League, provinces chip in
for Guimaras rehabilitation from oil spill

Gov. Erico Aumentado with Negros Occidental Gov. Joseph Marañon announced that the LPP has allocated P500,000 as financial assistance to Guimaras.

THERE is still much to be done, and the assistance keeps coming in for Guimaras, whose environment and people suffered so much loss because of the oil spill that hit it last month.

The assistance came not only from the league, but also other provinces that willingly shelled out their funds in order to help out Guimaras in its rehabilitation efforts.

During the special meeting among the Visayas governors in Bacolod City last August 30, league president Gov. Erico B. Aumentado informed Gov. JC Rahmann Nava that the LPP has allocated P500,000 as financial assistance to the province of Guimaras.

Gov. Tommy Joson proposes a systematized scheme for extending assistance to calamity stricken provinces.

The amount already includes the P100,000 which Albay Gov. Fernando Gonzalez donated to the province.

In a special general assembly of the league held last August 24, Nueva Ecija Gov. Tomas N. Joson III floated the idea of the league implementing a systematized scheme for extending assistance to calamity-affected provinces.

He suggested that 1st, 2nd and 3rd class provinces are encouraged to give at least P50,000, P30,000 and P20,000, respectively, to affected provinces.

Gov. Niel Tupas, Sr.

During the meeting in Bacolod City, host governor Joseph Maranon of Negros Occidental likewise turned-over a check worth P200,000 to Gov. Nava, and so did Iloilo Gov. Niel Tupas Sr.

Gov. Sally Perez

Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia likewise handed over a check worth P5 million to Nava as Cebu’s contribution to its neighboring province’s efforts to bring itself up on its feet again.

Gov. Rosette Lerias

Gov. Salvacion Perez likewise announced that the other provinces in the Western Visayas region, namely Aklan, Capiz and Antique, will also be giving P200,000 each.

She added that the mayors of these three provinces have likewise committed to extend assistance to the five municipalities of Guimaras.

Moreover, Perez also announced in behalf of Gov. Rosette Lerias that the Province of Southern Leyte will be sending in both in cash and in kind.

Gov. Fernando Gonzalez

Gov. Vicente Magsaysay

Earlier, Gov. Gonzalez decided to donate the P100,000 financial assistance extended by the league to his province due to the pre-eruption activities of the Mayon Volcano to Guimaras citing that the latter’s calamity condition is more pressing than that of Albay, and that his province’s financial status is not on a critical level yet.

Gov. Magsaysay has pledged to give Guimaras P100,000 as assistance from the Province of Zambales.

Guimaras, which has been blessed with one of the world’s richest marine biodiversity, suffered a major environmental blow when the oil tanker, M/T Solar I, carrying some two million of bunker oil, sank off the Guimaras Strait last August 11 after encountering rough seas. (AJS)

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