Tubbataha Mg’t. Office conducts IEC in San Jose dB

Two personnel from the Tubbataha Management Office conducted information and education campaign in selected schools and brangays in the Municipality of San Jose de Buenavista.

This initiative is conducted to increase awareness on the importance of the marine environment. 

The advocacy activity of the TMO lasted for four days. They conducted lectures and forums with students of Maybato North Elementary School, Evelio B. Javier Primary School in Brgy. Maybato Sur, Antique National School and Delegate Angel Salazar Memorial School, and with fisherfolks of Brgy. Maybato North and Brgy. Maybato Sur.

TMO implements the policies and regulations created by the Tubbataha Protected Area Management Board, and is in-charge of the day-to-day operations of the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park.

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park is 130 kilometers southwest of the Municipality of Cagayancillo, Province of Palawan and lies within the Cagayan Ridge. The name “Tubbataha” came from the Samal, the seafaring people from Sulu, and means “a long reef exposed at low tide.”

According to the first scientific research in Tubbataha in 1982 conducted by the Natural Resources Management Center of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and the University of the Philippines, destructive fishing methods were causing damage to Tubbataha. (sjdb_mio)

San Jose dB bags Nat’l Best Disaster Risk Management Council award

San Jose de Buenavista Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council bagged its second National Gawad Kalasag award for the 1^st to 3^rd Class Municipal Category.

The National Gawad Kalasag is an annual recognition bestowed by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in recognition of the local governments’ exemplary achievements in the field of disaster risk management.

One of the good points of DRRM in San Jose de Buenavista was that DRRM projects were not stand-alone. They were holistic and complimented each other. 

Safety regulations were also in place and were backed with executive orders, resolutions and ordinances thus ensuring their sustainability. 

In the presentation of DRRM accomplishments during the evaluation, Mayor Rony L. Molina said, “Our Municipality may not always experience disasters but we should invest time and money to protect people’s lives. “

  “Protection of people as a statement for governance is commendable,” one of the evaluators said.

            Gawad Kalasag awarding ceremony will be on October 11 at the Philippine International Convention Center, CCP Complex, Pasay City.

San Jose dB breaks ground for new police station

Photo by Michael Tonding

A Type “A” police station will soon rise in San Jose de Buenavista, Antique after local government unit and local Philippine National Police held a ground breaking ceremony in San Jose Tradetown. 

          The new municipal police station is a standard two-storey unit amounting to P15.138 Million. The funding source is primarily from the PNP being included as a priority project of the agency for 2011. Meanwhile, the LGU provided the 1,000 sq. meter lot and P1,513,800.00 fund as LGU counterpart. 

          According to Mayor Rony L. Molina, this is so far the biggest budget released by the PNP and the Police Regional Office VI for a municipal police station. 

          San Jose Chief of Police Gilbert Gorero, who is among the top three police leaders in the Philippines, said that he is very thankful to the local government –executive and legislative, for making their dream of having a separate and standard police station fitting for a capital town come true.

In attendance to the ceremony were PNP Regional Director PCSupt. Cipriano Querol, Jr., Deputy Regional Director PCSupt. Ernesto A. Tesoro, Jr., Antique Police Provincial Director PSSupt. Ruperto Floro and other officer from the Police Regional Office VI.

Also present in the occasion were the Governor Exequiel Javier, San Jose de Buenavista Mayor Rony Molina, Vice Mayor Elmer Untaran and the Sangguniang Bayan Members of the Municipality. 

        Among the nine participating bidders for the project was awarded to FLT Enterprises. Construction is expected to commence soon with target completion of six months. (sjdb_mio)