Top Barangay Stories and Events this Issue

Quezon City to beef up its Barangay Drug Abuse Council. The Quezon City government has intensified anew efforts to fight illegal drugs in the city and enlisted the assistance of volunteers at the barangay level.

Through the Quezon City Anti-Drug Abuse and Advisory Council (QCADAAC), incoming Mayor Joy Belmonte said it has ensured the Barangay Anti-Drug Abuse Councils (BADAC) are performing their functions to the hilt.

“Under QCADAAC, we have been making sure that the Barangay Anti-Drug Abuse Councils or BADACs are functional and effective in their mandate to suppress illegal drugs and criminality at the barangay level,’’ Belmonte said.  READ MORE

Quezon City Mayor-elect Joy Belmonte

Iloilo City barangay captain offers P10,000 reward from his own pocket for tips leading to arrest of a drug suspect.  A barangay in this city has offered a reward of P10,000 for information leading to the arrest of drug suspects in their area.

Posters announcing the reward are posted in strategic areas in Barangay Don Esteban in La Paz district.

Village councilman Reynaldo Brito said the reward is an initiative of barangay captain Rodrigo Dellomes to boost their campaign against illegal drugs. READ MORE 

1,129 barangay officials in hot water for failure to comply with Manila Bay clean-up order. The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has asked 1,129 barangay officials to provide justifiable reasons for their non-compliance on a directive compelling them to participate in the Manila Bay clean-up.  

DILG Undersecretary for Barangay Affairs Martin Diño said the department has already issued show-cause orders to the concerned barangay officials.

DILG Undersecretary Martin Diño    Photo: gmnetwork.com

Diño emphasized that the officials should explain why they should not be held liable before the Office of the Ombudsman for their failure to participate in the clean-up drive. READ MORE

Cebu City’s Barangay Binaliw “going crazy” over landfill. There appears to be confusion over the issue of operating a landfill in the barangay.  Cebu Daily News reported that some of its residents have been complaining of the foul smell that comes out of the landfill and there are even reports of respiratory illnesses among residents near the area.

Residents from Barangay Binaliw in Cebu City calls on Mayor-elect Edgardo Labella to close the landfill for health reasons. | Photos from former Apas Barangay Captain Ramil Ayuman

In response, the Cebu City Health Office ordered a medical team to assess the situation and to check on the health of the residents.

The health office chief, Dr. Alma Corpin, said though that she had heard of the residents’ complaints but none of the barangay officials or even the residents themselves went directly to her office to report of the respiratory illnesses spreading in the barangay.

In another news report in Sun Star Cebu, the barangay captain of the barangay confirmed that there are no reported cases of residents getting sick because of the private landfill's operation in the village. READ MORE

View from the sky of Binaliw Landfill.        SunStar File Photo

Bukidnon barangay gets help from DOST in setting up communal water purification system. In Lantapan, Bukidnon, where Barangay Kibangay is situated, the incidence of diarrhea and amoebiasis is relatively high. It is for this reason why the Department of Science and Technology office in Region 10 and the Local Government Unit of Lantapan joined forces to find a solution to the water problem.

Through the DOST-initiated project “Tubig sa Kinabuhi” or water of life, a communal water purification system was established for both the indigenous people and settlers alike who are residing in the barangay.  READ MORE

        The purification system equipment.   Photo: Philippine Information Agency.              

Go wants to extend stay of barangay execs to two more years.  Incoming Senator Christopher “Bong” Go announced recently that he would push for a two-year extension on the current term of office of barangay officials that will end in 2022.

He said in his recent visit to victims of a fire that burned 103 houses and displaced 194 families in Barangay Ubaldo Laya in Iligan City that two years are not enough for barangay officials to implement their programs in the barangays.  READ MORE

SK in 7 Cebu City barangays get P1M each.  The Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) in seven Cebu City barangays will receive P1 million each to fund their projects and programs.

After the approval for the funding was deferred for one week, the City Council approved on Tuesday, June 4, 2019, SK Federation President Jessica Resch’s resolutions that grant P1 million each to the SKs in seven barangays.

Barangays Tejero, Bonbon, Toong, Sambag I, Kinasang-an, Punta Princesa and Babag will receive the aid that Mayor Tomas Osmeña promised the youth leaders during the campaign for the SK Federation elections. READ MORE

13 Cebu City barangays to get brand new cars from City Hall.  A batch of barangays in Cebu City will get their donated vehicles from the Cebu City Government.

This after the City Council approved on Tuesday, June 4, 2019, 13 separate resolutions authorizing Mayor Tomas Osmeña to sign the deed of donation and acceptance for the vehicles in behalf of the City Government.

Earlier, the Council authorized the mayor to sign the deed of donation of vehicles for 25 barangays. Another set of resolutions covered 13 more barangays. READ MORE

Job opportunity offers goes to 900 barangays in Iloilo.  The Province of Iloilo has been strengthening its campaign to bring employment opportunities to the barangay level.

The program is meant to address the gap between job seekers and companies. Local residents can go directly to job fairs in their own towns instead of traveling all the way to Iloilo City, which entails money and long travel time.

The award-winning approach aims to get the participation of all barangays, according to Francisco Heler Jr., chief of the Public Employment Service Office or PESO of  Iloilo province. READ MORE

Isolated barangays in Misamis Occidental get ceramic water filters.  The Department of Science and Technology office in region 10 and the provincial government of Misamis Occidental turned over dozens of ceramic water filters or CWFs to address the needs of remote barangays in the province for safe drinking water.

The CWFs is a DOST-developed innovative technology that addresses the requirement of a simple, effective and economical water filter that can be used in the rural areas.

Barangay Lalud in Don Victoriano Chiongbian, the farthest municipality of the province, received 12 units while Barangay Sebucal of Oriqueta City received 13 units of this candle-type water filter which has an anti-microbial agent that eliminates disease-causing, waterborne microorganisms. READ MORE

DOST staff demonstrating the use of ceramic water filters. Manila Bulletin Photo.

  

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Top Barangay Stories and Events this Issue

Guimaras barangays now ready to handle civil registration of their constituents.  After undergoing training on Barangay Civil Registration Systems conducted by the Association of Guimaras Municipal Civil Registrars and the Philippine Statistics Authority, One hundred sixty-five barangay officials are now ready to implement the system in their respective barangays in the province.

This is the first ever two-day training  designed for barangay captains and secretaries in Guimaras to facilitate civil registration at the community level where barangay officials assist the city or municipal civil registrars in civil registration work, according to a Philippine Statistics Authority official based  in the province of Guimaras Nelida B. Losare. READ MORE

Barangay captains and secretaries participate in the 1st BCRS training in Guimaras.  (PSA-Guimaras photo)

156 families in Barangay Punta, Sta. Ana Manila awarded with Certificates of Land Allocation. Land ownership is a dream fulfilled for these families residing in Barangay Punta in Sta. Ana, Manila when they were awarded Certificates of Land Allocation (CELA) for the land where their houses have been standing on for decades.

With the receipt of their CELA, these families in Punta can now move on to the titling process of their awarded lands by paying the monthly purchase price of P1,333 for 10 years. READ MORE

Photo: manilastandard.net

Bataan barangay gets free electricity for its basketball court.  Officials of the Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan signed a Supplemental Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Barangay Malaya to provide and subsidize a portion of its power consumption for its basketball court.

The Supplemental MOA commits AFAB to provide the lighting of the basketball court and shoulder its power consumption up to 256 kWh. Both parties recognize the importance of fully utilizing the basketball court in terms of health and social benefits.  READ MORE

Photo: AFAB website

Ordinance requires Iloilo City barangays to form dengue task forces.  Barangays are now mandated to establish dengue task forces following the passage of an ordinance calling for its creation down to village levels.

City Councilor Candice Magdalane Tupas, author of the ordinance, said the creation of task forces is significant because the City Health Office (CHO) could not do it alone considering the city has180 barangays in all.  READ MORE

Bacolod City barangay SK Chair leaves post.  The Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) chairman of Barangay 30 in Bacolod City Kerwin Dejole has resigned from his post effective May 17, 2019.

In his letter addressed to Director Ma. Joy Maredith Madayag of the Department of Interior and Local Government office in Bacolod City, Dejole said that he will be resigning from his position as SK chairman due to a new job opportunity that awaits him.

The post of Dejole will be occupied immediately by the number one SK Kagawad of Barangay 30 Lyka Dela Pena who have already attended the mandatory SK training. READ MORE

9 Cebu City barangay SK request for P1million financial assistance each deferred by city council.  THE Cebu City Council has deferred the approval of the nine resolutions that will supposedly allow the granting of P1 million each as financial assistance to the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) in nine barangays.

A city councilor questioned some of the items in the proposals and believes the prices in the proposal were jacked up to reach P1 million, which is one of the requirements to get financial assistance. In one barangay for instance, a paint was estimated to cost P10,000 though it was not clear in the report if it is a can or cans of paint. READ MORE

Pampanga barangays discover income-sustaining livelihood in sampaguita growing.  Around a small round plastic table, women in Barangay San Roque Dau Dos here are busy stringing sampaguita flowers in abaca strands. Their husbands pick “camia” and ilang-ilang flowers, while children as young as 5 years old help in making the garlands.

Indicating a new growing backyard industry in the community of more than 100 families in Lubao, sampaguita growing is also the livelihood of 400 other families in the barangays of other towns in Pampanga such as Guagua and Floridablanca according to Menandro de Mesa, president of Sampaguita Growers Federation. READ MORE

FLORAL ENTERPRISE Menandro de Mesa (right) and Benedicto Alvarado lead 400 members of Sampaguita Growers Federation in the neighboring Pampanga towns of Lubao, Guagua and Floridablanca. —PHOTO BY TONETTE OREJAS

A new barangay created in Tabuk City, Kalinga.  President Rodrigo R. Duterte signed into law Republic Act (RA) No. 11328 which created a new barangay in this component city to help in improving the delivery of services by the government to the people in the city.

The new law separated the sitios of Guina-ang, Madopdup, Mallango, Lanlana and San Pablo from barangay Lacnog in the city and constituting them into a separate and independent barangay to be known as barangay Lacnog West.

The law provides that the separated sitios that constitute the new barangay has an area of some 570.23 hectares. READ MORE

Barangays in Davao City still have unresolved boundary disputes.  Several barangay boundary disputes in the city are still unresolved and a city councilor who chairs the Committee on Rules, Privileges, Laws and Ordinances is pushing for the continued settling of case in the incoming council.

Councilor J. Melchor Quitain said the continued settlement of boundary problems will remain a priority of the incoming set of new councilors. He said that there are still many items relative to the issue that remain unsolved. READ MORE

Manobo tribe leaders at the foot of Mt. Apo barangay allow geothermal power company to continue operating in their ancestral domain.  With tribe leaders imploring their ancestors to bless the project site for the next quarter century, the Manobo people at the foot of Mt. Apo have allowed a power company to continue operating two geothermal plants in their ancestral domain.

In exchange for royalty from the company’s operation, the Manobo tribe granted Energy Development Corp. (EDC) free rein to tap geothermal energy in the area for the next 25 years, or until 2044. READ MORE

PRAYERS FOR PROTECTION Tribal leaders of the Manobo-Apao Descendants of Ancestral Domain of Mt. Apo (right) perform a “samaya” to implore their ancestors to bless the site of the two geothermal power plants at the foot of the country’s tallest peak in Kidapawan City. Mt. Apo, as seen from Digos City in Davao province (left), is home to many of the region’s indigenous peoples. —PHOTOS BY ORLANDO B. DINOY

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