Difference between revisions of "Albay Province, Philippines"

Updated: November 10, 2021

'''Trader, 3 others nabbed in Zamboanga Sibugay, Tawi-Tawi anti-drug ops'''.<br>

ZAMBOANGA CITY – A businessman and three other men were arrested while some PHP207,692 worth of illegal drugs were seized in separate anti-drug operations in the provinces of Zamboanga Sibugay and Tawi-Tawi, police officials said Wednesday. Arrested were Alan Porillo, 52; Rustom Shalim, 29; Suarez Auluddin, 34; and, Jess Aliakbar. Col. Albert Larubis, Zamboanga Sibugay police director, said Porillo, a businessman, was arrested in an anti-drug operation around 3:40 p.m. Tuesday in Purok Ipil- Ipil, Barangay Tenan, Ipil, the province’s capital.<br>

'''19 airport, 33 seaport projects completed in last 3 months: DOT'''<br>

MANILA – Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Arthur Tugade said a total of 19 airport and 33 seaport projects were completed in the last three months under the government’s massive infrastructure “Build, Build, Build” program. In his report during President Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘Talk to the People’ on Tuesday night, Tugade said the DOTr, under the Duterte administration, has completed a total of 233 airport projects as of November 2021. “In a period of three months, nakatapos, nakabuo, at nakaayos ho tayo ng mga paliparan at mga (we completed, built, and repaired airports and) airport projects,” Tugade said. He said the completed airport projects include the Bicol International Airport, Butuan Airport, Catarman Airport, Siquijor Airport, corporate building and second runway of the Mactan International Airport, General Santos International Airport, among others.