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BACOLOD City Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez confirmed that the operation of the Negros Island Region is now at 90 percent.Benitez, who attended the Committee on Visayas Development meeting at the House of Representatives on February 24, said on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, that they identified a total of 36 departments and agencies, and of the number, three of them failed to attend the meeting.
Since it is a newly created region, the mayor said the regional directors were also asking for an additional funding in 2026 for their personnel. Benitez noted that the implementing rules and regulations of Republic Act 12000, also known as the NIR Act, which includes Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, and Siquijor, was published on February 3 and has been formalized on February 18. On June 13, 2024, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
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