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AKLAN TO FOCUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Thursday 9th of February 2012

KALIBO, Aklan, February 9 (PIA6) -- The provincial government of Aklan will be zeroing in this year on climate change adaptation and environment protection. In his 8th State of the Province Address (SOPA) he delivered recently, Aklan Governor Carlito S. Marquez said global warming is real, true and has been felt before typhoon Frank devastated Aklan. “The law of nature, known as the law of conservation of matter states that matter cannot be created nor destroyed. It can only be transformed from one form to another,” Marquez said in his SOPA delineating the province’ programs and plans for this...

KALIBO, Aklan, February 8 (PIA6) – Aklan province is strong, healthy, free and progressive. This was how Governor Carlito Marquez summed up the situation in Aklan State of the Province Address (SOPA) at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan Session Hall here today. Marquez enumerated the awards received by the province last year – the 2011 Gawad Pamana ng Lahi, which he said was a barometer of good local government governance where Aklan placed second to Negros Occidenta...

ILOILO CITY, July 24 (PIA) – The National Greening Program (NGP) of the national government has found a partner in the ART of greening Iloilo. ART, acronym for Action for Re-greening and Transformation, is a one-month old program that is part of Iloilo’s reforestation efforts which serve as its contribution to government efforts to rehabilitate denuded upland areas and to the global campaign against climate change. Under the ART program, the provincial government has committ...

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Gov. Moreno: Mis. Or has the least poverty incidence in Northern Mindanao

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, July 11 (PIA) -- Gov. Oscar S. Moreno told in his State-of-the Province Address (SOPA) that Misamis Oriental has the least poverty incidence in Northern Mindanao as shown by the latest available record of the National Statistics Coordination Board (NSCB). "The implementation of development programs across the province resulted to better scores on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger," he said. For the education sector, G...