OATH OF OFFICE. Negros Oriental Executive Judge Gerardo Paguio Jr. (left) administers the oath of office of newly-elected Gov. Pryde Henry Teves at the Hall of Justice in Dumaguete City on Thursday (June 30, 2022). Teves said his first order of the day is to meet with the mayors to synchronize their executive and legislative agendas. (Photo by Judy Flores Partlow) DUMAGUETE CITY - Negros Oriental Governor Pryde Henry Teves on Thursday said he would meet with mayors of the province to synchronize his and their plans for the next three years. Teves issued the statement in a press conference after he took his oath of office around 10 a.m. before Negros Oriental Executive Judge Gerardo Paguio Jr. at the Hall of Justice here. "My first task maybe (is) I will first meet all the mayors and Board Members because I would like to synchronize our plans so that each town or city who would come up with their respective ELA (executive-legislative agenda so that we would be on board for the next
MAXIMUM TOLERANCE. A fire truck is seen parked in the vicinity of the Capitol in Negros Oriental on Wednesday (June 29, 2022) as part of a security plan to ensure a smooth transition of government on Thursday. This came amid a "power struggle" as to who should sit as the next governor of Negros Oriental. (Photo by Judy Flores Partlow) DUMAGUETE CITY - Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Ano has ordered the regional office to ensure peace and order at the provincial Capitol on June 30 as newly elected and re-elected officials will assume their posts. The directive came as two gubernatorial candidates in the May 9 polls are locked in a "power struggle" as to who will be installed as the new provincial chief executive on Thursday. DILG-7 Regional Director Leocadio Trovela, in an interview with the Philippine News Agency, said Ano gave specific instructions on how to deal with the current dispute. "The guidance of Secretary Ano
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AID FOR FARMERS. National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) officials headed by its vice chairman Secretary Hermogenes Esperon distribute assistance to farmer cooperatives in Cebu province at the JPark Island Resort in Lapu-Lapu City on Thursday (March 31, 2022). National, regional, and local officials are in Cebu to present the gains on the ground of the whole-of-nation approach to ending local communist armed conflict in Central Visayas. (PNA photo by John Rey Saavedra) LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu- The Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC) on Friday cited the key role of the barangay officials in sustaining the gains of the government's peace and development initiatives down to the grassroots through the whole-of-nation approach ushered by President Rodrigo Duterte. Lawyer Leocadio Trovela, Department of the Interior and Local Government-Central Visayas regional director and RTF-ELCAC-7 chair, presented the accomplishments of th