NO PERMIT

TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte — The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) has stopped the rehabilitation of the old airport here upon discovery that the city’s building official has not issued a building permit for such work. CAAP-Tacloban City area manager Antonio H. Alfonso admitted work on the rehabilitation of the airport has been ceased after Tacloban City building official Danny Fuentebella wrote CAAP’s Tacloban City Office in connection with their renovation project inside the terminal area which bore no billboard showing issuance of such building permit. (Nestor L. Abrematea)

D.O.H. ACCREDITATION

CEBU CITY, Cebu — The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s Area Vocational Rehabilitation Center (AVRC), has received its Certificate of Accreditation from the Department of Health (DOH) as a training institution for massage therapy. The accreditation was given after the Committee of Examiners for Massage Therapy (CEMT) from DOH Head Office in Manila assessed the facilities, modules and pertinent documents of the center. The Center, run by the DSWD since 1974 serving physically and socially disabled person, is the second accredited training institution for massage therapy in the Visayas and first of the four vocational rehabilitation centers to be accredited as a training institution nationwide. (Phoebe Jen Indino)

C.E.N.R.O. CELEBRATION

CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)’s Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) here celebrates National Climate Change Consciousness Week Celebration 2012 starting today till Nov. 25, 2012 with tree-planting in the city’s Brgy. Payaw, coastal clean-up and mangrove preservation dialogue at Brgy. Cabitun-an in Daram town, among other activities. CENRO-DENR officer Forester Marcialito Gadin Torres has also asked the help of Calbayog City first district barangay chairmen in informing the public on the granting of free patents to landowners for a nominal P50 fee.(Nestor L. Abrematea)

UPDATED CODE

ILOILO CITY, Iloilo (PIA6) — Justice Secretary Leila M. De Lima, who was guest of honor in a Criminal Code Committee Roadshow and Public Forum here last Friday, said it is about time for the country to have a new Penal Code which is “innovative, revolutionary and best represents people’s sentiments.” She said the Forum was a chance for Ilonggos to share insights and raise various issues critical to improving the country’s penal law. The Penal Code being used now was in 1932, and majority of provisions therein no longer apply today, she said. Said Forum was the fifth in a series of consultations on and presentation of the Criminal Code Book I, attended by De Lima.

WATER PROJECT

NAVAL, Biliran (PIA) — The Naval local government unit, LGU-Naval, Coca-Cola Foundation Philippines, Inc. (CCFI), Earth Day Network Philippines, Inc. (EDNPI) and the Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation, Inc. (AIDFI) recently turned over a hydraulic ram pump water system project to residents of the Gobalin Housing Project in Sitio San Roque, Barangay Larrazabal, Naval, Biliran. The ram pump water system project has an estimated output of 77, 976 liters per day or 389 drums per day and will serve as source for the household and domestic usage of some 400 households.