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NEARING COMPLETION. Residents of Barangay Bulan-bulan in San Remigio, Antique pass by the remaining uncemented portion of the four-kilometer road from Barangay Aningalan on Wednesday (June 8, 2022). The road concreting project is now 70 percent completed.(PNA photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - The ongoing road concreting project covering a two-kilometer stretch of road connecting Barangays Aningalan and Bulan-bulan in the municipality of San Remigio in Antique is welcomed by residents of the remote villages. The PHP20-million project, already 70 percent completed, is funded under the Barangay Development Program (BDP) a flagship initiative of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) that is implemented in villages that have been cleared from the insurgency. Barangay Bulan-bulan resident El Terania, in an interview Wednesday, said once the project is completed, they would be spared from hauling heavy sack loads of t
NEWLY ELECTED. Reelected San Remigio Municipal Mayor Margarito Mission Jr. (left) is joined by their elected vice mayor and town councilors during their proclamation at their municipal hall on Tuesday (May 10, 2022). Mission said tourism promotion will be a priority of his administration.(Photo courtesy of San Remigio LGU) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - Newly-elected mayors of the municipalities of Laua-an and San Remigio train their sights on the promotion of agri-tourism sites and delivery of basic services once they assume post noontime of June 30, 2022. Laua-an returning mayor Aser Baladjay, in an interview Wednesday, said he has plans to revive the agri-tourism industry in their municipality dubbed the "Muscovado Capital" of Antique when he was mayor in 2008. "Our municipality had been known for its muscovado or brown sugar production because during my term then as mayor we had several activities launched to promote the industry," he said. Several hectares o
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
GROUNDBREAKING.San Remigio Municipal Mayor Margarito Mission, Jr. (left) and Antique Board Member Fernando Corvera, Sr.(right) grace the groundbreaking of the road funded by the Local Government Support Fund-Support to Barangay Development Project (LGSF-SBDP) on December 15, 2021. Antique Provincial Engineer Inocencio Dajao said on Friday (Jan. 21, 2022) that the local access road projects in San Remigio and Sibalom towns, which had been identified as National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict priority areas, would be finished by April 2022.(Photo courtesy of San Remigio LGU) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique -The construction of local access road projects funded under the Barangay Development Program (BDP) of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in two municipalities of Antique is underway. The BDP is a flagship program of the NTF-ELCAC with the end goal of bringing development to former conflict-prone communities. Antique Provincial E