{"id":164234,"date":"2018-05-20T04:25:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T08:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=164234"},"modified":"2018-05-20T04:25:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T08:25:57","slug":"dpwh-completes-road-works-for-guimaras-manggahan-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/20\/dpwh-completes-road-works-for-guimaras-manggahan-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"DPWH completes road works for Guimaras&#8217; Manggahan Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_164235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164235\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Manggahan-Festival.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-164235\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Manggahan-Festival.jpg\" alt=\"The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) announced the completion of the 1.7-kilometer road improvement works along the Guimaras Circumferential Road in Guimaras Province, in time for the annual celebration of the \u201cManggahan Festival\u201d this month. (Photo: Province of Guimaras\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Manggahan-Festival.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Manggahan-Festival-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Manggahan-Festival-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-164235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) announced the completion of the 1.7-kilometer road improvement works along the Guimaras Circumferential Road in Guimaras Province, in time for the annual celebration of the \u201cManggahan Festival\u201d this month. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ProvinceOfGuimaras\/photos\/a.2075400779354966.1073741977.1663029687258746\/2075401016021609\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ProvinceOfGuimaras\/\">Province of Guimaras\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) announced the completion of the 1.7-kilometer road improvement works along the Guimaras Circumferential Road in Guimaras Province, in time for the annual celebration of the \u201cManggahan Festival\u201d this month.<\/p>\n<p>DPWH Guimaras District Engineer Rhodora Nu\u00f1al said the road repair along the San Miguel, Jordan section of the Guimaras Circumferential Road was done to provide better traffic access to both foreign and local tourists that are expected to flock the province for the festivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ushered the completion of these projects, particularly fronting the Provincial Capitol, which will be very busy during the whole duration of the festival,\u201d Nu\u00f1al said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The DPWH official reported that they are also implementing the construction of a drainage system, which is about 6.5 kilometers long, on the Guimaras Circumferential Road. It costs about PHP73.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Nu\u00f1al noted that the portion of the drainage, particularly at the front of the Provincial Capitol, was completed while work in the other portions were suspended so as not to obstruct traffic during the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The Manggahan Festival is a month-long celebration that aims to showcase the culture of the entire province of Guimaras.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is organized by the province\u2019s five municipalities&#8211;Buenavista, Jordan, Nueva Valencia, San Lorenzo, and Sibuang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) announced the completion of the 1.7-kilometer road improvement works along the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":164235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[3118,26123,51056,51055],"class_list":["post-164234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-dpwh","tag-guimaras","tag-manggahan-festival","tag-road-works","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}