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August 2014
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Editor JohN alfred KaBalicaN editor@visayanbizpost.com
The TruTh as iT happens.
NewsBrief
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Eastern Visayas to achieve economic growth this year NEDA
Road rage
kills VSU bus driver in Albuera
the building of new roads. The projects are poised to generate jobs for locals as well as spur local spend- ing. Some of the develop- ment projects are being im- plemented together with non-government organiza-
tions and private entities.
Being given focus like- wise are the agriculture production and abaca in- dustry sector. “We want to attain a resilient, inclusive and sustained high growth path for the region,” said director Uy.
Around 8.8 million Fili-
pinos including those from Eastern Visayas who were victims of super typhoon Haiyan have rated them- selves to having gone hun- gry or dirt poor in the last few months based on an- independent survey by the Social Weather Station.
told the Visayan Business Post News Team that the potable water develop- ment project is only one of several programs lined–up by Mayor Villahermosa as he tackles the problem of lack of basic necessities in outlaying barangays of the municipality.
Mayor Villahermosa who is on his first term is seeking to enhance while fast–tracking the delivery of basic social and econom- ic development services in this municipality, includ- ing road networks to ag- riculture areas, sanitation and clean potable water tapped from local sources for its residents.
Calubian ba- rangay needs
immediate evacuation
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ormoC urbAn plAns. Accomplished urban planner and environmental activist Felino Palafox, Jr. of Palafox Associates recently visited Ormoc City. Palafox was asked by the city government to come up with a modern urban plan for the proposed permanent relocation sites for typhoon Haiyan victims. Pala- fox’ firm is widely credited for various state-of-the-art buildings in Metro Manila. (Photo by Ormoc LGU)
By VBP News Team Central Visayas
director Bonifacio Uy. Director Uy was refer- ring to the anti-poverty programs of the national government now worth
TACLOBAN CITY ––
The National Economic
Development Authority The local anti-poverty (NEDA) here is still opti-
mistic that various devel-
opment programs of the
government will help ac-
celerate economic recovery
in Eastern Visayas.
“The implementation of infrastructure, liveli- hood, housing, and other rehabilitation and recov- ery projects in the region through the Office of the Presidential Assistance for Rehabilitation and Recov- ery give a positive outlook for the region’s economy this year”, disclosed NEDA
push will be placed under an expanded version of the KALAHI-CIDSS-Na- tional Community Driven Development Project of the Department of Social Welfare and Development including its existing 4Ps program.
Uy said that the local economy is likewise ex- pected to strengthen with the continued rehabilita- tion and reconstruction of government buildings, new infrastructure, permanent resettlement projects, and
festivAl. Full of hope, locals recently took to the streets to celebrate life months after super typhoon Haiyan devastated Tacloban City. (Photo by Aaron JP Almadro)
Tax employees urged
Hilongos water project
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Effie Sabandal, councilor Antonio Cardoza, and Epi- fania Sy of the Southern Leyte Chamber of Com-
merce and Industry wit- nessed the lowering of the time capsule to signal the beginning of the building’s construction.
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water is still lacking to at least 194 households. The program is funded by the General Appropriations Act provision for local po- table water supply.
“Soon to be finished, the project will install 21 Lev- el–2 Spring Development water system faucets that can be commonly used by at least 10 households per faucet with an average of five people per household” said project development officer Avelino Lagaac of Hilongos’ Municipal Plan- ning and Development Of- fice who is one of several LGU officers manning the
project.
“We are stepping up the
project’s actual implemen- tation to meet Mayor Vil- lahermosa’s instructions for us to accelerate the de- livery of potable water for the residents of Barangay Tuguipa because the peo- ple there need it”, added Engineer Lagaac.
“The project will have a storage capacity of 18,565 liters at any given time and uses gravity to transport the water from its source to its service areas. The local government developed a local water source for this”, Lagaac stressed.
MPDO Chief Catherine ‘Keith’ Fabular meanwhile
more than P4 Billion.
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