"Everyone agreed that APMC must cease operations until all issues and concerns are addressed, a status quo," Living Laudato Si Executive Director Rodne Galicha said in a statement on Saturday.
“Unfortunately, the way we are set up, the fiscal space is very tight,” DENR Secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga said in a briefing during the agency’s multi-stakeholder forum in Cagayan de Oro City.
Ormoc City Mayor Lucy Torres-Gomez, the chairperson of Eastern Visayas Regional Development Council. (Photo by Ormoc city government) TACLOBAN CITY - The Regional Development Council (RDC) will form a task force to prepare a concept note for the Eastern Visayas railway system eyed more than 20 years ago. RDC chair and Ormoc City Mayor Lucy Torres-Gomez said the region's highest policy-making body agreed in its special meeting on Jan. 31 to form the task force composed of various national government agencies and local government units. The proposed body will include members from the Department of Transportation, legislative district offices, the Department of Public Works and Highways, Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, National Economic and Development Authority, six provincial government, seven cities, and private sector representatives. "We need a concept note to get funding for the feasibility study. It is a br
“We’re here to listen and until we can be satisfied that we’ve heard all stakeholders, we cannot achieve a balance in terms of the approach,” DENR Secretary Toni Yulo-Loyzaga told reporters.
The Water Resource Management Office will be under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and will be a transitory body pending the creation of the Department of Water Resources one of Marcos’ priority legislative agenda.