Usec. Jonathan Malaya
Spokesperson

The Department of the Interior and Local Government continues to monitor the compliance of local government units (LGUs) to the Presidential directive to rid roads of illegal structures and obstructions and regularly conducts dialogue with LGUs and other stakeholders on how the gains can be sustained in the long run.

An example of this continuing dialogue is the meeting held recently between DILG officials led by Secretary Eduardo M. Año and Taguig Mayor Lino Cayetano and his team where the mayor discussed in detail the significant and continuing initiatives of the city government in reclaiming its public roads for public use.

During the said dialogue, Mayor...

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is thankful for the opportunity to meet with the Co-Chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Illegal Drugs (ICAD), Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo, and brief her on the DILG’s campaign against illegal drugs and hear her thoughts on future steps to combat the proliferation of illegal drugs in the country.

Secretary Eduardo M. Año, together with the heads of all of DILG’s attached agencies, had a long and fruitful talk with the Vice President particularly on the need to synergize, synchronize and harmonize all the efforts of the various ICAD Member-Agencies. There may be...

Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo M. Año warned leftist groups “not to intimidate judges nor intervene with their judicial mandate” following their widely publicized threat to file raps against judges who issued search warrants on their offices in the past weeks.

“Please do not harass our judges and insult their wisdom to decide on the necessity of issuing a search warrant,” says Año.

The DILG Secretary says judicial independence must be respected. "Judges should be free from the improper influence of other sectors and even other branches of government in exercising their mandate," he says.

“Let us allow them to do their jobs...

Four hazard-prone cities and municipalities stand to benefit from the country’s first Green Climate Fund (GCF) project worth USD10-million that will establish a multi-hazard impact-based forecasting and early warning system (MH-IBF-EWS) in the said local government units (LGUs), according to the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).

DILG Secretary Eduardo M. Año says Tuguegarao City, Legazpi City, the town of Palo in Leyte, and New Bataan in Davao de Oro will be the target local government units (LGUs) of the multi-million dollar GCF project approved by the Green Climate Fund Board during its recent meeting in Songdo, Korea.

“The DILG thanks the GCF Board for approving the...

Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo M. Año is calling on the youth “to think twice and be more discerning” before joining the series of events organized by an alliance of student councils in line with the observance of the National Students’ Day as such events are not organized and spearheaded by the National Youth Commission (NYC).

Año says the 1st National Students’ Youth Camp which will be held on November 16-17 as well as the series of events from November 11-21 in several campuses of the University of the Philippines are not being endorsed by the NYC which is the agency mandated under the law to lead the annual activities for the...