On Wednesday, his family revealed that the congressman of the 5th district of Negros Occidental died by cardiac arrest. Today, the news was corrected. Representative Ignacio Arroyo is not yet dead but has a brain-dead or in a brain-dead status. He is currently in life support.
The doctors are still waiting for the decision of his family whether to withdraw the life support or not.
It was noted that Representative Iggy Arroyo as a brother of former First Gentleman Mike Arroyo, defended his brother in many ways, especially during the Jose Pidal …

A dormant airport here in this city located at Brgy. Panan-awan shall be fully developed by the Department of Transportation and Telecommunication in 2013 with an additional allocation of more or less P200, 000,000.00.

The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has approved the persistent requests of the Federation of Senior Citizens and World War 2 Veterans and Guerillas thru their respective resolutions submitted to the Provincial Board last February 2011 to make February 27 as Ruperto Kangleon Memnorial Day throughout the province of Southern Leyte, which was the date when the late War Hero died.

The assessment of the Environment Officials in this province on the damage brought about by the January 2011 flashfloods in Subang Daku in Sogod town has reached an estimated cost of P18M, which would inevitably lead the provincial government to re-channel the Big River.

The construction of an estimated P1.7M worth of tandem ziplines above the 350 linear meters in length and 75 meters in height, almost P1B worth of a mega bridge here has been completed during the third week of April 2011.

Every person, in his own way, has a kind of greatness in himself unique with other individuals. You don’t have to be a superman to be great, guest speaker Dr. Jude Alteveros Duarte of the Southern Leyte State University Sogod main campus told the 92 STI graduating students during the 10th STI’s commencement Exercises held at the city gymnasium during the recent Thursday night.

The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has approved, during its recent weekly session held at the province’s SP Legislative Building near the Provincial Capitol, two ordinances of Sogod town no. 2011-45 and no.2011-46.

Ordinance no. 2011-45 will regulate students in going into beaches and KTV bars during school days.

Two Sangguniang Panlalawigan members Teopisto Rojas,Jr. and Albert Esclamado have defended PSWDO (Provincial Social Welfare Development Office) head Gomez on her purchase on credit for goods and foodstuff at SLEMCOOP (Southern Leyte Employees Cooperative,Inc.) Store for victims of the January 2011 calamities, which were only discussed during the past two weeks after the goods have already been distributed to the concerned victims in 4 municipalities of the province.

The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has refiled during its recent weekly session held at the provincial capitol here a province-wide smoke-free ordinance that is going to be implemented in all 18 municipalities thru its Chief Executives for health reasons. The City of Maasin has already its own anti-smoking ordinance which was approved several months ago and is now being implemented.

The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has instructed the Provincial Legal Officer Atty. Tobias Aguilar to conduct a thorough investigation to verify the truth of some reliable reports pertinent to the existing renewed MOA of the Napantao residential building of the Napantao Dive Resort in San Francisco, Panaon Island that is presently rented by the provincial government and occupied by the volunteer-members of the Coral Cay Conservation of the United Kingdom.