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==Amnesty offered to illegal handheld radio owners ==
*Source:http://panaynewsphilippines.com/iloilo/5310-amnesty-offered-to-illegal-handheld-radio-owners.html
*Sunday, June 30, 2013
:(PIA-6/PN)
ILOILO City – The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) in Region 6 is offering a chance to owners of unlicensed two-way communication radios or handsets to legitimize the use of their gadgets.
Through the agency’s General Amnesty Program, owners can take advantage of registration fees lower than the prescribed regular rates.
Regional Director Antonio Mondoy said those in possession of unlicensed handsets should avail themselves of the “friendly” terms under the amnesty program.
In this age of cutting-edge phone and computer technology, communication radios continue to be popular among users such as police officers, barangay officials, media practitioners and businessmen.
The granting of amnesty coincides with the agency's 34th founding anniversary next month.
Early this year, NTC also offered a five-day amnesty period (March 11 to 15).
Covered were the following radio equipment:
* VHF / UHF Radio Portable
* VHF / UHF Mobile/Base
* HF Radio / Equipment / VHF / UHF Repeater
* WDN Central Base Outdoor Equipment
* WDN Subscriber / Remote Outdoor Equipment
* Microwave / Multichannel radios
The new amnesty program is pursuant to NTC’s thrust to minimize the proliferation of unregistered radio equipment and to afford the owners, possessors or users an opportunity to comply with existing rules and regulations on the use of this kind of communications equipment.
==City hosts advocacy parade vs smoking ==
*Source:http://panaynewsphilippines.com/iloilo/5284-city-hosts-advocacy-parade-vs-smoking.html
*Saturday, June 29, 2013
:(JVF, Iloilo City PIO/PN)
ILOILO City — This city hosted an advocacy parade against smoking from the Provincial Capitol grounds to the Freedom Grandstand yesterday.
About 2,000 participants joined the “Walk for Smoke-free” Western Visayas, which started at 4 p.m.
The parade was an offshoot of the city government’s second Red Orchid Award. The Department of Health (DOH) recently recognized the city for having the “Best Anti-Smoking Initiatives” among local government units in the country.
“The recognition is another manifestation that the city’s anti-smoking campaign and advocacies are working effectively,” Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog said.
Inigo Garingalao, director of the Iloilo City Anti-Smoking Taskforce (ICAST), said the city posted the highest score among the awardees in the region.
Mabilog credited the ICAST headed by Councilor Joshua Alim and Garingalao for the intensified anti-smoking campaign in public places and conveyances here.
Emilia Monicimpo, acting chief of the DOH – Center for Health and Development 6, said a strong leadership is behind ICAST’s promotion of the smoking cessation program in the metro.
Along with the award, the city received a P100,000 worth of drugs and medicines for non-communicable diseases.
This second win will make the city vie next for the Hall of Fame Award wherein a P500,000 grant to be used for tobacco control projects is at stake.
Iloilo City was adjudged based on the strength of comprehensive efforts to implement a 100-percent tobacco-free environment anchored on standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The City Hall was declared a smoke-free zone — smoking inside the building and within its 100-meter perimeter radius is banned. The City Health Office also established a smoking cessation clinic at the second floor and will replicate the same in district and barangay health centers.
The Red Orchid Award prescribes WHO’s MPOWER initiative: Monitor tobacco control policies; Protect people from tobacco smoke; Offer help to quit tobacco use; Warn against the dangers of tobacco; Enforce bans on tobacco advertising; and Raise taxes on tobacco.
It follows the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 8, which recommends the adoption of measures to provide protection from exposure to smoke in indoor workplaces, public transport, indoor places and other public places, as well as Republic Act 9211 or the “Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003,” which provides protection from exposure to tobacco smoke.
==Over 45,000 tree seedlings planted in Iloilo City under National Greening Program ==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=8&rid=539033
*Friday, June 28, 2013
:(PNA), HBC/NLG/LCP
ILOILO CITY, June 27 (PNA) – Fifty-eight poor families affected by storm surge and fire received financial assistance from the city government here Thursday.
The recipients received their cash benefits from Vice Mayor Jose Espinosa III in rites held at the City Hall penthouse.
The City Social Welfare and Development Office headed by Alfredo Villanueva facilitated the release of P5,000 each to seven families whose houses were destroyed by the storm surge in Barangay Bitoon, Jaro district.
The 31 families with damaged houses received P2,500 each.
The six families from Barangay Hipodromo, City Proper whose houses were hit by fire received P5,000 each.
Two families whose houses were destroyed by fire in Barangay Laguda, La Paz district received P5,000 each while five families with damaged houses got P2,500 each.
==53 calamity-hit families get financial aid==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=538767
*Thursday, June 27, 2013
:(PNA), HBC/NLG/LCP
ILOILO CITY, June 27 (PNA) – Fifty-eight poor families affected by storm surge and fire received financial assistance from the city government here Thursday.
The recipients received their cash benefits from Vice Mayor Jose Espinosa III in rites held at the City Hall penthouse.
The City Social Welfare and Development Office headed by Alfredo Villanueva facilitated the release of P5,000 each to seven families whose houses were destroyed by the storm surge in Barangay Bitoon, Jaro district.
The 31 families with damaged houses received P2,500 each.
The six families from Barangay Hipodromo, City Proper whose houses were hit by fire received P5,000 each.
Two families whose houses were destroyed by fire in Barangay Laguda, La Paz district received P5,000 each while five families with damaged houses got P2,500 each.
==WV to hold fluvial parade on Iloilo Strait for the 2013 NDCM==
*Source:http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=901372146267
*Wednesday, June 26, 2013
:By Jaime S. Cabag, Jr. (JSC-PIA)
ILOILO CITY, June 26 (PIA) -- Western Visayas will launch the National Disaster Consciousness Month (NDCM) observance with a “navalcade” on the Iloilo Strait.
Through Executive Order No. 137, the month of July of every year has been designated as NDCM to increase public awareness of disasters and their role and that of the government in making communities safe and resilient.
This year, a bigger contingent consisting of Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Councils (RDRRMC), municipal and city DRRMCs (Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Councils), councilors of Iloilo (including those from Iloilo City and Dumangas) are expected to sail along with other partners from the port of Iloilo City to the coastal town of Dumangas.
The activities in Dumangas begin with a Holy Mass followed by a program at the town's gymnasium.
After the program, there will be lectures on emerging hazards, simulation exercises, and the Dumangas CFS.
Dumangas is a model site for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and management practices through its Climate Field School (CFS),
The Dumangas CFS is the first of its kind in the Philippines and second in Asia (after Indramayu, Indonesia). It aims to enhance the capacity of extension workers and farmers to understand and apply climate information to reduce risk in agriculture.
Throughout the month of July, Western Visayas has prepared be several activities for regionwide observance of 2013 NDCM. These activities included the DOH motorcade, mass casualty incident exercise, launching of flood control monitoring system, earthquake drill and Memorandum of Agreement signing with local government units for Panay River Basin.
Also scheduled this July are the strategic planning for Jalaur River Basin, display of database of past disasters in Western Visayas, Oplan Tag-ulan Bloodletting, photo exhibit, poster-slogan making and essay writing contest, and the regional summit on disaster risk reduction and management.
RDRRM chair and Office of Civil Defense (OCD) Regional Director Rosario Cabrera urged also partners to put up streamers bearing the theme of the observance, "Ligtas na Bayan, Maunlad na Pamayanan".
Cabrera has convened a series of meetings with core members of the council including the vice chairpersons and PIA to prepare for the observance. The vice chairpersons are Regional Directors Evelyn Trompeta of DILG for Disaster Preparedness, Ma. Evelyn Macapobre of DSWD for Disaster Response, Engr. Rowen Gelonga of DOST for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, and Ro-Ann Bacal of NEDA for Disaster Rehabilitation and Recovery.
=='Cops on the Bike' finish training==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=537832
*Tuesday, June 25, 2013
:(PNA), PDS/ELT/VLO
ILOILO CITY, June 25 (PNA)-- It began in earnest two weeks ago, and the first batch of the Philippine National Police's (PNP) "Cops on the Bike" training program in Western Visayas hurdled successfully its final test on Monday, and soon will become a familiar sight in the busy streets of the region as they chase after offenders.
This early, police big wigs at the police Regional Office-Western Visayas (PRO-6) expressed confidence that criminals would have to think twice before launching their next crime.
PRO-6 Chief Supt. Agrimero Cruz, Jr was visibly in an upbeat mood as the 45 graduates who recently underwent a 10-day training in Camp Delgado as bike patrollers to conduct police visibility in tourists spots and places of convergence in highly urbanized cities in Western Visayas.
They showed their mettle on the grounds of Camp Delgado by flaunting a variety of techniques meant to subdue a suspect.
Not different from a beat patrolman, however, a policeman riding a bike is more mobile and can react more swiftly because he is pedaling rather than just walking and has greater chances of catching an offender. He can also cover a wider area, Cruz said.
Twenty cops on the bike will go to this city while the rest stretched thin in Western Visayas.
Priority are urbanized areas and tourist destinations, Cruz said.
Cruz said a second batch of trainees may soon follow.
==MGB-6 fast tracks completion of geohazard maps==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=8&rid=537394
*Monday, June 24, 2013
:(PNA), PDS/NLG/MGC
ILOILO CITY, June 24 (PNA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) 6 revealed that most towns in Iloilo are prone to floods and that they now fast tracking the completion of geohazard maps of these areas.
Twenty municipalities and cities in Western Visayas, including Iloilo City, are still waiting for their maps to be finalized.
MGB-6 Director Leo Van Juguan said they hope to complete the geohazard maps before 2014 to help them identify the mitigating measures and disaster risk reduction programs that will be applied for every town classified as hazard area.
Juguan said that in Iloilo City and Province, for example,most of the villages and towns are surrounded by rivers, the reason why most of these areas are flood-prone.
With the geohazard map, they can easily classify what measures to take and trainings to conduct, he added.
Juguan also cited the case of Leon town, wherein based on its map, most of its villages, including Barangay Bucari, known as Little Baguio of Iloilo, are considered landslide-prone since it is situated in a mountainous area.
Apart from Iloilo, several towns in Antique are also considered landslide-prone considering that the province has a mountainous landscape.
“Once we can map these areas according to their category, it is easy for us to discuss possible solution and disaster preparation with their local government units (LGUs),” he said.
The geohazard map indicates the susceptibility of areas to flooding and landslides as well as areas the LGU can use for evacuation. Depending on the category, the map has three indicating colors – red, which indicates high susceptibility level; green, medium; and yellow, low.
==APEC triggers multi-million airport expansion==
*Source:http://www.iloilometropolitantimes.com/apec-triggers-multi-million-airport-expansion/
*Sunday, June 23, 2013
:By Montesa Griño Caoyonan (IMT)
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP-Iloilo) is proposing for a multi-million terminal building expansion to decongest the volume of passengers coming ‘in’ and ‘out’ at the Iloilo Airport in Sta. Barbara-Cabatuan, Iloilo especially this city is possibly hosting several events for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in 2015.
Airport manager Efren Nagrama said the proposed extension is to accommodate separately the domestic passengers from growing number of international passengers . He added they are now on its planning stage and many things are being considered right now before the construction will start anytime this year.
During their airport’s 6th anniversary celebration last June 14, Nagrama confirmed that the building to be expanded will also be located beside their present terminal building.
The main passenger terminal of the airport has a 13,700-square-meter (147,000 sq ft). It was designed to accommodate around 1.2 million passengers annually after started its operation in June 14, 2007.
Once finished, Nagrama said they could add some additional baggage conveyors and aerobridge for the passengers’ convenience to augment the present the baggage claim area located at the ground floor of the terminal building which is accessible from the second floor. It has two 51-meter conveyors.
“This is in preparation for the upcoming APEC Summit so that we could accommodate volume of international passengers from other countries”, he said.
The Iloilo Airport has been opened to direct international flights to Singapore and Hong Kong early of November last year and there were already 136 flight arrivals from these two countries.
Singapore had a total of 80 flights with 9,191 total passengers on board and Hong Kong with 56 flights and 6,350 passengers.
Nagrama said he is also expecting volume of passengers both international and domestic once Iloilo City will be hosting the summit apart from the number of passengers for the two direct international flights.
==DOT opposes renaming of Iloilo Airport==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=537109
*Saturday, June 22, 2013
: (PNA), FPV/ELT/VLO
ILOILO CITY, June  (PNA)-- A proposal to rename the Iloilo International Airport to Tomas Confessor Iloilo International Airport has been met with indifference by the director of the Department of Tourism in Western Visayas (DOT-6) Atty. Helen Catalbas who called the move as “unnecessary.”
She said the airport which continues to receive direct international flights from Singapore and Hongkong is beginning to establish a name for itself, and changing “the horse in midstream” may not help in the development of tourism in the region particularly in the province of Iloilo.
Stretching a point further, Catalbas reasoned that giving it a new name could give rise to confusion as prospective foreign guests, those who are unfamiliar with the place might mistake it for something else, thus earn the ire of tourists instead of their goodwill.
Rather, she proposed upgrading the airport's existing facilities to make it on a par with international standards.
==Green jobs, industries in WV pushed==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=8&rid=536279
*Friday, June 21, 2013
:(PNA), PDS/MADE LOS SANTOS/VLO
ILOILO CITY, June 21 (PNA)-- Industries and workplaces in Region 6 are encouraged to adopt green practices for sustainable environment.
According to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) 6, the “Green Our Workplace” program in Western Visayas is part of DOLE’s effort to adhere to the four pillars of decent work, and at the same time, part of the nationwide programs geared to promote green economy.
DOLE regional director Ponciano Ligutom earlier committed to the Boracay Beach Management, a group of stakeholders from the private and public sector, a year-round converging in greening the workplaces in the resort-island.
In June 27 and 28 this month, DOLE, with the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB), will conduct an orientation on "Green My Enterprise Productivity" in Boracay.
The two-day training and consultation event aims to increase productivity through green practices for sustainable environment.
Meanwhile, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz earlier said the DOLE is resolved to implement the following programs geared towards promoting green economy: Green My Enterprise Program, Green Livelihood Program, Occupational Safety Health and Environment Program, Green Skills Program and Green Jobs Mapping Program, as embodied in the Labor and Employment Plan.
==Iloilo City to hold massive tree-planting==
==Iloilo City to hold massive tree-planting==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=8&rid=536279
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=8&rid=536279
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