 |
| 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
MORE BARANGAY NEWS & EVENTS NATIONWIDE
‘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.
 |
| 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.
Reader comments and suggestions are most welcome.
