STORMY WEATHER. Flooding along Antique road due to heavy rainfall caused by Tropical Depression Agaton as of Tuesday (April 12,2022). Antique Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer Broderick Train said classes and government work were suspended due to the heavy rainfall and flooding. (Photo courtesy of Antique PIO)
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – The Antique provincial government has suspended classes at all levels and government work at the capitol due to heavy rains brought about by Tropical Depression Agaton.
Antique Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) chief Broderick Train said during a virtual press conference Tuesday the provincial government has issued an executive order.
“Our Acting Governor Edgar Denosta has directed the suspension of classes and work at the provincial government because of the weather condition now,” Train said.
“There are no face-to-face classes and modular distribution today,” said Antique Department of Education (DepEd) Schools Division Superintendent Felisa Beriong in the same press conference.
Beriong added the school principals and teaching and non-teaching personnel are also not required to report following the suspension of classes.
Schools that will be used as evacuation centers, however, will be made available and opened by the teacher who lives nearby.
Antique University, the lone state university in the province, also suspended classes as announced by its president Dr. Pablo Crespo, Jr. on its Facebook page.
Train said they had not yet monitored any preemptive evacuation conducted despite the flooding in San Remigio, Sibalom, Laua-an, Patnongon, and in some other parts of Antique.
He said that unlike the other neighboring provinces of Antique that were affected by flooding, the situation in the province is not that serious even as major road networks from Antique to Iloilo and Antique to Aklan provinces are still passable.
The Philippine Coast Guard has no advisory refraining passenger vessels from traveling from Libertad Port in the Municipality of Libertad to Caluya Port.
Flight from the Antique Airport is also normal as there was no announcement of suspension from the Philippine Airlines (PAL), which is the lone air carrier operating in the province. (PNA)
