Governor Rhodora J. Cadiao unveiled big projects and tourism programs for Antique this 2020.

These projects include finalization of the site for the Business Center cum New Capitol, Bus/Jeepney Terminal at the Tradetown in Dalipe, San Jose with ASEAN standard comfort rooms, additional flights for the new route in Antique Airport with airline flying Antique to Cebu and vice versa.

“I am already excited to secure that lot where we can put up the Business Center cum New Capitol,” she said in a media interview. 

The Governor has assigned a technical working group to study the project and hoped to secure the lot by February this year.

For the construction of the bus/jeepney terminal in Dalipe, it will cost about P100,000 in partnership with the local government unit of San Jose.

It will be equipped with ASEAN standard comfort rooms which Antiquenos can be proud of, she said.

The Provincial Government is also following up additional flights for Antique Airport with a new airline flying the route Antique to Cebu and vice versa, which will hopefully start by March this year.

For tourism, the Governor said that tourism arrivals for Antique have doubled as per the Department of Tourism.

In 2017, the arrivals were only about half million tourists but for 2019, these have already gone up to 1.5 million, a milestone for the province.

Antique will be the next priority for tourism development in Panay island. The Municipality of Caluya will be given priority as a new tourist destination along with other tourist areas in the province.

On the other hand, the implementation of Executive Order No. 70 or the Whole of Nation Approach to End the Local Communist Armed Conflict toward Inclusive Development and Sustainable Peace will continue in 2020.

Medical mission to far flung areas will be sustained and construction of cemented road going to Barangay Osorio, San Remigio where the ELCAC (End Local Communist Armed Conflict) medical mission was conducted last year will be given priority by the Provincial Engineering Office.

Cadiao also said that other far flung barangays though cleared by the Philippine Army but still vulnerable to insurgency will be given priority for the construction of cemented roads. PIA-Antique