PIA Aklan Balita, AUGUST 1 - 15, 2022

Volume 20

Issue 15

KALIBO, Aklan (PIA) – The Local Government of Kalibo, Aklan has imposed curfew hours for minors and has regulated operations of bars, videokes and other similar establishments in the entire municipality of Kalibo.

On August 11, 2022, Kalibo mayor Juris Sucro issued Executive Order No. 026 series of 2022 also known as “An order regulating the operation of Bars, Videokes, Disco and Other Similar Establishment and Imposing Curfew to all Minors within the Teritorial Jurisdiction of the Municipality of Kalibo Province of Aklan,” and has taken effect immediately.

According to Sucro, the issuance of the ordinance is for the town’s objective to combat a potential surge of COVID-19 cases as well as for crime prevention especially with minors’ involvement.

Based on the EO, minors are prohibited to loiter in public places from 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. in Kalibo, Aklan; and instead they are encouraged to stay at home.

However, said minors may be allowed to leave home during the curfew hours if for essential and emergency reasons only or they are accompanied by an adult or guardian.

Aside from curfew hours for minors, the ordinance also mandates that bars, videokes, discos, and the likes, should be totally closed at 1:00 a.m., of which the last order for said establishments will be at 11:30 p.m.

Moreover, convenience and sari-sari stores are prohibited from selling and dispensing of liquor or intoxicating beverages from 11:30 p.m. to 4:00 a.m.

Per the said EO, the enforcement of the ordinance is given to the Kalibo Municipal Police Station with the assistance of Barangay officials and tanods.

The Provincial Health Office here noted that as of August

KALIBO, Aklan (PIA) -- The province of Aklan, through the Provincial Health Office (PHO), recently launched the “Libot Ko, Limpyo Ko” clean-up campaign covering various departments and offices located in the Provincial Capitol Building and outlying ones to destroy possible breeding places of dengue-carrying mosquitoes in the vicinity.

The clean-up campaign, which started on first week of August, will be conducted up to September 20, 2022, designating Wednesdays and Fridays of every week as “Limpyo” days from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

It is in line with Governor Jose Enrique Miraflores’ Executive Order No. 011 released earlier to combat dengue in the province, which had been observed by health officials here to be continuously increasing.

AUGUST 1 - 15, 2022

Kalibo mayor Juris Bautista Sucro reviews and sign documents in his office.

Bautista issued Executive Order No. 026 series of 2022 on August 11, 2022, which mandates the imposition of curfew hours for minors and regulation on operations of bars, videokes and other similar establishments in the entire municipality of Kalibo. (SQP/PIA-Aklan/Photo courtesy of LGU-Kalibo)

11, 2022, the town of Kalibo, among the municipalities in the province, has the highest number of COVID-19 active cases with 24, of which 21 are quarantined in facilities, while the three are admitted in hospital. (AAL/SQP/PIA-Aklan)

Provincial Health Officer II Dr. Leslie Ann L. Sedillo, who earlier talked about this dengue-preventive scheme before Provincial Capitol employees during the flag-raising ceremonies, said one month of continuously cleaning surroundings and destroying possible breeding places of mosquitoes will be enough to prevent them from breeding and hatching their eggs.

“We’re already good if we conduct a month of cleaning up in order to be dengue-free, if we work together,” she said.

After the short launching program where the provincial employees were oriented on the various strategies to stop dengue, Dr. Sedillo and the other staff of the PHO proceeded to inspect all the offices in the building to identify possible Continued on page… 02

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Aklan headline inflationhits5.8 percent in July, faster by 3.9 percentage points than 1.9 inflation recorded in July 2021 according to Philippine Statistics Authority Aklan.

It further increased from 4.8 percent inflation in June and posted the highest inflation from the series of results sinceMarch 2020.

The upward trend was primarily brought about by faster annual rates of food and non-alcoholic beverages with 9.1% from 7% in June; furnishings, household equipment and routine maintenancespike at7% from 0.5% in the past month; and transport products and serviceswhich inflated from 12% to 12.7% in a span of one month.

Also, inflation growths were noted in health, 3.4%; and personal care, miscellaneous goods and services with 0.7% inflation.

On the other hand, annual upticks slowed down for housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels with 0.5% this month compared to 1.3% inflation in the past month.

Meanwhile, the rest of the commodity groups retained their previous month’s inflation rates or hadzero percent annual growths.

The uptrend inflation in food was highly contributed by fast annual price movements of Rice with 13% from 11.4% in June, meat and other parts of slaughtered land animals went up to 12.9% and fish and other seafood products grew up to 9.1% this month.

Sugar and related products and milk and other dairy products also increased which posted 25.4% and 5.2% inflation, respectively.

Meanwhile, fruits and nuts, vegetables, tubers, plantains,

Source: Retail Price Survey of Commodities for the Generation of Consumer Price Index, Philippine Statistics Authority

cooking bananas and pulses, and ready-made food and food products n.e.c.showed slower annual growth from previous month’s inflation report.

Other food commodities either increased or retained their previous month’s inflation rates.

Inflation rate is the annual rate of change or increase in the consumer price indices of goods and services.

Consumer Price index (CPI), on the other hand, is an indicator of the change in the average retail prices of a fixed basket of goods and services commonly purchased by the households relative to a base year. (PSA-Aklan)

Aklan launches 'Libot Ko, Limpyo Ko' From page 01 breeding areas of mosquitoes.

The team also obtained samples of mosquito larvae in the vicinity to determine if these were laid by dengue-carrying mosquitoes.

Sedillo and her team also suggested that ornamental plants being displayed for sale by local “plantitas” in a corner at the Capitol area, which might be serving as “sheltering areas” for mosquitoes, be removed and to just schedule every 15th and 30th of each month as market days for these plants.

As of latest data released by Department of Health (DOH) 6, Aklan had a total of 399 dengue cases from January to July 30, 2022 with three deaths. During the same period last year, Aklan only listed 28 cases. (JBG/VGV/PIA6 Aklan)

The launching of the"Libot Ko, Limpyo Ko" clean-up campaign to make the Aklan Provincial Capitol building and its vicinity dengue-free started with an orientation with Capitol employees conducted by the Provincial Health Office to encourage them to help eliminate dengue in their workplaces by seeking and destroying possible breeding places in their areas. (PIA6 Aklan)