6 CL environment execs transferred

CABANATUAN CITY, Philippines – Six ranking officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Luzon have been transferred in the latest reshuffle ordered by DENR Secretary Gina Lopez.

Meanwhile, Lopez assured employees of the DENR office in Quezon City that none of them would be removed from their posts.

On Friday, members of the DENR Employees Union staged a protest rally after some officials in the agency’s human resource department (HRD) were replaced.

The employees opposed the transfer of personnel division chief Miriam Marcelo and human resource director Rolando Castro to other departments.

Lopez said the transfer was part of an organizational change meant to make the HRD a “visionary in building an organization.”

The six community environment and natural resources officers (CENROs) who were transferred to other posts are Alfredo Collado, Jimmy Aberin, Ricardo Lazaro, Gerundio Fernandez, Florencio Lalo and Mariano Miguel.

Collado, CENRO of Camiling, Tarlac, was designated provincial environment and natural resources officer (PENRO). He replaced Cherry Claudio, who temporarily took over the post following the retirement of Leovino Ignacio last month.

Collado was replaced by Miguel.

Aberin and Lazaro of Baler, Quezon and Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, respectively swapped posts. Lalo of Dinalupihan, Bataan took the post of Fernandez in the Science City of Muñoz in Nueva Ecija.

Collado was the second CENRO to be promoted to PENRO following the designation of Nicomedes Claudio as chief of DENR office in Aurora.

The reshuffle brought to 10 the number of DENR officials who have been transferred or replaced since last month.

Earlier, Lopez replaced Joselito Blanco and Raul Mamac of Aurora and Bataan, respectively.

Blanco was replaced by Claudio and Mamac by Raymond Rivera of Masinloc, Zambales.

Retained as PENROs are Celia Esteban of Bulacan, Rafael Otic of Pampanga, Emelita Lingat of Tarlac and Laudemir Salac of Zambales.

Among the CENROs retained are Ariel Mendoza of Bagac and Florencio Jalu of Dinalupihan, both in Bataan; Roger Encarnacion of Guiguinto, Bulacan; Romel Santiago of Bacolor, Pampanga, and Marife Castillo of Olongapo City.    – With Rhodina Villanueva