Barangay Maharlika, one of the 7 newly-created barangays in San Pedro City in Laguna Province, held a whole-day
workshop last Saturday, October 19, 2019 from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. to form several
sectoral clusters among its constituents that will oversee the economic, social, peace
and order, environmental, infrastructure and other key aspects of barangay development
and governance.
Top barangay officials headed by its young and decisive Punong Barangay Jesse
James Ting and Council Members who welcome citizens participation in barangay governance, actively participated in the workshop.
As expected, also present to provide their inputs to the deliberation are representatives from the various sectors of the community such as officials of subdivision homeowners associations, TODA, business clubs and environmental groups among others.
As expected, also present to provide their inputs to the deliberation are representatives from the various sectors of the community such as officials of subdivision homeowners associations, TODA, business clubs and environmental groups among others.
The
workshop was facilitated by Barangay Administrator and former DILG community
development officer Bien Cena, who led the participants in forming committee
groups to deliberate on their specific agendas. The leaders representing each
group later presented their working plans and programs.
Barangay Maharlika,
together with the 7 other newly-created barangays in the city, was carved out following a plebiscite from Barangay San Vicente -- one of the larger villages in the city of San
Pedro.
Included in the seven are Pacita 1 and 2, Chrysanthemum, Rosario, Fatima and San Lorenzo Ruiz which brings the total number of barangays in the city from 20 to 27, based on an Inquirer news report dated July 12, 2015. (Story reported by Jun Miranda. Photo credit: Facebook Page of Kgd. Leonida Magboo Lojo).
Included in the seven are Pacita 1 and 2, Chrysanthemum, Rosario, Fatima and San Lorenzo Ruiz which brings the total number of barangays in the city from 20 to 27, based on an Inquirer news report dated July 12, 2015. (Story reported by Jun Miranda. Photo credit: Facebook Page of Kgd. Leonida Magboo Lojo).
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Mayor Joy Belmonte announced on Wednesday that some barangays in Quezon City
have already been declared free from African swine fever (ASF).
According to Belmonte, Barangay Tandang Sora, Pasong Tamo, and Tatalon are all free from the ASF disease. Soon, Barangay Silangan may also be declared ASF-free.
Despite the
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Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Thursday announced that it will start
issuing show-cause orders next week against 80 barangay captains in the
City of Manila for their failure to comply with the nationwide road-clearing
drive.
“We are
filing on Tuesday next week around 80 show-cause orders against barangay
captains. Itong 80 na ito ay [These 80
are] first focused on the City of Manila,” DILG Undersecretary for Plans,
Public Affairs, and Communication Jonathan Malaya said.
Malaya said
that the DILG will file administrative cases for negligence, misconduct, and
dereliction of duty against barangay captains who failed to properly explain
their failure to comply with the President’s order to clear primary and
secondary public roads in their respective areas of obstructions.
He added that the barangay captains may eventually be suspended. READ MORE.
He added that the barangay captains may eventually be suspended. READ MORE.
Residents of Ilocos Norte barangay release baby marine turtles back to sea. About 23 baby marine turtles (pawikan) emerged from their
nest near a picnic area in Barangay Pagsanahan Norte, Badoc, Ilocos Norte, and
crawled into the open sea to begin their voyage from their birth place.
Villager
Danlito Gamaio witnessed this Wednesday morning last week as he was supposed to gather
seaweeds. He immediately reported it to the village chief and to the nearest
office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Office (DENR).
According
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More than eight thousand residents in 87 Iloilo barangays learn
entrepreneurship skills. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Iloilo
province, through its "Negosyo Serbisyo sa Barangay” program, has visited
villages to disseminate services to the public.
DTI-Iloilo
targets to reach 87 villages this year and has visited 78 villages with 8,714
participants as of Monday last week.
Mutya
Eusores, the senior trade and industry development specialist of DTI-Iloilo,
said in a press conference recently that DTI-Iloilo targets to
finish the 87 villages by the end of the month. READ MORE.
‘Whole of Nation' approach to be taken up in Iloilo Province barangay assemblies. One of the topics lined up
for discussion in the October Barangay Assembly is Executive Order No. 70,
Series of 2018, which institutionalizes the whole-of-nation approach in
attaining inclusive and sustainable peace, creates a National Task Force to End
Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and directs the Adoption of a
National Peace Framework.
Ms.Teodora
Sumagaysay, Provincial Director of the Department
of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) in Iloilo, said the department has issued Memorandum Circular 125 – 2019 to
provide guidelines to local government units in the implementation of EO No.
70.
Sumagaysay
said Saturdays and Sundays of March and October of every year have been
declared as Barangay Assembly Days in the country pursuant to Proclamation No.
599 series of 2018 signed by President Rodrigo Duterte.
All barangays are mandated to gather their residents for an assembly every semester to discuss accomplishments, finances, activities, national laws and issuances as well as issues and concerns affecting the community. READ MORE.
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Barangay clustering system
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30 barangays of this city will be clustered into three groups to avail of the
mobile fire-fighting units the city plans to acquire, an official said on
recently.
Every
mobile fire-fighting unit is equipped with a water tank and pump with a hose
placed in a trailer that can be pulled by any vehicle within the barangay in
case of fire, he said.
It
is designed to suppress fire at the early stage before the arrival of the fire
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Davao Oriental barangay
gets World Bank and LGU-funded potable water system. Costing P4.5 million, the water system was turned
over to Barangay Tagbinonga, Mati City on Wednesday (Oct. 16, 2016).
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32 tap stands. At least 192 households
or 960 residents will benefit from the project.
“We
are very thankful for this project because we are able to avail of the Patubig
Program of the Mati LGU. It is a very big help to the residents of Barangay
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…while Lanao del Norte barangay
gets P12 million for its water project. Barangay
Beruar of Tangcal municipality in Lanao del Norte is set to finish its P12
million-worth of Salintubig Project, as Department of the Interior and Local
Government (DILG)-10 released the second tranche of the project amounting to
around P2 million.
“Contented,
happy and healthy communities—this is our goal; and our intervention is on the
delivery of safe-reliable water supply, especially in Barangay Beruar,” DILG
Regional Director Arnel M. Agabe said.
Agabe
added that this is just one of the efforts in making the government be felt,
even in the remote barangays. READ MORE.
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to five barangays the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has declared as
drug-free villages.
Mayor
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