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==All set for multi-million peso rehab of Iloilo river port ==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=464341
*Saturday, October 20, 2012
: (PNA), RMA/AJP/LCP/VLO
ILOILO CITY, Oct. 20 (PNA)– The city port here is all set for a multi-million peso rehabilitation and upgrading of the Iloilo river port to accommodate ferry boats, fast crafts and roll on-roll off vessels.
City mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog announced this during the Oct. 19 meeting with members of the Iloilo River Development Council, chaired by the city mayor with membership from different national government agencies and the private sector.
The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) reported the updates on the processing of public land reservation in Barangay Progreso, Lapuz district as the future home of the PPA, RoRo and fast craft terminals.
Three major PPA projects will be developed in the area that include the construction of berthing facility costing some P126 million, including fendering and mooring, platform and RoRo ramp; construction of a P17.3 million passenger terminal building with a 1,000 square meter area; and site development of the river wharf that includes parking areas, perimeter fence, paving blocks and gate, all costing some P20 million.
Similarly, Mabilog is requesting the PPA to develop a 5,000-square meter site in the area as a public park and plaza of the Lapuz district so that several amenities such as a police station, health center and other services will be put up by the city government.
On the other hand, Mabilog reported that the Parola property, including the defunct Rotary Park area given to the city government through a Presidential Proclamation, will now be developed and subdivided between the city projects, 5,000 square meter for the Philippine Coast Guard to house its new building, and 1,000 square meters reserved for the provincial environment office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
A private firm is answering the call for a public private partnership (PPP) with the city in building up a modern and state-of-the art ferry terminal at the old Rotary Park area in Parola, city proper.
Mabilog said a memorandum of agreement was recently signed between the city and Double Dragon Properties represented by Ferdinand Sia for the PPP construction of a ferry terminal building and a commercial building costing some P135 million at the site.
The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) is also readying its bidding for the construction of the ferry berthing facility as its component project costing some P125 million.
The DOTC project will improve and upgrade the berthing area for pumpboats going to Guimaras Island, including the construction of a public park in the area.
==Iloilo City's Jaro has the earliest Calungsod baptism ==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=464164
*Friday, October 19, 2012
: (PNA), HBC/AJP/JAN/VLO
ILOILO CITY, Oct 19 (PNA) -- Jaro district in this metropolis has the earliest recorded baptism of a Calungsod, according to the Mormon-run genealogy website, www.familysearch.org.
This little information perhaps could shed answer to queries on where exactly Blessed Pedro Calungsod came from, as his canonization draws near.
The genealogy website operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, showed the earliest recorded baptism of a Calungsod was that of Maria Calungsod, daughter of Juan Calungsod and Josepha Beatris.
She was baptized on Sept. 7, 1748 in Jaro, Iloilo City, according to one of the most heavily used genealogy sites on the Internet.
The FamilySearch.org website offers free access to digital images of genealogical records stored at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, which holds genealogical records for over 110 countries, territories, and possessions, including over 2.4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records.
Blessed Pedro Calungsod was believed to have been born in 1655 in the Visayas, with the towns of Ginatilan in Cebu, Hinundayan and Hinunangan in southern Leyte, and Molo, Iloilo City as his probable place of birth.
There was no information as to how old Juan Calungsod when his daughter was baptized in Jaro but the website also showed that a Maria Feliziana Calungsod, probably a younger daughter, was baptized on June 2, 1753, also in Jaro, Iloilo City.
A Thomasina Calungsod was also baptized in Jaro, Iloilo City on April 4, 1750 whose parents were listed as Juan Calungsod and Feliziana Olay, also the parents of another Maria Calungsod who was baptized on October 9, 1751, also in Jaro.
The website also yielded baptism records of Calungsods from Baybay, Leyte (1828), Hinunangan, Leyte (1856), Cavite City, Cavite(1872), Ginatilan, Cebu (1889), Taysan, Negros Oriental (1889), La Castellana, Negros Occidental (1900), Iloilo, Iloilo (1900) and Guihulngan, Negros Oriental (1903).
The earliest recorded baptism in Baybay, Leyte was that of Feliciana Alejandra Calungsod who was baptized in the Immaculate Conception Church on Nov 10, 1828 and whose parents were listed as Francisco Calungsod and Maria Vicenta.
In Hinunganan, Leyte, the earliest recorded baptism was that of Calixtra Calungsod, born in 1856 and died on Feb 25, 1926.
There was no information on who her parents were.
==17 TIIC students to work abroad ==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=463828
*Thursday, October 18, 2012
: (PNA), HBC/AJP/LCP/VLO
ILOILO CITY, Oct 18 (PNA) -- Some 17 students including four graduates of the city government-owned Technical Institute of Iloilo City (TIIC) Molo campus will work in Doha, Qatar and Saudi Arabia soon.
Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog said they have been certified as qualified for employment abroad after passing the trade test conducted by the LML Manpower Services Inc., a PERT/CPM manpower exponent.
The mayor said the graduates are clear examples of the city government’s desire to help poor students secure vocational and technical courses for job placements in other countries.
Mabilog also assured assistance in securing medical and other certifications from the city government relative to processing of travel documents of the workers.
Mathilde Octavio, officer-in-charge school administrator of TIIC, said that the two are first year Civil Technical students, 11 are second year and four are graduates of Carpentry and Masonry/Tile Setter.
Octavio said TIIC is offering vocational and technical short term courses on six categories in the Molo campus aside from several short term courses offered at the Bo. Obrero campus.
Those who will go to Doha, Qatar are Mandro Alapar Jr., Ernesto Camus Jr., Charlie de Asis, Fernan Guevarra, Ronnie Josal, Randy Jaranilla, Gerbert Moreno, Gary Selorio, Edmund Basilio Jr., Airron Gabion, Shanel Macalalag, Renel Pagayunan, Jessie Fernandez and Alvin Montepio.
Those who will be going to KSA are Paul Gelilang, Eugenio Jamili and Bernie Magallanes.
==Firm offers LED-retrofitting of city street lights ==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=463486
*Wednesday, October 17, 2012
: (PNA), HBC/AJP/LCP/VLO
ILOILO CITY , Oct 17 (PNA) -- A business firm based in Metro Manila has proposed to Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog retrofitting and changing the sodium lights of more than 3,000 streetlights into light emitting diode (LED) at no cost to the city government.
The offer of SAVI Philippines was presented to the mayor Wednesday by the firm’s representatives Eugene Gorospe and Dang Zamora as a joint venture between the firm and the local government unit.
Mabilog said LED is currently the most sought after electric lights that have longer life span and more glow than the ordinary light bulb.
Mabilog said the venture would focus on the savings of electric bills paid by the city government to Panay Electric Company that will be given to SAVI to offset the payment for electricity used on the streetlights.
==German city eyes Iloilo as sister city ==
*Source:http://www.sunstar.com.ph/iloilo/local-news/2012/10/16/german-city-eyes-iloilo-sister-city-248207
*Tuesday, October 16, 2012
: By Lydia C. Pendon
PREPARATIONS are underway for Iloilo to become a sister city of the State of Bavaria in southeastern Germany, with exchanges on information on technology, education, health, environment and other issues.
Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog is enthusiastic on the offer of the German couple who are residents of Aschaffenburg, Bavaria and good friends and partners of Bavaria Mayor Klaus Herzog.
A highly industrialized city, Bavaria is known as a center of clean solar technology and other heavy equipment and only home of BMW cars in the world.
Import, export consultant Heinz Dieter Bender and his wife Socorro Cansancio Bender paid a courtesy call at the city mayor’s office on Monday to exchange ideas on the proposed sisterhood agreement.
Mrs. Bender traced her roots to the Cansancio family in Leon, Iloilo and still maintains a family house in the Iloilo municipality. She was married to her German husband for the past 32 years, and the couple has three children working in Germany.
Bender and his wife are general manager and chief executive officer respectively of YelloBill 168 eK based in Germany, and they are involved in exports of solar electricity materials and heavy equipment.
At present, their main export is in Iraq with Sheik Khrebett as their main costumer of solar electricity equipment and materials.
Mabilog said he is interested to connect with a German city and Iloilo as the first Philippine city to have a sisterhood agreement with a Euro city. He said there are many Ilonggas married to Germans and raising their families in several cities of Germany.
Bender assured he will do everything to cement the sisterhood agreement before December this year. He said they live near the city hall of Aschaffenburg, Bavaria and the city mayor there is their personal family friend.
==Iloilo to hold 5th Indigenous Fashion Fiber Fair==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=12&rid=462637
*Monday, October 15, 2012
: (PNA), PDS/AJPETINGLAY/VLO
ILOILO CITY, Oct. 15 (PNA) --The 5th Indigenous Fashion Fiber Fair will be held on Oct. 17-21 at the activity center of Shoemart (SM) City here.
Iloilo Provincial Tourism Officer Gilbert Marin said a fashion show is slated every afternoon with the trade fair to attract the crowd.
Handloom textile weaving will also be demonstrated to galvanize issues on social responsibility in the creative industries of Ilonggo Arts and Crafts.
The fair is held to preserve the arts and crafts and to assist identified communities in the development and marketing of their crafts.
The event is held with the Department of Tourism.
==Gov't allots P126 M for new Iloilo ferry terminal ==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=462328
*Sunday, October 14, 2012 12:00 AM
: By Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star)
MANILA, Philippines - The government is putting up a P126 million world-class ferry terminal in Fort San Pedro in Iloilo City to provide safe and convenient travel for passengers from Iloilo to Guimaras that has a combined population of about 2.2 million.
The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) is set to bid out a contract for the construction of the P126-million Iloilo City Parola Ferry Terminal to serve more than 200 vessels with outrigger and rigger canoes.
Apart from serving the needs of commuters, the DOTC said the terminal would boost commerce and tourism in this part of the Western Visayas Region.
The project entails the site development of the 10,408-square-meter port area; construction of shore protection with a length of 267 meters using steel sheet piles; concrete dike with wave deflector with a length of 267 meters; excavation and disposal of unsuitable soil materials from a total area of 10,408 square meter to create a depth of 1 meter; and embankment and filling of aggregate base course in the same area.
The DOTC said the bidding is open to all interested bidders, subject to the conditions for eligibility provided in the implementing rules and regulations of Republic Act No. 9184 or the Government Procurement Reform Act and the bidding documents.
The Bids and Awards Committee would hold a pre-bid conference on Oct. 16.
The agency is also set to bid out four other port development projects in the country worth P20 million.
These projects include the Dapa Port worth P9.68 million for the construction of a back-up area and a 92-meter seawall that would benefit travelers to and from the Island of Siargao, Surigao del Norte as well as the P4.8 million Plaridel-Pulilan port development project in Bulacan covering the construction of two river landings with stairs.
The DOTC is also set to develop the Bansud Port for P3.9-million including the repair of its pier concrete slab with a length of 30 meters and width of 9 meters; and back-up area with stair landings with an area of 502 square meters.
Likewise, the agency has allocated P2 million for the Cantupa port development project in Negros Oriental wherein a causeway with stair landings would be established.
These projects aim to enhance tourism in the areas and provide passengers with a Convenient, Affordable, Reliable, Efficient and Safe transportation system in the country.
==Tourism records highest budget among top new businesses in W. Visayas ==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=462328
*Saturday, October 13, 2012
: (PNA), GHG/PGLENA/VLO
ILOILO CITY, Oct. 13 (PNA)-- A travel and tourist agency posted P45 million paid-up capital, the highest investment among top 10 new businesses in Western Visayas for the second quarter of 2012, data from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) showed.
Ceres Liner Travel and Tours, Inc. was also the only investor that took interest in tourism. The higher investment in tourism is expected to boost the industry in Western Visayas as it continues to promote agri-tourism.
Other top investments for the quarter included real estate, trading, quarrying, distribution of hydro power facility, lending, brokerage and financial holding.
The DLA Cloveland Inc and the Capital Properties, Inc. both into real estate, have paid-up capital of P4 million and P2 million, respectively.
Trading investors XYZ Global Express Corporation and Uni Gilsie Trade and Services Co. infused P4 million and P3.5 million, respectively.
The Phil-Power Exploration and Development Corp declared a paid-up capital of P3.125 million for distribution of hydropower facility while Lamis-Gaurana Crusher Aggregates Company has P3 million in paid-up capital for its quarrying venture.
Other top investors included the Kanlaon Lending Corp. with P2.5 million paid-up capital for its lending business and FJS Import-Export Brokerage, Inc. and Murgreen Energy Holding, Corp. which both declared a P2 million paid-up capital for brokerage and financial holding businesses, respectively.
==PRO6 implements zero police tolerance ==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=462052
*Friday, October 12, 2012
: (PNA), GHG/AJPETINGLAY/VLO
ILOILO CITY, Oct. 12 (PNA) -- The Police Regional Office (PRO) 6 is strictly implementing the zero police tolerance on crimes in compliance with the directive of Interior and Local Government Sec. Mar Roxas.
PRO 6 regional director Chief Supt. Agrimero Cruz, Jr. further said this was also in support to the administration's thrust of "Matuwid na Daan."
He said Sec. Roxas, a banker, wanted the police to quantify the investment that the government is giving them.
“There will be more police trainings as the government's investment and the police, in return, has to deliver a good performance, thus, the zero tolerance on crimes,” Cruz explained.
==Iloilo City now a benchmark for sectoral initiatives ==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=461731
*Thursday, October 11, 2012
: (PNA), GHG/AJP/PGLENA/VLO
ILOILO CITY, Oct 11 (PNA) -- The city's best management and environmental practices have become the yardstick for other institutions and organizations that plan to improve their own initiatives.
City Planning and Development Office(CPDO) head Jose Roni Peñalosa said Iloilo City is the only local government unit (LGU) worldwide that was awarded the Palladium Award, relative to its being a Hall of Fame awardee for Balance Scorecard under the Institute for Solidarity in Asia (ISA).
Meanwhile, Peñalosa related that 17 representatives of Korea's Local Administration Training Institute (LATI), an institution accredited to provide and organize visits in foreign countries to study development planning and governance visited Iloilo City on Wednesday.
The visitors, who were from Bucheon, Seoul South Korea, studied the city’s environmental practices and programs, parliamentary procedure, balance scorecard, and development planning, especially on how public-private partnership was implemented.
The group was just one of the many visitors that took interest of the city’s practices. Other visitors were from various cities and municipalities in the country.
==Mountain-climbing and nature-tripping at Igbaras, Iloilo ==
==Mountain-climbing and nature-tripping at Igbaras, Iloilo ==
*Source:http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=857980
*Source:http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=857980
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