The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is eyeing the distribution of government-owned lands in Central Luzon, including around 300 hectares (ha) of land in Pampanga, to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs).