DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

Negros Oriental is vying for the regional Gawad Pamana ng Lahi Award of the Department of Interior and Local Government, its assistant provincial director, Farah Gentuya, said.

She said the province has complied with all of the award indicators, like the Local Governance Performance Management System, where it garnered an overall performance index of 4.45 or “a very good performance”.

It is also compliant with the full disclosure policy, has no adverse reports from the Commission on Audit, and has several innovations that won for itself the Seal of Good Housekeeping award, Gentuya said.

500 houses planned
for ‘Sendong' victims
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

About 500 houses will be constructed for victims of tropical storm “Sendong” in Negros Oriental by the San Miguel Corporation, in cooperation with the Gawad Kalinga-Negros Oriental and the Habitat for Humanity.

SMC Foundation Inc. executive director Camille Buenaventura said at a press conference yesterday that its president, Ramon Ang, wants to donate 5,000 houses in Sendong-affected areas of the country, 500 of them worth P55 million will be in Negros Oriental.

She said local government units concerned will be required to provide for the lots where about 200 units will be constructed in Dumaguete, 120 for Amlan, 50 units each for Sibulan and Valencia towns, 30 each for Zamboanguita and Tanjay, and 20 for Basay.

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