Aklan News

No smoking in Caticlan jetty port

BORACAY – The Caticlan Jetty Port administration will no longer allow cigarette smoking in the port. According to Port Administrator Niven Maquirang, they will be implementing Aklan’s Anti-Smoking Ordinance this month. “Violators may be given a minimum penalty, but they will certainly be confronted by policemen,” said Maquirang. The Caticlan Jetty Port in Malay, Aklan [...]

Business groups, govt vow cooperation in P260M reclamation project

BORACAY ISLAND- Both the Aklan provincial government and the Boracay Foundation Incorporated (BFI) vowed cooperation to settle concerns raised over the implementation of the P260 million reclamation project at the Caticlan Jetty Port in Malay, Aklan. Earlier, the BFI has filed a complaint at the Department of Interior and Local Government over the planned project, [...]

Filipino Fiesta Day declared in Canada

KALIBO, AKLAN-The state of Canada will be observing Filipino Fiesta Day on August 14 to give way to the first Filipino Cultural Festival and Parade in the key city streets of Vancouver. The declaration was made by city mayor Gregor Robertson who is supportive on the activities of the Filipino migrants there. Already, the state [...]

Thousands expected to attend Baldomero’s funeral

LEZO, AKLAN- Thousands of mourners, supporters, activists and spectators are expected to attend the burial of slain activist town councilor Fernando Baldomero this Saturday, July 17, at the St. Isidore Parish here. The Aklan Provincial Police Office will deploy personnel to ensure peace and order during the burial. Intelligence officials will also be deployed as [...]

PCCI urges action on CICL cases

KALIBO, AKLAN – The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry-Kalibo (PCCI) has urged for a concrete action from the government’s enforcement and implementation agencies against the increasing cases of Children In Conflict with the Law (CICL) here. The PCCI have recently organized a stakeholders forum at the library of the Wadeford school here attended by [...]

Taichung??Escapades: “A Gigantic Fun Experience”

By: Rodelyn P. Lachica International Shipping and Logistics KNU-IHP Taiwan Taiwan- One of the perks in staying in a foreign country is having the chance to explore its own beauty through the places, the culture and the people itself. After almost three years in Taiwan, I have finally experienced something more than what I initially [...]

Aklan provincial gov’t offers P.5M for info on Bayan Muna coordinator’s assassins

KALIBO, Aklan – The provincial government here has offered a P500,000 reward for information that could lead to the arrest of the killers of Lezo councilor at the same time Bayan Muna coordinator Fernando Baldomero. Bayan Muna chair Satur Ocampo in a press conference here bared that Rep. Florencio Miraflores and Governor Carlito Marques pledged [...]

Ombudsman files graft raps vs. Aklan mayor

MANILA, July 7 (PNA) — The Office of the Ombudsman (Ombudsman) on Wednesday filed graft charges before the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan against a municipal mayor of Aklan province for allegedly getting cash advances without proper accounting. In a three-page information, the Ombudsman (Ombudsman) indicted before the Sandiganbayan Makato, Aklan Municipal Mayor Bobby Clyde Legaspi. Legaspi [...]

First activist killed under Aquino government

MANILA (AFP) – Gunmen killed an activist in the Philippines on Monday, police said, the first suspected politically motivated murder under the watch of President Benigno Aquino III’s new government. Village council member Fernando Baldomero, an area coordinator for the leftist Bayan Muna (Nation First) group was shot in the head and neck as he [...]

Aklan town vies for largest mangrove in Asia

IBAJAY, Aklan- This bustling town in the Western part of the province is vying for a record to have the largest mangrove in Asia. Mayor Lulu Miraflores said that a group of Japanese experts have arrived in the town recently to document the mangrove in the boundaries of Barangay Bugtong Bato and the nearby villages. [...]