BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occ. (PIA) – Thousands of Bacoleños availed of the Bacolod Initiative Nurturing Good Health (B.I.N.G. Health) under the administration of Bacolod City Mayor Evelio “Bing” Leonardia and Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus A. Sayson.

“To deliver medical services where our fellow Bacoleños are,” is the flagship statement of the BING Health Program the mayor said.

Services offered for free are Fasting Blood Sugar (FBS), Electrocardiograph (ECG), Urinalysis, Hematocrete consultation, and Eye Screening with free medicines.

Lower incomes in Western Visayas

ILOILO CITY, Iloilo (PIA) – Families in Western Visayas earned less compared to what other families in other regions in the Visayas earned, according to the National Statistics Office 6.

The result of the 2009 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) showed families in Western Visayas earned an average annual income of only P159,000 as compared to families in Central Visayas who are earning P184,000 and Eastern Visayas, P160,000.

Annual average income of Filipino families nationwide is P206,000.

These data are among the highlights of the 2009 FIES results to be presented by the NSO on June 21 in Iloilo City.

Coastal protection

ROXAS CITY, Capiz (PIA) – A municipal ordinance boosting coastal protection is being finalized for approval by local legislators in Ivisan town here.

Ivisan town mayor Felipe Neri Yap said the municipal fishery ordinance had already been presented to members of the town’s Fishery and Aquatic Resources Management Council and to barangay captains from coastal villages.

Yap said Ivisan has been partnering with the Zoological Society of London for strengthened efforts in coastal management and protection.

Soldiers’ generosity

DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental (PIA) – Troopers from the Philippine Army’s 11th Infantry Battalion stationed here gave 100 pairs of slippers and school supplies for pupils of the Mabunga Elementary School in Brgy. Mabunga, Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental during the opening of school last week.

The activity was under the battalion's "Bayanihan Para Sa Kabataan" project.

11thIB Commander Lt. Col. Ramil Bitong and wife, Elizabeth, personally led the distribution to said students of the slippers and assorted school materials including notebooks, pens, pad papers, and scissors.

KALAHI-CIDSS to the rescue

TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte (PIA) – Kalahi-CIDSS Project, a social protection program of the national government has come to the aid of poor towns in Region 8 with regards the lack of classrooms and daycare centers this year.

Some 75 daycare centers and 106 school buildings were built by the program through the region.

In Northern Samar, 45 school buildings and 30 day care centers were constructed; in Leyte, 35 school buildings and 8 daycare centers were put up; Western Samar, 20 school buildings and 27 day care centers, and in Biliran Province, two daycare centers were constructed through the program.