MAGUINDANAO NORTE VILLAGE TO BE A “CITY-WITHIN-CITY”

By Nash B. Maulana

PARANG, Maguindanao Norte—A long-term prospect of a city within a city shapes up here with the Bangsamoro government’s plan to move its seat of government to 400-hectare corporate estates it has acquired in Barangay Landasan here, officials said.

This old port town founded in 1910 will soon be elevated to cityhood, Mayor Kahar Ibay said at the groundbreaking ceremonies here for the construction of five Bangsamoro barangay hall buildings, on Tuesday.

BARMM Interior and Local Governments Minister Naguib Sinarimbo, whose office implements the two-storey Bangsamoro barangay hall projects, said Barangay Landasan will be the nucleus of a long-term development of the 150-hectare Sarmiento industrial estate already acquired by the regional

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MARCH 11-18 government.

Sinarimbo and Ibay joined barangay officials laying the cornerstones for the construction of six barangay hall buildings here. Five more barangay hall buildings are to be constructed in neighboring Barira town, where the BARMM official also turned over a fire truck to local authorities.

Engineer Abibazar Sali, head of the MILG-BARMM Project Management Development Division, said the public market building now stands halfway through completion.

is Grandparent’s Week

Grandparents’ Week is observed every March 11-18 by virtue of Republic Act No. 757, s. 1996 by then President Fidel V. Ramos

This waning tradition of fostering love and care for the elderly as represented by our “lolos” and “lolas” needs to be preserved and inculcated in our youth and in the succeeding generations of Filipinos.