Amazons Legal Opinion

The Division Of Palawan into two District


Palawan is the largest Province in the Philippines with an abundance of natural resources their is existence of virgin forest,minerals like nickel, chromite,silica,copper,mangroves and good fishing ground.The province was one of the region in southern Tagalog and its capital city is Puerto Princesa city having the total population of 746.683 in 2000 survey.And have a land area of16.456sq.mt.IT has 430 barangay and 23 municipalities their are 13 in north and 10 municipalities in south.Congressman Antonio Alvarez to the north and Baham Kahlil Mitra to the south as congressman and One Provincial Governor Joel T. Reyes which all Office is located at the central island of the Province capital City Puerto Princesa City the only city in the Province.Mayor Edward Hagedorn of Puerto Princesa the very popular city mayor in the Philippines who won the last local election proposes to make the city as a highly urbanized city which the honorable mayor cite some qualification that Puerto must be approved as one of the highly urbanized cities in the Philippines.The necessary factors to qualify are the land area,Net gross,Population and labor force,illiteracy and many other factors and Puerto is said to qualified.Ra 8182 which amended by RA 8555,Resolution No.14 series of 1999 NEDA as one of government department which determine if a place can be divided or not,together with other offices PA,DAR,DBP,DEPED,DENR,DOF,DOH,DPWH,DSWD,DOTC,LBP,LWUA and NIA.RA6132 a House Bill Creating District including Province of Palawan wherein their is two lone district including Puerto Princesa City.According to the Provincial profile Palawan income is about 1.035 billion a year,41.3 billion proceed funds in 2000,83 billion NG capital which said to stand even divided to give more attention for progressive and fast supervision of the project which could be attained successfully if the province will be divided into three district as Puerto Princesa the Central District of the Province their will be three congressmen in the congress to represent the province and three governor with each district.This action has its own advantage and disadvantage,on the optimistic view supervision of project can easily give attention ,focus in a bit little area of jurisdiction,each representative fund can be allocated maybe enough to made each district more progressive and productive and it created jobs which help the residents to build up their family.On the other hand,corruption and political dynasty which makes a district stagnant because they can hide what leader under table dealings.Palawan are vey rich province Malampaya oil,Kalayaan is here,nickel mining,chromite and has good fishing ground which maybe abuse if leaders itself divided for their own purposes.