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
CEMETERY CLOSURE. An increase in the number of people visiting their dead loved ones at the Sibalom Municipal Cemetery was noticed on Oct. 28, 2021, a day before its closure. Antique Police information officer Rossini Mena said Friday (Oct. 29, 2021) that if families want to hold "trick or treat" for children, they should only do so at home due to the pandemic.(Photo courtesy of Radyo Kaabyanan) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - A Halloween party dubbed "bagat"in the municipality of Sibalom in this province is still on hold this year as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). The "bagat", a ghost haunting party, gathers teenagers who wear costumes and dance at the town plaza from the night of October 31 until the wee hours of November 1. Sibalom Municipal Economic Enterprise and Development Officer (MEEDO) Rodel Esler, who supervises the Municipal Tourism Office, said in an interview Friday that the "bagat" has be