Vision

By year 2020, Brgy. Banahao is a well develop barangay with easy access to all Basic Services, Well informed society especially for the protection and conservation of natural resources, who are God fearing, peace loving and living in an environment friendly community thru Good Governance.

Mission

With passion and pride, we actively communicate with the constituents to deliver insightful services that exceed their expectations.

Goal

we value integrity, creativity and efficient and nimble actions and respect highly motivated people and team spirit. We positively support environmental matters , safety & society.

History

Long ago this place was a part of the Poblacion of Dimasalang. The inhabitants of the place did not have a formal name to identify the place. It was said that thick pakol plants and numerous anahao trees could be seen anywhere in the entire area. That is why the inhabitants sometimes called the place “Kapakolan” and sometimes the same place “Kaanahawan” to point out this place. So that most of the people were calling this area “Kapakolan-Kaanahawan”. Before the coming of the American soldiers in 1903. It was said that the Americans were surprised to see the dense pakol plants having similarity of the banana they have in United States of America. That’s why they changed pakol to banana. And they call this particular place as” BANANA-ANAHAO” which was much shorter than “Kapakolan-Kaanahawan”. The American did not anymore change the word “Anahao” for there is no English word for it. But the American soldiers who came did not stay long here because they were at war with the Spaniards here in the Philippines.
As time went on, groups of Cebuanos, twenty of them, came to settle this area as tenants. In a short time, the Cebuanos found out that there were eleven families occupying the whole area of “Banana-Anahao”: therefore they divided equally among themselves to the eleven families that each family had two Cebuanos as their tenants. Here, were the eleven families, namely: Mateo Garcia, Jose Moran, Juan Duapa, Fermin Almocera, Lucas Bulalaque, Maximo Bulalaque, Andres Bulalaque, Remegio Bulalaque, Juan Lanuza, Rafael Cleofe, and Quintin Cleofe. And as observed by the eleven families regarding the behavior of the tenants, they were reporting that the Cebuano helpers were faithful and industrious. They proved this to be true because they immediately cleared the “Kapakolan” and replaced with shoots of edible banana which they bought from the Muslim of Mindanao who frequently brought shoots for sale as they were traders. In their going back, they loaded their vintas with anahao lumbers which they also bought from the natives. That is why several species of banana palnts were here in our place and we scarcely noticed long anahao plants in this vicinity because of the rampant cutting of matured anahao trees for lumber purposes. Incidentally the Cebuanos tired already of calling this place “Banana-Anahao”, instead called it “Banahao”. They were used to make long words shorter as in the case of “Kabao” for “Carabao”.
The people were then very happy of calling this place ”Banahao” because this word is a good reminder for everyone regarding the importance of planting banana and anahao in our backyard and in our farm; banana gives us food for breakfast, for lunch and even for supper. Banana leaves were also used in cooking bibingka, ibos ,iraid, binot-ong, etc. And anahao leaves were utilized for roofing while its lumber used as building materials.
In short we should be grateful to the American soldiers for naming the place “ banana-anahao instead of “ kapakolan-Kaanahawan”, and we should also be thankful to the Cebuanos for contracting “banana-anahao” to “BANAHAO”.
After the second World War in 1945, this community was still a Sitio of Poblacion Dimasalang.As usual the inhabitants of this place were sending their children to school of Dimasalang Central School and to Balocawe Elementary School until 1995. The reason behind this was the leaders whom the community had selected found it hard to secure a place for school Site. In fact until now we do not have a Barangay Site. Residents built their houses along the coastline and along the highway. Then in 1960 during the time of Mayor Alfredo Jores, this place became an independent Barangay thru a Municipal Resolution No. 220, s.1960.