DAVAO CITY (PIA) - The Movies and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) have opened their Davao City office located at the Mindanao Media Hub.

“We are very excited to be here in Davao, we want to reach out to our local stakeholders, we want to help them facilitate their registration, their applications anything else that they need with the agency, we want to get a sense of the local community,” said Atty. Jeremiah Jaro, chairperson of the MTRCB said during the office blessing.

The MTRCB created thru law Presidential Decree 1986 under the office of the President has the mandate to regulate and classify movies, television programs, related publicity materials and/or promotional materials.

Jaro said one of their intent in creating the MTRCB office in Davao is to intensify the agency’s monitoring activities particularly in the regions.

“For the longest time, when MTRCB was created in 1986 we never had a fixed regional office in Visayas and in Mindanao, so the board thought that this is the right time, the best opportunity to help our stakeholders,” Jaro said.

Early June of this year the MTRCB opened its first regional center in Cebu City. The Matalinong Panonood center of the MTRCB in Davao will be its second regional office.

Jaro said they are planning to put up more MTRCB offices in the region to make it easier for the stakeholders in accessing the services of the MTRCB.

“Because we hear problems in the office because it is difficult for the stakeholders to transact with the MTRCB because it’s in Metro Manila so hopefully this will be the answers to the concerns,” Jaro said. (PIA-XI/RG Alama)