IMPROVED HEALTH DELIVERY. Newly inaugurated Rep. Ramon Maza Sr. Memorial District Hospital in Sibalom town, Antique on Sept. 9, 2022. Antique Governor Rhodora Cadiao said the new building in the district hospital was constructed to give the best care to the residents of the province.(PNA photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - The PHP104 million new building of the Rep. Ramon Maza, Sr. Memorial District Hospital in a one-hectare lot provided by the Municipality of Sibalom is expected to give residents of Antique province the best medical care they need. The 25-bed capacity building inaugurated on Friday was funded under the Health Facilities Enhancement Program of the Department of Health Western Visayas Center for Health Development (DOH WV CHD), the office of then Antique congresswoman now Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda, and the provincial government. "The new hospital building has been constructed so that even the balikbayans (retur
IMPROVED HEALTH DELIVERY. Newly inaugurated Rep. Ramon Maza Sr. Memorial District Hospital in Sibalom town, Antique on Sept. 9, 2022. Antique Governor Rhodora Cadiao said the new building in the district hospital was constructed to give the best care to the residents of the province.(PNA photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - The PHP104 million new building of the Rep. Ramon Maza, Sr. Memorial District Hospital in a one-hectare lot provided by the Municipality of Sibalom is expected to give residents of Antique province the best medical care they need. The 25-bed capacity building inaugurated on Friday was funded under the Health Facilities Enhancement Program of the Department of Health Western Visayas Center for Health Development (DOH WV CHD), the office of then-Antique congresswoman now Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda, and the provincial government. "The new hospital building has been constructed so that even the balikbayans (retur
FOR LIVELIHOOD. A woman (left) receives one of the sewing machines from the provincial government of Antique during a ceremony held in Barangay Cabladan, Sibalom town on Feb. 3, 2022. A total of 46 sewing machines worth P1 million were turned over by the provincial government for the livelihood program of women beneficiaries under the whole-of-nation approach to address insurgency.(PNA photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - Forty-six women in the upland barangay of Cabladan in the municipality of Sibalom this province on Thursday each received an electric sewing machine for their livelihood under the whole-of-the-nation approach in ending local communist armed conflict program. "The sewing machines are given after your training by the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) so that each of you will have something to use already," said Antique Governor Rhodora Cadiao, who led the turnover of the sewing machines worth PHP1 mil
EXTENSION. Business owners process their business permit renewal at the Sibalom Municipal Hall on this Jan. 11, 2022 photo. Department of the Interior and Local Government Antique provincial director Cherryl P. Tacda said on Tuesday (Jan. 18, 2022) said that three local government units already approved resolutions for the extension of the renewal of business permits while five others have pending resolutions before their municipal councils.(PNA photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - Local government units (LGUs) in the province of Antique are extending their deadline for the renewal of business permits upon the request of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to help business owners affected by the pandemic. DILG Antique provincial director Cherryl P. Tacda said on Tuesday that there are three LGUs out of the total 18 in the province that already approved resolutions for the extension of the renewal of business permits while five
SANITARY LANDFILL. The proposed sanitary landfill in Antique to be located in Barangay Igcococ, Sibalom town. Josephine Maguad, Antique Provincial Environmental Management Unit chief, said Friday (Jan. 7, 2022) the proposed sanitary landfill could also serve the clustered municipalities in the southern part of the province.(Photo courtesy of Sibalom LGU) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - Antique's biggest town is being eyed to host the proposed sanitary landfill that will also serve five to eight other municipalities of the province. Josephine Maguad, Antique Provincial Environmental Management Unit (PEMU) which is under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), said Friday the Municipality of Sibalom, through a private-public partnership (PPP), is being proposed to host the sanitary landfill for the clustered municipalities in the southern part of the province that still do not have their sanitary landfill. "We conducted a visual examination of the 16-hectar