WHEREAS, the City of Bayawan will be celebrating the Tawo-Tawo Festival Week on the third week of February;

WHEREAS, the Tawo-Tawo Festival reflects the culture of the City of Bayawan being a rice granary of the southern part of the Province of Negros Oriental;

WHEREAS, to enable the people of the City of Bayawan celebrate and participate in the occasion, the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Bayawan requested that 17 February 2017 be declared as a special non-working day, in celebration of the Tawo-Tawo Festival.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, MENARDO I. GUEVARRA, Acting Executive Secretary, by authority of the President, RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE, do hereby declare Friday, 17 February 2017, as a special (non-working) day in the City of Bayawan.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 9th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Seventeen.