A rendered image of the proposed beach forest in Iloilo City. (Iloilo City PIO)
Mayor Jerry Treñas has directed Engr. Noel Hechanova, chief of the Iloilo City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Iloilo City ENRO), to head the project in Boulevard of Molo district.
This is one of the plans of the Iloilo City government after inking memorandums of agreement (MOA) with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Western Visayas (DENR Region 6) as part of its programs to address climate change.
The beach forest will be a biodiversity conservation park that will have a botanical garden in which there will be a small demo nursery where umbrella tree, botong, bakauan, bamboo, bitaoag, agoho, and other tree species will be planted.
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Mayor Jerry Treñas of Iloilo City
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This is after only 28 local chief executives (LCEs) in Western Visayas region were included in the Category A4, which is fourth in line, for the massive vaccination program of the government.
In a letter to the COVID-19 Inter-Agency Task Force, Treñas requested for equal access to COVID-19 vaccines to all local chief executives (LCEs) in the region comprising of Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Guimaras, Iloilo, and Negros Occidental provinces as well as the highly urbanized cities of Iloilo and Bacolod. In addition, members of the local IATF must also be included in Category A4.
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Published March 2, 2021, 1:11 PM
An estimated two-thirds of private companies in the Philippines have already taken steps to provide their employees access to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, a joint survey by Willis Towers Watson and People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP) bared Tuesday, March 2. (Arnold Almacen / CMO / FILE PHOTO)
Based on the survey results, 65 percent of the 250 human resources (HR) practitioners who served as respondents said their companies have already arranged, or are in the process of arranging, the purchase of vaccines in their employees’ behalf.
Among the employers that haven’t started the process, 58 percent are considering doing so while 42 percent of companies have no plans of purchasing the vaccines.