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MANILA-Aklan 2nd District Rep. Teodorico Haresco Jr., House Committee on Appropriations vice chairperson, on Friday sponsored and successfully defended the proposed 2023 budget of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) worth PHP15.85 billion during the period of debates in the plenary. During the plenary debates, Rep. Arlene Brosas of Gabriela Party-list asked if the DAR could revisit Administrative Order No. 1, series of 2019, which streamlines the processing of applications for land use conversion to further protect the welfare of farmers and other poor land owners. Haresco answered that the DAR would gladly comply since this is in line with the priorities of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. as mentioned in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last July 25. "A major point of our President's SONA is to have a National Land Use policy to protect the rights and welfare of farmers and poor land owners in line with land conversion projects," Haresco said. The lawmaker al ....
Lilibeth Dimaculangan, Albay provincial information officer (Photo courtesy of Albay PIO) LEGAZPI CITY - The provincial government of Albay has issued a memorandum circular on the guidelines for the implementation of the Barangay Assistance Program for the 720 barangays in the province. In an interview on Wednesday, Lilibeth Dimaculangan, provincial information officer, said Memorandum Circular No. 13, series of 2022, issued by the Office of the Governor states that the program aims to augment barangay funds, finance and assist in community development projects. "Generally, the Barangay Assistance Program is in the form of an annual subsidy to different barangays. The subsidy is PHP100,000 per barangay which shall be used to cover the annual expenses or costs of their various community development projects," Dimaculangan said. She said to avail of the said grant, the barangay should comply with the requirements and submit the documents to the Office of the Governor. "Fol ....
SUSTAINED CLEANUP. Residents of the municipality of Oton conduct a cleanup drive in support of the "Limpyo sa Hunyo 2022", a sustained campaign of the province to address dengue, in this undated photo. Oton has recorded the highest cases of dengue with 218, as recorded by the Iloilo Provincial Health Office.(Photo courtesy of IPHO FB page) ILOILO CITY - The Iloilo Provincial Health Office (IPHO) has called on the public to be more vigilant despite the declining trend of dengue cases as most of those found afflicted are children less than 10 years old. IPHO head Dr. Maria Socorro Quinon, in a media interview on Thursday, said the province from January 1 to August 27 this year has already recorded 2,225 cases with 17 deaths. "We have to be more careful because our age group with most cases is below 10 years old. Out of our 2,225 cases, 885 are one to 10 years old," Quinon said. However, no explanation was given as to why children in that age group are more prone to de ....
(PNA file photo) MANILA - The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said Thursday more farm-to-market roads should be built in remote areas in the country to improve the flow of food supply. In a statement issued on Thursday, DAR Secretary Conrado Estrella III said a memorandum was provided to its regional and provincial offices with the list of completed and ongoing bridge projects under the Tulay ng Pangulo para sa Kaunlarang Pang-agraryo (TPKP). Estrella also requested DAR field offices to submit proposed farm-to-market road projects that would connect completed bridge projects to the main roads. "The best way to improve the flow of food supply is to improve our road networks, from as far as the remotest villages to the main roads leading to the market centers so that farmers themselves can bring their fresh harvests easily," he said. Through Memorandum 326, series of 2022, DAR Undersecretary for Support Services Milagros Isabel Cristobal ordered all provincial agrarian refo ....
MANILA - Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) board member Roland Beltran, one of the four signatories of the supposed resolution for the importation of 300,000 metric tons of additional sugar, resigned amid the investigation on the controversial Sugar Order (SO) No. 4. In his resignation letter to Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez, dated Aug. 14, 2022, Beltran said his move was "without prejudice to any investigation." "May I respectfully tender my resignation as a member of the Sugar Board of the Sugar Regulatory Administration, due to health reasons. This is without prejudice to any investigation that may be conducted in connection with the issuance of Sugar Order (SO) No. 4," he said. In the same letter, the millers' representative also expressed the withdrawal of his "conditional vote," considering what he called the "non-compliance" of the provisions of laws and regulations of the SRA, pertaining to SO 4. Beltran, however, clarified th ....