EARLY CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR THE RIDING PUBLIC OF VIGAN: ONE PESO ROLLBACK OF TRICYCLE FARES

The City Council of Vigan recently approved a one(1) peso rollback of tricycle fares due to the continuous reduction of oil prices worldwide. The approval of Ordinance No. 18 Series of 2008 principally authored by the Committee Chairman on Transportation, Councilor Ever Molina gives the riding public a much needed relief from the spiralling costs of consumer products due to the global recession. Students who attended the public hearing clamored for a two-peso rollback but tricycle drivers and operators appealed that a half-way rate be arrived at in order for them to recover from the high cost of maintenance. The City Council unanimously approved the legislative measure on final reading. It's now only a matter of time before the rollback can be fully implemented

VIGAN ACCEPTS INVITATION OF BANGUED TO FORGE SISTERHOOD TIES

The City of Vigan accepted the invitation of Bangued, Abra to become its sister municipality by virtue of the approval of Resolution No. 48 Series of 2008 during the former’s regular session on November 3, 2008. Earlier, some members of the Sanggunian Bayan (Municipal Council) of Bangued led by its Lady Presiding Officer, Vice Mayor Betzaida B. Alzate personally presented Bangued’s Resolution No. 52 Series of 2008 to the City Council of Vigan last October 27, 2008. Vice Mayor Alzate appealed that Bangued be accepted as a sister municipality of Vigan for the very reason that both local government units share a common history being part then of the old Ylocos Province. Its illustrious sons served the Government of the Philippine Islands in the maiden session of the First Philippine Legislature with Don Vicente Singson Encarnacion of Vigan and Juan Villamor of Bangued representing the Province of Ilocos Sur. The signing of the sisterhood agreement is tentatively scheduled on January 22, 2009 at the Heritage City of Vigan.