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21/09/2025

20/09/2025

20/09/2025

President Marcos has announced that the government will return P60 billion to the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), assuring the public that the funds will be used to expand services and strengthen the state insurer’s operations.

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20/09/2025

🔴KAPIHAN SA AKLAN ☕

𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐞

Guests: Juvi Trieste, YFC Program/4-H Coordinator, Mea Claudette Martesano - Owner Meya's Pastil Products, Mark Oliver Hilario - Owner, Pugocoyz Farm, Cheyenne Dela Cruz - Owner, Chynn’s Seafood’licious Food Products

Venue: IJA Compound Infant Jesus

Academy, BSP Baeay Saea Puean, Cardinal Sin Ave. Andagao, Kalibo, Aklan

Host: Jun Aguirre

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19/09/2025

A Call to Prayer for Good Governance in our Nation and against Corruption!

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In the face of the ongoing corruption that wounds our land and steals the dignity of our people, we turn to the One who is just, merciful, and true.

This is a spiritual battle.
This is our mission as followers of Christ:
to lift our voices in prayer,
to seek God's mercy,
and to ask for healing for our nation.
We believe that change is possible with the grace of God.

As a parish community belonging to one Church and one nation, we are being called to come together to pray. We invite you to join us as we offer our Masses at 7:00AM and 6:30PM (Youth Mass) for good governance and prayer against corruption in our country.

Please wear white.

> PRAY FOR TRUTH. PRAY FOR JUSTICE. PRAY FOR THE PHILIPPINES.

18/09/2025

17/09/2025

𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐈𝐃 𝐦𝐨 𝐬𝐚 𝐞𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐏𝐇 𝐚𝐩𝐩, 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐚 𝐬𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐤𝐨 𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐚 𝐥𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐒𝐏-𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝐁𝐒𝐅𝐈𝐬)!

Ipakita lang ang iyong Digital National ID sa teller o officer para sa anumang transaksyon—mula sa pagbubukas ng account, pagkuha ng loan, pag-withdraw, pag-remit, at hanggang sa iba pang financial services.

📑 Ayon sa BSP Memorandum M-2024-026, dapat tanggapin ng lahat ng mga BSFIs ang iyong Digital National ID bilang OFFICIAL at VALID na government-issued ID.

𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨:https://www.bsp.gov.ph/Regulations/Issuances/2024/M-2024-026.pdf
Directory ng BSFIs (banks, rural and cooperative banks, mobile wallets, remittance centers, money changers, at iba pa): https://www.bsp.gov.ph/SitePages/FinancialStability/DirBanksFIList.aspx

❌ Kapag hindi tinanggap, i-report agad sa tamang ahensya:
- Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas: [email protected]
- PhilSys: [email protected]

✅ Walang dahilan para tumanggi—gamitin na ang Digital National ID!

Para sa access sa online government services, i-download na ang eGovPH sa:
🔹 Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=egov.app
🔹 App Store: https://apps.apple.com/ph/app/egovph/id6447682225
🔹 App Gallery: https://appgallery.huawei.com/app/C111221319

16/09/2025

TO: ALL THE CLERGY, COMMUNITIES OF CONSECRATED MEN AND WOMEN, AND THE LAY FAITHFUL OF THE DIOCESE OF KALIBO

RE: THE OBSERVATION AND ORGANIZATION OF PRAYERFUL AND PEACEFUL ACTIONS
AGAINST CORRUPTION

- Rev. Fr. Justy More, Chancellor
Diocese of Kalibo

15/09/2025

A Call to Action for Boracay’s Energy Future

Now that the lights are back on, we must ask ourselves: what comes next? Will we wait for the next blackout, the next round of complaints, and the subsequent economic losses before we act? Or will we take this moment as a turning point — a chance to demand lasting change?

First, we must demand accountability. Consumers and stakeholders should call for a formal investigation into the recent power crisis. Was there negligence in monitoring, maintenance, or crisis response? If so, those responsible must be penalized. When power failures shut down an island economy as vital as Boracay, that is no minor inconvenience — it borders on economic sabotage.

Second, we must ask the hard questions about AKELCO. Is the cooperative still capable of upgrading and maintaining its distribution facilities to meet Boracay’s rapidly growing demand? Do they have the financial resources, technical expertise, and vision to deliver a robust, reliable, modern power system?

Third, we must be open to new solutions. Suppose the current utility can no longer keep pace with the needs of a world-class tourism destination. Are we willing to welcome a new distribution utility with the financial strength, technical capacity, and proven track record to guarantee near-zero unscheduled blackouts?

Boracay is more than just a beach. It is a national treasure, a major economic driver, and a symbol of what the Philippine tourism can offer the world. That means its energy security must be treated as a top priority.

This is a call for collaboration — government, private sector, and community stakeholders must unite, put their minds and resources to work, and ensure this crisis becomes a catalyst for progress, not a recurring nightmare.

If we do nothing, we know what will happen next: more blackouts, more economic disruption, and a future in which this crisis becomes “the new normal.”

Boracay deserves better, at least, if not the best. Let’s not waste this chance to build a power system worthy of a world-class destination.

The time to act is now. Not tomorrow. Not after the next crisis. Now!

We Inform, You Decide.

Malay-Boracay Tourism Office Department of Energy PhilippinesTourism Secretary Christina Garcia FrascoBoracay Foundation, Inc.Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry - BoracayJose Enrique "Joen" MirafloresAklan Electric Cooperative, Inc.

15/09/2025

14/09/2025

Dear Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco and Secretary Sharon S. Garin of Department of Energy,

Boracay Island has once again been plunged into darkness. A power blackout started 1:38 p.m. on September 13, and there is no assurance when electricity will be restored.

This is not an isolated incident but part of a long and painful cycle of power interruptions that continue to cripple the island.

Let us be clear: this perennial problem will not end unless the National Government decisively steps in—just as it did in Siquijor.

Boracay is not just any island. It is a national tourism jewel that generates billions of pesos in receipts for the country.

To leave it struggling with unreliable electricity is to betray both the community that lives here and the nation that benefits from its prosperity.

A reliable power supply is not a luxury; it is the most basic requirement for a functioning economy, for businesses to thrive, and for Boracay to continue shining as the world-class destination it is meant to be.

The time for patchwork fixes is over—Boracay deserves a permanent solution now. We appeal!

13/09/2025