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Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia led the distribution of financial assistance of P5,000 each to 408 displaced vendors Friday, Jan. 29.*City PIO photoAn additional P2.04 million has been set aside by the Bacolod City government as cash assistance of P5,000 each to 408 vendors displaced by the ongoing road-clearing operations.The first 78 of these 408 vendors received their cash assistance of P5,000 each Friday, a press release from the Bacolod Public Information Office said today, February 1.The rest will receive theirs within this week as they are scheduled by batches in order to observe social distancing rules.Mayor Evelio Leonardia and Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran led the distribution of financial assistance to the vendor-recipients who were displaced by the road-clearing o...

The Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) Step 2 Registration of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) for Bacolod City and Negros Occidental starts this February.The PSA Step 2 Registration is the validation of supporting documents and capturing of biometric information at registration centers, a press release from the Bacolod Public Information Office said today, February 1.The PSA has started the gradual and small-scale basis registration on January 4, in selected provinces.Chief Statistical Specialist Luis Gonzales of the Provincial Statistics Office they are informing those who were pre-registered in 2020 who may not have received a text message from PSA Central Office regarding the postponement of their schedule.The PSA has made significant progress this quar...

62nd IB photoThe 62nd Infantry (Unifier) Battalion, 3rd Infantry (Spearhead) Division, in partnership with the Department of Education has facilitated the enrollment of nine former rebels in the Alternative Learning System (ALS) at Camp Tirambulo, Brgy McKinley, Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental, an Army press release said today, January 31.ALS is one of the alternative ways of learning for those who have had no formal education, and serves as their edge to find better opportunities in the future, the press release said.The former rebels will undergo 10 months of basic learning and will have to pass the ALS Accreditation and Equivalency Test for them to qualify for a higher level of education and for any job opportunities, it added.The activity is one of the programs of the ...

Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson with HOUEI Group Chairman Yutaka Shimizu, NOSP head Karen Dinsay, and the Negrense scholars during the governor's visit to Japan in 2019.*Twenty-five Negrense scholars passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) Level 2 and Level 3 in Japan, Monday, January 25.The scholars are senior high school students, nurses, physical therapists and midwives who went to Japan to study in 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively, a press release from the Capitol said today, January 28.Topping the list of passers is Lyrine Ortiz, a nurse from Himamaylan City who is the only passer of JLPT2 or N2. She is currently studying at the Houshin School of Healthcare taking up a two-year Vocational Careworker Course while working part-time at the healthcare facilities of HOUE...

PVO photoThe Provincial Veterinary Office conducted simultaneous veterinary relief operations as part of its disaster recovery efforts in flood-stricken areas of the Third District in Negros Occidental.The veterinary relief operations at the cities of Talisay, Silay and Victorias include services such as deworming, consultation, vaccination, vitamin B supplementation of pet and livestock animals as well as the dispersal of 300 heads of free-range chicks and distribution of information-education campaign materials on raising livestock during the rainy season.Dewormers, anti-biotic solubles, electrolytes, vitamins and vaccines were also distributed.The veterinary relief operations were conducted in badly hit areas such as Barangays 6A and 7 in Victorias City with 97 clients s...

Rep. Francisco “Kiko” Benitez today, January 26, thanked Senator Ronald “Bato” de la Rosa for his assistance to families in the third district of Negros Occidental directly affected by the flash floods on January 1 and 8.The senator sent 40 sacks of rice through the National Food Authority and the office of Benitez, a press release said.The rice was distributed to identified affected families with the assistance of the Social Welfare and Development offices in the cities of Victorias, Silay and Talisay, and the municipality of E.B. Magalona, it said.*

First Philippine Holdings Chairman and CEO Federico R. Lopez, Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas, Uswag Molecular Laboratory Manager Annabelle Blancaflor and EDC President and CEO Richard B. Tantoco during the signing ceremony held via Zoom.*The City of Iloilo received a state-of-the-art Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) machine, RNA extractor and test kits during the weekend from the Lopez Group of Companies through the Energy Development Corporation (EDC) to further strengthen their resiliency against COVID-19.Iloilo Mayor Jerry Treñas thanked EDC and called it “a celebration of successful collaboration and partnership with the private sector”, a press release from the firm said.“We humbly recognize that we cannot gain leverage and perform effectively witho...

Vi-Anne Cadianza with husband Alex Calipusan and children Emiko and Thyia*La Castellana Elementary School heads Shirley Marquez and Cayetano Malabug receive the library deed of donation from Eva and Wildredo Cadianza (l-r).* The library donated by former LCES alumna Vi-Anne Cadianza and husband, Alex Calipusan.*Schoolchildren at the La Castellana Elementary School (LCES) will have a new library to visit when face-to-face classes reopen.Former Lin-ay sang Negros Vi-Anne Cadianza and husband, Alex Calipusan, recently turned over the library to school officials through Vi-Anne’s parents, Eva and Wilfredo Cadianza.The Calipusan couple who live in Las Vegas, USA, have set up set-up Uplift Foundation International to serve as a conduit for their give-back projects in their hometowns...

The Negros Occidental Scholarship Program Division under the Office of the Governor is now accepting applications from Bachelor’s degree graduates for a three-month Japanese Language and Culture Training Course at the OISCA Bago Training Center and intensive Japanese Language Training in Japan for one year.OISCA International is looking for 20 hardworking, highly-dedicated and trainable individuals who are fully committed to work in Japanese companies in Japan, who are 26 years old and below, single, male or female, a press release from the Capitol said today, January 21.This program is a collaborative effort between OISCA Bago Training Center and the Negros Occidental provincial government to provide long term job opportunities for Negrenses, it said.OISCA Bago Training Center...