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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Monday, February 22, 2010 |
| Negros Oriental | |
 Metro Dumaguete LGUs back green techno move Guihulngan City tops membership Tourism corridor kicks off |
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Metro Dumaguete LGUs
back green techno move
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE
& MARICAR ARANAS
Promoters of world power and green technologies have offered local government units comprising the Metro Dumaguete area an alternative source of power to address shortages, rotating brownouts, and the increasing volume of solid wastes.
The project proposal of Biospehere Technology of True Green Energy Group Corp. was discussed at a joint executive and legislative session of the Metro Dumaguete group composed of the city of Dumaguete, Dauin, Bacong, Valencia, Sibulan, San Jose and Amlan.
Present were mayors Agustin Perdices - Dumaguete, Rodrigo Alanano - Dauin, and Bentham de la Cruz - Amlan, as well as the Sanggunian Bayans from Dauin to Amlan represented by their respective presiding officers, and the host city council of Dumaguete headed by Vice Mayor Woodrow Maquiling.
| IN PHINO Guihulngan City has the highest number of enrollees for the Provincial Health Insurance of Negros Oriental, which is 1,000, PHINO records recently showed. Eight local government units in the province have availed of the PHINO program, Adrian Sedillo of the Capitol said. The Pamplona town has 700 enrollees, 600 for San Jose, and 500 enrollees each in Jimalalud, Valencia, Zamboanguita, Amlan and Basay. There are now a total of 4,800 residents of Negros Oriental enrolled with PHINO. |
| Tourism corridor kicks off President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo resumes today her super-region tour with an inspection of tourism projects in four provinces in Central Philippines, the region mapped out as the country’s tourist corridor under her five-growth region development strategy, the Office of the Press Secretary, said in a press release. Press Secretary Cris Icban Jr., said the President’s Super Regions travels are meant to underscore her milestone achievements over the past nine years which she intends to turn over to the next President who will build on them further. |
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