The Iloilo City Government has implemented a total of P217 million worth of various infrastructure projects under the Special Education Fund (SEF) in 2023.
MORE COPS. Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Trenas welcomes Interior Secretary Benjamin "Benhur" Abalos Jr. during the turnover of Support to Barangay Development Program projects in Barangay Dungon B. on Wednesday (Jan. 18, 2022). Trenas, in an interview, said he will request additional police personnel for the city.(PNA photo by PGLena) ILOILO CITY - Iloilo City needs at least 1,000 more police officers for its 500,000 residents to meet the 1:500 police-to-population ratio. "Here in Iloilo we provide police cars, we even provided the police with their firing range, firearms and ammunitions, canine. We have so much support for our police," Mayor Jerry Trenas in an interview on Wednesday, noting that they lack warm bodies. He said he will request more police officers from the Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Benjamin "Benhur" Abalos Jr. to beef up the number of law enforcers. Annually the city government allocates a minimum of PHP50 million
TURNED OVER. Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Trenas and Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. (3rd and 4th from left) lead the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the turnover of projects funded under the Support to Barangay Development Program (SBDP) in Barangay Dungon B in Jaro district, Iloilo City on Wednesday (Jan. 18, 2023). The barangay is a recipient of PHP20 million worth of projects in 2022 after it was declared insurgency-free in 2014.(PNA photo by PGLena) ILOILO CITY - The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has given PHP20 million worth of projects to Barangay Dungon B in Jaro district here under its Support to Barangay Development Program (SBDP). Interior Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. who was in this city for a series of engagements on Wednesday turned over the projects consisting of water and sanitation system, a school building, and a three-story health center to the city government through Mayor Jerry Trenas and the barangay.