Rep. Sol Aragones of Laguna said that the country’s current struggle with
the dengue outbreak highlights the need to mandate the inclusion of health
workers in every barangay to aid the Department of Health (DOH) in its disease
prevention and management efforts.
The
former TV journalist added that “the number of dengue cases, together with the
other communicable and non-communicable diseases, continues to rise every year.
Dengue cases, for example, have tripled this year compared to 93,200 cases last
year.”
“If we want to win this
battle against a national epidemic, we must start in the most basic unit of our
society, and equip each barangay with health workers that can help the national
government in addressing the continuous widespread of diseases,” stressed the
lawmaker, who recently filed House Bill 3511 or the Barangay Health Worker Act. Read full story.
Photo source: Cong. Sol Aragones Facebook page
MORE BARANGAY NEWS & EVENTS NATIONWIDE
DTI’s Negosyo sa Barangay program attracted hundreds of budding and would-be entrepreneurs in Ilocos Norte town. Launched at the Paoay Civic Center in barangay Veronica, it has attracted around 350 budding and would-be entrepreneurs from the different barangays of the town.
As one of the flagship
programs of the Department of Trade and Industry, the Negosyo sa Barangay (NSB)
aims to empower underserved communities, and help them become successful
entrepreneurs.
The program features a
one-stop shop of DTI services for micro, small and medium enterprises, such as
assisting them in business registration and how to boost their business skills.
Read full story.
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| HELPING SMALL BUSINESSES. Residents of Paoay, Ilocos Norte participated in the "Negosyo sa Barangay" launching in Barangay Veronica, Paoay, Ilocos Norte on Tuesday (Aug. 27, 2019). The program aims to develop people in underserved communities to become successful entrepreneurs. (Photo courtesy of the DTI-Ilocos Norte Facebook Page) |
Baguio
City department heads told to go out and visit the barangays. Mayor
Benjamin B. Magalong ordered department heads of the different offices of the
local government to visit the various barangays twice a week to effectively and
efficiently address the issues and concerns related to their duties and
functions.
The city chief executive
claimed that based on his dialogues with barangay officials, there seems to be
a gap between the different offices of the local government and the barangays
that significantly affects the efficient delivery of basic services to the
people in the city barangays.
Under the mayor’s directive,
each of the department heads should spend two half days in the barangays for
them to be appraised of the problems in the communities related to the programs,
projects and activities being handled by their departments and for them to
address arising therefrom. Read full story.
53 barangays in the NCR
declared as “drug-cleared” by the Regional Oversight Committee on Barangay Drug
Clearing Program. This
undertaking is in line with the Three-Pronged Approach of holistic anti-drug
strategy adopted by the PDEA (Supply Reduction, Demand Reduction and Harm
Reduction) as the national anti-drug campaign in building drug resistant
communities
The
newly declared drug-cleared barangays will be added to the two hundred and fifty-one
(251) previously cleared barangays, making it a total of three hundred and four
(304) drug-cleared barangays for the period of January to August of 2019. Read full story.
Quezon
City barangay chairman released the wrong frogs in his desire to
fight dengue in his barangay. A well-meaning barangay
captain in Quezon City, who mistook cane toads for bullfrogs, errs in thinking
his action can solve the dengue problem in his area. In fact, he likely creates
a new problem.
Dengue has killed at least
800 in the country since January, prompting the Department of Health to declare
dengue as national epidemic. In Quezon City alone, at least 3,500 were infected
by dengue and at least 29 of them have died.
The barangay captain's move
however triggered a backlash from netizens,
citing that the frogs were invasive and releasing them along esteros might even
be harmful to the environment. Watch video.
Plane disintegrates in mid-air before crashing into two Barangay Pansol resort houses. A medevac plane crashed in Barangay Pansol in Calamba City, Laguna on Sunday, broke up while still in the air, according to a regional official of the Office of Civil Defense on Monday.
"Nagpira-piraso ang
eroplano sa air pa lang," Alex Masiglat, spokesperson of the Calabarzon-Regional
Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council and Region IV-A Office of Civil
Defense, said in an interview on Dobol B sa News TV aired on GMA News TV.
According to a report by
Manny Vargas on Dobol B sa News TV, parts of the 11-seater two-engine turbo
prop plane landed in separate areas: Purok Dos, Purok Tres, Purok Singko and a one-meter part of
what is believed to be the plane's wing landed in Purok Dos. Watch video.
Bacolod
City outstanding barangay tanods given citation by the City Peace and Order
Council. The
awards given to the group and individual categories, the tanods in Barangay Singcang Airport won the group category while Tanod Carlo T. Moral of Barangay
Villamonte won the individual category.
The winners for the 2019
Outstanding Barangay tanod are set to compete in the regional search in Iloilo
City next month.
Vice Mayor and POC presiding
chair El Cid Familiaran wished the tanods luck in an awarding rites during the
regular POC meeting at the Bacolod City Government Center.
Members of the city search
committee with representatives from the Bacolod City Police Office, Bureau of
Jail Management and Penology, Bureau of Fire, Regional Training Center 6,
National Police Commission and the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
Office were recognized for their contributions in the evaluation process. Read full story.
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| Photo credit: SunStar |
Iloilo
barangay captain electrocuted while fixing billboard. Barangay
Captain Marcelo Malificiar, 56, of Zone 10, Cabatuan town expired several
minutes after he was brought to Ramon Tabiana Memorial District Hospital in
Cabatuan in the afternoon of Aug. 30, 2019.
Malificiar was fixing a signage of their booth at the Cabatuan Agro-Industrial Fair when the incident happened.
He stepped on an aluminum ladder to install their booth’s signage. But the ladder apparently touched a live wire of their extension cord.
A younger man who assisted Malificiar tried to save the victim from electrocution by allegedly kicking the ladder. He however landed face down. Read full story.
Palawan barangay tanods gets insurance protection while on duty. Around 231 tanod from 17 barangays of Aborlan have availed the Barangay Tanod Association (BATAS) Accident Insurance Card.
The insurance aims to provide financial assistance to barangay tanods who may get into accidents while on duty.
It provides burial insurance, expense benefit, medical reimbursement and permanent disability benefit. Read full story.
Filipino
community sets up ‘barangay’ in Canadian city. A
new community group in Winnipeg spent a day cleaning up their neighborhood —
collecting garbage, cigarette butts and discarded needles — to make a safer
path for students soon heading back to school.
The group, calling itself Barangay West End was formed about five months ago after the death of a teenager and focused their efforts around school yards and playgrounds.
It has 1,200 members on its Facebook page and over 100 of those are actively involved, says Fhem Manansala, one of its administrators. Read full story.
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| Members of Barangay West End picked up trash and needles on Saturday to make the neighborhood safer for kids. (Aidan Geary/CBC) |
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