Land Transportation Office (LTO-7) Regional Director Victor Emmanuel Caindec announced on May 21 that Pres. Rodrigo Roa Duterte has signed the laws establishing the LTO district offices in the towns of Liloan and Alcoy in Cebu.
The Republic Act No. 11743 and R.A. 11741 will establish LTO district offices in the town of Alcoy in Cebu 2nd District and the town of Liloan in Cebu 5th District, respectively.
"Cebu Island will also be getting two new district offices, and when we say district offices these are full-service offices with these offices having their own plantilla, their own budget. I think this is really fantastic news," said Caindec.
The additional district offices are on top of the recently approved request of Caindec to LTO Chief Assistant Secretary Edgar Galvante to reopen the full-service licensing centers for Bohol and Negros Oriental.
The director said that the fifth LTO Office in Bohol has completed its final touches and they are now setting up the computers including the IT system.
Tagbilaran City Driver's License Renewal Offices (DLROs) will soon open in Island City Mall in Tagbilaran City.
The same reactivation of Licensing Renewal Functions and Issuance of Student Permits in the DLRO of Robinsons' Dumaguete in Robinsons Place, Calindagan, Dumaguete City will soon be announced once the office will be open to the public.
"Over the course of four and a half years, I'm happy to inform you that we have doubled the number of LTO offices from when we took over Region 7 in January 2018," said Caindec.
Currently, LTO-7 has a total of 28 offices in the region pending the opening of the DLROs in Tagbilaran and Dumaguete City, and the two new district offices in Cebu province, compared to the only 16 offices when Caindec took over in 2018.
Aside from those offices, another achievement under his leadership has been the approval for the opening of two additional New Registration Unit (NRU) offices in the region.
This will be established at the LTO Cebu City District Office and LTO Mandaue City District Office will complement the existing Regional New Registration Unit (R-NRU) located at Subangdaku in Mandaue City,Cebu. (PR)
