(Photo courtesy of the Biliran Provincial Government.)
Biliran Provincehood
This is a documented outline history of the quest for the provincehood of
Biliran by a participant-observer of the process, the
volunteer historian and chronicler of the Movement for the Provincehood of
Biliran.
The Biliran Clarion was the first newspaper in the former subprovince of
Biliran. It provided the clarion call that eventually led to the conversion of Biliran into
a separate, independent, regular province. Here is a list of people behind that venture.
as a Separate, Independent and Autonomous Regular Province
The text of the revised position paper, with corresponding annexes, distributed to senators and congressmen.
Republic Act No. 2141, "An Act Creating the Subprovince of Biliran"
Republic Act No. 5977, "An Act Amending Republic Act Numbered Twenty-One Hundred Forty-One, entitled 'An Act Creating the Subprovince of Biliran'"
Republic Act No. 6415, "An Act Creating Certain Positions in the Subprovince of Biliran, Province of Leyte, Amending for the Purpose Republic Act Numbered Twenty-One Hundred Forty-One, as Amended"
Population, Number of Municipalities, Land Area and Income of Selected Provinces
House Bill No. 485, "An Act Separating the Sub-province of Biliran from the Province of Leyte and Constituting or Converting It into a Separate, Independent, Regular Province, to be known as the Province of Biliran"
A two-part article about the quest for the provincehood of Biliran, serialized in
the Philippine Daily Inquirer on June 22-23, 1988. Written by
Danny C. Petilla, who had earlier created sensation with his "Samar: An Island in
Agony" series. The "Biliran series" exposed to the national audience the plight of
the neglected subprovince.
The final, enacted provision of Section 462 in the Local Government Code of 1991
pertaining to the conversion of existing subprovinces into regular provinces through
a plebiscite.
Article published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on June 24, 1992. It
announced the favorable results of the plebiscite that capped the provincehood for
Biliran.