Friday, November 30, 2018

Two hundred-seventeen residents in the third district of Negros Occidental recently received completion certificates from the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority for finishing the Special Training for Employment Program, a press release said.

The skills trainings were conducted by Tesda, in partnership with the office of 3rd District Rep. Alfredo Benitez, who facilitated the community-based training sessions, in coordination with the local government units in the district.

Published November 13, 2018, 12:05 AM
MEDIUM RARE
By JULLIE Y. DAZA

(With apologies to The Hows of Us, a movie about millennials and how they get into and out of and back into relationships, which has grossed P700 million to beat Vice Ganda’s record-breaking P600 million take at the 2017 Metro Manila Film Festival.)

What do millennials, Generation X and Y and even their parents have in common?

Alas, it’s nothing romantic, for what the generations share over time has been the perennial lack of a house – before it becomes a home – to call their own. As more people are born, more houses need to be built, except that such has not been the case. Look at those sturdy, thoroughly lived-in BLISS apartments, in particular the ones clustered in the neighborhood of SM North, that have survived floods and typhoons since “Marcos time” and how they have spawned not a single decent tenement housing project.

The statistics on the houseless are a shame but not irreversible. Negros Occ. Rep. Albee Benitez, chairman of the housing committee in Congress, prefers to call the problem a need rather than a backlog. “Six million people need to own a house; they’re either renting, living with relatives, or simply homeless. In Metro Manila,” he adds, “only 30 percent of the population have the capacity to pay rent or buy a house.” After food and transportation, housing is No. 3 priority, gobbling up 25 percent of a typical salary of P10,000.

BY CARLA P. GOMEZ
Monday, October 29, 2018

Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos (5th from left) with mayors Marvin Malacon, Mark Golez, and Neil Lizares, Rep. Alfredo Benitez, mayors Andrew Montelibano and Francis Frederick Palanca, and Rep. Stephen Paduano (Abang Lingkod) during her visit to Bacolod City, yesterday* Gilbert Bayoran photo

Rep. Alfredo Abelardo Benitez and the mayors of third district of Negros Occidental yesterday threw their support behind the Senatorial bid of Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos, who was in Bacolod City for the MassKara Festival.

Wed, 10/24/2018

Rep. Alfredo “Albee” Benitez of the 3rd District of Negros Occidental, has filed a resolution urging the House of Representatives to conduct an inquiry into the recent killings of nine members of the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) in Sagay City.