BORACAY ISLAND, Aklan, (PNA) – Department of Tourism (DOT) personnel on Boracay island will be on duty during the Holy Week to attend to tourists' inquiries.
DOT OIC regional director in Western Visayas Helen Catalbas said she has already directed the tourism personnel in Boracay to report to their office inside D’Mall, Boat Station 2, during the Holy Week so they could assist tourists needing information.
She said even before Holy Week, Boracay was already experiencing an influx of tourists with the some 7,000 hotel and resort rooms on the island already fully booked.
Farmers School
CATARMAN, N. Samar – A Farmers’ Field School (FFS) was conducted in Las Navas town, this province, by the Help for Catubig Agricultural Advancement Project (HCAAP) in coordination with concerned government agencies.
Engr. Amadeo Montejo, Northern Samar provincial irrigation officer and HCAAP project manager told reporters in an interview at his office here that nearly 100 participants attended the FFS held in Barangay San Jorge Las Navas, this province.
Montejo added that the participants were the farmers in the area, representatives from the Department of Agriculture, National Irrigation Administration and from the local government units from barangay San Jorge and nearby villages, Las Navas town and this province. (Restituto A. Cayubit)
Rice Assistance
ROXAS CITY, Capiz (PIA6) – The National Food Authority has released a total of 350 bags of rice for the relief operation of the Capiz provincial government’s relief operations directed at local residents here who were recently affected by floods.
As of April 2, 250 bags of rice were released by the provincial government and while another 100 bags were given to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) as augmentation assistance from the national government to the province.
These 300 bags of government rice were released last week at the height of the flooding here, while the remaining 50 bags for the DSWD were released April 2.
L.G.U.S Surveyed
SIQUIJOR, Siquijor (PIA) – The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) recently conducted a Survey on Local Government Capacity in Project Management in three local government units (LGUs) – Siquijor and Larena towns and Siquijor province.
The executing agency was the National Economic and Development Authority and the DILG and Asian Development Bank as partners. The survey collected data from local governments on their capacity constraints and other factors affecting projects management at the local level, said DILG-Siquijor OIC Kenneth Kilat.
Full Disclosure
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte (PIA) – Most of Eastern Visayas local government units (LGUs) have submitted to the government’s disclosure policies. Through the intensified efforts of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Regional Management and field officers, 121 of the 149 local government units in Eastern Visayas have fully complied with the government’s Full Disclosure Policy (FDP). DILG Region 8 director Pedro Noval Jr. sent a report to the DILG Central
Office last March 21 indicating only 28 of 149 LGUs in Eastern Visayas have not fully complied with government’s Full Disclosure Policy. Still, said LGUs have partially complied with the Full Disclosure Policy and Noval said this is a “great improvement to the 100 partially compliant LGUs at the end of December 2011.”