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==US-funded overpass plan to couple Tawi-Tawi islands== | |||
*Source: http://www.tawitawi.net/us-funded-bridge-project-to-link-tawi-tawi-islands/ | |||
* OCTOBER 6, 2011 | |||
:By Julmunir I. Jannaral | |||
ISABELA CITY, Basilan A United States-funded highway and overpass plan will shortly bond a dual vital islands of Tawi-Tawi and is approaching to coax growth and significantly boost a provinces economy. | |||
The bridge-road plan is being finished here by inhabitant and informal agencies, with assistance from a U.S. government, and will directly couple Sanga-Sanga Island, where a internal airfield is located, with a mainland of Tawi-Tawi. | |||
The plan is a partnership involving a Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), a Tawi-Tawi Provincial Government, and a Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program of a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). | |||
Tawi-Tawi Gov. Sadikul Sahali pronounced a bridge-road tie will capacitate internal growers to ride their crops and other products some-more well and during reduce cost to a collateral city of Bongao, that is located on Sanga-Sanga Island and is a core of blurb activity in a province. | |||
This will severely urge a provision of farmers, quite in a municipalities on Tawi-Tawi Island, such as Panglima Sugala, Sapa-Sapa and Languyan, Governor Sahali said. | |||
Upland growers will have an easier time removing their harvests to markets, he added. | |||
This has been a longtime dream here, to have a land tie between a dual largest islands, pronounced Nazrullah Masahud, clamp boss of a Tawi-Tawi Chamber of Commerce and Industry. | |||
Masahud pronounced he approaching growers to start expanding prolongation and diversifying their crops, following a infrastructure improvements. | |||
Previously, farmers had told me that they hesitated to rivet in new ventures since ride was undependable, Masahud also said. | |||
He combined that a bridge-road connectors would also promote a designation of H2O pipelines and electric energy connectors to offer fast flourishing communities between a city of Bongao and Panglima Sugala municipality. | |||
Through a GEM Program, USAID has helped to urge a island-provinces economy by 51 barangay infrastructure projects, including a construction of 26 vessel landings. | |||
Six incomparable infrastructure projects finished by GEM in Tawi-Tawi embody a prolongation and widening of a Bongao airfield runway, that enabled Airphil Express to settle a Zamboanga-Bongao route, now plying 4 times weekly by a 77-seater Bombardier Q400. | |||
==Tawi-Tawi cops seize suspected tellurian trafficker; rescue 4 victims== | ==Tawi-Tawi cops seize suspected tellurian trafficker; rescue 4 victims== | ||
*Source: http://www.tawitawi.net/tawi-tawi-cops-nab-suspected-human-trafficker-rescue-4-victims/ | *Source: http://www.tawitawi.net/tawi-tawi-cops-nab-suspected-human-trafficker-rescue-4-victims/ |