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Oct172022 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

SRA to start selling sugar at P70/kilo in Bacolod

The Department of Agriculture (DA), in coordination with the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), will start selling sugar at P70 per kilo at the SRA Quezon City and Bacolod City offices.The Kadiwa rolling stores and Kadiwa on Wheels will also be selling sugar at the same price to make sugar affordable and accessible to consumers, a DA press release said.Sugar sold by DA-SRA through the Kadiwa stores are intended for direct consumers and are not for resale.Consistent with government’s commitment to make basic commodity affordable to the common Filipino people, the DA-SRA has asked each importer under the Sugar Importation Policy for Crop Year 2022-2023 to commit ten percent of their imported sugar allocation to be sold, through DA and at P70 per kilo in order to have ample su...

Oct172022 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

BOC seizes P228M in smuggled sugar

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Customs Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz inspects the seized smuggled sugar.*BOC photoThe Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Monday, October 17, seized 76 containers of refined sugar worth P228 million from Thailand after the consignee failed to present an import clearance from the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA).Customs Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz led BOC agents in inspecting the containers after the Customs Intelligence, and Investigation Service-Manila International Container Port (CIIS-MICP) requested the issuance of an Alert Order on October 4, a BOC press release said.Based on intelligence reports, the shipment, which arrived at the MICP on September 24, contained "misdeclared and undeclared" items.As a result, the BOC issued two Warrants of Seizure and Detention again...

Oct172022 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

CHO still validating 10th cholera case in Bacolod

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Dr. Ma. Carmela Gensoli, Bacolod City Health Officer.*They are validating a tenth possible cholera case in Bacolod City, Dr. Ma. Carmela Gensoli, City Health Officer, said Monday afternoon, October 17.They have declared only nine positive cholera cases in Bacolod City because they do not have final data on a tenth case, she said.Gensoli earlier said there were 10 confirmed cases in Bacolod but later clarified that they were still validating the tenth one.The CHO confirmed that barangays Suma-ag and Granada have two cholera cases each, while Mansilingan, Alijis, Tangub, Granada and 40 have one each.Gensoli stressed that there has been no clustering of COVID-19 cases in Bacolod City.It appears the cholera cases have been caused by poor handling of food and lack of pro...

Oct172022 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Relief International helps Negros’ Covid vax drive

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Covid-19 vaccination in Sipalay City needs to be ramped up.* Sipalay LGU photoA team from Relief International has arrived in Negros Occidental to help the Provincial Health Office convince more Negrenses to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Dr. Ernell Tumimbang, Provincial Health Officer, said Monday, October 17.The Relief International team members have been deployed in Sipalay City, Cauayan and Kabankalan City because COVID-19 vaccination in those areas has been very low, Tumimbang said.The team will be launching COVID-19 vaccination demand generation campaigns in the three areas until December, he said.Relief International has partnered with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in carrying out its campaign.*

Oct172022 by Martian MuycoNo Comments

Man refuses to go to hospital after accident, dies a day after

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The house where 29-year-old Jose Alvarez Jr. was found dead.*Valladolid PNP photoA man was found lifeless at his grandmother's house in Barangay Doldol in Valladolid, Negros Occidental, early Monday, October 17.The fatality was identified as 29-year-old Jose Alvarez Jr.Maj. Wilfredo Benoman, Valladolid police chief, said Alvarez figured in a vehicular accident the previous day in Barangay Palaka.Alvarez fell off the motorcycle he was riding on when it collided with a tricycle.After the accident, the victim was conscious and did not go to the hospital.Benoman said it is possible that the victim succumbed to an internal hemorrhage, as there was no signs of struggle when he was found.*

Oct172022 by Martian MuycoNo Comments

Laborer found dead in Toboso

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The scene of the crime in Toboso town on Sunday, October 16.*Toboso PNP photoA laborer was found dead at Barangay San Isidro in Toboso, Negros Occidental, on Sunday, October 16.Killed was 55-year-old Renato Delicana.The victim who was last seen on Saturday, October 15, sustained multiple stab wounds that caused his death, the police said.The police are still determining who was responsible for killing of the victim and the motive behind it.*

Oct172022 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Less than 1,000 Himamaylan residents remain in evacuation centers: mayor

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Himamaylan evacuees on their way home.*photo courtesy of Mayor Raymund TongsonMayor Raymund Tongson said there were less than 1,000 evacuees left in evacuation centers in Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, on Monday, October 17.Barangays Cabadiangan and Carabalan residents, who evacuated starting October 6 following armed clashes between government and rebel forces, were allowed to return home beginning Saturday, except for those from sitios Campayas, Medel, Sig-ang in Carabalan, he said.The mayor has ordered the resumption of classes in barangays Cabadiangan and Carabalan on Wednesday, October 19.Eight armed clashes in Carabalan since October 6 left a top rebel leader and two government soldiers dead.*

Oct172022 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Star-studded Miss Bacolod MassKara pageant night at USLS Wednesday

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Bacolod will have its new queen crowned in a star-studded Miss Bacolod MassKara beauty pageant at the University of St. La Salle Coliseum 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 19.Two former national beauty titlists, Billie Hakenson and Pauline Amelinckx will be hosting the pageant night and high profile personalities in the world of pageantry and entertainment have been invited to judge the event.Hakenson was Miss Universe Philippines 2020 fourth runner-up while Amelinckx was most recently crowned as Miss Universe Philippines Charity 2022.Rodney Ascalon, pageant director said winners of the tilt will automatically represent the city national beauty pageants.As such, most of the judges are known in the pageant circles, including this year’s Miss Universe Philippines 2022, Celeste Cortes...

Oct172022 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Joint Negros, Bacolod ASF Task Force up, pork products seized, sent back to Iloilo

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The Bacolod ASF team joined a briefing at the Provincial Veterinary Office on Monday.*Barbara Mijares photoA Joint African Swine Fever Task Force to prevent the entry into Bacolod City and Negros Occidental of live pigs, boar semen, pork and pork products from places affected with ASF has been created.The task force was created by virtue of Joint Executive Order No. 1, Series of 2022, issued by Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson and Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez on October 14, which is a first between the city and province, Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz said Monday, October 17.Negros Occidental, which is ASF-free, has a P6 billion swine industry that must be protected, Diaz said.To protect the swine industry of Negros Occidental and Bacolod, there...

Oct172022 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

EB Magalona declares cholera outbreak in 3 brgys; Negros cases 12, two deaths

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E. B. Magalona officials, led by Mayor Marvin Malacon, visit Barangay Batea where one resident was found positive for cholera.*A cholera outbreak was declared in three barangays in EB Magalona, Negros Occidental, on Monday October 17, after four cases of the water-borne disease, including one death, were reported in the town.The cholera cases in Negros Occidental have hit 12, with two deaths, Dr. Ernell Tumimbang, Provincial Health Officer, said Monday.All cases from September 26 to October 17 were from coastal villages of the third district of Negros Occidental, he said.Aside from the four cases in EB Magalona, Silay City also had five confirmed cholera cases with one death, Talisay City – two and Victorias City – one , Tumimbang said.WATER TESTSTumimbang said of t...