Pasig City Mayor Sotto orders barangay officials to open roads to the public.

Mayor Vico Sotto has ordered barangay captains in the city to open all public roads to traffic as part of clearing operations mandated by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).

In a memorandum dated July 30, 2019, Sotto said roads “previously limited by their respective barangays to residents, business locators and similar inhabitants” must be open to traffic.

The mayor also ordered barangay officials to remove road obstructions in their communities immediately. READ MORE

Photo from the Faceook page of Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto

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QC barangay officials many now declare suspension of classes. With unpredictable weather conditions, school heads and barangay chairpersons in Quezon City are now allowed to suspend classes in their respective turfs if public safety will be compromised.

This was explained to the representatives of Quezon City’s School Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Councils (SDRRMC) who attended an orientation on localized class or work suspensions called by Quezon City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (QCDRRMO).

The QCDRRMO discussed the city’s protocols in declaring class or work suspensions due to inclement weather or other reasons. READ MORE

Pasay City police probers looking at shooting of barangay chief as drug-related.  The victim, Jojo Balais, 37, chairman of Barangay 37, Zone 3 was riding his Yamaha motorcycle along Buendia Avenue heading towards F.B. Harrison Avenue when two motorcycle-riding men came from behind and shot him repeatedly in the body and then fled upon seeing him fall on the pavement.

The victim was rushed by members of the city’s rescue team to the Manila Adventist Medical Center for treatment but he was declared dead on arrival. 

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Six Isabela barangays identified as priority areas of DTI business development program.  In a bid to bring government assistance closer to the countryside and encourage more barangay-based businesses and entrepreneurial activities, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Isabela launched its Negosyo Serbisyo sa Barangay program in the town of Benito Soliven recently.

During the first day of the NSB, the identified priority barangays were District 1, District 2 and New Magsaysay while Andabuen, Sevillana and Sta. Cruz were identified during the second day.

Through the program, the participants from the six barangays were engaged on Consumer and Business Education Information, Entrepreneurial Development Training and Google Business Group. READ MORE

 

DTI - Isabela launches the Negosyo Serbisyo sa Barangay program in Benito Soliven town, Isabela where MSMEs from its six barangays attended the said program held at the municipal gymnasium of the locality. (photo from DTI - Isabela)

Residents of a Bataan barangay plant 1,500 trees.  Residents of an upland barangay in the province began planting trees as a way of caring for the environment and in line with the "one million trees" program of the provincial government.

Barangay chairman Marcialito Balan of Alion led the tree planting in a two-hectare flat land adjacent to a forested area.

The village head said 1,500 seedlings of the mahogany tree species were planted and more will be planted in the coming days. READ MORE

A reading center in every Cebu City barangay.  Students in the city would no longer have to spend money to go to coffee shops to study once the city government constructs the barangay reading centers.

City hall will put up barangay reading centers in strategic areas near the universities in Barangays Talamban, Mabolo and Pardo, and one mountain barangay.

Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella said it is his administration’s goal to build numerous reading centers and if possible, build one in each of the city’s 80 barangays. READ MORE

Remote Capiz barangay receives grains dryer for its farmers association.  Intended to benefit the growing eighty-five (85) members of Putian Farmers Association (PFA), the project was a result of concerted efforts of LGU, stakeholders, and Community Support Program (CSP) Teams of the Philippine Army who were deployed at Barangay Putian.

PFA Officials and members requested the said project supported by a barangay resolution from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). The request was later approved by the DOLE-Capiz with a project costs amounting to Eight hundred thousand pesos (P800,000.000). READ MORE

Photo: Kalinaw News

Youth groups to help develop SK officials into effective leaders. Two youth organizations are helping develop Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) officials into becoming more effective leaders through a series of in-depth talks and activities in a program called “SK Younified”.

SK Younified is a nationwide good governance development program that is a collaboration of two initiatives -- the Sangguniang Kabataan Academy Initiative (SKAI) run by the Hirayang Kabataan, a non-government organization, and the UpSKilled program run by the US Government Alumni Association of Negros Occidental.

They hold youth camps that aim to help SK leaders reflect on their personal leadership journey, learn more about the values of self-awareness, social awareness, and heroic leadership, deepen their understanding of their roles and responsibilities under the law, and teach them project management skills to help them implement their ideas in their respective barangays. READ MORE

‘YOUNIFIED’. Two youth organizations are helping develop Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) officials into becoming more effective leaders through a series of in-depth talks and activities in a program called ‘SK Younified.’ (Photo: Manila Standard)

Davao Oriental barangay power associations activated to help resolve power interruptions. The Davao Oriental Provincial Government has ordered all 183 barangays of the province to activate their Barangay Power Associations (Bapa) to help ensure that power interruptions would be resolved.

A resolution sponsored by Board Member Louis Rabat urged the creation of Bapas to help the Davao Oriental Electric Cooperative in the cleaning and clearing of power lines.

Rabat said in his official Facebook account that the creation of the Bapa is in response to complaints from residents about unannounced power interruptions. READ MORE

Board Member Louis Rabat (BM Louie Rabat FACEBOOK PAGE/Manila Bulletin)

Zamboanga City barangay officials sharpens financial management skills in budgeting forum.  Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar has advised barangay officials to ensure all the needed documents are submitted to the concerned offices before making a request to implement projects in their respective villages.

Salazar issued the advice during the recently-held three-day Barangay Budget Administration Forum for 2020 on the expenditure directions of her administration for Fiscal Year 2020.

The budget forum initiated by the City Budget Office gives greater focus on ensuring the implementation of projects and programs to be funded, considering that the barangays are expected to request funding for projects that can be implemented within the year. READ MORE

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It comes out and sent to the e-mail addresses of subscribers weekly featuring reports on barangay-related news and events nationwide.

These reports, which are curated and summarized for busy barangay officials, are obtained from the mainstream media such as leading networks and broadsheets, provincial and local papers as well as websites of government news bureaus.

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Land titling operations now to be done in the barangays

DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu

To provide a more accessible and transparent public land titling, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is bringing operations down to the barangays to accept applications for titling of public alienable and disposable lands.                                                                                             

DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu has issued DENR Administrative Order (DAO) No. 2019-08 instructing all Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Offices (PENROs) and Community Environment and Natural Resources Offices (CENROs) to accept public land titling applications at the barangay level.

“This is part of our continuing effort to simplify, streamline, and fast track the disposition of public alienable and disposable lands through free and homestead patents, and we are doing this in strong partnership with local government units (LGUs),” Cimatu said. READ MORE

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‘Vandalized’ monument of Roman Ongpin at Manila barangay now restored. Manila Mayor Isko Moreno invited recently local and foreign tourists to visit Chinatown for a “food trip” as he took pride in refurbished monument of Filipino-Chinese icon Roman Ongpin in Barangay 289, Zone 27 at the entrance of Chinatown in Binondo.

In our July 16 issue, we reported about Mayor Moreno’s “lecturing” of a Manila barangay chairman after he sledgehammered a portion of a structure built and attached to the monument used as an extension of the the barangay hall.

 
Moreno expressed elation when he visited again Ongpin’s monument Saturday night now in spic-and-span, with ornamental plants and lights around, cleared of jumbled wires and cables criss-crossing on posts. READ MORE

Photo credit: Faceook Page of Mayor Isko Moreno

Manila barangay chairwoman included in the drug watch list gunned down.  A barangay chairwoman in Manila died after being gunned down by two unidentified motorcycle-riding men on Friday night.

The Homicide Section of the Manila Police District (MPD) identified the victim as Aileen Guidotong, 47, chairwoman of Barangay 314 Zone 31 District 3 in Santa Cruz District.

The chairwoman’s secretary, Maricel Rubio, 35, told police that they were seated in front of the barangay hall, which is at the corner of Lope De Vega and T. Alonzo Streets, when the two assailants got off their motorcycle and shot Guidotong. READ MORE

QC Mayor Belmonte finds day care center and a barangay hall causing road obstruction during inspection.  Mayor Joy Belmonte on Saturday (Aug. 10, 2019) conducted inspection in several streets in the city to check any obstructions on the roads.

She first visited Barangay Immaculate Conception where she saw a barangay daycare building obstructing the road.

The local chief executive then visited Barangay Don Manuel to find that the barangay hall was encroaching on the sidewalk.

She told the barangay officials that she will have the area checked by city engineers to see how they can correct the situation while the day care will be relocated. READ MORE

QC Mayor Joy Belmonte.   Photo from QCPIO

The country's largest barangay pioneers e-waste management facility.  Officials of Barangay Bagong Silang in Caloocan City, met with purok leaders to build community awareness and support for a pioneering e-waste facility toward the safe management of discarded electronics. 

Recently, over 100 community leaders of Barangay 176 assembled at the multi-purpose hall to get themselves informed about the government-led “Safe PCB and E-Waste Management Project” that seeks, among other goals, the environmentally-sound management of toxic materials from electronic appliances such as (CRT) television sets.

The establishment of the e-waste facility is an integral part of the project funded by the Global Environment Facility with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as the project implementing agency and the DENR-EMB or the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau as the lead executing agency. READ MORE

Photo: ecowastecoalition.org

44 new barangay-based entrepreneurs joins DTI business development program in Cebu. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) 7 (Central Visayas) reported Friday that the government’s effort to teach barangay people in Cebu some entrepreneurial skills has borne fruit, with 44 barangay-based traders showing interest in the “Negosyo Serbisyo sa Barangay (NSB)” program.

Asteria Caberte, DTI-7 director, said DTI-Cebu has been assisting 44 micro, small, and medium entrepreneurs (MSMEs), who were among the 241 people who participated in the launch of the NSB at the Moalboal sports complex in Barangay Poblacion West last week.

The participants came from Moalboal’s three major barangays of Basdiot, Poblacion East, and Poblacion West, Caberte said. READ MORE

BIZ IN BARANGAYS. Department of Trade and Industry 7 (Central Visayas) Director Asteria Caberte explains to participants of the DTI 'Negosyo sa Barangay' the effort of the Duterte administration to go down to the barangay-level to assist village entrepreneurs in developing their businesses, on Friday (August 9, 2019). Caberte said at least 44 barangay-based entrepreneurs were attracted to join the mentoring process of DTI-Cebu under the program. (Photo contributed by Marivic Aquilar/DTI-Cebu)

5 Cebu City barangays start to clean their waterways.  Five barangays in Cebu City have heeded the call of Mayor Edgardo Labella to clean their waterways.

Tisa officials led by Barangay Captain Ringo Pacaña started clearing their drainage system. Their neighbors in Barangay Mambaling quickly followed suit.

Officials from Kasambagan led by their barangay captain, Association of Barangay Councils president Franklyn Ong; Banilad led by Barangay Captain Dennes Tabar; and Apas led by Barangay Captain Jingjing Cabigon also cleared waterways within their jurisdiction, particularly their portion of the Mahiga Creek.  READ MORE

Antique barangay bags Region 6 Lupong Tagapamayapa awards. Barangay Centro Weste in Libertad, Antique was declared as this year’s Champion of the Lupong Tagapamayapa Incentives Awards at the regional level for 4th-6th Class Municipalities Category.

As regional champion, Centro Weste will represent Region 6 in the national search.   

Centro Weste has been recognized because of the barangay's pioneering and innovative techniques, systems and mechanisms that covered all facets of Katarungang Pamarangay from filing of complaint to ensuring the faithful compliance to the settlement agreement; disposition of cases; values formation of parties and ensuring total emotional healing.

As regional champion, Centro Weste will represent Region 6 in the national search. READ MORE

Members of the validation team with barangay officials during the on-site validation at Centro Weste, Libertad (DILG/PIA-Antique) 

P30B funds to be used to improve barangay services in the Bangsamoro autonomous region. The Bangsamoro Transition Authority will use ₱30 billion in unprogrammed funds to improve the quality of social services in the barangays of the Bangsamoro autonomous region.

The unprogrammed funds was meant for the implementation of the Bangsamoro Organic Law in the 2019 General Appropriations Act, according to Local Government Minister Atty. Naguib Sinarimbo.

“We’ve not received a part of the 30 billion, so last Cabinet meeting, there’s a decision to program the funds and request the national government to actually give the funding for us,” Sinarimbo said in a recent interview with Rappler.  

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BARMM chief Minister Murad Ebrahim   Photo: BPI-BARMM

Zamboanga barangay officials leads fight against dengue in the city. The head of the City Health Office said on Friday that the local government has tapped the assistance of barangay officials in the campaign amid the increase in dengue cases in this city.

Dr. Dulce Amore Miravite, City Health Office chief, told the Philippine News Agency that they have discussed, in a meeting with barangay officials, the conduct of “search and destroy” even once a week to minimize, if not eradicate, cases of dengue.

“As you see, if there is an anti-dengue activity in the barangays, the cases of dengue decrease. But if it is not sustained, we observed that the cases increase again,” Miravite said. READ MORE

Barangay Reporter is published primarily for all elected and appointed barangay officials who are accessible by internet.  Secondary readers are those from other government and private institutions who want to follow developments in the barangays such as LGU and national government officials, legislators, policymakers, executives from private corporations and NGOs, educators, students as well as the general public.

It comes out and sent to the e-mail addresses of subscribers weekly featuring reports on barangay-related news and events nationwide.

These reports, which are curated and summarized for the busy reader, are obtained from the mainstream media such as leading networks and broadsheets, provincial and local papers as well as websites of government news bureaus.

Direct reports from barangays who want their own stories published are also gathered and reported as they come.

The periodical also features news reports from both the government and non-government sectors advocating best practices in various areas of barangay governance such as nutrition and health care, peace and order, waste management, livelihood development, education, youth development, and protection of the environment, to cite a few.      

By regularly informing readers on what’s going in other barangays nationwide, this medium should help them learn from the best practices, success stories and achievements of other barangays in many parts of the country.

It also gives readers a good bearing on how they measure up compared with their peers in other barangays thus giving them a better perspective in approaching their work in their respective barangays. Ed.

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