Carla P. Gomez

Oct252021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Voters’ registration final week kicks off at USLS Coliseum

The final week for the registration of voters for the 2022 elections in Bacolod City is being held at the University of St. La Salle Coliseum in Bacolod City, Election Officer Katrina Trinio Caña said Monday, October 25.The satellite registration at the USLS Coliseum started Monday and will end on October 30, she said.Registration is being held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.They can accommodate 350 walk-in registrants, and 100 in the priority lane, Caña said.If there are additional people who arrive at the priority lane they can also accommodate them if there is time left, she saidThe priority lane is for senior citizens, persons with disabilities and pregnant women.There was a long line of people who lined up to register at the USLS Coliseum on Monday.For a more ...

Oct252021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

500 vehicles join pink caravan, Leni overwhelmed by support

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Caravan participants were reminded to observe Covid-19 health protocols*Pedicabs joined the Para kay Leni caravan.*Nic Ledesma photoThe billboard at Araneta Street in Bacolod City.* Nic Ledesma photoDrumbeaters and MassKara dancers added to the festive air during the "Para kay Leni" caravan on Saturday, October 23.*CPG photoAbout 500 vehicles joined a festive one-hour “Para kay Leni” pink caravan in support of presidential candidate Leni Robredo, that included MassKara dancers and drumbeaters on the back of pickups, in Bacolod City Saturday morning, October 23.Caravans in support of Robredo were held in Bacolod City and in about 25 other provinces and cities in the country on Saturday.“Thank you very much from the bottom of our hearts”, Robredo said in response.“I am co...

Oct242021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Gatchalian targets January for full face-to-face classes

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Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, former Rep. Alfredo "Albee" Benitez and Dr. Aladino Moraca at the CPSU rites in Valladolid Saturday.*Archie Alipalo photoSenator Sherwin Gatchalian is pushing for full face-to-face classes by January 2022 or earlier, saying the distance learning modality is not working.Gatchalian attended the first flag-raising ceremony of the Central Philippine State University extension campus and the blessing of the CPSU training center and staff house in Valladolid, Negros Occidental, on Saturday, October 23.CPSU’s main campus in Kabankakan City headed by its president, Dr. Aladino Moraca, is also celebrating its 75th founding anniversary."The difficulty with distance learning is that our students do not absorb their lessons. They are not learning and we’ve ...

Oct242021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Covid hits Talisay mayor, seven others in house

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Photo from Neil Lizares FBTalisay Mayor Neil Lizares and some members of his family have tested positive for COVID-19.“I would like to inform the public that I have been tested positive once again for COVID-19,” Lizares said in a Facebook post Saturday, October 23.Lizares said he is currently experiencing mild symptoms but it breaks his heart to see that members of his family and household have also tested positive.His three children and four helpers have also tested positive for COVID-19, Lizares said.“I would like to reassure everyone that I am taking every step possible to ensure that I stay in good health and will recover again successfully from the virus,” Lizares said.In September, Lizares also tested positive for COVID-19.“Please continue to keep me and m...

Oct242021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

65 new COVID-19 deaths in Negros Occidental, PIMT reports

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There are 65 new COVID-19 deaths in Negros Occidental, the Provincial Incident Management Team reported during the weekend.The PIMT reported 38 deaths on Saturday, October 23, and 27 on Sunday, October 24.The brings the total COVID-19 deaths in Negros Occidental since the start of the pandemic in March last year to 1,197.Negros Occidental had 3,644 active COVID-19 cases on Sunday.*

Oct242021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Duterte removes Cano from drug watch list

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Ricardo “Cano” Tan at a press conference at his Campuestohan Highland Resort in Talisay City on Saturday, October 23.*CPG photoFormer Councilor Ricardo “Cano” Tan on Saturday, October 23, thanked President Rodrigo Duterte for clearing him from the drug watch list.Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año, in a memorandum order dated Aug. 11, 2021, certified that Tan was “removed/delisted from the Inter-Agency Drug Information database under the recommendation, review, evaluation, and management of Inter-Agency Drug Information Database Committee and approved by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte through a memorandum dated July 31, 2021”.Tan, who received a copy of the certification recently said the certification said it is the "closure to a bad dream.”“Today marks my ...

Oct242021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Cenro Bago closes for 5 days after 1 dies, 2 Covid positive

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The Community Environment and Natural Resource Office in Bantayan Park, Bago City, Negros Occidental, will be closed to the public from Monday to Friday, October 25-29, for disinfection and COVID-19 contact tracing, Joan Nathaniel Gerangaya, CENRO Bago head, said Sunday, October 24.A CENRO Bago employee died of suspected COVID-19, while two others tested positive, he said.The 58-year-old unvaccinated female employee with comorbidities who died had symptoms of COVID-19 but was not swabbed before she was cremated, he said.Test results released Sunday also showed that two CENRO Bago employees tested positive for COVID-19.One is married to a frontliner, while the other one visited the wake of a relative who died from COVID-19, he said.The rest of the CENRO Bago employees wi...

Oct242021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Gatchalian reiterates appeal for Pantawid Pasada subsidy

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Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian reiterated his call for government to reactivate the Pantawid Pasada fuel subsidy to provide relief to the public transport sector amid the rising prices of fuel.Gatchalian, who was in Valladolid, Negros Occidental, Saturday, October 23, said while the increase in fuel prices is expected to be temporary drivers of public transport need assistance during this period.He expects the fuel price increases to last for one or two months more.Unioil Petroleum Philippines on Saturday said it expects fuel price hikes in the coming week, which could be the ninth straight round of increases.Gatchalian said if subsidies are granted, drivers already have Pantawid Pasada cards.*

Oct232021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

There’s hope in 2022 elections, we have a real choice: bishop

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Bacolod Bishop Patricio Buzon at the launching of the GuBan movement at the Bishop’s House in Bacolod City, Friday, October 22.*Barbara Mijares photoThere is hope for real change in the 2022 elections if the people elect leaders who are competent, sincere and think of the common good, Bacolod Bishop Patricio Buzon said on Friday, October 22.“In this election when I look at the names of the candidates we have a choice, a real choice not just of the lesser evil, but a choice between the good and the bad, between the competent and the incompetent,” he said at the launching of the GuBan movement at the lobby of the Bishop’s House in Bacolod City, Friday, October 22.The people have a very clear choice between the honest and corrupt, “this is a real election that can work if it is we...

Oct232021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

More Moderna vaccines arrive, Negros has 15 new Covid deaths

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CAAP Bacolod photoNegros Occidental and Bacolod City received more vaccines on Friday, October 22, to boost the intensified campaigns against COVID-19.The Moderna vaccines arrived at the Bacolod-Silay Airport via Philippine Airlines.Bacolod City received 7,400 doses and Negros Occidental got 66,000 doses from the Department of Health.Meanwhile, the COVID -19 active cases in Negros Occidental have slightly dropped below the 4,000 mark.The province had 3,948 active COVID-19 cases and 15 new deaths, the Provincial Incident Management Team reported on Friday.Negros Occidental’s COVID-19 death toll is now at 1,132.The Department of Health reported 123 new COVID-19 cases in Negros Occidental and 46 in Bacolod City on Friday.Bacolod City has 1,697 active COVID-19 c...