What’s more frightening, more difficult to notice, and much more difficult to confront than a grave enemy who is always around but you cannot see, hear, nor feel? Such is the phantom we call the Coronavirus disease or well known as the COVID-19. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is not a phantom that one can simply disregard, for it is a vicious phenomenon that has taken the lives of many, and continues to burden the livelihood of millions, as well as hamper the delivery of services to the community.

DILG XII Regional Director Josephine Carbido-Leysa, CESO III has joined DILG Undersecretary Marlo I. Iringan, the Undersecretary for Local Government, as resource persons in a virtual meeting with the Committee on Local Government of the House of Representatives on July 21. The virtual meeting was called to deliberate on some major house bills creating legislative districts in Region XII, specifically in South Cotabato.