Marcos signs the law that removes Negros Occidental and Bacolod City from Western Visayas, and takes away Negros Oriental and Siqujior from Central Visayas, to form their own, separate region
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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines government has officially created a Negros Island Region , a culmination of a decades-long fight of advocates to create a separate region for the country’s fourth largest island. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed Republic Act No. 12000 on Thursday, June 13, during a ceremony in the Malacañang.
The law removes Negros Occidental and the highly urbanized city of Bacolod from Region 6 or Western Visayas, and also takes away Negros Oriental and Siquijor from Region 7 or Central Visayas. The measure also enables the creation of a technical working group that will iron out the details of the institutional arrangements for NIR, such as the organizational development, staffing, and budgeting or regional agencies.to create a separate region for the two provinces of Negros began in the 1980s, with the aim of generating more funds and creating more livelihood opportunities for residents of the island.
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