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==DENR proposes P32-M fund for air, water quality cleanup at Iloilo River==
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=8&rid=658339
*Monday, June 30, 2014
: (PNA), LAP/AJP/LCP/VLO
ILOILO CITY, June 30 (PNA) -– The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has submitted a proposal for a P32.1-million budget for ambient air and water quality monitoring and clean-up of the Iloilo River and its tributary Calajunan and Dungon creeks.
Submitted to the Iloilo-Batiano River Development Council chaired by Ilonggo Senator Franklin M. Drilon and Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog, the proposal met positive reception from the members.
Drilon assured he will look for the budget to fund the projects by also giving an ultimatum to the DENR to clean the Iloilo River in six months or positively until September this year.
DENR Regional Director Jim Sampulna said the proposal takes into account the total coliform concentrations at the Iloilo River which are still way below standards. However, current trend shows the general improvement of the water quality of the river.
There is a notable improvement at the Calajunan Creek while Dungon Creek is still way below standards unless relocation of informal settlers and dredging activity will be undertaken as soon as possible.
The river council also approved a resolution calling for the approval of Oplan SWIM or the Sustainable Workplan for the Iloilo River Management.
The projects include the installation of garbage booms along the river consisting of floating containment structures made of impermeable PVC or bamboo designed to collect floating solid waste debris and even oil and grease amounting to P960,000. These trash booms can be stationed at the Calajunan and Dungon creeks and at the Iloilo River along the Carpenter’s Bridge, Drilon Bridge, front of outfall in Barangay Aguinaldo, La Paz, and at the Quirino Bridge.
The plan also proposed the acquisition of three units of vacuum trucks for desludging of collected garbage amounting some P5 million and the establishment of wastewater treatment facilities to reduce organic and inorganic pollution load.
Priority is given to the project in two public markets, the La Paz market and Jaro big market amounting some P6 million.
Other projects are two units of trash collection boats deployed at the Iloilo River amounting P4 million and the community awareness program which include tri-media campaign, installation of signages and production of IEC materials for Oplan SWIM amounting some P2.2 million.
The activity projects will cost some P29.2 million while project monitoring and supervision will cost some P2.9 million.
==Hundreds of volunteers plant trees on Iloilo’s ‘Little Baguio’==
*Source: http://panaynewsphilippines.com/2014/06/29/hundreds-of-volunteers-plant-trees-on-iloilos-little-baguio/
*Sunday, June 29, 2014
:(DENR-6/PN)
ILOILO – Hundreds of volunteers to the recent World Arbor Day celebration trooped to Iloilo’s “Little Baguio” in barangays Bucari and Danao in Leon town.
A total of 5,500 seedlings were planted by about 500 volunteers.
Five thousand mixed seedlings of narra, tapuyay, rain tree and tindalo were planted in a 10-hectare area in Brgy. Danao.
In Brgy. Bucari, 500 seedlings of narra, rain tree and toog were planted on a one-hectare area.
The Forest Management Services (FMS) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 6 prepared the needed seedlings for the tree planting.
The hundreds of volunteers were composed of the residents of the municipalities of Leon, Tubungan and Alimodian and employees of other government agencies.
World Arbor Day is an annual event through which the DENR inculcates the importance of trees to the environment and to human life.
“Without trees, we will have no source of food and oxygen. From trees we were able to build shelter, create tools and formulate medicines. Trees help improve air quality, conserve water, preserve soil and support wildlife. Trees have always played a part in our life and we must inculcate love for trees among the younger generation,” said DENR regionaldDirector Jim O Sampulna.
The Philippine government has institutionalized the celebration of the Arbor Day through Proclamation No. 643 which enjoins the “active participation of all government agencies, including government-owned and controlled corporations, private sector, schools, civil society and the citizenry in the tree planting activity.”
The two barangays in Leon were notably important areas, especially Danao, an identified National Greening Program (NGP) site.
“The aim to reforest 1.5-million hectares of land with 1.5 B of trees is no easy task and that is why we are glad that volunteers came. After all, environmental protection is a shared responsibility of everybody,” said Regional Technical Director Livino Duran of FMS.
==Ilonggo bikers up close with PNoy==
*Source: http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=931403858808
*Saturday, June 28, 2014
:By Lilibeth A. French (JCM/LAF/PIA6)
ILOILO CITY, June 28 (PIA6) - -Five-year old Void Axile Bustamante and six-year old Alecks Hailey Ramos were among the more than a hundred Ilonggo bikers who got a close encounter with President Benigno Aquino during his visit in Iloilo City, June 27.
Bustamante and Ramos, pupils of PLAY Integrated School together with the senior citizens, women, men, professionals, students from the Iloilo biking community rode in their bikes in the red-tiled bicycle lanes during the inaugural drive-through of President Benigno S. Aquino at the 2-km section of the proposed Senator Benigno S. Aquino (SBA), Jr. Avenue Road widening project at Brgy. San Rafael in the district of Mandurriao.
Bustamante and Ramos said they are happy to meet the President who got out from his vehicle and walked back to the group of bikers to greet them and have his picture taken with them.
Another biker who was at the front, Dr. Kristine Trenas, had the chance to introduce herself to the President as the widow of the late Francis Trenas whom the President acknowledged as his classmate. Francis is the brother of Congressman Jerry Trenas.
Trenas said the opportunity has shown to the rest of the country “that we don’t need cars and by biking we can curb pollution and get healthier”. She encouraged the provisions of more bike lanes.
The bike/walk lane is included in the proposed SBA Avenue road widening project that stretches 15.60 kilometers from the juncture of General Luna Street up to the Iloilo International Airport that aims to reduce traffic congestion and provide additional access to the Iloilo International Airport as well as the Iloilo Business Park and Iloilo Convention Center, both are under development and were also inspected by the President.
Aside from the provision of a bicycle lane, the project also involves the widening to eight lanes of the main carriageway, additional two-lane service road, sidewalks and drainage system. It also includes the widening and retrofitting of left side of the 144-lm Iloilo Bridge from two lanes to four lanes and construction of pedestrian overpass.
The development effort is part of the preparations for the hosting of the ministerial meetings of the APEC Summit in 2015.
Earlier, President Aquino also led the inauguration of the P157.734 million Jaro Bridge II in Brgy. Ungka, Jaro district, a component of the newly constructed 14.18 km. Iloilo Circumferential Road worth P1.9 billion.
The project also includes the construction of three other bridges such as the Iloilo Bridge II, Mandurriao Bridge I and Mandurriao Bridge II.
In a media interview, Senate President Franklin Drilon said the Iloilo Circumferential Road that connects the Iloilo Airport and Dumangas port will help spur tourism and economic activities in Iloilo.
==DTI, Iloilo City ink MOA establishing business resource center==
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=657733
*Friday, June 27, 2014
:(PNA), LAM/AJP/LCPENDON/VLO
ILOILO CITY, June 27 (PNA) -- Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog on Friday bared the signing of a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for the establishment of a business resource center here as a one-stop shop for business.
The city government and Director Wilhelm Malones of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) regional office signed the MOA last June 25 to put up the business resource center.
Mabilog said the city center, manned by members of the Red Ladies Organization as major beneficiary, is currently sharing an office with the APEC coordinating office at the Robinsons Place Iloilo.
Malones said DTI is providing IT facilities and equipment worth P1 million turned over to the city for the use of the center. While Senator Paolo Benigno Aquino IV, thru his Pinoy Negosyo Center, is also providing P2 million for the DTI to conduct business training and counseling to stakeholders including the small and medium enterprises.
Malones said Iloilo City is one of the three pilot areas in the country as models of the program. The other cities are Batangas and Cagayan de Oro.
==DENR, PIA launch climate change advocacy drive in Western Visayas==
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=657298
*Thursday, June 26, 2014
:(PNA), LAP/AJP/LCP/VLO
ILOILO CITY, June 26 (PNA) -– The regional offices of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) jointly launched an advocacy campaign on climate change mitigation and adaptation advocacy campaign in Western Visayas on Wednesday in this city as part of the national campaign on climate change.
Dr. Alicia L. Lustica, DENR regional technical director for research and PIA Regional Director Janet Mesa will lead the campaign to bring to the Ilonggos the mitigation and adaptation measures against the onslaughts of calamities such as super typhoons spawned by climate change and the degradation of the environment.
Starting with the local media practitioners in this city, the campaign will be brought to the provinces of Negros Occidental in Ngros island and in the provinces of Capiz, Aklan and Antique in Panay Island and Guimaras.
A known climate change expert, Lustica pointed out that climate change is 90 percent due to human activities and global warming is mainly due to the accumulation of green houses gases in the earth’s atmosphere.
“Climate change is here and we can not do anything about it. All we have to do is campaign about human activities that destroy the earth and push for mitigation and adaptation strategies to help prevent further destruction of human lives and properties,” Lustica said.
The Philippines is one of the five most vulnerable countries in the world to the effects of climate change, being located in the typhoon belt area. The country is visited by at least 20 typhoons a year.
==City centenarians to get P10,000==
*Source: http://panaynewsphilippines.com/2014/06/25/city-centenarians-to-get-p10000/
*Wednesday, June 25, 2014
:(LMSinay, Iloilo City PIO/PN)
ILOILO City – Senior citizen residents here already 100 years old will receive an incentive from the city government.
“Starting next month, we will release P10,000 to all centenarians residing in Iloilo City,” Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog said.
The move aims to honor senior citizens who have reached that ripe old age seldom reached by others.
They can use the money to buy their medicines and other needs in their twilight years.
They could also help promote “healthy lifestyle” as key to longevity among Ilonggos.
The mayor said beneficiaries will just have to present their birth certificates or any legal document as proof of their age.
==Students launch adopt a school project==
*Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/iloilo/local-news/2014/06/24/students-launch-adopt-school-project-349945
*Tuesday, June 24, 2014
: By Lydia C. Pendon
STUDENT leaders from different parts of the Philippines has launched an adopt a school project for disaster-stricken schools in northern Iloilo.
Ruevin Serrano, secretary general of the Student Council Alliance of the Philippines (Scap), said the project aims to rehabilitate three elementary schools and three community schools in the fifth district of Iloilo that were ravaged by Typhoo Yolanda (Haiyan) last November 2013.
The schools are Gabi Elementary School in Carles, Lawis Elementary School in Gigantes Island, Cares, Alapasco Primary School in Batad, and three schools in Sicogon Island, also in Carles.
Serrano said the two-year project will help in rebuilding the lives of their fellow students and the community they belong.
He said they are asking help from students all over the country to provide school supplies and equipment on top of rebuilding the schools.
The students launched the project during the 9th National Congress in Iloilo City from June 19 to 23.
Member councils and organizations of the Scap has expressed their commitment in pushing for local policies in each school for them to be more prepared in case a disaster strikes.
==66 companies to join Iloilo capitol job fair==
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=656015
*Monday, June 23, 2014
: (PNA), LAM/AJPETINGLAY/VLO
ILOILO CITY, June 23 (PNA) -- Sixty-six overseas and local companies have already signified interest to join the Iloilo provincial government job fair on July 2 being organized by the Public Employment Service Office (PESO).
Francisco Heler, PESO chief, said that there are 19 overseas companies, seven business process outsourcing, and 40 local companies that will be joining the job fair.
He said that the recruitment companies are looking for construction, hotel, information technology workers and others.
The companies have placed out more than 3,000 job orders for both local and overseas jobs.
Help desks will be put up by the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA), Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), Technical Education Skills and Development Authority (TESDA), Philippine Health Insurance Corporation and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).
Heler said they hope at least 50 percent of the applicants would be hired on the spot by the companies during the one day job fair.
==City Hall gets MMDA help on traffic plan==
*Source: http://panaynewsphilippines.com/2014/06/22/city-hall-gets-mmda-help-on-traffic-plan/
*Sunday, June 22, 2014
: (RP Sombero, Iloilo City PIO/PN)
ILOILO City – The city government will soon have its own comprehensive traffic plan.
Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Francis Tolentino, during a visit here, pledged to help the city create one.
Mabilog welcomed Tolentino;s offer at no cost to the city government.
The mayor will ask the Sangguniang Panlungsod for authority to work with MMDA in crafting of the traffic plan.
“I offer the services of our traffic engineering center to craft a traffic management plan for future reference of Iloilo City,” said Tolentino.
MMDA is the only agency in the country that has its own Traffic Engineering Center and Traffic Management Institute (TMI).
TMI offers courses with diploma and modules for traffic enforcers.
The MMDA chair finds the traffic in the metropolis tolerable but suggested it has to be planned because it is fast-growing.
The project will include planning ahead the clear routes of vehicles, number of vehicles, and projected number of passengers in the future.
MMDA has also helped create the traffic plans of Southern Leyte; Calapan, Mindoro; Tuguegarao City; and Laoag City.
==DA-WV bent on succeeding with organic farming==
*Source: http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=911403252431
*Saturday, June 21, 2014
:By Elsa S. Subong (DA6/JSC/PIA6-Iloilo)
ILOILO CITY, June 21 (PIA6)—There is no reason for organic farming to fail in Western Visayas, its birthplace, an organic farming official said.
Director Leo Cañeda, national coordinator of organic farming, said this during the recent celebration of Pagnahi-an Festival in Bingawan, Iloilo.
The organic farming program of the Department of Agriculture has been running in the region for the last four years since the Organic Agriculture Act was passed in 2010.
Dir. Cañeda said the law aims to convert five percent of the country’s agricultural land areas into organic agriculture.
In Western Visayas, out of 633,000 hectares of agricultural areas, about 32,000 have been transformed as of date, as per DA record.
The province of Negros Occidental, known for its muscovado sugar, aims to be the organic farming capital of the country.
In a forum in Bingawan, Mayor Matt Palabrica said the town will soon pass an ordinance on organic farming implementation to increase the town's production and mitigate effects of climate change.
DA-6 Regional Technical Director Joyce Wendam said the organic agriculture program will provide Bingawan farmers production support services, implementation roadmap, and technical training.
In the same forum, Dr. Jaime Cabarles, dean, Central Philippine University College of Agriculture, Resources and Environmental Sciences, shared with the farmers the effective ways of raising native chickens.
“Grow native chickens competitively to avoid the woes on product mismatch,” Cabarles said, as he urged them to contribute in making the region as native chicken capital of the country.
On the other hand, Clarence Jereza of the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation, said small scale farmers who are into rice, corn, high value crops and livestock production can avail of the crop insurance program.
Farmers attending the forum received 10 bags of certified seeds, open pollinated variety  white corn seeds, and IEC materials for other details.
The law provides that farmers conform to  the Philippine National Standard  on Organic Farming in order to be certified as organic practitioners and for their products to have access to domestic and 
foreign markets.
==Iloilo River vies for ‘Galing Pook’==
==Iloilo River vies for ‘Galing Pook’==
*Source: http://panaynewsphilippines.com/2014/06/20/iloilo-river-vies-for-galing-pook/
*Source: http://panaynewsphilippines.com/2014/06/20/iloilo-river-vies-for-galing-pook/
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