A
public hearing of the Senate Committee on Local Government, conducted jointly
with the Committees on Ways and Means; Finance; and Government Corporations and
Public Enterprises, was held on Monday morning, September 16, to discuss issues
currently faced by barangays.
Among the bills taken up
during the hearing was Senate Bill No. 391 or the Magna Carta for Barangays
filed by Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go.
Under the bill, barangay
officials will now be treated as regular government employees receiving
benefits that regular government employees enjoy like salaries, emoluments,
allowances such as hazard pay, representation and transportation allowance,
13th month pay and other benefits. Read full story.
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MORE BARANGAY NEWS & EVENTS NATIONWIDE
Postponement of barangay elections to 2023 approved by 3 senate committees. Senate Bill No. 1043 postpones the May 2020 polls to the second Monday of May 2023 and sets the subsequent barangay and SK electionse every one year following a national and local elections.
The substitute bill was
approved by the committees on electoral reforms and people’s participation,
local government and finance, chaired by Sens. Imee Marcos, Francis Tolentino,
and Sonny Angara on Sept. 11, 2019.
The bill states that
incumbent barangay officials shall remain in office in a holdover capacity. Read full story.
Muntinlupa
barangay exchange rice for plastic wastes brought by residents. One barangay is
trying to tackle the scourge of plastic waste by offering rice to residents in
exchange for their trash.
Residents of Bayanan,
Muntinlupa City can get one kilo of rice for every two kilos of plastic waste,
which are handed over to the government for proper disposal or recycling.
Bayanan collected more than
213 kg of sachets, bottles and plastic bags in August, said barangay captain
Andor San Pedro, adding that the food-for-trash swap is teaching people how to
properly dispose of their waste. Read full story.
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| Photo credit: Reuters |
Cavite
representative wants to give more insurance benefits to barangay chiefs. Cavite Representative Dahlia
Loyola, through House Bill 1052, is pushing for granting additional insurance for
barangay captains and providing funds for payment of its premiums.
It is to compensate for all kinds of problems that
fall directly into the laps of barangay officials, from mediating conflicts between
neighbors to providing for medical emergencies which they have to attend to, regardless
of the day and time they happen. Read full story.
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Lapu-Lapu City barangay captains sue mayor for evicting congresswoman
from her office. Mayor Junard Chan said though that the village
chiefs who sued him for the alleged illegal eviction of Rep. Paz Radaza from
her office in the City Hall were just forced to do it.
The filing
of the complaints was done to check the loyalty of Radaza’s allies, said Chan.
Association
of Barangay Council president Eduardo Cuizon, who led the complainants,
belittled Chan’s allegations, saying they have the right to complain. Read full story.
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| LAPU-LAPU City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan Photo: Sunstar |
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out of the 61 Bacolod City barangays have submitted accomplishment reports on clearing
operations. Bacolod City legal officer, Atty. Joselito
Bayatan, recently revealed that only 16 out of the 61 city barangays have
submitted their accomplishments with regards to the ongoing clearing
operations.
Based on evaluations
conducted by the city government, he said the remaining barangays have attained
around 20 to 35 percent of their total accomplishments.
In a recent memo issued by
the office of the mayor, barangay officials can expect disciplinary measures from
the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) if they fail to meet
the requirements. Read full story.
Business
group proposes free Wi-Fi in remote Negros Oriental barangays. A free Wi-Fi Internet access to be set
up in Barangay Trinidad, a remote village in Guihulngan City, has been proposed
by the Negros Oriental Chamber of Commerce, Inc. (NOCCI) to provide
communication reach to insurgency-affected barangays and to hopefully end
insurgency in those areas.
NOCCI former president
Edward Du, who is currently the regional governor of the Philippine Chamber of
Commerce and Industry (PCCI) in Central Visayas, proposed this during the
‘Dagyawan’ or consultation of the Negros Oriental Task Force to End Local
Communist Armed Conflict (NOTF-ELCAC) in Guihulngan recently.
Du said the setting up of
free WIFI connection in the insurgency affected barangays can be part of the
government’s last-mile infrastructure to deliver the bandwidth to the barangay
halls. Read full story.
The
AFP and the PNP urge barangays to support campaigns against terrorism. The
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP)
urged the 590 barangays in Antique to support the campaign against terrorism
during the Peace and Order Summit at the Binirayan Gymnasium in San Jose de Buenavista
on Friday, September 13, 2019.
Lt. Col. Joel Benedict G.
Batara, battalion commander of the Philippine Army, said the battle against
insurgency could not only be addressed through military operation.
He added that the President
has already created a national task force to address causes of armed conflict
with the communists. Read full story.
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| Peace and Order Summit. Antique Provincial Police Office Deputy Director, Lt. Col. Norby Escobar, urges barangay officials to support the campaign against terrorists during the Peace and Order Summit in San Jose de Buenavista on Friday (Sept. 13, 2019). He said that terrorists derail development projects in the barangays. (PNA photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay) |
Residents
and indigenous people say no to a coal plant project in a Palawan
barangay. Residents
and indigenous peoples (IP) communities in Narra town rejected Friday the
15-megawatt coal-fired power plant project of DMCI Power Corp., asserting it
will have long-term damaging impacts to their environment.
Speaking in a media
conference organized by the Save Palawan Movement (SPM), Tagbanua leaders Renato
Tondan and Norlita Sevilla said their ancestral domain will be “heavily
affected” also by the coal plant that will be constructed in Barangay
Bato-Bato. Read full story.
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| Photo from: Palawan News |
First
barangay summit on Executive Order 70 held in Caraga Region. The first
of its kind among 80 pilot barangays in the country to gather and hold a summit
in implementing an executive order of the President was held in Butuan City
last September 12, 2019.
Executive Order 70 was
issued by President Rodrigo Duterte last 2018. It institutionalizes a
"whole-of-nation approach" in attaining peace and development, ending
the communist insurgency and adopting a national peace framework.
A keynote speaker in the
summit, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, said peace and development and other
issues at the grassroots level should be prioritized because the barangay is
most affected, and barangay leaders at the same time know the best solutions to
their localities. It's important that government is able to quickly address
local concerns, such as those relating to peace and order, right there where it
starts. Read full story.
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| Cabinet
Secretary Karlo Nograles with other officials at the Barangay Summit on EO 70
and Covenant Signing last Thursday at the Balanghai Hotel in Butuan City.
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