SEALED. Officials sign the memorandum of agreement for Iloilo housing project. From left, Pag-IBIG OIC Vice President for Visayas and Mindanao Home Lending Operations Engr. Noli D. Armada, Uswag Ilonggo Party-list Rep. James Ang, Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) Undersecretary Roland Samuel T. Young, Iloilo City Mayor Jerry P. Trenas and DHSUD OIC Regional Director Eva Marfil for Western Visayas on Tuesday (Feb. 28, 2023). Marfil said the project will consist of 14 seven-story buildings equivalent to 1,260 units at 90 units per building.(PNA photo by PGLena) ILOILO CITY - The Iloilo city government will construct 1,260 housing units on a 2.2-hectare government-owned lot at Uswag Residential Complex in Barangay San Isidro, Jaro district intended for informal settler families (ISF). To pave the way for the construction, Iloilo City Mayor Jerry P. Trenas, officials of the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD), and Home Development Mutua
LAUNCHING. Officials of the Department of Agriculture and Bureau of Plant Industry pose during the launching of the Global Action Large Scale Field Demonstration of Fall Armyworm Management Strategies and Technologies on Feb. 21 in Calasiao town, Pangasinan. The demonstration will be held in San Carlos City, Binalonan, Calasiao and Sta. Barbara towns on Feb. 22 to 23. (PNA) SAN CARLOS CITY, Pangasinan - Four local government units (LGUs) in the province of Pangasinan were chosen to demonstration their technologies and strategies in the management of the fall armyworm infestation as part of the Global Action for Fall Armyworm control in the Southeast Asia. The LGUs are the towns of Binalonan, Calasiao and Sta. Barbara and city of San Carlos. In an interview on Wednesday, regional crop protection center chief Marivic Begonia of the Department of Agriculture Ilocos Region (DA-1) said the LGUs use natural enemies of the pest instead of insecticides which are harmful both to humans and the
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan - The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) or provincial board of Pangasinan has given authority to Gov. Ramon Guico III to obtain a PHP6-billion loan from the Landbank of the Philippines under the terms and conditions of the Omunibus Term Loan Facility (Credit Line) to finance strategic programs and projects of the province. Based on Resolution 825 authored by board member Vici Ventanilla and co-authored by vice governor Mark Lambino, the loan will be used to finance programs or projects for transportation amounting to PHP1.45 billion; government centers worth PHP800 million; tourism worth PHP1.95 billion; education through the establishment of the Pangasinan Polytechnic College/University worth PHP400 million; and health worth PHP1.4 billion, among others. "With the vision to propel socio-economic growth through infrastructure development, the provincial government of Pangasinan aims to ensure the delivery of basic services and the provision of adequate facilities
REGISTRATION. Residents of Pandan town, Antique province avail of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) SIM card registration on Feb. 10, 2023. NTC Legal Officer Deo Virgil Tan said Tuesday (Feb. 14, 2023) that they will be conducting three more facilitated SIM card registration on Feb. 15 to 17 in the towns of San Remigio, Valderrama and Barbaza.(PNA photo courtesy of NTC 6) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) will conduct three more facilitated subscriber identity module (SIM) registrations in remote areas of Antique province. NTC Legal Officer Deo Virgil Tan, in a press conference Tuesday afternoon here, said the facilitated SIM registration will be held in the municipality of San Remigio on Feb. 15; Valderrama, Feb. 16; and Barbaza, Feb.17. "The facilitated SIM registration is being conducted in the priority areas where the signal is erratic and the cellular sites are limited," Tan said. Through the facilitated reg
SALT. Salt sold in a local market in Antique province. Allette Gayatin, senior aqua-culturist at the Office of the Provincial Agriculture, on Wednesday (Feb. 8, 2023) urged local government units in Antique to provide salt-making sites along the coastal areas for salt-makers to produce more to be sold in the market.(PNA photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - Fifteen of Antique's 18 municipalities have been pinpointed as ideal sites for salt production. Antique Provincial Board Member Rony Molina, who sponsored a resolution to revive the salt production industry in the province, said in an interview Wednesday that the 15 municipalities situated along the sea coast are ideal sites for salt production where residents used to engage in salt-making. "Salt production, like in the coastal barangays of San Jose de Buenavista, need to be revived so that we could increase our production and help solve the country's sad state," Molina said. He