The city government here is stepping up efforts to relocate an undetermined number of informal settlers including 1,200 families from 14 barangays affected by the North-South Commuter Railway Extension (NSCR-EX) project. The Local Inter-Agency Committee (LIAC), in a meeting on Friday, created sub-committees on relocation, resettlement and dismantling; social preparations; beneficiary selection, awards and arbitration; livelihood committee; and environment to beef up its preparations for the relocation of the families from the barangays of this provincial capital affected by the railway project of the Department of Transportation (DOTr). “Binuo itong mga sub-committee na ito upang mapabilis, sistematiko at makatao ang
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) recognized on Friday mining companies with exemplary efforts in promoting environmentally and socially responsible mining operations in the country. According to DENR, such companies will receive the Presidential Mineral Industry Environmental Award (PMIEA) in a ceremony that will be aired online. DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu and other government officials are expected to grace the event. Conferring the annual award aims to further promote private sector participation in and enhance public awareness on protecting the environment and ecology. Executive Order 399 series of 1997 established PMIEA which have categories,
A remote village in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao has received a completed PHP3.5-million barangay hall, the first of 249 other barangay buildings currently being built across the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). “The first village started using this two-story barangay hall building is the village of Banubo in Sultan Kudarat town,” BARMM Interior Minister Naguib Sinarimbo told reporters on Friday. Sinarimbo led the turnover of the new Banubo barangay hall building to village officials on Thursday afternoon. The barangay structure, he said, was funded by the BARMM government with the local government unit providing the land area as a
The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) approved on Friday the temporary suspension of inbound flights from South Africa, Botswana, and other countries with local cases or with the likelihood of occurrences of the new B.1.1.1529 coronavirus variant. The order is effective immediately and until December 15, according to a statement by Cabinet Secretary and acting presidential spokesperson Karlo Nograles. The Bureau of Quarantine, in close coordination with local government units, has been directed to locate travelers from the abovementioned countries who may have arrived in the recent seven days prior to the temporary suspension of inbound travel. These travelers shall be
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, Gen. Dionardo Carlos, on Friday said he wants to sustain the momentum of the government’s anti-illegal drugs campaign with a clean slate. “We want to re-start the campaign with a clean slate by ensuring that the mistakes of the past will remain in the past, and the reinvigorated campaign will bring the anti-illegal drugs campaign to a higher level, totally responsive to the requirements of due process, transparency and public accountability yet with more teeth and greater efficiency,” Carlos said in a statement. Carlos expressed optimism that the strategic gains of the PNP anti-illegal drug
Mayor Michael M. Keon, was recognized Friday as a recipient of the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act champion of Region 1 under the city and municipal level category in San Fernando City, La Union. The annual awards, spearheaded by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 1 in time for the celebration of the National Children’s Month and 10th Juvenile Justice and Welfare Consciousness Week, honors local government units and advocates who help families and children live better and safer lives. Being half-Australian and half-Ilokano by blood, Keon recalled that he himself experienced the “vulnerability of children
