QUEZON Provincial Board member Jet Suarez gives the thumbs-up after the distribution of tool kits and awarding of certificates to 42 scholars from Mulanay and Catanauan, Quezon who finished a TESDA short course. (Jet Suarez FB)
MULANAY, Quezon – Forty-two Technical Education and Skills Development
The House Committee on Public Works and Highways has sought the construction of the Pacific Palisades Superhighway that would connect the provinces of Bicol, Quezon, Aurora, Quirino, Isabela and Cagayan.
Rep. Aleta Suarez The House panel endorsed for approval House Bill 5269 authored by Quezon T
Published January 26, 2021, 12:20 PM
LUCENA CITY – The construction of the Quezon-Bicol Expressway was approved by the House Committee on Public Works and Highways, according to the measure’s principal author Quezon third district Rep.Aleta Suarez.
Suarez said the Quezon-Bicol Expressway (QueBEx) will be a 220-kilometer highway that will extend from Barangay Malicboy in Pagbilao, Quezon, to the existing Maharlika Highway in San Fernando, Camarines Sur. The road segments will be Pagbilao, Gumaca, and Lopez bypass roads, as well as the one in San Fernando, Camarines Sur.
QueBEx will be one of the components of the ambitious Pacific Palisades Superhighway that will link Bicol to the Pacific Ocean-facing provinces of Quezon, Aurora, and Quirino, and on to Isabela and Cagayan.
Published December 14, 2020, 7:12 PM
With 221 members voting in the affirmative, the House of Representatives on Monday approved on third and final reading the bill declaring the coconut levy assets as a trust fund and providing for its management and utilization that will ensure benefits for coconut farmers and workers.
MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO
The six members of the Makabayan bloc voted against House Bill 8136 as they pointed out that the legislative measure will only further deny the farmers and coconut plantation workers access to the funds collected during the martial law years.
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco lauded his colleagues for the passage of the measure, saying that this will be a “fitting Christmas gift to more than three million coconut farmers who stand to benefit from the proposed coco levy trust fund.”
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
Earlier, the Lower Chamber approved House Bill 8136 on second reading to assure the coconut industry, especially farm workers, vast improvement in terms of modernization and better livelihood opportunities.
HB 8136 is a consolidation of 16 different legilsatrive proposals filed by Deputy Speaker Michael Romero (1Pacman Partylist) and Rufus Rodriguez (CDI, Cagayan de Oro City), together with Reps. Jericho Jonas Nograles (PBA, Partylist); Jayjay Suarez (Lakas-CMD, Quezon); Aleta Suarez (NPC, Quezon); Wilfredo Mark Enverga (NPC, Quezon); Romeo Jalosjos Jr. (PDP-Laban, Zamboanga del Sur) and Ian Pau Dy (NPC, Isabela), among other lawmakers.
The bill proposes to unite all assets and benefits coming from the coconut levy which will be held in a Trust Fund to be used to rehabilitate and modernize the coconut industry and ultimately benefit coconut farmers and their family.