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Negros highlights ‘timeless traditions’ in 37th trade fair



By: Carla P. Gomez - Correspondent / @carlagomezINQInquirer Visayas / 12:29 PM September 25, 2019


Rep. Leo Rafael Cueva, Sugar Regulatory Administrator Hermenegildo Serafica, Association of Negros Producers chairperson Christina Gaston, Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson, Vice Governor Jeffrey Ferrer,ANP president Arlene Infante, Michael Edward Claparols and Ayala Malls president Jennylle Tupaz ring the bell to signal the start of the 34th Negros Trade Fair at Glorietta 2 of the Ayala Center in Makati City.*

BACOLOD CITY — The push is on to bring more Negrense products to national and global markets.

The Negros Occidental provincial government and the Association of Negros Producers (ANP) are set to work together to help more producers from the 31 towns and cities of the province improve and market their products.

Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson, in his speech at the 34th Negros Trade Fair Governor’s Night at Glorietta 2 in Makati City on Tuesday said he’s a believer of the Negrense talent and products.

2 lawmakers urge 3rd airline to ply Manila-Bacolod route



By: Carla P. Gomez - Correspondent / @carlagomezINQ Inquirer Visayas / 10:44 AM May 30, 2019

Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri and Rep. Alfredo Abelardo Benitez of Negros Occidental’s 3rd District have been pushing for a third airline to ply the Manila to Bacolod-Silay Airport route to help bring down airfare.

Businessman Eduardo Alunan has been lobbying for the entry of a third airline to serve the needs of Negrenses, saying the airfare of the two airlines that fly to the Bacolod Silay Airport are excessive.

Albee Benitez ditches senatorial bid



By: Carla P. Gomez - Correspondent / @carlagomezINQ
September 03, 2018

BACOLOD CITY-Negros Occidental Rep. Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez of the 3rd district is no longer running for senator in 2019.

He said he told stalwarts of the ruling Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) not to include his name in the survey since he has decided not to run.

Negros as next tourism hub



By: Carla Gomez - @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:19 AM July 14, 2018

Bacolod City—A 13,016-ha integrated tourism complex set to rise in Silay City is seen to help position Negros Island as an emerging tourism hub.

This, according to Negros Occidental Rep. Alfredo Abelardo Benitez, was the vision for the complex, which will include the P600-million Magikland theme park, hotels, as well as a commercial and lifestyle center, and which is expected to generate quality jobs for the provinces.

DOLE notes low availment of livelihood and employment programs in Boracay



By: Pathricia Ann V. Roxas - Reporter / @PathRoxasINQ INQUIRER.net / 02:40 PM June 21, 201

Lawmakers have expressed concerns over the low availment of the livelihood and employment programs of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Boracay Island, as well as the agency’s low utilization of funds almost two months after the shutdown of the prime tourist spot.

At Thursday’s hearing of the House committee on natural resources, DOLE Assistant Secretary Ma. Joji Aragon noted that the utilization rate of their P450-million budget for the six-month closure, as of Wednesday, is only at 24 percent, still far from their 85 percent utilization rate target by the end of the rehabilitation.

NHA told: Work double time to re-award idle gov’t housing units to poor



By: Pathricia Ann V. Roxas - Reporter / @PathRoxasINQ INQUIRER.net / 07:39 PM June 14, 2018

The National Housing Authority (NHA) should work double time in awarding the idle housing units of uniformed personnel to poor families, Negros Occidental 3rd District Rep. Albee Benitez said Thursday.

Benitez, chair of the House committee on housing and urban development, said this is mandated by Congressional Joint Resolution No. 2 which President Rodrigo Duterte had signed.

Benitez points to design failure in Zambo stilt housing project



By: Pathricia Ann V. Roxas - Reporter / @PathRoxasINQ INQUIRER.net / 12:01 PM May 29, 2018

There seems to be a failure in design and safety considerations in the the Zamboanga City Roadmap to Recovery and reconstruction (Z3R) housing project, but officials of the National Housing Authority (NHA) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) were pointing at each other, a lawmaker said at a House inquiry on Tuesday.

At the House hearing into the February 2018 collapse of a housing unit in the Z3R housing project, Rep. Albee Benitez, chair of the House committee on housing and urban development, lamented the apparent downgrading of the quality of materials used in the P53-million housing project for some 240 families affected by the city siege by fighters of the Moro National Liberation Front.

NHA: Contractor of Zambo housing project liable for footbridge collapse



By: Pathricia Ann V. Roxas - Reporter / @PathRoxasINQ INQUIRER.net / 04:29 PM May 16, 2018


BRIDGE FALLS DOWN Representatives Abelardo Benitez (in striped shirt) and Celso Lobregat, Zamboanga City Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar and other officials clamber up the footbridge that collapsed into murky water. The bridge leads to the relocation site at Sitio Hongkong in Barangay Rio Hondo. —PHOTO COURTESY OF RMN ZAMBOANGA

It was the contractor of the Zamboanga housing project that was principally responsible for the collapse of a wooden footbridge in Brgy. Rio Hondo, an official of the National Housing Authority (NHA) said on Wednesday.

Doing resettlement differently



COMMENTARY By: Anna Marie A. Karaos - @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:04 AM April 21, 2018

One of the infrastructure projects in the government’s “Build, build, build” program which is certain to bring great relief to commuters and travelers is the North-South Railway Project. The South line consists of a 68-kilometer commuter line that will run between Tutuban in Manila and Los Baños in Laguna and a 595-km long-haul line, between Tutuban and Matnog in Sorsogon, that will carry freight and cargo aside from passengers.  The rail reconstruction project will be implemented by the Philippine National Railways and financed through loans from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (commuter line) and China (long-haul line).

Villar: May 14 youth, barangay polls to push thru



By: Carla P. Gomez - Correspondent / @carlagomezINQ Philippine Daily Inquirer / 10:48 AM March 17, 2018

BACOLOD CITY—The insistence of the Lower House to pass a bill postponing the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections was only creating “false hope for the people,” said Senator Cynthia Villar.

She maintained that the May 14 polls would push through as there was not enough time to pass a legislation to postpone it.

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